Great Tang Southern Emperor

Of course there is no problem. Don’t forget why Xuangong Temple was built—the relic of the tooth of the Buddha.

This is a treasure left by Sakyamuni Buddha. As long as this treasure exists, Xuangong Temple can spread its reputation in the shortest time, and then things will be simple...

"The imperial court, what a vicious heart..." Zen Master Guixin sighed up to the sky, and the rest of the monks were silent. This time they lost their wives and lost their soldiers. Not only did they not get the tooth relic, but they also lured wolves into the house, introducing Tianzhu Buddhism into the world. In my own territory, I can imagine that the life of Buddhism will be even more difficult in the future.

But the matter has come to this, what can they do?

They don’t even have the right to object—the imperial court promised to return the tooth of the Buddha to Buddhism, and they did. You Buddhists even surrounded the palace for the sake of the tooth of the Buddha. After meeting your request, what else do you want?Do you still plan to make an inch of it?Do you really think that the court's weapons are not good?

As for grabbing the relic by force?

What reason do they have to snatch?

The Buddha tooth relic itself is the most precious treasure of Tianzhu, and now the imperial court has returned it to Tianzhu, which can be regarded as a complete merit.

It will be better when there is no rightful master. You can intervene in the relics as you are all Buddhist disciples.

But now that the Lord is still there, what qualifications do you have to get your hands on relics?

What are you?

It's like stealing chickens and losing money, losing his wife and losing his army. Buddhism is destined to be laughed at this time.

On the morning of the third day, the people who got up early saw the notices all over the city. They had no other thoughts except a little surprise, but in some people's eyes, it was a big joke.

"Hahaha... This cousin of mine is really ruthless. This aura of preferring jade to pieces is quite interesting." In Yuezhou City, in a courtyard facing the street on Guangming Street, Locke watched his subordinates send him off. The notice that came up laughed.

No one thought that he would actually be hiding in Yuezhou City, especially since Guangming Street is a newly built street, and the construction team has not even handed over the work for three months, yet he is actually hiding here, I have to say that he is really brave big.

"This time, Buddhism has suffered a dark loss. I wonder if they will go crazy?" The second person in the room—Wen Tonglin, who is still extremely handsome, also laughed.

"It's certain to go crazy, but it's absolutely impossible to turn your face." Locke put down the notice, knocked on the table, and said with a smile: "Nowadays, Buddhism and Tang Dynasty are purely afraid of both sides, and no one dares to start a war easily. "

Wen Tonglin raised his brows: "So, young master, are you planning to meddle in it?"

"No, no, no, I don't have that much free time, after all, we are not feeling well this time." A stern look flashed in Locke's eyes: "In the eyes of outsiders, we have no loss in this layout, but you should be very clear about our loss. How big... Not only did Mr. Li die at the hands of Hou Junji, but our dead soldiers suffered heavy losses... We can't afford to consume. So even if I wish I could eat Li Zhen's flesh, I can only do it temporarily Let him go."

"Hey!" Wen Tonglin's eyes also flashed a hint of distress: "I said earlier, this kind of small trick alone is useless against Datang, this is an empire after all, and the national strength is unimaginable, even this time 20 Tang troops If they were all killed in Tianzhu, it would only cause them pain for a while at most, and it would not be enough to seriously hurt their vitality.

If you want to really overthrow Datang, you must have a boldness, and you can't achieve great things just by having a moment of pleasure.I have advised you a long time ago, instead of constantly adding fuel to it, it is better to hide it and develop it for a period of time, accumulate enough strength, and destroy Datang in one fell swoop... But you just don't listen, insisting on fighting with Da Tang Tang Sike, some time ago I heard that some of you proposed to go overseas to contact Li Mi's remnants...

Come on, you and Li Shimin are mortal enemies, but after all, you came from the same ancestor, and you have a deep blood feud with Li Mi, and someone made such a suggestion—it’s simply ignorant..."

"I really regret it, I have already expelled that person." Locke also looked regretful, after all, there are too few people available under his command, and most of them are still stupid big men who can only charge and kill. At least there was Li Siqian before, but now Li Siqian also died in the chaos... Now I only have Wen Tonglin by my side, the problem is this Wen Tonglin...

Locke has always been worried about him...

But the current situation can no longer help him to rest assured.

"Then what is the young master going to do next?" Wen Tonglin asked again.

Locke sighed again, and said, "No way, our loss this time is indeed too great, I'm going to do what you said, and hide for a while."

"If that's the case, then the subordinates can rest assured." Wen Tonglin finally heaved a sigh of relief after receiving Locke's practical answer. Now that Cheng Jianxi's loss is too serious, he must lie down for a while to recover.

Although he has decided to lurk, Locke is not reconciled after all: "Although we say that our big action is over, the general small harassment cannot be stopped-even if I can't kill Li Zhen, I will disgust him to death... Experiment Haven’t several new types of viruses been cultivated in the laboratory? Let them find an opportunity to release them and add a little bit of trouble to our opponents.”

"Yes, my subordinates understand." Wen Tonglin agreed, it was just a little virus, and it was a virus that had already mastered the cultivation method, even if it was all thrown out, it would not be a loss.What's more, Cheng Jianxi's sudden disappearance is too attractive, so doing a little damage to Li Zhen from time to time can give Li Zhen the illusion that Cheng Jianxi is still active, but can't arouse his vigilance heart of.

"Then let's do this..."

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Chapter 1054 Five years in a hurry

Chapter 1 five years in a hurry

The first day is peaceful, the spring breeze is warm, time flies, and five years have passed.

In the early spring, the north is still chilly, but in the south of Qiongzhou Island, a hundred flowers are blooming, and spring has returned to the earth.

The sand on the beach is as fine as snow, a group of children are jumping and picking up shells by the beach, and their little feet walk on the soft sand, leaving a series of small footprints.

Under a row of coconut trees, dozens of parasols are lined up in a blink of an eye, and there are all beauties lying under them, each of which is a peerless beauty, gathered in groups of three or four, either watching the sea or playing games, dressed very well Exposure, the white thighs are just exposed like this, making people's eyes dizzy. Fortunately, the guards nearby are all female guards. If they were men, they might make some heinous mistakes.

What's even more amazing is that the dresses of this group of beauties are very modern. If it weren't for the tone and accent and the ancient style, just looking at their clothes, even a time traveler would probably think that they have time traveled to the 21st century-even they The clothes are all in the shape of bikinis, and the hairstyle is combed according to the style of the later generations, and it is matched with the sunglasses of different colors, and the various juices in the glass... Even if the later generations come, as long as you don’t talk to them Speaking, I am afraid that this is still the 21st century.

But unfortunately, this is not the 21st century, but the seventh century AD, and it is now the early spring of the 23rd year of Zhenguan in the Tang Dynasty.

The spring breeze in February made people's bones crisp, and Li Zhen also took a rare break from the busy schedule, and brought his wife and family to the place called Yalong Bay in later generations. Except for some indigenous people, there is no atmosphere of civilization at all on the entire island.

However, this situation was completely changed a year ago. Li Zhen sent a fleet to come here three years ago, and then spent two full years building this place into a picturesque Tang Dynasty The first grand scene (the world praises it, not Li Zhen's narcissism), not only Yalong Bay, but also the interior of Qiongzhou Island is being transformed-after all, it is also a territory of Datang, although it was originally It is used to exile prisoners, but with the continuous development of Lingnan and the establishment of the Lingnan Economic Circle centered on Yuezhou, many people are eyeing this place, but Li Zhen is worried that they will damage the environment here, so she personally Start construction. After all, if Li Zhen takes the initiative, at least the place can maintain its best appearance.

Speaking of the current development of Lingnan, everyone who mentions here will give a thumbs up and praise the place.

Today's Lingnan is no longer what it was five years ago. Leaving nothing else aside, let's just talk about roads. How could there be any roads in Lingnan five years ago?The mountain roads are rough and difficult to walk. Only in some big cities are cement roads paved, and it would be nice to have a little gravel road in other places.

However, after the unremitting efforts of Wen Xueling (a small dragon suit, which only appeared once, because it looked a lot like a certain celebrity he hated, he was dispatched by Li Zhenfa to explore the geological conditions in Lingnan), it took It took a whole year to clarify the geological conditions of Lingnan, and then after more than a year of detailed planning by engineers, it was completely changed.

The road construction in Lingnan began five years ago. Li Zhen invested nearly [-] slaves. Even after the slaves were not enough, the people in Lingnan volunteered to help on the road, and many people lost their precious lives because of this.

But what you pay is what you pay for. After Li Zhen disregarded the cost and disregarded the lives of the slaves, and Lingnan united as one, it took five full years to completely change the road conditions in the entire Lingnan.

Today's Lingnan can be said to be the place with the most developed road system in the Tang Dynasty. Not to mention the cities, even some villages have roads. Village access is really too extravagant - what's more, even if it doesn't reach every village, at least it guarantees that all the towns in Lingnan have road access, which greatly facilitates the travel of the people. It can be said that only relying on the road, Li Zhen Even if they were just civilians, their names are enough to go down in history. As for the designers who built these roads, they were engraved on the stone tablet mountain by Li Zhen, ensuring that their names will be passed down through the ages.

However, in order to achieve such an achievement, it is not without cost. Although the lives of Nanyang slaves are worthless, even if the slaves are not counted, the daily resource consumption alone is an astronomical figure, such as cement costs, money for buying explosives, Tool wear and so on... Afterwards, Li Zhen asked someone to make a statistic. According to the statistics, just for road construction, Lingnan spent a full amount equivalent to the tax of Lingnan last year.

And how much was Lingnan's tax last year?

300 million sticks...

Among them, Yuezhou alone contributed 700 million guan. In terms of tax payment amount alone, this amount has even surpassed Luoyang and Kaifeng, and is only a little behind Chang'an (800 million guan). It is Datang's second largest taxpayer. City, and Li Zhen is sure to increase this number to 1000 million this year, completely leaving Chang'an behind - the reason why Chang'an has such a high tax is purely because the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty has attracted merchants from the Western Regions, Especially Dashi, stimulated by Datang, has completely killed Sassanid Persia at this time, and its territory has already connected with Datang, only separated by a desert in the Western Regions.

But there are so many Jedi on the Silk Road, and the supply is quite limited. There are only so many caravans that can reach Datang through the Silk Road in a year. This number is constant, and no matter how it explodes, it will never exceed 1000 million. This is the limit of Chang'an, unless they increase taxes, but high taxes will only scare away merchants.

However, Yuezhou is different. Taxation here mainly depends on maritime trade, and the biggest feature of maritime trade is its strong liquidity and large cargo capacity. A fleet can carry more than ten camel teams on the Silk Road at one time. Return trade to make money, so the tax is also very high, not only the shore tax, but also the transaction tax after the transaction is completed.More importantly, with more and more people making money at sea, even though five years have passed, Datang's annual holdings of cargo ships are still rising at an average rate of [-]% per year with.

Today, Datang privately owned merchant ships have exceeded [-] ships, and some large fleets have hundreds of merchant ships at one time. Coupled with the existence of auxiliary small ships, the dense area can almost cover dozens of nautical miles. In the sea area, some small-scale pirates dare not even approach them, let alone rob them.

Chapter 1055 The Other Side of the Age of Discovery

Chapter 2 The Other Side of the Age of Discovery

In the final analysis, the benefits are touching. Although there is endless filth and blood behind the money making, and almost every trade means a killing, everyone is blinded by the prosperity on the surface. They have invested in the trend of the great navigation era.Some crazy businessmen even sacrifice their lives in order to gain more profits, and go to sea during the typhoon season-according to statistics, on average, two out of every ten ships that go to sea will sink in the sea, and on average, every ten ships that go to sea will sink. At least one person died at sea.

In fact, this data was not so scary at the beginning, and it was only 5.00% at the most, but as I don’t know which bastard walked back and forth in the sea during the typhoon season without any damage, and shipped back some fresh products After earning a lot of profits, more businessmen no longer cared about the obstruction of the typhoon, and joined the great sailing industry one after another, which resulted in the high death rate that is now so high.

Li Zhen has nothing to do about it, you can't restrict people from going to sea, can you?People don't want to kill themselves, can you still stop them from seeking their own death?What qualifications do you have to stop others?