Ming Dynasty: Tanks blocked the door and you said to me, "Long live Ming Dynasty"

In other words, the people I am in charge of have committed things that are beyond my control!

The things I'm in charge of are done by people I have no control over!

The Dali Temple and the Shanshiyuan had no reason to interfere in this matter.

But Fang Yuegong directly brought out the Jinyiwei and accused them of misleading people and having bad intentions. This matter is more serious than lending money at high interest!

With the methods used by the Pacification Office, it would not be surprising to find out from them that they were planning a rebellion!

The clerk was about to turn around and leave, but he saw a man emerging from the crowd of people being beaten. It was Abbot Yuehua!

He looked like he was unconscious just now, but now he is alive again!

He crawled in front of Fang Yuegong and pleaded with a sad face.

"grown ups!"

"Please have mercy, sir!"

"I am willing to pay the tax, I am willing to pay the tax!"

"Just ask! As long as you ask, I can make up as much as you want..."

"Don't call the Imperial Guards, otherwise this 200-year-old temple will be completely ruined!"

Chapter 315 Harvest

Looking at Abbot Yuehua's expression, Fang Yuegong raised his leg and kicked him aside.

"Want to make up?"

"late!"

"All the monks in Longfu Temple, don't even think about escaping!"

"I tell you, from now on, everything in this temple is the property of the Ministry of Revenue!"

Abbot Yuehua collapsed to the ground, his face as pale as death.

He racked his brains but couldn't figure out what all this was for!

The petty officials in the Ministry of Revenue were far inferior to the Embroidered Uniform Guards when it came to confiscating property.

Even with the joint efforts of more than a hundred people, it still took them most of the day to build Longfu Temple.

"Sir, follow me!"

A minor official ran over with excitement on his face, grabbed Fang Yuegong and rushed to the back of the main hall.

In a side hall behind Longfu Temple, more than a hundred Buddha statues are neatly arranged.

There are all kinds of shapes, ranging from five or six meters high to as small as one foot high.

Fang Yuegong was pulled here and looked at the Buddha statues, but he didn't pay much attention to them. He even glared at the clerk with dissatisfaction.

"You dragged me here just to see these clay Buddha statues?"

The clerk took out a hammer from his waist with a mysterious look on his face, aimed it at one of the Buddha statues and smashed it into it.

"boom!"

The Buddha statue cracked with a sound, and pieces of mud fell off it.

But the next second, Fang Yuegong couldn't help but widen his eyes and took a breath.

"I'll be a good boy!"

“This, this, this…”

He is no longer able to speak!

As everyone knows, Buddha statues are made of clay and plated with gold.

But the Buddha statues he saw now were completely reversed!

It turned out to be a gold-plated mud!

The outer layer of mud was knocked off, revealing their true appearance.

These more than a hundred Buddha statues are all made of pure gold!

"How much gold is this?"

Fang Yuegong's face turned red and even his breathing became heavy.

But the clerk pulled his arm and ran to another hall again.

"Sir, it's not just here, there's more behind, please follow me!"

Under normal circumstances, this kind of behavior by the petty official would be considered extremely disrespectful, but now, Fang Yuegong has no time to care about it!

The second place is an underground kiln, located behind the Zen room where Abbot Yuehua lives.

It was already noon. After the lid of the cellar was opened, the sunlight poured in, and suddenly a burst of white light was reflected from inside!

In this underground cellar, there were round silver winter melons and silver ingots all over the floor!

Each one of them weighs a thousand taels!

Fang Yuegong jumped down directly, and his left foot accidentally stepped on a silver ingot, which made him grimaced in pain.

He really couldn't have imagined that there would come a day when he would have his feet hurt by silver!

Enduring the pain, he climbed up and looked at everything in front of him with shining eyes.

Just what he saw now, there were no less than thirty silver winter melons!

This does not include the silver ingots scattered under your feet!

This is just a temple, but it has such a great harvest.

What would be the result if all temples across the country were checked?

He no longer dared to think about it!

"quick!"

"Go and invite the Minister!"

"Send this silver out immediately!"

"While those pilgrims are still here, let them see the true face of these bald donkeys!"

A quarter of an hour later, Guo Yunhou and the Embroidered Uniform Guards arrived at the same time.

Looking at the silver winter melon that had been carried out of the cellar, his body trembled as if he had been electrocuted.

"I have always heard that these monks are hypocritical, but now I have finally come to my senses!"

"No wonder the Three Wu Sects want to destroy Buddhism!"

"These seemingly harmless bald donkeys are actually the biggest borers in the world!"

"Captain Yang, I'll leave these bald donkeys to you!"

The Jinyiwei who was in charge of leading the team was Yang Peicong, a centurion of the Northern Pacification Division who had returned the day before yesterday to deliver the imperial edict!

After hearing what Guo Yunhou said, he immediately waved his hand and the Jinyiwei he brought rushed forward and pulled out the monks who were beaten black and blue from the fists and feet of the pilgrims.

But these monks did not have any hope of luck, because they knew very well that after entering the Northern Pacification Office, what awaited them would be torture even more severe than the fists and kicks of the pilgrims!

Fang Yuegong only brought more than a hundred officials with him, but after Guo Yunhou learned the news, he called all the people who could be mobilized from the Ministry of Revenue.

Hundreds of people counted together and soon there were concrete results.

A total of more than 2.7 million taels of silver were seized!

Land deeds for 45,000 acres!

About 80,000 shi of grain!

There are also seventeen shops of various sizes in the city!

In addition, there are 47 clay-shell gold Buddhas, equivalent to 225,000 taels of gold!

At this time, the exchange rate between gold and silver in the Ming Dynasty was about one to eight.

In other words, this time, the confiscation took out 4.5 million taels of silver and money alone from Longfu Temple!

This number made Guo Yunhou stand there in a daze for a long time before he slowly came back to his senses.

And the first words he said after he woke up were to give orders to Fang Yuegong.

"Investigate Guangji Temple immediately!"

"This time, I will go with you!"

The gate of Longfu Temple, which had been closed for most of the day, was finally opened again.

The pilgrims who were gathered outside the door waiting to come in and burn incense looked at the team of officials coming out with confusion.

They were not surprised to see officials coming in and out of Longfu Temple.

However, the silver winter melons and pure gold statues that the petty officials carried out made them dumbfounded!

Damn it!

How could these monks accumulate so much wealth?

"Brother, what happened in this temple?"

A commoner saw a pilgrim coming out and hurried forward to ask.

The pilgrim pointed at the monk being taken away by the Royal Guards with disdain and said, "What else could it be!"

"I came here every first and fifteenth day of every month to burn incense, but my wish was not answered. The monk said that I was not sincere, and I almost believed him!"

"Thanks to the imperial court's intervention, I now know that these monks are fakes who only take money but do not do anything!"

"Look, do you know how much money they found in Longfu Temple?"

"A full four and a half million taels!"

"And that doesn't even include food and land deeds!"

"hiss......."

When the people surrounding the temple heard this, they all gasped in unison.

next moment!

"Smash these bald asses to death!"

Someone in the crowd shouted, and immediately someone took out the fruits prepared for the Buddha and threw them at the imprisoned monk.

Snapped!

A ripe melon hit a monk's forehead with incredible precision, splattering everywhere.

Yang Peicong quickly caught a slightly larger piece, put it in his mouth, took a bite, and squinted his eyes in enjoyment.

"Mmm...sweet!"

As a result, he was hit on the cheek by a green apple after only three seconds of trying to be cool.

Then, there was another gust of wind. He caught half a leg of lamb flying from the crowd and then pointed at the crowd and shouted.

"Fuck!"

"You don't want your life!"

"Can you look more carefully before you hit it?"

"They even offered lamb legs to the Buddha as tribute. I wonder if these guys are vegetarians?"

As soon as he finished speaking, he took a big bite of the lamb leg.

Don’t say it yet!

The cooking temperature is well controlled. It is crispy on the outside and tender on the inside. In one word, it is delicious!

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Longfu Temple is to the east of the imperial palace, while Guangji Temple is to the west of the imperial palace.