Chapter 144: Solemn Assassination
Xie Xun said: "Real people, the Wudang faction is full of talents, and there will be more talents in the future." Some people like Jianghu Road, which is normal, but Jianghu is not the only way out, there are a few virtuous brothers who come out to explore the way, and also give later generations one more choice, in short, they are also people from the Wudang faction. ”
Zhang Sanfeng thought for a while and said, "Okay, I'll be this lobbyist for you." ”
I don't know how Zhang Sanfeng persuaded him, but in the end Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan and Zhang Songxi all agreed, and they came to Xie Xun.
Xie Xun saw that the three of them were not so reluctant, and said with a smile: "What? Hate me for digging the corner of Wudang? ”
Yu Lianzhou said: "Brother Xie, we follow the master to practice martial arts well, and if we want to carry forward the Wudang faction, you have to drag us to your righteous army, and you don't lack a few of us." ”
Xie Xun said: "If you want to glorify the Wudang faction, you don't need to stick to Wudang. You must know that there is only one head of the Wudang faction, and Yuanqiao is the best candidate. ”
Yu Lianzhou said: "We don't covet the position of the head, and we are all convinced that the senior brother is the head." ”
Xie Xun said: "I know that you have a deep brotherly relationship, and I don't want to provoke your brotherhood, I just want to tell you that since you are not the candidates for the head, then you don't have to stay in Wudang." Come to me, if the uprising succeeds in the future, you are all meritorious heroes, and then go back and use your strength to help the Wudang faction, wouldn't it be more useful to the Wudang faction than just being a chivalrous warrior to the Wudang faction? In the future, Wudang will be bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more people, but there will always be only one leader, and some people can leave the rivers and lakes and devote themselves to their careers, which is also a good way out. ”
The three of them were thoughtful, and Xie Xun said: "I didn't let you leave Wudang, and you can go to Zhang Zhenren at any time to say hello." I just hope that you will use your usual chivalrous energy for greater causes, Wudang did not suffer, and in the end we all benefited. ”
Xie Xun still has some thoughts that he didn't say clearly, he wants to support Wudang and fight against Shaolin.
Buddhism does not produce, does not pay taxes, has a lot of privileges, and has a great impact on the social economy and military, so there are three martial arts and one sect to destroy the Buddha.
As the leader of Buddhism, Shaolin is the largest sect in the world, and has a profound heritage, no matter who is in power, he can stand tall.
Xie Xun has long wanted to curb the development of Shaolin, but his strength was still small before, and the unification of the world was still far away, so Shaolin was never his primary goal.
Now that we can see the dawn of victory, we have to think about how to treat Shaolin and even Buddhism in the future. Just as he wants to weaken the proportion of Mingjiao, it is time to think about the future of unifying the world.
Xie Xun has always admired Yu Lianzhou, he concentrates on martial arts, has no distractions, has a resolute personality, has a cold face and a warm heart, and his martial arts have become the head of the Wudang heroes and the god of war of the Wudang faction.
Yu Daiyan is generous and unrestrained, and he is the most suitable for a military career.
Zhang Songxi is resourceful and a rare talent.
These are all important chess pieces against Shaolin in the future, and if they are balanced, they will be peaceful.
Of course, Xie Xun is still very friendly to Shaolin on the surface, and he must admit that he can attend his wedding this time.
Lu Zhixi married Xie Xun, and she also got what she wanted. As Lu Zhiqing said, although Xie Xun is fierce on the outside, everyone who has really gotten along with him is impressed by his charm, men and women.
Lu Zhixi has been by Xie Xun's side since she was a child, learning literature and martial arts. His martial arts and his conversation are all different, coupled with Xie Xun's unprincipled defense of her, he was attached to Xie Xun when she didn't understand anything. Later, when the love first opened, Xie Xun exuded the charm of a mature man, "middle-aged hearts are as thick as wine, and girlish feelings are always poetry", she can no longer let go of other men in her eyes.
Now Xie Xun doesn't have much time for himself, even if he just married a little wife, he doesn't have time to spend the moon on him.
The imperial court is also in an eventful autumn, to Shun three years (1332) Wenzong died, Ningzong succeeded to the throne, but only reigned for fifty-three days and died, the throne was vacant for more than half a year, the power of the minister Yan Temur reached the extreme, to Shun four years (1333) in May, Yan Timur indulged in excessive lust and died, in June Tu Timur succeeded to the throne, that is, Emperor Yuan Shun, changed the year name to Yuan Tong.
In this year, there were more than 400,000 hungry people due to heavy rains in Gyeonggi, and the following year Jiangsu and Zhejiang were affected, and the number of victims reached 590,000.
These disasters gave Mingjiao a chance to develop and grow.
Xie Xun has been preparing for many years, accumulating grass and storing grain, and the giant whale gang has sailed and explored, and even brought back corn, sweet potatoes, potatoes, which are high-yield and easy-to-grow crops, and planted them on a large scale in his own jurisdiction, so that he has enough grain and grass to accept the victims.
In just a few years, Huaisi, Henan and Hubei and other places were full of smoke, Mingjiao attacked the city and plundered the land, more flowers, and the development was extremely rapid, it cannot be said that half of the Central Plains can be said, but at least it can compete with the imperial court. In particular, the Ming Sect occupied the rich land in the south of the Yangtze River, which dealt a devastating blow to the economy of Mengyuan. In various parts of the north, there are also rebel armies rising up from time to time.
After Yan Temur, the imperial court issued the right prime minister Boyan dictatorship and was named the king of Qin.
In November of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1335), the imperial examination was directly canceled, which also directly pushed the Han Confucian scholars to the opposite side.
Liu Ji, who is only 25 years old, took the entrance examination in Dadu two years ago and passed the Jinshi examination in one fell swoop, but he was idle at home due to a shortage of soldiers. At this time, seeing the immorality of the imperial court, Mingjiao was thriving, so he came to join the Mingjiao rebel army. Song Lian, who was one year older than him, was also included in the Mingjiao. At the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, only one of the three heroes remained, and the younger Li Shanchang had not yet been born.
Xie Xun was very happy to learn that these two people came to the righteous army, and personally recruited them to his side to encourage them, and he also knew everything about his own concept of governing the country, and finally left them by his son Xie Wuji's side, and let his son worship them as a teacher.
When the two of them received Xie Xun's courtesy, they were naturally overjoyed, knowing that this step was the right one, and seeing the momentum of Mingjiao, they should have a bright future.
Xie Xun has also been recruiting talents, and he can't completely rely on people in the martial arts to govern the place.
The current Mingjiao is to govern the local government in the mode of a military government, and the military has great power, which is of course suitable for the current situation, similar to "wartime communism", concentrating all efforts to deal with the war, but in the future, the world will not be peaceful, and the harm to the country will be great, so it is necessary to reserve the literati group.
In the face of the Han resistance, Boyan proposed to kill the five Han people surnamed Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao, but the emperor did not accept it.
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, there have always been many powerful ministers, which indicate the decline of the Great Yuan and the prosperity of the Han Dynasty.
However, the emaciated camel is bigger than the horse, and it is not without talent. A young general, only in his twenties, commanded the elite Mongol soldiers to quell the rebellion everywhere, temporarily pacified the northern land, and then pointed south, intending to sweep the world.
Many of the rebels in the north had the backing of the Ming Sect, but they were still unable to resist these elite Mongol soldiers.
Xie Xun's power in the south has risen a lot, but the power of the imperial court is still not weak. Xie Xun didn't want to suffer from the enemy on his back, he wanted to pacify the south and then go north, expel the Mongols, and unify the north.
The current important figures of the Ming Sect are basically not guarding the top of the light (the tip of the boat), and the white-eyed eagle king Yin Tianzheng has been busy with his own Sky Eagle Banner and going deep into the front line.
The Wusan people basically went to help Peng Yingyu run the White Lotus Sect, and they also had their own territory.
The Five Elements Banner is in charge of the flag, and the envoys are all in the Western Regions to assist solemnly.
There are only two immortals on the top of the light, Yang Xiao handles teaching affairs, and Fan Yao never stretches out his hand to ask for power, but is only responsible for guarding.
Xie Hu is often in Guangmingding. After Yu Lianzhou was put into Xie Xun's command, he handed over the responsibility of his torture hall to Yu Lianzhou. Yu Lianzhou has a cold personality and is upright, which is very suitable for this position.
Xie Xun ordered solemnly reorganized 20,000 troops and horses in the Western Regions, marched eastward, dispersed the forces of the imperial court, and bought time for himself to pacify the south.
The Western Regions are vast and sparsely populated, and it is impossible to defeat the Mongols with these soldiers and horses alone.
But these soldiers and horses were not peasant uprisings, replacing hoes with sticks and going to the battlefield, but strictly trained professional soldiers, with extraordinary combat effectiveness and sufficient food and drink, which was enough for the imperial court.
But before he could fight with the Yuan soldiers, the bad news came, and Zhuang Zheng was assassinated.
Zhuang Zheng has a close personal relationship with Xie Xun, and his son Zhuang Zheng is Xie Xun's only official disciple and has always followed Xie Xun. Xie Xun was also relieved to hand over such a large piece of territory in the Western Regions to Solemn.
The solemn accidental death was tantamount to a bolt from the blue for Zhuang Zheng, and it also caught Xie Xun off guard.
As the governor of the Western Regions, Zhuang Zheng guarded one side for Xie Xun and was an important force under Xie Xun.
Xie Xun did not leave any masters in the Western Regions Guangming Peak, but the solemn martial arts themselves were not low, and the Western Regions Guangming Peak was heavily guarded and heavily guarded, so it should be foolproof.
The news from the Western Regions is that three people have crossed the various levels of the Bright Peak and suddenly appeared from the secret passage, and their martial arts are extremely high, and they are solemnly killed under layers of protection.
Xie Xun and Yang Xiao glanced at each other, and the person who knew the secret path of the bright top, without asking, knew that it was Cheng Kun, the "Mixed Yuan Thunderbolt". The rest of the Mingjiao didn't know, but both of them read Yang Dingtian's will and knew about Cheng Kun's existence. In order to cover up the scandal for the Yang Sect Master, they didn't tell anyone else.
Xie Xun opened his mouth and said: "It happened suddenly, the Western Regions is our big rear, we can't let the chaos, there must be a master in charge." I plan to send Fan Right Envoy to take Zhuang Zheng back to the Western Regions to preside over the business. ”
Yang Xiao was silent for a moment, he didn't want Fan Yao to leave, Fan Yao was an important help in Mingjiao.
Xie Xun's subordinates are not only Mingjiao, Mingjiao is only one of the forces under him. And although Yang Xiao is under one person in Mingjiao, the only force that can really be mobilized is the four gates of heaven and earth, wind and thunder, and only Fan Yao can help him in the high-level, although the other people are not as good as him, but they all directly accept Xie Xun's leadership.