It is not easy to prepare five million taels of cash silver and five hundred large silver boxes. Most of the silver smelting workshops piled up in various places in Yinshan are unrefined silver mines, and only three of the real cash silver have been collected. Millions had to be transferred from the treasuries of Izumo and Iwami to make up the amount.
It took a month to collect, count, and ship. Five container ships, escorted by Tingfeng Daoren and Yang Xianxian, sailed to the South Island for delivery. So, everyone began to wait silently, waiting for possible changes in the situation. Of course, there may be no changes at all.
The high-ranking cultivators gathered in Yingzhou suddenly disappeared one by one. Even the Qingqiu Army on the South Island also ceased its activities and no longer had any active military offensive, waiting to be adapted by the Taoist sect.
In May, the Governor-General of Yingzhou, Daomen, issued an adaptation method. This method was approved by Old Man Hu, who signed his name on the edict.
The adaptation of the Qingqiu Army is divided into three steps. First, the five spiritual eyes that have been discovered in the South Island are divided. According to the list of meritorious service awards provided by Old Man Hu, they are awarded to the top five casual cultivators with the greatest merit. They took the lead in establishing five sects, and those who were willing to live a stable life of spiritual practice could voluntarily sign up to join one of them. The five sects jointly applied for the establishment of the South Island Gym in the form of a presbytery.
In the second step, the Ming army will absorb some of them into the army, or join the Yingzhou squadron, or join the Yingzhou Dusi, or even be assigned to important positions in the garrison.
If you are unwilling to accept the above two options, you can choose to leave and receive a considerable severance pay based on the merit level assessed by Old Man Hu. It is expected to pay two million taels, which will be advanced by the Governor's Office in the early stage and will be paid later from the mining of Yinshan. fill.
In the end, more than 260 monks and their subordinates from the Qingqiu Army joined the Nandao Gym, more than 180 monks and their subordinates were absorbed into the Ming Army, and more than 300 monks and their subordinates chose to leave¡ª - Some people returned to their homes in the East China Sea and the South China Sea, while others were recruited by Wutong Taoist, Zhang Zheng and Qingshan Taoist to take a boat to the west to start their adventure.
After the adaptation is completed, the actual control scope of Daomen in Yingzhou includes the Kanto area of ??the main island, all of the North Island, and all of the South Island. The population of the occupied area reaches 5 million.
While Zhao Ran was building various Taoist temples and Taoist temples, he wrote to Jian Ji Guan in the name of the Governor's Palace and recruited Taoist priests from the jungles in all directions to come to Yingzhou to preach.
As soon as the recruitment news was released, applicants were extremely enthusiastic, almost to the point of breaking their scalps - because everyone heard that Pastor Zhao Zhiran was serving as a consultant in Yingzhou, and also heard that he would enter visualization charts for the candidates to preach, and they could start immediately Practice instead of occupying the pitiful admission quota every year.
The recruitment quota given by the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion expanded to 500 people, but it was still far lower than the number of applicants. Jian Jiguan had no choice but to divide them into provinces, with thirty quotas in each province. The rest will be deployed within Jianji Temple. The Taoist priests of Jianji Temple have been waiting eagerly for a long time. If you don't solve the problem of the original temple, who will have the heart to work for you?
In the past, Zhao Ran had reached private agreements with various provinces, and had never considered Jian Ji Guan. In the seventh and eighth years of Longqing, many Taoist priests from Jian Ji Guan submitted reports one after another and voluntarily requested to "go to the grassroots level", even if they were demoted. No matter what. For a time, Zhang Yuanji couldn't stop this trend at the grassroots level. In desperation, he had no choice but to communicate with Zhao Yunyi, the governor of the metropolitan area, and got the quota of ten places every year.
It is said that after the quota of Taoist priests in Shifang Jungle in Yingzhou was allocated to each province, the Taoist temples in each province could not withstand the craze. The annual exam was just around the corner, so they combined and expanded the quota by thirty, which solved the problem.
When the five hundred Taoist priests who passed the examination arrived in Yingzhou by boat, a large number of Taoist temples and Taoist temples that had been renovated and built in Yingzhou were empty, waiting for people to go in and preach. Zhao Ran did not waste any time and worked hard for a month to introduce them to the path of cultivation and send them to their respective posts.
The arrival of this group of professional evangelists immediately changed the preaching situation in Yingzhou. Professionalism is professionalism, and it is not a bit better than the monks who were half-baked monks and rushed into battle temporarily. The data fed back by Jiuzhou Pavilion shows that in September, The average data soared by 30% and doubled in October!
But as these Taoist priests settled in Yingzhou, the overall attention to the war in Yingzhou also increased. Zhang Yuanji sent letters to the Yingzhou Governor's Mansion many times to inquire about the progress of the war.
Although the three-year period was set at the time, it has only been a year and a half now. However, in the face of inquiries, the Governor-General's Office could not be too perfunctory. After reporting to Ming Zhao, the fleet landed on Dongdao at the end of November. Taking this large island with a population of more than 300,000 people under his control was regarded as a major victory, and he reported his victory to the True Master Hall.
The victory report stated that after three months of meticulous preparations, our Yingzhou Squadron and the Yingzhou Dusi joined forces and united as one to break through the natural barriers of Kanmon Gorge and land at Yawatahama.Success! The army marched eastward, conquering Xiyu and Dazhou, dividing the enemy's heavy group into northern and southern parts. On the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, the commanding officer Zeng Ruming personally came to the arrow formation. Thousands of Song Xiong horses entered the enemy camp, and the army used their lives to defeat ten thousand enemies stubbornly entrenched in Tosa. The enemy troops were in disarray and spread all over the mountains and plains.
After defeating the enemy in Tosa, the enemy's northern group was frightened and fled away from Matsuyama. Our army pursued them, defeated Kochi again, and surrounded the enemy in Kagawa.
The victory report also said that after the New Year, a psychological offensive against the enemy of Kagawa will be launched. God is kind and the army cannot bear to kill and strive to make the enemy surrender spontaneously.
In fact, this is not fabricated out of thin air. All the marching routes and fighting locations are correct. The only problem is that the number of soldiers has been expanded ten times.
While Zhao Ran was instructing the Governor's Mansion to delay, he was also anxiously waiting for the changes that everyone was looking forward to. But unfortunately, it has been more than half a year since the five million silver was delivered to Qingqiu. But it never came, and even the Nazhen Fairy Boy, who often appeared in front of people last year, had no movement, and had not appeared for a long time.
Duanmu Chongqing, Lord Hongze, Pan Yuanjun, and Xu Yun'ao were all in retreat in the Eight Gods Peak, while Chen Shandao returned to Dujiao Mansion. When Zhao Ran talked about this issue during the exchange with his flying talisman, Chen Shandao said: "No Movement is the biggest change, so be patient."
So Zhao Ran settled down and continued to wait, until Longqing came eleven years later.
Jiuzhou Pavilion released the world's credibility last year. In the tenth year of Longqing, the world's credibility continued to grow, reaching 2.98 billion, only one step away from 3 billion, which made Zhou Zhenren feel a little regretful. This number was unimaginable before, but it was also within Zhao Ran's expectation.
The population of Ming Dynasty increased rapidly in the past ten years, which provided a strong impetus for the growth of credibility. The exact amount of population growth remains to be calculated every six years, that is, next year.
Thinking about it, time flies by really fast.
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