Chapter 38: Attacking Buddhism

Zhang Lu found out that Yan Pu did not come the next day, thinking that the other party was sick, but who knew that the other party had hung up the seal and left.

For Yan Pu, Zhang Lu is very important. As the contemporary leader of the Heavenly Master Dao, he himself studied literature and martial arts, and he also had to spread teachings, so how could he have so much time to manage political and military affairs? Yang Song can help him manage some trivial matters in government affairs, but more of them are managed by Yan Pu, and even Yan Pu has contributed a lot in the military aspect.

Zhang Lu couldn't bear his departure, and he couldn't understand why he left him and where he went.

But he didn't want Yang Song to complain: "The lord is as kind to him as a mountain, and if he doesn't die, he just leaves, and he leaves directly without greeting, how can he be worthy of the lord's kindness to him?" ”

Under the bombardment, Zhang Lu also began to accept this fact, feeling that Yan Pu had indeed lived up to his high expectations. In the end, I no longer cared about his departure.

How did he know that Fang Yun gave Yang Song a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, and also arranged a field property for him near Chang'an, Yongzhou. Finally, it was announced that if Hanzhong was defeated, their Yang family would still be reused.

Compared to being able to serve as an ordinary county official under Taishou, Yang Song even has the hope of becoming a state assassin under Fang Yun. Even as long as you know how to climb, you may not be able to become a prime minister-like existence.

Zhang Lu underestimated the ambition and appetite of the family, and under the absolute interest, the family would take the interests of the family as the foundation. As for the life and death of his Zhang Lu, it is not in the scope of consideration. In Yang Song's private words, it is: "Since our Yang family in Hanzhong has picked you up, then it's time for you to repay your kindness!" ”

In his opinion. There is no handling by the Yang family in Hanzhong. Zhang Lu's foothold in Hanzhong County has become a problem. The local prefectural order of Hanzhong County. There are also all kinds of small officials, more or less related to the Yang family, without their help, Zhang Lu is at most a Taishou who has been set up. In fact, he is almost like this now, except for being his sect leader in peace, there is almost no way to control the place, and he can only rely on their Yang family.

Yan Pu came to Jinyang, and Fang Yun directly appointed him as the commander of Yongzhou in Chang'an, and at present, Yongzhou and Liangzhou are still under the management of the Ma clan. According to the basic policy announced by Fang Yun at the beginning, the political system of the six prefectures of Qingzhou, Xuzhou, Youzhou, Sizhou, Yongzhou and Liangzhou still retained its original state, and only the prefecture and Jizhou were comprehensively reformed.

This is done, on the one hand, it is also to appease the old strength of the local government, and the other is to leave a certain amount of preparation time for comprehensive reform, after all, reform is always a matter that affects the whole body, and before there is no absolute certainty, Fang Yun will not casually carry out comprehensive reforms, so as to save irreversible problems in the process of reform.

So. Yan Pu is naturally at ease, when he is engaged in other driving, from the county master book to another driving. He can be regarded as a soaring man. He is quite satisfied with this result.

As for the original Zhong Xuan, he was transferred to Sizhou to serve as the assassin, which can be regarded as another level. It's just that Sizhou is more deserted than Yongzhou, the construction pressure is very heavy, and the workload is also very high, which is a world of difference compared to the past. The original beauty difference is not much better than the border in this period.

Fortunately, Zhong Miao is indeed talented, and he is also hard-working, and after he arrived, he began the construction work, and it went quite smoothly.

By July, the last stretch of the highway to the Hanzhong area had been widened. All that needed to be done was the cement and the road was completed. When the time comes, don't say anything about the army attacking, even if you bring a large number of siege equipment, it will not be a problem.

The joint efforts of millions of people are not a joke, and under the non-stop work around the clock, the efficiency has been exerted to the extreme. However, this situation can only be seen in the national project, and the general engineering chamber of commerce does not have so much money to hire so many people.

Even if the state contributes, the highway from Chang'an to Hanzhong costs about 20% of the state treasury, mainly the rations of millions of people, as well as a large amount of cement and other materials. In terms of wages, it has not yet been counted.

Originally, someone admonished that it was possible to recruit people in the form of conscription, right? It's just this form, especially when he heard that the people who were requisitioned and distributed still carried dry food by themselves, Fang Yun immediately rejected this suggestion.

First, this will consume the hearts of the people of the new regime, after all, how much the people of a country support the country, and they have to put food on it for free to help work, it is absolutely impossible to say that there is no resentment; In the long run, the distribution of wages to them can actually promote the improvement of the national economy.

Not to mention anything else, at least in the process of building the road, there were many caravans with a large number of supplies to sell. The people who got paid also bought some of them. Most of them are food, and these bachelors have no family burden. There are even some evil ones, and they directly make more than fifty skins. The ladies of the meat business brought it over, found a place to build a few sheds, and then they could start business, and the business was actually quite good......

A large amount of consumption has made the market demand, and if there is demand, production will be further expanded. Merchants who have made a lot of money rarely save their money these days, but invest it on a larger scale. Whether it is industry and commerce, or farms, as long as they can make money, they are investing. Even Fang Yun was investing, he invested in mining in Yizhou, and then not long before their exploration team discovered a gold mine near Keelung Port, and the reserves were not bad.

This is the gold deposit of Jinguashi in later generations, and there are also sulfur arsenic copper ore, chalcopyrite, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, natural gold, silver gold ore and so on. The news of the discovery of this gold mine reached Jinyang and was published in the newspapers, and the craze for ore exploration in Yizhou naturally began. Even, for the grassland, it is indeed ore exploration, and the resource exploration and investment in the Northeast have also been carried out smoothly.

The reserve of military supplies is also being effectively carried out, and it is estimated that there will be no way to do it this year, but it will not be a problem to attack Hanzhong after the beginning of spring next year. The coalition regimes in parts of Yuzhou, Yanzhou, and Yangzhou are still recuperating and integrating this year, and the key is that their populations are already a bit sparse, and problems are likely to arise if they do not recuperate.

It's just this kind of problem, I'm afraid that there will be no way to show results without 20 years. The key is to implement military cantonment, but fortunately, many high-yield crops have begun to circulate in the market, so that they will not have to worry about the problem of running out of food. At most, make do with corn, sweet potatoes and potatoes.

It's just that before the Chinese New Year, there was one thing that Fang Yun still cared about very much.

That is the White Horse Temple in Luoyang, which is the first temple built after Buddhism was introduced to China, and it is also the ancestral court of Chinese Buddhism in later generations. During the period of the White Wave Army, the temple was not destroyed, and even among the soldiers of the White Wave Army, many of them were deceived into believing in the existence of Buddhism because of a large number of killings.

These people protected the Buddha property, and even the peasants who took refuge in the White Horse Temple were able to avoid the destruction of the White Wave Army. Bai Bojun attaches so much importance to Buddhism, and there is also a saying that the names of the White Horse Temple and Bai Bojun are a little similar, and Bai Bojun, who has no faith on the Taoist side, naturally changed his faith.

But all this also made the development of Buddhism in Sizhou very rapid, and a large number of fields were swallowed up by them.

Buddhism in this era was not as compassionate as later generations, and it used more intimidation methods for believers, anyway, some simple and crude methods to propagate teachings. At the same time, they did not quit meat and alcohol at the moment, and many monks recited Buddhist scriptures, ate meat and drank wine, which was completely like a wine and meat monk.

The most important thing is that because of the relationship between the White Wave Army period, the White Horse Temple embezzled a lot of land, and many people became their tenants. Coupled with Fang Yun's promise that politics would remain unchanged for ten years, this made them enjoy the offerings of these believers and even their tenants with peace of mind.

Even if they openly opened up usury, and then used warrior monks to intimidate borrowers into handing over the land. As a result, the territory they occupy is getting bigger and bigger, and a situation where the tail is too big to lose. The temple has more than 3,000 monks and soldiers, and it is completely an independent kingdom.

In fact, the White Horse Temple also contacted other temples, including those in Xuzhou, Qingzhou, and Yongzhou, to actively proselytize as the leader of the alliance, and even resisted the missionary cause of Taiping Sect and Heavenly Master Dao.

This point was specially reported to Fang Yun by the priests of the Taiping Sect, which made him pay attention to the existence of Buddhism. In the final analysis, it was only after the Northern and Southern Dynasties that Buddhism slowly took shape, and finally officially became the existence with the largest number of believers among the Chinese religions. But at this time, it was still a small sect, with few followers, and its teachings were very simple and crude.

It was precisely because it had no influence that Fang Yun had forgotten that it existed, but in fact it had always existed. Only when I really investigated did I find that Buddhism in this era was really even more unbearable than in later generations.

The most important thing is that this is a foreign sect, Fang Yun, who has read a lot of Honghuang novels, has no good impression of Buddhism itself, especially under the investigation of Han Soul, he found that they were so presumptuous, and he was even more unhappy in his heart.

Not to mention, as the third-generation Tiangong general of the Taiping Sect, how could he allow such a crooked and heretical way to preach in his own territory? After verification, there is actually a temple in Jinyang, and there are also some businessmen or families who believe in Buddhism......

Rectification? Just like the other traversers, set the barrier to entry?!

Why bother? Now it's just the late Han Dynasty, and Buddhism doesn't have that much influence! The real resistance was the Han Dynasty royal family itself, only because of the arrival of Buddhism, mainly because of Liu Xiu's son Liu Zhuang. If Buddhism is directly destroyed, Liu Wei can't agree in the first place, after all, this is formulated by the ancestors, as a descendant, how can he say that his ancestors did wrong? If it spreads, I'm afraid that a crime of 'unfilial piety' will fall!

But if you don't care, it won't be easy to manage it in the future, and in desperation, Fang Yun still went to discuss it with Liu Wei...... (To be continued......)

PS: I wanted to say that I would directly destroy Buddhism, but later I found out that the introduction of Buddhism was directly related to Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty. Who let the protagonist claim to be Hanchen, and now he can't let Liu Wei make unfilial actions, right? But if that counts, it's impossible......