Great Warriors of Sui and Tang Dynasties

Chapter 1058
Slowly climb up the mountain gate.

"Songshan seems to be much quieter." Luo Cheng said with a smile.

Abbot Daoxin, the protector of the country who came to greet him at the mountain gate, was very calm, "In the mountains and forests, it's good to restore the original tranquility."

When going up the mountain together, Luo Cheng also took a look at the current mountain temple. It was indeed much less noisy than before. There were no longer pilgrims staying on the mountain, and there were no longer plain seats for sale to entertain guests, let alone female pilgrims.

Entering the temple, Luo Cheng first went to the main hall to burn a stick of incense in front of the Buddha.

There was no large amount of gold and silver rewards, no scented oil candles, etc. The emperor only brought a few boxes of scriptures to the temple.There are both Buddhist scriptures and a subset of classics and history, and then some paper, ink, brush and inkstone.

There are one hundred monks in the temple.

Although Daoxin has the title of a protector of the country, the monastery is not full of princes and dignitaries, perhaps because of the emperor's attitude towards Buddhism and Taoism, so not many people are willing to get too close to the temple gate.

"Is it possible to plant a thousand acres of land in the temple?"

Daoxin casually said that they planted millet, vegetables, and some fruit trees and mulberry trees on this thousand acres of land, "I took my apprentices to work in shifts, and the temple also raised cattle to help plow the land."

Now the monks in the temple get up early every day to chant scriptures and pay homage to the Buddha. After breakfast, they go down the mountain together to work in the temple fields, plowing the ground, weeding, fertilizing and watering.After lunch, rest for a while, continue to read and copy scriptures and chanting in the afternoon, and then go to the field to do some work in the middle of the afternoon.

They even started raising silkworms, weaving cloth, and growing hemp by themselves.

"No wonder I think you all seem to be a bit dark, Master." Luo Cheng said with a smile.

However, Monk Daoxin thinks that the current state is quite good. There are only a small number of believers coming every day, so it is only necessary to send some disciples to be on duty to receive them in turn.

They cultivated themselves and were self-sufficient.

There are no longer ten thousand mu of temple land, no quality treasury to lend money, and a large number of temple cleaners, slave tenants, and their lives are much simpler.

Chanting scriptures and worshiping Buddha, farming and labor.

The hundred monks left in the monastery are all very pious, and they don't have any opinion on the current ascetic life.

"Today, we have less interference from the outside world and less impetuosity in the secular world. Thank you, Your Majesty."

"It would be great if all the monks in the world thought like you, Mage." Luo Cheng sighed. Not all monks can be so detached and free and easy. The previous reforms of Buddhism and Taoism in various places have caused a lot of troubles. hinder.There are even quite a few people who stir up trouble secretly and incite the masses.

Fortunately, Luo Cheng didn't give them the slightest chance.

At noon, when the emperor was entertained in the temple, Daoxin said that he did not make a special vegetarian banquet, but had the same lunch with the monks in the temple.

The millet porridge produced in the temple fields, the millet porridge cooked by shelling, and then served with radishes grown in the temple, and some small pickles. Each person also had two steamed buns, one with mixed noodles and the other with white noodles.

"The reception is not good!" Daoxin clasped his hands together.

"It's already very rich, and ordinary people's homes may not be so good." Luo Cheng said again, "Master, you farm by yourself and are self-sufficient. It's amazing. But monks have to cultivate and practice , still have to pay attention to supplementing nutrition."

The emperor had a simple lunch with the monks in the temple, and then the emperor chatted with the abbot and other great monks in the temple for a while, and listened to Daoxin's lecture on Zen and enlightenment.

Luo Cheng didn't stay in the temple much, he went around the temple field down the mountain, looked at the fields planted by the monks, and found that the wheat they planted was very good, and the radish field over there was even more lush and green.

The vegetable bed is very clean, there are no weeds, it can be seen that it has been put to good use.

"Your Majesty, the governor of Su Dingfang of Jiannan Road achieved victory and regained the two counties of Wenshan and Tongchang. Xifengxi, the chief of the Xifeng tribe, was captured and returned to him. His son Xifeng Bulai is invited to be the forward. What is the strength and powerlessness of the contract? The two generals attacked Dangxiang Tuoba's tribe, and won three battles and three victories. Dangxiang Tuoba's tribe killed and wounded more than [-] soldiers, and its leader, Tuobabao, led his troops from Xiangbei to Jishibao to surrender."

"Captain Wang Xuance lured and beheaded Tuoba Bao and his son, surrounded his tribe, and forced them all to land. He got more than [-] mouths, [-] horses, and more than [-] cattle, sheep and livestock. The largest tribe in the party, Tuoba owns [-] riders. Babu, die!"

Luo Cheng frowned slightly when he heard the news.

"Since the Tuoba tribe led the troops to the foot of Jishi Mountain to ask for surrender, why did Wang Xuance trap and kill Tuoba Leopard and his son? If you kill them, you will kill them. Pass the decree to Wang Xuance, and I will give him a three-level promotion and a one-level promotion. In addition, give ten horses and twenty party slaves."

"Decree to Su Dingfang that the land of the Tuoba tribe should be controlled by the Daqin army and not handed over to the Xifeng tribe. The territory of the Tuoba tribe will be enfeoffed to Su Dingfang, Wang Xuance and other princes later."

"The imperial edict seals the rhinoceros as an official in the court, and further seals Bu Lai's rank as a guerrilla general."

The emperor's treatment of the Tuoba tribe was still harsh.For the tens of thousands of people captured by Wang Xuance, he did not intend to set aside another piece of land for them to graze, but directly decreed that they all be reduced to slaves.

Some of them were used as rewards for the soldiers of this battle to honor their military achievements, while the rest were sent to the Central Plains and arranged to be slaves in various government workshops.

The territory of the Party Headquarters is not suitable for farming, but it can also be used to enfeoff the princes, and the princes can also develop animal husbandry there, and they can also become the screen of the imperial court.

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Under the Jishi Fortress, the heads of the seven Tuoba Bao father and son were hung high, deformed by the cold wind, making it difficult to recognize.

Xi Fengbu Lai looked at the row of heads, feeling his scalp tingling.

This is the Tuoba tribe that they once had to guard against carefully, but now the patriarch and his sons have all become this rotten flesh and bones.

"The more than [-] people in the Tuoba tribe are all slaves?"

Xifeng Bulai carefully asked Wang Xuance, the military envoy of Jishibao, this young man is really ruthless, he cut off the Tuoba father and son who came to vote for him, and sent troops to kill more than [-] Tuoba men. Lie into a valley and surround them from the outside, forcing them to surrender.

Now, they are all going to be reduced to captives.

Wearing bright armor, Wang Xuance put his hand on the ring knife and snorted.

"Tuobabao and his son think that Daqin is easy to bully? If he wants to attack, he will attack, and if he wants to throw, he will throw? When he dared to attack, he had to think about the consequences."

Xifeng Aurai didn't dare to say anything more.

After a long time, he said again, "According to the agreement between my Xifeng Department and Su Dudu, after the Tuoba Department was defeated, the land and livestock will belong to my Xiaofeng Department, and the population will belong to the imperial court. I don't know..."

Before he finished speaking, Wang Xuance glared at him.

"This may be an agreement between Governor Su and you, but it is not an agreement with me. A certain soldier and horse envoy guarding Jishibao in Heyuan County, Qinghai Province, only obeys the command of Governor Feng Xiaoci, and does not need to follow the orders of Governor Su of Jiannan Road. Tuoba Leopard and his son were captured and beheaded by me, and their tribe was also captured by me, so their territory should naturally belong to me, if you dare to take the opportunity to occupy it, don't blame me, Wang Xuance, for being rude!"

Ayumi Hosou stood there, extremely embarrassed.

He wanted to argue with reason, but looking at the row of heads, he was speechless.

But I was extremely unwilling to let it go like this, so I didn't stand or leave.

"Why, don't you agree?"

Xi Fengbulai gritted his teeth, "Don't dare."

"I don't care if you don't dare or what, I've already made it clear, if you dare to cross the line in the slightest, you will be the enemy of my Jishibao army, and then don't blame me for waiting for Qin Dao to be ruthless!"

Xifeng Bulai held back his anger, but there was nowhere to vent it, his face was purple and swollen.

(End of this chapter)