Chapter 18 Understanding Huashan Lunjian

Huashan Lunjian not only represents the pinnacle of martial arts in the late Southern Song Dynasty, but also an unprecedented event in the history of Jinyong Jianghu. If you have to use an analogy, the historical status of the warriors' discussion of swords in Huashan is like the Lanting Gathering of the literati.We have never seen Wang Chongyang's real skills at all, just as we can no longer see the authentic "Lanting Preface" today, we can only imagine the legend from generation to generation. Huashan Lunjian has been held three times, with an interval of about twenty-five years.Although Jin Yong's book has been revised repeatedly, there are still many problems with inconsistency in time. It can only be said that the three times of the sword are roughly the first time around 1200, the second time around 1225, and the third time around 1259.

There are three sword discussions, each of which has a theme, and each has a bright theme and a dark theme. The background of the first discussion on swords was that the Song and Jin Dynasties were at a stalemate, one had not launched the Northern Expedition, and the other was unable to invade the South.On the side of the Song Dynasty, Emperor Ningzong had just resolved the issue of party disputes, and had not yet had time to deal with the Kingdom of Jin; the Kingdom of Jin was annoyed by the expansion of Mongolia. If it is repaired a bit, it will be flattened by the wind and sand, and the common people are tormented in vain.

Taking advantage of the stable situation, Wulin got a rare respite and began a slow reorganization and rebirth.At this time, the rivers and lakes can be said to be full of hills and numerous factions, and heroes from all directions grow wantonly like weeds, staking the land, full of a free atmosphere of "the hazel hazel is wild, the world is first created". Among the various factions, there are some big hills, such as Quanzhen Sect Hill, Taohua Island Hill, Baituo Mountain, Dali Duan's Hill; there are smaller hills, such as the Yellow River Gang Sha's Hill, Liaodong Changbai Mountain Liang's Hill , Tibetan Mahamudra Mountains, etc., each flourished and dominated one side.

Even some weak forces can survive in the cracks, such as the "Seven Monsters of the South of the Yangtze River". They don't have any important strategic resources (poor martial arts), and they have never been attached to any big forces, but they can still rule a city A village is famous for thousands of people. The first Huashan Discussion of Swords is the best embodiment of this kind of Jianghu pattern: the participating masters are somewhat eclectic and eclectic, from the East China Sea to the East, the Western Regions to the West, the Antarctic, and the Yellow River to the north. There are representatives.The process of discussing swords is also basically a fair competition. "Five people talked with each other, competed in hand, and competed in the heavy snow for seven days and seven nights", and there was no situation where the more bullied the less.And everyone only talks about martial arts, regardless of the so-called right and wrong, good and evil, basically there is no moral thing attached.In the end, everyone unanimously elected Quanzhen leader Wang Chongyang as the number one.

The first time I discussed swords, the theme on the surface was "Nine Yin Scriptures", whoever has the best martial arts will take it.As for the dark theme, it is the vying for the throne, which is the first direct competition of strength between the various mountains. After discussing swords, a relatively stable pattern of "one superpower and many powers" has formed in the arena, and the major mountains have initially delineated their spheres of influence. ".Under the deterrent force of Wang Chongyang and the Quanzhen sect, all kinds of conflicts in the arena were temporarily suppressed. In Zhou Botong's words, "the martial arts were really quiet for a while."

The pattern after the first Huashan Sword Discussion has several characteristics: One is that several big mountains jointly recognized Wang Chongyang's super status, and recognized that he alone possessed the most important strategic resource "Nine Yin Manual". The second is to form a tacit understanding among the five mountains: there are no irreconcilable contradictions among them, and large-scale wars should be avoided as much as possible.Occasionally, they also have small-scale, local frictions, but they never engage in life-and-death conflicts. The third is that certain loose alliances have been formed between some mountain tops. For example, between the Northern Beggars and the Southern Emperor, and between the Southern Emperor and the Central Shentong, there are certain alliances, and some important strategic resources have been transported and traded.Wang Chongyang and Nan Di exchanged Yiyang Finger and Xiantian Gong.

If Wang Chongyang lived longer, and the Jianghu pattern established by him would continue for a long time, then the "Trilogy of the Condor Shooting" would not be what it is now, and the bitter child on the northern Mongolian grassland would not have grown into "" Hero Guo Jing" opportunity. However, a few years later, this pattern of "evil in the east, poison in the west, emperor in the south, beggar in the north, and supernatural powers in the middle" quickly collapsed.The most important trigger is the death of Wang Chongyang. In the past, Wang Chongyang has always pursued the policy of "balance of power in the mainland", so that no one can eat up the big hills of Dongxie, Xidu, Nandi, and Beibei, so that the Quanzhen sect can dominate.

He had also anticipated the risk a long time ago: once he died, this pattern would be severely impacted.Therefore, in the last days of exhaustion, Wang Chongyang, with superhuman energy and talent, strategized and made a lot of arrangements, trying to maintain the pattern of the world that he had painstakingly built during his lifetime. In the last days of his life, Wang Chongyang arranged the following major events: First, he chose Nandi as an ally, and he did not hesitate to lead a team to visit Dali in person, and even engaged in an arms deal with Nandi at one point—teaching each other Xiantian Kung Fu and Yiyang Finger.

Second, he did not hesitate to destroy the tacit understanding among the "Five Jue" not to fight to the death, and devised an operation to lure and annihilate Ouyang Feng by feigning death, so as to physically eliminate Xidu. Third, he meticulously developed a new high-tech weapon, the "Tiangang Beidou Formation", and promoted it in the Quanzhen Sect against time, hoping to make up for the lack of individual combat capabilities of the "Quanzhen Seven Sons" through advanced weapons and tactics, so that After his death, Quanzhen sect continued to maintain the status of "one super".

These arrangements are very far-sighted, which proves that Wang Chongyang is truly a generation of outstanding people.However, the result backfired.All three deployments went bust. The first to break was the alliance he had established with Nan Di.According to his previous design, if this alliance is maintained, it can indeed form an absolutely strong suppression of Xidu.But because of a very accidental incident, this alliance failed - his junior brother Zhou Botong had an affair with the Southern Emperor's concubine Liu Yinggu.It's nothing more than adultery, and she also gave birth to a child.

On the surface, Wang Chongyang and Nandi handled the incident well, and Nandi generously expressed that he was willing to give Liu Yinggu to Zhou Botong as his wife.But in fact its consequences are very serious.For this reason, the Southern Emperor became a monk in despair, and almost completely withdrew from the plan to suppress Ouyang Feng, and the alliance actually broke down. Since then, the Quanzhen Sect and the Duan Clan of Dali became more and more distant from each other, even to the point of not communicating with each other until death.It is not difficult for readers to find that there is almost no substantive direct communication between these two groups, and it is even more impossible to sell arms to each other—can you imagine Zhu Ziliu teaching Yiyang to Hao Datong? As for the lure and annihilation of Xidu, it was also on the verge of failure.Wang Chongyang hid in the coffin, jumped out, and successfully injured Ouyang Feng with one finger, breaking the Ha Toad Kungfu, which had a deterrent effect on him, but did not cause a devastating blow.What's even more frightening is that this action has opened the lid of Pandora's Box - a decisive battle of life and death can also be launched between the "Five Uniques". In addition, the "Quanzhen Seven Sons + Tiangang Beidou Formation" that he carefully developed and placed high hopes on, although miraculous, could not compete with such big mountains as Dongxiexidu. The peak combat power of the "Tiangang Beidou Formation" is quite strong, but it only exists in a theoretical sense.It is too much restricted by uncertain factors such as personnel and geography. For Dongxie, Xidu and others, let alone keeping pace with them, it is very difficult to even have a little side-holding effect. Sophisticated weapons and tactics cannot make up for the huge gap in personnel quality. This has been proved in Jin Yong's fighting in the past dynasties.Zhang Sanfeng's "Zhenwu Seven-section Formation" is powerful in deduction on paper, but since it was successfully developed, it has never had the opportunity to be put into actual combat; Zhi, was still messed up; as for the "Seven Star Gathering" developed by Quanzhen and his sons after retreating...it doesn't matter. Wang Chongyang's departure left a huge power vacuum.The chaos in martial arts has restarted, and a new pattern is about to emerge. The conflicts between the various mountains continued to escalate, and the contradictions gradually became irreconcilable. Even the level of the "five uniques" continued to stage life-and-death battles.Among them: Dongxie seriously injured and imprisoned Zhou Botong; Xidu painted "Cutting Flesh and Feeding Eagles" to harm the Southern Emperor, wounded Lin Chaoying's successor of the Ancient Tomb School, and severely injured the Northern Beggar; Dongxie fought against the Quanzhen Seven Sons; The five Jiangnan monsters blame Dongxie... The rivers and lakes are bloody and violent, and there are many vicious fights. Some former second-rate forces have also joined the fray.For example, the Iron Palm Gang, in the past, because the gang leader Qiu Qianren's Iron Palm Kungfu has not yet reached a high level, this gang has not been among the first-class.But at this time, as Qiu Qianren's martial arts became more mature, he began to seek a new hegemony in the north, and challenged the traditional old hegemony in the north, "Northern Beggar".He went to the Junshan General Assembly of the Beggars' Clan to make trouble, and one of the demands he made was to make the Beggars' Clan retreat to the north and south of the Yellow River. It is precisely because of this chaos that a new force can quietly sprout and grow, and it has both ways and opportunities to become the new ruler. This new force, through the opportunity of two "Huashan Discussion of Swords", finally ascended to the throne and dominated the world. This is the "Guo Jing-Huang Rong" alliance. A brief analysis of the forces represented by "Guo Jing-Huang Rong": The most important force represented by Guo Jing is Quanzhen Sect.Not only Zhou Botong was his adopted brother, but also the three most influential people among the "Seven Sons of Quanzhen"—Ma Yu, Qiu Chuji, and Wang Chuyi—were also his teachers.Behind Huang Rong is the mountain top of Peach Blossom Island, needless to say. Guo and Huang also jointly wooed and shared some powerful resources, including Beiqishantou and Nandishantou.Guo Jing and Huang Rong became apprentices of Hong Qigong, the northern beggar at the same time, and together they won over Master Yideng of the Southern Emperor.Among the five unique skills, Guo Huang has won the fourth, and a powerful alliance is looming. So, the arena with Guo Jing and Huang Rong is not a wonderful one.Where is the "On Sword" in Huashan later?It's just the poker table of the "Guo Huang Alliance". Careful readers will find that the "Guo Huang Alliance" began to set thresholds for Huashan's discussion of swords, constantly excluding dissident forces.Twenty-five years ago, the tenet of the first Huashan Discussion of Swords, "Four lakes and four seas, regardless of origin", has been gradually abandoned by this time. For example, Qiu Qianren was inexplicably refused to participate in the second Huashan Sword Discussion on the grounds that his moral level was low.What Hong Qigong said to Qiu Qianren is the most representative: "You came to Mount Hua, hoping to win the honor of being the best in the world in martial arts. Don't say that your martial arts may not be the best in the world. Even if you are invincible in the world, you are a hero in the world. Can you subdue a traitor like you?" These words seem to be reasonable, but there is one thing that doesn't make sense: Twenty-five years ago, in the first Huashan Sword Discussion that Wang Chongyang and Hong Qigong participated in, why was Qiu Qianren actively invited?When the "Guo Huang Alliance" raised the banner of morality high, Qiu Qianren was inexplicably deprived of the qualification to participate in the sword debate because of "bad character"? Or some people say that twenty-five years ago, Qiu Qianren hadn't shown any evil deeds, hadn't colluded with the enemy and betrayed the country, and hadn't turned to the Jinren.Then Ouyang Feng's situation can explain the problem even more.He has always been an old poison, but the treatment he received in the two Huashan Discussions on Swords was very different. In the first Huashan Lunjian, Xidu was treated fairly and was not beaten by the crowd.In the second sword debate led by the Guo Jing-Huang Rong Alliance, Ouyang Feng was attacked and besieged, and was repaired by Huang Yaoshi, Hong Qigong, Guo Jing, and Huang Rong in various ways until he was driven crazy.In the original book, even the participants knew in their hearts: "This is the combined power of Dongxie and Beibei, and the combination of Xidu and one person." On Huashan Mountain, it is no longer a fight for "the best martial arts in the world", but one family is deliberately against another family. After Xi Du went crazy, there was no longer any power in the world to stop the dominance of the "Guo Huang Alliance".By now, "Guo Huang" has become a super family that dominates martial arts, Quanzhen Sect and Beggar Gang are its subordinates, Peach Blossom Island is their back garden, Nandi is their strategic alliance, and Lujiazhuang is their treasury and source of income.For example, Guo Jing and Huang Rong held the Dashengguan Heroes Conference, who paid for it?Lujiazhuang!The book said: "A total of more than 200 seats were opened in the main hall, front hall, back hall, wing hall, and flower hall." "I don't know how many pigs and sheep were released and how many jugs of fine wine were poured out in Lujiazhuang today. " Those rebellious fish and shrimps, like Li Mochou, no matter how fierce they are usually, when they heard Guo Jing and Huang Rong's whistle, they had no choice but to run away. The typical feature of a family alliance growing up is that it can continuously replicate its own power.For example, after the position of the leader of the beggar gang passed to Lu Youjiao, the puppet leader for a period of time, who did it pass to?It was Yeluqi, Guo Jing's eldest son-in-law.Some people jumped out without understanding and wanted to get a piece of the pie, disrupting the internal power transfer of the Guohuang alliance, such as Huo Dou, what was the result? The Guo-Huang Alliance continues to expand its influence, spreading branches and leaves.For example, where did Guo Jing send his nephew Yang Guo to study?It is the Quanzhen religion.This will not only strengthen the relationship with Quanzhen Sect, but also ensure that after Zhou Botong and Qiu Chuji, there will still be spokespersons for the Guo-Huang Alliance among the subsequent generations of Quanzhen Sect disciples. Another example is who did Guo Jing accept as his apprentice?They are brothers Wu Xiuwen and Wu Dunru.The two brothers are wretched and mediocre, can't Guo Jing and Huang Rong see it?What Guo Jing and Huang Rong really valued was that the two brothers had the background of the Southern Emperor and were the sons and daughters of Master Yideng's second generation successor.The two brothers were accepted as apprentices by Guo Jing, which not only strengthened the relationship between the family and the Southern Emperor, but also a kind of feedback from the Guo Huang family to the Southern Emperor's long-term support for themselves. The alliance is growing, and the chickens and dogs are rising to heaven—even those members who are not up to date are living happily under the protection of the family power. For example, Ke Zhen'e, what kind of life did he live in the past?Struggling at the bottom of the martial arts world, with low martial arts skills, wandering around the rivers and lakes, being humiliated everywhere, even losing his brother's life.Now that he has transformed himself into the highly respected "Grand Duke Ke", Xianyu has turned over and roams around leisurely, wandering here and there, no one dares to mess with him.Even if she encounters a strong enemy like Li Mochou, she would not dare to kill him, at most she would say a few words of intimidation with a smile: "Mr. Ke, the Chilian Divine Palm has hit your chest!" But does she dare to fight? There is also the eldest lady Guo Fu, a mediocre person with no ability to survive at all, with low martial arts, lack of adaptability, and offending people everywhere. If it was placed in the arena thirty years ago, it would have died countless times. Maybe he was tied up and put on Ouyang Ke's big bed long ago, or he was given "double cultivation" by the old monster Shenxian. But under the deterrence of the Guo-Huang alliance, she lived a good life, grew up to be in her thirties safely, and didn't encounter any major danger, so who can she reason with? What is the highest level of domination?Not only has the most powerful force in the arena, but also leads the morality and the right to speak in the arena.What is commendable is that after nearly twenty years of struggle, Guo Jing and Huang Rong finally achieved this.The mainstream moral concept they set up is eight words-"The great chivalrous man serves the country and the people". It can be said that Guo Jing was no more than a knight who respected martial arts at the previous gathering of heroes of Dashengguan; and when the flag of these eight characters was flying high in Xiangyang City, Guo Jing was already the moral leader of the entire rivers and lakes , spiritual mentor. I have to admire Huang Rong, the outstanding think tank and gallantry of the alliance.Although on the surface, these eight characters came from Guo Jing's mouth, but Huang Rong was undoubtedly the one who extracted them behind the scenes.Under the general background at that time, these eight words best summed up the achievements of Guo Jing and Huang Rong's family: it was able to unite the most people in the world and gather them under its own command. The eight words "a great chivalrous man serves the country and the people" also completely surpassed Wang Chongyang, the suzerain of the previous generation of rivers and lakes, in terms of theoretical height.In contrast, although Wang Chongyang was also fighting against gold and did a lot of things "for the country and the people", he was still lacking in generalization and refinement in theory. People"—I did not make up these words, but Wang Chongyang said them himself.When he criticized Zhou Botong, his younger brother, he said that Zhou Botong "has lost a mind of 'helping the world and saving people'". In the martial arts of the Central Plains, are there no dissidents like Guo Jing and Huang Rong?some.There are some forces that have been drifting outside the mainstream of the rivers and lakes, such as the hills of the Ancient Tomb Sect.This is a force with a long history and a very difficult one.When Wang Chongyang was in power, Lin Chaoying, the leader of the mountain, chose not to cooperate; when "Guo Jing Huang Rong" was in power, Yang Guo, Xiao Longnv, the representative figures of the mountain still chose not to cooperate. Especially Yang Guo, who was originally a member of Guo Huang's family, and a direct descendant that Guo Jing valued very much.Guo Jing sent him to Quanzhen Sect as an apprentice. Originally, he wanted him to open a branch company. Unexpectedly, Yang Guo was hunted down by another big enterprise, the Ancient Tomb Sect, and set up a new branch. Later, he wanted to break with the Guo family. In the novel, when Master Yideng met Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv for the first time, he made such a meaningful comment: "This young couple... I have met in my life, only Guo Jing and Huang Rong can compare with them." What does it mean?It also vaguely means that Yang Guo and his wife have the potential to compete with Guo Huang and his wife and set up another mountain! For such an uncooperative force, break?Eliminate?Guo Huang showed the skill and tolerance of the first martial arts family: they decided to recognize each other with the ancient tomb sect, and seek common ground while reserving differences. What is mutual recognition?It was Guo Jing and Huang Rong who recognized Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv's transgressive etiquette and the marriageability of master and student; and in return, Yang Guo and Xiaolongnv also recognized Guo Jing and Huang Rong's "great chivalry, serving the country and the people", and they went to Xiangyang to participate in the anti-Mongolian battle, formally and Enter the territory of Guo Jing and Huang Rong's family. Yang Guo not only became a member of the Guohuang family again, but also assumed an important position in the family-public relations manager.Some middle-of-the-road people in the Jianghu, such as Chef Who, Master Sheng Yin, Zhang Yimang, Baicao Xian, Shijia Brothers, Yanbo Diaosou, etc., all reached an alliance with Guo Huang through Yang Guo's public relations efforts and went to Xiangyang City to play. In the end, in the Battle of Xiangyang, Yang Guo killed Meng Ge and helped Guo Jing reach the pinnacle of his family business.Let's go back to the original book and take a look at the interesting and subtle scene at that time: "Guo Jing held Yang Guo's hand, picked up a glass of wine presented by the common people, and turned to respect Yang Guo." ?” How much deep meaning is contained in a glass of wine; and how complicated is contained in Yang Guo's "Uncle Guo". The Duke of Zhou vomits and feeds, and the world returns to its heart.It's time to rule the world.So we saw that Guo Jing and Huang Rong struck while the iron was hot, and led the heroes of the rivers and lakes to Huashan again to perform the grand ceremony.Of course, the matter of the coronation cannot be said in words. What is the reason why Guo Jing and Huang Rong proposed to go to Huashan?I miss my mentor, and I want to go to Huashan to pay homage to Hong Qigong's tomb.This is really a grandiose reason, and no one can find fault with it. As soon as this proposal was proposed, Yang Guo was the first to echo it.In the original book, Yang Guo immediately said: "Uncle Guo, I was just about to say this, how about everyone going together?" Immediately afterwards, Yideng, Huang Yaoshi, Zhou Botong and others also expressed their support, "I miss this old friend who passed away. , agreed in unison." This time going to Huashan can be called the third Huashan Discussion of Swords.Its nominal theme is to commemorate Hong Qigong, but its substantive theme is the coronation of the Guo Jing-Huang Rong alliance to rule the world.It must be chosen on Huashan Mountain, the solemn holy place of martial arts.This time, there was no martial arts contest or gladiatorial fight in the sword debate. After everyone discussed happily, a new version of the "Five Uniques" was produced-Dong Xie, Xi Kuang, Nan Seng, Bei Xia, and Zhong Urchin. The new version of "Five Uniques" is obviously not as natural and appropriate as the old version.The old version was "East evil, Western poison, Southern emperor, Northern beggar, and Central supernatural power", which is well deserved. "East evil" is indeed in the East China Sea, "Western poison" is indeed in the Western Regions, Southern emperor is indeed in Dali, and Northern beggar is indeed in Dali. It also fought against gold in the north of the Yellow River.But the new version of "Five Uniques" seems far-fetched: Why is Yang Guo "West"?Just because he is Xi Du's adoptive son?It seems unreasonable; Guo Jing's "north" seems to have some truth, he grew up in the desert, but his main achievements are in Xiangyang, Hubei Province in central China; it is also difficult for Zhou Botong to say what is "middle". In fact, at this time, it doesn't matter anymore.The real meaning of the new version of "Five Uniques" is: Dongxie is the father, Xikuang is the nephew, the southern monk is the teacher, the northern hero is the husband, and the urchin is the brother.It's all from this family, do you think it's important? Decades have passed, and Huashan Lunjian has finally changed from a heroic struggle for hegemony from all corners of the country to a happy internal gathering of a family; the so-called titles in the southeast and northwest have also changed from the territory and territory that the heroes of the world fight to the death to the Guo Jing Huang Rong alliance. A cake that is negotiated internally.It is a pity that the bones of those who are enough to be among the "five uniques", those who are against Guo Jing and Huang Rong, such as Ouyang Feng, Qiu Qianren, Jinlun Fawang, etc., are rotten. If the Guohuang family has a coat of arms, it must be like this: two eagles flying in the sky, the majestic Huashan Mountain in the background, and the majestic Xiangyang City in the background. At the end of the movie, there is a group of people who are poor in martial arts, but still want to follow the example of the sages, and ran to Mount Hua to "discuss swords", and finally ran down the mountain amidst Yang Guo's long laughter. In fact, we can't blame them for their low martial arts—they really have nowhere to learn.The best martial arts of that era, Dragon Palm, Dog Beating Stick, Xiantian Kung Fu, One Yang Finger, Nine Yin Manual, Jade Heart Sutra, Finger-Flicking Supernatural Power... which one is not all in the arsenal of the Guohuang Alliance?The magical skills that the family did not have in the past were either included in the arsenal through various channels, such as the toad skill, the iron palm skill, and the Jade Heart Sutra, which were learned by Yang Guo, Guo Xiang, Wanyanping, etc.; Sleep underground. Therefore, after these people were driven down from Mount Hua, they must have been puzzled—we want to work hard from now on and practice martial arts well, but apart from that family on the mountain, where else is there any good martial arts left in the world?