Chapter 19: The Temple of the Tide God
Thanks to dugjg and senior Xiaobaizhong brothers for their tips...... How can I say this book? It's not absolutely not a historical shelf, and it's not even a romance. The classification is in Xianxia, and it is fantasy cultivation...... So the cons who pursue the details can retreat.
But I still have to say that the passage from the Northern Song Dynasty to Japan passed from Mingzhou, Shandong, and the whole journey took only seven days......
What does this mean? Tilting Bancheng's eyelids jumped when he listened, of course he would not whimsically think that the Great Heavenly Master would hand over the entire city division to him. Unless the head of the Great Celestial Master is burned out.
But Wen Fei's words still left him with infinite reverie and temptation, which seemed to hint at a lot of things for him.
Wen Fei said with a smile: "This Heavenly Master said to the official family, guarding such a cornucopia of the City Ship Division, and only earning hundreds of thousands of yuan a year, it is simply not a son of man." I look at this Hangzhou City, who doesn't have an income of three or five million yuan a year, and I'm embarrassed to meet people!"
The Bancheng family is a local wealthy businessman who has been established here for hundreds of years. Naturally, I know how much money a city company can make. For example, those court officials engaged in the city and the city, only hundreds of thousands of dollars a year, which made the city very unsightly.
But he was not in his position before, and he did not seek his own politics. Now that he heard Wen Fei's vague words, he talked about this again, and said very carefully: "This villain doesn't dare to talk nonsense, but there is still a way to come to Hangzhou City to earn millions of dollars a year!"
Wen Fei laughed: "The hero sees the same thing! I think that if there is Yu Yuan outside to help take care of the city, then it will definitely be able to add more taxes to the imperial court." That's it. I see that there is still one person below the city department who is from the ninth grade, and it will be done well because of the outside staff!"
Half of the city listened to it with joy and sorrow, and the joy was naturally that he became an official all of a sudden. You must know that before the Yuan Dynasty, officials were not separated. Officials can also be promoted. It is not as good as being a petty official in later generations, and there is no possibility of becoming an official at all.
Sadly, I was thinking that if I had promised a little more cheerfully just now and didn't let Master Wen Da Tianshi see that reluctance, then I think his current official position should not be smaller than Li Zhongjun. At least it's an official position from the seventh grade, right?
Wen Fei doesn't care about a lot, the superior wields authority, and only uses rewards and punishments as a means. Since this half-city wants to be arrogant, Wenda Heavenly Master naturally has a way to slowly train him.
It's like Wu Zetian taming a horse. It's nothing more than a reward and punishment. If the fierce horse can't even subdue the reward and punishment, there will only be a dagger. And the official hat is the best means of reward and punishment.
"Heavenly Master, the Chaoshen Temple has been repaired. "Wen Fei is here when he is full of ambition. A sweaty companion trotted over all the way and said respectfully to Wen Fei.
"Oh, then I'm going to take a look!" Wen Fei smiled slightly, and said to the people around him: "Everyone." This Heavenly Master still has something to do. I took my leave. ”
The people who had just been pinched by Wen Fei's means and obeyed immediately breathed a sigh of relief? I only felt that everyone seemed to be relieved, and even the half of the city was still thinking, I had heard people say that accompanying the king was like accompanying the tiger, and I felt a little exaggerated. Today, by the side of this father, doesn't it feel like being next to a tiger?
That companion is Cai Jun's side, and he has always been very excited. He made a panting expression, and said with a flattering smile: "Our prince is already handsome to the officials. I'm waiting for Father Shang by the West Lake!"
Wen Fei smiled and said, "Since that's the case, then let's go!" said and left first.
The temple is being built on Phoenix Mountain. The place where the Heavenly Master of Wenda watched the tide that day. It is not far from the West Lake, and all the officials are waiting for Master Wen on the edge of the West Lake.
It's even a little more respectful than usual, no way. Master Wen has been staying in Hangzhou City for so long, and he has not touched these officials much.
Let these officials in Hangzhou almost forget the power of Wenda Tianshi, and now Wenda Tianshi handed it over with a casual sentence, and one of the five products of the entire Hangzhou City Bo Division, and two deputy promotions from the sixth grade were all rolled up.
At this time, Wenda Heavenly Master showed a little bit of hideousness, which reminded them that Wenda Heavenly Master was not a vegetarian sheep. It's a meat-eating tiger......
Wen Fei could guess a point or two about what those officials thought, but he didn't care what they thought at all. For the current level of Wenda Heavenly Master, what these people think doesn't matter.
Since the Sui and Tang dynasties, the status of Jiangnan has become increasingly important, and economic development has begun to surpass that of the north. Especially in the middle and late Northern Song Dynasty, the country's taxes and goods depended on Jiangnan.
Especially after the middle of the Northern Song Dynasty, after the introduction of Champa rice, new varieties began to be improved. The rice varieties of two crops a year and three crops a year have skyrocketed the grain output in the south of the Yangtze River and completely opened up the distance between the two crops and the north. Coupled with the development of the Great Song Dynasty sea trade, the gap between the future generations and the north became farther and farther, and even the north was left far behind.
Countless goods from the southeast, along with the guò canals, are transported to the city of Tokyo, sustaining the greatest city in the world today. It was also diverted from the city of Tokyo to support the war in the northwest and Hebei's defense line against Liao.
It can be said that since the founding of the Northern Song Dynasty, the area with the heaviest taxes is this southeast. Freezing three feet, not a day's cold. Fang La's rebellion this time was not without cause and effect.
Especially when Zhu Mian, a father and son, relying on Zhao Ji's momentum, the fox is fake and the tiger is mighty. After using public and private official ships to transport a large number of stones, flowers and trees into Beijing, and occupying important canal capacity, the damage to the Great Song Empire was definitely considerable.
It's like having too many impurities in the blood in a person's veins.
Wen Fei is now in power, so it is natural to carry out reforms. Regardless of the others, they began to settle the guilt of Zhu Mian's father and son first.
All the floating wealth, as well as a lot of shops, except for some well-known industries that were taken by the Zhu family and had an extremely bad impact, were also given to the original owners.
The others were unceremoniously laughed at by the Wenda Heavenly Master, and some of them were used as Taoist industries. The other part was given to Zhao Ji, and the other part was given to Cai Jing Tongguan and other comrades. This is called benefit equalization.
And only those fields, and bulky and worthless things, were distributed to the local people. This is enough for Wen Fei to gain the reputation of the Buddha of Ten Thousand Families.
Wen Fei was still thinking about whether to introduce high-yield crops such as potatoes and sweet potatoes. But after staying in Da Song for a long time, I found a problem at all. That is, our Great Song Dynasty is not bad for food......
Wen Fei couldn't figure out this question at first, but later learned that the Northern Song Dynasty occupied the most elite areas of China in later generations. And those in the northwest Hebei, these relatively barren burdens were all lost to the Western Xia and Liao......
Naturally, the Northern Song Dynasty traveled lightly. The number of people is small, and there is no delay in the storage of zài. Naturally, there is a lot of food on average. Today's production is so much surplus that there is no need for future generations of high-yielding crops.
For example, during the Southern Song Dynasty, most of the people did not support the Northern Expedition and recovered the lost territory. The reason is that the fear of recovering the lost territory has dragged down Jiangnan's economy......
Unlike in later generations, when I was in the Ming Dynasty, I included Northwest Hebei, and even Mongolia and Northeast China into the territory...... It's too much to hold back.
Speaking of the Great Song Dynasty, it seems that it is also the Xiaoice River period......
Of course, this is purely from an economic point of view. And not from other aspects, it is too biased. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty has a lifespan of almost three hundred years, and the two Song Dynasty together only have so much time.
Wenda Heavenly Master has been walking on the edge of the West Lake, the weeping willows are swaying, the lake is as flat as a mirror, and he is going to the Phoenix Mountain along this section of the West Lake.
Behind him is a large number of people, all of whom are in prominent positions, and stomping on the ground in Hangzhou can make the whole Hangzhou shake.
However, at this time, I saw that Master Wen seemed to be walking leisurely on the shore of the West Lake. These people all held their breath, fearing that their breathing would be a little louder, disturbing the thoughts of Master Wenda.
In just a short period of time, a temple has been built on Phoenix Mountain, where the tide was watched in the past. It's not too big, but it's quite delicate, and you can see that it took a lot of effort.
Wen Fei walked inside, and saw that some inconspicuous corners of the temple had not yet dried the paint, but there was no sloppiness in the details. The whole building shows the delicacy of Jiangnan architecture.
Wen Fei stepped in, and saw a woman in white enshrined in the main hall, with a gentle and kind face. I couldn't help but be surprised: "Why is the tide god a woman?"
He didn't really want to ask this question, but wondered if the craftsmen were mistaken. This is not a Bodhisattva temple, why is this tide temple shaped like a Bodhisattva dressed as a lady?
But what's interesting is that this idol has actually been consecrated and already has spirituality. Even with a faint divine power, it seems that he has already recognized this idol.
A group of officials looked at each other, a question they had never thought of. It seems that they subconsciously feel that this tide god should be a woman, and now that they are asked by Wen Fei, they are all surprised.
At this time, a craftsman in his forties came out of the corner, trembling all over, probably the craftsman who shaped the statue of the god.
He thought he had done something wrong, walked up to Wen Fei in a cold sweat, knelt down with a puff, and kowtowed again and again: "Heavenly Master spare your life, Heavenly Master spare your life." The villain didn't know how to do it, so he was fascinated and made such a statue...... It seems that this tide god should be like this!"
Seeing that scared people like this, their foreheads were broken on the floor tiles, and a trace of blood flowed down. Wen Fei immediately soothed with a gentle face: "There is no need for this, Poor Dao just asks casually." I guess it's this tide god who made you shape it like this!"
With a wave of his hand, a little water vapor condensed and turned into mist. As soon as the craftsman turned around, the craftsman suddenly felt a coolness all over his body, and the wound on his forehead felt a strange itch. This feeling is familiar to him, and after every injury, the wound is almost healed, and this is the feeling when the flesh is growing.