Chapter Thirty-Six: The North Gate Scholar Offers Advice, and the Tree Wants to Be Quiet and the Wind Doesn't Stop

Wu Zetian's "North Gate Bachelor" ruling team think tank gave her the following ideas to stop Xu Qing's strong expansion momentum,

First, the Xuanyi Princess's Mansion and the Yiyang Princess's Mansion expropriated a total of more than 30,000 mu of land, encroaching on the cultivated land and homesteads of many farmers.

Second, it has branches in all parts of the Tang Dynasty, with 40,000 sectarians, and nearly 10,000 sectarians in Chang'an General Altar, with inns, restaurants, grain and oil stores, silk cloth shops, and jewelry stores as its main business, and is known as the "Tianxing Sect" of the world's first religion;

Third, the number of people recruited is more than 10,000, and it is known as the world's largest dart bureau before the establishment of the Longmen Dart Bureau, and the "Four Seas Dart Bureau" headquartered in Luoyang;

Fourth, the "Bafang Qianzhuang", whose main business is in Chang'an and Luoyang, and which competes with Xianghe Qianzhuang, will be provided by the government with credit guarantee and issued silver bills.

Fifth, by absorbing the Tianxing Sect, the Four Seas Dart Bureau, and the Bafang Money Village, compete with Xu Qing in the business and commerce of the Dart Bureau, and attack Xu Qing, and when there is a conflict with Xu Qing's forces, the tens of thousands of followers of the Tianxing Sect in Chang'an can also become the reserve army of the Hou Party.

Xu Qing doubled the compensation for the peasants who had been expropriated by the Hou Party forces, which was enough for them to buy twice the amount of land they had originally had and to build two houses.

At the same time, Xu Qing also has additional preferential measures, originally Xuanyi Princess Mansion, Yiyang Princess Mansion, and Longmen Dart Bureau in order to recruit people can be used, can fight, only recruit the Central Army veterans and civilian martial arts masters, but Xu Qing in order to take care of the land-expropriated farmers, specially set up a 1,000-person boy scout, and a 1,000-person girl scout, aged 8 to 14 years old, practice martial arts for an hour in the morning, and then study literature for an hour, practice martial arts for an hour in the afternoon, practice literature for an hour, and military theory class for half an hour in the evening.

Xu Qing promoted the sixteen-year-old Zhonglang to make Xue Ne a general of the Boy Scouts, Xue Ne no longer held his original position, and concentrated on commanding the Boy Scouts, but the classes of the military academy still had to be attended, and the appointed quasi-wife, the general Yang Zhuangruo concurrently served as the general of the Girl Scouts, and Yang Zhuangruo was the general under Xue Jinlian, and the class of the military academy was on the page. These two Scouts are also the "doormen" of the two princesses' mansions, and they are supported by Xu Qing at the expense of the army, and do not pay for the army from the treasury.

The teachers of the Boy Scouts who teach cultural classes are hired from among the retired teachers of the Guozijian Prison, the teachers who teach martial arts are selected from the dart masters of the Longmen Dart Bureau and the officers of the Two Princesses' Mansion to serve as concurrently, and the teachers who teach military theory are concurrently served by the teachers of the military academy after work. In addition to the school-age children of land-expropriated farmers who can join the Boy Scouts for training and salary, the school-age children of the officers of the Two Princesses' Mansion and the school-age children of the Chang'an Branch of the Longmen Dart Bureau can also join the Boy Scouts, and the current size of the Boy Scouts and the Girl Scouts can be expanded to 3,000 in the future. Xu Qing plans to set up scouts in Youzhou and the Korean immigration areas in the future.

These two Scouts are the cradles of future pro-soldier troops, special forces, and instructors in Xu Qing's plan, and will be fighting in five to ten years.

After the party's first sabotage action was seen in the news report of the land requisition dispute before the crossing, Xu Qing, who knew how to deal with it, happened to be rich and capable of dealing with it, and easily collapsed.

The first, second, third, and fourth sabotage operations of the Hou Party were launched almost simultaneously, and Pei Xiao, the head of the Four Seas Dart Bureau, succumbed to the pressure of the Wuhou group and agreed to accept the behind-the-scenes leadership of the Prime Minister's ruling team "Beimen Bachelor" after the Wuhou Dynasty.

Bafang Qianzhuang had no power to resist the Houdang group at all, and was overwhelmed by Xianghe Qianzhuang, and also agreed to accept the behind-the-scenes leadership of the prime minister's ruling team "Beimen Bachelor" after Wuhou.

The Heavenly Star Sect fell into internal strife over the position of the sect leader after the mysterious disappearance of the sect leader He Xingnan fifteen years ago and fell apart, He Xingnan's son, He Changjie, with the support of He Xingnan's hardcore supporters, became the titular leader of the Heavenly Star Sect five years after He Xingnan's disappearance, controlling the main altar and nearly half of the branch altars.

He Changjie politically supported the rule of the Li Tang Dynasty, but he would not oppose Wu Zetian in order to support the Li Tang Dynasty, he was a pure Jianghu and businessman, only in charge of Jianghu affairs and business affairs, regardless of politics, he would neither join the Hou Party nor join the royalist party.

The Later Party coerced He Changjie to pledge allegiance to Empress Wu, but He Changjie refused. But this matter will definitely not end here, this is the beginning, a plan to retaliate against He Changjie was quickly formed under the planning of the "North Gate Bachelor".

He Changjie also understood that he was in an unprecedented crisis, and on the one hand, he stepped up the martial arts training of the Tianxing Sect members under his control, purchased bows and arrows and other weapons, and on the other hand, stepped up the action of seizing power, and used flying pigeons to spread the word to recruit the incense masters of the Tianxing Sect to the Chang'an General Altar to hold a meeting and re-elect the sect leader.

The Youzhou Branch, Luoyang Branch, Yangzhou Branch, and Chengdu Branch of the Tianxing Sect were split, and their incense masters had not reported to the sect leader at the main altar for many years, and suddenly received a flying pigeon from the sect leader, all of whom suspected that He Changjie was uneasy and kind, and tried to wipe them all out in order to unify the Tianxing Sect.

However, since they dared not obey He Changjie's orders, they were not afraid of He Changjie, announced the re-election of the Heavenly Star Sect to the world, and invited fellow martial arts friends to the Chang'an Heavenly Star Sect General Altar to witness, and then led thousands of elite subordinates to attend the meeting.

This is a major event in martial arts, and it is also a major event in Chang'an, Xu Qing does not want the Tianxing Sect to fall into the hands of the evil demons, or become a pawn of the Hou Party.

The Four Seas Dart Bureau has recently changed its course and suddenly expanded wildly, frantically recruiting dart masters and executioners in Luoyang, Chang'an, Taiyuan, Fanyang, Lanzhou, Liangzhou (now Wuwei, Gansu) and other places, and after the Silk Road was reopened by the Tang Army, it started the Silk Road business before the Longmen Dart Bureau.

This is because the Houdang accounted for more than the royalists among government officials, and the merchants and government officials had a close relationship since ancient times, and the Sihai Dart Bureau frequently received huge orders, and the business soon surpassed that of the Dragon Gate Dart Bureau. There are even businessmen who originally chose the bodyguards of the Longmen Dart Bureau, but they would rather not have a 30% deposit, but also broke the contract and chose the bodyguards of the Four Seas Dart Bureau instead.

Bafang Qianzhuang soon issued silver tickets, and Xianghe Qianzhuang competed for the business of silver tickets, Xu Qing Chang'an, Luoyang two places of Wuhou strong power of customers lost a large number of customers, only Fanyang, Liaodong Yanwang power and influence of customers and in Chang'an, Luoyang, Taiyuan businessmen in Fanyang, Liaodong are relatively stable.

Xu Qing has no real evidence, but with a keen political sense, he thinks that Wu Zetian is manipulating the crazy expansion of the Four Seas Dart Bureau behind the scenes, you must know that the crazy expansion of the Dart Game is inseparable from financial support, and it is also inseparable from business support.

He Changjie, the leader of the Heavenly Star Sect, had been in the position of the sect leader for ten years, controlling half of the forces of the Heavenly Star Sect, and suddenly summoned the incense masters of the various branches to gather at the Chang'an General Altar for a meeting, which was obviously an unusual thing. Xu Qing expected that something must have happened in the Heavenly Star Sect.

Xu Qing had read Jin Daxia's "Heaven and Dragon Slayer", and knew that Zhu Yuanzhang was born in Mingjiao, and after becoming emperor, he brutally suppressed the huge Jianghu gang with hundreds of thousands of sect members who made great contributions in the anti-Yuan war, and the Tianxing Sect had 40,000 members, known as the first religion in the world, and it was entirely possible to cause unease in the imperial court.

For this reason, Xu Qing specially investigated the Heavenly Star Sect, and before that, the Imperial Royalist Party and the Later Party vied with each other to win over the Heavenly Star Sect, hoping to get the support of the Heavenly Star Sect, but they were all rejected by He Changjie.

He Changjie's mother Meng Piaoping was a famous beauty in the rivers and lakes 20 years ago, and she also disappeared soon after He Xingnan's disappearance, He Changjie is 26 years old this year, and he has a younger sister named He Qiurong, who is 20 years old this year, is the second beauty in the rivers and lakes, and is also a famous beauty in Chang'an. Xu Qing admired He Qiurong's name for a long time, but because he was busy with work, he had no suitable excuse to visit He Qiurong and see He Qiurong's beauty.

The Heavenly Star Sect held a conference to re-elect the sect leader, and invited fellow martial artists from all over the world, Xu Qing was not only a horse, a county horse, a general of the imperial court, but also a person in the rivers and lakes, so he had an excuse to participate in the Tianxing Sect conference and go to the Tianxing Sect headquarters to see He Qiurong's face, of course, it was also very important to figure out why He Changjie held a conference to re-elect the sect leader unusually. Xu Qing's personality is that he doesn't like things that he doesn't understand. Therefore, Xu Qing's trip back to Youzhou should be postponed a little.