The Dharma Sea of ​​the Green Snake

Chapter 749
The following year, the autumn harvest season.

When Hu Ruier came to Runzhou alone, she found that it was completely different from last year.

As an important place for water transportation, Hu Rui'er crossed half of Yangzhou by land before arriving at the boundary of Runzhou.

Then she first discovered that the official roads here are surprisingly neat.

The main body of the official road is made of huge bluestone slabs. Although the scratches on the road surface show the age of their construction, they cannot conceal the fact that they have been carefully maintained.

It was as if someone would take the initiative to clean it every once in a while, and there was nothing but dust on the main road of the official road.

Along the official road, there is a tea shed or gazebo every three or five miles to provide tea supplies for business travelers and passers-by along the road.

It happens that there are such frequent tea sheds or gazebos, but each one is crowded with vendors.

Hu Rui'er even had the illusion that all the vendors in Yangzhou were doing business in Runzhou, which brought such an astonishing traffic.

But thinking about what happened in the past year, Hu Rui'er felt that this might not be an illusion.

The gold mine at Jinshan Temple brought a huge flow of people and business opportunities. Those traders who were moved by the news sold almost everything that could be sold to Runzhou for their own benefit.

As the local people in Runzhou, although they could not get a share of the gold mine, under the guidance of Zen Master Fahai, they started a series of derivative transactions around the gold mine.

In the words of Zen Master Fahai, there is only one gold mine, and you cannot guarantee that you will be able to dig out the gold mine and become the lucky one who gets rich suddenly.

However, selling shovels around this golden mountain and providing various derivative services can ensure that your family, young and old, have no worries about food and clothing.

As a result, except for a few capable or lucky people, most of the local people in Runzhou woke up and began to start various derivative transactions around Jinshan Temple.

Tools, food, shipping, and even selling incense candles at the foot of Jinshan Temple have become the most popular business among local people.

And the tea sheds and gazebos along the road are also one of these derived businesses.

With Zen Master Fahai's special greeting, the government officers and soldiers not only did not embarrass these traders, but even protected and maintained order intentionally or unintentionally.

Although Hu Rui'er knew Pei Wende's ability a long time ago, she still had to admire his courage.

It is true that a mere mountain of gold cannot make the people of Runzhou live comfortably, but using it as a medium can maximize their enthusiasm.

Compared with Runzhou a year ago, the people in Runzhou today are full of vitality and hope.

Because Zen Master Fahai has indeed fulfilled the promise he made to all the people in Runzhou when he took over Runzhou - the cold will get clothes, and the hungry will get food.

Even Hui Ji, who is a "true Buddha on earth", can't do this in just one year.

He lamented the sights he had seen along the way.

It wasn't until Hu Rui'er came to the waterway pier, planning to change to a boat to go to Jinshan Temple, that she suddenly realized that what she had just seen was actually nothing at all.

If we say that the merchants seen on the official road are only economically active.

Then what Hu Rui'er saw along the waterway by boat is the real cornerstone for the people of Runzhou to live.

The winding canal bypasses the farmland, the huge keel waterwheel runs with the wind, and the simple but exquisite semi-automatic equipment irrigates the field...

This picture is very different from any region, and even surpassed this era, which is enough to cause an unprecedented impact on anyone who sees this scene for the first time.

Since it was the autumn harvest season, Hu Rui'er couldn't see the picture of these water conservancy equipment running at full capacity.

However, those people who were busy harvesting in the farmland fully explained to her what hope and enthusiasm are.

The sharp sickle harvested the golden rice fields, while the busy people in the farmland sang songs enthusiastically, and the high-pitched and passionate singing spread across both sides of the river.

Going backward along the Yunliang River, Hu Rui'er even saw a strange device driven by livestock to quickly hustle bundles of rice.

Without listening to the bragging of the boatman, Hu Rui'er knew that the things she saw along the way must have been made by that Zen Master Fahai.

After all, Hu Rui'er had seen Pei Wende fiddle with all kinds of weird devices when she was at Tongqing Temple in Weishan.

The only thing that Hu Rui'er never imagined was that those things that Pei Wende was tinkering with in private would one day be able to play such a huge role.

With Hu Rui'er's knowledge, it is not difficult to see the future of these things.

It is no exaggeration to say that Pei Wende changed the general trend of the entire era by himself.

【Your Majesty, after all, you have underestimated your younger brother. 】

With an inexplicable sigh in her heart, Hu Rui'er, who boarded the boat, experienced half a stick of incense, and finally arrived at the destination of her trip - Jinshan Temple.

The endless stream of boats, the bustling temples, and the plaque with the words "Jinshan Temple" written on it...

With just one glance, Hu Rui'er can hardly imagine that this temple was still a deserted temple a year ago.

Especially the sincerity and excitement of the common people, I am afraid that even the Zexin Temple in its heyday is no more than this?

【Zen Master Fahai, his reputation is indeed well-deserved! 】

Instead of going directly up the mountain to meet Pei Wende, Hu Rui'er looked at this temple full of incense, and suddenly had an urge to learn more about what happened in the past year.

Anyway, it's been so long, Hu Rui'er thinks it's not bad for a day or two.

When Hu Rui'er officially lurked, she began to understand what had happened in Runzhou in the past year, but was surprised to find that no matter how much she imagined, she still seemed to have underestimated Pei Wende after all.

After a year of development and planning, Jinshan Temple seems to have become another Runzhou center independent of Runzhou City.

The flow of people who come to Jinshan Temple every day is more than the number of people who enter and leave Runzhou City.

The most important thing is that not only pilgrims and believers come to Jinshan Temple, but also more people with other identities.

Farmers, artisans, merchants, poets, gentry, officials...

No matter what purpose or attitude these people hold, Jinshan Temple or Zen Master Fahai will never refuse them.

During the period of lurking, Hu Rui'er even found out that Pei Wende planned to allocate part of the land to replant tea trees next year, so as to obtain a new economic pillar for Runzhou.

You know, this is something that the local governors and even the central court are qualified to discuss and decide.

Even if Pei Wende has a brother who is a national teacher, he is absolutely not qualified to decide the direction of a region's future economic development.

From this incident alone, Hu Rui'er could truly feel the prestige of the name "Zen Master Fahai" in Runzhou.

【This is the real Buddha on earth! 】

——Monthly ticket/recommendation ticket——

　Take a day off tomorrow and take a day off.

　　By the way, let's take a look at how to write this volume.

　　In the next volume, I want to write Pei Wende as a real "Buddha", that is, the image of the prologue.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)