Chapter 3 Book Burning
Hong Qigong accepted Guo Jing as an apprentice in Jiaxing, and then escorted them all the way to the north, and separated from Guo Jing in Jiangbei, with Lu Youjiao and three children dressed as merchants from the Central Plains to go to the desert, while Hong Qigong stayed in Jiangbei to deal with the affairs of the beggars.
At this time, not long after the tragedy of the beggar gang, the atmosphere of terror still shrouded the heads of the beggars, and the difference between the dirty clothes faction and the clean clothes faction can be seen at this critical juncture.
The Dirty Clothes faction advocated a comprehensive counterattack, and in order to avenge the dead beggar gang disciples, they formulated a crazy assassination plan, and the Pure Clothes faction had a family and business in the local area, and they did not want to be involved in this kind of incident, and those wealthy merchants in Kaifeng City were the best examples.
The Dirty Clothes faction was a proletariat, with a fearless jīng god who was willing to dare to pull the emperor down, while the Pure Clothes faction was a middle class who wanted moderate changes and was unwilling to take risks.
This irreconcilable contradiction plagued Hong Qigong, and when he came to Jiangbei, he found that things were worse than he thought.
On the one hand, Wanyan Honglie's butcher's knife is still held high and may fall at any time, and on the other hand, the two factions within the beggar gang have different opinions and make a mess, and there is a tendency to act separately and betray morality.
Fortunately, Hong Qigong's prestige was high enough, and after coming to Jiangbei, he forcibly suppressed the dispute between the two factions, but at this time, the beggar gang was like a powder keg, which would explode at one point.
Although this will cause a lot of damage to the Jin people, the foundation of the beggar gang in Jiangbei will also be destroyed.
The reason why the rivers and lakes call Hong Qigong "Northern Beggar" is not that Hong Qigong lives in Jiangbei, but that the disciples of the Beggar Gang have always insisted on resisting gold in Jiangbei, which has a sense of respect.
Hong Qigong thought about it, wanting to calm the grievances of the beggar gang and appease the worries of the clean clothes faction, but also to start with Wanyan Honglie, as long as Wanyan Honglie did not take further action, then this matter could be solved smoothly.
This is the difference between the leader and the people at the bottom, the leader has to consider the overall situation, and the people at the bottom only see what they see in front of them, so Hong Qigong sent the piece of paper to the Zhao Wangfu and expressed the meaning of reconciliation.
In this world, even peerless masters can't do whatever they want, as long as you still have relatives and concerns, you can only succumb to greater power.
After Hong Qigong finished doing this, he left Jiangbei and returned to Lin'an Mansion, and received a summons from the disciples of the Beggar Gang, knowing that Huang Yaoshi went to the White Camel Mountain in the Western Regions for his daughter, and he hurriedly followed.
Yang Kang left Wanyan Honglie's study, he didn't go back to the room directly, but went to visit Mei Chaofeng first.
He wasn't sure if he wanted to tell him about the content of the first volume of the Sutra, and even if he did, he would have to wait until he had practiced it, and of course he wouldn't tell him that it was the Nine Yīn Sutra, but he would just say that it was a Taoist method of internal strength, so that there was no need to explain the origin of the Sutra.
Mei Chaofeng's injuries are almost healed, and he still lives in the slave's room, Yang Kang briefly talked about what he has seen and heard in Jiangnan these days, Mei Chaofeng still has no words, just listens quietly.
"You're scared!" Mei Chaofeng said suddenly.
Yang Kang's body trembled suddenly, he was indeed afraid, but he pretended to be calm in front of Wanyan Honglie, Mei Chaofeng couldn't see Yang Kang's face, but he could hear the trace of trilling in his tone.
If it was the child who was peaceful, she should have said that she was excited, but what she heard at this time was not excitement, but fear, deep fear.
"Don't be afraid, with Aunt Mei here, no one can touch you. Mei Chaofeng said calmly.
In an instant, Yang Kang's tears flowed, he couldn't help but choke, and left in a hurry with a few perfunctory words, he was not used to showing his weak side in front of others.
After crossing into Yang Kang, he has been living cautiously, he understands that this is not the world of those online texts, the traverser can do whatever he wants, everything here is real, the intrigue of the royal family, the sinister turmoil of the rivers and lakes, every step has to take great risks, life and death may be in an instant.
Yang Kang returned to the room, sent the maid servant out, sat down at the table, took out the scripture and flipped through it, and then he tore off the last two pages of the scripture, put the other parts of the scripture into the furnace, and watched the handwriting on the paper slowly turn to ashes in the fire.
At the beginning, Wang Chongyang was unwilling to burn the true scriptures, which led to countless grievances in the rivers and lakes, Yang Kang had a lesson from the past, so there was nothing to hesitate, anyway, he had already remembered it in his heart, even if he was caught by a master in the future, as long as the true scripture was in his mind, he would be able to live.
As for the Sanskrit outline of the last two pages of the canon, it needs to be translated into Chinese before it is destroyed.
At this time, there were only two people in this world who knew the first volume of the "Nine Yīn True Scriptures", one was Zhou Botong and the other was Yang Kang.
And the next volume of the true scripture is in the hands of four people, the one in the hands of Huang Yaoshi is written by Feng Yumo, and the one in Mei Chaofeng's hand is the human skin left by Chen Xuanfeng, and there is also a part of the ancient tomb, and Yang Kang is copied from the ancient tomb, which means that only Yang Kang has the entire true scripture.
He didn't know that the maid in the ancient tomb had discovered the true scripture engraved by Wang Chongyang on the stone wall, and he practiced when he had nothing to do.
Yang Kang blew out the candle, sat on the bed, and began to practice the internal strength of the true scriptures, because of the martial arts foundation laid by Qiu Chuji and Mei Chaofeng, it was not difficult to get started, and he was already practicing on the way back to Kaifeng.
In the darkness, only the charcoal fire in the furnace emitted a red light, reflecting on Yang Kang's face, and the sun was uncertain.
The next day, Yang Kang resumed the life of the little prince of the Jin Kingdom, took Peng Lianhu and Sha Tongtian, the two masters, to swagger through the market, and took the time to go to the Wangfu Hunting Garden to see Xiao Huang Rong, about which the four ghosts of the Yellow River complained, they knew that this little girl was brought back by the little prince, although she was in a state of detention, but she did not dare to slack off.
Xiao Huang Rong took pleasure in teasing these four people and turned them around, but fortunately, although the four ghosts of the Yellow River were not good at brains, they had no problem in terms of loyalty, blocking Xiao Huang Rong's many escape plans.
Yang Kang also went to Zhongnan Mountain to inquire about the movements of the seven sons of Quanzhen, he wanted to know what was going on in Peach Blossom Island, as the first person of the three generations of disciples of the Quanzhen Sect, the Quanzhen Sect did not hide the whereabouts of the seven sons of Quanzhen from Yang Kang.
White Camel Mountain in the Western Regions!
Yang Kang's head was stuck all of a sudden, what kind of rhythm is this? How could it be related to Ouyang Feng? They wouldn't think that the true scripture was stolen by Ouyang Feng, right? The imagination of the seven sons of Quan Zhen was too rich.
However, this news is good for him, at least he can live an angry life, Yang Kang arched his hand to the west, and he looked unbeaten.
Mr. Ouyang, you're tired.