Wanli Youming

Chapter 453 Kiyojo Temple Field

Chapter 453 Kiyojo Temple Field

Under the gray sky, hundreds of mule carts circled the vast white land, with the Yedian where Chen Jingbang was located as the center.

Chen Jingbang looked at Zhang Maoxiu: "Where would I have these treasures!"

Zhang Maoxiu smiled: "I still don't admit it!"

As he said that, Zhang Maoxiu ordered loudly: "Pull up the curtain of the car and let him have a look."

"Yes!"

After a while, Chen Jingbang saw that the monks and nuns who took care of his money were all tied up on the mule cart with carts of money.

"In recent years, the military salary sent from the Ministry of War has always been so short by [-] to [-]%, but the whereabouts have not been found. It seems that the Minister of the Ministry of War has never directly received it, but why is it that when it is shipped to the border towns It's two or three percent short."

"It took us a long time to find out. It turns out that the father directly handed over the lost military salary to some monasteries halfway!"

"These monasteries also lend money for the public!"

"Mr. Rang's income is getting higher and higher year by year, so that Mr. Rang probably doesn't even know how many silver dollars he has."

"We did the calculations for the public, and the total is 560 taels of silver!"

"But we didn't attack the public rashly, because we were afraid that apart from the monastery we found, there would be other temples hiding silver coins for the public."

"We can only catch all the silver dollars when I want to leave Beijing and dig out all the silver dollars from the cellars of various temples and nunneries and bring them back to my hometown."

As Zhang Maoxiu said, he patted the snow on his shoulders: "To keep an eye on the public and family members, we Jinyiwei have spent a lot of effort! There are 20 people suffering from frostbite alone!"

"Zhang Maoxiu!"

Chen Jingbang suddenly pointed and shouted, and then asked: "Why are you two brothers so excessive!"

"You have never been so serious about investigating corruption. Before you came, Jin Yiwei was not so serious. I have already been dismissed. Why are you still chasing after me!"

"Is the country short of 500 million taels of silver now?!"

Chen Jingbang asked Zhang Maoxiu loudly.

Zhang Maoxiu asked loudly: "Then my father passed away back then, why did you pursue him so hard?!"

Chen Jingbang was silent for a while, and then said: "It's Shilin's fault for your father's matter, but what you are doing now is really bad! It's a bad atmosphere!"

"It's good to have a bad atmosphere."

"We just want you to be afraid and know the consequences of not showing affection."

"Only now that you regret the conspiracy against our Zhang family back then, will you know that you can't do that to the Shen family now!"

Zhang Maoxiu laughed and said, and then ordered: "Take it away!"

Chen Jingbang was also detained and asked: "Is it really okay for you to do this? It is obvious that your majesty has presided over the digging of the ancestral graves of your mansion and the intention of many scholars in your mansion to ransack your family and exterminate your family. To be fair, the car that should be cracked has already been cracked, and even the capital and auxiliary such as Zhang Puzhou have been liquidated because of this, why are you still not finished?"

"Yes! Today, because of my teacher's love, I value your Zhang family very much, but you are not afraid that after your majesty, the new emperor will favor the scholar-officials who are dissatisfied with the reform, so they will continue to intensify their revenge on your Zhang family. ?”

"Why are you so unwell?"

"Zhao Bulang has already taken the initiative to ask for officials and nobles for you, to show the meaning of Shilin cultivation, why don't you appreciate it, don't you know how to be with the light?"

Chen Jingbang said everything he wanted to say because he knew he had no way out.

He really hoped that the Zhang brothers would know how to compromise, how to adapt, and how to stop, after all, they themselves are like this.

"The cabinet clears the temple, Jin Yiwei suppresses corruption, what's wrong, it's all for the country and the people."

Zhang Maoxiu only asked with a smile.

Chen Jingbang closed his eyes and was speechless.

……

However, the decree of Qingsi Guananyuan is still being implemented, and it has developed from Shuntian Prefecture to the whole country.

Even Jiangnan began to investigate.

"Check it out now!"

"It's really unexpected that such a large stretch of high-class polder fields is all this Huiyuanan hidden field!"

Li Hualong looked at Miaotong, the abbot of Huiyuan Nunnery who was escorted here, and said: "The key point is that ten thousand mu of hidden land is not enough, you old nun even cooperates with human traffickers to buy girls to pick up guests, maybe you will be sentenced to death, it is not justified! "

Miaotong chuckled and said, "Whether the old parents really don't know or really don't care, I, an old nun, can eat so much hidden land, dare to buy people from human traffickers, just wait, even if I want my head to fall, you In the future, it will also follow the head to the ground!"

Li Hualong also laughed: "It's not your turn to worry about my fate."

As Li Hualong said, he walked to the edge of the field and asked Lu Lizhi, a humble scholar who was in charge of helping the imperial government to clear up the temple fields and the monks and nuns in the monastery, and said, "How long will it take to finish the clearing?"

"It will take three days anyway."

"There are still too few people who understand mathematics and science. Students have to teach while learning. In addition, there are indeed too many fields in this temple."

"Many of our official families are inferior to them."

Lu Lizhi said.

Li Hualong nodded after hearing this, but didn't say anything more.

But Lu Lizhi said at this time: "You can know that the Longfu Temple in Nancheng occupies more temple land, and we will have to work hard at that time."

"No matter how hard you work, you have to investigate. Since the emperor's order has been issued, those who should be returned to the people must be returned to the people!"

Li Hualong said something.

"You really dare to do it publicly! No matter how hard the students wait, it's worth it!"

Lu Lizhi said with a smile and immediately ran to the field to start measuring.

In fact, there are groups who support this policy to clean up Buddhist temples this time, and those who support this policy are many common people landlords and self-cultivating farmers.

Because the temples and nunneries have seriously violated their interests since they colluded with the high officials and gentry and became the trust of the high officials and gentry, causing them to have a backlog of rent and loan interests, and at worst, they were forced to bear more taxes and even their fields were destroyed. encroachment.

As a result, poor scholars from this class were particularly active in assisting the government to clean up Buddhist temples.

Especially in the south of the Yangtze River, many people study, so there are more poor families who support the cleaning of Buddhist temples.

Meanwhile, Ying Tiantong and Mei Guolou, who came with Li Hualong, said to Li Hualong at some point: "Actually, what the old nun said is right, you should think about the consequences."

"It's not that serious. After all, we are imperial officials who came from Jinshi background, and we only acted on the orders of the emperor, so we won't be decapitated. As long as we don't directly harm the people in the scholar forest, we won't even be exiled from the army; on the contrary, the higher-ups took the initiative." The ruling of this matter will be used as a warning to others because of leading this matter!"

"But it's hard to say, after all, Zhang Taiyue also died well."

Li Hualong said.

Mei Guolou said: "But don't be afraid of [-], just in case, after all, this is something that offends people."

"I've thought about what you said, but it's because it's something that offends people, and I'm just doing things under orders. The more thorough it is, the better, if you can cut off some powerful minions, cut off more, lest there will be no chance in the future!"

"After all, it is true that it is not certain. Shen Xiangguo, who is presiding over this matter, really gave up because he felt that there was too much resistance, which made this policy come to an abrupt end!"

Li Hualong instructed Mei Guolou to say: "That old nun has committed a heinous crime. She has caused so many girls to be tortured to death, but she has been fine. It is obviously a pawn of some powerful and wealthy gentry. After you go back, let her be violently killed in the cell, so as not to get her." Time really can't kill it, it can't get rid of this scourge!"

Mei Guolou nodded: "Okay, that's simple! You're right. No one knows whether the ruling Shen Xiangguo and others will suddenly stop this matter. It's a good thing to take advantage of this time to clean up those who work for tigers!"

So, that night, the old nun of Huiyuan Nunnery died violently in prison without anyone noticing.

……

"Yuanfu, do you know how many monks and nuns in the locality died suddenly?"

"The whole people are panicked!"

Shen Zimu, the censor of Yuyang, also mentioned to Shen Shixing the implementation of the clean-up of Buddhist temples this day, and said: "Besides, because Haigangfeng is in charge of the official department, the local officials he selected are obviously intentional. With the brand name of the public, it is too strict, so many monks and nuns died suddenly."

"And no one knows how many dignitaries and gentry are involved behind these famous monks and nuns, but what is clear is that if things go on like this, people in the world may hate them deeply!"

"Especially letting Hai Gangfeng take charge of the official department will only make the public fear that Zhang Taiyue will be in danger."

Shen Shixing said with a smile: "Didn't the Grand Master die well?"

"That's just because I respect the teacher's morality today."

"But can you compare yourself to the Grand Master?"

Shen Zimu asked.

(End of this chapter)