Mind reading, the emperor saw my fist hard

Xu Jinyu took a long breath, covered his chest, and staggered back several steps as if he had been hit hard.

The scream in my heart broke through the sky.

【Money! Lots of money!】

[I just missed out on more than 20,000 silver coins! ]

[I'm almost broke, this is a way to make money, why didn't I think of it. ]

[Oh, I almost forgot about the silver in the back mountain. I will call Cao Kuan to go to the back mountain to dig for silver tonight.]

Emperor Xuan and the imperial guards cast teasing glances at Cao Kuan, the prince's most trusted guard.

Facing so many different looks, Cao Kuan looked bitter and almost cried, "Master Xu! Can you please stop thinking of me whenever you want to do something bad?"

It makes me look like a bad person.

The onlookers who were blocked outside by the Imperial Guards watched the twists and turns of events at the Great Temple so intensely that they had no time to comment.

They couldn't see who was talking, but that didn't stop them from watching the fun.

For Master Ci'en, getting married and having children was the smallest thing.

"Report!"

A guard quickly walked up to Emperor Xuan.

"Your Majesty, we found one million taels of silver hidden in the hills behind the Great Temple."

[It's over. My one million taels of silver are gone.]

This time Xu Jinyu sat directly on the ground, feeling so heartbroken that she could hardly breathe.

How come she can't make money?

Does this little money have a grudge against her?

Hearing Xu Jinyu's thoughts, Emperor Xuan's lips curled up into a smile. If Xu Jinyu laughed at him for being stingy again, he would be stingy to the extreme today and not let Xu Jinyu get a single penny.

Xu Jinyu was confused by this series of events and lowered his head to flip through the system.

[I don't believe it. I can't get any money today. Since Daxiong Temple is not clean, other temples may not be clean either. As long as I report it, I should get money.]

【As for the source of the news, I will say that the prince told me.】

Cao Kuan: Very good, I am finally not the one to take the blame this time.

Zi Shuyan: Now it's my turn to take the blame, but it doesn't matter. We are all working for Daqian, and my father will understand.

[Kiyomizu Temple, a temple that is particularly effective in praying for children. The reason for this is that the women who go there to pray for children will be quietly knocked unconscious by the monks in the temple, and then...]

Xu Jinyu's voice suddenly rose.

【Personally deliver the child. 】

[This... if that's the case, then all the children prayed for in the temple are the sons of the monks in the temple. ]

[This is even more immoral than Master Ci'en.]

Emperor Xuan's eyebrows twitched, and he knew that these monks were up to no good.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

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Several onlookers outside fainted, shocking the people around them.

"What's wrong?"

"What's wrong?"

"Call a doctor for help."

"No need. He is just too shocked. Let him faint for a while. If he wakes up now, I'm afraid he will be so angry that he will die on the spot."

"Do you know why he fainted?"

"Yes, his only son was born from Kiyomizu Temple. When the child was one month old, he even beat gongs and drums to offer incense money and plaques to Kiyomizu Temple."

"this·····"

The person asking the question had a twitching cheek, and now he was probably about to vomit to death.

He personally sent his wife to the monk to sleep with, and afterwards his wife gave birth to the monk's child.

He even beat drums and gongs to thank the monk.

Is there anything more disgusting in the world than this?

"Could it be that all of these people who fainted were people who went to Kiyomizu Temple to pray for children?"

"Probably because Kiyomizu Temple is very famous among the people, and there are endless people going there every day to pray for children, otherwise there wouldn't be so many people fainting."

"Who can I blame? I didn't go to the doctor because I didn't have a child. Instead, I prayed to the gods. Now the Buddha has sent the child to me."

·······

"But it doesn't matter. The fact that a monk gave birth to a child proves that there is nothing wrong with the wife. The problem is with the man."

"Anyway, no one knows about it. No matter if he was adopted or fostered, he is not my biological child. After all, this one is born by my wife, so I should raise him as my own son!"

It’s too late. Now everyone in the capital knows about it.

Xu Jinyu patted the official standing in front of him and said, "Sir, please make way. I have something to ask..."

Before he could finish his words, another guard shouted,

"Your Majesty, we have discovered that the monks of Kiyomizu Temple were committing adultery and assaulting the woman who came to pray for a child."

Emperor Xuan slapped the chair under his buttocks and shouted: "Investigate! Investigate thoroughly!"

"I want to see what else these monks can do."

【ah! 】

[Can you please not be so fast? Leave some for me at least. ]

Xu Jinyu's screams resounded through the sky.

[Let me see if there is any other temple that does such immoral things. Myoshinji, a nunnery, uses the temple as a cover to run a secret brothel.]

[All the nuns in the nunnery are prostitutes, but they were all deceived. It's so immoral. I'm going to report it.]

"Report! Your Majesty, we have discovered that a nunnery called Myoshinji is a brothel."

Xu Jinyu was mad, "I just don't believe that the Imperial Guards can be faster than my system."

The guards were delighted and said: Believe us, Lord Xu, we guards are as fast as you.

[The monks of Kodaiji Temple, in the name of practicing Joy Zen, deceived the believers into offering their wives and daughters, and then they indulged in playing with the wives and daughters of the believers.]

"Report! Your Majesty, Kodaiji Temple..."

"Ahhhhh!!! Do these guards know Qinggong? They can run so fast."

"The head monk of Jiguang Temple colluded with others to abduct and sell women and children."

"Report! Your Majesty..."

[The monks in Kinkakuji Temple are a group of bandits in disguise. When they put on monk robes, they are monks, but when they take off the monk robes, they are robbers.]

“Report!…”

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The officials couldn't stop the cold sweat from flowing down their backs as they listened to the Imperial Guards and Xu Jinyu reporting the underworld of these temples as if they were in a boxing match.

Daqian was not so open that women could go out on the streets at will. The usual way for women in the harem to entertain themselves was to go to temples, and many of them would stay there for a few days.

Some young men and women go to temples for blind dates.

But none of these temples are clean, so how can the women in the inner chambers feel at ease going to the temples?

At first Xu Jinyu was flipping through the books with great interest, but later he became numb. There are about a hundred temples of all sizes around the capital, is there not a single proper temple?

"It seems that there was a reason why the emperors in ancient times destroyed Buddhism."

Destroy Buddhism?

Emperor Xuan's eyes moved.

If temples across the country are like this, it is not impossible to destroy Buddhism.

He had long been fed up with these temples. Over the years, the conflict between temples and Confucianism had become increasingly serious.

Confucianism emphasizes the kindness of parents, while Buddhism encourages people to worship the illusory Buddha statues.

Buddhism advocates luxury even more. The temples they built were even more luxurious than the imperial palaces. How could Emperor Xuan be comfortable with this?

Another reason is that temples own a lot of money and land, factories, shops, and most importantly, monks do not have to pay taxes no matter how much property they own.

What if people who cannot afford to farm become monks after seeing these benefits? This would cause great harm to Daqian.

It’s all my father’s fault!

Emperor Xuan complained in his heart that if his father had not insisted on immortality, Buddhism and Taoism would not have been able to develop.

It's also my fault that I didn't pay attention. Because of this negligence, this Buddhist temple has developed into what it is now.

[Well, there is also a proper temple, and the monks in the temple are all legitimate monks. ]

[No land, no private property, only collects incense money. ]

[The temple also adopts children who have lost their parents. ]

[It’s because they are too strict that they can’t afford to support the monks in the temple. ]

[Hey! Although they are well-behaved, they are not stupid. ]