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Chapter 274 Steady

The depressive atmosphere became more and more solemn.

None of the fourteen elite cadres in the meeting hall spoke. The people behind the screen did not dare to fart, and they were all clearly distinguished. They looked at other members of the same family with eyes and kindness that were completely different, as if they were looking at enemies in the same industry.

Through the gap in the screen, Zhao Sanyuan's thoughts changed rapidly.

What on earth does such a weakling want to talk about?

How come everyone is so bitter and resentful?

Before entering the meeting hall, they were obviously very harmonious with each other, but after sitting in the meeting hall, they seemed to be different people. The whole thing was like a large powder keg, and the slightest spark would definitely explode.

Time passed bit by bit, and for the disciples from all sides, seconds were like years. I am afraid that everyone had received the same orders as Zhao Sanyuan and Hu Zi in advance. As long as something went wrong, they would use their spirituality. But in the end, this was Kong Xia. At home, she has the most people under her command, and Zhao Sanyuan and Huzi are just one of them.

The aura is invisible and intangible, but it can affect everyone. When many powerful auras collide with each other, it is too torture for people with poor psychological endurance, and breathing and gasping become difficult. very difficult.

When the atmosphere was almost depressing to the extreme, Kong Xia, as the host, put down her tea bowl and chose to be the first to speak.

"Fellow Taoists came to the Shimen altar. The poor Taoist was very frightened. This time——"

Before he finished speaking, Altar Master Wan Quan interrupted angrily: "Afraid? Altar Master Kong, are you kidding me? Who in the sect doesn't know that although you are the Altar Master, your status has long been equal to that of Master Dian, and that of all the altars north of the Yellow River?" Who is as good as you at Shimen Branch? The more people you have, the more money you will get. Even foreigners have to sell you 30% thin noodles, let alone those in temples, so you can skip the polite words. No matter how polite you are, just do the things that need to be done."

After hearing this, a hint of murderous intent flashed in Kong Xia's eyes, and then quickly disappeared without a trace.

She knew that the person who came here was evil, but she must be in a bad mood after being teased in public.

"That's right." A bearded point master, who was obviously on Kong Xia's side, chuckled and said, "Everyone knows that after both losses with Dachongjiu, our teaching's vitality was greatly damaged. Not only the upper elites suffered heavy losses, but Many grassroots branches are also forced to go dormant because they are leaderless. If all branches are like Master Kong, then the leader does not need to worry."

Hearing this, Zhao Sanyuan suddenly felt enlightened.

I previously knew from Gao Shou that Yiguandao launched a premeditated large-scale attack on Da Chongjiu, which resulted in a sharp reduction in Da Chongjiu’s establishment and the death of many strong men. If it weren’t for Lao Gao’s great fortune and great fortune, now The grass on the grave is almost two meters high.

As for the losses of Yiguandao, Zhao Sanyuan never had a clear idea, and it is not difficult to tell from the meaning of these words that Yiguandao is definitely no better than Da Chongjiu. It is really a lose-lose situation.

The other bald disciple, who was obviously wearing the same pants as Master Wanquan, didn’t look at anyone. He played with his teacup and sighed, “I teach Meng Nan, and since we work together, the leader ordered the people north of the Yellow River and Taihang to The Edong sub-chamber reorganized itself. To put it bluntly, the sub-chamber with a strong family background needs to help the other brothers. People should be recruited and money should be paid. Since the leader asked us to come to Shimen for a secret meeting, it is naturally because of the master Kong’s foundation. It’s thick.”

Someone brought up the topic, and the other leaders stopped pretending to be transparent and expressed their opinions.

"The Shimen Altar has not been damaged. In recent years, not only have the number of believers been among the best, but the money bags are also big enough, and there are countless real estates. I have followed the path of foreigners. I really envy others. I won't say anything else. Let's just say In our area in Rehe and Feng Province, just a few years after the stall was set up, it was suddenly taken over by the Dachong Jiubaihu Department. The stall owners there are all polished commanders. They want money but no one, and no one is there. Altar Master, we all depend on you."

"Master Jianping, are you going too far? You, the Eastern Fourth Province, have a weak foundation, and you will be punished when you are dealt with. The higher-ups don't have much expectations for you. The Guannei area is the top priority, no matter what. First help us divide the altar in Ji County."

"Not looking forward to it? You're kidding me. The Jianping branch was the first branch established in the four eastern provinces. Since Huang Aimin was tortured and died, everything has been destroyed. Not only the Fengzhou side has been in ruins, but also the whole area in Rehe. We were also affected. We didn’t say we were suffering or tired, right? What happened? You tortured several leaders of the Fengcian Railway Engineering Team to death? I personally went to the battle to do that. What qualifications does your Jixian branch have? Wai Wai?"

The scene became more and more complicated and the atmosphere became more and more intense.

There are roughly three forces in the conference hall.

The first group is based on the Shimen branch. Their territory is almost all in western Hebei. They have a good relationship with Kong Xia and usually get a lot of benefits.

The second group is based on the Jianping Branch. Their territory is not within the borders of Hebei Province, and they have also suffered a lot of blows. They dream of recovering their strength. You must know that Yiguandao is quite involution, otherwise they will only be marginalized. When the time comes, How can we continue to pass the exam with five sons?

Gold, money, houses, cars, women.

what?

For ideals?

Who would join Yiguandao for the sake of ideals? Isn’t it nice to go to a serious Taoist temple?

But Zhao Sanyuan's heart was already in turmoil.

The murder of the leader of the Fengtian railway engineering team?

Among the so-called leaders, is Li Dongzhi among them?

In addition, previous conjectures have been overturned. I originally thought that Lao Li had some ruthless political opponents, but now it seems that it is definitely not the case, because the murder was not just targeted at one person, but it sounds like it was targeted at the railway engineering team.

But this makes no sense. What grudges can there be between the cult and the railroad builders? Is it necessary to take a fatal blow?

You must know that Yiguandao's power outside the customs is not very strong, its influence is very low, and it is still the officials of the Feng clique who are dealing with it. If you really get caught with the tail and evidence, you don't need to spend much effort, just send a security team to solve it. Question, then what is Yiguandao’s purpose in having them always target the railway engineering team of Feng Provincial Construction Department?

Zhao Sanyuan frowned. He originally planned to crack the secret, but unexpectedly there was a thick layer of clouds on top of the secret, making it even more difficult to discern the true identity.

But the amount of information in this secret conversation was destined to be too much, and there was no time for Zhao Sanyuan to think about it in detail.

There are big differences in the distribution of interests in the meeting hall. Everyone wants to take a bite out of Shimen Branch to feed themselves back. But it is not just about taking advantage, not to mention money. Opening up and keeping silent is at least 10,000 yuan to start, some lions The big opening asks for 200,000 yuan directly.

In addition to money, we also need people.

They are not the lowest-level "wool" believers, but elite disciples who have been trained. Even if the Shimen branch has a strong family background, there are only dozens of such foundations in total. There are eight altar owners who come to "rob" each family. Just divide a few and it’s gone.

That's not all. After asking for money and people, we also need ready-made inventory, such as 'processed' people who can go out and kill people with just a push, such as souls that can summon lonely ghosts to a certain extent. Flags, for example, using secret methods to refine stand-ins that can confuse vision and hearing, etc., all of them are magic weapons that have been saved over the years, and they are not potatoes and sweet potatoes that can grow casually.

It can be seen that these altar leaders want to seize the opportunity to have sex for free. After all, it was the leader who personally ordered the reorganization. North of the Yellow River and east of Taihang, you are the only one in Shimen Temple who is extremely rich. If you don’t bleed, who will?

Then again, no one would be happy with any leader cutting leeks like this, so they can't do it arbitrarily. Sweetness must be given. The reward for Kong Xia from above is pretty good. She was promoted to a point master and also the master of Shimen altar. , holding both status and territory, and promised not to have to hand over money as usual within two years.

But even so, Kong Xia is still unhappy in every way. Who knows when she will get her money back? So she would rather spend 90,000 to bribe the top management than spend 100,000 to fund other branches.

The bearded master Dian Chuan tried to smooth things over, "The environment in western Hebei has not been very good in the past six months. Many places have had no harvests, natural disasters have continued, a large number of refugees from Henan Province have poured into western Hebei, and life has been difficult for Shimen Fentan. Not counting the military disasters and man-made disasters, Zhang Yuting and Yan Laoxi were constantly at odds. There was no fighting, but there was a lot of looting. If you empty out the foundation of Shimen's altar, wouldn't you kill the goose that lays the goose and take the egg?"

The bald preacher next door sneered: "It depends on how fat the chicken is. As far as I know, Lord Confucius has a lot of business. Let's not talk about the farm shop for the moment. In the past two years, he has been working with Western missionaries and Liu from the south. The good people work together to do charity, and the good people Liu buy grain from you at low prices, and the deceived children are sent to Western missionaries. If there is a scandal, you go to clean up the aftermath. The three families collude, and everyone makes money. Are you done?" In just a few words, there is no teaching at all, and there is no 'Tao' of inaction, it is more like a dirty scene of dividing the spoils.

It perfectly explains that you should never talk about doctrine when talking about interests.

Zhao Sanyuan saw with his own eyes how dirty and despicable the so-called "charity" was. It turned out that Yiguandao was also involved, and there must have been corrupt officials and gangsters behind it.

If we had just lived an ordinary life, we would never have known about this shocking secret, but from the mouths of these bastards, it was as common as farting after eating.

Oh shit!

They all deserve to be killed!

"If you want me to say who gets more and who gets less should be decided based on performance, let's go back a little bit to establish an equal division. How many people did we die in order to attack the leader the year before last? In the end, the whole army was lost when the thing was not done. It was destroyed, and so far you haven’t found out who is helping Gaosou.”

"What a fart on you! I didn't even know about this beforehand, so I asked me to investigate after everyone was dead. How can I investigate just my family? Let's talk about merit, right? OK! Whose body was Chang Xingzi's in the first place? The one who secretly transported it? It was me! Without my overall arrangement, he would have been discovered and snatched away by Da Chongjiu and Longmen Taoist Priests!"

The red-faced and thick-necked altar owners never imagined that the remaining members of the Yaowang Valley group-killing Yiguandao killer team were in this building, and they were trying their best to play another group-killing show.

But Zhao Sanyuan behind the screen clenched his fists.

Saying these words from the mouth of Yiguandao Yaoren, it was completely confirmed that Uncle Changxingzi's death must be inseparable from them. This alone was a blood feud.

Hold on!

Hold on!

It’s not time to take action yet!

I'll wait until I know more secrets before I blast you bunch of idiots to death!

Huzi on the side was surprisingly quiet, not as naive as before. His eyes never moved, staring closely at one of the three talents.

No one knows what he is thinking or calculating in his heart.

But Zhao Sanyuan didn't have the energy to pay attention to Hu Zi. Although the meeting hall was full of monsters with strange dharma, they could say and do vulgar things, and they would blush and slap the table for the sake of profit.

Only the two top three talents and the female Dian Master never spoke. They turned a blind eye and ignored everything that happened. Perhaps it was within their expectations. In comparison, they can be called Immovable as a mountain, the demeanor of a master.

Zhao Sanyuan can't guarantee whether he can win against any of them. The more he knows and the more he sees, the more he can feel the vastness of the world and the insignificance of himself.

"The leader asked us to get things done, not to scold us. Who here has not done anything for the leader? There is no point in talking about achievements here and now. If you want to quarrel, go to the leader. If you want to cry, go to the leader. When you are crying in front of me, how can Master Kong help you? Two or three people have decided, so how can it be your turn to decide who will get more and who will get less?"

There was a neutral altar leader who couldn't stand to listen anymore and stood up and raised his arms and shouted.

Are his thoughts noble?

Of course not. Some people don't want to take more, and they don't want to take less. It is better to distribute it equally. Besides, it can also sell Master Kong a favor. The future is long, and there will be plenty of time for cooperation in the future.

No matter what the starting point was, anyway, the scene did not continue to be chaotic. It was time to drink tea and all eyes were focused on the two three talents.

One is an old man with a white beard, and the other is a man with a bronze mask whose face cannot be seen clearly.

The two of them had the highest status in the room, especially after the defeat with Dachongjiu, more than half of the three talents in Yiguandao were killed or injured, and the status of those who survived had been improved a lot. Neither the Dian Master nor the altar leader dared to be presumptuous in front of them. .

But neither of them spoke. The one who spoke was the female dian master. She slowly looked at Kong Xia and said in a hoarse voice, "Master Kong."

"exist."

"Have you apostatized?"

!!!

This sentence is deafening!

In an instant, all the altar owners looked at Kong Xia, with expressions of disbelief on their faces.

apostasy?

What a joke!

If she, Kong Xia, apostates, then this secret meeting will be tantamount to throwing herself into a trap!

Kong Xia herself was also shocked beyond measure. When she came back to her senses, she didn't care whether it was because of dirty water or some other reason. Anyway, she had to prove her innocence.

"Why did Master Gong say this? I am loyal and loyal to the leader. If I really apostatize, how could the leader with his foresight set the secret meeting place at Shimen?"

"Oh? Really? Then please explain why there is the smell of explosives in the conference hall."

slam-la-

The altar owners immediately retreated to the wall and nervously observed their surroundings.

Explosives?

Hello Kong Xia!

It’s just a matter of being an iron rooster, but you still want to destroy the body and eliminate all traces?

Zhao Sanyuan, who was behind the screen, felt his heart skip a beat and his expression changed drastically.

Be bad!

(End of this chapter)