In just one year, the Tiandihui created by Chen Jinnan and Yu Tianlai expanded at a speed that caused panic in the Qing court, and even replaced the beggar gang, which was known as the largest gang in the world because of its large number of people.

Moreover, Chen Jinnan and Yu Tianlai are both people with hills and valleys, and their vision has never been limited to a corner of the rivers and lakes. The number of hundreds of thousands of members of the Heaven and Earth Society has been woven into an incomparably large and complex network, and the power has penetrated into every strata and corner of society, and even a few Han generals in the south who hold real power have been rebelled by the Heaven and Earth Society.

As long as Zheng Chenggong of Taiwan Island leads the revival army across the sea, it will gather to respond and set off monstrous wars in all the key places of the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

On this day, Chen Jinnan and Yu Tianlai were discussing the matter of the incident at the secret helm of the Heaven and Earth Society, and someone outside the door suddenly reported that the eldest prince of Xiamen had sent another secret letter.

Chen Jinnan ordered someone to present the letter at that time, and opened the letter in front of Yu Tianlai to read it. After only a few glances, his face suddenly changed miserably, and then he opened his mouth and spurted out a mouthful of blood.

"Brother Chen, what's wrong with you?" Yu Tianlai was taken aback, and hurriedly stepped forward and asked.

Chen Jinnan's face was like gold paper at this moment, his body was also shaky, and the letter also fell to the ground from his hand.

He closed his eyes tightly and raised his head, but tears flowed down from the corners of his eyes, and he sighed dejectedly: "After a year of painstaking planning, it will all go down the drain, how unfair it is for the sky to treat my Han people!"

Yu Tianlai knew that everything was on that letter, and when he leaned over to pick it up and read it, his face changed greatly. The letter was written by Zheng Jing himself, although there was not much pen and ink, but the content was heard. The letter said that Zheng Chenggong had died last month, and people from Taiwan Island said that he was seriously ill and died violently, but the secret letter sent by Feng Xifan later said that there was another hidden reason in the matter, so he asked Chen Jinnan to go to Xiamen to find out the truth together.

He couldn't help but be very depressed in his heart, not only because the long-planned anti-Qing plan would inevitably die in the middle of the way due to Zheng Chenggong's death, but also because he had obviously done something to try to change the fate of Zheng Chenggong's untimely death, but the result was in vain.

After a long time, Chen Jinnan's mood calmed down a little. He arched his hand towards Yu Tianlai and said: "Brother Yu, the country surname has the grace of knowing me, and the great prince said that the death of the country surname has another hidden situation, and I must not sit idly by." If he had been harmed, I would never have spared the murderer. I will leave for Xiamen immediately, and the affairs of the meeting will be free from your brother and you will be in charge for the time being. ”

He waved his hand to stop Yu Tianlai, who was about to speak, and said solemnly: "I know Brother Yu, you don't want to come to the stage, but this year, the world will expand too fast, although it is huge, the foundation has not yet been established." If I don't have a central dispatch, I'm afraid that there will be problems soon. And now that I can replace me in the center, except for Brother Yu, there is no second person who has the ability and qualifications. ”

Seeing that he spoke to this point, Yu Tianlai really had nothing to shirk, so he had to give it up. But he is planning a big thing, and it is really inconvenient to appear as he is. Besides, although he is half the founder of the Heaven and Earth Society, the appearance of this young man is not very convincing. So he made a compromise request to Chen Jinnan - he could come forward to temporarily take charge of the Heaven and Earth Society, but he had to disguise himself to hide his true face.

There are many talents in the Heaven and Earth Society, and naturally there is no shortage of masters who are proficient in the art of disguise. After Chen Jinnan left, Yu Tianlai, who was changed his face and shortened his arms in a way that made it easy to shrink his muscles and bones, finally came to the front of the stage, and even changed his name to a pseudonym, and acted as the head of the "Heavenly Punishment Hall" as the chief helmsman, temporarily sitting at the helmsman of the Heaven and Earth Society, and at the same time always paying attention to the changes in the situation.

There is constant news coming from Taiwan Island. First of all, Zheng Chenggong's brother Zheng Tai gathered a group of Zheng clans, took out a copy of Zheng Chenggong's will, which did not know the authenticity, and claimed that the eldest son Zheng Jing had an affair with his nursing mother, rebelled against human morality, and was unworthy of being a person, and supported Zheng Chenggong's younger brother Zheng Cheng to inherit his brother's succession.

Immediately, Zheng Jing announced the usurpation of Zheng Xi below, and then Yu Siming succeeded to the throne and mourned, and appointed himself as "recruiting the son of the general", with Chen Jinnan as the advisor to join the army, and Zhou Quanbin as the governor of the five armies, and raised troops to quell the rebellion.

After a civil war that lasted for more than a year, Zheng Tai and others were executed, Zheng Zheng was placed under house arrest, and the Zheng Tai people led their troops into Quanzhou to surrender to the Qing Dynasty, while the two islands of Kinmen and Xiamen were captured by the Manchu Qing Dynasty who took advantage of the opportunity to attack the red-haired ghost fleet.

Although Zheng Jing was victorious, his vitality was greatly damaged, so he concentrated on running Taiwan Island. Adopting Chen Jinnan's suggestion, he soothed the people, traded with traders, built schools, recruited talents, recuperated, and waited for an opportunity to counterattack.

On this day, Yu Tianlai received a secret letter from Chen Jinnan, in which he stated the truth about Zheng Chenggong's death. It turned out that after Zheng Chenggong's death, Feng Xifan, who was ordered by Zheng Jing to stay on Taiwan Island, felt that things were a little strange. He knew that Zheng Chenggong had taken a doctor's prescription before he died, and that doctor was recommended by General Ma Xin. The strange thing is that both the doctor and Ma Xin died of illness on the night of Zheng Chenggong's death, and then they were hastily buried.

Feng Xifan is also a ruthless person, and secretly dug up the graves of the two people and opened the coffin for autopsy, but it turned out that the two were actually killed by someone with a heavy hand. He will carefully restore the tomb to its original state, follow this clue and secretly investigate, and finally find one of the guards beside Zheng Tai.

It's just that although he determined that Zheng Tai was the murderer of Zheng Chenggong, there was no conclusive evidence, so Zheng Jing could not use this incident as an excuse to crusade against Zheng Tai. Fortunately, with these clues and speculations, he was enough to convince Chen Jinnan of this, so as to pull Zheng Chenggong, the most prestigious and powerful subordinate, into his camp.

In the letter, Chen Jinnan also asked Yu Tianlai for another matter, asking him to try to get rid of the Zheng clan who led the army to surrender to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, among which Zheng Tai's younger brother Zheng Mingjun and son Zheng Zhangxu were especially among the must-kill.

Yu Tian was a little thoughtful when he came to the board, although this matter was proposed by Chen Jinnan, it was faintly revealed between the lines that it should be Zheng Jing's request. And Zheng Jing named and wanted to kill these two people, just to avenge his father or cut the grass and eradicate the roots?

After pondering for a long time, he said to one of his attendants, "Go to the Heavenly Punishment Hall, and ask Hong Shouzuo to come and see me." ”

After receiving the order, the man walked out quickly, and after about half an hour, he led a young man in white with a grim face to turn back.

After the white-clothed young man saw Yu Tianlai, who looked like a middle-aged man, his eyes showed a look of reverence and love from the heart, and he stepped forward to hug his fists and bowed, and said: "The first Hong Xiguan of the Dragon Group of the Heavenly Punishment Hall has seen the hall master. ”

In the past few years, Yu Tianlai has taken advantage of the expansion of the Heaven and Earth Society to select a lot of elites to enrich the "Heavenly Punishment Hall" that was originally only in name. He named this hall, which was nominally subordinate to the Heaven and Earth Society, but was actually completely controlled by himself, "Heavenly Punishment", which means "the law of heaven and the punishment of heaven", with the purpose of creating a purely violent institution specializing in assassination and beheading.

After two years of integration, the current "Heavenly Punishment Hall" is divided into four groups: dragons, tigers, eagles, and pigeons, which are divided into assassination, assault, rescue, and intelligence. Hong Xiguan, who has already joined the "Heavenly Punishment Hall" and made a name of "cold face and cold gun" on the rivers and lakes, is the first to lead the dragon group.