When there was only the last light left between heaven and earth, another team of people came outside Lijiazhuang. This tribe was very mixed, and there were horsemen, mules, and even donkeys, and some on foot.

Some of them were armed with swords, some were armed with bows, some carried wooden spears, big sticks, and all kinds of clothes, in short, this was not an army.

But not ordinary people.

Fortunately, the person leading this team was Li Yuanfang, who carried a letter from his cousin Di Renjie.

After reading the letter carefully, Li Xiao chatted with Li Yuanfang for a while, and after finding that there was no problem, Li Xiao invited Li Yuanfang into the village.

After all, others came from Chang'an after traveling eighty miles, especially Di Renjie also explained in the letter that Li Yuanfang had been recommended by Yan Liben to the Ministry as the deputy supervisor of corn. He has long had a good impression of Li Yuanfang, and heard that he is strong in martial arts and is righteous and bold.

At present, more than 100 rangers have been summoned in Chang'an to come to help, why is Li Xiao unhappy.

After Li Yuanfang entered the village, he was also a little surprised to see that the village was full of government soldiers and people. Originally, I thought that my team of men and horses was strong, but looking at this, it doesn't matter whether I come here or not.

"Those government soldiers are the brothers of the Zuowei Lanxi Zhichong Mansion, and Liu Shenjun there is my friend, and I immediately sent someone to ask him for help after I met the thief, so he asked Qin Duwei to lead the troops to help. The other ones are the people of the township in my hometown, plus the people in the county brought by the Liuxian order. ”

"The soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, if those thieves dare to come if they don't die, they will fall into the net." Li Yuanfang said with a smile.

"With the addition of Brother Yuanfang, a new force, Li Jiazhuang should be safe."

Li Xiao is quite curious about the team brought by Li Yuanfang, these people are full of chivalry, and even to put it bluntly, they are ruffians.

In ancient times, the so-called rangers, the better ones were chivalrous and assassins, and the lower level of the bad ones was the ruffians.

Throughout the ages, these rangers are actually very annoying, and they are the targets of the government's attack. For example, several famous heroes in the Western Han Dynasty, Guo Jie, etc., although they are famous in the rivers and lakes, they were all wanted by the government, and in the end they could only hide in the homes of those powerful people, and even many so-called heroes were actually the disciples of those powerful people, and even said that they were assassin killers.

Of course, there is a difference between a ranger being an assassin or a killer, as early as in the past, assassins were often just, they committed assassinations for people, not in return, just out of justice, such as Zhang Liang, such as Jing Ke, they went to assassinate Qin Shi Huang, it was all because Qin Huang was a tyrant.

And there is another type of ranger who later becomes a killer, and the biggest difference between a killer and an assassin is that they kill for profit.

Someone gives them money, or gives them beauty, or other benefits, and then they help people kill people.

Thus, there is a distinction between an assassin and a killer.

The same goes for the rangers, the rangers at the bottom are actually the ruffians in a place, not even the gangsters, at most a group of young people from wealthy families or good backgrounds, just experiencing life.

These people actually want stimulation, and they still have a sense of justice in their hearts, not the kind of scum gangsters at the bottom who do all kinds of evil.

What Li Yuanfang brought today is the rangers in Chang'an City, and they are also those young people with good reputations and even good backgrounds, a group of sons and brothers who experience life.

It is said that when Li Shimin and Li Jiancheng brothers were young, they also mixed in Chang'an City, and they were also a member of the rangers, and they played with a large number of noble children such as Chai Shao at that time.

Later, Li Yuan planned to raise troops in Chang'an, and the brothers Jiancheng and Shimin went to Luoyang, Chang'an, to recruit their friends for his father.

Later, Li Yuan killed Guanzhong, Li Yuan's daughter Princess Pingyang recruited heroes in Guanzhong, and at that time there was a man named Shi Wanbao who was known as Chang'an Hero, and took many rangers to Pingyang, acting as the vanguard for Li Yuan, and laying a large area of territory in Guanzhong.

And this Chang'an hero Shi Wanbao is the leading eldest brother in the Chang'an rangers, but he is not from a reckless background, he is also a member of a Jiangmen family and a son of a nobleman.

Shi Wanbao's eldest brother is called Shi Wansui, one of the four famous generals of the Sui Dynasty.

Basically, the children of the nobles in Chang'an were all on the streets when they were young and worked as rangers. Although they are rangers and do not collect protection money on the street, they like the feeling of calling friends and drinking as a song.

In fact, this is also a way for the children of the nobility to expand their contacts, and it is their social circle.

For example, today Li Yuanfang was able to respond to every call and bring more than 100 rangers, in fact, the key is one of his friends.

"San Lang, this is my friend Wang Fangyi, known as the Chang'an hero." Li Yuanfang said with a smile.

"Just call me Zhongxiang." Wang Fangyi's face is like a crown of jade, and his figure is tall, which makes people feel very good at first glance. Especially this person has the same smell as Cheng Boxian Xue Chuyu, and he has an aristocratic temperament, but he doesn't have that kind of shelf, and he makes eye contact with him, which makes people have a kind of cordial gentleness.

Chang'an Daxia is actually a nickname given to Wang Fangyi by the Chang'an rangers, he is not actually from Chang'an, but from Bingzhou. Li Yuanfang's mother is from Bingzhou, so they are actually half a fellow countryman, and they are of the same age, and both of them have bold personalities, so they hit it off at first sight and soon became good friends.

Wang Fangyi has not been in Chang'an for a long time, but he is very famous in Chang'an's ranger circle. Not only because he is bold, but also because he has a good identity.

Li Yuanfang briefly introduced Wang Fangyi's background to Li Xiao.

The current Queen Wang is Wang Fangyi's cousin. Wang Fangyi is the son of the Taiyuan Wang family, Li Yuan's sister Tong'an eldest princess was married to Wang Fangyi's grandfather, although Wang Fangyi's father was not born by a princess. But the reputation of the Taiyuan Wang family is indeed very great, and among the five surnames and seven sects, the Taiyuan Wang family is extremely famous.

Emperor Taizong not only married the daughter of the Wang family as the crown princess for the crown prince Li Zhi, but also married one of his own princesses into the Wang family.

It is precisely because of the relationship of the queen's cousin that Wang Fangyi easily entered the Chang'an ranger circle, especially the circle dominated by the children of the nobility.

"Don't listen to what Brother Li said, although I am indeed a child of the Wang family, I was actually not as chic as Brother Li here when I was a child."

It turned out that Wang Fangyi's father died when he was very young, because his mother Li and his mother-in-law had a bad relationship with Princess An, so as soon as his father died, the eldest princess drove their mother and son to Fengquan Villa in the countryside.

They used to live a rich life, and the Li family didn't know how to take care of the industry at all. Although Wang Fangyi was young at that time, he was very filial, in order to reduce his mother's burden, he took the initiative to work with the servants, they worked together to reclaim wasteland, plant trees, repair houses, and refine pine pills and ink for sale.

With Wang Fangyi's efforts for many years, the days of Fengquan Villa are getting better and better, with more and more industries, and there are dozens of hectares of good fields, and trees are overgrown in front of and behind the house.

He not only let his mother live a good life, but also practiced riding and archery and calligraphy diligently.

Later, after the death of the eldest princess, he and his mother returned to Chang'an. On a night trip, Wang Fangyi saw a monster with a height of more than one zhang, he was not in a hurry, pulled out the bow and arrow, shot the monster, and took a closer look, only to find that it was just a pair of wood, Li Shimin heard about this, and specially promoted him to the right thousand cows in the guard.

Therefore, although Wang Fangyi is known as the hero of Chang'an, he is not just a fool. He has an official position, and the official position is the preparation of thousands of cattle in the left and right preparation of the government.

What is the Thousand Cow Body?

This is a high-level imperial martial arts, and to put it bluntly, it is the imperial guard with a sword in front of the emperor.

The left and right Qianniu are equipped with the guards of the imperial sword, all of whom are made up for by the young and beautiful people of Gaoyin's children, and the flowers are embroidered and the clothes are green, which is a good choice for the nobles to start a family.

The origin of the Qianniu preparation comes from the Qianniu knife worn, and the Qianniu knife means that it can be sharp and can cut a thousand cattle. These guards with swords in front of the emperor were left and right by the emperor, and they were forbidden to enter and exit, without restraint.

In particular, the selection criteria are very strict, and they must be the children of those noble and high-ranking officials, and they must be young and handsome, they wear a thousand ox knives given by the emperor, and they wear beautiful green embroidered clothes, which can be described as young and proud.

There are three guards and five mansions around the emperor, and the Qinxunyi Mansion is called the Inner Mansion, which is full of high-ranking officials and children, but the Qianniu are excellent people selected from the children here.

Moreover, the grade of Qianniu's body preparation is also higher, higher than that of Qinxun Yiwei, and it is directly the sixth grade, which is the senior military attache among the military attaches of the Praetorian Guard.

A six-grade imperial guard with a sword, but followed Li Yuanfang to Lanxi, this is not because of anything else, just a chivalrous spirit, today Wang Fangyi rested, and heard that Li Lifang was going to find a ranger to come to Lanxi to help, so he took the initiative to help gather more than a hundred people to come over.

Even, among the hundred or so people he brought, there are actually more than 30 people from the Neiwei Mansion, although they are not the same Qianniu as him, but they are all from the Qin Xun Yiwei, and all of them are seven or eight grades. looks young, and even a little hanging, but if you move out of your respective family fathers and brothers, it will definitely be scary.

It's not a child of a national family, or a child of a certain scholar's family, or a child of a high-ranking official, or even the grandson of the eldest princess, the son of a princess or something.

For them, in fact, it was a little boring to stay in Chang'an, and when they heard Wang Fangyi say that they came to the countryside of Lanxi, they didn't feel any danger, they just wanted to be fresh and fun.

"Brother Zhong Xiang, didn't you say that there was an eyeless fool who led his troops to rob that corn seed? Why didn't you see anyone? A seven-rank guard looked left and right with a horizontal knife, looking at the soldiers and people in the village who were eating, drinking, talking and laughing, and there was still a little disappointment in his eyes.

It's not fun!