Chapter 42 The Silver Mine Returns to the Buddha Gate, and the Fleet Climbs Luzon (Two in One) Half a month later, under the abbot of Du Ruhui, the auction in Chang'an City ended perfectly, and it was the wealthy Wantong Chamber of Commerce that finally won the mining rights of Yindao, and the force behind this chamber of commerce was not someone else, but Buddhism.
That's right, this second largest chamber of commerce in the Tang Dynasty after Li Zhen's chamber of commerce is not controlled by the family, but by the industry of Buddhism, for the mining rights of Yindao, Buddhism spent 3.5 million taels, and barely snatched this piece of cake from the wolves.
The auction ended perfectly, but everyone knew that now was the real beginning of the war, the families, Confucianism, reactionaries, subversives, restorationists, Taoists, foreign consortia, and even the imperial court......
None of the forces will allow Buddhism to mine silver in peace.
On this point, Buddhism is also very clear, so after fighting for the mining rights of Silver Island, it quickly organized 500 stick monks to escort the representative of Buddhism who participated in the auction this time, Master Tanzong, the first master of Shaolin Temple, to escort Yinyin (silver mining license, similar to the role of salt Yin) to Lingnan.
Tanzong is a famous warrior monk of Shaolin Temple in the late Sui and early Tang Dynasties, and the most famous deed is the thirteen stick monks who saved the Tang King, of course, this story is apocryphal, and there is no such record in history.
However, Tan Zong and his thirteen stick monks did provide great help to the Tang army's action to break Wang Shichong at that time.
Here's the thing, at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was in turmoil, and the princes from all walks of life fought for the supreme artifact, and there were three of the most powerful at that time, Li Yuan of Taiyuan, Li Mi of Wagang and Wang Shichong of Luoyang, Shaolin Temple was located in Wang Shichong's sphere of influence at that time.
In order to defend against the Tang army, Wang Shichong changed Baigutun to Baozhou, and his nephew Wang Ren was stationed there.
This Baigutun is about 25 kilometers northwest of Shaolin Temple, which was given to Shaolin Temple by Emperor Wen of Sui Emperor Yang Jian during the opening of the Sui Dynasty, and it is an important grain producing area of Shaolin Temple.
Wang Ren occupied Baigutun, and the monks of Shaolin Temple were cut off from the source of food, and life became more and more difficult.
In March of the fourth year of Wude (621 AD), the Tang army surrounded Luoyang on a large scale, and under the Xuanyuan Pass, Li Shimin and Wang Shichong's troops launched a fierce battle.
This Xuanyuan Pass is located at the pass of Taimur Mountain and Shaomu Mountain, and it is the throat road from Luoyang to Xuchang and Nanyang in the southeast.
Wang Renze's defense of the city of Baigutun, the terrain is dangerous, is a strategic place to hold eighteen plates, easy to defend and difficult to attack.
After Li Shimin won eighteen sets, he attacked the city of Baozhou, but he couldn't attack it for a long time.
The master of Shaolin Temple is far-sighted, he judges the situation and believes that Li Yuan has won the hearts of the people and will rule the world, while Wang Shichong and Wang Renze are as brutal as tigers and wolves, and it is difficult to achieve great things.
So, he discussed with the monks to assist Li Shimin, the king of Qin, to seize the city of Zhouzhou, and the monks had long been dissatisfied with Wang Renze's evil behavior of oppressing the people, and immediately hit it off.
After planning, a group of Shaolin monks infiltrated the city and bought off Zhao Xiaozai, an officer guarding the city; Another group of Shaolin monks lay in ambush outside the city, waiting to move.
On the twenty-seventh day of April, the Shaolin monks should join forces inside and outside and enter the city of Zhouzhou.
Tan Zong, who was strong in martial arts, and others captured Wang Renze, Zhao Xiaozai and others opened the city gate, and the Tang army and Shaolin monks embraced and captured the city of Zhouzhou.
Of course, this is just an official statement, in fact, Wang Renze occupied the territory of the Shaolin Temple, seized their land, Shaolin Temple was not angry, so he joined forces with the Tang Army and the defending officers of the city of Zhouzhou, and captured the city gate in one fell swoop, captured Wang Renze alive, and the city was breached.
But regardless of what the Shaolin Temple thought at that time, they did provide a lot of help for Li Shimin to attack the city of Zhuzhou and eliminate Wang Shichong, so three days later, Li Shimin, the king of Qin, sent Li Anyuan's relatives to visit at least Lin Temple in the Zhuguo Kingdom, and met with the thirteen monks who made meritorious contributions.
These thirteen monks are the Theravada Good Protector, the Temple Master Zhicao, the Duvina Huichang, the Great General Santanzong, Puhui, Ming Song, Lingxian, Pusheng, Zhishou, Daoguang, Zhixing, Seng Man, and Seng Feng.
Li Anyuan also read out Li Shimin's handwritten letter.
Li Shimin's original handwriting, which was later transferred to Shaolin Temple by Tang Xuanzong and a Zen master, engraved on the stone tablet, stood in Shaolin Temple.
The reason why Buddhism chose Tanzong to escort Yinyin, in addition to Tanzong's martial arts is indeed strong, is also to take into account this aspect - people have made a lot of contributions to the establishment of the Tang Dynasty, looking at these merits, even if the imperial court does not support Buddhism, at least it must be done on the wall, do not block Buddhism.
As long as the imperial court does not make a move, the rest of the forces are certainly strong, but if they want to deal with the past, it should not be a problem.
Just, is it really that simple?
After Buddhism gets the silver lead, what will be the consequences, let's talk about it later, now we will first set our sights on the Luzon Islands.
Origa was once the son of a tribal chief in western Luzon, the largest island in the Luzon archipelago, and a famous warrior in this tribe, loved by all the tribesmen, and if nothing else, he was the next chief, but now he is just a lost dog.
Because his tribe was wiped out by the rival tribe of the Akara tribe, all his relatives were killed, and all his people became slaves, only he escaped because he was away from home at the time.
But as a famous warrior of the tribe, he was not let go so easily by the enemy, and when he returned, he immediately fell into the trap set for him by the enemy, but fortunately he was in good shape, and at the cost of almost losing one arm, he escaped from the trap, and killed two enemies and seized their weapons and equipment.
Unfortunately, although he managed to escape, this only delayed his death, because the trap was triggered, and only half an hour after he fled, the enemy caught up.
The Akara tribe is a large tribe with a population of more than 1,000 people, and there are more than 300 soldiers in battle alone, but he has only one person, even if he kills more than a dozen people from the other party with the traps he designed along the way, this can only anger the other party even more, and because the broken arm is bleeding all the time, in fact, he himself is about to reach the limit.
Fortunately, his tribe was not far from the sea, and with his experience in being familiar with the terrain, Origa finally succeeded in shaking off the enemy and fled to the sea alone.
He didn't have time to rest, because he knew that although he had temporarily thrown off the enemy, there was his own bloodstain, and the enemy would soon follow the bloodstains.
He had to bandage his arm before the enemy arrived, and then find a way to find a boat and escape to the island on the other side.
It was the territory of another large tribe, the Mumutu tribe, and the Akara tribe did not have the courage to offend others - as for himself, the best outcome was not only to become a slave, but to be captured by the other side and become their food at worst.
It's a pity that Zhehe has no choice, on the one hand, he is sure to die, and on the other hand, there is still a chance to live, in order to live, he can only fight.
The bandaging is simple, although his arm is broken, but it is not completely broken, it is just a pair of piercing by the mechanism of the Acala tribe, only need to use medicinal herbs to plug the wound, and then bandage it.
On the way to escape just now, he had already collected a sufficient amount of medicinal herbs, pounded them into a paste, endured severe pain and applied them to the broken arm, tore his clothes, and wrapped the severed arm, this is the step of his healing - as for whether he can live next, it depends on God's will.
The bandaging of his arm was painful, although it was only a short moment, but it had exhausted Origa's little energy, although he knew that he could not lie down at this time, but his consciousness was already blurred, and he had no strength to lie on the ground, and the moment he passed out, the only thought in his heart was, God bless, I hope the Akara tribe will not find this place today......
But are the ships coming from the sea?
It's big......
It seems that I am really dizzy, how can I have such a big ship......
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When Origa woke up, he found that he was not in a cave, but lying in a room, covered with a thick woolen cloth, so warm.
I felt the soft woolen cloth under me again, and I don't know which tribe's product it is, if you take it out and sell it , it will definitely be able to sell for a big price.
Where is this?
Did I get caught by the Akara tribe?
Are the Acala tribes so rich?
It's too extravagant to give prisoners such a room and cover it with such woolen cloth, right?
"Squeak......"
The door opened.
"Wow!"
Origa, who was already very nervous in his heart, suddenly shrank into the corner of the wall like a frightened cat, blocked the quilt in front of him, and stared closely at the people who came in.
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The visitor saw Origa and said a series of words that he didn't understand.
This is not an illusion from the huge fleet I saw before I fell unconscious, it is the ocean-going fleet, that is, the ocean-going exploration fleet sent by Li Zhen and led by Liu Renliang.
They overcame numerous dangers, endured many hardships, and even sank a merchant ship on the way, but eventually managed to reach Luzon.
It was no one else who was talking to Zhehe, but Liu Renliang's scholar Liu Lie, who was exploring the coast when he found the unconscious Zhehe in a cave on the reef, and his wounds were already inflamed, his body was extremely hot, and he was already dying.
Liu Lie considered that they were not familiar with the place here, and Shangdao needed a guide to guide him, so he rescued Origa, and after the treatment of the doctor on the boat, he finally helped him successfully reduce his fever and saved him from the brink of life and death.
Now that it was three days later, Liu Lie habitually came to see the situation of Zhehe, but was pleasantly surprised to find that Zhehe had woken up, and said: "You finally woke up, this is really good, I thought it would take you a few more days to wake up." ” Of course, Zhehe couldn't understand this, and in his ears, Liu Lie's words were just grunting, which was completely different from the language they spoke.
"Who are you?
Did you save me?
Seeing that Liu Lie didn't look like a bad person, but might be a benefactor who saved him, Zhehe asked, of course, his words were like a book in heaven in Liu Lie's ears.
"Uh......
Hahaha......"
Both of them quickly noticed this and couldn't help but burst out laughing.
After laughing, Liu Lie brought the food, smelling the fragrant food, Zhehe couldn't help but drool, God is pitiful, although their tribe has also mastered the skill of making fire, and can also eat cooked food, but how have they ever seen such exquisite, such fragrant food?
"This ......
Food.
"Put it in front of Origa, after a gesture of hands and feet, I finally let Origa understand that this dish is for himself to eat, Origa is overjoyed, and he grabs it directly with his hands and eats it, and he doesn't even need the chopsticks next to him - although he can't use the chopsticks for him.
"Forehead......"
Liu Lie was also speechless, but seeing that he was eating very happily, he didn't bother to remind him, not to mention that learning chopsticks is not something that can be learned in a while, so he didn't pay attention to it.
Out of Zhehe's room, Liu Lie ran into Liu Renliang head-on, and hurriedly saluted: "Young master." ” Liu Ren tracked: "Alie, how is it?"
I heard that the native you rescued woke up?
How's it going?
Can you walk?
” "Walking shouldn't be a problem, but ......"
Thinking of Origa's sharp movements, Liu Lie said speechlessly, I have never heard of a person who has been in a coma for three days has such a strong reaction as soon as he wakes up.
"But what?"
"He doesn't seem to understand us."
Liu Lie said bitterly: "The aborigines of Luzon are not the same as the natives of Nanyang, although the natives of Nanyang also have a native language, but after all, they also communicate with our Central Plains, and there are still commonalities in language, as long as they stay for a while, although they can't write articles, there is no problem in communication."
But Luzon is different here, it has been isolated abroad for thousands of years, and has never communicated with the outside world, and has long since created a language family of its own, and if you want to learn their language, even if you are a strong language genius, it will take a long time to communicate. ” Liu Renliang nodded and said: "In this way, it is indeed a bit troublesome, but it is not a big trouble, let's go to the island to explore first, in addition, your interpretation team also needs to work hard to communicate with them smoothly as soon as possible, even if you don't learn their words, let them learn our language." ” "Yes, I'll try."
There are no idlers on the ship, and Liu Lie was selected to board the ocean-going fleet, not only because he is Liu Renliang's scholar, but more importantly, he is also a language genius, proficient in the languages of several countries, which is the main reason why he can board the ship.
Overseas expansion and colonization, not only need to conquer and kill, but also to rule, but to rule the local, naturally need to communicate with the local, which requires the use of special interpreters, otherwise with the learning ability of ordinary people, if you want to master a foreign language, it will take at least half a year.
"Alright, take me to see our future guide."
Liu Ren orbit, in the future, the fleet wants to start work in Luzon, and Origa is an indispensable person, so he took this opportunity to deepen and deepen his feelings.
"Yes, young master, please."