Chapter 173: New Ideas
Speaking of which, her latest idea was inspired by Mo Huaiyang.
Daqi has a rule that monks do not have to pay taxes, do not have to serve conscription, military service, and monks are also treated preferentially in law, and the guilty government allows them to reduce their redemption.
Mo Huaiyang's avoidance of entering the temple suddenly broke through the blind spot of Yu Zizhen's thinking, and made her think coldly that it is not only true monks who can live in temples, nunnery, and Taoist temples.
Temples, nunnery, and Taoist temples can absorb money, land, train warriors in a fair and honest manner, avoid heavy forced labor and taxes, and most importantly, they can also be used as a kind of reasonable base for Yu Zizhen to be placed in various parts of Daqi.
This is much more cost-effective and concealed than opening a dart game and forming a caravan.
While pondering which people to send to be the first batch of fake monks and fake Taoist priests, Yu Zizhen wrote his latest plan on the paper.
was so busy until it was dark, Yu Zizhen put away his pen and ink, and asked Yu Heng to invite Jiang Yunshan to her Lu Mingxuan.
Jiang Yunshan came quickly, saluted, and took the plan book handed by Yu Zizhen about the development of monk forces in various places, Jiang Yunshan read it carefully as usual.
After reading it, Jiang Yunshan arched his hand to Yu Zizhen and said: "It's nothing to build more small temples in the countryside, this kind of small temple will not have any high monks sitting in the town, and most of the people who usually go are nearby villagers, even if there are places that are not very beneficial, no one will take it seriously, after all, this kind of small temple has always been informal." But those temples with large scale and good locations, I am afraid that it will be difficult for our people to install them. ”
Daqi people pay attention to a parent who has a body hair and skin, and it cannot be easily damaged, and it is already expedient to shave a bald head to be a fake monk, and then let people give a scar on the top of the head, the vast majority of people must be unacceptable.
Yu Zizhen reminded him, "Not all monks in regular temples have to be scarred, and monks are not the majority in those temples." ”
The more formal the temple, the smaller the proportion of monks, because they occupy more land, so the more hired farmers are needed, and those landless people who cannot afford the exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes actually prefer to join the temple, farm for the monks, and become a hired farmer who is still a good family.
The same is true for Taoist temples, if you are not a person with advanced Taoism, it is indeed difficult to mix into those formal Taoist temples of some scale, but ordinary people who farm the land, Taoist temples are also needed.
Yu Zizhen doesn't want to control the power of monks and Taoists, she just needs credible people to start from the capital, diverge in all directions, thread the dots, weave the thread into a net, and pull up a huge news network for her.
Of course, to do intelligence work, she must be carefully selected and trained in advance.
She said to Jiang Yunshan: "Large-scale, relatively regular temples, nunnery, Taoist temples, we only install marginal people who are responsible for farming to collect intelligence and pass on news, that kind of small rural temple that is not popular, when the time comes, I will let people fill it with armed forces little by little." ”
Jiang Yunshan nodded and approved of Yu Zizhen's plan to gather manpower, annex land, and establish an intelligence network.
In private, he admired Yu Zizhen's ability to exploit loopholes, but while admiring, he did not forget to remind Yu Zizhen of one thing.
"By the way, Shizi, it's okay to say that there are many barren places, and it's a big deal that our people open up the wasteland by themselves, but in rich places like Jiangnan, it's difficult for our people to annex a large amount of land."
"Then put people in first." Liangtian or something, when she kills all the corrupt officials and local bullies one day, won't she be able to pick it up for nothing again.
Besides, Jiang Yunshan's so-called "wealth" is just relative to other places in this era, this level of "wealth", Yu Zizhen did not see it.
What she is worried about now is where to get so many suitable candidates, so that she can start from the capital and spread out her own intelligence network with temples and Taoist temples as the main line in all directions.
Ah, by the way, in addition to the lack of people, she is actually also short of money. It's just that what she got from robbing corrupt officials and what Wen Xiaoman and others earned for her is obviously not enough for her to continue the disaster.
Thinking so, Yu Zizhen took out the books about textiles and printing and dyeing that she had asked the system to exchange earlier.
She can't burn glass, make soap or anything, otherwise her identity as a traverser will definitely not be able to hold back, so after thinking about it, she finally chose to only make reasonable improvements on the existing technology in this era.
She hadn't forgotten that taking out the Lu clan was just her first small goal.
In addition to the Lu family, she also has her titular father Zhenbei Wang, Chen Hushan's grandfather Jingguo Gong, and Fang Huaiying's adoptive father Wei Guogong who need to be subdued and adopted.
And they are only her second small goal, her ultimate goal, is the princess Wuwei who crossed over from the more advanced world in the original book.
This and her good brother Yu Zicheng are the final bosses who prevent her from completing the second task released by the system.
She had to stop these two from taking power, and she had to follow their path, so that they could never go back to the path of hegemony that the original book had set for them.
In order not to give the princess Wuwei a chance to suspect that she was also a traverser, Yu Zizhen decided that she would take the route of divine authority of the monarch, instead of taking out a lot of things that this world did not originally have, and take the hegemonic route of strong conquest, so that the princess Wuwei would target her for the first time and regard her as an imaginary enemy.
"You have this sent to Meng Tingru, the squire of Kangping County." After cautiously telling Jiang Yunshan how to win Meng Tingru's letter, Yu Zizhen waved his hand and signaled him to leave.
Jiang Yunshan touched the cover of the book, and the hand holding the book couldn't help shaking several times.
"Shizi, this."
Yu Zizhen saw that he looked as if he had seen a rare treasure, and he couldn't help but sigh in his heart, "I know."
If it weren't for the fact that there were too many illustrations in this book, she would have recopied a copy a long time ago, so that Jiang Yunshan would lose her temper as soon as she saw the paper of this book.
"Don't ask anything, this is a God-given divine book, and the details are not something you should know." If you can't explain it, then you just don't explain it and go directly to Dafa.
Jiang Yunshan is obviously not easy to fool, Yu Zizhen's lie is not very sincere, the corners of his eyes jumped a few times when he heard it, but Yu Zizhen's willingness to let him get to the bottom of it was accurately understood, so he bowed down and said that he would never ask again.
However, he did not leave immediately, but first asked Yu Zizhen for a piece of cloth to wrap the book tightly, and then asked Yu Zizhen for a small wooden box with a lock, and put the thick cloth containing the book in it and locked it.
Yu Zizhen: