After several inquiries along the way, passers-by pointed the way, and three hours later, Xiao Yuan led the team to Zhaojiazhuang.

Zhaojiazhuang is one of the most typical villages in this era.

It is surrounded by a large wall of blue bricks and bluestone blocks.

The wall is three zhang high, very strong, the entrance and exit is a round arch with a radius of three zhang, and there is a gate tower above.

This kind of village is the characteristic of almost all villages composed of common people in the Han Dynasty.

The main function is to defend against the invasion of various beasts, such as wolves and wild boars.

Whether it is wolves or wild boars and other beasts, many ethnic groups have monsters, and if you are not careful, you will be attacked by the beast tide, causing the destruction of the village and the death of people.

Around the core farms of those wealthy families, there will be formations to cover them for safety.

Of course, this refers to formal villages and large farms, and does not include those where tenants farmed and survived.

Most of the fields where the tenants worked were located, and there were basically no walls, on the one hand, the tenants were not qualified to build, and on the other hand, the wealthy families did not pay attention to it.

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Tenants? Every year, a large number of displaced people come to beg to take them in and rent their own fields.

Their lives are not worth anything at all, and they are not worth paying attention to.

For example, in the current Han Dynasty, a village like Zhaojiazhuang, which is composed entirely of ordinary people, accounts for about thirty percent of all ordinary people.

The Han Dynasty has come to the present, and about seventy percent of the common people have lost their land and real estate due to various reasons, and they are no longer common people.

The term "common people" refers to the kind of ordinary people who have land, land and houses, or the kind that can be passed down from generation to generation.

The term "Hanmen" refers to the kind of declining family nobles, not any family, who can write and calculate, and who can be called Hanmen after a few years of reading.

According to this statement, in the 21st century on the earth where Wang Qiang was in the past, there were more than seventy percent of the people who were not even qualified to be called commoners.

Not to mention the word "Hanmen".

I really don't know where the sense of superiority of the ancients comes from among the ordinary people in the world in the 21st century.

They only deserve to be called "streams" who have no land and live everywhere, or "hooligans" who not only have no land and no land, but also have no fixed place to live and wander the world to survive.

Yes, if they had been in ancient times, they would not have even been qualified to be called untouchables.

At that time, more than ninety percent of people could not be regarded as a real cultural person, because they simply did not know their true identity, and if they were placed in ancient times, they would be equal to whom.

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"Brother, this autumn, insect plagues are raging everywhere, and our Zhaojiazhuang has not escaped the catastrophe."

Zhao Yu said with a bitter face, and said to Zhao Yun, who had just finished practicing guns in the front yard, "Although our family has some grain in stock, brother, you often go into the mountains to hunt, and every time you return with a full load, our family does not worry about eating and drinking." ”

"But this year, most of the people in Zhaojiazhuang don't have much grain in stock, and the government's taxes can't be less, which ......"

They are very united in Zhaojiazhuang, and several clan elders are reasonable, and they are one of the best-living common villages in the Han Dynasty.

But under the ravages of the insect plague this year, the fields of Zhaojiazhuang have not been harvested, and even some poultry and cattle have been swept away by the insect plague, and this year has also fallen into a big crisis.

If you're not careful, you're in danger of being overturned.

Since my brother returned from studying art two years ago, Zhao Jiazhuang has no existential crisis, at least Zhao Yu has never seen bandits and monsters who can take Zhao Yun's blow.

With Zhao Yun's deterrence, Zhaojiazhuang is also famous and has become a forbidden place for all bandits in the vicinity.

Because of his love for his sister, Zhao Yun taught his sister Zhao Yu the exercises and miscellaneous studies he practiced.

The master said that his dearest descendants can pass on what he has learned, and there are no complicated rules.

I didn't expect that my sister was actually a genius, and the speed of cultivation and progress was about the same even if it was compared to herself.

He is an innate wind and thunder spirit body, and it is estimated that his sister may be the same as him.

Otherwise, there would definitely not be such an outrageous cultivation speed.

Under Zhao Yun's dedication to cultivation and teaching, Zhao Yu has now become a great master of the seventh layer of the three-star Qi Refining Realm.

In just two years, she had cultivated to this extent, which was unbelievable.

Zhao Yun also heard the master gun prodigy Yuan say that the rarity of a woman's innate body in the world, if you are not careful, it will cause great disasters, so she constantly warns her sister not to expose her physique, so as not to attract the peep of people with intentions.

The parents and elder brother of their brother and sister were all infected with the plague when the brother and sister were young, and unfortunately died, and the two brothers and sisters have been dependent on each other since childhood.

When Zhao Yun was ten years old, he was met by the spear prodigy Yuan, discovered his innate wind and thunder spirit body, and took him into the bottom of the door.

Before leaving Zhaojiazhuang to learn art with his master, he entrusted his sister to a clan elder to take care of.

During the seven years he was away from home, his sister was well taken care of.

Therefore, Zhao Yun has deep feelings for Zhaojiazhuang.

Now Zhaojiazhuang is in trouble, and we must find a way to solve it.

Zhao Yun is not afraid of the food problem in the village, but he takes the hunting team in the village and goes to the mountains to hunt some more prey and comes back, anyway, he can't starve everyone.

But the need to pay taxes to the imperial court stumped him.

Strictly speaking, all the mountains and forests of the Han Dynasty have owners.

Since there is a mountain forest with a lord, of course you will not be allowed to hunt.

It's just that there are too many mountains and forests, and those big and small families can't manage it at all.

Therefore, it is okay for you to go to the mountains and forests to hunt prey for your own consumption, because no one will pursue it, but if you want to take the prey you have hunted to the market to sell it for money, you are not qualified and it is a crime.

If you want to sell all kinds of prey from Orion, you can only sell them to the wealthy families who own this mountain forest.

But they pay you very little money, and it is not worth 10% of the value of your prey, as if it were an offering.

Therefore, it is basically impossible to expect to hunt and sell money to pay the taxes of the imperial court.

You can settle the taxes of a few villagers, but can you also solve the taxes of the whole village?

Zhaojiazhuang is a large village with tens of thousands of people.

This is where Zhao Yun feels embarrassed.

Force, he is not lacking, he is already a fourth-level cultivator of the four-star refining god realm, and in the entire Han Dynasty, he can be regarded as a great master.

The problem is that heroes are useless now.

"Zilong, someone outside the village is looking for you!"

At this time, Zhao Yun's childhood friend, Zhao Hu, the captain of Zhaojiazhuang's hunting team, hurriedly walked over and shouted loudly to Zhao Yun.

"Someone looking for me?"

Zhao Yun felt very strange, outside of Zhaojiazhuang, he didn't have any friends at all.

Some wealthy families heard about his reputation and came to recruit him, but he politely declined on the grounds that he wanted to protect Zhaojiazhuang.

The master warned him not to become a lackey of the family, and he kept it in mind.

For nearly a year, no one came to recruit him again.

Now that an outsider has come to look for him, he is a little curious.

The artist is bold, he doesn't care who the other party is, go and take a look.

After a while, he rode an ordinary horse to the gate of the village.

The gate of Zhaojiazhuang has been opened by several strong men, and a strange team of 100 people is waiting outside the gate.

Zhaojiazhuang now has Zhao Yun here, full of confidence, so when he saw that the other party was very polite and had an extraordinary temperament, he opened the door of the village directly, so as not to be said by outsiders that he did not know the etiquette.

"This brother, but the famous Zhao Yun and Zhao Zilong?"

When Xiao Yuan saw a heroic young man, he greeted him very firmly, and immediately stepped forward and asked with a salute.

"Yes, may I ask you ......?"

After Zhao Yun returned the salute, he asked curiously.

He could clearly feel the strong military atmosphere of the other party.

Xiao Yuan's team of people in disguise can't hide the induction of the four-star master at all.

"A certain name is Xiao Yuan, and I have seen Brother Zilong!"

Xiao Yuan saluted again and said directly, "I can't hide it, we are the soldiers of Lu Bu, the guard of Yanmen Gate. ”

"This time I came to Jizhou Zhending, on the one hand, to relieve the displaced people who have been affected by disasters in various parts of the country this year."

"On the other hand, after our army attacked the Xiongnu last year, we formed several elite and strong armies, but there were no qualified generals to lead it, and we could not give full play to its best combat power."

Xiao Yuan was reminded by Wang Qiang that when speaking to Zhao Yun, he must be straightforward, do not conceal it, and treat each other with sincerity, so as to increase the probability of successful recruitment.

Therefore, he did not hide his intentions at all, "Our general Lu Bu and the general manager Wang Qiang have decided to attack the Xiongnu again in a few months, and strive to recover the northern counties occupied by the Xiongnu within a year or two, and avenge the large number of Han people killed by the Xiongnu!" ”

"Our general and chief manager, after learning about the reputation of the Zilong brothers through the caravans that do business in various places, are very optimistic about Zilong, and think that you are enough to serve as the commander of an elite cavalry of 30,000 people."

"Brother Zilong, our border army and border people, a few years ago, were miserable by the Huns, and the people who were killed and captured by them are not only hundreds of millions?"

"Just the Han people who were ruined by those Hun beasts and ruined their families are more than that!"

"Therefore, on behalf of the general and the chief manager, I implore Brother Zilong to go to Yanmen Pass and command a battalion of 30,000 elite cavalry. Half a year later, we will go to attack the Huns, recover a large amount of our occupied territory, and avenge countless border people! ”

He finished the specific situation in one breath, and his tears broke down in tears, and he was extremely sad.

In fact, this is also the real feeling and experience of their hundreds of special forces officers and soldiers, and it is not made up.

Almost all the soldiers of the special forces were slaves who were rescued by Lu Bu from the Xiongnu last year.

Hearing Xiao Yuan say this, the hundred special forces officers and soldiers behind him immediately remembered their previous tragic experience, and their eyes became red and filled with grief and indignation.

"What?"

Xiao Yuan's voice fell, and Zhao Yun was almost stunned: "You are the Yanmen guard Lu Bu's subordinates?" Is that Lu Bu, who attacked the Huns for 30,000 miles last year? ”

Seeing Xiao Yuan nodding very affirmatively, Zhao Yun was a little confused.

He never imagined that Lu Bu, who is now respected as the god of war by the people of Bingzhou, and Wang Qiang, the chief administrator that Xiao Yuan said, would send someone to invite him.

Moreover, the position of commander of an elite cavalry with 30,000 men is already vacant.

What excited Zhao Yun the most was what Xiao Yuan said: half a year later, he attacked the Xiongnu again and recovered the northern counties of Bingzhou that were occupied by the Xiongnu.

When Zhao Yun was learning art with his master, he not only had to learn literature and martial arts, but also needed to understand the general situation in the Han Dynasty.

He knew that Dingxiang County, Yunzhong County, Wuyuan County, and Shuofang County in the west of Yanmen County were now occupied by the Xiongnu, and some counties had been occupied for thousands of years.

Regardless of whether you ask, you can know how miserable the people in those border areas will be.

After Zhao Yun returned from Yicheng, he has been working hard to cultivate and protect Zhaojiazhuang in the past two years, and at the same time, he has been constantly asking himself how to go in the future.

After thinking about it, he still felt that he had to put righteousness first, and decided to go to the northern border of the Han Dynasty to join the army in the future, kill the Hu people, and avenge the miserable Han people.

It's just that I haven't been able to make up my mind where to go to join the army.

Among them, Bingzhou and Youzhou are the first choices, and they can't be decided for a while.

It's good now, I don't have to think about it at all.

Since he was invited by Lu Bu and the chief manager Wang Qiang, he went to Yanmen Pass.

Moreover, with an elite cavalry of 30,000 people, it would be so enjoyable to attack the Huns half a year later!

He wasn't worried at all, these soldiers would lie to him, whether it was true or not, he still had a certain amount of judgment.

When these hundred soldiers just talked about the evil deeds of the Xiongnu in Xiao Yuan, the look of grief and indignation was absolutely from the bottom of their hearts and could not be pretended.

Moreover, if you go there yourself, you will be able to know the truth and falsehood.

However, how to solve the dilemma of Zhaojiazhuang this year?

For a moment, Zhao Yun was in a dilemma.

He thought for a moment and said to Xiao Yuan, "Brother Xiao, I am happy to accept the invitation of your general and the chief manager, and I also want to lead the troops to kill the enemy." ”

"However, our Zhaojiazhuang suffered a serious insect plague this autumn, and there was no harvest ......"

He didn't hide it either, and explained the situation to Xiao Yuan.

"Hahaha...... Brother Zilong, you just agree to go to Yanmen Pass, these are trivial things."

Xiao Yuan laughed when he heard it and said, "This time, we are under the order of Wang Qiang, the chief of the army, to go around to rescue the affected people, and we will try our best to move the affected people to Yanmen Pass. ”

"Brother Zilong, don't you know, we attacked the Huns last year, swept 30,000 miles, and obtained a lot of loot, and there was no shortage of money and food."

"In recent months, after taking office, the general manager Wang Qiang has decided to develop the prairie outside the Guan, and turn the prairie that will be captured by us in the future into the territory of our Han!"

"Now, under the planning of the general manager, we have occupied all the 30,000 miles of prairie left after the destruction of the Xiongnu last year, and completed the construction of three large cities, and also built a large number of large farms on the prairie."

"Brother Zilong, you can take a few villagers and a clan elder to take a look outside the Guanwai, or move to the grassland to settle down, or the villagers stay in Zhaojiazhuang, we can easily solve all the problems."

"Isn't it just some taxes? This is within our duty to come to the aid of the people affected by the disaster, so we will leave it to us. ”

"Don't be afraid of the jokes of the Zilong brothers, in our army, the most important thing to lack now is money and food."

"What is lacking is the population, a large number of people who can develop and utilize the prairie and firmly occupy it!"

He no longer hid anything from Zhao Yun, who had agreed to go to Yanmen Pass, and directly told the truth.

For this kind of genius demon with great ability, the most important thing is the word faith.

Once you agree, you will never go back on your word.

Therefore, for Zhao Yun, who is already considered a family member, it is not beautiful to continue to conceal the truth of Yanmen Pass.