Gathering of Storms (23)

Zhang Shaoying thought for a moment and sighed: "It's all the fault of money!" Ji Lingshuang said quietly: "The most terrible thing in this world is not money, but people's hearts. The people's desire is jealous, the Song court has ended many years of war, and the great rivers and mountains are prosperous again, and the people will remember the good of the Song court, which is the people's heart. In addition to its own reproduction, the manpower of the martial arts is more supplemented from the people who were abandoned by the Song Court, but even so, each sect has a disadvantage of having too much money and not enough use, and the manpower is insufficient. The manpower of today's war is a large amount of replenishment in the chaos of the war of the five dynasties and ten kingdoms, otherwise, the seven sects of martial arts are just virtual and unreal martial arts myths. Zhang Shaoying sighed: "I remember that the Lord Chen said that the Seven Sects of Martial Arts do not have the heart to be emperors, and now I think that this is the long-standing wisdom of martial arts. Ji Lingshuang nodded and replied: "The most difficult thing in this world is the hearts of the people, the Zongheng faction claims to be more than 500,000 people, but many businessmen don't know who they are working for from life to death, in fact, there are only more than 180,000 registered disciples, which is what the master has accumulated for more than 100 years." Zhang Shaoying shook his head and responded: "We don't want to be emperors, we don't want to be restrained, we are outside the square, and then we don't need too much manpower to take advantage of the seven sects of martial arts." Ji Lingshuang nodded and said, "If you are just a businessman, the gathering of manpower depends on the amount of money. But for the study of martial arts, it is the support of the physique, which is not made of faith, which is the crux of the problem. Zhang Shaoying thought for a moment and said: "Song Ting worked hard to force each other, for the fact that he deceived himself, I don't know how many people's lives were consumed, ridiculous, ridiculous!"

Liu Yan also sighed: "There is no need to defend first, but it is too much to be wary of military generals, even a military commander is taboo, and the military system of the imperial court has always been slow." Even in the army on the extreme side, there are not many soldiers led by military generals. And so on. The court is worried. Ji Lingshuang and Liu Yan were lying on the beauty couch opposite each other, Ji Lingshuang heard her sigh at the court, and knew that she didn't want the country to be ruined and the family was in turmoil, so she stretched out her legs and scratched her. Zhang Shaoying thought for a moment and said: "This is not something we can decide, what we need is survival." Survival between life and death. Ji Lingshuang responded: "Now as long as you make money, the Song Court has banned everything from official sales, so that it has an annual income of seventy or eighty million yuan, which completely destroys the survival of businessmen." Today's so-called merchants were all created under the eaves of the Song court, and every change in the imperial court could ruin their families overnight. This is a ruthless move, competing for profits, and limiting the growth of martial arts, and attacking us from the top of the money. It's a pity, except for our Seven Martial Arts Sects. There are not a few private enterprises that are invisible and visible, and if Song Ting wants to eat it in one bite, it is inevitable that he will choke to death. Zhang Shaoying sighed: "If you loot the people like this, you can still be safe." Liu Yan responded: "Although there are many taxes for the imperial court, they all take into account the strength borne by various places, and with the support of the imperial court, the life of the common people is still passable." As long as you can live. The human heart is the desire. Zhang Shaoying responded: "There are so many traitors in history, it's not difficult for us to get some traitors to become officials, right?" Liu Yan glanced at Lang Jun. I admired his wisdom just now, but this remark was stupid, and he said angrily: "The chaos is beyond the outline, and it is the people who will suffer forever, can you bear it?" Ji Lingshuang said: "This is the long-standing foundation of the seven sects of martial arts, which are taken from the people. It is gracious to the people, and there is no need for it if it does not harm the people, and there is no existence of heavenly principles, which is destined to perish, and the change of every dynasty is a proof. Zhang Shaoying had an epiphany. Many things were already hazy and unclear, and he was still conscious, and Ji Lingshuang's words benefited him a lot.

In one day, the war between the DPRK and the armed forces alarmed the government and the opposition. Locally, Mingzhou and Taizhou tried their best to settle the people fleeing the war outside Tiantai Mountain, and they hyped up this as a rebellion and rebellion in Xiaoyao City. All this seems wise, but behind it is inseparable from Kou Zhun's strategy, but Kou Zhun is no longer willing to stay here. The people who originally came with him were also looking forward to Kou Xiang's coming, and they didn't want him to pick on him. Daozu was assassinated, the western suburbs camp was leaderless, and the army's morale was greatly lost, but only the eastern suburbs camp was still stable. The people who accompanied him, including the darkness, were all impressed by the manpower of the Zonghengmen, where is this sect, it is simply the state of a warlord who dominates one side, and they have finally learned the ability of martial arts.

Kou Zhun said goodbye several times, Wang Jixian, the upper Luomen, and the lower Luomen all knelt down all the way to ask for stay. Kou Zhun is a scholar, he is not very martial arts, and he is helpless, and it is impossible to leave Jiangnan without a sound. Kou Zhun looked at the people who were kneeling on the ground, and asked in a cold voice: "I, Kou Zhun, am a scholar, only this mind can be used." But you can take a look? Look? There are at least 200,000 people in the martial arts, what is the martial arts? Should it be the martial arts? And by the tens of thousands of people at the south gate, can they not be defeated? The seven sects of martial arts, hear clearly, the so-called seven sects of martial arts, the Hades Sect, the Immortal Sect, the Medicine Sect, the Instrument Sect, and the Hidden Sect, the five sects are twisted into a rope, what are we? The darkness is the darkness, the south gate is the south gate, and the east gate says that there is assistance, but now there is not even a shadow of a dead man, what are we still fighting here? It is best to surrender. Look at this pile of messes, no one wants anyone, give and doubt, I am not afraid of where you will stab Your Majesty, it's a big deal to degrade further. I can't do anything about this, what do you want to do, don't follow me anymore, I have to go back to Shaanzhou to take up my post! Please, please. "Say it, Kou Zhun bowed. The darkness was so frightened that they couldn't keep kowtowing. However, Wang Jixian, their six guards have the right to kneel only to the Son of Heaven and not to kneel to the king. What he doubted was that Kou Xiang had always cared about etiquette in front of people, and today's gaffe must have a deep meaning. Seeing Kou Xiang brushing his sleeves away, Wang Jixian called the imperial class and returned to Da Nei to resume his life. The two masters of the upper and lower Luomen were dumbfounded, it was His Majesty's personal order to protect Kou Zhun's safety, and now he was not allowed to follow, and the two Luomen were terrified. Although the war between the DPRK and the military was over, if he did not accompany the guards at this time, he could not afford to deal with something, and the two discussed it, so they had to lead the secret envoy to follow far behind. Compared with the darkness, it is easy to spy on intelligence and track down people.

The war seems to be over, but secretly it is still fighting, although the court is leaderless. Zonghengmen cleaned the battlefield, found the bodies of Lin Bin, Tang Yu, and Bu Ting, and only the white dragon of the Eastern Sect and Guo Xiao of the Northern Sect survived in the entire South Gate, and none of the tens of thousands of people in the South Gate retreated, and only the scattered 5,000 people survived. The South Gate collapsed completely, they were not defeated by the martial arts, but by the imperial court, and they did not give assistance for a long time, which overwhelmed the South Gate, and finally most of them collapsed, and they no longer had hope for the imperial court, and dispersed in a hurry. Bai Long and Guo Xiao were also tired, so they had to do their best to keep them, and in the end there were less than 300 people left. But Guo Xiao is the same as Bailong, the South Gate is no longer in its former glory, and they are extremely resentful of the imperial court, but if they betray the imperial court and violate Confucian loyalty, silence is their best choice.

The corpses of the war between the DPRK and the military were all over the field, and the two states were sentenced to stabilize the place in order to appease the people. The western suburbs camp had no leader, and the eastern suburbs camp Dushang Gui became more and more suspicious of this edict after thinking about it, and did not dare to act rashly, so he had to play the imperial court and wait for instructions. And Huang San made a decision to clean up the battlefield for the imperial court. The four elders of the beggar gang, the helmsman of the fourteen states, and the helmsman of Jiangyin were all unanimously opposed, and at the critical moment, the deputy gang leader Leng Farewell stopped coldly, and said: "The law of the beggar gang establishes the world, exists with the king's land, lives and martial arts, both are great, there is no difference, the life and death of the beggar gang cannot be extreme on both sides, and the leader of the gang is for the sake of the great cause of the beggar gang, if you do not support it, where is the authority of the gang leader? Where is the law of the beggar gang? Where is the law enforcement elder?" After a cold farewell, the law enforcement elder Lian Zun had no choice but to stand up and say loudly: "If you don't listen to the order, according to the first gang rule of the beggar gang, those who disobey the order will be punished with death." For a while, the beggars were silent, and Liu Ting, the chief helmsman of Chuzhou, was not convinced, stepped forward and knelt down, crying: "I am the general helmsman of Chuzhou, and there are eighteen beggars of all sizes, but none of them survived. He said everything, but when he saw Huang San fold forward, the major helmsmen exclaimed, Liu Ting snorted miserably, fell to the ground on his back, and the gang leader did not kill him, but abolished his martial arts. Huang San turned his back to Liu Ting, with tears in his eyes, his hands were still trembling, and he said slowly: "After leaving Xiaoyao City, leaving the Zongheng Gate, the beggar gang is still a beggar gang, because I have already said it, those who do not respect the order will not be spared." From now on, the rudder of Chuzhou will be led by Wang Youwei Wang Beggar, and Liu Ting will not respect the orders of the gang leader and expel the beggar gang from the door wall. ”

For a while, there was no sound in the shed, only Liu Ting's angry muffled voice remained. Seeing the tears in the eyes of the helper, most of the helmsmen suddenly melted away with a very inappropriate heart. Indeed, even if the beggar gang was first established and did not respect the orders of the gang leader, even if his crime was light, such a heavy punishment was not excessive, and it was already merciless for his subordinates not to be executed. So in the middle of half pushing and half doing, the major helmsmen tried their best to appease the gang, although there were cases of abusing the corpses of officers and soldiers, and even beating the undead to death, with the current situation of the beggar gang, Huang San had to turn a blind eye, but told the deputy gang leader Leng Beili to record these people one by one. The casualties of the officers and men this time were huge, as high as 41,000, which can be described as a fiasco. It is difficult to keep the corpse for a long time in the south, but fortunately, there are many beggars. Huang Sanxian sent Leng Bei to leave the camp in the eastern suburbs to ask Du Shanggui, he didn't need his help, he only needed to clean up the household registration of the officers and soldiers, discharge a name, and then the commanders of the various armies came to identify him. The beggars' financial resources are limited, and the Zonghengmen has not yet been withdrawn, Huang Sanxiu wrote a letter, and received 500,000 taels of silver from the Zonghengmen in half a day. The helmsmen who thought that they would break away from the Zongheng Gate finally began to wake up, and they could only swallow Huang San's crooked heart secretly. (To be continued......)