Things in Muping County are developing more smoothly than expected, but it also has a consequence, that is, Zhang Ming's squadron alone is no longer enough to support him to stabilize the situation.

Although it seems that there is a box army and 5,000 township soldiers in hand, the loyalty of the box army and the township soldiers can basically be said to be none.

He could not tolerate the continuation of this situation, which he could not fully control.

Therefore, he asked people to send a letter to Kaifeng Mansion and transfer another squadron over.

With two squadrons, two hundred family members in hand, and a box army that can slowly retract their hearts, Zhang Junping can ensure that Muping County is in his hands.

After arranging all this, Zhang Junping did not go to interrogate the monks of Wuran Temple.

I'm going to lock them up for a few days.

These monks are very arrogant, and if they don't kill their arrogance for a few days, it is useless to interrogate.

Zhang Junping hadn't figured out how to deal with these monks.

The influence of the Wuzhi Temple is not only in Muping County, but also in the entire Dengzhou.

He is the guest of honor of many wealthy families.

Since Zhang Junping has sealed the Wuzhi Temple, he will definitely not give them a chance to connect and find a chance to regain the relationship.

The revival of the Wuzhi Temple, the unlucky one may be him Zhang Junping.

Therefore, Zhang Junping did not intend to simply interrogate them and send them to the army.

As for the killing, for the time being, the evidence collected, these monks are not guilty of death.

The crimes confessed by the top ten families, Zhang Junping knew very well in his heart.

He knew very well how the so-called sufferers and witnesses came from.

For the sake of Liwei, he can use the hands of the ten major families to seize the Unstained Temple, but he will definitely not let them lead the way.

"Go, call He Xi and Sun Xu over!" Zhang Junping remembered one more thing and commanded outside the door.

Soon, He Xi and Sun Xu both came to the back office.

"I've seen the county magistrate, but I don't know what the magistrate has to call us!"

"There are a total of five roads in and out of Muping County, I want you to take people and block these five roads for me!

Once you find out that there is a monk who secretly leaves Muping County at night, take it down for me directly! ”

"Master Qiqi Zhixian, there are only twenty people in our two classes, even if we add the strong men of the strong class, there are only more than forty people, these five roads, we really can't keep them!" He Xi smiled bitterly.

"You two take my warrant and go to mobilize 500 village soldiers, put 100 people on one road, can you guard it?"

"Yes!"

"Well, let's do it quickly!

Remember, be hidden, don't make a big fuss, secretly hide on the side of the road, and catch me when I see the monks who are rushing to the night road! Zhang Junping explained again.

"Whoa!" He Xi and Sun Xu replied loudly.

Just now, Zhang Junping suddenly thought that he had sent an official document during the day to thoroughly investigate the monks and Taoists in the temple and Taoist temple.

If it was before, maybe most people didn't take it seriously, but after they seized the Wuzhi Temple, knocking on the mountain and shaking the tiger, there would definitely be many monks and Taoists who left Muping County overnight.

After eating the offerings of the people of Muping, drinking the blood of the people of Muping County, if something happens, you want to pat your ass and leave?

How can there be such a good thing?

Zhang Junping's heavy hand is not because he has any prejudice against the monks.

If you want to become a monk, no problem, just find a Taoist temple and become a monk.

Three meals a day, coarse tea and light rice, a green lamp accompanied by gods and Buddhas, this is your freedom.

Even if you go to the fate, a fast, or even eat meat and drink wine, it is your freedom.

But under the guise of cultivating the Tao and worshipping the Buddha, we can't suck the blood of the people.

The Taoist temples that should have been pure in heart and few desires have become large landlords, enjoying the property that the people have worked hard to accumulate and offering to the gods and Buddhas, while not working themselves, renting the land to the people, and never paying taxes to the imperial court.

These temples and temples have become moths that lie on the people and suck the blood.

Therefore, after Zhang Junping subdued the ten major families, he began to do something about the temples and Taoist temples in Muping County.

Everyone in the outside world thought that the three fires that Zhang Junping went to Muping County were to exterminate the bandits, build reservoirs and canals, and establish county schools.

In fact, they were all wrong, these three things were just a cover for Zhang Junping to put it in the open.

The real three fires, the first fire burned the ten families, and the second fire burned the Taoist temple.

As for the third fire, Zhang Junping has been laying it out, but now the time has not yet come, and it can't be burned yet.

After He Xi and Sun Xu received the order, they took Zhang Junping's warrant and came to the township military camp outside the city.

Sun Xu took He Xi to the Sun family's manor outside the city, which had become a village barracks.

Naturally, the soldiers stationed were the Sun family's family members and the township soldiers of a battalion of those small families who were co-opted by the Sun family.

The first battalion of township soldiers was exactly 500 people, which met Zhang Junping's requirements.

Sun Xu was originally from the Sun family, and he had Zhang Junping's warrant, so he was easily transferred to the township soldiers, divided into five roads, and under the leadership of the county government officials, they were divided into five intersections.

These five intersections are the only way to enter and exit Muping County.

At night, on the way in and out of Muping County, there were indeed people rushing to the night.

This is not the 21st century, ordinary people, even businessmen, even dart masters will not rush to the night road.

There are too many unknown dangers in the wilderness at night.

Therefore, those who are in a hurry to travel at night will either have an urgent matter, a hundred thousand urgent things, and will risk their lives to rush to the night road.

Either that, it's the kind of official errand that is 800 miles expedited.

Either they are outlaws, and only they haunt the night, because a large part of the danger at night comes from them.

"Who?" Seeing the people getting closer and closer, Sun Xu stood up and asked loudly.

"Fusheng is immeasurable......" people habitually said a Taoist law.

"Take it!"

When Sun Xu heard this, he waved his hand directly, and four township soldiers came up, grabbed the comer, tied them with ropes, and stuffed rags in their mouths.

The rags were torn from the people who came.

In one night, Sun Xu alone caught more than 20 monks who wanted to leave Muping County overnight.

On the other four roads, there was no shortage of arrests, and on five roads in one night, a total of more than 150 people were arrested.

In a county town with a population of only tens of thousands, there are more than 150 monks who do not have degrees.

This is still caught at night, and I don't know how many I didn't catch.

For these caught monks, Zhang Junping was directly promoted to the court for trial the next day.

There is no degree, and Zhang Junping does not have a one-size-fits-all approach to these monks who do not have a degree.

Instead, they were divided into two situations, single-minded, willing to be poor, self-farming, and self-sufficient monks, and Zhang Junping reissued them with a degree.

For some people who are purely to escape labor and avoid taxes from the imperial court, they become Taoist priests and monks in temples and Taoist temples during the day, and go home at night to sleep with their wives in their arms.

Or in the name of gods and Buddhas, they deceive the people of the world, and throw them all outside the city to be reformed through labor.