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Chapter 18

Long Jiao was like a deer in the forest, trembling in Chen Sijiu's arms.

She raised her head to look at Chen Sijiu's cheek, her eyes blurred, and she muttered to herself.

Chen Sijiu felt a little guilty, but when he thought of Long Jiao's many evils before, any guilt in his heart disappeared, and asked: "After you are like this, can you still marry the emperor of Dayuan?"

Long Jiao's eyes gradually focused.

Her cheekbones were slightly red, her eyebrows gradually opened, and she sneered slightly: "When will I need you, a slave, to take care of my affairs?"

Chen Sijiu pinched the soles of her feet and trampled on them, causing her to beg for mercy repeatedly. Then he said: "First of all, we are not Han slaves, but I am a Taoist priest from Sanxian Cave in Tiefeng Mountain, Liaoyang. Secondly, you are my Why can't I manage?"

Long Jiao's eyes softened.

She twisted her body, snuggled into Chen Sijiu's arms, and said with a bitter smile: "The Mongolian aristocratic women in Dayuan are the most precious only before they get married. After they get married, they marry chickens and dogs, and dogs follow dogs. Follow the dog, follow the chicken when the dog dies, if the Great Yuan Emperor Iron Pot I married dies, I will be his next Great Emperor, and I may be snatched away by the Prime Minister..."

"Then your tribe?"

Long Jiao smiled wryly again.

"The elders of my tribe wish that if I marry, I won't be able to inherit the tribe's cattle and sheep pastures and the city-state's tax collection rights. I am the only woman in this generation. If I marry someone else, they will not be worthy of their status. I don't want to, but I can't refuse to marry Emperor Dayuan."

"After I marry Emperor Dayuan, it doesn't matter whether I live or die, because I am no longer the apple of the eye of the tribe."

Chen Sijiu pinched her chin, and sighed: "Although I have no feelings for you, I can't hate you anymore. If you want to go back to the river to take back your city-state and tribal cattle and sheep pastures in the future, I, Chen Sijiu, Definitely help."

Long Jiao snorted coldly when she heard the words: "Hmph, all of you men in the Central Plains are so delicate and weak. This leader absolutely doesn't need your pity. In my heart, you are no different from a breeding stallion!"

Chen Sijiu sneered.

He stretched out his hand, made a foot massage posture, and said with a strange smile: "Oh? Really?"

Long Jiao cried out, and hurriedly backed away with her hands waving wildly: "You still come..."

……

In the big tent of Hama.

Ha Ma sat at the top, and Han Shantong sat on the table below, drinking kumiss with him, as well as free food made from camel milk and horse milk, fragrant oil, and buttered tea soup made from fried corn.

In addition, there are various pastries, pastries, and refreshments that can only be eaten in the south.

The diet of the Great Yuan Dynasty, which combines crowns and things, is also enjoyed by the Mongolian gold family nobles. The most precious of these cakes is not the refreshments made by the tea mothers in the south, but the butter tea soup.

In the beginning, the Mongols could eat very little tea soup, and there was not much fuel in the grassland. Until the Genghis Khan period, the grassland was abundant with water and grass, and there was a lot of hay and cow dung to burn in winter. The Mongolians began to burn tea soup and drink it. At first, they chewed it dry.

This pot of ghee and corn tea soup is precious.

Firstly, the tea leaves used are not tea cakes, but the most precious Fujian deep mountain black tea, which has a unique fragrance after being cooked.

Second, firewood is rare here, firewood, rice, oil and salt. In ancient times, firewood was before rice and oil and salt, so Gein said.

At this time, many diseases can be cured by drinking hot water or hot tea soup, but firewood is scarce. In this place, drinking hot butter tea soup is a very high treatment, which also shows the different status of hama.

In the middle of the tent was a roasted whole lamb, which was sizzling with oil.

"Master Ha Ma, I don't know if the Prime Minister Yan Timur and the Second Prime Minister Boyan are in Shangdu this time?"

Ha Ma is playing with a well-made pure gold waist fan sent by Han Shantong. The waist fan can be folded and put away. This waist fan is specially found by a Jiangnan craftsman, and it is made of gold thread. It can not only be folded, but also stretched. The wind of the fan is refreshing, and the gold ornaments are hollowed out to carve plum blossoms, orchids, bamboos and chrysanthemums. It is elegant and refined, making Ha Ma's eyes brighten.

Hearing Han Shantong's words, Ha Ma raised his head, laughed and said, "Naturally, the Prime Minister must come to Shangdu. What are you asking for this time?"

Han Shantong looked at Liu Futong who was standing outside, and smiled at Ha Ma: "I have been preaching in the local area for a long time, and I feel that I am not very knowledgeable. The incense master of my White Lotus Sect also entered the Jixian Academy to benefit the people of Dayuan, so that Dayuan can collect taxes from my White Lotus Sect."

There is something in Han Shantong's words.

Dayuan’s Jixianyuan was under the management of the Hanlin Academy during Kublai Khan’s period. It led the Imperial Academy, Taoism, yin and yang, sacrifices, divination, etc. At first glance, it seemed insignificant, but in fact it had a profound impact on Dayuan’s officialdom.

For example, Wu Cheng, the great Confucian who is as famous as Xu Heng and is also known as "Northern Xu and Southern Wu", walked in the Guozijian with profound knowledge. He was the Guozijian Cheng. He is a good hand, but Confucian ministers and Semu people are needed to govern the country, so in terms of tax collection, we rely more on Wu Cheng and other Han Confucian scholars for their ideas.

And Jixianyuan is in charge of the yin and yang of Taoism in the world. Many Taoist priests got official positions here, and gained the trust of the emperor and powerful ministers. When they were happy, they gave the taxation rights of various places to Taoists and monks.

For example, Yang Lian Zhenjia, the fan monk who dug Song Lizong's head out of the imperial tomb and made it into a Tantric Gabala bowl, was named the head of Buddhism in the south of the Yangtze River by the great emperor Kublai Khan, and he had the taxation rights of several big prefectures in the south of the Yangtze River.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty was not stupid. Basically, after he gradually came to power, he consciously used monks, nuns, Taoist priests, and monks and lamas to fight against the Mongolian dignitaries and Semu people. For example, when Kublai Khan favored Semu and returned to Ahema, causing Ahema When it grows bigger, all the people in the court will look back, and gradually emptied Kublai Khan's power. He then used An Tong, a Mongolian Confucian official who was deeply sinicized, to select a few Taoist priests and monks from Jixian Yuan to take power, and finally used thousands of Han people to take power. Hu Wangzhu and Han Seng Gao monk assassinated Ahema, making Semu Huihui unable to grow bigger.

Han Shantong can be said to be the person who has the right time and place and the most blessed person since the White Lotus Sect has been passed down for hundreds of years. He knows that the world is now at the point where the artifacts collapse. Official position.

But Ha Ma frowned when he heard the words.

His eyes flickered, and he sneered in his heart, these guys, do you really think I'm a stupid ass?I, Ha Ma, have never seen anything before. Send me a few women and some money, and you want me to introduce you to Jixianyuan?Hmph, this abacus is really good.

He picked up a cup of tea soup, scooped up the fried corn with a silver spoon, put it into the butter tea soup, and said slowly: "This is a bit difficult..."

"My Jixian Academy in the Great Yuan Dynasty, the Daoist Changxiang Bishop who can be admitted to the hospital is either a big taxpayer, or an excellent person who refines elixir for the emperor. You wait for the White Lotus Sect to have a criminal record of rebellion, and pay taxes but only a few. I How can I recommend you to Jixian Academy?"

Han Shantong smiled wryly, "Master Hama, I, the White Lotus Sect, don't pay much taxes, and it's not that I don't want to pay taxes..."

Han Shantong also has his own difficulties.

The White Lotus Sect seems to be beautiful now. There are incense halls everywhere in Henan, Hebei, and Anhui, but many of them listen to the tune and do not listen to the propaganda. Moreover, the incense masters of this group of incense halls believe in Quanzhen Taoism when Taoism is strong, and Mingjiao is strong. In the Ming religion, Bai Lianqiang believed in the Bailian Buddhas. In order not to offend the monks and lamas, the Xiangtang also enshrined various Buddhist Bodhisattvas.

The common people in the north are very tough, and most of them are in groups. This is because of the chaos of the feudal towns at the end of the Tang Dynasty. The Sixteen Prefectures of Youyun fell into the hands of the Khitans.

Many of the incense masters of the White Lotus Sect are elders of local clans. Han Shantong’s main missionary position is in Hebei, where there are many clan fortresses. Semu, a Confucian official of the Han Dynasty in the Yuan Dynasty, spent decades returning and failed to collect enough taxes, let alone Han Shantong?

At the end of the Tang Dynasty, the north fell for more than [-] years. Dali, Xixia, etc. all reproduced their own writing culture. Han Shantong managed to integrate all the parts of Bailian together. It looks very huge on the surface, which is already rare, but only he knows the pain inside.

Therefore, he urgently needs an identity as a Dayuan official.

If he can enter the Dayuan Jixian Academy, he will have an official status, and he can take the opportunity to integrate the forces of the White Lotus Sect and the Ming Sect in the north and south, and order the Fragrance Masters of Zhuxiangtang to be used by him.

At least, nominally for his use.

Han Shantong took a deep breath and said directly: "Master Ha Ma, tell me, if you recommend me to enter Jixian Academy, how much gold and silver will you need?"

Ha Ma laughed, with a sly look on his fat face, and said with a smile: "Master Han Xiang, I just like dealing with straightforward Han people like you, how about this, 1000 taels of gold, and I will give you the Ning Xianger you sent me." Enter the Great Yuan Palace, guarantee that she will become the concubine of the new Great Yuan Emperor, and then introduce you to the Jixian Yuan."

"Golden thousand taels..."

Han Shantong gritted his teeth with his lips pursed. Although he has a family of millions, many disciples, and a wide range of teaching property, it is not so easy to get out the thousand taels of gold.

Seeing that he was hesitating, Hama snorted coldly and turned his face in denial: "Okay, I'm going to sleep and rest. I don't like strangers in my tent when I sleep. Master Han Xiang, just go out as fast as you can. Forgive me for not seeing you off." .”

As he spoke and waved his hands, two burly Mongolian warriors came in from outside the tent, grabbed Han Shantong's arms and "please" him out.

Outside the tent, Liu Futong and Mr. Guan gritted their teeth angrily when they saw this scene.

ps: Leng Zhizhi, Ning Xiang'er is one of the seven nobles in the harem of Emperor Yuanshun, and the first noble is Concubine Shu Long Ruijiao.

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