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"General, King Zhao pulled you to form a caravan, this is a great thing." Zhang Hong's eyebrows fluttered, and he told Li Jing excitedly, "This means that King Zhao has compared you with several other generals in Dengzhou who hold military power." It shows that your weight in King Zhao's heart has become very important, and you should be moved and happy. ”

"It's never too late to rejoice when we are no longer pawns in the hands of these big men."

Zhang Hong unfolded the list of partners, and his brows were still completely unconcealed with joy. can catch the big ship of King Zhao, the Jieshuai envoy and the Cui family, this caravan is still worried that there is no money to make, and Shamen Town will monopolize thirty percent of the profits, and it will definitely be rich in the future. "General, being able to be used actually shows that there is value in being used, and what I am most afraid of is not being used, but that there is no value in being used."

"I already hate the feeling of being controlled as a pawn."

"Even if you are a pawn, as long as you cross the river, there will be a time when you will be a handsome man who will die. The key is that you can get to that point, not become an outcast halfway through. Zhang Hong stroked his goatee and suddenly said very philosophically.

"I may not be able to be a pawn, but if I have a group of you pawns to help me, it is not impossible to cross the river and kill the old handsome."

Zhang Hong had a tired smile on his face: "General, I'm glad to see you think so." He approached Li Jing's ear and whispered, "Just now, Team Leader Qiu sent someone to report that the shopkeepers and proprietors of those shops who fled from Salmon Island last night have all returned. In addition, Aunt Gongsun of the Sword Dance Pavilion had already come first. It seems that the other shops are coming over as well. ”

"Sword Dance Pavilion. Aunt Gongsun. Li Jing frowned and read the two names. Gongsun still has the courage to come? ”

"Team Leader Qiu said that Gongsun had already learned about the wrong information, and she was very sorry for this." Zhang Hong whispered, "I feel that this grandson is not simple, but I don't think she seems to be hostile to us. ”

"Let her wait." When Li Jing thought of the situation that he had bought for 3,000 yuan, only half of them turned out to be right, and he couldn't help but think of the 600 brothers who died in the battle last night. "She is willing to wait, if she doesn't even have this patience and sincerity, it means that she has bad intentions in this matter. Now what I want to do most is to find someone who doesn't know whether to live or die. Let out the anger in my heart. ”

Zhang Hong nodded, and flipped through the notepad in his hand like an old housekeeper, "There is one more thing, those shops have seen that Song Envoy Jun and King Zhao, as well as the main civil and military generals of Dengzhou, have arrived on the island, and have already sent people to propose to come to comfort the army and meet the officials in a while. They also proposed that they would organize all the luncheons for today's officials, and that they would also arrange the lunches for all the soldiers and guards who went to the island. ”

Hearing the news, Li Jing sneered. It has been seven days since he came to Dengzhou, but now, except for Aunt Gongsun, who took the initiative to have an accident with him. There are thousands of shops and thousands of warehouses on the island. There were also four docks, and not a single merchant had ever come to visit him. He never gave any gifts, nor did he come to work in half of the army. When the pirates attacked last night, the first thing these merchants thought of was to leave the island by boat, and none of them came to help with their guards.

Now that he has repelled the pirates, and Song Wen and King Zhao are strongly supportive, these merchants have immediately changed their faces, and Baba wants to rush to the labor army to condole.

If he could, Li Jing would like to lead his troops to raid all those merchants now, just like he did with the Wang family's shops. However, Li Jing is not drinking now, so he still remains awake, and the thoughts in his mind are just a moment of anger. He can't deal with these merchants openly. However, he would never let these people go like this, and in any case, since they were on Salmon Island, they should belong to him. Li Jing didn't want a group of people on his turf to be transcendent. If you can't do it openly, you can only come in the dark.

He had already preliminarily thought of a set of plans to deal with these people, and recovering the four docks was the first step. Now that they are coming to comfort the army, they will meet Shangguan. Then Li Jing is going to borrow the power of Song Wen and Li Wei and others today, and fake the tiger.

After Zhang Hong left, Li Jing sat alone in the study and pondered. He kept asking himself in his heart, in the current situation, what would he do if he were replaced by someone else? If you were Song Wen, Li Wei, Wang Jin, and Feng Zhang, how would you treat yourself? After Wang Jin's failure this time, will there be another wave of action? And Feng Zhang, this cunning guy, has been hidden, is he hibernating, waiting for the best machine to gather momentum to strike with all his might, or has he died down? In the face of this chaotic situation, what should I do with Salmon Town? Will we fight them directly to the end, or will we compromise for the time being, keep a low profile, and wait for the right time?

Strange to say, sometimes the more I think about it, the more I don't know the answer. But sometimes it is a sentence that seems to be the most outsider, but it can go straight to the heart. Li Hui'er's sentence "To deal with people like Wang Jin, you should return a tooth for a tooth and a claw for a claw." "Lifted the fog from his heart a lot. No matter how the current situation changes, all this cannot hide the fact that Wang Jin attacked Shamen Town. Although Salmon Town can be rebuilt, this damage will always remain in everyone's hearts.

Less than a quarter of an hour after Zhang Hong left, the monk Xuancheng suddenly came to see him.

"I heard that Aunt Gongsun of the Sword Dance Pavilion is here again?" As soon as he entered the door, he said straight to the point: "Does the general still believe her?" Since Xuan Cheng decided to stay as the deputy of the reconnaissance team, he has begun to deliberately change his current self, he no longer wears monk's clothes, and no longer talks about being a poor monk and sprinkling his family, but changes into a fiery red military uniform, and also wears a hat on his head.

"I believe that Aunt Gongsun should not have deliberately given us false information, I want to hear her explanation."

Xuan Cheng raised his eyebrows, a little eager to speak, and finally said: "I advise the general not to trust this woman too much, in fact, this woman is not as simple as you think." ”

"Why?" Li Jing asked suspiciously, "Do you know anything else?" ”

"Does the general know the six doors of the Dao?" Hyun Sung asked suddenly.

"I've heard some, it is said that the six doors belong to the criminal department, but after Emperor Taizong ascended the throne, during the Zhenguan period, in order to completely solve the remnants of the peasant uprising at the end of the Sui Dynasty and the green forests in various places, the criminal department established the "six doors" secret training base to train cutting-edge teenagers, named "eagle dogs". ”

"That's right, in order to deal with important cases related to the imperial court, the imperial court has specially established a secret organization integrating martial arts masters, secret agents, fast catchers and killers. Because of the secrecy of this organization, and because the headquarters hall is one and another north facing south, southeast and west, with a total of six doors on each side, it is called "six doors", and the members of the organization also call the headquarters "six doors" because of the secrets of their actions. Because of the strange actions of this organization, the ferocious methods, and the special handling of major cases, the people widely recited the majesty and terror of the six gates. After a long time, the six doors are known to everyone on the rivers and lakes. Xuan Cheng said, "Does the general know about the Plum Blossom Gate?" ”

"Plum Blossom Gate?" Li Jing shook his head, I only heard that during the time of Wu Zhou, in order to investigate and punish many ministers who violated the law and violated the law and corrupt officials and people who did not agree with Wu Zetian's wishes, Emperor Wu specially established a new secret organization, this group has many members, it is very hidden, the group has strict requirements, the head of the internal guard is called the big cabinet leader, and each member has a plum blossom tattoo engraved on his left arm, which makes the royal family frightened. Could it be that the plum blossom door has something to do with this plum blossom guard? ”

"That's right." Xuan Cheng's expression was solemn, "After the death of Emperor Wu, the new emperor and the ministers led by Zhang Cambodia hated the internal guard, and immediately canceled the Meihua internal guard group. Some of the internal guards were killed, and some were incognito. Disappeared since. However, in the later period of Emperor Xuanzong, a mysterious organization called Meihuamen appeared on the rivers and lakes, and they specialized in selling intelligence and assassination services. Many people have suspected that the plum blossom gate is the legacy of the plum blossom guard. ”

"You mean that Aunt Gongsun is from the Plum Blossom Gate?" Li Jing frowned and asked, he never thought that Aunt Gongsun would actually get involved with the Plum Blossom Gate. And what made him even more suspicious was that Xuan Cheng was a Shaolin monk, how could he know about these secret things. He suddenly blurted out, "Could it be that you are from the Six Doors?" ”

"No, I'm not." Xuan Cheng suddenly untied his robe, revealing his naked upper body, "The people of the Six Doors and the Plum Blossom Gate all have a characteristic, that is, they will have a tattoo mark on their body. The symbol of the six doors is the left flying eagle and the right lackey, while the tattoo symbol of the plum blossom door is a plum blossom. ”

Xuan Cheng didn't have the slightest trace of tattoos on his body, but Li Jing was still puzzled, "Then how do you know these secret things?" ”

"I'm not, but one of my senior brothers who went down the mountain in his early years was a six-door person. I met him in Luoyang on my way down the mountain, and he wanted to lead me through the six gates, but I didn't agree at the time. But he asked me for one thing, that is, when I traveled, I would help him find out the whereabouts of the Plum Blossom Gate. Therefore, he told me a lot of secret things about this matter, but these things were really just scratching the surface. ”

Li Jing was skeptical, and he asked, "How can you be sure that Aunt Gongsun is a person from Meihuamen?" ”

"In fact, as long as you think carefully about the Sword Dance Pavilion and Aunt Gongsun, and think about the work they are secretly engaged in, even a blind person can see that the Sword Dance Pavilion should be a dark rudder of the Plum Blossom Gate, and Aunt Gongsun must be a leader of the Plum Blossom Gate at a high level, and it is very likely to be the helmsman or the hall master-level figure, and it may even be the protector of the Dharma." Xuan Cheng Dao.

"yes." Li Jing nodded, "After you say this, now that you think about it, Aunt Gongsun does have a lot of indescribable connections with Meihuamen." But even so, what does it matter? ”

"Because since the Meihua Gate has changed its internal guard, it has changed from the emperor's private spy organization to an organization that has been secretly rebelling against the imperial court. I'm worried that if the general contacts them, it will lead to disaster. Xuan Cheng persuaded. (To be continued.) )