The monk ignited a carnival that spread half the world.

A carnival of defeated soldiers from Burma who threw themselves into the temple and had nothing to do, supplemented by Fujian and Guangzhou businessmen who wanted to make a lot of money from the chaotic situation.

There are two key facts about this carnival, firstly, there is money in the sky; Secondly, Tianshi knew that the Western military government would not stop him.

Tianshi is indeed very rich, he controls the temple property of thousands of temples in Siam, Champa, Sanxuan and Liuwei, and his wealth is far greater than that of the monarch, and his influence in many Buddhist countries is far greater than that of the monarch.

Even if these temple properties are handed over to the military government in accordance with the rules, they are still very rich.

The same is true for the reason why the military government will not stop him, whether it is the South or the West, in fact, they silently encourage his actions...... Western Shaolin, like the prosperity of Fujian, Guangzhou, and He, was a very important source of income for the Second Military Government.

In other words, it is a very important source of income for Daming.

Because the tax is fixed, but the temple property is not fixed, it may be more this month, less next month, and very much next month.

You are a poor person, you need money, you can find a loan from the temple, and when you turn over, you will give more money to the temple; You are a rich man, a Buddhist by nature in this land, and will willingly donate your money to the temple; You are a poor man, you are not looking for a loan from the temple to turn over, and you can't afford to pay it back when the money is spent, so send yourself to the temple to pay off the debt.

There is no possibility of not returning, first of all, you can't run out, and secondly, you are surrounded by Buddhists and there is no way out.

From life to death, all arranged.

It's even faster than trade comes in.

The temples in the country are not uniformly managed, and this abbot does not listen to that abbot, so it is difficult to form such a force, but in the southwest, the monk Tianshi was once the most powerful religious governor and concurrently served as the national teacher of the four kings.

But now he is not a national teacher, Buddhism in the Central Plains spread almost to the west, and after governing the three provinces and six ports for the Nanyang Military Government, the national teachers of various countries became appointed by the Nanyang Military Government and became Chen Luan's subordinate officials.

The Western military government had less control over the localities, and Buddhism was not completely controlled by the heavens, so the pace of change was slower.

But the carnival is clearly speeding up the process.

In September, with the help of the Liujia-class Nanchang ship of the Western Military Government, more than 200 merchant ships of Fujian-Guangzhou-Hexing Sailed into the Ganges River, and the army approached the city of Patna, and destroyed all the Mughal troops outside the city with thousands of Buddhists, and then blocked the main road, so that the more than 20,000 Mughal troops attacking Bengal in the east became a lone army without baggage after being trapped in the enemy's territory.

Although the monk Tianshi has been in the army for 20 years, he has always existed in the army as a vanguard army or a spearman instructor, and has little experience in leading the army.

The intelligence saw that Qi Jimei, Yang Zhao, Men Chongwen and other generals of the Western military government were in a hurry - he really promoted Buddhism.

However, at this time, many Afghan nobles and local leaders facing the Mughal army in the east were not alone, and the prosperous merchants of Fujian, Guangzhou, and Hehe were close to frantically dumping old swords and armor from Burma, and military supplies such as rice, shrouds, arrows, and gold sore medicine purchased by the people.

As the conflict between the two sides intensified, there were many Fujian and Canton merchants who jumped off the battlefield with sailors to attack the Mughal army after the caravan was attacked, and the skirmishes that took place on the land route were more defeats than victories, but many rivers were almost completely blocked by merchant ships.

Their merchant ships were equipped with Franc guns and rockets.

The two provinces had a large number of rivers and mostly flowed in a north-south direction, which almost passively separated the Mughal army.

The battle was extremely easy for the Bengali rebels, and even the local tribal chiefs summed up the law of victory - as long as the enemy army was driven to the river, there was a high probability that they would be supported by artillery from the Ming merchants.

Caught in the war in the whole region, people were almost pushed by the situation, and everyone on all sides felt that they had done nothing, so they had changed their offensive and defensive positions, and the Mughal army was divided, disintegrated, outflanked, surrendered, and annihilated in an organized manner.

As the time entered October, and the Emperor's reply had been delivered to Delhi, Akbar attempted to negotiate with the Celestial Monks and Shang Jia, and the negotiations were successful until the envoy heard that the vanguard army had been wiped out.

However, they could not contact the troops who had invaded Bihar and Bengal, and after learning that the troops had been wiped out, negotiations broke down and the war entered a second phase.

Of course, the negotiation broke down due to the fact that Monk Tianshi asked Akbar to build forty-four huge stone sculptures in the name of the fallen monks in the Red Fort, which almost made him inscribe the shame of defeat in the capital, and no one would agree to this condition.

Fortunately, the monk did not continue to march westward, which gave both sides a chance.

The rebels sent 4,000 troops to continue westward along the Ganges, and before they had traveled 200 miles, they were again surrounded by local Mughal troops, and the battle was very ineffective.

Akbar, who has always liked to personally conquest, made an exception and did not personally lead the army to the east, not because he didn't want to, but because his cousin in the west was about to invade at every turn, so he didn't dare to press the most elite troops to the east, not to mention that the situation of the war was different in the eyes of all parties.

In Akbar's eyes, the big map was full of red dots.

The Bengali aristocracy in the east was an enemy, the cousin in the west was also an enemy, the 10,000-character army stationed in Patna was an enemy, and the Western fleet that was eyeing the sea was also an enemy...... The reason why those big ships did not move was not that they did not participate in the war, but that they were just waiting for their own conquest and then stealing their homes.

It's not a good feeling to be in front of you.

But in the eyes of Yin Zhengmao of the Western Military Government, there is nothing to do with the Western Military Government in this war, so they just watch quietly.

Therefore, the Western military government was very strange and shocked that Akbar had begun to build coastal defenses along the western coast at this juncture.

In November of the eighth year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao sent a letter to Akbar, repeatedly stating that the Western military government had no intention of participating in this war, and sent it to Akbar's Red Fort together with his letter, and there was also a message about the convoy transporting the Eastern Expeditionary Army being sunk and captured by the Ming fleet in the Ganges River, and a big ship named Nanchang went on a rampage in the water battle, sinking and destroying 24 ships.

This war report was directly sent by Akbar to the garrison of the Western Military Government in Goa with the reply, and the reply letter was just one sentence.

"And you have no intention of going to war!"

Yin Zhengmao jumped into the Yellow River and couldn't wash away the grievances on his body, he didn't plan to reply to Akbar, anyway, he said that Akbar wouldn't believe it, and then he wanted to try to coordinate the relationship between the two sides, to see if he could let the Mughal shake hands with the rebels and draw peace and rule, he couldn't control the monk of Tianshi, but if the two sides ceased fighting, it might make the monk of Tianshi stop fighting.

At this moment, the pro-soldiers entered the main hall with letters in a hurry, and whispered in Yin Zhengmao's ear: "Dashuai, more than 9,000 monks and soldiers from Siam and other five countries have arrived at the mouth of the Ganges River in Bangladesh, and the monk ship returning from Japan has arrived in Malacca. ”

Old Man Yin raised his hand to touch his face and sighed: "Okay, okay, the matter has come to this...... The old man is no longer stubborn and ready to set up a government and tax card for the newly annexed land. ”