Since Lungshan Temple did so many things, of course it needed to have military power. At its height, it employed 2000 soldiers. On the face of it, their task was to protect Mengka, but in reality they were the local underworld strong arm, used to bully people from Zhangzhou (an area of Fujian).
龍山寺做這麼多事，當然要有武力，最高時期擁有兩千名以上的勇，表面上是保護艋舺，實際上是地方角頭，用來欺負漳州人的。