The year Lu Zhi left Zhuo County, Zhang Xiang was eight years old, Liu Bei was fifteen years old, Liu Bei did not survive in Zhuo County as in history, perhaps because of the growing contradictions between Zhang Fei and Liu Bei in the past two years.

So Liu Bei left Zhuo County and followed Gongsun Chan out to mix, although Gongsun Chan was only a small official in the county at this time, but he relied on his handsome appearance, loud voice, wit and good argumentation, and won the appreciation of Liu Taishou of Zhuo County, and married his daughter to him, and Gongsun Chan was also hugged on his thigh.

It is natural for Liu Bei to follow him, after Lu Zhi left, Zhang Xiang indulged for a few days because he was uncontrolled, but he felt bored playing and playing, and after two years of study, he had already developed Zhang Xiang's living habits.

All of a sudden, no one cared, and he was a little uncomfortable, Zhang Xiang wanted to find something to do, and he couldn't stay idle like this! Zhang Xiang thought about a lot of things, he was not old enough to be an official, and he was not physically fit enough to be a soldier, and finally Zhang Xiang decided to start his own business.

Since you have an idea, then it depends on how to implement it, Zhang Xiang took a fancy to an industry game, which was later gambling, in fact, gambling was banned in the Han Dynasty, and the traditional game cockfighting, juju, and chess play are also games that can only be played by famous families, so to speak, it can be said that only the state officials are allowed to set fires and the people are not allowed to light the lamps.

But at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Liu Hong became the emperor, and during his reign, he implemented party and eunuch politics, set up a West Garden, set up a name to loot money, and even sold official beards, which can be said to be a poor livelihood for the people.

As the so-called upper beam is not correct and the lower beam is crooked, the people above collect the people's fat and ointment, how can the people below ask for the people's lives? Therefore, the game will gradually rise among the people at this time, which also makes Zhang Xiang see business opportunities.

The Zhang family, as a big family in Zhuo County, of course knew some county officials, because of Zhang Hao's great help, it can be said that Zhang Xiang's opening of the game was very smooth, and he soon chose a place to open.

The Eastern Han Dynasty's game is too monotonous, Zhang Xiang introduced some modern gambling projects into his own gambling house, like what dice, pai gow, those simple and easy to understand, Zhang Xiang was sought after by the people of Zhuoxian County as soon as he opened.

Zhang Xiang also sold alcohol in the gambling house, and invited a lot of dancing girls and singers to scratch their heads and make gestures in it, the life of the Han Dynasty can be said to be very monotonous, Zhang Xiang's stimulation, of course, the business is very hot.

It can be said that it is full every day, and the reputation of Zhangjia Gambling House is spreading farther and farther, and many caravans are detouring to Zhuoxian, and Zhang Xiang's income is getting more and more, and the business is getting bigger and bigger.

But Zhang Xiang's gambling house has a drawback that it is easy to be imitated by others, and sure enough, within a few months, this kind of gambling house has appeared all over Youzhou, and the area of this business is constantly expanding.

The business of Zhang Xiang's gambling house gradually became dull, fortunately, there is still the support of the villagers in Zhuo County, but after all, there are people in Zhuo County who do not sell the face of the Zhang family, such as the Ma family.

Not long ago, the Ma family set up a new gambling house in Zhuo County, which also had prostitutes, which could be said to have immediately sucked away half of Zhang Xiang's guests, in fact, Zhang Xiang did not think of inviting some prostitutes, but out of consideration for his reputation, he ran aground at that time.

But Zhang Xiang didn't expect that the Ma family would open a prostitute gambling house first, and the business was getting better and better. Zhang Xiang was greedy.

Zhang Xiang is not a person who sits still, he found Zhang Fei and Zhang Feng to conspire with him and smashed the Ma family gambling house, this industry is so full of bloody violence, Zhang Xiang didn't feel that it was immoral to do so.

Zhang Fei's eyes glowed red when he heard the excitement of the fight, in fact, there was another reason why Zhang Fei was so excited, he knew that the Ma family gambling house had robbed Zhang Xiang of a lot of business, and Zhang Xiang had a sad face recently.

Of course Zhang Fei was not happy in his eyes, in fact, Zhang Fei's idea was very simple, if you bully my brother, then wait to be beaten! Of course, Zhang Fei is not stupid, he took advantage of the dead of night to cover his face and take a few burly younger brothers to smash the Ma family gambling house by pretending to be adults.

Although Zhang Fei is only eleven years old, his figure is like an adult, this is the so-called fierce general's posture! After the Ma family suffered a loss, of course they didn't want to give up, but because there was no evidence that Zhang Xiang did it, they could only swallow the bitterness in their stomachs.

This horse planter recognized it, and they were also vigilant, invited a lot of gangsters to take care of the gambling house, and also let out the wind to smash the Zhangjia gambling house, and the two families were suddenly opposed, and there was a rhythm of fighting at any time.

Although the two sides are tense, but no one wants to start this head, it can be said that they don't get along with each other, Zhang Xiang also sighed, and he didn't want to make a big deal about it, so the two sides tacitly thought about a balance.

Majia gambling house to prostitutes to attract guests, that Zhang Xiang to play the variety of ways to attract guests, that is, after the dice pai gow, Zhang Xiang launched a big killer mahjong, mahjong is a game that has been flourishing since ancient times!

Zhang Xiang first taught a few families to learn mahjong at the beginning, let them play in the gambling house, and gradually many people also followed the play, although the Ma family gambling house also imitated mahjong, but mahjong is not so easy to understand after all, so many players only choose Zhangjia gambling house.

The game of mahjong is still very charming, Zhang Hao Zhang Fei is obsessed with this game, plus Chunying is just missing one of three, looking for cards everywhere every day, so they are addicted and don't look for Zhang Xiang to play.

In their words, isn't playing with Zhang Xiang looking for death? made Zhang Xiang very depressed, and Zhang Xiang also had itchy hands! With money, Zhang Xiang also bought a bigger place and opened a restaurant, so the meat doesn't cost money, isn't it great? So business is also good.

Because the restaurant was opened, there were a lot of chickens and dogs in the kitchen, Zhang Xiang remembered the traditional game cockfighting and dog fighting, so that the dead chickens and dogs went to the restaurant to sell for money, and they were killed, isn't this killing two birds with one stone? .

Of course, bloody scenes such as fights and dog fights also attract a lot of customers, and there are also many gentlemen in the county, but the guests of such a game are very rude, so there are often people who make trouble.

Of course, there may be some people who are making trouble behind their backs, these are normal, and there is no way to prevent it, Zhang Xiang had to invite a lot of ruffians and gangsters through Zhang Hao, it can be said that there are all kinds of people, and there are two or three hundred people in the miscellaneous together.

These people are all young and middle-aged people, and Zhang Xiang can't watch this group of people sit and eat empty! I invited the veterans in the county to practice, not to mention that it looked quite decent after a few days of training.

As the saying goes, where there are people, there is fighting, and these brave and ruthless people are no exception, and even the fighting is even more serious, often breaking arms and legs, Zhang Xiang's gang of subordinates are faintly divided into two factions.

One faction is the middle-aged faction headed by Fanhe, Fanhe is a middle-aged man with a full face, and he is also an old man in the Zhang family's slaughterhouse, and Zhang Hao specially sent him to protect him, so Fanhe privately called Zhang Xiang the third young master.

One faction is the young Zhuang faction headed by Lin Ping, Lin Ping is a person who looks like a scholar, and the people in this faction are all sixteen or seventeen years old, they did not hesitate to make a move, regardless of the consequences, and caused Zhang Xiang a lot of trouble, making Zhang Xiang love and hate.

In fact, Lin Ping and Zhang Xiang also have a little relationship, when Zhang Xiang was five years old, all households in the county had no food for the winter, Lin Ping went to escape the famine at this time, but he gave up his parents to escape the famine alone, at that time Lin Ping's family still had some food, Lin Ping chose to escape the famine alone in order to let his parents eat enough, which can be said to be a filial son. When he came back, it was already half a year later, it turned out that Lin Ping was in trouble on the way to escape the famine, so it was delayed, he returned home thinking that his parents were gone, who wanted his parents to be well, and later Lin Ping knew that it was Zhang Xiang who funded his parents, so Lin Ping was still very grateful to Zhang Xiang.

The day before yesterday, it was this group of young Zhuang faction that brought huge losses to Zhang Xiang, these people once drank too much, and happened to see the people of the Ma family gambling house, and they started to fight without asking the reason, and unloaded the hands and feet of the people in front of the Ma family gambling house.

The means were extremely bloody, all alarmed the county, the county lieutenant also personally came to the scene to verify, although there is no evidence, but it is a Zhuo County person who knows who did it, and finally the county lieutenant found Zhang Hao to let Zhang Xiang converge the point, so that Zhang Hao lost a lot of silver, Zhang Hao didn't feel anything, but it can make Zhang Xiang feel distressed, which is enough to catch up with his profit for half a month.

Later, after inquiring about Zhang Xiang, I learned that this county lieutenant was a relative of the Ma family, so he deliberately made things difficult for the Zhang family.

Because there are two county lieutenants in Zhuo County, Zhang Xiang originally planned to support another county lieutenant to suppress the Ma family, after all, there is such a sentence that peers are enemies. It's a pity that it backfired, and the other county lieutenant is the elder brother of the county order, to put it bluntly, he is an idle eater, and he knows at a glance that he can't participate in this kind of thing.

I don't know what's wrong, did the county lieutenant of the Ma family taste the sweetness, or leaked out that he often found trouble with the Zhang family in the past half a month, Zhang Xiang really couldn't help it, he decided to make a decision and kill the county lieutenant of the Ma family.

Originally, Zhang Fei and Zhang Feng were the best candidates, but they were still young after all, and Zhang Xiang didn't want them to take on such a bad thing too early, so in the end, Zhang Xiang had no choice but to choose Lin Ping.

Zhang Xiang was kind to Lin Ping, so Lin Ping did not hesitate when he received the news late at night, and went to the restaurant to see Zhang Xiang, Lin Ping entered the Zhangjia Restaurant from the back door, and it was dark after he entered, and he felt that there was no one.

Zhang Xiang suddenly appeared behind Lin Ping, Lin Ping reacted quickly, and when he saw that it was Zhang Xiang, he was relieved, "Son, you are looking for me, what is there to say directly!" "Zhang Xiang is young, so many of his subordinates call him Gongzi.

Zhang Xiang: "Lin Ping, I know you, do you want to be on the throne?" ”

Lin Ping didn't expect Zhang Xiang to be so direct, he thought for a while, "Yes." ”

Zhang Xiang: "That's good, I want the life of the county lieutenant of Majia." You want to be on top and come to me with his head,"