Mu Lanxiang nodded: "This person sounds like a good official, senior brother, if you can help him, try to help." But Elder Xu Ge, I always feel that he is not a big corrupt official as you said, Senior Brother Xu, how can Senior Brother Xu's father be this kind of person? ”

Li Cangxing sighed: "Senior sister, you still don't understand a lot of things in officialdom, the so-called officialdom, you have to form gangs and factions, and form parties for personal gain." Although the ancients said that the gentlemen are not the party, and the villain party is not the group, but now the official, how can there be any gentleman, the official is to seek a wealth and nobility, so from the moment he won the imperial examination, he had to apprentice to the teacher, Yan Song They are traitors, but the Qing school is also a party, and it is also to form the power of the group, which is similar to our martial arts only in the formation of a sect, with the number and scale, it can be regarded as strong, compared to those lone rangers are naturally much more powerful. ”

Mu Lanxiang suddenly realized: "Does it mean that the Yan Party is like the Demon Sect, and the Qing School is like our Demon Slaying Alliance?" ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "It's a bit interesting in this regard, but whether it's a decent or an evil faction, there is one thing, that is, you must make your power stronger and stronger, and the war between good and evil has been going on over the years, doesn't Wudang also have to recruit disciples and enhance its strength to resist the offensive of the Demon Sect?" ”

Mu Lanxiang said with a smile: "Listen to what Senior Brother said, it's really like this, in the past, our Wudang Sect was extremely strict in accepting disciples, and later after the Battle of Luoyue Gorge, if there is a little foundation, he will accept it on the mountain to teach basic martial arts, and then select elite disciples from the middle, especially cultivate, and under the mountain, it is also with the various branch forces of the Demon Sect and the Wushan Sect to fight to the death, after conquering one place." It was there that a courtyard was built to attract more people to join. ”

Li Cangxing's heart moved: "That is to maintain the clothing, food, shelter and transportation of so many disciples." The cost of the sect is also much higher. ”

Mu Lanxiang's eyes flowed: "Yes, so Xu Ge Lao's support is very important." Senior brother, I didn't understand these things at first, but later I became the Miaofa Elder of Wudang, and I also had to participate in the daily operation of the sect, so I knew that the monthly expenses of each disciple on the mountain were about two taels of silver for food and clothing, and half a tael of pocket money. Now there are more than 1,400 disciples on Wudang Mountain, and this alone costs 3,500 taels every month. It will cost more than 42,000 taels a year, and to be honest, just relying on the little incense money on the mountain before, everyone can only drink the northwest wind! ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "Then how much does Elder Xu Ge give you every year?" 50,000, or 100,000? ”

Mu Lanxiang lightly opened his lips and said: "There are 80,000 taels every year, and if the fight is more intense and the loss is large, there will be additional ones." In addition, our Wudang rudder in various places will also do some bodyguards and guards, and also take care of the work of the officials in various places, and those disciples scattered in various places will also build some martial arts halls to accept disciples to learn arts. To earn some tuition, the branch halls in various places also give thirty or forty thousand taels of silver to the helmsman every year. ”

Li Cangxing laughed: "It seems that the one million taels I gave you last time is really enough for you to spend for a long time." ”

Mu Lanxiang smiled: "That's it." At that time, several of our senior brothers and sisters were still talking together, saying where did your senior brother get the ability? is so generous, I'm afraid that the entire Demon League will add up. You don't have any money. When she said this, she suddenly thought that "Xu Linzong" was a pretense of a black robe, and the real Xu Linzong had already died, so she couldn't help but feel sad again, bowing her head and saying nothing.

Li Cangxing knew his junior sister's thoughts, and shook his head gently: "Okay, junior sister, don't think about some things in the past, it's useless to think about them." In this way, Xu Ge Lao completely relied on his annual support for Wudang to control Wudang and let Wudang act according to his orders, right. ”

Mu Lanxiang raised his head and frowned slightly: "Yes, senior brother, is there a problem here?" ”

Li Cangxing shook his head: "Think about it, even for Wudang, a Jianghu sect, Xu Ge Lao has to spend tens of thousands of taels of silver every year to support it, the purpose is to make Wudang not fall behind in the process of fighting against the Demon Sect, not to mention in the officialdom, in the official positions in various places, the life and death struggle with the Yan Party inside and outside the court needs money to deal with all aspects, and there are thousands of officials in the entire Qing Sect, how can this expenditure be a small amount?" If he doesn't want to be greedy for public funds, or use the power in his hands to run an industry for himself, where will he get the capital to fight with Yan Shifan? You all know in Wudang that you can't recruit disciples if you don't have money, and no matter how much you want to learn martial arts, you must at least have a full stomach, isn't it the same in officialdom! ”

Mu Lanxiang nodded thoughtfully: "So that's the case, then it seems that officials can't simply divide it by whether it's good or bad, whether it's corrupt or not." Xu Ge Lao also did this to defeat Yan Song, a traitor, and he can't be blamed for this, right, senior brother? ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly and shook his head: "Not necessarily, Xu Ge Lao, Lord Gao, and Lord Zhang When they were officials, they didn't have a strict party, and they didn't become officials to defeat the strict party, but it just shows that this is the rule of being an official, whether it was in the past or now, being an official is to seek wealth and nobility, and then form two or several factions to fight each other." Even if you lose the fight in the court and go home, you can still be a rich man, but Yan Dang has done a little too much, he is too ruthless and fierce, and he will kill his opponents, so he will make the country like this. But I'll tell you the truth, even if it is handed over to Xu Gelao's Qing faction to run it, the situation will not be much better, because in essence, the officials are the same, it is nothing more than a matter of making more money and less fishing. ”

Mu Lanxiang's eyes lit up: "Senior brother, what will happen to our Wudang in the future, now that the Yan Party has fallen, and the Demon Sect has no backer, if we eliminate the Demon Sect in the future, will Elder Xu Ge no longer give us Wudang support?" ”

Li Cangxing shook his head: "That's not it, the various factions of the Demon League are hundreds of years old, and they are also famous mountain Taoist temples and Zen temples canonized by the imperial court, and every year the imperial court will give these local official funds to continue the incense, but if the demon sect is really destroyed, then it will definitely not let Wudang maintain such a scale, and Wudang will definitely have to abolish the branches and courtyards in various places on a large scale, and most of the disciples are afraid that they will be forced to return to the world, and there will only be two or three hundred disciples at most on Wudang Mountain." ”

Mu Lanxiang sighed: "Is it because this emperor is afraid that we will rebel in the future?" (To be continued......)