As soon as Li Zhang's question came out, Xuan Yue's face on the other side changed greatly, and his eyes even showed a little panic, but at this time he still pretended to be calm and said, "What is the noble man asking for?" ”

Seeing that the other party was reluctant to answer, Li Zhang's face turned cold, and he directly revealed his identity at the moment and said: "This official is the supervision of the imperial history personally ordered by His Majesty, and he came to Xijing to investigate the matter of the hat demon on the order of the emperor, do you want to answer here, or let the official arrest you in the yamen for interrogation?" ”

Li Zhang is not scaring Xuanyue, he temporarily served as the supervisor of the imperial history before he came to Luoyang, and the supervision of the imperial history had the functions of supervising hundreds of officials, inspecting counties and counties, and correcting prisons, but in the Great Song Dynasty, the supervision of the imperial history has become a Jilu official, and there is no actual authority, but this time in order to investigate the matter of the hat demon, Zhao Zhen deliberately restored the authority to supervise the imperial history, and let Li Zhang have full authority to deal with this matter.

Hearing Li Zhang's identity, Xuan Yue was also frightened, and she didn't dare to hide it anymore, so she replied in a hurry: "Qiyu...... After the temple was changed to the incense temple, it was ...... That's what happened to the Hat Demon! ”

"Good!" Li Zhang's gaze became even more fierce when he heard this, and then he raised his voice and asked again, "Xuanyue, this official asks you again, do you have anything to do with the hat demon?" ”

"Wronged, poor monk wronged, the matter of the hat demon has absolutely nothing to do with this temple, please also ask the imperial history to investigate!" Xuan Yue heard Li Zhang's words but shouted loudly, but when he spoke, his eyes did not dare to look at Li Zhang, and his forehead and sideburns were full of cold sweat, and even Ouyang Xiu next to him could see that something was wrong.

"Hmph, block the temple, and not a single monk in the temple is allowed to escape!" Li Zhang immediately ordered, the entourage behind him was all the forbidden army sent to him by Zhao Zhen, and immediately controlled all the monks, although Li Zhang only brought a few dozen followers with him this time, but there were only a dozen monks in the temple, and it was too easy to control them.

To say that the officials in ancient society did have great power, such as Li Zhang's arrest and search did not require an arrest warrant or a search warrant at all, after controlling the monks, Li Zhang also immediately asked people to search the temple to the bottom.

However, to Li Zhang's surprise, although Hongfa Temple was searched by him, he did not find any useful evidence, but when interrogating the monks in the temple, some people did not confess because they couldn't bear the pressure, and admitted that they had directed and acted in a good show of the reappearance of the hat demon a few months ago in order to attract pilgrims.

After getting the confession of the monk in the temple, Li Zhang immediately slapped him in front of him and asked coldly: "Xuanyue, your disciples have already confessed, do you still want to be hard-mouthed?" ”

Xuan Yue's whole body trembled with fright at this time, and his fat face was full of sweat, in fact, he was not a bold person in the first place, and at this time, he was even more frightened in the face of Li Zhang, the imperial historian who held the power of life and death, so he immediately knelt on the ground and confessed all his crimes with a handful of snot and tears.

It turned out that Xuanyue had just taken over Hongfa Temple at the beginning of this year, and it used to be called Mingxin Temple, but compared to the previous host, Xuanyue didn't want to stay in this small temple at all, but wanted to make a fortune through the temple, after all, the four major monks were empty after all, and most of them were ordinary people.

It's just that Mingxin Temple is a practice temple, the most valuable property of the temple is only dozens of acres of thin fields under the mountain, if you want to make a fortune by farming is simply whimsical, so Xuanyue wants to change the practice temple to the incense temple, if the incense is prosperous, there is a lot of incense money in a year, and if there is more money, you can also lend, this is the general method of making money in the Buddhist temple.

I thought of it and did it, so under Xuanyue's suggestion, Mingxin Temple was renamed Hongfa Temple, and it was also changed from a practice temple to an incense temple, but their temple was a small name, and it was in the suburbs of Luoyang.

Faced with this situation, Xuan Yue finally moved his brain, he thought of the hat demon who made a big mess in the world many years ago, if the hat demon reappeared in Qingfeng Ridge, it would definitely make the whole Luoyang pay attention to it, and then he would secretly spread rumors, such as the peace charm in the temple can keep peace and the like, it will definitely make the incense in the temple flourish.

In fact, Xuanyue has also succeeded, since the emergence of the so-called "hat demon" in Qingfeng Ridge, the whole Luoyang was also shaken, many curious young people also came to watch, and their Hongfa Temple also took advantage of the east wind of the hat demon to become famous, and now the pilgrims who come every day are endless, and the incense money collected in one day is worth their previous one-year rent.

"What are you impersonating as a hat demon?" Li Zhang also slapped the table fiercely when he heard this, and then asked again.

"Hole...... Kong Ming lantern, I was a paper craftsman before I became a monk, so I made a big Kong Ming lantern according to the appearance of the legendary hat demon, and then let the disciples fly it at night, so that many villagers around saw the hat demon. Xuan Yue replied again trembling at the moment.

Li Zhang was not surprised when he heard this, in fact, he had conjectures about this before, so he asked again: "What about the lamp?" ”

"Burn...... Burned.,I originally just wanted to use the hat demon to start the temple's fame.,But I didn't expect the hat demon to get bigger and bigger.,I'm worried that the government will be suspicious.,So I burned the lamp.,And I've only used it once.,The hat demons that appeared later have absolutely nothing to do with villains! In the end, Xuan Yue also shouted again to the sky and the earth.

"Hmph, I think you want to shirk the blame, and the hat demon was found in many places in the city later, and it must be your ghost!" Ouyang Xiu finally couldn't help it at this time, stepped forward and scolded angrily, he thought that there was really a hat demon, but he didn't expect it to be a ghost caused by this monk, although the other party tried his best to deny what was going on, but he didn't believe it at all.

Li Zhang showed a thoughtful expression when he heard this, and then asked people to escort all the monks of Xuanyue back to Luoyang, but this scared Xuanyue a lot, thinking that Li Zhang wanted to take revenge on himself, and immediately cried and shouted again that he was wronged, but Li Zhang directly asked people to plug his mouth, so as not to be upset.

"Li Duwei really deserves to be the imperial history appointed by His Majesty, he just came to Luoyang and cracked this case, and even the culprit was caught, and the officials admired!" Ouyang Xiu also saluted Li Zhang at this time, and said very happily, the hat demon case has already made Luoyang embarrassed, and now he can finally breathe a sigh of relief.

"Uncle Yong, don't be happy too early, although this Xuanyue is the initiator, she may not be the culprit in this case, I suspect that there is a deeper hidden black hand behind the scenes!" Li Zhang shook his head solemnly at this time.

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