The middle-aged inspector shook his head slightly, lamenting, "The Saint Monk retrieved the scripture, intending to find a dharma gate in the Buddhist Scriptures to save all living beings.
However, later on, as Buddhism's influence grew larger, Buddhism also gradually changed, recruiting worldly experts to become martial monks, including criminals wanted by the court. With just a word of being a monk, past sins were cut off, sheltering them.
The money offered by believers was lent to them in the form of loans, and then with exorbitant interest, leaving the borrowers bankrupt, forcing them to sell their land and homes, becoming temple slaves."
The middle-aged inspector pointed to a stretch of fertile land ahead and said, "See that? It's all temple land of Baiyun Temple, nearly a thousand acres of fertile land, with over a hundred households of temple slaves."
