After finalizing the deal, Li Tai took the opportunity to ask to visit the temple.

The old monk did not refuse, and thoughtfully arranged a few monks who were good at talking as guides and explained along the way.

The scope of this temple is very large, and it can be roughly divided into several areas, such as preaching the scriptures and preaching the Dharma, worshiping Buddha objects, monk life, and storage and production. Aside from some private areas that are not open to the public, the halls dedicated to Buddhist relics are the most grand, and several monks are also trying to recommend their signature industry exhibition area to Li Tai.

"Although there is no shortage of great monks in Beijing who are profound, if it comes to the worship of the Buddha's Dharma, the temple also has its own uniqueness. There are so many Dharma offerings in the Thousand Buddha Hall here, and there are many places that are not as good as them! ”

Li Tai listened to the monk's attentive introduction and stepped into a tall and magnificent hall built.

But from the outside, this hall is not much better than the palace hall in Chang'an City, and the inside is even more unique. As far as the eye can see, there are large and small Buddha statues everywhere, each with a unique and exquisite shape, and the materials used are also different.

When Li Tai saw this scene, he was also amazed, and then asked a few monks: "If you ask for the Dharma Minister here, how much do you need to give?" ”

In the face of this rare high roller, several monks did not shy away from it, and directly introduced the prices of materials of different sizes of various Buddha statues.

After listening to this, Li Tai felt that this transaction was really done, there may not be as many as a thousand Buddha statues enshrined here, but if they are all sold according to the price introduced by the monks, it will definitely be a huge amount of coveted and amazing money.

"There are many statues in the temple, where do you need to get these gold and copper materials?"

Li Tai saw that a few monks showed a little vigilance, so he smiled again: "There is a lot of copper in my family's village, but there is no money in the customs for a long time, because I see that there are a lot of materials in the temple, so I have a question." ”

When a few monks heard this, their expressions were a little slower, but they did not ask any more questions, obviously showing little interest in this.

Seeing that they looked like this, Li Tai did not continue the topic. Although no conclusive evidence has been found since entering the temple, he can basically determine that the temple must be guilty.

Such a large temple should have been a place for believers to come and go frequently. But Li Tai and the others traveled all the way, but they didn't see many believers worshipping, and the temple had a feeling of being heavily guarded, as if there was a string in secret.

"The Legend of the Fairy Tree"

Since the main business is to cast Buddha statues, but the source of raw materials is secretive and unwilling to talk deeply, Li Tai took the initiative to hand over the handle, they are not curious to ask, the materials needed can not be produced out of thin air.

Although it is not ruled out that Li Tai is preconceived and far-fetched inferences, it is all here, and there will be no dates to hit a shot first.

In the evening, a loud bell rang in the temple, and the monks explained to Li Tai that the bell was to gather the monks in the temple to gather for an evening class and chant, and invited Li Tai to go with him.

Li Tai also wanted to see how many people there were in this temple, so he followed him to the square in front of the main hall of the temple. By the time they arrived, there had been a large number of monks gathered here, and there was a black oppressive area at a glance.

Nowadays, Shamen is not yet popular with hairstyles that do not leave an inch, but there is no big picture of a bright brain.

As a distinguished guest in the temple, Li Tai was arranged in a row of seats next to the pulpit. In addition to him, there are also some male and female believers sitting here, and they should be the big families and powerful people who are close to the left.

After Li Tai sat down, he noticed that several of them were quite wary of their group, and they kept scrutinizing and scrutinizing. But he is still a gentleman with no one in his eyes, learning from Li Ya's rebellious appearance, and ignoring it.

The Sanskrit chanting lasted for half an hour, and Li Tai saw that there were more than 2,000 monks and believers in the square, and more than half of the monks and soldiers were in the prime of life. This does not include the craftsmen and slaves in the workshop and the monks and households under the mountain, if they all add up, this temple alone will have to support thousands of people.

Seeing the human power of this temple, Li Tai couldn't help but sigh secretly, a temple is already like this, and it can be inferred how powerful the entire Guanxi Shamen is. The most important thing is that if he directly leads troops to attack, he may not be able to attack this temple for a while.

It is no wonder that the Western Wei government was so short of money that it was delayed until the period of Emperor Wu of the Northern Zhou Dynasty before it began to attack Shamen.

Without the support of a strong national strength and a relatively stable external environment, the full implementation of the policy of exterminating Buddhism will not cause much turmoil to the world, and the temple itself is not a bone to gnaw on. Although Yuwentai fought with Gao Huan vividly, he only dared to cut sausages and beat the autumn wind.

After the evening class, Li Tai and his entourage were led back to the guest house.

The old monk then walked in and told him that the bronze statue had been removed from the mountain as requested, and that he could immediately leave for Chang'an after the money and goods were traded.

The old monk also sent a lot of wine and meat food, and now Shamen does not have a strict precept of eating and drinking, and the diet is quite rich.

Li Tai was still worried that the temple would play with him, so he pulled the old monk to drink at the same table, and he was willing to eat the food that the other party had eaten.

The old monk in the banquet also hinted that he wanted to take stock of the goods brought by Li Tai now, Li Tai naturally would not go his way, and diverted the topic with haha, and after dragging it out for a while, he simply pretended to be drunk and happy.

The old monk saw that he was already drunk and a little dissolute, and he was gradually a little drunk, so he could only get up and leave first, but he still left more than 200 monks and soldiers outside the courtyard.

When the old monk left, Li Tai's eyes suddenly returned to clarity, and while ordering Zhang Shinu and others to enter the house and put on armor, he called the monks and soldiers outside the courtyard in, sprinkled gold and silver in the courtyard, and drank and ordered these monks and soldiers to fight and fight.

No one could refuse such an amusement, not to mention that these monks were not well-trained and disciplined elite soldiers, but they soon joined in, and when there was no wine, they competed, and the whole courtyard was filled with joyful laughter.

Seeing that the atmosphere was almost over, Li Tai also took the opportunity to get up and leave the table, enter the armor and stomach, and when he walked out with a knife again, his style was completely different from before.

A few monks noticed the abnormality, the smiles on their faces converged, and they were about to ask what was going on, when the door to the guest house opened together, and the monks and soldiers who had already been armed and neatly armed surrounded them. Someone was just waiting to shout a warning, and an arrow pierced the throat head-on!

Immediately, the monks and soldiers ran and shouted, and the scene was chaotic for a while, but it sounded like it was not much different from the previous frolicking and joy.

Li Tai's knife cracked several monks and soldiers who came to attack with their staffs, and the bloody picture made the viewers on the left and near are silent.

"The Buddha was merciful and relieved the poor, and today he has borrowed some materials. If you don't want to die, quickly abandon your weapons and enter the house, otherwise you will be overtaken under the knife today! ”

Li Tai swung his knife and beheaded another monk, and then shouted loudly.

After hearing this, some panicked monks hurriedly discarded the staff in their hands and ran straight to those guest houses, but there were also many people who were still determined to fight and protect the Dharma with their lives.

Soon, 200 monks and soldiers in the courtyard died or surrendered, and the scene was controlled.

Li Tai first led Zhang Shinu to lead 30 soldiers to capture the bell tower that had been clearly observed during the day, and he took out a few monks and soldiers to take prisoners, put the knife on his neck and asked: "Before the tenth day, did you wait for the monks to go to Sanyuan?" Where are the materials of those officers and soldiers? ”

After hearing this, the faces of several captives suddenly changed greatly, and only then did they understand the true purpose of Li Tai and his party.

"No, I didn't go...... Ignorance! ”

A monk denied it, but as soon as the words came out, his head rolled to the ground, and the blood spurting out of his chest hit the head and face of his companion next to him, and the man was suddenly frightened into a puddle of mud, and said in a trembling voice: "The materials are all behind the temple, and the officers and soldiers are buried in the ...... of the East Valley."

When Li Tai heard this, his expression was condensed again, and he ordered an entourage to continue to interrogate in detail, and he led fifty people to rush out of the courtyard, and many monks could already be seen running in panic in the temple.

Many of the monks who were awakened in their sleep had no idea what was going on, and they rushed to the pulpit square in a hurry, and some high-ranking monks and monks also came here, shouting loudly to restrain the crowd.

When Li Tai led the crowd to the bottom of the bell tower, hundreds of monks and soldiers had gathered here, and they were wielding swords and guns to attack desperately.

Li Tai was about to lead the crowd to come forward to respond, the walls on both sides were lost and spilled, and hundreds of monks and soldiers were divided into two sides to draw bows and shoot indiscriminately, making it difficult for people to move an inch, so they had no choice but to withdraw.

"Master Lang is attacking other key points, and the servants are guarding here, and it is difficult for the thief to make a sound!"

In the firelight, Zhang Shinu saw that Li Tai led several attacks and were repulsed, so he shouted loudly, and the big knife in his hand slashed hard, until the two monks and soldiers were cracked into two pieces.

Li Tai saw that there were monks with knives and guns shouting and rushing from behind, so he stopped fighting here, and led the crowd directly into the scattered crowd of monks, wielding knives and carving out a bloody path, and following the memories of the day, he went to the storage site in the temple again.

"Hurry up, hurry up, take back the bell tower! Send someone to ride a horse to sue the township, and let the villagers come to the rescue quickly! ”

Several old monks who usually have a graceful posture are also panicked at this time, and they issued various emergency instructions.

At this time, on the mountain road, there was already the sound of horses' hooves, and Liu Min took the lead, constantly urging the soldiers to speed up their pace. On the way, there were monks who saw the emperor fleeing or reporting the news, and they directly led their bows and shot them, rushed all the way into the temple, and joined up with several people lurking here, and followed the guidance to kill in the temple.

It is true that this temple is overcrowded, but it has rarely encountered such a shocking change, and there is no flexible and effective command and dispatch, although there is no shortage of buildings everywhere, but it cannot be effectively armed. When these thousands of strong soldiers entered the temple, the situation suddenly became even more chaotic.