The Counterattack of the Villains

The sun was rising high, and in an inn five blocks away from Fuwei Escort Agency, the lobby on the first floor was filled with guests having breakfast.

Some people who didn't want to eat in the crowded lobby asked the waiter to bring the food to their room.

In an upper room on the second floor, Yu Renhao, Fang Renzhi, and Jia Renda, three direct disciples of Yu Canghai, were sitting around a table, eating breakfast and discussing matters.

The three of them were just the vanguard sent by Yu Canghai. This time, it was Yu Canghai who took charge of the battle to destroy the Fuzhou General Bureau of the Fuwei Escort Agency.

The three of them took the first step, and Yu Canghai followed with a large number of people. They have not yet reached Fuzhou, but counting the time, they will soon arrive.

It would be best if the three of them could directly capture Lin Zhennan's family of three.

If that doesn't work, you still need to keep an eye on them until Yu Canghai arrives, then launch a general attack at night to destroy the Fuwei Escort Agency in one fell swoop, and then search for the evil-repelling sword manual.

"Senior Brother Yu, the turtles from the Fuwei Escort Agency have invited the Giant Whale Gang for support. We're afraid we won't have a chance to make another move."

The person who spoke was Fang Renzhi. They were hiding outside the Fuwei Escort Agency last night, waiting for an opportunity to strike.

But when Lin Pingzhi came back with a hundred members of the Giant Whale Gang, they had to withdraw first to protect their safety.

Yu Renhao frowned and said: "Master Ge, I didn't expect that the relationship between Fuwei Escort Agency and the Giant Whale Gang would be so good. Why didn't you stop Lin Pingzhi yesterday?"

The Qingcheng faction's sphere of influence is as far away as Sichuan, so there are naturally some deficiencies in intelligence.

Although he knew that Lin Pingzhi had learned martial arts from the Giant Whale Gang, he did not expect that the Giant Whale Gang's support for the Fuwei Escort Agency could reach such intensity.

Fang Renzhi said helplessly: "He ran too suddenly and I didn't react. His white horse was too fast and I couldn't catch up."

Jia Renda sighed: "If I had known better, I should have killed that horse first."

This is what they did in the original plot.

In the original plot, Lin Pingzhi was afraid and did not tell Lin Zhennan what happened as soon as he returned home, thus missing the best opportunity to ask for help.

When things happened and Shi Biaotou and the others died violently, he finally told the story. When he wanted to ask for help, it was already too late.

Moreover, the Giant Whale Gang at that time could not be relied upon by them, and even if they asked for help, they would not be able to do so.

As a result, they were delayed for one night, and the next day Yu Canghai arrived with a large force and laid a dragnet.

Of the twenty-three escorts sent out to seek help, not one of them could escape, and all died.

But today's Lin Pingzhi is completely different from the original drama in terms of martial arts and cognition.

Although he was a little flustered after the first murder, he did not hide anything after returning home and told Lin Zhennan the truth.

Just such a change gave them a precious opportunity to seek help.

Yu Renhao said: "Now we can only wait for Master and the others to arrive and then see what arrangements the old man makes."

"We actually don't have to worry. The worst we can do is wait for a while. The leader of the Giant Whale Gang and hundreds of gang members cannot stay at Fuwei Escort Agency forever."

"And they don't know that it was us who did it. As long as after a while, they find that nothing happens, the people from the Giant Whale Gang will naturally leave."

"We must be fully prepared next time and we will succeed in one fell swoop."

Fang Renzhi and Jia Renda nodded and said, "I can only do it now."

This is the disadvantage of information asymmetry. The other party already knows that it is the Qingcheng faction, but they don't know that they have been exposed.

They didn't even know that Lin Zhennan and Li Mubai would use the power of officers and soldiers to deal with them.

Because in their perception, it is all about the Jianghu, and they rarely deal with the government.

In the past hundred years or so, the imperial court had suppressed Jianghu too harshly, and Jianghu people were very opposed to the government being in charge of Jianghu affairs.

However, starting from the Chenghua period, the imperial court began to relax its pressure on Jianghu. After the Hongzhi and Zhengde dynasties, the imperial court and Jianghu almost formed two parallel lines.

The government's attitude towards martial arts in martial arts is that if people don't complain to officials, they won't be held accountable. If people in the martial arts get into conflicts and someone dies, as long as no one reports the case, the government won't take the initiative to take care of it.

The same is true for Jianghu people. Even if they are faced with the disaster of exterminating their family, they only want to rely on their own force to solve the problem. At most, they will call on friends and ask for help, but they will never report it to the official.

Because once you report to the government and cause the government to intervene in the world, even if you survive, you will no longer be able to gain a foothold in the world.

It was only during the Jiajing period that the "Six Gates", an official force dealing with martial arts and martial arts, and specializing in Jianghu affairs, was only established during the Wanli period. It was still several decades away!

However, Li Mu's understanding is completely different from that of the Jianghu people of this era.

The martial arts world is also a part of this country and cannot be truly separated from the country.

The six doors that appeared decades later are a good proof of this. As long as the court wants to control it, there is nothing it can't control.

Therefore, if the sect wants to survive forever, it must maintain a good relationship with the court like Shaolin Wudang.

Therefore, after Li Mu's reputation in the world reached the peak, he followed Guo Jing's wisdom and introduced to the world the concept of "a great chivalrous man serves the country and the people."

Of course, this was also told to the court.

Not only did he say that, he also did it. His actions of supporting the resistance against the Japanese along the southeastern coast and sending his disciples to the north to help the border troops deal with the Tatar invasion are the most direct evidence of this.

In addition, he did not prohibit the Huashan disciples from joining the imperial court and participating in civil and military examinations.

As a result, Li Mu not only rose to prominence in the world, but was also highly praised by the imperial court.

Emperor Jiajing even personally wrote a plaque for Li Mu titled "The Best Hero in the World", which is now hanging in the Huashan Hall.

Due to Li Mu's various actions, the two parallel lines of Jianghu and the imperial court interacted again.

It is the general trend that the martial arts world and the imperial court are interdependent.

Forces like the Qingcheng Sect with backward ideas and concepts, who still want to compete for martial arts secrets, establish a prestige in the arena, and always focus on the arena, will be eliminated by the times sooner or later.

This time they ran into the swords of the Huashan Sect and the Giant Whale Gang. It was destiny.

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Just when Yu Renhao and the three of them were having breakfast, a man from a hundred households suddenly rushed into the inn with his soldiers.

There was a sudden commotion in the inn. Yu Renhao and others subconsciously opened the door and walked to the corridor to check the situation.

The inn was soon guarded by officers and soldiers at all exits. A commander-in-chief under Baihu shouted loudly: "Everyone should stay in their own positions. The Fuzhou Guard is searching for Japanese pirate spies."

"If you are coming from other places, prepare a route for us to check. If you have nothing to do with Japanese pirates, there is no need to panic."

After hearing what Zong Qi said, Yu Renhao and others secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Fortunately, Master had the foresight to know that Japanese pirates were rampant along the southeastern coast and that immigration checks were strict, so he set up a road guide in Guan County before coming to Fuzhou.

They came to Fuzhou to do business in the name of merchants. Although they were doing business without capital, they were not afraid of official investigation.

Now the three of them returned to the room, took out the road guide and waited quietly.