After rebirth, I became a national teacher

This is the advantage of smart people. They can understand many things on their own and take action first without being explained.

Chen Qingzhu was very satisfied with the current situation. In his mind, he considered Huiyun to be someone who could be put to important use. Then he said to the nuns in a loud voice:

"Since the True Man Cihang has descended under the name of Taoism, it is inappropriate for this Jingci Temple to be called a Buddhist temple. From now on, the temple will be changed to a temple called Cihang Temple. You don't need to call me the messenger of God, just call me the temple master."

There are too many Buddhist rules and regulations, which are too restrictive for Chen Qingzhu, a monk who is used to being free and easy. Changing to a Taoist temple will make things easier.

As for the doorhead and the Buddha statues enshrined inside, it will not be too late to change them when the opportunity arises.

The nuns naturally had no objection to this.

Even if they originally came here to practice Buddhism, after experiencing so many years of suffering, they have given up on this idea. They don't care whether it's Buddhism or Taoism.

What's more, this time it was the Taoist gods who appeared and enlightened the messengers, allowing them to escape from the clutches of Ci'an and others.

"Yes! Master!"

Everyone replied in unison.

Chen Qingzhu looked at the pale and thin faces of the crowd and said:

"Taoism emphasizes following one's heart and being free and at ease. Since we are a Taoist temple, there is no need to abstain from meat, fish, alcohol and wine. Everything should be based on the needs of physical health."

"Hui Jing, take people to the kitchen later and get some eggs and meat to cook for everyone. From now on, as long as everyone wants, they can have at least two taels of meat every day!"

Huijing came out immediately to receive the order.

The ordinary nuns standing below immediately showed joy on their faces.

We are all ordinary people, so how can we not crave meat and fish?

Under the oppression of Jingci Temple, they could only eat a few pieces of meat on New Year's Eve throughout the year.

What's more, many of them came from poor families, and in their hometowns, only landlords could have such good food.

The treatment the temple master gave them was truly surprising.

This undoubtedly made many people feel more sincere support for Chen Qingzhu in addition to their gratitude and awe.

"From now on, as long as everyone works together to serve the temple, our lives will get better and better." Chen Qingzhu said.

"Thank you, Master! We will follow your orders!" everyone shouted in unison.

Chen Qingzhu ordered again:

"Huian, take a few people and lock up these evil nuns. Separate Ci'an and Huiyuan from the others."

"Yes!" Hui'an accepted the order happily.

Chen Qingzhu then let everyone go back and rest. Except for those who were working in the kitchen, the rest of them just had to wait for lunch.

After Hui'an and others locked Ci'an and Huiyuan up in a torture room alone, Chen Qingzhu walked in. Without saying anything, he reached out his hand into Ci'an's arms and took away her key chain.

According to her memories from her previous life as a wandering spirit, whenever Nun Ci'an went out, she would lock her door.

With her ability, it was not difficult to open the lock. She just had to pull the padlock hasp out of the door panel.

However, Ci'an's room would be hers from now on, and she didn't want to destroy it unless it was necessary.

When Ci'an saw that she had taken the key, she didn't care about the pain on her body, glared at her, and wanted to pounce on her and beat her even though she was tied up with ropes.

This look of disliking her but being unable to get rid of her only added to Chen Qingzhu's happier mood.

She put the key ring on her index finger and spun it in a circle, then walked leisurely to East Garden.

After lying dormant in Jingci Temple for many days, today I am finally able to pick that sweet fruit.

That’s right. Jingci Temple was a secret brothel for many years, and its guests were either wealthy businessmen or officials, so it had accumulated a lot of gold, silver and treasures.

The treasure is hidden in the abbot's meditation room.

Relying on the memories of his previous life, Chen Qingzhu easily found the meditation room where Ci'an lived.

After opening the door, she didn't even look at the seemingly simple but actually valuable furnishings, and went straight to the Buddha statue in the small shrine.

After turning the small Buddha statue three times to the left, I heard the sound of a mechanism moving under the carpet near the bed.

Walk over and lift the carpet, and the entrance to a basement will appear before your eyes.

In her previous life, she had seen Ci'an go in to deposit and withdraw valuables many times, so she knew there was no danger down there.

Of course, with Ci'an's ability, she could not create the kind of mechanism in the storybook that could take a person's life instantly.

After lighting a lantern, Chen Qingzhu climbed up the ladder and entered the basement.

The entire room was about two meters square, and there was nothing in it except a few rows of shelves filled with wooden boxes.

Chen Qingzhu was very patient and opened the boxes one by one.

There were fifteen thin large boxes on the first row of shelves, each containing neatly arranged silver ingots.

The finest snowflake silver, ten taels each, nine in each box, totaling one thousand three hundred and fifty taels.

On the second row of wooden shelves, the boxes are much smaller.

As soon as the first box was opened, all I could see was a bright yellow mass of gold ingots, each weighing five taels. There were eighteen of them in two layers, for a total of ninety taels.

In this era, gold was scarce and gold mines were discovered randomly. Therefore, even though the official exchange rate between gold and silver was one to ten, the highest ratio among the people could reach one to fifteen.

This box of gold is worth about 1,200 taels.

Next to the gold, there was a palm-sized box, which contained a stack of silver notes with denominations ranging from ten taels to one hundred taels. After counting, there were a total of one thousand eight hundred taels.

In another small box was the deed to a courtyard in the East City of Nandu, which was worth about one thousand taels.

All added up to five thousand three hundred and fifty taels.

In addition, there were some pearls, corals, gold hairpins, gold rings, gemstone head ornaments and other items, all neatly packed in wooden boxes padded with velvet.

Chen Qingzhu opened all the boxes and found a small number of jade products inside.

Of course, everything that could be found in Cixi’s treasure house were good things.

There are a pair of top-quality imperial green bracelets, a top-quality jade hairpin, five top-quality jade hairpins, two top-quality mutton-fat jade pendants, a palm-high top-quality jade Buddha, and a pair of jade ruyi made of top-quality jade.

The amount of spiritual energy required for the second level of Qi Refining is three times that of the first level. If these things are added together, if the spiritual energy is not wasted on other things, it will be just enough to reach the second level of Qi Refining.

In addition to the jade, the total value of other property collected this time was about seven thousand taels, and including the jade, it was about nine thousand two or three thousand taels.

It was much less than Chen Qingzhu had expected, but it was still a fruitful result.

After all, a farmer who was lucky enough to own ten acres of land could only save one or two taels of silver at most after paying for food and taxes throughout the year, assuming good weather and no unexpected events.

As the second wife of Marquis Jingnan, Zhang only had a dowry of 7,000 taels.

After counting all these, Chen Qingzhu searched Ci'an's meditation room again and found a lot of broken silver, copper coins and small silver bills. All in all, there were about five hundred taels.

Taking some money and locking the door, Chen Qingzhu estimated that it was already lunch time, so he went to the dining hall in the nunnery.

She plans to win over another wave of people's hearts.

If you want people to be loyal, it is not enough to just show them kindness, you also have to lure them with benefits and intimidate them.

We have both grace and power today, the only thing missing is profit.

Specifically, it is to tie their interests to hers.