Since the eighth year of Xining in the Song Dynasty, not only the situation in the court has been changing rapidly, but also the situation in the world has been unpredictable.
First, Wang Jiantong, the leader of the largest beggar gang in the world, accepted a young talent named "Qiao Feng". Later, shocking news came from the Murong family in Gusu, a famous martial arts family in the south of the Yangtze River. According to an anonymous person
A general of the Murong family revealed that the current head of the Murong family, Murong Fu, made a mistake in his practice, lost all his martial arts, and became seriously ill. As the Murong family spent a lot of money to seek out famous doctors, the truth of this news was confirmed.
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For this reason, Taishan Beidou Shaolin, a martial arts academy, sent Xuan Ku, a senior monk of the Xuan generation, to visit Suzhou. Later, Xue Muhua, a miraculous doctor known as the "enemy of the king of hell," went to treat him, which immediately pushed this newly restored martial arts family into the spotlight again.
On the cusp of the storm.
As eminent monks and doctors from the Shaolin Temple gathered together for consultation with Yanziwu, Xue Muhua finally diagnosed that Murong Fu went crazy due to practicing martial arts and was seriously injured. Although he was rescued, the root cause of the disease was left behind and it was difficult for him to enjoy an ordinary life. To sum up, it is
If it can't be cured, just wait to die.
Some people lament the silence of a generation of young talents, and some lament the decline of the Murong family, but more people are jealous of the Murong family's secret book of Shi Shui Pavilion.
At the end of this year, twenty-eight martial arts sects in the south of the Yangtze River and green forest heroes formed an alliance and wanted to go to Yanziwu to obtain martial arts secrets. They said they wanted to obtain them, but anyone with a discerning eye would know the truth at a glance. They took advantage of the decline of the Murong family.
At this moment, he was just going to add insult to injury. At that time, all the martial arts sects focused their attention on this incident, thinking that the Murong family was doomed this time.
But what is surprising is that the huge alliance will be completely wiped out. Outside Yanziwu that day, first Gong Yeqian defeated 16 representatives in a row, and then Deng Baichuan killed Yin Tianchou, the leader of the alliance at that time, with three palms. Waiting for the alliance
When everyone reacted and tried to take advantage of their numerical advantage, they discovered that they had been captured by fellow generals Bao BuTong and Feng BoEi with their own soldiers, and all of them were killed.
Just when the martial arts people thought that the Murong family would kill all twenty-eight sects with blood, the Murong family actually released all of them, except for the three families who committed adultery, robbery, and committed the most heinous crimes (who were punished for justice).
Later, Murong Fu, the head of the Fong Rong family, announced that he would give up martial arts and engage in business from now on, forming a business alliance because he was unable to practice martial arts.
If anyone wants to join, they only need to provide security protection within their sphere of influence to get dividends. At the same time, caravan guards are recruited from all over the martial arts world. If they are successful, they can get a handwritten secret book.
While the major martial arts sects were hesitating, the twenty-five released sects supported them one after another, opened trade routes within their own spheres of influence, provided protection, and sent their disciples to join the escort team.
Then, the Murong family quickly opened up the market through special products (soap, glass, sugar) that only they could produce, and made a fortune every day.
The major martial arts sects saw that those twenty-five families were making a lot of money, so they finally couldn't help but join the business alliance.
In less than three years, the Murong family opened businesses all over the world, reaching as far north as Liao Kingdom, south as far as Dali and Siam, and in the west as far as Xixia and Tubo.
Because of the interests, the entire southern martial arts world followed the Murong family. They would either allow the Murong family's business to settle there, or send their disciples to join the escort team in the hope of obtaining the martial arts secrets.
The only pity is that the head of the family, Murong Fu, cannot practice martial arts due to physical reasons, otherwise he will definitely be elected as the leader of the martial arts alliance in the south. After all, the Murong family is a member of the martial arts community, and they also know that it is unreasonable for their own family leader to not be able to practice martial arts. So they spent all their money.
He spent a lot of money to seek treatment from famous doctors in the world, and every year he organized a fleet to sail to the East China Sea to search for overseas fairy islands (to send people and materials to Yizhou), hoping to find the legendary panacea that could cure Murong Fu's injuries.
But after several failures, most of the personnel were lost each time (they were left in Yizhou, working as part-time workers, farming as they farmed, and building ships as they did).
At the beginning of the first year of Yuanfeng (AD 1077), in order to keep the blood of the Murong family alive, Deng Baichuan, the chief steward of the Murong family (the position of owner of the village was given to Bao Bubutong), took the lead in formally proposing marriage to the Wang family, who was also a famous family in Suzhou.
Yu married his cousin, Wang Yuyan, a martial arts prodigy of the Wang family. After some discussion, the Murong family finally agreed to share a portion of the profits before setting a date.
On October 1 of the same year, the two got married in Yanziwu. There were so many guests present and the number of boats used was incalculable.
For a time, the Murong family was so popular that it was called "the Taihu Pavilion of the Song Dynasty, half the Murong Mansion."
In the next eight years, the two gave birth to two sons and one daughter. The boys were named Murong Xing and Murong Sheng, and the girl was named Murong Ziling.
In the eighth year of Yuanfeng (AD 1085), Emperor Zhao Xu of the Song Dynasty died of illness in the palace with deep regrets. His nine-year-old son Zhao Xu inherited the throne, known as "Zhezong of the Song Dynasty" in history, and changed his reign name to Yuanyou.
Because he was still young, the Empress Dowager Gao was behind the curtain to listen to the government. The Gao family appointed Sima Guang and others to restore the old law, which was known as "Yuanyou Genghua" in history.
The drastic changes in the court not only did not affect the Murong family's business territory, but actually helped its expansion. It is said that its products were deeply loved by the Empress Dowager Gao (who gave her a commission), and a large number of business activities were carried out every year for the Song Dynasty.
The treasury provides a large amount of tax revenue.
In the eighth year of Yuanyou, the Empress Dowager was critically ill. The adult Zhao Xi gradually took over the government and began to clean up the old party forces belonging to the Empress Dowager's faction. The situation in the court began to undergo new changes.
The Liao Kingdom in the north was not at peace either. Just when the Song Dynasty court was busy with the dispute between the old and new factions, a tribe calling itself Miao suddenly emerged in the Liao Kingdom's Tonkin Road (now the three northeastern provinces) and Tongjiang (Songhua River) basins.
In less than a year, it swept through all the Jurchen tribes and defeated and reorganized the local Liao army and Heishui Mohe (Mature Jurchen) who had restrained their development.
At the same time, they tried to kill the Wanyan tribe who wanted to make peace with them internally and externally. After that, they invaded the territory of Tokyo Road of Liao Kingdom, conquered several cities, and approached the capital of Tokyo Road, Liaoyang Prefecture in Tokyo (that's what it's really called).
The Liao Kingdom was shaken by both the government and the public. Yelu Hongji, who was the emperor of the Liao Kingdom at the time, ordered his uncle Yelu Chongyuan, the King of Nanyuan of the Liao Kingdom, to lead an army to attack.
A total of 300,000 troops were mobilized for this expedition, and together with the troops recruited from Tokyo Road, there were approximately more than 400,000 troops. They strived to use the power of Mount Tai to wipe out the Miao army in one fell swoop.
But the most unexpected thing for the Liao army was that when the army arrived thirty miles away from Liaoyang Prefecture, they actually received the news that Liaoyang Prefecture had fallen. According to reports from the remaining soldiers coming from Tokyo Road, not only Liaoyang Prefecture, but also surrounding areas
All the cities have also fallen. Now the Miao army is rushing towards the main army.
Moreover, each Miao soldier holds a long-barreled weapon that can breathe fire, killing or injuring those who hit it. Its killing power and range far exceed that of ordinary crossbows. There is also a weapon that requires a horse. When used, it makes a sound like
The flat ground was struck by thunder and lightning. After a few rounds, the city of Liaoyang was destroyed.
While Yelu Chongyuan couldn't believe it, he also realized that the Miao army was not as simple as he thought, so he immediately organized the army and prepared for it.
As soon as Yelu Zhongyuan finished reorganizing his army, he saw a strangely-dressed army of 20,000 troops arriving. They were not equipped with battle armor, wearing uniform black uniforms, holding weapons just like the ones described by the escaped soldiers, and wearing waistbands.
Accompanied by a standard long knife.
When Yelu Chongyuan saw that his opponent only had 20,000 people, he decided to send 30,000 Liao troops to test them first. However, he did not expect that his own troops would collapse at the first touch.
A total of 30,000 people had just launched a charge, but they were lined up in six rows and the Miao army used this strange weapon to kill nearly 2,000 people. The battlefield was so littered with corpses that Yelu Chongyuan, the commander-in-chief of the Liao army, was stunned.
Forgetting to issue the order, this unit was exposed to the Miao army's shooting range and was subjected to continuous firepower.
When Yelu Chongyuan came to his senses, ordered the troops to retreat and clean up the remaining soldiers, he discovered that there were 30,000 troops when he left the camp, but when he returned, there were less than 8,000 troops.
Immediately, Yelu Chongyuan decided to hang up the war-free card and report the frontline situation to Yelu Hongji. On the other hand, he would collect the remaining troops coming from other directions (troops that were defeated by the dispersed Miao army in other places). At the same time, he would use the power of his southern king.
identity, mobilize as many troops and horses as possible from the rear, with the intention of resisting the Miao army's attack.
The Miao army seemed to be waiting for reinforcements and set up camp on the spot.
In this way, the two sides entered a strange confrontation situation.
And in Murong Fu's Mansion in the south of the Yangtze River.
Murong Fu received news from Liaodong from the secret guards. At the same time, he learned that Xuan Bei had come out of Shaolin Temple and headed towards Suzhou. He knew that the plot of Tian Long Ba Bu had officially begun, and his plan had already entered the stage after years of preparation.