Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 308 The Weird Tranquility

The bandits really retreated?
Erjitai once again sent his men to personally sweep up the stronghold occupied by several bandits, and sure enough, he didn't see a single bandit.

Erjitai couldn't help being overjoyed, and then he looked at the clay Buddha statue and felt sacred.

Do these monks really have mana?
If it was before, Erjitai naturally wouldn't believe it, but as he got older, he became interested in these chaotic and strange things.

Erjitai knew that there were mysterious alchemists in the Tang Dynasty who could refine the golden elixir that prolongs life.

He also knows that there are mages who live a hundred years in Tianzhu, and they know a breathing method that can prolong life.

Erjitai once felt that these things had nothing to do with him, a castle owner in Tubo.

But today he really met a monk with "mana".

Erjitai hurriedly invited Monk Yuantong to his main hall respectfully.

He said to Monk Yuantong: "Master, the Dharma is boundless, Erjitai will make a golden body for the Buddha statue!"

Then Erjitai said: "I don't know where these thieves have gone? I sent people to search all over Kuairima Township, but I couldn't find any trace of these thieves."

Monk Yuantong had already prepared his speech, he clasped his hands together and said: "If the poor monk can eliminate the thieves out of thin air, he would have sent troops to Hexi with the Dalun."

Erjitai nodded, this is exactly where he was puzzled, if Buddhism had such a great ability, then the big battle would not be so difficult.

Monk Yuantong said: "The poor monk just dispelled the fighting spirit in your territory. These bandits saw the blessing of Buddha's light and withdrew from your territory overnight."

Erjitai suddenly realized that it turned out that the bandits were not killed directly, but drove them away.

Hearing this result, Erjitai was even more satisfied, and this result made Yuantong's Dharma more credible.

But Erjitai had new worries, and he asked quickly: "Master, will these bandits return? If the surrounding castle owners are devout and Buddhist, then who are the bandits going to attack?"

Monk Yuantong looked at Erjitai, the castle owner was not stupid, and could ask such a question.

But these are also in the plan before Monk Yuantong set off, he clasped his hands together and said:

"If everyone can practice the Dharma and devote themselves to worshiping the Buddha, then these bandits will be influenced by the heart of worshiping the Buddha of the castle owners and manor owners, and they will put down their weapons and surrender."

Monk Yuantong said: "The Dharma is boundless, Amitabha."

Erjitai immediately said: "Master, please stay in my castle for a few more days. If there are bandits coming again, please master to disperse them again."

Monk Yuantong nodded and agreed to Erjitai's request.

In the next few days, Erjitai heard bamboo slips asking for help from several nearby castle owners. Banditry broke out in their territory. Recently, it has intensified, and many manors have been looted.

Now Erjitai completely believed what Yuantong said.

The progress of molding the golden body of the clay Buddha statue was greatly accelerated. Erjitai called all the Han craftsmen in the territory to beat the gold into thin gold foil, and carefully pasted it on the Buddha statue.

And the monk Yuantong was not idle in Erjitai's castle. He first rescued Erjitai's young son who was infected with dysentery, and then relieved the headache of an old Bon priest.

Behind the scenes, Yuantong is using the player communicator to secretly manipulate the bandit army to shuttle between the territories of the various castle owners, constantly harassing their periphery.

In this way, such a strange phenomenon appeared in the Tubo region west of Tianzhu.

The bandits precisely wandered around the borders of the various castle owners, wantonly plundered the caravans, and rushed to the manor to rob from time to time.

But the castle owners everywhere feel that nothing is wrong, and the banditry has subsided.

For example, in Erjitai's castle, two celebration banquets have been held, and in the eyes of all the castle owners, these bandits seem to have disappeared.

Even Yuantong felt that the ruling techniques of these Tubo people were too rough.

The system of Dalun-castle owner-manor owner seems to have a clear relationship between vassals and vassals, and it is a fairly close ruling group.

But every castle owner is Shang Qixin'er's private minister, and they are in a parallel relationship with each other.

And among these castle owners, in order to compete for land resources, the relationship with each other is often not very harmonious.

As a qualified ruler, Shang Qixin'er also deliberately provoked the relationship between the castle owners, making them less harmonious.

If the vassals under him are united as one, then the only thing to worry about is Shang Qixin'er.

This kind of inharmonious relationship, Shang Qixin'er was able to coordinate when she was in Tianzhu City.

But now that Shang Qixin'er is stationed in Qilian Mountain, she doesn't have the energy to deal with these general affairs.

Then the relationship between these castle owners becomes delicate.

The bandit group wandering among the various castle owners has seen the mentality of these castle owners.

Everyone hates bandits, but if bandits go to other castle lords to cause trouble, then naturally they don't hate them.

When the caravan was attacked, the castle owners did not dare to retaliate, fearing that they would really anger the bandits and take revenge on their own territory.

This kind of attitude of dead friends and poor people gave Yuantong, who had been studying how to do things in the Tubo territory, found an opportunity.

There is no doubt that this bandit army was pulled together by Yuantong.

In the name of teaching the Dharma, Yuantong started from Bawu's manor and traveled to the west of Tubo's host country, and met many oppressed slaves and free people who were dissatisfied with the oppression of the manor owner.

It has to be said that not only is Tubo's ruling technology backward, but it is also uninnovative and simple and rude in terms of taxation.

The first is the land tax. Tubo adopts a tax rate of ten taxes and one tax, which sounds naturally not high, but the lords of each floor are taxed according to the tax rate.

For example, Shang Qixin'er is Tubo Dalun. He will calculate a tax amount for this year based on last year's harvest, and then distribute it to his tax collectors.

How these tax collectors collect, how to collect, Shang Qixin will not ask, anyway, as long as his share of the income is pocketed.

The method of collecting tax collectors is also simple and rude, they only need to apportion the taxes to each castle owner.

The castle owner needs to pay one-tenth of the tax to Shang Qixin's tax collectors, and they themselves have the right to collect one-tenth of the tax.

They will also send tax collectors to their manor owners to collect taxes in the same way.

The same is true for the manor owner, the nobles at the first level, plus the tax collectors who filled their pockets.

Even a low-level manor owner like Bawu sometimes couldn't make up the tax money, and sometimes even had to pawn his property to pay the tax.

Not to mention those free people who have no noble status.

In addition to the crude land tax, Tubo also has a beef leg tax and a lamb leg tax.

When each animal is slaughtered, it needs to pay a leg as a tax.

The flexibility of this tax is that even if it is an animal that has not been slaughtered, it can be used as a basis for tax payment every year.

This tax also squeezed the herders into misery. During the decades of Tubo rule, Xianbei or Qiang people continued to abandon their ancestral pastures and fled to the wilderness to become robbers.

Finally, there is the "big material collection".

Tubo is a military system, and under the system where all the people are soldiers, every time a war is fought, a large collection of materials will be ordered.

For this expedition, Shang Qixin'er ordered a big material collection in Tianzhu City.

The so-called big material collection is to order officers and soldiers to bring their weapons and equipment, as well as their food and grass, to the designated place to gather.

During this period, officers and soldiers need to prepare weapons, armor, rations, food and grass by themselves.

If a nobleman enlists in the army, he also needs to bring a large number of slaves to serve as civilian men and coolies in the war.

In the past, the Tubo hosts ordered aniseed collections and collected them into Kou Longyou, and they could always get some spoils of war.

At that time, the samurai were proud of being able to participate in the Northern Expedition, and they would always sign up to join the army.

However, when Jinshankou was defeated, the thriving momentum of Tubo was interrupted, and the Tubo nobles, including Shang Qixiner, discovered that wars did not always seem to make money, and wars might also be a loss-making business.

When Jinshan Pass was defeated, Tubo lost many soldiers and lost a lot of food and supplies.

No one made any meritorious deeds because of this, the army went on an expedition, missed the farming season, and in the end did not even get any benefits.

This time out of Qilian Mountains, Shang Qi Xin'er once again clicked on the big material collection, which intensified the exploitation of the territory by the Tubo nobles at all levels.

The oppression is ruthless, and the resistance is naturally strong.

Monk Yuantong accelerated his development after waiting for the support of more internal guards who had defected to Longyou.

In several areas including Kuai Rima Township, Monk Yuantong has established branches of the resistance army.

It can be said that the banditry that swept across the western part of Tubo's host country this time was caused by Yuantong and these internal defenders.

But the nobles in Tianzhu City were completely unaffected by this bandit rebellion.

Longyou's goods can still be sold in Tianzhu City, and it seems to be cheaper than before, but the merchant who sells the goods seems to have changed.

Occasionally, there will be some blood stains on a few pieces of dyed cloth and silk, and these merchants will exchange for new cloth, and they can also give a bigger discount for the next transaction.

After these merchants sold their goods, they only bought a little salt from Tianzhu City, and then bought some kitchen knives and kitchen utensils to go back.

The nobles of Tianzhu City don't care what these merchants buy.

And the castle owners who were divided by the bandits didn't seem to have the idea of ​​calling for help.

Anyway, the caravan looted by bandits is not mine, so what does the loss of those merchants have to do with us?
The castle owner also tacitly knew that he could buy cheaper goods from the bandits who sold the stolen goods.

Erjitai also asked his subordinates to recover the wooden slips asking for help from Tianzhu City. Now that the western part of Tubo's host country is "peaceful", if he is away from the expedition, don't make trouble for the nobles of Tianzhu City!

In this way, a grand Buddhist event was held in the renovated Buddhist hall in Erjitai.

Amidst the smog, Monk Yuantong, who was wearing a colorful cassock, was particularly conspicuous.

Amid the wafting incense, Erjitai walked into the Buddhist hall devoutly.

(End of this chapter)