Three days later.

Kou Ji personally led 3,000 soldiers and horses to the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The street where the temple is located is surrounded by water.

The entrance to the temple is closed.

Kou Ji sent people to break open the gate of Daxiangguo Temple with siege chisels.

The huge vermilion lacquered wooden door was chiseled and shattered.

The people ran to the street where the Great Xiangguo Temple was located to watch.

Koji sent men to drive them away from the place.

After the temple gate of Daxiangguo Temple was broken, Kou Ji personally led his men and horses to rush in.

From the gate of the temple to the gate of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, there was no one along the way.

It wasn't until I arrived at the gate of the Daxiong Treasure Hall that I saw the figure of a great monk.

Kou Ji stepped up the stone steps at the entrance of the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and Le Ma stopped in front of the great monk.

After the great monk was in Kojilema, he bowed down and gave a salute and pronounced a Buddha name.

"Amitabha, Lord Kou Shi is okay?"

"Eat well and sleep soundly. Master Lichen has been in the Great Xiangguo Temple for less than a month, and the master should not interfere in the affairs of the Great Xiangguo Temple. ”

Koji jumped off his horse and paced in front of the great monk.

The great monk saluted Kou Ji again with a kind face, "Being in the midst of it, how can you give up your life?" ”

"In this way, the master is ready to meddle in the affairs of the Great Xiangguo Temple?"

Kou Ji stared at the great monk and asked.

The great monk nodded slowly.

Kou Ji nodded and said: "Very good, then ask the master to hand over all the accounts, land deeds, real estate deeds, and the list of monks of the Great Xiangguo Temple." ”

The great monk stared at Kou Ji and said, "The Great Xiangguo Temple is a national temple, and it is a place outside the square. ”

"Kokuji, that was before, not now. Outside the box? Self-styled, right? I've only heard that the whole world is not the king's land. Daxiangguoji Temple is in the royal land, so it is bound by the laws of the imperial court. ”

Kou Ji said coldly.

The great monk frowned, "The monks of the Great Xiangguo Temple have not violated the law......

"Whether it violates or not, you have to check it to know."

Kou Ji said coldly and waved his hand to the soldiers and horses behind him.

The soldiers and horses behind Kou Ji immediately held swords, guns, swords, and halberds and prepared to break into the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

The great monk's face changed, he stopped in front of the soldiers and horses, and said in a deep voice to Kou Ji: "How is this move of Lord Kou different from a robber?" ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "Do you think I brought soldiers and horses here to reason with your Daxiangguo Temple?" ”

The great monk saw that Kou Ji had to force his way into the Daxiong Treasure Hall, so he took out something from his arms.

"Emperor Taizong's will to canonize the Great Xiangguo Temple as the national temple is here, and Lord Kou Shi, as a minister of the Great Song Dynasty, dares not to obey the will of Emperor Taizong?"

The decree looked a little old, but it was very blinking.

Koji stared at the decree and narrowed his eyes.

"Does Daxiangguo Temple want to rely on the will of Emperor Taizong to transcend the world?"

The great monk saw that Kou Ji was shocked by the holy decree, and immediately said: "The Great Xiangguo Temple is a place outside the world. ”

Kou Ji said coldly: "Since it is a place outside the world, then you shouldn't leave those things in vain. Daxiangguo Temple handed over those blockages, and I can ask the official family to really make Daxiangguo Temple transcend the world. ”

The great monk stared at Kou Ji and said in a deep voice: "The Great Xiangguo Temple has not done anything wrong, why should Lord Kou be forced to do so." ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "Whether there is anything wrong or not, I will only know after checking." ”

The great monk picked up the holy decree and said, "There is Emperor Taizong's decree here, how can you check 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 holy decree was held high by him.

Kou Ji turned around and said to the hundreds of soldiers and horses behind him: "Unload your armor!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers and horses unloaded their armor in unison.

After Kou Ji waited for hundreds of soldiers and horses to unload their armor, he said coldly: "From the moment you unload your armor, you are no longer my Great Song Dynasty's soldiers and horses. You can be rogues or bandits, and later the court will issue a sea arrest document to arrest you.

You can flee to the south and to the north. ”

As soon as these words came out, there was no change in the expressions on the faces of hundreds of soldiers and horses.

On the contrary, the great monk's face became very ugly.

The great monk stared at Kou Ji and said angrily: "Can Master Kou Shi hide his ears and steal the bell, can he hide it from the world?" ”

Kou Ji sneered: "I have millions of soldiers and horses in the Great Song Dynasty, there are forbidden armies, and there are also local soldiers and horses, and it is inevitable that there will be some good and bad in the middle, and it is normal for some rebels to come out."

What if the world believes or not?

Have they shaken my position, or will they be able to take their lives? ”

Speaking of this, Kou Ji was too lazy to continue to ramble with the great monk, and he slowly raised his hand.

Seeing this, the great monk's eyes widened in shock.

"Amitabha!"

A Buddha horn sounded in the Daxiong Treasure Hall, and an old monk slowly walked out of it.

When he saw Kou Ji, he asked, "Is Kou Shumi's plan to cause evil in the pure land of my Buddhism?" ”

Kou Ji knows the old monk, and the old monk is the host of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and the real person in charge of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Kou Ji stared at the old monk and said, "I don't want to kill people, but some people are not interested, so I can only send him to death." ”

The old monk narrowed his eyes slightly, and said, "Is Kou Shumi's plan to kill him together with the benefactor who stayed in the Great Xiangguo Temple?" ”

Kou Ji raised his eyebrows, "You're threatening me?!" ”

The old monk shook his head slowly, "How dare the poor monk threaten Kou Shumi, the poor monk just wants Kou Shumi to let those innocent donors go." ”

Kou Ji smiled, "You threatened me with their lives, and now you beg me to let them go, it's really a good plan." ”

The old monk pronounced a Buddha horn, but there were no words.

Kou Ji didn't say anything, but a few cold lights suddenly flashed in his eyes, and he slowly raised his hand.

The pupils of the old monk and the great monk shrank in unison.

"Please enter the Daxiong Treasure Hall!"

The old monk hurriedly shouted.

Kou Ji snorted coldly, "You have to force me to be ruthless!" This year, the number of monks recruited by Daxiangguo Temple has been cut in half. ”

The old monk and the great monk thought that they could use the hostages and the holy decree of Emperor Taizong to force Kou Ji to stop.

But he didn't expect that Kou Ji was not threatened at all.

When he said he wanted to do it, he was ready to do it, and there was no ambiguity at all.

Eventually, they succumbed to Koji's force.

Although there are many warrior monks in Daxiangguo Temple, they are not worth mentioning compared to the five thousand elite soldiers brought by Kou Ji.

If you really want to start, the nature is completely different.

At that time, no one can say whether there will be living people in the Great Xiangguo Temple.

"Tobe's! Come out and work! ”

Kou Ji was not invited to enter the Daxiong Treasure Hall.

Instead, he shouted to the household officials who followed behind him.

The officials of the household department came out of the ranks, and under the protection of soldiers and horses, they entered the Daxiong Treasure Palace.

After Kou Ji entered the Daxiong Treasure Hall of the Household Officials, he waved his hand to the armored soldiers and horses behind him.

The armored soldiers and horses immediately rushed to all parts of the Great Xiangguo Temple and launched a search for the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The old monk watched the household officials and soldiers and horses rush into the Daxiangguo Temple, closed his eyes in pain, and kept announcing the Buddha's name.

Kou Ji stood at the door of the Mahavira Hall and waited.

Not long after, the household officials appeared outside the Daxiong Treasure Hall with stacks of accounts.

Kou Ji instructed the household officials to count on the spot.

It didn't take long for another day.

The soldiers who had gone to search returned and delivered a stack of accounts to Koji.

After the old monk saw the stack of accounts, his face turned sallow.

Seeing this, Kou Ji stepped forward to take a look.

Then he raised one of the accounts and sneered at the old monk: "Daxiangguo Temple is really a place outside the square, and it actually puts money in the seal, and the amount is not small." ”

The old monk didn't say anything, but slowly closed his eyes and pronounced a Buddha name.

Kou Ji ordered the accounts to be sent to the household officials, who counted them.

Just as the household officials were quickly counting the accounts, another soldier came to report.

"Kou Shumi, the lowly rank and others found two granaries and a treasury in the Great Xiangguo Temple."

"Get everything out there! By the way, all the monks in the Great Xiangguo Temple are invited out. ”

"......"

According to Kou Ji's order, the soldiers moved out the grain in the granary of Daxiangguo Temple, as well as the money in the treasury.

Thousands of people moved for three hours before the contents were emptied.

The things that were brought out were piled up in the open space at the entrance of the Daxiong Treasure Hall into two small hills.

Kou Ji took a general glance, and the grain was more than a million stones.

Most of the money is gold, silver and jewelry, and there are no copper coins.

Seeing this, Kou Ji walked up to the household officials and asked, "Check out what name Daxiangguo Temple uses to save money in Yizijiaozipu." ”

At present, copper coins are the mainstream currency, and there are not many copper coins found in the Daxiangguo Temple, which means that the Daxiangguo Temple has hidden the copper coins elsewhere.

Daxiangguo Temple has a business of putting Yinzi money, so it is impossible for them to bury those money in the ground, and the biggest possibility is to store it in Yizijiaozipu.

The household officials rummaged through the account books according to Kou Ji's instructions, and finally found a full sixteen names of deposited money.

Sixteen people who are not well-known in Bianjing City have a huge amount of money stored in their names.

Kou Ji wrote a letter on the spot, and ordered someone to send it to Zhao Zhen, so that Zhao Zhen ordered a word to hand over the shop and send all the money and property in the names of these sixteen people to the Daxiangguo Temple.

The old monk saw Kou Ji's actions like this, and said with a sad face: "Kou Shumi, my Great Xiangguo Temple did not have a grudge against Kou Shumi, why did Kou Shumi drive out my Great Xiangguo Temple?" ”

Kou Ji heard the old monk's words, and said lightly: "I didn't kill people in your Daxiangguo Temple, how can I talk about killing them all?" Besides, you keep saying that Buddhism is a pure place, so why are you afraid of people looking at it? ”

The old monk gritted his teeth and said: "The Queen Mother is also a pilgrim in my Daxiangguo Temple!" The poor monk has already sent someone to invite the queen mother. ”

Kou Ji's face turned cold, "You are using the Queen Mother to press me?!" ”

The old monk said in a deep voice: "Don't dare, I just ask Kou Shumi to save some face for my Great Xiangguo Temple." All the money in the temple can be dedicated to the imperial court. ”

Kou Ji snorted coldly: "Then you can go and invite the Queen Mother, and see if the Queen Mother will come out for you in the Great Xiangguo Temple." ”

The old monk saw that Kou Ji had a tough attitude and did not enter the oil and salt, so he could only grit his teeth and keep silent.

Daxiangguo Temple has always claimed to be a pure place for Buddhism.

But whether it is a pure place or not, the old monk knows in his heart.

At present, Kou Ji has subdued the Great Xiangguo Temple through force, and the industry of the Great Xiangguo Temple has been clear.

The wealth accumulated by Daxiangguo Temple for decades will be exposed in front of everyone's eyes.

Follow the money and wealth to investigate, and whatever evil things Daxiangguo Temple has done, they 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 oppression of Kou Ji's force, all his resistance was almost useless.

The only one I can rely on now is the Queen Mother.

The old monk now only asks the Queen Mother to arrive faster.

Kou Ji saw the old monk's thoughts, but he didn't say anything.

Because Kou Ji knew that it was impossible for Empress Dowager Li to appear in the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The old monk had no way to directly deliver a message to the Empress Dowager Li, so he could only bring a message to the Empress Dowager Li through some pilgrims in the mansion of the magnates, as well as the eunuchs in the palace and the pilgrims in the palace.

And these people have long been stared at by the people sent by Zhao Zhen to Wu Desi.

Empress Dowager Li herself was also invited by Zhao Zhen to go to the Jinmingchi cruise.

No one will help the Great Xiangguo Temple deliver the message, and the Empress Dowager Li will not appear in the Great Xiangguo Temple.

By the time Empress Dowager Li knew that something had happened in the Great Xiangguo Temple, Kou Ji had already dealt with the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Using the power of the imperial court to deal with a temple, the temple has no strength to resist except for lying down and being beaten.

It took a few hours to count.

The officials of the household department have already counted the money and accounts of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

After checking the accounts, the household officials in charge of checking the accounts were all shocked.

"Qi Yu Kou Shumi, there are 2.3 million stones of grain in the account of the Great Xiangguo Temple. One million of them are stored in the Great Xiangguo Temple, and the remaining 1.3 million stones are stored in the grange inside the Great Xiangguo Temple outside Bianjing City.

Daxiangguo Temple has 3,541 acres of fertile land in the north of the city and 1,867 acres of fertile land in the south of the city...... In addition, in the counties under the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, there are also the fields of the Great Xiangguo Temple......

The total land of Daxiangguo Temple is 67,362 acres.

……

Daxiangguo Temple has 32 shops, 18 houses and 6 other courtyards in Bianjing City.

……

Daxiangguo Temple has been printing money for many years, and the accumulated money is as much as 10 million yuan, part of which the money has been purchased from the field, and part of the money has been left in the Daxiangguo Temple, and there is a part of the money, there is a word Jiaozi shop.

……

According to the overall plan, all the properties and money of the Great Xiangguo Temple are counted together, with a total of 26.53 million guan, of which 3.67 million guan are IOUs, and those money have been put into the people by the Daxiangguo Temple.

……”

The officials of the Ministry of Household Affairs were not shocked.

It is just a monastery, and its assets have reached 26,530,000 yuan.

It is fully one-fifth of the current annual tax of the Great Song Dynasty.

Such a shocking number is enough to shock everyone up and down the Great Song Dynasty.

Zhang Zhibai played the official family and bluntly said that there are many tumors in the temples in the world, and some temples have accumulated a lot of money.

Some people in the court still felt that Zhang Zhibai's words were exaggerated.

Now that they have seen such an amazing wealth of Daxiangguo Temple, the household officials feel that what Zhang Zhibai said in the court before is not exaggerated at all, not only is it not exaggerated, but it is even very subtle.

"Two thousand six million five hundred and thirty thousand?!"

When Kou Ji heard this number, he was also shocked.

He had long known that Daxiangguo Temple had accumulated a huge fortune and was so rich that he was so rich, but when he heard the total assets of Daxiangguo Temple, his heart still twitched.

Daxiangguo Temple is just a temple, and the wealth collected is a little scary.

It is not only beyond the cognition of all Song people, but also beyond the cognition of Kou Ji.

Kou Ji didn't say a word, and walked over to the pile of accounts that had been checked, and flipped through them carefully.

Kou Ji looked through the accounts for an hour before he figured out why the Great Xiangguo Temple was able to collect so much money.

Daxiangguo Temple is like a pixiu, only entering and not leaving.

The food used on weekdays is produced in the fields of Daxiangkokuji Temple.

Firewood, rice, oil, salt, etc., the people of Daxiangguo Temple do not need to go out to buy.

The pilgrims of the powerful families in Bianjing City will offer these things at four o'clock.

The number of monks in the temple is limited, so most of the food produced in the temple and the firewood, rice, oil and salt sent by the pilgrims were sold by them.

None of the shops in the Great Xiangguo Temple in Bianjing City were rented out.

They are all run by the people of Daxiangguo Temple, and they sell grain, firewood, rice, oil and salt in Daxiangguo Temple.

Sometimes pilgrims sell things in the grain store operated by Daxiangguo Temple, send them to Daxiangguo Temple, and then take them out and sell them in Daxiangguo Temple, and so on three or five times, and when things are a little old, Daxiangguo Temple will sell them to the people at a low price.

This went back and forth several times, and Daxiangguo Temple used the same thing to make money several times.

Those grain banks alone contribute a lot of money to the Great Xiangguo Temple every year.

In addition, the incense and vegetarian dishes provided by Daxiangguo Temple to pilgrims are very expensive, and they often dare to charge hundreds of dollars for a bowl of somen noodles. Every year old, you can also earn a large amount of income for Daxiangguo Temple.

The pilgrims of those powerful families in Bianjing City, when they added sesame oil money and sent things to the Great Xiangguo Temple, they almost sprinkled it out without scruples.

Ask another Buddha statue and open a light or something.

The amount of money spent in the temple is even more.

Together, these incomes earned a lot of money for Daxiangguo Temple.

Daxiangguo Temple earns the most, or the money of the seal.

Millions of dollars rolled outside, you can get three or five percent more.

Therefore, the sum of the various incomes of the Great Xiangguo Temple every year is already a huge amount of money.

It has been more than 50 years since the Great Song Dynasty won the world.

Daxiangguo Temple also made money for more than 50 years.

After more than 50 years of accumulation, it has naturally become a huge number.

After reading the accounts, Kou Ji paced in front of the old monk, "I always knew that your temple was rich, but I didn't expect your temple to be rich to this point. ”

The old monk's face was like frost, and he didn't say a word.

Kou Ji didn't let the old monk go because he didn't say a word, he stared at the old monk and said, "When you collected the money from the seal, you didn't do a lot of evil, right?" There are many headless public cases in Kaifeng Mansion that forced people to repay debts and caused lives, and the culprits should be found. ”

The old monk's face was gloomy for a moment.

Kou Ji didn't pay attention to him, but ordered the people behind him: "Go to Kaifeng Mansion and let the prefect of Kaifeng Mansion bring someone over to investigate this matter." By the way, I sent someone to urge the people of the Yizi shop, and asked them to send the money of the Great Xiangguo Temple as soon as possible.

After the people of the word Jiaozi shop sent the money of the Great Xiangguo Temple, they opened the mountain gate of the Great Xiangguo Temple, let those people in, and let them take a good look at the pure place of the Buddha Gate. ”

"Koji! 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 roar.

Kou Ji snorted coldly, "You want me to save your face in the Great Xiangguo Temple and cover up the ugly things you have done?" You think beautifully! When you sent people to tarnish Zhang Zhibai's reputation, did you leave your hands behind?

You have not spared a hand against a man who is honest and honest.

Why should I spare my hand against you filthy people? ”

The old monk opened his mouth to argue, but he heard Kou Ji sneer: "Don't tell me, what happened in Zhang Zhibai's mansion has nothing to do with your Daxiangguo Temple." Your Daxiangguo Temple can make a fortune in Bianjing City, and the people who help you do things below are probably more than a thousand people.

If there is any disturbance in the other temples in Bianjing, you should all know it clearly.

Therefore, even if the matter of Zhangfu is not done by your Daxiangguo Temple, your Daxiangguo Temple is also one of the people who know. ”

After listening to Kou Ji's words, the old monk was speechless.

The old monk is also a good argument.

But standing in front of that huge amount of money, he couldn't say a word.

Seeing that the old monk was no longer speech, Kou Ji did not speak again.

He waited until the people of Yizizipu delivered the money from Daxiangguo Temple, and then ordered people to pile up the money in one place and sent heavy soldiers to guard it.

Then he instructed the officials of the household department to make a list of all the money and property of the Great Xiangguo Temple and post it at the entrance of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Subsequently, Kou Ji ordered people to open the door of the Great Xiangguo Temple, so that the people in Bianjing City who want to enter the Great Xiangguo Temple can enter the Great Xiangguo Temple anytime and anywhere.

When the people arrived at the Great Xiangguo Temple with the soldiers and horses led by Kou Ji, they entrenched themselves at the street entrances on both sides of the Great Xiangguo Temple to watch.

It's just that Koji sent soldiers and horses to block the entire street, so they can't get into the street.

Now Koji has lifted the blockade of the streets.

The people on both sides of the street naturally rushed to the front of the Great Xiangguo Temple.

Most of them came with the intention of fighting for the Great Xiangguo Temple.

But when they saw the list of industries and money posted at the entrance of the Great Xiangguo Temple, and saw the mountains of food and money piled up in the Great Xiangguo Temple, they were shocked one by one, and they couldn't say half a word of grievances for the Great Xiangguo Temple.

With the continuous influx of people.

The industry of Daxiangguo Temple was converted into money, and the news of more than 20 million yuan also spread like a gust of wind.

Up and down Bianjing City, it was a complete sensation.

The people frantically poured to the Great Xiangguo Temple.

The dignitaries and civil and military ministers in Bianjing City also rushed to the Daxiangguo Temple in sedan chairs.

Zhao Zhen, who was sitting on the dragon boat in Jinming Pond, was accompanying Concubine Li and Empress Cao to swim in the lake.

When I heard Chen Lin's report that the industry of Daxiangguo Temple was converted into money, as much as more than 20 million yuan, I pinched and smashed a railing on the dragon boat.

"Gaba ......"

"Official!"

Hearing the sound of gaba, Concubine Li and Empress Cao, who were watching the scenery on both sides of Jinming Pond, turned back one after another.

Seeing Zhao Zhen pinching the railing, the two of them showed a look of surprise on their faces, and they exhaled in unison.