In the city of Jiangning, near Fuyuanli outside the north gate of Stone City,

Chunminglou, a well-known time-honored wine shop, also ushered in the daily life of most of the people who sat down to drink tea in the midst of the cicada chirping of the high pole on the sun. *With* Dream *Small* Say .lā

Although this is a place where Jiangnan characteristics are gathered and elegant and enriched, in this five-story restaurant, it is skillfully concocted to produce exquisite and elegant Jinling food, and also makes the fresh taste of Fujian and Guangdong, and the supply of Cantonese-style morning tea, so it is quite popular with those officials and their families who live here.

As the head of Chunming Building, Qian Ruifang, who is known as "Qian Fuji", is not only a well-known good person, but also a long-sleeved shopping mall hero who is good at dancing, and even has a relationship with many leading figures in the city for a short time.

He is said to be a wealthy businessman from Guangfu, with the dynasty to accompany the capital in Jiangning, and with a large number of wealthy families and migrated here to make a living, and did a business to take over the time-honored Chunming Building, and has been in business for several years.

As his career grew, he was able to take in many poor relatives from outside the city who came to take refuge, and worked in restaurants to earn a living. He also often organizes the collection of leftovers from restaurants and restaurants, and sends them to the west of the city at his own expense to help those who are poor and displaced, so there is still some reputation and reputation among the people in Jiangning City

Although with the summer heat, most of the guys and runners at the bottom seem to be lazy and unmotivated; But there are also people who seem to be casually leaning against the wall panels and screens with sweat towels, but they are listening to a group of guests who seem to be close to the left, and their gestures are obviously full of marching atmosphere, and there is no sound of complaining or something.

"The rebellion of the big cloud thieves really can't be stopped."

"It's a big deal in Jiangxi again."

"Jiazhou also made a big move, and almost broke the capital city."

"These dog thieves are always resurrected and driven back in the place."

"I'm so tired that my generation hasn't been rotated for more than half a year to rest."

"This is still relying on the reason for the marriage ceremony of the country."

"I was able to come to this Jiangning City to relax and relax for a while."

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During this time, the most he heard and saw was still a matter related to the wedding in front of him, but despite this, this running hall still did not dare to slack off, until a moment after sending off the guests at this table, the corresponding collected words had been placed in front of the proprietor who had not come forward for a long time, "Qian Fuji" Qian Ruifang.

Of course, this seemingly kind-eyed and wealthy proprietor of Qian actually has other diverse identities, such as he is also a local foreign commissioner who is stationed in Wudesi, and often has to provide some market news and news;

In the same way, he also donated a knighthood of the last rank, and he could see the official courtesy; It also doubles as the fang of Fuyuan Lane West Square, which organizes hidden fire shops and patrol arrangements, and provides corresponding responsibilities for pedestrian shop protection; It is also one of the restaurants in the city, which doubles as a water 6 fresh purchase.

But he also has the most core and most important hidden identity, he is a senior member of the Great Cloud Sect, one of the dozens of wind catchers in the contemporary era; And his ancestor was one of the die-hard believers who was wiped out along with the kingdom of God on earth, and he is now the third generation of the eyes and generations of the Holy Religion.

According to the plan of Jing Keshou, the first religious ancestor who soared in the fire of the old Yangzhou city, the holy religion that was first developed among the poor people at the bottom of the society, miners, and handicraftsmen had quite large and complex doctrines, as well as relatively strict internal organization and strict classes.

Under the patriarch, they were divided into several systems according to their respective needs, known as the three sects, six realms and eight divisions, and each did its own thing in the open and secretly with various names and duties, but after a series of chaos and dormancy;

Today, among the remnants of the six mountainous areas in Fujian, there are only a few Dharma protector systems that are in charge of conquering and supporting all things, a temple system that is responsible for internal support and relief, a system of scriptures and monks who spread the teachings and spread the faith, and a system of benevolent envoys who are responsible for donating and collecting money and managing the holy treasury.

Although there are some other smaller branches and sources, compared to these major branches, they are no longer a climate; After entering the rich and well-fed Liangzhejiang provinces, he began to seal the civil and military official positions and became a common practice;

There is simply only a system left among the high-level officials, the civil and military ministers of the princes and prime ministers in front of the palace, as well as the national teachers, the kings and the priests behind the palace, who are staggered and concurrent, and fight each other.

As for the newly occupied areas, they have been reduced to the sphere of influence of these high-ranking people through nepotism such as disciples and relatives, and the large and small powerful factions have divided one side; Then, according to the order of joining the religion and joining the church, they were divided into different batches such as the new ministry and the old people, and the factions that were close to each other.

And the outermost are undoubtedly those small and medium-sized forces that come from far away and can act under the banner of the Holy Religion as long as they donate a sum of money and food.

Therefore, it seems that the great cause of the Holy Sect has spread all over the land of 50 or 60 prefectures, including Liangzhejiang, Jiangdong, and Jiangxi, and the situation is very good, and it has even been the same as when the Holy Sect Ancestor personally raised troops.

Although there were many encirclements and interceptions by the officials and troops of the Great Liang from time to time, and the achievements of repeated defeats and battles, they could not stand the local natural disasters and even the displacement caused by heavy exploitation, so the Holy Sect always had enough soil and opportunities to make a comeback in the weak places after the transfer of the officials and troops.

In a sense, the tradition of congregational organization and cultivation and warfare left by the first generation of religious ancestors is the foundation for them to grow quickly. In the past, out of various considerations for preserving their strength and raising their own respect, the officers and soldiers of all walks of life gave them room and space to break through and move in.

However, after stepping out of the barren and arduous mountainous areas of Fujian, this foundation is dissolving and disintegrating with the extravagance of the middle and high-level of the sects and all kinds of acts of privately conferring and indiscriminately conferring official positions and territories.

And the officers and soldiers they asked to face became more difficult and tenacious after gradually eliminating the weak; Especially after the north was stable and the imperial court was able to withdraw its hand, so that those Northern Expedition athletes who had been torn apart from the north could join the local counterinsurgency forces, in fact, the situation and prospects faced by the Holy Sect were even more severe.

Although Qian Ruifang was faintly aware of and worried about this, all this was not the result of his ability to speak out and intervene as a senior wind-chasing messenger who was responsible for spying on the enemy's intelligence and had played a very important role and role in Jiangnan for a long time.

Despite this, he was able to know the secrets of many decisions and events related to the high echelons of the Holy Sect.

For example, the long-term Huai Shuai, who came to Jiangning to welcome his relatives, although the territory under his command was far from the scope of the Holy Sect's activities; However, because of his outstanding achievements and the most capable of fighting peacefully as the Great Liang of the Southern Dynasty, he has always been within the scope of attention of the Holy Sect's high-level leaders.

For example, in the early years, they sent people to the north to enter the territory of Huaidong as defectors and outsiders, trying to make a difference in the areas where the eyes and monitoring of the north and the south were relatively weak.

It's a pity that the people who continued to pass in 6 disappeared like a stone in the sea, and there was no more news or news.

Later, among the immigrants who had fled from Fujian, they arranged for long-term dormanship in batches in order to find out what happened to the birth of the pioneers of the Holy Religion in the Northland, and even to find opportunities and reasons to break the external deadlock. However, this time they were even more neat, kicking the iron plate in the hands of Huaizhen's initial monitoring and prevention system, as well as the corresponding intelligence personnel.

Hundreds of people, including several missionaries and a veteran windcatcher and Dharma protector, were uprooted and hanged or hung outside the quarantine camp used to house the displaced and the port where the immigrants landed. And the few fish that were not picked up as suspicious targets by the people around them, and did not appear among the corpses, were completely lost.

As a result, the high-ranking members of the Holy Sect also reaffirmed that the Northern Land was not a happy land for spreading the Holy Dao with great painstaking thoughts, but one of the potential demonic obstacles and many negative karmas for the great cause of the Holy Sect, and being the lord of Huai Town was undoubtedly one of the bad karmas.

It was not that the means of revenge and deterrence were not considered at the beginning, but it is a pity that in the situation that the other party is operating like an iron bucket, the dead soldiers and assassins sent in the past are basically meat buns and dogs, and there is no return; After spending a lot of effort to sneak into the territory of Huaizhen, he didn't even have time to inquire and spy on the target's whereabouts, and his whereabouts were inexplicably exposed.

In the end, only a few members of the congregation who hid in the border area to wait and respond, were able to escape by luck; They also brought back a suspicion and worry among the high-ranking members of the Holy Sect, and they suspected that it seemed that a certain high-ranking member had been tempted by the other party to betray the oath of the Holy Sect, and in turn to kill his comrades for the cruelty of the tiger.

Now, this Huai Shuai actually left his well-guarded rule and came to this Jiangning City to greet his relatives. I'm not sure what kind of thoughts people will have.

In order to arrange and operate this key stronghold to obtain information, the Holy Sect has invested a lot of money, and it took him many years to perfect this, including his family and servants, and the identity and details of the Cantonese people who were all replaced by Bao halfway, so that he has so many heavy identity covers.

It would undoubtedly be a great waste and irresponsibility to be wasted on this important goal that has not improved the current situation of the Holy Religion just because of a dispute in the religion.

Although the other party's status in the sect is higher than his own, but in the long-term consideration of the great cause of the Holy Sect, he still has more authority to act cheaply, and can suppress the other party's rash actions.

However, it wasn't until after dark that the people who went out with his "cousin and nephew" and claimed to be going to inquire about the news never came back, which couldn't help but cast a heavy shadow and worry on his heart.

(End of chapter)