Chapter 8 Snow Red, Tongya
Some people say that the most prosperous place in the Yuan Kingdom is the capital.
Some people say that the most peaceful place in the Yuan Kingdom is the capital.
In fact, for a period of time a hundred years ago, the capital was precisely the most chaotic place in the land of the Yuan Kingdom.
That was when Emperor Ming's great-grandfather, the great-grandfather of the first emperor Li Shun, and Emperor Wu Li Jiangshan was still there.
Emperor Wu has been fond of martial arts since he was a teenager, and when he was still a prince, he had concealed his identity and practiced in the rivers and lakes for a period of time, and he also made many friends at the same time, all of whom were famous Jianghu people. Emperor Wu later succeeded to the throne, and the first thing he did after ascending the throne was to issue an imperial decree that was later called: "Jianghu into the capital". In this imperial edict, it was clearly written: all famous Jianghu forces were allowed to enter Beijing for development, so as to promote the martial atmosphere of the Yuan Kingdom.
When the major Jianghu forces entered the capital, the first to bear the brunt was the gangs of the Jianghu people who knew Emperor Wu back then, and these gangs quickly moved their gangs to the capital.
In this way, the capital has become a gathering place for people from all over the world.
However, Emperor Wu did not think of one thing: chivalry is forbidden with martial arts.
With the influx of more and more Jianghu people, the capital also began to become chaotic, many Jianghu people began to fight for gang grievances, and the war also implicated many ordinary people, during that time, the people of the capital lived a life of misery.
But fortunately, this situation did not last long, Emperor Wu reigned for only 5 years and died of illness, and Emperor Wen Li Yan, who inherited the throne, began to purge the Jianghu forces in the capital, many gangs were forced to disband, and countless Jianghu people were forced to leave the capital.
Only two sects survived this purge.
Snow Chimen, Tongya Gang.
At that time, Emperor Wen handed over the matter of purging the Jianghu forces in the capital to the Tianwei general Meng Tianwei and the Chun King Li Han, and at that time, the daughter of the master of the Xuechimen Gate happened to be accepted as a concubine by the King of Chun, and the daughter of the Tongya gang leader was also married to Meng Tianwei's son. So Meng Tianwei and King Chun wrote to Emperor Wen together, begging Emperor Wen to agree to let Xue Chimen and the Tongya Gang continue to stay in the capital.
Emperor Wen Li Yan unexpectedly allowed this matter, but also ordered that the people of the Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang were strictly forbidden to use force in the capital, and when necessary, all the effective combat power of the two gangs must be sent by the imperial court - Emperor Wen was preparing for war, first solving the turmoil caused by the Jianghu people in the capital, and then slowly accumulating strength.
During the reign of the first emperor Li Shun, Ouyang Ce, who had just become the general of the plundering east, led an army of 80,000 to attack the country, and when the two armies were fighting, Ouyang Ce was injured by the poisonous arrows of the army of the country and fell unconscious. But if Ouyang Ce returned to Beijing, the front-line army will definitely be defeated, but the most important city in the border pass of the Mi State - Yuehuang City has been unable to attack for a long time, just when the soldiers were at a loss, the then five princes, the later Ming Emperor Li Linming suddenly asked to see the first emperor, asking to lead 3,000 soldiers and 300 warriors of the Xuechi Gang and Tongya Gang to rush to the front line, and send Ouyang Ce back to the capital safely while ensuring the stability of the front-line army.
The first emperor agreed to Li Linming's request, and Li Linming took Sima Youran, Yuan Hao, and Xiao Jiuyue, plus 3,000 soldiers and 300 warriors, and rushed to the front line overnight.
After galloping for two days and two nights, Li Linming finally reached the front line. As soon as he arrived at the barracks, Li Linming ordered to go down and transfer 100 people from the 300 warriors who accompanied the army, plus 200 soldiers and 300 people, to do his best to escort Ouyang Ce back to Beijing safely.
For the time being, the front line was under the sole responsibility of Li Linming, who quickly reorganized the army, and Sima Youran was in charge of persuading the generals who were skeptical of Li Linming; Xiao Jiuyue is proficient in the art of war, and is responsible for all the arrangements for the army's next attack; Yuan Hao is responsible for leading a hundred elites as a surprise attack team, and when the two armies are engaged at the most critical time, they are responsible for massacring the enemy's soldiers who are about to run out.
Under the arrangement of Li Linming and others, there was no problem on the front line for the time being, but the team escorting Ouyang Ce back to Beijing had a problem.
The secret agents of the State of Mi got the information from somewhere, and learned that a team of 300 people was about to escort Ouyang Ce back to Beijing. He immediately sent someone to intercept it, as long as he intercepted and killed Ouyang Ce on the way, and took Ouyang Ce's corpse to the front line, the military spirit of the Yuan army would definitely collapse, and the Yuan State would win without a fight.
This was exactly what Li Linming was afraid of, so he would let a hundred warriors escort Ouyang Ce with two hundred soldiers, after all, the strength of the martial artists of the Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang was much stronger than that of ordinary soldiers.
The team sent by the State of Miao to pursue Ouyang Ce had nearly a thousand people, while the team escorting Ouyang Ce was only three hundred. The two sides have fought many times along the way, and the team escorting Ouyang Ce has been in danger many times......
But in the end, Ouyang Ce was successfully escorted back to the capital safely, and as soon as he arrived in the capital, he was directly sent to the Imperial Medical Department for treatment.
On the other hand, the 300 squad escorting Ouyang Ce suffered heavy casualties and was almost wiped out.
Only 300 survived...... Eighteen people!
Eighteen people, eight warriors, and ten ordinary soldiers. Among those who died, the head of the Snow Red Gate and the leader of the Tongya Gang were impressively listed.
Half a month later, the front line was victorious, after the Yuehuang City was broken, and the six cities of the country were broken, the first emperor Li Shun rewarded the whole army at the same time, but also specially sent a plaque inscribed by the first emperor himself to Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang: "The brave are invincible." Ouyang Ce finally woke up after being in a coma for half a month, and when he learned that the three hundred people who escorted him back to Beijing were almost all wiped out, the general of the Yuan State who made the surrounding countries tremble with fear couldn't help but weep bitterly. He first personally went to the homes of the two hundred soldiers to deliver the pensions, and knelt down on one knee for them or their families, and said, "Thank you." ”
This voice of thanks expresses the guilt of the young general for these two hundred families.
Subsequently, Ouyang Ce went to Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang again, and in the mourning hall, looking at the memorial tablet, he couldn't help but cry again. In order to compensate for these two gangs, Ouyang Ce recognized Shen Ying, the daughter of the late Xue Chimen Sect Master Shen Wendian, and Wu Tong, the son of Wu Huang, the leader of the Tongya Gang, who also died because of him, as his goddaughter and godson, and swore in public: Whoever dares to touch the Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang in the future will be the enemy of him Ouyang Ce, and he Ouyang Ce will not let go of the people who do something against Xue Chimen and Tongya Gang.
Since then, the Snow Chimen and the Tongya Gang have begun to grow rapidly, and although restrictions on the use of force in the capital still exist, the power of the two sects has continued to grow.
At the same time, there was some friction between the two gangs, sometimes because of turf fights, sometimes because of other things, but there was still a balance between the two gangs that had not been broken.
It wasn't until the twenty-year-old Wu Tong officially took over as the leader of the Tongya Gang that this balance was completely broken.
Wu Tong has lived under the protection of Ouyang Ce since he was a child, and since he was a child, he thought that as long as it was something he thought was right, it must be right. So this also developed his murderous character. When he was sixteen years old, he ignored the ban on martial arts and connived at his subordinates to commit murder, and killed three people at that time, but the common people were afraid of his identity as the general's godson, and Ouyang Ce was fighting all the year round, so naturally he would not know about these things, so even if this matter reached Dali Temple, Dali Temple would turn a blind eye to these things.
Since then, Wu Tong has intensified. Especially after taking over as the gang leader, he began to manipulate the Tongya Gang to forcibly meddle in the capital's Qinglou, gambling houses and other unclean transactions, and slowly, even the rest of the Tongya Gang began to rise up lawlessly, forcibly confiscating land, forcibly robbing people's daughters, and doing all kinds of bad things, but no one cares. And Xue Chimen, since Shen Ying, the daughter of the previous door master, became the door master, she has gradually disappeared from the people's field of vision, and even the Xue Chimen gate has been closed, let alone interfering with the Tongya Gang. And Wu Tong was also self-aware, and he didn't dare to provoke Shen Ying, who was also Ouyang Ce's son, so he didn't have much trouble with Xue Chimen.
So in the past few years, the Tongya Gang has slowly become the underground overlord of the capital, and Wu Tong has also become the underground king of the capital.
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