Chapter 211: Time and Fate

Qi Xuansu was quite satisfied with this result.

Perhaps someone will ask, aren't you afraid that Master Jin Gong will go back on his word?

It is undeniable that this possibility does exist, but it also comes at a price.

The stability of an organization must have its own rules. There is a logic behind Wu Guangbi's resignation this time. The fundamental reason is that he suffered two consecutive defeats, and someone must be held responsible for this.

In the first defeat, Wu Guangbi's heart and liver were dug out, and this was just his personal failure. If we magnify it to the entire "Heavenly Court", the slave trade was completely wiped out, and it was greatly implicated. Various businesses in the northwest area of ​​Lion City were seriously affected, and the Daofu side adopted a stranglehold tactic. The fact that Master Deng Yu went to ask Chen Jiangou for help was just a microcosm of the overall situation.

The second defeat, that is, this time, was not just as simple as Li Tianqing and Li Tianzhen being arrested. Wu Guangbi seemed to have escaped and saved himself, but the "Heavenly Court" could not escape. First, he reported to the government, killing one thousand enemies and losing eight hundred of his own. This did not count the people of the Daofu who were potentially offended. There would be "good days" in the future. After Qi Xuansu arrived in Nanyang, he launched a revenge campaign. Various investigations and closures of "Tian Ting" industries seriously affected the business of "Tian Ting".

There was already great dissatisfaction within "Tian Ting", so this time, Master Jin Gong dismissed Wu Guangbi in accordance with the trend and in line with the voices within "Tian Ting", and there was no problem.

Master Jin Gong could protect Wu Guangbi and give him another chance. Or he could not protect him, because if something went wrong, someone had to be responsible.

Now, in order to make peace with Qi Xuansu, Master Jin Gong chose not to protect him.

In this case, the people of Wu Guangbi's faction could not have too much resentment. After all, it was Wu Guangbi who messed up, and no one could say that Master Jin Gong suppressed them for no reason, and they had to accept the defeat.

It was natural for Liu Gui to take the throne.

If Liu Gui did not make any mistakes, it was not impossible for Master Jin Gong to force Wu Guangbi to take the position. There was nothing that could not be done, but it was against the trend. Liu Gui's people would definitely not accept it and have great resentment. This would have some impact and pay some price, and these prices would eventually be borne by the "Heavenly Court".

Master Jin Gong had to consider these from the standpoint of the "Heavenly Court".

If Master Jin Gong wanted to make a loss with Qi Xuansu even if it hurt others and himself, then Qi Xuansu would have nothing to say.

This is the guarantee.

After a peaceful and friendly exchange, Qi Xuansu and Master Jin Gong reached a reconciliation.

Qi Xuansu stood up and took the initiative to extend his hand this time: "I will wait for good news."

Master Jin Gong shook hands with Qi Xuansu: "Master Qi, we will meet again in the future."

Qi Xuansu smiled and sent Master Jin Gong out, and the people waiting outside the gate also breathed a sigh of relief, and their expressions relaxed.

Qi Xuansu sent Master Jin Gong to the gate of the courtyard. Looking at Master Jin Gong's back as he left, the smile on his face gradually disappeared and he regained his calm.

People have a consistent spirit, which can be divided into three stages. The low level is called resentment, the middle level is called courage, and the high level is called heroism, or spirit.

Qi Xuansu is not short of resentment, but he has suppressed it. He is not short of courage either. He can get to where he is today because of courage, but he lacks a bit of heroism.

After all, the world is different.

It is okay during the change of dynasties and the era of great changes, but once it solidifies, it is difficult to have heroism, and it is not allowed to have heroism.

There is neither deep suffering nor soaring spirit.

Resistance and passion come with the times and go with the times.

The tide rises and falls.

In the pioneering period, everyone felt hopeful when the pie could be made bigger. The phrase "Thirty years in the east, thirty years in the west" resonated with many people.

Now the development has reached a bottleneck, and the class tends to be solidified. Even if there are young people shouting "Don't bully the poor young people", it can't move people's hearts like before.

In the current cycle, there is no room for heroic spirit, only stability, order, and rigidity.

If Qi Xuansu is forced to learn from Xuansheng, he will end up drawing a tiger but drawing a dog instead.

Zhang Yuelu was ambitious, and then hit his head and broke his blood.

Qi Xuansu was not ambitious, but he was able to thrive.

Isn't this just an irony?

The times are different. When the time comes, the world will work together, and when the luck is gone, the hero will not be free.

After sending away Master Jin Gong, Qi Xuansu waited for Yao Yi.

The Yao family was still calm, unlike the Li family.

Yes, after all, they are their own people. The Yao family recognized that Qi Xuansu dared not really do anything to Pei Shenfu. As the saying goes, don't look at the monk's face, look at the Buddha's face. Qi Xuansu didn't look at the face of the Yao family, but also looked at the face of Donghua Zhenren.

Qi Xuansu didn't wait for Yao Yi, but waited for Liu Gui first.

Of course, Liu Gui did not come to see Qi Xuansu in person, but he sent a message through someone else to thank Master Qi in a tactful way.

Liu Gui did not say what he was thanking for and why, but everyone knew it.

Without Qi Xuansu, he could not overthrow Wu Guangbi.

This is the right bet.

Qi Xuansu wants to integrate Nanyang, not only at the level of the Daofu, but also at the level of the Jianghu. "Heavenly Court" is a topic that cannot be avoided. The Grandmaster Jin Gong is old and will eventually ascend to heaven. The next is the dispute between Wu Guangbi and Liu Gui. As the situation gradually becomes clear, Wu Guangbi chooses the Li family and Liu Gui chooses Qi Xuansu. They have already chosen their own team, and now Qi Xuansu has a small victory.

However, there are gains and losses. Qi Xuansu gained something from the "Heavenly Court", but lost something from the Qingping Society. The two major backers of the Qingping Society are the Yao family and the Zhou family. Qi Xuansu offended Pei Shenfu and Zhou Mengyao, and offended them to death. Although Qi Xuansu was from the Qingping Society, he almost blocked the way for the Qingping Society. It would be difficult to use the power of the Qingping Society in the future.

Zhou Mengyao almost hated Qi Xuansu to death.

Even if Zhou Mengyao joined the Taiping Dao, Qi Xuansu would not be surprised.

The Zhou family was originally from the Taiping Dao, so there was this foundation.

In the end, it would not be surprising to achieve mutual exchange of families. After all, you have me and I have you.

In this spare time, Qi Xuansu specifically studied Master Yan.

Over the years, the Zhang family has been declining, but after all, the Zhang family has a thousand-year heritage. Even if there is a lack of successors, there is still Zhang Jucheng in the Mesozoic era, and another Zhang Yuelu. Although it is not as good as the Taiping Dao Li family, it still has an orderly inheritance.

Compared with the Zhang family, the Yan family cannot even be described as a lack of successors, but rather a declining sun. Except for one Great Master Yan, there are almost no talented people in the second and third generations. How many people with the surname Yan are among the first level of Masters of All-viewing and Masters of Participation?

Now that Master Yan is alive, it is naturally okay. For Master Yan's sake, even the three masters will give way to him, but if Master Yan is gone, the situation will be hard to say. The Yan family can only fully rely on the Zhang family and completely become a vassal of the Zhang family, otherwise they will be marginalized and even in danger of falling out of the top circle of the Taoist sect.

Looking back to the past, when Master Yan was alive, as the only Heavenly Master of a different surname, he could intervene in the affairs of the Zhang family at will, and the descendants of the gods were still protected by Master Yan. Now the Yan family has to rely on the Zhang family for everything. It's fate. It's different now.

But Yan Dazhenren never married in her life and has no direct descendants. Yan Mingchen and Yan Yongzhen are all nephews, similar to the relationship between Zhang Yuelu and Tianshi. Therefore, Yan Dazhenren's concern for the Yan family is limited. It is the children and grandchildren who have their own blessings. Don't be a horse and a cow for your children and grandchildren, not to mention that they are not your own children and grandchildren.

Because they are not your own children and grandchildren, the conflict is relatively easy to resolve.

Qi Xuansu's difficulty is not here. The real problem is Yan Dazhenren's personality.

She is not weird, but too strong, even overbearing.

Qi Xuansu roughly read Yan Dazhenren's information and had to say that it was indeed a bit tricky.

Yan Dazhenren and Cihang Zhenren are completely two extremes.

Even without talking about the interests of the camp, Qi Xuansu was happy to see Cihang Zhenren become his master's wife. As for Yan Da Zhenren, it was really hard to say. If he wanted Yan Da Zhenren to be his master's wife, then to put it more exaggeratedly, he had to consider the feasibility of betraying his master.

Yan Da Zhenren's success today is not only due to the platform of Taoism, but also inseparable from his own ability. In terms of ability, Yan Da Zhenren has no problem. She was first in Wuzhou Daofu. Because of her outstanding ability, she was promoted to the youngest deputy master of the entire Wuzhou Daofu.

Later, she moved to many positions and did a good job.

But her personality was too strong. When she was a deputy, she had to suppress the main position. When she was the main position, she simply had the final say. She had to say everything by herself, and she could not tolerate other voices. She did her own way and acted arbitrarily.

Such a personality also led to the end of her marriage.

However, this person still has some integrity. When she was the deputy lord of the local prefecture, she encountered something she couldn't stand. She slammed the table with the real person in charge of the prefecture, and also turned the table over with the chief and second-in-command, without any mercy.

So the great master Yan liked Zhang Yuelu very much, probably because he felt that Zhang Yuelu was somewhat similar to himself when he was young.

There was only one thing that made her worse than Zhang Yuelu, that is, she liked to fight. She also worked in Lingnan prefecture at that time. It happened that a typhoon passed through the area. The real person in charge of the prefecture was in charge of the overall situation. As the chief host, she arranged a series of work to resist the typhoon. I don't know whether it was intentional or unintentional, she arranged the most difficult place for the second deputy lord of the prefecture who usually didn't get along with her.

Although the second deputy lord of the prefecture had tried his best, due to objective conditions, he still failed to complete the task on time. The second deputy lord of the prefecture took the initiative to admit his mistakes and made self-examination afterwards, but she still refused to give up and cursed the second deputy lord of the prefecture in front of the real person in charge of the prefecture and others. Not only did she name names, but she also used words like "waste" and "stuff", forcing the second deputy palace master to take action, but he was no match for her and was severely humiliated by her.

The second deputy palace master was also a well-known person. He was scolded and beaten, and he couldn't hold his face, so he took the initiative to resign and became an old Taoist priest.

You should know that Qi Xuansu and Li Changge have not torn their faces until now, and they still call each other "Dao Brother Tianyuan" and "Dao Brother Yongyan", which shows the character of Master Yan.

Later, Master Yan's rank became higher and higher, and her temper became worse and worse. She made many enemies, and others finally couldn't stand her temper. These people were already the top of the Taoist sect, but they were not afraid of her, so they simply sent her to Dongposhazhou.

In Qi Xuansu's imagination, if he failed to compete for the position and Li Changge didn't kill him, then his position would most likely be to guard Poshazhou, which shows how "good" this position is.

If it weren't for the lack of a female Pingzhang Dazhenren, based on her character and style, this position might not necessarily fall on her head.

It's not easy to deal with such a person.