In just a few days, the news of Zhao Fan's defeat of Wei Liang spread all over Handan City, making this young man, who has been famous for a lot in recent months, become famous again and become a leading figure among the teenagers in Handan City in one fell swoop.

During the Warring States period, people valued their reputation the most, and this battle made Zhao Fan's name a household name in Handan City and even the entire Zhao State, and its limelight was even overshadowed by the first young man in Handan City, Li Dui's son Li Ran.

For this reputation, Zhao Fan didn't care too much and was happy, after all, even people like Li Ran used to be the first young person in Handan City, what is the use of him winning this reputation now?

In his opinion, it is a different kind of irony.

As Zhao Fan expected, the failure of Wei Liang and the others in the competition this time had an extremely bad impact on the reputation of the ten sword halls opened by Li Dui, and the original grand occasion was not as good as before, many apprentices had dropped out, and the number of personnel had been greatly reduced.

At this moment, in the Xiangguo Mansion, Li Dui's face was iron-blue, and at the bottom of it, Wei Biao and Wei Liang and others were standing tremblingly, and some were sword masters of the Sword Pavilion invited by Li Dui from all over the world at a high price.

In his opinion, agreeing to fight with Zhao Fan was an extremely stupid decision, if Wei Liang won, but now, he was defeated, and he was defeated so completely, how could this not make him angry?

"This is the result you gave me, who kept saying that he would definitely win this competition, do you know how much this defeat has damaged our sword hall's reputation?"

Li Dui looked around at the people below, his tone was extremely gloomy, this was still he barely controlling his emotions, after all, Wei Biao played a lot of role in him, and he didn't want to cause estrangement from the former because of this.

If it is a different person, I am afraid that it will be directly fanned by the big ear scraper.

Wei Biao's face was full of bitterness, and he was also very angry with Wei Liang's behavior in his heart, but after all, the former was his own son, and in front of outsiders, he still had to excuse himself, and immediately said: "Lord Xiangguo, this matter is still to blame for my godson's lack of way, so that this rebel son not only made such a stupid decision, but also failed in the competition, I am willing to be punished." ”

He clenched his teeth at the moment, his hatred for Zhao Fan was already a monstrous continent, if it wasn't for Zhao Fan's provocation and defeat Wei Liang, why did he have to be so embarrassed, in the court, many ministers were definitely already laughing at them.

Li Dui's face flickered uncertainly, to be honest, he wanted to kill Wei Liang, a fool, directly, but because of Wei Biao's face, he would definitely not kill him, but at least he had to teach the latter a lesson.

"General Wei, this matter has nothing to do with you, you don't have to ask the old man for the crime first, but although Wei Liang is your eldest son, his actions this time have already caused very serious consequences to the sword hall we opened, as well as the reputation in the court, so we must be punished." Li Dui tried his best to calm his mood, and said in a hoarse voice.

During this time, Li Dui's temper became extremely irritable, and Wei Liang would definitely have extremely serious consequences if he made such a big mistake. Wei Biao knew this, so he took the initiative to ask for the guilt, in this way, Li Dui looked at his face, so that he would not punish his son too severely.

Hearing this, Wei Biao also said apologetically: "Lord Xiangguo's words are very true, no matter what, he has caused such a big loss, but he deserves to be punished, Lord Xiangguo just deals with this rebel, I have no complaints." ”

Wei Biao's face was respectful, and his tone was quite sincere, this trick is called wanting to capture and indulge.

Sure enough, when Li Dui saw him say this, he was embarrassed to punish Wei Liang, he thought for a moment, and said: "Forget it, for the sake of his youth after all, he will temporarily demote his position as brigade commander to a pawn commander, if you can make contributions in the future, the old man is helping you continue to improve." ”

For people like Wei Liang and Li Ran, their military rank and official position are not important, what matters is their family, and Handan City is precisely because of this, so he is quite jealous of these people.

Otherwise, a brigade commander and division commander would want to go sideways in Handan City?

Hearing this, Wei Biao also pushed Wei Liang, and the former reacted and hurriedly thanked him. Although this defeat did not cause him any loss of actual surname, Wei Liang remembered Zhao Fan deeply this time, and a boundless anger also secretly rose in his chest.

Zhao Fan naturally didn't know about this, but even if he knew, he would definitely laugh it off, he didn't cause trouble, but he wasn't afraid of others looking for trouble, as long as someone didn't know what to do, he didn't mind leaving that person with some unforgettable memories for a lifetime.

The Zhongmu Sword Pavilion already belonged to Zhao Fan at this time, and the original sword masters had already left with their luggage when they got the news of Wei Liang's defeat, leaving only hundreds of apprentices, stunned to stay in the Sword Pavilion, not knowing where to go.

Zhao Fan took Xu Ying and Xu Xiong across the bluestone bridge, and walked into the sword hall next to the bridge, he glanced at the sword hall, and nodded with satisfaction in his heart.

This place is good, not only spacious, the decoration is magnificent, but also the scenery is also extremely good, and it is located in a crowded area, which is undoubtedly extremely convenient for him to recruit apprentices.

"Xu Ying, remove that plaque, it turns out that this sword hall has changed hands, and the name will naturally be changed, you remove it first, I will think of a name these days, and then order someone to make a new one."

Zhao Fan glanced at the four big characters of "Zhongmu Sword Pavilion" on the top of the door, and also commanded. He was not interested in this name, not to mention, this was the name that Li Dui and they obtained, and Zhao Fan actually received this sword pavilion, so it was naturally impossible to use it again.

"No." Hearing this, Xu Ying also promised and took down the plaque.

Zhao Fan walked into the sword hall slowly, only to see that it was empty, not a single bamboo mat or a few cases were left, and everything was emptied, just like when the guards were fighting a war.

Most of the apprentices have left, and there are still dozens of people who haven't had time to leave, but Zhao Fan has already walked in, and when they saw him, those apprentices were also ashamed, after all, they used to be the apprentices of Yan Zhiwolf and others, and the masters were defeated, so what face would they have.

Zhao Fan didn't speak, walked in front of everyone, glanced at everyone calmly, and suddenly said: "You also know, now, this sword hall is already mine, you were originally the apprentices of this sword hall, and now, those sword masters and Wei Liang and others have left, if you are willing to stay and continue to learn swords, I welcome you, if you don't want to, you can also leave." ”

Hearing this, everyone was taken aback, most of them were full of astonishment, now that the owner of the sword hall is Zhao Fan, can he still let himself and others continue to practice swords here? It was really a little unexpected for them, and they were a little speechless immediately.

"What? Don't want to? If you don't want to, then you can go. Zhao Fan frowned slightly, and when he saw that these people didn't speak, he also shook his head and said.

Just as he was about to leave these people alone, someone suddenly said loudly: "Master Zhao, we are willing to stay, but do we still need to pay tuition?" We have already paid this year's tuition, but now ......"

The apprentices who learn the sword here all pay a quarter's tuition, and their winter tuition has just been paid not long ago, but they didn't expect the sword hall to suddenly change owners, their semester is not full, but they don't dare to ask Li Dui for extra tuition, and they are immediately full of embarrassment.

Zhao Fan turned around and looked at them, only to see that several apprentices had left the sword hall, and at a glance he knew that he was unwilling to stay, and he was a person who learned swords under Zhao Fan's hands, in this regard, Zhao Fan also smiled, and did not speak, for these people, he naturally would not stay, it was okay to leave, for these apprentices, he also had an extremely important role, but the first condition was that he must be loyal to him.

Zhao Fan nodded, didn't say much, and said simply: "If you want to stay, you don't have to pay the tuition for this quarter, but I only need one condition, that is, you must obey my orders, no matter what you do, as long as I tell you, you have to do it." ”

As soon as the words fell, the courtyard suddenly fell silent, isn't this equivalent to a deed of sale? Many people wanted to stay and continue to study because they saw Xu Ying, Xu Xiong and others were powerful in martial arts, and when they heard him say this, they suddenly fell silent.

Seeing this, Zhao Fan also knew that what he said made it really difficult for them to agree, and immediately said again: "You don't have to think about it, in fact, it is the same as the soldiers in the army, obeying the orders of the generals, and the swordsmen of our sword hall, in addition to the two of them, I will also ask General Lian and General Wang Xian to have time to come and guide you." ”

Zhao Fan pointed at Xu Ying and Xu Xiong, and then looked calm.

Hearing this, everyone suddenly became excited, they had seen Xu Ying and Xu Xiong's power, and now they heard that even the most prominent generals such as Lian Po and Wang Xian would come to guide them, and the surprise in their hearts, naturally needless to say, could be called ecstatic.

After all, these big figures, not to mention in this small Handan City, even the whole world, are not small.

As soon as Zhao Fan said this, many people immediately expressed their willingness to stay, and only a small number of apprentices left the Sword Pavilion.

In the end, there were about fifty people left, these people were just apprentices of the Sword Pavilion, and they were not Li Dui's cronies and dead soldiers, so they didn't have to be loyal to Li Dui, it was just a money transaction, I gave money, and you taught me things.

Therefore, for these people, Zhao Fan did not have any consideration because they learned swords in Li Dui's sword hall at the beginning. As long as the swordsmanship is strong, Zhao Fan will happily accept it.

After this matter was settled, Zhao Fan took these apprentices and bought some daily necessities such as a few cases and bamboo mats outside and brought them to the Sword Pavilion, but now the Sword Pavilion is empty, nothing is left, only an empty shelf remains, which makes Zhao Fan also depressed.

Li Dui was naturally reluctant to give up these broken tools, but he was angry in his heart and did it on purpose.

With the help of these apprentices, a series of problems such as cleaning and arranging the sword hall were quickly solved, and the original sword hall suddenly took on a new look, like a newly built sword hall.

After learning that Zhao Fan opened a sword hall by himself, and the sword masters in the sword hall were so appalling, Handan City suddenly triggered a craze for learning swords, and almost all young people wanted to enter the sword hall opened by Zhao Fan to study.

After all, the thought of letting Lian Po and other famous generals teach swordsmanship makes these civilians excited.

So many people wanted to join the Sword Pavilion, it was completely unexpected by Zhao Fan, although he wanted to accept the Sword Pavilion and continue to recruit apprentices, he didn't expect so many people to be willing to join, in desperation, he had to continue to open two more Sword Pavilions with Zhao Sheng, the king of the plains.

In this regard, although Zhao Fan was a little helpless on the surface, but he was very happy in his heart, these apprentices will be gathered together at that time, and it will be a big force, Zhao Fan recruited sword masters everywhere, taught them swordsmanship, and from time to time also secretly instilled in these people the idea of supporting King Huiwen and opposing Li Dui.

In fact, he has been thinking about this matter for a long time, and he has already prepared it, so he immediately came to his hands, and has gradually influenced the apprentices who originally did not care about state affairs, Zhao Fan believes that this concept, one to ten, ten to hundred, when the time comes, it will be of great help to them in the struggle with Li Dui.

In Handan City, the wind and snow are very huge, a fast horse is galloping from outside the city at the moment, and immediately a man dressed in Orion's costume rode into Cloud City, he stayed on the street for a long time, identified a direction, and went away as fast as possible.

The direction of the man's going is the Pingyuan Jun's Mansion, although he has not been to Handan many times before, but he has an impression of the famous Pingyuan Jun, and he also knows where his mansion is, and it didn't take long to come to the front of the mansion.

"Who?" Seeing someone approaching, the guards outside the mansion immediately clenched the weapons in their hands and asked in a cold voice.

The man got off the horse, and he hurriedly said: "Go and inform the Pingyuan Fengjun, I was sent back by Mr. Gongsun Long, and I have something to report to him, you go in and report it, and the Pingyuan Fengjun will definitely come out to see me." ”

The guard looked him up and down a few times, nodded as well, and turned to enter the mansion.

Today's weather is extremely cold, although the snow is not heavy, but the temperature is extremely low, even if a few clothes are disclosed, Zhao Fan still can't help but close to the clothes on his body. At this moment, they were drinking in the hall, discussing the next thing.

At this moment, a guard came quickly, and said loudly: "Report to the king, someone outside the door asked to see him, and said that Lord Gongsun Long sent him." ”

Zhao Fan put down the wine bottle, a look of anxiety flashed in his eyes, and he quickly got up and said, "Where is the other?" ”

"Just wait outside the house."

At this time, Zhao Sheng and the others also stood up from the soft collapse, Gongsun Long is now recruiting soldiers outside Handan City, what will make him in such a cold day, ordering people to come quickly, obviously there is something important.

Everyone understands what Gongsun Long and others have done, so one by one, their faces are full of doubts and nervousness.

Following the guards left and right, Zhao Fan also hurriedly walked out of the mansion, outside his mansion, a hunter wearing animal skins suddenly appeared in front of him, his face was flushed, panting, obviously he had been in a hurry for a long time.

Immediately, Zhao Fan also handed him a pot of hot wine, and the man recognized Zhao Fan, the last time the former returned to the city, he was the one who saved himself, so he immediately didn't have any worries, and drank the hot wine to the bottom.

Zhao ...... Zhao Shishuai, you can quickly take someone to come with us, today when I was in Yuehua Village, Lord Gongsun Long clashed with a left army of more than 2,000 people because of the conscription, I saw that they were not good, and there were many people, so I quickly came back to inform you. The man gasped and said intermittently.

Hearing this, Zhao Fan was also anxious in his heart, when Gongsun Long and the others left, he only brought a hundred bearded sword knights, even if he recruited some soldiers during this time, I am afraid that it is more than a thousand people, and the enemy is twice as many as them, if there is a conflict, it is indeed a great loss.

Immediately, Zhao Fan also said: "Where is Yuehua Village?" Take us there? ”

At this time, Zhao Sheng and the others also understood the reason for the whole thing, and immediately Zhao Fan took Xu Ying, Xu Xiong, and the two hundred bearded sword knights of the Plains Monarch's Mansion, and rode fast horses and galloped towards the outside of the city.

Zhao Sheng and the others also need to guard the town of Handan and help King Huiwen, so as not to make trouble for Li Dui at this time.

After nearly ten days of development after the competition, the apprentices of the three sword halls have reached thousands of people, and there are some people who are not regular apprentices, but people who come to watch every day, Zhao Fan is also constantly thinking about these people.

Moreover, in a few days, Lian Po should also quietly rush back with the army, during this time, Zhao Fan has already made a detailed plan, just waiting for Lian Po's arrival, and then launch a deadly attack on Li Dui.

Zhao Fan took two hundred bearded sword knights and rushed out of Handan City directly, at this time, he didn't want to do anything secretly, and he was the commander of the sixth division, and the matter of conscription, but in the court, everyone agreed to the decision.

So, he doesn't have to hide anything.

Outside the city of Handan is a vast plain, the original green grassland, at the moment is already bare, covered with a thick layer of snow, endless, war horses gallop on the snow, the quality of the bearded knight is extremely high, no one asks anything along the way, they are only responsible for performing tasks, how to explain how to do, never say a word.

Yuehua Village is located in the northwest of Handan City, where there is a mountain forest nearby, and there are many wild beasts, so most of the residents there are hunters, and Gongsun Long and they went there to recruit soldiers, but it is also a normal thing.

Although the speed of the war horse was not fast in the snow, Yuehua Village was not far from Handan, and in about an hour, the outline of a village had already appeared in front of everyone.

At the entrance of his village, there were two groups of people, extremely large in number, one was a group of soldiers in armor and uniforms, they had about five brigades, more than 2,000 people. Confronted by them was a group of more than 1,000 men in different and strange costumes. (To be continued.) )