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Chapter 58 What an Acacia Sect
In the backyard, Peng Ke followed Ah Hu to the west wing.

While leading the way, Ah Hu whispered to Peng Ke:

"Miss Yan said that the suzerain of the Hehuan Sect has received a letter, and it was delivered by pigeons."

"I've got the pigeon under control, and I'll send someone to follow the pigeon in a while to see if I can find the trace of the suzerain of the Acacia Sect."

Pen Ke shook his head hopelessly: "It's unlikely, she can't make such a simple mistake, and she can't send messages in her hiding place."

"It is estimated that the pigeons were released at some temporary stop in the wild."

"However, how did they manage to allow the pigeons to find out exactly where Yan Qingbo is?"

Peng Ke knew quite a lot about this so-called information transmission method of flying pigeons.

After all, the reason why he engaged in telegrams before was because the current communication methods were too primitive.

Now long-distance transmission of information, either rely on the delivery system of post stations that Daming has set up all over the country, or can only rely on carrier pigeons.

And this kind of carrier pigeon is still very unreliable. Generally, after several years of training, it can only fly back and forth between two fixed locations.

There are also accidents on the road.

For example, when encountering a natural enemy and being eaten, or getting lost, or being shot down by a farmer, these are all things that happen from time to time.

Therefore, generally if there is information to be delivered by carrier pigeons, more than one will be released at a time to ensure accuracy.

Moreover, carrier pigeons can’t carry too heavy things, and the content of information transmitted at one time is not much. Sometimes, for the sake of confidentiality, it is necessary to send it in ciphertext to ensure that if there is an accident on the road, it will not be understood after being intercepted.

In short, this is a cumbersome and complicated way of conveying information with a high error rate.

Now that Yan Qingbo is no longer in Meilou, and has moved to Peng Ke's side, how can the carrier pigeon find her?
This is not scientific!
Originally, Peng Ke thought that the Hehuan Sect would send someone to meet Yan Qingbo.

As a result, he played this move, which really surprised him.

"I don't know, but the guards in the mansion can prove that a carrier pigeon with a bamboo tube hanging on its leg flew into the courtyard and was brought back into the house by Miss Yan."

Peng Ke groaned, and said uncertainly: "It seems that the Hehuan Sect has also mastered a special method of pigeon training?"

"Yes, they have one more use."

Previously in the southwest, Peng Ke had seen many miraculous Gu poison techniques. Those Li people in Southwest China were able to train and direct various poisons, and they also compiled a complete method cheat book, which can be taught and passed on systematically.

Now that some people can train special pigeons, Peng Ke doesn't think it's too much of a fuss.

In this world, there are still quite a lot of mysterious powers, and sometimes it is really unacceptable.

Stepping into the west wing, Peng Ke asked Yan Qingbo who was coming up, "What news did your suzerain send?"

"Does she believe you have me under control?"

Yan Qingbo nodded, shook his head again, and simply passed the note in his hand to Peng Ke: "Look for yourself."

After taking the note and spreading it out, Peng Ke frowned.

"Tell Peng Ke to give up dealing with the Hehuan Sect, and return to Beijing after solving the other sects in the south of the Yangtze River."

A very standard order.

Originally, the suzerain of the Acacia Sect asked Yan Qingbo to control Peng Ke, hoping that under the charm of Yan Qingbo, Peng Ke could selectively forget and give up the liquidation of the Acacia Sect.

In itself, Emperor Hongwu asked Peng Ke to liquidate the Jianghu sects, just to liquidate some sects that were wrong with the nation, and did not mean to sweep away all martial arts sects.

After all, there are many sects that have been fighting on the front line against the barbarians!
Whether it was the time of Lu Shen in the old Song Dynasty or the later period of the Great Uprising, many sects of the Jianghu fought together to the end.

Kunlun, Wudang, Huashan and other big factions have always been the backbone of China, and they are still recuperating now.

And some small and medium sects also contributed to the Chinese rebels during the Great Uprising, so naturally they were not included in the liquidation list.

Among the 20 or [-] sects in the entire rivers and lakes, only more than [-] have become second devils, or have no regard for the life and death of the people, and completely shrink back and do not resist.

As for the Hehuan Sect, because all the members of the sect were female disciples, they were also members of the non-resistance camp back then, and they had no intention of participating in the great uprising that ignited throughout China.

It stands to reason that it needs to be liquidated.

But if Yan Qingbo controls Peng Ke, there will be room for manipulation, after all, Peng Ke holds the power to convict.

To a certain extent, if Penke said which sect was not guilty, and gave the reason for the forgery, it could be concealed.

Emperor Hongwu would not go to dossier by dossier to check which sect was liquidated, which sect was not liquidated, and what was the reason.
However, Penke felt that something was very wrong.

"The Suzerain of the Hehuan Sect, does this trust you too much?"

Penke frowned and paced back and forth in the room.

"Since she already felt that there was a problem with your loyalty, in order to ensure that you can continue to obey orders, she directly threatened you with Mu Wanqing's life."

"Then when she received the news that I was controlled by you, wouldn't she try to confirm it?"

"At least it will let you control me to do some outrageous things, right?"

"At first, I thought that she would let me go for a swim in Taihu Lake, kill someone in the street or something, and cause something damaging to my reputation, to test whether I was intimidated by you."

"In the end, you actually waited until such an ordinary instruction?"

Yan Qingbo nodded in agreement: "It's indeed weird."

"Obviously the suzerain has threatened me many times before that I must obey orders, but when I was really redeemed by you, her reaction was very flat."

"It's like, like it's a non-trivial thing."

Peng Ke's footsteps stopped, and he suddenly raised his head to look at Yan Qingbo.

"What if the suzerain of the Hehuan faction didn't focus on your line from the beginning?"

"She is not betting on whether you will obey her orders at all, but just treats you as a bait with a very low probability of success."

"If you really listen to her and control me, then everyone will be happy. I will let the Hehuan Sect go and return to Beijing."

"But if you don't control me, but choose to lean towards me, it's just something she had expected."

"Or, she doesn't have much hope for you, she just has the mentality of giving it a try, and doesn't care whether you will betray her at all?"

Yan Qingbo couldn't hide his shock, Cherry's small mouth opened slightly: "Impossible!"

"I know the list of all inner vein disciples of the Hehuan Sect, and I know who these inner vein disciples have controlled with the "Falling in Love"!"

"Once I fall to the imperial court, all the inner disciples of the Hehuan Sect will be exposed. It is impossible for her not to care about this!"

"I am a very important chess piece for the Hehuan Sect!"

Peng Ke shook his head, calmly looked at Yan Qingbo who was a little flustered, and said lightly: "No, for her, the most important thing in the entire Hehuan Sect is herself."

"As long as she is still alive, the Hehuan Sect will still be there."

"Others, including those inner vein disciples you mentioned, can be discarded."

"I always look at the Hehuan Sect from the perspective of the famous decent sect, the Buyan Sect, and the Diancang Sect."

"But I was wrong."

"These self-proclaimed decent sects, even if they were on the wrong team back then, in the final analysis, they did so to save the lives of the disciples of the sect."

"In their eyes, the inheritance of their sect and the lives of their disciples are the most important, even greater than the righteousness of the nation."

"However, in the eyes of the Suzerain of Hehuan Sect, I am afraid that all the disciples under his sect are discarded pawns."

"She never thought about keeping the sect safe, she just wanted to get out of her shell."

"You have all been abandoned long ago."

Yan Qingbo couldn't accept it, and struggled to say: "Then why did she send me to approach you?"

"She killed me directly, and then gave up the outer disciples of the Hehuan Sect, and just found a place to hide her name, isn't that all right?"

"In this way, we might be able to keep the inner vein disciples. Anyway, they are lurking beside the powerful, and no one in the court knows."

Penke glanced at her with a half-smile: "It must be a try."

"Do you think it doesn't take time to train hundreds of disciples, so you can just give up if you give up?"

"She asked you to come close to me, in fact, she was betting on the life of the inner vein disciple."

"If you don't betray, then everyone is happy. The lives of the inner and outer vein disciples are saved, and the Hehuan Sect can continue to exist."

"If you betray, it will be the worst outcome. All the disciples of the inner and outer veins will be uprooted, but she will run away without hesitation, hide her name, and avoid the search of Jin Yiwei. After more than ten or twenty years, then Jump out and rebuild Hehuan Sect."

"Let's take a gamble, at least there is hope that all the disciples of the sect can survive."

"If you don't gamble, the disciple of the outer vein will die, and she has no choice but to give up the Hehuan sect."

"Even if the internal vein disciples can survive, but there is no huge external vein system, there are only less than ten people, is it still a sect?"

"No, it still takes decades to recover the vitality of the sect?"

"That might as well be a gamble, at least there is still a seemingly good hope."

Pen Ke smiled lightly, and said with certainty: "I guess she is somewhere right now, nervously waiting for my next move."

"If I do something about the internal and external pulse of the Hehuan Sect, she should immediately give up the Hehuan Sect and run away."

"If she gets away with it, it won't be so easy to catch it."

The reason why Jianghu sects are easy to clean up is because they value the sect as a whole.

Those suzerains, sect masters, etc. basically live and die with the sect, and it is impossible to abandon all disciples directly.

If he gave up all his disciples, and he was left alone, wouldn't the sect still exist in name only?

Even if I can pass on the exercises in the future, at most I will find one or two disciples, just like the rangers in the rivers and lakes, and follow the path of casual cultivation.

If you want to revive the sect, don't even think about it.

For a polished commander with no money and no land, where can he build a mountain gate, and where can he get money to support hundreds of out-of-production disciples?
So basically, Peng Ke has never met a head or suzerain who can be ruthless and disregard the lives of the disciples of the sect, and only care about his own life.

Unexpectedly, he met a ruthless person.

Peng Ke rubbed his chin and said in thought: "It seems that I can't rush to attack the Hehuan Sect."

"You have to catch the suzerain of the Hehuan Sect first."

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