Gao Tansheng inserted the incense burner into the incense burner, turned around and walked back to the steps, and said loudly to thousands of monks and tens of thousands of believers: "Fellow mages, all donors, the current war and calamity are connected, and all living beings are suffering, just because the government is tyrannical and cruel, and it harms living beings. The Lord of the Buddha has issued a decree to make our monks and lay people rebel, overthrow tyranny, eradicate evil spirits, sweep away the world, and create a peaceful world! ”

As soon as his words fell, thousands of monks shouted in unison: "Eliminate the evil spirits and sweep away the world!" ......" Some believers who did not know the truth also shouted. Next, with the confidant's order, nearly a hundred monks with swords in their hands rushed towards the gate of the county government. When the soldiers standing guard at the gate of the county government saw that the monk had rebelled, they hurriedly threw away the spear in their hands and ran into the county government to hide. The monks stormed the building, but not a single official was found.

In the square, the monks who usually eat fasting and pray Buddha are completely crazy as if they have taken off their masks. Some of them dismantled tables, chairs and benches as weapons, some used the magic weapons in their hands, such as the two-pointed vajra as weapons, and some monks rushed into nearby homes and grabbed kitchen knives and axes. The monks with murder weapons in their hands block and kill, and the Buddha blocks and kills the Buddha. The soldiers sent from the barracks to stand guard around the square to maintain order were chased by the monks everywhere, and the soldiers who had nowhere to run could only throw away their weapons and kneel on the ground to beg for mercy......

The leading henchman ran out of the county office and said to Gao Tansheng: "Presiding, the county magistrate and other officials are not there. When Gao Tansheng heard this, he glared and said, "What's the matter?" Could it be that the news leaked? The henchman shook his head blankly: "I don't know." "Gao Tansheng has been planning for a long time, how can he give up halfway? He pondered for a moment and pointed to the southwest with his hand: "Regardless of him, you lead people to capture the barracks quickly, and then occupy the entire county seat!" ”

"Yes!" The henchmen replied loudly, waving and shouting to lead the rebel army down the street towards the barracks, and many believers were also engulfed in it. As a result, a team of more than 10,000 people rushed in the direction of the barracks like a surging tide......

At this moment, Li Zhiyun had already led his entourage and county officials to the city tower at the south gate. It is a condescending place, and the entire county is in full view. The officials saw with their own eyes that this usually quiet and peaceful county town has now become a mess, full of murderous and robbing monks, and the murderous long queue of people who went straight to the barracks made them even more frightened.

The parents and officials of Xia County were stunned one by one, and they couldn't believe their eyes. If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, they wouldn't have believed that these monks, who usually spoke about Amitabha Buddha, would have become so vicious and outrageous overnight......

Li Zhiyun nodded to Yu Wenxin who was standing beside him. Yu Wenxin waved his hand, and several soldiers on the side took out the conch and blew the snail horn with a "woo". The soldiers, who had already been lying in ambush on the city walls, all appeared. Armed with crossbows, they surrounded the entire county, and on the roofs on both sides of the street leading to the barracks, many crossbowmen suddenly appeared.

At this time, the rebel army was still a mile or two away from the barracks. The gates of the barracks opened, and thousands of officers and soldiers ran out in a procession, and in a few moments they collided head-on with the ranks of monks. At the front of the ranks of officers and soldiers was a row of shield bearers. They held huge shields, like a wall blocking the path of the monks. Both sides stopped at a distance of forty or fifty feet.

A general with a tin horn in his hand walked to the front of the team and shouted: "You and others are all disciples of Buddhism, and they dare to plot rebellion and kill innocents indiscriminately." The king of Chu had an order, and he quickly put down the murder weapon and knelt on the ground to beg for mercy before he could live. Otherwise, they will be all destroyed! ”

The henchman had already turned red-eyed and shouted, "Don't listen to his nonsense!" We have the blessing of the Buddha and the protection of the vajra body, and the officers and soldiers have nothing to do. Rush me! With that, the leader rushed forward......

The general lowered his horn and waved his hand, the shieldmen retreated to the sides, and the archers stepped forward. They drew their bows and released their arrows, and the arrows flew like locusts, and the monks who rushed ahead fell to the ground with arrows. At the same time, the crossbowmen on the rooftops on both sides of the street also fired thousands of arrows, and the arrows rained down, and the streets were suddenly full of blood......

Upstairs at the South Gate, Li Zhiyun beckoned everyone to leave. Such a picture is too bloody for these officials to see. He led the group back to the herald hall.

Li Zhiyun stood still at the top position, his eyes were on the faces of the officials in front of him, and suddenly his face changed greatly, and he shouted: "Arrest Wang Xingben!" As soon as the words fell, two guards immediately came up and grabbed Wang Xingben's arm behind his back.

When the officials saw it, they suddenly changed color, looked at each other one by one, and whispered. Wang Xingben shouted while struggling: "King Chu, why do you want to arrest me? ”

Li Zhiyun sneered and said, "You have three major crimes. First, as a county lieutenant, you should have known the law, but you knew the law and broke the law, and in the case of the disappearance of Mrs. Xu and the scholar's wife, you falsified the scene, bought people to testify, and did not hesitate to kill witnesses. Second, it was you who killed Zhou Shen. Third, you colluded with Gao Tansheng and acted in an embarrassed manner, intending to act as an internal response to help him rebel and cause chaos. ”

"You talk nonsense! What is the proof of such a false statement? Wang Xingben shouted unconvinced.

"Yes, King Chu." Xu Tiecheng opened his mouth and said, "What you say, all the piles are serious crimes, can there be conclusive evidence?" Don't wronged a good person! ”

Li Zhiyun smiled and said, "Xu County Order, you listen to me slowly, and you will understand later, the evidence of Wang Xingben's crime is conclusive." After a pause, he faced the crowd, "Then I'll start at the beginning." A few days ago, General Yuwen and I came to Xia County to inspect military affairs, and when we walked to the bottom of a hillside two miles away from the city, several villagers found a corpse. Later, Xu County Decree identified that the deceased was Ku Cao Zhoushen, who died after being hammered on the back of the head with a blunt object. At that time, I found this in Zhou Shen's pocket," Li Zhiyun said, picking up the wood carving from the desk next to him and showing it to everyone, "This is a souvenir provided by the Lotus Temple to donors." Obviously, before Zhou Shen was killed, he had been to Yinhua Mountain. ”

Li Zhiyun put down the wood carving and continued: "The next day, accompanied by Xu County Ling, Ding County Cheng and others, I went to Zhou Shen's house and found a poem he left on the table in Zhou Shen's study. As he spoke, he picked up the paper silk from the desk and unfolded it, "I'll read it to you: Houyi Shengong has no heavy arrows, and there is a cave in the blessed land of Lingshan; The heart has mountains and seas and is boundless, and the mystical and forgetful methods are re-enacted; There are many coincidences in chance, and the sky is unpredictable. After reading it, he put the paper silk back in its place and continued, "According to Zhou Shen's family, Zhou Shen left home on the evening of the fourth day of the new year, and never went back. When I saw this poem, the ink on the paper was still fresh, and it was very likely that it was left by Zhou Shen before he left home. Why, then, did he write this poem before leaving home? Did it happen by chance, or did you want to leave some clues for others? This question has been bothering me. ”

"After coming out of Zhou Shen's house, Xu Xianling invited me to his house as a guest. At Ling's house in Xu County, I learned that Mrs. Xu and Yahuan disappeared on the eighteenth day of the lunar month last year, when they were incense on Huashan Mountain, and it is said that they fell into the river after going down the mountain to play in the water by the Lingzhang River. Later, we met a crazy scholar on the street, and the scholar's lady also disappeared half a year ago when she went to Yinhua Mountain to enter the incense. In just half a year, there have been two cases of missing women in Xia County, isn't it strange? ”

"I sent Cai Hu to the lower reaches of the Lingzhang River. After Cai Hu's investigation, from the eighteenth day of last year to the present, no female corpse has been found on the Lingzhang River. Moreover, a hundred miles downstream from Xia County, there is a flood dam. According to local officials, the dam's flood gates were not opened last winter and this spring due to lack of rain, and the river water was drained through the diversion canals, which were equipped with iron grates. Therefore, if Mrs. Xu and Yahuan drowned, their bodies could not have flowed into the Fen River downstream. Everyone knows that after a person dies by drowning, the body will inevitably float because of the disgorgement in the abdomen. No floating corpses were found, indicating that Mrs. Xu and Yahuan fell into the Zhanghe River and drowned, which is completely false. ”

"I checked the files of the two disappearance cases and found that the eyewitness in the two cases was actually the same person, a man named Niu Da in Daqi Village, outside the city. I asked Wang Xingben to accompany me to Daqi Village to find Niu Da, and when I got there, I learned that Niu Da had fallen into the pond and drowned half a month ago. ”

When Li Zhiyun said this, he paused, and when he saw that everyone was looking at him eagerly, he said, "The matter is already very clear by now. Mrs. Xu and Yahuan did not go down the mountain at all, but Wang Xingben placed Yahuan's silk shoes by the river and created a fake scene. He also bribed Niu Da to give false testimony. Later, he was afraid that the crime would be exposed, so he killed Niu Da. ”

"You talk nonsense! Say that I killed Niu Da, what is the evidence? Wang Xingben roared.

Li Zhiyun said loudly: "Bring witnesses." "After a while, two soldiers brought in a man. The man was in his thirties, dark-skinned and coarse, with a thin build, dressed as a peasant, wearing a jacket and gray coarse linen trousers, stained with mud, and a pair of straw sandals tied with linen. The officials volunteered to get out of the way, and the man was brought over. Li Zhiyun looked at him and said, "What's your name?" Where do you live? The man nodded: "Back to the adult, the villain's name is Niu Decao, and his family lives in Dali Village outside the city." ”

"What is your relationship with Niu Da?"

"Back to my lord, the villain is his cousin."

"Niu Da's parents died, he has no wife and no children, since you are his only relative, Niu Da fell into the pond and died, why didn't you report to the official?"

"This ......"

"Speak quickly!" Li Zhiyun shouted.

Niu Decao glanced at Wang Xingben, who was detained aside, and said: "The villain wanted to report to the official, but Wang County Lieutenant came to the villain's house that night and said that the cause of the cow's death was strange, and he was unable to find out the truth, and he was afraid that the boss would investigate it, so he asked the villain not to report to the official." In order not to cause trouble to the government, the villain did not report to the official. ”

Li Zhiyun sneered and said, "You're afraid that you're bullying you for money, right?" Niu Decao hurriedly said: "Yes, yes, the villain admitted that County Lieutenant Wang gave the villain a sum of money." ”