Thinking about this will not help extinguish the anger in Xu Shiyang's heart - you, as officials of the empire, have also gone to borrow money from monks?

The angry Xu Shiyang took a few steps forward, walked into the county office, kicked the guy kneeling in front, and kicked the guy who looked like a scribe to the ground.

"You bastards, explain what the 'grace period is' all about? Do you all owe money to those monks? And you actually knelt down for the monk? Didn't Lao Tzu say it? Han people above the commoner are only allowed to kneel to the prince of heaven and earth! Do you dare to disobey? ”

Xu Shiyang said angrily:

"Also, who is the prefectural order? Who is that Bai Hangyun again? Get out of here! ”

Only then did the public servants of the county government raise their heads and glance at Xu Shiyang, they found that the person who came was not a monk, and they couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief, but then they thought that these people dared to split the door of the county government, coupled with Xu Shiyang's roar just now, their hearts were raised again - the person in front of them dared to say this, obviously the official position is not small!

"This lord, dare to ask who you are?" The guy who was kicked by Xu Shiyang just now was not seriously injured, he got up, nodded and leaned towards Xu Shiyang's side, but was stopped by Li Kui and others.

"I'm Xu Shiyang!"

There is no intention of concealing it at all.

As soon as this sentence came out, it seemed that a 30-kilogram cannonball was thrown down at the county office, and the sound was not loud but it seemed to shake the entire compound trembling slightly.

So the county government workers who had just stood up all knelt down again.

"Your Highness!!???"

Some people were so scared that tears fell from their eyes.

"Cry P! What about the prefectural order? What about Bai Hangyun? Get out! ”

Xu Shiyang became more and more impatient, and he had high hopes for these grassroots workers, believing that they should be the nerve bundles of the empire, helping the cabinet to control the lowest level of the country, so that the whole country could develop quickly in the direction set by the cabinet.

Of course, they will also fall, and their nerves will die, but that should not be now, when the empire is on the rise, and it is majestic.

Now that these guys are like this, Xu Shiyang began to wonder if his grassroots were corrupted more quickly than he imagined.

"Your Highness...... down is Bai Hangyun." In the end, the guy who was kicked was the first to react and began to answer Xu Shiyang's question: "Lord County, ......, he ......, he doesn't live in the county office, he has been ...... on Shaomu Mountain now." ”

"Living in the mountains?" Xu Shiyang was surprised: "What is he doing on the mountain?" ”

"Your Highness, please listen to my explanation......"

Things are not as Xu Shiyang thought, but in fact, they are not much better.

In fact, since the previous week, before the southward migration, the entire Dengfeng County has almost all been the territory of Shaosen Temple.

The fields are monks' fields, the shops are monks' properties, and the farmers are tenants of Shaomoriji Temple.

At that time, the county government of Dengfeng County actually couldn't manage anything - because Dengfeng had no secular property at all, and in the Great Zhou Dynasty, monk property was tax-free!

"Not to mention ordinary fields and shops, even those dirty businesses are also controlled by Shaosen Temple!" Bai Hangyun continued.

Butcher shops, wine shops, and monks occupy these shops that are not in line with Buddhism, and even the Jiyuan and the dung section of Dengfeng City are dominated by Shaosen Temple.

As long as they can make money, the monks are really not taboo in meat and vegetarian food.

When it developed to the unification of the Chinese Empire, Shaosen Temple had thousands of acres of fertile land, thousands of shops, 3,000 stick monks in the temple, and tens of thousands of foreign disciples who led the practice!

This is a temple, this is a warlord!

It's no wonder that the Jin army went south several times and went around Dengfeng County, this is not something that faith can justify, this is simply because the Jin army doesn't want to gnaw this bone.

After the empire took control of the Dengfeng area, the monks were somewhat restrained - at least they didn't fight against the county orders sent by the empire, but not fighting didn't mean they had no other way.

There are some manors that belong to the same temple property in the back mountain of Shaomu Mountain, which is very gorgeously decorated, and the monks have raised a lot of special girls in the manor, including Yangzhou thin horses, local girls in Dengfeng, and even some nuns.

After the imperial Dengfeng County Commander took office, the monks invited him to eat and drink in the back mountain, and all kinds of beauties accompanied him during the banquet, which made him very chic.

As a veteran who had just been discharged from the army, the county order failed to pass this beauty pass, and soon fell into it, he felt that since Dengfeng was all monk's property, then he had nothing to manage when the county order went down the mountain, so he simply lived directly on the mountain.

"What about the patrol team? Haven't been here? Xu Shiyang suppressed the anger in his heart and asked, "Why has no one ever reported this matter?" ”

Naturally, the inspection team of the empire was not only led by Xu Shiyang himself, in fact, the Ministry of Officials and the Ministry of Household often organized officials from the capital to form inspection teams to conduct spot checks on certain areas of a certain province to prevent officials from violating discipline and law.

There are a lot of officials who have violated discipline and law, but why did they miss such a big hole in Dengfeng County?

"The inspection team did come once, but at that time, the county commander could also deal with the past when he went down the mountain - after all, the county commander himself did not do anything illegal."

Moreover, the monks of Shaosen Temple are very knowledgeable, and the empire does not give tax exemption to monks, but they also admit it, and pay taxes on time completely, which is a lot, so the inspection team does not think that there is anything wrong with Dengfeng County.

Xu Shiyang understood that his inspection team always regarded whether all the taxes could be collected as the first focus of the inspection, and then whether the population growth ratio reached the standard, as long as these two data were qualified, and the local officials did not make too many mistakes, they would pass it to the local officials.

Dengfeng has a large population, and the monk's property has always hinted at paying taxes, so it is not difficult to understand that the inspection team gave it approval - not to mention that the county order and medals are in hand, and everyone has a high level of trust in him.

Xu Shiyang asked again: "What do you mean by kneeling on the ground just now, what do you mean by 'a few more days of grace'?" ”

"We also owe money to Shaosen Temple."

"If you are short of money, why don't you go to the bank for a loan?"

"It's not that we lack money, it's that the county government lacks money." Bai Hangyun replied: "Pay the country's taxes, Shaosen Temple has a lot of money, and the taxes for the operation of the local government, Shaosen Temple does not give a cent, and the county commander himself is comfortable playing in the back mountain, and he does not want to care about this matter, the lower official is a minister of the previous week, and it is not good to speak among monks." ”

Therefore, Dengfeng County was very short of money, but it did not dare to borrow from the bank, because it was tantamount to embezzling the interests of the monks who lent money.

In addition, in fact, the county government with a good decoration is actually a monk's property, and the house rented by Shaosen Temple to the county government has to pay a high rent every month!

"Hehe, that's so interesting!"

Xu Shiyang was amused:

"Everyone is doing things up and down, and everyone has been reporting it!"

As he said this, he suddenly rang out the old woman who was blocking the way and complaining.

The old woman had never been far away, and she didn't even know who the current emperor was, but she just ran to Sichuan Province to accurately intercept Xu Shiyang's convoy.

With the support of Bai Hangyun, the head of the household department of Dengfeng County.