Traveling the Heavens in Thunderbolt

Chapter 11 The plot begins

Since the eighth year of Song Xining, not only has the situation in the court changed rapidly, but the situation in the martial arts world has also been unpredictable.

First, Wang Jiantong, the leader of the world's largest Beggars' Sect, accepted a young talent named "Qiao Feng". Later, a shocking news came from the famous martial arts family in Jiangnan, the Murong Clan in Gusu. According to a family general of the Murong Mansion who did not want to be named, the current head of the Murong family, Murong Fu, had made a mistake in his training and lost all his martial arts skills, resulting in a serious illness. With the Murong family's move to seek famous doctors outside at a high price, the authenticity of this news was further confirmed.

For this reason, Shaolin, as the Taishan Beidou of the martial arts world, sent Xuan Ku, a high monk of the Xuan generation, to Suzhou to visit. Later, Xue Muhua, a genius doctor known as the "enemy of the king of hell", went to treat him, which immediately pushed this martial arts family, which had just regained its peace, to the forefront again.

As the Shaolin Temple monks and the divine doctor gathered together with Yanziwu for a joint consultation, Xue Muhua finally diagnosed that Murong Fu had gone astray in his practice and was seriously injured. Although he was rescued, he was left with a chronic illness and it was difficult for him to live a normal life. In summary, there was no cure, so he had to wait for death.

Some lamented the silence of a generation of young talents, some lamented the decline of the Murong family, but more people were jealous of the Murong family for returning the secret book of Shi Shui Pavilion.

At the end of this year, the twenty-eight martial arts sects and heroes from Jiangnan held a meeting and went to Yanziwu to seek martial arts secrets. Although they said they were seeking, anyone with a discerning eye could see that they were taking advantage of the decline of the Murong family to add insult to injury. Immediately, all the major martial arts sects set their sights on this incident, believing that the Murong family was doomed.

But what was surprising was that the powerful alliance was completely annihilated. Outside Yanziwu that day, Gong Yeqian defeated 16 representatives in a row, and then Deng Baichuan killed Yin Tianchou, the leader of the alliance, with three palm strikes. When the alliance members reacted and wanted to rely on their numerical advantage, they found that they had been captured by Bao Bu Tong and Feng Bo'e, who were also family generals, and all of them were killed.

Just when the martial artists thought that the Murong family would kill indiscriminately and massacre the 28 sects, they actually released all these people except for three families who committed rape and looting and committed heinous crimes (they were punished by heaven).

Afterwards, Murong Fu, the head of the Murong family, announced that because he was unable to practice martial arts, he would give up martial arts and go into business and form a business alliance.

If anyone wants to join, they only need to provide security protection within their sphere of influence, and they will get dividends. At the same time, they recruit caravan guards from all over the martial arts world, and those who make contributions can get a handwritten secret book.

While the major martial arts sects were hesitating, the 25 that were released came out in support, opened up trade routes within their own spheres of influence, provided protection, and sent their disciples to join the guard team.

Then, the Murong family quickly opened up the market through special products (soap, glass, and sugar) that only they could produce, and made a fortune every day.

The major martial arts sects, seeing that the twenty-five sects were making a lot of money, finally couldn't help but join the Merchant Alliance.

In just less than three years, the Murong family had established businesses all over the world, from the Liao Kingdom in the north to Dali and Siam in the south, and from Xixia and Tubo in the west.

Because of the interests involved, the entire southern martial arts world follows the lead of the Murong family. They either allow the Murong family's businesses to settle in, or send their disciples to join the escort team in order to obtain the martial arts secrets.

The only pity is that the head of the family, Murong Fu, cannot practice martial arts due to physical reasons, otherwise he would definitely be elected as the leader of the martial arts world in the south. After all, the Murong family is a martial arts family, and they know that it is unacceptable for their head to not practice martial arts. So they spent a lot of money to find famous doctors to treat him, and every year they would form a fleet to sail to the East China Sea to find the overseas fairy island (send personnel and materials to Yizhou), in the hope of finding the legendary panacea that can cure Murong Fu's injuries.

But after several failures, most of the personnel were lost each time (they were left in Yizhou, some working, some farming, and some building ships).

At the beginning of the first year of Yuanfeng (1077 AD), in order to ensure the continuation of the Murong family's bloodline, the Murong family's chief steward Deng Baichuan (the position of the owner of the manor was given to Bao Bu Tong) took the lead in formally proposing marriage to the Wang family, which was also a famous family in Suzhou. He wanted to marry his cousin, Wang Yuyan, a martial arts wizard of the Wang family. After some discussion, the date was set after the Murong family finally shared a part of the profits.

On October 1 of the same year, the two got married in Yanziwu. There were so many guests that the number of boats used was incalculable.

At that time, the Murong family was the most popular family, and people called it "the Taihu Pavilion of the Song Dynasty is half of the Murong Mansion."

In the following eight years, they gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The boys were named Murong Xing and Murong Sheng, and the girl was named Murong Ziling.

In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (1085 AD), Emperor Zhao Xu of Song died of illness in the palace with deep regret. His nine-year-old son Zhao Xu succeeded to the throne and was known as "Song Zhezong" in history. The reign was changed to Yuanyou.
Because of his young age, the Empress Dowager Gao ruled the country from behind the scenes. Gao appointed Sima Guang and others to restore the old laws, which was known as the "Yuanyou Reform". The dramatic changes in the court not only did not affect the Murong family's business territory, but helped it expand, because their products were said to be deeply loved by the Empress Dowager Gao (who gave them a commission), and a large amount of commercial activities every year provided a large amount of taxes for the Song Dynasty's treasury.

In the eighth year of Yuanyou, the Empress Dowager was critically ill. Zhao Xi, who had already grown up, gradually took over the government and began to clean up the old party forces belonging to the Empress Dowager's faction. The situation in the court began to change again.

The Liao Kingdom in the north was also not at peace. While the Song Dynasty court was busy with the struggle between the new and old parties, a tribe calling itself Miao suddenly rose up in the Hunhe River (Songhua River) basin of Dongjing Road (now the three northeastern provinces) of the Liao Kingdom. In less than a year, it swept across the Jurchen tribes and defeated and reorganized the local Liao army and Heishui Mohe (Shujurchen) that tried to curb its development.

At the same time, the Wanyan tribe who wanted to make peace with them was killed. Later, they invaded the territory of Dongjing Road of Liao State, conquered several cities in succession, and approached Dongjing Liaoyang Prefecture (it was really called this name), the capital of Dongjing Road.

The Liao Dynasty was shaken. The then Liao emperor, Yelu Hongji, ordered his uncle, Yelu Chongyuan, the King of Nanyuan of Liao, to lead troops to attack.

A total of 300,000 troops were mobilized for this expedition, plus the troops mobilized from the local Tokyo Prefecture, totaling nearly 400,000 troops. The goal was to crush the Miao army with overwhelming force.

But what the Liao army didn't expect was that when the army arrived 30 miles away from Liaoyang Prefecture, they received news that Liaoyang Prefecture had fallen. According to the remnants of the army coming from the direction of Dongjing Road, not only Liaoyang Prefecture but also all the surrounding cities had fallen. Now the Miao army was rushing towards the army.

In addition, every Miao soldier held a long-barreled weapon that could spit fire. Anyone hit would either die or be injured. Its killing power and range far exceeded that of ordinary bows and crossbows. There was also a weapon that needed to be pulled by horses. When it was used, the sound was like thunder on the plain. After a few rounds, Liaoyang City was broken.

While Yelu Chongyuan couldn't believe it, he also realized that the Miao army was not as simple as he had imagined, so he immediately reorganized his army and prepared for battle.

Just as Yelu Chongyuan had finished reorganizing his army, he saw a troop of 20,000 soldiers in strange attire rushing towards him. They were not equipped with armor, but wore a uniform black uniform. They held the weapons described by the escaped remnants, and had a standard long sword on their waists.

Seeing that his opponent had only 20,000 men, Yelu Chongyuan decided to send 30,000 Liao troops to test the enemy first. However, he did not expect that his own troops would collapse at the first blow.

As soon as the 30,000 men launched the charge, the Miao army, which was arranged in six rows, killed nearly 2,000 of them with this strange weapon. The battlefield was littered with corpses, so much so that Yelu Chongyuan, the commander of the Liao army, was stunned and forgot to give orders, leaving this unit exposed to the Miao army's shooting range and being continuously hit by fire.

By the time Yelu Chongyuan reacted and sounded the call to call back his troops and gather the remaining soldiers, he discovered that he had an army of 8 when he left the camp, but when he returned, there were less than left.

Then Yelu Chongyuan decided to hang up the banner of no war and report the situation on the front line to Yelu Hongji, and at the same time gather the remnants of troops coming from other directions (troops defeated by the scattered Miao army in other places), and at the same time use his identity as the King of Nanyuan to mobilize as many troops as possible from the rear in an attempt to resist the attack of the Miao army.

The Miao army seemed to be waiting for reinforcements and set up camp on the spot.

The two sides thus entered into a strange stalemate.

And in Murong Fu's mansion in Jiangnan.

Murong Fu received news from Liaodong from the secret guards, and learned that Xuanbei had come out of Shaolin Temple and was heading towards Suzhou. He knew that the plot of Tianlongbabu had officially begun, and his plan had entered the final stage after years of preparation.

After playing the game, I found a time bug. According to the original book, Wang Yuyan should be 5 years old when she appears. According to the time, Miss Wang should have just been born when the protagonist was possessed, so it is impossible for her to come to see him. So in my book, I changed her to be years younger than the protagonist, so that it can be rounded up.

Is this an alternative way of eating books?
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