Don't move, this child bride is not easy to mess with.

Although Da'anliang Temple has a large number of people, it does not dare to confront the government. Within half an hour, all the main roads in the entire temple were blocked.

The remaining three hundred government officials, under the command of Jiang Ruiyan, searched each palace and monk's residence in an orderly and detailed manner.

Da'anliang Temple is not small. It may have nearly two thousand rooms, and it will not be possible to search for it in a short time.

Xie and Su walked around for a while before going down to meet Jiang Ruiyan.

At this time, he was interrogating the monks about the situation in the temple.

This so-called monk association is a monk official appointed by the imperial court. There is a monk gang secretary in the government, a monk chief secretary in the state, and a monk association secretary in the county. They are responsible for managing the monks in the territory.

The offices of these monks and officials are often located in large local temples for convenience. Their main responsibilities are to record monks, issue ultimatums, and investigate monks.

You can't become a monk just by shaving your head. This dynasty stipulates that if you want to become a monk, you need to study Buddhist scriptures and then take the exam!

Only those who can recite at least 500 pages of Buddhist scriptures and explain their meaning are qualified. This is called the test of a Buddhist monk. Of course, there are also people who spend money or pay food to get a certificate of salvation, which is called accepting monks. These are the official monks.

There are more than 1,200 people in Da'anliang Temple, but in fact, there are only more than 500 people who actually have ultimatums. Others belong to practitioners who live and study in monasteries and as laborers.

The temple also has an abbot, supervisor, and head monk of each hall in the deputy temple, who are responsible for the actual management of the temple.

The monk would hesitate and hesitate, his eyes evasive, unable to explain. On the other hand, the abbot master and the supervisor next to him were full of uprightness, and Wenyan promised that Da'anliang Temple had always abided by the laws of the imperial court and had not harbored fugitives.

Jiang Ruiyan only nodded slightly when he saw the two approaching.

Seeing that the horses were coming soon, Xie Chengan asked for his official uniform and changed into it, and met the abbot of the temple again.

An hour passed, and hundreds of government officials searched the entire temple, but each reported that no fugitive was found!

Lin Xu saw with his own eyes women and children living in the rooms outside the apse last night. Today, I led people to search the backyard first, but no one was found!

Lin Xu naturally looked bad when he came to report back.

"Brother Lin, I'm afraid that if you just searched those houses, maybe there are people hiding underground. First, find someone to interrogate the monks and see how many dark rooms there are in the temple." Su Mulan thought for a while but smiled.

Doesn't the great monk of the temple have an ancient tomb as his home base? The roads in the temple have been blocked in time. Where can the Prime Minister of Mei County and Chief Xia escape? They must be hiding.

Lin Xu's eyes lit up when he heard this, and after asking Xie Chengan, he took people to interrogate the monks. Ordinary monks may not know where the secret chamber is, but these monk leaders will always know.

When the monks, abbot, and prisoner heard what Su Mulan said, two of them fell to the ground. However, the abbot was really calm. His face was expressionless and he didn't say much. He just narrowed his old eyes and looked at Su Mulan.

Within half an hour, Lin Xu came excitedly to report that there was indeed a secret room!

And there are not just one or two places in the entire Daanliang Temple, but more than fifty! The whole family of Mei County Prime Minister and Master Xia was searched out.

Another hour passed, and all the secret rooms were searched.

What is shocking is that in addition to the female relatives of the Mei and Xia families, there are also dozens of women imprisoned in the Daanliang Temple! There are also countless gold and silver treasures, which the government officials cannot count for a while.

Xie Chengan was furious. These monks only had some money to pay back, but they dared to imprison women!

Xie Chengan immediately ordered that all the monks with deacons in the temple, including the monks association, abbot, and prison guards, be brought back to the county government. He also arranged for people to guard and count the gold and silver belongings in the temple, and to monitor ordinary monks.

The Mei and Xia families will naturally be brought back to the county government.

After this calamity, Daanliang Temple may be dissolved.

There was nothing more to do with Su Mulan here, so she took Zhao Jingzi back to the Su residence.

Zhao Jingzi was also shocked during this trip. He really couldn't imagine that this Da'anliang Temple was actually a place where filth and evil spread!

Su Mulan didn't care whether those monks had dirty things or not. Xie Chengan was the one to interrogate them. Since the Da'anliang Temple was in trouble, the granary might also be confiscated by the county government.

When the time comes, just ask Xie Chengan to rent it.

Returning to Su Zhai, she asked Zhao Jingzi to find those brothers who were temporarily working in the carriage shop. All are employed as carriage drivers for the Su family.

Regarding the matter of Da'anliang Temple, the county government interrogated and reviewed the transfer documents to relevant court agencies and superiors.

A month later, the Da'anliang Temple case was solved.

When Xie Chengan came to see Su Mulan, she was also a little shocked when they talked about the case.

There are five sins in Daianryang Temple:

There were fifty-eight female pilgrims who came to fulfill their vows for imprisonment. Fourteen of them had been tortured to death and were buried under several old trees outside the temple.

The second is to invade private, public, and abandoned fields and collude with the Prime Minister and Master Xia of Mei County to make false accounts to avoid land taxes.

The third is for harboring fugitives from the imperial court. But there are not only the two families of Mei County Cheng and Master Xia, but also dozens of criminal thieves.

The fourth is the pretense of sending a son to Guanyin, but in fact it is an act of sexual intercourse and humiliation of the wife. The Da'anliang Temple is famous for its miraculous effect in praying for a child, but it turns out that it was these monks who did it. How can those pilgrims who have suffered a loss dare to speak out?

Five secretly organized assassins and were hired to commit dozens of murders!

When Su Mulan first entered Anlan, there was a murder case at the station, and a man named Tong was killed. After investigation, it was found that it was the Prime Minister of Mei County who ordered the assassins of Daanliang Temple to kill!

But the former magistrate of Wang County was actually Master Xia who paid for the murders! The killer also comes from Daianryang Temple!

As for other crimes, Xie Chengan didn't bother to mention them.

Mei County Prime Minister and Chief Xia were not convicted in the county government, but were escorted together with the evidence to the Chief Envoy Han Shooyue. There is no news yet.

On the day of the search for Da'anliang Temple, dozens of gangsters and killers trained by the temple tried to resist, but were suppressed by Lin Xu and his crowd.

At that time, in addition to county government officers, officers and soldiers from the inspection department were also transferred. They have weapons such as shields and firecrackers in their hands. Under the clear sky and in broad daylight, a grand battle is not worthy of these quaint means.

Even though several of them had high martial arts skills, they were still sprayed into sieves by the fire cannons.

The property confiscated by the county government from Da'anliang Temple amounted to 3.2 million taels of silver. Although most of these belongings had to be handed over, the county government still kept 300,000 taels.

This time Anlan County Government no longer only had a few thousand taels in balance. Xie Chengan, the county magistrate, suddenly had a lot of money.

As a result, Xie Chengan came to discuss with Su Mulan, and the county government also provided money to buy food!

Da'anliang Temple was closed down, but ordinary monks who were not found guilty are still there. However, most of the temple property has been returned to the county government, including the granary.

Sumulan's lease agreement still counts, but the owner has been transferred to the county government.

Seeing that the autumn harvest is coming, the county government warehouse still needs to be left empty. Xie Chengan planned to store the extra grain he bought in Da'anliang Temple like Su Mulan.

Since Xie Chengan also wanted to send people to buy food, she simply asked Su Xiaobai and Li Fan to go with the guards.