After being turned into cannon fodder, I relied on involution to survive

Speaking of which, the inspiration for her latest idea was given to her by Mo Huaiyang.

In Da Qi, monks and Taoists did not have to pay taxes, do corvee service, or perform military service. Moreover, monks and Taoists also received preferential treatment legally, and the government allowed them to reduce their redemption if they were found guilty.

Mo Huaiyang's escape into the temple suddenly opened up the blind spot in Yu Zizhen's thinking, and made her suddenly remember that not only true monks can live in temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples.

Temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples can absorb money, land, cultivate warriors in an honest manner, and can also avoid heavy corvee taxes. Most importantly, they can also be used as a reasonable stronghold for Yu Zizhen to place throughout Daqi.

This is much more cost-effective and more concealed than opening an escort agency or forming a caravan.

While thinking about who should be sent to be the first batch of fake monks and Taoist priests, Yu Zizhen scribbled down his latest plan on paper.

After being busy like this until it was almost dark, Yu Zizhen put away his pen and ink and asked Yu Heng to invite Jiang Yunshan to her Lu Mingxuan.

Jiang Yunshan came very quickly, bowed, and took the plan from Yu Zizhen on developing monks and Taoists in various places. Jiang Yunshan read it carefully as usual.

After finishing reading, Jiang Yunshan raised his hands and said to Yu Zizhen: "It's okay to build more small temples in the countryside. There won't be any eminent monks in such small temples, and most of the people who usually go there are nearby villagers. Even if there are not many No one will take it seriously in a place with rules. After all, small temples like this have always been irregular. But for those temples with large scale and good locations, it will be difficult for our people to fit in. "

People in Daqi value that a person's body, hair, and skin are protected by parents and should not be easily damaged. It is already a temporary solution to shave one's head and become a fake monk. If someone puts a scar on the head, most people will definitely not be able to accept it. .

Yu Zizhen reminded him, "Not all monks in regular temples need to wear ring scars, and monks are not the majority in those temples."

The more formal the temple, the smaller the proportion of monks. Because it occupies more land, it requires more farmhands. And those landless people who cannot afford exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes actually prefer to sell themselves into slaves. Join the temple, farm for the monks, and become a farmhand with good status.

The same is true for Taoist temples. It is indeed difficult for people who are not advanced in Taoism to sneak into those regular Taoist temples of some size, but ordinary people who farm the land also need Taoist temples.

Yu Zizhen didn't want to control the monks and Taoists. She just needed trustworthy people to start from the capital and spread out in all directions, weaving dots into threads and weaving threads into nets to build a huge information network for her.

Of course, to do intelligence work, she must carefully select her personnel and train them in advance.

She said to Jiang Yunshan: "For large-scale, relatively formal temples, nunneries, and Taoist temples, we will only place marginal people responsible for farming to collect intelligence and deliver news. For those small rural temples that are not very popular, I will let people know about them." Fill it with armed forces bit by bit."

Jiang Yunshan nodded and approved Yu Zizhen's plan to exploit the loopholes by gathering manpower, annexing land, and establishing an intelligence network.

Privately, he admired Yu Zizhen's ability to take advantage of loopholes, but while admiring him, he also did not forget to remind Yu Zizhen of one thing.

"By the way, Your Majesty, it's okay to say that there are barren places. There are a lot of wastelands. It's a big deal that our people can open up wasteland by themselves. But in rich places like Jiangnan, it's probably difficult for our people to annex a large amount of land."

"Then put people in first." When she kills all the corrupt officials and local bullies, she won't be able to pick up the fertile land for nothing.

Besides, Jiang Yunshan's so-called "wealth" was only relative to other places in this era. This level of "wealth" was not noticed by Yu Zizhen. What she is worried about now is where to find so many suitable candidates, so that she can start from the capital and spread her intelligence network in all directions, with temples and Taoist temples as the main lines.

Ah, by the way, in addition to being short of people, she is actually also short of money. But what she got from robbing corrupt officials and what Wen Xiaoman and others earned for her were obviously not enough for her to continue to cause trouble.

With this in mind, Yu Zizhenma Liuer took out the books on textiles, printing and dyeing that she had asked the system to redeem earlier.

She couldn't burn glass or make soap, otherwise her identity as a time traveler would be unclear, so after much deliberation, she finally chose to only make reasonable improvements on the existing technologies of this era.

She has not forgotten that killing the Lu family is only her first small goal.

In addition to the Lu family, she also has her nominal father, King Zhenbei, Chen Hushan's grandfather, Duke Jing, and Fang Huaiying's adoptive father, Duke Wei, who need to be conquered and included.

And they are just her second small target. Her ultimate target is the Princess Wuwei who traveled from a more advanced world in the original book.

This and her good brother Yu Zicheng are the final boss that prevents her from completing the second mission of the system release.

She had to prevent these two people from taking power, and she had to follow their path so that they could never go back to the path of hegemony set for them in the original book.

In order not to give Princess Wuwei a chance to suspect that she was also a time traveler, Yu Zizhen decided that she would take the route of divine right of kings, instead of taking out many things that did not exist in this world and taking the hegemonic route of strong conquest to let that Princess Wuwei immediately targeted her and regarded her as an imaginary enemy.

"Have someone send this to Kangping County Squire Meng Tingru." After carefully telling Jiang Yunshan the method of obtaining Meng Tingru's letter, Yu Zizhen waved for him to leave.

Jiang Yunshan touched the cover of the book, and the hand holding the book couldn't help shaking several times.

"Your Majesty, this."

Seeing him looking like he was seeing a rare treasure, Yu Zizhen couldn't help but sigh to himself, "I knew it."

If there weren't so many illustrations in the book, she would have copied it a long time ago, which would have made Jiang Yunshan lose her temper as soon as she saw the paper of the book.

"Don't ask anything. This is a divine book, and the details in it are not yours to know." If there is no way to explain it, then just don't explain it and go straight to the deception method.

Jiang Yunshan was obviously not easy to fool. The corners of his eyes jumped a few times when he heard Yu Zizhen's not very sincere lie. However, he accurately understood Yu Zizhen's intention not to let him get to the bottom of things, so he bowed in response and said I will never ask any more questions.

However, he did not leave immediately. Instead, he first asked Yu Zizhen for a piece of cloth to wrap the book tightly, and then asked Yu Zizhen for a small wooden box with a lock, and cherished the thick cloth wrapping the book. Put it in and lock it up.

Yu Zizhen: