Northern Dynasties

Chapter 202
The personnel turmoil in Chang'an City can't be over for a while, and it is estimated that it will be delayed until next year, and Li Tai can't wait.

In the current situation, it is unnecessary to continue going out to suppress the bandits. It happened that several Hui helped to transport the materials back, and Li Tai planned to take advantage of this spare time every year and two years to completely digest this batch of personnel and materials.

After all, no matter how many resources there are, if they can't bring about real power growth, they will be saved for others.Yu Wentai always made a fortune and then expanded his army, so of course Li Tai couldn't fall behind.

Li Tai collected nearly [-] carts of goods from two temples, relying on more than [-] craftsmen captured and recruited from Hongfa Temple and their families, plus hundreds of people mobilized by Mao Shijian in the village, he was able to dispose of these goods. The goods were transported to North China State.

When returning to the Bafu, most of the supplies were extorted by Yu Wentai.Li Tai was upset at first. Of course, he didn't care about the transportation. He just sent a letter to the trilogy who stayed in Beihua Prefecture to sort the goods and wait for the Tyrant to send people to transport them. In the end, he only had more than a hundred vehicles left, including The more than two thousand captives.

Yu Wentai didn't ask much about the captives, after all, he didn't need people, and he had to take care of them when they came.Therefore, this group of personnel, Li Tai, was completely retained. Although Yu Wentai didn't care about it, in his opinion, this was the biggest wealth he gained from this trip.

Temples can also be regarded as a type of manor economy, because of the ideological control brought about by religious beliefs, the exploitation of these monastery slaves and monks is more severe than those local tyrants who are the owners of the manor.

As a result, these temple slaves almost all have special skills, and temple slaves without skills are almost not qualified to live in temples, and can only be serfs in the manor.

Of the two thousand captives, excluding the old, the weak, women and children, there were more than [-] young and strong craftsmen alone.A considerable number of them were devout believers who deeply hated Li Tai's revenge for destroying the temple, and several riots broke out on the way.

Li Tai was not relentless about this, and he directly showed the dozens of people who took the lead in instigating it to the public, and coupled with the food and drink all the way, he used kindness and power to control the public sentiment.

But it still takes many years of hard work to completely win back people's hearts and become his own loyal part.Li Tai is not in a hurry about this. Although the Buddhas have great powers, they can only protect the believers in the next life, but as long as they obey him, they will be able to live a good life now. It is up to each person to choose which one is better.

Among the more than [-] craftsmen, more than [-] are skilled in pottery, smelting and forging utensils.The reputation of Hongfa Temple for casting Buddha statues has little to do with the monks who eat their fill and chant scriptures. It is all earned by their hard work.Although the skills of other craftsmen are not too refined, they can also be guaranteed to be qualified.

In addition to casting Buddha statues, of course they can also cast other utensils, which happened to be the talents Li Tai was in urgent need of.With these talents in place, Baishuizhuang's smelting workshop will have a large output in the spring of next year, and Li Tai will no longer have to go around buying ordnance to expand his army.

In terms of materials, the income of Hongfa Temple is mainly made of various metals.As the largest Buddha statue casting base in the Northland, Hongfa Temple has accumulated more than [-] catties of gold. Li Tai has been extorted a lot, and there are still more than [-] catties left, and more than [-] catties 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 catties, and the hundreds of Buddha statues enshrined in the Thousand Buddha Hall that the monks showed off to him added up to a weight of more than a hundred thousand catties, plus various There are more than [-] catties of storage materials.

Copper and tin are convenient for casting and processing. In addition to being used for worshiping Buddhas, they are also widely used in daily life, such as copper furnaces, basins, pans, mirrors, and car components.But its most important use is naturally to mint coins.

The copper and tin metals seized by Li Tai alone can be cast into tens of millions of coins if they can be cast into coins, even if they spare no effort to spare five baht.If you add some weight reduction and doping with other materials, the income will be doubled.

Extending to the entire Kansai, it is conceivable 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, so that copper coins can once again become the stable currency of Kansai business exchanges.

Li Tai also asked Yu Wentai if he had such a plan, but Yu Wentai shook his head instructing him.There are many problems faced by the Overlord's Mansion, and the degree of harm caused by currency chaos is not high.

Moreover, if you want to reform the currency, it is not as simple as minting enough currency and putting it into the market. It also requires the cooperation of the government in various aspects such as legislation and administration. It is difficult to achieve without a stable social foundation for people's livelihood.

A little carelessness will turn into an evil policy of looting people's property. Yu Wentai is not short of money now, nor does he have so much energy to operate it, so he doesn't have much enthusiasm for this matter.

Knowing that Yu Wentai had no idea of ​​reforming the currency, Li Tai didn't keep too much copper and metal, leaving only more than [-] catties.After all, you can’t follow the policy to send another sum. It’s useless to leave too many, and it’s too conspicuous.

In addition to these metal materials, the relatively large deposits in temples are spices and dyes.Li Tai left more than [-] stones of spices and more than [-] stones of pigments.Although this number seems small, its actual value far exceeds the sum of gold, silver, copper and tin.

Everyone knows the value of pepper 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 not only as gem ornaments, but also as pigments by grinding.Even if the mining industry is developed and the logistics is convenient in later generations, the price will remain high, and one gram can reach hundreds or even thousands of yuan, and its value is only high at present.

Li Tai is not talking about grams here, but about stones. One stone is one hundred and twenty catties, and a few hundred stones is tens of thousands of catties.Although the quality and value of the pigments vary, such a huge amount is also an amazing wealth.

Others such as pearls, jade, crystals, etc., also have dozens of boxes, Li Tai didn't even bother to calculate their value, in short, they are very expensive.There are also more than [-] bolts of high-quality silk and brocade, which are converted into silk for trading, and tens of thousands of bolts.

These are the harvests left by Li Tai's northern party after being blackmailed by Daxingtai. Although there are a lot of food and silk, they take up too much space. After excluding the consumption of this line, the rest of Li Tai All were handed over to the Tyrant Mansion.

Anyway, Yu Wentai is guaranteeing that the expenses of the two defense cities in the coming year will be borne by the Overlord's Mansion, so Li Tai doesn't have to keep too much, and send all of them to the Overlord's Mansion, and he can also support the total amount of supplies to cover up the fact that he is full of private pockets.

In short, after this wave, 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 is one, Li Tai's ranking will go up like a rocket. The dream of fighting three.

Even the princes and clans of the Yuan and Wei Dynasties in Chang'an City may not have such a rich personal wealth as him.

Of course, his actual wealth level still has a lot of moisture.Although the value of various materials is huge, they are not directly used as a trading medium for circulation, and because the total amount is huge and the use is narrow, once a large amount of selling is realized, the market will inevitably bottom out.

Here I have to say 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 copy so many high-end luxury goods in the Hongfa Temple was because the temple had to cover the market and create religious pursuits.They control a large amount of materials, sell them to believers little by little, and reap wealth for a long time.

The scarcity is artificially created, and the market demand comes from the religious environment of Salmonella Dachang, so a considerable part of the price of these materials is to pay for the belief.

If Li Tai himself wants to sell it to the outside world, the actual income will be far from the theoretical value, so he needs a means of packaging in order to shorten the gap between reality and ideal.

"Otherwise, build a temple?"

This is not a random thought on his part, he has had similar thoughts since a long time ago.After all, the monastery is really quick to make money, and now there is an actual need to sell stolen goods, so Li Tai began to think seriously.

First of all, this temple cannot be established in Guanzhong. The religious forces in Guanzhong also have their own regional scope. It is difficult to establish it without paying protection fees.Of course, Li Tai would not do anything about spending money, not to mention that he had to be a bit aggressive, and he didn't want to leave an image of adoring Buddha and sycophant.

If you want to avoid the switch, then the remote area where his tentacles can reach right now is northern Shaanxi.If we want to do it in northern Shaanxi, then we can open our minds a bit more. Northern Shaanxi is sparsely populated, and the main believers we can attract are Jihu.

Then, building a Liu Shifo temple has a natural appeal to Jihu. It can not only collect money from those Jihu chieftains, but also add a means of restraint and control.

As for the fact that the imperial court classified Liu Shifo as an adulterer and a hypocrite, it was not to hurt your feelings, but to correct your beliefs.I will build a big temple for you as a sample, and you will come here to worship in the future, don't make a mess of yourself.

Anyway, the purging operation and the money for the purge have already been received, so there is no need to continue to maintain it.

Changing orders from day to day hurts the majesty of the imperial court. It has nothing to do with Ba Mansion or Li Dadu with me. As long as you are willing to pay the money, you can continue to worship. I even provide you with materials for worshiping Buddha.

Li Tai wasn't embarrassed by his back-and-forth, after all he broke his promise and got fat, as long as he could eat enough, he didn't care about that, not to mention that everyone didn't know that he was the one who took the lead.If he wants to gain a foothold in northern Shaanxi in the future, he must also pay attention to the division and integration of the Jihu forces, so this matter is really something to do.

He planned to wait for the turmoil in Chang'an City to pass, and proposed to Yu Wentai to build a Liushi Buddha Temple in Diaoyin, upstream of Luoshui River, and set up a defense city nearby.When the time comes, with a Buddhist scripture in one hand and a steel knife in the other, ask those Jihu tribes which one to choose!

(End of this chapter)