In "Laughing at the Rivers and Lakes", Zuo Lengchan has been plotting to merge factions, and the means used are very tough, which can really be described as ambitious, in the face of the opposition of other factions, Zuo Lengchan has adopted very clean and neat means to eliminate the opposition forces. For example, he sent people in the underworld to ambush the Hengshan Sect, bribed the three masters of the Taishan Sect to divide the Taishan Sect, and sent his own disciple Laudno to go undercover in the Huashan Sect for a long time to monitor Yue Buqun's every move (although in the end Laudno was used by Yue Buqun, after all, it was also Zuo Lengchan's move against the Huashan Sect). Of course, here it is said that Zuo Lengchan used the means of espionage, and Xia Kejun once said that Zuo Lengchan was also likely to be used in other sects, like Ren Yingying's imprisonment in Shaolin, it is very likely that Zuo Lengchan was put into the jianghu by installing the news that the traitors were installed in Shaolin, and the interaction between Liu Zhengfeng and Qu Yang is also likely to be the inside information obtained by Zuo Lengchan in Hengshan. However, Zuo Lengchan only did one thing to deal with the Hengshan Sect, that is, to send three Taibao to Hengshan to solve Liu Zhengfeng and his family disciples, and then it seems that Zuo Lengchan forgot about the Hengshan Sect.
Why is that? The novel "Smiling Proud of the Jianghu" has always been said to have a metaphor of "orthodoxy", especially the dispute between the two sects of sword qi of the Huashan Sect is very similar to certain events. Therefore, Zuo Leng zen also deals with the major factions like those "orthodox" disputes. However, we see that Zuo Lengchan has selectively ignored Mo Da since the Liu Zhengfeng incident in the face of the other four factions.
Here we first look at the opposite side to see why Zuo Lengchan used so many means to deal with Taishan, Huashan and Hengshan. First of all, we can see that Zuo Leng Zen was the most forceful against the Hengshan Sect. First, after the twenty-eighth shop sent people to pretend to be the seven-star messengers of the Sun and Moon God Sect to ambush Dingjing Shitai, and then sent two Taibao to pretend to be good people to try to divide the relationship between Dingjing Shitai and the two sisters, but after Dingjing Shitai strictly refused, the Lord used thunderous means to get rid of Dingjing Shitai. Among the means of dealing with the Hengshan Sect, there were also people in the underworld who besieged Dingxian and Dingyi in the Longquan Cast Sword Valley, and if it were not for Ling Fox Rushing to help, these two divisions would most likely have died in the Cast Sword Valley. The two masters may also feel that the pressure from the Songshan Sect is too great for them to resist, but the alliance within the Wuyue Sword Sect is unreliable, so they will run to the Shaolin Temple to intercede for Ren Yingying, hoping to use external forces to resist the pressure of the Songshan Sect. Unfortunately, people are not as good as heaven, the last two divisions are too killed in the Shaolin Temple, fortunately, the Dingxuan division is too long-lived, until Ling Hu rushed to the Shaolin Temple, so he had no choice but to make Fox Chong take charge of the Hengshan Sect to fight against the Songshan Sect.
The main reason why Zuo Lengchan would deal with the Hengshan Sect in this way should be that the Hengshan Sect was the most united among the five Yue sects, and in addition, in the Hengyang Liu Zhengfeng Incident, only Ding Yishitai was very resolute in opposing the Songshan Sect's move to slaughter the Liu Family, which caused discomfort to the Songshan Sect, knowing that the Hengshan Sect would very firmly oppose the policy of merging with the faction. For this kind of firm faction, Zuo Leng zen of course attacked mercilessly.
For the Taishan Sect, Zuo Leng Zen used its internal contradictions to differentiate, and then used the characteristics of the Tianmen Daoist leader to be grumpy and brave, so that the Tianmen Daoist leader died and sealed the Zen Platform. In this way, the Tarzan Sect will no longer have to worry about.
Compared with these two schools, in fact, Zuo Leng zen valued the Huashan school the most. Xia Kejun once wrote an article saying that because the Huashan Sect had once been wide, and moreover, the position of the leader of the Songshan Sect's Wuyue Sword Sect had been taken from the Hands of the Huashan Sect, so Zuo Lengchan had been trying to find a way not to let the Huashan Sect re-widen. In fact, Zuo Lengchan was also most worried about Yue Buqun of the Huashan Sect.
Although the Huashan Sect was weak, and with the addition of Yue Buqun and his wife, there were only twenty or thirty people in the entire Huashan Sect. However, the first Yue Buqun had an excellent reputation in the jianghu, and Yue Buqun's nickname of "Gentleman's Sword" could usually be of no great use, but if someone wanted to use it, it could still have great appeal, at least Yue Buqun would not bring greater disgust to the jianghu masters such as Master Fang Zheng and Chong Xuan Daochang than Zuo Leng zen. Therefore, all along, Zuo Leng zen regarded Yue Buqun as his biggest enemy. Looking at Zuo Lengchan's actions against Yue Buqun, the people of the Sword Sect Gate went up to Huashan to fight for status, sent people dressed in black to besiege, and used Yue Buqun to find the sword spectrum to ward off evil spirits, except for the siege of the man in black, there was no thunderbolt means, but none of them were long-term fishing for big fish. It's just a pity that Zuo Leng zen is still not as powerful as Yue Buqun after all, and in the end, Yue Buqun quietly seized the fruits of victory.
Now looking at the Hengshan Sect, why didn't Zuo Lengchan spend so much effort to deal with the Hengshan Sect? First of all, from the novel, only Three people exposed from the Hengshan Sect with certain strength are Mo Da, Liu Zhengfeng and Lu Lianrong, which is the same as the number of three masters exposed by the Hengshan Sect, but Mo Da, Liu Zhengfeng and Lu Lianrong are not as united as Hengshan Sanding. When the Songshan faction came to Liu Zhengfeng for trouble, Liu Zhengfeng's first reaction was that Mo Da went to Zuo Lengchan and said bad things about himself, and how big the contradiction between Mo Da and Liu Zhengfeng was, which shows from this, and from the perspective of the novel description, Mo Da and Liu Zhengfeng are the first and second people of the Hengshan Sect, so that the relationship between the two people is so disharmonious, it is naturally difficult to pose a threat to the Songshan Sect.
In addition, in the face of the tragedy of Liu Zhengfeng's entire family being slaughtered, even outsiders said a few fair words, and as a result, Mo Da, as the leader of the Hengshan Sect, actually turned a blind eye to this matter, and many people were sent to Hengyang City to participate in Liu Zhengfeng's Golden Basin Handwashing Conference, but Mo Da did not appear, and this attitude also made Zuo Lengchan very satisfied. Even if Mo Da later killed Fei Bin, the great Song Yang hand, in a secret way, these things were not enough to have an impact on Zuo Lengchan's "great cause".
Therefore, in the final analysis, Zuo Lengchan should have been confused by Mo Da's performance, so he despised Mo Da, but in fact, in the end, all the leaders of the other factions died, and only Mo Da and Ling Hu Chong saved Nan Yue and Bei Yue. Ling Fox Chong is the protagonist who belongs to karma, and he can live to the end, and I have to say that his actions all along have produced very good results!
Why did the kings think so?