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Today, let's talk about martial arts in a different way.
Among Jin Yong's 15 martial arts novels, "Smiling Proud Of Jianghu" is the most peculiar one, and other works specifically write the age of the story, but the book does not have a specific chronology, even if many senior Jin Yong fans rack their brains to deconstruct the dynasty of the story through the place names, cuisine, and even character hairstyles described in the book, they have never received a response from the author himself, and Jin Yong himself has never given any hints about the era of Xiao Ao Jianghu.
The obscurity of the story background is the same as George Orwell's "1984", Jin Yong does not write the era, 1984 does not write the country, and in reality, the reader can easily find the coordinates of reference.
In addition to the unknown age, the most puzzling thing about the xiao'ao jianghu is why the book is full of so many careerists, who often want to "unify the rivers and lakes".
For example, after Dongfang undefeated as the leader of the Sun moon god sect, he did not hide his determination to "unify the rivers and lakes", and even the slogan was so direct, "The sun and moon god sect, invincible, the eastern sect leader, Wencheng Wude, thousands of years, unify the rivers and lakes." ”
Zuo Lengchan, the leader of the "Five Mountains Alliance" and the leader of the Songshan Sect, also had the heart to unify the rivers and lakes, but compared to the undefeated in the East, he was not so frank, but acted behind his back, by secretly co-opting the depressed but still high-ranking figures in the Five Peaks Sword Sect, to disperse and disintegrate those forces that did not want to be unified, realize his ambitions against the two old groups of Shaolin and Wudang, and finally compete head-on with the Sun Moon God Sect.
Cloaked in the cloak of a gentleman, the gentleman sword Yue buqun can be said to be the most hidden but foolish kind of ambitious family who unifies the rivers and lakes, and after painstakingly obtaining the Fuzhou Lin Family's sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits, he finally let Zuo Lengchan's carefully planned Wuyue and send big chess pieces to become a smooth way for him to reach the peak of the power of the Wuyue Sect.
After relying on the protagonist Ling Huchong to regain the throne of power occupied by the undefeated hegemony of the East, the ambitionist who finally appeared on the scene was originally very disgusted with the set of flattery and sloppy pats, but after listening to the "Sun and Moon God Sect, invincible, the lord of the Holy Sect, Wencheng Wude, thousands of years, unifying the rivers and lakes", it was also very useful, which fully shows that even if a person of such a high degree as Ren I walked, the change of mentality before and after taking power was still very subtle.
Unfortunately, at the moment when Ren Yixing was about to realize the dream of "unifying the rivers and lakes", he accidentally died violently, which made people sigh, and it seemed that there was a definite number in the darkness.
Many readers may wonder why the leaders of both the righteous and the villains in the laughing and proud rivers and lakes are so keen on "unifying the rivers and lakes". In the end, it is actually the desire for power.
Taking Zuo Lengchan as an example, he already became the general leader of the Five Peaks Sword Sect, and his position seemed to be very high, but he still could not compete with the Shaolin and Wudang sects in the martial forest, and even the Kunlun, Emei, and Kuntong sects, in the words of The Chief of Chong Xuan Dao, "The rise of the Five Peaks Sword Sect in Wulin is only a matter of nearly sixty or seventy years, although it is thriving quickly, the family foundation is always inferior to Kunlun and Emei, let alone compared with the profound seventy-two masterpieces of the Shaolin Sect." ”
In addition, Zuo LengChankong had the title of the leader of the Five Mountains Alliance, in fact, except for his Songshan Sect, the orders of the other four factions were not very good, far from reaching the point of "ordering the world not to dare not obey", and unifying the Five Mountains Alliance into the Five Mountains Sect would naturally be able to obtain the actual control of the Five Peaks Sect, so that the other four factions obeyed his orders like the Songshan Sect, and then called Out Shaolin and Wudang, and finally realized the long-cherished wish of "unifying the rivers and lakes".
It's just that Zuo Lengchan calculated everything, and his own plate of banners, but the results were stolen by yue buqun, the same door of the Five Mountains Alliance, and he also made a tragic ending of double blindness.
A very interesting point in the laughing pride of the jianghu is that even the Shaolin Master Fang Zheng and the Wudang Chong Xuan Dao Commander have already seen the ambition of several good and evil careerists to unify the rivers and lakes, but do not personally intervene, but support the agent of Ling Hu Chong to charge into the battle, as a highly respected leader of wulin morality, first, he can avoid being included in the ranks of the unified jianghu ambitionists, and second, he can hide behind the scenes without tearing his face and retreating freely.
A xiao'ao jianghu without an era is obviously not Jin Yong's negligence, but intentional, precisely because there is no age constraint, and after fading the color of martial arts, it seems that it can be placed in any era and subject to inspection.