Chapter 373 Duan Family Swordsmanship!

Duan Yanqing obtained permission from Xin Zhen and took Tan Qing with him.

Xin Zhen supervised the carpenters to quickly install the doors and windows, and also built and installed two sets of stoves. It was winter, and they could not do without stoves for heating.

Xin Chang was busy dealing with the recent account books. He hadn't kept an eye on them for nearly two months. God knew how much the rice shop owners had embezzled. He had to find these people and give them a good lesson.

Xin Zhen's mother was even busier. All the household items were lost, and it was not easy to buy them all. After two days of hard work, she had only purchased the big items. As for the small items, she had to buy them as she needed them.

Xin Zhen's mother spent money like water these days and was so angry that she cursed those evil thieves.

Xin Yu was also busy. This little girl from the south of the Yangtze River who grew up in Suzhou looked weak and fragile, but for some reason, she was very passionate about martial arts.

Ever since Xin Zhen started teaching his family martial arts, Xin Chang has focused most of his attention on the rice shop, and Xin Zhen's mother has focused on taking care of the family. On the contrary, Xin You has stopped doing needlework, which she used to like, and has devoted all her attention to martial arts.

While everyone at home was busy with their own things, Xin Yu practiced martial arts in the backyard. He did the same on the way to Juxianzhuang in Luoyang. He practiced internal skills whenever he had time, and practiced Tai Chi when he got off the car to rest. He was very diligent.

Perhaps because she was so diligent, or perhaps because she was young and could practice martial arts faster, her internal strength increased much faster than that of her parents. On the way back from Luoyang, Xin Zhen tested herself and found that she was able to practice the Bone Strengthening Chapter of the Book of Changes at the same time.

Xin Zhen had no reason to be too proud of his sister, so he taught her the Yi Jin Duan Gu chapter on the way. Xin Yu's skills began to improve by leaps and bounds, and progress could be seen every day.

This naturally made Xin Yu even more excited.

It's not that people can't endure hardship, but that they see no hope after enduring hardship. No matter how lazy a person is, once he does something, he will be able to see hope. Very few people are still lazy.

If a progress bar were given to everyone, I believe most people’s lives would not fail.

After four or five days of renovation, the house was finally ready for occupancy. Xin Zhen and his family moved back to the small building from the inn. That night, Xin Zhen invited Master Duan Yanqing and his apprentice to come to his house for dinner.

After dinner, Duan Yanqing sought out Xin Zhen to report on the progress in private.

"...We have already figured out the situation of the Qianye Gang. Tan Qing used ventriloquism to interrogate several members of the Qianye Gang at all levels, one of whom was an elder of the Qianye Gang. After comparing many sources, the situation should be relatively accurate.

Sir, let me first introduce you to the situation of the Chiba Gang.

The Chiba Gang was initially supported by the Beggars' Sect, so the structure of the gang is quite similar to that of the Beggars' Sect, with one leader, two elders who enforce the law and teach skills, and four permanent elders.

There are also six branch offices in Wu County, Changzhou County, Kunshan County, Changshu County, Wujiang County and Jiading County, and the entire gang has about a thousand people. "

At this point, Duan Yanqing and Xin Zhen said: "...In fact, the Gusu Murong clan is also like this. Although it is prefixed with Gusu, their influence actually covers most of the Jiangnan region.

The Qianye Gang is not that big, but it basically covers Pingjiang Prefecture. Of course, they only grabbed a small share. "

Xin Zhen naturally understood this. He had run many sects and naturally knew what was going on.

If the reader does not understand, you might as well think of it as companies in the market. It is basically difficult to truly monopolize the market. Everyone just needs to grab a small share, which is enough to support some people.

The Chiba Gang seized part of the water transportation business in Pingjiang Prefecture, which made their life very comfortable.

Xin Zhen nodded and said, "This gang doesn't have much influence, but it's not small either. How do you plan to take it?"

Duan Yanqing said: "We are short of manpower and cannot replace the Qianye Gang, but we can replace the Beggar Gang. The Beggar Gang has lost its influence on Pingjiang Prefecture. Now the Qianye Gang lacks experts, and they are already at a loss when facing the attack of the Murong family.

This old slave believes that we can negotiate with the Qianye Gang and replace the Beggars' Gang as their backer, which can make up for the reality that we are short of manpower.

This method can also be applied to the other dozen gangs, so that we can control more than a dozen gangs with only three people.

But there are also disadvantages. It is difficult for us to control these gangs. Even the middle and high-level members of these gangs have their own ideas. There are even various corruption and private work in private, and some people even secretly collude with outsiders. "

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Your idea is very good. Let's use this method to bring the Qianye Gang under our command. Let's do it step by step. The Qianye Gang has thousands of people. I believe there are some people who can be trained. If we promote and train these people, we can fully control the Qianye Gang.

The same goes for the other gangs. We don't need to rush. We can slowly digest them and gradually replace the top and middle-level leaders of these gangs with the people we have trained. In this way, we will be able to control these gangs in our own hands."

Duan Yanqing showed a ferocious smile and said, "Then I'll listen to you. This method is naturally the best, but it will take a long time. I'm afraid you will get impatient."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "I'm not in a hurry, but I'm afraid you'll be in a hurry."

Duan Yanqing chuckled a few times.

Xin Zhen looked at the sky and said with a smile, "I heard that the Duan family's swordsmanship is pretty good. Would you like to try it out for yourself?"

Duan Yanqing suddenly raised his head and looked at Xin Zhen, with a look of surprise on his face: "Sir, are you going to give me some advice?"

Xin Zhen nodded and said, "You are very serious about your work and have a good attitude. I am quite satisfied with you two, master and disciple. I won't teach you anything else for now, but I can give you some advice."

Xin Zhen looked at Tan Qing and asked, "Did Tan Qing learn your Duan family swordsmanship?"

Duan Yanqing shook his head and said, "I can't just pass on the Duan family's stuff to outsiders. Tan Qing learned what I learned outside."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "Tan Qing is not bad, he can be taught. You also need help. How can you fight Duan Zhengming alone? Moreover, one disciple is too few. You need to recruit more disciples. There is strength in numbers."

Duan Yanqing came to his senses and nodded, "Yes, Tan Qing, why don't you thank me, young master?"

Tan Qing was already surprised and delighted. He had hoped for this before, but he also knew in his heart that Duan Yanqing was a member of the Duan family and he knew the rule that Duan family's things could not be passed on to outsiders. He was actually quite satisfied that Duan Yanqing could teach him other things. He didn't expect that he would have the opportunity to learn Duan family martial arts today!

Tan Qing knelt down with a plop and bowed to Duan Yanqing first. Duan Yanqing was about to hit him with a stick and shouted, "Bow to the young master, why are you bowing to me!"

Xin Zhen stopped Duan Yanqing and said with a smile: "I just said a few words. He still has to learn martial arts from you. The master is the most important. So he will worship you as his master."

Tan Qing bowed to Duan Yanqing several times, and when he looked up again, his face was already covered with tears. Duan Yanqing scolded: "I have learned the Duan family martial arts until you, and you are not allowed to pass it on to others. If I find out, I will definitely kill you without mercy!"

Tan Qing kowtowed repeatedly and said, "I absolutely dare not, I absolutely dare not, Master, everything you taught me, I will never dare to pass on without your permission. I swear to heaven and earth, if I disobey Master's instructions, the sky will strike me with five thunders, and I will never be reborn!"

Duan Yanqing finally softened his expression after hearing Tan Qing swear. He poked Tan Qing with a bamboo stick and said, "Go to the side and watch carefully."

Tan Qing quickly stood still, Duan Yanqing and Xin Zhen nodded and said, "Sir, I will start now."

Xin Zhen nodded.

When Duan Yanqing saw Xin Zhen nod, he immediately began to perform his sword skills.

Duan Yanqing was seen wielding the sword with his staff, and doing so very slowly, so that Xin Zhen and Tan Qing could see more clearly.

Although it was performed very slowly, it was done with great vigor and dignity, and even among the extremely light and graceful sword moves, it did not lose the aura of a king. Moreover, Xin Zhen could see that this sword technique was extremely particular about internal strength.

Duan Yanqing recited the moves while performing sword moves, "This move is 'Its sharpness can cut metal!'" "This move is 'Golden Horse Soars into the Sky!'" "This move is 'The Green Rooster Crows at the Crow!'" "..."

The Duan family swordsmanship has forty-nine moves, which looks quite exquisite and can be regarded as first-class swordsmanship in the world. However, in Xin Zhen's opinion, this swordsmanship is still a little lacking.

Although Duan Siping created the Six Meridians Divine Sword, the power of the Six Meridians Divine Sword lies in its utilization of internal force, condensing the internal force into a beam and releasing it to hurt people. But in terms of true swordsmanship, he is still far behind.

In the eyes of Xin Zhen, who created the "Essentials of the Sword Classics", this family sword technique was just a crude sword technique.

Duan Yanqing finished using the sword technique and was about to use it again, but Xin Zhen said, "No need, I've memorized it."

Duan Yanqing and Tan Qing both looked surprised.

Do you remember this?
Duan Yanqing then reacted: If he didn't have any special abilities, how could he have cultivated his martial arts to such a level at the age of fifteen or sixteen?
Xin Zhen casually took the bamboo stick from Duan Yanqing and said, "I just read it over and have some suggestions for revision. I'll show it to you."

After saying that, Xin Zhen slowly waved the bamboo stick. After only watching two or three moves, Duan Yanqing's face was filled with excitement.

The sword technique was still the same, but when Xin Zhen displayed it, the profoundness and mystery of it was far superior to the original Duan family sword technique. The amazing thing was that Duan Yanqing could still tell that this was the Duan family sword technique, or in other words, the Duan family sword technique was supposed to be like this.

Duan Yanqing even had some doubts as to whether the Duan family swordsmanship had lost its profound and mysterious aspects in the process of being passed down from generation to generation, and that Xin Zhen had actually learned the original Duan family swordsmanship.

Duan Yanqing was very excited, but he was afraid of missing any details, so he forced himself to concentrate and watch Xin Zhen's sword dance.

After Xin Zhen finished performing the forty-nine sword techniques, he asked Duan Yanqing, "Do you understand?"

Duan Yanqing said: "I only understood about 20% to 30%."

Xin Zhen smiled and said, "That's pretty good."

Xin Zhen then analyzed Duan Yanqing's moves one by one and explained the profound and mysterious aspects of them clearly. However, by late at night, he had only explained seven moves.

It was these seven moves that made Duan Yanqing and his apprentice infatuated.

Tan Qing was fine. He had not learned the Duan family swordsmanship, and his attainments in swordsmanship were not very deep. Therefore, although he felt that Xin Zhen's swordsmanship was particularly powerful, that was all.

But Duan Yanqing is different. He has been immersed in the Duan family swordsmanship for his entire life and has mastered it. He believes that there are no more secrets in the Duan family swordsmanship.

However, I just realized today that what I thought I had mastered was just a preliminary understanding. In Xin Zhen's eyes, my few sword skills were probably not much better than dog shit.

The more you know, the bigger the world becomes.

Duan Yanqing originally admired Xin Zhen very much, otherwise he would not have been willing to be a slave. He just wanted Xin Zhen to give him some advice, but after tonight, Duan Yanqing knew that he would never have the heart to resist Xin Zhen again.

Duan Yanqing already knew in his heart that no matter how much he practiced, he would never be able to surpass Xin Zhen.

Xin Zhen only took a look at the Duan family swordsmanship, and then used the Duan family swordsmanship, which was at least two times more powerful than the original Duan family swordsmanship. This was not Xin Zhen's true strength, but it was the limit of the Duan family swordsmanship without changing the core idea of ​​the Duan family swordsmanship, but it was not Xin Zhen's limit.

As for why he felt that he would never be able to surpass Xin Zhen, it was because Xin Zhen broke down these tricks and explained them to him clearly, but he still only understood 90% of them. For the remaining 10%, he would probably have to spend a lot of time to figure it out.

After teaching these seven moves, Xin Zhen asked Duan Yanqing to perform them. After watching, Xin Zhen frowned slightly. Duan Yanqing thought that he did not perform well, which made Xin Zhen dislike him, and he felt a little worried.

Xin Zhen did not criticize Duan Yanqing. He was just thinking about the teaching effect. If he was a true disciple, or someone he could trust, Xin Zhen might teach him in combination with the essentials of swordsmanship, instead of just exploring the limits of the sword technique itself.

There is of course a difference here, and the difference is huge.

The current teaching method is to take a big math problem and teach how to solve it, but they do not teach why it should be solved in this way, what formula to use, and where the formula came from.

However, The Essentials of the Sword Manual is the formula for all sword techniques. Originally, Xin Zhen taught his Quanzhen disciples by combining the New Quanzhen sword technique with The Essentials of the Sword Manual.

I not only teach you this question, but also use this question to teach you the application and formation of the formula.

In the future, when you see other sword techniques, you can also use the same problem-solving method to analyze them. After learning this question, you will have the ability to understand more questions.

Moreover, this method will make it easier for people to understand the swordsmanship. Although Xin Zhen had broken it down and explained it in detail when he taught Duan Yanqing this method, Duan Yanqing still found it difficult to understand it all and could only digest it slowly over time.

However, Xin Zhen did not plan to teach him in the same way as teaching a disciple. After all, he did not completely trust Duan Yanqing yet, or he might not completely trust him in this lifetime.

Disciple is disciple, cooperation is cooperation, they are not the same thing.

(End of this chapter)