The river flows, the sun shines, the breeze caresses the grass and trees on the field, and the road is full of cars and horses, and people are like shuttles. Around the Dragon Boat Festival in the fourteenth year of Jinghan, the capital was lively again.

After experiencing the devastation of the Jurchen invasion of the south, the prosperity of the capital in this summer was very different from previous years. Business travelers and pedestrians from other places are more lively than in previous years to fill the streets and alleys of Bianliang, inside and outside the city, people from different directions and with different purposes gather and come and go all the time.

A lot to do.

On the fifth day of the fifth month of May, Little Candelabra.

The sun was in full bloom, and the semi-circular building was full of people at this time. In the ring in front of the building, the two warriors were fighting vigorously at this time, and from time to time there were cheers from men and women up and down the building.

The small candle shop was originally one of the most famous green buildings in the capital, but today in front of this building, there is no song and dance performance. Most of the people who appear and gather upstairs and downstairs are also green forest people and martial arts celebrities, among them, there are the original boxers and masters in the capital, there are famous old people in the imperial boxing gym, and more are foreign green forest people with different eyes and different body shapes.

Some of them are tall and calm, with young disciples or retinues, which are the masters who have opened the museum to teach apprentices. Some of them are swords and have arrogant eyes, and they are often young people who have just come out of the art industry. There are monks, Taoist priests, and there are old people and women who seem to be ordinary, but in fact they are the most difficult. Today's Dragon Boat Festival, hundreds of green forest heroes gathered here to add a voice to the green forest conference in the capital, and also seek a way to become famous.

On the front of the floor, there are some officials in the capital, the helmsman of the big family, who came to help stand on the platform and select talents-although it is not the period of martial arts now, but the capital has only suffered from military disasters, and those who practice martial arts have become popular. Hidden in all kinds of things, there is also the development of this kind of grand event, as if it has been called a martial arts conference, although the elected person called "the first in the world" may not be able to convince the public, but it is always a famous opportunity, so that the martial artists who entered Beijing during this time flocked to it.

Sitting a little in the middle of the building. There is also a person who holds a giant sword, sits upright like a pine, and occasionally comments and discusses with the people next to him, that is the chief catcher of the Criminal Department.

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At the end of last year, the land around Bianliang was turned into a battlefield, a large number of people migrated away, and when the Jurchens attacked the city, hundreds of thousands of soldiers and civilians died in battles large and small. In this way, wait until the Jurchens leave. In the capital, there are already a large number of population vacancies, commodity vacancies, and similarly, power vacancies.

The Wu Dynasty prospered, and people from other places flocked to it.

Businessmen may fear war, but they do not shy away from opportunity. In the war between the Wu Dynasty and the Liao State, it was also defeated one after another. After the negotiation, the New Year's currency was delivered, and it was said that it was humiliating to lose power and humiliate the country. But then the two sides traded with each other, and the profits of the border trade filled all the gaps. Jin Ren is arrogant, but at most a few fights, maybe he will fall into the cycle again, although Jingzhong is not peaceful, but there is a chance of this vacuum. How many times in a hundred years?

Large merchants from other places focus on the profits of the border trade market, and small and medium-sized merchants can make a lot of money even if they transport goods to the capital. The gentry and noble families from other places coveted the power vacuum in the capital at this time, and pushed the officials and merchants under them to enter the capital and seize the opportunity. To get a piece of the pie. The literati and scholars who heard about the southern invasion came to the capital with the idea of saving the country, or to promote the idea of saving the country, or to serve the leaders of all parties, trying to find an opportunity to become a leader. In short, the capital has become more and more lively.

The situation in the white road and the bright side has been so prosperous, the movement between the underworld and the green forest is not very peaceful, and it is often a way for people in the green forest to learn literary and martial arts and report to the emperor's family, even if they can't enter the tall imperial establishment, find some high-ranking families and wealthy families to hug their thighs. At this time, all kinds of underworld and green forest people also gathered in the capital, either alone, wanting to be famous for their martial arts, or large and small gangs, each with their own ambitions. And after the Jurchens went, it also played a lot of role in the propaganda of the martial artists, so that in recent times, there have been rumors of grand gatherings of grandmasters and masters meeting friends with martial arts inside and outside the city, but there are also some famous martial arts and high-spirited young people who have made a name for themselves in Beijing with great courage.

As for the assassinations and private fights that have occurred due to various power struggles and interest struggles, which have broken out again and again under this wave of martial arts, they have emerged one after another.

The green forest celebrities and underworld characters in the original collar of Beijing have also been greatly impacted. The masters and bosses who survived the defense of the city were either challenged by newcomers or quietly retired. The back waves of the Yangtze River push the front waves, and a new generation buries the old people, and there are not many people who can support it during this period of time.

The struggle of the lower green forests, the tilting of officialdom interests, and the wrestling of wealthy families, during this period of time, intricately gathered inside and outside Bianliang, a city of millions of people, and at the same time, there were all kinds of new things and the introduction of fresh policies. More than 100,000 troops gathered outside the city had already begun to plan to strengthen the Yellow River defense line. The convergence of all kinds of voices and information has brought a huge workload and dizzying work conditions to officials at all levels in central Beijing. Among them, several departments such as Kaifeng Mansion, City Patrol Division, and Criminal Department are the most bears the brunt, and several chief arresters of the Criminal Department, including Tie Tianying, Chen Qinghe, Fan Chong and others, are already overloaded and busy.

The chief arrester of the Criminal Department is a total of seven, and Chen Qinghe is usually in charge of the Beijing Division, and he is also in charge of major and important cases. It's just that in the past, there were many big forces in Beijing, and the situation in the green forest was too peaceful - sometimes if something big happened, the general arrest of the criminal department usually couldn't control it, and that was a matter that the big forces would naturally solve - now the situation has become different, Tie Tianying, who originally returned to the criminal department to report on his work, was left behind, and later transferred Fan to return to Beijing, they are all first-class masters in the rivers and lakes, and their reputation is far and wide, and they can deter many people after all.

Not long ago, Tie Tianying stared at Qin Fu and Ning Yi, which was the result of figuring out his intentions. There was friction between the Secret Investigation Department and the Criminal Department on many things, at that time, because the Northern Expedition was the main tone, the Holy Family of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion was long, and even Cai Jingjing consciously avoided three points, and Wang Huang was even more obedient, and later in the incident of Fang Qifo, Tie Tianying was also ruthlessly overshadowed by Ning Yi, and he found an opportunity at this time. Naturally, they want to find the field, and after going back and forth, they will officially match.

After Su Tan'er's incident, Tie Tianying suddenly realized that if the two sides were dead, his side really couldn't get rid of each other-he was wary of Ning Yi's eccentric personality. But for Chen Qinghe, Fan Chong and others, they felt that he was making a big fuss, and when it was confirmed that Su Tan'er was not dead, they put their minds at ease and hurried to deal with other things piled up in Beijing.

Iron Sky Eagle is also pressed down by various things, and he is so busy that his head is dizzy, but of course, there are many things, and there is also a lot of oil and water. Whether it is a wealthy family or a fledgling underworld rookie who wants to make a big career, if you want to gain a foothold in the capital, in addition to daring to fight, who can not give the criminal department a little face and dredge the relationship.

The banquet went on and on, and the hand cramps were received after receiving money, or the newcomers with backgrounds were encouraged to be wooed, or the guys who crossed the line were beaten. In such a busyness, Tie Tianying was always jealous of Ning Yi's side. However, since Qin Shaoqian was imprisoned. The case of the right minister has been dug deeper and deeper, and many people who were still watching at the beginning have also clearly recognized the situation at this time and began to join the ranks of the right minister.

As Ning Yi said that day. Seeing him raise the Zhu Tower, seeing him feasting guests, seeing his building collapse. For onlookers, every alternation of power seems to be vigorous. There's not much out of the ordinary, actually. Before Qin Siyuan was imprisoned or at the beginning of his imprisonment, there were still a lot of activities in the Right Xiang line, and others were still waiting to see the situation, but soon after, the Right Xiang Yi family turned to only seek self-preservation, in fact, in the court of the Wu Dynasty in recent decades, under the joint suppression of the Cai Department and the Tong Department, there were few ministers who could resist.

With the imprisonment of the right minister, the most involved is the Yao family of the Wang clan in the capital, and the ancestors of the great Confucian Yao have been arrested, and many people have been arrested by the criminal department, and the foundation of the foothold has been shaken. Zen Master Jueming, who originally had a deep relationship with the Qin family, was ordered to think in the temple soon after, and could no longer come forward. Some disciples and family members who had a deep relationship with Qin Siyuan were more or less affected. As for Ning Yi, in April and May, when there were many rookies in the capital, Zhuji under his command was also closed everywhere, and some of them were instigated by people with good intentions to go in and smash them, and the store was ruined and no longer opened.

If it weren't for Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others who paid attention to this person, in the context of the fall of the Right Minister, there might not be many people who would notice this force related to the Right Minister. No matter how big Zhuji's business is, the identity of a businessman will not make people pay too much attention, and any big family has such a doorman, but it is just a pawn under the door. It was also under the attention of Cai Jing, Tong Guan and others, such as Wang Hao and other senior officials, that they noticed that the most special person among the staff of the Qin Mansion was not high, but every time he made a strange plan, he made achievements in several big things. It's just that after the initial run, this person quickly settled down, especially in late April, when his wife survived after being affected, and the forces under his command quickly fell silent on the lively stage of the capital, and it seemed that he no longer planned to make any trouble.

And the crowd turned their attention back.

Only Iron Sky Eagle still has a heart at this time. In the capital, "Taiyi" Chen Jianyu became famous, Tang Hesheng and his disciples kicked eighteen martial arts halls in a row with his disciples, Longxi heroes entered Beijing, the Great Light Sect began to spread to the capital, and the underworld fought twice a day.

At the level he once understood, in the past few years, with the power of the Right Prime Minister's Mansion, the "Heart Demon" Ning Yi has a pivotal position in the Bianliang underworld. Of course, he doesn't mess around with naïve things like kicking the gym, but at the beginning, no one dared not to give Zhu Ji face to the few bigwigs in the underworld in the capital. Of course, this has the face of the right minister, but there are many people in the green forest who want to kill him to become famous, and when he enters the capital, there is often no return, he has a holiday with Lin Zongwu, the leader of the Great Light Sect, and he can even firmly suppress the Great Light Sect in the south and cannot go north in the past two years, this is the strength.

For Cai, Tong and other big figures, they don't bother to look at this kind of unpopular strength, but after the fall of the right minister, the power he retains on hand is the most. Although Zhuji's shop was closed down and many people left it, the core force in it has never been passive.

In terms of Tie Tianying's understanding of Zhuji these days, the structure of this shop established by Ning Yi is very different from that of the outside world at this time, although the origin of its internal employees is three religions and nine streams, but after entering Zhuji, after a series of "grace" and "benevolence", the core members are often extremely loyal. For the past few years, they have mostly lived together one by one. Living together, encouraging, meeting and chatting together every few days, there are performances or competitions every once in a while.

They have experienced several big things, including the earlier disaster relief propaganda, and later the fortified wall. Resisting the Jurchens, Zhuji publicized these things with great enthusiasm. If it weren't for the lack of doctrines like Manichaeism and the Great Light Sect, Iron Sky Eagle really wanted to shape them into an underground cult and report the past upwards.

During this period, this part of the bamboo guards is particularly tenacious, and some of them believe in Buddhism, the gods and gods chatter, and every ascetic. It is not the same as ordinary martial artists. There is preliminary information from the Criminal Department that they were once bandits of Liangshan, and after repenting, they joined the Bamboo Record to atone for their sins, but Tie Tianying does not believe it at the moment. But when these people fight with others, they take pleasure in masochism, are not afraid of death, and are extremely troublesome. The other part is the Green Forest warriors that Ning Yi has taken in one after another, after experiencing several major events, these people's loyalty to Ning Yi has risen to the level of worship, and they always think that they are fighting for the country, the people, and the people of the world. Iron Aquila scoffed, but wanted to rebel. For a while, there was no point to start.

Taken together, these people have rarely encountered opponents in Beijing, and many of the remaining at this time have even faced the test of the Jurchens on the battlefield. At present, there are many rookies in the capital, but they have converged and are lurking in the dark. Since Ning Yi said to him, "I won't give you the head of the Seven Buddhas again". Tie Tianying has always had a hunch that that man will not give up at all.

Even if his wife is safe, he will choose revenge.

Because of this feeling in these days of late April and early May. On the one hand, he was dealing with all kinds of things in the capital, and on the other hand, he was also sparing his spare energy to try to investigate and infiltrate Zhuji, and find out the other party's thoughts and arrangements, but unfortunately after the Jurchen siege of the city, the manpower of the Criminal Department was no longer enough, and he didn't have much strength to do it for the time being. When Chen Qinghe and Fan Chong were unwilling to muddy the waters anymore, at the end of April, he wrote another letter to Zong Feixiao, telling him to pay more attention to the movements of Zhuji.

It was Zong Feixiao who forced Su Tan'er down the river a few days ago, if Ning Yi wanted to retaliate, he would definitely bear the brunt, Tie Tianying believed that Zong Feixiao would understand the power.

On the one hand, he was doing these things, and on the other hand, the trial of Qin Siyuan in Jingzhong seemed to be coming to an end. The bamboo mark went up and down, and there was still no movement. On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, Tie Tianying was invited to the martial arts conference in Little Candle Fang to suppress the formation, and he heard people talk about Ning Yi again.

That person is Huainan green forest from the famous place, nicknamed "Red Fist" Ren Hengchong, after entering Beijing, even pick two famous masters, comment on the martial artists in Beijing, said: "Before I entered Beijing, I heard that there is a notoriety of 'heart demon' in the rivers and lakes, this person is hiding in Beijing, with the power of the right minister to do all kinds of evil, during this period of time the dragon and tiger in Beijing gathered, the wind and clouds changed, but I never heard his name appeared. ”

There was a man next to him: "This person is famous for his strength, but now the notoriety of the right minister is spread, and his reputation is ruined, how dare he come out and be arrogant again." What's more, I have also heard the name of the demon in the heart, and most of them use the side door to win by taking advantage of the situation, and people with knowledge in the world disdain it. Now that the crowd in Beijing is gathered, this person is afraid that he has already hidden. ”

"Indeed, he is hiding." Someone not far away talked, this person was holding a sword, his figure was as tall as a pine, it was Chen Jianyu, the "Taiyi" who had become famous in Beijing in the past two months. His nickname was originally "Taiyi Sword", and later people felt that this person had a sword word in his name, so he removed the sword in the nickname, and took "Taiyi" as the name, faintly having the ambition of being the first in the world, and seeing its momentum.

Everyone looked at him, Chen Jianyu looked at the competition in the ring, and said: "This demon lives in Beijing, if you have the heart to inquire, it is not a secret, he lives in Huangbai Hutong, the mansion is strict, probably because he is afraid of people seeking revenge, and he doesn't dare to be famous." Recently, a number of people have come to the door to challenge, and I went over yesterday and read the battle book in a dignified manner. Hmph, this person didn't dare to fight, he only dared to come out as a butler to reply...... I have heard people say in the past that this demon kills people in the green forest, and he can faintly compete with Grandmaster Zhou Dong and Zhou for the first place in the world. ”

"Hahahaha." The "red fist" Ren Hengchong laughed, "The first in the world, how can it be his turn." In the green forest that year, there were the rebel thief Fang La, Fang Qi Buddha named Zhentiannan, although it was a thief, the martial arts were really strong, Sikong Nan was a light skill, the search god knife was invincible, Grandmaster Zhou's iron arm was invincible, although the red face and white head were short-lived, but it was also a solid name. What's going on now, a person who is famous for his scheming can be touted as the first in the world? In my opinion, now in the green forest, these great masters have become yellow flowers, and a few people can compete, such as the rebel Chen Fan, a disciple of the Seven Buddhas of Nai Fang, when he avenged the master, he personally beheaded Sikong Nan, which can be counted as one of them......"

"If you really want to say that you are the best in the world, the old man knows one person, but he should not let it go." Before Ren Hengchong finished speaking, someone interrupted him in the seat not far away and interjected. It is known as the "Dongtian Divine Fist" Tang hatsheng, this person founded the "Dongtian Martial Arts Hall", there are many disciples in the southeast, and he is famous, but at this time he said: "To say the first, Lin Zongwu, the leader of the Great Light Sect, is not only superb in martial arts, but also righteous and kind, and in urgent need of poverty relief, now the first in the world, there is no second person besides him." ”

That Ren rampage said: "Donald, the first in the world, you only know when you get your hands on it, but you can't count it by comparing your character." ”

Both of them are famous for their boxing skills, although Tang Hatsheng is strong in martial arts and famous, but red boxing is not easy to match, people in the martial arts, don't show up, it's not a strange thing. At this time, Tang hated and smiled: "Brother Ren, what do you think of Tang's kung fu?" ”

In this matter, Ren Hengchong didn't want to offend him too much, and arched his hand: "Master Tang's boxing technique has been perfected, and Ren is also a person who practices boxing, so he admires this." ”

Tang hatsheng smiled proudly: "Tang's kung fu is not the best in the world, but he already knows the things of the kung fu realm clearly." At the beginning of last year, Tang had teamed up with the leader of the Great Bright Sect, and a few years ago, Tang also asked Master Zhou Dong Zhou for boxing techniques. Don't hide it from you, Tang was defeated twice, but he can speak about whether the martial arts realm is high or not. ”

Iron Arm Zhou Dong, Great Bright Sect Leader Lin Zongwu, these two people can be regarded as high mountains in the green forest, and they still have the position of the demon in the early half of the year, so they were naturally scoffed by everyone at this time. Tang Hatsheng was able to join hands with these two successively, and at this time, it was no wonder that he was able to fight all over the Jingshi, and everyone yearned for it in their hearts, and they all stopped to listen to him.

I only heard him say: "Master Zhou Dong Zhou, Tang has always been extremely admired, in terms of martial arts, these two have reached the realm of transformation, but if you really want to evaluate the level, Tang believes that Sect Master Lin's martial arts cultivation is ancient and modern, and it is still half a step higher than Master Zhou." You have never had the pleasure of partnering with Sect Master Lin, if he has the opportunity in the future, you may wish to take the initiative to ask him for advice, Sect Master Lin is open-minded, humble and open-minded, for people who learn from him, not only not annoyed, but also have a lot of advice, Tang has been guided by Sect Master Lin, and has benefited a lot. There are many talents under his command, such as the Crazy Tiger King Nantuo, the fast sword Lu Aiyuan, the Monkey King Li Ruoque and others, all of whom are grandmaster-level masters...... It seems that today when it comes to the flow of demons, it is just a local chicken and a dog. But since I said it today, we might as well go to the abode of the inner demon in the next two days, and challenge him with a battle letter. ”

Tang said as he proposed. At present, everyone here is going to be famous, such as the "Taiyi Sword", which has not been challenged by everyone before, so others don't know that he challenged the heart demon and was avoided by the other party. This time, someone proposed, and everyone responded one after another, and decided to go to the demon's house together tomorrow and challenge him.

Hearing that they were so combined, Tie Tianying's heart moved, and he intuitively felt that Ning Yi would not be moved at all, but in any case, if he could find some trouble for the other party and force him to go crazy, he might be able to find the leak on his side, grab some of Zhu Ji's handles, and maybe also have a chance to see Zhu Ji's hidden power at this time. Thinking about it like this, he immediately instigated it.

Of course, these people are also the out-of-the-way forces in Beijing. Neither they nor the Iron Aquila could imagine that a few days later, a huge battle involving the power of Bamboo Mark, which they could not set foot in at all, would appear in front of them.

All this started from the final settlement of the Qin Siyuan case, and although there were some clues to the subsequent development, it was still unexpected by Tie Tianying...... (To be continued......)