The two ledgers are not large, so they are convenient to hide in the corners of the room that people ignore, if it weren't for the criminal department and other good people who solve the case and do not hesitate to destroy the Jingshe to search carefully enough, it is impossible to find the secrets hidden in the corner, but they are thick enough, and they are all recorded page by page with rows of mysterious numbers, corresponding to incomprehensible words, and time.

Judging by the paper, the handwriting, and the time indicated in the ledger itself, the two ledgers have been in existence for years, at least ten years ago.

If these figures are the income and expenditure of Daxiangguoji Temple, then there are many lines that show that the amount of expenditure is already frighteningly large, and the sum is even more staggering. Combined with the lines of words that seem to flow incomprehensibly, the information revealed in it is too scary.

The astronomical amount of money and equipment for the Song State's millions of troops is more than enough, enough for 100,000 elite troops to spend several years at large, if it is used to support the rebellion or something, the harm can be imagined. Ten years of secretly accumulating or supporting a certain illegal force, the force or forces that can be formed are afraid that it is enough to overthrow the Great Song Dynasty.

The key is that there is no large amount of money found in the Daxiangguo Temple, and the total amount of money is only twenty or thirty thousand, and it is basically copper money, not to mention gold, even silver is very little, and there is no jewelry. The senior officials of the Criminal Department and the nobles who came to solve the case all knew that the business of Daxiangguo Temple was very prosperous, and the income was far from enough to describe it as a daily income. I'm afraid that the daily sesame oil money alone will be enough for so many monks in the temple to spend that day. Daxiangguo Temple only has accumulated since the Song Dynasty, and it stands to reason that it should be a mountain of gold and silver.

But there are no mountains of gold and silver, and there is only so much money in the temple, which is too incommensurate with such a huge and high-end temple, so where does all that income go?

Although the Great Xiangguo Temple is decorated with gold wall splendor, it consumes a lot of gold, silver and copper money, and the Buddha statue consumes copper one item is already amazing, but it is not much to use up so much money.

Everything is here. In addition to the bronze Buddha statues, the rest of the bronze objects are piled up here after being organized, which is clear at a glance.

Especially the gold, silver and jewelry, Daxiangguo Temple is not much use on Buddha statues and so on, so where did it go?

It is impossible to replace all the copper coins with copper coins or spend all the copper decorations on the Buddha statues and so on to hide the money in disguise.

It is also impossible to spend all on expanding the temple garden landscape in the temple.

In this regard, there has been strong support from the royal family for generous appropriations and the transfer of craftsmen and material resources, and countless wealthy and powerful businessmen have generously donated money to actively help the charity construction.

The Great Song Dynasty was too prosperous and wealthy. Too many wealthy people in the royal and Song Dynasty generously donated to the Great Xiangguo Temple to express their devotion to the Buddha, hoping to get the Buddha's special favor and protection, and the Great Xiangguo Temple is to ask for money to give money, to give people to people, to precious flowers and trees and other rare things will use power and commercial ability to help get from the south and the north of the world, and to use this as an energy, double face, to seek peace of mind, the scenic spots added in the temple also leave a good name for them.

Daxiangguo Temple will also come to the matter, and the tour guide monk will always introduce this scenic spot to the visitors is a sincere donation by a certain good believer. Ah, Buddha Mita. Good, good......

For people who are too easy to get money and are not bad for money, it is a very cost-effective thing to donate a lot of money to Daxiangguo Temple.

Naturally, it is also a very cost-effective thing for the benefit of Daxiangguo Temple.

In this way, each takes what he needs and complements each other.

That is to say, the Daxiangguo Temple is huge in scale, magnificent, and sits firmly in the first place in the world's temples, but in fact there are no major expenditure items, all of which are spent by others.

So, the accumulated gold mountain is gone, is it hidden somewhere in the temple?

A hidden treasure trove in the temple?

Where can there be a treasure trove?

Is it in a wall darkroom, or is it buried deep in the ground somewhere?

Daxiangguo Temple is too big, not to mention that there are many temples in the territory alone, and there are no monks who know about it to interrogate, so it is too difficult to search the possible treasure vault secret room for a while.

The important thing is that the two mysterious ledgers vaguely show that the huge amount of money in the Great Xiangguo Temple has been gradually sent away in batches in the past ten years, and it has flowed step by step to the words that the ledger cannot understand, and I am afraid that it is not in the temple for a long time, and I am afraid that there is no treasure trove at all, so there is no need to rack my brains to examine and guess the geography and architecture of the temple.

Relevant officials and forbidden troops searched for the princess concubine, searching for clues of the case, under the constant pressure of the extremely angry emperor, he did not dare to slack off, so busy that he couldn't even take care of lunch, tossing and tossing and tossing until more than four o'clock in the afternoon, and did not find the nobleman who disappeared, and the masters of solving the case covered their heads and focused on carefully searching the residences of the elders and backbone monks and related suspicious places, hoping to find a breakthrough in solving the case as soon as possible from these places, and determine the whereabouts of the most important and most fatal princess as soon as possible. These hundreds of places alone are enough for this master to be busy, and they are already tired and half dead, and for the time being, they don't care about searching the temples such as the Temple of the Heavens, and they don't care about finding the gold mountain that the temple doesn't know whether it exists, but the soldiers of the forbidden army are responsible for the rough and random search everywhere in the emergency search and rescue, how can they notice that the entrance to the treasure house will be hidden under the couch in the duty room where the ordinary monks live in the Temple of the Heavens, and they will leave at a glance, and naturally they will not find any suspicious points on the floor under the bed.

Autumn is short, and it's getting dark in the blink of an eye.

At this moment, the sky suddenly became dark, and the wind rose and was terrible, like a ghost crying wolf, which looked strange and terrible, and it was not long before the thunder roared and the torrential rain poured.

The rainstorm after the autumn fell so heavily, so suddenly, the lightning and thunder seemed to tear the sky and destroy the world, the torrential rain poured down like a river of heaven, as if the heavens could not see the strange and tragic battle that happened in Tokyo today, or even the heavens were angry at the sins created by the monks who should have been merciful to all things but murdered and poisoned all living beings, and wanted to wash away the blood and all the sins in Tokyo as soon as possible with the torrential rain, and restore the original peaceful blue sky world in Tokyo.

The officials who handled the case had originally planned to check overnight to cope with the emperor's urging, but it was more likely that they would discover the secret of the entrance to the treasure house.

However, being so mad and rainstorming, the bureaucrats feel too evil even if they are not too superstitious, combined with today's strange blood case, all of them are suspicious, standing in the dark and flickering faint light together to build the environment, always feel that the Great Xiangguo Temple hides something yin and ghostly evil, in the past, looking at the sacred and solemn and beautiful Buddha Heavenly King God Arhat or something, the statue relief now looks at it and always feels as if it is covered with a layer of gloomy ghost activity, it is so hideous and weird, as if to devour people. All of them were terrified and uneasy.

A large number of soldiers of the forbidden army who were in charge of martial law and search were drenched in the open air in the blink of an eye, and they could not further investigate the many possible Tibetan woods and rockery scenery in the temple, so they had to withdraw their troops in a hurry. I had a headache thinking about things, and the experts who were tired and dizzy couldn't do it anymore, and they didn't have the patience to work carefully anymore in the night battle.

For various reasons, the bureaucrats, who did not want to stay up all night in this vicious place and were frightened, took the opportunity to stop, saying that it was too dark, the vision was unclear at night, and there was the influence of violent storms, which was not conducive to discovering clues. It's better to lock down here, everyone go home and rest for a night, recuperate, and wait for tomorrow when the sun is shining, the vision is clear, and the conditions are good to better search and more sure to find out the problem.

Others are hoping for that.

For a time, both soldiers and criminal officers praised the adult's cleverness.

Withdrawn.

Without monks, the Great Xiangguo Temple is finished, and no one pays attention to the open doors and windows of the major temples, and no one pays attention to the slightly open and breathable windows of the Temple of the Heavens.

No one cares about the future of the temple, and no one thinks of braving the storm and the terrible thunder, lightning and eerie weirdness to close the doors and windows of the halls.

The wind and rain drifted down the doors and windows into the temple, drenching the floor of the temple by the doors and windows.

The monastic on duty in the Temple of the Heavens, where the secrets of the treasure house were hidden, poured some wind and rain through the slightly open windows, and the bed was drenched and the ground was dappled. In the cracks of the cement slab that covers the entrance to the ground under the couch, the cement that has been smeared so far has been dry and the surface will be completely solid and solidified after a night of air drying, and in tomorrow's search, it will be mixed with the overall wetness and mottling of the ground outside the couch.

In fact, no one came here to search carefully.

Officials focused on muddy floors in forests or rockeries that were easy to conceal secrets, or lotus ponds, or mezzanine layers in walls that might exist. Ignoring the hard and flat concrete floor of the temple can also hide secrets.

The key is that the officials in charge believe that since the Daxiangguo Temple dares to desperately launch this attack, it must have been premeditated and resolutely fought to the death without leaving any way back, so the missing princess was either killed by the demon monk on the spot and buried somewhere, or they don't know what means, such as erecting a ladder over the wall, have already figured out where the temple is hidden and even kidnapped out of the capital, and it is impossible to stay alive and hide in the temple and wait for the government soldiers to search for and rescue her.

People are like that. The same goes for money.

Daxiangguo Temple will never leave a large amount of money in the temple for the official to find.

These monks are detached from the world on the surface and have no desires, but in fact they are the most greedy, and they attach the most importance to money and food. Coupled with the situation in the two mysterious ledgers, it further shows that the money has flowed away and is not in the temple, and the specific whereabouts have yet to be detected.

This is also the main reason why the official search was stopped.

The officer in charge of solving the case withdrew, but he could not immediately go home and rest comfortably.

They also had to brave the wind and rain to enter the palace in the dark and present some suspicious evidence to the emperor, and by the way, report the situation and their analysis and speculation.

This was specifically requested by the emperor. In fact, it was for Tao Daxian to see the evidence so that he could get a glimpse of it.

It was not only the ledger that was presented for the imperial view, but also a booklet disguised as an ordinary Buddhist scripture, which was found in the abbot's numerous collection of Buddhist scriptures, which recorded the names of famous temples in various parts of the Great Song Dynasty or relatively large temples that were more influential in the local area, as well as the names of important monks such as abbots in related temples.

This is obviously the address book of Ben and his fellow friends and monks, so there is nothing surprising.

What is abnormal is that there is a Buddha statue printed on the front page of this book, but it is not the living Buddha Shakyamuni that monks should most believe in, or Amitabha Buddha, the Buddha of the Oriental Glass World. It's the future Buddha - Maitreya with a big belly and a big smile.

And in the abbot, the temple and other monks and backbone monks of the residence of the secret collection have found the statue of Maitreya, small, very easy to hold in the palm of the hand to play or hide, whether it is wood or carving is very ordinary, the carving is even very rough, but just such an ordinary worthless statue why should it be secretly collected?

Maitreya Buddha is also one of the leaders of the noble Buddha of Buddhism, there is also a special temple for worship in the Daxiangguo Temple, the statue is also the same as the Buddha of the Daxiong Treasure Hall is pure copper gilded, not as huge as the Buddha statue, but the posture of smiling and lying is not small, it is also a lot of cost, and the packaging is golden and dazzling.

Monks like Maitreya Buddha and have expectations for the future, and there is nothing abnormal about private worshipping this statue in private, as much as possible, who cares? Why do you want to make ghosts worship?

Moreover, these Maitreya statues always make people feel a little weird when they look closely, especially the generous smile, which is roughly carved itself, but the smile is carved extremely expressively, and the depiction is meticulous, and it is simply a living smile at a glance, and the metaphor hints at countless meanings, becoming the only subtlety and rarity in the whole statue.

As soon as Zhao Ji saw the statue, his body was shocked, and his face became ugly in an instant, not only frightened, but also angry and panicked.

He thought of the same Maitreya Xiang found in the Anqing Palace, and Liang Shicheng.

The same wood, or even the most likely same piece of wood with the same grain. The same size as the likeness. In particular, the smile is equally expressive and consistent.

These statues look ordinary and inconspicuous, but they are actually masterpieces, and they are peerless treasures from the smile depicted.

This is definitely not an ordinary thing, and it definitely contains some extraordinary secret.

In an instant, Zhao Ji came to his senses and understood what the word "phase" meant in Liang Shicheng's bloody last words left by his death.

Prime Minister does not refer to Prime Minister. It has nothing to do with it at all. It refers to the Great Xiangguo Temple.

It turned out that King Anqing, a traitor, and Liang Shicheng, a dog slave who should have been cut by a thousand cuts, secretly colluded with the Great Xiangguo Temple and were plotting against the Great Song Dynasty together.

And Tao Daxian checked the ledger and the address book and immediately unlocked the secret group.

He sighed to Zhao Ji in private: "Your Majesty, the poor way is fully understood. ”

"Over the years, the Great Xiangguo Temple has used its convenience to get mountains of wealth, and they have secretly supported the traitors of the Great Song Dynasty. The mountains of gold and silver all flowed into the hands of ambitious rebels, used to recruit lawless fanatics, expand their strength, recruit troops, and rebel armedly. This monastery and the list of senior monks are their own religious comrades, or at least they are prepared to collude with them. ”

"This case is the tip of the iceberg!"