The days when I ransacked the house in Jinyiwei

Chapter 62
Chang Feng and others followed Zhu Youtang and were about to enter the temple.

Ji Xiao stopped him, pointing at Hu Zi: "Dogs are not allowed to enter the temple, otherwise it will be a blasphemy against the Buddha."

Chang Feng said: "National Teacher, Buddhists have the virtue of loving life. Dogs also have spirituality. How can you blaspheme the Buddha when you enter the temple?"

Zhu Youtang didn't know the importance of Huzi to find the secret room in the cellar.He said casually: "Since Dayongchang Temple has this rule, let's do as the Romans do."

Zhu Youtang spoke.Chang Feng had no choice but to obey.The tiger was handed over to a regiment soldier to take care of it.

Everyone entered the temple.

Chang Feng saw a sign erected in front of the Daxiong Palace.

There are a few lines written on the sign: "This temple is forbidden to bring your own incense candles. Bringing incense candles is not a sincere offering to the Three Jewels; no merits; no blessings; no Buddha's blessing."

Chang Feng felt amused: Only the incense candles bought at a high price from temples are recognized by the Buddha.

Everyone in the world believes that the most profitable business in Ming Dynasty is the salt industry.

In fact, it is not the case. The most profitable "business" of Ming Dynasty is temples.

Master Hong Wu was born as a wandering monk and believed in the Buddha.At the beginning of the founding of the Ming Dynasty, no tax was levied on temples.

On the one hand, the temple has large donations from pilgrims.

On the one hand, because there is no need to pay taxes, the temples do a lot of business.Using the donations of good men and women to wantonly lend usury.

While amassing huge amounts of money through lending, they also acquired a large amount of land.

The wealth of the temple is getting bigger and bigger.

After Xuanzong ascended the throne, he sighed with emotion: no more restrictions on temples.After 80 years, I am afraid that the surname "Buddha" will not be "Zhu" in this world.

Therefore, starting from Xuanzong, several subsequent emperors all implemented the policy of taxing temples and restraining the expansion of temple power.

However, once an organization has a huge amount of wealth, it will spend a lot of money to pave the way and find its own agent in the court.

All the great temples in the world have intertwined interests with the important officials of the imperial court.

In this dynasty, Emperor Chenghua believed in Buddhism and Taoism.The influence of the temple has further risen.

Being a monk became an iron rice bowl.Temples became big business.

Don't talk about anything else, let's just say that it is strictly forbidden for pilgrims to bring their own incense candles in Dayongchang Temple.

A bundle of ninety-nine incense sticks is sold outside the temple for [-] Wen.The temple sells one tael of silver.There are dozens of times the huge profits.

Not to mention the huge profits from other businesses such as lending money, opening a tooth shop, opening a rice shop, and annexing acres of land.

Everyone entered the Daxiong Palace.

Xiao Jing said, "Chang Feng. Your Highness's safety is related to the country. You should immediately lead people to patrol around to prevent any assassins from hiding."

Chang Feng cupped his hands: "Yes, Mr. Xiao."

Ji Xiao cursed inwardly: It seems that I guessed it right!The prince is here today to find trouble!Weird, did he know so quickly that more than 60 women were hiding in Dayongchang Temple?

Hmph, fortunately my secret room is very well hidden, and he couldn't find any evidence.

Chang Feng came out of the Daxiong Palace.Fatty Xu and others are already waiting for him to find the missing woman.

Chang Feng saw that more than 500 temple guardian monks in the temple were concentrated and guarded by soldiers from the [-]th Regiment Battalion.

Commanding these three thousand soldiers is the crown prince's confidant, the commander of the rear army, the mighty general Ye Guang.

This old brother Ye is a ruthless man who participated in Chenghua Liting 20 years ago.

Ye Guang was afraid that the monks protecting the temple would be unfavorable to the prince.He simply found a reason: "Ask the monks to save the soldiers who died at the border." Put the monks under custody.

Chang Feng lowered his voice and said to Fatty Xu: "Go to work!"

The layout of the great temples in the Ming Dynasty is basically the same.After entering the gate of the temple, there are bell towers and drum towers on the left and right.

On the front is the Palace of Heavenly Kings.Behind the Tianwang Hall is the Daxiong Hall, and further south is the Changsheng Library.

On the left and right sides of the Changsheng Library are the monk's room and the Zhaitang.

Behind the Changsheng library is a pagoda.

Chang Feng decided to check from the monk's room.

He ordered fifty of his subordinates to go into each monk's room separately to search for clues.

He himself entered Jixiao's monk's room with Fatty Xu.

As soon as he entered the monk's room, Chang Feng sighed: "This is not a monk's room. It is clearly a small palace!"

The Babu bed in the monk's room is twice as big as the one copied from Cai Zhong's mansion.Once furnished, it can be called luxury.

Chang Feng came in a hurry, without the treasure-gathering ring and the silver-hunting stirrup.But compared with Huzi's failure to enter the temple, these are nothing.

Chang Feng came to Ba Bu's bed first.He turned the quilt carefully,

He frowned: "Unlucky."

He is still a virgin and doesn't know the mystery.

But Fatty Xu gasped: "My God. Among those women, Ji Xiao must have ruined their chastity, right?"

Chang Feng asked, "Why did you say that?"

Fatty Xu said, "You don't understand that."

Chang Feng's complexion changed.

"At most, there is a [-]% chance that your Xiaoyan's body will be broken by Ji Xiao."

Fatty Xu's ability to comfort people is really not good.

Beads of sweat appeared on Chang Feng's forehead.

Fatty Xu slapped himself lightly: "Look at my rotten mouth, what are you talking about. Don't worry about it."

When I searched for the letter box last autumn night, I had a deadline of four hours.

There is no deadline for finding the missing woman.Chang Feng was just as anxious.

He doesn't care about so-called chastity.What he cares about is that Liu Xiaoyan suffered an unforgettable injury.

He directly used his middle knuckles as a treasure ring, knocked on the floor after floor, searched the walls, and looked for a secret room that could lock people.

After a moment of effort, Jixiao's monk's house was searched.nothing.

The rest of the subordinates also reported one after another, but they did not find the secret room of the dark cellar.

Chang Feng said: "No way. Dayongchang Temple is too big. It's too time-consuming to find it like this! We still have to bring the tiger in."

Anyway, Jixiao accompanied Zhu Youtang to "pray for blessings" in the Daxiong Hall.Chang Feng came to the gate of the temple and secretly led Hu Zi in.

The next step is to search the altar.That is, the place where monks cook and eat.

Chang Feng brought Huzi into the Zhaitang, and let Huzi sniff Liu Xiaoyan's bellyband.

The tiger sticks its tail up, sniffing left and right in the dining hall.

Suddenly, he was barking in front of the kitchen stove!The tail is also raised.

Chang Feng and Fatty Xu were overjoyed and walked over.

I saw a wooden door panel on the floor of the kitchen stove, and a copper ring hung on the panel.

Chang Feng frowned: "Could it be the entrance to the secret passage? It was built here so blatantly? It's not concealed?"

Fatty Xu answered: "Yes, at least some firewood should be covered to cover it up."

Chang Feng took a deep breath and pulled the copper ring away.

It was.
There is indeed a dark cellar under the wooden door.But the cellar was only two feet deep.

There is no woman hidden in the dark cellar.But three or four pieces of mutton.

When Huzi was in Fusi, Beizhen, he ate lamb wrapped in silver foil all day long, not only remembering the taste of silver, but also the smell of lamb!

So when he smelled the smell of mutton, he kept barking.

Fatty Xu said: "Amitabha, these eminent monks who are pure-hearted and ascetic, they really know how to eat."

Chang Feng said: "Well, the mutton on the kitchen stove is too eye-catching. So they dug a small cellar to store the mutton."

Chang Feng spent two quarters of effort searching all over the dining hall and found nothing unusual.

At this time, Xiao Jing, the manager of the brand, walked in.

Xiao Jingdao: "There are often hundreds of households. The prince said that he will stay in Dayongchang Temple for one night at most. Before dawn tomorrow, he has to return to Fengtianmen to preside over the imperial gate hearing."

"He's gone, so you have no reason to stay in the temple and search around."

"That is to say, you still have half an afternoon and one night to find the missing woman."

(End of this chapter)