Tang Liguo is still only 13 years old, and today's son Li Shimin has only been the crown prince for two months, less than four years as the emperor, and the construction of intelligence agencies is still in a relatively primitive stage.

Roughly speaking, the source of secret agents is mainly those who are capable in the sixteen guards of the Beijing Division, and they want to settle down in the Beijing Division, generally after Zhongliang. After layers of selection and light and dark tests, they will finally be assigned to more than 300 states in ten provinces across the country to monitor the movements of local governors and assassins. Because they don't want to be known, their organization doesn't even have a name to this day.

When the spies went to various places, they often collected the handles of local officials to blackmail them, and bought the untouchable population as a subordinate to serve as a downline. And the post houses in various states are their main targets, such as miscellaneous officials such as Yicheng, who have no handle to create a handle.

Secret agents are not within the nine grades of civil and military affairs, and in order to act cheaply, they can pretend to be from the third rank and the fifth grade, and there is no difference between the internal ranks.

However, if the credit for completing the task is not enough to be promoted to a high position in the organization, and the value of the assignment is lost, he can only return to the sixteenth guard to be a military general. If it is serious, he will even be sentenced to be confiscated into the army, and then honestly become a post man under the post house controlled by his colleagues.

The rank of the Ao brothers belongs to a relatively high rank. And because the four brothers have all become secret agents, it is really rare, and even Li Shimin can remember the names of one or two of them. After all, this secret agent is his descendant team, with less than a thousand people in total. Except for more than 700 people from all over the country, dozens of people from major sangha gathering places, dozens of people from various feudal palaces, and dozens of people from Gyeonggi counties, there are not many people who can appear in front of him at any time.

The temporary task was selected from the dozens of people who did not have fixed supervision responsibilities and were not responsible for the organization's important tasks. Ao Yan is coming to Qiong, he must be carrying the emperor's order, and I am afraid that there are signs of instability somewhere.

He didn't say it, Ao Guang could barely guess a few points. The city of Linqiong was an important frontier town, but the new Tsangpu Songtsen Gampo in the west of Tibet had only been on the throne for a year, and he was busy unifying the surrounding tribes to promote Buddhism and suppress Bon. Moreover, there are Qiang people in Duomi between Tubo and Qiongzhou, which is the object of competition between the two sides at this time, and the Tubo army will not cross Duomi.

This can also be seen from the fact that there is not the slightest sign of the government troops gathering. It is not for the sake of the army, the peace of the country and the people, and there is no danger of bandits here, and the only objects of the secret agent's supervision in the local area are officials and monks.

Officials worth paying attention to, the state's original secret agents can generally easily grasp the movements. And it is mostly related to some clerical and archival matters, which is not Ao Yan's strong point. The biggest possibility is that there are signs of rebellion in the local monks, and it has reached the point where it may need to be suppressed by force.

It's just that Ao Guang can't figure it out, now that the world is peaceful, the country and the people are safe, what reason should these monks rely on to gather the people and violate the prohibition and chaos? This place is not better than Shaolin, which has thousands of hectares of fertile land, 800 monks, and thousands of pure people, and it cannot rise any wind and waves by relying on the strength of the temple itself.

Both the monk and the Taoist are good people, and when the counties register and make a register, they are ranked after the ordinary good people and before the lowly people. The untouchables are divided into official sluts and private sluts, and the official sluts are divided into official slaves and maids, miscellaneous households, official households, and musicians. Among them, the official household is the official slave and maid who have been exempted, which is equivalent to the relationship between the ministry and the private slave, but the official household registration does not belong to the state or county but belongs to the lawsuit.

In order to avoid Li Shimin's ridicule, the Tang Dynasty changed the Ministry of Citizenship to the Ministry of Households, and of course the untouchables could no longer be called untouchables, but had to be called untouchables. The people of the whole country, in addition to the private sluts, the official sluts and the monks can be awarded the same field. In other words, the Sangha at this time is not a person from outside the world who is unproductive and dedicated to cultivation.

But they had no taxes, no servitude, and no need to become government soldiers. Therefore, the people everywhere hope that there are many monks, and if there are people who can afford to buy it, they will become monks and Taoists, and they will be exempted from the pain of paying taxes and military service. The income from the sale of the degree goes to the local government and the temple, which also drives the dual forces from the government and the temple to induce the people.

In the course of time, the monastics will only occupy more and more land resources, and the surrounding people and rich people will be kidnapped into their group. Li Shimin had seen this a long time ago, but he was powerless to stop it, because there were many people in the court and China who believed in Buddhism and Taoism, and if they oppressed themselves too much, then the ministers and the people would blame some natural and man-made disasters on the Son of Heaven for not respecting the gods and Buddhas.

In fact, there have been some signs of this in previous years. Since the Wude period, the Tang Dynasty suffered from an unusually arid climate, and the peasants ate the seeds of the following year, sold the land cheaply and fled to the famine, so the temples and temples around the country hoarded a large amount of land. Therefore, as soon as Li Shimin ascended the throne, he abolished more than 400 monasteries with more than 300 monks and forced more than 20,000 people to return to the laity. As for the small temple and small view, I didn't care, and I also left some famous mountains and ancient temples.

As a result, rumors spread, and the court also privately transmitted the voice of "sympathy between heaven and man", believing that natural disasters were punishments for immoral emperors. Fortunately, Shu Hui happened to get Aspergillus purpurea, which can efficiently ferment cellulose, fed the people of Dawn who were waiting to be fed, and inadvertently eliminated a turmoil that would sweep the people and temples.

In any case, after the imperial edict in the early years of Zhenguan, there were less than 60 temples with more than 300 monks in the country at this time, and each of them was observed by secret agents. As far as Ao Guang knows, there is no temple of this scale in Qiongzhou.

Although it is inconvenient for Ao Yan to reveal it directly, the rotten person he sent to Ao Guang may be a clue. So Ao Guang attached great importance to this, but after some interrogation, the result couldn't help but disappoint him.

"It turned out that it was just a rabble who helped fish out of the way, and they fell in love with the young master's treasure and became greedy." Ao Guang shook his head, but after thinking about it, it was not for nothing: "Since the third brother handed over this person to me without interrogation, I think he has some thoughts. Maybe the third brother thought that this person was also related to his mission, and in this case, the third brother's mission would eventually be related to the young master. ”

But no matter how much Ao Guang wanted to break his head, he didn't clear the joints. Nowadays, the Taoist door is declining, and the incense is mainly offered to Buddhist temples in various places, but because of the relationship between Shu Hui and relieving the suffering, these two families also worship the "Xuan Turtle" according to their imaginary image and enjoy the worship of the believers with incense, and there is absolutely no reason to openly be the enemy of Shu Hui.

For the Shu Hui statues added to these two doors, Ao Guang could only smile disdainfully. Several sculptures in the Xuangui Temple on the north side of the fire well are carved by the young master himself, which are vivid and expressive, and they are almost ready to come out.

These temples wanted to share the credit of the young master, but instead of building statues according to the sculptures in the Xuangui Temple, they pulled into their own allusions and were trampled on the soles of the feet by various gods and Buddhas. In Taoism, Shu Hui is generally regarded as a turtle general at the feet of Emperor Zhenwu, and the Buddhist temple is Guanyin stepping on the sea patrol, and it is estimated that the young master wants to beat people.

"Speaking of which, the young master seems to have never admitted that he is a turtle......" Ao Guang threw Xiao San'er to the guy in the store and asked him to report to the official as a thief, while thinking about what kind of god the young master was: "When the young master carved his own statue, he heard that others regarded him as a turtle, so he carved a big turtle under his feet, and he stepped on his head. I also heard the official in charge of the temple say that the dragon turtle in the camel book is not an ordinary turtle, and he also inserted double dragon horns......"

"Those temples with two gates of Buddhism and Taoism actually threw away the young master's body, and took the mount to change the master to receive incense."

"But what kind of god is the young master? I have already seen the turtle shell that Yuan Xianling said, and that thing is ever-changing, and I can't tell what is the ontology at all. Even if it is because of the relationship between change and Yi, it is just a magic weapon when it comes to Luo Shu and turtle shells, and it is not necessarily what the young master grows. ”

"Actually, if you want me to say, the identity of the young master is more likely to be related to the sculpture of the right hand of the face is half-open and half-hidden. That generation is so weird that it even has its eyes carved ......"

"The king of Lanling in Northern Qi often faced the enemy on behalf of the enemy to show his bravery. But nowadays, most of the people who substitute for the face of the sacrifice pretend to be the face of ghosts and gods, and the young master is the real god, whose face does his face belong to? ”

Ao Guang found that there was no answer to every question he was thinking about tonight, and he couldn't help but be a little discouraged, and almost turned to doubt his IQ.

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Linqiong is surrounded by mountains on three sides, and there are vast plains and hills only in the northeast. Starting from the east gate, ten miles to the northeast, there is a rubble slope, and the slope is full of rubble. Hundreds of years ago, there was a large tile kiln, and now only a small temple stands alone on the top of the windward slope.

As Ao Guang knows, there are no temples or Taoist temples with more than 300 monks in Qiongzhou, and the scale of the wild temple here is less than five people, which is negligible.

But at the moment, it was surrounded by villagers from several surrounding villages, and behind it stood a row of men with torches, and each village was sitting in front of the villagers under their own leadership. Before them, there were also nearby landlords and wealthy merchants, and at this time, everyone looked eagerly at a boy sitting on a futon on the altar inside the open temple gate, carrying a large turtle shell on his back, and touching the figure of about four or five years old.

The boy was silent, wearing a nondescript Tai Chi robe, and the remaining three fingers of the sword finger of his left hand curled up in a ring to cover the sword finger of his right hand, making the seal of the king of the Ming Dynasty.

What is particularly conspicuous is that at this moment he is wearing a peculiar mask on his face. The lower end of the mask reaches only the lips, and the cheeks reach the ears like lion's mane, but when you look closely, they look like four gorgeous fins.

The most special thing is the eyes, the corners of the eyes are like a burning flame rolling up like clouds and fire, the eyebrows are inserted obliquely into the sideburns, and then rounded back to the top of the forehead, like a pair of horns, and like the ears of some animal.

The whole mask is full of exaggeration and mysterious artistic sense, but the most important thing is that it is almost identical to the mask made by Shu Hui himself in the Xuangui Temple.

At this time, on the side of the boy, there was a Taoist with three long beards who conveyed the decree of the "gods" to hundreds of villagers and landlords in front of the temple.

"The purple sauce given to everyone by the gods before, and they all know that it is turned into plants and trees, so no one is hungry, we have to thank the gods!"

"Bell~"

"Thank you, gods!"

After the few people who were placed in the villagers to lead the rhythm led everyone to shout in unison, the Taoist priest said: "But the gods spread the purple sauce all over Shenzhou, and in the end, it was inevitable that it would be discovered by the Heavenly Court, so they had to take it back." ”

"Bell~"

This time there was no slogan, and he went on to say, "The gods took back the purple sauce, but they were forced to do so. But the gods live in Qiongzhou, and he is grateful for the sufferings of the people, and he sees that everyone is struggling to farm, and he consumes mana to create another treasure. ”

"Bell~"

"This treasure is only given to the people of Qiongzhou, and we are not afraid of being detected by the heavenly court. I believe that many villagers have heard about this baby from their relatives in other villages, and everyone said what is it? ”

"Bell~"

"Jin Kela!" This time, there was no need for someone to lead the rhythm, and many people shouted excitedly, and the crowd was surging.

"Bell bell bell ~" The fat monk knocked the copper chime three times in a row, and everyone calmed down.

The Taoist priest was so pleased with the situation that he picked up a porcelain bowl on the altar containing some crushed pyrite. Holding it in his hand, he watched the villagers outside the door stretch their necks but couldn't see anything, and the seriousness on his face was a little tense.

"What are the benefits of Jinkela? With the use of Jinkola, one bag of seeds can be used as two bags to scatter. No matter what kind of grain, the yield per mu is 1,800! ”

"Bell~"

"One thousand eight! One thousand eight! Roar Roar Roar ......"

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

The crowd fell silent again, and the Taoist priest said, "This golden kola directly ignites the land, and it contains the mana of the gods. The land lord has obtained mana, can he not bless us with a good harvest? ”

"Bell~"

"Harvest! Bumper harvest! ”

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

"But remember, you must not spread the word. Out of the realm of Qiongzhou, without the suppression of the gods, this fairy treasure will be discovered by the heavenly court again, and everyone's gold will be useless. Even if you don't go out of Qiongzhou, if there are too many people who know, and the government thinks that everyone doesn't need so much land, what if they take back the acres? ”

"Bell~"

"And there are more people who know about Jin Kela, and other people's land can yield 1,800 per mu, so can't the price of grain be cheap? In this way, isn't our gold in vain, and isn't the magic power of the gods wronged? ”

"Bell~"

"So I used Jin Kela, saved grain and increased production, and I didn't tell him about ordinary people!"

"Bell~"

"Don't tell him! Don't tell him! Roar Roar Roar ......"

"Bell Bell Bell ~"

The Taoist priest and the monk looked at each other and smiled, and when they saw that the time was ripe, the monk pointed to the two little novices at the door and said, "The gods spend a lot of mana for everyone's affairs, and now they only charge some sesame oil money to supplement the consumption." ”

"An acre of land is only 50 yuan, and the increased grain is worth 8 or 900, which is not counting the grain saved. Please trouble the village is collecting the sesame oil money, and our temple will convert it together. ”

"If you don't have enough cash, you can use Yongye Tian as a mortgage from the two little mages, and only receive three points of profit, and you can also find them if you want to sell the field."

"We are the villagers who are official believers in the Turtle Worship Sect, and Jin Ke La can be discounted by eight percent. It only takes five buckets of rice to join the sect, but at the same time, five acres of Yongye field must be recorded in the name of the sect leader, of course, it is actually cultivated by the sect members, and there is no difference from before except that it cannot be sold to others. ”

"If it is not convenient to donate today, the gods will go to Izumokan Temple in the north of the city three days later to bless the believers. However, because you are not locals when you get there, and there is no unified delivery of the village, I am afraid that the master of Izumokan will charge you more than two layers of abacus money. ”

"By the way, are there any villagers from the Xiaohe Temple last time? This is also the rule in our rubble temple. ”

The crowd was noisy and anxious to donate. It is said that when the village is going back to divide the money, the earlier the money is paid, the higher the name of the person in the list, the more worthy of the name.

If Ao Guang was here, he would definitely sigh, let alone him in this meeting, even if the young master came by himself, he would never have imagined it.

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