Chapter 111: Exploring the Dragon Temple at Night
There are 50,000 or 60,000 Jin soldiers in the entire Shangjing, and these people are now concentrated in the forbidden army camp in the northwest corner of Shangjing, most of these people are not clothed, and under the cold weather, they will not even let the fire be lit, and the Liao army guarding them are all Han Chinese, and there are many Han people on the other side, and the Han people will fight among themselves, then any despicable tricks will be used, and in just a few days, hundreds of people died of frostbite and starvation.
The Liao army guarding them not only did not care, but also deliberately abused them, some disobedient soldiers would be pulled out and tied to the pillar to freeze to death, and some people deliberately poured water and urine into the prison house, such incidents of abuse of prisoners emerged one after another, and the consequence was a riot of the soldiers!
When the riot happened, Xiao Ming didn't know that he now had an important thing to do in addition to looting treasures everywhere, he was in Kailong Temple, the largest temple in Shangjing, although Shangjing had experienced the war, but all the buildings and facilities were still intact, the people in Shangjing had not fled, and a large number of monks in the temple were still there.
Xiao Ming, who got the news, hurried back to the camp, the riot had caused the entire forbidden army camp to be burned, and the fire rose to the sky, and Yelu Dashi was sending troops to suppress it, and the soldiers were basically bare-handed, although they killed some guards and seized weapons, but most of them had no weapons, and the Liao army sent by Yelu Dashi to suppress them was basically a massacre for them.
When Xiao Ming arrived, the riot had been suppressed, and the entire forbidden army camp was like hell, full of dead people, Xiao Ming regretted a little, he forgot about these people, after learning that the whole incident was caused by the abuse of prisoners, he dealt with a few Liao army guards, but he was not easy to deal with the rest of the Jin soldiers.
Yelu Dashi's subordinate Yelu Xiuge is extremely cruel, this time he killed a lot of people in a riot, beheaded more than 7,000, this approach is not as good as Jin Bing's life, treat the pawn with Huairou as the top, and the reorganization and acceptance are the mainstay, how can they all be killed, won't it provoke a greater backlash?
However, Xiao Gan and the others agreed with Yelu Huge's approach, the reason is that many of these people were originally Liao soldiers, and they surrendered to Jin soldiers when the Jin soldiers came, and now that the Liao army has come, they have surrendered to the Liao army, so capricious, how can they stay in the world, it is better to kill them all!
When the dispute was being made, the soldiers came to report, there was an old monk who asked to see, and the old monk was the host of Kailong Temple, Master Yuantong Wuli, the law name Xian Yan, Xiao Ming was still in Kailong Temple just now to see the host Xian Yan, but unfortunately people refused to see him, why did he run over to see Xiao Ming now?
Xiao Ming didn't want to put on a show, he was still curious, so he retreated left and right, and after a while, a tall but very thin old monk wearing a robe came in with a few accompanying monks.
The monks met Xiao Ming, and Xiao Ming ordered them to be seated and milk tea was served at the same time.
"The master didn't want to see me, why did he take the initiative to come?" Xiao Ming asked.
That Xianyan raised a pair of long eyebrows, put his hands together and said: "The poor monk has always been a powerful and high-ranking official who does not see the world, and if the Emperor Taizu of the Jin Kingdom asks to see him, I will not see him."
Xiao Mingqi said: "Why is this? ”
Xian Yan said: "My Buddha can't smell blood, come to my Buddha to seek to dissolve sins, but the murderous heart is not extinguished, what is the use of seeing me explain a few words in vain?" Which of these people is not a murderous person, an old man who can surpass the dead of sins, but he cannot surpass the living sinners! ”
Xiao Ming said with a smile: "It turns out that the master is just keeping himself clean, and he doesn't want to be contaminated with the spirit of those wicked people who are bloody inside and out, but I don't know what is the matter with me today?" ”
Xian Yan said: "I asked the army to be trapped with tens of thousands of soldiers, today there was a sudden riot, the adults sent troops to suppress to create countless killings, and they all wanted to be killed, my Buddha is merciful, God has the virtue of a good life, and the old man came to ask the adults to take back their lives." ”
Xiao Ming said in his heart: "He is very well-informed!" So he opened his mouth and said, "These people are all extremely vicious, if I don't kill them, will I wait for them to kill me?" ”
Xian Yan bowed and said, "Amitabha! The so-called soldiers are actually ordinary people, although those Jurchens are barbaric and easy to kill, but they are also obedient to others, and there are many civilians of other races in them, and they still hope that adults will screen them! ”
Xiao Ming said: "The master's compassion is touching, I promised the master that I would send them home after a while, do you think this is good?" ”
Xian Yan bowed and said: "Lord Xiao is as good as a stream, quite Buddha nature, and making this merit is better than countless floating slaughter!" Thank you here. ”
Xiao Ming said: "Master is not polite, I don't want to kill, but some of my subordinates insist, I still need to convince them, now that Daliao Shangjing has recovered, all kinds of waste are waiting to be revived, I think in addition to killing people, everyone can do something useful." ”
Xian Yan clasped his hands together and said good, led the monks to say goodbye and leave, Xiao Ming then ordered that all the soldiers of the forbidden army camp be separated, the Jurchens were divided into a pile, the Han people and the Bohai people were divided into a pile, and the Khitans were divided into a pile, and they were imprisoned separately, and the treatment was also improved, and they were sent cotton clothes and quilts and things to burn the fire for warmth, and the guards were strictly ordered not to abuse the prisoners.
A few days later, these people were taken to the street and began to work, Shangjing was bombarded by Xiao Ming's return artillery for half a month, the city wall and the streets in the city were damaged in many places, the soldiers could eat a full meal every day, and the rest of the time was spent building the city wall and tidying up the streets, and the heavy snow stopped for days, the snow on the roads also needed to be cleared, and the mud on the ground also needed to be treated, in short, there was a lot of work!
The soldiers don't have to be frozen at night, as long as they can work during the day, they can eat enough, and they have become very obedient, but the work to be done is still very heavy, many buildings in the city that have been burned down by fire have to be repaired, and they have to go to the river to break the ice and get water to wash the city walls and streets, which was the work done when the spring flowers are blooming, and now they have to do it in the winter, so they are tired and exhausted every day, and the body falls asleep to death as soon as it falls on the bed, and there is no energy to think about other things.
After the matter of the pawn was solved, Xiao Ming began to busy his own affairs again, and the matter of looting treasures was left to his subordinates, Xiao Ming completely delegated power, and there was only one rule that was not allowed to rob the people, and there were people in the palace and temple.
Xiao Ming came to Kailong Temple again with people, and after his subordinates reported, they really hosted the master's speech and invited him, compared to the last closed-door soup, the monk judged two people.
Xiao Ming went to Kailong Temple for three purposes, the first was to ask, where are the books and materials of the entire Liao Kingdom in Beijing collected? This Xian Yan gave the answer, there are really two library buildings in Shangjing of the Liao Kingdom, one is the royal library building, and the other is the scripture tower of Baoshan Temple.
The second is to ask if there is a Jiming monk of the Song Dynasty in the south who has been to Kailong Temple, he promised Ding Jianpeng to find the three scriptures He has not forgotten, but he also wants to ask Jiming monk by the way, this master has long said that he wants to come to Liao, but he doesn't know if he has been to Kailong Temple.
Regarding Xiao Ming's question, Master Xian Yan smiled bitterly and refused to answer, but from his flickering eyes, Xiao Ming could see that there was a hidden secret, but in the current situation, he was not good at asking, so he had to ask the third question.
The third is aimed at the great Liao national teacher Bana Tiejia, this seems to be the great monk who seems to have attained the Tao seems to be in the Kailong Temple to place an order, and Kailong Temple as the dojo and lecture place of Bana Tiejia, has also attracted many good men and women who believe in Buddhism in Liao to come to incense, and the incense money is enough for Kailong Temple to respect Bana Tiejia.
But judging from the attitude of Xian Yan, it seems that it is not the case at all! After Xian Yan heard the name of the person who handled the case, his face sank, and the Buddhist beads in his hand turned again and again, and after half a ring, he refused to answer Xiao Ming's question, which made Xiao Ming very puzzled!
It seems that this Kailong Temple is not as Xiao Ming imagined, it seems that there are more secrets and hidden secrets hidden in it, Xiao Ming suddenly thought of Nengren Temple, and Red Lotus Temple! Anyway, he remembered the adulterous monks and monks in the temple, and couldn't help but shudder, and the kind old monk in front of him suddenly overlapped with the face of the grandmother in Lanruo Temple.
The results of this visit to Kailong Temple still made Xiao Ming not very satisfied, and after going back, he ordered people to go to two places, one is the royal library building, and the other is the Tibetan scripture tower of Baoshan Temple, the purpose is to find out if there is a geographical atlas of mountains and rivers in the entire Liao country.
And he himself suddenly wore black at night, and when there was no one left and right, he went to the roof lightly, saw the direction of Kailong Temple, and galloped away, he wanted to explore Kailong Temple at night.
The whole Kailong Temple covers an area or is relatively wide, the main building Daxiong Treasure Hall is built on a stone platform, the mountain gate is majestic, the two sides are the apricot yellow wall, this temple is very deep and wide, there are many houses, Bodhi Palace, Luohan Hall, Meditation Hall and the hall are not counted, the residence of the monks alone is not less than 100 rooms.
There are four gates in Kailong Temple, in addition to the mountain gate and the back, there are two partial gates, the partial gate is located in the place where the wall is not high, basically do not open in winter, only play a long corridor outside, the door is two stone drums, if you don't know that it is the partial door of Kailong Temple, you also think that it is the gate of a large family.
Xiao Ming started to enter from here, when the figure went up the wall, it turned out to be a white expanse in front of him, it turned out that the houses here were almost connected, but the snow on the roof was not swept away, and at a glance, the white flowers were dazzling under the moonlight.
This obviously can no longer be used as a stealth route for night walkers, Xiao Ming had to choose to go down to the ground, but he is not familiar with the route of the ground, and he will get lost if he goes down, after thinking about it again, he still decided to be on the roof first, anyway, no one went to the roof, he always had to check the terrain before taking action.
So he swept lightly over the roof, and every time he turned over the ridge, he had to hide in the shadows and observe carefully, looking at the terrain and the monks below, and just as he was about to get lost, he suddenly saw a light coming from a large hall below.
The surrounding houses are all black-lit, only this hall flashes lights, the yellow light gives people a warm feeling, but Xiao Ming is clever, he feels that there must be something strange here, if there is a cat in Kailong Temple, he must dig him out.
So Xiao Ming jumped off the roof and touched the hall where the lights flashed......