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Chapter 425: 0347: Who Holds the Knife? The Coffin Comes to the Door (Added Chapter for 29 monthly tickets)

The name of the person who wrote the letter is Zhu Xiawu.

At first glance, this name gives one the impression of generosity and straightforward valor.

Any man with such a name, even if not a first-rate hero in the Martial World, must at least be a man of courage.

And indeed, the man bearing this name turned out to be someone who engaged in honorable pursuits, apparently possessing both a gallant spirit and a sense of justice.

Anyone who knew him would invariably raise a thumb and say, ”Divine Constable Zhu.”

This was Zhu Xiawu, one of the Divine Constables from Song Kingdom’s Six Gates.

However, the moment Jiang Dali saw this name, his mind was already flashing with the additional information he had learned about this man in his previous life.

Zhu Xiawu, nicknamed ”Iron Hand, Iron Face, Iron Clothes, Iron Net,” outwardly serves as a Divine Constable of the Six Gates, a valiant and upfront champion of justice, yet in reality, he is also the great Alliance Hierarch ”Zhu the Great King” of the ”Yangtze Three Gorges Twelve Linked Piers Waterway.” He is cunning, despicable, and scheming.

This man colluded with Qin Gui and the Jin people to frame Yue Fei, successfully ambushed and killed the Yan Kuangtu at the Yangtze Waterway Headquarters, and later used despicable means to assassinate Li Chenzhou. It could be said that he would resort to any lengths to achieve his goals.

Initially, no one knew that a Divine Constable from the Six Gates could be such a scheming and ambitious Zhu the Great King.

If Jiang Dali did not have the memories and experiences from his previous life, he would never have known the astonishing identity hidden beneath the surface of this man.

At this time, the letter from Zhu Xiawu was also crafted with excellent disguise.

The letter simply mentioned the taboos and hidden threats possessed by Hui Prefecture within the Song State.

It intimated that if Jiang Dali were willing to collaborate with the Song Kingdom’s Six Gates backing Zhu Xiawu, then some of the previous bans could be lifted through the Six Gates’ petitions to the Emperor of Song.

In exchange, all Jiang Dali needed to do was hand over fifty percent of Black Wind Village’s yearly resources and wealth in Hui Prefecture, and not only would the Song Dynasty Court abstain from pursuing Black Wind Village, it would also help eliminate the Power Gang and eradicate Li Chenzhou.

On the surface, the contents of this letter seemingly offered significant advantages and respect to Jiang Dali.

If Black Wind Village could eliminate the Power Gang and seize their territory and wealth, then the benefit of giving fifty percent of resources to the Song State in the initial stage would mean nothing more than an early investment.

But Jiang Dali, who knew the ambitions and intentions of Zhu Xiawu all too well, could see through the facade to the man’s stratagem of using one to oust another.

”This is interesting... Zhu Xiawu probably knows about the forbidden matters and hidden threats of Hui Prefecture. He cleverly uses his identity as a Divine Constable from the Six Gates to contact me, letting me understand the stakes so that I cooperate with him to eliminate the Power Gang, only to dispose of me after use.

If so, the territories and influence of Black Wind Village and Power Gang throughout nearly half of the Song Country’s Green Forest Force would fall into his hands, Zhu Xiawu.

With such a massive force, he could completely overthrow the Song State’s regime and crown himself Emperor.”

A cold smile curled around Jiang Dali’s lips.

According to Zhu Xiawu, the reason why Hui Prefecture’s Green Forest Force couldn’t develop was because the Holy Dynasty Six Gates had once dispatched a ruthless person named Wang Man to several vassal states to eliminate bandits as a menace.

After arriving in Song Country, Wang Man first targeted the most rampant banditry in Hui Prefecture, utterly eradicating Lianyun Thirteen Villages, and declared that no banditry in Hui Prefecture should reign unchecked, otherwise, they would be annihilated.

Thus, over sixty years later, with Wang Man long buried, the Green Forest of Hui State had always been low-key, without any significant powers emerging. Each Mountain Village was relatively gentle in their methods, not daring to indiscriminately slaughter innocents, until Jiang Dali suddenly led Black Wind Village to prominence.

Black Wind Village’s rise was as swift as thunder and lightning, sweeping through Hui Prefecture in a mere three months, taking over all of its Green Forest territories.

Now that the Song State’s court was quite corrupt, no longer as it had been sixty years prior, and with none from the Holy Dynasty Six Gates intervening, the stern warnings once issued by Wang Man were left unfulfilled by the Six Gates.

This also led to neighboring Qianluo in possession of Qianluo Mountain City and the adjacent Zhou Green Forest’s Power Gang growing restless, wanting a share of Hui Prefecture.

Zhu Xiawu, the undercover Great Alliance Hierarch of the ”Yangtze Three Gorges Twelve Linked Piers Waterway,” of course, was not to be left behind.

But he was always deeply strategic in his approach.

This time, by writing as a Divine Constable from the Six Gates, he must have already well-established relations within the Six Gates.

He informed Jiang Dali about the Six Gates’ suppressive attitude toward the Green Forest of Hui Prefecture, adding pressure and then laid out the benefits of cooperation before his eyes, tempting Jiang Dali to join him as a blade against the Power Gang.

If Jiang Dali were unaware of his true identity and motives, such prospects and pressures would inevitably lead to agreement.

But now...

Jiang Dali gauged the situation, ”If I agree to Zhu Xiawu’s cooperation request, he would be able to help me temporarily alleviate the pressure from the Song State Government and Six Gates, earning Black Wind Village more opportunities to grow.

Moreover, I indeed could gain another ally. Zhu Xiawu intends to use me, but little does he know that I know even more about him.

He eyes my Black Wind Village and Power Gang, while I, too, can aim for his Yangtze Three Gorges Twelve Linked Piers Waterway and even Qianluo Mountain City...”

With these thoughts in mind, a sharp glint flickered in Jiang Dali’s eyes, and a light smile played across his lips.

He knew all there was to know about Zhu Xiawu.