From south to north, the entire river and lake became lively after the main force of Jinyiwei went south. At this time, Lu Hanjiang could probably guess that the Lingyue clan's destruction this time probably had some intention of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.
However, the situation so far is not out of control for him.
If we push the time forward for more than ten years, when Mr. Meng was in power, this kind of chaos would never be allowed.
Meng Yuan's attitude towards Jianghu is to boil frogs in warm water and cut flesh with a blunt knife. He will not actively provoke disputes, nor will he allow multiple chaos to occur in Jianghu at the same time.
The old man will control all chaos within an acceptable threshold to achieve the effect of weakening the power of the world without causing a rebound from the opponent.
The effect of Meng Yuan's approach was immediate. In the ten years since he chose to "seek stability", Jianghu has also completed the replacement of two generations.
But it can be seen with the naked eye that the new generation of knights and knights, whether they are the Seven Wudang Sons, the Three Heroes of Qingcheng, or the masters of the Five Mountains Sword Sect, have completely failed to inherit the style of their predecessors.
As the pressure brought by the Jinyiwei becomes heavier and heavier, sooner or later Jianghu will be forced to get used to the control of the imperial court. On that day, the so-called knights will completely lose the soil for their survival, and the world will be in jeopardy.
This is a long and steady policy. When Meng Yuan was in power, he basically defeated all the martial arts sects that emerged.
Even if there is no way to deal with the older generation, if the younger generation can be turned into waste, the influence of the Jianghu sect can also be weakened. This is what the old man did.
But during Lu Hanjiang's time, everything was different. He completely abandoned Meng Yuan's high-pressure policy and completely loosened his grip on the world.
After losing their shackles, several disputes broke out in the world. Although the Jinyiwei did weaken the influence of many sects, the principle that heroes emerge in troubled times is applicable everywhere.
The change in the atmosphere of the world has also caused the knights of the world, who were already close to a backwater, to start to have super-standard talents one after another.
For the Jianghu sect, what is important is not the gains and losses of a city or a place, but the inheritance of the sect. What they need is talents.
Continuous blows have seriously damaged the vitality of Jianghu, but as a result, a group of extraordinary characters have emerged. There are even some who are still a little immature, but it is not difficult to see that they will achieve extraordinary things in the future.
But despite this, Lu Hanjiang still didn't feel much about the chaos in the world. The reason was that his views on the world were different from Meng Yuan's.
The chaotic world is what Lu Hanjiang pursues. Although due to the limitations of his subordinates' power, he will inevitably be unable to cover all aspects of the three chaotic wars that broke out in succession, but this does not prevent him from being happy to see the situation develop in this direction.
The only thing that caught him off guard was that in this chaos, someone else came out to add fuel to the fire.
Needless to say, the only one who would cause trouble for the Jinyi Guards is the East Palace. It is not known whether the chaos in the northern and southern Shaolin has anything to do with the Crown Princess, but now this incident that is shocking the world is entirely her handiwork. .
The Crown Princess played another card she had hidden, the Gongsun Family.
Just as Shaolin was being attacked in the north and south, and the North was in turmoil, the Gongsun family suddenly changed from its usual habit of watching from the sidelines, and issued a high-profile hero post, pointing the finger directly at the Wudang Clan.
The identity of the sword demon was exposed to the public, which became their most powerful argument against Wudang this time.
After this incident broke out, the whole world was in an uproar. Lu Hanjiang almost immediately summoned his Jinyi guards to discuss the matter.
The focus of the discussion is nothing more than two points. One is whether this matter should be dealt with, and the other is——
"How did they know the identity of the Sword Demon?" Lu Hanjiang asked this most critical question.
Chi Qianyun's martial arts skills were obvious to all. He was able to make an unknown soldier grow up to a height enough to compete with the master of the Five Mountains in just half a year. No one would doubt the power of the Three Swords of Heaven.
This also leads to the fact that Chi Qianyun, the sword demon, has almost no flaws, because most of the people who have seen her true face have died.
When he first investigated the matter, Lu Hanjiang entrusted Dongfang Yuan to take action, and he and the Yuwen family worked together to investigate for months, but still found nothing. This shows that the other party is not only extremely skilled in martial arts, but also never reveals the whole story.
In this case, it seems that the Crown Princess has no way to know Chi Qianyun's identity.
After listening to Lu Hanjiang's question, all the guards in royal robes below frowned. After a moment, Cui Yixiao suddenly said: "Sir, apart from us, there is one other person who knows the identity of the sword demon."
Lu Hanjiang narrowed his eyes slightly and tapped his finger regularly on the table: "You mean, Li Yan?"
"Yes," Cui Yixiao replied: "Before this person was taken out by Zhengdao, we told him the truth about the Sword Demon. We originally planned to use him to uncover the matter, but because Yangzi came, we quickly provoked him. There was a dispute with the Xuantian Sect, so the plan was shelved."
Cui Yixiao explained clearly that indeed, apart from the possibility that the Crown Princess could predict the situation, the only person who might reveal the identity of the sword demon Chi Qianyun was Li Yan.
And this may not be low, because Li Yan's death was not the handiwork of Jin Yiwei, nor even the black hands of Xuantian Sect. So far, it is still a mystery who killed this protector.
However, after Cui Yixiao's reminder, Lu Hanjiang finally remembered this matter, and basically linked the Sword Demon to Li Yan. This time, he didn't care a little.
It would be nice if there were traces to follow. His depression mainly came from the Crown Princess's "flash of inspiration". This kind of intuitive decision-making was impossible to guard against and impossible to predict. It was equivalent to passively accepting the move.
Both of them are characters who don't play by the rules, but compared to myself, the Crown Princess's method of daring to put her trump card on the line based on just guessing is still more expensive.
"Sir, including the Gongsun family's move, now there is war in all directions, how should we act?" Yan Feng asked in a deep voice.
"Wudang, Xuantian Sect, North and South Shaolin, they are all very troublesome."
Lu Hanjiang was a little worried. These four families were not simple things. Now the mobile forces that Jinyiwei could mobilize were quite limited. To ensure safety, even if Wu Qiming was included, at most they could only deal with two families at the same time.
Jin Yiwei dealt with one family, and Lu Hanjiang dealt with one family himself.
But this is the most extreme approach. In fact, in Lu Hanjiang's idea, his commander will not move in the early stage this time. In turn, he will let the four Jinyi guards use their strength to see where there are signs. Then rush forward as the general reserve team.
The Crown Princess is not as powerful as the Jin Yiwei, so even the Jin Yiwei cannot deal with four top sects at the same time, and it is even less possible for the East Palace.
Therefore, among these four families, only one should be the main target of the East Palace. What Lu Hanjiang has to do is to find the thread in the mess and then deliver a fatal blow.
(End of chapter)
