"I thought about it, it's a pity to waste this year, I still have to do something first." In Suizhou City, Shao Shude found Song Le and said.
"What do you mean by envoy?"
"Reclamation." Shao Shude said bluntly: "Song Biejia should also know that in the past few months, some people have moved from Fengzhou and Hedong. They are all family members of Tielin officers and soldiers. There are more than 400 households in total. This envoy wants to
Divide the fields among them, with each family receiving twenty acres first."
“Where does the field come from?”
"Monk Miki."
"I am here." A tall monk walked in from the door and said respectfully: "I have seen the envoy, and I have seen you."
At this time, monks called themselves "principal monks" or "principal monks", and the former may be more popular.
"This is Monk Duweina Sanmu of Sanjie Temple, who is in charge of the dignity and discipline of the monks. Because he is not in harmony with the master of Sanjie Temple, the leader, etc., he has been repeatedly squeezed out and made things difficult for him, so he seeks help from this envoy." Shao Shude introduced Song Le to Song Le.
, and then said: "Monk Sanmu, tell Song Biejia what kind of assets the Three Realms Temple has."
"The good teacher Song Biejia knows that Sanjie Temple has been operating for decades. Now it has hundreds of hectares of fertile land, villagers, and nearly 300 households. There is a water mill on the bank of the Dali River, four shops in Longquan and Dabin counties, and one in the south of the city.
There are several acres of orchards and a cattle farm. There is also a villa three miles west of the state with many buildings, bamboos and trees. Xiang is the master of the temple, where the monks and other monks rest and practice Buddhism. Our temple also covers an area of dozens of acres.
, there are stone mills, oil mills, vegetable beds, orchards, etc. in the temple.”
Song Le was speechless after hearing this.
Monk Sanmu continued: "During the Dazhong period, our temple still paid tribute, including money, silk, corn, linen, firewood, and horse materials. However, in the past twenty years, the discipline has been weakened, and Sanjie Temple has not paid tribute for a long time. Three hundred
The guests of Huzhuang did not pay tribute to the imperial court, but only paid rent to our temple. In addition, our temple still paid for classes, and ordered the troops to capture the debtors and torture them, which was beyond the official law.
The harvest was extremely rich, accounting for 60% of the income of Sanjie Temple. Most of the hundreds of monks lived outside the temple, with fields, houses, cattle and sheep, and even wives, concubines and children. They had been doing power and good deeds without fear of the charter for decades.
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He is involved in all the agriculture, retail and financial industries, does not pay taxes, and controls a large population. The private soldiers are as organized as the underworld. Shao Shude does not intend to keep such a cancer. This monk Sanmu has a grudge against the upper echelons of the temple.
, with him as the leading party, it would be easy to make this matter a piece of cake.
Unexpectedly, the Buddha was exterminated during the reign of Emperor Wuzong. It has only been a few decades, but the incense in the temple has become so prosperous again. It must be said that its vitality is tenacious.
Song Le was a little hesitant after hearing this, feeling that doing this would hinder his lord's reputation.
However, Shao Shude was determined and directly ordered: "Set up a battalion of state soldiers and let Zhen Xu go. Monk Sanmu will lead the way. He will arrest the monks first and count the property. The farmland will be returned to the state and will still be leased to farmers for farming.
Enter the state treasury and county treasury. There will be a lot of expenses for opening canals later, so let’s start with the bottom line. Shops and water mills will sell slowly, don’t rush, the one with the highest price will get it. Take inventory of the orchards, vegetable beds, and pastures outside the temple, and some will be allocated to the new ones.
The family members of the sergeants who have moved here should sell them at a fair price, and the money and food obtained will be used for rewards when they leave the army in the future. To be clear, I don’t want the money from selling the vegetable fields in the garden, and neither does the state. It will be distributed to the armies in the future.
As a reward. By the way, from now on, the Sanjie Temple can only keep ten monks, and they will also be taxed. In addition, those who have bad deeds among the monks and villagers will have their fields confiscated and fined, and they will not be let go. Let's do this first
Let’s do it, Fan He!”
"The end will be here."
"Take my warrant and go to the state soldiers to take care of it. Monk Miki, are you still willing to go back to the temple?"
"I really don't want to."
"Okay. Next, you will help me co-organize a few temples. After the completion of the work, I will give you a post in the state army."
"Thank you for cultivating me."
After Fan He and Sanmu left, Shao Shude ordered his soldiers to make tea, and the two sat down to talk about business.
"Your Majesty, Suizhou is poor and does not have a sufficient household registration. Even if the temples are raided, the proceeds will only be enough to provide land for dozens of families of soldiers, not a hundred families at most. Why bother?"
"Song Biejia, the Tielin Army has 4,000 troops. Many sergeants have gotten married in the past two months, and there are also people who have moved in from Fengzhou, Lan and Shizhou. There are more than a thousand households in total. For ordinary sergeants,
For example, not counting money and silk, clothing rewards, and two husks of food per month, if you are not married, there will be no problem. If there are an old man and a young man, and there are five or six people in the family, they can only barely eat enough.
, daily expenses must be maintained by rewards, so that we can live a comfortable life." Shao Shude said: "I made an appointment with the soldiers in Jinyang and must not break it. Now that I have settled down, I can solve one household after another until all
Finished planting the fields."
Song Le was speechless. It was not easy to be a military leader, and the sergeants would not accept a beggar-like life, otherwise they would kill the generals and rebel. His lord was eager to open canals to irrigate the fields, not to increase the amount of farmland so that the sergeants could
Will life security be provided after marriage? One person's food gift can feed the whole family of six, and money and silk gifts can make them live comfortably. If the family has land to cultivate, then life can be called rich, so that the soldiers can return home.
.
Song Le did some calculations in his mind. He used some idle land before, and combined with the harvest from the inspection of the Three Realms Temple this time, he estimated that he could get 20 hectares of land, enough to divide the fields for hundreds of soldiers. Later, he would inspect a few more temples, and the oil and water would be
It is much smaller. After all, there are only 40 to 50 thousand people in Suizhou. How can there be so many monk temples? Even if you include the confiscated fields of monks or tribes in temples with bad records, it is estimated that it is only enough for a hundred households. The gap is still very large.
big.
But take your time. Anyway, it’s first come first served. Chen Cheng and Guo Shu have lists, and those behind will line up slowly. In short, they have to be solved. To be honest, this kind of queuing method may have caused trouble in other places.
, Fortunately, Shao Shude's credit with the sergeants was not ruined, and Suizhou can continue to play here.
"Your Majesty, how many soldiers will move their families here in the future?" Song Le asked. This family is not easy to manage, they are very poor, and they have to take care of the food, drink, and urination of the big soldiers, which makes people feel physically and mentally exhausted.
"There should not be many left." Shao Shude said: "Most of the people who will come here are Fengzhou, Lanzhou, and Shizhou, which are relatively close together. Zhaoyi and Heyang are a bit far away, and they cross the state and the county.
It's too difficult. Even if the sergeants wanted to, they probably wouldn't be able to do it. But they are very popular in the local area, and many people are getting married one after another. Someone heard that because the sergeants robbed too many women, they forced the locals to marry widows.
Even poor party girls."
Song Le also smiled. Widows also marry, well, he glanced at his lord guilty, but luckily he didn't say anything.
"Since this matter involves the Jinyang agreement, Song will definitely do his best." Song Le stood up and said: "However, this is just a temporary solution, not the root cause. If the lord wants to divide the land, he still has to open a canal."
"I already know this, but it won't work this year." Shao Shude sighed: "I wanted to cut down the party items in the state, collect the property, cattle and sheep, and count the households, so as to lay the foundation for opening the canal. However, Huang Chao's troops have already passed the Huai River.
, fell into Shenzhou, broke into the lands of Ying, Song, Xu, and Yan, and did not take any prisoners, but only recruited Ding Zhuang to expand the army. This is a great ambition. Farewell to the Song Dynasty, the towns in Henan can no longer be relied on, and the thieves will definitely enter
Guanzhong!"
Song Le also nodded in agreement. The main military force of the imperial court in Guanzhong is the eight towns northwest of Beijing. The vassal towns established to defend against Tibet, each have a military strength ranging from 10,000 to 30,000. Once Huang Chao approaches Heyang, Shaanxi and Guo,
The sage will probably issue an order to King Qin. At that time, Xia Sui's armies will go south. If there is chaos in the territory, how can the soldiers feel at ease?
It is right to not move now and it is a temporary measure.
After Song Le left, Shao Shude asked Chen Cheng, who had almost become his personal secretary, to help write a gift list. Secretary Jiang from Xiazhou had already sent someone to inform Shao Shude and asked Shao Shude to go to Linzhou as soon as possible.
, Meet Zhe Zongben. Shao Shude understood the idea, so he asked Chen Cheng to figure out what needed to be prepared.
"Military envoy, this is not a betrothal gift, so why go to all the trouble? Just pick twenty of the best horses and mules from the more than a thousand horses and mules that I have brought back, and then collect some gold and silver utensils." Chen Cheng spread out his pen, ink, paper and inkstone.
, said while saying.
"Aren't those rogue horses?"
"The well-educated military envoy knows that among the horses and mules sent by General Pei, there are also hundreds of good horses. Among the tens of thousands of military horses sent to the imperial court in previous years, they are also considered to be the best." Chen Cheng said.
What a thief! Shao Shude secretly complained, Zhuge Shuang, the governor of Yinchuan, is not as powerful as Pei Shang, the current supervisor. He has bought a lot of good things for his family in recent years, right?
"Then let's do it like this." Shao Shude waved his hand and said, "How many pieces of gold and silver are needed?"
"It's not more expensive, it's more refined, more important. It's more important." Chen Cheng said with a smile: "Among the monks' belongings obtained from the inspection of Sanjie Temple, there was a silver-gilt tortoise bag, which was used to hold wine coins. I heard that the old general Zhe was good at wine, and he often
This is just the right thing to have with your tribe for banquets and wine fights."
Temples and wine chips? It is really difficult for Shao Shude to connect them. These monks have a lot of fun!
"There is also a silver caltrop and deer pattern flower foot plate. It is very exquisite. You can also give it as a gift."
"What's the point?"
"In Xianbei legend, deer is an auspicious animal, and Xianbei nobles also like gold medals with deer patterns. Since the Zhe family claims to be a descendant of Xianbei, it is just right to give this gift to them. Deer also sounds the same as "lu", which means long-term fortune, so it is a perfect gift.
But it’s too late.”
"Oh, Sanjie Temple is really a lucky star for a certain person." Shao Shude smiled and said, "That's it."