Three days later.
Kou Ji led three thousand soldiers and horses to the Daxiangguo Temple.
The street where the Daxiangguo Temple was located was surrounded by water.
The door of Daxiangguo Temple was closed tightly.
Kou Ji sent a siege to open the gate of Daxiangguo Temple.
The huge vermilion lacquered wooden door was chipped to pieces.
The people rushed to the street where the Daxiangguo Temple was located to watch.
Koj sent people to drive them out of here.
After the gate of Daxiangguo Temple was broken open, Kou Ji personally rushed in.
From the gate of the temple to the gate of the Daxiong Hall, there was no one on the way.
It was only after reaching the entrance of the Daxiong Hall that I saw the figure of a great monk.
Kou Ji straddled the stone steps at the entrance of the Great Hall of Heroes, and Le Ma stopped in front of the great monk.
After Kojlema, the great monk bowed his head and proclaimed a Buddha's name.
"Amitabha Buddha, don't you come here unharmed?"
"Eat enough and sleep soundly. Master Chen Chen has been in Daxiangguo Temple for less than a month. Master should not interfere with Daxiangguo Temple."
Kou Ji jumped off his horse and paced in front of the great monk.
The great monk saluted Kou Ji again with a benevolent face, "How can I live in it?"
"In that case, the master is going to intervene in the affairs of Daxiangguo Temple?"
Kou Ji stared at the great monk and asked.
The great monk nodded slowly.
Kou Ji nodded and said: "Very good, then please ask the master to hand over all the accounts, land deeds, real estate deeds, and monks list of Daxiangguo Temple."
The great monk stared at Kou Ji and said, "Daxiangguo Temple is a national temple, but a place outside the square."
"Guo Temple, that was before, but it's not anymore. It's a place outside? It's self-styled? I've only heard that the whole world is not a king's land. Daxiangguo Temple is within the king's land and is subject to the court's laws. Legal constraints."
Kou Ji said coldly.
The monk frowned, "The monks in Daxiangguo Temple have not violated the law..."
"There is no violation, you have to check it before you know it."
Kou Ji said coldly and waved to the soldiers and horses behind him.
The soldiers and horses behind Kou Ji immediately prepared to break into the Hall of the Great Heroes with swords, guns, swords and halberds.
The great monk's expression changed, he stopped in front of the soldiers and horses, and said solemnly to Kou Ji: "What is the difference between Kou's benefactor's move and the robber?"
Kou Ji coldly snorted: "Do you think I brought my soldiers and horses to reason with you Daxiangguo Temple?"
The great monk saw that Kou Ji had to forcefully break into the Great Hall of Heroes, so he took out something from his arms.
"The purpose of Emperor Taizong's canonization of Daxiangguo Temple as a national temple is here. As a minister of the Song Dynasty, dare to not follow Emperor Taizong's will?"
The imperial decree looked a little old, but it blinked very much.
Kou Ji stared at the imperial edict and squinted.
"Does Daxiangguo Temple want to transcend the secular world by virtue of Emperor Taizong's will?"
Seeing that Kou Ji was shocked by the imperial decree, the great monk immediately said: "Daxiangguo Temple is a place outside the world."
Kou Ji said coldly: "Since it is a place outside the secular, you shouldn't leave those obstructions in vain. Daxiangguo Temple will hand over those obstructions. I can ask the official to really let Daxiangguo Temple detach from it Outside the world."
The great monk stared at Kou Ji and said in a deep voice: "Daxiangguo Temple did not do any evil, why should Kou benefactors bitterly force each other."
Kou Ji snorted coldly: "If you have done anything wrong, I will know after checking."
The great monk held up the imperial edict and said: "There is Emperor Taizong's will here, how do you find it?"
Kou Ji smiled coldly, "Do you think that if you take out Emperor Taizong's will, you will eat me?"
The great monk had no words, but the imperial decree was held up high by him.
Kou Ji turned around, and said to the hundreds of soldiers behind him: "Unarmored!"
Hundreds of soldiers rushed out of their armour.
After Kou Ji waited for hundreds of soldiers and horses to disarm, he said coldly: "From the moment you disarm, you are no longer my soldiers and horses of Song. You can be bandits or bandits. Later, the court. The maritime arrest document will be issued to arrest you.
You can flee south or north. "
As soon as these words came out, there was no change in the expressions on the faces of hundreds of soldiers and horses.
Instead, the monk's face became very ugly.
The great monk stared at Kou Ji angrily and said, "Can Kou Shizhu hide his ears and steal the bell from the world?"
Kou Ji sneered: "I have a million soldiers and horses in the Song Dynasty. There are banned troops and local soldiers and horses. It is inevitable that there will be some unevenness between good and bad, and some rebels are uncommon.
What if the world believes it or not
Did they shake my position, or could they kill them? "
Speaking of this, Kou Ji was too lazy to continue talking with the great monk, he slowly raised his hand.
When the monk saw this, his eyes widened in surprise.
"Amitabha!"
A Buddha horn sounded in the Daxiong Hall, and an old monk slowly walked out of it.
Seeing Kou Ji, he asked, "Does Priscilla Kou plan to kill evil in my Buddhist clean land?"
Kou Ji knew the old monk. The old monk was the presiding officer of the Daxiangguo Temple, and the real person in the Daxiangguo Temple.
Kou Ji stared at the old monk and said, "I don't want to kill people, but some people are ignorant, so I can only send him to death."
The old monk narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Is Priscilla Kou planning to kill with the donor who stayed in the Daxiangguo Temple?"
Kou Ji raised his brows, "Are you threatening me?!"
The old monk slowly shook his head, "How dare the poor monk threaten Kou Shumi, the poor monk just wants Kou Shumi to let go of those innocent benefactors."
Kou Ji chuckled, "You threatened me with their lives, but now you are asking me to let them go. It's really a good plan."
The old monk proclaimed the Buddha's name without words.
Kou Ji didn't say a word, just a few cold lights flashed in his eyes, and he slowly raised his hand.
The pupils of the old monk and the great monk shrank together.
"Please Kou Shu secretly enter the Great Hall of Heroes!"
The old monk hurriedly shouted.
Kou Ji snorted coldly, "You must force me to be cruel! This year the number of monks recruited from Daxiangguo Temple has been cut by half."
The old monk and the great monk thought that they could use the hostages and Emperor Taizong's decree to force Kou Ji to stop.
However, Kou Ji was not threatened at all.
When you say you want to do it, you are ready to do it, not at all ambiguous.
In the end, they succumbed to the oppression of Kou Ji's force.
Although there are many monks in Daxiangguo Temple, they are not worth mentioning compared to the five thousand elite soldiers Kou Ji brought over.
If you really want to start, the nature is completely different.
At that time, there will be no living people in Daxiangguo Temple, no one can say.
"Human! Come out to work!"
Kou Ji was not invited to enter the Daxiong Hall.
Instead, he shouted at the household officials who followed behind him.
The officials of the household department stepped out, and under the support of soldiers and horses, entered the Great Hall of the Great Heroes.
Kou Ji waved his hand to the armored soldiers and horses behind him after the household officials entered the Daxiong Hall.
Armed soldiers rushed to all parts of the Daxiangguo Temple and searched the Daxiangguo Temple.
The old monk watched the household officials and soldiers and horses rushed into the Daxiangguo Temple, closed his eyes in pain, and kept proclaiming the Buddha's name.
Kou Ji stood at the gate of the Great Hall of Heroes and waited.
Not long after, the household officials appeared outside the Daxiong Hall with piles of accounts.
Kou Ji ordered the household officials to count on the spot.
It didn't take long.
The soldiers who had gone to search returned and sent a stack of accounts to Kou Ji.
The old monk looked sallow after seeing the pile of accounts.
Seeing this, Kou Ji stepped forward and looked through it.
Then he raised one of the accounts and sarcastically said to the old monk: "Daxiangguo Temple is really a place outside of the country, and it actually puts the stamp money, the amount is not small."
The old monk had no words, but slowly closed his eyes and announced the Buddha's name.
Kou Ji ordered the accounts to be sent to the officials of the Ministry of Households and the officials of the Ministry of Households would count them.
Just as the household officials quickly counted the accounts, another officer came to report.
"Kou Shu Mi, the people at the Bei level and others found two granaries and a money vault in the Daxiangguo Temple."
"Move out everything inside! By the way, all the eminent monks in Daxiangguo Temple are invited out."
"Hey..."
According to Kou Ji's order, the soldiers moved out the grain in the granary of Daxiangguo Temple and the money in the vault.
Thousands of people moved a full three hours before they emptied their contents.
The things moved out piled up two hills on the open space at the entrance of the Daxiong Hall.
Kou Ji glanced roughly, and the food was more than a million shi.
Most of the money is made of gold, silver and jewellery, and I haven't seen any copper coins.
Seeing this, Kou Ji walked to the officials of the Ministry of Households and asked: "Check what name the Daxiangguo Temple used to deposit money in Yizijiaozipu."
At present, copper coins are the mainstream currency. There are not many coins found in the Daxiangguo Temple, which means that the Daxiangguo Temple has hidden the copper coins elsewhere.
Daxiangguo Temple has the business of putting printing money, so it is impossible for them to bury those money underground. The most likely thing is to store it in Yizijiaozipu.
According to Kou Ji's instructions, the officials of the Ministry of Households searched through the account books and finally found a full sixteen names for depositing money.
Sixteen people who have no reputation in Bianjing have huge sums of money deposited under their names.
Kou Ji wrote a handwritten note on the spot, and ordered people to send it to Zhao Zhen, so that Zhao Zhen ordered the word Jiaozipu to send all the money under the names of these sixteen people to the Daxiangguo Temple.
The old monk saw Kou Ji's actions and said with a sad expression: "Kou Shimi, my Daxiangguo Temple did not have a close complaint with Kou Shi, why did Kou Shimi drive my Daxiangguo Temple to exterminate
Kou Ji heard the old monk's words and said lightly: "I didn't kill people in your Daxiangguo Temple. How can I kill them all? Besides, you keep saying that Buddhism is a clean place, so why are you afraid of people watching it?"
The old monk gritted his teeth and said: "The empress dowager is also a pilgrim in my Daxiangguo Temple! The poor monk has sent someone to invite the empress dowager."
Kou Ji's face became cold, "You take the empress dowager to crush me?!"
The old monk said solemnly: "Don't dare, just ask Priscilla Kou to save some face for my Daxiangguo Temple. All the money in Daxiangguo Temple can be dedicated to the court."
Kou Ji coldly snorted: "Then you go and invite the empress dowager to see if the empress dowager will give you a chance at Daxiangguo Temple."
Seeing Kou Ji's attitude, the old monk gritted his teeth and kept his mouth shut.
Daxiangguo Temple has always been declared to be a clean place for Buddhism.
But whether it is a clean place or not, the old monk knew in his heart.
Right now, Kou Ji used force to subdue Daxiangguo Temple and clear the property of Daxiangguo Temple.
The wealth accumulated by Daxiangguo Temple for decades will be exposed to everyone.
Following the investigation of the money, any evil things Daxiangguo Temple has done will be dug up.
At that time, the reputation of Daxiangguo Temple will be completely ruined.
The old monk wanted to resist, but under the pressure of Kou Ji's force, all his resistance was almost useless.
The only thing you can rely on now is the empress dowager.
The old monk now only hopes that the empress dowager can be there sooner.
Kou Ji saw the old monk's mind, but there was no word.
Because Kou Ji knew that it was impossible for Queen Mother Li to appear in Daxiangguo Temple.
The old monk could not directly pass a message to the Queen Mother Li, but could only send a message to the Queen Mother through some pilgrims in the powerful mansion, as well as the eunuchs in the palace and the pilgrims in Gong Ezhong.
And these people have long been stared at by the Wu Desi dispatched by Zhao Zhen.
Queen Mother Li herself was also invited by Zhao Zhen to take a cruise on Jinming Lake.
No one will help Daxiangguo Temple, and it is impossible for Queen Mother Li to appear at Daxiangguo Temple.
When Queen Mother Li learned that the Daxiangguo Temple had changed, Kou Ji had already cleaned up the Daxiangguo Temple.
Use the power of the imperial court to deal with a temple. Apart from getting down and being beaten, the temple has no spare power to resist.
After several hours of counting.
Officials of the Ministry of Households have already counted the money and accounts of Daxiangguo Temple.
After checking the accounts, the household officials in charge of checking the accounts were all shocked.
"Qizhen Kou Secret Secretary, Daxiangguo Temple has 2.3 million stones on the account of grain. One million of the stones are stored in Daxiangguo Temple, and the remaining 1.3 million stones are stored in the farmhouse in Daxiangguo Temple outside the city of Bianjing. .
Daxiangguo Temple has 3,541 acres of farmland in the north of the city, and 1,867 acres of farmland in the south of the city... In addition, in the counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, there are also farmland products of Daxiangguo Temple...
The total farmland of Daxiangguo Temple is 67,362 acres.
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Daxiangguo Temple has 32 paved houses, 18 houses and 6 other houses in Bianjing.
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Daxiangguo Temple has put money for printing stamps for many years, and the accumulated money is as many as tens of millions. Some of the money has been purchased for land, some of the money is left in Daxiangguo Temple, and some of the money is stored in the Yizijiaozipu.
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According to the overall planning, all the properties and money of the Daxiangguo Temple are counted together, totaling 26.53 million Guans, of which 3.67 million Guans are used as evidence, and the money has been released to the private sector by the Daxiangguo Temple. .
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The household officials were not shocked.
It's only a monastery, and its assets have reached 26.53 million.
Fully reached one-fifth of the current tax of the Song Dynasty.
Such a shocking figure is enough to shock everyone up and down the Song Dynasty.
Zhang Zhibai played the official family, bluntly said that there are many malignant tumors in the temples in the world, and some temples have made a lot of money.
Some people in the court felt that Zhang Zhibai's words were a bit exaggerated.
Now seeing the amazing wealth of Daxiangguo Temple, the household officials felt that what Zhang Zhibai had said before in the court was not exaggerated at all, not only not exaggerated, but even implicit.
"Two thousand six and five hundred and thirty thousand?!"
When Kou Ji heard this number, he was also taken aback.
He had long known that Daxiangguo Temple had amassed huge wealth and was so rich, but when he heard the total assets of Daxiangguo Temple, his heart still followed.
Daxiangguo Temple is just a temple, and the wealth it collects is a bit scary.
Not only is it beyond the cognition of all Song people, but also beyond the cognition of Kou Ji.
Kou Ji had no words, and he stepped forward to the pile of accounts that had already been checked, and read it carefully.
Kou Ji looked through the accounts for a full hour before figuring out why Daxiangguo Temple was able to amass so much money.
Daxiangguo Temple is like a brave, you can only get in and can't get out.
The food used on weekdays is all produced in the fields of Daxiangguo Temple.
People from Daxiangguo Temple do not need to go out to buy things like firewood, rice, oil, and salt.
The pilgrims from the wealthy houses in Bianjing will worship these things at all times.
The number of monks in Daxiangguo Temple is limited, so most of the food produced in Daxiangguo Temple, as well as the firewood, rice, oil and salt delivered by the pilgrims, were sold by them.
None of the shops of Daxiangguo Temple in Bianjing are rented out.
They are all operated by people from Daxiangguo Temple, and they sell food, firewood, rice, oil and salt in Daxiangguo Temple.
Sometimes pilgrims sell things at the grain shop operated by Daxiangguo Temple and deliver them to Daxiangguo Temple, where they will be sold again, and they will go back and forth three or five times. When things become old, Daxiangguo Temple will sell them at a low price. To the people.
After going back and forth several times, Daxiangguo Temple used one thing and made money several times.
It is only those food companies that contribute a large sum of money to Daxiangguo Temple every year.
In addition, the incense and vegetarian dishes provided by the Daxiangguo Temple to the pilgrims are all very expensive, and a bowl of plain noodles often dares to charge hundreds of dollars. Every age can also earn a large amount of income for Daxiangguo Temple.
When the pilgrims from the wealthy families in Bianjing added sesame oil money and gave things to the Daxiangguo Temple, they almost sprinkled it out without hesitation.
Please give another statue of Buddha and light it up.
The money spent in Daxiangguo Temple is even more.
These incomes add up to make a lot of money for Daxiangguo Temple.
Daxiangguo Temple earns the most money from printing.
A few million dollars of money can be rolled out, and it can increase by 30% to 50%.
Therefore, each year's income from Daxiangguo Temple adds up to a huge sum of money.
It has been more than fifty years since the Song Dynasty aspired to the world.
Daxiangguo Temple has also made more than 50 years of money.
After more than 50 years of accumulation, it has naturally become a huge number.
After reading the accounts, Kou Ji paced to the old monk, "I always knew that the temple was rich, but I didn't expect that the temple was so rich."
The old monk's face was like frost, without saying a word.
Kou Ji didn't let the old monk let him go because he didn't say a word. He stared at the old monk and said, "When you collected the money from the seal, did you do evil? Many people in Kaifeng Mansion are forcing people to pay off their debts, causing lifelessness. Koan, the culprit should be found."
The old monk's expression became gloomy for an instant.
Kou Ji did not pay attention to him, but instructed the people behind him: "Go to Kaifeng Mansion and ask Kaifeng Mansion Quan Quan to bring people over to investigate the matter. By the way, send someone to urge the people at Jiaozipu to let them Send the money from Daxiangguo Temple as soon as possible.
After the people at Yizijiaozipu delivered the money from Daxiangguo Temple, they opened the gate of Daxiangguo Temple, let the people in, and let them take a good look at whether this place of Buddhist monastery was pure or not. "
"Kou Ji! The poor monk has already offered all his money to the court, what else do you want?"
The old monk finally couldn't help but yelled out.
Kou Ji snorted coldly, "Want me to keep your face in Daxiangguo Temple to conceal the ugly things you did? You want to be beautiful! When you send people to defile Zhang Zhibai's reputation, do you keep your hands
You have not kept your hands on dealing with a clean and honest person.
Why should I keep my hands against you filthy people? "
The old monk opened his mouth to argue, so he listened to Kou Ji sneer and said, "Don’t tell me, what happened at Zhang Zhibai’s Mansion has nothing to do with your Daxiangguo Temple. You Daxiangguo Temple can collect money in Bianjing city like this, and the people below help you do things. , I am afraid that it has already exceeded a thousand people.
You should all be aware of any disturbances in other temples in the city of Bianjing.
Therefore, even if the affairs of Zhang Mansion were not done by your Daxiangguo Temple, your Daxiangguo Temple is one of the insiders. "
The old monk was speechless after hearing Kou Ji's words.
The old monk is also a eloquent person.
But standing in front of the huge amount of money, he couldn't say a word.
Seeing that the old monk stopped speaking, Kou Ji did not speak again.
He waited until the people at Yizijiaozipu had delivered the money from Daxiangguo Temple, and then ordered them to pile up the money and sent heavy soldiers to guard it.
Then he ordered the officials of the Ministry of Households to make a list of all the money and properties of the Daxiangguo Temple and post it at the gate of the Daxiangguo Temple.
Afterwards, Kou Ji ordered the people to open the door of the Daxiangguo Temple, so that the people in Bianjing who wanted to enter the Daxiangguo Temple could enter the Daxiangguo Temple anytime and anywhere.
When the people arrived at Daxiangguo Temple with soldiers and horses led by Kou Ji, they entrenched themselves in the streets on both sides of the Daxiangguo Temple.
It's just that Koj dispatched troops and horses to block the entire street, so they couldn't get into the street.
Kou Ji has now lifted the blockade of the streets.
The people on both sides of the street naturally rushed to the Daxiangguo Temple.
Most of them came with the intention of fighting injustice for the Daxiangguo Temple.
But when they saw the list of industries and money posted at the entrance of Daxiangguo Temple, and the piles of grain and money piled in Daxiangguo Temple, they all looked shocked and couldn't say a word for Daxiangguo Temple. If there is an injustice.
With the continuous influx of people.
The Daxiangguo Temple industry was converted into money, and news of more than 20 million coins spread like a gust of wind.
Up and down the city of Bianjing was a complete sensation.
The people rushed to the Daxiangguo Temple frantically.
The dignitaries and ministers of civil and military affairs in the city of Bianjing also rushed to Daxiangguo Temple in their sedan chair.
Zhao Zhen, who was sitting on the dragon boat in the Jinming Pond, was accompanying Princess Li and Empress Cao on the lake.
When Chen Lin reported that the property of Daxiangguo Temple was converted into money, as much as more than 20 million pennies, one of the railings on the dragon boat was broken.
"Gaba..."
"Officials!"
Hearing the squeaking sound, Princess Li and Empress Cao, who were watching the scenery on both sides of the Jinming Lake, turned back.
Seeing Zhao Zhen squeezing the railing raw, the two of them showed a look of surprise on their faces, and they shouted in unison.