The Great Zhou Dynasty did not completely possess Hedong, that is, the Shanxi in Li Xiang's mouth, the north of Shuozhou has been in the hands of the Liao State, and the Datong Mansion further north is the western capital of the Liao State.

The Luliang Mountains are located in the west of the land of Hedong, the north-south long strip plain hundreds of miles away in the southeast is located in the Taiyuan Mansion of the Great Zhou, the mountain pass in the northeast is the important border town of Wuzhou of Liao, Wuzhou is located in the south of Shuozhou and is fifty miles west of the west, which is an important border town of Liao.

Luliang Mountain is folded in a mountain shape, the ravines are vertical and horizontal, the rapids are dense, the summer is hot and the winter is cold, and it has become the place where the giant bandits and big bandits are entrenched since the end of the previous dynasty. After the founding of the Great Zhou Dynasty, because of the overarching terrain around Liao, the bandits here have not diminished at all, and now the Liao State is facing the danger of annihilation, and the Dakou of Luliang is even more arrogant.

Zhao Scarzi was originally entrenched in Qingfeng Village in the east of Mingyue Village, and later cooperated with Huang Liren, Zhang Tianlei and others, and the sneak attack on Mingyue Village failed, but was killed by Huang Liren as a scapegoat. Zhao Scar, who can become a green forest and repel the attacks of the official army many times, does have two brushes, and he decisively attacked when he sensed that something was wrong, ransacked the Huang family's courtyard and created chaos, and then took the opportunity to escape.

After failing to occupy the territory in the Qinling Mountains, and worried that Liu Chengdong would not die, Zhao Scarzi had no choice but to take his cronies all the way through the mountains and mountains, and finally crossed the Yellow River to the east of the river. His subordinates continued to suffer casualties and escaped, Zhao Scar had to absorb ruthless hands and Lian Jiazi from the displaced people all over the east of the river, and finally after looting more than a dozen poor villages and defeating the funny peers of the Seven or Eight Roads, Zhao Scarzi entered Luliang Mountain, a place where the weak eat the strong.

The development of the Great Zhou Dynasty was very uneven, and the prosperous and prosperous places were mainly concentrated in the south of the Yellow River, and the north of the Yellow River was another scene. Places north of the Yellow River, such as Taiyuan and Daimyo, which are barely known as prosperous, must meet both conditions, and they are located on the main trade routes and close to the grain-producing areas. Such a good place is naturally rare, so in addition to a few fairly peaceful trade routes, more places in the north are full of fortresses and large and small hills, and the government power does not have enough coercive power in many places.

For example, Jingdong East Road, which Li Xiangkou called Shandong, except for the state capital near the Yellow River and some coastal state capitals, most of the people in other places are thieves when they enter the people. It is not uncommon to see a bow and arrows on your back, a spear on your back, and then go down to the field to plow the land. In the face of large and small green forest bandits and displaced people who rise from time to time, the local people can only fort themselves or rely on the strong, so the northland men in the Great Zhou army are generally more able to fight, because they are very poor.

Places close to the border, such as Daizhou in the north of Taiyuan and Zhending and Cangzhou in Hebei, are even more fierce in the folk customs, the township soldiers and archery societies here often practice, and the towns that do not have a certain strength have long disappeared in the Khitan and Youyun Han'er hundreds of years of grass valley, and the strength of some township soldiers is even comparable to the western army that has guarded the northwest for generations. In Gyeonggi Province, Jianghuai, and Jiangnan provinces, south of the Yellow River, the gentry dominated, but near the northern border, only the armed and powerful counted.

The Great Zhou court was not too wary of Haoqiang and Zhuangbao in the north, after all, under the system of the Great Zhou, those small armed forces did not have the possibility and willingness to unite to become bigger. Haoqiang and the leader of the fortress are also strengthened versions of the scholars, and these civil forces are also reliable dikes to resist the invasion of the Liao State, so Bianjing gave many favors to the big and small Haoqiang in the north in terms of their children's entry into officials, taxes and business, so that they can be more committed to the Great Zhou.

Haoqiang, fortresses, bandits and government formed a special ecosystem in the north of the Great Zhou Dynasty, and a steady stream of armed caravans and a trade network attached to several large trade routes became a source of nutrients for both black and white, government and people. Where there are people who trade, there are only wealth and goods, and there is a way to live, so the bandits in most places rarely kill chickens and take eggs.

Chaotic and orderly, there is a bottom line in the struggle, killing but decent, this is the ecology of the border area of the Great Zhou. After all, this chaotic place is still a minority, and most of the people north of the Yellow River are still able to barely survive, although more and more people have become displaced in recent years.

Luliang Mountain, together with the northern foot of Taihang Mountain, has become a place where children in Bianjing can stop crying. Taking Luliang Mountain as an example, the products here could not support many people in the Great Zhou at this time, and the trade routes related to the stability of the border army were firmly controlled by the officials and soldiers, so the giant bandits and thieves in Luliang Mountain acted very ferociously. There is no way, the mountain planing food can't fill the stomach, and the materials such as salt, iron, cloth and tea are not lacking, and the hard production is not enough to make ends meet, not to mention that most of the "heroes" don't want to produce but want big fish and meat, so they can only seize every opportunity to replenish. But for some people, this kind of place where the jungle eats the jungle is the best, such as Zhao Scar.

As soon as Zhao Scar came to Luliang Mountain, he used a sneak attack to kill an old bandit who had been entrenched for many years, which attracted the attention of several big mountains, and Zhao Scar was frightened and hurriedly offered most of his savings and took refuge in the nearest big mountain, so that he could get a place to stay.

Zhao Scarzi learned a lesson and felt that his defeat to Liu Chengdong was caused by his lack of education, so he kidnapped a few old Confucian students to teach him to read and write.

Zhao Scarzi's new village learned the design of Mingyue Village a few years ago, with solid wood as the wall, stone as the base, and rammed earth as the base. But Zhao Scarzi was not satisfied, and always asked several subordinates from the border army for advice on building camps, and recently began to turn over the "General Essentials of the Martial Arts". If Li Xiang learned that this old opponent had actually begun to open his eyes to the world, it was estimated that he would have to leave everything in Bianjing and run to Luliang in order to hack Zhao Scar to death as soon as possible.

There is a Juyi Hall in the center of Liangshan, and Zhao Scarzi's nest is no exception, I don't know why, the green forest Dakou in the north likes the name "Juyi Hall" the most, so Zhao Scarzi also follows the trend.

Zhao Scarzi was flipping through books in the light-filled righteous hall, pointing to a few places from time to time, and asking a few old Confucian students sitting tremblingly in the hall. At this moment, a tall young man with triangular eyes and a stout middle-aged man with a broad waist and a round waist directly broke in. Zhao Scarzi thanked a few Confucian scholars, and several old guys didn't even dare to say it, and then bent down step by step. It's not easy to live another day, one of the showmen sighed in his heart, always afraid that Zhao Scar would suddenly go crazy and cut people.

The tall young man is the clever and deceitful Tang Longwei, the stout young man is the honest and brave Qu Ye, the two are the orphans rescued by Zhao Scar from the mouths of the homeless, and they are also Zhao Scar's right-hand man. The two of them always wanted to laugh when they saw Zhao Scarzi seriously flipping through the book, but they didn't dare to be too presumptuous, so they had to hold back. At that time, when he came out of the Huang Family Courtyard, it was the clever Tang Longwei and the honest Quye who were the most hardworking, and these two are now the henchmen of Zhao Scarzi's henchmen.

Zhao Scarzi finally finished reading a paragraph, carefully put the book away, and then rubbed his eyes, "Damn, it's really tiring to read these big characters, it's more tiring than cutting people." It's so hard to understand what these words are talking about, how smart are those people who lift people and even champions? Then Zhao Scar asked the two henchmen to sit down, watching the minions outside practice the formation, with a relieved look on his face.

Tang Longwei patted his ass at the right time, "Big brother is really eloquent, not to mention that our sons and daughters have the strongest combat power after training, but they also have the power to protect themselves in Luliang." ”

Qu Ye has always liked to raise the bar with Tang Longwei, "But why do we learn from Liu Chengdong and Li Xiang?" Doesn't that seem inferior? ”

Zhao Scar was about to get angry, but quickly calmed down and had to be self-contained, he reminded himself. With a long sigh, Zhao Scar's body sitting in the tiger skin chair looked a little bleak, "Third brother, and second brother, the eldest brother has been thinking about why Liu Chengdong's guy was able to recruit smoothly, but we were beaten by Xiang Jun, Liu Chengdong, Huang Liren, and Qinling Mountain People." In the end, you can only go over the mountains and mountains to this murderous place thousands of miles away, and you can barely gain a foothold until not long ago, have you ever thought about it? ”

Seeing Tang Longwei and Qu Ye's puzzled expressions of curiosity, Zhao Scar nodded with satisfaction, at least these two were of the same mind as himself, only to hear Zhao Scar say again: "After thinking about it repeatedly, I feel that the problem lies in the rules and the bottom line. Liu Chengdong talked about the rules, fought for decency, drew the bottom line, and kept the system, so there was a great Confucian to help recruit peace. I heard that Li Xiang's kid was actually accepted as a disciple by that great Confucian, a great Confucian who is famous all over the world. ”

The envy on Tang Longwei's face was about to come out, although Qu Ye had always been resentful of Li Xiang and the scholars, his face was also complicated at this time. Once he won the middle jinshi, the carp jumped over the dragon gate, turned over the tenant to sing, and the story of the high school champion, the discovery of the prodigy and the talented drama has been deeply rooted in the hearts of every Da Zhou people.

A thief who does all kinds of evil, he can kill and abuse scholars, torture the wives and concubines of the gentry by various means, and even pee on the embroidery bed of the young lady, but he always has envy and ...... in his heart Awe. Because the reader has mastered public opinion, the rules of the world, the truth, and the livelihood of the small people and various resources.

There are no absolutes, and in the past thousand years, of course, there have been princes who did not recognize the dominance of scholars, but they have all failed without exception. And no matter what he did, he would be crowned with titles such as "madman", "butcher", and "delusional" by the history books, and he was constantly whipped by generations of Confucians.

Therefore, no matter how much the grass king in the troubled times hates the wealthy and the big, if he wants to make a difference, he must extend an olive branch to the reader; Therefore, the most important criterion for judging whether a soldier is reckless or a prince has always been whether there is a talented Confucian or not; Therefore, if the princes want to get the world and dominate the world, they always have to make a lot of compromises to the group of scholars.

Zhao Scarzi picked up the book and pointed to the two younger brothers, "Lao Tzu is the same as you, even worse than you." One of you doesn't know why you're working so hard, but your family's harvest is getting less and less, and you end up selling everything and becoming a homeless. The other is that he was united by the county and the county to seize the family property, and then became a homeless person. Lao Tzu was directly ruined, and only Lao Tzu escaped alone......" Speaking of this, Zhao Scarzi took a deep breath, as if recalling the fire in the house when he was a child, and tears appeared in the corners of his eyes.

"Lao Tzu thought about it, but I only felt that the rules of this world were not on the side of our brothers at that time. Lao Tzu killed the gentry, killed the poor, bullied women, and even slaughtered the entire caravan, but finally ended up here, which shows that there are still rules in this world. Therefore, if our brothers want to survive and have an end, we must no longer cut and kill as before, and we must cater to the rules of this world. ”

"What about Liu Chengdong? What about Li Xiang? Although they are old enemies, since people can recruit peace, we have to learn, so that our brothers can have an end. Therefore, we must learn from Liu Chengdong, do not eat the grass by the nest, and do not kill people indiscriminately; It is necessary to learn from Li Xiang, purge the soldiers, and strengthen the rules; I also have to learn Mingyue Village, which is now Mingyue Village, and learn that people open mines and reclaim land, and you can't sit and eat empty. ”

Tang Longwei and Qu Ye finally understood the intention of their eldest brother's behavior of befriending nearby towns, courteous scholars, and strict military discipline, and finally understood their eldest brother's hard work, it turned out that everything was for a good end. The most insistent concept of survival for thousands of years by the descendants of Yan and Huang is to pass on the ancestry, support their parents, and take care of their families.

Zhao Scarzi carefully wiped the book a few times and put it in the box, the second master Tang Longwei and the third master Quye were digesting their eldest brother's mental journey, at this moment, a herald ran to the big house and knelt down on one knee, "Report ~~~ Report to the big boss, outside the mountain gate, outside the mountain gate, outside the mountain gate......"

"Niangniang, believe it or not, I hacked you to death?! Did someone call on the door? Qu Ye had a violent temper, and he hated to slash this panting guy with a knife.

"Calm down and speak slowly." Tang Longwei calmed down the herald, wondering which one was suddenly attacking.

The scar on Zhao Scar's face twitched a few times, could it be that the one who took refuge in himself saw his ambition and made a surprise attack?

The herald finally swallowed, "Outside the mountain gate, there is a Hao Juren who calls himself Haojia Town, and he calls the door with a lot of cloth, grain and slices of pork, saying that he wants to visit the big boss. Speaking of pork, the herald's Adam's apple shook a few times, and his stomach was ringing.

Zhao Scarzi thought for a few breaths, and suddenly thought of Mulian Mountain, which was not far from his own village, and his spirit perked up, "Hurry up, please, this is a distinguished guest!" ”

There are still seven days to go until the winter solstice, and Haojia Town, not far from Zhao Xianzi's cottage, was suddenly attacked by a group of Luliang bandits, and hundreds of women and hundreds of young people were robbed. Hao Juren, who is highly respected in Haojiazhen, has received more than one overture from Zhao Scar, but although this lifter knows that Zhao Scar is quite different from other mountain kings, he also disdains to socialize. "Now that my family is in a big disaster, I can only be a dead horse and a live horse doctor, I hope I won't be hacked to death......," the one-foot-bearded, man in his early forties, stood in front of the mountain gate, holding Zhao Scar's letter, and said worriedly.

Zhao Scarzi heard the drama from nowhere, wearing a staff robe, running out of the door barefoot, and greeted Hao Juren warmly, seeing Hao Juren's eyes twitch. Hearing that Haojia Town, which was in his "sphere of influence", was looted, Zhao Scarzi immediately became angry, and went straight to Mulian Mountain without eating dinner.

Where could Mulian Mountain resist the sneak attack of Zhao Scar's elite who had been purged, and it was wiped out in one fell swoop in a panic. Zhao Scarzi rescued a large number of young and strong women, not to mention, and also wiped out Mulian Mountain in one fell swoop, and at the same time, the women who had been insulted and could not return home were also married to his brothers. Hao Juren was grateful, and only took back half of the food and other materials, and the rest went to Zhao Scarzi.

Zhao Scarzi won a big victory, Hao Juren spread the reputation of "Zhao Yuanwai" everywhere, and the towns and villages close to Zhao Scar all handed over posts to seek refuge. So Zhao Scarzi opened mines and mined medicines, cultivated fields and smuggled them, fought with the gentry outside the mountains, and continued to recruit homeless people, embarking on a counterattack road that was difficult to replicate.