Chapter 9 Great Buddha Temple
Lightweight and simple travel, naturally fast.
On the night after Ma San's death, it seemed that because of the slaughter of the mind, he had successfully built the foundation after practicing boxing seven times, which made Faren's mind complicated.
Not only that, because of the unique skill of "Boy's Kung Fu", Tu Fu directly entered the Qi storage realm, and a trace of true energy was born in his body, and his feet and recovery power were significantly improved.
It is worth mentioning that Faren did not stop teaching Tu Fu's martial arts because of Tu Fu's "ruthlessness". On the night after Tu Fu completed the foundation building, he passed on the Qi-accumulating technique of "Boy's Kung Fu" to Tu Fu, and practiced as before.
The master and disciple did not mention Ma San's death and the deep grudges that Tu Fu said, as if it had never happened.
When he passed by a prefecture, Tu Fu did not look for any demon-suppressing corps, but instead sold his carriage and exchanged the inconvenient copper coins, silver coins, and various miscellaneous items for gold as much as possible.
If I didn’t change it before, in addition to torture Ma San, it was more because I had no place to change it.
The main currency in Daxuan is copper coins, and silver is rarely used, and gold is not even considered a circulating currency. Except for places like the prefecture, outsiders cannot change it even if they want to.
Gold is a hundred taels, this is the wealth that Tu Fu family has accumulated after opening a medical clinic in a border town for more than two hundred years. It is said that it is not much more, and it is not much less.
It’s just a hundred taels, which is not a heavy burden for ordinary people, and it’s even lighter for the slaughter that has entered the Qi storage realm.
He did not buy a horse because all living beings were equal. Tu Fu carried the bags of his master and disciple, and rushed through the day, practiced and rested at night. After counting it, it took only two and a half months to complete the three-month journey that Fa Ren had mentioned based on Tu Fu's foot strength at that time.
I arrived in Xiniu County, Hezhou smoothly, and the Great Buddha Temple was close to me.
But Faren did not take Tufu into the temple directly, but took him around Xiniu County. This was the first time. No matter where he passed, Faren hurriedly took Tufu, especially after slaughtering Ma San.
Except for the time when I slaughtered and sold carriages and exchanged gold, I never entered the city.
Compared to Linxi Town where Tu Fu was born and raised, Xiniu County is much more stable and peaceful as a whole. Along the way, everyone saw people with charitable appearances. At least, when passers-by saw Faren, they folded their hands and bowed to show their respect.
It's not like in Linxi Town, everyone has a fierce look on their faces, for fear that they will be bullied if they are a little more kind.
"Look."
Faren took the slaughter to a mountain and looked at the seemingly endless fields ahead, with crisscrossing ditches and countless tiny figures.
"See it."
This is the first time I have seen this scene in Tufu. Although Linxi Town has a lot of fields, it can be said to be in vain. The self-produced grain is not enough to consume Linxi Town, and grain merchants also need to transport it from other places.
Along the way, I have seen places suitable for cultivation, and fields are in large numbers, but none of them can be as regular and orderly as Xiniu County. Standing at a high place and looking at it, it seems like it is impossible to see it, let alone the crisscrossing ditches.
“This is just one place.”
Faren looked at the ten thousand mu of land, and a look of relief and honor appeared on his face, and said softly: "In Xiniu County, there are twenty-four places, all of which are ten thousand mu of fertile land, all of which are the temple fields of our Great Buddha Temple."
240,000 mu of fertile land?
Tu Fu frowned. He didn't count how big Xiniu County was, but he thought about how much food so much land could produce and how many people he raised.
Linxi Town is close to the border, and many soldiers from the border will come to the town to rest. Although there are military doctors in the army who do not have to spend money and will not go to his clinic, they have seen and heard a lot in the town since they were young.
If you really want to calculate it, Tu Fu cannot be considered to be knowledgeable and talented, and can be called a lewd and miscellaneous learning.
Hezhou is located between the north and south of Central China, but it is not wheat from the north, but rice from the south. The yield per mu is calculated according to the average value known as slaughter. Since Faren said that they are all fertile fields, plus those ditches, the yield per mu is only 500 kilograms.
Two hundred and forty thousand acres, two seasons a year, that is at least 240 million kilograms of grain.
He was squatting in a restaurant in Linxi Town. He heard the soldiers chatting at the border that the average daily rice, flour and grain consumed by soldiers is about three to four kilograms. A rough calculation shows that 240 million kilograms of grain can support 200,000 troops.
Of course, the accounts must not be settled like this.
What needs to support the army is far more than food, but also armor, weapons, salary, pensions, etc. However, as far as the slaughter is concerned, the income of the Great Buddha Temple is definitely more than these 240,000 acres of fertile land, and it is not just a saying.
He was able to support an army of 200,000, but he only raised 100,000 monks from the Great Buddha Temple.
If the extra hundred thousand, if...
"Mao Fu." Faren asked, "What are you thinking about?"
Of course, Tu Fu could not tell his true words. Before, Ma San said those things when he was not dead, just to make Ma San's death more painful, and at the same time, Faren's mind was dragged down, so he had no time to check his physical condition.
Now, you should be hiding your mind.
"Disciple is thinking, where did the extra grain go?"
"The extra grain?"
"Yeah." Tu Fu said the account he had just calculated, but replaced the "two hundred thousand army" with 200,000 people, and concluded that the Great Buddha Temple could produce more food that could feed 100,000 people every year.
In fact, it is not only that the daily consumption of food by military soldiers is definitely more than that of ordinary people.
Faren did not have his understanding of the mind, so he naturally could not guess what Tu Fu really thought. After hearing Tu Fu's words, he shook his head and said, "There are not many."
"kindness?"
Faren turned to look at Tu Fu and asked, "You have achieved success in building the foundation and started to accumulate energy and practice. How much food do you have to eat every day during these days?"
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Tu Fu was shocked.
Practicing boxing and martial arts does not cause low loss to the body, especially after entering the Qi storage realm. The true qi in the body cannot be generated out of thin air. According to the teachings of Fa Ren, it can be summarized into four words - refining essence into qi.
Where does essence come from? Food!
When I was in Linxi Town, Tu Fu heard those people in the world say that a true master can eat a cow every day. Perhaps it was an exaggeration, but combined with the improvement of his own food and the low level of martial arts, I understood the meaning of Faren.
"We have 100,000 monks in the Great Buddha Temple. Although most of them do not learn martial arts and only practice Buddhism, there are nearly 10,000 monks. Not only do they eat higher than ordinary people, but they also need weapons, herbs, etc., so there is no extra food."
He could feed more than 100,000 people or a hundred thousand troops, but only 10,000 monks.
Who is stronger and who is weaker? Who is more important?
The Tu Fu, who was of a low martial arts realm, couldn't tell the difference. After hesitating, he asked, "Master, do you know, if my wealth is in the dynasty, how much gold can I get?"
Faren was a little relieved. Although he didn't know what Tu Fu called him, he had already changed from a master to a master because he took the initiative to break the killing of Tu Fu, but he could also hear the difference between "you" and "you".
"I don't know if I'm a teacher."
It’s normal not to know, after all, it’s the first time that it’s the eminent monk of the Great Buddha Temple who has gone out of the temple and has all been empty.
Tu Fu asked and answered.
"When Taizu established a country, and when thousands of countries, including the ten major alien royal courts came to court, five taels of silver could be exchanged for one tael of gold. Now, ten taels of silver can be exchanged for one tael of gold. That's not counting, the price difference change when I exchanged for silver by those copper coins."
Faren frowned. Although he did not have much experience in the world, he had no time to think about people's livelihood and had no chance. He needed to think about it, but growing up in the Great Buddha Temple did not only know how to practice martial arts and recite scriptures.
"A sign of troubled times."
"Yes, troubled times are about to arise, so copper is cheap and silver is expensive, and gold is even more expensive." After Tu Fu said that, he asked again: "Master, why are there troubled times?"
Faren recalled what he had learned and replied: "The world's general trend will be together for a long time, and it will be together for a long time."
Tu Fu continued to ask, "Why is this?"
Faren frowned and thought, then shook his head: "I don't know if I am a teacher."
Tu Fu didn't know that, after pondering for a moment, he asked again: "If there was no threat of alien races entering the pass, would there be any troubled times in our Middle-East?"
"Yes." Faren answered very firmly, and then hesitated: "However, if there are no alien races entering the pass, even in troubled times, there will be fewer creatures."
Hearing this sentence, Tu Fu's eyes lit up.
"If the alien race enters the pass, will the nearly 10,000 monks from the Great Buddha Temple take action?"
Faren sighed, "No."
Tu Fu narrowed his eyes slightly.
He still can't get the answer to the question of who is stronger and who is weaker, but he seems to have already got the answer to the question of who is more important.
He looked at Faren and asked, "Why don't you? Master, don't tell me that it's because all living beings are equal."
Chapter completed!