Gu Yue Sect.

As the largest gang in the world of Mozhou, all the sects in Mozhou have sent leaders or elders here today.

The purpose is to discuss the future of Mozhou Jianghu.

In the gang hall, after everyone took their seats, Gu Yue Gang leader Gu He said to everyone: "Everyone is here today. It should be that a large number of disciples in the sect have withdrawn from the gang."

"Not bad!" said a strong man in his early forties, "In recent days, several of my Feijian Pavilion disciples have left the mountain gate and gone to Taiyuan to do business! Thirty or forty of them have already left. If this continues, they will all be gone.

Got it!"

Other heads and elders also agreed.

"We also lost many disciples from our gang."

"Is there someone behind this matter?"

"Su Yuan invited us last time and asked us to serve, but it didn't work. Could it be that he sent someone to contact those disciples secretly?"

As everyone talked, they inevitably mentioned Su Yuan.

Su Yuan had invited various gangs once before, but in the end the negotiation was not successful.

Now that the disciples of various gangs are losing a lot, they will naturally suspect that Su Yuan is behind it.

However, some people who have a deeper understanding of it have lost sight of this statement.

"I asked those disciples who left, and they all said that their hometown has become very good now, and their families are letting them go back. Whether it is farming fields or doing small business, the government will help."

"I've heard about this too..."

"Then Su Yuanzhen is a great philanthropist? How much money does this cost?"

Su Yuan's local policies were actually made public, and there were many good policies to subsidize the people, and these policies all required money to support.

What he did was equivalent to throwing money away, and many people couldn't understand it.

Even though the leaders and elders of these gangs are considered to be separated from daily life and out of the control of the court, their thoughts are still similar to those of some officials of the court.

They, the elder gang leaders, are essentially the county magistrates of the yamen within the sect.

It's just that they may be a little more lenient than the county magistrate, and they won't be as cruel to the disciples as the county magistrate treats the common people.

But how loose it is...it's actually very limited.

Beating and scolding disciples is common in all gangs, and some disciples are actually very dissatisfied. They just feel that it would be worse to leave the sect and be controlled by the county magistrate, so they endure it silently.

But it's different now.

In Mozhou, no matter whether it is a large city or a small county, violence is now strictly prohibited, and the soldiers of the Bei'an Army have implemented this policy perfectly.

Many scoundrels have disappeared since then, and almost all the bandit cottages that have been lingering around some cities for years or even decades were wiped out during this period of time.

Now, even in a small county, people feel safe.

As a result, some disciples will naturally no longer accept the oppression within the sect and choose to quit and return to their hometowns.

Not only this, but another aspect is that the reason why many disciples want to practice martial arts is because they advocate a chivalrous style.

After learning martial arts, he wanted to punish evil and promote good. When he saw injustice on the road, he drew his sword to help.

But since the public security in Mozhou cities has become better and better, the most embarrassing thing is that they, the knights, no longer have a place to go and do justice.

At least it is difficult to find such an opportunity in Mozhou. If you want to draw a sword and help, you have to go to other states.

In this way, after losing both material and spiritual benefits, disciples will naturally quit the gangs in large numbers.

After all, although Jianghu is very romantic, only a very small number of people can become the "protagonist".

As in the popular novels, people with advanced martial arts skills at a young age are almost invisible in real gangs. Most young people have very ordinary martial arts skills. It takes at least ten or eight years of practice to lay a good foundation and have good talent.

It might be possible to achieve some success.

Such harsh conditions lose their cost performance when faced with Su Yuan's policies.

For this reason, the "tide of withdrawal" among the disciples began to break out. Now all the sects could not sit still, so this emergency meeting was held.

"Gu Gang Leader, aren't you going to say something?"

Everyone discussed for a while, and when Furukawa said nothing, someone took the initiative to ask.

Furukawa sat in the master's seat, facing the gaze of everyone, and said slowly: "I'm afraid we can't do anything about this matter. Jianghu sects can come and go as they please, and we are not an evil sect, so we cannot restrict the disciples from leaving."

"That's what you say, but if this continues, there will be no new disciples and only old guys like us will be left, won't the sect be over?"

"Then Su Yuan is trying to dig into the roots of our Mozhou world!"

"Mozhou is located in a remote area, and there are not many Jianghu sects. Let Su Yuan do this again... I think all the sects will be gone in the future, and Su Yuan will be the only one to rule the entire Mozhou!"

Many sect leaders expressed their dissatisfaction with Su Yuan.

But they all knew in their hearts that even if the disciples did not leave, Su Yuan would still be the only one in Mozhou.

However, the two sides were in peace before. Now, if the lower-level disciples leave cleanly, then who will they, the upper-level ones, have left to call on?

In the final analysis, the lower-level disciples in the Jianghu sect are there to be bossed around. Only those with particularly outstanding talents or connections will be accepted as inner sect disciples by masters such as the head elder and others, and will be taught carefully.

For the rest, just teach them casually, give them some basic internal strength formulas, and let them practice it on their own.

This is no different from an apprenticeship. In the first few years, you have to do various odd jobs, and then you can learn the real skills.

This model is undoubtedly unworkable now.

Seeing Furukawa, the elders couldn't make up their minds, and they were even more anxious.

They came to Furukawa because they wanted him to take charge of the overall situation. Now that Furukawa couldn't give him a solution, they had no other choice but to accept the reality.

"Could it be that... we can only rely on Su Yuan and serve him?" The first leader said helplessly after being silent for a long time.

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"examine!"

At the gate of Kaiyang City, Bai Shiquan was stopped by the city gate soldiers and his belongings were searched.

There was only some dry food and scraps of silver in his package, but nothing else. The city gate soldiers let him pass after searching.

At this time, a guard found a short knife from a man's baggage, and immediately caught the man: "Lock him up! He has a weapon!"

The man was shocked and said: "It's just a short knife!"

"A short sword is not considered a weapon?"

"Forget it...but when did the Great Zhou Dynasty have laws prohibiting the use of such short weapons!"

Seeing that the man was still not convinced, several city gate soldiers came over and directly pushed him to the ground and beat him.

"We don't have this law in Zhou Dynasty, but we in Xuzhou do! Those who don't care about life are looking for death! Beat them!" the city gate official scolded.

Everyone around him stayed away. After Bai Shiquan entered the city, he frowned and thought, "Is Xuzhou so heavily guarded? Could it be that they are guarding against Su Yuan's spies..."

Su Yuan had spies all over the place, and Bai Shiquan also vaguely knew about this.

I'm afraid it's very possible...
Chapter completed!