"Abbot, recently, people have reported to the temples in various places that rumors of haunted ghosts have appeared everywhere, and many monks have suffered misfortunes. It was normal, but suddenly they became crazy. They were afraid of people when they saw them, and afraid of dogs when they saw them."

When Ling Chen was sorting out the Civilization Boat to hand him a series of tasks this time, he heard a monk coming and reporting.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Don't panic first. It's bright and bright. There must be something strange about this. You can give instructions first, let the temples in various places stabilize the hearts of the people, investigate secretly, and wait for me to take someone to inspect in person."

Although Ling Chen's body is very old, he is very strong. Assassination is also a compulsory course for monks, so those monks do not feel the difference.

After Ling Chen made temporary disposal, the monk withdrew. He himself thought about the tasks assigned to him by the Civilized Boat this time in the abbot's room. He actually did not take this emergency in his heart. He inspected it himself just to confirm the actual development of the current temples in each department.

"Name: Ling Chen, identity: Abbot of Chongming Temple, Dharma name: Zhikong. Battle World: The battle between farming civilization and nomadic civilization. Temple size: it is very large. Subordinate temples: Chongzhen, Chongyang, Chonghua, Donghua, Xiji, Nanyan, Zhongshan.... The number of people affiliated to the temple: 538,400. Religious school: New Buddhism. Camp: Farming civilization. Camp mission: Promote the current farming civilization to the industrial age without leaking real technology. Time limit: The battle world will enter the cycle of reincarnation in two hundred years and return to its original state."

Ling Chen didn't care about the haunted matter, but the task assigned to him by the Civilization Boat seemed simple, but it was a very complicated proposition.

How the West entered the industrial age was not because of the leadership of a wise leader, but because of the internal driving force of society. First of all, the development of the commercial economy, a group of classes specializing in commercial exchanges to make profits emerged, which was no longer equivalent to previous farmers and handicraftsmen. In the context of great geographical discoveries, this class discovered a broader market and urgently needed more commodities to go to these markets for high profits. The so-called profit is more commodities produced in these markets and more commodities produced in their own markets. Currency is just a representative symbol of these physical objects, which means that they can be exchanged from the market at any time. This is valuable. Currency that cannot be exchanged for real objects has no value.

The newly built colonies and local indigenous people all need to exchange them with goods. Humans want to obtain things from strangers, one is to grab them, and the other is to exchange things that the other is interested in. It’s that simple.

One hand is cannons and muskets, and the other hand is commodities. These two constitute two means to obtain profits. The sharp expansion of demand for commodities has triggered the progress of handicraft industry, marking that the ** piece is the progress of textile technology, and textile is also one of the most traditional and common handicrafts in mankind. It is indispensable to meet people's basic needs for clothing. The newly expanded market and the sharp expansion of demand for fabrics have given the entire era this motivation to promote mechanical reform.

After the mechanical reform, the production efficiency was greatly improved, represented by Jenny's textile machine, which put forward more demands on power. The original hydraulic and manpower could no longer meet the demand for efficiency improvement. Under this high stimulation, the representative invention of the industrial era, such as steam engines, appeared, and then the demand for transportation also appeared. If commodities want to circulate quickly, new modes of transportation, trains, steam locomotives, and steam ships all appeared one after another.

From the evolution of this industrial era, Ling Chen could easily grasp the most core thing. He naturally had a set of ways to advance the agricultural civilization he lived in to the industrial era in two hundred years.

First of all, he needed to understand on the spot where the Han Empire has developed and where the commodity economy has reached its peak. So he took advantage of the rumors of haunted temples in various places and conducted a field investigation.

The Chongming Temple where he is located is in the north, and there are no haunted rumors here. Ling Chen also understands the local situation. After all, the geographical environment is not good enough. The productivity of this place can only meet the basic needs of the local people in terms of grain production and fabric production. The excess grain and fabric are not worth transporting it out for other things under backward transportation, because land transportation consumes too much food and grass, and people eat horses and chew it. The consumption of hundreds of miles is a huge expense. Only some things are specialties locally, but other places need it very much. Only caravans can come and buy it.

Ling Chen first inspected the temples in the north and had in-depth conversations with local monks. Because there were temple fairs around the temples, he could easily see the exchange of goods from these places and learn about the local productivity. The more prosperous the temple fairs were, the stronger the exchange demand, the more people, the more production, and the more demand.

As he expected, most places, the things exchanged at temple fairs were local grain, vegetables, fruits, and some local cloth, agricultural tools, and a few handicraft products. They did not have the value of long-distance transportation and were only suitable for exchanges for dozens of miles around.

Wherever he went, he was naturally very respected. After his transformation, the local temples had already gathered education and charity in one after more than 30 years of development. Each temple had special monks studying agriculture, industry and medicine industries.

After inspecting the northern part, his charity arrived in Chang'an on that day.

"Master Zhikong, the little monk has important things to repay," a young monk with a very handsome appearance came to Ling Chen's wing room in the temple one night, bent down and folded his hands together, and said respectfully to Ling Chen.

"Tell me, Master Wuchen." Ling Chen sat cross-legged and looked up at the monk.

"The little monk always remembers my Buddhist teachings, practices them with all his strengths, and goes deep into the believers. A few days ago, in the Prime Minister's Mansion, I heard Princess Xinping occasionally talk about the current crown prince, which is quite meaningless to destroy the Buddha."

This is not an exaggeration. Ling Chen had heard a lot of similar remarks along the way, which was not beyond his expectations. If monks just ate vegetarian food and chanted Buddha's name, persuaded people to be kind, endured this life and cultivated blessings in the next life, offering a little bit of it would help rule. If there were too many, monks who did not engage in production would waste social wealth. In the long feudal era, there was also the privilege of exempting taxes. As a result, many short-sighted courts took out such monks to trade, which would have a huge social burden, but it would not pose a direct and fundamental threat to the foundation of the rule.
Chapter completed!