Chapter 17: Council of Elders
"I heard that no, Elder Yue on Xianxian Peak has relapsed from his old illness, and he may not be able to do it."
"Really?"
"Really, Elder Yue fainted on the Xianxian Peak, and it was a Jingfang disciple who brought him food to carry him down the mountain, and many people saw it."
"That disciple..."
"He, he's a bit of a big luck, I heard from the disciples of the Medicine Pavilion that Elder Yue was very grateful to him after waking up, and said that he would accept him as a true disciple."
A wind blew through the sect.
Soon, there were two more well-known things in the mountain gate.
One is that Elder Yue is not in good health.
One is that there is a true legend in the sect.
Jiang Xuan.
As the protagonist of the incident, he is accompanying the 'terminally ill' Elder Yue to participate in the secret meeting of the sect at this moment.
"Yesterday evening, the sect received a flying pigeon from Longhua Mansion and Liao Governor's Mansion."
"The letter said that the Ping'an Dao, which was exterminated by us last year, has the intention of resurrecting this year, and asked if the sect can send some good hands over, so as not to make the Ping'an Dao bigger again."
In the quiet room behind the main hall of the sect.
No more, no less, with twelve chairs.
On the chair at the head sat the servant crane real person, and down sat the three real people.
In addition to this one, three vices, after the four sect giants.
Further down.
It is a martial room, a quiet room, a scripture room, a mountain house... The real family behind the eight big houses, the elders in charge of each room and each vein.
"Back to the sect, in order to exterminate the peace of the road last year, we sent hundreds of good hands before and after, and more than a dozen people died in the battle alone."
"What did the Liao Governor's Mansion do, the war dead who were said to be good were distinguished by their strength, and a pension of 1,000 to 3,000 taels was issued, but only one-third of it was issued until now, there was no way, the rest was paid by the sect itself."
The one who speaks.
There is a warehouse word on the chair, obviously this is the elder in charge of the warehouse: "I'm not pulling everyone's back, but it's difficult for a clever woman to cook without rice, and we can't go to support as soon as there is turmoil in the state capitals, and then three knives and six eyes, and lick personal blood."
Don't forget, the sect had eight thousand disciples in its heyday, and now there are only one thousand and three left.
Yes, there is no great grandmaster in the sect at the moment, and its reputation in the rivers and lakes is not as good as before.
But it's not that bad.
Haven't you ever wondered why?
I thought about it.
Because we have managed too much and lost too many good hands, the gentry, wealthy clans, and martial arts families under the mountain think we are crazy and are sending their clansmen to death.
As a result, you have also seen that they would rather let their own children worship in the martial arts hall, or some small and medium-sized sects, and they are not good at learning, rather than send people to our Baishou Palace, so as not to become ashes altars and cripples.
One drives two, and two drives three.
The disciples who worship the sect are less than a year a year, and if we don't change, sooner or later we will have to take off the signboard. ”
Hear that.
The elders looked at each other.
It's not that they didn't notice it, it's just that no one dared to say it.
Baishou Palace rests with the country.
Assisting the local state capital to stabilize the situation is the task assigned to the Baishou Palace by Shen Zu before the retreat, and it is also the responsibility that Shen Guo should fulfill to support the Baishou Palace for more than 100 years.
"In charge, we are not shirking responsibility, but we must keep pace with the times."
The elder in charge of the mountain house puffed on his cigarette pouch: "There are hundreds of sects in the rivers and lakes, only we can do it, at present, the border passes are frequently urgent, and the people in the rivers and lakes have repeatedly violated the ban by force, no matter how much a sect is consumed, it can't fill the entire rivers and lakes."
Before Shen Zu and his old man retreated, the rivers and lakes were peaceful, not as chaotic as they are now, and there was no need to send disciples down the mountain if there was any contradiction, and a letter could calm the rivers and lakes.
This is no longer the case.
Shen Zu has not appeared for too long, those big families, martial arts giants, all harbor evil intentions, we can't rely on us alone. ”
Look around.
Fuhe Zhenren nodded and said: "I will report our difficulties to the palace, but the matter of the Peace Dao cannot be let go, last year we besieged and killed the sect leader of the Peace Dao and three of the four Dharma Kings, and the entire Ping An Dao was almost scattered."
Now that Ping An Dao is making a comeback, he is definitely not here to be friends with us, in my opinion, it is better to strike first and not give them time to recover so as not to cause greater losses. ”
Du Zhuan Zhenren also nodded on the side: "Ping An Dao is good at demagoguery, and behind this death without stiffness, I am afraid that there are shadows and support from other countries, otherwise how can a group of crooked and evil ways that have been dispersed by us start to show up again after only half a year of cultivation." ”
"Let's do it."
"Crack."
After a while, the elders also began to express their positions.
Jiang Xuan is a junior.
Standing behind Elder Yue, he had no right to speak, so he could only look at his teacher.
The eyes are facing each other.
Elder Yue nodded slightly, expressing his attitude on behalf of the Jingfang lineage: "Suppress..."
"Then it's settled."
Fuhe Zhenren looked at everyone: "Let's talk about the second thing, the current rumors about Shen Zu's death are blowing louder and louder, and the four countries bordering us are also secretly connecting in tandem, putting on a posture of a large army pressing the border.
That's what I thought.
Whether to fight or not is not up to us, but if there are really soldiers coming to the city, we will have to fight.
At present, the sect has some money surplus, and I want to use some of it to purchase horses, build armor, and buy some bows and crossbows by the way, so as to prepare for a possible war on the one hand, and to prepare for our encirclement and suppression of Ping'an Dao. ”
"Sect master..."The elder in charge of the general affairs room hesitated a little: "After all, we are a martial arts sect, and I am afraid that the purchase of armor and bows and crossbows will be laughed at by the same martial arts, and it is easy to attract the suspicion of the royal family." ”
"I will convince Your Majesty."
In fact, there is no way to do it: "In the battle in Longhua Mansion last year, it was clear that our disciples were one level stronger than the elite disciples of Ping'an Dao, but in the end, it was difficult to solve.
Why.
Because the elite disciples of the Peace Dao each have armor on their bodies, and each of them has a crossbow.
To us Grandmasters, armor and crossbows are nothing.
But for the disciples below, whether you are third-rate, second-rate, or first-rate, except for a few good players who take the horizontal training route, no one can withstand the cold arrows shot on the battlefield, for the sake of the disciples' lives, it is time for us to equip heavy armor. ”
A is the important weapon of the country.
Especially the heavy armor, which can be called a killing machine on the battlefield.
The disciples in the Baishou Palace are all martial arts practitioners.
can be called elite, all of them are second-rate players who have stepped into the bone training realm.
Thereinto.
If you have a successful bone training, you can increase your arm strength by 300 catties.
The muscles are successful, and the last time is also the strength of a thousand catties.
For the average person,
It is difficult to move when wearing a set of full-body heavy armor weighing dozens of pounds.
However, for the second-rate masters of the Bone Refining Realm, this weight is not a problem at all, but can better exert the lethality of martial arts powerhouses.
"Jiang Xuan..."
Jiang Xuan was being a good baby below, and he heard someone call him.
Look up.
Fuhe Zhenren looked at him kindly: "The matter of purchasing the armor soldiers will be handed over to you, and I can only rest assured if you do it." ”
As soon as I heard this.
The elders looked sideways.
Jiang Xuan was also stunned, but instead of being happy, he thought of a sentence: 'I want the ordnance, but I don't want the money, what do you say.'" ’