Chapter 430: Lu Dongbin: Destroy Mountains and Temples? I’m a Taoist Expert!
"You also distributed the fields?" Guo Jue looked at the herdsmen in front of him in surprise.
"Haha, sir, you don't think we can't farm, right?" The herdsmen said with a smile.
Guo Jue smiled awkwardly. Before coming here, he really didn't know that herdsmen also farmed. In fact, the nomadic peoples in Hexi are half-farming and half-pastoral. You know, before the Han Dynasty, most of the people living in Hexi, Longyou, and Xiliang were Qiang people, and the Qiang people were a semi-nomadic and semi-farming people.
When Richard formulated the system in Hexi, he took this into full consideration. The soldiers here are also half-farming and half-pastoral. The soldiers here are all armored cavalry, Liangzhou horses, rampant all over the world, and will bloom again in the hands of the Great Zhou.
The Zhou Dynasty's soldier system is a semi-hereditary system. After the father retires, the son needs to become a soldier.
And in order to avoid the decline in the quality of the soldiers. Each generation of each household must pass the assessment to inherit the position of a household soldier. If they fail to pass the assessment, their original quota will be temporarily cancelled. They will be assessed every year for the next three years. If they still fail, their hereditary qualification, tax exemption qualification, and part of their land will be reclaimed.
In other words, if they want to have the qualification of a household soldier all the time, they need to train two people in each generation. The tax exemption for household soldiers is three generations of grandparents and grandchildren. If a household soldier wants to split up, it can only be done after three generations. If there is no tax or labor service, no one is willing to split up in advance.
In order to ensure that they do not pay taxes, household soldiers will try their best to avoid splitting up. Only in this way can the strength of a household soldier not decline, and there will be at least two people in each generation who can pass the assessment of household soldiers.
Richard does not know how long this system can be implemented, but it can be guaranteed within at least three generations.
Guo Rong is definitely a long-lived person this time, and this system can be maintained for at least 150 years. As for the future, it depends on the wisdom of future generations.
In Liangzhou, it costs almost nothing to distribute pastures and livestock to the soldiers and herdsmen. The pastures originally belonged to the tribal leaders, and the cattle and sheep also belonged to the tribal leaders.
As for whether there is corruption here, of course there is. But the corruption of officials here is completely different from the exploitation of tribal leaders in the past.
In the past, tribal leaders exploited herdsmen as slaves. They had no pastures, no cattle and sheep, had to work for the leaders, and could only snatch food from the livestock.
Although there are still corrupt officials exploiting now, it is much better than the serf-style exploitation of tribal leaders. After all, no matter how much exploitation, it is not as good as the exploitation of tribal leaders. It can only be said that this world is a world of comparison.
With the previous exploitation of tribal leaders and Huihe nobles as a comparison, the herdsmen of various tribes actually have a sense of belonging to the Great Zhou, at least the Great Zhou allows them to live well.
In their eyes, these officials of the Great Zhou were the great masters.
After talking with these herdsmen for a while, Guo Jue had a general understanding of this place. What surprised him even more was that these herdsmen actually helped the Great Zhou maintain its rule here spontaneously.
These herdsmen would inform the government as soon as they found other tribes approaching. These herdsmen even looked forward to the Western Expedition Army being drawn. In the past, they were serfs, and the tribal heads would draw them for big battles. Now the court has allocated them pastures and land, and these herdsmen are very willing to go on the expedition.
What's more, there are also rewards for money and food for going on the expedition. If you are lucky enough to make military achievements, you will also be rewarded with pastures, land and cattle and sheep. Compared with the past, it is simply too good.
It can only be said that it all depends on peers.
Because the Zhou Dynasty implemented the Baojia policy on the grassland, the heads and tribal leaders on the grassland now hate the Zhou Dynasty. In the past, the Tang Dynasty model, to recruit these nomadic peoples, they all gave these tribal heads official titles and made wishes, and never said that killing the tribal heads would give benefits to the bottom herdsmen.
As a result, when they arrived in Zhou State, they not only did not give them benefits or official positions, but directly distributed their cattle, sheep, and pastures to those mud-legged people.
Could these unruly tribal leaders bear this grievance? They directly pulled the tribe to rebel again. They had long been on guard against their Western Expedition Army and would not indulge them. These were all military merits!
Killed the tribal leaders, nobles, and heads, and then distributed the pastures, cattle, and sheep to those lower-level herdsmen. The court formulated a baojia system, with one hundred households as one jia. Each of these herdsmen sent one person to help each other and live together.
At the same time, the court established many gathering places similar to Wubao on those grasslands. These Wubao were very small, and the walls were only four or five meters high. Although they were very simple, they were enough to resist other herdsmen tribes on the grassland.
These docks were built with rammed earth and wood. The area was not large and it was not difficult to build. The court only sent some officials who knew how to build cities to assist them in building docks.
These forts are also the first line of defense of Hexi against the northern grasslands.
One hundred herdsmen form a Jia, and one Jia builds a fort. Hundreds of forts can accommodate more than 100,000 herdsmen. The grassland nomads want to attack these forts. If there are too few people, they cannot fight. If there are too many people, the casualties will be great. The grassland tribes are not good at attacking cities, even this kind of rammed earth fort. Moreover, even if the fort is captured, the gains are not enough to offset their losses.
Hundreds of forts are like nails, nailed to the grassland. In addition, with the support of the court, the Khitans and Dangxiang people will find it difficult to conquer them even if they gather a large army. After all, how many people will they lose if they attack one fort after another?
In the previous life, Tsarist Russia used this method to deal with the Cossacks. Tsarist Russia used fortress tactics and constantly built fortresses on the grasslands, and finally completely occupied the grasslands and conquered the Cossacks.
This method is not without its shortcomings. One is that it takes a long time. It took Tsarist Russia nearly two hundred years to conquer the grasslands. The other is that it is very expensive.
Richard does not intend to use this method to occupy the grassland, but to use it for defense, so the investment is much smaller. As long as the first Wubao discovers that the enemy ignites the beacon fire and Liangzhou gathers an army, it will take the initiative whether it is offensive or defensive. The capital is here in Zhou State.
Guo Rong also thinks this method is very good. If it is really effective, it will be difficult for grassland to invade in the future.
The craftsmen sent by Richard helped these herdsmen build Wubao. At least three wells were drilled in all Wubao. They also planned sheep pens, cattle sheds and horse stables, and also told these herdsmen how to live in Wubao. Lest they fail to pay attention to hygiene and get sick and suffer from the plague.
The imperial court controlled these forts with salt, tea, ironware and other materials. In order to prevent these forts from being wantonly exploited by the officials below, Richard specially set up a horse market outside the city. This horse market would be run by the royal family. caravan to control.
All these herdsmen were broken up and classified into a tribe. The emperor served as the khan of the tribe, and all the herdsmen were the emperor's personal tribe. These herders were also the emperor's personal soldiers.
Can’t the Heavenly Khan of the Central Plains have his own tribe? So these herdsmen were the personal tribe of the Great Zhou Emperor, the Great Tian Khan.
The royal caravans are also responsible for the mutual trade between these tribes. The profits obtained by the caravans belong to the royal family. Of course, the taxes still belong to the court. According to this model, the royal family can control tens of thousands of herdsmen households.
Every year, the royal family would distribute some cloth, salt, and meat as rewards to some of the herdsmen who performed well.
If this continues, these herders will soon become Chinese. If it can last for two or three generations, the place will be completely settled, and the Han population will have an absolute advantage.
In addition to these, Richard also planned to have people promote Buddhism and Taoism in Hexi and the Western Regions. Political and military issues in the Western Regions can be easily solved, but religious issues also need to be resolved.
In order to solve the religious problem, the cannibals used massacre and directly forced those people to convert to the cannibal sect. This time, Richard planned to use economic means to cooperate with Buddhism and Taoism.
For those in the Western Regions, they basically have to believe in something. So if you don’t occupy the high ground of faith, others will.
It just so happens that Buddhism and Taoism are hiding in the Central Plains day by day, either fighting among themselves or occupying farmland, lending usury, and collecting offerings from believers. Although Richard and Guo Rong have tidied up Buddhism and Taoism by rectifying Buddhist and Taoist teachings, these Buddhist schools will definitely make a comeback in the future.
Richard simply sent them to the Western Regions to preach, so that they would not have nothing to do in the Central Plains.
So Guo Rong ordered to summon Buddhist and Taoist experts from all over the world to Bianliang, the capital. Even Lu Dongbin heard about these things and came to ask Richard.
"Fellow Taoist, this time the master summoned the world's Buddhist and Taoist experts in Bianliang to arrange a battle between the two religions?" Lu Dongbin asked.
"I haven't seen you for a long time, Lu Daoyou. Where can I relax?" Richard did not answer, but asked Hu Sanniang to pour tea for Lu Dongbin.
Lu Dongbin looked at Hu Sanniang next to Richard, then looked at Richard and said with a smile: "My friends, this is a fox that has been practicing for three hundred years."
"Haha, in the eyes of Taoist friends, it is just a three-tailed fox." Richard said: "This is a fox I met while traveling in Japan. I thought she was good, so I accepted it and let her be by my side to help me practice! "
Lu Dongbin listened to Richard's words and looked at Richard with strange eyes, as if he wanted to say something but was hesitant. In the end, he could only say: "My fellow Taoist practice is different from ordinary people! I can't do it!"
"Hahaha!" Richard said with a smile: "Fellow Taoist, don't you think it's beautiful? In terms of beauty and temptation, how many people can compare to the Fox Clan?"
"The fox tribe is so talented, the human race is not as talented as them." Lu Dongbin shook his head and said.
"So, of course we have to take advantage of such a good condition!" Richard said with a smile: "With such a beauty dazzling in front of his eyes every day, if he is used to this alluring beauty, he will not encounter love or lust in the future. It’s easier to get through, isn’t it?”
"Perhaps it can also be used to test the disciple's character, why not!"
When Lu Dongbin heard Richard's absurd reasoning, he nodded subconsciously, and then suddenly realized, apart from those genius disciples and old practitioners, how many of them could withstand the temptation of the fox demon's beauty for three hundred years?
If the concentration is weak, I am afraid that I will be fascinated on the spot.
"Fellow Taoist, you haven't told me yet what the Master has called the experts from the two religions to do here this time?" Chunyang Master Lu Dongbin said as he swept these distracting thoughts out of his mind.
Li Cha picked up the tea that Hu Sanniang had just brought, made a greeting gesture to Lu Dongbin, and then took a sip of tea: "Actually, it's not a big deal."
"Don't worry, fellow Taoist, this time is not about a debate between the two religions."
The debate between the two religions is actually also called the debate between the three religions, which is the debate between the three great minds of Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism. Almost every debate is very loud. Can greatly enhance influence. But it is also easy for the Buddha and Taoism to become like water and fire.
The world was finally at peace, and Lu Dongbin did not want to provoke a dispute between the two religions.
"What's that for?"
"The imperial court rectified the Buddhist and Taoist precepts, took this opportunity to clean up a large number of fake monks and Taoists, and demolished a large number of temples and Taoist temples. The emperor felt that these virtuous and eminent monks were idle, so he prepared to arrange some things for them."
"Arrange things? Arrange what?" Lu Dongbin asked.
"It's very simple, let them go and preach!" Richard said with a smile: "In these years, the Buddhist and Taoist sects have stayed in the Central Plains to enjoy their blessings, without any thought of spreading our Chinese culture to the outside world."
"For hundreds of years, we have been stuck in our own ways and have lost the ambition to make progress. It is precisely because of this that there are so many evil people sneaking in, oppressing the people and deceiving the court. So I wrote to the court and asked these monks and Taoists to go to Hexi, Missionary missions were carried out in the Western Regions and even Western Europe, and Buddhism and Taoism were carried forward!”
Hearing this, Lu Dongbin didn't say anything for a long time. Good guy, who paid attention to this? It's really damaging. Those eminent monks are all over sixty years old and have gone to the grasslands and the Western Regions to preach. There is a high probability that they will never come back.
And this can't be said to be bad, after all, this is a missionary, and even Lu Dongbin knows that many people will go there even if they know this.
"What do you think, Fellow Daoist Lu?" Richard asked.
"Promoting Dharma and preaching is naturally good!" Lu Dongbin nodded.
"It's good that fellow Taoists can understand!" Richard said with a smile: "This time the Dharma is taught, the court will send a large army, and the monks and Taoists who spread the Dharma will follow the army."
"Army escort?" Lu Dongbin asked in surprise.
"Of course!" Richard said: "Now there is an invasion of the Food Cult in the Western Regions. The behavior of these Food Cults is brutal and extremely xenophobic, and they are also very inflammatory. The army is about to march westward, and they will definitely have to fight against these people. , so the imperial court planned to replace the Dashi Sect with Buddhism and Taoism.”
"Dashi Cult? I wonder what the teachings are?"
"Haha, their teachings are monotheistic, which means that except for their gods, all other gods in this world are false gods!"
"Barbarians are looking for death!" After hearing what Richard said, Lu Dongbin said angrily: "How dare the Mao Shen, who is a foreigner, speak so brazenly!"
"I really think that now that I am cultivating my moral character, Taoist Master, I won't destroy mountains and temples!?"
The corner of Richard's mouth raised, and he immediately said: "The God of Transformation Hair also said that if you believe in him, you can enter the paradise of bliss, and if you don't believe in him, you will go to hell!"
"Sure enough, the evil god is worshiping the evil god, destroying the mountain and cutting down the temple. Our Taoist sect will not hesitate to do it!" Lu Dongbin said immediately.