Chapter 308: Sect's Replacement
Chapter 308: Sect's Replacement
There are strong men on the water and monsters underwater.
Unless Lu Xinqing had wings, he had no way to escape, so he had to answer the questions obediently.
Liang Qu recorded them one by one on the album pages.
He was used to writing down key information on paper and reviewing it, which made it easier for him to summarize clues and patterns than to imagine them in his mind.
"Wait, you said earlier..."
Liang Qu circled two places with a wolf-hair brush and asked Lu Xinqing to explain them in detail.
Lu Xinqing was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat on the spot, kowtowed thumpily, and immediately began to pour out the truth.
After the underwater experience, Lu Xinqing did not dare to lie, but despite his fear, he still wanted to avoid exposing the evil deeds he had committed in order to save his life.
I really didn't expect Liang Qu to have such sharp insight. Lu Xinqing, a big man in his thirties, stood in front of me and looked naked.
No wonder others can be masters while I can only be a pirate.
Lu Xinqing thought.
Liang Qu reluctantly accepted Lu Xinqing's change of attitude.
The purpose of reading is not to increase knowledge, but to develop logical thinking.
Liang Qu had not been in the academy for long, but the good education he had received in his previous life had made his logical thinking ability much higher than that of ordinary people, so it was not difficult for him to find loopholes.
With the help of ear recognition method, one can tell whether Lu Xinqing is "guilty".
"What forces are there in Huazhu County? Including the surrounding towns and villages, pick the most powerful ones."
"Power?" Lu Xinqing pondered. "In the past, there should have been three major martial arts schools in the county, the Shahe Gang and the Zhenyuan Escort Agency, right? Five of them are unique, and all of them have great masters of wolf smoke.
Later, it was said that there were rebels causing trouble, and several forces were unable to recover. The three major martial arts schools all collapsed, and some fled and some scattered.
The Shahe Gang had many boats, so they escaped and were on the verge of dominating the market when they came back. But I heard that the Shahe Gang was also dealt with a few months ago. It was said that…"
Lu Xinqing raised his eyes slightly to see Liang Qu's reaction.
Liang Qu frowned: "Why are you looking at me? Keep talking!"
"It is said that... the government intervened. Several masters were killed, and a large number of people were killed in the process. However, the shipping of the Blackwater River cannot be separated from the Shahe Gang, so some of them were left to maintain the shipping, and they were not killed..."
Government, Shahe Gang?
Liang Qu thought of the Whale Gang, calculated the time, and roughly guessed what was going on.
The incident with the Whale Gang prompted the Hebo Police Station to conduct a major purge of all the Fish Gangs in Huaiyin Prefecture.
The Shahe Gang might have just run into trouble, and their achievement would have been recorded in the annals.
"I have heard about the cause of the downfall. It was said that the Shahe Gang's leader took in a concubine in the beginning of the spring, which caused the disaster!"
Liang Qu was stunned: "What do you mean?"
Lu Xinqing got excited: "Your Excellency, you don't know that the concubine was originally the sweetheart of a certain young master named Liang. Who would have thought that the leader of the Shahe Gang would snatch her away and make a fait accompli. Young master Liang was so angry that he couldn't get her love. How could the small Shahe Gang withstand it..."
"fake."
Liang Qu rejected it outright.
"fake?"
Lu Xinqing didn't believe it. The young man in front of him was of high rank and strong, but no matter how powerful he was, he was a foreigner after all. How could he know he was fake?
However, due to the current situation, Lu Xinqing did not dare to refute.
I secretly complain that officials protect each other.
"Go on, which three are the three major martial arts schools?"
"Panshan, Zhushi and Qinghe."
"Qinghe?" Liang Qu asked, "Have you ever heard of a person named Pang Qinghe?"
"Pang Qinghe?" Lu Xinqing chewed his words twice, then suddenly realized, "Sir, you are talking about Master Pang, right? Master Pang is the former master of Qinghe Martial Arts School! He is well-known in Huazhu County, a master of Langyan Martial Arts, a great expert!"
"What about Yan's martial arts school?"
"Yan family? I seem to have heard of them. They should be from Huangsha Town? The owner of the hall had two sons, both were martial artists, but they also fell from grace later on.
Anyway, most of the martial arts schools in Huazhu County have closed down, and even the capable ones are gone. They have all gone elsewhere, and there are fewer merchant ships on the Blackwater River.
After that, there were more and more pirates, which made the merchant ships even more afraid to leave. It became increasingly difficult for the brothers to get food, and they lost their minds when they saw you, sir."
Liang Qu nodded slightly and sorted out his thoughts.
Martial arts schools were a special feature of the Dashun Dynasty and there were some in almost every county.
Whether a county is strong or not basically depends on how many large and small martial arts schools there are in the county.
In essence, martial arts schools are substitutes for sects.
When the Dashun tribes spread across the world, only a very small number of them were able to retain the sect system, such as the Five Great True Confucianists, while the rest gradually evolved into various martial arts schools.
There are many advantages to martial arts schools. First, they are open to the general public, most of whom seek wealth. The threshold is low, which can effectively expand the base of martial artists. The base of the lower class is large, and the benefits are self-evident. Second, the relationship between the upper and lower classes in martial arts schools is not close. Apprentices pay money to learn skills, and the relationship is buying and selling. It is far less than the upper and lower class system of the sect, and it is easy to form a sense of identity after entering.
It is difficult for martial arts schools to form local forces, which effectively reduces the difficulty of centralization, and the pressure on the grassroots people will not be so great, further promoting population development.
Furthermore, if they cannot form a force, the platform they provide will ultimately be limited. Most people will lay a solid foundation and will naturally look forward to a bigger platform. Where is the bigger platform?
The court!
There are many ways to go, such as Hebo Office, Sanfasi Department, Catching Demons Department, joining the army...
The imperial court is like an extra-large sect that gathers all the talented people in the world.
For this reason, Dashun has always encouraged the development of martial arts schools.
Huazhu County was massacred by the Ghost Mother Cult, and its vitality was severely damaged. Most of the martial arts schools disappeared, and the corresponding support system and downstream structures gradually became unsustainable, which in turn affected the lives of the lower class people.
The strong men who used to make a living by delivering medicine and running errands have no jobs and can only think of other ways. Some of them will have crooked ideas. There will be more pirates, mountain bandits, and hooligans. The additional banditry will in turn affect trade, creating a vicious cycle.
The situation in Huazhu County is becoming clearer.
"You were originally from Panshan Martial Arts School?"
"How did you know that, sir?"
Lu Xinqing was shocked. From the time he met Liang Qu until now, he had never said that he was from Panshan Martial Arts School, let alone displayed the Four Tips Skill!
"I have my own sources of information."
Lu Xinqing's heart was shrouded in a shadow of awe. He felt that Liang Qu was extremely mysterious, as if he had the ability to listen to other people's thoughts.
"You are from Panshan Martial Arts School and a fourth-level martial arts master, so why did you become a pirate?"
The martial arts master of the Fourth Pass is not a small figure. He can be included in the military register and, in a small town, can be called a master.
take things too hard?
Lu Xinqing's face froze. "It's good that I joined Panshan Martial Arts School, but the Four Tips Kung Fu is not passed down to anyone other than the direct descendant... I wasted seven or eight years and still couldn't get recognition, so I had to learn it secretly..."
"You are brave enough to escape?"
Lu Xinqing laughed awkwardly.
Learning martial arts secretly is a big taboo. Not to mention Huazhu County, several surrounding counties cannot accommodate him.
After the incident, Lu Xinqing wanted to flee to another state in one go, but he had little money for the journey, so he came up with the idea of robbing a ship on the Heishui River.
Unexpectedly, the first robbed car was a father and son who were returning home to get married, and they asked for eight taels of money as a wedding gift!
Having tasted the sweetness, Lu Xinqing thought that he would be an illegal resident even if he went to other places, so he decided to go all out and hid on the Black Water River as a ghost-faced pirate, making a living by robbing ships. He only robbed small ships, not big ones, and earned the nickname of Ghost-faced Dragon.
"What about the father and son?"
"died."
"died?"
"No, no, no, please don't misunderstand me, I didn't kill him." Lu Xinqing hurriedly explained.
"I robbed them and then let them go. I only found out in the past two days that after they were robbed by me that day, they knew their marriages were ruined, and they were unwilling to give up, so they robbed others!
"If there is a robbery, there will be another. They also became pirates! But they were not as smart as me. They were caught by the government in less than three months and sentenced to death!"
Liang Qu remained silent.
"To gain wealth with human faces, even after ten years of accumulation, it is still not enough; to gain wealth with ghost faces, even in one day, it is more than enough.
If a sword is in someone else's hand, I will be afraid of him; if it is in my hand, others will be afraid of me..."
Lu Xinqing pondered it carefully and nodded vigorously: "Yes, yes, that's right! My Lord is a pirate..."
Liang Qu glanced at him, and Lu Xinqing cursed himself for being an idiot, and quickly crawled on the ground: "Listening to a word from the adults is better than reading ten years of books!"
half an hour.
"There are no women in your village?"
Awei went into the water village to investigate and found that there were no prisoners inside.
"Women? No." Lu Xinqing shook his head. "Just a dozen of us brothers."
"Can you hold it in?"
“Usually we go to town to solve all the problems. We can spend some money on this kind of thing. It won’t cost much.
Not to mention that there is no such thing in the village, even if we encounter it during a ship robbery, I will not let my brothers touch it.
Pretty women are usually wealthy, and wealthy women are usually powerful. I’m afraid of causing trouble. If I open my mouth, I won’t be able to control them, so I simply won’t open it.”
Lu Xinqing had a reason to survive as a pirate for more than three years.
But if you walk by the river often, you will get your feet wet. Not every time, the truth of life can be applied.
If you make a mistake once, you will end up seeing this scene now.
(End of this chapter)