From south to north, the entire river and lake became lively after the main force of Jinyiwei went south. At this time, Lu Hanjiang could probably guess that the Lingyue clan's destruction this time probably had some intention of diverting the tiger away from the mountain.
However, the situation so far is not out of control for him.
If we push the time forward for more than ten years, when Mr. Meng was in power, this kind of chaos would never be allowed.
Meng Yuan's attitude toward Jianghu was like boiling frogs in warm water and cutting flesh with a blunt knife. He would not take the initiative to provoke disputes, nor would he allow multiple chaos to occur in Jianghu at the same time.
The old man will control all chaos within an acceptable threshold to achieve the effect of weakening the power of the world without causing a rebound from the opponent.
The effect of Meng Yuan's approach was immediate. In the ten years since he chose to "seek stability", Jianghu has also completed the alternation of two generations.
But it can be seen with the naked eye that the new generation of knights and knights, whether they are the Seven Wudang Sons, the Three Heroes of Qingcheng, or the masters of the Five Mountains Sword Sect, have completely failed to inherit the style of their predecessors.
As the pressure brought by the Jin Yiwei becomes heavier and heavier, sooner or later Jianghu will be forced to get used to the control of the imperial court. At that day, the so-called knights will completely lose the soil for survival, and the world will be settled.
This is a long and steady policy. When Meng Yuan was in power, he basically defeated all the rising martial arts sects.
Even if there is no way to deal with the older generation, if the younger generation can be turned into waste, the influence of the Jianghu sect can also be weakened. This is what the old man did.
But during Lu Hanjiang's time, everything was different. He completely abandoned Meng Yuan's high-pressure policy and completely loosened his grip on the world.
After losing their shackles, several disputes broke out in the rivers and lakes. Although the Jinyiwei did weaken the influence of many sects, the principle that heroes emerge in troubled times is applicable everywhere.
The changes in the atmosphere of the world have also caused the knights of the world, who were already on the verge of a backwater, to emerge one after another with super-standard talents.
For the Jianghu sect, what is important is not the gains and losses of a city or a place, but the inheritance of the sect. What they need is talents.
Continuous blows have severely damaged the vitality of Jianghu, but as a result, a group of extraordinary characters have emerged, and even some are still a little immature, but it is not difficult to see that they will achieve extraordinary things in the future.
But despite this, Lu Hanjiang still didn't feel much about the chaos in the world. The reason was that his views on the world were different from Meng Yuan's.
The chaotic world is what Lu Hanjiang pursues. Although due to the limitations of his subordinates' power, he will inevitably be unable to cover all aspects of the three chaotic wars that broke out in succession, but this does not prevent him from being happy to see the situation develop in this direction.
The only thing that caught him off guard was that in this chaos, someone else came out to add fuel to the fire.
Needless to say, the only one who would cause trouble for Jinyiwei is the East Palace. It is not known whether the chaos in the northern and southern Shaolin has anything to do with the Crown Princess, but now this incident that is shocking the world is entirely her handiwork.
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The Crown Princess played another card she had hidden, Gongsun Family.
Just as Shaolin was being attacked in the north and south, and the North was in turmoil, the Gongsun family suddenly changed from its usual routine of watching from the sidelines, and issued a high-profile hero post, pointing the finger directly at the Wudang Clan.
The identity of the Sword Demon was exposed to the public, and this became their most powerful argument against Wudang this time.
After this incident broke out, the whole world was in an uproar. Lu Hanjiang almost immediately summoned his Jinyi guards to discuss the matter.
The focus of the discussion is nothing more than two points. One is whether this matter should be dealt with, and the other is——
"How did they know the identity of the Sword Demon?" Lu Hanjiang asked this most critical question.
Chi Qianyun's martial arts skills are obvious to all. He was able to make an unknown soldier grow up to a level that could compete with the master of the Five Mountains in just half a year. No one would doubt the power of the Three Swords of Heaven.
This also leads to the fact that Chi Qianyun, the sword demon, has almost no flaws, because most of the people who have seen her true face have died.
When he first investigated the matter, Lu Hanjiang entrusted Dongfang Yuan to take action and worked with the Yuwen family for months to investigate, but still found nothing. This shows that the other party is not only extremely skilled in martial arts, but also never reveals the beginning or end of what he does.
Under this situation, it seems that the Crown Princess has no way to know Chi Qianyun's identity.
After listening to Lu Hanjiang's question, the guards in imperial robes below frowned. After a moment, Cui Yixiao suddenly said: "Sir, apart from us, there is one other person who knows the identity of the sword demon."
Lu Hanjiang narrowed his eyes slightly and tapped his finger regularly on the table: "You mean, Li Yan?"
"Yes," Cui Yixiao replied: "Before this person was taken out by Zhengdao, we told him the truth about the Sword Demon. We originally planned to use him to uncover the matter, but because Yangzi came, we quickly provoked him.
There was a dispute with the Xuantian Sect, so this plan was shelved."
Cui Yixiao explained clearly that indeed, apart from the possibility that the Crown Princess could predict the situation, the only person who might reveal the identity of the sword demon Chi Qianyun was Li Yan.
And this may not be low, because Li Yan's death was not the handiwork of Jin Yiwei, nor was it even the black hand of Xuantian's sect. So far, it is still a mystery who killed this protector.
However, after Cui Yixiao's reminder, Lu Hanjiang finally remembered this matter, and basically linked the sword demon to Li Yan in his mind. This time, he didn't care a little.
It would be nice if there were traces to follow. His depression mainly came from the Crown Princess's "flash of inspiration". This kind of intuitive decision-making was impossible to guard against and impossible to predict. It was equivalent to passively accepting the move.
Both of them are characters who don't play their cards according to the routine, but compared to myself, the Crown Princess's method of daring to use her trump card based on just guessing is still more expensive.
"Sir, including the Gongsun family's move, now that there is war in all directions, how should we act?" Yan Feng asked in a deep voice.
"Wudang, Xuantian Sect, North and South Shaolin, they are all very troublesome."
Lu Hanjiang was a little troubled. These four families were not simple things. Now the mobile forces that Jinyiwei could mobilize were quite limited. To ensure safety, even if Wu Qiming was included, at most they could only deal with two families at the same time.
Jin Yiwei dealt with one family, and Lu Hanjiang dealt with one family himself.
But this is the most extreme approach. In fact, in Lu Hanjiang's idea, his commander will not move in the early stage this time. Instead, he will let all four Jin Yiwei Dynasties use their strength to see where there are signs.
Then rush forward as the general reserve team.
The Crown Princess is not as powerful as the Jinyiwei, so even the Jinyiwei cannot deal with four top sects at the same time, and it is even less possible for the East Palace.
Therefore, among these four families, only one should be the main target of the East Palace. What Lu Hanjiang has to do is to find the thread in the mess and then deliver a fatal blow.