One of the catchers heard it and muttered: "Set fire to the mountain, but you will be imprisoned......"

When Yu Xiu heard this, he laughed on the spot, shook his head, and did not speak again.

The county magistrate's quick arrest woke up, and his face suddenly turned from gloomy to sunny. He stared at the front, as if a fire had burned in his eyes, and he was about to burn the entire Nanren Temple to the ground.

"Hahaha!" The county magistrate suddenly burst out laughing, and his voice was cheerful, and he said, "Clever plan! ”

He looked around at the people around him, and then at the brightly lit Nanren Temple in front of him, and squeezed out of his teeth: "This official is going to set a fire today and burn this pickled evil temple in front of him to ashes!"

"Look who dares to govern the official!" he said categorically.

When these words were spoken, the catcher who spoke just now was suddenly stunned, and suddenly remembered in his mind that he and the others were the government.

Throughout the ages, murder has been an ordinary crime, but murder and arson are rare crimes in the world. If the county town cannot be arrested, it must be reported to the county seat; if the county town cannot be arrested, it must be reported to the state town, and no matter how much manpower and material resources are spent, an explanation must be obtained!

This is because the act of arson not only easily involves the innocent, but the nature of the case is vile, and the criminals lose their conscience, and once it is not extinguished in time, the fire may burn down the entire village, county, and city, which is intolerable to the government.

But this move falls into the hands of the government itself, but it is often just an ordinary move.

After the successful suppression of bandits and thieves, the local government will invariably set a fire and burn down the entire cottage and thief's den to prevent it from being reused by thieves, and at the same time can deter the surrounding area.

Yu Xiu looked at the expressions of the arresters and soldiers around him who suddenly realized, and said in his heart: "This is 'only the state officials are allowed to set fires, and the people are not allowed to light lamps'." ”

In fact, Yu Xiu's strategy is not too surprising, but quite bold.

Before attacking Nanren Temple, the officials and soldiers of Beiguo County had already thought of setting fire to the temple, but as the county order said, in their opinion, there had been a fire in Nanren Temple not long ago, and the temple must have been more prepared for fire and was not easy to catch fire.

At the same time, the government was confident in its own military strength and felt that it would definitely be able to destroy Nanin Temple, so it did not make the move of setting fire to the temple.

After all, these people are just improvised troops, not real marching armies.

If a battle-hardened army comes, even if the troops are insufficient, they will immediately come up with a plan to set fire to the mountain.

"Set fire to the mountain, although it may lead to innocent people in the temple, hunters in the mountain, and fertile fields under the mountain...... They were burned together, but all the officials asked for was to destroy Nanin Temple. ”

The county magistrate of Beiguo County thought about it carefully, and suddenly thought of a sentence in his heart: "It is shallow on paper." ”

When he came back to his senses, he looked around again, and there was a faint hint of grandeur. This person looked at Yu Xiu, and his eyes narrowed slightly.

"The act of burning the mountain is inappropriate after all, and it is easy to be criticized, but then it can be pushed to the head of Nanren Temple, after all, the dead have nothing to say. ”

The county commander looked at Yu Xiu, and thought silently in his heart: "If it doesn't work, you can still push this person out and call him a 'righteous man who set fire to destroy monks', which can be regarded as a reward." ”

Thinking of this, the smile of the county magistrate of Beiguo County was even brighter.

Yu Xiu was looked at by the other party, his brows furrowed slightly, and he suddenly had the urge to stab the other party to death with a sword. It's just that at this time, it is the time of hypocrisy and wrongdoing, and you can't do it at will.

"Ming Mansion, without further ado, please act as soon as possible. Yu Xiu spoke.

When the county magistrate heard this, he also smiled and groaned: "Very good." He summoned the officials accompanying him and immediately arranged personnel.

Soon, the government side began to act again, which caused the Nanin Temple to be nervous.

At Yu Xiu's suggestion, on the one hand, they left a small number of people to act as suspicious soldiers in the mountains and forests to prevent Nanren Temple from becoming suspicious, and on the other hand, they sent all the personnel down the mountain, half of them collected arson materials from the houses below the mountain, and half blocked the two necessary intersections to go down the mountain.

While waiting for the arson to be transported up the mountain, Yu Xiu asked the county magistrate: "I implore the Ming government to allocate a small number of personnel to Xiaosheng to clean up the grass and trees around it, because the fire is too strong and hurts the big guy." ”

The county magistrate already had a lot of trust in Yu Xiu, and the two even walked down the mountain with their arms, and the county magistrate naturally agreed to Yu Xiu's small request.

So Yu Xiu took dozens of people and rushed to various places, and cut out a few firebreaks that could isolate the flames overnight.

Yu Xiu had lived in Nanruo Temple before, and he had repeatedly traveled to explore the surroundings with the Yin God, and although he didn't know the level of understanding of the hills in front of him, he still knew how to limit the flames to the mountain to the greatest extent.

Soon, bonfires were lit all over the hills, densely packed like stars. At the same time, the officers and soldiers on the mountain hurriedly retreated.

By the time Nanren Temple reacted, the flames under the mountain had already formed a circle, red like a red copper circle tightly encasing the hill.

The cheeked monk and the white-faced monk climbed the wall, looked down the mountain, and their faces changed greatly when they landed.

"Pickled and poured!" The white-faced monk immediately scolded, "Who came up with this poisonous plan without conscience!"

The monk looked at it, his face was also gloomy, and a mouthful of copper teeth seemed to be about to be crushed. He looked back at the other monks in the temple and found that all of them were pale and looked panicked.

"The government has set fire to the mountain!"

"What to do!How dare they set fire to the mountain!" several monks muttered to themselves, their eyes incredulous.

"What are we going to do?" ......

Someone kept anxiously asking the cheeky monk, and the white-faced monk looked at this person, and his eyes were also anxious, "Big brother, what should I do?"

With only a slight hesitation, the ring of fire at the bottom of the mountain swelled a lot, and changed from a thin man to a fat man. At the same time, the smell of burning continued to waft into the monk's nose.

"Squeak!" the birds and beasts scurried, countless birds fluttered, and countless beasts fled in panic.

The cheeked monk pulled the white-faced monk, his face was extremely ugly, and he shouted: "Hurry up and pack your things, ready to talk!"

"Yes, yes. The white-faced monk received the order and immediately ran into the temple.

"The officers and soldiers are trying to burn us all to death!" The fire grew bigger and bigger, and the monks in the temple kept screaming in terror.

"Shut up!" the cheeked monk opened his mouth to drink, and his voice was like hitting a big bell, buzzing:

"A certain family has its own way!!"

But the screams in the temple continued: "Fire! Fire!"

"The fire is burning!!"

Panic, panic.

......

Yu Xiu rode on his horse, looking at the fire that was rapidly spreading up the mountain.

There is a strong wind howling in the mountains, and it is likely that it will not take three days, but a day or two to burn the entire mountain forest.

The county magistrate of Beiguo County was standing beside him, his body trembling slightly, his face was full of red light, and he didn't know whether he was illuminated by the firelight or excited by excitement.