As soon as they got out of Lingji Mountain, there were gradually more pedestrians on the road, and large caravans of up to three or four hundred people and groups of wind collectors also passed by from time to time.

This situation continued until entering the Green Ridge Ancient Road, and the flow of people on the road decreased. Even the occasional pedestrian is dressed in a short dress with a sword and a sword.

Through his conversations with Lao Dao and casual chats with fellow passers-by, Chen An probably has learned about the world he lives in. It is centered on a dynasty named Liang, and there are Sidi people outside the territory who always want to knock on the side to enter the Central Plains, and the two sides have been fighting for a hundred years and have won and lost each other, and the pattern has not changed so far.

Unlike the dynasty that Chen An was familiar with, the power structure of the Liang Dynasty consisted of three parts, namely gangs, sects, and families, which are commonly known as the three gangs, four factions and five families, which represented the underworld forces, the righteous forces, and the so-called official representatives. Therefore, the people of the Liang Dynasty also regarded themselves as the Three Liang people.

When there is an invasion by a foreign enemy, such as the barbarians, the three forces immediately unite and cooperate sincerely to defend against foreign aggression. But if it is in the peaceful years, for the sake of interests and rights, the three parties can beat people's brains out of dogs' brains, and they are very happy.

That is, the three parties contain each other, and they dare not go too far, otherwise the Liang Dynasty would have been divided into three parts and collapsed.

In the internal struggles again and again, the weakest was the official power of the Liang Dynasty, representing the Fifth Family, which surprised Chen An. It stands to reason that if you learn literature and martial arts to the emperor's family, even if the fifth family can't be the rule-maker, it won't be so unbearable.

Chen An thought for a long time, and could only attribute it to the fact that the weapons of this world were too backward. Even the Great Zhou where he stayed also had sharp weapons such as shocking cannons, and when he went to the inner court, he also knelt down. Da Qian even researched the fire gun, each shot was like a forty or fifty stone strong bow shot successfully, and the strong people of the celestial phenomena had to be injured even if they were shot.

But the strongest bow in the army here is only six stones, and legend has it that there is a ten-stone iron-tired bow, and the person who can pull the bow is even named a legend, but this is just an exception.

With such backward weapons, individual force naturally becomes the key to victory or defeat in a battle or even a campaign. The strength of martial arts masters has thus become a rigid criterion for determining the strength of a party's forces.

According to this criterion, the strongest are the sect forces, they take the elite line, and they are trained to be masters of taking shots; the second is the gang forces, in addition to cultivating their own manpower, they also wantonly recruit strong people to enrich themselves, although the members are uneven, and the impure character has led to many vicious incidents within them, and even is despised by the righteous path, and is denounced as an evil demon, but the fact that it is powerful cannot be denied.

Only the family power is based on its own children, even if it occasionally recruits and cultivates outsiders, it is often dirty, not as close as its own children, and things that favor one over the other happen from time to time. How can it compare to the other two?

However, the family forces hold the secular imperial power and formulate the superficial rules of the game, so that the other two parties can play comfortably on this ready-made game platform. So the two sides didn't join forces to kick the weakest guy out first, but still played happily with the little brother of the Fifth Family.

Green Ridge is the territory of the Jiuhua Gang, one of the three gangs, they used to be some bandits who did business without capital, but perhaps it was the choice of the times, this ancient business obviously could not become bigger and stronger, so they contracted all the road post stations, inns, carriages and horses, to make a hard money.

Of course, occasionally when you see money, you will go back to your old job, as long as your hands and feet are clean and not discovered, you will be fine, but if you are unlucky to provoke a self-proclaimed chivalrous young man, you can only consider yourself unlucky. Under normal circumstances, the Jiuhua Gang would not fight against the surging public opinion for the sake of this very small black sheep.

Similar to the Jiuhua Gang is the Jinjiang Gang entrenched in the Jinjiang River to the east of the Green Ridge, as the former Jiangyang thieves, as the saying in the water bandits, they and the Jiuhua Gang are peers, and in order to conform to the trend of the times, they resolutely changed their bad habits, relying on the Jinjiang River, the first waterway of the Liang Dynasty to do the business of Caoyun, and they are also doing a good job.

So the two green forest bigwigs relied on the mountains to eat the mountains, and the water and draught were completely washed ashore, making the originally desolate and uninhabited line of the Green Ridge Jinjiang River gradually prosper.

It's just that this time is still short, and the people who walk along the Jinjiang Road in the Green Mountains, in addition to their own people who belong to the three gangs, are the people of the four factions who don't take them seriously at all.

Other good people would rather make a detour of hundreds of miles around the official road outside the Green Ridge than come here.

As for Chen An, he followed the ancient road and didn't pay attention to which road at all.

Along the way, the combination of Chen An and Hongyi is very strange, one is in armor, the other is holding a red umbrella and wearing plain clothes, like a young lady on an outing, which does not match Chen An's pre-set identity as a son and maid.

Fortunately, along the way, they are all good bandits who advocate individuality, and people in strange costumes abound, so the two of them did not seem too abrupt.

After walking for a long time, Chen An found a tea shop in front of him for people to rest, and walked in with red clothes with great interest, beckoning Xiao Er to add tea and pour water.

Of course, this is not that he is idle and wants to experience the fun of the journey, but he is used to collecting intelligence from similar places and spying on the folk customs of a place, which can have twice the result with half the effort whether it is for the future trip or to help Lao Dao deliver letters.

In fact, there is another point in this, that is, Chen An's cultivation has encountered a bottleneck again.

Since that day he comprehended the essence of power, Chen An has been using it to simulate martial arts exercises, so as to more clearly understand the legal principles contained in it.

His self-created Cold and Flame Polar Skill, Yuanci Imperial Soldier Qi has no problem, it can be fully simulated, but it is only a matter of proficiency. But the martial arts of other memories did not go so smoothly in terms of simulated molding. It's always at some critical point that the force model collapses and the simulation falls short.

He pondered for a long time and thought that there was a mature true meaning in these exercises. The two poles of cold and flame and the Yuan Magnetic Imperial Soldier Qi were created by him, and the true meaning of the law is extremely familiar and flowing, and it is not troublesome to simulate, while he can't understand all the true meaning and law of other martial arts, and naturally he can't simulate it, and forcibly simulating it is only its shape, not the essence of the gods.

And if he wants to simulate the true meaning of the law together, unless his divine will is greatly improved on the basis of the present.

So he couldn't help but want to change his mind, put aside the true meaning of the law, and wait for himself to sublimate the law. First, study the power simulation of martial arts moves.

During this period, you can also observe the martial arts system of this world, hoping to play the role of the stone of other mountains. And this is naturally no better choice than the area where there are frequent fights on the Jinjiang line.

"Bang".

Just as Chen An was thinking wildly, the sound of sinking wood hitting the stone table suddenly came from ahead.

Chen An raised his head in surprise, looked at the character in front of him with a strange expression, and his thoughts flew for a while, and he once returned to the time when he was in Shangyuan County, Pingzegou.