When King Zhennan thought of these two words, he immediately felt as if he was enchanted, and he knew the specific situation very well now.

Although he has a lot of power in his hands, but then again, compared with King Nanzhao, he actually doesn't have much advantage in his hands, and he can give it to people who can give it, if you want Li Xiang to support him, then you have to give something that King Nanzhao can't give, for example, cut out a little land, and let the Tang army be stationed here.

At the beginning, he was also frightened by this idea of his own, this is a definite traitor, but soon he began to comfort himself that if he didn't do this, then in the battle for the throne, he would already be out of the game early, and he would not have any advantage at all.

In the future, Li Xiang will definitely believe that his brother-in-law will never believe in himself, from the side of the Tang court, they are also willing to believe a young man, and this person is still studying from the Tang Dynasty, which is equivalent to being sent from the Tang Dynasty, how can a local old man like himself be subject to the Tang Dynasty?

By the time the sedan chair arrived at the palace, this guy had already made up his mind, didn't Li Xiang see himself? Then you have to find someone to pass the word on, as long as someone is going to pass the word, then stuff the money hard until you can pass it.

As long as Li Xiang can meet with himself, then the rest of the things will be easier to do, no matter which area Li Xiang wants, anyway, he will promise to come down first, and he must not let the court express his position, once the court expresses his position, even if Li Xiang wants to support himself, it will be even more difficult in the future.

When Li Xiang returned to the State Guest House, a table of banquets had already been set up here, and most of them were northern tastes, mainly because many people in the barracks were northerners, so no matter how exquisite these things in the south were, they also felt that they couldn't eat enough, and I had to eat again after I came back.

"How is Nanzhao listening up and down?"

Long Wu has already returned from outside, this guy and his brothers have not been idle, from the moment Li Xiang arrived in the royal city, they began to investigate the entire Nanzhao Kingdom, and now the spies outside have returned partially.

"Back to His Royal Highness, the whole country is not as they showed, in fact, the people in many places can't even solve the problem of food and clothing, although the taxes collected by the imperial court are not very high, but the people donate a lot of money to the temple, praying for a better life in their next life, so the people don't have much money in their hands."

Long Wu's investigation of the outside is still very in-depth among the people, and when he left before, Li Xiang had already told him that he didn't want some superficial articles, after all, these things have already been sent by Changsun Wuji's people, and Zhang Jiuli has also investigated a lot, since we want to investigate on the spot, we must find information from the root.

According to the information brought back by this guy, for example, in a small county town in the south of Wangcheng, the number of monks has reached nearly one, and most of these people are young and middle-aged, and there are a lot of young and middle-aged people here, and 1/10 of them have entered the temple, which means that 1/10 of the people in the society have lost their labor, but they still have to eat, so they have to take out another 1/5 of the people to support them.

In other words, the existing temples alone have already eaten up 30% of the wealth of society, and if it continues to expand in the future, then this number will increase.

In other places, whether it is the common people or the landlord class, I am afraid they will stand up and resist, 30% of the wealth of the society is not a small number, people are willing to take it out, this is probably impossible, but this is the Nanzhao Kingdom, a country known for Buddhism, such a thing is very normal, and even many people in the society still feel that it is not enough, even if they do not eat or drink, they must build luxurious temples, so as to be able to show their inner piety.

"There is also the matter of land annexation, there are many landlords who directly give the land to the temple, and now the temple is no longer simply accepting money, including these lands, they also accept, but only part of the monks in the temple go to cultivate, and the remaining land is either deserted, or subleased to the surrounding people, and the land rent they set is not high, but the people take the initiative to increase this part of the land rent."

Long Wu also thought of another thing, now the temple has a lot of land, and there is a trend of slowly increasing, the peasants themselves rent the land in the temple, their rent is very low, but because the peasants respect the Buddha, they send half of the products to the temple every year.

"This is really a strange phenomenon, I'd rather be hungry than let these monks live a better life, but I don't know how long they can hold out, if it is placed somewhere in our Datang, maybe the local people will already stand up and resist."

Zhang Jiuli touched his beard and said, earlier he knew that the temple here was prevalent, and the religious atmosphere was also very serious, but he didn't expect it to be so serious, he would rather not eat than support these monks, mainly because there was no such situation in the Central Plains, so they were surprised, if it was 1000 years later, similar things could happen, but it would definitely not be many.

The main reason is that the Central Plains Dynasty will not develop a certain religion on a large scale, even if it is developed, it is to use religion as a tool for its own rule, and will not let them have too much power, if they can compete with the emperor of the current dynasty, then this religion will basically come to an end, even if the emperor does not destroy him, then this is also a thorn in the eye of the next emperor, a thorn in the flesh.

"How is the combat effectiveness of the army? Isn't it similar to the four major toasts? ”

Li Xiang suddenly remembered another thing, although this matter Zhang Jiuli has already reported, but Zhang Jiuli reported a few years ago, and now after several years of development, it must be figured out, military conflicts must not be avoided in the next two or three years, so this is also the top priority of this investigation, knowing oneself and knowing the other can win all battles, not to ask us to know all their circumstances, but also to know a rough one.