Chapter Twenty-Four: The Shadow Knife
When he was on Earth, before Xu Sheng crossed over, the way of the world was originally good.
But one day it suddenly changed!
At that time, before the world changed, who could have predicted it?
It's the same here, although Xu Sheng has only lived in the heyday of this Dayong Dynasty for a few decades, this heyday has actually lasted for two or three hundred years!
said before that when Yingying and Lingling were children, the world was relatively chaotic, and it was still prosperous at that time! It's not troubled times! It's just that the economic conditions at that time were not good, and the imperial court did not abolish the slave trade at that time.
In short, the collapse of the imperial court is basically similar to the cycle of the decline of the ancient historical dynasties of the earth.
In fact, there have been signs for a long time, after all, in Qingyang City before, Xu Sheng could easily corrupt so many powerful people with his interests, it is enough to see that the court of this Dayong Dynasty is already very corrupt!
Heavy decay has accumulated for a long time, and it will explode at one touch!
At the beginning, Xu Sheng had noticed that the corruption in the imperial court was very serious, but on the side of Qingyang City, relatively speaking, the oppression of the common people was not so serious and excessive.
So Xu Sheng didn't expect the troubled times to break out so soon!
But now it seems that the corruption in Qingyang City is only the tip of the iceberg, and the oppression of civilians in other cities is even more excessive.
Because this turmoil broke out in some other cities at the beginning.
However, under the outbreak of the troubled times, the link between the political system of the imperial court in the world was severed, and the yamen of Qingyang City became weak.
Suddenly, the outlaws were endless, and there was chaos here.
In the heyday of the existence of legal civilization, although Xu Sheng was powerless, he was still able to rely on his own mind to first achieve great achievements in business, and then use interests to bind various magnates, so as to turn his hands into clouds and his hands into rain!
It is aweed and admired by countless people!
Even he couldn't help but feel as if he was really powerful.
But after the troubled times, Xu Sheng suddenly woke up!
Understand how weak you really are!
After the law collapsed, his so-called business methods were no longer effective.
The magnates he bound to are also unable to protect themselves.
Even, many people have died!
The huge amount of wealth he earned by doing business before led him to become a fat sheep in the eyes of countless outlaws!
this day.
Lu Ba ran quickly.
"Oh no, Childe!"
He reported to Xu Sheng with an ugly face: "The Jing family was killed by the Shadow Knife Gate!" ”
Xu Sheng's wives and concubines were shocked.
"What?" Jing Xiang's face was pale.
"Our Jing family has fallen?" Jing Xin staggered.
"Of course, not all of them were wiped out!"
Lu Ba explained: "The Jing family should know that they can't hold it!" So he led his henchmen overnight and escorted his own people out of the city in batches! I didn't get all of them away, but some of my people did! ”
Jing Xiang and Jing Xin breathed a sigh of relief.
"Jingqiu's team was intercepted!"
Lu Ba continued to report: "After he killed the female relatives around him, he fought with the people of the Shadow Knife Sect to the death......
"What?" Jing Xiang's pupils twitched.
"Second brother!" Jing Xin also shed tears.
"Shadow Knife Gate, Xue Yidao!" Xu Sheng also gritted his teeth.
The Shadow Knife Sect is a terrifying sect that has risen in this area of Qingyang City in this troubled world.
Qingyang City has fallen!
All the catch fast, flee and escape, and die in battle!
The county magistrate has been hanged at the gate of the yamen.
And the person who created this Shadow Knife Gate is also the current owner of the Shadow Knife Gate.
His name is Xue Yidao.
His nickname is Blood Shadow Blade!
That's right, it's the murderer who killed Liang Yikun back then!
What was his real original name? Nobody knows.
I only know that he walked the rivers and lakes with the name Xue Yidao.
This man is only in his forties.
But he turned out to be already an innate grandmaster martial arts master.
He has a beard, not tall, relatively short, but quite strong!
The one-handed knife technique is very fast.
When the knife is drawn, the sword light seems to be a phantom!
This person has been wandering in the green forest in the heyday of the era!
The court wanted him for many years, but it was not able to catch him!
There were even a few times when the imperial court sent a large army into the mountains to suppress bandits, and it was clear that the cottage to which it belonged had been destroyed.
But he still let this Xue Yidao escape!
In the deep mountains and dense forests, he, an innate martial arts master, is very cautious and bent on escaping, which is really very difficult!
Even if ten thousand arrows are fired at once, it is useless!
Most of the arrows were blocked by the jungle!
After that, he escaped by his own way!
If it was on a spacious flat land outside the mountains and forests, even if the innate martial arts master encountered the army of thousands of arrows, he would be shot into a hedgehog.
But it is really difficult to do it in the deep mountains and green forests!
I thought that was the end of it.
This person may live in the green forest for the rest of his life!
When a wandering river and lake is a big criminal!
Unexpectedly, troubled times are coming!
Give this kind of person a stage.
He took advantage of the situation even more directly!
With the brother he subdued in the mountains as the core team!
Single-handedly created this Shadow Knife Gate!
His subordinates gathered a lot of heroes first!
And then absorbed a lot of people who had no food because of the troubled times!
It even swept away a lot of hostile forces in the surrounding area!
Now it is even more besieging the city, and there is a tendency to divide one side!
After the Shadow Knife Gate invaded Qingyang City, ordinary people without armed forces were miserably, burned, looted, and trampled by the Shadow Knife Gate people!
The major families are all supporting themselves to protect themselves!
There are also some families who can't withstand the attack, give up resistance, and take the initiative to sue for peace!
But even if you hand over all your wealth!
It's still all over the house!
All the men were slaughtered, and all the women were reduced to playthings!
The methods of the Shadow Knife Gate are very cruel.
They are also very domineering.
I'm too lazy to be vain and wrong!
Disdain to play with intrigue and trickery!
I am confident that their strength is enough to sweep Qingyang City!
"What's going on now?"
Xu Sheng asked in a deep voice, "How long can our Xu Mansion be able to hold on?" ”
"Sir. It won't last long, three days at most. ”
Lu Ba said abruptly: "It may be tonight, or even the next moment!" ”
Xu Sheng couldn't help but be silent.
"Fortunately, the lord had the foresight to send our family and others to a safe city before!"
Lu Ba said again: "It's just me, there may be no way out!" Unless you wait for the imperial army, but now it seems that there is little hope......"
That's right, the situation is very bad right now.
The Shadow Knife Gate is raging in the city!
Xu Sheng and other big families can only hold on to their troops!
As a person who has been rich for most of his life.
Of course, Xu Sheng also raised a group of armed forces by himself.
In the past few decades, after obtaining a huge amount of wealth, Xu Sheng has always attached great importance to the purchase of people's hearts!
He has captured the hearts of many knights!
The general approach, of course, is to make the other party owe him a favor!
All kinds of favors owed to themselves!
The heavier the owe, the better!
In the heyday of the era, there were some people with strong martial arts, and they would be forced to violate the ban with martial arts.
But he doesn't want to be an outlaw!
Or they are in financial embarrassment, and they don't want to break the law to rob their homes!
The so-called penny is difficult to defeat heroes, that is, in the heyday era.
Basically, when encountering this kind of person, Xu Sheng will envelop him.
Take the money and smash it down to show grace!
Use your own connections in the yamen to help him solve his troubles and show grace!
Then hire them as a nursing home to protect yourself!
In the past few decades, Xu Sheng has given them a good life, helped them solve all kinds of troubles, provided them with various resources for martial arts training, provided a good living environment for their families, and found good teachers for their children to study!
These things will be buried in a person's heart.
Therefore, when the troubled times came, these people also tried their best to protect Xu Sheng!
After all, most people still know how to repay their kindness!
Of course, at the beginning of the troubled times, Xu Sheng had already let his trusted henchmen send his heirs to cities that were still safe in the world.
Although he also has many heirs in other parts of the world.
But the own people on this side of Qingyang City definitely can't ignore it.
At the beginning, although Qingyang City was chaotic, Xu Sheng was still immovable under the protection of the armed forces raised by his family.
But who would have thought that the world would be full of smoke later!
The court is too busy to take care of itself!
All kinds of Jianghu sects took advantage of the chaos to be born!
Now Qingyang City has fallen.
Xu Sheng hasn't had time to take these wives and concubines out of Qingyang City yet!
Because the attack of the Shadow Knife Gate was sudden.
Xu Sheng didn't expect it.
Now it's trapped.
Soon, Lu Ba left.
"What to do? What to do? ”
"Okay, why is the world suddenly chaotic?"
"How can the people of the Shadow Knife Gate be so cruel?"
"Can we get out?"
Xu Sheng's wives and concubines were also pale beside them.
The world is mutating!
No one expected it!
No one can escape the flood!
"We can only wait and see what happens."
Xu Sheng also frowned, and said in a deep voice: "I have already sent someone to contact the master of the Shadow Sword Sect to see if there is room for slowdown, if not, if not, ......"