Chapter 426 Tax Card
Monk Tianshi ignited a carnival that affected half of the world.
A carnival mainly consisting of defeated soldiers who devoted themselves to temples and were idle, and were supplemented by Fujian and Guangxi merchants who wanted to make a fortune from the chaos.
There are two most critical facts in this carnival. First, Tianshi has money; secondly, Tianshi knows that the Western Military Palace will not stop him.
Tianshi is indeed very rich. He controls the temple property of thousands of temples in Siam, Champa, and Sanxuan. The wealth he handles is far superior to the monarch, and his influence in many Buddhist countries is far greater than that of the monarch.
Even if these temple property is subject to the rules and 90% of them have to be handed over to the military palace, they are still very rich.
The same is true for the military administration to not stop him. Whether in the South China or the West, they actually silently encouraged his actions... Western Shaolin, like the prosperity of Fujian and Guanghe, is a very important source of income for the Second Military Administration.
In other words, it is a very important source of income for the Ming Dynasty.
Because taxes are determined to die, but temple property is not determined to die. It may be more than this month, less next month, and very much next next month.
You are a poor man, you need money, you can find a temple loan, and when you turn over, you will give the temple more money; you are a rich man, born a Buddhist in this land, and will be willing to donate money to the temple; you are a poor man, you don't find a temple loan to be reborn, and you can't afford it after spending the money, so you can send yourself to the temple to pay the debt.
There is no possibility of not returning. First of all, there is a problem that you cannot run out. Secondly, there is no way around you, and there is no way to go.
From birth to death, everything is arranged.
This is even faster than making money in trade.
The temples in China are not managed uniformly, and this abbot does not listen to that abbot, so it is difficult to form such a power. However, in the southwest, Monk Tianshi was once the most powerful religious chief and served as the national teacher of the four kings.
However, he is no longer a national teacher. He has spread all the same in the Central Plains Buddhism in the west. After the Nanyang Military Administration was well managed by the Nanyang Military Administration, the national teachers of various countries became the Nanyang Military Administration and became the subordinate officials of Chen Lin.
The Western Military Palace has less control over the local area, and Buddhism is not fully controlled by heaven and time, so the pace of change is slower.
But this carnival is obviously accelerating the process.
In September, the monk Tianshi used the Six-Class Nanchang ships from the Western Military Palace and more than 200 merchant ships to enter the Ganges River. He approached Patna City and defeated all the Mughal troops outside the city with thousands of Buddhists. Then he blocked the important roads, making the more than 20,000 Mughal troops attacking Bangladesh in the east a lonely army with no baggage after being trapped in the enemy territory.
Although the monk Tianshi had been in the army for twenty years, he had always existed in the army as a pioneer army or a gun coach, and had little experience in leading the army. Under this opportunity of joining the rebels to the east to form a prairie fire, he fearlessly sent Buddhists to the city to scatter into the city to build a large-scale construction and establish many Buddhist lands, as if the war in the east had nothing to do with him.
The information made the war generals such as Qi Jimei, Yang Zhao, Men Chongwen, etc. in the Western Military Palace anxious - he really promoted Buddhism.
But at this time, many Afghan nobles facing Mughal soldiers in the east were not isolated and helpless. The prosperous merchants in Fujian and Guanghe were approaching to dumping them frantically, with old swords, armors, and military supplies purchased by the Sanxuan and Liufu from Myanmar.
As the conflict between the two sides became more and more serious, there were many Fujian and Guangxi merchants who jumped out of the field after the caravan was attacked and attacked the Mughal army. The small conflicts that occurred on land were more defeated and fewer victory, but many rivers were almost completely blocked by merchant ships.
Their merchant ships were equipped with Franc guns and rockets.
There are many rivers in the two provinces, and most of them flow north and south, which almost passively further divided the Mughal army.
Fighting was very easy for the Bangladesh rebels. Even the chiefs of tribes in various places summarized the law of victory - as long as the enemy was driven to the river, there was a high probability that they would be able to receive artillery support from merchants in the Ming Dynasty.
Being trapped in the war in the entire region, people were almost pushed away by the situation. Everyone in all forces felt that they were doing nothing, so they had an easy offensive and defensive force. The Mughal army was divided, disintegrated, encircled, surrendered, and eliminated in an established place.
As time entered October, perhaps the emperor's reply had been sent to Delhi. Akbar tried to negotiate with monk Tianshi and merchants, and the negotiations were successful until the envoy heard that the vanguard army had been eliminated.
But they could not contact the troops that invaded Bihar Province and Bangladesh. After learning that the troops had been completely wiped out, the negotiations broke down and the war entered the second phase.
Of course, there are reasons for the breakdown of the negotiations. He asked Akbar to build forty-four huge stone sculptures in the Red Fort in the name of the fallen monks. This almost required him to engrave the shame of defeat in the capital, and no one would agree to this condition.
Fortunately, Monk Tianshi did not continue to march westward, which gave both sides a chance.
The rebels sent 4,000 troops to continue west along the Ganges River. Before they could walk 200 miles, they were surrounded by local Mughal troops again, and the battle was ineffective.
Akbar, who has always liked to fight in person, made an exception and did not lead the army in the east. It was not that he didn't want to, but that his cousin from the west would invade at any time, making him afraid to push the most elite troops to the east, not to mention that the situation of the war is different in the eyes of all parties.
In Akbar's eyes, the big map was full of red dots.
The Bengal nobles in the east are enemies, the cousin in the west are also enemies, and the Wanzi Army stationed in Patna is even more enemies, and the Western fleets that are eyeing the sea are also enemies... The reason why those big ships remain unmoved is that they do not participate in the war, but are just waiting for themselves to fight and then steal their homes.
It feels bad to have a look of enemies.
But in the eyes of Yin Zhengmao of the Western Military Palace, there was no such thing as the Western Military Palace in this war, so they just watched it quietly.
Therefore, the Western Military Office was very strange and shocked that Akbar began to build coastal defenses on the western coast at this critical moment.
In November of the eighth year of Wanli, Yin Zhengmao sent someone to send a letter to Akbar, repeatedly indicating that the Western Military Office had no intention of participating in the war. He sent it to Akbar Red Fort with his letter, and there was also a message about the fleet transporting the Eastern Expedition Army being sunk by the Ming fleet in the Ganges River. A large ship named Nanchang rushed forward in the water battle, sank, and destroyed twenty-four ships.
The war report was sent directly by Akbar to the Western Military Office of Goa, with a reply letter.
"You also said you have no intention of joining the war!"
Yin Zhengmao couldn't clear the grievances he had jumped into the Yellow River. He didn't plan to reply to Akbar. Anyway, Akbar wouldn't believe anything he said. Then he wanted to try to coordinate the relationship between the two sides to see if Mughal could shake hands with the rebels and make peace. He couldn't control the monk Tianshi, but if the two sides ceased to fight, it might make the monk Tianshi stop his troops.
At this moment, the personal soldiers entered the main hall in a hurry with letters and whispered in Yin Zhengmao's ear: "Master, more than 9,000 monk soldiers from five countries including Siam have arrived at the mouth of the Ganges River in Bangladesh. The monk ship returning from Japan has arrived in Malacca. The King of Japan and Xiao Chen are extremely happy about the news that the Tianshi Mage summoned monk soldiers. The country has begun to mobilize monk soldiers and samurai who are idle. In the next six months, the Western Military Office is ready to receive the most uneasy source of these Japanese countries that may cause unrest."
Chapter completed!