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Chapter 75 You really want to kill him?

This time it didn't cause a commotion. Sister Hua had given prior instructions, so they went straight into Sister Hua's room.

Several thread-bound booklets and dozens of pages of handwritten notes, the ink of which had barely dried.

The booklets were categorized, and when I opened the one that recorded the martial arts world, I could read it quickly, flipping through the pages rapidly.

He had a thorough understanding of the situation in the martial arts world of Fengtian.

The Bagua School is the leading school, but there are many other schools as well, such as the Chuojiao School, the Mantis Fist School, the Fanzi Fist School, and the Bajiquan School.

Indeed, Li Shuwen once served as a bodyguard for a major warlord in Heilongjiang, and Huo Diange also served as the martial arts instructor and bodyguard for the last emperor in Fengtian. Although they both left Northeast China, they left behind some traditions over the years.

The sect leader of Fengtian Bajimen was a disciple of Li Shuwen, and was not well-known.

However, Chen Zhan didn't know if that person was there. He was the most famous of Li Shuwen's disciples in his later years, known as the Little Tyrant.

He was younger than him and didn't know where he was.

According to the investigation by the Thieves' Gate, the Eight Extremes Sect doesn't have many masters in Fengtian, but it lives in seclusion and doesn't compete with the Gong family's Eight Trigrams Sect. It can live quite well by relying on the names of Li Shuwen and Huo Diange.

The remaining sects simply followed the Gong family around.

Gong Baotian, along with Hou Fengwu of Chuojiao and Hao Mingqi of Fanziquan, were revered as the "Three Elders of Fengtian," holding a transcendent status.

But everyone in the old Fengtian knew that Hou Fengwu and Hao Mingqi only got to the position of the three elders because of their seniority and connections. The two of them were old acquaintances of Gong Baotian. They met when they were teenagers and were apprentices in a rice shop. Their circumstances changed later, but they learned a lot of skills from each other.

When Gong Baotian achieved fame and opened his school in Fengtian, the two of them eagerly followed suit and established their own sect in Fengtian as well.

He certainly has some skill, and he's capable of opening a school and teaching students, but it's too much of a stretch to call himself a founder of a school.

However, as the chief instructor of the Fengtian Army and the personal bodyguard of the warlord Zhang, Gong Baotian could say that the two of them were incompetent with just a word from him.
Therefore, Hou Laowu and Zhang Laoqi lived a comfortable life in Fengtian.

Chen Zhan glanced at the booklet and saw a few words at the end, just a few sentences.

"Why is this Six Harmonies Fist technique only written in a few hasty sentences?" Chen Zhan asked.

This booklet contains records from earlier years, and Sister Hua doesn't remember them very clearly either. After taking a look and recalling for a while, she said:
"This Liuhequan style has little presence in Fengtian. It was recorded seven or eight years ago that it was a small martial arts school in a corner of the city, which was not really a school, but just a large courtyard. Later, I heard that the Japanese killed a few people, and the martial arts school fell into disrepair and disappeared."

"I haven't heard of it this year. Are you interested in this Liuhequan? I'll send someone to investigate immediately."

Sister Hua dared not neglect him. Chen Zhan was a good fighter and had promised to give her five hundred silver dollars, but she was still short half. He was both Guan Yu (a legendary general) and a god of wealth, so who wouldn't serve him well?

“Very good, I’ll take the things with me and look at them slowly. I’ll come back tomorrow after I find the address of the Six Harmonies Fist.”

Chen Zhan packed up his package and left with a pile of booklets, while Ye Ningzhen remained silent throughout.

Back at the inn, the two passed the book back and forth. Both were people with excellent eyesight and memory, and they finished reading it in half an hour. They had a clear understanding of the events that had happened in Fengtian over the years and the various forces involved.

These booklets are all objective records, but Chen Zhan was able to analyze some things through the memories of later generations.

Although he was only interested in the martial arts world, the martial arts world was in sync with history, so he knew a little about it.

“The Nationalist government has strongholds, and the Minxing Society probably also has experts stationed there,” Ye Ningzhen said.

The Minxing Society was a spy and assassin organization established by the Nationalist government. It has been viewed with mixed opinions by later generations, with more criticism than praise, because it targeted its own people more often.

"That's alright, let's ignore him for now."

Chen Zhan took out the booklets that recorded the Japanese, which contained the most information on this subject. There were three booklets, plus ten pages of handwritten notes by Sister Hua.

It records all the actions and deeds of the Japanese in Fengtian over the past few years, down to the smallest detail, such as how they provoked trouble, killed civilians, and used pretexts to massacre revolutionaries, clashed with the Northeast Army several times, and almost escalated the conflict.

And what Chen Zhan was most interested in was the Japanese intelligence agency that was established in Fengtian six years ago, named the "South Manchuria Railway Investigation Department".

Under the guise of the "South Manchuria Railway Company," it ostensibly engaged in railway operations and economic investigations, but in reality, it was a spy operation that assisted Japan in carrying out espionage, assassinations, infiltration, and subversion in Northeast China. It also had numerous affiliated civilian organizations, including the "Black Dragon Society," composed of Japanese ronin, which frequently caused trouble and disrupted local stability in the streets of Fengtian (Shenyang).

They also frequently provoke the Chinese martial arts community, going door-to-door to challenge other schools, stirring up trouble, and suppressing various sects and factions in Fengtian, which is a common way to undermine national self-confidence.

In this regard, they used to rely entirely on Gong Baotian, who had connections with the Fengtian clique's Northeast Army, which made the Japanese somewhat wary of him.

Open martial arts competition, no underhanded tactics, the martial arts world of Fengtian has nothing to fear.

Gong Baotian's two protégés, Gong Er and Ma San, had both fought in many rings. Ma San was the most experienced and had taken many Japanese lives. However, even so, they still managed to get together, something Gong Baotian never expected on his deathbed.

Moreover, his two childhood friends were also turned to the other side.

The sentry happened to see the two men with Ma San at the Sino-Japanese Friendship and Peace Conference, the implication of which was self-evident.

He did great things in his life; his senior brother fled to the ends of the earth to kill the Japanese, while he himself struggled for decades.

However, he was betrayed by the most important people around him.

Gong Baotian may not have died from his serious injuries; he may have died from anger and stress.

From the perspective of national righteousness, Gong Baotian did a very good job. Compared to what happened later, his early service in the Qing court was nothing.

Now that Miyako no Takada is dead, Japan is poised to make a comeback.

The China-Japan Friendship Association is going to hold a "China-Japan Friendship Martial Arts Tournament" and requires all martial arts sects in Northeast China to participate, as well as the Japanese Black Dragon Society.

They euphemistically call it: friendly exchange, common progress, and shared prosperity through competition.

Chen Zhan smiled when he saw this. Goodwill and martial arts competition? Can they be put together? The Japanese often have ideas that are so perverse that they are incomprehensible.

For example, the act of seppuku is essentially a samurai spirit of committing suicide out of fear of punishment, which is understandable. But the problem is that if you are afraid to die, you need a "kaishakunin" (second).

Watching you commit suicide by disembowelment
It is said that many people dared not commit suicide, so they killed their second and fled.

Ye Ningzhen said, "Do you want to participate? It won't be easy to leave if your identity is discovered."

Chen Zhan shook his head and then nodded. Ye Ningzhen frowned. Chen Zhan picked up a piece of paper handwritten by Sister Hua and said, "Whether I participate or not is not important. Guess if he will be there?"

Ye Ningzhen quickly scanned the page.

"Taro Tanaka served as Commander-in-Chief of the Kwantung Army, with the rank of Lieutenant General, for a three-year term."

"Tarō Tanaka belonged to the 'radical faction' in the Japanese Army and often indulged his subordinates in excessive behavior, so his restraint was limited."

Ye Ningzhen's hand trembled slightly, and the paper fell onto the table. She turned to look at Chen Zhan in disbelief, and saw that Chen Zhan's gaze was clear and firm. She then turned to check outside the window and the door.

"No need to look, no one can hide anything from my five senses," Chen Zhan said with a smile.

After condensing the divine essence into a golden elixir, even a grandmaster who has reached the elixir stage cannot hide anything from him, based solely on perception.

"You really want to kill him?" Ye Ningzhen stared at Chen Zhan and asked.

She had been in contact with the military in the south and knew very well what a lieutenant general was—almost the highest-ranking Japanese commander in China.

The officer she killed in Tianjin, Itagaki Ichiro, was only a colonel, several ranks lower than him.

"He has three heads and six arms? I'm going to kill him!"

Chen Zhan placed his left hand on the paper with Tanaka Taro's official title written on it, and gently crushed it into ashes!

(End of this chapter)