Looking at the roof, his fingers unconsciously tapped on the tabletop, and Feng Zhiping recalled the two names and related information over and over again.

After thousands of years, the longest-lived Shouwu God can't live to the years, can these two organizations with such similar names be connected?

Feng Zhiping's first reaction was that he thought too much, but thinking about the content of the information, he was not sure.

There are many similarities between the Underworld Sect and the Yellow Springs, such as the sudden emergence of a large number of unrighteous people in the rivers and lakes, as long as there is ability, whether it is a killer, an assassin or a wanted criminal in the traitor department, they will not refuse, through this kind of rapid rise in a short period of time, with dozens or even hundreds of times shorter than other sects to create a tightly structured terrorist organization.

The most puzzling thing is their control, you must know that they recruit all the most vicious people, there is no normal person's moral view of right and wrong, let alone any loyalty and righteousness, and these rebellious people have become obedient sheep after entering their door, only the peak is the head of the horse, and even when the final fall is a large number of people willing to die together, the court may not feel that they have such loyalty.

The former Emperor of Hades, the ghost lord of yesterday, why are they?

Is it personal charisma, or is it suppressed by strong strength, or is there some other unknown means?

In addition, the two organizations do very similar things, kidnapping for ransom, listening to assassinations, and daring to do anything as long as the money is enough.

The difference is that the Underworld Sect is a cult that spreads terrifying beliefs, making money for the development of the sect, although its disciples are cold and cruel, but they are incomprehensible to ordinary people, while Huangquan is purely for money and selfish desires, unprincipled, bottomless, and faithless, such as the notorious flower folder, as long as the target is a woman and meets the taste, he can even take nothing.

Compared with the two, Huangquan is undoubtedly inferior, but there is one thing that Huangquan does better than the Underworld Sect, and that is the secrecy of the identity of the employer.

Huangquan has never leaked any of the employer's information until the fall, and the information searched from the Huangquan headquarters, the part about the employer is all written in a script created by Huangquan himself, which is different from all the words that have appeared before, except for the relevant personnel of Huangquan, no one knows it, but unfortunately these people all died in the battle of destruction, or died in battle or self-contained, and the coalition forces failed to save a single mouth.

The imperial court could not, so it could only transport the materials back to the capital, and then set up a special department to interpret these documents, but unfortunately there was little progress, and so far there has been no substantive results.

And the Cult of the Underworld was defeated precisely by the leakage of information.

At that time, when Dali Temple was handling a murder case, he accidentally found a strange clue, and he didn't catch the criminal, but he found out the person who bought the murderer.

After an interrogation, the murderer confessed to the crime and shook out a mysterious organization that was out of public view.

In the past, this was nothing, just a Jianghu sect couldn't make a big move against the big men of the blue sky, but now it is different from the past, the big men have changed to a new master, the iron mask is selfless and does not talk about human feelings, and the suspicion is also serious!

The presiding judge didn't dare to slack off, so he compiled a table and reported it to Shangguan, who had not yet named the pulse of the new master, so he handed it one level higher.

In this way, in the same state of mind, the report was handed all the way to the desk of the Criminal Department, and the old and refined Shangshu of the Criminal Department was handed to the table of Emperor Ming Wu as if he was inviting merit, and he really won the "Dragon Yan Dayue".

Emperor Ming Wu read the report with a black face, and immediately felt that something was wrong, he knew the rivers and lakes better than the officials below who looked down on the rivers and lakes, and he knew very well how much strength the scattered rivers and lakes would have once they were united, and immediately ordered a strict investigation, and the results were shocking.

Not only does the court not know about the underworld, but even few people in the rivers and lakes have heard of it, how can a mysterious sect that is not only out of the court's field of vision, but even unknown to many people in the rivers and lakes?

What's more, this sect dares to collect money to kill people, and it is still good people who are killed, and they are definitely not the kind of good people like Buddha and Taoism!

In the process of investigation, the investigators also found that this sect was secretly developing believers, and often held various secret sacrificial ceremonies, most of which were blood sacrifices, using living people!

At this time, there is no need for Emperor Ming Wu to say, everyone knows that the situation is serious.

Blood sacrifices have a long history, and have long formed a folk tradition, which is available in many places, but some of these sacrifices need to sacrifice living people, which is too cruel and hurts the heavens, so at the beginning of the founding of the Tianyuan Dynasty, the emperor You Baichuan has issued a decree to prohibit it, only livestock and poultry are allowed, and the use of living people is strictly prohibited.

According to the legal calendar, those who sacrifice blood to the living are not forgivable, and according to the circumstances of the case, they can cut off their ears and noses for a minimum of 3,000 miles and wander, and the highest can be punished by five tribes.

Such a harsh punishment is almost comparable to treason, and the effect is also remarkable, Tian Yuan has not had any blood sacrifice to the living since then, who would have thought that this evil wind would blow again today.

And the strange thing is that no matter whether it is sacrificed or sacrificed, there is no complaint, as if it is enchanted, no matter how you ask, you call yourself willing.

According to the presiding judge's own records, the person on trial was the head of a certain village, who presided over a blood sacrifice, and the sacrifice was more than 430 villagers in the village, including his own wife and children.

In the end, only he and a few elders who presided over the sacrifice were still alive, and the rest of the village died, and he insisted that he was not killing anyone, but doing good, and that he was sending all those people to the eternal land of bliss, and said that he was going to leave, but it was the officials who caught him and cut off his way to the eternal paradise, and now he will not be able to go to the paradise if he dies again, and can only fall into the endless purgatory under the paradise to bear the burning of the fire of karma, until he atons for the sin of not being able to complete the sacrifice ceremony.

At the end of the dossier, the presiding judge trembled and wrote down the words "shocked, generational, fearful, and worried", and said that "if the cult is not eliminated, the world will perish, the people will be foolish, and the common people will suffer." He suggested that the imperial court follow the example of the Qiankun Pavilion and build a school to broaden the wisdom of the people, and not give the charm and the spirit the opportunity to take advantage of the situation.

Even a small chief judge has such worries, let alone Emperor Ming Wu, but it is not so simple to get rid of it.

The Underworld Sect appeared for a short time, but it existed for a long time, You An suspected that it had existed since his father's time and even his grandfather's generation, and had been hiding in the darkest corners to silently develop and accumulate power, if it were not for the unintentional act of the chief judge of Dali Temple, the imperial court would not even have discovered its existence until the day it took the initiative to surface.

There is a lot of resistance to the eradication action, and under the guidance of people with good intentions, the people's complaints are getting bigger and bigger, and many people think that there is no cult at all, and from beginning to end, Emperor Ming Wu is too suspicious, and he directed and acted in a play, the purpose is to use this as an excuse to destroy the entire rivers and lakes and eradicate several of his "old enemies" by the way, simply put, Emperor You'an is bored, and he wants to do something to find some fun.

This statement is exactly the same as what is recorded in the official history, except that the history books do not focus on the underworld, but separate the underworld religion from the matter of Emperor Ming Wu's army.

Feng Zhiping thought that the historian who wrote this paragraph was really blown up by the ancestral tomb if he didn't die, and he suspected that the historian at that time had old grudges with Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty, or had an unclear relationship with those losers, otherwise how dare he distort the facts so much?

Emperor Ming Wu was not angry and didn't know, he only knew that his actions were very decisive.

He did not put a stop to this rumor, nor did he send troops to search for and suppress the people who walked the rumors, and the extermination operation was already underway, but the spearhead gradually shifted to several "old enemies", as if they were deliberately responding to the rumor in anger.

At the same time, he secretly contacted his old friends of the Yi League, and secretly supported a new Jianghu sect, the Great Sword Sect, at a very fast speed, to deal with the Underworld Sect.

Feng Zhiping thinks that the name Dadaomen is very interesting, doesn't it allude to the big knife used to cut off the head?

At the same time, he also thinks that You An's decision is very wise, official to official, Jianghu to Jianghu, on the surface, do not interfere with each other, which can effectively target the Underworld Sect without causing disgust and resistance from the people in the rivers and lakes, which is much better than sending troops to suppress it.

The same is true for the destruction of Huangquan, the imperial court is the main one to unite the masters of the rivers and lakes to form a coalition army, Feng Zhiping is very suspicious that Jing Lian's father is following the example of the old ancestor, otherwise how can the main force be the three families of Diancang, broadsword, and blood knife?

And You An's idea of following the rumors Feng Zhiping can also guess some, this master Bacheng still uses the old method of wisdom and foolishness, and he can't guess the main owner of spreading rumors, so they are all suspicious, since the honor and wealth of the prince's fief are not willing to enjoy, then cut it, just take it back and give it to the lord's sons.

The rivers and lakes are rivers and lakes, and the underworld cult can hide from the eyes of the imperial court, but it can't hide from the pervasive old fritters in the rivers and lakes.

At the time of the collapse of the Underworld, You An also succeeded in cutting down the domains of several "old people", leaving only one who was still alive and trembling, and rushed to the capital to take the initiative to ask for the surrender of the lord to Yu Xian.

You An agreed, and did not make people into princes and uncles, but demoted them to the king of the county, changed the title to "King Huijun", gave him a very rich fief, let him be idle and rich for the rest of his life, and after his death, he decreed that his title and fief would be extended to seven generations.

From this point of view, You An is really not a "ruthless" person.

With the collapse of the Underworld Sect, a large number of materials that had not had time to be destroyed were transported into the capital, and You An found that he really didn't kill a few mistakes, not only at that time, but also the seventeen emperors competing for the throne earlier.

The tentacles of the underworld are deeper and wider than he expected, not only all over the rivers and lakes, but also rooted in the government and the opposition, the backlog of headless public cases in Dali Temple is enough sixty percent to match it, and at the beginning of the admonition to Emperor Hong to choose the emperor again, and later persuaded Emperor Hong to take over the power of several old ministers, three of them are even directly the guest elders of the Hades Sect, and their status is second only to the six protectors under the throne of the Hades. Love you eBook

And the seventeen emperor seeds, including himself, each of them had more or less intersected with the Underworld Sect.

The prince who seems to be good and deceitful is the guest of honor of the Emperor of the Underworld, and the Underworld Sect has done a lot of dirty work for him, two of the original four princes have a deep relationship with the Underworld, and the favorite concubine of one of them is directly the Witch of the Underworld, one of the thirty-three Underworld envoys, second only to the elders, and he understands why the casualties were so heavy when he killed that one in the first place.

And the reason why he didn't understand until now was precisely because his subordinates were not clean, and someone covered up important information.

In addition to the princes, the courtiers are the same, more or less have intersected with the Underworld, and many of them are kept in the dark and at a loss.

There are those who don't know, and naturally there are those who are clear, and the Ministry of Engineering is the most rotten.

In a certain year, the embankment burst in a certain place, and the Ministry of Industry sent people to repair it, and the cost was forty percent more than the budget, and half of the 80,000 taels of silver flowed into the Underworld, and the reason for the embankment burst was not a natural disaster, it was arranged by the Underworld Sect at all!

In a certain year, the official was assassinated, Dali Temple cooperated with the Inspectorate to set up a special case to deal with, and someone from the Ministry of Industry did through the Inspectorate, so that the case fell into a quagmire until it became a headless case, and by the way, the money title deed was scraped for a total of 17,000 taels of "filial piety".

There are many similar things, and the most terrifying thing for You An is the secret passage built by the Ministry of Industry.

The secret passage in the palace has always been only known to the emperor, and the rest including the emperor and the prince know that it is limited, only involving a few around him, and after the construction of the Ministry of Engineering is completed, the construction personnel should be scattered and resettled, and the original drawings should be handed over to the emperor for personal safekeeping, and the rest of the copies will be destroyed, but the Underworld Sect actually holds up to seventy percent of the copies in his hand, not only in recent generations, but even the secret passages when the Tianyuan Founding Palace was first built have several in the book, and the degree of detail is terrifying!

At this point, You An completely understands how many dangers he has avoided unintentionally, the court has long been rotten into the bone marrow, and is secretly controlled by the Underworld Sect lurking behind the scenes, including the alternation of the throne, every political matter of the Underworld Sect can have a direct or indirect impact, if he hadn't killed all of them ruthlessly, he would have died a long time ago, and he didn't know how he died until he died.

After that, as contained in the official history, the vigorous purge began, with the Ministry of Industry as the most, and the whole purge lasted for more than 430 years, extending most of the life of Emperor Wu of the Ming Dynasty.

The reason why it has taken so long is because the scope involved is too wide, and rashly uprooting is not as simple as hurting the muscles and bones, and if there are not so many officials to replace them in a short time, the entire system will collapse, and then the people will not be able to live and the rebels will be divided in all directions, and Tian Yuan is likely to fall apart and fall worse than Kong Xuan, he can only be patient and take his time.

He has patience and more capital, with his cultivation at that time, it is not a problem to cultivate well and maintain it well for one or two hundred years, and after cultivating the martial soul at the age of more than one hundred and ninety, he is even more confident, and the longevity of the martial soul realm is more than four hundred years, according to the average of five hundred to eight hundred years, he has time to boil those who are not moving to death, and when the new generation grows up to replace them, how can those civil officials who can only breathe for some health preservation survive him?

The generals are not good, but it doesn't matter, he has a helper - King Zhan.

As one of the only two remaining kings with different surnames at that time, King Zhan inherited the iron law set by his ancestors, only loyal to the throne, and never involved in party disputes.

And the other king with a different surname, King Qi, is very unruly, I don't know if the king with a different surname wants to try the taste of sitting on the throne for a long time, or wants to put the Tianyuan Sword into his treasure pavilion as a private collection, not to mention the private soldiers, but also secretly with unclean people in the rivers and lakes to recruit masters, among which the most closely related is the Underworld.

The king of Qi is not easy to move, and it is not easy to survive, but fortunately, with the help of King Zhan, you An took the opportunity of the national war to conspire with King Zhan to annihilate the king of Qi and the main force of the palace of Qi in one fell swoop.

In this way, You An cleansed the court little by little, and the Great Daomen continued to hunt down and kill the remnants of the Underworld Sect under his instructions, and did not stop after his death, until all the remnants and suspects who may be related to the Underworld Sect were eliminated.

Thinking of this, Feng Zhiping couldn't help but sigh, he might know the reason for the split of the Great Dao Gate.

Dadaomen originated from the Righteous League, and at the beginning of its establishment, they were all chivalrous, not for fame and fortune, but for a pride and blood, but this centuries-long killing has changed the mentality of some of them.

Some people still adhere to the original policy, one is one, two is two, the killing that should be killed is not accurate, let it go first, he will find evidence or do evil and then kill it is not too late, while the other part of the people think that the evil is exhausted, and there will be no mercy, so the two people with different ideas have a conflict and eventually split into two factions, becoming today's broadsword gate and blood knife gate.

Feng Zhiping couldn't help but speculate, could this be also arranged by You An in the morning?

After all, the Great Daomen is not a righteous alliance, and I don't know how long the action to eradicate the underworld will last, a long time will make the Great Daomen highly cohesive, and the secret support of the imperial court may make some people breed a strange mood, and they will feel superior to other Jianghu sects, for various reasons, it is impossible for the Great Daomen to be successfully disbanded after the completion of the task like the Yimeng.

If it is not disbanded, even if it loses the support of the imperial court, it has enough power to change the pattern of the rivers and lakes, in fact, the rivers and lakes have changed because of them in the pursuit and killing operation, and now or in the future, a single big knife gate will definitely threaten the imperial court.

This is not alarmism, nor is it overthinking, this is a problem that You An must consider as an emperor.

No matter how close the Great Daomen is, he is not an army under his command, and he can't make the unruly Jianghu people obey his orders like he controls the army, not to mention that most of the disciples of the Great Daomen don't know the true relationship between them at all, and only a few old people who really know about the sect master, elders, etc.

Therefore, he set up a secret move, this is a conspiracy, even if the big knife door sees it, he has to go according to his wishes.

In fact, the Great Daomen is likely to have seen that the "human spirits" who dissolved the Yimeng knew the emperor's thoughts, so there were two hostile sects of the same ancestor and the same ancestry, which could not only preserve the blood of the Great Daomen, but also appease the emperor's heart, killing two birds with one stone.

Why, these old ghosts, one is better than the other!

Feng Zhiping slammed the table heavily, indignant.

He hated why he had a smart brain, he thought so much, if he wasn't bald now, there must have been a lot of hair on the ground.

Seeing this, Lian Wu smiled slightly and asked, "What does the young master think?"

Feng Zhiping glared, lowered his gaze and sighed after a long time: "He is a powerful person, extremely powerful!"

"Oh, why do you say that?"

Feng Zhiping's eyelids rolled, knowing that Lian Wu was teaching himself, so he told Fang Cai what he was thinking, including those "good-willed" speculations.

"Yes, that's good. Lian Wu stroked his palms and praised sincerely, "The old slave knows that you are smart, but I didn't expect you to think so deeply and so far, and the old slave is still a little distracted." ”

"I'd rather not think about it so much. Feng Zhiping pulled off his wig and touched his scalp distressedly, "If it goes on like this, how old will my hair grow!"

Lian Wu chuckled and comforted: "Don't panic, it will grow." People have long hair, people have long nails, and the young master's blood is more prosperous, and your hair will definitely grow back soon. ”

"I lend you a good word. Feng Zhiping arched his hand, his face was straight, and he looked at Lian Wu's eyes fixedly, "Fifth uncle, I have two things that I don't know, and I want to ask for advice." ”

"Young master, please speak. ”

"I want to know, is there a relationship between the Underworld Sect and Huangquan, the Underworld Sect has spread such a big net and controls almost half of the court, what is the plan? Rebellion? With the Tianyuan Sword here, it's impossible? Make money? They are already rich and rival the country, what's the point of making more? Missionary? This is possible, but their kind of cult does not make people to do good and does not make people to evil, but only calls people to die, what good is it for them when people die, it is meaningless!"

This is a question that You An didn't figure out until he died, and it is also a problem that Feng Zhiping is very entangled.

Controlling the court but hiding it, the incubation time stretches for at least two generations of emperors, is that bullshit emperor psychopathic and just likes to enjoy the feeling of being the mastermind behind the scenes?

You An seemed to be considering something, and seemed to be hesitating about something, and after being silent for a long time, he said in a deep voice: "The following is just the old slave's speculation, and there is no direct evidence. The old slave believes that the Underworld Sect and Huangquan have a certain relationship, and there are two possibilities for the Underworld Sect's scheme, one is what it is cultivating, and the other is what it is looking for. ”

Feng Zhiping frowned: "What to cultivate, what to look for, can you make it clear?"

Lian Wu took a deep breath and stared at Feng Zhiping's eyes: "What is cultivated may be an immortal weapon, or an evil such as a ghost or ghost, and what you are looking for may be a celestial person." ”

Feng Zhiping was slightly stunned, and then he was shocked.