Speaking of this, Zhao Shang can also be regarded as an outlier in the current head of the Seven Clans. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Zhao Shang is the seventh-generation only grandson of Zhao Yuneng, the founder of the Zhao family, and has been extremely intelligent since he was a child. His father Zhao Tianyi was a peerless master who ranked third on the Zongyun List at that time, and he wanted to train Zhao Shang, who was extremely talented, into a peerless master, but Zhao Shang was not interested in refining the body, but was extremely yearning for the low-end thing of business.

At that time, the Zhao family had begun to decline, not only was it often harassed by the Duanmu family, but also often robbed by the barbarians in the foreign regions, and the people of Zhao had fled, if it were not for Zhao Tianyi's hard support, the Zhao family would have long since ceased to exist.

Zhao Tianyi pinned all his hopes on Zhao Shang, but Zhao Shang was really not interested in learning martial arts at all, no matter how Zhao Tianyi persecuted, Zhao Shang just didn't learn.

Zhao Tianyi was depressed, and left a sentence until his deathbed: "However, the Zhao family was ruined by business." ”

The fall of a generation of masters has aroused the covetousness of other surrounding races.

Zhao Shang succeeded to the throne, and in addition to the Feng family, the Duanmu family and the foreign barbarians sent troops to swallow the Zhao family.

What everyone didn't expect was that Zhao Shang kept cutting out the Zhao family's land in exchange for temporary stability.

The clansmen had a lot of opinions about Zhao Shang, especially some clan elders, who wanted to force Zhao Shang to abdicate.

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Zhao Shang, who seemed to have no ambitions, showed his superb business talent and political skills at this time of crisis.

First of all, Zhao Shang spent a lot of money to search for unwanted rangers outside and snare them under his own door. At the same time, pardoning the felons in prison, not only giving them generous treatment, but also taking care of their families, Zhao Shang formed this group of people into an extremely powerful team of dead soldiers, and then trained by the collected ranger masters, and then formed a powerful force team unique to Zhao Shang.

Then, Zhao Shang traded a hundred beautiful female slaves from the barbarians outside the territory. Zhao Shang took advantage of these 100 glamorous female slaves to hold a "beauty banquet" in the Zhao family's mansion, but did not invite the family members of those clan elders, but invited the younger generation of clan elders. When the young generation was strong, when they heard that there were hundreds of beauties, and they were rare and superb in foreign countries, they secretly came to the banquet.

The younger generation of these clan elders has never gone out since they came to Zhao Shang's mansion. Those clan elders came to ask for people, but they were all frightened back by Zhao Shang's powerful army of dead soldiers.

Zhao Shang took this opportunity to install some talented people in the family's important army, account room, and shop. And those talented people were originally depressed outside, but now they are appreciated by Zhao Shang, and they all work hard. The actual power of the clan elders has also been greatly weakened, and only some empty shells with no real power remain.

Zhao Shang's move was so fast that the clan elders didn't expect it, and even the people of the Zhao family were shocked.

Just when the clan elders reacted and became angry, Zhao Shang began to appease them in a way of "self-harm".

Zhao Shang promulgated a decree: from now on, all clansmen in the Zhao land must have military merits in the future, and those who have meritorious service will be rewarded according to the regulations on entering the knighthood, and those who have no merit shall not be knighted, let alone hereditary, including the Zhao family.

The people of Zhao Di, the elders of the clan, and especially the people of the Zhao family were all in an uproar.

The Zhao family said indignantly: "This Zhao Shang has made the clan elders, even his own clansmen will not let go, this is pushing his own clansmen into the fire pit with his own hands!" ”

The patriarch of the clan didn't expect Zhao Shangduan to do the same to his own people, and his heart was a little balanced, and his anger disappeared a lot.

And the people living in Zhao are cheering, this decree gives everyone in Zhao a chance to enter the knighthood, and gives all the ordinary people the dream of turning over, who doesn't want to become a nobleman in Zhao with their own efforts?

Zhao Shang not only vigorously rewarded his military exploits, but also vigorously developed commerce. Zhao Shang's "business merit" was also set up at the same level as "war merit" and the same reward conditions. The Zhao family sprang up a lot of shops for a while, and also created many items that other clans did not have.

After the Duanmu family learned about Zhao Shang's series of methods, Duanmu Tuo just smiled and didn't care. Duanmu Tuo believed that Zhao Shang's methods would only continue to weaken the enthusiasm of the Zhao family's own people, and once those foreigners who were enabled rebelled, the Zhao family would be ruined.

The extraterritorial barbarians were already very barbarians when they got the land of the Zhao family, and they didn't care about what Zhao Shang did in the land of Zhao at all.

Under such a short period of peace, the internal environment of the Zhao family began to gradually improve, the Zhao family's treasury began to become full, and the Zhao family's army became stronger.

As a result, Zhao Shang began to change his foreign strategy, and no longer ceded land to the Duanmu family and foreign barbarians.

Due to Zhao Shang's emphasis on talented people, the friends of those ranger soldiers who had already made great achievements in Zhao also began to join Zhao Shang.

And Zhao Shang doesn't care about his background, he is the only one who uses his talents, and these foreigners are also used by Zhao Shang in the right place.

It was also at this time that Zhao Shang discovered two special talents, one was Huo Lifeng and the other was Mantai.

Since these two people came to Zhao Shang, they have been eating and drinking all day long, calling friends everywhere to brag and fart, but they have not done anything practical.

The Zhao family hated these two people to the core, and they came to Zhao Shang to ask him to get rid of these two guys. And Zhao Shang said: "Don't worry, I have my own arrangements." ”

In fact, Zhao Shang had already secretly arranged for the two of them to go to the Duanmu family to befriend their high-level people with the barbarians. And the two of them are also very good at getting along with the Duanmu family and the high-level of the barbarians.

Since opening up the high-level of the Duanmu family and the barbarians, Zhao Shang has never cut the land again.

Just when the Duanmu family and the barbarians gradually forgot about the encroachment on the Zhao family because of their own affairs, Zhao Shang recaptured the Zhao land taken by the Duanmu family and the barbarians with lightning speed.

At that time, the Zhao land obtained by Duanmu's family was uninhabited, almost a wasteland, and if it was lost, it would be lost, and Duanmu Tuo's mind was not there. And the land of Zhao obtained by the barbarians has become a barren land. The barbarians are different from the Duanmu family, the barbarians have a hot temper and fight with the Zhao family.

However, the soldiers of the Zhao family were eager to gain military exploits, and the whole team was like crazy, and they were like a bamboo, and they hit the barbarian lair.

Zhao Shang accepted it when he saw it, recalled the soldiers, and defended the recaptured Zhao land.

After Zhao Shang recovered the seized Zhao land, he began to build a large defensive array, including the Zhao land near the Feng family.

Zhao Shang became famous in one fell swoop, and since then, Zhao Shang has guarded the Zhao family with all his heart, and the Zhao family has begun to become more and more prosperous, and more and more foreigners do not want to leave after coming to Zhao Land.

With the passage of time, Zhao Shang has also changed from the lean boy he used to be a big-bellied guy.