In the Heavens

"Master, the Songshan School and the Hengshan School have sent top-secret urgent documents from the Five Sacred Mountains at the same time!"

Seeing Zhang Bufan rushing over, Li Mu also became interested. Five Sacred Mountains Express is the fastest way for all factions in the Five Sacred Mountains Alliance to communicate in an emergency.

Unless it is a matter of life and death, the word "Five Sacred Mountains" will not be attached. It has been almost twenty years since the last time I received this thing, and Li Mu was not the head of Huashan at that time.

Attaching the word "top secret" means that the secret letter was written by the head of the sect in coded language, and sealed and sealed.

Things that have been rarely seen for decades suddenly appear, and it is difficult not to attract attention. Now that the Wuyue Sword School is in full swing, the possibility of encountering foreign enemies is very small.

The two factions can make such a fuss, unless some great information is discovered.

The ordinary life is too long, and passion is also needed. Li Mu doesn't mind a little thrilling thing happening, as long as he can handle it.

Received the secret letter and opened it carefully. Looking at the content above, Li Mu just felt dumbfounded.

Without any nonsense, he casually threw the secret letter to Zhang Bufan. Without the slightest sense of secrecy, it was like throwing out a bunch of waste paper.

After a while, Zhang Bufan's face changed drastically and he said: "Master, Shaolin and Wudang are hiding really deep! If we hadn't cheated, they don't know how long they would have been hiding."

Hearing this answer, Li Mu rubbed his forehead. I have to admit that the Shaolin and Wudang sects know how to operate. With the name of Taishan Beidou, they have invisibly boosted their own strength in the eyes of the people in the arena.

"Senior Brother Zhang, it seems that you participated in the compilation of the list, right? Others don't know what's going on, but you still don't know.

Why did the Songshan sect only discover the four great monks of Shaolin Temple, but not the three great monks, or the five great monks?

Why did it appear in Huguang that there were three real people from Wudang sect's hermit practice instead of four or five?

Is such a coincidental number really a coincidence? What's more, they have been hiding for so many years, why are they discovered just now? "

A series of questions directly made Zhang Bufan unable to step down. Jianghu experience told him that once there are too many coincidences in anything, there must be something wrong.

After hesitating for a moment, Zhang Bufan struggled and said: "But the sect leader, everyone from Hengshan and Songshan sects saw it with their own eyes. Zuo Lengchan even went to investigate it himself. It can't be fake, right?"

Seeing is believing, hearing is believing. People in Jianghu are not fools, it is just a list, so it is naturally impossible for everyone to believe it.

Even the names of Shaolin and Wudang, in the eyes of people in the world, are born with strength bonuses, but they cannot be completely believed.

But once you meet a real person, it's different. People always have an inexplicable self-confidence, trusting their own eyes too much.

Glancing at the sky, Li Mu said disdainfully: "What you see may not be true, eyes can sometimes be deceiving.

There are not a few top masters hidden in the two veins of Buddhism and Taoism.

If we want, we can also spend a lot of money to invite a few people to pretend to be my Huashan sect's hidden masters and show up in front of outsiders.

We can all do it, and Shaolin and Wudang, which have a wider network of contacts, are naturally no problem.

The seemingly sudden change in the situation in the arena made both of them anxious. In order to frighten the martial arts, he actually played a bluff. "

In fact, deep down in his heart, Li Mu was also very surprised.

The Hengshan School is much farther away from Mount Hua than the Songshan School, but the urgent mail arrived at the same time, which means that the Hengshan School was discovered earlier.

Li Mu never dreamed that Chongxu's big-eyed guy would take the lead in playing "cheat".

But thinking about Dongfang Bubai, Li Mu understood what the Wudang faction did.

With a big boss of the magic way as a neighbor, how can you deter the enemy if you don't pretend to be stronger?

After all, as a master of martial arts, the Wudang faction also wants to save face. It can't go around like the Hengshan faction preaching that the five mountains are of the same spirit, and talk about the Huashan faction's tiger-skinned fox pretending to be a tiger.

It's just that once the bluff was opened, the Shaolin and Wudang factions stole the show, and the major alliances at the bottom of the ranking were tragic.

Overnight, the Alliance of Nine Factions, the Alliance of Seven Gangs, the Alliance of the North, the Alliance of the South, and the Alliance of Martial Arts Family all fell from the top power and directly became the "lower five alliances".

In this regard, Li Mu is also helpless. Great sects like Shaolin and Wudang fabricate a few top masters out of thin air, and everyone in the world can accept it.

There are no top factions in the following major alliances, and it is the result of overwhelming luck that a top leader can be born in an ordinary first-class force.

Arrange a few more to come out, people in the world will not believe it?

For the credibility of the list, Li Mu can't play too much, otherwise Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng's account will be abolished.

Forced to accept Shaolin and Wudang's "cheat" thing, Zhang Bufan's three views were severely impacted, and the image of Taishan Beidou in his heart from the two factions collapsed directly.

"Master, do you want to tell the other four factions this news?"

Telling the other four factions is equivalent to telling the entire martial arts world. Once a group of people know about a secret, it is no longer a secret.

Li Mu shook his head: "No, it's good to let them be stimulated a little, so that they don't think about studying hard all day long, and they will be full of random thoughts."

It is also Li Mu's attempt to forge a rotten street of top masters and create a false golden age.

The purpose is to "shake the heart of the sky with the hearts of the people" to see if it can stimulate the recovery of the world. Even if it doesn't reach its heyday, as long as there is a short wave of aura, it's worth it.

If he was in a world full of aura, he would have completed his innate path long ago, and he might already be a martial artist, so why bother holding back like he is now.

After a pause, Li Mu suddenly realized that this kind of play was a bit too much, so in order not to frighten the children, he continued to add: "Reply to the four factions and tell them not to worry!"

A reassurance is enough, and the rest can be discussed at the next Five Sacred Mountains Alliance.

This time is not far away, when the head of Li Da has a son, the four factions will definitely rush over to congratulate him.

If Li Mu didn't want to make a fuss, all the big forces in the world would come to congratulate him.

In a sense, the same is true for not tossing. Not sending invitations is just because people are embarrassed to come to the door, but gifts will definitely come.

This is the frontier of the martial arts myth.

Li Mu's current situation is much better than old man Zhang's. One is to start a business from scratch, and the other is to pick up a ready-made Five Sacred Alliance.

The great powers with far-reaching inheritance know that there is a kind of person in the world whose destiny belongs to, no matter how many dangers he encounters, he can turn danger into good luck, and he should not be an enemy head-on.

The debut is the pinnacle, and then it has been standing on the top of the martial arts, and after two plops, it becomes a congenital master. No matter how you look at it, it is the standard configuration of the protagonist, and it is also the kind of luck that is particularly strong.

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The bragging mode does not affect the update of the list. Bai Xiaosheng, who has been hidden for a long time, has come out again to make troubles.

It's just that this wave is different from the previous two. The list did not appear in Kaifeng, but emerged from Xiangyang.

"Wealth List", just by looking at the title, you can tell: this is a special show for the rich, and it has nothing to do with 99.99%... of the people in the arena.

It's just surprising that among the top ten on the list, apart from aristocratic families and temples, the clan aristocrats who are always considered to be the richest in the world, the highest-ranked Shu Palace also fell to thirteenth place.

As for the emperor who is rich all over the world, he falls directly to the bottom of the list. There is no way to have a total of twenty places. In terms of wealth alone, the emperor is indeed inferior to these guys in front of him.

In the final analysis, the Ming Dynasty was too poor. A poor emperor in the imperial court would naturally not be able to get rich. If it weren't for the Twelve Supervisors of the inner government who had the ability to generate blood by themselves, the emperor would have to go bankrupt by relying on tax revenue alone.

It's okay for a powerful emperor like Zhengde, but the civil servants are still afraid to touch the emperor's pocketbook. It would be a tragedy if the emperor was replaced by a weaker emperor, please pay internal money every now and then.

I have to admit that Jianghu Bai Xiaosheng is very powerful, directly exposing the emperor's financial income.

Taxes and tributes included in domestic funds add up to hundreds of thousands of taels. It is a huge sum of money for individuals, and it is a huge sum of money for the emperor to maintain daily expenses.

Although the twelve eunuchs of the inner government generated a lot of income, there were tens of thousands of eunuchs and more than 100,000 craftsmen to support, and even if there were surplus profits, they were divided among the eunuchs.

No wonder Zhengde wants to attack Buddhism and seize food from the tiger's mouth to build Huangzhuang. If there were no newly added millions of acres of Huangzhuang, the emperor might not even be on the rich list.

Compared with the previous lists, this wave of rich list has caused an uproar as soon as it appeared.

The top of the list is naturally Yan Shenggong, the sum of wealth? ? ?

Reason for listing: The largest landlord in the world.

The lands spread all over the two capitals and thirteen provinces. Counting the lands that accept external affiliation and concealment, one tenth of the lands in Shandong have the surname Kong.

It has five saltworks, 50,000 mu of tea gardens, dozens of silk and satin villages, more than 10,000 real estate shops under its name, and countless ancient characters and paintings...

Evaluation: The largest family in the world, the pinnacle of wealth in the world.

Second, Songshan Shaolin Temple (total wealth???)

Reasons for the list: The largest landlord in Henan, the Jianghu sect with the most industries, the sect with the highest protection fee income, and the temple with the most incense. There are too many trumpets in the branch to list them in detail.

Evaluation: The top of the monk, proud of the world.

Third, Jiangsu Yuan’s family (total wealth???)

Reason for listing: The behind-the-scenes owner of the third of the top ten salt merchants in the world, sitting in half of Yuan Bancheng in Suzhou.

Comments: He has the skills to make money, which is enough to make Tao Zhugong ashamed.

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There is nothing to dispute about the top spot, the wealth of Yan Shenggong is known all over the world.

Although some people would shock the Three Views by listing them all, it is still very simple for the big forces to find out the ownership of these industries.

But the latter are difficult to define. After all, business is not a field, and the value can be clearly defined at a glance.

Everyone knows that the salt merchant is rich, but how rich he is is still unknown.

For those who play with silk, operate tea houses, and bank accounts, it is even more difficult to define profits. There is no detailed data on the list, it is just an ambiguous speculation.

The meaning of arching fire is too obvious, for example, Shaolin Temple is not convinced. Although it is true that the family property has a little more, but the family also has a lot of small mouths!

A lot of properties are under the name of the disciples, and the temple only collected a little money, but did not take all the proceeds.

In contrast, aristocratic families are really rich. There are only a few core disciples, and the per capita wealth is absolutely the best in the world.

It's just that this is meaningless, although there is a mention on the list: there is no specific list of the industries under the name.

Even Fangzheng himself may not be able to figure out for a while, which properties are listed in his own name, and which properties are directly held by the temple.

It is a tradition to hate the rich, especially those who are rich and unkind, and everyone in the world hates them.

As soon as the list came out, the listees felt like they were sitting on pins and needles, as if the sky had fallen.

Especially Yan Shenggong, who was at the top of the list, was said to be so angry that he vomited blood and died on the spot. The Kong family went to the court on the spot to arrest Bai Xiaosheng, who slandered his family's reputation.

Before their memorials were sent out, the cabinet issued a warrant for the arrest of "Bai Xiaosheng" as quickly as possible, and martial arts forces such as the aristocratic family, Buddhist sect, and Shaolin also mobilized.

In the final analysis, it was because "Bai Xiaosheng" said before leaving that the list had not been completed, and 80 people had to be added to make up the 100-member group.

For the court officials, this is very fatal. "Three years to clear the magistrate, one hundred thousand snowflake silver."

The bureaucracy of Ming Dynasty has long since collapsed. Although all the high officials in the court seem to be clean and honest, there are really few clean behind them.

Especially those who have been officials for generations are even more frightened. In case someone gets on the list, if someone writes a sentence of income from corruption in the reason for being on the list, wouldn't it be infamous for a long time?

You must know that there are still 80 places in the future. Maybe those with a net worth of more than one million taels will have a chance to be on the list. With a little effort from the official family, the accumulation of several generations will add up.