This May can be described as very unquiet for the people of Qinzhou, first of all, Li Tai, the state capital, stayed behind and the monks of Guangming Temple jointly built a momentum, everyone knew that the Buddha ceremony was going to be held, and the masses were looking forward to it.

Finally, in mid-May, the good news from Liangzhou came, and finally brought people's attention back to serious things.

But before the news could even spread widely, another even more exciting thing suddenly attracted everyone's attention, that is, the Guangming Temple, the largest temple in the territory, was actually looted by robbers!

For a while, people's after-dinner pastime was occupied by this topic, and even if they didn't have time, the peasants who worked hard in the fields had to say a few words, who did the thugs dare to desecrate the important land of Buddhism in such a way?

Ordinary people may be angry, but they still stop eating melons and gossiping, and their actual lives are not affected much. However, some of the powerful people in the realm of rural capital and those temples who also have no shortage of believers, so the feelings born are much more complicated.

Guangming Temple is the leading enterprise in the county's sand gate, and the temple owner, Master Tan Jing, is the leader of the county's capital Vena and the county's monks, while Li Tai is the most prominent official in the state government, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he can represent the entire Qinzhou official.

Therefore, the robbers who plundered the Guangming Temple can be said to have offended the two most powerful forces of Shamen and the government on their own. Therefore, those local tyrants and monks are also full of curiosity, what kind of person is so bold?

But in addition to curiosity, they can't help but secretly worry about whether the two parties will make any radical moves because of this. After all, each of them has a considerable amount of energy in their hands, and once they get out of control, they will definitely bring very serious damage to the order in the territory.

Therefore, after learning about this, many people have kept a close eye on it, and they dare not be distracted for a moment.

But these people's so-called close attention still lags behind Li Tai's actions after all. When they learned of this news, Li Tai had already completed the reception and control of the Guangming Temple as soon as possible, and had already begun to take stock of the belongings that Master Tan Jing had accumulated for more than ten years.

Last night's scene was too chaotic, and it is difficult to judge how much the temple lost, but those robbers came and went in a hurry, and there was no time to cause a large-scale disaster to the entire temple, and the losses were mainly concentrated in the materials prepared for the preparation of the Buddha ceremony recently, and the damage in other aspects was relatively light.

At the same time, this also provided a reason for Li Tai to use the topic to play in the future, and provided a reason for other forces in the territory, the robbers were specifically robbing the Buddha materials, which was clearly aimed at the upcoming Buddha ceremony, or they were jealous of the Guangming Temple, and they didn't want this temple to hold a grand Buddha ceremony perfectly, or they had opinions about Li Tai, and they didn't want him to find his father in this way.

In short, all of you guys are suspected, wash them and squat honestly, waiting for me to investigate them one by one! Who dares to stare at me, the army of the Western Expedition that has just quelled the rebellion in Liangzhou and is about to triumph in a few days can't spare you, how can Yuwen Zhonghe die, how can you die!

Of course, this is all a follow-up operation, and the most important thing at the moment is to accept and digest the big meat bun of Guangming Temple.

Master Tan Jing is also perceptive, and he can think from Li Tai's aggressive attitude and the strange drop of the stock and other signs that Li Tai may be directing and acting on his own, but it is inevitably too late. Moreover, under the support and connivance of Li Tai, he was too presumptuous and carried away, so that he made many enemies and resentments, and could only be at the mercy of Li Tai.

The other monks didn't realize this, but their internal organization had already been completely destroyed by the state army brought by Li Tai, and without the command of the leader of Master Tan Jing, they could only stand by and watch the situation develop further.

The assets of the Guangming Temple have been sorted out one after another, and every piece of data makes Li Tai marvel at the wealth of this Longyou Temple. All kinds of pastoral industries alone have as many as four or five thousand hectares, and most of them are high-quality fertile fields that are convenient for irrigation and water!

This number is really amazing, Longyou is naturally not as rich in cultivated land resources as Guanzhong, and the total amount of cultivated land such as Tuntian and Juntian in Qinzhou is only tens of thousands of hectares. The pastoral area owned by a temple in Guangming Temple District actually reached nearly one-tenth of the total cultivated land in the entire Qinzhou!

Obviously, this amount of land was not cultivated by the monks inch by inch, and its greatest source was various forms of donations.

For example, the Tianshui Yan clan who ate the consequences of their own evil deeds, there are also many self-cultivated households in the realm who take the initiative to donate their lives to the temple in order to avoid heavy forced labor. Those who pay attention to one point are the full amount of the large households, and the people's accounts are divided into three-sevens. But as Master Tan Jing's reputation grew, and he became a monk, he won them all, and the assets of Guangming Temple naturally swelled dramatically.

There are more than 3,200 monk households registered in Guangming Temple, which exceeds the number of registered households in most of the counties under Qinzhou.

As for the number of supporting households, it has reached an astonishing more than 11,000 households, of course, this is because Master Tan Jing took advantage of his position to assign some of the righteous donors of small temples in the realm to Guangming Temple, and then distribute them according to the proportion after collecting the offerings.

Through this method, the old monk took the lives of many temples in the realm into his own hands.

If it weren't for Li Tai's pretense to paralyze him first, and then he would have a black hand behind his back, and then he would have been hostile to him, he would really not be an opponent with the remaining strength of Qinzhou alone, even if he overthrew this old monk, the entire Qinzhou would be in chaos.

After all, the number of registered households in the entire Tianshui County is only a little over 20,000, which is already the number of registered households in Longyou. Half of the donors owned by Guangming Temple, plus some other believers who are not under the control and jurisdiction of his monks, it can be imagined that at least two-thirds of the entire Tianshui are believers!

The human and land resources are already so abundant, aside from other miscellaneous industries, the savings of all kinds of materials in the Guangming Temple are naturally extremely amazing.

The granaries under his name alone are distributed in the county and even in other states and counties, there are as many as twenty or thirty, and the accumulated grain has reached more than 100,000 stones. And this is because a lot of loans were lent out in the spring ploughing years ago and now, and when the harvest comes up after the autumn, this number will more than double!

There is also a more exaggerated situation, Li Tai found that it was not only the wealthy and powerful families and ordinary people in the realm who borrowed money from the Guangming Temple, but even the names of some county and county officials were impressively listed.

Especially on the eve of the Western Expedition, all the counties had to send war materials to Qinzhou, and some counties that had always been poor and had empty treasury simply borrowed money from the Guangming Temple. What the hell is this temple, it's simply a large-scale comprehensive financial company, it's capital!

Li Tai has been in Kansai for a few years, and he has made a lot of windfalls, and he has experienced the amount of gold, silver and jewelry, but this time he can't help but feel a little panicked.

Where is the old monk who is a high-ranking monk, he is simply a financial predator!

In just over ten years, he has accumulated such a huge family foundation in Longyou, which is full of heroes, and as a result, when he first met him, he also took a handful of millet to talk about things, and this entrepreneurial money has already exceeded the basic survival needs for him, and it has become a belief!

Of course, it is not a simple matter to completely digest such a huge amount of assets. Moreover, it is difficult for the old monk alone to grasp such a huge industry, and many wealthy families in Longyou are involved in it.

Such as Tianshui Yan's anti-victims, because they were gradually marginalized in the order of the countryside, and they were disgraced in the official face and the township, so they were taken by the Guangming Temple. However, for other wealthy families who have a strong township and support for the Guangming Temple, the annual rebate and dividend are also essential.

If Li Tai wants to take over the assets of Guangming Temple, then he must also coordinate the interests of these powerful clans, otherwise there will inevitably be troubles and disputes, at least the old business of Guangming Temple will be greatly affected.

If the business of Guangming Temple can continue, it will naturally be the best. However, Li Tai's task at the moment is to squeeze out the cash savings of Guangming Temple as much as he can.

If his dozens of boxes of sand and flax were not exchanged for gold and silver and silk, this would not be agreed. It's nothing if those who participate in the shares don't admit it, but the old monk can admit it. Pay back the debt owed to Lao Tzu first, and then let's discuss how to divide and distribute it next.

Although it is said that because of the preparation of the Buddhist ceremony, a considerable part of the savings of the Guangming Temple flowed into the market, but Li Tai did not feel sorry for it.

The inflow of these goods into the market does not mean that they will disappear, but that more people will have sufficient capital to join the Silk Road trade in the future. Li Tai is not a hoarding quirk, he doesn't need all his money to go into his pocket, and the most important thing is that the environment can meet his expectations.

After Li Tai sealed off the temple, the first people to rush to hear the news were Haoqiang and the temple, which had close interests in the Guangming Temple.

Li Tai did not give a good face when he met these people, and ordered them to issue a detailed list of the family members and recent developments as soon as possible, so that the state government could review it to rule out suspicions.

These people are innocent, and they are worried that their interests will be damaged, and they are feeling anxious, but they are treated as suspects, and they are even asked to confess their family background, which is naturally even more unhappy, even if they want to make noise.

Li Tai deliberately waited until the Liangzhou battle report came back before he started, just to prevent this situation. Before, I was worried about affecting the stability of the situation, but now I am afraid that you will not jump enough, the happier you dance, the more Lao Tzu can eat and wipe clean!

So he ordered the representatives of several noisy and fierce families to be imprisoned in the temple, and ordered other Haoqiang who had a friendly relationship with the government in the realm to send their troops to wait here. Such as the eldest grandson Li Yunxin, take your men and horses, and see who I point to will do whomever I mean!

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As for the other Haoqiang and temples who have not been summoned, then honestly squat at home and wait for the investigation to clear the suspicion, and what if they let the tribes wander around in the suburbs and find out Lao Tzu's hidden people?