Chapter 25 Fierce Five
Seeing everyone's gaze, the old man coughed lightly and said in a deep voice: " This time we came to Guangdong with the Gu Gang Leader, first, to do our part to cover Zhang Gongzi on the road, and secondly, we have always been unaccustomed to the eunuchs' misdeeds, and have already become a thorn in the eye of Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of the Dongchang Factory, and only hated that the lack of means in a hurry could not stop the Dongchang army, so he came with the Gu Gang Leader, but it did not mean that he gave up the foundation of Jiangnan, and at the same time that the Gu Gang Master convened the disciples of the Beggar Gang, we would also invite fellow martial artists, and when the time came, we would return to Jiangnan and the Eunuch Party to fight the male and female......
With the double promise made by Gu Youdao, the leader of the beggar gang, and the representative elected by the Jiangnan heroes, and with Qi Jiguang and the heroes of Guangdong as proof, the matter of these hundreds of martial arts heroes hiding from Jiangnan to Guangdong is basically a set of tone.
If anyone stands up and cares about something at this time, it seems that they are a little at a loss, and this matter is finalized, and the atmosphere at the banquet is much warmer.
There is no unknown person here, everyone has been in the rivers and lakes for many years, and they all have a lot of talking points, and they praise each other a few words, or say a few deeds that they are proud of, which quickly dilutes the initial tense atmosphere.
At this time, Qi Jiguang and Gu Youdao and Zhang Jingxiu finalized some matters for Zhang Jingxiu to avoid Ryukyu, and the Cao Gang leader was in a good mood when he got the promise of the beggar gang, he had been walking on the water all the year round, and many of the gangs under his command were originally coastal people, and they should have cut off their livelihood after the sea ban was issued, so they began to take the canal to transport this livelihood, of course, they also collected a lot of bandits and bullies, so when it came to this sea route, no one was more familiar than him.
This time, the Guangdong heroes brought by Qi Jiguang to Zhenhailou may not all be the top forces in Guangdong, but they all have a deep relationship with Qi Jiguang, in other words, they are the forces that Qi Jiguang can trust or control, so there is not much estimate of the power of the Dongchang eunuch party when I talked to Gu Youdao and others before.
Guangdong has a large coastal area, and these Guangdong heroes have a little bit to do with the word 'sea' no matter what kind of business they are engaged in.
This banquet is not extravagant, nor can it be said to be very harmonious, but in the end, everyone has what they need.
Qi Jiguang finally figured out the plan of Gu Youdao and the others, so he also had a plan in his heart about how to arrange.
The local martial arts forces in Guangdong have been guaranteed by Gu Youdao and others, and they can breathe a sigh of relief a little, and they don't have to guard against the damage of their forces anytime and anywhere, but these individuals have their own thoughts, even if Gu Youdao's reputation is burning and wants them to believe it completely, it is impossible to go far on this road of rivers and lakes, and some can still live well without the heart of harm, but most of the bones that have not been devoured by the rivers and lakes are not left.
Those Qi family troops who were sent by Qi Jiguang to 'protect' Jiangnan Qunhao on the surface finally withdrew, but Gu Youdao only said in his heart that although the sentinel was gone, it was impossible for Qi Jiguang's caution to ambush them without a dark line.
On the one hand, he gave Gu Youdao a favor to these martial arts heroes, and on the other hand, he put them in a place where he could see them, which was better than Gu Youdao people scattering and hiding by themselves.
Finally, the arrangements were made, and he finally gained a firm foothold in Guangdong, but Gu Youdao would not forget that there was still Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of Dongchang Factory in the north, who was eyeing him, not to mention that the official and beggar forces entrenched in the south of the Yangtze River had not yet been eradicated.
Of course, this kind of convening force naturally puts the ability in the first place, after all, there are more than a million beggar disciples, but most of them are beggars who do not know martial arts, and then leave out the old and weak women and children among them, and the rest is only about 100,000, and these hundreds of thousands of beggar gang disciples really understand the fists and feet, I am afraid that there are not even half of them, otherwise there are really hundreds of thousands of martial arts masters, and the beggar gang is afraid that if they do not dominate the world, they should have unified the martial arts a long time ago, so why be so down.
Even among the gangsters who know less than half of their fists and feet, those who can be called good are probably half of these half-percent, Gu Youdao At this time, in order to deal with the official and beggar forces in Jiangnan, or even the Dongchang army led by Jiang Jingzhong, of course he would not summon some people who did not know martial arts or had low martial arts skills to slaughter the other party.
Besides, even if he Gu Youdao really wants to recruit all the beggars in the world to pile up with his life, Guangdong Governor Qi Jiguang will never tolerate him doing this, you must know that the population of Guangdong Province at this time is only more than five million people, if hundreds of flowers are flocked to Guangzhou, unless Qi Jiguang slaughters beggars with his hot hands, otherwise Guangdong will definitely not be able to bear it and the people's livelihood will wither.
Now the beggar gang masters who are following Gu Youdao include Li Jing, the hall master of the Dayi Hall who is in charge of the Fuzhou rudder, and Meng Hao, the deputy hall master. The master of the auditorium, who is in charge of the Shuntianfu branch, is 100 years old. Zhao Zhao, the master of the Great Wisdom Hall who was in charge of the Kaifeng rudder, was not guilty.
Among the three rudders of Fuzhou, Shuntianfu, and Kaifeng, it can be said that the Fuzhou rudder that has been hit the most this time can be said to be the Fuzhou rudder, not because the power of the imperial court recognized Fuzhou here, but because the power of the officials and beggars in Jiangnan is the strongest, resulting in the overall weakness of the Fuzhou rudder in the beggar gang.
In particular, the official beggar power has been separated from the beggars, and the situation inside the beggar gang is far clearer than outsiders, and the official beggar head Wang Siyi has used his fame and fortune to buy a lot of beggars to help the Fuzhou branch of the Dayi Hall.
Especially in recent years, the official beggar forces have become more and more unbridled, and there is a momentum of completely defecting to the imperial court Dongchang, and acting more and more unscrupulously, Wang Siyi, the official beggar head, not only did not obey the orders of the new gang leader Gu Youdao, but even tampered with the gang rules and private gang leaders.
If it weren't for the calm and sophisticated head of the Great Righteous Hall, Li Jing, who was calm and sophisticated, and the new gang leader Gu Youdao, brave and resourceful, and bold and quick to help the Fuzhou rudder, I am afraid that the Fuzhou rudder would have been exterminated by Wang Siyi, the official beggar, and the eunuchs.
But even if Gu Youdao came to help, the Fuzhou rudder still received a lot of impact, the location of the division was exposed and destroyed by the imperial court, Gu Youdao could only take the beggar disciples to fight with them, and it was easy to improve slightly, but because of the rescue of Zhang Jingxiu and Jiang Jingzhong to go south, the little advantage established before was in vain in an instant, and even had to lead the remnants of the Fuzhou rudder disciples and the heroes from all over the country who came to help the fist to go to Guangdong.
Shuntianfu rudder auditorium, but because it is inconvenient to act in the imperial city, and it is suppressed by the two forces of Dongchang and Jinyiwei, the situation has always been not very good, but fortunately, the rudder of the auditorium is very secretive, and the disciples under the hall have always been very low-key, so the dismal operation in the Beijing division has persisted.
But after all, it was a mistake, after being used by Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of Dongchang Factory, Zhang Jingxiu fished out the hall master Fang Baisui with the incense bait, and suddenly gave the Shuntianfu rudder a solid blow, causing the auditorium master Fang Baisui to cover Zhang Jingxiu to flee to Jiangnan in a hurry, and the Shuntianfu rudder force was completely dormant.
In this way, the Shuntianfu rudder and the Fuzhou rudder were almost destroyed, and the beggar gang was only left in the eastern part of the Central Plains, such as the Kaifeng Dazhitang, and the Dayi Hall also became a torch in the east.
In addition to these three halls, the beggar gang also has the Daren Hall in Chengdu, the hall master Nie Ge is the most powerful of the five hall masters of the beggar gang 'benevolence, righteousness, etiquette and wisdom', the righteous son of the former gang leader Shi Wanjia, and the hundred-year-old apprentice Wei Yan of this gang leader is under the command of Nie Ge of the Darentang.
There is also a Daxin Hall located in Yunnan Rudder, and the hall owner Song Wanxiang is also a rare good hand.
After all, such a huge gang as the beggar gang is very mixed, and it takes a lot of effort to manage it, at first Gu Youdao summoned the Kaifeng rudder Dazhitang Zhao Wucheng in Jiangnan, and together with the remnants of the Fuzhou rudder, as well as the heroes from all over the world who rushed to Jiangnan to support, they have suppressed the official and beggar forces entrenched in the Jiangnan area.
He didn't think about continuing to gather people, who knew that before he could find a chance to fight to the death with the official beggar forces, the 100-year-old Fang Fang, the owner of the Shuntianfu Auditorium, fled south, and the treacherous conspiracy of Jiang Jingzhong, the governor of Dongchang, made the beggar gang completely fall into disadvantage.
At this time, he retreated to Guangdong, Gu Youdao could not keep it any longer, and directly sent a message to Song Wanxiang, the master of the Daxin Hall of the Yunnan Branch, Nie Ge, the master of the Daren Hall of the Chengdu Branch, and Wei Yan, the deputy hall master, and others, asking them to come to Guangzhou to converge, kill back to Fujian to repel the Dongchang army, and fight to the death with the official beggars.
In this battle, either the beggars repelled the Dongchang and completely exterminated the official beggars, or Gu Youdao and others were defeated by the joint efforts of the Dongchang and the official beggars, and from then on, the entire beggar gang was afraid that it would fall under the control of the eunuch party.
Compared with Gu Youdao, those Jiangnan heroes who came with them were obviously more anxious, after all, as far as they were concerned, there was still a way out for the beggars to have a great cause, but they, the local martial arts forces in Jiangnan, were already ready to send them.
Most of these people's foundations are in Jiangnan, and the masters of the forces can withdraw from Jiangnan for a while, but all the personnel of the forces, as well as the industries that have been accumulated for many years, cannot be taken away, although now Dongchang's eyes are focused on those who fled to Guangdong, but who knows if it drags on for a long time, the other party will carry out a big purge in the Jiangnan area, and then many of them are afraid that many of their years of hard work will be in vain......