Chapter 448: Great Crisis
Hearing Shui Xinying say this, Xue Youyou immediately nodded heavily, and said, "Okay! Xinying, you bring all the Xiuyun Sword Sect disciples from Jingyang's side with you." When the time comes, they will be your best helpers. ”
"Master—"
Shui Xinying hesitated and did not answer. Of course, she knew that those disciples of the Xiuyun Sword Sect would be of great help to her. But in the same way, they will also give great support to Master.
Although Master is now the leader of the Loyalty Alliance, the superficial scenery does not mean that she has completely controlled this overly large and mixed gang.
Zuo Yusong has been operating in the Loyalty League for decades, and this smiling fox's skills have always been exquisite, and there are many people in the alliance who are loyal to him.
Especially the hall masters and helmsmen who were promoted by him, they were used to obeying him.
In this situation, what the master can really rely on and rely on is the Xiuyun Sword Sect.
Now, she, the sect leader of the Xiuyun Sword Sect, has rushed to Chongyuan, which has deprived the master of an important helper. And if she took away all the disciples of the Xiuyun Sword Sect here, it would be a loss of all the backing for the master.
Seeing Shui Xinying's hesitation, and even guessing the worries in her heart, Xue Youyou couldn't help but smile faintly, and said, "Don't worry, Xinying! Although the hearts of the people in the Loyalty Alliance are different, they have not yet reached the point of being scattered."
You must believe that as a teacher, you will expel all those with ill intentions from the Loyalty Alliance, and you will subdue all those who are unruly and unruly, so that the Loyalty Alliance will regain the prosperity of the alliance when it was first established!"
After listening to Master's words, Shui Xinying didn't say more.
Because she knew that with her master's arrogant nature, she would never accept her proposal to keep the disciples of the Xiuyun Sword Sect to protect her.
"But Master, you better leave Luo'er behind! She has been practicing her sword hard recently, and her martial arts have made great progress, so she should be able to help you at a critical time——"
Xue Youyou suddenly smiled and waved her hand to interrupt Shui Xinying's words, "You don't have to worry about Luo'er! If this little girl is willing, of course I am happy to keep her by my side." ”
After a pause, she suddenly asked as if unintentionally, "This time, will Han Bing also go to Chongyuan with you?"
Shui Xinying couldn't help but be stunned, then shook her head and said, "Han Bing should still be on the way back to Dayu from Beirong at this moment." But this time, Ming Rui didn't plan to let him go to Chongyuan with us.
Emperor Rong Yu Wengang formulated the so-called 'stabbing cold' plan, and the killers of the Chiyang Sect could appear in Jingyang City at any time.
What's more, Zheng Yong also reappeared and colluded with the Empress Dowager Yin of Beirong, presumably to carry out some conspiracies that were not conducive to Dayu.
Therefore, Ming Rui was ready to let Han Bing stay, and cooperate with Zhu Mo, the commander of the guards in the palace, and Song Qingfeng, the commander of the forbidden army outside the palace, to deal with Zheng Yong and those assassins who were about to come from Beirong. ”
Xue Youyou listened, and just nodded silently.
The news that Shui Xinying said about Zheng Yong and the Beirong assassins, she, the leader of the Loyalty Alliance, also knew everything.
But when Shui Xinying talked about how he planned to deal with those enemies, he didn't mention the Loyalty Alliance at all.
Xue Youyou naturally understands that the reason why Shui Xinying said this is not because she deliberately wants to ignore the role of the Loyalty Alliance, but because she clearly knows that it is difficult for the Loyalty League to respond with the same voice and seek the same breath, and it is even more impossible for the Dayu Imperial Court to have any common hatred and hatred.
The emergence of this situation really made Xue Youyou, as the leader of the alliance, feel both sad and helpless.
But she still firmly believes that it is the general trend for the Loyal Alliance to break away from the control of the imperial court and become a pure gang.
Just because everything is still in the initial stage of change, it is natural to face many problems and dilemmas.
In this regard, the whole of the Loyal Alliance will inevitably be a little uncomfortable, and thus feel confused and dissatisfied, and even pessimistic and disappointed.
This is also a huge crisis that the Loyal Alliance is currently facing.
The instability of people's hearts and their different thoughts can easily lead to the gradual disintegration of this huge and loosely structured gang and embark on the road to decline.
However, Xue Youyou still believes that he, the new leader of the alliance who was born in the alliance since he was a child, will definitely be able to turn the tide and lead the Loyal Alliance through the crisis and out of the trough.
Eventually, when everything is on the right track, the Loyalty League will be reborn and revitalized, with a new atmosphere and pattern.
It is precisely because of this determination to reorganize the Loyalty and Righteousness Alliance that Xue Youyou will change her previous willful arrogance and show the posture of an alliance leader who takes the overall situation into account and acts steadily.
When dealing with those powerful figures who were influential in the League, she tried to show her greatest sincerity and patience, consulted with them, tried to reach a consensus of opinion, and handled all the affairs of the alliance well.
However, this also means that she, the leader of the alliance, has to make compromises and concessions against her will on many things.
Among them, there is the incident of stopping the bleeding pill that happened not long ago.
A few months ago, the Xiuyun Sword Sect had given the Loyal Alliance a batch of special elixirs to stop bleeding from the treatment of external injuries out of pure goodwill.
But at some point, some of these hemostatic pills were manipulated and replaced with deadly poisons. If you don't look closely, it's hard to tell the difference between a real drug and a fake.
However, the people in charge of keeping this batch of hemostatic pills in the Zhongyi League Medicine Hall have not noticed the existence of this dangerous situation.
It wasn't until there were two incidents of the Loyal Alliance's subordinates being poisoned to death after taking the hemostatic pill that they thought of inspecting this batch of hemostatic pills.
As a result, after inspection, it was discovered that there was a problem between real and fake drugs.
However, due to the long time gap, no one can say clearly whether this batch of hemostatic pills was mixed with fake drugs from the beginning, or whether some of them were later replaced.
It was precisely because of this unclear explanation that the Xiuyun Sword Sect was saddled with a black cauldron for no reason, which in turn caused a gap between the Xiuyun Sword Sect and the Loyalty Alliance.
Xue Youyou, as the former sect leader of the Xiuyun Sword Sect and the current leader of the Loyalty Alliance, although she knew that the Xiuyun Sword Sect had been wronged, but without evidence, she could not openly stand up and defend the Xiuyun Sword Sect.
Therefore, in order to avoid suspicion, she had to hand over the matter to Wan Hengjiang, the law enforcement officer of the Criminal Hall, who had been in charge of the affairs of the medicine hall.
As a result, without finding any evidence, Wan Hengjiang blindly pointed the finger at the Xiuyun Sword Sect, and ordered the medicine hall to destroy all the hemostatic pills in the inventory regardless of whether they were real or fake.
This incident is over, but the aftermath caused by it has not yet subsided.
The disciples of the Xiuyun Sword Sect and the people in the Loyalty Alliance ignored each other from then on, and Shui Xinying also took the initiative to order to close the trail connecting the Xiuyun Sword Sect and the Loyalty Alliance in the back mountain. Even every time she came to visit her master, Xue Youyou, she came in through the gate, appearing to be above board, but she was cautious and alienated everywhere.
It was under such circumstances that when talking about the issue of Zheng Yong and the Beirong assassins, Shui Xinying did not dare to involve the Loyalty League at will, so as not to make his master even more embarrassed.
Because for the Loyalty and Righteousness League, Zheng Yong, the former head of the Great Interior, should not be regarded as an enemy.
Although he has been controlling the Loyalty Alliance through Zuo Yusong, with Zuo Yusong's death, this truth can no longer be confirmed.
The people in the Loyalty League still thought that they were doing things for the imperial court, and their allegiance was always that His Majesty the Emperor, Haoxing Xiaoqi.
Moreover, in the eyes of most people, Zheng Yong, as the former head of Ouchi, everything he did was acting on orders.
Since His Majesty the former emperor has not been held accountable for his perverse actions, it would be even more difficult to put all the blame on an old eunuch.
In addition, those claims that Zheng Yong colluded with the northerners and defected to the enemy and treason are even more unbelievable because they lack any evidence.
Even the sea fishing document issued by the imperial court against Zheng Yong only accused him of leading his inner masters to invade the Xinwu Marquis Mansion and the Wenshan Mansion without permission, and kill dozens of guards and subordinates in the mansion. And there is no mention of the other unproven crimes of this traitor.
Therefore, if Xue Youyou openly proposes to deal with Zheng Yong, it will inevitably be opposed by some people in the alliance, either explicitly or implicitly.
As for dealing with the Beijon Assassins, it was relatively easy, but it was not without all kinds of scruples.
It stands to reason that fighting against foreign enemies is the duty and duty of a Dayuguo person.
However, if these foreign enemies are only aimed at the emperor, then it should be dealt with by the internal guards and forbidden troops who are specially responsible for protecting His Majesty the emperor.
After all, the Loyal Alliance is just a gang, and if necessary, it can step up and help the court stop and arrest the Assassins, but it should never overstep its responsibilities and take the initiative to deal with the Assassins.
Therefore, in the end, Xue Youyou, the leader of the Loyal Alliance, could only spread the news of the assassins sent by Beirong to the rudder masters in the north, ordering them to strictly control their own territory and prevent the Beirong assassins from entering the country as much as possible.
At the same time, after consulting with Song Qingfeng, the commander of the forbidden army who was responsible for the defense of the perimeter of Jingyang City, it was decided that the Zhongyi League would be responsible for the vigilance and blockade of the southern line of the city.
And secretly, Xue Youyou ordered the new Shunfeng Hall Master Liao Jingdong to arrange enough manpower to keep an eye out for any suspicious characters who appeared in Jingyang City.
On the face of it, these initiatives can be said to have been done in a timely manner.
But in fact, if you take into account that Zheng Yong, the former head of the Great Inner Division, is the internal commander, those Beirong assassins can easily avoid the control of the Northern Rudder, pass through the blockade of the Praetorian Guards outside the city, enter Jingyang City, and hide in a safe hiding place.
In this way, the arrangements made by the Loyalty League were reduced to a mere formality, and could not play any substantive role at all.