Chapter 281: The real Li Kui met the fake Li Gui and escaped into Buddhism to become a Buddha?
"Ke Zhengtong is dead?"
After hearing the report from his subordinate, the young man in white who was feeding the birds couldn't help but be stunned for a moment, but then he smiled and said:
"Interesting, it seems that I really missed a lot of interesting things last night."
The young man in white sighed with regret. He put down the bird's food in his hand and looked back at the person who made the report.
"Do you know how you died?"
The young man in white's eyes were like lightning, and a strong sense of oppression came over him. Just this ordinary turn around and asked made the man in black who reported the report tremble with fear.
"Hui, Hui Gong, this has not been investigated yet. Ke Zhengtong's body was taken away by people from the Six Gates. The subordinates are still investigating. Do you think it is necessary?"
The man in black swallowed, suppressed the fear in his heart, and bravely answered. At the end of the sentence, he slightly raised his head and glanced at the young man in white, as if he was obviously asking for instructions.
But the young man in white shook his head.
"No, we can just be spectators in this matter. This is a matter for Six Doors. Just wait, Six Doors will send people here soon. When the time comes, we will just wait and watch the show. .”
The young man in white chuckled and looked out the window. The six doors were a force that even their governor did not dare to provoke at will. Unexpectedly, someone dared to touch them. Maybe this time we can take the opportunity to see what the water in these six doors has. How deep.
"It's Young Master." Hearing this, the man in black breathed a sigh of relief. Young Master in white's martial arts was unfathomable and he was always moody. He was really afraid that his answer would not satisfy the other party and he would slap him in the face. Shoot and fly out.
The young man in white heard the sighs of relief from his subordinates and knew what the other party was thinking. However, he did not reveal it, but chuckled.
He knew that in order to better control these people and let these guys with different ideas do what he wanted, he had to make them fearful.
Only fear can most effectively drive these desperadoes. This is the most important lesson he learned after leaving the Shaolin Temple. Treat gentlemen with reason and deal with villains with force.
When he thought of this, the young man in white couldn't help but think of his stupid deputy. He chuckled and asked:
"By the way, where is Guardian Zuo?"
"Back to the young master, he should have arrived in Nanzhao County."
"Should?" The tone of the young man in white changed. Before the man in black could react, he felt a strong wind coming, and then he jumped into the air and was blown away.
"Plop!" "Click!"
The man in black fell heavily to the ground, and the door closed.
The man in black who was suddenly knocked out was still a little confused. He didn't know what he said wrongly. He only felt a surge of blood in his chest and abdomen, and just when he was about to spit it out, the voice of the young man in white was rang in his ears.
"Remember, next time you let me hear a reply like this, you should explain your funeral arrangements in advance. Also, don't vomit in front of my door or swallow it."
The voice of the young man in white was as loud as a bell. The man in black was so frightened that he quickly covered his mouth with his hands to block the blood in his mouth and swallowed it.
"It's Young Master." The man in black responded hoarsely.
. . .
Nanzhao County, subordinate to Nanyang Prefecture, is located in the north of Nanyang Prefecture, bordering the Funiu Mountains to the north and the Wanxiang Plain to the south. It can be said that it controls Luoyang in the north and Jingxiang in the south. It has been a battleground for military strategists since ancient times.
However, more than 200 years after the founding of the Ming Dynasty, the Central Plains has been peaceful for a long time. This place has long been abandoned by the war. The Yalu Town Inspection Department originally established here was moved eastward to the next county in December of the twelfth year of Chenghua. At the mouth of the stone.
This left the choke point between the south and the north unguarded, and it inevitably became a natural place to make a fortune in the eyes of some bold people.
On Sanya Road.
"Stop! Stop!"
Just hearing shouts, seven or eight men in ragged clothes, holding short knives and long sticks, slid down the hills on both sides of the road and surrounded a passing carriage.
"Hush!"
The mountain road here is narrow and dangerous. The driver did not expect that there would be bandits here. Although he was unwilling, he could only rein in his horse and stop obediently.
In the carriage, Xie Zhongda listened to the familiar shouts outside the carriage and slightly opened a corner of the carriage curtain. He saw seven or eight ragged men holding short knives and long sticks blocking the road.
Xie Zhongda was a little panicked at first, but when he took a closer look, he saw that except for the leader of this group of bandits, who was a strong man, the rest were mostly skinny.
Moreover, the simple configuration of the wooden sticks and a few hatchets in the opponent's hands made Xie Zhongda even more want to laugh.
He still wants to rob the road, and he still blocks the official road to rob. If he is brave enough, it seems that he is a group of novices.
"People in the car, listen, please hand over all your valuables to me, or else, no..."
The leading thief seemed to have forgotten what to say next, and the people following him quickly reminded him in a low voice.
"Otherwise we will grab it ourselves."
"Yes, otherwise we will do it ourselves. If we are injured or disabled by then, we will not be blamed."
Seeing the poor appearance of the bandits, Xie Zhongda took a closer look, then picked up his red cherry gun, lifted the curtain and got out of the car.
The bandits didn't expect that the man in the carriage was actually a strong man with a weapon in his hand, and they couldn't help but feel a little uneasy.
But Xie Zhongda didn't care so much. He only saw him holding a gun and saying:
"From south to north, there is a thin line of sky."
"..."
"..." The bandits looked at each other, none of them understood what Xie Zhongda was talking about.
When Xie Zhongda saw that the other person didn't understand the code of the conversation at all, he smiled helplessly and had to clasp his fists instead and asked:
"May I ask you brothers, which mountaintop do you belong to?"
"Mountain?" The bandits understood this sentence. It was asking them where they came from. However, the bandit at the head was stunned for a moment. He turned back to the subordinate who had just reminded him and asked:
"Oh, by the way, what kind of mountain are we from?"
The men were also a little confused. This was their first robbery, so they didn't think much about it. They hadn't thought about the mountain top at all, so they could only reply in a low voice:
"Brother, we don't have the top of the mountain yet."
"Oh, we don't have a mountain top." The boss was quite straightforward and replied directly.
Xie Zhongda smiled when he heard this and confirmed the identity of the other newcomer. He glanced at Zhou Zhou and saw that there were only these people and there were no other hidden people. He also said in an arrogant tone:
"Since there is no hilltop, he is a bandit. He dared to rob my car. This is really the real Li Kui meeting the fake Li Gui. Look at the gun!"
As he said that, Xie Zhongda struck first. He swung his spear and pointed directly at the strong man leading the attack.
This strong man had obviously never learned martial arts, and had never seen such a fast shooting technique. He was so frightened that he stood frozen on the spot, unable to even subconsciously dodge.
The light of the spear arrived in an instant, but just when the spear was about to pierce a hole through the heart, Xie Zhongda turned the tip of his spear and avoided the opponent's body. He turned his hand and slapped the opponent's body with the spear. on the waist and abdomen, knocking the opponent to the ground.
The tip of the gun was pointed at the opponent's throat, subduing him with just one move.
Seeing their boss being subdued by the other party, the remaining minions panicked for a moment. Did they know that they had hit an iron plate? They did not expect that this would be the first time in their lives that they would be robbed. The robbery was on the head of this martial arts master.
For a moment, some people wanted to run away quickly, while others seemed to be worried about their boss and did not choose to run away. A few even wanted to come forward to save them, but they were met with a look from Xie Zhongda. Frightened, they all dropped their weapons in fear and did not dare to move again.
Except for the few who escaped, the remaining four or five bandits were all frightened by Xie Zhongda.
The driver on the side did not expect that Xie Zhongda was so powerful. He subdued these bandits in just a moment, and quickly ran over and complimented:
"What a great skill, hero."
Xie Zhongda smiled. He ignored the coachman and looked at the bandit leader on the ground. The gun tip went further and directly touched the opponent's skin.
"Hero, I have something to say, I have something to say!" Feeling the cold tip of the spear on his neck, the bandit boss was so frightened that his pants almost got wet.
Seeing his cowardice, Xie Zhongda also put away his gun with disdain.
"How dare you do this calamity business just now?"
The bandit leader felt the chill on his neck disappear, and he breathed a sigh of relief, feeling as if he had walked away from the door of hell.
After hearing Xie Zhongda's words, he quickly knelt down and begged for mercy:
"My hero, we don't dare to do it anymore. We don't dare to do it anymore! We don't really want to be bandits. We really have no choice. Please forgive us this time, hero. We really don't dare to do it anymore." .”
The bandit boss kowtowed and knelt down, crying with tears streaming down his face.
Seeing this, the other bandits kowtowed and begged for mercy.
Xie Zhongda didn't want to kill them, but he was a little upset when he saw them crying.
"Okay, don't cry. Where are you from? This accent doesn't sound like a local from Nanyang."
Seeing that Xie Zhongda was angry, the bandit boss stopped crying, wiped his tears, and replied quickly:
"My hero Mingjian, we are fleeing from Shandong. Our hometown was hit by a disaster and we couldn't survive. We originally went south, but we never thought that the state capital in the south would not let us enter and even sent people to drive us away. , we were driven and driven all the way, and ended up walking farther and farther, and finally we came here."
Xie Zhongda nodded after hearing this.
"So that's why you became bandits here?"
When the bandit boss heard this, he quickly defended:
"No, the kids didn't originally plan to be bandits. They originally wanted to go to the city to find a job and make a living. But who would have thought that after searching for a long time, they couldn't find it, so they could only make a living by begging. Later, When the brothers put it all together, they felt that we couldn't continue like this, so, so we got a few hatchets and thought of going up to the mountains to hunt and become hunters, which would at least solve the problem of eating. But who knows, we ended up hunting. In the past few days, I didn’t catch many prey, but I caught a few pheasants, which was not enough to feed so many people. Moreover, I was wanted by the government, and now I can’t even beg for food.”
"Why are you wanted by the government?" Xie Zhongda asked curiously after hearing this.
"Because, because we stole the hatchet." The bandit boss said hesitantly.
They never expected that just because they stole a few hatchets, they would be wanted by the government.
"Huh?" Xie Zhongda was stunned when he heard this, but then he felt relieved when he thought that the crime of theft in the Ming Dynasty Law was indeed punished relatively severely.
Looking at these people kneeling on the ground with nowhere to go, Xie Zhongda suddenly had a different thought in his heart.
It is said that after Xie Zhongda killed the people of the Black Clothes Club and escaped, he knew that the Black Clothes Club would never let him go. In addition, he was a wanted criminal by the government. There was no place for him in the black and white circles. Got it.
After much thought, he finally thought of only one way out, which was to become a monk.
The Buddha said: Put down the butcher's knife and become a Buddha immediately. Monks have always believed in this, so even if they are the most heinous people, they will usually give them a chance and want to guide them onto the right path.
However, this also resulted in that many lawless people wanted to run to the temple after committing a crime, hoping to avoid being pursued by the government, rather than truly wanting to change their ways.
In order to prevent this phenomenon from happening, previous governments have also introduced many policies to fill this loophole.
Among them, the most important thing is the emergence of the ultimatum system.
The certificate for monks is issued by the government and can only be obtained by passing the government's assessment. Monks who obtain the certificate can be exempted from taxes and labor according to law. It can be said that every monk must have it.
Although the existence of the ultimatum exempted monks from taxes and labor, turning them into a special group of people and reducing a lot of taxes, it also strengthened the government's control over the monks.
Because of the emergence of interests, this leads to the fact that monks without ultimatums will not be accepted by other temples.
Because only monks with ultimatums can be exempted from taxes and labor, while monks without ultimatums are required to pay taxes and serve. However, monks are not involved in production. Where do they get the money to pay? It will eventually be transferred to the temple. .
This enabled the imperial court to control the quality of monks through issuing ultimatums, and to reduce the phenomenon of harboring filth among monks by improving the conditions for issuing ultimatums.
In the Ming Dynasty, this was even worse. In addition to the fact that those who broke the law were not allowed to be granted ultimatums, Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang also stipulated that "an ultimatum is issued every three years, and monks and Taoists are ordered to go to Beijing to take exams to award them. Those who do not understand the classics will be deposed." 'It can be said that it further strengthened the court's control over the monks.
However, nothing is inevitable. Even if the court continues to strengthen its control over monks, after all, the sky is high and the emperor is far away. If there is really an eminent monk who is determined to ordain someone and hide him in the temple to practice privately, then outsiders will also It's hard to find out, and the people in the temple probably won't say anything about it.
It's just that this kind of situation is very rare, and for Xie Zhongda, the court's wanted order is still secondary. What's more important for him is that this temple can protect him from being chased by people from the Black Clothes Society. , this is the most important thing.
There are only a few temples with this ability, and it also requires access to the back door of eminent monks. He can't even think of going to a Shaolin Temple, but fortunately, he has a temple where he can give it a try.
