Chapter 8: Toad Fishing (Part 2)
"Young Master!" Seeing Gao Cheng's figure, Chen Hong immediately walked over to say hello.
Gao Cheng's gaze swept over the two dozen or so bankers in front of him. Nodding slightly. "Sect Leader Chen has worked hard these days. How's the training going?"
Chen Hong said: "They train quite seriously, if they are one-on-one, their strength is still above those bandits, but they have not experienced actual combat, and they can't really fight against the bandits." ”
There are nearly 100 bankers in Zhaojiazhuang, but these bankers consume hundreds of taels of silver every year. It accounts for almost sixty percent of Zhaojiazhuang's annual income.
However, raising so many people is also a last resort, in the past, there were only twenty or thirty dealers in Zhaojiazhuang, and then the world gradually became chaotic, and twenty or thirty dealers could not protect the safety of Zhaojiazhuang at all. Slowly, the number of bankers more than doubled.
"To raise so many villagers, it is better to recruit a good player. In case Zhaojiazhuang is attacked by bandits, nearly a hundred villagers can only block the bandits' minions, and the Grange really relies on Chen Hong!"
Gao Cheng shook his head slightly in his heart, he was not very optimistic about the strength of these bankers. He didn't disturb the training of these bankers, but came to the side, put up a boxing fight, and began to practice the flip boxing taught by Chen Hong.
As soon as Gao Cheng made a move, a whistling fist suddenly sounded in the school field, and the various moves of this set of flip fists seemed to be pouring rain in his hands, constantly roaring and exploding.
When Chen Hong saw this scene, the corners of his eyes jumped slightly, and a trace of horror appeared in his heart. "The young master's fist and foot talent is so amazing? In just ten days, he has practiced this set of flip fists to this point!"
"And the power contained in the boxing method is not weak, just with this strength and boxing method, the young master is almost the same as those boxers in the county! Yin Daozhang's golden toad skill, the young master must have practiced the first weight!"
Chen Hong thought that ten days ago, the young master was just an ordinary child of a big family with weak hands and feet, and he was injured when he was looking for flowers and willows in the county seat.
And now Young Master Zhao in the school field is detached and has a strong fist style, as if he has changed a person.
Zhuang Ke, who was training not far away, also saw this scene, and subconsciously slowed down their movements and focused most of their attention here.
Before Gao Cheng came to this world, Zhao Yu was like a gentleman in the hearts of these Zhuang Ke, Zhuang Ke was respectful on the surface, but in his heart he regarded Zhao Yu as a joke. Otherwise, the two Zhuang Ke who guarded the door a few days ago would not have been punished for talking about the young master.
But now Gao Cheng's fists and feet are continuous, and the scene of the wind whistling has shocked these Zhuang guests. It is human instinct to worship the strong, and Zhuang Ke changed his opinion when he saw that Young Master Zhao had become stronger.
"I can endure hardships and practice boxing, the young master has really changed!"
Gao Cheng didn't care about the thoughts in the hearts of these villagers, after practicing the flip fist three times, the breath in his body jumped violently, his figure flipped forward, and the accumulated internal qi exploded violently, and suddenly he rushed to the front of the wooden stake on the edge of the school field.
Boom! A punch was thrown, and the wooden stakes shattered, and the sawdust flew everywhere.
"This ...... This is the skill that can only be performed by the golden toad when he has practiced to the second level!" Chen Hong was shocked, revealing a look of disbelief.
He also knew Yin Daozhang's golden toad skills and fishing toad strength. Gao Cheng spent ten days practicing the first level of Jin Toad Gong, which can be said to be extraordinary, but when he practiced the second level, it was a bit terrifying.
Chen Hongneng became a famous boxer in Huayin, and his training was the result of more than ten years of hard training. And Gao Cheng only took ten days to reach his current state.
Gao Cheng's day is equivalent to a year of hard training, such a stark contrast really made Chen Hong a little disheartened, and almost lost the confidence to continue practicing boxing.
"Young Master is really a natural martial arts material! In just ten days, he has cultivated Jin Toad Gong to the second level, and this is the first time I have seen this kind of situation in so many years of practicing boxing!"
Chen Hong took two steps forward, and there was still some shock in his eyes. "Jin Toad Gong has been cultivated to the second level, the internal temperature moistens the internal organs, prolongs life, and can also condense into true qi through fishing toad strength, and the internal organs and bones are condensed into one, and the strength is still above the good hands of the rivers and lakes who cultivate the outer door gangqi! Congratulations to the young master, it won't be long before the young master's strength surpasses me!"
In the Water Margin world, samurai cultivation is divided into inner and outer families, whether it is inner or outer kung fu, as long as they cultivate to a high and profound realm, they can be extraordinary and become invincible powerhouses.
Outer kung fu is explosive and strong, and he is not good at maintaining health, but he is extremely powerful in the early stage of cultivation. The good hands on the rivers and lakes and green forest roads, as well as the fierce generals in the army, are basically this way.
The internal kung fu generally belongs to the two methods of Taoism and Buddhism, and the internal qi kung fu can prolong life, and it is also good to practice to a high and profound realm.
"I can practice boxing, and I also have the credit of Chen Jiaotou!" Gao Cheng laughed. The realm of his essence was as high as the sixth order. With the consciousness of a true immortal, he has already comprehended all the methods of Jin Toadgong.
When he cultivated to the first level of consummation with the medicinal bath, Gao Cheng did not have any bottlenecks, and the breakthrough was as simple as eating and drinking. However, after Jin Toad Gong cultivated to the second level, he needed to condense his internal qi into true qi, and his speed was not so fast.
Time flies.
In the blink of an eye, two or three months passed, and the Zhao family's hundreds of acres of fields and the fields of other tenants became golden, and it was harvest season.
The Shaohua Mountain bandits, who worried Steward Zhao, did not go down the mountain to attack Zhaojiazhuang. Let everyone in the grange feel a lot more relieved, and the tense heartstrings were loosened violently.
During this time, Gao Cheng has been practicing, and occasionally in the interval between exercises, through his housekeepers and his villagers, he inquired about the various situations in Zhaojiazhuang and Huayin County and the entire Yan'an Prefecture.
He slowly understood this high-level Water Margin world, just like a small fish lurking in the water, constantly eating dried shrimp and slowly growing up, looking forward to the future when he turned into a dragon.
In this ancient world, the harvest of grain in agriculture and fields was crucial, from the survival of a single family to the rise and fall of a vast empire.
For Zhaojiazhuang and all the tenants, this time has to be constantly busy, and after the harvest, they have to guard against bandits to grab grain.
The most common thing that the bandits who occupied the mountains and forests, in addition to blocking the road and robbing, was to go down the mountain while the grain was being harvested and plundered some small villages that were not protected by the guardians and boxers.
"Young Master, this year's harvest is good, one acre of land can make two stones of grain!"
Gao Cheng, Steward Zhao and the others walked out of the grange and looked at the busy tenants in the fields outside. The tenant rent of Zhaojiazhuang is fifty percent, which is not too heavy compared to other large landlords.
Some large households with serious exploitation have a land rent of 60 or 70 percent, and the tenants have a slight fever and cold, and if they have a minor illness, they will go bankrupt, so they have to sell the land under their name to the big households, and eventually become nothing.
The so-called prosperity of the Great Song Dynasty is only on the surface, in fact, the countryside is full of people who are bankrupt and have nothing. Once these people can't survive, they will go up the mountain to join the bandits. This is also the reason why the government has repeatedly recruited and suppressed, but the bandits have been repeatedly suppressed.