The whole thing is actually not complicated, the purpose of the old woman's complaint is clearly written on her pleadings: the old woman's son is a small businessman, and when he went out to do business at the beginning of this year, his daughter-in-law went to Shaosen Temple to worship Buddha, but was insulted by the great monk of the temple.

When the old woman's son came back, when he learned of this, he was angry and went up the mountain to reason, but he was beaten down by the evil monk again.

Since then, the little businessman has been bedridden, and he has become more and more unable to think about it, and he has actually died.

And his daughter-in-law, because she was pointed at by the township, felt that she was innocent, and the three-foot white silk followed her husband.

A good little family was defeated, the old woman cried all day long, and wanted to find a short time several times, but was saved by Lord Bai, the county commander of Dengfeng County in the previous week, and then Lord Bai told the old woman that His Royal Highness the Crown Prince was inspecting the whole country, and if there was any unjust case, he could directly come to His Royal Highness the Prince to complain.

Of course, the old woman didn't want her son and daughter-in-law to die so unclearly, so she asked Lord Bai to write a letter of paper, borrowed some coils, and blocked Xu Shiyang's path in advance under the escort of Lord Bai's family.

"Hehe, Dengfeng, Shaosen Temple, and Bai Hangyun of the former Zhou County Order?"

Xu Shiyang looked at the envelope and smiled meaninglessly:

"It's really interesting, then let's go to Dengfeng first."

……

There are two Shaosen temples in the empire, of which the South Shaosen Temple is located in Fujian Province, when the previous Zhou Dynasty fell, because of the dispatch of monks to resist the theft of Quanzhou by the Pars thief Pu Shou Geng, they suffered heavy losses, but after the war they were collectively commended by the emperor, the crown prince and the cabinet, and were even allowed to expand the temple area.

But the ...... of the North Shaosen Temple, uh, they don't seem to have done anything beneficial to the country except for their boastful exploits and the name of having a so-called No. 1 sect of the righteous path of the rivers and lakes.

Ah, by the way, it seems that this time the Chu State opened up in the South Seas, and the North Shaosen Temple also sent three hundred monks? This is a good thing, but Xu Shiyang heard that they are very well-equipped, and each monk of the North Shaosen Temple has at least two guns, one long and one short, and is also equipped with armor and cold weapons.

Xu Shiyang was a little puzzled, a group of monks dancing with guns and sticks, where did they get so much money?

After entering Dengfeng County, Xu Shiyang quickly knew the answer to this question.

Xu Shiyang did not let the large army enter the city, and he only brought twenty guards and entered Dengfeng County in civilian clothes.

This Dengfeng belongs to the jurisdiction of Kaifeng Prefecture, which is not a big county, but because there is Shaosen Temple in this county, decades of war, all over the country have not come to the county to fight the autumn wind, so the market is relatively quiet.

Because the Jurchens worship Buddha, they have not done too many sins in Dengfeng, where Shaosen Temple is located, and as a result, there is even a taste of paradise here.

However, all this has continued until now, and it has changed the taste of this small county town a little.

Walking on the street, you can see monks wearing blue or yellow monk's robes everywhere, bareheaded, Xu Shiyang watched them walk into the street shop with a big grin, and the shopkeeper would greet them with a smile on his face, and present a package with both hands - it was probably a copper coin? Or simply hand over a stack of new bills.

The monks were not polite, accepted the money, counted it carefully, and then walked towards the next one, repeating the process just now.

But it seems that some people give the wrong number, and the fat monks will rush up and beat the shopkeeper for a fat meal.

The shopkeeper rolled on the ground with his head in his hands, and pleaded bitterly:

“…… Two more days of grace ......"

Something like that.

It's really a pretty standard feudal society with a small city appearance.

Xu Shiyang's face was gloomy when he looked like this, and the young and vigorous guards wanted to step forward to arrest those monks, but Xu Shiyang stretched out his hand to stop them.

"Let's go to the county government first."

Xu Shiyang was very curious, this little shopkeeper seemed to owe the monk money and couldn't afford it.

But how so? Won't he go to the Imperial Bank for a loan? With the interest rate of the Imperial Bank's loan, no matter what the industry, it will never be able to repay.

In the event of force majeure such as natural disasters**, banks are even willing to forgive debts.

Now, with banks, who would be stupid enough to borrow from private loan sharks?

You can't get the answer to this kind of question on the street, so you have to go to the county office and see what the local magistrate has to say.

Dengfeng County is in a good location, like most counties in the country, almost in the center of Dengfeng County Cross Street.

And the building seems to be good, carved beams and paintings, even the stone lion at the door looks very mighty, it seems, it seems that it took a lot of money to repair this yamen?

Before coming, Xu Shiyang got some information: the new county commander of Dengfeng County is a veteran of the field army who has joined the army since the era of Qi Province, and he can even change to a small nobleman after accumulating military exploits.

However, this person did not care much about honor, and chose to work in the local area after retiring, because the credit was never spent, and considering the importance of supporting the army and the fact that there was a lack of local civil servants in the south, he was arranged to serve as the county commander of Dengfeng County.

The previous week's original Dengfeng County Commander Bai Hangyun was demoted and retained, and served as the chief accountant of the county's household department (the highest bureaucrat of the county-level household department).

Xu Shiyang frowned and looked at the county government without saying a word.

It's not that the county government is too luxurious, the empire has more official buildings than this luxurious, but as a local administrative body, what is the number of roads with the door closed in broad daylight?

"Knock on the door." Xu Shiyang commanded softly.

One of the guards immediately stepped forward and slammed on the vermilion gate:

Bang bang bang, bang bang bang!

"Open the door! Open the door! What do you do when you're closed in broad daylight? ”

Someone heard the sound of a rope, apparently someone inside, but the door never opened.

"Isn't it blocking the door in the back? It's like a bunker built in an enemy country. Xu Shiyang became more and more angry.

The atmosphere of this county government gave him a very bad intuition - maybe this temporary change of itinerary to Dengfeng can not only be solved by dealing with a case of insulting women and a case of beating to death.

"Smash the door open."

Xu Shiyang's temper came up and he gave a direct order.

The guards are also fierce generals, and Li Kui, who has been the commander of the guards for more than ten years, wielded a big axe like two door panels, and split the gate of the county government into pieces with a few strokes!

Behind him, the other guards were even carrying their revolvers, aiming at the open gate!

However, there were no thieves rushing out with weapons brandished, and when they looked inside through the open gate of the cave, they saw people kneeling on the ground in the county government compound.

"Don't be rough with the master, don't be rough, just ask the master for a few more days......"

The words coming out of the county government made Xu Shiyang stunned, how did he feel as if he had heard this sentence somewhere?

Uh, come to my senses, it was just now.

That's what the little shopkeeper said to the monks who collect debts!