Chapter 392: Acting and Planning What's more, Brahmanism is the staunchest supporter of the caste system, and the main reason why Datang can win the hearts of Tianzhu is that the caste system has been abolished, and everyone is relatively equal, it can be said that the two are fundamentally natural enemies, class enemies, as people on the side of the Tang Dynasty, although they may not be loyal to Datang, but they will definitely not stand on the position of Brahmins.
Moreover, the idea of the caste system is that there are high and low people, which in itself is completely contrary to the equal education of all beings in Buddhism, and they have no reason to side with the Brahmins.
"I can't imagine that just a Brahmanical sect has looted more than 300 tons of gold, and I heard that many of their gods and goddesses are simply made of pure gold, which is simply a poverty and luxury."
Li Shimin also made a final decision on this matter: "It seems that I am right to define Brahmins as a cult, and it is better to destroy them if they remain in such a religion that does not teach people to be good." ” In fact, of course, none of this gold was stolen from Brahmin temples, although more than half of them did come from temples, but nearly forty percent of them came from the treasury of various countries - although the Brahmins were the highest in the caste system, but the Brahmins were all servants of the gods such as monks, and the Kshatriyas were the controllers of the state.
It's just that Li Shimin deliberately misled everyone for some reason and put all the gold on the head of the Brahmanical sect, anyway, the two sides are enemies, and the Brahmins' hidden gold is indeed terrible, so it is not considered to slander them.
"Your Majesty, it's not just a hundred tons of gold."
Liu Hongji suddenly opened his mouth to correct: "Because the ministers were in too much of a hurry, they only looted the display of the main temples, and those smaller Brahmin temples just skimmed over in a hurry, and did not search carefully at all.
According to the calculations of our military advisors, although the gold in these small temples is not as much as that in the big temples, because of their greater quantity, and we have not moved the gold hidden by the people, the overall amount of gold may not be less than our current harvest, and may even be more than ours. ” "What?"
"Hiss~" "Oh my God~" Everyone was shocked, and at the same time as the shock, a trace of greed flashed in their eyes - that is gold, that is at least a hundred tons of gold, I don't want to get it all, but even if I only get one ton, it is enough, even if one ton of gold is exchanged for silver, it is enough for more than 300,000 taels of silver.
Although everyone is a high-ranking official of the Tang Dynasty, and they have a lot of money, who would think that they have a lot of money?
What's more, more than 300,000 taels of silver, this amount is enough to be more than the wealth of ninety percent of the people in the world.
Seeing everyone's expressions, Li Shimin glanced at Li Zhen lightly, and admired Li Zhen's move very much, just a few words, which made everyone rise up with the idea of developing Tianzhu, which is simply too powerful - that's right, all of this is actually a good game set up by Li Zhen and Li Shimin, at this time, Datang has not even occupied Nanyang and Borneo, so many people are not interested in Tianzhu, which is farther away.
Not only the officials think so, but even the people in the world think so, after all, in their opinion, even the meat at the door of the house has not been digested, who cares about what you are far away?
If this kind of thinking is allowed to spread, I am afraid that it will be at least five years before everyone's attention is turned to Tianzhu.
As the main promoter of the battle of Tianzhu, Li Zhen certainly did not want to see a piece of land laid, but it was thrown there in vain and wasted, which was not only not in line with the vital interests of the Tang Dynasty, but also unacceptable to those soldiers who sacrificed in order to lay down Tianzhu - hard work, many people died to fight down a piece of land, but no one was rare, which is simply the biggest insult to them.
Therefore, after discussing with Li Shimin, Li Zhen came up with such a plan - since you don't look down on Tianzhu and are unwilling to go to Tianzhu to develop, then I will use the interests of Hongguo to attract you to the past, and among all the benefits, there is nothing more attractive than golden gold, and it just so happened that the triumphant Tang Army brought back a large amount of gold, so Li Zhen thought of this trick.
After communicating with Xue Wanche and Liu Hongji overnight, the four of them teamed up to perform such a scene today, and it seems that the effect is very good.
Of course, although it attracted them to the past, Li Zhen did not deceive them, there are indeed many small Brahmin temples in Tianzhu that were not patronized by the Tang army, and those small and medium-sized nobles were not plundered, judging from the habit of Tianzhu people like to decorate gods with gold (this seems to be the common nature of Tianzhu people, whether it is Brahmanism or Buddhism, or later Yin Poison Religion, it is like this, especially Buddhism is the most widely spread, so that China and Southeast Asia like to decorate Buddha statues with gold), It is certain that there is gold there, but there is definitely no less of it.
It's just that whether the whole amount exceeds 100 tons, it's hard to say clearly, but it doesn't matter, anyway, this gold can't be obtained by one person, there is no way to count it, Li Zhen said yes, then it is natural, who can confirm it?
"Okay, let's just leave the gold matter like this for the time being, and we'll talk about it later."
Li Shimin waved his hand to reveal the matter, and continued to look at the gift list, as if he didn't notice the greedy light flashing in the eyes of some people below.
"Only three hundred tons of silver?
Isn't Tianzhu not producing silver?
Seeing the second row of the gift list, Li Shimin was a little dissatisfied, there are 100 tons of gold, according to the ratio of gold and silver, the amount of silver is at least five times that of gold, and the silver reserves of the Datang treasury are even ten times that of gold.
But now the amount of silver is not even more than twice that of gold, which is simply unscientific.
Xue Wanche glanced at Li Zhen strangely, and felt a little slanderous in his heart, but after thinking about it, he still decided to explain according to his instructions, and at the same time to make up for the ministers: "Your Majesty, here's the thing, Tianzhu's silver production is actually quite a lot, and the problem is that there are too many of them, plus the number of ships in the fleet is not enough, so we only brought three hundred tons, in fact, in the military camp of Tianzhu, there are nearly six hundred tons of silver piled up, and the overall total amount of silver is not more than 1,000 tons, but I am afraid that it is about the same." ”