"How much have you sorted out?" Chen Guang came to the altar table.
The grain tax officer who was at his desk looking up and taking notes raised his head and said, "The monk asked more than half of the questions, and the confessions were basically the same. I wrote these down based on their confessions."
He pointed to a pile of papers beside him.
"So many?" Chen Guang frowned.
Looking at the papers piled together on the table, they are as thick as a book.
County Magistrate Qi reached out and pulled out a few pages of paper from the altar table and brought them to his eyes.
Then, his face became increasingly ugly.
Chen Guang, who noticed this, also reached out and took out a page of paper from the altar table, held it in front of him and looked through it.
After only reading the previous content, his face also became very ugly.
"Damn it, it's not too much to chop off the heads of all these bald donkeys." Chen Guang said angrily.
The dull-eyed women he had seen in a remote area of the Bujie Temple had already made him itchy with hatred, but he could read what was written on the page in his hand.
The evil things Bujie Temple has done are not limited to this, there are even more abominable things.
In the main hall stood a monk who came to report others. When he heard Chen Guang's words, he was so frightened that he collapsed on the ground and his crotch was wet.
Chen Guang only glanced at the monk who was slumped on the ground, and said to the county magistrate: "County Magistrate, I think these bald donkeys should be prosecuted in public, so that the people can know the virtues of these bald donkeys."
"After investigation, all of them will be escorted to the county seat for trial and punishment according to the seriousness of the crime." County Magistrate Qi looked at Chen Guang and said, "You did a good job this time. If you hadn't come to Bujie Temple, who would have thought that Bujie The temple is actually a place that harbors filth and evil."
At this moment, Wang Shoubei walked in from outside.
"These peasant soldiers are not bad. They killed so many monks and no one on our side was injured. I think they are qualified to become qualified baggage soldiers."
As soon as he entered the Main Hall, he noticed a monk sitting slumped on the ground. When he passed by him, he subconsciously covered his nose.
"Wang Shou Bei thought these farmers and soldiers were good, and it seems they are indeed good. It just so happened that there was a shortage of soldiers stationed in the city, so he went back to select some outstanding farmers and soldiers to join the garrison." County Magistrate Qi said with a smile.
Wang Shoubei smiled and said: "I support him with both hands."
County Magistrate Qi turned back to look at Chen Guang who was standing aside, and said: "Leave it to Mayor Chen to recruit peasant soldiers. No force is allowed. Only peasant soldiers who are willing to become the city's defenders will be selected to join."
"As a garrison, I will be responsible for three meals a day and receive monthly salary. I don't think many peasant soldiers would refuse such a good thing." Chen Guang said with a smile.
County Magistrate Qi said: "We must hurry up and get it done. I'm afraid Wang Shoubei won't be stationed for too long."
"I have received the transfer order. First, I will take some of the combat soldiers back to the previous combat division. The remaining people will be handed over to the peasant soldiers. I will not evacuate until the peasant soldiers are able to successfully garrison the county." Wang Shoubei said.
"So fast?" County Magistrate Qi frowned.
Wang Shoubei looked at the two people in front of him and said, "I'm afraid there's going to be another war, but I don't know where it will be. You should prepare early!"
He is an army general.
Because after the Tiger Banner army captured various states and counties, troops were needed to stabilize the local situation, so he was left as a garrison there.
There are many generals like him who stay in place to guard.
Now that the surrendered troops have been sent back to Xuanda and other places, and there are peasant soldiers who can be accepted as apprentices in the local garrison, these generals of several war divisions have completed their tasks of maintaining stability and can return to the army.
"Will they attack Juyong Pass this time? I heard that Governor Xuanda appointed by the imperial court is in Juyong Pass." County Magistrate Qi asked Wang Shou Bei.
Unlike Wang Shubei, he is an official who governs the local area and has no right to interfere with the garrison mansion directly under the several war divisions. Local officers and soldiers like him do not know many things that belong to the army.
Wang Shoubei smiled and said: "I am just a small guard, and I will be just an ordinary captain after I go back. How can I know what the general and the division are doing."
The number of local garrison soldiers and horses left varies depending on the size of the city and whether it is important or not.
Although they are all called garrison, some counties are garrisoned by a brigade of soldiers, and some places are only garrisoned by a squadron of soldiers. Important towns like Datong are all garrisoned by a military battalion.
"When are you leaving?" County Magistrate Qi asked.
Wang Shoubei did not hide anything and said directly: "Within half a month, the first batch of soldiers and horses will leave, and I will leave with the first batch of soldiers and horses."
"Before you leave, I will lead someone to practice it for you." County Magistrate Qi said.
Although the two men did not belong to each other in terms of civil and military affairs, they cooperated very well. The reason why the policy of dividing the land was carried out so smoothly was because Wang Shoubei led a large group of soldiers to garrison in the county.
Wang Shoubei nodded and did not refuse.
"County magistrate, what should I do with this bald donkey?" Chen Guang saw the two people finish talking and pointed at the monk who was slumped on the ground. At this time, he felt angry with the monk in the Bujie Temple. He opened and shut up and called the bald donkey directly. .
The monk who was slumped on the ground saw the mention of him and hurriedly knelt down on the ground, kowtowing and begging: "I beg you gentlemen to spare the monk's life. The monk guarantees that not a word of what he just heard will be leaked." Go out and swear in the name of Buddha.”
"If Buddha was really so important to you, you wouldn't do such evil things that are irreparable by death." Chen Guang said through gritted teeth.
Wang Shoubei, who still didn't know what was going on, asked: "Before I came here, I heard that the monks of Bujie Temple were resisting taxes. Is there anything else?"
"Wang Shoubei, please take a look." Chen Guang handed over the page filled with the evil deeds of Bujie Temple.
Wang Shoubei reached out to take it and looked at it with ten lines in front of him.
He quickly read the above content.
"Kill them, what are they doing with this kind of thing?" Wang Shoubei said with a livid face.
If he hadn't been a local guard, many local matters would not have been dealt with directly and would have required the local county magistrate and town magistrate to do it. If it were on the battlefield, he would have been unable to resist and chop off the head of the monk in front of him.
"Don't kill me, don't kill me. It's not the monk who did these evil things, it's the abbot. The Bujie Temple is controlled by the abbot, and the monk didn't do anything!" The monk cried for mercy.
The corpses of the monks outside the Main Hall reminded him all the time that these people in front of him could really kill people.
"Has he participated in the evil deeds of Bujie Temple?" Wang Shoubei asked Chen Guang.
Chen Guang didn't know what to say, so he asked the grain tax officer who reported the monks in Bujie Temple, "Is this bald donkey's situation serious?"
In his eyes, it was not an exaggeration to kill all the monks in the Bujie Temple. Even if he did not commit any evil deeds, he would still turn a blind eye to the evil deeds, and he would even be an accomplice.
However, Hu Ziqi is not a bandit. He knows that many things cannot be done according to personal preferences. Just like now, even if he wants to kill the abbot of Bujie Temple, he knows to keep this person for a public trial, not like those monks. The same was handled privately.
