Martial Arts World Assassin

Chapter 174 Elite Division
He Hongyao went to see Li Siyong alone.

Xiaozhuang and a few others continued to wait outside the pavilion for Huang Sixi.

Xiaozhuang, Luo Liru and Jiao Wan'er had visited He Tieshou many times and were naturally familiar with his situation. However, Fei Hongjin knew almost nothing about He Tieshou.

She asked Xiao Zhuang curiously: "Why does Sect Leader Zhuang call Sect Leader He "sister"? Are you relatives?"

Xiao Zhuang sighed softly, "We are not relatives, but we are better than relatives. I have known my sister since I was a child. There is no one in the world who is closer to me than my sister."

When Xiaozhuang first joined the Xiandu Sect, he would rush to Yunnan every year to reunite with He Tieshou, and they would stay here for several months each time they met.

Later, when war broke out, Xiaozhuang followed his fellow disciples of Xiandu Sect to fight against the Qing Dynasty and wandered around. However, He Tieshou had eyesight problems and was unable to go out, so the two met less and less often. However, they both kept the friendship they had shared in their early years in their hearts and would never forget it in their lifetime.

Xiaozhuang knew that He Tieshou was in poor health and had looked for precious medicinal materials, but He Tieshou's illness was in his mind, not his body. Even if He Tieshou took a panacea, it would have no effect.

But now that Huang Sixi has come to see He Tieshou, he will definitely be able to resolve He Tieshou's worries.

Xiaozhuang prayed silently in his heart, hoping that He Tieshou's health would gradually get better.

Fei Hongjin couldn't suppress her desire to explore, and suddenly lowered her voice and continued to inquire: "Could your sister be Brother Huang's confidante?"

"She is definitely a confidant, but not a beauty! Thirty years ago, my sister was the most beautiful flower in the southern sky, but unfortunately she is about to wither now!"

Xiaozhuang turned his head and looked at Fei Hongjin's face: "She has the same white hair as you now, and her face is not as rosy as yours. It is most appropriate to say that she is your husband's confidante!"

Fei Hongjin couldn't help but sigh. From what Xiaozhuang said, she thought that Master He should be old and ugly.

Fei Hongjin felt very sympathetic and spoke frankly: "Brother Huang has taken the Udumbara flower, this magical flower can turn white hair black and rejuvenate. We only need to give one plant to He Jiaozhu, and she will be able to return to her teenage beauty. Then she can be Brother Huang's confidante again!"

When Xiaozhuang heard this, he was delighted at first, but then his face turned bitter. "Back then at Huang Gong Temple, the hero Yang Yuncong once said that the Udumbara fairy flower blooms only once every sixty years. My husband has already eaten one. If you want to pick the fairy flower again, I'm afraid you'll have to wait for decades!"

Fei Hongjin guessed, "Master Zhuang, you don't know that every time the Udumbara flower blooms, it will produce two fairy flowers, one red and one white. The red one is like rouge, and the white one is like white jade. Taking either one of them will have the effect of turning green again. Brother Huang should still have one left."

After she finished speaking, she smoothed her white hair. If Huang Sixi really had a collection of Udumbara flowers, she actually needed it urgently. However, since she met Huang Sixi in southern Xinjiang, Huang Sixi had never mentioned the Udumbara flower to her.

At first, she asked Huang Sixi about his age, and Huang Sixi answered that he was 32 years old. She also teased Huang Sixi for speaking without thinking, but Huang Sixi told her seriously: "The inner strength I practice is quite special, and my appearance changes slowly. I look like I am only in my early twenties, but I am not!"

Thinking back to this, Fei Hongjin couldn't help but wonder, which of Huang Sixi's words was true?

Fei Hongjin was puzzled, but she didn't dwell on it too much. She thought, "No matter what the truth is, since Sect Leader He was Brother Huang's former confidante, then Brother Huang's inner strength must have been passed on to Sect Leader He first, and the Udumbara Flower would have been given to Sect Leader He first!"

She gradually felt disappointed and regretted that she had not met Huang Sixi earlier.

She then asked Xiao Zhuang, "Brother Huang is here to look for Master He this time. How long do you plan to stay with him?"

Xiaozhuang smiled and said, "My husband cares about the world. No matter how much he misses his sister, he will not delay state affairs! In fact, my husband came to the Five Poison Sect this time to borrow troops. The Five Poison Sect has tens of thousands of soldiers in Yunnan and Yunnan. As long as we can borrow them, they will become the elite troops for my husband to raise an army!"

Xiaozhuang and Fei Hongjin chatted for such a long time, and Luo Liru and Jiao Wan'er beside them were listening with a smile, and never opened their mouths.

Hearing Xiaozhuang mention the troops, Luo Liru suddenly interrupted and said, "We in the Dragon Subduing Society also have tens of thousands of elite soldiers in Burma, equipped with artillery and muskets. They are your direct troops!"

Xiao Zhuang's face turned serious: "That unit was left by Li Yan to Hong Niangzi and Li Xihua. Will they easily hand it over to my husband to command?"

Fei Hongjin knew that Li Yan was the former chief of the Jianglong Society, and Li Xihua was the current chief of the Jianglong Society, but from Xiaozhuang's tone, it seemed that he was very dissatisfied with Li Yan and Li Xihua.

Fei Hongjin planned to wait until Huang Sixi officially took over as the chief leader of the Jianglong Society before joining the society. Since she was not a member of the Society now, it was not convenient for her to inquire about the secrets of the Society. She just stood aside and listened to Xiaozhuang and Luo Liru talking about the past of the Jianglong Society.

It turned out that during the Jiashen National Disaster, Li Yan planned to take advantage of the collapse of the Ming Dynasty to compete for the Central Plains. Unfortunately, Li Yan was ambitious but lacked the talent to rule the Central Plains. Instead, his military action resulted in heavy casualties among the members of the Dragon Subduing Society.

Xiaozhuang's master, Taoist Shuiyun, died during Li Yan's conquest of the Central Plains.

Xiaozhuang always believed that it was Li Yan's poor planning that led to the tragic death of her mentor. Li Yan's son Li Xihua also opposed her attempt to assassinate high-ranking officials of the Qing court, which made her more disgusted with the father and son. So she led the disciples of the Xiandu Sect to live in seclusion in the mountains of Sichuan and never returned to the main temple in Myanmar.

As for why the Dragon Subduing Society set up its headquarters in Myanmar, there are mainly two reasons.

One was that the Dragon Slaying Monk, the guardian of the Dragon Subduing Society, assassinated Emperor Shunzhi, which triggered a large-scale encirclement and suppression by the Qing court, and the Dragon Subduing Society had to withdraw from the Central Plains.

Second, the Jianglong Society could obtain financial resources by doing business and trade in the southern islands to support tens of thousands of soldiers in Myanmar.

In fact, long before the Jiashen National Disaster, Li Yan had established an ocean-going fleet in the East China Sea, specializing in trade with the red-haired barbarians.

After Li Yan's uprising failed, the remnants of the Jianglong Society originally wanted to use the fleet to go to the East China Sea islands for recuperation, but by then Zheng Sen, Prince of Yanping, had already attacked Taiwan Island, expelled the Dutch red-haired barbarians, and monopolized the East China Sea trade.

It would no longer be strategically meaningful for the remnants of the Jianglong Society to continue staying in the East China Sea, and instead they would lead to a conflict with the Zheng family fleet.

Zheng Sen was the "Lord of the Country" conferred by the Ming court and had great prestige among the people. The remnants of the Dragon Subduing Society were unwilling to compete with Zheng Sen for Taiwan Island, so they continued to move south with their fleet.

Who would have known that the fertile lands of the southern islands had already been occupied by the red-haired barbarians, and the remnants of the Dragon Subduing Society were frequently harassed by the red-haired barbarians' warships and could never find a suitable place to live.

Until the last emperor of the Southern Ming Dynasty, Yongli, was captured by the King of Burma. In order to please Wu Sangui, the King of Pingxi of the Qing Dynasty at that time, the King of Burma handed Emperor Yongli over to Wu Sangui to be executed. Since then, the Ming Dynasty was completely destroyed.

But the remnants of the Dragon Subduing Society seized the opportunity. They led their fleet across the Strait of Malacca, landed in Burma from the Indian Ocean, and risked their lives to assassinate the Burmese king. At the same time, they announced to the anti-Qing rebels in various parts of the Central Plains that the Dragon Subduing Society had avenged the Yongli Emperor and sincerely invited rebels from all over the world to go to Burma to discuss anti-Qing activities.

From then on, whenever the Central Plains rebels were chased by the Qing army and had nowhere else to go, they would definitely go south to Myanmar to join the Dragon Subduing Society.

While receiving a steady stream of troops from the Central Plains, the Dragon Subduing Society continued to operate its fleet and engage in ocean trade in the Indian Ocean to earn money, slowly supporting an army of tens of thousands of people and establishing a solid foundation in Burma. Xiaozhuang, Luo Liru, and Jiao Wan'er were all elders of the Dragon Subduing Society, and they knew the situation of the headquarters in Burma very well.

Jiao Wan'er said, "If my father hadn't spent all his family wealth, Chief Leader Li Xian would never have been able to create the Dragon Subduing Fleet. Half of the veterans of this fleet are from the Golden Dragon Gang. The tens of thousands of soldiers in Myanmar are also from the Golden Dragon Gang. They are not just under the command of Lady Hong and Chief Leader Li!"

Jiao Wan'er's father is Jiao Gongli, the leader of the Golden Dragon Gang, and also Luo Liru's mentor.

In his early years, Jiao Gongli founded the Golden Dragon Gang in Jinling and owned a number of merchant ships. Later, Jiao Gongli admired the name of the Dragon Subduing Hero, so he brought thousands of members of the Golden Dragon Gang and joined the Dragon Subduing Society.

Half of the sailors on the fleet of the Dragon Subduing Society stationed on the Indian Sea are descendants of the former members of the Golden Dragon Gang, and many of the tens of thousands of elite soldiers stationed in Myanmar also have ties to the Golden Dragon Gang.

If not for this, Luo Liru would not have been able to take the position of deputy leader of the Dragon Subduing Society.

Luo Liru said confidently: "As long as you give the order, I guarantee that I can transfer 10,000 elite soldiers from Myanmar. I am also confident that I can persuade the rest of the troops to serve under you. The reason why the Dragon Subduing Society was founded was entirely because of you! Because you appointed Li Yan to succeed the position of the chief leader, everyone served Li Yan. Now that you have returned, everyone will naturally follow you again!"

The backbone members of the Dragon Subduing Society currently stationed at the headquarters in Myanmar are basically the descendants of those martial arts heroes of the past. They came together because of the Dragon Subduing Hero.

If the Dragon Subduing Hero died, they would follow his last wishes and unite around Li Yan, Hong Niangzi and Li Xihua, but if the Dragon Subduing Hero was still alive and issued an order to gather together, they would definitely join him.

After Luo Liru finished expressing his opinion, the door of He Tieshou's attic suddenly opened.

Huang Sixi stepped out of the door and said to Luo Liru, "You and Wan'er should rush to Burma to mobilize troops now. No matter how many troops you mobilize, station them all at the border between Burma and Yunnan and wait for my order!"

He hoped that Luo Liru would mobilize all the elite soldiers of the Dragon Subduing Society, but if he was blocked by Li Yan, it didn't matter, because he still had soldiers from the Five Poison Sect to borrow.

He then looked at Fei Hongjin and said, "Hamaya, you have to go back to the capital. I will go to Kunming to assassinate Wu Sangui soon. Once the assassination is successful, I will immediately raise an army to capture Yunnan and Yunnan. When the news reaches the capital, the Qing Dynasty Tartars will definitely send troops to attack. You go to the palace to find Jiunan and Huanlian, tell them the situation here, and ask them to stop the Tartars from sending troops!"

Fei Hongjin smiled lightly: "Brother Huang, if you raise an army, the name of the Dragon Subduing Hero will also spread back to the capital. When Nun Jiunan and Miss Mao learn that the Dragon Subduing Hero is rebelling in Yunnan, even if I don't go to the palace to warn them, they will find ways to stop the Tartars from sending troops!"

Huang Sixi certainly understood that Jiunan and Mao Huanlian would provide cover for his rebellion, but when his troops left Yunnan and began to recover the Central Plains territory, it would definitely cause panic in the Qing court.

At that time, in order to preserve their foundation, the Eight Banners nobles of the Qing court might launch a palace coup, forcing Jiunan and Mao Huanlian to issue the imperial edict and send troops to encircle and suppress Huang Sixi.

Huang Sixi asked Fei Hongjin to return to the capital to inform Jiunan and Mao Huanlian to prepare for the abdication.

Huang Sixi warned her: "After I raise the army, if the Eight Banners nobles push too hard and Jiunan and Huanlian can no longer stop the Tartars' determination to send troops, then have them issue an edict to appoint Prince Kang, the governor of the Nine Gates, as the commander-in-chief and have Prince Kang mobilize all the elite Eight Banners troops in the capital to march south!"

Prince Kang had long been replaced by Taoist Dongxuan. If Taoist Dongxuan had served as the commander-in-chief of the Tatar army, with the help of both inside and outside forces, Huang Sixi could have wiped out all the elite troops of the Eight Banners.

These elite troops are all die-hard members of the Qing court. They will not surrender under any circumstances. Huang Sixi plans to overthrow the Qing court without bloodshed, but he cannot do so without fighting a single battle.

Huang Sixi will annihilate all the core forces in the Eight Banners sooner or later. It would be more convenient to encircle and annihilate them by letting Taoist Dongxuan organize them together and send them to Huang Sixi.

Fei Hongjin wrote down Huang Sixi's instructions and asked, "After I return to the capital and pass on the message, should I stay in the capital or come back to find you?"

Huang Sixi said: "Come back to find me! After I start my rebellion, I will have to keep in touch with the palace frequently, and you will be the middleman!"

Huang Sixi took out the Dragon Subduing Token that Li Yan had given him. He held the token and asked Luo Liru, "Can this token still be used?"

“Of course you can!”

Luo Liru said: "Li Yan cast two of these tokens. One was given to my husband, and the other is in Hong Niangzi's hand. This is the chief leader's token. Seeing the token is like seeing the chief leader!"

Huang Sixi immediately handed the token to Fei Hongjin: "Take this with you, it will be more convenient to find me later."

Soon afterwards, Fei Hongjin set off for the capital, and Luo Liru and Jiao Wan'er also set off for Burma.

Only Xiaozhuang remained with Huang Sixi.

"Sir, I am the only one accompanying you to Kunming to assassinate Wu Sangui. Aren't we a little short of manpower?" Xiaozhuang suggested: "Dali is not far from the Tibetan border. Why don't we send someone to the Tibetan border to invite Master Yisheng back?"

"No! It's better to let him stay in Tibet!" Huang Sixi once told Gu Yanwu that the Qing court was just a minor issue and there was no need to worry about it. It would not be difficult to overthrow them.

Huang Sixi was indeed confident of overthrowing the Qing Dynasty.

However, after the demise of the Qing Dynasty, how to deal with the various border forces in the Central Plains also had to be put on the agenda.

The Dragon Slayer Monk has been in Tibet for many years and is familiar with the situation there. Letting the Dragon Slayer Monk stay there will be more beneficial for Huang Sixi to solve future border issues.

Huang Sixi added: "You don't have to follow me to Kunming."

Xiao Zhuang was stunned: "Then what should I do?"

Huang Sixi pointed to the Five Poison Sect's main altar and said, "I have already discussed this with Tie Shou. She will gather the barbarian soldiers in the name of the Five Poison Sect's leader. Once this army is formed, you will stay here to take charge!"

He Tieshou is weak and not suitable for commanding troops in battle. He Hongyao is too old and no longer has the energy to command troops, so Huang Sixi lets Xiaozhuang take on the heavy responsibility.

This army was stationed in the north, and the elite troops of the Dragon Subduing Society were stationed in the south, which was enough to ensure that Yunnan and Yunnan would fall into Huang Sixi's hands.

Next, Huang Sixi would pretend to be an envoy and go to Kunming to meet Wu Sangui. Although Huang Sixi had already prepared for the attack, it would be best if he could force Wu Sangui's forces to surrender without resorting to violence.

(End of this chapter)