Chapter 33: Undercurrents
The Bai family has a great prestige among the rivers and lakes of the Haoyue Empire, and it almost includes the rivers and lakes in the empire, although it is indeed under the jurisdiction of the royal family on the surface, it is not.
The land of the Haoyue Empire is so vast, and there are so many sects and nine streams of forces in the rivers and lakes, even if the royal family has a strong intelligence network and strength and energy, it can't manage it.
But the Bai family is different, the royal family can't control the three sects and nine streams of the rivers and lakes, but the Bai family has the energy to sort it out, so this heavy responsibility falls on the shoulders of the Bai family.
This relationship is like cooperation, the royal family acquiesced to the development of the Bai family's status, and the Bai family acquiesced in the jurisdiction of the royal family, forming a situation in which each took what it needed and cooperated with each other.
For example, the Yan family has little interest in the Haoyue royal family, so in recent decades, the developed forces have always been suppressed by the royal family and forced to retreat in Yancheng.
I believe that if this generation is not such a person as Yan Jiangbei, I am afraid that the lord of Yancheng will be replaced by the Haoyue royal family.
The main city of Haoyue is also distributed into: east, south, west, north, and four sub-divisions are gathered and divided.
The east is dominated by the imperial city, the south is dominated by the Ye family Chamber of Commerce, and the west is the king of Haoyue Town, the king of Haoyue Town, the younger brother of Haoyue Longxiao's mother.
In fact, the military power of Haoyue in all dynasties was the Yan family, even if no one from the Yan family came to participate in politics, this position of military commander was left to the Yan family, which is undoubtedly an indisputable thing.
But since Haoyue Longxiao's generation of lords came to the throne, the military power has been impersonated as Haoyue Longtian is in power, and the Yan family's pathetic Even if many sensible people, those who have been defending the Yan family, want to open their mouths in the face of Haoyue Longxiao's decisive monarch, but they dare not speak angrily.
The Bai family is located in the north of the main city, is the overlord of the north of the main city, and is called the four major families in the main city.
After all, the Bai family is a martial arts family that has been inherited for thousands of years, the quaint courtyard style, and the two vigorous and powerful ancient characters of the Bai family on the door seem to be rendering how many years of wind and frost.
Before he could knock on the door, an old man opened the door of the Bai family and walked out, he was full of white hair, but he had a solid body and feet, and his actions were not inferior to that of young people.
The old man bowed slightly and hugged his fists and said, "Welcome Lord Yan, the head of the family has been waiting for a long time, please come with me." ”
Yan Jiangbei was not surprised at all, and calmly arched his hand: "Brother Bai's intelligence eyes and ears are still as strong as ever!"
Follow the old man into the Bai family, all the way to the lobby of the Bai family, the Bai family is different from the Ye family, with a lot of nursing handles, perhaps because the Bai family's strength is strong enough, there will be no long-sighted people who dare to provoke trouble.
Walking into the Bai family, everywhere the eye looks, there are all old objects about martial arts cultivators, it can be seen that the Bai family does not advocate those gorgeous costumes, and it is not difficult to see that the Bai family is still relatively nostalgic and likes simple and simple families.
There are two rows of old wooden chairs in the lobby, and a middle-aged man in white clothes in the middle gets up and looks at the visitor with a smile.
This person is the head of the Bai family's generation, Bai Yuntian, the person whose talent and strength of the younger generation of the empire was closest to Yanjiangbei in their time.
With a knife-like face and razor-like eyebrows, there is a kind of non-angry and self-righteous spirit from a distance.
Bai Yuntian arched his hand with a smile and said, "Brother Yan, I said goodbye in a hurry, and twenty years have passed in a blink of an eye, and your heroic appearance is still undiminished!"
Yan Jiangbei was also polite, and said with a smile: "Brother Bai, it's not bad, in just twenty years, I'm afraid that it is already a flawless saint realm, right?"
Hearing this, Bai Yuntian laughed and said, "It's still not as good as you, Brother Yan, it is said that you have stepped into the realm of the perfect sacred heart of the saint not long ago!"
"It's not a shame to accidentally step in. ”
For the news that Bai Yuntian knew that he had broken through the Sacred Heart Realm, Yan Jiangbei was not surprised at all, the intelligence network of the Bai family in the past dynasties was the entire Haoyue Empire, the most excellent and powerful, and there was almost no information that the Bai family's ears and eyes could not get, although the Bai family was a martial arts family, it could also be said to be an intelligence family.
Yan Jiangbei said this, the corners of Bai Yuntian's eyes twitched violently, daring to love someone is to be angry with himself, how can he not want to be in the Sacred Heart Realm, but he has fallen into the point of suffering and no breakthrough in these years, and he has always been unable to touch the breakthrough point on the edge of the Sacred Heart Realm realm.
Bai Yuntian beckoned Yan Jiangbei and the three people to sit down, and then after everyone present sat down, Yan Jiangbei said bluntly.
"Brother Bai, Ming people don't say secret words, you know what I mean by coming. ”
Hearing this, Bai Yuntian poured a cup of tea for Yan Hongchen, and said slowly: "Brother Yan, do you know that the current Haoyue Empire seems to be peaceful, but there is also an undercurrent. Haoyue Longxiao has been pressing step by step in recent years, especially with the intention of annexing all forces. ”
Yan Jiangbei nodded slightly, although he had lived in seclusion all these years, he also had a lot of information about the trend of the Haoyue Empire.
Bai Yuntian looked at Yan Jiangbei and continued:
"Although the Bai family seems to have been doing things with the Haoyue royal family as the center for generations, you also know Haoyue Longxiao's character, he is so suspicious that he is so suspicious that I am afraid. Because of the existence of our Bai family, I think with his character, he won't even feel safe when he sleeps, of course, if he wants to unify all the forces of the Haoyue Empire, it will not be easy, but if he wants to take the first step, it must be my Bai family who will suffer first, so I must have a bargaining chip for self-protection, so I established the Shadow Assassination Organization. ”
Yan Jiangbei's heart was slightly cold, it turned out that it was really as he thought, Bai Yuntian was really the behind-the-scenes leader in establishing the Shadow Assassination Organization, so that many speculations in his heart were much clearer.
Yan Jiangbei looked at Bai Yuntian and asked rhetorically: "Since Brother Bai knows my intentions, why don't you hide it from me, or even hide it from me." ”
"Brother Yan, it is really unexpected that the people of the Shadow Assassination Organization will have a conflict with your Yan family this time, when I learned that it was too late to stop it, I expected that you would follow the clues to find it, so there is no need to hide it from you. ”
The shadow assassination of this organization will surface one day, so Bai Yuntian doesn't plan to hide anything from Yan Jiangbei, the more he hides it, the more he will have trouble with each other.
At present, in this intriguing Haoyue main city, Bai Yuntian doesn't want to have more enemies like the Yan family, so it is better to confess directly.
Now in the huge Haoyue Empire, under the power of Haoyue Longxiao, the Bai family's situation is not better than that of the Yan family.
Yan Jiangbei closed his eyes slightly, sighed deeply, and said: "Today's Haoyue Empire is really disappointing me more and more, the internal forces are chaotic, and the barbarians in the Northern Regions don't know when they will make a comeback." ”
The ancestor of the Yan family, Yan Guicheng and the first generation of the Haoyue Empire were close friends, and Yan Guicheng resisted foreign enemies until he later conquered this land, but he just wanted a peaceful scene, and he didn't want to see tens of millions of people displaced.
Yan Guicheng is an arrogant person, and he doesn't have any thoughts about the so-called power at all, but Yan Guicheng knows in his heart that the prestige of the Yan family at that time has completely covered the Haoyue royal family.
In order not to let the royal family think too much, it was immediately decided that the Yan family should not participate in politics for generations, and it was also to let the then lord of Haoyue, this close friend, let go of his worries.
But in modern times, the actions of the Haoyue royal family have gradually exceeded the scope of what the Yan family can bear.
If one day, the Yan family and the Haoyue Empire have an irreversible contradiction, then Yan Jiangbei really doesn't mind and leads the Yan family to kill the Haoyue royal family.
Yan Jiangbei returned to Gujing Wubo's state of mind again, got up and arched his hand to Bai Yuntian, and said lightly:
"Brother Bai, if there is really a day when you start a war with Haoyue Longxiao, please be kind to the thousands of innocent people in Haoyue and say goodbye!"
Bai Yuntian got up and arched his hand: "Bai will definitely remember Brother Yan's words and don't send it!"
Yan Jiangbei came to the Bai family, just to hear what Bai Yuntian meant, and now that the goal has been achieved, there is no need to continue to stay longer.
If the existence of the Assassination Organization in the Dark is a threat to the people of the country, then he cannot sit idly by, and if this organization is only established for self-preservation, then it is a different matter to let it be.
After leaving the Bai family, Yan Jiangbei looked at the direction of the Haoyue royal family with cold eyes, and walked slowly.
Between the steps, it seems to be slow, but in fact, every step seems to have crossed a long distance, the black tiger is okay to follow, but Yan Hongchen burst out with all his strength, and it is still difficult to keep up.
The group of three people went in the direction of the location of the Eastern Imperial City......
The three of them came to the imperial city where the eastern royal forces were located, and Yan Jiangbei and the black tiger stood quietly outside an elegant and simple manor.
Yan Hongchen was already a little out of breath when he arrived, he had never cultivated any kind of body method, and the bloodthirsty halberd had also reminded Yan Hongchen to practice the body method, but Yan Hongchen felt that there was a white lin, and the body method did not need to be in a hurry to cultivate.
However, a profound body technique is an indispensable exercise for a cultivator, whether it can be used by surprise in combat or in other ways.
Just now, Yan Jiangbei and the black tiger were walking in the clouds, Yan Hongchen knew that it was the Yan family's body method inherited by the family, Yan Wubu.
The voice of the bloodthirsty halberd sounded faintly in Yan Hongchen's mind, and he said, "Now, you finally realize the importance of the body method, right? If you encounter an enemy of the same level with a high level of body method, you will know what regret is." ”
Yan Hongchen was silent, it is indeed necessary to cultivate a body method.
He asked, "Then do you have any advanced body techniques?"
The bloodthirsty halberd replied: "Naturally, there is, but when your cultivation reaches the early stage of the Heavenly Martial Realm, I will give you cultivation, and now your own cultivation is not enough to support and urge this set of body methods."
Yan Hongchen was helpless, and scolded secretly in his heart, you can't practice what nonsense you say, it's really empty joy, it's better to cultivate the family's family heirloom Yan Wubu.
When I came back to my senses, I looked at the manor in front of me, the area here is not spacious, but looking at the structure of this manor, it is obvious that there are some ages, the quaint gate made of red embroidery wood, and the fence made of precious red embroidery wood is still surrounded by the manor.
It is not difficult to see through the fence of the manor, there are some flowers and plants planted in it, and the small bridge and flowing water are very pleasant and elegant to look at.