Chapter 1511: The Fall of Tianchengwei
Not long after, a young monk with red lips and white teeth was taken to the abbot's meditation room.
"The chief of the Yingzheng, my subordinates asked a lot of people, and in the end the only one of the young monks said that he knew where the secret passage led to." The soldier who brought the young monk over said to Liu Qingzhou.
Liu Qingzhou looked at the little monk and asked, "Little monk, you know this secret passage."
"I, no, the little monk knows." The little monk said nervously, his body looking very stiff.
Liu Qingzhou pointed and said, "Tell me where this secret passage leads to? Should I go directly outside the city through the secret passage?"
"I can't get out." The little monk shook his head first and then said, "The exit of the secret passage is a small alley not far from Wuning Gate."
After saying that, he hurriedly lowered his head.
Liu Qingzhou turned his head and said to a subordinate beside him: "Take a team of people and hurry to Wuning Gate immediately."
"Yes." The other party agreed and turned around and walked away.
Liu Qingzhou looked at the little monk again and asked, "How do you know such a secret thing so clearly? Don't say that you are just an ordinary monk in the temple, I don't believe it."
The secret thing like the secret entrance hidden in the abbot's Zen room is obviously not something that can be known by a casual monk.
"The little monk is a wise monk from Ciyun Temple, so he knows more things than ordinary monks in the temple." The little monk explained to himself nervously.
"I don't believe it." Liu Qingzhou shook his head.
Two soldiers walked up next to him, pressed the little monk's shoulder and kicked it down, pressing the little monk to the ground.
The little monk kneeling on the ground raised his head and said, "The little monk dare not hide it. The little monk is really a monk in the temple, but the abbot is the little monk's uncle."
As he said that, he lowered his head.
"Yingzheng, this guy has a rosy complexion and his lips are glossy. He can see that he has drunk a lot of alcohol and meat. He must be no good monk." said a soldier who held the shoulder of the monk.
The little monk heard this and his head drooped even lower.
And his behavior made everyone present understand that this little monk was indeed a wine monk like the soldier said.
However, no one was too surprised.
The temple has fields and land, and there is no need to pay taxes. Like the gentry's house, the majority of income is also owned by tenants.
It is a temple on the surface, but in fact it is no different from those gentry families. It relies on exploiting tenants to support the monks in the temple.
As for things like my Buddha's mercy, most temples cannot see them. They are more monk temples that oppress the people and plunder the people's fields. Ciyun Temple is such a temple.
"Clog the entrance of the secret passage." Liu Qingzhou explained, then looked at the little monk and said, "Take him with you and find out the land deeds and books in the temple."
The little monk was taken out by two soldiers.
"Beijingzheng, just block the secret passage, let's not chase after people?" One of the soldiers asked in confusion.
Liu Qingzhou said: "We don't know what the situation is in the secret passage. There is no need to take this risk. Just block the entrance. There are our army inside and outside the city, so they can't escape."
Hearing this, several soldiers in the Zen room began to work hard to block the entrance to the secret passage.
Liu Qingzhou looked at the secret entrance blocked, so he took the people out of the Zen room and returned to the main hall in the temple.
However, halfway through the way, a soldier hurriedly ran over.
When he came closer, he said, "Yingzheng, some monks in Ciyun Temple want to join us, but our captain dares not make decisions. Send his subordinates to seek your opinions from Yingzheng?"
As soon as he finished speaking, a man standing next to Liu Qingzhou said, "The monks in the temple are raised with wine and meat. Like the thugs of rich families, they usually do some dirty things that ordinary monks are not easy to show up. Their hands are covered with blood. There are even wanted criminals from the court, but they just hide in the temple with a different name. Although such people are brave, they are not easy to control."
Liu Qingzhou nodded.
If ordinary people want to practice martial arts, they have to eat enough food. If they only eat vegetables, they may not even be able to move their swords.
"Yingzheng, you don't really want to recruit these monks, right?" The man who spoke frowned.
Liu Qingzhou smiled and said, "Catch it, why not? I don't care whether they are wanted criminals of the court. As long as they are willing to join the tiger flag, I will."
"But these people are not easy to control. Joining in may lead other soldiers. More importantly, they may be able to smash and loot. But if they face the imperial soldiers, they may be the first to escape, and they may not be the ones who fight to death like our own soldiers." The man next to him said worriedly.
It is obvious that he does not want these monks from Ciyun Temple to join his team.
"Who said they wanted them to join our team directly?" Liu Qingzhou said, "Since these monks are not short of isolates, they will send them to the grassland, let them fight with the Beilu to fight desperately, and throw them to mining if they are disobedient. When they arrive in the grassland, no one will run away."
He had previously advised Liu Qingzhou not to accept these monks. When he heard that he had sent the people to the grassland, he immediately shook his head and said, "Then I have no objection."
The Tumote Grassland is already the territory of their tiger flag. It is impossible for these monks to go to the grassland to be honest and obedient.
The grassland is sparsely populated, and it takes a long time to meet the gathering place where herders live. If you don’t know how to identify the road, the chance of meeting wolves is greater than that of meeting herders.
Liu Qingzhou said to the soldier who came over to seek his opinion: "Go back and tell your captain, we want all monks who want to join the tiger flag, but don't tell them about the delivery to the grassland for the time being, and the weapons cannot be kept. We will be temporarily locked up as prisoners and people from the border."
"Yes." The other party agreed and turned around and ran away.
As soon as the person left, Liu Qingzhou said to the people around him: "The deputy master should be entering the city. I'll go and greet him. The matter here in Ciyun Temple is temporarily left to you."
Tian Chengwei was just captured, and there are still many things. He could not have been able to stay at Ciyun Temple.
Moreover, as soon as Wang Bao fled, Ciyun Temple was completely in the hands of the tiger flag. Only the matters of depositing the books and land origin deeds in the temple were left. Ordinary staff members could do the work well.
Liu Qingzhou led a team to leave from Ciyun Temple.
When he was passing through Zhenwu Temple, he saw a team of teams carrying the flags of the First Battle Barracks and was heading towards Yingen Gate.
As more and more soldiers with tiger flags entered the city, the shouts of killing in the city became smaller, and some places that were on fire began to be extinguished, and the city gradually returned to stability.
Chapter completed!