The kneeling statue in front of Yue Fei's tomb initially had five people, and later only four people remained.

There are different versions of this.

Some people think that future generations worship Yue Fei and always want to smash something to vent their anger, so they smashed the most broken kneeling statue.

Some people think that the five kneeling statues are asymmetrical, so they smashed the youngest official.

Some people think that the first four kneeling statues are very famous, and the last one is too famous and official to kneel in front of Grandpa Yue's tomb at all.

The removed kneeling statue is called Luo Ruji, and at this moment, he is making a Hanyin County order in Jinzhou!

Historically, this guy climbed to Qin Hui, and the highest was the official department of Shangshu and the Zhilong Pavilion.

After receiving the official letter from the state government, Luo Ruji immediately became motivated: "Order all the soldiers and horses, and the county will personally destroy the obscene shrine." Officials and archers are rewarded! ”

This thing will not offend any boss, and after destroying the obscene shrine, the temple property can be confiscated by the county government, and even Zhu Ming does not ask for a share. It can also be listed as a political achievement, useful in the grinding survey, and after it is spread, the three religions of Confucianism, Buddhism and Taoism will praise him.

Without further ado, Luo Ruji took the officials and killed them in a hurry.

The local officials knew where there was an obscene shrine, and some people even worshipped it secretly, because the god of Wutong belonged to the god of wealth. Now that there is reward money to take, it is useless to favor the God of Wealth.

Take a boat to the confluence of Hanshui and Renshui (Ren River), where there is currently only one grass market, called "Renshuikou". It is rumored that Zhang Ziyang, the ancestor of Xue Daoguang, once cultivated here, and the county was named Ziyang County in later generations.

To the west of the Renshuikou, the Han River is narrow and turbulent, and there are often shipwrecks and deaths.

I don't know where the rumor came out, claiming that the five gods could keep the ship safe. As a result, the incense of the Wutong Temple in the town is more prosperous, and the merchants have to go to worship it.

"Immediately surround the obscene shrine, and don't let any of them go!" Luo Ruji shouted before he could reach the shore.

The officials were also excited, and rushed forward with knives, guns, and clubs, making the town's wharf jump, and the people thought that these guys were here to collect taxes.

It wasn't until the Wutong Temple was surrounded that the people inside finally felt that something was wrong.

A merchant passed by by a boat and went into the temple with his retinue to ask for protection. Before the incense was burned, he heard a noise outside, and the merchant hurriedly went out to check the situation.

"There is a rich man here, who must have participated in the harvesting and cutting!" The official directly buttoned his hat.

In a daze, Shang Jia was pressed to the ground, and then shouted in horror: "I'm not a local, I'm from another place, I'm just passing by here to worship God!" ”

Luo Ruji glanced at it and ordered: "This guy looks cunning, and at first glance he is not a good person, so he will be arrested and tortured by the county government." ”

Shang Jia knew that it would be difficult to be spared, and he must destroy his wealth and eliminate the disaster, so he hurriedly shouted: "I am willing to punish copper to atone for my sins!" ”

The amount of copper fined depends on the size of the crime.

Anyway, when this merchant left Hanyin County, the fleet was fined more than half. He could only use the rest of the goods to sell to local pharmacists, and exchange some medicinal materials to transport back to his hometown.

"Xingsan, why are you here?" The official actually met an acquaintance.

The guy named Xing San said: "I was laid off by the government, so I went to the temple to mess around, why did you come to the temple?" ”

"Okay, you're an evil god traitor! Grab it! The official's face changed instantly.

Illegal toll booths and evil god shrines are mostly built in the grass market at the mouth of the river, the former is convenient for collecting taxes and collecting money, and the latter is for collecting incense. Zhu Ming sent people to inspect the counties, but he did not dare to set up card fees at the head of the column, and only retained the function of collecting taxes from the shops in the town, and the redundant tax collectors were eliminated on the spot.

These tax collectors lost their livelihood and went directly to the obscene shrine as accomplices, and now they are being arrested.

Luo Ruji walked into the main hall of the temple, saw the statues of Wutong gods, and immediately ordered: "Go and knock to see if it is copper or iron." ”

The official knocked on it for a while and said, "The county is a wooden tire." ”

"Bad luck, chop it to make firewood." Luo Ruji suddenly became even more angry, although he was corrupt and abused the people, he was also a scholar, and he was born with a great dislike for evil gods.

The statues were toppled one after another, and the cries in the temple shook the sky.

A tax collector who turned to the evil god shouted: "I want to report and make meritorious service, I want to report and make meritorious service." Miaozhu didn't escape, hiding in the secret room! ”

The officials escorted the man to the secret room and entered a side hall. Remove the confession in front of the idol, there is a wooden plank under the confession, and when you open the wooden plank, you will find the basement.

"Help! Help me! ”

The official was still climbing down the ladder when he heard a woman's cry for help from inside.

When they went in and saw it, they were instantly stunned.

In addition to the temple and his subordinates who fled in, there were more than a dozen women in the basement.

These women were all in rags, and some of them had gone insane.

"County respect, county respect ......"

Luo Ruji got the news and went to the basement to check in person, and then said angrily: "Interrogate on the spot, don't kill it!" ”

After some interrogation, he soon learned more terrible facts about the case.

The rabbits don't eat the grass around the nest, and the women are not residents of the town, but women from mountain villages who have been lured in. Usually imprisoned in the basement, for the adulterers in the temple to be insulted. If a rich man wants to kill people and sacrifice to ghosts and gods, he kills the mentally deranged woman and sells her organs to the rich man to make money.

Through the clues obtained by torture, the officials summoned the peasants around the town and asked them to dig in the courtyard of the back house of the obscene shrine.

One after another, more than 30 corpses were exhumed, and even the bones of many babies.

From time to time, some peasants were so frightened that they threw away their hoes and did not dare to dig again.

At the time of the Yuan Dynasty, obscene shrines were everywhere and commonplace. Even when a scholar writes anti-poems, the government doesn't bother to care. With such a bad rule, why did he crack down on the five gods?

Because the main priesthood of the five gods, one is to deceive women, and the other is to obtain partial wealth!

When Zhu Yuanzhang banned obscene shrines, Wutongshen was still a key target.

By the way, last year, Song Huizong ordered the destruction of the temple of the evil god in the Gyeonggi area. Among the three evil gods determined by the imperial court, Wutong God ranked first, General Shi ranked second, and Daji ranked third.

Wutong Shenneng was listed as the first evil god by Song Huizong, because of its obscene shrine often involved in the abduction of women and children.

"Arrest someone!"

Luo Ruji's original intention was to make money and brush up on his political achievements, but at this moment, he was extremely angry and wanted to do things seriously.

According to the confessions of these fellows, the officials divided into several teams to arrest the rich families who sacrificed people and animals to ghosts. There are not many of them, only four households in total, and there are so many corpses buried in the temple, which have been accumulated over decades. There are also some corpses, after the woman went crazy, Miao Zhu felt that it was in the way and killed and buried it.

There were also women who died in childbirth, and they dug a pit and buried it.

In particular, the bones of the babies were all born by the woman's pregnancy. I couldn't find anyone to buy it for a while, so I buried it directly.

Tossing around the town for several days, the situation is basically determined.

Luo Ruji instructed: "The temple field, as well as the property of the four households, are all sold to the local rich." ”

The order given by Zhu Ming was to distribute the land to the peasants nearby.

Luo Ruji felt that the rich were also farmers, and the auction of land was also considered a division of land, and by the way, it could also increase the income of the government.

Well, it doesn't seem to conflict.

Luo Ruji also said: "Those imprisoned women, if they are willing to go home, give them some rations to go back." Those who do not want to go home will all be sent to the state government. ”

Including the mentally deranged, Luo Ruji didn't bother to contain it, and threw it to Zhu Ming for a headache.

In addition, Zhu Ming ordered the trial by the judicial court, and after ascertaining the facts, the rich family was raided. Luo Ruji first raided the house, and then handed it over to the Governor's Yuan, and only he knew how much property he copied, anyway, he could just hand over some to the state government.

Other counties are similar, including Elder Su, who also raided their homes first and then transferred prisoners. They all felt that Zhu Ming's decree was too troublesome, and it took two or three months to go back and forth.

Only Xicheng County Ling is the most honest, because he is in the same city as Zhu Ming.

Attached to the county order, he is always so angry, and he lacks autonomy in everything.

Although the implementation process was a mess, it completely deviated from Zhu Ming's decree, and some officials took the opportunity to extort good people.

But on the whole, it was effective, and all the obscene shrines in the small towns were destroyed.

There are basically no obscene shrines in the deep mountains, only wizards worship evil gods at home, and this thing needs to be cultivated for a long time. The people in the mountains also had to report the matter of harvesting and cutting, and it was difficult for the county officials to find out clearly.

Groups of criminals, women, and boxes of corpses were transported to Jinzhou City one after another.

Whenever a government official arrived, it was publicized in the city, so that the people could recognize the true face of the evil god.

"Taishou, some of the criminals who worship the evil gods are tax collectors who were dismissed before, and most of them have not committed murders," Huang Qi, the manager of the army, asked, "Do these tax collectors also have to be dealt with according to the law?" Of course, they are to blame, but if they follow the law, their relatives will also sit together. These relatives are not only unaware of it, but also do not profit from it. ”

Zhu Ming said: "This matter must be re-enforced in order to stifle unhealthy tendencies. As long as it is found to be true, it will be prosecuted. Those who were beaten too seriously by the county officials should not be treated, and handed over to the criminal department for questioning and beheading, and those who died in the middle of the way were counted as deserving. As for those with minor or no injuries, all of them will be mined! ”

Zhu Ming also recruited some miners, but normal miners have wages to get. And afraid that the miners would work too hard, Zhu Ming also stipulated a continuous working time every day.

As for these criminals, then they don't have to be seen as human beings, give some rations and squeeze them to death, and they deserve to die of exhaustion.

Huang said: "Among the relatives of the criminals, there are also women and children. ”

Zhu Ming said: "Over the age of 12, under the age of 15, all the men will be sent to the Criminal Department and handed over to the Criminal Division for disposal. Those over the age of fifteen will be punished for mining. As for the women, some of the miners and iron smelters whom I have recruited have not yet taken a wife, let them choose one of them to start a family. The remaining women, as well as the girls and girls, and boys under the age of twelve, were all transported to Yangzhou for resettlement. ”

Huang Qi doesn't care, these women and children are difficult to deal with. In the early middle and early Northern Song Dynasty, they were beaten as official slaves, but in the late Northern Song Dynasty, there were very few official slaves.

Zhu Ming has an arrangement, so he doesn't have to have a headache for Huang Qi.

One by one, adult male criminals were taken to work in the mines.

Zhu Ming's entourage, as well as the recruited iron smelting households, and those who did not marry wives, all came to choose women as wives. Most of them chose young girls, and only a few women of good looks were chosen.

Even Shi Yuangong and Yang Pu each picked a girl.

Shi Yuangong is to make Zhu Ming feel at ease, he has a family in Jinzhou, so that he can gain complete trust.

Yang Pu simply wants to start a family and choose a wife happily.

The remaining women and children were kept in Jinzhou for the time being, and then transported back to Daming Village when the number was enough. A few months ago, Daming Village recruited a lot of troubled people, many of whom had not yet married wives, and the ratio of men and women was a bit out of balance, which was just right to reconcile yin and yang.

There were still some mentally disturbed women who had to be sent to a sanatorium to do some needlework.

Jinzhou is too poor and has a small population, and Zhu Ming is unwilling to exploit the people, so he can only use criminals as labor.

(End of chapter)