In view of the huge casualties caused by the serious armed conflict in Dengfeng County, the military believed that the battle to attack the Shaosen Temple would be more intense, so the Chinese army specially transferred siege mortars, and tens of thousands of troops surrounded the mountains occupied by the Shaosen Temple tightly, and put on a posture of preparing for a strong attack.

However, under such preparations, the battle could not be fought, and after seeing that the army began to build siege positions, the main body of Shaomori Temple and other temples on Mt. Shomuro opened their doors one after another and surrendered.

In hindsight, it is not surprising that the monks gave up resistance, after all, they were fighting against an empire.

But don't believe the nonsense of guns against tyranny, you can have more guns than the country? What's more, the army has already dragged the artillery.

The Chinese army has rich experience in how to deal with the armed forces entrenched in the mountains and forests, after all, regardless of the north and south of the river, the Chinese army has fought against bandits in almost every county under its jurisdiction. A large number of the bandits will consciously surrender after seeing the military flag and strive for leniency.

The surrender of Shaosen Temple this time is actually not much different from the surrender of bandits.

According to the army's instructions, the monks who surrendered in groups of 10 people descended the mountain from the designated road with their hands raised and surrendered, during which those who did not have their turn to surrender needed to carry their weapons to the main entrance of the temple, where the Chinese army could clearly see.

Of course, this does not guarantee that there will be no more weapons on the mountain after everyone descends the mountain and surrenders, but it does reduce the strength of the die-hards as much as possible.

This time, there were no diehards on Mt. Shomuro.

The number of monks who surrendered each time they descended the mountain was not large, so although there was an endless stream and a high frequency, it was still completed after walking for a day and two nights.

During this period, more than 2,700 monks, more than 900 pilgrims, and more than 300 women descended the mountain to surrender.

On December 28, 1797, the Chinese army entered Shaosen Temple and began to search the entire temple. Later, more than 200 monks who were hiding in the mountains and did not surrender were arrested from the temple.

The military seized 11,000 cold weapons, more than 900 muskets of various calibers and types, and several wooden cannons on the mountain.

There were more than 2,000 catties of shoddy gunpowder and more than 20,000 pieces of lead, in addition to arrows, bows, crossbows, armor and other equipment.

If you count the weapons seized in Dengfeng County, I have to say that the strength of the armed forces of this Shaosen Temple is not bad, but it lacks unified command and greater ambitions.

After the Shaosen Temple was cleaned up, Xu Shiyang ordered the cabinet to take the lead in setting up a joint investigation team to review the case of Shaosen Temple and Dengfeng County's chivalrous confrontation with the imperial army.

Due to the wide range of involvement, the cabinet sent hundreds of officials from the Criminal Department and the Ministry of Officials to form a temporary court and made a special trip to Dengfeng to deal with the case.

Xu Shiyang and Bao Zheng, whom he named to come, were responsible for sitting in Dengfeng County and controlling the overall situation.

After all, the Chinese New Year is approaching, in order not to let the innocent people be too implicated, Xu Shiyang transferred some meat and flour from the surrounding areas, combined with the materials confiscated in the Shaosen Temple, and set up hundreds of cauldrons in the temporary residence of the people outside the city, and made dumplings for everyone to appease the people.

At the same time, the people of the Propaganda Department went deep into the common people, publicized the policies and laws of the empire, and asked them to take the initiative to come forward and expose the crimes of Shaosen Temple.

The old woman who lost her son, with the support of Bai Hangyun, became the first bitter master to formally complain to the empire about Shaosen Temple.

Someone takes the lead, and many things are easy to solve.

Drinking hot dumpling soup, eating delicious leek and pork dumplings, and watching the thin old woman angrily reprimanding the Shaolin Temple for robbing the people's daughters and beating people to death in the county government, the people finally realized that this Dengfeng County has indeed changed.

This is the Dengfeng County of the Empire, not the Dengfeng County of Shaosen Temple!

So, those who have grievances have been avenged, and those who have revenge have taken revenge, and they stood up and took the initiative to sue the people of Shaosen Temple and kept pouring into the county government.

Hua Jun opened the door, a row of fifteen groups of statisticians to enthrone each bitter master, and the investigators of the criminal department began to investigate these cases according to the testimony of the bitter master, and interrogated the monks of Shaosen Temple in turn.

The case was also examined together, as well as the case of chivalrous men from all walks of life directly confronting the army in Dengfeng County.

There is no need to complain about this matter, because the Imperial military is the victim, and the always strong military will not spare the knights who have caused them such a large number of casualties.

At the end of 1797 and the beginning of 1798, the big case that happened in Dengfeng was called the first major case of the empire by historians, because this matter involved a wide range, not only the monks and lay believers of Shaosen Temple, but also involved the 300 monks and soldiers of Shaosen Temple who participated in the Nanyang Expedition, other Buddhist temples of the empire, the local officials of the empire in Dengfeng, and the vast majority of the so-called famous and decent people in the entire green forest.

Because Shaosen Temple has the reputation of "the world's kung fu out of Shaosen", and there is also the tablet of the first major sect of the green forest righteous path, so there are other self-proclaimed righteous sects in Dengfeng County all the year round to exchange and study disciples, as well as admire Shaosen, the ranger boy who admires it.

Shaosen Temple is extremely vicious to the tenants under its command and the small merchants who come to Dengfeng to do business, but it is very courteous to these Jianghu people and big businessmen with backgrounds.

In the past, those young heroes who had just debuted, if they encountered any difficulties in Dengfeng, they went to Shaosen Temple to worship the temple gate, and most of them could get help, such as those entanglements, or live in the temple for a few days to rest their feet, treat injuries, and so on.

This style of work not only allowed Shaosen Temple to maintain the first place in the righteous path, but also made the monks famous in the green forest.

What's more, the knights arrested in Dengfeng County are almost all over most of the righteous sects in the empire, so the martial arts sects and heroes have gone out to find people to lobby everywhere, wanting to exonerate some of the arrested people in Dengfeng.

Previously, the empire had always maintained a positive view of the Han people's armed forces, because at that time, it had just been unified, and there were still many hostile forces in the surrounding area, and the empire needed to maintain the people's martial spirit and the enterprising spirit of foreign development.

Therefore, the empire not only did not suppress these martial arts sects, but even gave a lot of support - the empire did not ban armor, guns, and gatherings, and after registering with the destination government, it was not even forbidden to travel far and emigrate.

After the unification of the empire, the martial arts decency and local heroes also reciprocated the favor, and these guys who boasted of kung fu actively participated in the empire's external expansion.

Qin, Jin, Chu and other subject countries have a large number of green forest children who bring their own horses, weapons and military rations to participate, and there are naturally many green forest people in the regular field army of the empire.

This makes the Imperial Military have some officers and soldiers who have little to do with the Green Forest (although their ranks are not high), and it also makes the Green Forest people have some good friendships with the Imperial magistrates.

As a result, so many Green Forest Sects and local heroes cheered for their disciples together, and they actually had some momentum for a while.