Nestorianism, also known as the Oriental Assyrian Church, is a branch of the Greek Orthodox Church, which was widely spread in the Central Plains during the Tang Dynasty, and its followers reached hundreds of thousands of people at the most.

Especially in Chang'an, Quanzhou, Guangzhou area is more prosperous, Chang'an, Luoyang, Yangzhou and other places have built the cross temple of Jingjiao.

However, from the time of Daizong, the imperial court vigorously promoted Taoism and suppressed Buddhism and Zoroastrianism, so that Nestorian Christianity was gradually suppressed, and many people who originally believed in Nestorian Christianity also gave up their original beliefs and converted to Taoism.

Of the five Nestorian monasteries in the Chang'an area, only one remains.

Although the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce believes in Jingjiao, it does not mean that Jingjiao is the Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, which Guo Song is very clear.

"The other party is just using Jingjiao to control members and brainwash, which does not prove that Jingjiao is the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce."

In the political hall, Guo Song introduced the process of the Hanzhong operation to the Xiangguo, and in response to the doubts of the Xiangguo, Guo Song explained, "But Jingjiao is indeed also an entry point, which is conducive to our doxxing Tanghe Chamber of Commerce, I have ordered the internal guard to investigate Jingjiao, but today I convened you, and a more important reason is to discuss with you, how to settle more than 3,000 teenagers captured this time?" ”

"Can't you send them back to their families?" Cao Wannian asked.

Guo Song shook his head, "Judging from the results of the registration, they are basically orphans from all over the country, they were taken to the Hanzhong training camp for brainwashing and simple military training, and after they reach the age of twenty, they will be sent to another base for military training, according to the clues obtained, this training camp is in Lanzhou, Hedong, and the Taiyuan internal guard has been comprehensively searching for this training camp, everyone talk about it!" How are these children housed? ”

Zhang Qianyi, the head of the household department, said slowly: "Your Highness, Weichen feels that these children must first be classified, and being brainwashed for one year is definitely different from being brainwashed for ten years, and then determine their harmfulness, if the content of their brainwashing is only loyalty, not destruction and hostility to the imperial court, then things will be much easier."

Wechen suggested that young children, such as those who are eleven or twelve-year-old, can be sent to school, a little older, so that they can learn various skills, learn a skill, and when they are older, they can be sent directly to the government-run workshop, so that they can support themselves, after all, there are not many people. ”

Pan Liao also said: "Your Highness, I think these children are not very old, they should be able to be corrected, if we use Jingjiao to guide them anew, I mean children who have been brainwashed for a long time."

And those eleven or twelve-year-old teenagers are sent directly to school to study, to learn a skill, I heard that there are many young girls, if they are not old, they can read and write, and then learn a skill, if they are a little older, they are sent to be female workers. ”

Guo Song nodded, "Everyone has a point, I will hand over this matter to the Political Affairs Hall, unify the understanding as soon as possible, introduce a perfect plan, and then hand it over to Zongzheng Temple and the craftsman supervisor for implementation." ”

The various ceremonies were carried out by Taijoji Temple, the Zongshoji Temple was mainly responsible for religious management and the Salesian causes, the Craftsman Supervisor was mainly responsible for training craftsmen and various official workshops, and as for the construction of various large-scale projects, it was the business of the Metropolitan Water Supervisor.

Guo Song returned to his official room, Wang Yue and Zhou Min were waiting here, Guo Song returned to his seat and sat down, waved his hand to the two: "Sit down and talk!" ”

The two of them sat down, and Wang Yue bowed and said: "Judging from the current situation, the training camp in Hanzhong has been established for five years, and it has sent three batches of more than 400 young people. ”

Guo Song pondered for a moment and said: "The key is that we don't have much time, the other party has lost in Hanzhong and Chang'an in a row, they will inevitably take emergency countermeasures, destroy all evidence, transfer personnel, we must expand the scope of the search, not only Jingjiao, but also Buddhist temples, Taoist temples, farms, livestock farms and other places must be searched, we must transfer people from Chang'an, and we must also buy the ruffians in the counties near Lanzhou and Taiyuan, so that they can also participate in the investigation, there will be gains, the key is to seize the time, there can be no delay." ”

"Obey the order, let's arrange it!"

Wang Yue saluted, retreated first, and he was about to lead his army to the east of the river.

Zhou Min is responsible for tracking down the Chang'an Tangzhou Chamber of Commerce, he started the investigation from the black market selling armor, but now their clues have been broken, but after Zhou Min's hard investigation in the past few days, they found another clue, according to Li Wulang's confession, a martial arts hall in Xinfeng County may also be a member of the Tangzhou Association, but this martial arts hall was closed last year, but as long as there are traces, then clues can be found.

"I searched for more than a dozen young people from Xinfeng who had learned martial arts in this martial arts hall, and one of them told me that the head of the sect who taught him martial arts is now in the Changying Martial Arts Hall in Chang'an, and then he investigated the Changying Martial Arts Gym, he was established five years ago, and last year he bought a vacant land next door, doubling the size of the martial arts hall, and the number of people has also increased a lot, which coincides with the closing time of the Xinfeng Martial Arts Hall."

"You mean, the Changying Martial Arts Pavilion and the Xinfeng Martial Arts Pavilion are combined into one?"

"That's what does this mean?"

"Have you started investigating?" Guo Song asked again.

Zhou Min nodded, "I got the news this morning, the martial arts hall hung up a suspended sign early in the morning, but we monitored the brothers in the martial arts hall and reported, no one left the martial arts hall, in addition, there is another detail, whether it is the students of the martial arts hall or the head of the sect, they all live in the martial arts hall, and no one lives outside." ”

Guo Song took two steps and said decisively: "The other party is likely to evacuate Chang'an, you immediately lead five thousand internal guards to surround the martial arts hall and arrest everyone inside, and the Jin Wei Mansion will also participate in the operation." ”

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Changying Martial Arts Hall is located in the eastern suburbs of Chang'an City, since Guo Song ordered the lifting of the curfew and the closure of the city gates, the price of land in the suburbs of Chang'an has risen rapidly, and many prescient small and medium-sized families have bought land and built houses in the suburbs.

The suburbs of Chang'an have gradually become lively, especially in the east, along the main official road, the dense houses have extended to more than ten miles away, close to Baqiao.

The Changying Martial Arts Hall is three miles east of Chang'an City, covering an area of about ten acres, originally there were five acres, and five acres of land were bought, which was expanded to ten acres.

Just half an hour after Guo Song gave the order, five thousand internal guard soldiers and three hundred warriors of the Jin Wei Mansion under the leadership of Zhou Min, quickly dispatched, and surrounded the Changying Martial Arts Hall in a moment, several warriors of the Jin Wei Mansion had just climbed over the wall, more than a dozen crossbow arrows shot through the air, and a warrior could not dodge, was shot in the left shoulder by an arrow, and fell off the wall.

"It's a crossbow bolt!" The soldiers shouted.

Zhou Min didn't expect that the other party actually had crossbow arrows, he was taken aback, and immediately stopped the warriors of the Jin Wei Mansion, and said to the internal guard soldiers: "Crash open the gate, the sword and shield army will rush in, and the resisters will not be killed!" ”

Dozens of soldiers slammed into the gate with a huge rampage, and with a muffled "knock-" the gate was slammed open.

Five hundred sword and shield soldiers killed in, and there was a shout inside, hundreds of martial arts warriors took various weapons and killed out, and the three hundred warriors of the Jin Wei Mansion also participated in the battle, and the two thousand soldiers of the inner guard immediately killed through the two side doors and the back door.

The samurai of the martial arts hall resisted desperately, but their strength was too weak, and they were slaughtered by thousands of internal guard soldiers in less than a quarter of an hour.

A Lang general led a hundred soldiers to rush into the backyard, he kicked open a door, only to see that someone in the room was burning paper, Lang Jiang rushed in, kicked over the stove, and threw the person to the ground with his backhand, "Arrest it!" ”

Several soldiers rushed up, pinned the people in the room to the ground, and tied them up.

Most of the documents have been burned, but there is still a part, it can be seen that the people in the martial arts hall are desperately resisting, just to buy time for this person to burn the secrets.

Zhou Min ordered a thorough search, and they unexpectedly found a dungeon under the newly built martial arts hall, which contained more than a million taels of silver and thousands of weapons.

But Zhou Min paid more attention to the confidential documents, he personally led people to search carefully, and brought all the valuable things back to the internal guard, the most valuable secret of which was a roster, which contained more than 300 people, but I don't know what they do?

Soon, the internal security civilian personnel who studied the roster found clues, and the four guys from the Bashu Chuanxiang Tea Shop were also among them.

This immediately aroused Zhou Min's strong interest, and he realized that this was likely to be a list of the shops sent to the martial arts hall to learn martial arts, through this list, it was likely to track down the shops of the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce, and then through the background of each shop, the mystery of the Tanghe Chamber of Commerce might be slowly revealed.

Zhou Min immediately organized 30 civilian personnel, and transported a large number of shop materials from the county government and the city office, and began to compare and search overnight.