Chapter 294: Shocking Conjecture
Yang Huairen's grilled fish and the two jars of wine he brought really lived up to their reputation, which made Li Gefei such a picky person full of praise. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info
Er Ya and Li Qingzhao had a small amount of food, but the two little guys still killed a big fish together, and as soon as they finished eating, Er Ya took their little friends to the side to find another group of children playing by the lake to play.
Yang Huairen drank a few glasses of wine with Lian Xizong and Li Gefei, felt that his body was also warm, and then he talked more, remembering that Li Gefei's ministry was a professor in Yunzhou, so he opened his mouth to ask him about the situation in Liangshan.
It's a pity that Li Gefei is a literati and doesn't care much about these things, he doesn't know as much as Yang Huairen, and he doesn't get any useful information from him, but Lian Xizong seems to have thought of something, hesitates for a moment, and still tells Yang Huairen.
It turns out that Lian Xizong is now a person in the rivers and lakes, although he did not start a sect, he is a well-known expert in cultivating internal qi in the rivers and lakes.
The barren mountain opened up by Lianfu is now a village of more than 1,000 acres of mountain fields, called Lianjiapo. In the early years, a hermit came here to visit Lian Fu, and Lian Fu cured the hermit's strange illness with advanced medical knowledge, and in return, he left a secret book of internal strength and mental method to give to Lian Fu.
Lian Fu was not interested in practicing martial arts, so he didn't take it seriously, and threw this secret book of internal strength into the bookcase. Lian Xizong and his father's hobbies are diametrically opposed, those strange knowledge and advanced knowledge, Lian Xizong can't learn it, and accidentally discovered this internal strength secret book, so he cultivated his internal strength according to the illustrations in the secret book.
At that time, he was just thinking about strengthening his body, and he never thought that he had really practiced profound internal skills. If it weren't for Lian Fu who prevented him from leaving home to explore the rivers and lakes, maybe Lian Xizong would already be a famous hero.
When Lian Xizong talked about this incident, he was not annoyed by his father's decision back then, but remembered it when he was old and felt full of gratitude for his father's decision.
Because he knew that he had not been instructed, he had just cultivated profound internal skills with his own talent, and in terms of moves, he was really mediocre, and he was too upright and not good at scheming, if he really broke into the rivers and lakes, maybe he would have been plotted by others, and he would not have survived today.
Although Lian Fu insisted on living in seclusion in the mountains and forests, he was famous, and many people who admired him and aspired to self-cultivation came to the mountains to learn from him.
It is precisely because of this that these people have been influenced by Lian Fu and have become hermits who are indifferent to fame and fortune. Lian Xizong also accepted some apprentices who liked to practice martial arts among these people, and taught some simple kung fu casually, but he also became famous.
Many years ago, a person named Li Guangpu from Yunzhou took a letter of recommendation from the Chai family in Cangzhou and wanted to learn from Lian Xizong.
Cangzhou Chai is the descendant of Chai Rong of Zhou Shizong, to this generation, the head of the Chai family is called Chai Zhizu, is a wealthy family of Cangzhou local wealth, 10,000 acres of fertile land.
With the merits of the ancestors who gave way to the throne in those years, the Chai family has a prominent position in the Hedong area, coupled with his willingness to be kind and charitable, and likes to make friends with people in the rivers and lakes, and enjoys a good reputation in the north and south of the Yellow River.
Lian Xizong saw that Li Guangpu was recommended by the Chai family to learn art, so he left him in Lianjiapo to learn martial arts. However, this Li Guangpu had a foundation in martial arts before, and Lian Xizong's teaching of his internal skills and mental methods was in conflict with what he had learned before.
Li Guangpu studied art in Lianjiapo for three years, although the external skills have improved, but the internal skills have not improved, he saw that he could not learn what he wanted in Lian Xizong, so he left and left.
Where he went later, Lian Xizong didn't know, but later heard from another apprentice that this Li Guangpu returned to his hometown in Yunzhou after leaving, and went to Liangshan not long after.
Lian Xizong thought that if Li Guangpu fell into the grass, this matter would be a little unreasonable. Because Li Guangpu was also from a wealthy family in Yunzhou, he was not short of money at all, and he had never heard of any crimes committed by the government and was hunted down by the government, so there was really no reason to go to Liangshan and fall into the grass, so he just regarded it as hearsay and did not take it seriously.
Yang Huairen was taken aback by these things, and remembered the report of the internal guard he sent to Liangshang to inquire about the news, the current big leader on Liangshan is also surnamed Li, could it be this Li Guangpu?
And whether it is the same person or not, this Li Guangpu went to Lianjiapo to learn art back then, relying on the recommendation of the Cangzhou Chai family, does this mean that the Cangzhou Chai family also has anything to do with this gang of bandits?
Yang Huairen thought about it for a while, and felt that this matter was a bit ridiculous. The son of Chai Zhizu, the current head of the Chai family, should be Chai Jin, and Chai Jin is only an eight or nine-year-old child now.
It is recorded in "Xuanhe's Testament" that Chai Jin is indeed a person, not only a descendant of the Later Zhou royal family, but also one of the thirty-six leaders of the later Liangshan Songjiang Uprising.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Shi Nai'an wrote the vernacular chapter hui novel "Water Margin", which was adapted and literary from the content of the Songjiang Uprising recorded in "Xuanhe Legacy".
In "Water Margin", Chai Jin was forced to Liangshan to a certain extent, if Yin Tianci hadn't beaten his uncle, he would not have been beaten to death by Li Kui, who was also there, causing Chai Jin to be dragged into the Gaotang Prefecture prison.
That's what literary creation says, but was Chai Jin in history really forced to go to Liangshan?
Judging from the information Yang Huairen has obtained now, it seems that Liangshan is his Chai family, and the Cangzhou Chai family is likely to be the master behind this gang of bandits on Liangshan now.
If Chai Jin's father is now the master of Liangshan, then why did he gather a gang of thieves on Liangshan?
Don't...... Yang Huairen suddenly had a bold idea.
More than 100 years ago, Chai Zongxun gave way to Zhao Kuangyin, perhaps willingly, but are his descendants also willing?
At least Yang Huairen felt that it was impossible. These descendants of the Chai family will inevitably think that the rivers and mountains of the Great Song Dynasty should have belonged to the Great Zhou, that is, their Chai family, and they were forced to give way to the Zhao family back then.
When Emperor Taizu and Emperor Taizong were in power, they didn't dare to have any ideas. But more than 100 years have passed, look at the current Zhao royal family, what has become of it?
The humiliating diplomacy and weak military strength have long made countless Han men dissatisfied, and in recent years, the reform and innovation have gone back and forth, and the people not only did not get any benefits, but suffered from them, which made the party struggle in the court more and more intense.
The rule of the Great Song Dynasty may have been at the end of the strong crossbow, and the Chai family saw this, and in recent years, they have continued to make friends with people in the rivers and lakes, relying on the reputation of their ancestors and the wealth of their families to fund various gangs and cottages in the north and south of the Yellow River, which has already won the hearts of many people.
And Liangshan may be the first step for them to start secretly opposing the Song Dynasty, and what is Chai's future plan? Yang Huairen fell into deep thought.