Quite fruitful! Yue Fei's trip to Xiangguo Temple was fruitful!

There are 5 million taels of silver, 700,000 taels of gold, more than 90,000 pieces of jewelry and jade, including more than 1,000 gold and jade Buddha statues given by the royal family, and more than 2,000 calligraphy and paintings of celebrities. When Zhang Xian invited Yue Fei, Li Bashao, and Su Mai to enter the underground palace to take a look, not to mention Yue Fei and Su Mai, even Li Bashao, who had seen countless treasures, was dumbfounded.

With the continuous expansion of the territory of the Protector Army, the Protector Army must also recruit a large number of troops. All of this requires a lot of money. Even more troublesome are the displaced people, who have poured into the territory controlled by the Protector Army, and these displaced people need to settle down. If they don't settle down well, these displaced people can leave the Protectors in chaos without a fight. Yue Fei knew how powerful the homeless people were. Yue Xiaofei's memory told him that the powerful Ming Empire was destroyed at the hands of the exiles.

The population of the Northern Song Dynasty exceeded 100 million, and the entire Central Plains was the most densely populated place in the world, with a population of at least 50 million. With the Jin Bing Liangkou Bianliang, North Shaanxi West Road, Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, and Jingdong Road, there were a large number of displaced people. These displaced people moved to places where they had not been plagued by war, looted because of hunger, and looted the places they passed, so that the people who had not been plagued by war also became homeless. Displaced people are like a terrible infectious disease, wherever they go, more displaced people will be created.

Judging from the intelligence collected by the Secret Intelligence Department of the People's Protector Army from all over the country, in a cold winter, at least a million people starved to death on the West Road of Hebei, and the corpses and bones under the Taihang Mountain were piled up, and the displaced people who survived were now struggling to survive, and in order to earn a bite to eat, they dared to resist Zonghan's hundreds of thousands of middle route troops with their flesh and blood. If it weren't for the large-scale mobilization of these hungry and anxious homeless people, the hundreds of thousands of military horses selected by Niu Gao, Fu Xuan, Liang Xing, Zhao Yun, Wang Yan, and Ma Kuang would have been defeated by Zong Han a long time ago.

As for the south of the Yellow River, the tide of displaced people in the area of Nanyang and Dengzhou is also becoming more and more spectacular. However, most of this wave of displaced people are fighting to the south of the Yangtze River, and there is not much threat to Tianfu. However, because of the burning, killing and looting of Zongbi's East Route Army, millions of displaced people also appeared on Jingxi and West Roads, coupled with Wang Jun's rebellion, at least nearly 10 million displaced people are now targeting Yingtian, Xuzhou, and Caozhou. Although in the near future, the homeless people only dare to wander in the surrounding area due to the might of the Protector Army, but with the arrival of the wheat ripening season, the hungry and anxious homeless people will definitely sweep through Yingtian Xuzhou like locusts.

What's even more terrifying is that now most of the fertile land in the Central Plains has been abandoned. If we don't plant autumn grain after the wheat harvest, maybe by the next winter, the tens of millions of people in the Central Plains will be cut by half.

In fact, in this time and space, the situation in the Central Plains has been much better. You must know that in the original history books, the Central Plains in the three years of Jingkang has been full of displaced people, and tens of millions of displaced people have attacked each other, killing and wounding their families. The homeless people on Jingxi Road even changed their children and ate them. But in this time and space, the Protector Army first kept Yingtianfu, and then Xuzhou and Caozhou Chenzhou. The powerful military might of the Protector Army not only deterred many careerists, but also reassured the people outside the four places. Just like today's Jingxi Road, nearly a million exiled people's troops under the command of Zhang Heng's sailor are attacking the city and plundering the land, and the Jurchen future minister of the Zhenguo is exhausted.

But as the displaced people's stored food is exhausted, these displaced people will begin to attack each other on a large scale. According to historical records, when the Jurchens invaded the Song Dynasty, there were only 870,000 households left in the entire Central Plains. In order to avoid the tragedy of the population of the Central Plains in history falling by nine-tenths, Yue Fei and Li Bashao had already begun to prepare.

It's just that this kind of preparation requires a lot of money, and the Protector Army had no money to spare before, but now that they have found the super unjust boss of Daxiangguo Temple, where will Yue Fei and Li Bashao be polite.

However, Li Bashao proposed a proposal for Yue Fei. Gold and silver are shipped away, and jewelry, jade, and celebrity calligraphy and paintings can be held to buy a meeting.

"Pengju, jewelry and jade can't be eaten by hunger, and can't be worn by cold, so it's only suitable for the collection of those rich businessmen. Didn't I tell you about a big fundraiser? Now that we have this large collection of jewelry, we don't need to raise donations, let's just have the biggest buying conference ever. ”

Yue Fei knew that the Song people's buying was actually an auction for later generations. Yue Fei thought about it for a while, and immediately understood that Li Bashao's method was very good. If such a large amount of jewelry were all put on the market, it would definitely sell for a lot of less. But if you select the best thousands of pieces for auction, you may be able to sell for more money.

"According to Elder Li's words, where should the Buying Conference be held?" Yue Fei asked.

Li Bashao pointed to his feet with his hand and laughed, "It's right here." It's in this Great Xiangguo Temple. Li Bashao directly proposed this in the meditation room, and he did not avoid Zhiyuan Zhilei. Although it is a bit too much to talk about how to auction other people's jewelry and jade in front of other people's owners. But Li Bashao didn't want to humiliate Zhiyuan, he really wanted to give Zhiyuan a little compensation. "Abbot Zhiyuan, Daxiangguo Temple is open to the public for five days every month, and I don't know how many small buying meetings have been held. You must have experience in running a buying conference. So the abbot was in charge of this buying meeting. ”

Seeing that Zhiyuan's face twitched, as if he was about to make a fortune, Li Bashao hurriedly said, "The abbot misunderstood what I meant. The reason why I proposed to hold this buying meeting at Daxiangguo Temple is to give the abbot a great merit. Isn't what you cultivators are asking for merit? I dare to guarantee that after this buying conference, the name of Abbot Zhiyuan will be louder than Yue Fei in the hearts of the people of the world. ”

Zhiyuan's eyes lit up, and he finally understood Li Bashao's intentions, and immediately smiled, "Master Li is worthy of being a businessman, and you are really good at this abacus." The poor monk agreed to hold the meeting. I wonder when this buying conference will be held? ”

Li Bashao looked at Yue Fei and said with a smile, "It depends on when Pengju can drive Wanyan Lou back to the north bank of the Yellow River." Those rich people are very afraid of death, and when the golden soldiers are pressing, we just put the jewelry in the Daxiangguo Temple and let them take it for nothing, and they will not take this risk. ”

Yue Fei pondered for a moment, and then said with great certainty, "Before the arrival of June, our army will defeat Yan Lou Chamber. ”

"In that case, let's hold a meeting on June 15. There are still two months to go, and we can get ready. Li Bashao said very confidently, "Abbot Zhiyuan, let's each mobilize our contacts and strive to make this buying conference known to the world within two months." ”

Zhiyuan chanted a Buddha name. "Master Li can rest assured that the poor monk will do his best."

After discussing the details of the meeting, the Protectors set up dozens of carts, covered the gold and silver with cloths, and pulled them back to the Left-behind Mansion by night. Yue Fei and the others bid farewell to Zhiyuan and returned to the left-behind mansion. Zhiyuan stood at the gate of the temple and watched Yue Fei leave with a smile on his face.

Zhiyun said stupidly, "Senior brother, Yue Fei is out of sight, don't put this squeezed smile on your face." I know that you must be more distressed than me in your heart, and you can't wait to kill Yue Fei with a knife. ”

Zhilei immediately shouted, "Silence! There are still fifty elite protectors in the underground palace guarding those jewels and jades. Let them hear it, the junior brother will inevitably invite the disaster of killing! ”

Zhiyun snorted, even resentful of Zhilei's timidity. But he didn't complain anymore.

Zhiyuan glanced at Zhiyun and then at Zhilei, and said with great emotion, "To be honest, when I handed over the underground palace to Yue Fei, I was also very distressed. At that time, I really wanted to fight with Yue Fei. The old man's ability, if he suddenly made a difficulty, Yue Fei might not be able to please him. But I didn't dare to do it. It's not that I'm afraid of death, it's because if I do it, this Daxiangguo Temple will be destroyed in my hands. I finally understand the reason for Yue Fei's miraculous rise now. Because there is a Li Bashao by his side. He, the future father-in-law, is really no less strange than Lu Buwei. ”

Zhilei wondered, "Why did the abbot say this? In my opinion, this Li Ba Shao is too deceitful! ”

Zhiyuan shook his head, "Zhilei, haven't you figured it out yet?" Yes, the Protectors have robbed us of our savings for generations. But after this buying conference, the reputation of our Daxiangguo Temple will definitely be greater than before. As long as the world is calmed down, Daxiangguo Temple will still be rich. ”

Zhilei said depressedly, "Abbot, you have confused me. Didn't he just ask you to hold a buying meeting? All the money sold is our jewelry, and all the silver sold belongs to the Protectors. We don't get anything. ”

Zhiyuan smiled, "Two junior brothers, you just attach too much importance to the immediate benefits and ignore the future benefits. Let me tell you the truth, since Master Li Shizhu handed over the buying conference to me, I will hold a Dharma conference to help the suffering and save the suffering, donate the jewels and jade in the underground palace in the name of donations, and announce that all the money raised will be handed over to the Protector Army as a special fund for the relief of the victims of disasters in the world. Think about it, in this way, how high will the reputation of our Daxiangguo Temple be? ”

Zhilei and Zhiyun glanced at each other, and there was a sense of retribution in their eyes. It is worthy of being a senior brother who can fool even the emperor, and he is still thinking about how to earn a reputation for Daxiangguo Temple when he suffers heavy losses. Temples and Taoist temples in the world are the same, and the better the reputation, the more pilgrims there are. The more pilgrims, the more money. After the end of this buying meeting, Daxiangguo Temple will definitely become the first treasure temple in the hearts of the people of the world.

"What's more," Zhiyuan suddenly smiled like an old fox. "What we donate are all treasures for Buddha Pusa. After those rich people bought it, were they embarrassed to take out the Great Xiangguo Temple? Maybe it'll be sold to us again. ”

Zhilei and Zhiyun said in unison, "Won't it? These treasures are worth thousands of dollars, are rich people willing to donate them? ”

"There will definitely be people who don't donate, but there will definitely be more people who donate than those who don't." Zhiyuan said confidently.

Zhi Lei suddenly asked in a low voice, "Senior brother, do you think Yue Fei can become Song Taizu?" ”

Zhiyuan nodded affirmatively, "There are generals who are good at fighting, there are great talents who are good at economy, there are Huang Zong's zaifu, and more importantly, there are elite soldiers like arms and fingers, Yue Fei uses them to win the world." I watched Yue Fei's incident, quite a woman's kindness, grateful Huaide. This offering of our Daxiangguo Temple will definitely make Yue Fei grateful to Buddhism. ”

Zhiyun was surprised and said, "Yue Fei has Xiang Yu's bravery, but he also has Xiang Yu's kindness as a woman. King Xiang lost the world because of the kindness of a woman. Now that Yue Fei is also such a person, how can he have the last laugh? When I look at the emperors of the past dynasties, they are all ruthless and ruthless. Yue Fei doesn't have the emperor's heart technique, how can he win the world? ”

Zhiyuan said meaningfully, "The biggest difference between Yue Fei and Xiang Yu is that King Xiang was born in a noble family, he doesn't know how to sympathize with the people, and he has been ruined, and he has won a hundred battles, but the people's hearts have been lost. Yue Fei was born in a civilian family, he knew the hardships of the people's livelihood, and acted just the opposite of King Xiang. The two junior brothers, please wait and see, as long as the Protector Army repels the Jin soldiers, the world will definitely change its surname to Yue. ”