Northern Dynasties

This May can be described as very unsettled for the people of Qinzhou. First of all, Li Tai, the state capital, stayed behind and joined forces with the monks of Guangming Temple. Everyone knows that the Buddhist ceremony will be held, and the masses are looking forward to it. .

Finally, in mid-May, the good news from Liangzhou finally brought people's attention back to serious matters.

But before this news had even had time to spread widely, another even more explosive event immediately attracted everyone's attention, that is, Guangming Temple, the most famous temple in the territory, was ransacked by robbers!
For a while, people's leisure time after tea and dinner was completely occupied by this topic. Even if they didn't have time, the farmers who worked hard in the fields would have to say a few words. Who dared to desecrate the important place of Buddhism like this?
Ordinary people may be furious, but they are still gossiping, and their actual lives are not affected much by it.However, the feelings of some local tyrants with a little rural influence and those temples that also have many believers are much more complicated.

Guangming Temple is the leading enterprise among the monks in the county, and the master of the temple, Master Tan Jing, is the leader of the county's Duvina and the entire county's monks, and Li Tai is the most prominent official among the remaining guards in the state capital. Qinzhou officials can't exaggerate.

Therefore, the bandits who looted Guangming Temple can be said to have offended the two most powerful forces, the Samana and the government, by their own efforts.So those local tyrants and monks are also full of curiosity, who is so bold?

But apart from their curiosity, they couldn't help but secretly feel uneasy, worrying whether the two parties involved would act radically because of this.After all, each of them has considerable energy. Once they get out of control and go berserk, they will definitely cause very serious damage to the order in the territory.

Therefore, after learning about this matter, many people kept paying close attention to it, not daring to be distracted for a moment.

But these people's so-called close attention still lagged behind Li Tai's actions.When they heard the news, Li Tai had already completed the reception and control of Guangming Temple in the first place, and had already started to take inventory of the possessions that Master Tan Jing had accumulated for more than ten years.

The scene last night was too chaotic. It is hard to judge how much was lost in the temple. However, the robbers came and went in such a hurry that it was too late to wreak havoc on the entire temple. The losses were mainly concentrated on the materials prepared for the preparation of the Buddhist ceremony. The damage is relatively light.

At the same time, this also provided Li Tai with a reason to use the topic to attack other forces in the territory. The bandits only robbed Buddhist ritual supplies. This temple is perfect for holding a grand Buddhist ceremony, or if you have a problem with Li Tai, you don't want him to find his father in this way.

In short, you guys are all suspects one by one, clean up and squat down honestly, waiting for me to investigate one by one!Who dares to stare at me, the Western Expeditionary Army that just quelled the rebellion in Liangzhou and is about to triumph in a few days will not spare you, how can Yu Wenzhonghe die, how can you die!
Of course, this is all a follow-up operation. The most important thing right now is to accept and digest the big meat bun of Guangming Temple.

Master Tan Jing was quite savvy, and could think from Li Tai's aggressive attitude and the strange swapping of the items that Li Tai might be directing and acting himself, but it was too late.What's more, with Li Tai's support and connivance, he was too presumptuous before, so that he made enemies and accumulated many grievances, so he could only let Li Tai manipulate him.

The other monks didn't realize this, but their internal organization was completely destroyed by the state army brought by Li Tai, and without the leader Master Tan Jing to order and command, they could only stand by and watch the further development of the situation.

The assets of Guangming Temple were sorted out one after another, and every piece of data made Li Tai marvel at the wealth of this Longyou Temple.All kinds of pastoral industries alone have as many as four to five thousand hectares, and most of them are high-quality fertile fields that are close to the Wei River and easy to irrigate!

This number is really astonishing. Longyou is naturally not as rich in cultivated land resources as Guanzhong, and the total number of farmland and average farmland in the entire Qinzhou is only tens of thousands of hectares.The idyllic area owned by a single temple in Guangming Temple has reached nearly one-tenth of the total cultivated land in Qinzhou!

Obviously, so much land was not cultivated by the monks one by one. The biggest source of it is various forms of donations.

For example, the Tianshui Yan family who reaped the consequences of their own suffering, there are also many self-cultivating households in the territory who volunteered to donate to the temple in order to avoid heavy corvee.What is more important is that the big households will be refunded in full, and the common people will be divided.But as Master Tan Jing's reputation grew and he became a monk official, all of them were taken down, and the assets of Guangming Temple naturally expanded rapidly.

With land comes population. There are more than 3000 households registered in Guangming Temple, which is more than the number of households registered in most counties under Qinzhou.

As for the support households, there are astonishingly more than 1000 households. Of course, Master Tan Jing took advantage of his position to assign all the supporters of some small and medium-sized temples in Yiyi to Guangming Temple, and collectively collected the offering materials. Then distribute according to the proportion.

Through this method, the old monk held the life gates of many temples in his own hands.

If Li Tai hadn't pretended to be paralyzed first, and then played behind his back, and confronted him head-on, Qinzhou's left behind strength alone was really no match. Even if the old monk was picked, the entire Qinzhou would be defeated Chaos.

After all, the number of registered households in Tianshui County is only a little over [-], which is already the largest number of registered households in Longyou County.Guangming Temple has half of the support households, plus some other believers who are not under the control of his monk official, it is conceivable that at least two-thirds of the entire Tianshui are believers!
The resources of people and land are already so rich, leaving aside other miscellaneous industries, the savings of various materials in Guangming Temple are naturally extremely amazing.

The granaries under his name alone are distributed in the county and even in other states and counties. There are as many as [-] or [-] granaries, and the accumulated grain is as much as tens of thousands of shi.And this is because a lot of loans were given out for spring plowing years ago and now, and when the harvest comes in after autumn, this number will more than double!

It was even more exaggerated. Li Tai discovered that not only wealthy households and ordinary people in the territory borrowed property from Guangming Temple, but even the names of some county and county officials were impressively listed.

Especially during the period before the Western Expedition, all the counties and counties had to send war supplies to Qinzhou, and some counties and counties that had always been poor and had empty treasuries simply borrowed money from Guangming Temple.This is not a temple, it is simply a large-scale comprehensive financial company, it is a fucking capital!
Li Tai has been in Kansai for the past few years, and has made a lot of windfalls. He has experienced the amount of gold, silver and jewelry in the car, but this time he can't help but feel a little panicked.

The old monk is nothing like an eminent monk, he is simply a financial predator!

In just over ten years, he has accumulated such a huge family fortune in Longyou, where there are many powerful people, but when he first met him, he used a handful of millet as an example. For him, starting a business and making money has already surpassed the 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 property, and many wealthy Longyou families also participate in it.

The anti-victims such as the Tianshui Yan family were gradually marginalized in the order of the nostalgia, and their official appearance and rural status were eclipsed, so they were backhanded by the Guangming Temple.However, for other wealthy families whose villages are strong and support Guangming Temple, annual rebates and dividends are also indispensable.

If Li Tai wanted to take over all the assets of Guangming Temple, he had to coordinate the interests of these powerful families, otherwise troubles and disputes would inevitably occur, at least the old business of Guangming Temple would be greatly affected.

It would be best if the Guangming Temple business can continue.But right now, Li Tai's task is to squeeze out the cash savings of Guangming Temple as much as possible.

If his dozens of boxes of sand, soil and flax are not exchanged for gold, silver and silk, it is really unacceptable.It doesn't matter if those tycoons who have participated in the shares do not admit their accounts, it is fine for the old monk to admit it.First pay back the debt owed to me, and then we will discuss how to divide and distribute it next.

Although it was said that a considerable part of Guangming Temple's savings flowed into the market because of the preparations for the Buddhist ceremony, Li Tai didn't feel sorry for it.

The flow of these goods into the market does not mean that they will disappear, but that more people will have sufficient capital to join in the next Silk Road trade.Li Tai is not a eccentric hoarder, he doesn't need all the money in his pocket, the most important thing is that the environment can meet his expectations.

After Li Tai sealed off the temple, the first batch of people who heard the news came were the tyrants and temples who had close interests with Guangming Temple.

When Li Tai met these people, he didn't show any good looks, and ordered them to issue a detailed list of people and recent developments at home as soon as possible, for the state government to review to eliminate suspicion.

These people are innocent, and they are worried about their own interests being damaged, and they are anxious, but they are treated as suspects and even asked to explain their family background. Naturally, they are even more upset, and even if they want to make a noise .

Li Tai deliberately waited until the Liangzhou battle report was sent back before taking action, just to prevent this situation.Before, I was worried about affecting the stability of the situation, but now I am afraid that you are not enough to dance, the more you dance, the more I can eat and wipe clean!

So he ordered the representatives of the noisy and fierce families to be imprisoned in the temple, and he also ordered other tycoons in the territory who were friendly with the government to send their troops to this place to stand by.For example, the eldest grandson Li Yunxin, etc., bring your men and horses, and do whoever I point at!

As for the other tycoons and temples that have not been summoned, they should stay at home and wait for the investigation to clear their suspicions. What if they let the trilogy wander around in the countryside and found out the people hidden by Lao Tzu?