Chapter 29 so hostile

One River, Three Lakes and Eighteen Mountains is an organization of rivers and lakes, which also represents a range, covering a large area from the north of Taihu Lake on both sides of the Yangtze River to Dianshan Mountain.All the green forest roads in this area are managed by Ziliang Iron Bridge, the head of Heyitang, and the head rudder is located in Jiangzhong Prefecture. Liang Tieqiao, the general manager, was forcibly punched out with a cable cutting knife. It is said that his most powerful move when he debuted was a "life for life".According to common sense, all the people who fight and kill are to save their own lives and destroy others' lives, and saving their own lives is the prerequisite for destroying other people's lives, so they dare not fight with their lives in actual combat.But this just gives those who dare to work hard a chance to win. As long as the opponent hesitates and retreats, it will turn "life for life" into injury for life.

Liang Tieqiao suffered numerous serious and minor injuries, but he survived each time.And almost no one can keep his life under his hands, so he naturally became the leader of a big gang.In addition, no matter how mediocre a swordsman is, after suffering countless injuries and dying countless lives, he will cultivate himself to be invincible, and he can easily take the lives of others without changing his life.So he became the world's top sword master of course. In addition to the most powerful imperial guards in the Great Zhou Dynasty, there are also four guards, which are guards with swords, inner guards, police guards, and special guards.The Imperial Army was jointly managed by Zhao Kuangyin, the inspector in front of the hall, and Zhao Hongyin, the school inspector, and Zhao Hongyin was Zhao Kuangyin's father. In fact, it meant that the Imperial Army of the Great Zhou Dynasty was all in the hands of his father and son.

The four imperial guards are under Zhao Kuangyin's part-time sole jurisdiction, and the most powerful of them is the special guard who is responsible for going out to deal with special problems and incidents.The task force is divided into four teams, among which the two teams of Tiger Chulin and Leopard Tiaoyan are led by Zhao Kuangyin's younger brother Zhao Kuangyi, while the Wolf Manye and Eagle Fighting Kong are led by Xue Kang. This Xue Kang and Zhao Kuangyin are family friends, both of military background.Xue Kang's father and Zhao Hongyin were the chief instructors of the Imperial Army when they worked together in the Later Han Dynasty, so the martial arts handed down by Xue Kang's family is invincible.Moreover, after Xue Kang took over the two teams of Wolves and Eagles, he would go out of the imperial city in person every time to take the lead and do dangerous things with his own body.This allowed him to hone the insidiousness of a Jianghu man, using his already superb family-inherited martial arts to be unexpected and hard to guard against.

Liang Tieqiao and Xue Kang have been in conflict for several years.In fact, from a personal point of view, they are heroes and cherish heroes, and they admire each other very much.But a person can't help himself in the rivers and lakes, and a responsibility is imperative.So there are things they all have to do, and they have to do well.Officials and bandits are natural enemies, and their respective identities are destined to become enemies. During the Five Dynasties, there was often a phenomenon of wars and turmoil year after year.In order to survive, more people join Liang Tieqiao's gang and eat underworld food.It was also because of the turmoil and the number of wealthy households was decreasing, and it was no longer possible to maintain the operation of Liang Tieqiao's huge gang by robbing houses.Therefore, after discussing with the leaders of the gang, Liang Tieqiao decided to take advantage of his wide range of gangs to smuggle and sell private goods among the three kingdoms of Dazhou, Southern Tang, and Northern Han for profit in order to maintain the livelihood of the gang.The most damaged by his approach is the Great Zhou. From a geographical point of view, the Great Zhou lies between the Southern Tang and the Northern Han. The goods from these two countries enter the Great Zhou or pass through the Great Zhou. They all have a lot of tax money. Collectible.Liang Tieqiao peddles smugglers and evades taxes and money, which is equivalent to taking food from the Da Zhou treasury.What's more, in recent years, Da Zhou has deliberately restricted the circulation of some goods to the Northern Han Dynasty in order to prepare for the next great cause.What Liang Tieqiao did broke these restrictions and affected the implementation and progress of various plans in Da Zhou.

The city officials on the north and south borders of the Great Zhou Dynasty sent memorials to the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Households regarding the sale of private goods by the people under the jurisdiction of the One River, Three Lakes and Eighteen Mountains.At that time, Zhou Shizong had not yet succeeded to the throne, and Taizu Guo Wei was seriously ill, so Zhao Kuangyin had full power to act in matters such as folk bandits.Zhao Kuangyin knows that this kind of gang spans several countries, so if they don't fight, they have to fight both ways.Block the road and stop the line, and at the same time directly approach the main rudder.But to deal with such a reckless organization, it is not worthwhile to mobilize a large number of troops, and the encirclement and suppression of the army may not achieve the expected results, but it will cause speculation and vigilance in neighboring countries.So Zhao Kuangyin decided to send Xue Kang to lead the Eagles and Wolves to attack, using the method of tracking and tracking, and swiftly and secretly attacking.

After several times of confrontation and entanglement between Xue Kang and Liang Tieqiao, he found that this reckless tyrant was not as easy to deal with as he imagined.First of all, Liang Tieqiao is not a reckless and ignorant person. His gang members are all over the place, including in the government. There are also his gangsters or his eyes and ears, so he is well-informed and rarely blocked by the Eagles and Wolves. Case.Often before the Eagles and Wolves make a move, they avoid it early.In addition, although there are many masters under Liang Tieqiao's men, their gang rules expressly stipulate that they are not allowed to use swords and guns with officials and family members.Therefore, once those smuggling teams encountered the Eagles and Wolves, they immediately abandoned their goods and fled.Since Xue Kang received this task, he has been chasing here and there, unable to touch Liang Tieqiao's sore spot at all.He could not block all the secret routes of private goods, nor could he find his lair by searching for traces.

But Xue Kang is not a kind person. After losing consecutively, he personally led a team to sneak into the Southern Tang Dynasty, and set up an iron lock Hengjiang Bureau at the twenty-eight crossing of the Yangtze River.Broken Liang Tieqiao's two most important private goods routes, and successively destroyed three sub-rudders and 13 strongholds on these two routes. But what he didn't expect was that after being hit so hard, Liang Tieqiao would use his tricks to hide poisonous leeches in a batch of goods, and then be found out on purpose, so as to destroy more than a hundred special guards of the Eagle and Wolves.At the same time, he took advantage of the heavy blow and chaos of the Eagles and Wolves, and blatantly attacked from the ferry they controlled, and seized the royal tribute from Wuyue Kingdom to the Great Zhou Dynasty.

But royal tribute is not wealth that can be robbed, sometimes it will become a big disaster.Because of the turmoil and banditry, Dazhou secretly installed a "vehicle dealer Ziwu leak" on the vehicles carrying the imperial tribute. As long as the vehicle moved, the shaft of the vehicle would open the leak, and then a beach of fine sand would fall down at regular intervals.Xue Kang found the main rudder of Liang Tieqiao Jiang Zhongzhou by following these fine sands, and the two sides fought to a draw in that dark battle.The Eagles and Wolves took the lead in equipment and battles, and the group battles made it impossible for the whole river, three lakes and eighteen mountains to resist.However, there are many masters in one river, three lakes and eighteen mountains, with high personal martial arts skills, familiarity with the environment, and flexibility. Therefore, sneak attacks, water battles, and Ludang battles have suffered a lot from the Eagles and Wolves.

During this period, Xue and Liang met each other twice, but they did not fight each other.They already know that no one can beat anyone just by fighting with words and fighting with momentum. After this battle, Liang Tieqiao disappeared from the rivers and lakes.The head of the whole river, three lakes and eighteen mountains felt that the chief rudder was no longer safe, so he handed over the affairs of the gang to others.He rushed to Jinling with some capable and reliable masters, and became one of the secret guests of Han Xizai's mansion in the Southern Tang Dynasty. However, the sale of private goods could not be stopped, but intensified.Not only the gang members from one river, three lakes and eighteen mountains risked their lives for the whole body, but also more ordinary people joined such a team.

Zhao Kuangyin also withdrew from the Eagles and Wolves after judging the situation.Because he can attack Jianghu bandits and reckless bandits, but he can't attack ordinary people who are trying to survive and support their families.At the same time, he also realized a truth, if he didn't wipe out Liang Tieqiao's One River, Three Lakes and Eighteen Mountains, then the existence of this gang could actually become a set of rules outside the national law.Although this rule has a conflict of interests with the national law, it is also a kind of compensation for the shortcomings of the national law.Now that this rule is lost, the trafficking of private goods has become difficult to control.So when you can't fully control the situation, you should give up some of the benefits to others, and let others manage the part for you in order to seize this benefit.When you are fully capable of controlling the overall situation, you can first take back the ability of others to manage the part, and then take back the benefits that belong to the whole.In this way, no matter whether others are willing or not, he is already just a part that was used and discarded.

In the following period of time, Zhao Kuangyin made good use of this principle, using others to lay a foundation for himself.And when his own foundation became Gaowu Daewoo, he took away the hammers and chisels from those who laid the foundation, so as not to dig out the foundation of Gaowu Daewoo. "General Xue, if you promised me this condition a few days ago, I would be very grateful. But saying this now makes you look childish and immoral, General. Give me the fishbone, trick me into making you a fat pig, and I promise you Aren’t I being laughed at by the world. Besides, I’m no longer a nosy business, just like the general, I’m serving the Lord of Ming, and I’m trying to get a good reputation for generations.” Liang Tieqiao actually said this after a lot of ideological struggle. Because Xue Kang's promise is that the benefits can be seen immediately, and it is beneficial to the tens of thousands of people in the whole river, three lakes and eighteen mountains. "Since Mr. Liang said that, then I won't talk to you anymore. Although I haven't seen you for a long time, I never thought that you are no longer the one who makes the decisions. Like me, duckweeds follow the wind. However, you and I still owed a duel before, and now this matter of sacrificing our lives for our own sake gives you and me a chance to decide the outcome. I just want to remind you that this kind of big event involving the rise and fall of a country is considered It’s not muddy water, but it’s an abyss. Don’t end up with no fish bones, but swallow a fishhook inexplicably.” What Xue Kang said really has deep meaning, which is a well-known officialdom Only a human being can tell such a parable. Qi Junyuan, who was listening carefully to the conversation between the two, was moved in his heart, and suddenly he had a strange feeling about Xue Kang's fishhook.I am good at using hooks, so will a person who can use hooks be regarded as a hook by others? "I will keep in mind the general's good words and good intentions. For this reason, I will let you go when deciding the outcome and life or death." Liang Tieqiao deliberately pretended to be generous, but his heart was shaken by Xue Kang's words. "However, you and I are not the only ones who can fight against each other at this time and place. Others sit and watch the tigers fight with ease. It is unpredictable who will win in the end." Qi Junyuan heard what Liang Tieqiao said, and immediately said: "No matter who else's family is, don't count us in. The few of us just passed by here and got into the fire scene by mistake. You give us a way, and we will leave here. Been here." No one paid any attention to Qi Junyuan, and Liang Tieqiao continued as if he didn't hear him: "Everyone in the Jianghu should know that 'Lihengu', 'Yishuihuan', and 'Sancunlian' are the top three assassins. organization. "Lihengu" uses ordinary people with grudges, "Sancunlian" is all women's families, and only "Yishuihuan" uses carefully selected good blanks. It is first-class.'Jianli strikes sadly, Song Yifang makes peace. Once Jing Xiong is gone, Yishui hopes to return.' This 'Yishui' is famous because it inherits the three heros of Yishui, Jing Ke, Gao Jianli, Song Ruyi's peerless skill. Long sword and short dagger are the strongest in martial arts, and he is good at strange techniques. Emperors of all dynasties are most afraid of stabbing, especially "Yishui Huan", which has unique skills and unique skills. Moreover, the patriarch of the sect once assassinated the emperor. So as long as you know where their sect is, there will be heavy troops and masters, and they will not stop killing and driving away. It is said that since Wu Zhou, "Yishui Huan" can only It is hidden in the lofty and deep ravines in the southwest. But now, after Meng Chang of Shu Kingdom took over the throne, he set up the "Wuwen Yuan Pavilion" to recruit wise men from all over the world, regardless of their ancestry. Therefore, a group of strange people and strangers were recruited, among them was "Yishui" There are only a few masters left."