Chapter 12 A two-pronged approach
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"Virtuous son-in-law!" sent away the servant woman, Old Man Zhou's face was serious, obviously he had something important to say.
"Father-in-law, is this?" Yue Buqun was puzzled, but he had a faint premonition in his heart, after all, nearly a month had passed since that incident, and the other party had to take action after all.
"Steward Zhang of Tongguan has sent someone here!" Old Man Zhou said as he observed Yue Buqun's face, as if he wanted to distinguish something.
"Oh, is it finally here?" Yue Buqun raised his eyebrows, and didn't care about Old Man Zhou's small movements, "It seems that my father-in-law already understands the root cause of the three murders in Gangjiang?"
"Yes! The old man has suffered an unwarranted disaster!" Old man Zhou looked bitter, the pain of losing a child, but it could not be healed in a month!
"According to my father-in-law's wishes, how should this matter end? Do you want my son-in-law to kill Zhang Buti and Gao Shen General again to make my father-in-law angry!" Yue Buqun looked playful, looking at Old Man Zhou's face struggling to make a choice, but he didn't care about the life or death of Zhang Buti and Gao Shen General, although they took the initiative to send someone to contact, they would make peace with themselves, and they would definitely pay some price to themselves, and even cooperate again to control the interests of Tongguan. However, now my mentality is completely different from the previous only self-preservation, and after the thought is clear, I have figured out many of the keys that I ignored before. Among them, the Huashan he represents is considered a decent family in the martial arts, but in the eyes of the government, it is the same demon sect** Even if they kill Gao Shenjun, those magistrates don't say whether they can find out that the murderer is from Huashan, even if they find out that the murderer is Huashan, they will casually find some substitutes for the dead ghosts to deal with the past, because the government really can't control Huashan, with the dangerous terrain of Huashan, the government can't send a large army to encircle and suppress a master of the rivers and lakes who are familiar with the terrain of Huashan. Once those local officials report that Huashan is the murderer, the imperial court will order them to send troops to encircle and suppress Huashan, which is the most annoying for the foreign officials who can get by, not to mention that the encirclement and suppression will be condemned by the imperial court. Therefore, the famous factions in the martial arts will maintain some kind of tacit understanding with the local government, and the two sides try not to offend each other, and sometimes they also help each other, such as what tricky people such as Jiangyang thieves come to the local area, and if the government is not able to catch it, the major factions will send disciples to help capture it, and sometimes the disciples of the big factions commit a homicide case, and the government will try to help cover it up. In this way, even if the senior staff general has a strong relationship and great influence behind his back in the court, he is not in the same system as himself, and he really doesn't have to be too scrupulous!
"This... Even if the head of the family kills General Gao and Zhang Buti, my son will not be able to come back! The old man family has a great cause, no higher than the head of the family in Huashan, and he is transcendent, once he has a feud with the official forces behind the high staff general, I am afraid that the lives of the old man and the whole family will be in danger! What's more, since they have already surrendered, they will be slaughtered severely!" After a long psychological struggle, Old Man Zhou finally rationally suppressed his hatred and made a compromise. After all, after decades of experience in the business, although Old Man Zhou has gained a lot, he has also given up a lot of things, and he has long been accustomed to compromise.
This answer did not surprise Yue Buqun, "My father-in-law can let go of his attachments, but he is a person with great wisdom and great fortune!"
casually comforted the old man Zhou, Yue Buqun looked at the sky and it was not too early, "In this way, my father-in-law will talk to them about the sharing of interests between the two sides in Tongguan on behalf of my Huashan, and in a few days, I will go to Tongguan to see what kind of goods the general is that Lao Shizi Gao Shen, so that Zhang Buti dares to turn his back on my Huashan!"
"Let me take over this matter?" Old Man Zhou was pleasantly surprised, but he hesitated a little, after all, the benefits in this are too great, it is really a good thing for pie in the sky, Old Man Zhou is afraid that he will fall into Yue Buqun's trap again.
As if he knew Old Man Zhou's concerns, Yue Buqun had a reassuring expression on his face, "Father-in-law, now you and I are a family that can't be kissed anymore, and if you have benefits, you will naturally not forget your own family, yours is not mine...
Leaving the old man Zhou with a sluggish face, Yue Buqun said goodbye and returned to the mountain in a chic manner!
Along the way up the mountain, Yue Buqun did not perform light exercises, but walked through the forest at will, letting go and feeling the majestic vitality of the dense forest, as if his own breath had also been washed, and gradually became clean and vibrant.
Suddenly, Yue Buqun felt a slightly strange aura lurking in the forest in front of him, and a trace of essence couldn't help flashing in his eyes, but his face remained silent, still calmly walking forward.
Seeing that he was getting closer and closer to that breath, "Whoosh!" Yue Buqun suddenly raised his breath and jumped up, casting the 'Golden Goose Across the Sky' to fly towards the hidden place of the person in the dark.
In mid-air, Yue Buqun's right hand suddenly split out a palm, between the lightning and flint, the palm wind had separated the slender branches and leaves in front of the person, and Yue Buqun's white and slender palm hit the man's head directly!
"Drink!" The person in the dark Xu didn't expect Yue Buqun to be able to discover his traces, but in a hurry, he didn't have time to pull out his blade, so he had to exhale and open his voice, and he also punched upward, and the fist wind condensed, as if it could break gold and break jade.
Yue Buqun's eyes lit up, as if he understood the identity of this person, the move in his hand suddenly changed, the palm style turned into a finger, the four fingers rolled back, only the longest middle finger was left to point out, the majestic palm wind turned into a sharp finger in an instant, and the wrist trembled, but the fingertips bypassed the fist of the person who came, and gently clicked on the inner guan point of his vein.
Taking advantage of the middle finger of his wrist, his body trembled slightly like an electric shock, Yue Buqun grabbed the person's wrist with his right hand, and clasped the key points on his wrist, such as Lieqing, Taiyuan, and Shenmen, before landing on his feet and standing in front of this person.
"Haha! Senior Brother Yu is so idle, he even played hide and seek with this seat!" Yue Buqun didn't smile, his right hand was slightly forced, Yu Ming only felt soreness and numbness all over his body, his arm was in severe pain, and his forehead immediately broke out in cold sweat.
"The head of the sect spares his life, the disciple is just cautious, and he does not dare to expose his body at will, so as not to bear the heavy responsibility of the master!"
"Oh, yes, but this seat misunderstood Senior Brother Yu!" Yue Buqun didn't care if what he said was true or false, and when he saw that he was soft, he let go of his wrist.
"Don't dare, the disciple has to thank the head for condescending to guide the disciple's martial arts!" Although he wanted to get rid of it, Yu Ming didn't dare to go beyond it in the slightest!
"Senior Brother Yu is polite! It's normal for our senior brothers to have occasional discussions, and we can't talk about pointing! By the way, I'll let you do something?" Looking at Yu Ming's face full of awe, Yue Buqun was very satisfied with the result of this beating, and stopped talking nonsense and asked about business.
"Back to the master, the disciple has been investigating in the Tongguan General Mansion and Zhang Buti's Mansion for many days, and has heard that the dwarf man who is good at the Thirteen Taibao horizontal training is named Tie Zhuang, and he is the guard recruited by the Gao Shen General when he left Beijing, and he is the only master under the command of the Gao Shen General. Last year, he also gave a beautiful sister to Gao Shen General as a concubine, and he gave Gao Shen General a large number of rare treasures every once in a while, and he was extremely flattering, but Gao Shen General seems to be arrogant and scheming, Zhang Bu is tired to drink around, but he can firmly control it in the palm of his hand, maybe Zhang Bu is not tired and has now regretted taking refuge in Gao Shen General, but he has already betrayed our Huashan, and he can only hold Gao Shen General's thigh in order to save his life!" Yu Ming's talent is really extraordinary, and he can easily find out the situation of General Gao and Zhang Buti, such an ability to do things is also outstanding among the many ordinary disciples in Huashan before, no wonder he can be sent by the predecessors of the Qi Sect to Jiangnan to lure away Uncle Feng!
"Very good!" Yue Buqun did not hesitate to praise, "Master and I really did not misunderstand you, with your excellent ability, with more experience, you will definitely become the right-hand man of this head to revitalize Huashan! I hope you can make persistent efforts!"
"Thank you for the cultivation of the master! The disciple must do his best for Huashan, and then die!" Yu Ming took the opportunity to show his loyalty, hoping that the head of the sect would forget what I had just offended.
"By the way, last time you asked you to prepare carrier pigeons and other things, how is it now?" Yue Buqun knew that not knowing was a villain's mentality, so he naturally wouldn't take his allegiance at this time to heart, and he would still have to beat it from time to time in the future.
"Rest assured, the disciple has already raised a large number of carrier pigeons, and he will never delay the big event of the master!"
"Well, you send some carrier pigeons to the old man Zhou Qingwei, let him bring them up the mountain with the grain, and then take three thousand taels of silver from him, and use the money to secretly buy and subdue the gangsters and beggars in Huayin and the surrounding counties, and hold the wind and grass in the palm of his hand! Whenever there are masters of the rivers and lakes approaching Huashan, I have to know in advance, you may be able to do it?" The establishment of an intelligence organization was something that Yue Buqun had wanted to do for a long time, but he was suffering from the lack of suitable manpower, and now he saw that Yu Buqun had excellent ability to do things, so why did Yue Buqun hesitate to reuse it!
"Thank you for the trust of the master, and the disciple will live up to the trust of the master!" Yu Mingda is overjoyed, as long as he can be reused and let himself show his talents, why not really surrender to this!
"Well, that's great!"
Yue Buqun is not afraid that Yu Ming can turn the sky, he defeated him last time and used five moves, but this time he only used one move, and the gap between the martial arts of the two sides will only get bigger and bigger in the future, I believe that Yu Ming also knows this, and it is not far from the day when he sincerely surrenders.
"Confucius's "Spring and Autumn Period" is really a subtle statement, but this book is just read by the ministers of the humerus of the country! But when it is used to select scholars and grassroots officials, I am afraid that it is putting the cart before the horse, and the clean talk is misleading to the country, and the hard work is to rejuvenate the country, and the Spring and Autumn Period for grassroots officials and even scholars is just a tempting thing to talk about, but the basic agricultural politics and arithmetic that grassroots officials should master, and so on, and so on, the imperial examination is actually ignored.
Reviewing "Spring and Autumn" again, Yue Buqun's thinking is naturally not as pedantic as his predecessor, and he is obsessed with worshipping the subtle words and righteousness of "Spring and Autumn", not only noncommittal to the political ideas in the book, but also very speechless about the rigid political ideas of the country's election of officials.
"Since "Spring and Autumn" is useless, why do you still read it, Senior Brother, can you still go to the imperial examination!" Seeing that Yue Buqun despised the imperial imperial examination while still studying the Spring and Autumn Period attentively, Ning Zhong, who was accompanying him to read it, really couldn't watch it.
Yue Buqun had a shocked expression on his face, "Senior Sister can actually predict the prophet?"
"What?" Ning Zhong seemed to have seen a ghost, "Senior brother really plans to participate in the imperial examination?"
"What's the matter, why can't I go to the imperial examination?" Yue Buqun looked at the little beauty's shocked cute appearance with interest, and couldn't help but want to tease her.
"But isn't the imperial examination going to be an official? Senior brother, you are the dignified head of Huashan, and you still need to go to the imperial court to be that petty official to be angry?" Ning Zhong couldn't help but grab Yue Buqun's hand, for fear that he would really go down the mountain to become an official.
Yue Buqun is not as confident as Ning Zhongze that he can achieve the ranking of the imperial examination, after all, the imperial examination is related to the selection of scholars from the national dynasty, and the forces of all parties are intertwined, even if he is talented, he cannot guarantee that he will be on the list, but it is not bad to tease the little junior sister,
"But now that Huashan has no one to ask for, and there is no money to ask for money, it is better for me to go to the court to be an official for a few years first, and then you will also be Mrs. Fate!"
Ning Zhong was ashamed and angry, "But what about Huashan? Daddy handed over Huashan to you because he wanted you to revitalize Huashan and shock the martial arts!"
Yue Buqun rubbed his junior sister's jade hand without a trace, "Okay! Tease you! I didn't go to the imperial examination to become an official, but I thought about it carefully, Huashan is really no one except for a few of us now, and if we have not achieved martial arts and are not famous, we will not be able to officially recruit descendants and disciples, and we will not be able to magnify Huashan, but it will take at least 20 years to recruit disciples and revitalize Huashan when we are successful in martial arts, which is too slow. Therefore, I think that when the martial arts are not successful, can we prepare early, accumulate money and connections, once the martial arts are successful, the disciples gather, with the money and connections that have been prepared in advance, we can immediately attack everywhere and magnify Huashan! However, we have not achieved martial arts, but we cannot get money and connections from the martial arts, but compared to the martial arts, the imperial court is also a good place to accumulate money and connections. In this way, I might as well go to participate in the imperial examination, even if I can't get the title of the gold list, as long as there is a person who lifts people or shows off his talents, I can make friends with the government forces everywhere, pay money and recruit people on the legitimate channels of the government, and lay a good foundation for Huashan's comeback in advance!"
Ning Zhong only heard the beautiful eyes shine, and his face was admired, "Senior brother's move, but the Ming Xiu Plank Road is dark Chen Cang, it's really clever!"
"There's no way," Yue Buqun smiled bitterly, "Now Huashan is just a few of us, it's really weak, if we show off in the rivers and lakes, not to mention provoking those first-class masters, it will bring us a catastrophe, let's just say that those **gangs with many people are enough to make us hurt our muscles and bones! We can't afford to lose! Now everyone is still practicing martial arts with their hearts, and I will go to the imperial examination, and the two-pronged approach is enough to get twice the result with half the effort!"
Ning Zhong was stunned for a moment, and secretly said in his heart, it turns out that the senior brother went to participate in the imperial examination so that we would not go to the rivers and lakes to take risks! Then he thought that the imperial court officialdom seemed to be in danger!
"There is an endless intrigue in the officialdom, senior brother, you..."
"It doesn't matter, I don't really compete with them for official hats, as long as I am friendly with many parties, do not harm their interests, keep it on the edge of the government, do not get involved too deeply, and protect myself. What's more," Yue Buqun smiled confidently, "Once my life is in danger, should I really close my eyes and wait for death, with my martial arts, I will definitely be able to escape easily!"
"Well, Senior Brother is thoughtful!" Ning Zhongze put his mind at ease, but he found that his hands were itchy, and when he looked down, his face turned crimson in an instant, and he gently pulled out his hands that were being played with by Yue Buqun, "Senior brother concentrates on reading, I'll go and see if the ginseng tea is okay!"
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