The personnel affairs in Chang'an City are in turmoil, and it seems that it will not be completed for an hour or three. It is estimated that it will have to be postponed until next year, and Li Tai cannot wait any longer.
Under the current situation, there is no need to think about continuing to go out to suppress bandits. It happened that Shuhui helped transport the materials back. Li Tai planned to take advantage of the free time before and after the year to completely digest this batch of personnel materials.
After all, no matter how much resources there are, if they cannot bring about real growth in power, they are just saved for others. Yuwen Tai always made a fortune and then expanded his army, so of course Li Tai could not lag behind.
Li Tai collected nearly 500 cartloads of supplies from two temples. He relied on more than 2,000 craftsmen and their families captured and recruited from Hongfa Temple, plus hundreds of people mobilized by Mao Shijian in the countryside, to collect these supplies.
The goods were transported to Beihuazhou.
When he returned to Bafu, most of the supplies had been taken away by Yuwen Taylor. Li Tai was already feeling unhappy. Of course, he didn't care about the transportation. He just sent a message to the troops who stayed in Beihua Prefecture to sort the supplies and wait.
Bafu sent people to transport them, but in the end he only had more than a hundred vehicles left, including the more than two thousand prisoners.
Yuwentai didn't ask any questions about the prisoners. After all, he didn't lack people. He had to worry about settling and feeding them when they came. So Li Tai completely retained this group of people. Although Yuwentai didn't care, in his opinion,
This is the greatest wealth gained from this trip.
Temples can also be regarded as a type of large estate economy. Because of the ideological control brought by religious beliefs, the exploitation of these temple slaves and monks is even more severe than those of the local tyrants who are the owners of large estates.
As a result, most of these temple slaves have special skills. Temple slaves without skills are almost not qualified to live in the temple and can only work as serfs in the manor.
There were more than 2,000 prisoners, excluding the old, weak, women and children, and there were more than 1,500 young and strong craftsmen. A considerable number of them were devout believers who deeply hated Li Tai for destroying the temple, and even broke out on the way.
There were several riots and riots.
Li Tai was not merciful in this regard. He directly showed the heads of the dozens of people who took the lead in fanning, and provided them with plenty of food and drinks along the way. He used a combination of kindness and power to control the crowd.
However, it will take many years to completely regain people's hearts and become his loyal followers. Li Tai is not in a hurry. Although the Buddhas have great supernatural powers, they can only protect their believers in the next life. But as long as they obey them, they will be able to
You can live a good life, and you can choose which one is better or worse.
Of these more than a thousand craftsmen, more than two hundred are skilled in pottery, smelting and forging utensils. Hongfa Temple's reputation for casting Buddha statues has little to do with the monks who eat well and chant sutras. It is all earned by their hard work.
.Although the skills of other craftsmen are not too refined, they are still guaranteed to be qualified.
In addition to casting Buddha statues, of course they can also cast other utensils, which happens to be the talents that Li Tai is in urgent need of. With these talents in place, the smelting and casting workshop in Baishui Village will be able to have a large output in the spring of next year, and Li Tai will also
There is no need to go around buying ordnance to expand the army.
In terms of supplies, Hongfa Temple's income mainly comes from various metals. As the largest Buddha statue casting base in the North, Hongfa Temple has more than three thousand kilograms of gold accumulated. Li Tai was blackmailed a lot, but still had more than a thousand kilograms left.
There are more than four thousand kilograms of silver.
As for copper and tin, the reserves are even more exaggerated. The Maitreya statue that Li Tai ordered when he entered the temple alone weighed several thousand kilograms, and the hundreds of Buddha statues enshrined in the Thousand Buddha Hall that the monks showed off to him added up.
It weighs more than 100,000 kilograms, plus various storage materials, it weighs more than 200,000 kilograms.
Copper and tin are easy to cast and process. In addition to being consumed in worshiping Buddha, they are also widely used in daily life, such as copper furnaces, copper basins, copper pans, bronze mirrors, and vehicle components. But their most important use is naturally used to mint coins.
If the copper and tin metals seized by Li Tai could be minted into money, tens of millions of coins could be minted even if the full weight of five baht was spared. If the weight was further reduced and mixed with other materials,
The income is doubled.
Extending it to the entire Kansai region, it can be imagined that the copper and tin materials harvested by Yuwentai in this wave alone are extremely amazing, which is enough to carry out monetary and financial reforms and make copper coins a stable currency for commercial exchanges in Kansai.
Li Tai also asked Yuwentai if he had such a plan, but Yuwentai shook his head. There are many problems facing Bafu, and the harm of currency chaos is not high.
Moreover, if you want to reform currency, it is not just as simple as minting enough currency and putting it into the market. It also requires the government to cooperate in various aspects such as legislation and administration. It is difficult to achieve without a stable social and people's livelihood foundation.
A little carelessness will turn into a bad government that plunders people's property. Yuwentai is not short of money now, and he doesn't have that much energy to operate, so he doesn't have much enthusiasm for this matter.
Knowing that Yu Wentai had no idea of reforming the currency, Li Tai did not keep too much copper metal, leaving only more than 40,000 kilograms. After all, he could not follow the policy and make another payment. It would be useless to keep too much.
Too conspicuous.
In addition to these metal materials, the larger savings in the temple are spices and dyes. Li Tai left behind more than 200 stones of spices and more than 500 stones of pigments. Although this number may not seem large, the actual value is far more than
The sum of gold, silver, copper and tin.
Everyone knows how valuable pepper was in the Middle Ages, and the value of pigments should not be underestimated either.
Brightly colored minerals such as lapis lazuli and turquoise can be used as gemstone decorations or ground and mixed into pigments. Even in later generations when mining was developed and logistics was convenient, the price remained high, with one gram costing hundreds of dollars.
Even thousands of dollars, the current value is only high or not low.
Li Tai is not talking about grams here, but about stones. One stone is one hundred and twenty kilograms, and a few hundred stones is tens of thousands of kilograms. Although the quality and value of the pigments vary, the total amount is so huge, it is an astonishing sum.
of wealth.
There were also dozens of boxes of other items such as pearls, jade, crystals, etc. Li Tai didn't even bother to calculate their value. In short, they were very expensive. There were also more than 2,000 pieces of high-quality damask and brocade, which were exchanged for silk for trading.
, and tens of thousands more.
These are the remaining harvests of Li Tai and his party in the north after being blackmailed by Daxingtai. Although they gained a lot of grain and silk, they took up too much space. After excluding the consumption of this group, the remaining Li Tai
All were handed over to the Bafu.
Anyway, Yuwentai ensured that the cost of the two defense cities in the coming year would be borne by the Bafu, so Li Tai did not have to keep too much and sent all of it to the Bafu, which could also support the total amount of supplies and cover up the fact that he was full of money.
In short, after this incident, Li Tai is no longer the poor boy who was worried about money and food all day long.
That is to say, Kansai does not have any ranking of personal assets. If there really was one, Li Tai's ranking would jump up like a rocket. At least among the richest people under the age of 20, he would dare to be a guarantee.
The dream of two versus three.
Even the princes and clans of the Yuan and Wei dynasties in Chang'an City may not have such a substantial private wealth as his.
Of course, his actual wealth level is still very high. Although the value of various materials is huge, they cannot be directly used as a trading medium for circulation. Moreover, due to the huge total amount and narrow use, once a large amount of selling is realized,
, will inevitably bottom out the market.
It must be said here that temples were really the most economically minded group in ancient times, and many advanced financial and market operations originated from temples.
The reason why Li Tai was able to steal so many high-end luxury goods from Hongfa Temple was because the temple wanted to cover the entire market and create religious pursuits. They controlled large quantities of supplies, sold them bit by bit to believers, and harvested wealth for a long time.
Scarcity is artificially created, and market demand comes from the religious environment of Salmon Dachang, so a considerable part of the price of these materials is to pay for faith.
If Li Tai wanted to sell it to others, the actual income would be far less than the theoretical value, so he would need a means to package it in order to shorten the gap between reality and ideals.
"Otherwise, build a temple?"
This was not an accidental idea on his part. He had had similar thoughts very early on. After all, it was really fast for the temple to make money, and now there was an actual need to sell stolen goods, so Li Tai started to think about it seriously.
First of all, this temple cannot be built in Guanzhong. The religious forces in Guanzhong also have their own regional scope. If you don't pay the protection fee, it will be difficult to build it. Of course Li Tai won't do anything about spending money, not to mention that he wants to make faces.
, I don’t want to leave an image of worshiping Buddha and being a sycophant.
If you want to avoid Guanzhong, then the remote area where his tentacles can reach right now is northern Shaanxi. If you want to do it in northern Shaanxi, then you can open your mind a little more. Northern Shaanxi is vast and sparsely populated, and it can attract more believers
Mainly Ji Hu.
Then, building a big temple of Liu Shifo will have a natural attraction for Jihu. It can not only attract money from the wealthy chiefs of Jihu, but also add a means of restraint and control.
As for the hypocrisy that the imperial court classifies Master Liu as a Yin worshiper, it is not to hurt your feelings, but to regulate your beliefs. I will build a big temple for you as a model. You can come here to worship in the future. Don't do it yourself.
It's a mess.
Anyway, the money for the purge operation carried out through this has been received, so there is no need to continue it.
What is harmed by the change of orders from morning to night is the majesty of the imperial court. It has nothing to do with the Bafu or with me, Governor Li. As long as you are willing to pay the money, you can continue to worship. I will even provide you with the materials to worship the Buddha.
Li Tai is not embarrassed because he went back on his word. After all, he gained weight by breaking his promise. As long as he can eat, he doesn't care about that. What's more, no one knows that he was the instigator of the previous incident. If he wants to establish a foothold in northern Shaanxi in the future, he must also pay attention to the Jihu forces.
Differentiation and integration, so this matter is really taking off.
He is planning to wait until the crisis in Chang'an City has passed, and propose to Yu Wentai to build a Buddhist temple for Master Liu in Tongyin in the upper reaches of Luoshui River, and set up a defensive city nearby. Then, with a Buddhist scripture in hand and a steel knife in hand, he will ask those Ji
Which one does the Hu tribe choose?
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