Under One Person: One Person Goes

Chapter 292: Casting stones to ask for directions
Time will not be different because of this not-so-small event that happened in the extraordinary circle.

Just as Wang Yi revealed the truth, the border outside the Great Wall would still be lost. He hoped to expose the evidence of the Japanese invaders' human experiments and put pressure on them in the international community, but it was ridiculous that the Kuomintang government worked together to cover up the case.

This year, Liu Wei, the young master of Jianghu Xiaozhan, chose to separate from his father for unknown reasons. He brought his subordinates who had been with him all these years and whose character had been tested, and joined Wang Yi's Sicheng Freight Company. At this point, Wang Yi's freight company, which had been established for almost nine years, had the prototype of the future Nadoutong Company.

But this is not enough, because if it is the all-connected company of the future, it must have all-connected channels and information.

If you are not well-informed, how can you be said to be well-informed?
The addition of Liu Wei, the young owner of the Jianghu inn, and his group of capable men filled this vacancy and began to build a framework in this regard.

The first thing Liu Wei did after joining Wang Yi's company in March was to hand Wang Yi over to James Gates as the second-in-command of the company and ask him to publish the evidence of the Japanese invaders' human experiments in newspapers in Shanghai through the mainland daily newspaper. Liu Wei would check and arrange reliable personnel to deliver copies to various factions in the circle of strange people in the interior.

This move is like throwing a stone to test the water.

The circle of extraordinary people is neither big nor small. Except for the individual people, each family and sect basically keeps to themselves in their own little piece of land and seldom comes out in these chaotic times.

I remember that when the famous Lu family’s old master Lu celebrated his 80th birthday, not all the families and factions were present.

The advantage of doing this is that even in troubled times, as long as you don't go out rashly, you will rarely get into trouble. But at the same time, information will be very isolated, and you will basically be in the dark about some of the things that are happening.

It's just like Jianghu Xiaozhan. Although this newspaper was only published in Shanghai for less than a day before it was forcefully suppressed and bought out by the Nationalist government, the fact that not even a scrap of news was received shows where the problem lies.

So when the people Liu Wei sent out delivered these newspapers that could not be circulated on the market to Longhu Mountain, Sanyi Sect, Zhuge Three Lineages, Tang Sect, Wudang, Shangqing Maoshan, Zhongnan Quanzhen, Putuo Three Temples, Lingyin, and Shaolin, except for the three families except the Gao family, all the famous people in the world received this gift from Wang Yi.

Each school and faction also has different performances.

Let’s first talk about the Langya Zhuge lineage that followed Wang Yi out of seclusion to cause trouble this time. In terms of the source, the Langya Zhuge lineage is the main lineage, and the Shuzhong Zhuge and Jiangsu and Zhejiang Zhuge are both branches.

When the old patriarch of the Zhuge lineage of Langya saw the shocking scene in the newspaper, he also called the three brothers Zhuge Shanbo, Shanshu and Shanji who had come out of seclusion with Wang Yi at that time.

"I ask you three brothers, is what is said here true?"

"In reply to Grandpa, we three brothers have witnessed with our own eyes that what the Japanese invaders did to the people outside the Great Wall was even worse than before! We only regret that we are outnumbered and the government is weak and incompetent. It is clear that Mr. Wang wanted the world to know about the tragic situation outside the Great Wall, but what he got was the government covering it up! These guys who are just sitting there doing nothing deserve to be killed!"

When the three brothers heard about what happened outside the Great Wall, they were furious and cursed loudly. With so many years of experience in the underworld, they could not understand why Wang Yi delivered newspapers to them. It was because they were blocked by the National Government from making the matter public.

The head of the Zhuge family, who was sitting on the throne, had a clear mind. The circle of aliens was just feudal and backward, but it didn't mean that the heads of the family were stupid. They just chose their own stance.

They have their own stance and their own wisdom. For schools like these that have been passed down for thousands of years, like aristocratic families, the best wisdom is not to put all their eggs in one basket.

"Interesting, is this a test? Try to see how each family reacts? This young man seems to be a restless person. His actions have made his position clear. But in this world, can a person like our ancestor Wu Hou really appear? But even a person like our ancestor lost to fate in the end. What about us? Alas, ancestor Wu Hou, I hope you can protect our three clans and let them survive in this chaotic world."

The old patriarch thought about it in his mind, but kept a calm face until the three brothers had vented their hatred for the Japanese invaders and the incompetence of the National Government, then he spoke.

"Are you satisfied with the scolding? If you are satisfied, then the three of you brothers should go to Shuzhong and Jiangsu and Zhejiang and invite the heads of the other two branches to come over."

"what?"

"These are troubled times. War is about to break out. Whether the three Zhuge clans can survive in this world, we must discuss it together. Go ahead, stop complaining here."

"Yes, Grandpa."

The Zhuge family planned before taking action. After all, the family was large and powerful. No matter how much friction there was between the three clans, they were all family. Now foreign races were knocking at the gate and the national government was incompetent. For the Zhuge family, which had been passed down for thousands of years, it was like the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty when Zhuge Wuhou was alive and after his death, when the Three Kingdoms were in power, the Three Clans returned to the Jin Dynasty, and the Five Barbarians invaded China again.

It happened once a thousand years ago, and it happened again a thousand years later? His Zhuge family couldn't afford it, and didn't want to suffer such an injustice.

Sects like the Tang Sect and the Sanyi Sect, which are rooted in local areas, are another option.

In the Tang Clan, the Clan leader Tang Bingwen and the eldest master Tang Jiaren who had returned from outside the Great Wall walked in the dark, observing the ten disciples who had been led out of the Great Wall by the eldest master and returned safely. Each of them had changed, but Clan leader Tang could not tell what the changes were.

They are in the business of killing people, and the only decisions in this business are whether to accept the deal or not and who the target is.

But now, the young disciples can still understand it, but even the older ones like Gao Yingcai and Li Ding have changed. They seem to be sharpening their swords, using their bodies as swords, and when they are unsheathed, they will be stained with blood. But whose blood is it? Sect Leader Tang looked at the newspaper that was delivered to them.

"Brother, we are losing money on this business. If these ten disciples take over the business of the Four Cities Company in the future, won't they get a very low price? Or even have to pay for it?"

The head of the Tang Sect said so, but he was also very satisfied with the transformation of the ten disciples and their training to use their bodies as swords.

As for killing people, haha, just look at what these Japanese invaders did in this newspaper in my hand. Their lives are cheap! They are not worth the big money Wang Yi spent to buy their lives.

"That's not the case. You've also seen the young man I brought back named Yan Shuangying. What do you think?"

"He has a deep blood feud but can see his true nature. Although he is a little extreme, he is indeed a good candidate to learn the methods of the Tang Sect. Given time, he can become a great man. Maybe he can even understand the Danxi. But why did this good thing fall to others? Ghost Hand King took Wang Yi, and Wang Yi took Yan Shuangying. Brother, it's too late."

Speaking of Yan Shuangying, the young man who followed the eldest master back to Tang Sect and was nominally Wang Yi's first disciple, the face of the head of Tang Sect was full of regret.

"Even if I want to recruit him, he may not necessarily want to join our Tang Sect. The hatred this child has experienced is not something that our Tang Sect may be able to satisfy. So let's leave it at that. Except for not teaching Dan Shi, we have done everything we should do. As for whether this deal is profitable or not, it's hard to say. Wang Yi has promised us that this is a long-term deal. The results may not be seen in the short term, but we will see them when I am 84 years old."

"Wait until you are eighty-four? This Wang Yi is really generous."

"Why, do you think I won't live to that age?"

"No, I just feel that he is so confident, it feels like he knows what changes will happen in Shu when you are eighty-four."

As the two brothers were talking, they reached the top of the mountain. Looking from the top of Tangmen Mountain, they could see the mountains shrouded in clouds and mist. With their eyesight, they could also see the herbalists carrying baskets on their backs, leaning against the cliffs on some rugged mountain paths.

“The scenery here is unique.”

"No matter how beautiful the scenery is, if no one comes to see it, it will just be a barren mountain and wilderness, not to mention these things." The master pointed to a place in the distance where he could vaguely see human figures walking back and forth in the fields. A look of contempt appeared on the master's face.

Tang Bingwen could understand his senior brother's emotions. He couldn't stand it either, but some things were just like that and he had to endure it no matter how much he couldn't stand it.

"The road to Shu is difficult, as difficult as climbing to heaven. It is so difficult for us to leave Sichuan. We cannot leave and are trapped here. We can only listen to the orders of this general and that general to grow opium. If we don't grow it, we will die."

Patriarch Tang was sighing, but he knew that in the late years of the Xuantong reign of the Qing Dynasty, there was actually a plan to build a railway out of Sichuan. Everyone knew that if you want to get rich, you have to build roads first, but it requires money and people, and someone has to take the lead.

At the end of the Xuantong reign, the Qing imperial cabinet promulgated the policy of "nationalization of railway trunk lines", nationalized the Guangdong-Hankou Railway and the Sichuan-Hankou Railway, which had been run by private enterprises, and signed the "Hu-Guang Railway Loan Contract" with the banking groups of Britain, France, Germany and the United States.

This is equivalent to selling the construction rights of these two nationalized railways to the great powers and letting them set the prices.

This series of moves indirectly ignited the fuse for the demise of the Qing Dynasty, but the Qing Dynasty did fall, and it has been 22 years since the founding of the Republic of China.

The Sichuan-Hankou Railway, which was interrupted by the war, has not yet officially started construction. Every time it is said that it is on the agenda, and every year this reason is used to make the people of Sichuan and Shu pay railway taxes, and even the Tang Clan is not spared.

Do you really think that the line "The monkey wants to cross the river but still has trouble climbing up" was written in vain? The Tang clan is extremely skilled in lightness skills and can even take a train out of Sichuan. Who the hell wants to run like crazy?

The Tang Clan is eager to pay this money, but after you pay, you have to do the work!
But the head of the Tang family and the master did not know that until the end of the Republic of China, the Sichuan-Hankou Railway was still just a dotted line on the map, and not a single sleeper had been laid, and it continued like this until the new home was built.

It was put on the agenda in the first year after the establishment of the new home and completed two years later. This Sichuan-Han Railway, which was talked about by the older generation but had never been seen since Tang Menchang and his youth, was finally put in place and started running.

In the original timeline, the master did not see it because he died for his country in 40 years, but the head of the Tang clan must have seen it. Perhaps it was related to what he said when dealing with Xu Xin and Dong Chang, the disciples who swore brotherhood with Wu Gensheng. He vaguely stood on the same position as Wang Yi, but was not proactive enough, or he was too old, and the Tang clan suffered heavy losses in the War of Resistance.

Many things were not implemented during his tenure as the head of the sect, so naturally the subsequent heads of the sect were unable to continue them.

So when he looked at the people harvesting poppies in the warlords' fields in the distance, his senior brother said that Wang Yi promised to show him the changes in Shu on the master's 84th birthday.

What changes can there be in Shu? People who practice cultivation often say that a sudden inspiration brings blessings to the mind.

At this moment, Sect Master Tang suddenly had an idea and thought of the regrets that the previous Sect Master had felt before him and his late master.

As if by some strange coincidence, the head of the Tang Clan also spoke.

"Brother, let the kid named Yan Shuangying go with Xu Xin and Zhang Wang. I will ask Uncle Ying to teach these good kids. Also, go talk to the guy who delivered the newspaper and ask him to tell Wang that the Tang Sect can help him three times without violating the Tang Sect's principles."

"Awen, do you believe Wang Yi's words like I do?"

"It's not a matter of whether I believe it or not. I just want to see your expression on your eighty-fourth birthday, brother."

"Haha, Awen, Awen, I still say that choosing you as the head of the sect was the best thing I have ever done in my life."

Two flowers bloom, one branch each.

People like Zhuge Sanmai and Tang Clan, who had followed Wang Yi out of the Great Wall and witnessed the numerous crimes committed by the Japanese invaders against the people outside the Great Wall, either planned before taking action or showed their attitude.

And the Sanyi Gate in Fujian, which has a deep connection with Wang Yi, is even more direct.

Led by Shuiyun, Changqing, and Zhuge Yunduan, along with 15 other Trinity disciples, they expressed their intention to Zuo Ruotong, Si Chong, Wu Chengzhen, their masters, uncles, and brothers, and expressed their desire to return to the outside of the Great Wall and do what a Trinity disciple should do.

Regarding the change of mentality of these eighteen disciples, especially Shuiyun, Changqing and Zhuge, Zuo Rutong no longer maintained his youthful appearance by reversing his physique since his dream of ascending to heaven after the third level was shattered, sitting on the throne.

In this way, the hidden injuries he suffered when he was young sometimes tortured him, but also made him relax a lot. Although he looked old and frail, he had a bit of indifference that only a transcendent man could have.

After listening to his disciples express their feelings, he just sighed lightly.

"I've often heard a saying lately: If it rains, let it rain; if it wants to marry, let it go. Although I'm very reluctant to let you go, since you've made your decision, I won't say anything more. Just remember that Trinity is your second home. Come back when you can't stand it anymore. Now, go meet your parents."

"Thank you for your permission, Master!"

After bowing to Zuo Rutong, Shuiyun and the others went back to their rooms to pack their luggage and prepare to go home to visit their parents. As for whether they would choose to stay with their parents or go north to fight against the Japanese, it was entirely voluntary.

After watching Shuiyun and the others leave, Si Chong looked at Zuo Rutong, who was now looking more and more like a kind old man, and then he spoke.

"Brother, you often say that people who practice cultivation value life the most. Why didn't you want to say this to them just now?"

"I can't say it, Junior Brother."

As he spoke, Zuo Rutong pulled out the newspaper that Wang Yi had asked Liu Wei to send from his sleeve and handed it to Si Chong.

"Every citizen has a share of responsibility for the rise and fall of a country. Can the people of Xuanmen be exempt from this? Who can be so greedy for life in the face of such things? Speaking of which, I have received all of them, and I think the Tianshi Mansion will have received no less. Junior brother, how is the Tianshi Mansion doing in the past few years that I have been in seclusion?"

When asked this by his senior brother, Xi Chong was speechless and didn't know how to answer. How about Tianshi Mansion?

Even Zhang Zhiwei, the future successor of the Heavenly Master, was expelled by the current Heavenly Master. The Heavenly Master then went into seclusion and handed over all affairs of the Heavenly Master's Mansion to several junior fellow disciples who would work with the two disciples named Zhang and Zhang the fake one to run the Tianshi Mansion.

In this case, do we still need to ask about the current situation of Tianshi Mansion?
In the past few years, represented by these two disciples, the Tianshi Mansion, which leads the Zhengyi lineage, has not caused much noise, but the sects and families that are close to it all feel that it is quite serious.

That is to say, Zuo Rutong had been in seclusion for those few years because he realized that there was something wrong with the third level of reverse life, and he did not dare to disturb Zuo Rutong, which is why Zuo Rutong is now clueless.

Just like now, Zhang Enpu, the direct descendant of Zhang Daoling, the Heavenly Master, and Zhang Huaiyi, who was given the surname Zhang by the Heavenly Master but used the surname Zhang, split into two factions and quarreled fiercely in front of the hall enshrining Zhang Daoling, the ancestor, because of this newspaper.

　This chapter will be released on schedule. I have a 6:30 flight. After I land in Inner Mongolia and pack up, I will update the second chapter if I have nothing else to do.

　　
　
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