Zanhuang Mountain is located in the northwest of Zanhuang County, Xingzhou, Hebei County, and belongs to the branch of Taihang Mountain.
Zanhuang County originally belonged to Hebei West Road and Zhaozhou. After the official Tianqi restructuring, Hebei East and West Road merged to form Hebei County, and the counties of Zhao and Xing prefectures, plus some counties of Ci and Ming prefectures, were merged into Zhaozhou. Handan was governed
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There are two Buddhist temples in Zanhuang Mountain, one is called the Great Buddha Temple and the other is called the Nanfu Temple. After the release of the Reverend Buddhism, in accordance with the imperial decree, the two temples were merged into one and renamed the Great Buddha Temple. The abolished Nanfu Temple was prepared.
It is used as the second primary school of Zanhuang County.
It’s just that it hasn’t been taken over by the Zanhuang County Cultural and Education Bureau yet. The place is deserted and deserted. There are pieces of paper everywhere on the ground. There are hastily torn Buddhist scriptures, casually thrown accounting lists, handwritten prayer scriptures, and a few
Zhang's torn county government seal.
In the Main Hall, the bronze Buddha statues have long been sawn and dismantled, and they may have been re-melted into copper ingots.
There were fifty or sixty people sitting in the empty hall.
The dozen or so people sitting in the middle had short hair and short, stiff hair stubble on their round heads. Although they were wearing monk's robes, their appearance and behavior were neither monks nor laymen.
They were originally monks from Nanfu Temple and Dafo Temple. This time they were sorted out and became what they are now.
The rest of the people sitting around were all dressed as Zhuang Han and were tenants of the two original temples.
"Feng Sanlang, is the Buddha statue in Nanfu Temple full of mud?" asked a thin, dark man.
Sitting in the middle, a big man with a broad forehead, big ears, and a sinewy face stared at him.
"Who did you listen to?"
"A few days ago, the police from the county government took craftsmen to saw the Buddha statue, and found that it was just a thin layer of copper foil on the outside, only a lump of lead on the inside, and the middle was completely tamped with mud."
"Nonsense!" the big man said angrily. "The Buddha statues were made up bit by bit by fellow villagers from all over the country and villages. They donated money and materials. Not only we in Zanhuang County, but also Gaoyi next door,
The Yuan family and the people in Lincheng have also donated money and materials. Whoever dares to have a bad conscience and exchange lead and mud will be punished by five thunderbolts from the sky!"
Seeing the doubtful expressions on everyone's faces, the big man rolled his eyes and continued: "Master Xinyuan told me that this is the Dharma performed by the Buddha and Bodhisattva! The Buddha and Bodhisattva's magic power is incomparable. When he knew that the corrupt officials in the county government were going to blackmail the Buddha statue,
, cast spells all night, turning the copper inside into lead and mud."
Everyone's eyes widened. Is it true?
A tall and thin man sitting in the middle caught the big man's look, hesitated for a moment, and finally spoke.
"Of course it's true. My...father saw the casting of this bronze statue with his own eyes. The stove was built in the open space next to the temple. My father saw with his own eyes that pieces of copper ingots came from Daming Mansion.
It was shipped here. It was all Shaozhou copper with water, yellow and golden, dazzling people's eyes."
"Tens of thousands of kilograms of copper were melted in the furnace and poured into molds. My father saw it with his own eyes. My father was responsible for collecting the firewood used to melt the copper." The tall and thin man glanced at the crowd and felt
Still needing to be more convincing, he pointed to a round man next to him.
"You Erlang can testify that his father was one of the coppersmiths and spent three months polishing the Buddha statue on the wooden frame. You Erlang, tell me."
The round man grinned and said, "It must be copper."
With two people as evidence, the big man became even more confident, "I'm right. Tens of thousands of kilograms of copper disappeared overnight. It must be the boundless magic power of the Buddha and Bodhisattva. How could the believers' reverence for the Buddha be impossible?"
Let the evil-hearted and corrupt officials be blackmailed!"
"That's right! That's right!" This time, I finally got a lot of people nodding in agreement.
The matter about the Buddha statue came to an end, everyone lowered their heads and talked softly.
After a while, a thin, dark man and two strong men went out for convenience.
The three people were talking in the corner while putting water on the table.
"Why haven't you brought any food? I'm going to starve to death."
"Wait a minute, it's probably on its way."
"Don't be fooled by wild vegetable steamed buns again. After eating them for half a month, the poop you poop now smells fishy of wild vegetables."
"Come on, you still want to eat Dabai steamed buns? You are so beautiful! Dafo and Nanfu Temple were merged, and thousands of acres of farmland under his name were confiscated and transferred to the government. Zhang Dahu suffered from heartache for half a month. He can squeeze out some
Food, give us wild vegetables and steamed buns, which are good to eat!"
"Haha, Emperor Zan, all the folks in Yuan's counties don't know that the Big Buddha and Nanfu Temple are the family temples of the Zhang family. The abbots of the two families are both from the Zhang family. The county magistrate took away all the temple property.
If you go, isn't it just cutting the flesh of a big family?"
"Haha, tell me, what does Zhang Dahu want to do by gathering us here? To open up wasteland in the mountains to the west?"
"Create a wasteland for straight women and thieves. To the west is the Taihang Mountains, where many strongmen have formed strongholds to protect themselves. This is their territory. If we open up wasteland there, wouldn't we be sending pigs to the mouths of tigers?"
"Then why are we gathered here?"
"Whatever! We are all tenants in the temple, and we all cultivate the land for Zhang Dahu. Now that the land has been taken away, we have no way of living. We can do whatever Zhang Dahu asks us to do, as long as there are people who stutter."
At this point in the discussion, the thin black man looked towards the main hall and whispered: "Have you heard that in Cizhou, Xiangzhou and Daming, the fields in the temple were confiscated and distributed to the original tenants?"
The two people next to them were so shocked that they had to hold back the last bit of urine and trembled all over.
"Really or not?"
"I also heard what my cousin-in-law said. He is a peddler walking around the streets. When he went to Jinning County to purchase goods, he also heard what the merchants there said. He said that the temple property in those places was confiscated and turned into public land. Originally,
The tenant farmers form some kind of agricultural cooperative and then rent together... No, that doesn't seem to be the word, it is... Yes, it is contracted by each household."
"Contract the land in the next village and pay the rent to the county magistrate, and the rest will belong to each household."
A man finally finished urinating and said disdainfully: "Don't we still need to rent a house? What's the difference?"
"Haha, is there any land in the world that doesn't pay rent? Don't you also have to pay rent for the land in the temple? It is said to be dedicated to Buddha, Bodhisattva, and Nao Niang. Do the gods in the sky also need to eat grains and grains in the mortal world?
Aren't Buddhas and Bodhisattvas compassionate? Why didn't they save a few bites and give them to us?" the thin, dark man said angrily.
"That's right. I heard from my cousin's uncle that in Hedong County, the confiscated temple land was also distributed to the common people for contracting on a household basis. In addition to paying the royal grain, all corvées and other things were exempted." Another person also lowered his voice and said.
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"This is not bad, then we all go to Hedong County?" The man muttered while fastening his belt.
"Are you willing to move? We have a big family, old and young. It's hard to deal with just those old guys. It's hard to leave our homeland... Straight mother-in-law, if they hadn't pulled me, my brother and I
I have already run to the south. I heard that river management there requires a lot of labor. They give out food in one day and pay so much wages."
The thin and dark man stretched out his hand, opened it into a palm, and turned it over in the dark.
"How much?" the two companions asked softly.
"Thirty cents per day, calculated based on the number of working days, and one payment per month. I will also give you a pound of grain and some pickles every day."
"Ha, it's already as much as the monthly salary of a large soldier in the Forbidden Army."
"It's a little bad."
"What?"
"The food provided is all rice. We eat cakes, steamed buns, and steamed buns, but we are not used to eating that stuff."
"You're a thief, just be content! Even if it's Chen rice, it's better than the wild vegetable steamed buns we eat now." The two companions scolded the thin and black man angrily.
The eyes of the three of them were shining, and they seemed to have reached some kind of tacit understanding. When the trouble here was over, they would go south together to work as river workers for the river control committee.
The man on guard at the temple gate ran in with a puff of smoke, shouting, "Zhang Xiucai is here."
The three thin and dark men looked at each other and said, "What are you doing here, this black-hearted, ruined scholar? I'm afraid it's a weasel paying New Year's greetings to a chicken."
While muttering, he did not dare to neglect his feet and hurried towards the main hall. This chapter has been completed!
