The Qi family is a merchant family, which He Ping has long known, they originally relied on caravans to make a fortune, and then provided a lot of financial assistance for Tianhua's foreign expeditions, and also used their own circulation channels to raise food and grass for Tianhua's troops and explore intelligence, it is precisely because of these achievements that the ancestors of the Qi family will be knighted, become nobles, and get the territory of Pinghua Ling.

The Qi family's belief is interests, what country and nation and the like must be ranked second in their eyes, even the aid provided to the Tianhua army at the beginning, but only because the high-level Qi family at that time thought that Tianhua would definitely be able to win, if the investment was made in advance, then after Tianhua became bigger and stronger, more compensation would definitely be made to the Qi family, and in addition to direct benefits, the title and territory could also make the Qi family more prosperous, so as to get more benefits.

It is precisely because of this concern that the ancestors of the Qi family will do their best to help Tianhua, and in fact, their expectations are not wrong, because the help of the Qi family is very important, so when the Tianhua Empire obtained a large amount of land and interests, and began to reward the heroes, they used various methods to repay the contribution of the Qi family, in fact, the benefits of the Qi family have far exceeded what they contributed, as well as the possible profits of those contributions during that time.

Especially the title and land, it has made the Qi family from a merchant family to a nobleman of the empire, and it is also a high-ranking nobleman, with its own territory and troops, and the business is getting bigger and bigger than before, but the problem is that the Qi family has taken the greedy nature of human beings to the extreme, and their desires. There is no end in sight. After becoming a high-ranking nobleman in Tianhua and receiving the title of Pinghua to lead this land, they did not stop. Instead, they are still trying their best to go further and get more benefits.

However, in Tianhua, the privileges of the nobility are not much, and the royal family and the imperial court often work out some means to suppress the aristocracy, the most famous is the title assessment system, some families themselves have titles, but if there are no outstanding descendants or new merits. If you fail to pass the annual title assessment, the title will gradually decline, and the title will only drop but not rise. Once it is lowered, even if you pass the next assessment, you will not be promoted back unless you make a very big contribution.

The existing aristocracy was constantly suppressed. There are even some who lose their titles because they have failed to pass the examination continuously. Becoming a commoner, on the other hand, is very powerful for the cultivation of commoners, otherwise, a merchant family like the Qi family wants to become a high-ranking nobleman with a territory, it is basically a fool's dream, in Tianhua. Many civilians are recognized as long as they have the corresponding talents and merits. It is not difficult to obtain a knighthood and become a new nobleman, and even the royal family will deliberately show some favoritism to the emerging nobles in order to balance the court.

Tianhua's side is the list of nobles has been constantly changing, there are constantly old nobles who have lost their titles, fallen into the middle of the family, and become commoners, and there are constantly commoners who have been awarded knighthoods, or even obtained territories, and become a member of the nobles, while the Auckland side is just the opposite, the privileges of the nobles are terrible, the status of commoners is low to the limit, and in Auckland, the nobles whose titles have been withdrawn and the commoners who have been knighted are few and miserable, so many years, this list can be counted with a finger.

The Qi family's treason, it is nothing more than a fancy to this, because of the many privileges of the nobles in Auckland, as long as they can become the nobles of Auckland, they can develop steadily, not like in Tianhua, in case any generation of the Qi family is too mediocre, and it is in the prosperous era, there is no war to fight, the Qi family is very likely to fail to pass the assessment and be demoted, if it is reduced to a certain extent, the territory may be recovered, at that time, the interests of the Qi family will be damaged.

The Qi family is a merchant family, of course, the most in the family is of course a businessman, of course, there are also some children of the Qi family who will specialize in learning arithmetic, identification and some other auxiliary skills, after all, a family's business is not simply dependent on business can be supported, among them, because the Qi family has territory and troops, so there will be some children of the Qi family will learn military and martial arts, learn the skills of leading soldiers to fight, in addition, the Qi family will also absorb some talented young people to become sons-in-law.

Qi Nan, the head of the Qi family, this person He Ping also heard Zhao Zheng talk about, although he was young and mainly studied business, after all, he was the eldest son of the Qi family, business is the key, but because he is quite smart, so in addition to business, martial arts and the art of war have not fallen, after the outbreak of the war, he also used to fight with the troops in order to boost morale, and he is a person with both civil and military skills, but although he is the head of the family, he is not the boss.

Qi Nan is still best at business, leading troops to fight is only competent, but not proficient, when he led the troops to fight, he only participated as a general under the commander, and the troops he led were only a little bit, and he did not participate in many battles, and soon returned to his original identity, and according to Zhao Zheng's introduction, in the Qi family, the commander in charge of commanding all the troops should be Qi Nan's third uncle Qi Lin.

The Qi family is also prosperous, at least compared to the Zhao family, there are many more direct children, Qi Nan, as the head of the family, is the eldest son of the lineage, and his father is also the eldest of that generation, their lineage mainly learns business, and the past generations choose the best to become the head of the family, and his third uncle Qi Lin, as well as Qi Lin's lineage, are mainly based on practicing martial arts and learning the art of war, and the Qi family's troops are mainly in their hands.

Therefore, this time He Ping and Wen Fang came here with special forces, the primary target is this Qi Lin, if Qi Lin, as the commander of the Qi family's troops, is killed, then the chaos of the Qi family's troops may not be possible, but it is inevitable to suspend the offensive, and then elect a new coach, and it is difficult to say whether the new coach has Qi Lin's level, Qi Lin is also a battle-hardened general, and it is not so easy to reach the realm of Qi Lin.

However, He Ping and Wen Fang, and after seeing that there was no suspense in the battle and nothing worth seeing, the team leaders who finally came back to their senses and began to pay attention to the task, after searching on the battlefield, they did not find Qi Lin's figure, Wen Fang did find a few familiar faces, but those people should not be enough to be the boss, and if those people are in the formation, only Qi Lin should be able to suppress them, if someone else is the boss, they should not be convinced.

"It's weird, why isn't Qi Lin here?" Wen Fang muttered and said: "Looking at the formation of the Qi family, the position over there should be the Chinese army, but it is not Qi Lin who is in charge of the Chinese army, but a general who doesn't look very old, what's going on?" Could it be that I misjudged that it was not the Chinese army there? But it doesn't make sense, the Qi family's formation is not a too complicated formation, it is the Chinese army, which should be obvious. ”

Listening to Wen Fang's words, He Ping's heart moved, and he asked: "Qi Lin is the third uncle of Qi Nan, the head of the Qi family, there is no problem with this, so how old is Qi Nan this year?" ”

"If I'm not mistaken, Qi Nan is a few years older than my uncle, so he should be almost forty." Although he didn't understand why He Ping asked Qi Nan's age at this time, Wen Fang still quickly gave an answer.

"Since Qi Nandu is already forty, then his third uncle must be not young, right?"

"Hmm, this ......" Wen Fang was not stupid, he immediately understood what He Ping meant, he thought about it and said: "The last time I saw Qi Lin, it should have been two years ago, and at that time he was almost sixty, and it is indeed possible that a person of this age has not gone to the battlefield in person." ”

The military world is only a second-level civilization world, roughly similar to the ancient times of the main world, people's life expectancy is generally not high, ordinary people can live to be fifty years old, even if it is good, sixty years old is already considered a long life, even if the big family has better conditions, they can also afford to hire a wise Langzhong, sixty years old is also a relatively common lifespan, there are very few people who can live to be over seventy years old, Qi Lin is already sixty, this age, it is likely that he has unloaded the burden and handed over the position of commander to the successor. (Want to know more exciting developments in "Time Air Arms Dealer"?) Open WeChat now, click on the "+" sign in the upper right corner, select Add Friends to add an official account, search for "Qidianzhongwenwang", follow the official account, and never miss every update! (To be continued......)