Chapter 349 unification

The existence of martial arts has a long history. It is said that when the founding emperor of this dynasty conquered the world, there were many people in the arena around him who offered advice and suggestions, shed blood and tears, and belonged to the founding heroes.

Therefore, those in power at that time let the development and growth of martial arts unintentionally or unintentionally, and it has continued to this day, and they can also make the other party shout the slogan “Jianghu is Jianghu, the court is the court, they are irrelevant”, you can see that people in the rivers and lakes It has the confidence left by the ancestors.

The reason why Jianghu people can enter the dynasty as officials is because some of their ancestors served in the dynasty.

Shi Yan said quietly: “Xiao San, do you know what the major sects in the rivers and lakes rely on to make a living and maintain their glamorous life?”

Hang Yunsan was born in Jianghu, and he knew this very well. He opened his mouth and said: “Part of it is doing business, Zhongdi, whether it is leasing his own property to others for farming, or doing business by connecting the joints outside the door, all are It is a very good choice, with low taxes, high profits, and a wide range of sources.

Of course, there is also a part, or most of the reasons, for tolls, that is, according to the size of the sect, the area within a fixed radius where their sect is located will be under their jurisdiction.

Anyone who passes by here will have to pay them a part of the toll fee. If the sect is big and the location is good, if they pass by frequently every year, the filial silver that needs to be sent by the cooperative merchants is not a small amount. ”

This toll is really a solid toll at the beginning. There is a fixed amount between each sect. The caravan passing by acts according to the rules. The disturbance of bandits and bandits is mutually beneficial.

But now, it has become a serious exploit in disguised form, and it is almost impossible to do business there without feeding those people.

Especially in the previous martial arts dragons without a leader, the old emperor deliberately indulged, this phenomenon is extremely serious, and now, there is a tendency to become a serious problem for the court.

Shi Yan pointed his finger at Hang Yunsan’s head, and sighed longly: “You are a Jianghu person who still treats yourself as a serious child, and now you are wearing a fourth-grade East Palace guard uniform with a sword. It’s just an insignificant addition.”

Hang Yunsan was very puzzled, he hurriedly put down the grapes in his hand, and expressed his loyalty to Shi Yan: “Dad, you know me, what I identify is you, not your identity, if you are the leader of the martial arts alliance, I am Jianghu. Knight, if you are the Crown Prince of the East Palace, I will be the guard with a sword! Is there any problem with this?”

This is a big problem!

Shi Yan said: “But now I am both the head of the martial arts alliance and the prince of the East Palace.”

Hang Yunsan was very confused. He felt that he understood, but he didn’t seem to understand. He just stared blankly at Shi Yan, speechless. He felt that at this moment of Shi Yan, all his thoughts were seen through by Shi Yan.

This person is too scary, but once you make up your mind to follow him, it is too reassuring.

So he slowly lowered his head and didn’t speak, half-kneeled beside the chair, and continued to peel the grapes silently, but this time the grapes in his hands were not as round and complete as before, there were potholes on them, and the crystal beauty was lost. .

But a picky person like Shi Yan didn’t seem to notice. He just took it up and ate it in his mouth. After eating, he whispered to Hang Yun: “Do you know how much the imperial court’s annual tax is? You know because According to the promise of the founding emperor, whether people in Jianghu do business or in China, or collect tolls, do they not pay taxes to the court?

Do you know that the so-called justice of the Jianghu people, the so-called chivalrous righteousness, and the so-called pleasure and enmity, are stepping on the bottom line of the court, spending the tax of the court, exploiting the people of the world, and fulfilling their freedom? ”

As soon as Shi Yan finished speaking, the sound of the surrounding silk and bamboo wind music stopped. The dancer who performed the song and dance knelt on the ground silently and did not dare to raise her head. Whether it was fanning or pinching her shoulders, they all knelt down silently and did not dare to make a sound. Not the slightest sound.

Hang Yunsan was stunned for a moment by Shi Yan’s sudden temper. He had known Shi Yan for so long and felt that Shi Yan was an unfathomable person. He had never seen him lose his temper before. , I don’t know how to deal with it, so I can only stiffly kneel on the ground like the others, begging Shi Yan to calm down.

Calm down? What anger?

In fact, Shi Yan wasn’t angry at all. He didn’t leave behind the current mess, and he didn’t make the promise to let people in the world do business freely, and the current bad situation wasn’t caused by him, so why is he so angry?

But as the prince of the imperial court and the leader of the martial arts, he has a special status, and he really needs to be angry like this, let everyone know that he is angry, and the next thing will be easier.

A few days after the news spread, smart people came to the door automatically, expressing their willingness to do nothing for His Highness, but he obeyed the orders of His Highness and did not dare to have second thoughts.

But what surprised Shi Yan was that among the people who came to invite Ying, there were the fifth prince Xie Chaozhou and his cousin Xie Chaoshu.

Right now, Shi Yan’s surname is also Xie, and they belong to their old Xie family. To a certain extent, these two are his cousins.

Xie Chaozhou agreed with Shi Yan’s desire to clear the rivers and lakes, and he expressed his position as soon as he came up: “If I’m not afraid of your taboos, back then, Wei Chen also had the idea of ​​peacefully conquering the rivers and lakes without any effort, but unfortunately… ”

Unfortunately, what happened later, several people know.

Xie Chaoshu said: “In order to cooperate with Lord Xie’s actions, Wei Chen has done a lot of homework in private, and you have guessed it, there is nothing to hide, since you have this heart, Wei Chen also wants to do your part for His Highness, I also hope that Your Highness will not dislike it.”

Shi Yan nodded. When the fifth prince, Xie Chaozhou, married Zong Shixiang, wasn’t it the idea of ​​subduing the powers of the rivers and lakes for his own use? Although the purpose is not pure, he wants to pull the Jianghu forces and Jianghu money into his own money bag, and has no plans to enter the national treasury.

But when he actually ascended the throne as the empress in the later period, the power of the rivers and lakes could be considered to be completely disintegrated in his hands.

Right now, Shi Yan and he have different considerations, but the things to do are almost the same.

So he said to the two: “Then let’s do the errand well.”

Saying it was an errand, Shi Yan still left enough time for all parties to prepare and did not rush to take action. After all, he still wanted to see how many people with clear minds still had on this issue.

After finally waiting for a month, Shi Yan decided not to wait any longer, nor to give anyone another chance, so he went to bid farewell to the emperor.

“So far, there are 357 famous sects of all sizes in the rivers and lakes, of which only 15 sects have come to surrender, all of them are second-rate sects, and the purpose is not sincere surrender. I want to be ruled by the imperial court.

He made a lot of impossible demands, and he meant to treat the court as a fat sheep, hehe.

The other two didn’t say anything. They looked like they were at the mercy of the imperial court. The family was Xie Chaoshu’s Yue family, Duan Youran’s mother’s family, and Duan’s Villa.

The other is the predecessor of the Wulin League that you represent, Zhejian Villa, and Hang Yunsan, in the name of the deputy villa owner, took the initiative to take the lead in returning to the court, which is considered to be smart. ”

Shi Yan snorted and said, “If he can’t figure it out if he beats like that, he can just die. But what is this family thinking? You can guess Jianghu’s attitude towards the court by looking at the attitudes of other sects. Hard to carry.

After all, if you can be the master of the house and be free, who wants to be managed as the third grandson?

This is to feel that the law does not blame the public, and we have nothing to do with them! Oh, it’s quite beautiful to think about it. It’s been a good time to give them a month. It’s not the time of the late emperor. The court has nothing to do with the rivers and lakes. ”

Jianghu people never thought that they would be beaten by Shi Yan, and they got together in private to discuss peaceful evolution. A group of people organized a small gang meeting, and they didn’t have a specific idea.

In the end, the leader slammed the table and said loudly: “Everyone, if I want to talk about this, I still have to send someone to talk to the leader.

The news that the leader of the alliance lost his temper in the East Palace is known to the whole world. We also understand why, but this is our ancestral heritage. The family and the young live on this little thing. It’s not that the leader says we will turn it over all. thing!

I think this is what the leader of the alliance means. Give us time to come up with a charter as soon as possible.

I suggest! The previous ideas can continue! Since someone’s high-ranking court official’s Jiao Di Di dislikes the alliance leader’s vicious appearance and refuses to marry him, isn’t it just cheap for us?

We know what the leader of our alliance is like, even if he hurts face in the extreme north and becomes a ghost, but our sons and daughters are brave enough to choose a beautiful and gentle girl to marry. , don’t care if the prince is not a son, don’t believe that the pillow wind blows every day, and His Highness’s heart is not biased towards our rivers and lakes?

This can give us one day, it can give us a hundred days, a thousand days, or even longer. What do you think? ”

Taking a closer look, isn’t the person who raised his arms and shouted, Cheng Yuhua, who was kicked back by Shi Yan before? The older brother of Zong Chixian’s former fiancee Cheng Yumei.

After someone glanced at Cheng Yuhua with a flash of eyes, he seemed hesitant to say: “This plan is not impossible, we don’t know how His Majesty is on the dragon chair, but His Highness is from our rivers and lakes, and someone is beside His Highness to say good things for us every day.

Maybe it won’t show up in a day or two, but after a while, it will definitely work. ”

So someone continued: “This plan is very good! I remember that there is a girl in Brother Cheng’s family who is thirteen this year. She is smart and charming. It just matches our leader, isn’t it just right? Or just her!”

Cheng Yuhua nodded with satisfaction.

This time someone heard the door and stood up and directly opposed: “No, even if it is a marriage, you can’t choose a girl from the Cheng family to marry the leader, you forget about the old man!

In the early years, the girl of the Cheng family was destined for Zongchi Xianzong Zongzong Zongzhu. Later, because of the girl’s death, the Cheng family chased and killed the Zongzhuang Zongzhuang Zongzhuang’s wife, Ding Wan, the mother of the alliance master for more than ten years. It’s just stopped for a few years.

Such an embarrassing identity, let’s not try to cover up the past, as if nothing happened, and put it on the table, how stupid is it? ”

Knowing everything, Cheng Yuhua, who wanted to curry favor with Shi Yan again and returned to the circle of power, twitched in the corners of his eyes, his throat choked, and his heart was filled with panic. There was nothing more irritating than what the old man said.

I knew it was fake, but I couldn’t help it, and I didn’t dare to refute it.

Here, for the sake of an alliance leader’s wife, or a place for a crown princess, a group of old men who are several hundred years old gathered together and almost beat their brains out.

The client, Shi Yan, felt that he was a very straightforward Jianghu person, so in the face of this little trick to test him that was specially made in the Jianghu, there was absolutely no complicated way to deal with it.

Just one person and one horse, holding his big iron sword, he killed all the way from the capital to the Wulin League, thousands of miles away, and killed all the way, but when they encountered trouble, they were not soft at all. According to the degree of their troubles, it seemed Broken leg or hand or head, no ambiguity.

One hundred miles from the capital, his reputation as a killing **** spread all over the country before the speed at which he got off his horse.

From the capital city to the Southern Wulin League, a few people claiming to be in the martial arts can appear almost at any time along the way, and they want to talk to the leader of the league.

No matter who these people are behind, whose interests they represent, or what they want to talk to him about, Shi Yan doesn’t listen: “I gave you a whole month to talk to me, and all of them have become gourds with saw-mouthed mouths and nothing to say. .

Running out at this moment to show off my abilities, is it true that I, the prince, have nothing to do all day long, and will I play tricks with you? late! ”

Shi Yan rode on a horse. Whenever he came across someone who claimed to be in the martial arts and wanted to have a peace talk, he would bend down and patiently ask the other person, “What’s your name? Who is it?”

After the other party reported his home, he took out a thick booklet from his arms, straightened up on his horse, and carefully looked up the person’s location from the booklet.

If you don’t have a name on the list, that’s all, it’s an escape.

If he is famous on the list, heh, then I’m sorry, I can only act according to his principles, do not do more or do less, be whipped, beaten, or go to the guillotine, all have his rules.

Along the way, it can be said to be sparks and lightning, and wherever they go, the sound of pain and mourning can be heard for three consecutive months.

Others can’t say anything. After all, Shi Yan is not at all wronged. When he made **** scenes and scared the people around him to tremble, he threw out the crime that he had prepared in his hand. One after another, when and where the evil deeds were done, they should be punished by the imperial court. The evidence is conclusive, and there is no wrongdoing.

It is considered that the old bottoms of those people have been cleaned up, and the color of the bottoms has become a joke among the people along the way.

This behavior completely stripped the face of some self-proclaimed chivalrous and righteous people on the rivers and lakes.

What is sleeping with his little sister-in-law, his father’s concubine, the younger brothers and sisters born by his father and his aunt are actually his sons, and his daughter-in-law cheated with his father, and the child he gave birth became his son, and so on. , and it is known all over the world through this way.

This incident is not uncommon in the evidence collected by Shi Yan, and people’s enthusiasm for this gossip has greatly exceeded the expectations of others. For a time, folk performances based on these people were in various forms, and the popularity was amazing, which completely nailed these people to the pillar of shame.

With the fermentation of time, the good reputation accumulated by the Jianghu people for a hundred years has been destroyed, and the private business of the major sects has frequently encountered problems. The caravans entering and leaving their jurisdiction are no longer willing to obediently pay high tolls.

What’s more, in the past, caravans began to hire expert bodyguards who came out of nowhere. When they arrived at their site, they didn’t pay tolls, and they started fighting without saying a word, which caught them by surprise.

Seeing that the other party raised his chin, he patted his **** and left without leaving a trace.

For hundreds of years, has the rules handed down from the ancestors ever suffered such a shame? !

These people were completely anxious, and finally realized that Shi Yan really didn’t intend to talk to them properly, nor did he intend to follow the path they expected. All the previous predictions had a directional deviation, and it was ultimately wrong.

But now, apart from letting go of your hands and feet, is there any good way?

“Damn, what kind of reputation do I have with my family outside now? The old mother at home went to buy a vegetable, and was beaten up and couldn’t get out of bed for more than a month. That’s the most merciful thing. She eats fast and recites Buddha all year round and cooks meals for the whole family by herself. man!

There is an injustice, a debt, and a master. Is there anything that cannot be directed at me? Why implicate innocent old people?

Didn’t the dog just kill a few prostitute women? The money paid to their parents is enough for the three generations of their parents to eat and drink without worrying about it.

The **** martial arts leader, since he became the leader, the benefits have not been gained, and every day he clamps his tail to be a man, and he is so nervous that he is not a coward!

My Xiao family must let him know that the truth of this world is not up to him alone, even if he is the prince! ”

After speaking, he turned around and strode away, and there was a ruthlessness in his back!

The rest of the people’s eyes flickered, and they each left in silence. The group of people who gathered together to choose a princess for Shi Yan finally fell apart at this moment. Before Shi Yan arrived, the voices in the hall disappeared, leaving only the afterglow.

Shi Yan wasn’t in a hurry at all. Originally, he was quick to get to the place that only took 13 days to reach. After walking for two months, he was still on his way.

He could clearly feel that assassination, poisoning, assassination and other behaviors became more frequent along the way. Shi Yan knew that this was someone trying to stop him, and he had reached the point of jumping over the wall in a hurry.

But he was not in a hurry at all, and touched the horse under his crotch: “This is the beginning.”

No matter who or how many people come, nothing can stop him from moving forward.

So gradually, the people that Shi Yan met on the road approached his excuse, from the very beginning, “I want to talk to the leader of the alliance”.

It became “please think about the reputation of the entire martial arts!”

Up to now, the people who came to look for him have come one after another, and as soon as they met, they knelt in front of him and cried, so pitifully said, “I beg His Royal Highness to open the door, don’t go any further, we admit defeat… What do you think? How can we negotiate…”

Then, as Shi Yan expected, he took out a poisoned dagger from his arms and wanted to say hello to Shi Yan. , and there are hundreds of people who came out in one breath for Shi Yan’s upper, middle and lower roads.

Gululu came out like dumplings.

A silent battle started, blood splattered one after another, muffled grunts and occasional cries of pain sounded one after another. Obviously, these were a group of killers with very high quality and quantity.

But there is no doubt that this group of people failed again. When the last person fell, his eyes were full of despair, the young man who stood firmly in the middle of the crowd, holding a big iron sword.

He didn’t even splatter a drop of blood on his body, but he was still clean.

Is this the power of the Allies? Is this the strength of the number one in the world?

He no longer had a chance to discuss, and fell down weakly, squeezing the blood that gathered in the puddle under him.

Standing among the piles of corpses, Shi Yan slowly took out the thick booklet from his arms, and asked the same question as usual: “What’s your name? Who is it?”

Even if no one at the scene answered his words except for the crows on the trees in the distance, the people behind him would still know the lives of all the people at the scene within half an hour, and then Take the right seat and expose their previous crimes to the public.

Of course, this time the guards skillfully added a line at the back: “Assassinating the Crown Prince of the country is a heinous act.”

The whole martial arts was smashed by Shi Yan, and everyone heard the words “what’s your name, which faction” for a while, and all the adults in the courtroom who were engaged in logistics were also frightened by the ruthlessness of Shi Yan’s attack. Now, it took 12 points of care to run the errand for him, for fear that this man could not hold back for a while and used his own head to sharpen the knife.

In the fourth month, Hang Yunsan appeared in an inn 30 miles away from the Wulin League and sat opposite Shi Yan, who had recently killed the Quartet.

Hang Yunsan said to Shi Yan with a complicated expression: “After this time, the backbone of the martial arts has been severely damaged, and the damned people are all dead. Those people you deliberately left behind are only empty shelves at most, and their efforts will be completely useless. .

The rest of the people are nothing to worry about, either they have long wanted to join the imperial court, or they are really incompetent, and others will not look down on them.

With you taking the lead, the follow-up work of the imperial court went very smoothly. The property was equivalent to 130,000,000 taels of silver before and after. Five days ago, the clerk of the household department was too excited to see the silver in the treasury. I fell down, lost three teeth, and has been leaking words recently. ”

After Shi Yan lost his temper last time, Hang Yunsan really worked hard to understand these things.

For this result, Shi Yan had already predicted: “Six months ago, when my father and I checked the accounts, they told our country that the empty treasury could starve mice to death, and that the tax revenue from last year’s year was only a mere six million taels. Repairing the canal for disaster relief is not enough, let alone anything else.”

Shi Yan was also very leisurely complaining to Hang Yun: “At that time, my father said that if I find an opportunity in the future, I can’t rely on raiding the wealthy state treasury, and the folks will inevitably give him the title of emperor of raiding.

After this incident, I think that the emperor who came to my father’s house is out of play, but I, the prince who killed the family, is sitting firmly. ”

Hang Yunsan rubbed his face hard, and said helplessly: “Dad, you never thought that with your previous reputation and recent actions, which girl would be willing to marry you in the future? You are widely spread outside. What’s the matter, do you know? Killer madman, three heads and six arms, nothing more than that!

Before Wei Chen came, His Majesty had a big temper, saying that you were the first Prince of the East Palace who could not marry a daughter-in-law since ancient times! Deceiving too much! ”

Shi Yan went upstairs with his hands behind his back and went upstairs in a very happy mood. He muttered something that Hang Yunsan couldn’t hear clearly, but he carefully recalled the shape of his mouth, and it seemed to be: Great?

What’s so good about this motherfucker? This is being pitted behind the backs of those sour scholars!

Shaking his head vigorously to drive out this strange thought, this must be an illusion, an illusion caused by recent stimulation!