Chapter 249 0244 [Destroy the Temple of Obscenity]
There were initially five people kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb, but later there were only four.
There are different opinions on this.
Some people think that future generations who worship Yue Fei always want to smash something to vent their anger, so they smashed the most damaged kneeling statue.
Some people thought that the five kneeling statues were not symmetrical, so they smashed the smallest one.
Some people think that the first four kneeling statues are very famous, but the last one has too little fame and official position, and is not worthy of kneeling in front of Grandpa Yue’s tomb.
The kneeling statue that was removed is named Luo Ruji. At this moment, he is serving as the Hanyin County Magistrate in Jinzhou!
Historically, this man attached himself to Qin Hui, and reached the highest position of Minister of the Ministry of Personnel and Zhilong Tuge.
After receiving the official document from the state government, Luo Ruji immediately became motivated: "Assemble all the troops and horses, this county will personally destroy the temple of obscenity. The government officials and archers will all be rewarded!"
This thing will not offend any boss, and after the obscenity temple is destroyed, the temple property can be confiscated by the county government, and even Ju Ming does not ask for a share. It can also be listed as a political achievement, which is useful in grinding. After it spreads, Confucianism and Buddhism
All three religions of Taoism will praise him.
Without further ado, Luo Ruji took the officials and went out in a furious manner.
The local subordinates knew where there was a temple for obscenity, and some even worshiped it secretly, because the God of Five Tongs was a partial god of wealth. Now that there was a reward to be collected, the partial god of wealth was of no use. We should destroy the reward first.
Take a boat to the intersection of Han River and Ren River (Ren River). There is currently only one grass market here, named "Renshuikou". It is said that Xue Daoguang's ancestor Zhang Ziyang once practiced Taoism here, and later generations established a county named after it.
It is Ziyang County.
To the west of Renshuikou, the Han River is narrow and the current is very fast. Ships are often destroyed and people are killed.
I don’t know where the saying came from, claiming that the Wutong God can keep ships safe. As a result, the Wutong Temple in the town became more prosperous, and merchants coming and going went to pay homage.
"Surround the Yin Temple immediately and don't let anyone go!" Luo Ruji shouted before they even reached the shore.
The government officials were also inexplicably excited. They rushed forward with swords, guns and clubs, causing chaos at the town dock. The people thought these guys were here to collect taxes.
It was not until the Wutong Temple was surrounded that the people inside finally felt something was wrong.
A merchant was passing by by boat and brought his entourage to the temple to ask for blessings. Before he finished burning the incense, he heard a noise outside, and the merchant quickly went out to check the situation.
"There is a rich man here, he must be involved in harvesting and harvesting!" The subordinate official directly blamed him.
In a daze, the merchant was pushed to the ground, and he shouted in horror: "I'm not a local, I'm from out of town, I just passed by to worship God!"
Luo Ruji glanced at him and ordered: "This guy has a cunning look. He is not a kind person at first glance. He will be taken back to the county government and tortured."
The merchant knew that he would not be spared and had to spend money to eliminate the disaster, so he hurriedly shouted: "I am willing to pay a copper fine to atone for my sin!"
The amount of copper fine depends on the seriousness of the crime.
Anyway, when this merchant left Hanyin County, more than half of the fleet's goods were fined. He could only use the remaining goods to sell to local medicine merchants, exchange for some medicinal materials, and transport them back to his hometown.
"Xing San, why are you here?" The government official actually met an acquaintance.
The guy named Xing San said: "I was laid off by the government, so I went to the temple to hang out. Why did you come to the temple?"
"Okay, you are actually a traitor to the evil god! Catch him!" The official's face changed instantly.
Illegal toll stations and evil temples for evil gods are mostly built in Hekou Cao City. The former is convenient for collecting taxes and collecting money, while the latter is used to collect incense. Ju Ming sent people to inspect the counties, but the column heads did not dare to set up card tolls anymore, and only reserved for shops in small towns.
The tax collection function was carried out, and redundant tax collectors were eliminated on the spot.
These tax collectors lost their livelihood and went directly to the prostitution temple to become accomplices. Now they are all being arrested.
Luo Ruji walked into the main hall of the temple and saw the five-passage statues. He immediately ordered: "Go and knock them to see if they are copper or iron."
The official banged for a while and said, "The county magistrate is made of wood."
"It's bad luck, chop it up and make firewood." Luo Ruji suddenly became even more angry. Although he was corrupt and abused the people, he was also a scholar and was naturally very disgusted with evil gods.
The statues of gods were pushed down one after another, and the screams in the temple were loud.
A tax collector who turned to the evil god shouted: "I want to report him for meritorious service, I want to report him for meritorious service. The temple minister did not escape, he is hiding in the secret room!"
The officials escorted the man to find the secret room and entered a side hall. They moved the confession table in front of the statue. There was a wooden board under the confession table. When they opened the board, they found the basement.
"Help! Help!"
While the government official was still climbing down the ladder, he heard a woman's cry for help coming from inside.
When they went in and took a look, they were instantly stunned.
In addition to the Miao Zhu and his men who escaped, there were more than ten women in the basement.
These women were all dressed in rags, and some were mentally disturbed.
"County Zun, County Zun..."
After Luo Ruji got the news, he went to the basement to check it out in person, and then said angrily: "Interrogate him on the spot, or even beat him to death!"
After some interrogation, the more terrifying facts of the case were soon revealed.
Rabbits don't eat grass beside their nests. Those women are not residents of the town, they are all village women from the mountains who were lured here. They are usually imprisoned in the basement for the adulterers in the temple to rape and humiliate. If a rich family wants to kill someone to sacrifice to the ghosts and gods, they will
Killing insane women, harvesting their organs and selling them to rich people to make money.
Using clues obtained through torture and confessions, the government officials summoned farmers around the town and asked them to dig in the yard behind the temple.
One after another, more than 30 corpses were excavated, including the bones of many babies.
From time to time, farmers screamed in fear and threw away their hoes, daring not to dig again.
During the Yuan Dynasty, temples for obscenities were everywhere and common. Even when scholars wrote anti-poetry, the government was too lazy to take care of it. With such a bad rule, why did they severely crack down on the Wutong God?
Because the main functions of Wutong God are to deceive women and to obtain partial wealth!
When Zhu Yuanzhang banned prostitution temples, Wutong God was still a key target.
By the way, last year Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty ordered the destruction of evil temples in the Gyeonggi area. Among the three evil gods identified by the court, Wutong God ranked first, General Shi ranked second, and Daji ranked third.
The Wutong God was listed as the number one evil god by Emperor Huizong of the Song Dynasty because his obscene temples often participated in abducting women and children.
"Arrests!"
Luo Ruji's original intention was to make money and improve his political achievements, but now he was extremely angry and wanted to take things seriously.
According to the confessions of these guys, the officials were divided into several teams to arrest those wealthy households who sacrificed human animals to ghosts. The number was not large, there were only four households in total. There were so many corpses buried in the temple that they had accumulated over decades.
There were also some corpses that came down. After the woman went crazy, the Miao Zhu killed her and buried her because she felt it was in the way.
There were also women who died in childbirth and dug a hole and buried them.
In particular, the bones of babies were all those of pregnant women. When they couldn't find anyone to buy them, they were buried directly.
After tossing around the town for several days, we basically determined the situation.
You have to make money, so Luo Ruji ordered: "The land of the obscene temple, as well as the land of the four households, will all be sold to the local rich."
The order given by Ju Ming was to distribute the land to the farmers nearby.
Luo Ruji felt that wealthy households were also farmers, and auctioning land would also be considered as dividing the land, and it would also increase the government's income.
Hmm, it doesn't seem to conflict.
Luo Ruji added: "Those imprisoned women who are willing to go home will be given some rations to let them go back. Those who are unwilling to go home will all be sent to the state government."
Even those with mental disorders, Luo Ruji was too lazy to take care of them and threw them all to Ju Ming to give him a headache.
In addition, Ju Ming ordered a trial by the Judicial Yuan. After the facts were determined, the homes of wealthy households were ransacked. However, Luo Ruji ransacked the homes first and then handed them over to the Judicial Yuan. Only he knew how much property was seized, and he casually handed some over to the state.
Just go to the Yamen.
Several other counties were similar. Including Su Yuanlao, they also ransacked the homes first and then transferred the prisoners. They all felt that Ju Ming's decree was too troublesome, and it would take two or three months to go back and forth.
Only the magistrate of Xicheng County is the most honest, because he and Ju Ming live in the same city.
The county magistrate of Fukuo is always so angry and lacks autonomy in everything.
Although the execution process was a mess, completely deviating from Ju Ming's decree, and subordinate officials took the opportunity to extort good people.
But overall it was effective, and all the obscene temples in various towns were destroyed without leaving any trace.
There are basically no prostitution temples in the mountains. Only shamans worship evil gods at home. This requires long-term education. The people in the mountains have to report the harvesting and harvesting, and it is difficult for the county officials to find out clearly.
Groups of criminals, women one by one, and boxes of corpses were transported to Jinzhou City one after another.
Whenever a government official arrives, he will announce it in the city to let the people know the true face of the evil god.
"Prefect, some of the criminals who sacrificed to evil gods were tax collectors who were dismissed in the previous period. Most of them did not commit murders," Huang Gui, the manager of the army, asked, "Do these tax collectors also have to be punished according to the law? Of course they brought it upon themselves, but if they follow the law
, their relatives will also sit together. Not only do these relatives not know about it, but they also do not benefit from it."
Ju Ming said: "This matter requires heavy legal proceedings to suppress the evil trend. As long as it is found to be true, it will be dealt with accordingly. Those who were seriously injured by the county officials will not be treated and will be handed over to the Sentence Department Qiu Houwen.
Behead them. Those who died in the process will be deemed to have deserved it. As for those who were slightly injured or not injured, all of them will be mined!"
Ju Ming also hired some miners, but normal miners were paid. And fearing that the miners would work too hard, Ju Ming also set continuous working hours every day.
As for these criminals, they don't need to be treated as human beings. They deserve to be squeezed to death by being given some food rations. They deserve to die from exhaustion.
Huang Gui said: "Among the criminal's relatives, there are also women and children."
Ju Ming said: "All men over the age of twelve and under fifteen are sent to the Criminal Division and handed over to the Criminal Division. All males over the age of fifteen must be punished by mining. As for women, the miners I recruited
Some of the Heye iron households were not yet married and were asked to choose one person to start a family. The remaining women, as well as the girls, young girls, and boys under the age of twelve were all shipped to Yangzhou for resettlement."
Huang Gui doesn't matter, these women and children are difficult to deal with. In the middle and early Northern Song Dynasty, they were beaten into official slaves, but in the late Northern Song Dynasty, official slaves were rarely used.
Since Zhu Ming has made arrangements, Huang Gui won't have to worry about it.
Adult male criminals were taken to the mines to work.
Ju Ming's personal entourage, as well as the recruited iron smelters and unmarried men, all came to select women as wives. They basically selected young girls, and only a few women with good looks were selected.
Even Shi Yuangong and Yang Pu each chose a girl.
Shi Yuangong wanted to reassure Ju Ming. Only by having a family in Jinzhou could he gain complete trust.
Yang Pu simply wants to start a family and choose a wife happily.
The remaining women and children were temporarily raised in Jinzhou until enough numbers were collected before being transported back to Daming Village. A few months ago, Daming Village recruited a lot of unruly people, many of whom were not yet married, and the male-to-female ratio was a little
If there is imbalance, yin and yang can be reconciled.
There are still some mentally disturbed women who can only be sent to almshouses and asked to do needlework.
Jinzhou was too poor and had a small population, and Ju Ming was unwilling to exploit the people, so he could only use criminals as labor force.
