Chapter 457 16. Incredible 250

In theory, tiles are also valuable. After all, this kind of temple is not ordinary pottery tiles, and there is a glaze.

But there is one disadvantage of this thing, that is, it is too heavy. No merchant would risk his life to rush to Mikawa to collect tiles. If there is time to bring them back to Hamamatsu, wouldn’t it be better to bring more other things?

The soldiers under Uncle Tsunara were also very careless. They stood on the roof and started to lift it down. If they didn’t use their own strength to destroy it, the tiles would be smashed to the ground.

But the speed was fast. With a poke of the wooden stick, a row of tiles slid down. In the end, there was only a wooden structure left, and it was all plundered by these bandits. [Note 1]

Not only the big pillars were sold for money, but the beams were also removed on the spot. The other rafters and wooden eaves were all sold at a low price for a few coins or dozens of coins.

Hamamatsu was originally a concentration of timber merchants in the Tokaido region, and the most famous Tenryu cedar was sold to various countries. Now, Enkoji Temple has good materials, which are like giving them away for free. They are so cheap that they are all snapped up.

When it was dark, Sukezaemon rushed to the front line with several shop assistants and Yojimbo. It was completely impossible to tell that there was a temple of considerable size here yesterday. Even the crooked pine and cypress trees in the courtyard that looked very Zen had been cut down by the soldiers for firewood.

"Danzheng, you are too fast. There is nothing left for me."

A group of Hamamatsu merchants saluted Sukezaemon, but at the same time they secretly laughed at him for being late.

"Sukezaemon, the quicker the hand, the slower the hand, hahahaha."

"I just went to Sakai to discuss some things with the big boss, and I didn't expect you to set off."

Although Sukezaemon's store was large and well-funded, the business world was like a battlefield. Everything worth money in Enkoji Temple had been plundered, so there was nothing left for him.

"It's not that there isn't one. There's a big one. Take a look."

Speaking of this, Kobayata led Sukezaemon to the Tathagata statue and silently chanted Namo Bushigiku Tathagata in his heart.

"This Tathagata statue is made of fragrant wood. You name a price."

Kobayata had already apologized to the Buddha in his heart. Now it should be okay to sell it.

"Fragrant wood?" Sukezaemon couldn't say whether he believed in Bodhisattva or not, but he was also stunned.

The main reason was that this touched on his blind spot of knowledge. If you say selling a cannon or miso, then Sukezaemon must be very skilled. If you want to ask about the exchange rate of gold, silver and copper, and how to calculate the foreign silver dollar Yongle Tongbao, then he knows it even better.

You can play with fragrant wood. This thing, the bead-making thing in the past two years has deceived many sand sculptures. They all rushed in, then the bubble expanded, and finally with a snap, there was nothing left.

"If it hadn't been carved, it would be worth at least a thousand. But now that it's been carved and spliced, it's only worth four or five hundred. Just give me a number based on your opinion. I won't cheat you."

Jozaemon is a friend and a business. This is not the first time they have worked together, but he still asked someone to ask.

Finally, he found an old friend from the pawnshop, and his words were similar to those of Xiao Pingtai. But the pawnshop didn't dare to take such a large piece of fragrant wood because it was really difficult to sell.

Only Jozaemon was present because he had a broad market in Sakai and didn't have to worry about sales.

When everyone saw that there was a buyer, they also came to take a look. Jozaemon and his two trusted hands bit their ears and roughly measured the size of the Buddha statue.

"Two hundred and fifty! If it's more, I'll be out of stock!"

Jozaemon stretched out his hand, his left hand counted two, his right hand counted five, and cut the price in half for Xiao Pingtai.

"Two hundred and fifty?" Xiao Pingtai thought to himself that it was too exciting for you to spend two hundred and fifty to buy a Buddha statue.

But the generals behind him said yes after hearing the price. The whole hall was demolished and sold for less than 200 yuan. A fragrant wood statue could be sold for 250 yuan, which was fine.

Come on! 250 yuan is 250 yuan. A good Tathagata statue is worth 250 yuan.

The servants in the house took out the rainproof felt cloth, bundled the Buddha statue, and loaded the nearly three-meter-high statue onto the ox cart and dragged it away.

Kobayata got 60 kan, but he simply didn't want it. He gave the chess pieces and gold given by Sukezaemon to his subordinates who didn't participate in the looting to share.

The Yamauchi army in the temple, or now in the wild, was smiling and had more or less gained. Everyone could always leave a few coins in their arms.

But Kobayata didn't worry that they would loot too much and lose their fighting spirit.

First, the main mountain of Mikawa, Honshoji Temple, had not been taken down yet, so there were plenty of treasures to rob.

Secondly, "Life is always so difficult, but it is hard to describe."

In Runtu's original words: "It is very difficult. The sixth child can help, but there is always not enough food... and it is not peaceful... everywhere requires money, there is no regulation... and the harvest is bad. If you grow something and sell it, you always have to donate money several times, which is a loss; if you don't sell it, it will just rot..."

If you ask these foot soldiers about their situation, they can only shake their heads.

Even if the last person can rob enough money to take back three or five kan, so what? It's just to let the rope around the neck loosen a little for a few minutes.

The harvest in the fields is getting worse every year, but the annual tribute of the lord is not less. You also have to pay rent to the landlord, and other taxes such as building fees, suspension fees, section fees, land fees, and additional land fees, and ten to fifteen days of unpaid labor a year.

With pressure after pressure, no matter how much you rob, you can't fill this bottomless pit.

Poverty drives them, and there is no way out. Those who became timid and wanted to retreat died along the way.

Don’t think that they are sitting by the campfire now, holding a wooden bowl, eating rice soaked in soup or salt water with an iron pot, which is a rare happy time in their lives.

“Danzheng is going to Honshoji this time?” Sukezaemon came back after arranging things.

“Yes, we are preparing to quell the Ikkoshu uprising. We must conquer the main mountain in Mikawa to completely solve it.”

“Then please take care of me on the way.” Sukezaemon is also here to make money from the war. In addition to not being a human trafficker, he has so much capital that he can eat any dirty goods.

“Okay, okay.”

Kobayata agreed on the surface, but Enkoji Temple has been destroyed, and the Ikkoji Temple in Mikawa will definitely receive the news. The small ones will definitely pack up their belongings and retreat to Honshoji. The big ones will also mobilize believers to defend the temple.

It is not known whether the future battles will be so smooth.

【Note 1】: Speaking of tiles, our Forbidden City was renovated to look like the old one, and we even specially imitated the glazed tiles to make it look like the original one, right?

How did our Japanese counterparts do it? You will definitely not believe it if I tell you that Sensoji Temple is one of Japan's top national treasure attractions. Almost everyone who has traveled to Japan has visited Sensoji Temple.

The Internet is full of pictures saying that Sensoji Temple has been renovated to look brand new, spotless, and amazing.

But the truth is that those "national treasure masters", "XX gods", and "great craftsmen" in Japan have not learned anything from their ancestors. Sensoji Temple, which has gone through hundreds of years of ups and downs, is so pitiful. It suffered once during the Great Kanto Earthquake and once again during the Tokyo air raid. Because the repairers are too low-level, they don't have the skills of their predecessors at all.

Those XX gods used modern technology to repair and rebuild, but because they don't know those delicate and complicated woodworking techniques, they used their smart little brains.

Since I can't repair it, I will destroy you completely! All the tiles on the roof of Sensoji Temple were removed, replaced with aluminum alloy plates, painted with some paint, pretending to be tiles.

Hundreds of tons of tiles are gone, and only one-eighth of the weight of alloy plates are covering them.

Now those XX gods are showing their power, I come! I come! I come! The complex and exquisite wooden structure, which can be called the work of nature, finally disappeared completely after the disaster.

As for the Kaminarimon Treasure Gate, they are all reinforced concrete.

The so-called "craftsmanship" can be imagined.