Forty years ago, during the reign of Emperor Shengming (Emperor of the Great Dao), when Sect Leader Zhang of the Tianhuo Sect was dying, he passed the position of sect leader to his eldest apprentice Yang Cheng, who believed that Yang Cheng was determined and resolute, and was suitable for the more difficult task of leading the Tianhuo Sect to rebel. Sect Leader Zhang thought that Lin Feng was smart but good at managing money, so he handed over the financial power of the Tianhuo Sect to his second apprentice, Lin Feng, and served as the deputy sect leader of the Tianhuo Sect.

The Heavenly Fire Cult has always been unable to make ends meet, and its followers often need to rob the rich to help the poor—of course, the most important thing is to rob the rich to help themselves. After Lin Feng became the deputy sect leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect, he immediately used the power of the Heavenly Fire Sect to conduct maritime trade, and he transported luxury goods such as ceramics and silk from the Central Plains to overseas countries, and earned gold, silver, and jewelry from other countries to ship back to Shenghan.

In ten years, Lin Feng unconsciously became the richest man in Lingnan, and after founding Wanheng Yinzhuang, relying on the accumulation of strong gold and silver wealth, the reputation of Wanheng Yinzhuang was recognized by the government and the people, and soon became the silver minting silver village formulated by the Holy Han Empire in Lingnan.

Lin Feng's wealth was more than the imperial court knew, and in the face of huge wealth, Lin Feng's mentality began to change, and the contradiction between him and the sect leader Yang Cheng became deeper and deeper.

Although Lin Feng secretly supported the Heavenly Fire Sect with a large amount of money, Sect Leader Yang believed that Lin Feng should lead the Heavenly Fire Sect followers in the Lingnan region to directly launch a rebellion. Lin Feng believed that the Holy Han Empire had not completely reached the point where the building was about to fall, and launching a rebellion at this time would definitely be an egg hitting a stone, destroying the good situation of the Heavenly Fire Sect.

Yang Cheng's rebellion in Jiangnan was soon quelled by the imperial court, and a large number of Heavenly Fire cultists were killed, and Yang Cheng's plan to assassinate Emperor Taiqian also ended in failure. Yang Cheng had to flee to Lingnan with the remnants of the Tianhuo Sect, and although Lin Feng had a conflict with him, he still funded them to flee overseas.

At the moment of leaving, Yang Cheng looked at the surging sponge, and his heart suddenly regretted, he felt that he should not be so embarrassed and give up the ideals of the Tianhuo Sect, so he plunged into the sea, everyone thought he had committed suicide, but saw him several fierce men come out of the sea, laughed and said that he was calm, and resolutely returned to the Central Plains with his subordinates. In the face of the double-sided strangulation of the imperial court and the rivers and lakes, Yang Cheng still tenaciously cultivated cultists in various parts of the Central Plains to resist the corrupt officials of the imperial court.

Because of the mutual protection between the officials of the scholar clan, the people became more and more dissatisfied with the rule of the imperial court, and the influence of the Heavenly Fire Sect became greater and greater, and it gradually developed from a small sect to a demon sect that gave the court a headache.

However, Lin Feng in Lingnan knew that the people of Lingnan were not as dissatisfied with the imperial court as the people in other places, because first, the scholars had little power in the Lingnan area, second, the land in Lingnan was vast and the people could cut down wood and cultivate fields, third, the main contradiction in the Lingnan area was the dispute between the Han and the barbarians, and fourth, because of the support of the imperial court, the people of Lingnan were grateful to the imperial court, and fifth, the people of Lingnan had always lived self-sufficiently, which led to the people of Lingnan being more loyal to the Holy Han Empire than the people of other places.

Therefore, Lin Feng never launched a rebellion against the Heavenly Fire Sect in the Lingnan region, and the contradiction between him and the sect leader became deeper and deeper. Ten years ago, Sect Leader Yang died in battle, and the Tianhuo Sect should have been succeeded by the Deputy Sect Leader, but Lin Feng, who was Wanheng Yinzhuang, was summoned by the imperial court and asked Wanheng Yinzhuang to prepare grain and grass for the forbidden army. Lin Feng believed that the reason why the Heavenly Fire Sect was killed by the imperial court and fled in embarrassment was because they could not arrange eyeliner inside the imperial court, so he decided to hide in the official mansion as the biggest eyeliner of the Heavenly Fire Sect, so he gave up the opportunity to serve as the sect leader and gave it to his nephew Wang Deyue.

After Wang Deyue became the new leader of the Tianhuo Sect, he reformulated the political line of the Tianhuo Sect, everyone was equal and the wealth was balanced, and there was no propaganda slogan of high and low, which made the power of the Tianhuo Sect in Jiangnan more and more huge, and developed to the entire Holy Han Empire, and the imperial court had to run for its life in order to quell the rebellion of the Tianhuo Sect, and even encouraged the development of the Jianghu sect.

On the surface, Lin Feng, who was the big proprietor of Wanheng Yinzhuang, took advantage of the domestic chaos to make a fortune, his business became bigger and bigger, and the business path became more and more extensive, from the very beginning of the maritime trade of luxury goods to the issuance of silver and silver bills, so that in the later period, he began to plunder the slaves on the southeast island and the southern continent, and almost all the Kunlun slaves of the Holy Han Empire were plundered by Lin Feng's maritime merchant fleet.

Lin Feng infiltrated his forces into the core area of the Central Plains, the national capital of Longdu City, and used his wealth to open up various relationships. Through Lin Feng's connections and funds, the Heavenly Fire Sect gradually infiltrated the forbidden army, especially within the Vermilion Bird Legion, and almost every formation had Heavenly Fire Sect henchmen mixed in. The Vermilion Bird Legion's extermination operations in Jiangnan have been repeatedly frustrated because of Lin Feng's influence.

Deputy Sect Leader Lin has always cooperated with Sect Leader Wang properly, and Sect Leader Wang also regards Deputy Sect Leader Lin as his most trusted person.

However, during the 29th year of the Taiqian Rebellion, Wang Deyue thought that the Heavenly Fire Sect members were lewd and took the opportunity to enter the palace to subvert the Holy Han Empire, but they were opposed by Lin Feng and stopped.

Lin Feng still believed that the Heavenly Fire Sect of the Dragon Capital Rebellion did have the opportunity to launch a rebellion to subvert the imperial family, but it would never be possible to overthrow the Holy Han Imperial Court. In particular, the Shenghan Forbidden Army is still huge, and they are just sitting on the mountain watching the tiger fight, waiting for the princeling party or the Zhang party to be the winner.

But once the Heavenly Fire Sect takes the opportunity to rebel, the forbidden army will definitely take action immediately, and the Heavenly Fire Sect members should launch a rebellion in the weak area of the imperial court, not the dragon capital city, which has the strongest military power in the imperial court. But Wang Deyue thought that the opportunity was rare, and the Heavenly Fire Sect must seize this once-in-a-century opportunity.

Lin Feng immediately refused, and did not allow himself to start a riot among the Heavenly Fire Sect members in Longdu City, otherwise there would be no mercy. Because of Lin Feng's strong resistance, the Heavenly Fire Sect was extremely quiet in Longdu, and everyone only cared about making money and living, as if they had forgotten their mission.

Wang Deyue, the leader of the Heavenly Fire Sect, thought that Deputy Sect Leader Lin and his henchmen had lived too long in their rich and noble lives, and had forgotten the original mission of the Heavenly Fire Sect, so he sent four of his eighteen Dharma Protectors to Lin Feng's side, in the name of helping him, but in fact monitoring him.

Lin Feng was furious, but he had to accept the behavior of these four Heavenly Fire Sect Protectors by his side, reporting his every move to the Heavenly Fire Sect Master at all times.

Lin Feng didn't like Wang Deyue, the sect leader, but he had to admit that this sect leader gave the Tianhuo Sect a new life, and the Jianghu Demon Sect that made the Tianhuo Sect shouted and beaten by everyone became the current Great Wu Empire. But he was also deeply worried that once the Great Wu Empire was established, the sect leader would hide his own deputy sect leader who was a rich and rival country.

"It's hard, it's hard!" Lin Feng said to himself, "Maybe Zhang Xiaowu is the one who broke the game, but this person is too stupid and loyal to Emperor Dade, so I have to make some fierce information." ”