The Xie family has also taken root in Hangzhou for more than 100 years, coupled with the inheritance of the previous hundreds of years, it is enough to make the Xie family not only a wealthy family in Hangzhou, but a real family with quite amazing power in their hands.

Perhaps in ordinary peacetime, they can't manipulate the change of local officials, and at most they collude with officials and businessmen to grab more benefits; But now, after the chaos in the Central Plains and the overthrow of the imperial court, the influence of the Xie family in Hangzhou has expanded infinitely.

Perhaps only the Qian family, which has been rooted in Hangzhou for a longer time, can compete with one of them, but the huge city of Hangzhou can still accommodate the peaceful coexistence of these two families.

But at present, there are not only two of them in Hangzhou, but there is also a Buddhist sect that overrides it, almost completely replacing their influence in Hangzhou, and there is even a situation where monks collude with officials, and monks collude with some careerists within the family.

If it was just a loss of money, Xie Ao could still bear it, after all, his daughter would come back after he was gone.

But when he realized that even his position and power in the clan might be weakened by the influence of the monks, he could no longer sit idly by.

So he decided to fight back, and did not hesitate to pay tribute to the imperial court that had avoided to the southwest, hoping to get their approval, and take advantage of the general trend to suppress the Buddhist forces in Hangzhou - after all, Buddhism can have today's scale, and the previous imperial court's affirmation and reward are the main help.

It's just that the result of this trip to the southwest was beyond Xie Ao's expectations, not that the imperial court didn't pay enough attention to it, but that it was His Majesty the Emperor who came in person.

This made him have to temporarily adjust his strategy, and he thought about making trouble in Yunlin Temple, and then picking out Sun Ning's identity, so that with the imperial power to suppress Buddhism, the result of driving the tiger and devouring the wolf can be achieved.

If the two sides really tear their faces, they can still lead the southwest army to come and uproot the Buddhist forces in Hangzhou in one fell swoop.

His calculations were indeed good, but the abacus failed to start in the end.

Because Sun Ning was not encouraged by his design, he did not contradict the monks in front of Yunlin Temple at all.

Originally, Xie Ao still had the patience to continue to set up a situation and continue to guide the emperor and Buddhism to intensify the conflict. But there was a force within the Xie family that wanted to kick him out of the position of patriarch, and the other party had already begun to arrange it when he went to the southwest, and attracted the help of the monks of Yunlin Temple.

In this way, Xie Ao can no longer arrange it calmly, so he can only take a risk and make a move.

As long as the local Buddhist gate is burned clean, the trouble in the clan will naturally not be a problem.

And as long as Xie Meng and them know their means, they will be given another guts, and I am afraid that they will not dare to compete with themselves again.

Sure enough, at this time, Xie Meng's father and son were so frightened that their faces turned pale, and they shrank straight to the side, not daring to make contact with him. And the others also looked anxious, wanting to say something, but they couldn't say anything when they opened their mouths.

"I, Xie, started from Chen County in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, and it has been a thousand years ago. There have been great names such as Xie An and Xie Xuan in our ancestors, even if our children and grandchildren are not good, we can still keep our family from falling, and we don't need to look up to others. ”

At this time, since he said it, Xie Ao no longer had any worries, and said loudly: "Look at what kind of stupid decisions you have made now!"

"In order to take the position of my patriarch, he not only colluded with outsiders, but also groveled to those insatiable monks, and promised many benefits, so that the income of the clan is becoming more and more scarce.

"If I really let you mess around like this, I'm afraid that my Xie family will die at the hands of your Xie Meng's father and son.

"No matter how foolish I am Xie Ao, it is impossible for you to succeed in your treacherous schemes. But everything you have done has accumulated and it is difficult to return, and thinking about turning back at this time will only bring more harm to our Xie family.

"That's why I have to take this risky move, in order to make up for your mistakes and solve the troubles of those monks once and for all!"

Xie Ao's words moved many of the Xie children in the hall, especially those younger generations, who had already changed from being dazed and panicked just now to becoming motivated, and when they looked at Xie Meng's father and son, they also obviously carried a little hatred.

It is easy to say that other contradictions are easy to say, whether you want to fight for power and profit, or seek the position of the head of the family, everyone can have their own position. But Xie Meng's collusion with outsiders has obviously touched the bottom line of the entire family.

Those younger generations didn't really believe in the set of things in Buddhism, and now they didn't think so, and some people already said loudly: "Patriarch, you did the right thing, we also saw that the bald donkeys of Yunlin Temple were not pleasing to the eye, so we should let them die without a place to bury!" ”

"And you guys, you actually eat inside and outside to collude with outsiders, it's really damned!"

At that moment, someone immediately pointed the finger at Xie Meng and the others, with a posture of shouting and shouting and killing.

Regardless of whether these people were instructed by Xie Ao to do this early on, anyway, with their shouting, it can be regarded as defining Xie Meng's sex.

Xie Meng was even more frightened, and he retreated to the wall, and then tried to defend: "I am also thinking about the future of my Xie family. Now that the overall situation in Hangzhou is like this, even the Qian family, which has been rooted here for a longer time, can only cater to Buddhism, how can we fight with them?

"Xie Ao, if you do this, you will definitely bring disaster to our Xie family......"

"They are the only ones who will be destroyed, and now that the fire has burned, I want to see how many of those bald donkeys with fat brains can be burned with relics!"

Xie Ao had already had a showdown at this time, and he had no scruples, and immediately pointed to the night sky outside the hall and said loudly. Then, with another wave of his hand, he ordered: "Take down the three of them, detain them and dispose of them again." The rest of you are also calm, there will be a big chaos in Hangzhou City tonight, as long as we get through this one, our Xie family can completely turn over! ”

His order was given, but everyone in the hall did not receive the order at this time, and they did not even give the due reaction.

All of them turned their heads to look at the dark sky outside, maybe many places in the city were lit up with various colored lights, but it was not enough to illuminate the entire sky above Hangzhou.

Xie Ao snorted a little dissatisfied, but then, he also understood why everyone behaved so strangely, because the dark night sky was completely contradictory to what he had just said about the fires that had taken place.

If the temples in the city were really set on fire, the sky would have been red by the fire, and there would have been chaos outside.

How so?

At this moment, Xie Ao also fell into great astonishment, could it be that Gu Yaohua and the others retreated?

But even if a few people retreat, there are always a few fires, how can there be no fire?

At this moment, a noisy sound sounded from the courtyard in front, and a moment later, with the sound of footsteps and the friction of the nail leaves, a group of two or three hundred officers and troops had rumbled straight in, and quickly surrounded the ancestral hall of the Xie family......