Li Yihe's farewell without saying goodbye caught Pan Xingzhou by surprise. Tan Yiqing was in charge of the Tianlong Gang, and he became famous in the Battle of Youzhou. He could only knock out his teeth and swallow his blood. At the helm, the forces of the Yinma Gang were withdrawn from Fanyang Town overnight, leaving no clues. Zhao Ying initially thought that Pan Xingzhou was under the orders of Wei Bo Jiedushi's envoy Qian Zhiwei, so he had to retreat. It was only after having an in-depth conversation with the young gang leader Xia Yong that he found out the reason. He was secretly frightened. If Pan Xingzhou had attacked him, he would have already Got it.
After this incident, Zhao Ying relied more and more on Xia Yun, and the Tianlong Gang also seized the opportunity to firmly control Youzhou City, and extended its power to Guizhou, Zhuozhou, and Jizhou. Although there was no separate helm, everyone with a discerning eye was aware of it. You know what the defeat of the Yinma Gang means. All the black and white factions in Fanyang Town defected to the Tianlong Gang, and Zhao Ying's reputation was getting higher and higher day by day. Zhao Hongtu was on pins and needles, and made several suggestions to Jiedushi, but Zhao Ju smiled and did not answer, obviously not wanting to suppress his nephew. Full support for the eldest son. He knew very well that if Zhao Ying came to power in the future, his sons would still be considered wealthy sons, but if they moved to another place, he was afraid that none of them would end well.
Moreover, Zhao Ying has the full support of the Tianlong Gang.
Zhao Ju had already found out clearly that Xia Yun was extremely intelligent and calm, and had two powerful figures under his command. One was an abandoned disciple of the Donghai Sect and the other was a Taoist from the Qing Dynasty. Even Pan Xingzhou was defeated by him, and he was firmly ranked as the number one master of the Tianlong Gang. Position, the other person is Xia Yun's brother-in-law Yang Hu, an abandoned disciple of the Huashan sect and the only survivor of the Yang family in Heshuo. He seems to be proficient in several Taoist arts and is a first-rate figure among casual cultivators.
It was these two abandoned disciples that made Zhao Ju have an ambiguous attitude and did not dare to act rashly.
In just a few months, the jewelry business in Youzhou City fell completely under the control of the Tianlong Gang. Everyone thought that Gu Boyang and Shopkeeper Gu were going to flex their muscles and annex and expand. The colleagues of the Chamber of Commerce also made plans to cut off their flesh and blood to ensure safety. Unexpectedly, the Tianlong Gang transferred the Xia Ji Silver Building to Xie E and Xie Zidan.
Xie E is the jeweler second only to the Xiang family in the three towns of Hebei. He also worked for the Yang family in his early years. Xiang Zhiren's sudden death gave him the opportunity to become a big man. Xie E successively acquired several shops that were on the verge of bankruptcy. , everyone expected him to become the president of the jewelry stores in three towns in Hebei Province. Xie E is not a good person, but if the Tianlong Gang wants to take advantage of it, he has no choice but to swallow his anger. However, this time the transfer of Xia Ji Silver House's business is very fair. In business terms, although he paid a large sum of silver, Xie E is indeed intact. He got the handicap of Xia Ji Silver House, which surprised even him.
The Tianlong Gang did not cut off this avenue of making money. On the surface, it withdrew from the jewelry business, but in fact, it lived in seclusion behind the scenes and made money by selling novel and unique patterns. Although Xia Ji Silver Building was sold to Xie E, the shopkeeper and clerk who came with Sun Wenliang restarted the business and opened a small jewelry shop in Youzhou City under the name "Yangshi", which quickly opened up the business. Xie E understands better than anyone else that extra care in business matters is treated as Xia Ji.
Gu Boyang had worked diligently and brilliantly in the past few years. Now he was relieved of his heavy responsibilities. Xia Yun admired him very much and asked him to officially become Yi Lian's disciple. He started by raising snakes, extracting venom and combining medicine, which was considered a success. Get what you want. After all, Yi Lian was old and lacked energy, so he just supported Xia Yun. Now that the Tianlong Gang is flourishing and Gu Boyang is helping him, he can breathe a sigh of relief and live for a few more years.
As Xia Yun and the Tianlong Gang became famous, people from all over the world came to join them one after another. Back then, Deng Mao used thunderous force to annihilate the Tongling General Helmsman. The old gang leader Xia Quji disappeared without a trace. A group of loyal old subordinates were unwilling to submit and hid. He went into the mountains and forests to avoid trouble. Now he learned that the young gang leader was in Youzhou, so he traveled thousands of miles north to join his old master. Now that heaven and earth are working together, the rise of the Tianlong Gang is unstoppable. Zhao Hongtu, the eldest son of Fan Yang Jiedushi, is on pins and needles. He hesitates again and again and decides to strike first.
Shoot the man first, shoot the horse first, and capture the thief first, capture the king. As long as Xia Ying dies, the Tianlong Gang will be leaderless, and Zhao Ying will be able to calmly control him without strong support. It's just that Xia Yun doesn't leave Youzhou City easily. Taoist Yiqing has a bad reputation. He recruits a lot of people under his command. There is a saying that "there must be brave men under heavy rewards", but when it comes to this matter, there is no one. People dared to respond, which made Zhao Hongtu very frustrated and took no action.
On this day, he was in a irritable mood, so he called a few servant boys to accompany him and went to stroll on the streets to relax. After walking back and forth for a while, I felt hungry, so I walked up to the Qingchuan Tower, asked for a private seat, and ordered the waiter to serve me good wine and food, and eat a few random chopsticks. While he was pondering over his thoughts, he suddenly heard a soft "plop" outside, and someone fell to the ground. His heart sank, and the hand holding the wine glass trembled. After a while, a man walked in. He was tall and beardless. He raised his hands to Zhao Hongtu and said with a smile: "Pan came to visit unexpectedly, and the prince was shocked!"
Three days later, an unexpected news came to Youzhou. The prince Zhao Hongtu escorted Xia Quji, the old leader of the Tianlong Gang, and stopped at Qingyangdun, thirty miles south of the city, and invited Xia Yun to come and recognize him. Naturally, Xia Yun would not be involved in the danger himself. He ordered Yi Lian and Yiqing Taoist to go to Qingyangdun to explore the truth. As a result, Yiqing Taoist was left behind. Yi Lian returned to Youzhou City alone and presented the details to Xia Yun. .
He recognized again and again that the person coming was indeed the old gang leader Xia Quji.
On that day, the Han army searched the mountains and seas, found Xia Quji in Shenjing Mountain, escorted him all the way to the capital, and sent him to the mansion of Deng Pu, the veteran of the three dynasties and General Zhenyuan. Deng Pu knew about his origin, and for Xia Yiwei's sake, he didn't make things difficult for him. He just took him to his biological mother's grave to worship him, which also settled a worry and cause and effect. When Xia Quji was young, he weathered the wind and rain and worked hard for the Tianlong Gang. Now he is old and frail, and his days are numbered. According to Deng Pu's original intention, he was left to take care of himself in his mansion until the end of his life. However, the weather was not as he wished, and he could not survive Xia Quji. In addition to illness, a stroke, hemiplegia, lack of water and rice, and life expectancy of only a hundred days at most.
As his death approached, Deng Pu was more awake than ever before. He wrote a letter and rushed it eight hundred miles to Yangzhou City, stating his interests and losses, his strong feelings, his loyalty, and every word of blood and tears. Liang Yuanhao, who was not a dim-witted man today, thought for a long time and summoned Deng Quji, the commander-in-chief of the Han army. He read his father's letter to him and ordered the Han army to rush to the capital and follow the arrangements of the old general Deng.
Deng Pu wanted to seize the opportunity to defeat the Hu people and bring the world back before he died, wipe out the three towns in Hebei in one fell swoop, remove this thorn in the flesh, and do his last meager contribution to the Liang Kingdom. The plan depends on people, and the success depends on God. He is not sure of victory, but now is the best time. Although Deng Quji disagreed, he could not disobey the emperor's orders and his father's orders, so he had to mobilize his troops and generals to break camp and go north. Before leaving, he secretly met with King Huai without being seen by anyone, and discussed it for a long time before leaving.
Just as Deng Pu was lying stiffly on the bed, pouring down bowl after bowl of boiling ginseng soup, and looking forward to Han's army, Li Shi, the head of the Huashan faction, came to Deng's house alone to take the pulse of General Deng Pu and diagnose him. He left behind a life-sustaining pill and took Xia Quji away.
Li Shi, Pan Xingzhou, and Zhao Hongtu came to one place with their own purposes in mind.
