After two hours of time being pushed back, Li Chengqian took his people to Xingshan Temple after handling the matter of teaching the people's magic outside the temple.

He went directly to the high platform where the Dharma debate and the Dharma Conference was held two days ago, and sent people to find Qing Zhuzi, Zhishan, Huiming, Huiyan and others. He no longer looked kind-hearted yesterday, but said with a serious face: "Master Qing Zhuzi, Master Zhishan and... Master Huiming, I am here today not for the battle conference, but for a more important thing!"

Qingzhuzi and Zhishan's attitude towards Li Chengqian has also changed, especially Qingzhuzi, who was very close to Li Chengqian yesterday, but now he has a cold face and just nodded slightly at Li Chengqian's words, obviously very dissatisfied with teaching the people's magic.

"Bring them all!"

"Yes!" Wei Tai took the order and left. After a while, a group of monks and Taoist priests tied up by ropes were taken over by soldiers.

"Let me go, why did you arrest me? What crime did I commit?"

"You are too presumptuous and dare to treat me like this. Do you know who I am?"

"It's lawless. He dares to arrest us and other innocent monks in broad daylight. I will definitely sue the presidency and ask him to complain to His Majesty!"

"Let me go, I have no crime, I am innocent!"

...

Without getting close, you can hear these people struggling while shouting about the wrongdoing. There are even several older monks and Taoist priests who threaten them.

Qing Zhuzi, Zhishan and others were full of horror when they saw the people who were escorted here. Because these people were the ones who had dinner with them yesterday and discussed the Dharma. No wonder they never saw these people today. They thought that after the incident happened yesterday, these people returned to their respective temples or temples, but unexpectedly they were arrested.

"Your Highness, this..."

Qing Zhuzi looked at Li Chengqian with a frown.

The latter smiled faintly and said, "The Taoist priest should know why Gu arrested them, right? Don't tell me that you have no idea what they have done!"

"Your Highness, why is this?"

Qing Zhuzi was asked silently by Li Chengqian's words, but Zhishan asked anxiously.

He couldn't help but feel unhurried, because he could see at a glance that among the people escorted, there were more than twice as many Buddhist children than Taoist children!

But the most anxious thing is Huiming, the abbot of Xingshan Temple, because he basically knew those monks, and they were monks in Xingshan Temple!

"Your Highness, what did the monks in my temple do? Why were they arrested?" Huiming said in a frustration.

"What's going on? Abbot Huiming himself must be clearer than Gu, right?"

"I don't understand what Your Highness means! Even if you are the prince, you have no right to arrest the monks in my temple for no reason, right?"

"No reason? Abbot Huiming, do you know that if you don't know, you don't do it unless you do it yourself! There is nothing in the world that can be hidden from others forever!" Li Chengqian said lightly.

"Your Highness, although we are just monks, you can't slander or arrest them at will! If your Highness cannot give me a reasonable explanation today, even if I give up this body, I will go to Chang'an to ask Your Majesty for an explanation! And... Your Highness, don't think that my Xingshan Temple is just an ordinary temple!"

Li Chengqian smiled contemptuously and said, "Is that so? Then you can go, you will be afraid of anything in your life, just not afraid of threats!"

"Your Highness, the quiet place of Buddhism, these monks are monks. No matter what crime they commit, your Highness does not need to treat them like this, after all..."

Before Zhishan could finish his speech, Li Chengqian raised his hand to stop him and said, "Master Zhishan, I would like to advise you to stand here and watch quietly. Never participate in this matter, otherwise it will not be a good thing for you, for you, for you, for the White Horse Temple, for the entire Buddhist school!"

"Dian..." Zhishan wanted to say something, but was pulled by the disciple behind him, the young monk who had repented in front of the Buddha before.

"Master, the little monk thinks you should stop talking... Look at them, no one speaks." The little monk pointed to Qing Zhuzi and others beside him, and then whispered.

Zhishan also realized that there were many Taoist people tied up. Zhishan even saw that one of them was from Lou Guantai. If he remembered correctly, that person was from Qing Zhuzi's uncle. But why did Qing Zhuzi keep looking calm except for saying something at the beginning?

Li Chengqian, regardless of what Zhishan was thinking, walked to the platform, looked directly at these people, and said coldly: "You don't need to shout for injustice. Since I dared to arrest you, there is a good reason... Wei Tai, Nian Nian's thoughts, let all Taoist priests and masters listen carefully!"

"yes!"

"On March 3, 3rd year of Zhenguan, Xingshan Temple, xxx, asked to have sex with a woman xx on the grounds of curing her illness. The woman refused to obey..."

"On May 10, the third year of Zhenguan, Xingshan Temple, xxx, led ten famous monks to occupy 35 acres of xxx Yongye land in Xiaowangzhuang in the name of fulfilling their wishes. After being blocked by xxx, they beat Qi, causing xxx to die on the spot..."

...

"On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month of the fourth year of Zhenguan, xxx, and five other women in Shangshui Village, including two young girls..."

"On the fifth day of the fifth month of the fourth year of Zhenguan, Anfu Temple, xxx, organized monks in the temple to burn the woman in Hejia Village to death by sacrificing the Buddha..."

...

As Wei Tai read out, the people's discussions became less and less, and their faces gradually changed from curiosity and gloating to incredible and angry!

You should know that most of the people who can come here today are people near Chang'an. Who hasn't visited these temples, Taoist temples and prayed for blessings? And who hasn't heard of those unfortunate things? It's just that the version they heard is not consistent with what Li Chengqian investigated!

It took nearly an hour before Wei Tai finished reading the thick case file in his hand. Everyone thought it was over, but he took out a case file from his arms that was obviously different from before.

Looking at the audience, everyone on the stage, Wei Tai said in a low voice: "After investigation, from the second year of Zhenguan to the present, there are a total of 278 missing people in the three prefectures and six counties near Xingshan Temple, including 118 young women, 64 young men, and 96 children, regardless of gender! Although these missing people have different times of disappearance, they have one thing in common, that is, all missing people have close ties with Xingshan Temple!"

"What? How is it possible?"

"No way?"

"Really or not?"

The people were completely stunned. If the crimes I had thought of before were still the actions of some people, but now the disappearance of hundreds of people is related to Xingshan Temple, then is Xingshan Temple a pure Buddhist land or a nest of bandits?
Chapter completed!