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Chapter 14 Hengshan faction is the umbrella of salt sellers
Zheng Gui thought for a moment and came up with the regulations, and then went to the Wuse Temple to talk about the idea of ​​going down the mountain to the senior sister in charge.

But when I arrived at Wuse Nunnery, I learned that Dingxian, Dingjing, and Dingyi were all in Baiyun Nunnery. They said that they had received a letter from Feige from Taiping Nunnery in Jiaxing yesterday, and that they all went to Baiyun after they learned that a major event had happened in West Zhejiang. Um dispatched the discussion.

Zheng Gui thought about his impression of the plot of Swordsman, and thought to himself: I haven't heard of any conflict between any forces in western Zhejiang and the Hengshan faction?
Thinking that this should not be something recorded in the original plot, it was probably a trivial matter, so Zheng Gui left Jianxing Peak and went to Baiyun Nunnery without thinking too much.

There are more than 40 nuns and more than a dozen lay disciples practicing in Baiyun Nunnery. Most of them are disciples of the Yi family, and a small number are servants and maids who are not in the ranks. When they saw Zheng Gui coming in, all the disciples bowed and saluted.

Zheng Gui didn't return the salute, and after lightly waving his hand, he went straight to the Jingxin Residence behind the Guanyin Hall, which is the residence of Dingyi, the head of Baiyun Nunnery.

When he arrived at the Jingxin Residence, Zheng Gui saw two nuns, one big and one small, waiting in front of the door. He recognized the elder one as Yi Xun, and the younger one was the disciple who was accepted by the senior sister of the sect this year, so he asked: " Yixun, Yiwen, are the masters there?"

Yiwen is a little girl of eight or nine years old, with a beautiful appearance and very cute, she looks curiously at Zheng Gui and then at her senior sister.

Yi Xun bowed and was about to answer, but heard Ding Xian's voice from inside the room: "Junior Brother, come in and talk."

Zheng Gui pushed the door open and went in, and saw Dingxian and Dingjing sitting on both sides, but Dingyi was not there.

Dingjing smiled slightly and said, "You don't need to read it, the sect master has already sent you, Senior Sister Dingyi, to Taihu Lake to handle errands."

Zheng Gui sat down at the bottom and asked, "I heard from Yiqing that something happened in West Zhejiang? Why, is it the devil's sect that provoked us?"

Dingxian smiled and said: "You are well informed, the Liang and Xu families in Xuzhou are good believers in our lower court, and the daughters of the two prefectures also practiced under the seat of Senior Sister Dingjing and me, you have also seen it.

Two days ago, I received a letter from Fei Ge, saying that their merchant ship was robbed by the Tianhe Gang and the Haisha Gang when they went to Huai'an, and the sons of the two families also fell into the hands of the two gangs of disciples and suffered a lot. We can't ignore it. Let you, Senior Sister Dingyi, take my handwritten letter to ask for someone. "

Zheng Gui thought of Xu Mengqing who was talking to him with a smile on the west side of Jianxing Peak two and a half years ago, and Liang Qi who was walking with her.

Thinking that the Tianhe Gang had been fighting fiercely with the lay disciples of Shaolin Temple in the Central Plains for the past six months, and this time they had offended the family members of the Hengshan sect disciples, Zheng Gui felt that Huang Boliu, the leader of the Tianhe Gang, wanted to give up on himself and fall out with the Orthodox Church.

As for the fact that the Haisha Gang is just a gang that has been selling smuggled salt in Suzhou and Hangzhou since the end of the Song Dynasty, and there have been no outstanding figures over the years, Zheng Gui didn't take it seriously.

After thinking for a while, Zheng Gui asked, "Xu Mengqing and Liang Qi's family sells salt? Could it be that they also have contacts with salt merchants in Taiyuan and Datong?"

Dingxian and Dingjing were silent, and Zheng Gui knew it in his heart.

It is just rhetoric to say that the two are good believers in our sect. In fact, the Xu family and the Liang family are both salt merchants, and their business is probably dominated by several prefectures in Shanxi. Although the Hengshan sect is a Buddhist sect with nuns as the mainstay, But after all, it is also the power of the rivers and lakes. Hundreds of people eat, drink, and scatter, and have basic necessities of life. Which of the precious medicines for internal and external wounds in the door is free?

Just relying on the incense money donated by good believers can't even support themselves, let alone supply the lower courts and Buddhist temples in various places, so the Hengshan sect must also intervene in various businesses like other sects, either run by lay disciples, or have White-glove business provides offerings. In short, only business can provide a steady stream of funds to support teachers.

Although Zheng Gui devoted himself to practicing martial arts and reciting Buddhist scriptures, it was not that he was ignorant of the affairs and inner workings of the Hengshan School. It was just that he hadn't thought about it before, but now he knew it after thinking about it for a while.

The disciples of the Hengshan School are all nuns and women, so naturally they don’t get involved in too many businesses. At most, they pick some profitable ones to start with. In Shanxi, where coal mines have not yet been used, the most lucrative ones are salt and tea sales. .

In the north of Datong Prefecture, there is a horse market with the Mongolian tribes in the grassland. Shanxi merchants exchanged salt, tea, iron, etc. for the fur, gold and silver of the Mongolians to make huge profits.

As the largest sect in Shanxi, and located on Mount Heng next to Datong Mansion, how could the Mount Heng sect not be the umbrella and the boss behind the salt merchants in Shanxi.

Shanxi does not produce salt, and the salt tea needed can only be shipped from the south of the Yangtze River, so the Xu family and the Liang family are the two white gloves and screws under the Hengshan School industrial chain.

Zheng Gui's thinking was not bad, Ding Xian and Ding Jing saw that he had spoken halfway and understood that the junior brother knew.

The two nuns didn't hide it, looked at each other with a smile, and said calmly: "Just as my junior brother thought, the Tianhe Gang couldn't fight against Tian Guochou and others. They hid in the lower reaches of the Yellow River and west of Jiangsu and Zhejiang when they were afraid of Shaolin Temple. If you dare to provoke our Hengshan faction, I don't think they can be allowed to bully the Xu and Liang families, so I sent you, Senior Sister Dingyi, to find Huang Boliu."

Dingjing explained: "The young masters and family members of the two families are all in custody at the Taihu sub-rudder of the Tianhe Gang. Dingyi should go to get it back, but the tea and sea salt on the boat were sold by the two gangs, which is irreparable. gone."

Zheng Gui nodded, and said: "If people can be saved, it will hurt people's hearts. Money can be earned again, but I'm afraid that Senior Sister Dingyi will suffer from Tianhe's help."

Dingxian let out a hey, and Dingjing said: "Although the Tianhe Gang has a large number of people, they dare not besiege our Hengshan faction. Among the tens of thousands of gang members, only Huang Boliu is considered a master, but he may not be Dingyi's opponent. You Dingyi Before the senior sister left, the sect leader asked her to hold back her temper, so as not to let the old Huang gang leader fail to come down, and the two factions would sit down and have a deep hatred."

Zheng Gui smiled, and immediately asked: "What about the Haisha Gang? I heard that the Haisha Gang never hang out in the Central Plains, and we rarely interact. If we just suffer from being dumb like this, wouldn't it make Jiangnan Wulin look down on us if we don't ask for an explanation?" ?”

Ding Xian sighed softly: "Although Haisha Gang has many but not outstanding figures, it is far inferior to Tianhe Gang, this time they are also sharing some benefits with Tianhe Gang, so there is no need to go to war.

I thought about sending Yihe or Yiqing to take people to the west of Zhejiang for a while, and showing some real skills should be able to make the Haisha Gang retreat in spite of difficulties, and they will not provoke us anymore. "

"The head junior sister is merciful."

Dingjing proclaimed a Buddha's name, and said: "The main reason is that your senior sister Dingyi has a hot temper. She said that she wanted to go to Hangzhou for a visit after she settled with the Tianhe Gang. We were worried that she would hit too hard and suppress the Haisha Gang too much. It's time to hate Jiangnan martial arts, so I thought about it, after all, Yiqing and Yihe will not act recklessly."

Zheng Gui laughed when he heard the words, and said: "It's so sleepy that I met the pillow. Senior sister, senior sister, I came to you just to go down the mountain to practice. You see, I have achieved a little bit of martial arts, so I don't want to save some money." How can experience be a powerful weapon? Right?"

Dingjing smiled and said: "You want to seek the bad luck of the Haisha Gang? With your martial arts, you can go there, but the martial arts are turbulent and unpredictable, and people's hearts are unpredictable. You have no experience in the world, so you can't go alone. I think it's up to you Yiqing will go with you, and bring six lay disciples with him, so even if Haisha helps to make you feel disgusted, you won't be able to trap you, what do you think, sister-in-chief?"

Dingxian stopped the rosary in his hand, looked at Zheng Gui, and said: "That's good, it's time for Junior Brother to practice a little bit."

(End of this chapter)