"Emperor, it's more than that."

After Zhao Jun's mood gradually calmed down, Wang Huaien continued:

"Emperor, in addition to more than 200,000 hectares of land, Lord Zhang also searched out illegal money from these temples, totaling 3.42 million taels of silver, 120,000 taels of gold, and all kinds of treasures, calligraphy and paintings.

The people sent by the household department are like crazy, and now every time they arrive at the gate of a temple, before the soldiers under Li Dingguo have time to hit the door, a group of people from the household department will rush open the door of the temple with a crashing car! ”

Thinking of the scene of a group of household officials wearing official uniforms, usually gentle and elegant, and looking like gentlemen in every gesture, with red eyes, rolling up their sleeves, shouting trumpets, and carrying a crashing car to hit the temple door, Zhao Jun suddenly had goosebumps.

"These guys ......"

Zhao Jun shook his head speechlessly, this is obviously a poor fear, otherwise how could a group of scholars be so disrespectful?

However, in the Great Song Dynasty, it was really difficult for the household department, and there was a lot of money in hand every year, but almost all of them were transferred out to make up for the deficit without even letting out the heat in the treasury, and there were not even two mice in the treasury, nothing was empty, and the mice had to starve to death wherever they stayed!

Shaking his head and throwing these out of his head, Zhao Jun waved his hand and said:

"Leave them alone, they're poor and crazy, as long as they don't do too much, let them go.

But you have to tell Cui Shangshu over there, he is also a dignified household official of the Great Song Dynasty, why does he look like he has never seen the world?

That's all this little scene looks like, so what if I see a bigger scene in the future?

Let him take care of his men. ”

Wang Huaien smiled and nodded.

"No!"

……

At this time, Nanyang County, Shangshan Mansion.

As the birthplace of the Shang dynasty in ancient times, Shangshan Mansion has the most temples in the entire Nanyang County.

There are a total of 16 counties under the rule of Shangshan Prefecture, and there are three medium-sized temples with more than 500 people.

All gathered in the vicinity of Shangshan Mansion City, holding all the beliefs of the entire Shangshan Mansion, Taoism originally had two temples here, but it was also squeezed out by the tacit understanding of the three Buddhist temples, and finally the temple was destroyed and reduced to the past.

In addition to Shangshan City, the capital city, there are more than 30 small temples with dozens to hundreds of people in the sixteen county towns under the rule of Shangshan, accounting for one-tenth of the number of temples in the entire Nanyang County.

It was not until the evening that Zhang Tang led people to Shangshan City.

As soon as he arrived at the city, Liu Benhe, the prefect of Shangshan City, was waiting here early.

"Liu Benhe, the prefect of Xiaguan Shangshan Mansion, has seen Shangguan!"

At the gate of the city, Liu Benhe stopped Zhang Tang and his entourage and bowed with a smile.

As the saying goes, stretching out his hand and not hitting the smiling person, after hearing Liu Benhe's voice outside the carriage, Zhang Tang lifted the curtain and walked out.

When he saw Liu Benhe, he also had a smile on his face, and said with a smile:

"This official was ordered to come this time just to check the local temple, but it alarmed Governor Liu's mansion, if he delayed his official business because of this, it was not Zhang's."

The meaning of Zhang Tang's words is already obvious, I came here by order to check the temple, why did you come to greet me with a prefect? Could it be that there is nothing to do in the yamen, or that you have other purposes?

Liu Benhe didn't know whether he really didn't understand or fake, so he replied with a smile:

"Some official business, Liu has already dealt with it today, Lord Zhang is a senior official from the capital, and the lower official, as a landlord, naturally has to be a little bit of a landlord to receive adults.

After all, the adults are also doing things for my Da Song, and the only thing the lower officials can do is to make the adults' food, clothing, housing and transportation more comfortable, and please don't refuse. ”

"Oh? Lord Liu's official business has actually been handled? This is something that the official did not expect.

Anyway, since Lord Liu was warmly invited, then Zhang would not be hypocritical, and during his stay in Shangshan, he would be taken care of by Lord Liu! ”

"What should be ......"

Zhang Tang followed this Liu Benhe into the city, and soon the group lived in the inn under Liu Benhe's arrangement, of course, the army did not enter the city, Zhang Tang only brought Li Dingguo and dozens of guards and a group of household officials in.

On the way back from dinner with Liu Benhe that day, Li Dingguo suddenly asked:

"Master Zhang, why do I always think that this Liu Benhe seems to have bad intentions? But he didn't do anything, it's really weird! ”

Hearing this, Zhang Tang smiled and said: "General Li is right, if he guesses correctly, this Zhang Benhe really has bad intentions, but in front of us, he still won't do anything."

After all, when we went into the city, many people saw it, and if something happened to us while he was with us, he wouldn't be able to escape.

So the general doesn't have to worry about what he's going to do to us during the day. ”

Hearing his words, Li Dingguo's eyes narrowed and asked:

"Master Zhang, what does this mean is that he won't do anything in the open during the day, but secretly he will do something in the dark?"

Zhang Tang nodded, looked at the dark road in front of him and said slowly:

"Most likely ......"

"Why did he do this, we have nothing to do with him?"

Li Dingguo asked, but Zhang Tang shook his head and said:

"No injustice and no revenge now does not mean that there will be no injustice and no hatred in the future.

The purpose of our visit to Nanyang County is now well known, and our previous actions have also caused heavy losses to many officials who cooperate with local temples.

I heard that they went to the capital some time ago, but they seemed to have been escorted down by His Majesty.

Under the pressure of our approaching approach, there is no way to take me from Bianjing, and I guess that the rest of the people will take extreme measures against me. ”

Li Dingguo's eyes widened suddenly, and he said, "Assassination?!" ”

Zhang Tang nodded: "This is the most likely, as long as I die, then this investigation is doomed to be abandoned halfway."

And those temples that haven't been found in the back will definitely attack in order to protect themselves.

In fact, now it is equivalent to us joining forces against the remaining half of the temples in the entire Nanyang County. ”

Hearing this, Li Dingguo's brows suddenly furrowed tightly, and he said:

"Since you know that they have bad intentions, you dare to follow them in? Isn't this self-defeating? I'm going to give the order for the army to enter the city right now! ”

Zhao Jun waved his hand and said:

"No, as the saying goes, if you don't enter the tiger's den, you can get the tiger.

Since Liu Benhe cares so much about the temples of Shangshan Mansion, it shows that he has a lot to do with these temples.

Then I beheaded the officials who dared to speak for the monastery in the street.

But this alone is impossible to deter these local officials. ”

Hearing this, Li Dingguo's heart suddenly burst, a conjecture came to his mind, looked at Zhang Tang and asked in amazement:

"Could it be that you want to borrow this Liu Benhe......"

Before he finished speaking, Zhang Tang took the words:

"That's right! I want to use this Lord Liu's head as a person, with a prefect's head in hand, those guys will know how much power I have in my hands, and what kind of attitude should they use to face me! ”

A hideous smile appeared on Zhang Tang's face, and the smile was unusually gloomy and terrifying!

And Li Dingguo looked at him like this, and couldn't help muttering to himself.

"Why do you feel that this surname Zhang is a little mentally abnormal?

Your Majesty won't find a madman, will you? ”

…… (End of chapter)