[Comprehensive] The Giant of the Red Chamber

The next step is to take an inventory of the properties and industries of Puji Temple on the surface and in the dark.According to the final statistics, Puji Temple has a total of 610 mu of monastery fields, 38 mu of high-quality dry fields, 2 acres of high-quality paddy fields, and the remaining more than 510 dry fields. The quality of the water and paddy fields is also above average; the gardens and hilltops total 94 hectares, accounting for nearly one-third of the land in Yangcheng.There are [-] rice warehouses and [-] wheat warehouses. When the soldiers opened the warehouses and inspected them, they found that many of them were old grains that were more than five years old. They were either moldy or insect-eaten. Still edible.

You must know that the new grain harvested by Puji Temple every year is completely enough for the entire temple to chew for a year. Most of the time there is still leftovers, and they will not eat those old grains and old rice. Over time, more and more granaries will be built, and in the end it will all be wasted. Lose.King Yong, who has always been calm and calm, rarely showed some pain and indignation on his face when he saw the rice grains in the warehouse being wasted.The soldiers guarding the border are always hungry because of the shortage of military rations, and the people affected by the disaster are even scrambling to eat Avalokitesvara soil, bark, and grass roots. But Puji Temple, as a place of Buddhism, guards so much food, I would rather let them be moth-eaten and moldy than donate them to help the common people. It is really abhorrent, wasting so many years of charity reputation.

Even if you don’t want to give it away for nothing, and you are worried that the public sale will affect the temple’s reputation, you can still sell it through secret channels, so that there will be more rice supply in the market, so as to avoid the high price of rice and flour during the disaster, and many innocent people dying in vain.It's a pity that the whole temple would rather watch such precious food rot into mud than take it out.

In addition, every two or three years, Puji Temple has to expand its buildings and temples to reshape the golden body of Buddha and Bodhisattva. Up to now, it has a total of seven or eight thousand buildings and covers an area of ​​thousands of acres. It is really a large temple. High place.

And behind the scenes, the two parties agreed that the sum of the cash and silver assets confiscated by one person would add up to millions.In addition, the private wealth of important leaders such as the leaders, deacons, and intellectuals at the bottom is close to one million.Some monks actually set up a house outside, with a golden house to hide their beauty, and a group of wives and concubines. Except for the name of a monk, their daily life is not much different from that of a rich family and a wealthy businessman, which shows how corrupt the inside is.

There are also various unpaid loan notes and mortgage contracts, packed in more than a dozen large boxes.Finally, in front of the common people, they gathered together on the square in front of the Puji Temple and burned them clean, and all previous accounts were written off.As for the sufferers who have been persecuted before, many of them cannot check and confirm the return of their belongings one by one because their accounts have been written off or the age is old.In addition, if you open your mouth, I am afraid that many impersonators will come to pretend to claim it, and many of them cannot be verified. A lot of troubles will definitely arise out of thin air. In the end, they will only give some compensation to the poor people who still have record certificates in the past one or two years.After all, many of these people are not completely innocent. Whether it is their own mistakes or being implicated by their family members, since they have borrowed debts, become addicted to gambling, or visited brothels, they must bear some responsibility.If you don't borrow money from Puji Temple, you won't fall into the endless traps of the other side.

In the end, the fields, mountains, and gardens that apparently belonged to Puji Temple were handed over to the prefect of Yangcheng to arrange for re-measurement and statistics, and they were sold uniformly to the outside world, and it was stipulated that they should be sold to ordinary people first, and those landlords and wealthy businessmen were not within the scope of purchase for the time being.Of course, the crops that have been cultivated this season are still owned by the renter, and the land buyer can take back the land after harvest, or continue to rent it out.

There are so many high-quality fields to be sold, and they are all [-] to [-]% lower than the market price. After the people of Yangcheng got the exact news from the magistrate's yamen, they went home immediately to count the money and raise money. If you raise more money, you can buy an extra mu of land.Even a child of a few years old knows the importance of the field to the farmers, and contributes the New Year's money. Although there are only a few pennies, the farmer's money is collected and saved penny by penny. At this time, how much money do you have? I couldn't say a few pennies, so I paid an extra penny and bought an extra penny of land.

You must know that this is an opportunity that cannot be missed. In the past, many people hoped to buy a few acres of their own land, but most of the good land was occupied by big landlords and gentry. It was hard for a seller to sell the land, or The quality is mediocre, or they will be snatched up quickly, or they will be bought by their acquaintances and friends first. Ordinary people who want to buy some land can meet but not ask for.Therefore, most people have no choice but to rent the land from the landlord’s family to cultivate. They have been busy talking about hard work for a year. The light ones pay [-]-[-]% of the rent, and the heavy ones pay half of the rent. During the season, we should eat more porridge with wild vegetables to save some food, and dry goods are available during busy farming seasons.

Therefore, what farmers hope for most is to have a few acres of land that truly belong to them, so that the rest of the harvest after taxation can be taken into their own pockets, and they don’t have to hand over half of a year’s hard work to others, and they can pass it on from generation to generation. It is the foundation of a family's life.

The long-awaited fields are right in front of you, and they are all high-quality paddy fields and dry fields. Farmers don’t want to tighten their belts to do this big thing first. What is the matter of face or not, these are trivial matters in the face of survival.Even the sisters-in-law and brothers who had a bad relationship in the past worked together to collect money and worked hard to buy the land back no matter what, and then discuss how to divide it later.

Especially the farmer who rented the monastery fields wanted to take all the fields they rented now. If they really didn’t have the ability, they could take [-]% to [-]% of the land. It's cheap, the land also recognizes people these days, okay?

The common people thought that they had punished the evil monks in Puji Temple, and they felt a lot of anger in their hearts, so they would not be persecuted by them in the future. They didn't expect such good things to happen.In particular, it was clearly stipulated that the landlord class was not allowed to buy. Once it was discovered that in addition to the confiscation of the purchased land, the same amount of silver would be fined.This is obviously for the benefit of ordinary people, and for a while, everyone is praising the emperor for his wisdom and thanking King Yong for his impartiality in enforcing the law.

You said that such a large piece of fat is in front of your eyes, how can those bureaucrats not be tempted?During the period, you will definitely fill your own pockets and seek some benefits for yourself.But the fact is just the opposite. This time, I really didn’t dare to act rashly. The prefect of Yangcheng, headed by the prefect, wanted to do something quickly to cover up the scandal of Puji Temple. Now there is such a thing that can earn both fame and political achievements. In front of you, as long as you do things well in a fair and open manner, you can make a note of both the common people and the superiors. Who would dare to falsify?

In particular, I have more or less seen the ability of the little real person next to King Yong, the host Yuanyi's sudden change of attitude at the end, the well-timed thunder after another, and the legendary big bird... everything shows that This girl who is not yet ten years old has extraordinary abilities, if she keeps a back hand to spy on them, it will be a big disaster if she is caught.Therefore, considering all aspects, this time, we must act impartially and resolutely not favoritism, even if the beautiful concubine's cousin who can no longer be a cousin after eighteen miles is begging to come to the door, he will not let go.

In this way, the confiscation and sale of the land of Puji Temple will naturally go smoothly and there will not be too many deviations.

As for the property seized secretly, at the request of King Yong, Jiang Yingrong kept them first, and when they returned to Beijing, they just put them on the plane and took them back to the capital together.This is much safer than sending thousands of elite soldiers to escort them, and it saves manpower and trouble.

Of course, when Jiang Yingrong didn't know, King Yong secretly interrogated Yuanyi for a while, naturally he wanted to ask about the benevolent people of all ages.Yuanyi didn't hide it now, and told King Yong everything he knew, read, and guessed. Finally, King Yong came to a conclusion: the little real person is the daughter of heaven and earth, and he must not be with him. As an enemy, you must respect, respect, coax, and pamper her. You must not make her angry, upset her, or hurt her... Cough cough, why does it feel more and more wrong.Being disturbed by Yuan Yi's erroneous situation, the fear that the next king had towards Jiang Yingrong hidden in the depths of his consciousness basically disappeared without a trace.

King Yong left Yangcheng with Jiang Yingrong after Yuanyi and others were burned to death, and rushed to the next location, Yicheng.For the people who came to watch the execution, they naturally felt very happy.This ancient fire torture is a more serious punishment than beheading. Although beheading ends up in a different place, as long as the family is willing to pay, there will always be corpse collectors to help tidy up the appearance. It's not bad, there are no traces to be seen, and it can be buried in the ground in the end.But the fire torture is quite different, in addition to enduring the pain of being burned alive, in the end, it is the end of the bone and ashes, leaving only a little ashes, and it can’t be said that the soul will be scattered in the next life, which is naturally more severe in the eyes of the ancients. Only the most heinous people will receive this punishment.

In the end, the Puji Temple incident in Yangcheng ended in a mutually beneficial and mutually beneficial ending. Of course, the Puji Temple monks and the behind-the-scenes benefactors belonged to the party that suffered heavy losses.The follow-up inspection and rectification of other temples in Yangcheng will naturally wait for the incident in Yicheng, and the emperor will issue a unified edict to rectify it nationwide.

The author has something to say: I have to dare to fly in the early hours of the morning. The chapter after packing up and rushing out is a bit late