Pei Wenyuan, like Qian Guanglai, opened his mouth in surprise, couldn't speak for a long time, and only after a long time did he react, frowning: "Cangxing, your brain is not broken, we Jianghu men, the last thing we want to see is to join the government and become an eagle dog, these are hot-blooded men who come to you this time, ashamed to be with the government, if they seek glory and wealth, they would have entered the Jinyi Guard a long time ago, and they will be a catcher if they are not good, and they will not even be willing to be an official, how can they be a big soldier?" ”

The smile on Qian Guanglai's face also dissipated, and he said: "Cangxing, you have to think about this matter, a good man is not a soldier, a good iron is not a nail, not to mention these Jianghu men with special abilities, everyone is willing to come to the world-famous hero Li Cangxing, or the whimsical Jinyi Guard killer Tianluo who broke the White Lotus Sect, if you let them become soldiers, I am afraid that there will not be a few people left." Money can't buy that. ”

Li Cangxing nodded seriously: "So I need you brothers to do a good job of the disciples, the fight against the Japanese is not an ordinary soldier in the army, but a feat of defending the country from outside, attacking traitors from within, and eliminating the forces of the Demon Sect." ”

Pei Wenyuan said curiously: "Could it be that this widow is also related to Yan Shifan and the Demon Sect?" ”

Li Cangxing looked at Qian Guanglai and smiled slightly: "Fatty, do you remember when our brothers joined forces to fight the Japanese in Nanjing City?" ”

Qian Guanglai laughed: "This kind of thing will never be forgotten for the rest of my life, by the way, wasn't it the Yanagi Xiongba who left with you to compete at that time, I was taken aback when I saw him this time." When did you Li Cangxing get involved with the Japanese Kou, and even thought that you had gone to the East with him for so many years. ”

Li Cangxing smiled embarrassedly: "After crawling out of that valley with Liu Sheng, I directly heard the news that my junior sister and junior brother were going to get married. Originally, I wanted to find the fat man, but as soon as I heard this, I exploded, and rushed directly to Wudang, and happened to meet Wen Yuan on the way. ”

Qian Guanglai smiled: "The fortune teller has told me about this matter in the past few days, by the way, what is the matter between you and Mu Lanxiang, why did she suddenly change her mind?" ”

Pei Wenyuan said hatefully: "Fatty." Don't stimulate Cangxing, I'm so angry that I want to beat that slut, the one who used to be good with Cangxing can be called the Mountain Alliance and the Sea Oath. In the blink of an eye, he threw himself into the arms of others, and women are not credible, but brothers are reliable. ”

Li Cangxing sighed: "That's it, you will always mention this matter." Wen Yuan. At the wedding ceremony that year, thank you for standing up for me, and I will never forget your help in this life. ”

Pei Wenyuan's face changed: "What, you were there at the time?" ”

Li Cangxing thought of the sadistic wedding back then, and his heart was miserable, and he nodded silently: "Yes, at that time, I changed my disguise and blended in the crowd. I just hope that the little sister can change her mind at the last moment. ”

Pei Wenyuan stomped his feet in anger, stood up and said, "Cangxing." Why are you so stupid, if you really want her to turn back, how can you change your appearance, you have to restore your original face. Also, didn't I ask you out to talk to her the night before, and if she rejected you then, why should you be persistent? ”

Li Cangxing closed his eyes and shook his head: "I don't want to mention this matter, you are right, women are fickle, they can swear with you a moment ago, live and die together, and in a blink of an eye, they will fall into the arms of other men, or they will approach you with various ulterior motives and use you, or they want to find a man to seek comfort and support, they can live together for a while, but they can't join hands for a lifetime." I said that in the future, the purpose and focus of my life will be placed on the great cause, and I will no longer be entangled in the love of my children. ”

Pei Wenyuan laughed: "Yes, yes, this is what lives up to your peerless martial arts and extraordinary wisdom, it's just ......" When he said this, his brows furrowed slightly, "Since you have restored your real name, how to deal with the relationship with Wudang?" After all, now that Wudang is under the leadership of Xu Linzong, he has gradually recovered his vitality, and he has faintly become a decent leader in the Demon Alliance, overpowering Shaolin, how are you going to face your former junior brothers and sisters in the future? ”

Li Cangxing's eyes sparkled: "This is also the thing I want to discuss with you today, I am Li Cangxing, at present, except for Lu Bing and a few other high-level Jinyi Wei officials, only you brothers know, and the Central Plains factions still don't know anything about it, the brothers who came to defect are also the old departments brought by you, and they don't know my identity, so I want to ask you to do me a favor and continue to hide my identity for a while, and wait until we have completed the anti-Japanese move and gained a firm foothold in the southeast. Then announce this to the world. ”

Qian Guanglai's face trembled: "Cangxing, you said that we joined the army to serve the country and join the official army, this job is really not good to do with the brothers, after all, everyone is a hot-blooded man, I brought all the brothers of the beggar gang, I have always hated the government, even if it is to fight the Japanese Kou, I am afraid that I am not willing to join the army, in the past few years, the monks and soldiers of Southern Shaolin have leveled the Japanese several times, and suffered heavy losses, but they have not been recognized by the government, and it has chilled everyone's hearts." ”

Li Cangxing's face flashed a resolute look: "The reason why I want to go to the southeast, there are two reasons, one is the layout of the whole world, now the two capitals and thirteen provinces of the Ming Dynasty, and the six northern provinces are basically Shaolin or beggar gangs, the sphere of influence of the Huashan faction, but with the next large-scale entry of the hero gate, I am afraid that there will be war here, and it will no longer be stable, and the northern provinces have always been strictly monitored by the imperial court, and the business is not developed, so it is not easy to start a sect here." ”

Since the fall of the Wushan faction in the southern provinces, Yunnan, Guizhou and Guangdong and Guangxi provinces in the southwest have become the sphere of influence of the Demon Sect, while the Dongting Gang and Wudang occupy Huguang Province, Sichuan Province is Emei and the Demon Sect in fierce competition, Jiangxi Province with the Taiyi Sect falling into the control of Lu Bing, and the fall of Baoxiang Temple, it is regarded as the sphere of influence of Jinyiwei and the Demon Sect, Fujian Province has Southern Shaolin, the remaining Nanzhili, Zhejiang three provinces. There has been no clear entry of Jianghu forces because of the Japanese rebellion, and these are the two places that we can fight for when we build a faction. Therefore, it is only by pacifying the Japanese that we can gain a foothold in these two provinces, and in the future, we can maintain our operating income through the developed maritime trade of Guò. ”

Qian Guanglai nodded again and again when he heard this, he was a businessman himself, and he was extremely sensitive to doing business, and said with a smile: "In fact, the taxes of the imperial court. In other words, half of the wealth of the Ming Dynasty comes from the southeast, and these two provinces can compete with the other ten provinces. It is my Qian family's shop, although it is opened in the north, but the largest source of income every year is in Zhejiang. Do you remember the last time I went to Jiangnan with you to collect silk money in Hangzhou? Now this silk and tea business. It has already accounted for seventy percent of our Qian family's shop, if it weren't for the fact that the Japanese were making a lot of trouble, I am afraid that our annual business could be even bigger. Cangxing, did you take us to join the army because you wanted to monopolize the silk trade in the southeast after the elimination of the Japanese pirates? ”

Li Cangxing nodded: "You two may not know, when I was in Jinyiwei, I was born and died in the southeast, and I did a lot of things to divide and disintegrate Wang Zhi and Xu Hai's group. It can even be said that the two giant thieves, Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, finally accepted Zhao'an. I also single-handedly contributed to it, but I didn't expect Hu Zongxian to finally betray his word and kill Wang Xu and the others who had surrendered to Zhao'an, causing the Japanese in the southeast to rebel and rekindle the war. ”

Pei Wenyuan sighed: "The court is dark, the jackal is in charge, you don't know these things, I heard that Hu Zongxian is still a good official, and it is inevitable that he can't think of this, it should be Yan Song's father and son behind him who put more pressure on him, and Lu Bing, as the commander-in-chief of Jinyiwei, will definitely not be able to tolerate Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, two people who openly rebel against the court, Cangxing, you finally left Jinyiwei, did you see through Lu Bing's personality in this matter?" ”

Li Cangxing remembered the past, and his expression became gloomy: "Brother Wen Yuan is half right, after I entered Jinyiwei, I used to trust Lu Bing very much, and I really thought that he was running for state affairs, but I didn't expect that he had been using a female killer Feng Wu to approach me and deceive my trust, and he accused me and used me until I was born and died for him, and after recruiting Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, I found that he colluded with Yan Shifan again in order to protect his official position, eliminate the Wushan faction, and kill Wang Zhi and Xu Hai and his wife, all of whom were involved, So I didn't want to continue to work with such a villain, so I quit Jinyiwei. ”

Pei Wenyuan's brows furrowed: "If Lu Bing and Hu Zongxian killed Wang Zhi and Xu Hai against you, this is understandable, but Qu Caifeng of the Wushan faction has always been your enemy, Lu Bing and the Fu Demon Alliance eliminated them, you should be happy, how can you turn against him for this matter?" ”

Li Cangxing shook his head: "Wen Yuan, Qu Caifeng is not a bad person, the decision to attack the righteous path alliance in Luoyue Gorge was made by her master a long time ago, in those years, she took the Wushan faction and the Fu Demon Alliance to attack each other, each with damage, and it can be regarded as revenge, and Miss Qu herself is a heroine who understands righteousness, the first thing I did after joining Jinyiwei that year was to break the White Lotus Sect, and at that time I released my suspicions with Miss Qu, she recognized the true face of Yan Shifan and resolutely broke off with Yan Dang, It also helped me clash with Yan Shifan many times, and finally the Wushan faction was destroyed, and it was because of this. ”

Qian Guanglai exclaimed: "Didn't the Wushan faction destroy the Demon Alliance, how can it be related to Yan Shifan?" ”

Li Cangxing sighed, and told the story of the Wushan faction's extermination back then, only concealing this part of his life experience, listening to Pei Wenyuan and Qian Guanglai's faces kept changing colors, that thrilling scene and the huge conspiracy behind it, so that the two who have been in the rivers and lakes for many years and have seen a lot of people are also embarrassed.

After Li Cangxing finished speaking, Pei Wenyuan let out a long sigh: "Cangxing, it's really difficult for you, I can't imagine that under the calm water of the rivers and lakes, there are so many surging undercurrents, and so many huge conspiracies, no wonder you didn't ask for help from those famous and decent people at all this time, it turns out that you have clearly seen that these decent people are not credible." ”

Li Cangxing's eyes flashed with coldness: "The various factions of the Demon Suppression Alliance rely on those Qing school ministers in the court, and these officials are only thinking about protecting their official positions, or looking for opportunities to climb up, and people like Lu Bing are all the way, not credible at all, those thousands of years of famous and decent people have already been integrated with these courtiers, and they can only follow their orders, so they can only cooperate with them to a limited extent at most, and cannot pin their hopes on them." ”

Qian Guanglai's face trembled: "But Yan Shifan's master and apprentice, especially the terrifying and mysterious black robe. Now that I know your identity, I haven't bothered you for the past three years, and why? ”

Li Cangxing groaned. said: "If the black robe is really the descendant of Emperor Jianwen that he said, then what he wants is the world, which is in conflict with his apprentice Yan Shifan, so he would rather find me to cooperate, which is also the reason why I will plan and fight for these three years to operate in this desert, I think." Now that I've hit the Hero Gate this time, he should know my strength by now and will come to me soon. ”

Pei Wenyuan smiled slightly: "Cangxing." Are you really ready to cooperate with this chaotic minister and thief and plot against the world in the future? ”

Li Cangxing had already made up his mind, and the matter of raising troops was only revealed to Liu Sheng Xiongba, and it was also kept secret from the other brothers for the time being. So he smiled: "It's not me who plots the world. On the one hand, he can help me temporarily control Yan Shifan, which is proof that Yan Shifan has not attacked me over the years, on the other hand, my current strength is simply unable to confront this black robe who has been operating for many years and has established a huge dark organization. If you don't cooperate with him at this time, it will only be a dead end. I've learned a thing from a few years ago. A good man has to have three gangs, just with chivalrous enthusiasm in his heart, but he doesn't have enough power to fight evil, and in the end it's just a void. ”

Pei Wenyuan nodded: "But if we go to the southeast to serve in the army like this, won't he be suspicious?" What's in it for him? ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly: "There is a fair and righteous reason for going to the southeast to join the army, that is, now Hu Zongxian, the governor of Zhejiang, is recruiting martial arts people to join the army in order to fight against the Japanese invaders. He had no reason to object. ”

Qian Guanglai's brows furrowed: "It's just that Hu Zongxian is also the same as Lu Bing, a person who will drop the chain at a critical time, back then he and Lu Bing treacherously killed Wang Zhi and Xu Hai, since you are unwilling to cooperate with Lu Bing, why do you want to find Hu Zongxian this time?" Aren't you afraid that he will hack you again? ”

Li Cangxing laughed: "It's different, Lu Bing is not the governor of Zhejiang, he has no obligation to eliminate the Japanese invaders, and Hu Zongxian is different, he has the emperor's order, in Zhejiang is to eliminate the Japanese invaders, in recent years, the Japanese have repeatedly failed to eliminate, but the more and more trouble, the emperor has been dissatisfied with him, I heard that last year Hu Zongxian in order to protect his position as governor, actually found a white deer and a spirit turtle to present to the emperor, saying that it is an auspicious thing, the emperor already likes to cultivate immortals and asked, I was very happy after seeing this thing, Therefore, Hu Zongxian's official position was temporarily stabilized, and it was precisely because of this that he did not dare to slack off, and began to recruit masters among the people to deal with the Japanese invaders. ”

Pei Wenyuan said with a smile: "I have heard before that Hu Zongxian has spared no expense over the years to recruit and train a lot of new troops, and those generals such as Qi Jiguang, Yu Dayou and others are not mediocre, why can't they deal with this little bandit?" ”

Li Cangxing sighed: "Wen Yuan doesn't know, the power of the Japanese is not how fierce the war is, but because of its high-speed maneuverability, the Ming Dynasty naval army is far less light and convenient than the warships of the Japanese Invaders, and to train a strong naval division, it is not just by throwing money can be successful in a few years, so the Japanese who go ashore can loot the town, and if they can't beat the Ming official army, they will get on the boat and escape, which is difficult to eliminate." The Yiwu soldiers recruited by General Qi in those years were very strong in combat, and I believed that they could win by fighting the Japanese Invaders head-on, but they were all infantry, and their two legs were not as good as the clippers with sails, and they could not catch up with the Japanese Invaders, so they could only look at the ocean and sigh. ”

Qian Guanglai nodded: "Yes, in the past two years, it seems that the Japanese in Zhejiang have given General Qi's troops many times, oh, by the way, because of General Qi's strong combat effectiveness and strict discipline, so the people in the southeast call it the Qi Army, and the Qi Army has defeated the Japanese in Zhejiang many times, and now nearly 100,000 people have begun to flow to Fujian to rob, Cangxing, Fujian there, there has never been a too strong sect to save zài, Southern Shaolin has never interfered in the trade of sea and land, if you choose to establish a foundation in Fujian and Zhejiang." , but it's a good choice. ”

Li Cangxing smiled slightly, and was about to speak, when his face suddenly changed, and an evil aura that had been lost for a long time appeared as if he were leaving the ground, Pei Wenyuan and Qian Guanglai's martial arts were now much worse than him, and he didn't feel this breath for a while, but seeing Li Cangxing's face change greatly, he stopped talking again, and realized that there must be a strong enemy coming, and both touched their blades.

Li Cangxing said in a deep voice: "Black robe, is it you?" ”

A gloomy and cold old voice came through the night sky from outside the closed window, without the slightest popularity, as if it was sent by a ghost from the underworld: "Li Cangxing, I haven't seen you for three years, it seems that your martial arts have grown a lot, and you can find the old man thirty zhang away." ”

Li Cangxing stood up and said to Pei Wenyuan and Qian Guang: "Wenyuan, fat man, I'll meet this person and talk again when I come back." ”

Pei Wenyuan and Qian Guanglai nodded in unison: "Be careful!" (To be continued......)