Chapter 80: Zhang Chong
Master Huiquan is the most powerful abbot in the history of Shaolin Temple, and the life and death of every stitch to the temple and the many monks of Shaolin Temple depend on him alone.
Within a month of his arrival at the temple, he took control of the thousands of warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple, who were gradually used by him as thugs who specialized in collecting usury and land rents, and exploiting the peasants by all means.
The locals hated these monks to the core, but they were helpless.
In terms of physique, this person is compared with Zhang Fei in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", from the perspective of character, this person is more inclined to Qin Hui of the Song Dynasty, which is exactly the same as Zhao Gao of the Qing Dynasty, and even this person is more vicious than Zhao Gao.
In the last years of the Qin Dynasty, Zhao Gao only designed to kill Li Si after all, and "pointed the deer as a horse" in front of the ministers, forcing the civil and military officials of the imperial court to stand in line in time, and all those who disobeyed him were designed to be killed.
This Master Huiquan has done even more bad things.
Since arriving at Shaolin Temple, Huiquan has threatened the abbot Master Yuansong, making Yuansong suppressed everywhere, and has basically become Huiquan's puppet in Shaolin Temple.
Later, in a situation of grief and indignation, Master Yuansong chose to hang himself at the door of Huiquan's monk's room on a night of lightning and thunder, which seemed to be a spiritual last fight to Huiquan at the cost of his life.
Still, he lost.
Because since then, this Master Huiquan has officially become the new abbot, and he has become even more powerful than before.
After Huiquan became the new abbot of Shaolin Temple, he secretly opened a super large brothel in Shaolin Temple, and in order to hide people's eyes, these prostitutes pretended to be some vendors selling Buddhist beads, so as to hide in the temple for Huiquan and his group of Huizi disciples to enjoy.
Since becoming the new abbot of Shaolin Temple, for Huiquan, opening a brothel is just a matter.
By bribing the local magistrate with tens of thousands of taels of gold incense money, Shaolin Temple has since become a real place outside the law, and the monks in the temple accidentally offended the monks of the Hui generation, and they will definitely not survive.
The monks of the Huizi generation see who is unhappy, and this person will be unlucky.
In order to raise tens of thousands of taels of gold to bribe the county master, the people of Shaolin Temple and the residents of the county played the trick of acting as ghosts and catching ghosts, and also sent people to hijack merchants at the junction of various places where tourists often come and go.
Naturally, in addition to not daring to hijack the treasures of the emperor's tribute, the merchants passing by on these roads were all looted by the black-clothed thieves of these Shaolin Temple monks in half the city, and all those who resisted were killed on both sides of the road, causing panic everywhere.
Because these monks pretended to be black-clothed people before and after the robbery, their whereabouts were secretive and ruthless, so even if the merchants were hijacked, they could often only consider themselves unlucky.
There was a lot of looting, and it naturally reached the ears of the county magistrate, but the county magistrate naturally guessed a few points, because he was using the gold sent by Huiquan to buy land and flower and wine land, and used it to further collude with the senior officials in the court, so naturally he just came forward to temporarily suppress the rumors
What is even more shocking is that this group of monks who have lost their good conscience at the beginning of the word "Hui" actually raped women from good families in groups of three or five, and there are no less than 10,000 yellow flower girls who have been defiled by these beasts, which has caused a surge of emotions, but no one has ever investigated these things.
These are still things, since Huiquan became the presiding officer, an organization specializing in human trafficking across Kyushu has been established, and these people are mainly the warrior monks of the Shaolin Temple.
These people are specially engaged in fighting with the matchmakers and local snakes of the people, and when they see women and girls everywhere, they will directly liar or forcibly take them away, and then use them to sell them to other places in Kyushu.
At the hands of these traffickers, the number of women and children who die at their hands is increasing by several hundred per day
The people around are dumb and eat coptis, and they dare not speak out.
This situation lasted for decades, and it was not until this Master Huiquan met a general named Zhang Chong that many evil things in the Shaolin Temple were much less.
This Zhang Chong has always been low-key, and he is brave and good at fighting on the battlefield.
The reason why I met Zhang Chong is not unrelated to Master Huiquan's long-term misdeeds as the abbot.
It's amazing that if you do good, you'll meet many kinder people. If you do evil, you will meet even more sinful people in the middle of the world.
As the saying goes, good is rewarded with good, and evil is rewarded with evil, not that it is not not reported, the time has not yet come.
On this day, Master Huiquan deserved to be unlucky, it turned out that Master Huiquan because he saw the appearance of a rich man's daughter surnamed Zhang on the curtain ground, so on the day of this woman's marriage, he quietly sent a warrior monk to pretend to be a gangster to rob relatives on the way.
These warrior monks are used to being arrogant and domineering on weekdays, and they have long looked down on these civilians in their eyes, and they think that snatching a kiss is a matter of being caught, but this time it is not the case, in the team of sending relatives this time, it happens that a person named Zhang Chong, who is an officer in the Eight Banners Army, is at the scene.
This Zhang Chong is a good skill, so he and a few of his subordinates who came back temporarily in the Eight Banners Army, and directly killed all these warrior monks in three strokes and five divided by two.
This is good, the relatives didn't grab it, and more than a dozen of the apprentices of the Hui Zi generation died under him.
Master Huiquan was so angry that he personally led all the monks of the temple to come to Zhang Chong in disguise to settle accounts.
What kind of person is Zhang Chong, as an officer, he has long been accustomed to life and death.
After Zhang Chong received the military talisman from Emperor Yongzheng at the border pass, he immediately transferred troops to help Annan, a vassal state of the Qing Dynasty, quell the rebellion, and in a short period of time, he easily fought from the northernmost part of Annan to the southernmost part of Annan.
His great military exploits made his name known to women and children throughout Annam, so that he was almost begged by other generals in the chaos of Annam's vassal country to stay and become the king of Annam.
It's just that this Zhang Chong is extremely modest, and he still meandered to decline the kindness of Annan's subordinate generals.
In fact, these generals were very puzzled at the time.
According to the practice since the Qin Dynasty, any general who sent troops to the Annam region generally assumed to be the king of Annam after his victory.
For example, the Hongpang clan, which the people of Annam worship the most, was actually a general from the land of the Central Plains, and was later sent to the interweaving county to quell the rebellion.
There are countless such examples, one of the most typical is Wu Quan from Yangzhou, who is a descendant of the famous painter Wu Daozi during the Song Dynasty.
This person was also terrible, and directly took tens of thousands of border guards to join forces with the Annan rebels at that time, and then turned to fight with the imperial court.
At that time, because these local people in Annam were more familiar with the local terrain, and because of the reason that they were not adapted to the water and soil, the imperial army finally lost, which was the first defeat of the imperial army in history, and the defeated general was immediately beheaded by the imperial court.
Because of this battle, Annam had the courage to argue with the imperial court, and actually changed from a county to a vassal state, and then further upgraded to an independent kingdom with all powers, which made the people of Kyushu quite annoyed.
You must know that at that time, some of the best southern tribute rice in Kyushu came from this county, although it was sometimes called a vassal country, but before Wu Quan defeated the imperial army, it was all directly governed by the county with reference to the county.
Due to the climate, this interwoven county is rich in a class of fine tribute rice, and it can be produced three times a year.
Although Annan was temporarily converted into a vassal state with all the power at that time, this Annan vassal state was still very sensible.
According to the amount of tribute rice paid before, after receiving the treatment of a formal vassal state, the annual tribute continued to be five times the previous amount, which calmed the anger of the court officials and the people.
At that time, due to military expenses, the imperial court was not suitable to send troops again, so it temporarily tacitly acquiesced in the transformation of the area of Annam from a county to a formal subject state, or the imperial army that vomited blood due to the defeat of the people had to attack again, and even slaughtered some places.
Naturally, Zhang Chong was a thunderbolt on the battlefield, and the heads of the enemy generals were like his targets, and he could kill the enemy's most proud generals without much effort.
Because Zhang Chong is good at "The Art of War" and has won the essence of the art of war in "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", he used soldiers like a god in Annan, so that the rebels in Annan were simply terrified, and wherever they went, they could easily quell the rebellion.