After Song Xing finished speaking, it was like a hurricane blowing through the apricot forest, instantly causing countless unbelievable exclamations and curses.
The lower-level disciples who didn't know the truth yelled at Song Xing, and the elders and helmsmen who knew about it looked at Song Xing in surprise, wondering how he knew this big secret.
As for Qiao Feng, after being stunned, he became furious: "Song Yinzhang, I respect your character, why are you talking so freely?"
Qiao Feng grew up in the Song Dynasty since he was a child, and all the education he received made him identify with the Song Dynasty from the bottom of his heart. When he became an adult, he joined the Beggar Gang and fought bloody battles with Xixia, and he was even more proud of his identity as a citizen of the Song Dynasty.
Suddenly, he was shocked and angry when he heard that Song Xing had slandered him as a Khitan.
Looking at the furious Qiao Feng, Song Xing said calmly: "Eight years ago, you overcame the three difficulties that Wang Jiantong set for you, and made seven great contributions to the Beggar Clan. No one in the Beggar Clan dissatisfied, and Wang Jiantong passed on to you." You, the Beggar Clan has never had a second leader in hundreds of years, and it was as difficult as yours."
"Since you took over as the leader of the Beggar Clan from Wang Jiantong, the Beggar Clan has been at its peak, and its prestige is comparable to that of Shaolin, the largest martial arts sect today. In terms of prestige, martial arts, and personal ethics, you have been the most impeccable leader of the Beggar Clan since its establishment. But even so, just a few words and a letter from a woman, these people will turn against you, why?"
Qiao Feng was stunned. At this time, Elder Xu said loudly: "Yes, this is the reason why I am here today. We are against you, not because of personal grudges, but because you, Qiao Feng, are not Song Dynasty from beginning to end." Human, but Khitan Hulu!"
Next, just like the original plot, Monk Zhiguang appeared and slowly told the story of the bloodshed at Yanmen Pass, revealing a shocking tragedy in the martial arts world.
After hearing this, Qiao Feng turned pale and said angrily: "No, no! You are talking nonsense and fabricating such a lie to frame me. I am a Han Chinese, how can I be a Khitan Huru? I...I..."
Suddenly he parted his arms, rushed in front of Zhiguang, and grabbed his chest with his left hand.
Shan Zheng and Elder Xu shouted at the same time: "No!" and stepped forward to snatch the person away.
Qiao Feng was extremely quick and moved out of the way with Zhiguang's body.
Elder Xu shouted: "Qiao Feng, Master Zhiguang is respected by everyone in the world, you are not allowed to harm his life."
Qiao Feng's blood surged and he said loudly: "I have always admired Master Zhiguang as a person. If you want to remove me as the leader of the gang, that's fine. I will give it to him. Why did you make up these words and slander him?" I?"
Although he said he didn't believe it, his hoarse voice revealed his inner struggle at the moment. If someone else had said this, Qiao Feng would have fought him to the death, but it happened that these words came from Master Zhiguang.
Zhiguang once made a great wish, traveled across the ocean, traveled to overseas wilderness, collected the bark of exotic trees, and cured countless people infected with miasma in Zhejiang, Fujian and Guangxi.
As a result, he suffered two serious illnesses and lost all his martial arts. However, he benefited the people a lot. He was a person Qiao Feng truly admired.
After all, Qiao Feng is not an ordinary person. After being furious and angry at the beginning, he quickly calmed down, released Zhiguang's acupuncture points, and said: "What is the truth, I can't listen to your side of the story. What is the truth, Qiao will definitely find out." .”
Elder Xu carefully planned what happened today, just to bring down Qiao Feng in one fell swoop. Upon seeing this, he immediately showed the letter written by Xuanci to Wang Jiantong. Then, as expected, he was deceived by Zhiguang and destroyed Xuanci's signature, making things happen again. Became confusing.
After Song Xing helped Qiao Feng clear away the suspicion of killing Ma Dayuan, he watched the developments unfold without saying a word.
The fact that Qiao Feng is a Khitan cannot be erased. This was also the trigger for Qiao Feng to secretly withdraw from the Beggar Clan in the original plot.
But in Song Xing's view, although his status as a Khitan was extremely detrimental to Qiao Feng, it was not fatal. The Beggar Gang was not completely unable to accept Qiao Feng. Yelu Qi, the 21st leader of the Beggar Gang in the late Southern Song Dynasty, He is also a Khitan.
In the original plot, Qiao Feng quietly left the scene. In addition to the Beggar Clan disciples being unable to accept the news for a while, the more important reason was that Qiao Feng himself could not accept the fact that he was a Khitan. In addition, Elder Quan Guanqingxu and others coveted the position of gang leader, which added fuel to the flames. the result of.
In the real history of the Song Dynasty, although the Beggar Clan hates the Khitans at the moment, the people the Beggar Clan really fights the most with are actually Xixia.
During the reigns of Taizong and Zhenzong, the military conflicts between Song and Liao were the most intense and frequent. The two sides fought countless large and small battles. The Song army conducted two large-scale northern expeditions, and the Liao army conducted five large-scale southern invasions.
When neither side could do anything to the other, the two sides signed the Chanyuan Alliance. Song and Liao became fraternal countries, non-aggression, and maintained a peaceful situation for a hundred years.
After Zhezong of the Song Dynasty came to power, he introduced new laws, recounted Shenzong's achievements in opening up territories, restarted the Battle of Hehuang, and took over the Qingtang Dynasty. This was the period when the Song Dynasty's national power and military strength were the strongest.
Zhezong devoted himself to attacking Xixia. In order to avoid being attacked on both sides, he continued to maintain peace with the Liao Kingdom. So far, there has been no large-scale war between Song and Liao for nearly a hundred years. The beggar gang assisted the left army, and the real targets were the martial arts people of Xixia.
Xingzilin is the turning point in Qiao Feng's fate. Although his identity as a Khitan is the main reason, it is more mixed with the power struggle between the dirty clothes sect and the clean clothes sect of the Beggar Gang.
Beggar Gangs originated in the late Tang Dynasty. Warlord disputes caused many farmers to abandon land production and become beggars. The beggars at the bottom formed a group to protect themselves, and the prototype of Beggar Gangs was born.
In the early Northern Song Dynasty, the economy was prosperous and the entire society was relatively wealthy, which could support a large beggar class. At this time, the beggar gang gradually stabilized in the form of a gang.
The initial members of a beggar gang are almost all beggars with nothing. As the gang grows, it needs a stricter system to control the loose gang power.
Of course, this was not something that illiterate beggars could design, so beggar gangs began to accept some other social class forces, such as intellectuals, small landowners, and petty bourgeoisie, and assigned them important positions in the gangs because of their economic conditions and social resources.
These newly joined classes, after being unable to enter the elite class and become a force in the court and government, need the protection and blessing of the gang, and are willing to bring their family fortune to join the beggar gang.
The newly arrived class occupied a dominant position in the beggar gang, which naturally caused the old power groups to be impacted and suppressed. As a result, two different forces gradually emerged within the gang.
The dirty clothes sect, composed of the poorest disciples at the lowest level, and the clean clothes sect, which has a higher social status. The two sects express their sect affiliation by dressing up. The two sects have fought openly and secretly within the gang many times.
Qiao Feng, who was born in a farmer's family, was a disciple of the dirty clothes sect before he became a gang leader. He also liked to have a big drink with the lower-level disciples and was very prestigious among the lower-level gang members.
This is Qiao Feng's advantage and also his biggest disadvantage.
He is forthright and fair in dealing with things. Although he has a high prestige, he has never deliberately cultivated his die-hard loyalty.
Although many senior officials of the Dirty Clothes Sect and the Pure Clothes Sect sincerely admired him, when their personal interests were involved and they learned about Qiao Feng's identity as a Khitan, most of them actually chose to abandon Qiao Feng.
Qiao Feng is open-minded, close to the bottom of the dirty clothes sect, and is fair in dealing with things. Disciples of the dirty clothes sect who have made meritorious deeds will be promoted to high-level positions, which arouses the dissatisfaction of the senior officials of the pure clothes sect even more.
When Ma Dayuan was alive, he had an upright character, gentleness and humility, and he could mediate between the two factions. Once Ma Dayuan died, the leaders of the Jingyi Sect such as Elder Xu, Elder Chen, and Quan Guanqing were ready to take the opportunity to launch an attack.
At this time, a suicide note about Qiao Feng's life experience left by the former gang leader Wang Jiantong gave him an excellent opportunity to bring down Qiao Feng.
The previous generation leader of the Jingyi Sect, Wang Jiantong, may not have been willing to choose Qiao Feng as the leader of the Beggar Clan. At the beginning, Wang Jiantong may have been unwilling to pass the leadership of the Beggar Clan to Qiao Feng, so he set difficult and numerous conditions for him.
Although it makes it more difficult for Qiao Feng to obtain the position of gang leader, the disadvantage is that every time Qiao Feng solves a problem, his authority and reputation within the gang will become stronger.
After all the tasks were completed by Qiao Feng, Wang Jiantong knew that passing the position of gang leader to anyone other than Qiao Feng would cause extreme dissatisfaction among the gang members and cause an imbalance of power, and the successor as gang leader would not be able to escape Qiao Feng's status and Control, out of worry rather than expectation, made Wang Jiantong decide to let Qiao Feng gain the leadership position.
Elder Xu, the patriarch of the Pure Clothes Sect, was originally dissatisfied with Qiao Feng's leadership of the Beggar Clan, but he did not dare to openly confront him. Qiao Feng had a very high reputation within the gang, and a large number of Dirty Clothes disciples at the bottom of the Beggar Clan regarded Qiao Feng as a god.
Once there is a conflict between the Jingyi Sect and Qiao Feng's forces, they will definitely suffer. However, once the truth about Qiao Feng's identity as a Khitan is revealed, the situation will be different.
If they knew that their gang leader was actually a Khitan, then the two internal factions could share the same hatred and first depose or even kill Qiao Feng, and then cleanse the entire high-ranking forces of the Dirty Clothes Sect, and then the Pure Clothes Sect could take sole control of the center of power of the Beggar Clan.
Qiao Feng left the headquarters of Luoyang to explore the south of the Yangtze River, which was a God-given opportunity for the Jingyi Sect's coup. The wealthy Jiangnan was the sphere of influence of Jingyi's senior officials, so when Qiao Feng arrived at the apricot forest where the spring breeze was blowing, there was already an undercurrent surging.
The Pure Clothes Sect used the suspicion surrounding Ma Dayuan's death to accuse Qiao Feng of protecting the Murong family. It was not until Elder Xu Quan Guanqing presented Gang Leader Wang's posthumous letter that the situation changed, forcing the elders of the Dirty Clothes Sect to side with them.
As the largest sect in the world, the Beggar Gang is headed by a Khitan. It is a shame to the entire gang and should have been kept secret.
Elder Xu probably wanted to expand his achievements in overthrowing Qiao Feng and bring shame to the entire dirty clothes sect, so he actually found Zhao Qiansun, Zhiguang and others who participated in the robbery and murder of Qiao Feng's parents, and invited Shan Zheng, a powerful man from Shandong, as a witness. , determined to make the news that the gang leader was a Hu man public.
His purpose is not only to depose Qiao Feng, but also to make the Dirty Clothes Sect unable to compete for the next gang leader, and the Beggar Clan will completely fall into the hands of the Pure Clothes Sect.
Combining the plot before and after Tianlong and the information obtained by the six gates, Song Xing quickly deduced the causes and consequences of this incident.
Things have developed to this point. Although Song Xing's strong intervention has cleared Qiao Feng's suspicion of killing Ma Dayuan, the overall situation is still proceeding according to the plan of the Jingyi Sect.
Bai Shijing's killing of Ma Dayuan was an accident, but Qiao Feng's identity as a Khitan was revealed. Basically, the senior members of the Beggar Clan began to side with Elder Xu. Although many of the lower-level Beggar Clan disciples still supported Qiao Feng, they had no say and could not make the final say. .
So Song Xing has been waiting for a variable, and this variable was actually sent to Song Xing by Elder Xu himself.
