Daming is in the southern Sichuan region, and there is an important tea and horse division.

This place was originally an important place for trade with the West, and it was also an important town on the ancient tea and horse road, exchanging tea for horses, which was related to the north-south trade of the Ming Dynasty.

The ancient tea horse road in the Ming Dynasty is divided into many routes, and Chengdu is the top priority.

One road is to take Chang'an, gather the desert specialties in Central Asia and West Asia and the north of Shanxi, go to Hanzhong, Ankang, and arrive at the Kangding Snow Area.

The other is to start from Sichuan and go to various countries in Southeast Asia.

There is also one that is from Hunan and Hubei, going to Loudi, Anhua, going to Guangxi, and then going to Simao and other places along the way to collect tea and sell salt.

And these countries today have a very distinctive feature.

All believe in Buddhism, monks and lamas, walking here is very popular, and the power of Buddhism is also very huge.

During the Yuan Dynasty, tea and horse merchants in Sichuan could even go to Siam and Tianzhu to buy all kinds of seafood and pepper to the seaside, and then return by the ancient tea horse road. Before the Ming Dynasty recovered Yunnan, the Ancient Tea Horse Road was damaged, and now more than two years later, the entire southwest trade is booming, and even to a certain extent, the trade volume of the Ancient Tea Horse Road is not less than that of today's Silk Road.

Because, although the Timurid Empire was vast, it was full of internal rebellions, and the Eastern Chagatai Khanate was separated in the middle.

Now, Zhu Biao is touring the north and coming here, so he naturally has to meet with the Buddha leaders here, give them rewards, let them make it convenient for the caravans of the Ming Dynasty in the territory, and sell more grain to the border guards of the Ming Dynasty.

Although Mu Ying opened a military camp in Yunnan Province, the food of the guards in Yunnan-Guichuan was still not enough to eat, and the Buddha head and head man in the snow area had a lot of barley fields.

Barley, can be said to be the food of the plateau given by God, this thing can be planted without eating too much fertilizer, completely planted according to fate, and the yield is blessed by the Bodhisattva, it can be more than 100 catties per acre.

You must know that in the time and space of Zhu Xiongying in the previous life, the yield of wheat per mu in the 60s was more than 200 catties, and it had to be published in the newspaper for special commendation.

It can even be said that before the discovery of large-scale potash mines in Lop Nur in the northwest, barley did not use fertilizer, and the yield of random cultivation could reach the standard of fertile land in the Central Plains.

In the Tang Dynasty, when Tibet was strong, Tibet encountered a mild period that was rare for a thousand years, there were not too many disasters on the plateau, cattle and sheep were herds, and barley was everywhere, so Tubo was strong for more than a hundred years, and even once captured Chang'an.

A large class that has money, power, and a lot of food cannot be taken lightly in any way, and needs to be taken seriously.

At this time, the Northwest Trade Route was blocked by the Timurid Empire, and the Southern Tea and Horse Silk Road all had to rely on these Buddha heads, as well as the faces of the Tusi heads who believed in Buddhism.

Arrange for Zheng He to go to these monks to fight the autumn wind.

Zhu Xiongying found his father Zhu Biao.

"Dad, do you remember when I told you that we are going to let go of some private banks?"

Zhu Biao was puzzled: "What? ”

Zhu Xiongying smiled: "Dad, there is a good thing, you see that this Daci Temple is so prosperous, what do you think of?" ”

Zhu Chun, the king of Shu, said: "Xiongying, you don't want to be disrespectful to Buddhism, right?" ”

"How is that possible!"

Zhu Xiongying shook his head into a rattle.

Historically, the emperors of several Buddha extermination movements have not been successful, and if they offend any big power class, their lives are in danger...... Monks in today's feudal era, is a walking signboard, but wherever there is a temple, can eat, just like the Kham people on the ancient tea horse road, they are very rich, many of them are from the Han merchants to collect tea and salt to resell to make a fortune, but they are willing to contribute the property of the whole family to the Buddha.

The temple Buddha gave an order, and believers were even willing to give their lives immediately.

"Uncle Eleven, how can you think of me like this, I am very pure."

Zhu Xiongying mouthed.

"I have been healthy since I was a child, and I am in awe of the Buddha, and I must worship in every temple."

"And what do you want to say?"

Zhu Chun stared at Zhu Xiongying, after all, this Shuzhong was his domain, and the Buddhist forces here were relatively large, so Zhu Chun didn't dare to offend too much.

"It's nothing, we just have an idea."

"Dad, during this Dayuan, in order to compete for the national teacher, the monks and lamas everywhere gave the Dayuan Emperor all their money, should we do it too?"

"National teacher?"

Zhu Biao frowned.

As the crown prince of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Biao does not believe in Buddhism, and does not believe in it, all because of the Ming Dynasty at this time, it was not long after the equality of the Yuan Dynasty, when the Yuan Dynasty, there were Tianfang Religion, Buddhism, Taoism, Nestorianism, and Judaism.

The sects are rampant, and the beliefs are also very mixed, which also leads to the fact that the Chinese people gradually become less pure in their beliefs and begin to be pragmatic.

In addition, in the early Ming Dynasty, secret religion was rampant.

So he doesn't like the title of national teacher very much.

"Dad, don't underestimate this national teacher."

"Monks and Taoist priests, all love to be famous, we have the Tianjie Temple in Nanjing, and the monks and nuns and Taoists in the world are under the jurisdiction of the world, but Nanjing can't control this West after all, you look around, especially around this Chengdu Mansion, how many temples?"

"In western Sichuan and northern Sichuan, there are many Tibetans and Tibetans who believe in Buddhism, and all the Buddha-headed lamas are rich."

"For this kind of place where the head of the Buddha is powerful, it is necessary to seal an official temple and train the heads of the Buddha in various places, so that they can support my Daming and love my Daming!"

After Zhu Xiongying finished speaking, he looked at Zhu Chun, the king of Shu.

"Uncle Eleven, you are in Sichuan and Shu, and you have a big task."

"Not only do we have to keep an eye on the civil officials to do a good job in internal affairs, and do a good job in the imperial examination and martial arts, but we also need to grasp these Buddha-headed Taoist priests in our hands, especially the Buddha-headed priests in the Western Regions."

"If you can choose a highly respected person among the many Buddha heads to serve as the Ming National Teacher, the largest living Buddha in Sichuan and Shu, it will also be very convenient for you to rule Sichuan and Shu."

Zhu Chun frowned and wondered, "Really?" ”

Zhu Xiongying nodded.

Zhu Biao also read the books written by Zhu Xiongying, and knew the religious policies mentioned by Zhu Xiongying, especially in it, focusing on how Kangxi used the Living Buddha to divide and rule Mongolia in the time and space of his previous life, and then canonized the Living Buddha and expanded the power of the Qing Dynasty into Tibet.

The casting of lots in the golden vase is a real sense, breaking the tradition of Qinghai-Tibet and other places, and the living Buddha has always been selected in the big families for many years, so that the living Buddha can only be reincarnated in the snow area, and the living Buddha of the common people needs the support of a strong central government if they want to consolidate their position.

Zhu Biao patted Zhu Xiongying on the shoulder: "Dad has written down this matter." ”

"Ahem, Dad, it's not so simple to choose a national teacher, the Buddha heads who are running in various places have to pay the registration fee, otherwise how can they prove that he has prestige?"

"In addition, the national teacher and the national teacher, it is reasonable to contribute some temple property to help the Ming Dynasty to build for my Ming National Teacher, right?"

"Of course, we don't give it in vain, the monks give more longevity loans, we allow the monks to register a bank and operate formally, but we need to pay a deposit to the Ming Royal Bank."

Zhu Biao smiled, his eyes flickering.

Previously, I was worried that Sichuan and Shu recruited immigrants, promoted the planting of cassava, raised meat rabbits, and planted mushrooms, etc., and lacked funds.

Now it seems that this is indeed a way to make money......