The deepest affection in Gu Long's world

Chapter 34 Principles of Benevolence and Righteousness

While Shangguan Cangxing deserves our attention, the one truly in charge here is Lin Yi, the steward of the Prince An's mansion.

This position carries considerable power within the Prince An's residence. Most importantly, the most essential requirement for a steward is to gain the Prince An's trust.

It's clear that the other party values ​​this cooperation highly by sending this person to contact them.

This also relieved Fang Yunhua of her biggest worry.

"Young Master Fang, how should this binding be carried out? We are both feeling our way across the river." After a few pleasantries, Lin Yi got straight to the point. "Before coming here, His Highness did remind me to be careful about the degree of this binding."

Too tight is bad, too loose is meaningless. I'd like to hear the young sect leader's thoughts.

It is obvious that in the past few days, the Prince An's Mansion has thoroughly investigated the information about the Huashan Sect and Fang Yunhua. Even in the memorial presented by Master Jin, Fang Yunhua's role has been blurred as much as possible so as not to make him seem too extraordinary.

However, judging from some of his daily deeds, it's clear that this young sect leader Fang has some skills.

“Coincidentally, I’m currently planning something.” Fang Yunhua looked up at Lin Yi. “This can be considered a welcoming gift to solidify our cooperation.”

"Oh?" Lin Yi became interested. After thinking carefully, he asked seriously, "Is it the Beggars' Sect?"

Since Wuhua was able to trace the origins back to Shaanxi, and given the capabilities of the Prince An's mansion, and the fact that its fiefdom is located in a region bordering Shaanxi and part of Henan, it would be even easier for them to discover the origin of this current heated debate in the martial arts world.

Fang Yunhua nodded slightly.

"As expected, the Beggar Clan leader, Nangong Ling, doesn't have much time left."

"It's you."

"No, no, no. As fellow major sects in the martial arts world, how could Mount Hua attack the leader of the Beggars' Sect without cause? It's just that his current situation has determined his predicament, and coincidentally, he has a particularly ruthless older brother."

Fang Yunhua no longer concealed anything; his plan to unleash the chill of ten thousand mountains with the sword of Xiyue had officially begun, and now he needed the power of the government to eliminate some variables that might forcefully interfere.

The benefits he could offer in return were, of course, taking a piece of meat from the world's number one gang. Apart from the branches in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi, the other branches of the Beggars' Gang were food that he had ceded to those sharp-smelling wolves to fight over and gnaw on at will.

As for who gets more and who gets less, that depends on their own abilities.

However, those who can seize the initiative will generally be able to make a good living, after all, don't underestimate the prestige of the number one gang in the world.

After listening to the other party's arrangements, Lin Yi admired Fang Yunhua's plan, but still raised a key question.

"Even though we can temporarily plunder a lot of benefits from the Beggars' Sect because of the young master's arrangements, the enmity formed as a result may erupt later. Given the status of the Prince An's Mansion, it will not ignore the future risks just because of some money."

"You don't need to worry about that, because we are the ones who play the bad guys and the ones who play the good guys."

During this time, while Fang Yunhua was enjoying himself in the capital, the Huashan Sect was not idle either. On the one hand, they were responsible for controlling public opinion, and on the other hand, they were also making more detailed additions and improvements to the plan given by Fang Yunhua.

However, during several simulations, the elders inside the sect, who seemed to be doing nothing, also realized that there was a way to exploit it.

That is, since Ren Ci was placed under house arrest by Nangong Ling, he has lost control of the gang. Meanwhile, Nangong Ling, who was acting as Ren Ci's messenger, took the opportunity to recruit his confidants, which greatly weakened his management of the entire gang.

To give a simple example, after Nangong Ling became the leader of the Beggars' Sect, he recalled Bai Yumo, who, more than ten years ago, suddenly became enraged and raped and murdered seventeen virgins in Tiger Hill, Suzhou. Such bestial behavior is not something that can be easily re-entered into the Beggars' Sect just because the leader nods in acceptance.

However, Bai Yumo's return went very smoothly. Even with Nangong Ling's insistence, the elders of the gang should have united to strictly oppose it, since anyone with a conscience would not tolerate such a beast.

This shows that in recent years, the Beggars' Sect has become rotten from top to bottom. You can't expect a group of people who have power but little education to restrain themselves with morality.

Furthermore, Ren Ci and Nangong Ling, for various reasons, were unable to pay attention to the strict enforcement of the gang rules. Once a loophole was opened, some people became even more lawless.

Of course, the Beggars' Sect couldn't possibly be so corrupt as to be filled with beasts, which is also the area that the Huashan Sect elder mentioned could be utilized.

First of all, the Huashan Sect and the Huangshan Family have a feud. Nangong Ling, the leader of the Beggars' Sect, is the only surviving son of the Huangshan Family. He also uses the power of the Beggars' Sect to retaliate against Huashan. So even if the Huashan Sect retaliates, people in the martial arts world can't say anything about it.

This move puts them in the right from the start.

Secondly, the Huashan Sect only targets the villains of the Beggars' Sect. It's easy to imagine that in order to strengthen the surveillance of Huashan, Nangong Ling and Wuhua would send some trustworthy people to be stationed in Shaanxi, Henan, and Shanxi.

Given their established prestige, those who can be ordered to do private things for them are mostly people with dirty hands or greedy for money. Anyone with a little principle would not fall into this mess, which makes it easier for the Huashan Sect to eliminate them.

Here, we must mention Bai Yumo, who was reinstated into the Beggars' Sect by Nangong Ling. He is simply the best example.

This step, too, is righteous.

Finally, to prevent the situation from escalating to a point where the Huashan Sect and the Beggars' Sect were locked in a life-or-death struggle, the elders, with Fang Yunhua's consent, secretly contacted Wanli Duxing (Dai Duxing), whose seniority was even higher than Ren Ci's. (Dai Duxing appeared in the Thrush chapter.)

He was a man who hated evil and loved to fight injustice. As a result, he was always on the move, sometimes even going to remote and desolate places, just to see what injustices were happening in the world.

He explained the key points to him and made no attempt to conceal the Huashan Sect's true intentions.

Especially noteworthy is the emphasis on the fact that half of Nangong Ling's bloodline is from the Little Days.

This master, a senior elder of the Beggars' Sect, was so angry he almost fainted. He had been running around aimlessly, never expecting that in just a few years, the Beggars' Sect would be raided by the Japanese and reduced to this wretched state.

Even if he were to return to the Beggars' Sect with his current prestige, he would likely find it difficult to clean up this mess. After all, once people's desires are aroused, it's not so easy for a senior elder to suddenly appear and make them put aside their greed.

After some discussion, Dai Duxing agreed to cooperate with the Huashan Sect in order to protect the Beggars' Sect's reputation built up over hundreds of years.

Once the situation was settled, the Huashan Sect would help Dai Duxing pin all the blame on Nangong Ling and the evil Xiao Rizi, claiming it was a huge overseas conspiracy targeting the Central Plains martial arts world.

Of course this is indeed the case.

That Tianfeng Shisilang was originally ill-intentioned; he took advantage of Ren Ci and Master Tianfeng's respect for righteous people to successfully plant these two big time bombs.

During this period, Dai Duxing will also gather those disciples who still adhere to the gang rules and have a sense of justice. As for the others who are beyond saving, they will be treated as festering sores dug out by patients to treat their bodies.

At the same time, Dai Duxing tacitly kept silent about the lost businesses, because this was the price the entire gang had to pay for the previous gang leader, Ren Ci, making the decision to adopt Nangong Ling out of blind faith.

This step demonstrates benevolence by not annihilating the enemy but instead offering them a way out.

(End of this chapter)