On the way back to the Yuhuai Street house, Zhao Yishan looked at the listless appearance of these errand servants, and proposed to invite these errand servants to the restaurant for a meal, and they immediately hugged Zhao Yishan to the restaurant. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

When they arrived at the restaurant, everyone put together a table, called a table of meat, and then called more than a dozen jars of wine.

Everyone stayed on horseback for two days and two nights, and they were already so hungry that their chests were close to their backs, and without waiting for Zhao Yishan to greet them, the servants devoured the meat on the table.

Zhao Yishan and the other servants all filled their stomachs, raised their glasses and said: "This time to welcome Prince Xi and Prince Qi, all the brothers have worked hard, I am here to toast everyone." ”

Seeing the deputy steward toasting, all the errand officers stopped chopsticks and toasted, and Ma Wubing, who was the first in martial arts in the errand service, got up and said: "Deputy Steward Zhao is polite, we are errand officers, and hard work is deserved, Deputy Steward Zhao paid out of his own pocket to invite us to eat such a meal, which completely made up for our hard work." We also admire Deputy Zhao's affection and righteousness, Prince Qi invited you to be a diner, but you didn't agree, it seems that you value our brothers. The officers chimed in and drank the wine from their cups.

After eating this meal, Zhao Yishan's relationship with his subordinates became much closer.

After dinner, when he returned to the Yuhuai Street management house, it was already early hours, Yan Guancha summoned Zhao Yishan and Cui Deputy Guancha overnight, and asked them in the lobby of the Guanshan if there was a mistake in welcoming the two princes, and why it was delayed for so long, Zhao Yishan and Deputy Cui Guancha truthfully told the situation at that time.

After listening to the words of Zhao Yishan and Deputy Supervisor Cui, Yan Guancha said: "The contradiction between the two princes is well known, this time the two deputy managers are tired, but Deputy Supervisor Zhao still lacks some experience, we are on an errand in the Yamen of the Inspection Division, just do our own thing, there is no need to participate in the battle of the prince." ”

Zhao Yishan said: "What Yan Guancha said is that I am quite frightened when I think about it now. ”

Yan Guancha nodded and said, "It's good that Deputy Guancha Zhao knows." ”

After saying this, Yan Guancha picked up a list of documents, looked at it, and said again: "This is the list issued by the Yamen of the Inspection Division, the ring competition held by the Xingwu Association of the Yuanhe Festival will be held on the bank of the Jinhong River on the 10th of the day, and the general office of the Inspection Department wants us to send a team of people to the venue of the ring competition to assist in managing public security, I think the two of you are just right." ”

Zhao Yishan and Deputy Steward Cui bowed down to receive the order, and Yan Guancha finished explaining the matter, waved his hand and let the two leave the lobby of the steward.

In ten days, Zhao Yishan hurriedly opened the meridians in his body, and the results were even better than Han Jiaoxi expected.

After opening up the meridians, Zhao Yishan tried the Nine Heavens Fire Gong again, and he was able to achieve the effect of this skill, and when his fists came out, the air had a burning feeling, and he hit the big tree that the two people hugged together, which could make the trunk dry up in an instant.

According to Dafu's estimates, Zhao Yishan's martial arts skills at this time were already comparable to that of a monk in the late stage of qi gathering, surpassing his own cultivation in the middle stage of qi gathering. And Zhao Yishan estimated that with his current progress in cultivation, he would be able to enter the late stage of qi gathering in ten years, reaching the point where the essence of heaven and earth was condensed like a dense fog. Therefore, if Zhao Yishan wants to improve his strength as soon as possible, he can only step up his martial arts practice and strive to make his martial arts reach a level comparable to the middle of the Ming Yuan Dynasty as soon as possible, so that he can compete with the Ji Pavilion Master.

Ten days, in a blink of an eye, Zhao Yishan ordered his errand and rode to the bank of the Jinhong River with Deputy Guan Cui.

In the early morning, under the illumination of the morning sun, the Jinhong River is sparkling at the beginning, and the mist rising from the river is surging to the shore under the blowing of the river breeze. There are all kinds of boats moored on the riverbank, and you can feel the silence of the morning quietly with the slow ups and downs of the river waves. The flowers and trees on the riverbank have long been awake, and the birds are chirping among the flowers and trees.

While enjoying the river view, Zhao Yishan looked at the crowd around the ring, walking back and forth like patrolling the streets.

The Xingwu Club has held many sessions of the ring competition, and the location of the ring has long been known, on the bank of the Jinhong River, ten miles south of Tianhong City. Therefore, the crowd gathered around the ring early to watch the excitement, and although it was already winter at this time, the area around the ring was as hot as summer.

Zhao Yishan, as the deputy manager of the inspection department to maintain law and order, was not lonely, chatting with Deputy Supervisor Cui and getting to know the deputy manager who was transferred from other streets.

And Zhao Yishan, the deputy manager, temporarily returned to the dispatch of Jiang Duwei, who was transferred from the army.

Jiang Duwei knew that he was only temporarily in charge of these deputy managers, and when the matter here was over, everyone would still have to return to everyone, and they would no longer be related, and he was also kind to Zhao Yishan and others, but he only summoned these deputy managers to arrange the patrol matters and then stopped coming forward.

The time soon came to the middle of the day, it was almost noon, as the convener of the ring match, the people of the Xingwu Association explained the rules of the ring match on the high platform that had been set up, and announced the official start of the ring match.

The Xingwu Club is called for the establishment of the Seven Great Martial Arts Halls, and the president changes every five years, and the president is served by the owners of the Seven Great Martial Arts Halls, and this year's President of the Xingwu Club is just the turn of the Fei Pavilion of the Royal Martial Arts Gym, so the rules of the ring competition are explained by the Fei Pavilion Owner.

The owner of the Fei Pavilion is worthy of being the owner of the Seven Great Martial Arts Pavilions, his voice is not loud, but everyone present can clearly hear his speech, obviously he has profound internal skills, Zhao Yishan listened to the Lord of the Fei Pavilion and said: "The ring competition of the Xingwu Club will be held every year on the Yuanhe Festival, and everyone has more or less understood the rules of the competition, but today I will repeat it." Our Xingwu Association has set up a total of 100 rings on the bank of the Jinhong River, and those who intend to compete can choose any one of the rings to register and compete on the stage, and the winner stays on the stage to accept the challenge of the later people, and the loser retreats from the stone platform. Each competition has a strong martial arts predecessor as a fair, not only to ensure the fairness of the competition, but also to shoot when the situation is critical, to avoid the competition to avoid injury, so do not deliberately kill or injure others during the competition, otherwise you will be disqualified. ”

After pausing for a while, looking around at the crowd, the owner continued: "The ring competition will be held for a total of ten days, and the first nine days will determine the winner of each ring, this is the preliminary round, and on the tenth day, these hundred winners will determine the last seven winners in the seven rings in front of me. The owners of our seven martial arts halls will sit in these seven rings respectively, so the 100 winners of the preliminary round can choose the ring according to their hearts and then compete. ”

"Finally, I would like to talk about the rewards of the seven winners of this competition. The first reward is the opportunity to be personally taught by the Seven Great Martial Arts Pavilion Masters, and the other reward is to receive one hundred taels of gold. Finally, as a special reward for this year, the seven winners will receive a Purple Cloud Sword created by the Jianming Hall of the Chengbei Government-run Armory, which is a prize that the current emperor personally ordered the Jianming Hall to build for the seven winners. After the owner of the Fei Pavilion finished speaking, he placed the prizes in a special booth on the high platform, which was guarded by the people of the Xingwu Society, and also allowed the martial artists who were interested in the competition to see it.

When Zhao Yishan heard these rewards, he secretly smacked his tongue, needless to say, the personal guidance of the owner of the Seven Great Martial Arts Pavilions, Zhao Yishan himself made rapid progress in martial arts because of the guidance of Han Jiaoxi, if he could get the personal guidance of the Seven Great Martial Arts Pavilion Masters, then as a person who practiced martial arts, he would definitely rush to it. The reward of one hundred taels of gold is also unusually rich, one tael of gold is equal to ten taels of silver, and one hundred taels of gold is one thousand taels of silver, and one thousand taels of silver can be purchased in Tianhong City for a small residence.

The last Purple Cloud Sword made Zhao Yishan extremely envious, if it weren't for official business, he would have to go to the stage to have a try. Chengbei Jianmingtang is famous in Tianhong City and the Great Zhou Dynasty, Jianmingtang specializes in creating swords for the royal family, occasionally swordsmanship is circulated among the powerful, all the swords produced by Jianmingtang must be high-quality, and an ordinary Jianmingtang sword can cut off a hundred stainless steel swords without the slightest loss. Therefore, the magnates in the Great Zhou Dynasty are proud to be able to wear the sword of the Ming Hall, because it is a symbol of status.

The ordinary sword of the Sword Mingtang is already so powerful, not to mention the Purple Cloud Sword, the body of the Purple Cloud Sword is blue and purple, and there are cloud patterns dense between the blue and purple, so it is called Purple Cloud. The Purple Cloud Sword ranks third among the swords produced by the Sword Ming Hall, and the emperor often uses this sword to reward meritorious officials.

Not only did Zhao Yishan value these rewards, but the warriors in the crowd were also aroused to win, and wanted to include these rewards in their names, so after hearing the Fei Pavilion Master announce the start of the ring match, they all chose to register in the ring. However, there are also old and serious people who hide in the dark and observe.

Zhao Yishan also went back and forth between the rings, only to see a diameter of fifty zhang, with blue and white stone built in the ring has been a competition, the crowd of onlookers shouted cheers under the stage, and not far from the stone platform there are people to open a gambling game, accept the crowd bets, and there are vendors selling food, going back and forth between the rings.

And the onlookers were not only on land, but also on the Jinhong River, where the powerful and the rich took pleasure boats, ate delicious food, listened to small songs, and watched the competition in the ring.

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