Xie Xun said: "Master, the Wudang Sect is at its peak of talent, and there will be more talents in the future. Some people like the Jianghu road, which is normal, but the Jianghu is not the only way out. Several wise brothers came out to explore the road and also gave them Later, people had more choices, and in short, those who came out were also from the Wudang Clan."
Zhang Sanfeng thought for a while and said, "Okay, I will be your lobbyist."
I don’t know how Zhang Sanfeng persuaded him, but finally Yu Lianzhou, Yu Daiyan and Zhang Songxi all agreed and they came to find Xie Xun.
Seeing that the three of them were not so willing, Xie Xun smiled and said, "What? You hate me poaching Wudang?"
Yu Lianzhou said: "Brother Xie, we will practice martial arts well with our master and want to promote the Wudang Sect. You insist on dragging us into your rebel army. You don't lack a few of us."
Xie Xun said: "If you want to make the Wudang Sect prosperous, you don't need to stick to Wudang. You must know that there is only one leader of the Wudang Sect, and Yuanqiao is the best choice."
Yu Lianzhou said: "We are not coveting the position of leader. We are all convinced that senior brother will be the leader."
Xie Xun said: "I know that you are brothers, and I don't want to incite brotherhood between you. I just want to tell you that since you are not candidates for the head, you don't have to stay in Wudang. Come to me, If the uprising is successful in the future, you will all be meritorious officials. If you go back and use your strength to help the Wudang Clan, wouldn't it be more useful to the Wudang Clan than just being a knight? In the future, Wudang will become bigger and bigger, and there will be more and more people. There are more, but there is always only one leader, so some people can leave the world and join the official career, which is also a good way out."
The three of them were thoughtful, and Xie Xun said: "I have not asked you to leave Wudang, and you can always go and say hello to Master Zhang. I just hope that you will use your usual chivalrous energy on a greater cause, and Wudang will not suffer any loss." , in the end we all benefit.”
Xie Xun still had some unspoken intentions. He wanted to support Wudang and fight against Shaolin.
Buddhism does not engage in production or pay taxes. It has many privileges and has a great impact on the social economy and military. That is why the three martial arts and one sect exterminated Buddhism.
As the leader of Buddhism and the largest sect in the world, Shaolin has a profound foundation and can stand firm no matter who is in power.
Xie Xun has long wanted to curb the development of Shaolin, but before, his strength was still small and he had no hope of unifying the world, so Shaolin has never been his primary goal.
Now that we can see the dawn of victory, we have to consider how to treat Shaolin and even Buddhism in the future. Just as he wants to weaken the Mingjiao, he should now consider what will happen after unifying the world.
Xie Xun has always admired Yu Lianzhou. He is devoted to martial arts, has no distractions, has a resolute personality, is cold-hearted and has a warm heart. His martial arts skills have made him the leader of the Wudang heroes and the god of war of the Wudang sect.
Yu Daiyan is generous, free-spirited, and perseverant, and is best suited for a military career.
Zhang Songxi is resourceful and a rare talent.
These are all important chess pieces to fight against Shaolin in the future. If they are balanced, there will be peace.
Of course, Xie Xun is still very friendly to Shaolin on the surface, and he must be grateful to be able to attend his wedding this time.
Lu Zhixi got her wish by marrying Xie Xun. Just like Lu Zhiqing said, although Xie Xun looks fierce, everyone who has actually been with him is impressed by his charm, both men and women.
Lu Zhixi has been with Xie Xun since she was a child, learning literature and martial arts. His martial arts skills and his conversation were all unique, coupled with Xie Xun's unprincipled defense of her, she became attached to Xie Xun when she didn't understand anything. Later, when she first fell in love, Xie Xun exuded the charm of a mature man. "The worries of middle age are as thick as wine, and the feelings of a girl are always poetry." She could no longer let go of other men in her eyes.
Now Xie Xun doesn't have much time for himself anymore. Even though he has just married a lovely wife, he doesn't have time to spend time with him.
The imperial court was also in troubled times. In the third year of Zhishun (1332), Wen Zong died and Ning Zong succeeded to the throne. However, he died after only reigning for fifty-three days. The throne was vacant for more than half a year. The powerful Prime Minister Yan Tiemuer reached the peak of power. In the extreme, in May of the fourth year of Zhishun (1333), Yan Tiemuer died of excessive sexual indulgence. In June, Tuohuan Tiemuer succeeded to the throne and became Emperor Shun of the Yuan Dynasty, and his reign name was changed to Yuantong.
This year there was heavy rain in the capital, and more than 400,000 people suffered from hunger. The next year, Jiangsu and Zhejiang were hit by disasters, with as many as 590,000 people affected.
These disasters gave Mingjiao an opportunity to develop and grow.
Xie Xun had been preparing for many years, accumulating grass to store grain, and the giant whale gang went on a sailing expedition. He even brought back crops such as corn, sweet potatoes, and potatoes, which are high-yielding and easy to grow, and planted them on a large scale in his own jurisdiction, so that he had sufficient food and grass. Accept disaster victims.
In just a few years, war broke out in Huaisi, Henan, Hubei and other places. The Mingjiao conquered cities and plundered territory, blossomed in many places, and developed extremely rapidly. It cannot be said to be half of the country in the Central Plains, but at least it can compete with the imperial court. In particular, the Mingjiao occupied the wealthy areas in the south of the Yangtze River, which had a devastating blow to the economy of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty. In various parts of the north, rebels also rose up from time to time.
After Yan Tiemu'er, the right prime minister Boyan came to the court to take over the power and was named King of Qin.
Boyan implemented a policy of national oppression that excluded Han people, and all the Han people were resentful. In November of the first year of the Yuan Dynasty (1335), the imperial examination was directly canceled, which directly pushed Han Confucian scholars into the opposite direction.
Liu Ji, who was only 25 years old, took the imperial examination in Dadu two years ago and passed the Jinshi examination in one fell swoop. However, he was idle at home due to the war. At this time, seeing the court's innocence and the prosperity of Mingjiao, he came to join the rebel army of Mingjiao. Song Lian, who was one year older than him, was also acquired by the Mingjiao. Among the three heroes in the early Ming Dynasty, only the younger Li Shanchang was not born yet.
Xie Xun was very happy to learn that these two people had joined the rebel army. He personally recruited them to encourage them. They also knew everything about his philosophy of governing the country. Finally, he left them with his son Xie Wuji and asked his son to worship them as his teachers. .
The two of them were naturally elated when they received Xie Xun's courtesy. They knew that this step was the right one. Looking at the momentum of the Ming Cult, they should have a bright future.
Xie Xun has also been recruiting talents and cannot rely entirely on people from the martial arts world to govern the place.
The current Mingjiao governs local areas in the form of a military government. The military has great power. This is certainly suitable for the current situation. It is similar to "wartime communism". It concentrates all its efforts to cope with the war. However, in the future, peace in the world will not be possible and it will be harmful to the country. It will also be quite large, so reserve the Literary Group.
Faced with the resistance of the Han people, Boyan proposed to kill all the Han people surnamed Zhang, Wang, Liu, Li, and Zhao, but the emperor did not adopt it.
The end of the Yuan Dynasty has always seen the emergence of powerful officials in large numbers, which heralds the decline of the Yuan Dynasty and the rise of the Han Dynasty.
However, a skinny camel is bigger than a horse, so it is not without talent. A young general emerged in the imperial court. He was only in his twenties. He led the elite Mongolian soldiers to suppress rebellions everywhere, temporarily pacifying the northern land, and then directed his troops to the south, intending to wipe out the world.
Many of the rebels in the north were supported by the Ming Cult, but they still could not resist these elite Mongolian soldiers.
Xie Xun's power in the south has increased a lot, but the power of the imperial court is still not weak. Xie Xun didn't want to be attacked from both sides. He wanted to pacify the south before heading north to expel the Mongols and unify the north.
Most of the important figures in the Ming Cult now rarely stay at Guangmingding (resting on the tip of the ship). Yin Tianzheng, the White-browed Eagle King, has been busy with his Sky Eagle flag and going deep into the front line.
Most of the Wu San people went to help Peng Yingyu run the White Lotus Sect, and they also had their own territory.
The flag bearers of the Five Elements Flag all assist Zhuang Zheng in the Western Regions.
There are only two immortals, Xiaoyao, at Guangmingding. Yang Xiao handles the educational affairs. Fan Yao never reaches out for power, but is only responsible for guarding.
Xie Hu is often at Guangmingding. After Yu Lianzhou joined Xie Xun, he handed over the responsibility of his execution hall to Yu Lianzhou. Yu Lianzhou has a cold personality and uprightness, which makes him very suitable for this position.
Xie Xun ordered Zhuang to prepare 20,000 troops and horses from the Western Regions, and marched eastward to disperse the imperial forces and buy time for himself to pacify the south.
The Western Region is vast and sparsely populated. It is impossible to defeat the Mongols with just these troops.
But these soldiers and horses were not peasant uprisings who exchanged hoes for sticks and went to the battlefield. They were professional soldiers who had undergone rigorous training. They had extraordinary combat effectiveness, well-trained soldiers and sufficient food, and they were enough to give the court a headache.
But before he could fight Yuan Bing, the bad news came that Zhuang Zhong was assassinated.
Zhuang Zhong had a close personal relationship with Xie Xun. His son Zhuang Zheng was Xie Xun's only formal disciple and always stayed with Xie Xun. Xie Xun was relieved to hand over such a large territory in the Western Region to Zhuang Zhong.
Zhuang Zheng's unexpected death was like a bolt from the blue to Zhuang Zheng, and it also caught Xie Xun off guard.
As the governor of the Western Region, Zhuang Zhong guards Xie Xun's side and is an important force under Xie Xun.
Xie Xun didn't leave any masters in the Western Region Guangmingding, but the solemn martial arts itself was not low. The Western Region Guangmingding was heavily guarded and heavily guarded, so it should be absolutely foolproof.
The news coming from the Western Region is that three people crossed various levels of Guangmingding and suddenly appeared from the secret passage, and their martial arts skills were extremely high. Zhuang Zhong was killed under layers of protection.
Xie Xun and Yang Xiao looked at each other. It goes without saying that the person who knows the secret path of Guangmingding is Cheng Kun, the "Hunyuan Thunderbolt Hand". The rest of the Mingjiao didn't know, but they both read Yang Dingtian's will and knew about Cheng Kun's existence. In order to cover up the scandal for Leader Yang, they did not tell anyone else.
Xie Xun said: "The incident happened suddenly. The Western Region is our rear area. We cannot allow chaos. We must have experts in charge. I plan to send Envoy Fan You and Zhuang Zheng back to the Western Region to take charge."
Yang Xiao was silent for a moment. He didn't want Fan Yao to leave. Fan Yao was an important helper to him in Mingjiao.
Xie Xun's subordinates are not only the Mingjiao, but the Mingjiao is just one of the forces under him. Although Yang Xiao is under one person in the Ming Cult, the only forces he can really mobilize are the Four Sects of Heaven, Earth, Wind and Thunder, and only Fan Yao among the top leaders can help him. Although the others are not as good as him, they all directly accept Xie Xun's leadership.
