Chapter 5: A Wolf from the North
When Yang Kang laid out the layout for the establishment of a new order of martial arts in Jiaxing City, Guo Jing took the beggar gang ** across the Yangtze River to the beggar gang rudder in Baoying City, where he met with the beggar gang leader Lu Youjiao, and at the same time Zhou Botong and Yin Zhiping also came here, the beggar gang leader and the head of the Quanzhen Sect conducted in-depth exchanges on the current situation in martial arts, and the focus was on the uproar of the hero conference.
They already knew that this heroic conference had the background of the imperial court, and the beggar gang and the Quanzhen Sect had a relationship with the important officials in the Song court, but the current shape was a little subtle, the Song state and Mongolia had completely broken up, and the relationship between the beggar gang and Mongolia was too close, and thousands of beggar gangs were brutally killed in the Song army camp, and the ministers of the main war faction of the Song State were gradually estranged from the beggar gang and drew a clear line.
The Quanzhen Sect is facing the same problem, the Changchūn Temple outside the Imperial City of Lin'an silently eats away at the surrounding Taoist temples, absorbing the ** of other Taoist sects, and expanding in a low-key and rapid way, which also has the background of the imperial court, and the ministers of the Song State often avoid the ** sent by the Chongyang Palace.
This qiē only illustrates one thing, and that is that the wind direction has changed.
The Song court's attitude towards the beggars and the Quanzhen Sect changed, and this change was silent, but it could make people feel a biting chill, a feeling of isolation, alienation, and exile, and once a social organization could not be accepted by the mainstream society, then it could only gradually decline until it died.
With the change of attitude of the imperial court, the following officials began a series of inventory work, most of the beggar gang clean clothes faction is dominated by martial arts tycoons and merchants, these people can not withstand the exploitation of officials, at first they thought it was accidental, but with the expansion of the scale of the inventory, they knew that this was the prelude to the court to deal with the beggars.
The Taoist temple of the Quanzhen Sect is also in the inventory, but it is much milder, after all, the believers of the Quanzhen Sect are all over the world, and it is not suitable to take too drastic measures, but if the official is fine, he will go to trouble, and over time, the Taoist Temple will not be able to support it, the income of the Quanzhen Sect mainly comes from the rewards of the imperial court and the worship of believers, the Song State is rich, and occupies a great proportion of its income, if there is no support of the Song State, the Quanzhen Sect will lose at least more than half of the offerings.
The situation of the Quanzhen Sect in the Jin State was also difficult, and the Jin court adopted similar measures to the Song State, but Shaanxi was the birthplace of the Quanzhen Sect, and the officials of the Jingzhao Mansion did not dare to make a big move in Zhongnan Mountain, for fear of arousing the resistance of the believers, unless they sent troops to encircle and suppress it, which was the last resort.
In short, the Quanzhen Sect and the beggar gang have fallen into an unprecedented crisis, they think about it, this qiē is slowly started after the Song Emperor ascended the throne, it is said that the current emperor is a faint monarch, perhaps he listened to the slander of some jiān ministers to make such an unwise move, and the most likely jiān minister is the governor Xie Yili,
Folk rumors, Queen Xie hung the curtain to listen to the government, Prime Minister Xie Cheng went forward to discuss politics, the Xie family is the head of the Song State, the people who spread this kind of remarks must have ill intentions, but it also shows that the Xie family has a pivotal position in the Song State, a generation of powerful ministers Shi Miyuan left gloomily, and Jiān minister Xie Yili appeared on the stage.
In the face of such rumors among the people, Xie Dacai felt that he was very aggrieved, the queen's sister reminded him many times not to do anything illegal and undisciplined, he just received some silver, as a great talent, he wanted to make friends and socialize, and he wanted to linger in Fengyue, which all needed money, compared to other officials, he was already very honest.
The reason why Yin Zhiping, the head of the Quanzhen Sect, made a special trip to Baoying was to take the path of the Cheng family, the Cheng family is a big merchant in Baoying, and has always been a believer in the Quanzhen Sect, the point is that the daughter of the Cheng family used to be the ** of the Qingjing Sanren Sun Fuji, and now she has become the favorite concubine of the Song Emperor.
How to improve the relationship with the Song court is a difficult problem faced by the beggars and the Quanzhen Sect, but they would not have thought that as long as the Song Emperor does not have an accident, this relationship will not be improved, and under the pressure of the imperial court, the Beggar Gang Pure Clothes Sect will sooner or later break away from the Beggar Gang, and the Quanzhen Sect will inevitably decline, and the upcoming Heroes Conference is the prelude to dealing with the Beggar Gang and the Quanzhen Sect.
His Majesty the Emperor used various means to suppress the beggars and the Quanzhen Sect from top to bottom, and under this high pressure there would be two results, one was complete obedience and the other was violent resistance, which was a process of constant game, and Yang Kang currently occupied a dominant position.
The topic returns to the Hero Conference, as the world's largest gang and the world's largest religion, the Beggar Gang and the Quanzhen Sect have a pivotal position in the martial arts, if these two gangs do not participate, then the Hero Conference will have no weight, and several small gangs are competing for the leader of the martial arts alliance there, it is not a hero conference, but a farce.
However, the duel between Guo Jing and Mei Chaofeng brought the people in the martial arts to Jiaxing City, the beggar gang and Peach Blossom Island have enough influence, and there is a master ranking that has disturbed the entire rivers and lakes.
Take advantage of it!
This is Yang Kang's plan, he took the opportunity to launch the hero conference with the help of the storm set off by the duel between the two masters, intending to control the martial arts and force the beggar gang and the Quanzhen Sect to participate, if the two gangs refuse to participate, then there is a suspicion of being out of touch with the entire martial arts, if you don't play this time, then I won't take you to play next time, so that the influence of the two gangs can be weakened to the greatest extent.
After discussing with Yin Zhiping, Lu Youjiao felt that instead of letting those who had bad intentions disturb the martial arts, it would be better for them to come forward to be the leaders of the martial arts alliance, which would not only improve the relationship with the imperial court, but also calm the chaos in the martial arts.
While they were discussing, Guo Jing listened quietly.
He doesn't know much about the situation in the Central Plains martial arts, this is the third time he came to the Song Kingdom, the first time was to save Hua Zheng, it was that time that his six masters died in Kaifeng Mansion, and he met the northern beggar Hong Qigong, thus becoming the personal transmission of Hong Qigong**, learned the peerless martial arts to descend the dragon eighteen palms, he and Hong Qigong were not together for a long time, mainly because Lu Youjiao passed the message in the middle, he was not impressed by this master, but he was very respectful of the beggar's personality.
The second time was that he accompanied Tuo Lei to the Song State to form an alliance, but was chased and killed by the Iron Palm Gang and the Song soldiers all the way, and now the Song State and Mongolia have broken up, he has lived in Mongolia since he was a child, but he is a Song State, which makes him fall into the predicament of the gods, this time he came to the Song State for the third time, and avenging the master is one thing, he also wants to find an answer and experience this Song State firsthand.
The boy came all the way from Mobei with such confusion, he was a warrior on the steppe, the general of the Mongol army to the west, he had experienced the tempering of iron and blood in the process of the western expedition, killing and death accompanied him, he was calm and jǐng sense, persistent and loyal, he was a wolf from the north. (To be continued.) )