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Chapter 34 The plot changes

Since he had learned about the location of the treasure, Chen Jinnan would not delay it. He had never seen the treasure with his own eyes.

Yang Yifei had no objection, but he also explained that the treasure was poisoned by Emperor Yuan of Liang, so he had to be careful when taking the treasure.

Chen Jinnan instructed his disciples to prepare many buckets of water, and some of the buckets were filled with soap bean powder.

I was ready and rushed to Tianning Temple while it was dark. Now that the monk has not arrived yet, there is no incense in Tianning Temple.

The young monks who were originally staying in the temple couldn't survive, so they went out to travel, beg for alms everywhere, or went to other temples to hold orders. Tianning Temple is now empty, which is just convenient for them to do things.

When he arrived at Detianning Temple, Chen Jinnan used a dagger to scrape the big Buddha. Sure enough, he only scraped off an inch of mud, revealing the gold inside. The disciples of the Tiandihui who came to collect the treasure were ecstatic and immediately started working.

The disciples put on gloves made of waterproof cloth, opened the belly of the Golden Buddha, took out the poisonous gold and jade treasures, put them in soapcorn water to clean them, washed them all, then washed them with clean water, and then wiped them dry and packed.

The golden Buddha was sawed into gold bricks by hacksaws, put them into boxes and transported back to the hall, and even the sawed gold chips were not spared.

This golden Buddha used about three cubic meters of gold, and one cubic cube of gold is 19.32 tons. This is nearly fifty-eight tons of gold. It is converted into the unit of measurement of this era, about 9,700 kilograms, which is more than 150,000 taels. If it is converted into silver, it is 1.5 million taels.

However, these golds are the least valuable part of this batch of treasures. Other rare treasures are the big ones, not only their own value, but also their historical value. The East and West of the Southern and Northern Dynasties can be antiques when they were placed in the Qing Dynasty.

The value of this batch of gold and jade treasures is conservatively estimated to be no less than a hundred times that of the golden Buddha. This has been the tax revenue of the Qing court for several years in this era.

The Qing court's tax revenue needed to support the entire court. The imperial court needed to allocate funds to build bridges and roads, and to safeguard the people and provide disaster relief. However, this batch of treasures only needed to support one Tiandihui.

All the gold and jade treasures were transported back to the secret warehouse of the hall that night, but it took the Golden Buddha a full half month to finally get it back without any left.

Until this moment, Chen Jinnan was finally completely relieved. What Brother Yang said was all true. In this way, the day of the success of the anti-Qing Dynasty and restoration of the Ming Dynasty was just around the corner.

...

On March 19th, the sky was gloomy and the drizzle had been on and off for several days. Although it was not raining today, there were still no signs of sunshine.

Yang Yifei and Chen Jinnan disguised themselves, without bringing any followers, prepared incense, candles, paper money early in the morning and headed to Coal Mountain.

The plot trajectory of this world has changed drastically, turning to an unknown future.

Oboi, who should have been taken over by Kangxi more than a month ago, is now living a good life because Kangxi was frightened by the thunderbolt.

Now Oboi is in charge of pursuing the rebels who hold the thunderbolt. Kangxi has to temporarily suppress his intention to kill and make both Oboi and the rebels suffer. Whether it is the rebels who kill Oboi or Oboi destroy the rebels, it is the situation he wants to see.

Unfortunately, the rebels were so unsuccessful. The Qingmutang agreed that whoever avenged Master Yin Xiang would succeed Master Xiang, so they planned the assassination of Oboi.

In the end, the assassination ended in failure, but instead suffered losses of soldiers and generals. Because of his brother being arrested, he fell into the hands of Oboi. For safety, he had to give up the Qingmutangkou stronghold located in the inner city, evacuated from Dongzhimen, and moved to Sanhe County, Shuntian Prefecture.

As expected, in just two days, the Qingmu Dangkou stronghold was surrounded by Qing soldiers. After all, some people could not stand the torture of the Tartars and were called out of the hall.

Fortunately, the arrested people were only grassroots disciples and didn’t know much. Except for the location of the hall, other information was not clear. I only knew that there was an extra Pili Hall in the Heaven and Earth Society. The Master of Incense was the former successor of Pili Hall, but I didn’t know any specific information about Yang Yifei.

When Oboi learned the news, he finally knew that the powerful explosive in the other party's hand was a thunderbolt bomb.

After receiving this report, Kangxi did not dare to touch Oboi easily. He issued an order to investigate the Tiandihui and arrest the descendants of the Pili Hall. With this person there, the court would feel like a sword hanging on its head, and there would be no peace.

The Oboi emperor ordered his orders to be in his hands, and he was very arrogant and took the opportunity to promote unjust prisons and harm Han merchants. Any Han people who were involved in gunpowder were arrested, including those who sold saltpeter, sulfur, charcoal, and fireworks and firecrackers business...

Thousands of people were arrested, and all the property of these merchants was confiscated by Oboi's people, and all the business was handed over to Manchus. Of course, if you want to get the right to operate these businesses, you have to give Oboi "filial piety".

Not only did he do this himself, he also issued official documents, ordering local government offices to "strictly investigate" the thief of the heaven and earth, searching for those who have hidden thunderbolts and thunderbolts to make materials. As for the true connotation of this official document, others will give them guidance.

In this way, not only the capital, but also the people in the world who were imprisoned for "Thunderbolts". For a time, the people complained and the Han people hated the Qing court very much.

They would not keep the accounts on Oboi because Oboi did it with the emperor's imperial edict, but unfortunately they just dared not speak out.

Fortunately, there are not many people involved in these businesses in Tiandihui and the losses are not big. Chen Jinnan couldn't help feeling guilty when he saw this situation because he thought that this disaster was brought about by Tiandihui.

But Yang Yifei didn't think so. Instead, he thought this was a good thing. The more ruthless the Qing court oppressed, the more hated the Han people would hate the people, and the more fertile the soil of their heaven and earth would be.

This can be seen from the rapid increase in the development of members of the halls in various places in the past few months. Of course, not everyone in the Tiandihui will accept it. Before receiving it, the joiners will be subject to strict inspections and various tests to prevent the undercover sent by the Qing court from entering the interior.

As for Qingmutang, he used this matter to break it and then establish it. When assassinating Oboi, Taoist Xuanzhen made a mistake in making decisions, resulting in heavy casualties and injuries among his brothers. If Qian Laoben had not made a quick decision, the people involved in the assassination might have been wiped out.

Now Aoki Tang doesn’t have to fight anymore. Master Xuanzhen felt ashamed of his brothers, so he voluntarily withdrew from the position of incense master and was willing to worship Qian Lao Ben as the new incense master.

It is also worth mentioning that a group of people from Prince Mu's mansion in Yunnan entered the palace to assassinate Kangxi, with the intention of shading Wu Sangui, also ended in failure.

Most of the people were killed or injured, and the lion shaking his head was Wu Lisen, the iron-backed dragon Liu Dahong, and Liu Yizhou, the mainstays of the Prince Mu's mansion, were captured alive. This time, Wei Xiaobao saved them.

Liu Yizhou was afraid of death and had not even suffered much punishment. He sold the Mu Palace and surrendered to the Qing court. Wu Lisen and Liu Dahong were executed on the spot.

After Fang Yi was separated from the large army in the palace, she ran around and broke into Cining Palace by chance and was taken down by Mao Dongzhu, who pretended to be the queen mother.

Seeing that Fang Yi was beautiful and very useful, Mao Dongzhu asked him to take the person back to Shenlong Island when Shoutou Tuo came to have a private meeting with her and absorbed him as a disciple.

Because Mu Jiansheng and his party believed too much, they did not transfer decisively as the Heaven and Earth Club, they were beaten up by the Qing court. Only the little princess Mu Jianping escaped the disaster because she was not with Mu Jiansheng and others.

The elder brother and a group of relatives died tragically. She was helpless and had to dress up as a beggar and stay on the streets in order to protect her.

These two people are worthy of being lucky to be the heroine. Even without Wei Xiaobao, they saved their lives.
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