The novel "Smiling Pride of jianghu" has a very good name, and the word "smiling proud of the jianghu" is also very historical, we search on Baidu, we can find that this word comes from "Journey to the West", one of the four famous works of mainland classical art. The so-called "laughing pride of the jianghu" really means "free and free", but when we look at the whole novel, we find that where can anyone be free? In the novel, everyone is bound by the famous reins, so that Fox Chong has always wanted to pursue a free and free life, but he has repeatedly hit a wall and been tortured by the jianghu, if it is not the aura of the protagonist, where can he "laugh and be proud of the jianghu"?
Therefore, Mr. Jin Yong said in the afterword of the novel that the story in "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" could happen in any dynasty, so "Laughing Proud of the Jianghu" simply had no story background. Many readers and friends work hard to study the background of the story of "Smiling Proud of the River", in fact, it is useless work, why bother? However, looking at the story in "Smiling Proud of the Rivers and Lakes", there is a very interesting thing, the story of the struggle between good and evil written in the novel has a main line from beginning to end, that is, the struggle between the famous and upright sects and the Sun and Moon God Sect. Among them, the Wuyue Sword Sect was the main force of the Anti-Japanese Luna Sect. Shaolin and Wudang are the sects of the famous and upright bull's ear! The instructor has a very good saying, let there be more friends and fewer enemies. In "Laughing at the River", it seems strange for us to look at those famous and upright people, and one of the things they are doing seems to be the opposite, making their friends less and more enemies.
You see, whether it is the Five Peaks Sword Sect or the Shaolin Wudang, it seems to be the same. For example, the Songshan Sect carried out the strategy of merging the sects, and Zuo Lengchan did not use the persuasion mode of following the good and the good, but adopted some extraordinary means, and first tried to divide many sects, such as taking advantage of the differences between the two sects of The Sword Qi in Huashan, using the three masters of the Taishan Sect who were in charge of the Tianmen Dao, and borrowing the Hengshan Sect disciples to persuade Dingjing Shitai, and so on. These means vary from one to another, all of which are intended to divide these sects, but when the means of differentiation are useless, they immediately adopt hegemonic means, such as sending fifteen underworld masters to capture the entire Huashan Sect, and the same underworld masters to besiege Dingxian and Dingyi, the two masters, and so on. In fact, Zuo Lengchan's operation of this set not only did not play a role in promoting the Songshan sect, but on the contrary, it played a counter-effect, so the Hengshan sect openly declared that it would never listen to the orders of the Songshan faction after encountering the conspiracies and tricks of the Songshan faction several times.
The same was true of the Huashan Sect, which was already very weak, and as a result, Yue Buqun not only did not want to unite his disciples, but also caused these disciples to deviate from morality. For example, besieged by fifteen men in black, the Huashan faction was almost completely annihilated, making Fox Chong turn the tide, and even Ning Zhong put forward his own views on Ling Hu Chong's high sword method, but Yue Buqun was always grumpy about this matter, and later took the opportunity to expel Ling Hu Chong from the Huashan Sect. Later, in Fuzhou, as soon as he obtained the sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits, he was about to kill Lin Pingzhi, and in the face of the Hengshan Sect's call for help, he disregarded the morality of the jianghu and ignored the life and death of the Friendly Sect. After this operation, the Huashan Sect also had almost no allies within the Five Peaks Sword Sect.
The Wuyue Sword Sect did this, and as a shaolin Wudang sect that held the upright bull's ear, it seemed that this was also the case. In the face of the growing situation of the Sun And Moon God Sect, with the Shaolin Wudang and other gate sects with many years of history, they naturally will not be too worried, but no matter how to say, if they can have more friends to support themselves, especially if someone can help them fight against the Sun Moon God Sect, this is a good thing. The Wuyue Sword Sect can also be regarded as the mainstay of the confrontation against the Sun and Moon God Sect, and the Shaolin Wudang can have the help of the Wuyue Sword Sect to deal with the Sun Moon God Sect' odds of greatly increasing, but Shaolin Wudang is very worried about the growth of the Five Yue Sword Sect, so all along, these two factions have been secretly suppressing the Five Yue Sword Sect. You see that the strength of the Huashan Sect was very strong at the beginning, and then the Sunflower Treasure Book was inadvertently seen by Yue Su and Cai Zifeng of the Huashan Sect, and as a result, the Huashan Sect split into two factions, the Sword Sect and the Qi Sect, and the two factions fought endlessly, and finally the two factions drew their swords against each other, and the Huashan Sect declined from then on. The Songshan Sect was strong and wanted to merge with the Five Peaks Sword Sect, and Shaolin Wudang was there to make small moves, seeing that Ling Hu Chong's sword technique was high, so he wanted to train Ling Hu Chong to become his agent in the Five Peaks Sword Sect.
Judging from these operations of Shaolin Wudang, they were doing everything they could to suppress the Five Peaks Sword Sect and prevent the Five Peaks Sword Sect from developing and growing. Why is that? From the secret conversation between Master Fang Zheng and The Head of the Chong Void Dao with Ling Hu Chong at the Hengshan Hanging Temple, we can see that they should be afraid of the development and growth of the Five Peaks Sword Sect, and they are afraid that their position as the jianghu of the famous and upright sect will be challenged. So Master Fang Zheng and The Head of chong Xuan Dao threw out the threat theory of the Five Peaks and Sects:
"Zuo Lengchan became the leader of the Five Peaks Sword Sect, that was the first step. The second step is to unify the five factions into one. He was in charge. After the five factions are unified, the strength is strong, and they can secretly become the three of them with Shaolin and Wudang. At that time, he would further encroach on the Kunlun, Emei, Kuntong, and Qingcheng factions, and merge them one by one, which was the third step, and then he challenged the Demon Sect, led the Shaolin and Wudang factions, and picked the Demon Sect in one fell swoop, which was the fourth step. ”
In this paragraph, in fact, it also expressed their concerns, they were afraid that after the merger of the Five Peaks Sword Sect, they would challenge their authority and even stand on their heads, which they did not want to see. Since you don't want to see this matter, you naturally have to do everything you can to prevent this matter from appearing.
Why did the kings think so?