Once people have money, they will have different kinds of enjoyment. This is an eternal truth. Monks are also human beings, so it is natural.
Things like ice are really rare in summer. Before Li Chengzhi sold ice, court officials below the sixth rank could not buy it with money, let alone a monk?
Li Chengzhi thought that there are always monks who are greedy for enjoyment and can't stand the scorching heat in summer, so maybe they can sell some. So with the mentality of giving it a try, he asked Gao Zhan to go to Zhaoxuancao (the highest monk-level institution in the country).
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Gao Zhan went to the palace on the third day of the lunar new year. My dear, at night, there were a bunch of monks waiting at the gate of Gao's mansion, all of them the temple masters and abbots of hundreds of temples.
I thought these monks were just here for Gao Zhao’s sake, but they were just asking for a two-month subscription.
He also said that he wanted to offer sacrifices to my Buddha... This was obviously discussed when he came. The person who came up with this idea was definitely a genius: where there are monks, there will naturally be Buddha statues. If there are not, just move one there.
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Who dares to say that the ice placed in the monk's room is not for the Buddha statue?
Only then did Li Chengzhi realize: the richest person in the capital was not the Han family, not the Xianbei nobles, not the Yuan family, and not even the emperor.
But a monk.
When a customer came to the door, how could Li Chengzhi take care of so much. He thought that the monk had money anyway, and the money was easier than making it lying down, so it must be more expensive. So he sold the monk the price of ice to cool down.
The price for selling smoothies has been set: sold by the pound.
One square meter is roughly three feet in diameter and weighs more than 700 kilograms. Li Chengzhi didn't even pay a fraction of it, so he sold it for 750 yuan, which is equivalent to hardware.
The strange thing is, is it still crazy?
More than 100 temples are all arranged through negotiation, and each family has 100 square meters.
However, it is required that the ice supervisor be sent to both sides of the temple every day for fifty days, until the end of July.
This is 12,000 square meters, which equals 60,000 gold... and it’s all real gold and brass without any discount?
By the second day, all the bigger temples in the capital should have received the letter, and more than a hundred more temples came one after another, and more than 10,000 were booked.
On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year, a lot of the ones I had ordered before came to me. I thought that after all, the "Buddhas" couldn't seem to separate them, so they wanted to order more.
Li Chengzhi did not dare to order.
The ice storage room in the palace and the Lingyinli where ice is stored in Guanglu Temple only have about 50,000 cubic meters of ice. It has been sold to monks in the past two days for 25,000. There are still more than 40 years left before the Mid-Autumn Festival.
God, the palace needs at least 10,000 yuan.
After this calculation, there are only 14,000 to 5,000 square meters left at most.
It sounds like a lot, but the problem is, this thing will melt.
Otherwise, why did Li Chengzhi set the loss as high as 50% when he was planning to sell ice?
Not to mention that he didn't dare to sell anymore, Gao Zhan had to plan carefully and be cautious. He had to set the time to transport the ice in the middle of the night. Otherwise, if it melted too much, the emperor would wait for a sauna every day...
On the sixth night of the sixth lunar month, Yuan Ke's eyes widened when he saw Gao Zhan unloading dozens of carriages carrying five bahts, copper collars, and even gold into the palace.
One hundred and twenty thousand gold?
When Li Chengzhi said he wanted to sell ice, how much did he say?
In two months, I will get thirty to forty thousand gold...
But this is more than tripled?
Looking at it from the other side, it is so simple, as if you can just pick one out and do it.
But why is Li Chengzhi the only one who can think of selling ice in summer and selling it to monks?
Even he, the emperor, didn’t expect that...
Therefore, the emperor had thought of giving those two official posts yesterday, and it was not because of whether the music was good or not, but because of the 120,000 gold from the temple.
Why does the emperor sell ice?
Naturally, it is because of the money shortage, and this money shortage is caused by the monk!
Li Chengzhi’s move was simply a stroke of genius...
When he thought about what the morning court on the ninth day of the lunar month would be like, Yuan Ke looked forward to it with great anticipation.
Li Chengzhi actually sold most of the ice to the temple?
Yuan Yi's expression was extremely astonished, as if he couldn't figure it out. After being stunned for a while, his expression changed slightly: "How dare you?"
Why has the emperor been so impatient in recent years?
It's not that no one can't guess it: it's nothing more than monks...
These temples are acting so arrogantly, aren’t they giving the emperor a knife?
"What's the point of not daring?"
Yuan Ke sneered and said, "They dare to raise nuns to let out their sexual desires in the temple, and they dare to have fornication with noble ladies in the daytime under the Buddha statue. Is there anything else they can't do?"
Yuan Yi's heart trembled.
The emperor was clearly talking about an old incident from two years ago: the prince, the clan, Annan general and Jingzhou governor Yuan Song had been fighting with the southern army in Huaihe, and did not return to Luoyang for more than a year until they were killed by their rebel subordinates.
Southland.
The strange thing is that the concubine who has been staying in Beijing and has not seen Yuan Song for more than a year, when she was mourning Yuan Song in Beijing, someone discovered that she was pregnant?
At first, the concubine lied that she was pregnant by Yuan Song in a dream. The emperor was furious and ordered him to be tortured to extract a confession. Finally, he found out: Because he couldn't bear the loneliness, he had an affair with a monk in the temple, not a temple, but a monk.
She doesn’t even know who it is...
Check further, good guys: There are a large number of nuns in more than one temple in Beijing. They are not only used by the monks themselves, but also used to make friends with powerful people.
It’s not just Yuan Song’s concubine who had an affair with the monk...
The matter was so closely related that the superiors and subordinates did not dare to make it public, but all the relevant personnel were secretly executed.
However, Yuan Song's elder brother Yuan Chengwei was too angry. He took the risk of being expelled from the nobility and submitted a petition to clean up the monks' affairs. That is to say, "the concubine enters the monk's room during the day, and the children stay in the nun's room at night. The statue is entangled in the smell of the pagoda, and the spirit is lost."
"On lust..." memorial.
Buddhist services cannot be solemnized simply by being solemn, and the final result was: Yuan Cheng was ordered to kneel on the Buddha's face all night and have his cheeks stroked a hundred times!
This is naturally for the world to see. In private, Yuan Ke even hinted to Yuan Cheng: sooner or later he will avenge this...
Since then, this bad breath has accumulated in the emperor's heart.
Zhongli was defeated again, and 200,000 cavalry were lost in the Huaihe River. Later, when the emperor ordered all states to recruit young men to serve as soldiers, all states reported at the same time that there were no more men to recruit. If they had to recruit, farming would be abandoned. How is that possible?
The Wei Dynasty alone had nearly six million households. If twenty households were to recruit one person, they could also recruit three hundred thousand soldiers?
At the beginning of Yuan Ke, he thought that the ministers were afraid that he, the emperor, would become arrogant and resort to war. However, after asking about it, he found out that it was really impossible to conquer him.
He is a strong man who joins a temple and becomes a monk after being recruited from every twenty households. There is one in every three or four households...
After that, another money shortage occurred: a court in Youda couldn't even raise tens of thousands of dollars. Is it a big joke in the world?
Even the copper coins circulating in Luojing City are getting less and less. People have imitated Dizhou and cut the whole silk into small pieces to use as currency.
Naturally, the money did not grow wings and fly away, but was donated to the temple by the people...
When several phases are superimposed, a smarter person will naturally be able to figure out why the emperor is so self-inflicted.
But today is different from the past. This is not the time of Emperor Taiwu: there are nearly six million households in the country, and nearly three percent of them are monk households. It has long been the trend that cannot be lost.
It's not impossible to solve it if it's slower. The key is that the emperor is too hasty, and the other disadvantage is that war is everywhere.
Therefore, Yuan Yi, Yuan Yong, Liu Fang, Cui Guang, etc. knew clearly what the emperor wanted to do, but they refused to let go...
Yuan Yi was very worried and wanted to persuade him as usual, but before he even opened his mouth, the emperor waved his hand impatiently: "Don't worry, I have a sense of discretion!"
As soon as he finished speaking, Liu Teng reported outside the palace, saying that it was Wang Yuanyue of Ruyang, Gao Zhan, the commander of the ice, and Li Chengzhi, the Hou Xinglang, who were asking for an audience.
As soon as he heard the three words "Hou Xinglang", Yuan Ke laughed: If I hadn't given you a first-level promotion in advance, I'm afraid even you, a seventh-grade Hou Xinglang, wouldn't have had to do it at the court meeting two days later. p>
It’s also strange. For others, the more credit they have, the higher their official position will be. But when it comes to Li Chengzhi, it’s the other way around?
Credits come one after another. Not only do they not get promoted, but they are fined more and more in annual salary, and they are beaten at every turn?
It’s the only one.
But this is by no means a way for a monarch and his ministers to get along... Yuan Ke has already begun to wonder how to save the level he was promoted to Li Chengzhi today on the ninth day of the lunar month...
After thinking about it, the three of them entered the palace and bowed to the emperor and Yuan Ke.
Yuan Ke raised his eyes and took a look. Li Chengzhi and Gao Zhan were both normal, but Yuan Yue's teeth were almost sticking out, and she couldn't hide the joy on her face.
"Did something good happen to my seventh brother?"
Suddenly realizing that she was getting carried away, Yuan Yue quickly stopped her smile and replied respectfully: "I am going to work with Li Chengzhi to make a living..."
No wonder?
Regardless of other things, as far as Yuan Ke knows, Li Chengzhi can also train soldiers and refine wine. Either one is a huge profit.
Yuan Ke didn't bother to ask, he pointed down casually, motioning to sit down and talk. Then he asked: "Tell me, how come you got into a fight when you were doing well?"
Their confessions had been reconciled when they arrived, and the three of them gave flawless answers. They only said that Gao Zhan was in a hurry and wanted to mobilize troops, but Li Chengzhi didn't allow it, so the two started fighting. But Yuan Yue only suffered an unreasonable disaster.
If other officials were left alone, Yuan Ke might have to ask. But the relationship between Li Chengzhi and Gao Zhan is quite special, and they seemed to have no grudges at this time, so Yuan Ke was too lazy to find fault. p>
After asking a few questions casually, Yuan Ke pointed at Gao Zhan again: "Bringing over one hundred thousand gold to the palace is no small matter. I'm going to be more tiring today. I'll make the settlement with Liu Teng overnight. All the accounts must be listed clearly... Well, Xuan Huai
I'll go with Xuanyi and help take advantage of..."
They all just thought that the emperor was in a hurry to use money, so he was in such a hurry, and no one became suspicious.
Li Chengzhi felt a little strange: Didn't he say that the emperor wanted to review the case, and then he just asked a few questions in such an understatement and it was over?
What’s the point of leaving you here alone when everyone else has left?
Don’t you want to make elixirs by yourself again?
Suspicious in his heart, Li Chengzhi took a peek and found that the emperor frowned, as if hesitating.
Although it’s not accurate, it’s not far off!
Li Chengzhi really guessed right, the emperor just found an excuse to summon Li Chengzhi into the palace.
Only when he is free will he care about why Li Chengzhi and Gao Zhan are fighting?