Just as Luo Piaoling said, Jiang Yichen came to find the answer.
This answer is not directly related to the message that the Tushita Gang and Buji Island want to convey. It is only related to Jiang Yichen's greatest pain so far in his life.
——The tragedy of Xishan Island five years ago.
After the tragedy that year, Jiang Yichen lived in despair on Xishan Island.
In his confusion, some negative assumptions appeared in his mind.
However, at that time, he could not and did not dare to believe that the old man would violate the word "morality" and disregard the lives of more than a hundred living people. Moreover, many of them were the "friends" that the old man kept talking about.
The possibility of that assumption happening can be said to be extremely slim, almost impossible.
But even if he didn't dare to believe the eventuality, after re-entering the world, while avenging the refugees on Xishan Island, Jiang Yichen would always try to restore the truth unknowingly.
Over the years, he has not been able to dig out many valuable clues from the enemy. He can only confirm that all parties involved undoubtedly grasped a golden opportunity, so they jointly attacked the Daoyi Alliance and caught them off guard.
Unsurprisingly, this opportunity stems from various flaws that occurred within the Alliance of Justice.
These errors can be roughly divided into two categories.
One category is related to the composition structure of the Daoyi Alliance.
Whether it is the Four Seas Alliance that only talks about right and wrong, or the Kyushu Alliance in the name of supporting justice in the world, these two alliances are essentially the simplest and flat gang alliances.
The structure only has three levels, and there were two alliance leaders on the top level. The two alliances obeyed the orders of their respective alliance leaders.
Since the Waiyi Rebellion twenty years ago, the two alliance leaders have disappeared. Most of them have died in a foreign land and both have passed away.
Before the Hundred Flowers Conference, the positions of leaders of the two alliances were still vacant.
After the Hundred Flowers Conference, the two alliances broke up.
The remaining two levels are alliance and gang.
At the grand alliance level, all gangs have good friendships and support each other to overcome difficulties together.
At the gang level, they do not invade or interfere with each other.
In contrast, the composition of the Daoyi Alliance that preceded the establishment of the two was much more complicated.
There are people such as Han Wuyue and You Ming who have no family or sect, are alone or form a group of their own.
There are wealthy businessmen like Yi Zhongren.
There are nobles from old aristocratic families such as Nangong and Murong.
Since ancient times, there are escorts and their like who have to travel all over the world and are inseparable from the world.
There are also traffickers and pawns who run inns and rice shops and are obviously engaged in ordinary livelihoods, but have to deal with the rivers and lakes and are on the edge of the rivers and lakes.
Apart from not daring to blatantly win over officials or bring members of the military into the alliance, all kinds of ingredients are there.
Then, according to the specific needs of the alliance, various groups with clear functions and complete structures are formed, and corresponding rules are formulated to ensure the healthy operation of the entire alliance.
While studying with Han Wuyue, Jiang Yichen had briefly looked through the roster of the Daoist Alliance recorded and compiled by the ANBU.
Different from the general roster, the Daoyi League roster first reflects the overall structure with tree branches, and then carefully deconstructs each component part in turn.
As large as a group, as small as everyone responsible for specific affairs, everything is clearly listed.
No matter how elaborate the structure is, something will go wrong, let alone an alliance with a large coverage and complex organization.
Therefore, the emergence of the first type of errors is understandable.
Another type of error arises from this.
In the roster of the Daoyi Alliance, each person's name is separately marked with the heavenly stems and earthly branches.
The Ten Heavenly Stems mark the direct interests between each individual and the entire Grand Alliance.
The twelve earthly branches specifically distinguish each person's reliability.
It is true that even if ANBU spends a lot of manpower and material resources to sort out and update the roster information every six months, it can be said that it does its best to make these text messages more valuable for reference, but it still cannot avoid people's uncertainty.
Those who are involved may not be trustworthy, and those who are indifferent may not be unreliable.
The case of Qianzhulin Winery, which was broken into by Jiang Yichen, was controlled by Sha Qing who was hiding behind the scenes. With only small characters like Yu Tao and Hong Yue, he successfully moved the entire chain from Taoyuan Town to Juyuan. The chain of interests almost caused irreparable losses to the company.
As for the shepherds and Tofu Xishi who are far away in the mountains of Jiangxi and Jiangxi, they can be regarded as hidden stakes that have nothing to do with the moral alliance. They live a stable and ordinary life without involving risks, but they are grateful and have remained unknown for more than ten years. He did his best, even if his life was at risk in the end, he never regretted or wavered.
The purpose of the Daoyi Alliance is just as its name suggests, with only the word "daoyi".
Everyone has a different definition of morality, or the bottom line is high or low.
When the Daoyi Alliance was glorious, it was synonymous with morality in the entire world and worthy of praise from everyone.
When the moral alliance gradually turns from prosperity to decline, the morality that everyone was originally willing to uphold and protect is brought back to its original shape, and the bottom line is gradually lowered and compromised, and even the morality in the heart is completely abandoned.
Based on Luo Piaoling's words, it can be imagined that the current Daoyi Alliance is riddled with flaws.
If Jiang Yichen wants to investigate these two types of flaws, he can follow the clues and investigate them carefully.
It’s just that the time it takes may be one or two years, it may be three years or five years, or it may be longer.
All in all, a long night of talking in the old temple in Luzhou County changed Jiang Yichen's judgment on the attack on Xishan Island that year, and he began to be suspicious of the old man, prompting him to come to Tingyuge while avoiding the Daoyi Alliance.
However, the answer is hard to come by, the negative hypothesis still lacks solid evidence to support it, and everything is still inconclusive.
Either continue the time-consuming and laborious investigation, or go directly to the old man and ask for clarification.
The former is not the time.
The latter is because Jiang Yichen has not yet figured out how to deal with the situation if the truth is indeed the same as the hypothesis.
Instead of being hesitant to make a decision, it is better to shelve the matter temporarily and do something more important and meaningful for the moment.
Maybe with the subsequent developments in Zhongzhou and Jianghu, some clues that were covered up in the past may surface, and the truth will come to light, and no one needs to disturb it.
So, after locking himself alone in the room for half a day, Jiang Yichen adjusted himself and joined in the intensive preparations for Tingyuge's plan.
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Five days later.
Pinghai County.
dusk.
Normally at this time, the villagers have just finished their day's work and go home to make fire and cook. This is the beginning of their evening life.
The villagers who were hunting, chopping firewood, or going to water or fertilize the fruit trees and catch insects had already come down from the back mountain to avoid being caught by the animals that lurk day and night on the back mountain and have their teeth sacrificed.
Today, a young man, known as Little Leptoux in the village, walked down the mountain with two other companions in the village, and suddenly found a secret treasure left behind on the mountain. He was afraid that others would know what the treasure was. The little man declined his companion's kindness and hurried back up the mountain.
The little mangy boy is young, strong and nimble. He often helps the villagers with farm work and is quite popular among everyone.
The two villagers were already close to him, so they did not covet the treasure that they had never met. Since the little man promised to return to the village before dark, they had no choice but to go back to the village together to inform Mr. Li of the Tongcuntou Inn. .
Neither shopkeeper Li nor the little man was born and raised in Hexi Village.
About ten years ago, the two came to Hexi Village and lived together in a house.
Shopkeeper Li was older than the little man. He was honest and had business skills. Two years later, he married Zhang Erniu from the village, opened an inn, and lived separately from the little man.
The two of them are already considered villagers, but since they got along with each other during that time, they are naturally closer than other villagers.
After the two separated, they were still neighbors. When the little man had nothing to do, he would go to the inn to do some handyman work. If he was short of money or encountered any difficulties in life, shopkeeper Li would help him in turn.
At this moment, the little man is heading into the mountains. Although it is unlikely that anything will happen, but just in case, he still teaches shopkeeper Li to keep an eye on him. If the little man is not back when it gets dark, he can gather help to go in together. Find it in the mountains.
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After the little man walked up the mountain for a while, he looked down the mountain frequently to make sure no one was following him.
Then he kept looking around and found no other villagers.
The pace on my feet gradually picked up, and I walked around to the east side of the mountain.
The wind was flying all the way, and even if a big white-fronted insect emerged from the mountain, it would be difficult to knock down the little mangy head in one fell swoop.
When he stopped, he was already on a hillside with fallen trees, at least five miles away from where he was working today.
If the two villagers were still following and could catch up with the little man, their interest might really be aroused. What kind of rare treasure is worth hiding so far away?
Looking at the scene in front of him and what he saw a month ago, there were no more changes except that some leaves became withered and yellow, some leaves grew denser, and the soil and rocks seemed to have sunk a little deeper. The little man finally said: "That's right. This is it.”
As soon as he finished speaking, there was a rustling sound in the forest next to him, and seven figures walked out.
