The early winter in Canton is a rare time of year when there is little rain and it is cool and dry. It's just that the uproar brought about by the official recruitment of the imperial court a few days ago is still faintly rippling and echoing in the streets and alleys of the city, among the hot topics that people are talking about.

In the courtyard where the back house of the Governor's Mansion is still green, it is a routine tea time, but there is a temporary lack of Qingluo who is compiling a new score.

"The ancients left no stone unturned, and the young and the strong worked to become old.

On paper, I finally feel shallow, and I never know that I have to do it. (Lu You, "Reading on a Winter Night")

With the affluent and comfortable life, the little pendant calamus, which is becoming more and more delicate and lovely, also looked at the words written on the paper, and seemed to sigh without surprise:

"He refused the court's recruitment. This time, it was the official Annan Economic Envoy; If you do this strategy that is similar to that of the vassal marshal, I am afraid that most of the doors in the north and east cities of Chang'an can open their doors to him and talk about marriage. ”

However, although she said this, there was an incredible relief and relief in her tone; In this way, maybe I don't have to face anything in the past, and I can continue to escape this cruel reality.

However, it has only been a long time since his own encounter, but that person has already stood unconsciously, and the imperial court has to take the initiative to appease and surrender, and even allow him to open the mansion and build teeth. It was all like a dream, so strange that she could hardly believe it.

But the more bizarre proposition and pursuit of the man who claims to be the life of the people of the world obviously seems to be an absurd and almost impossible idea; But in the efforts of the blue wisps step by step, and the many means to turn decay into magic, he is resolutely and slowly realizing it.

Now, he has not only gained a firm foothold in another place in a short period of time, but also sent troops out of the mountains to enter Hunan and Jiangxi to report frequent good news. This undoubtedly made many people who originally had a firm opposition to this or disagreed with it, and even secretly ridiculed it, becoming more and more sad, desperate, and shaken.

Among them are her titular sister, and Bai Jingjing, who has lost her original skeleton appearance and has become a little plump and well-proportioned. Seeing the assassin, she muttered with a sad face on her face.

"The court, the court. How can it be so ridiculous, even a thief like him who vows to commit chaos in the world has to be appeased? There must be traitors and ministers above the court. ”

"It's just a traitor."

Little Calamus sighed quietly.

Since she was a child, she had heard her father and brother repeatedly emphasize these similar words; However, the courtiers were replaced one after another, and the ministers were given death and belittled, and exiled batch after batch; But the situation in the country she knows is still getting worse and worse.

This couldn't help but make her think of the "system problem" in that population, is it that the pattern of internal and external persecution in Datang has reached the point where it is irreversible, and can only be completely subverted and changed by external forces.

"So it's not unusual for him to look down on this position of Annan Jingluo. With the power he occupies now, he naturally wants to be even greater."

Then, I saw "Sister" Bai Jingjing talking to herself again.

"Since the opening of the Middle School, the commanders and generals of various places have become more and more arrogant, and there are few things that the imperial court has been forced to recognize and appease. He's just a utilitarian guy who can live on odd goods and sell them at a price. ”

"Wan'er,"

Speaking of this, she seemed to be in some kind of inexplicable emotion full of sacrifice and sorrow, and she became firm again and looked at Xiao Ilamus with burning eyes.

"Although my generation is a woman, I also vow to spare this body and bring this righteous path of helping the country, and I can't let him continue to trouble the court."

"Sister, you..."

The little iris was suddenly surprised, and then her face turned crimson in an instant.

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At the same time, in Jiangling City, the news of the envoy who arrived one step later than the news of the imperial court's Zhao'an was the appointment letter and proclamation from the Great General Mansion of Huangchao from Jiangxi, through many areas controlled by officials and regiments, and forwarded the letter of appointment and order.

Among them, Wang Pan was appointed as the military envoy of the General's Mansion and the envoy of Guangzhou Town; He also appointed Zhou Huai'an as the commander of Lingdong, commanding the three wings of the fourth left, the first on the right, and the second on the back; Chai Ping is the deputy commander of Lingxi, and he is in charge of Guiguan and Hu Guan. The other generals also have their own promotions and appointments.

Then he obeyed the order of the general's palace and ordered the three newly appointed generals to lead their departments from Shaoguan, Lianzhou, Guizhou and other places north out of Jiangxi, thinking that the army should respond to Yunyun.

However, for this kind of style, which is obviously derived from a certain full court officialdom, there is a secret harbor of evil intentions, but it is actually an appointment that mixes up and divides different opinions; Zhou Huaian can only thank Bumin, but it is not convenient to make a public statement and make a difference. Because no matter what he does, it will affect the mentality and mood of the new bureau and the Taiping military department in the near future, and some of the results outweigh the losses.

Fortunately, the insurance mechanism that was left in advance worked. Just after the other party entered Shaoguan, the corresponding messenger and related documents had been secretly detained; Then, the relevant news was urgently forwarded to the southern side of Daohunan. In this way, Zhou Huaian can continue to pretend to be unaware and have no contact to maintain the current situation and people's hearts.

At present, the Taiping army in Hunan and Jingnan has expanded to 50,000 people again, and is stationed in Jingmen, Puqi, Yueyang, Longyang, Pingxiang, Chaling and other places.

It's just that in addition to the former rebel soldiers who have been incorporated and are in the process of transformation (brainwashing), most of them are still new soldiers who lack training and combat experience; It takes a corresponding time period to get familiar with and run in to form basic combat effectiveness. Therefore, there really isn't much energy left over to take care of the affairs of the main force of the righteous army where Huang Chao is located.

Of course, it is not without other good news. For example, after opening up Lingling City, an important node in Daozhou, a new report came from Chai Ping, who was sitting in Lianzhou and Chenzhou;

On the one hand, it is the restoration of production in the local mine and the corresponding transformation of the village community, which has been roughly completed. And by obtaining labor from the local Mo Zhiman to fill the needs of the mines, the Taiping army could also gradually draw more troops and manpower from the local area.

Therefore, five supplementary battalions, mainly composed of more than 4,000 mountain people and miners, escorted by a two-battalion garrison led by Huo Cun, are rushing north to Jiangling, preparing to join the local garrison sequence.

On the other hand, it was the earlier petition incident or farce about the southward movement led by the Nanzen Zuting Baolin Temple, and with the submission of the old monk Yoshinobu who took the lead, it completely entered the final stage over time.

After the establishment of the monasteries and monastic colleges in Guangzhou, many potential believers were blocked, and they were regarded as the result of the spiritual victory of Buddhism on another level.

(Of course, in addition to their regular practice, monks who practice in Chuchu also regularly go to the training center as part-time teachers to teach the basics and general knowledge of various subjects such as literature, morality, medicine, calendar, astronomy, and construction.) It can also be regarded as self-deception and expansion of influence and prestige in disguise. ）

In this months-long process of clean-up and rectification, in addition to the Shaoguan garrison sending troops to recover the Baolin Temple on the bank of Caoxi, at least hundreds of thieves who were entrenched in it "pretending to be monks" were killed, plus two monasteries were burned in order to reduce losses; Other sporadic battles to exterminate the monastic rebellion can be said to be lackluster.

Most of the time, according to the inside information of the thieves who were captured outside the city, they went to the door one by one to settle accounts and purge the relevant people, and then through severe torture and interrogation, they seized and copied the local leaders and decent people who were implicated one by one.

Although there are many stubborn outlaws, heroes, and rangers among them, there are also fierce monks who are armed to fight trapped beasts; However, in the face of the army that had been organized to form a formation to outflank and encircle, it was just a glowing light that was extinguished in the blink of an eye after several rounds of arrow rain covering and washing the ground.

In the end, the number of large and small jungles (officially recognized temples) that were implicated and confiscated reached 46, and the size of each Selanruo (non-recognized wild temple) reached 61; In addition, there are more than 170 places in the Garan Hall (a private place of worship and worship). The value of the treasures and treasures obtained is about 70,000 yuan, and there are still a large number of grain and other materials that have not yet been counted.

But the biggest gain is the justifiable confiscation of these temple properties, and the benefits of land and population. More than 1,000 hectares of various fields and attached mountains and forests have been cleared, plus the Buddha households (temples) and monks (monks) who originally worked on these lands, plus the "slave and maid" who opened the loan, and suddenly increased the tax-paying population of about three or four thousand households; It's almost as big as a high-class county.

However, compared with the income from Wuzong's destruction of Buddha during the Huichang period, it is pediatric: "More than 4,600 temples have been demolished in the world, 260,500 lay monks and nuns have been returned, and two tax households have been collected; More than 40,000 houses were demolished and Zhaoti and Lanruo, tens of millions of hectares of anointed land were collected, and 150,000 slaves and maids were collected from two tax households. "This is the result of discounting or even not enforcing it at all in many places (such as the three towns of Hebei Province).

You must know that Lingnan has always been the last place in the execution of the imperial court in the south, and it is also the place that survived the most in the destruction of Buddhism in Huichang. There are also 17 dojos that have been investigated and punished for taking radishes out of the mud, but the scale is much smaller.

Although the Li family in the Tang Dynasty revered Taoism, Tang Wuzong also abolished Buddhism for a time, and the famous Buddhist temple Qianming Faxing Temple in Guangzhou was changed to Xiyun Dao Palace, but Taoism in the Lingnan region did not flourish because of this; On the contrary, it was overwhelmed by the Buddhism imported from overseas everywhere. In the entire Tang Dynasty, except for the Huizhou Taoist Xuanyuan Ji, who was named Luofu Mountain, and then the east wind that destroyed the Buddha was once appreciated by the rulers of the current dynasty, there was no decent character.

Many Taoist temples in Lingnan were originally evolved from the places where Taoist priests settled and practiced, and there was no Buddhism that could take advantage of the emptiness of people's hearts to enter the world and the banner of Buddhist spiritual chicken soup, which had the opportunity to explode in the form of virus reproduction in troubled times and prosperous times.

It can be said that most of these Taoists are more like the models of otaku in later generations, and they are only active in a small circle of hobbies; After closing the door in the name of escapism and alchemy, you can basically go to the earth in one breath; Therefore, most of the time, it is not heard of in the world at all.

The reason for the investigation and punishment this time is only because of the filth and dirt in it, but it does not meet the standards of armed rebellion and troubled places; Even the inheritance for support is pitiful; Therefore, these Taoist temples in Guangzhou that sell dog meat on sheep's heads are all carried out by some kind of "environmental protection and pollution-free" smoke-free special industry on the grounds of female crown initiation, so as to satisfy the special tastes and habits of the wealthy and scholarly classes.

It would be nothing if there were such half-hidden doors, but at the same time, these Taoist temples were involved in human trafficking, and became downstream of the industry, a transit place and a temporary hiding place; This kind of thing that hurts nature and reason has always been the target of the righteous army's strict propaganda, prohibition and crackdown, so it has been completely banned.

But in any case, the left-behind division has been cleaned up and rectified during this period of time, plus replacement and encirclement; Thirteen new tuntians have been added to the periphery of the Pearl River Basin. Even the population and labor are ready-made, from the tenants attached to the land of these temples, and the "slaves and maids" who are resettled in other places.

(End of chapter)