Chapter 457 The Inner Saint and the Outer King

Author: Gongsun Wujiu

Chapter 457 The Inner Saint and the Outer King

Even Liu Yi was shocked by the wealth owned by the Aryan nobles.

The wealth owned by any small nobleman in various states can be compared with that of a prince in the Han Dynasty.

Corresponding to this is the life of civilians in various states.

In the eyes of the Han soldiers, the lives of these civilians were not even as good as those of the lowest slaves of the Han Dynasty.

The wealth of the nobles was already amazing, but what shocked Liu Yi and the Han army even more was the wealth of the monks.

Compared with the ascetic monks, the wealth of these nobles pales into insignificance and is not worth mentioning.

The wealth of any one temple far exceeds that of a king's treasury.

But after Liu Yi accidentally opened a temple, he immediately issued an order to wipe out all the temples of the ascetics. The huge wealth made all the soldiers jealous.

Naturally, the Shaman monks would not just surrender. They also encouraged believers to resist and attack the Han army.

However, the resistance of these believers only brought short-term trouble to the Han army.

After the end of the Jibin War, Zhao Guanghan, at Liu Yi's request, dispatched tens of thousands of signing troops and soldiers of the recently restored Darobida Kingdom to Liu Yi.

In addition, in order to win over the Cypriot countries, Liu Yi also planned to recruit more than 20,000 people from the Cypriot people.

Liu Yi promised that the wealth gained from the annihilation of the monks could be divided among the various countries in the country.

The Sai states, which had long coveted the wealth of the ascetics, immediately took action.

Not only did they respond to the call and send troops to the Aryan states, they also began to eliminate the ascetics in their own states.

The movement to exterminate the Buddha, later known as the First Buddha's Tragedy, began because of the desire for wealth, especially gold.

In order to survive, the ascetics crossed the Indus River and fled to the country of Capricorn to the east.

With the signing of the army, the participation of the Darobida people and the Sai people made the Han army feel free.

As the wealth he acquired increased rapidly, Liu Yi had to organize people in advance to transport the wealth back to the Han Dynasty.

When the first batch of 500 carts of goods arrived at Luntai, even Zhang Yue, who had been mentally prepared, was shocked.

Cai Ting, Fu Jiezi and others did not expect that the barbarians in their eyes actually had more wealth than the big men.

Fu Jiezi sighed and said to Zhang Yue: "This generation is actually richer than the big man..."

Zhang Yue smiled and said: "Shendu is almost the same as Guandong, but the country's wealth is mostly concentrated in the hands of monks and nobles..."

"The lives of its people are miserable... It is precisely because of this that the pursuit of the afterlife promoted by the ascetics is so attractive to the people of that country..."

Fu Jiezi nodded, "No wonder the other country is so rich but so weak... It has empty wealth but does not know how to share it with the people. This is the way of a weak country... The big man should take a warning..."

Zhang Yue was silent when he heard this, thinking about Song's funeral.

"The Song Dynasty, which was touted by many literati, is very similar to the current body poison... He had the most wealth but the people's lives were extremely difficult...

"The richest dynasty in the Xia Dynasty was also the dynasty with the most uprisings..."

Thinking about this, Zhang Yue felt a little embarrassed. What the Han army was doing now seemed no different from the Jin Kingdom in the late Northern Song Dynasty and the Mongolia in the Southern Song Dynasty.

However, this thought only flashed through Zhang Yue's mind.

He has always believed in the principle of "inner sage and outer king". Only by being harsher on these barbarians can the life of the Han people be improved.

At this time, Yang You also said: "How do barbarians who are poisonous know how to support the people... These wealth are prepared by God for me, a big man... We should take it ourselves..."

When people on the left and right heard about it, they all expressed their approval.

Zhang Yue also nodded slightly, and then he suddenly ordered the convoy to pass through the city.

Everyone was puzzled by this at first, but Zhang Yue once again ordered Yang You to deliberately overturn the vehicle when the convoy entered the city, and everyone suddenly realized it.

When the soldiers and civilians of Luntai heard that 500 cartloads of goods from Shendu would arrive in Luntai, they came to watch out of curiosity.

When people saw vehicles filled with goods passing by, everyone was guessing what the vehicles were carrying.

Just when people were talking about it, a car suddenly rolled over, and the dazzling golden color made people temporarily forget to breathe.

"gold!"

The whole car was filled with "gold!", and people looked at the gold on the ground with longing in their eyes.

Yang You loudly asked the soldiers to transfer the gold to other cars, saying intentionally or unintentionally.

"This little gold is nothing. There is gold everywhere in the body. As long as you have the guts, you can get as much gold as you want..."

After Yang You's words spread, people started talking about it.

"I heard that there is gold everywhere in the body... How come there is so much gold in this barbarian land..."

"Yes, yes, it would be great if I could get rid of the poison in my body..."

"It's not easy to remove poison from your body. It's thousands of miles away..."

"It's not difficult to get to the body poison. You can enter the body poison along the body poison path..."

"Is the second or third son interested in trying his hand at body poisoning..."

"Wealth and wealth are sought in danger... You gentlemen, are you willing to follow me to commit suicide..."

"I, a great man, lead all nations, and this wealth should belong to the great man... I should take back the wealth that God gave me as a great man..."

While people were discussing the wealth of Shendu, Zhang Yue also made a decision on the ownership of this wealth.

"My lords, I have a certain intention to send all these goods to Chang'an..."

When Fu Jiezi heard this, he was the first to agree: "The king is so clever... I'm afraid no one will come to the Western Regions..."

Cai Ting also agreed: "It is said that there are many people in Chang'an who criticize Nan Zheng for being poisonous... This batch of wealth entering Chang'an should be able to stop the mouths of these people..."

Yang You also nodded and said: "Now that Chang'an's treasury is empty, having this batch of wealth will be a timely help to Chang'an and the general... In this way, within a short time, the general will support my actions in the Western Region..."

Zhang Yue saw that the three people were supporting him with a smile on his face and said: "This is what I meant... What we in the Western Region need most now is the stability of Chang'an and Dahan..."

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In the blink of an eye, two months later, Prime Minister Yang Chang personally led a group of two thousand cavalry out of Chang'an City.

The rumble of horse hooves surprised passers-by.

A young scholar who had just come from Guandong looked at the cavalry going away and couldn't help but ask passers-by if something serious had happened in Chang'an.

The passers-by laughed when they heard this and said, "Young man, you don't know. This is the arrival of a team transporting goods from Luntai..."

The scholar was even more puzzled when he heard this, "Why should the Prime Minister personally lead two thousand cavalry to greet a mere convoy transporting goods?"

At this time, a man who knew some information showed off: "That is not ordinary wealth, this time five hundred carts of gold were transported from the Western Regions!"

"Five hundred carts of gold..."

When people heard this, they all took a deep breath.

"How come there is so much gold in the Western Region?"
Chapter completed!