Chapter 63: War Money
When Mengle Mountain was deserted again, Zhang Fugui came back from Qingcheng Mountain and brought a message from Tang Shisan: "The Qingcheng faction is ready to join the Yizhou Trusteeship Committee, my old man said, you see if the conditions are good, if not, what needs to be added, he will talk to Yu Haicang again." ”
Gu Zuo took Tang Shisan's handwritten letter and read it carefully, in the letter, he listed the conditions he negotiated with Yu Haicang one by one, related to Huaixian Pavilion, mainly including:
Please Huaixian Pavilion return the disciples of the Qingcheng faction and its affiliated sects who participated in the southern expedition of the Yizhou Army without authorization for personal reasons, and hand them over to the Qingcheng faction for severe punishment, and the Qingcheng faction is willing to pay a certain amount of spirit stones for each person as compensation. The Jindan monk compensated 1,000 spirit stones, and the foundation monk compensated 300 spirit stones. Gu Zuo calculated and returned the more than 20 Qingcheng monks who were still alive in his hands, and he could get more than 10,000 spirit stones, which was not bad.
The Qingcheng faction promised that it would not covet the realm under the rule of the Huaixian Pavilion, let alone interfere with the control of the Huaixian Pavilion in the cultivation affairs under its rule.
Two hundred spirit stones are paid to the Huaixian Pavilion every month as compensation for the resident monks of the Huaixian Pavilion in the Yizhou Trusteeship Committee.
Yizhou is the land of abundance and an important granary of the Tang Dynasty, and the Qingcheng faction sells Yizhou Xingu to Huaixian Pavilion at a market price, not less than 1,000 stone per year.
There are still some fragmentary clauses for the rest, so I won't repeat them one by one. Although the conditions are not very favorable, Gu Zuo is more concerned about the attitude of the Qingcheng faction, and it is already a major victory in itself to make the Qingcheng faction bow its head.
This is the case with the Huaixian Pavilion, the same is true for the Tangmen and Luofu factions, only the Lishui faction did not get much, except for the twenty monks who were stationed in Yizhou and the expenses of the Qingcheng faction were responsible for the monthly expenses of two hundred spirit stones, there was no gain.
In the eyes of the Qingcheng faction, they are quite disdainful of the Lishui faction, and it is impossible for them to have more "expressions" for the Lishui faction. The Huaixian Pavilion is different, although there are not a few high-level monks, but being able to win the war with the Jiannan Jiedu Mansion is enough to be respected.
Gu Zuo didn't bother to fight for better treatment for the Lishui faction, and he himself knew that whether it was the Tang Sect or the Luofu faction, there was still some controversy about whether the Lishui faction was allowed to join in the Trusteeship Committee - after being put under a little pressure from the Qingcheng faction, he abandoned the previous alliance with the Huaixian Pavilion, and the adverse effects caused by the three ladies could not be reversed by joining the war.
In any case, the Yizhou Trusteeship Council was formally established on the first day of December, and Yang Jian, with Gu You as his deputy, led twenty monks into the Yizhou Jiedu Mansion, and this time, he returned to Yizhou as a victor.
Also before this time node, the former governor finally emptied the two large warehouses of Jiedu Mansion and Yizhou Military Camp.
In the large treasury under the jurisdiction of Jiedu Mansion, there are 250,000 stones of rice, 60,000 horses of silk, 50,000 catties of bacon and smoked sausages, 6,000 pieces of spiritual stones, 1,000 jars of Jiannan spring spiritual liquid, 500 gold cakes, 2,000 silver ingots, 120,000 guan of money, 2,000 jin of water Gengjin, 30,000 catties of iron and branches, 500 boxes of various spiritual grasses, etc., with a total value of more than 720,000 guan, all of which are the autumn endowments paid by Jiannan Dao this year.
Xian Yuxiang fled in too much hurry, and only had time to take away some of the money and belongings around him, which became the trophies of the Huaixian Pavilion. Of course, Gu Zuo still gave 120,000 yuan to the Lishui faction as compensation for the three ladies who led the troops to participate in the war.
As it was not yet the end of the year, and the taxes of several states and counties had not yet arrived, the property was left to the Trusteeship Council as a means of relying for the exercise of their powers.
Although Xian Yuxiang ran away, but Xian Yu's family didn't run, Xue Dingtu led people to Xian Yu's house outside the city to confiscate his belongings, although he did not hurt anyone under Gu Zuo's strict orders, but a large amount of property hoarded in the manor was swept away.
As a wealthy family in Jiannan Province, Xian Yu's vitality was greatly damaged, and the total amount of confiscated property was no less than 300,000 yuan, and at the same time, Xue Dingtu also made it bad, and burned the land deeds and house deeds he found, which was regarded as a bad anger in his chest, and avenged Shen Hongfu a little.
In addition to Jiedu Mansion, the Yizhou Military Treasury also achieved fruitful results, of which the military rations accounted for half, about 20,000 stones, and the rest also had 3,000 sets of military armor, 2,000 blades, 300 bows and crossbows, and 30,000 arrows.
In this battle, a large number of strong manpower and skilled craftsmen were received, and mountains of grain and materials were piled up, and the strength of Huaixian Pavilion was extremely inflated.
The results of the first battle of Nanzhao soon spread all over the world, and a sect fought against a Jiedu Mansion and won an overwhelming victory, which deeply shocked all the states and counties and all the sects. All parties are paying close attention to the follow-up progress, wanting to see how the Chongxuan Administration will deal with it and how the imperial court will respond.
At the end of December, the Luofu faction, the Tangmen faction, the Qingcheng faction, the Huaixianguan faction and the Lishui faction jointly sent a tentative official letter to the Chongxuan Administration, in which they said, "There are no governors in Yizhou, and the five sects are the same shepherds".
At this time, Li Mi was in Tianshui, and last month, the Tianshui County earthquake appeared, and the sky was different, and he came to investigate.
Coming up from a deep ravine in a crack in Maoyan Gorge, Li Mi said to the scholar beside him: "Record it, the crack is three hundred zhang deep, eighteen miles long, and there is magma churning. ”
Li Yu's scholar hurriedly recorded, worried: "It's getting deeper and deeper, and it's getting longer and longer." ”
Li Mi patted the scholar's head, looked at the light gray glow of the western heavenly traces, and did not speak.
Yu Yuanzhi came over and said, "Grand Master Daoxuan has transferred an official document, please take a look." ”
Li Mi sighed: "Is Senior Brother Daoxuan really careless?" took it and looked at it, and suddenly smiled: "Very good!"
Yu Yuanzhi asked, "How to reply?"
Li Mi said: "Keep the file." ”
Yu Yuanzhi confirmed: "Archmage, such a big thing, really don't deal with it?"
Li Mi said: "At present, natural disasters are frequent, where is there still room to take care of these? Have you seen the young talents recruited this year? How are you settling down?"
Yu Yuanzhi said: "In the early stage of one hundred and twenty golden pills and the late stage of thirty golden pills, they were all placed on Zhongnan Mountain, but there were a few more family members, and the house was not completely built. Archmage, why do you have so many family members? Can you ......?"
Li Mi shook his head, very firm: "You have to remember that family members are as important as monks, and they must be properly settled!"
Yu Yuanzhi said helplessly: "Yes, the disciple will do his best." It's just that it's hard to recruit anymore, and the various sects are not very willing to release people, after all, it is difficult to create a Jindan. ”
Li Mi pondered for a moment and said, "Then expand the scope of recruitment to build the foundation, recruit three hundred people, who must be under thirty years old, and connect them to Zhongnan Mountain together with their families." If there are any sects that are unwilling to release people, let us come forward in the general office of the eighteen sects to persuade them. Chongxuan Department dignitaries, can you still not give it? There is no reason for this!"