On the seventeenth day of entering Beizhou, Zhen Xiaomei and the others came to Beizhou City.

Located in the east-central part of Beizhou, Beizhou Prefecture is the only place in Beizhou that is managed by the Dragon and Tiger Gang.

As an alliance of several small families, the Dragon and Tiger Gang has six resident elders and several nominal elders in addition to one gang leader.

The nominal elders are basically the heads of those martial arts families in Beizhou, and the resident elders are from the six most powerful martial arts families in Beizhou.

Although they are not as high as the gang leader, they are in charge of the real power departments and important industries in the gang, and their influence in Beizhou can be said to be on par with the gang leader.

In this way, Zhen Xiaomei's investigation targets are obviously no longer limited to the mascot-like leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang.

After they learned about the distribution of forces in Beizhou on the spot, Zhen Xiaomei immediately excluded those small and miniature warrior families entrenched in various villages and towns.

The reason for excluding them is also very simple - if they can raise 800 high-level martial artists as dead soldiers, they will not have to live in towns or even villages.

Isn't it fragrant to occupy a county seat, or even directly occupy the state city of Beizhou?

Excluding these people, the remaining martial artist families will be very limited.

In addition to the martial arts families to which the six resident elders of the Dragon and Tiger Gang belonged to each of the aforementioned ones, Zhen Xiaomei and they only found two other slightly suspicious martial artist families in the huge Beizhou.

In line with the principle of investigation from easy to difficult, Zhen Xiaomei and the others immediately investigated the two martial artist families who had been gaining momentum recently.

As Zhen Xiaomei expected, these two warrior families did have ambitions, but their ambitions were invariably limited to this one-third of an acre in Beizhou Prefecture.

This kind of down-to-earth and not ambitious "ambition" obviously does not affect the city of Dongzhou, which is very far away from Beizhou.

Zhen Xiaomei: What they are looking for is the kind of person who has ambitions for external development.

However, to their disappointment, in their subsequent investigation of the other six, they still failed to find any of them raising dead soldiers, or having other plans for other places outside of the Northern State.

The investigation came to a dead end, Zhen Xiaomei flipped through the intelligence booklet in her hand, knocked on the table in the dim light and said to herself, "The only strange thing we have found in the investigation so far is probably the sudden death of the former leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang. ”

The former leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang was born in the Qin family, one of the six major martial arts families in Beizhou, and in the nineteen years since he took office, both the Dragon and Tiger Gang and Beizhou have been slowly but firmly developing in a good direction.

He did not vigorously pull out his own family, nor did he deliberately suppress several others, but on the basis of being as just and fair as possible, he carefully maintained the delicate balance between the forces of all parties in Beizhou.

Although such a person cannot be said to be eloquent and talented, but he is absolutely shrewd and capable, and he cannot be underestimated, he actually died without warning and quietly in the old ancestral hall of the Dragon and Tiger Gang dedicated to the leaders of the previous generations the day before Zhen Xiaomei and the others attacked Yijian Gate.

No one knows why he quietly ran to the ancestral hall on such an ordinary day, no one knows who he met there, what he did, and no one knows who he was and what means he used to take his life without alarming anyone.

After his death, including the family to which he belonged, all the leading families in Beizhou began to fight openly and secretly for the position of gang leader.

Only a handful of people close to him tried to find out the truth about his death, but they were weak enough to do much.

Before they could find out why, the new gang leader took the position of gang leader in an unusually strong posture to everyone's expectations.

Speaking of this new gang leader, although he is also from one of the six major families in Beizhou, his family has not contributed to him in the process of competing for the position of gang leader.

Originally, the family he belonged to was going to push another member of their clan to the throne, but unexpectedly, this new gang leader cut off his beard halfway, relying on the strong foreign aid he pulled from nowhere, and stubbornly stepped on the six candidates of the six major families, and won the competition with a crushing momentum, and finally became the new gang leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang.

When the results came out, all the martial artists of the six major families were stunned, they never dreamed that the position of the leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang would actually fall into the hands of such a martial artist who was not favored by them at all.

The people of the six major families were puzzled, but they couldn't break the rules on the surface, so they could only pinch their noses and recognize the new gang leader who suddenly jumped out to grab the cake.

But it's one thing to admit it, it's another thing to take precautions, investigate, and set up air.

Especially the clansmen of this new gang leader, given that the warriors who helped this new gang leader win the position of gang leader were all faces they had never seen before, without exception, their suspicion of this new gang leader suddenly climbed to the highest peak.

There are so many high-level martial artists, with the strength and financial resources of that new gang leader, let alone cultivating them personally, even if it is only a temporary hire for a month or two, he can't afford to pay the cost of hiring.

And he has been living under the noses of all the people in the clan, and what kind of interpersonal network he has, his people can be said to be clear.

Neither has enough strength and financial resources to support or hire people, nor has he been able to generously lend him so many high-level martial artists' friends, so what kind of price did he use in exchange for these high-level martial artists as thugs?

Judging from his actions and the candidates of the six major families competing for the position of the leader of the Dragon and Tiger Gang, the person behind the scenes who "generously" lent him a large number of high-level martial artists obviously cannot be said to be small.

As a small family composed of several people, I have experienced many temptations, temptations, and provocations from the outside world. The leaders of the Dragon and Tiger Gang have always been very wary of the sects and families in other states.

The most taboo thing for them is that the sects and families of other states interfere in the affairs of Beizhou, and at the same time, they also have a lot of experience in fighting against foreign forces, and they can be said to be more familiar with the usual routines of those people than they are.

The sudden rise of the new leader of the Dragon Tiger Gang, and his actions since taking up the position of gang leader, seemed to them to be a story that was not much different from the previous ones, and made them feel quite familiar.

Although there is nothing new in this story, and the methods and routines are full of familiarity, they still found the other five families at the first time and worked with them to find a solution.

(End of chapter)