A few miles out of the city from the north gate of Yangzhou City is the Daming Temple, the place where the conflict occurred is in the fruit and vegetable garden behind the Daming Temple, this garden is about hundreds of acres large, belongs to the Daming Temple under the name of the field.

However, when Zheng Zhi, a small official of the household department, led people to prepare the garden of Qingzhang today, he was violently obstructed by the monks of Daming Temple, so a conflict broke out between the two sides.

When Xu Jin led people to the garden behind the Daming Temple, he saw more than a dozen warrior monks with half of their arms bare, holding swords and Zen sticks, etc., and stopped in the middle of the road viciously, stunned to prevent the officers in charge of Qingzhang land from passing.

However, what is strange is that instead of being angry, the servants gathered together in twos and threes to chat, and some even sat on the ground at all, and the tools used to clear the land were thrown aside, looking like they had nothing to do with themselves.

It is said that although Xu Jin and Xia Yan brought a group of officials and documents with them when they went to Beijing this time, these officials and documents were only for supervision and statistical records, and the grassroots staff who specifically carried out the task of clearing the zhang still had to be recruited from the local yamen.

Moreover, the wages of these grassroots errand workers are also paid by the local yamen, so no matter whether they work more or less, they get the same salary every month, so the work attitude of these grassroots officers is very perfunctory.

It is precisely because of this that Zheng Zhi, the household official who is responsible for leading the team, can only run back to Xu Jin to come forward, which is also aggrieved.

When Xu Jin saw the situation in front of him, his face suddenly sank, and he shouted: "Come on, take down all these lawless monks who obstruct official business." ”

Xu Jin was also angry, so he decided to make an example of the monkey, lest anyone dare to follow the example in the future, so that the grassroots clean-up work would fall into trouble.

Xu Jin gave an order, and without waiting for the soldiers of the five hundred battalions to make a move, the brocade guards brought by Lu Bing immediately drew their waist knives and surrounded them viciously, while shouting at those warrior monks to put down their weapons.

The dozen or so warrior monks looked hesitant and slowly retreated, but no one put down their weapons. Lu Bing couldn't help but be furious, and slashed at the hand of the warrior monk at the head with a knife, probably because he wanted to establish his authority and did not want to take people's lives. However, the warrior monk had a fierce glint in his eyes, and subconsciously waved his sword to block the frame.

only heard a proper explosion, and the embroidered spring knife in Lu Bing's hand was so shocked that he almost flew out of his hand, so shocked that he hurriedly retreated in embarrassment, only to feel the hot pain in the tiger's mouth, and it was estimated that it was cracked.

Bang......

With the sound of a gunshot, the blood on the chest of the powerful warrior monk soared, and he fell to the ground screaming on the spot, and after a few convulsions, he did not move. I saw a 500-battalion soldier with white smoke still emitting from his gun, and reloading his ammunition as if nothing had happened.

Xu Jin said coldly: "But there are those who dare to violently resist the law, and they will be killed." ”

The rest of the warrior monks looked at each other in shock, and they all lowered the weapons they were holding, and the grassroots servants who watched the excitement were also colorless, only feeling that their backs were cold and swishing, and they secretly picked up the tools used by Qingzhang land, and it was estimated that they would not dare to be passive in the future.

Lu Bing reacted at this time, and shouted angrily: "Take them all, but those who resist will be killed." ”

A group of brocade guards immediately rushed forward fiercely, and they were about to cut with a sword, and those warrior monks were immediately instigated, and they threw down their weapons and surrendered, and soon, more than a dozen warrior monks were all captured, and they knelt on the ground with their heads in their hands.

"Lord Xu, please be merciful!" At this time, a loud shout came from a distance.

Xu Jin raised his eyes and saw that the presiding officer of Daming Temple, Huijing Zen Master, led the monks to rush to this side, among which there was a guy with a body like a mountain of meat, who was actually Shi Haoran, the envoy of the two Huai salt transports.

Zen Master Huijing was tall, although his beard and hair were white, his face was ruddy, his eyes were shining, and he was walking in a big red robe, which was actually quite powerful, so that Xie Erjian and Xie Sangun brothers subconsciously took a step in front of Xu Jin.

Zen Master Huijing walked close and saw a warrior monk who was shot in the chest and died on the ground, and immediately showed compassion on his face, and shouted a Buddha cry: "Amitabha, God has the virtue of a good life, why is Lord Xu so ruthless?" Sins, sins, sins! ”

Lu Bing lost face just now, and he was on fire, and he sneered: "Where did the bald donkey come from, let your mother's donkey fart." ”

Xu Jin said lightly: "Zen Master Huijing, the monks of your temple violently obstructed the official government with weapons first, and this evil monk even attacked the official messenger with a knife in front of Ben Qincha, which is like a conspiracy, what is wrong with killing him?" ”

As soon as the hat of rebellion was buttoned, Monk Huijing was speechless. At this time, Shi Haoran, the fattened Lianghuai salt transport envoy, finally rushed over, panting and wiping his sweat and said, "I've seen Lord Xu!" ”

Xu Jin glanced at Shi Haoran, frowned, and said: "It turns out that Master Shi is also here, Zen Master Huijing, the monks of your temple dare to obstruct the land by force, is it because Lord Shi is here to support him?" ”

"Amitabha, Lord Xu misunderstood, there is no such thing." Zen Master Huijing lowered his eyebrows and proclaimed a Buddha name, and his face was not happy.

Shi Haoran said with an angry face: "Although Lord Xu is sent by order, he can't tarnish the innocence of this official, this official is indeed familiar with Zen Master Huijing, but today here is just a meeting for him, and it has nothing to do with this matter." ”

Xu Jin said suddenly: "Oh, it turns out that the official misunderstood, and the official apologizes to Lord Shi here, but shouldn't Zen Master Huijing explain why he wants to obstruct the field under the name of the official Qingzhang Gui Temple?" Could it be that there is something unseemly involved? ”

Hui Jing hurriedly picked up and said: "Lord Xu is serious, the poor monk has been talking (playing chess) with Lord Shi in the meditation room this morning, and he only heard about the conflict not long ago, and did not instruct the monk to obstruct the official mission. The whole temple has always been law-abiding, and there is no lawlessness. ”

Lu Binghehe sneered: "You, the old monk, will push two, five or six, dare to be the monk below to make his own opinion?" ”

"Amitabha, the monks don't speak, this is indeed not the instruction of the poor monks, Puzhi, why do you want to obstruct the official errand?" Hui Jing asked in a deep voice.

A warrior monk who was escorted by the brocade guard hurriedly replied: "Back to the host, Senior Brother Puhui is worried that these officials will trample on the vegetables in the field and disturb the sows in the pigsty, so he took us to prevent the officials from entering the garden. ”

The senior brother Puhui that this warrior monk was talking about was the first warrior monk who was killed just now.

Zen Master Huijing sighed and said, "Confused, it's okay, it's also Puhui's life that should have this calamity." Lord Xu, all this is a misunderstanding, it is not their intention to obstruct the official mission, the poor monk begged Lord Xu to let them go, as for the land under the name of the temple, Lord Xu can clear it casually. ”

Xu Jin said indifferently: "Since Zen Master Huijing said that it was a misunderstanding, then the official authority should be a misunderstanding, but these warrior monks are armed to obstruct the official errand, the death penalty can be avoided, and the living crime is inescapable, each person has ten strokes of the cane, in order to set an example!" ”

Hui Jinghe picked up the Buddha horn, which was regarded as a tacit acquiescence to the punishment.