This month of May is very unsettling for the people of Qinzhou. First of all, Li Tai, who stayed behind in the state capital, joined forces with the monks of Guangming Temple to create momentum. Everyone knew that a Buddhist ceremony was going to be held, and the people were looking forward to it.
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Finally, good news came from Liangzhou in mid-May, finally drawing people's attention back to serious matters.
But before the news even had time to spread widely, another even more exciting thing suddenly attracted everyone's attention, that is, Guangming Temple, the largest and most famous temple in the territory, was looted by bandits!
For a while, people's leisure time after dinner was completely occupied by this topic. Even if they didn't have time, the farmers working hard in the fields had to say a few words. Who are the thugs who dare to desecrate the important place of Buddhism like this?
Ordinary people may be very angry, but they still stop at gossiping, and their actual lives are not greatly affected by this. However, some powerful locals with a little local capital and those temples that also have many believers have been affected by this.
The feelings I had were much more complicated.
Guangming Temple is the leading enterprise among the monasteries in the county. The temple owner, Master Tan Jing, is the county capital Wei Na and the leader of the monks in the county. Li Tai is the most prominent official among the left-behind people in the prefecture. He can represent the entire county.
Qinzhou officials cannot exaggerate.
Therefore, the group of bandits who robbed Guangming Temple can be said to have offended the two most powerful forces, the monks and the government. Therefore, the local tyrants and monks are also full of curiosity, who are so bold?
But apart from being curious, they can't help but feel secretly worried about whether the two parties will do something drastic because of this. After all, they each have considerable energy, and if they lose control and go berserk, they will definitely be punished.
It has caused very serious damage to domestic order.
Therefore, after many people learned about this incident, they paid close attention to it and did not dare to lose focus for a moment.
But the so-called close attention of these people ultimately lagged behind Li Tai's actions. When they learned the news, Li Tai had already completed the reception and control of Guangming Temple at the first time, and had already begun to monitor Tan Jing.
The mage took stock of the wealth he had accumulated for more than ten years.
The scene last night was too chaotic, and it is hard to judge how much damage was done in the temple. However, the robbers came and went in a hurry and did not have time to cause widespread harm to the entire temple. The losses were mainly concentrated on the materials prepared for the Buddhist ceremony in recent days. Other areas were affected.
The damage was relatively light.
This also provided Li Tai with a reason to use the topic to target other forces within the territory. The bandits were specifically robbing Buddhist ritual supplies. This was clearly targeting the upcoming Buddhist ritual, or they were jealous of the Guangming Temple and did not want it.
This temple is perfect for holding a grand Buddhist ceremony, or maybe I have a problem with Li Tai and don't want him to find his father in this way.
In short, every one of you guys is a suspect. Clean yourself and squat down, waiting for me to investigate one by one! Who dares to glare at me? The Western Expedition Army, which has just put down the Liangzhou rebellion and will triumphantly in the near future, will not spare you.
How will Yu Wenzhonghe die? How will you die?
Of course, these are all follow-up operations. The most important thing now is to accept and digest the big meat bun of Guangming Temple.
Master Tanjing is also considered to be savvy, and he can think from various signs such as Li Tai's aggressive attitude and the mysterious swapping of his belongings that Li Tai may be directing and acting on his own, but it is too late.
With support and connivance, he was too unruly and carried away, so that he made many enemies and had many grudges, so he could only be at the mercy of Li Tai.
The other monks were unable to realize this, but their internal organization had long been completely destroyed by the state army brought by Li Tai, and without the leader Master Tan Jing to give orders, they could only stand by and watch the situation develop further.
The assets of Guangming Temple were sorted out one after another, and every piece of data made Li Tai marvel at the wealth of Longyou Temple. The various pastoral properties alone cover four to five thousand hectares, and most of them are close to the Wei River and are easily irrigated.
Excellent farmland!
This number is really astonishing. Naturally, Longyou is not as rich in arable land resources as Guanzhong. The total number of registered farmland and equalized farmland in Qinzhou is only tens of thousands of hectares. The farmland area owned by a mere temple in Guangming Temple is actually
It accounts for nearly one-tenth of the total cultivated land in Qinzhou!
Such a large amount of land was obviously not cultivated inch by inch by the monks. Its biggest source came from various forms of donations.
For example, the Yan family of Tianshui suffered the consequences of their own actions. There are also many self-cultivated households in the country who took the initiative to donate their lives to temples in order to avoid heavy corvee labor. The more important thing is that the big households should pay back the full amount, and the common people should share 30-70. But as Tan
After Master Jing's reputation gradually increased and he became a monk official, he would take over all of them, and the assets of Guangming Temple would naturally expand rapidly.
To obtain land, you also need a population. There are more than 3,200 registered monk households in Guangming Temple, which exceeds the number of registered civilian households in most counties under Qinzhou.
As for the supporting households, the number has reached an astonishing more than 11,000 households. Of course, Master Tanjing took advantage of his position to transfer all the supporting households from some small temples in the area to Guangming Temple, and uniformly collected the supporting funds.
After the goods are delivered, they will be distributed according to proportion.
Through this method, the old monk took the fate of many temples in the area into his own hands.
If Li Tai hadn't first pretended to paralyze him, and then used evil tricks behind his back to confront him head-on, Qinzhou's left-behind force alone would really be no match for him. Even if he overthrew the old monk, the entire Qinzhou would have been defeated.
Chaos.
After all, the number of registered households in Tianshui County is just over 20,000, which is already the largest number of registered households in Longyou. Guangming Temple accounts for half of the households, plus others that are not under the control of his monk-official
believers, you can imagine that at least two-thirds of Tianshui are believers!
Human and land resources are already so abundant. Putting aside other miscellaneous industries, Guangming Temple's savings of various materials are naturally extremely amazing.
There are twenty or thirty granaries under his name alone, distributed throughout the county and even other prefectures and counties, and the accumulated grain has reached hundreds of thousands of stones. And this is because of spring plowing and lending both years ago and now.
They go out a lot, and when the harvest comes in after autumn, this number will more than double!
What was even more exaggerated was that Li Tai discovered that not only the wealthy and powerful people in the country but also ordinary people had borrowed property from Guangming Temple, even the names of some county officials were prominently listed.
Especially on the eve of the Western Expedition, all counties and counties had to send war supplies to Qinzhou. Some counties and counties that had always been poor and had empty treasury simply borrowed money from Guangming Temple. This is not a temple, it is simply
A large-scale comprehensive financial company is a fucking capital!
Li Tai has been living in Kansai for the past few years and has made a lot of windfalls. He has experienced the amount of gold, silver and jewelry carried in cars, but this time he couldn't help but feel a little overwhelmed.
The old monk is not an eminent monk, he is simply a financial tycoon!
In just ten years, he had accumulated such a huge fortune in Longyou, a city full of powerful people. However, when he first met him, he used a handful of millet to talk about it. For him, making money from starting a business has already surpassed basic survival.
Demand has simply become a belief!
Of course, it is not an easy task to fully digest such a huge asset. Moreover, it is difficult for an old monk alone to control such a huge industry. There are also many Longyou wealthy families who participate in it.
Victims such as the Tianshui Yan family were manipulated by the Guangming Temple because they themselves were gradually marginalized in the local order and lost their official status and local status.
For a powerful family that supports and supports Guangming Temple, annual rebates and dividends are also indispensable.
If Li Tai wants to take over all the assets of Guangming Temple, he must coordinate the interests with these powerful families, otherwise there will inevitably be troubles and disputes, at least the old business of Guangming Temple will be greatly affected.
It would be best if the business of Guangming Temple can continue. But right now, Li Tai’s task is to drain all the cash savings of Guangming Temple.
If his dozens of boxes of sand and flax are not exchanged for gold, silver, money and silk and sent back, we really cannot agree to it. It doesn't matter if the powerful shareholders don't admit the debt, it's OK for the old monk to accept it. Pay off the debt you owe me first, let's
Then discuss how to divide and distribute it next.
Although a considerable part of Guangming Temple's savings flowed into the market due to preparations for Buddhist ceremonies, Li Tai did not feel regretful about this.
The flow of these goods into the market does not mean that they will disappear, but it will allow more people to have sufficient capital to join the subsequent Silk Road trade. Li Tai is not a hoarder and does not need all the money.
Everything goes into his own pocket, and the most important thing is that the general environment can meet his expectations.
After Li Tai sealed off the temple, the first batch of people who came after hearing the news were the powerful men and temples who had close interests with Guangming Temple.
Li Tai did not show a good look to these people when he met with them, and ordered them to produce a detailed list of members of the family and their recent developments as soon as possible for the state government to review and eliminate suspicion.
These people are innocent to begin with, and they are worried about their own interests being damaged, and are in a anxious mood, but they are treated as suspects, and even asked to reveal their family background. Naturally, they are even more unhappy, and they are about to make a noise.
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Li Tai deliberately waited until the Liangzhou war report came back before taking action, just to prevent this situation. Before, he was worried about affecting the stability of the situation, but now he is afraid that you won't dance enough. The more you dance, the more I can eat!
So he ordered several representatives who were noisy and fierce to be imprisoned in the temple, and also ordered other powerful people in the country who had friendly relations with the government to send their envoys to rush here to standby. For example, the eldest grandson Li Yunxin, etc., take your
Centaur, you can kill whoever I point out!
As for the other powerful men and temples who have not been summoned, what if they just stay at home and wait for investigation to clear their suspicions, or if they are allowed to wander around in the countryside and discover the men I have hidden?