Quanzhou, referred to as "Li", also known as "Licheng", "Thorn Tong City", "Wenling", is located in the southeast of Fujian, north of Fuzhou, east of Ryukyu Island.

Quanzhou has a long history, the Zhou and Qin Dynasty has been developed, in 260 A.D. (Three Kingdoms period) began to be governed by Dong'an County, the Tang Dynasty was one of the world's four major ports, the Northern Song Dynasty was the "first port in the East", the starting point of the Maritime Silk Road.

As a person who has surpassed this era, Wang Xiaoran naturally understands the value of the ocean better than anyone else, and is the world's first maritime merchant in this era.

Half a month ago, news came from [Taiyi Palace] and Sihai Shipping Company at the same time that Wang Xiaoran's action to recruit people to develop Ryukyu Island was blocked, making it difficult to recruit people, and the culprit behind it was the Southern Buddhism.

The famous ancient temple Dakaiyuan Temple, which is second to none in Quanzhou, is even more demonic, thinking that the four seas are demons, in order to plunder the population and give them to the demons as sacrifices, so the four seas can be rampant in the ocean.

At this time, the people were ignorant and their religious beliefs were fanatical, so that the four seas were beaten as demons in a short time.

The real reason is not so, but the Great Kaiyuan Temple is greedy for the huge profits of the four seas ship line, and wants to get a piece of the pie for nothing, but it is refused, which leads to the [Taiyi Palace], and then it evolves into a religious dispute.

The Great Kaiyuan Temple, which has been operating in Quanzhou for hundreds of years, firmly occupies the advantage of public opinion, and easily blackens the ships of the four seas.

Hearing the news, Wang Xiaoran was immediately furious.

Cutting off people's financial means is like killing your parents. Although Wang Xiaoran doesn't value money so much, he will never let others provoke him and not fight back.

Unlike Manichaeism, to deal with a century-old temple like the Great Kaiyuan Temple, it is not enough to rely on force alone.

Killing a group of them will soon be able to replenish the Buddhism itself, and it will make the locals even more hostile to the [Taiyi Palace] and the Four Seas Boat Company.

If you want to deal with the Great Kaiyuan Temple, you must first break the aura of faith shrouded in it and make it famous.

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"How is it?, have you found the handle of the Great Kaiyuan Temple?" Wang Xiaoran asked as he sat in a side hall of [Taiyi Palace] in Quanzhou with a gloomy face.

"Found it. In the past ten years, Dakaiyuan Temple has annexed 647 acres of land, most of which are means to make usury and other disgraceful. We have already controlled Liu Laosan, who secretly did dirty work for the Great Kaiyuan Temple, he recruited everything, and it was Master Honghai of the Great Kaiyuan Temple who connected with him. "An [unknown building] spy reported to Wang Xiaoran.

"Is that all?" Wang Xiaoran was a little dissatisfied.

"There is another point, Liu Laosan is not very sure. He sighed and said.

"Say!"

"There is a Hanhai ship company in the city, which is established in imitation of the four seas ship company, and it has been very bad with the four sea ship company, and the last time the Great Kaiyuan Temple was to imply that the four sea ship company accepted the shares of the Han sea ship company. According to Liu Laosan, Qian Guangyuan, the big proprietor of Hanhai Shipping Company, seems to be the illegitimate son of Master Hongyuan, the presiding officer of Dakaiyuan Temple. ”

"Be detailed!"

"Hongyuan is surnamed Qian, Qian Guangyuan is like coming out of the cracks in the stone, and in just 20 years, he has become one of the few wealthy merchants in Quanzhou City, and the background is also the Great Kaiyuan Temple. ”

"Good!" said Wang Xiaoran.

"Control Qian Guangyuan, whether he is Hongyuan's illegitimate son or not, he will be from now on. Isn't the Quanzhou City Shipping Division now in the hands of our people? I fabricated a charge of Qian Guangyuan's collusion with pirates, and then all the assets in Qian Guangyuan's name, except for the sea vessels, were fed to those guys in the DPRK and China. I want to nail the illegitimate son of the host of the Great Kaiyuan Temple to collude with pirates, and then find more bitter masters of the annexed land, I want to strip it of its glossy skin, and make the Great Kaiyuan Temple stink. ”

"Yes!"

Wang Xiaoran's men moved quickly. In just three days, Qian Guangyuan's house was raided, and at the same time, the father-son relationship between Hongyuan and Qian Guangyuan was confirmed, and he was also the behind-the-scenes commander of a group of pirates.

The whole Quanzhou was in an uproar, watching the dignified monks in the past being arrested one by one, and all kinds of dirty things were shaken out one by one.

In Quanzhou, the Great Kaiyuan Temple began to completely rot the street.

But this is not enough, we need to reverse everyone's impression of [Taiyi Palace] and the Four Seas Boat Line, and Wang Xiaoran needs to design a big play.

"Have you heard? Actually, Master Hongyuan of the Great Kaiyuan Temple is a thousand-year-old demon, and the Heavenly Master of [Taiyi Palace] wants to enforce the law on behalf of the heavens and eliminate this demon. On June 6th, Zhou Yong, the right heavenly master of the [Taiyi Palace], will personally open the altar and summon the heavenly thunder to kill the Hongyuan demon monk in Liuyun Mountain outside the city. ”

The news spread like the wind throughout Quanzhou City and spread to the surrounding areas.

One is that everyone is confused about the high monk turning into a demon, and the other is that Zhou Yong is not very confident that he can summon heavenly thunder.

So on the day of June 6, the entire Liuyun Mountain was crowded with people, and there were more than 100,000 people watching the excitement.

Even if the weather is hot and humid at this time, the sun's scorching barbecue land cannot stop the enthusiasm of the people of Quanzhou.

At the foot of the mountain, a three-tiered altar has been erected, and incense instruments for casting spells have been placed on it.

As for Hongyuan, who is known as the demon monk, he is more than 200 meters away from Liuyun Mountain, tied to a wooden pillar at the top of a wooden frame of more than 20 zhang, so that the people below can see it.

In fact, the wooden frame is just tied with a lot of wires, and there is a lightning rod that rises to the sky, plus Liuyun Mountain is a magnetic mountain with strong magnetic force, which has a great attraction to thunder, and attracted more than a dozen lightning strikes last year.

According to the prediction of experts in [Taiyi Palace], there will be a thunderstorm in Quanzhou today, and it can now be confirmed that it will be around noon.

At that time, with this set of devices, you can basically have a great deal of confidence in leading the lightning to kill Hongyuan.

If it doesn't work, there is a dead soldier on it, and an earthen rocket will be ignited, and a thin metal ribbon will be raised hundreds of meters into the air to strengthen the attraction of the thunder.

If this makes Hongyuan flee for his life, Wang Xiaoran will be convinced, and he can only start the ultimate plan in vain.

Hongyuan will be sent into the sky by an earth rocket made of black powder, and then set off fireworks.

It was said to the outside world that Hongyuan wanted to fly away from the sky, but was blown up by the thunder.

Explosives made of black powder were originally called "earth-shaking thunder" or "thunder shocks" because the sound and light effects they caused were similar to those of sky-thunder, and they could also be fooled. Anyway, the people under the mountain can't see clearly, and they don't let Zhou Yong's mouth flicker.

Facts have proved that Wang Xiaoran's character is still good.

At noon, Zhou Yong had just stepped onto the altar, and the sky was immediately surging, and dark clouds quickly covered the sky, and the sky darkened.

Soon, just as Zhou Yong was pretending to be a ghost, a thunderbolt exploded, and raindrops the size of beans fell, accompanied by thunder that covered the sky.

Without letting Zhou Yong wait for a long time, and before the second set of plans was implemented, a thick heavenly thunder slashed straight at the wooden shelf dozens of meters away, and at the same time detonated the gunpowder of the rocket above, causing an explosion.

A "boom!" sound was deafening, and the Demon Eradication Technique would be a perfect success.