The rudder of the Zhongyi League is located in the southern suburbs of Jingyang City, built by the mountain, covering an extremely vast area, looking from a distance, the houses are stacked in the middle, the palaces are numerous, and the scale is by no means inferior to the princely mansion. Pen "Fun" Pavilion www.biquge.info

However, if you take a closer look, you will find that this rudder is completely free from the gate control of the princely mansion. The gray walls around it are only more than one person high, and the gates that are open on weekdays are even wider than the gates of Jingyang City, enough to accommodate more than a dozen horses walking side by side.

In short, the feeling here is that you can come and go when you want, and you can go in and out as if you were walking on the ground.

In fact, many years ago, when the Loyalty League was first established, there were indeed many people who had such thoughts. They believe that this so-called loyalty league is nothing more than a rabble of people occupying the mountains as kings, so even the place where these people settle is built like a disorderly cottage.

Of course, there were not so many houses within this low wall at that time, because the Loyalty League was a small and weak gang at that time. Not only is he often bullied and blackmailed by a slightly larger sect, but sometimes he is even beaten by some lone travelers with high martial arts.

But it didn't last long. In just a few years, the Loyal and Righteous League has grown from a small gang of less than 100 people to continuous growth, and finally became the largest gang in Dayu.

Now, in the face of the wall of the Loyal Alliance's helm, which is still as low as it was decades ago, no one dares to feel that kind of freedom to come and go.

Because in the past few decades, there have indeed been many masters of the rivers and lakes who think they are good at kung fu, and they easily climbed over the low wall and entered the Zhongyi League to investigate. Eventually, however, they were all lifted out of the wide door.

All these changes that have taken place in the Loyalty League are entirely due to its first leader, Xue Pinghao.

This young man who was able to take charge of the Loyalty League before the age of 30, in addition to having a superb martial arts, the most important thing is that he has an extremely sharp political mind.

As early as when the well-recognized crown prince Haoxing Xiaoyin was suddenly demoted to the rank of eternal king, Xue Pinghao had already foreseen that the Dayu court would eventually have a day of confrontation with the Yin people.

Therefore, he immediately made a decision and bet all his bets on the emperor's eldest son, Haoxing Xiaoqi, and began to spare no effort to support his seizure of the throne.

As it turned out, Xue Pinghao's bet was completely right!

After Yongwang Haoxing Xiaoyin plotted to die, the emperor's eldest son Haoxing Xiaoqi ascended the throne and ordered to kill all the hermits in Dayu.

At that time, Xue Pinghao, who was already a hero of the dragon, continued to spare no effort to serve the new emperor. He led the Loyal and Righteous Alliance, which had become the largest gang in the rivers and lakes, and acted as the vanguard of the imperial court to eradicate the hermitages.

Unfortunately, in the end, when Xue Pinghao himself exterminated the hermits in the Tibetan Valley, he was torn to pieces by Xiao Tianjue, who went mad.

This can be regarded as seeking benevolence, and he has truly done his best for His Majesty the Emperor of Dayu, and he has died.

After the death of Xue Pinghao, the Loyal Alliance was leaderless for a time.

However, the emperor will never let this loyal dog out of his control.

So on the bright side, he entrusted Xue Youyou, the daughter of the original alliance leader Xue Pinghao, to the position of alliance leader. In fact, the power of the Loyalty League has fallen into the hands of Zuo Yusong, the deputy leader of the alliance.

Zuo Yusong is by no means an ordinary person.

He has followed the old alliance leader Xue Pinghao for many years, and has served as the deputy alliance leader for a long time, and his understanding and familiarity with the affairs of the alliance are beyond the reach of others.

However, these are all secondary, what the emperor really likes is that Zuo Yusong is not only loyal, but also very flexible in case of trouble.

The reason why the emperor has such a deep understanding of this deputy leader of the Zhongyi League is because Zuo Yusong once assisted Xue Pinghao and carried out a bold innovation in the Jianghu business engaged in by the Zhongyi League, so that the Zhongyi League completely changed from a traditional Jianghu gang to another powerful local armed force in addition to the government.

Before that, although the Loyal Alliance led by Xue Pinghao had to run errands for the imperial court from time to time, they never took the court's money. However, the thousands of brothers in the alliance still had to support their families, so some of the business on the rivers and lakes was still done correctly.

And these transactions on the rivers and lakes can be said to be varied, involving three religions and nine streams, both underworld and white, most of which are expressly prohibited by the government.

After a number of serious crimes such as smuggling and trafficking, kidnapping and extortion, and armed assault occurred under the Loyalty League, and were arrested and imprisoned or even exiled by the local government, Zuo Yusong, the deputy leader of the alliance, suggested to the alliance leader Xue Pinghao that the business of the loyalty alliance gradually turn from the side to the right business.

This suggestion was immediately endorsed and supported by Xue Pinghao, who was struggling with the matter.

So, under the auspices of Zuo Yusong, the deputy leader of the alliance, the Zhongyi League gradually withdrew from all kinds of unruly underworld transactions in the rivers and lakes, and finally completely changed its appearance and started a serious business, such as opening restaurants, inns, dart boards, green houses, casinos, and even medical halls.

And Zuo Yusong's real cleverness lies in the fact that in addition to making the Zhongyi League make a lot of money from these so-called businessmen, he also used his skills to pull the local government in, and the two sides formed a kind of interest bond of collusion between officials and businessmen.

Since then, the Loyalty League has been given a half-official and half-merchant cloak in its transactions in various places, and some medical centers have directly taken up the banner of joint government and business, justifiably occupying the most prosperous areas in the local area and paying the lowest taxes.

As a result, the other privately run firms were naturally unable to compete with the Loyalty League, and had to rely on its breath to continue to survive.

In addition, most of the so-called regular business deals with customers who come and go, and in addition to providing monetary benefits to the Loyalty League, it can also play a role in obtaining information and gathering intelligence.

It was through these places of business that the Loyal Alliance was not only able to discover many of the hermits who were still hiding in Dayu, but also knew the movements of other gangs in the rivers and lakes, so that they could be firmly trampled underfoot.

While those people in the rivers and lakes were forced to pay homage to the wealthy boss of the Zhongyi League, they began to jokingly call the ghostly left deputy alliance leader "smiling fox" in private.

After a long time, this nickname was spread more and more widely, and finally became a recognized nickname of Zuo Yusong. But now that the nickname has been mentioned, it has long lost its original derogatory meaning, and is more like a compliment to this sleek and shrewd leader of the Left Vice-Alliance.

And this smiling fox, who is sleek and extremely flexible, has not only been valued by the emperor, but also appreciated by the emperor's henchman and the chief manager of the inner house, Zheng Gonggong.

Of course, Zuo Yusong has also constantly proved with his practical actions that he is indeed worthy of Zheng Gonggong's appreciation.

In the more than ten years that he has completely controlled the Loyalty League, Zuo Yusong has almost turned it into Zheng Yong's private thug. This No. 1 gang that dominates the rivers and lakes, in addition to following the emperor's holy decree and dealing with the hidden people, the rest of the affairs are completely under Zheng Yong's orders, eradicating dissidents and fighting political enemies for him.

Therefore, in this Zheng Yong's action to trap Han Bing, Zuo Yusong can be said to have mobilized all the forces of the Loyal and Righteous Alliance in Yuanfang Pavilion, and Shen Qingluo, the master of Shunfeng Hall, commanded it at the scene, arranged the trap, and wanted to put Han Bing to death.

Regrettably, however, the operation ended in complete failure!