Hearing this, Liu Jizu was stunned, and he suddenly remembered that Mr. Tian and Elder Long had said before that the surname of the Great Zhou royal family was Wang, and the distant ancestor was King Wen of Zhou. And isn't King Wen of Zhou also surnamed Ji? Could it be that today's royal family is really supported by the academy, or even established by the children of the surname Ji after changing their surnames?

Elder Long didn't know that he was thinking about this in his mind, and he continued to speak: "But after all, this kind of big deal can't be done at any time, it can only be done when the world is in chaos. In the peaceful times of the world, most of the Jianghu people and Jianghu sects relied on three types of business to make a living, one was bodyguarding, the second was performing arts, and the third was the underworld.

There are two types of bodyguards, one is to ensure the safety of people, and the other is to ensure the safety of things. Most of the people who ensure the safety of things are the dart bureau and the carriage and horse shop, and they belong to the local sects represented by the three sects, and are responsible for transporting goods between the two places, related to foreign, land, river, lake and sea transportation.

Generally speaking, the trading and routes that can make a lot of money have been monopolized by various rivers and lakes, and the rest of those with low profits are ordinary businessmen and ordinary people to do it, just to earn hard money. There is a post station on the road is too peaceful, just use the car and horse, and the road is not very smooth, you have to use the dart game, which is the most important livelihood of the Jianghu people.

More than 100 years ago, the reason why the foreign alliance wanted to deal with us was because the Jianghu sect not only controlled the logistics of foreign trade goods, but also because those goods were very valuable, and many sellers were unwilling to bear the high freight and risk, so they directly sold these things to the dart board at a low price. In this way, the Jianghu sect almost controlled the price of foreign trade commodities and obtained huge profits from it, which was an important income for the big Jianghu sect.

It is estimated that you have seen the performers, this is the most common, and the people in the sect call them Xiaojianghu. There are many types, and there are all kinds of things, and it is difficult to distinguish them, and some people divide them into 'variety'. The woman who sells tea in the five flowers is called Jin Chrysanthemum, the Lang who walks on the street to cure people is called Kapok, the singer who sells and sings in the restaurant is called Daffodil, the juggling woman is called Firethorn Flower, and the porter is called Tuniuhua.

Eight doors are referred to as gold review color hanging, and the leather ball is adjusted to willow. Among them, Jin is a fortune teller, a storyteller is a storyteller, Cai is a trick, a hanging is a practice style, a skin is a wild medicine, the group is a singer of lotus flowers and meat jokes, the tune is to deceive people and sell fakes, and Liu is a singer of obscene lyrics and songs.

In addition, there are three aunts and six women in the market and villages. The third aunt is a nun and a Taoist aunt and a fortune-telling hexagram girl, and here we are not talking about those who are really monks, but those who cheat and make money through this identity.

The six women include the tooth woman who buys and sells people, the matchmaker who gives matchmakers, the master woman who pretends to be a ghost, the pious woman who pimps out and opens a brothel, the medicine woman who sees a doctor and sells medicine, and the stable woman who delivers babies for others. These people are closely related to the lives of the people, but there are also many of them who are playing right and wrong, greedy for money and even murder.

In addition, there are those who are beggars, beggars, helpers, and caretakers, which are considered good. Others are broken, such as bees, hemp, swallows, finch, and porcelain that specialize in defrauding people of money.

These are homonyms, bees are also called 'wind', it is a gang deception, coming and going like the wind.

Ma, also known as horses, is a single-handedly deception, and they like to dress up as monks or Taoist priests.

Yan is also known as Yan, which is a beauty trick, using beauty to cheat money.

The finch is also called a vacancy, which is to find a suitable person to pretend to be an official to fill the vacancy and make money.

In short, there are a large number of people who perform their arts, and there are countless types, and they mostly gather in towns and wander in the countryside. Skills rely on father and son, master and apprentice from generation to generation, there are not many mountain gates, the scale is small, and our rivers and lakes sects can not be compared, so they are called small rivers and lakes.

Some of them rely on their skills to earn hard-earned money and make ends meet, while others are pure liars.

Of course, there are powerful ones among them. For example, my physiognomy teacher, physiognomy is exquisite, there is no inaccuracy, he will ask ten taels of silver to see the phase once, which is much easier than us to make money, but he only looks at it ten times a month, and he doesn't look at it if he has more, so how many people are lining up to look for him!

The underworld is more complicated, and there are many types, and if you do too many bad things in the front show, and if you go too far, you will become a mixed underworld. Those who mix in the underworld earn most of the black money, such as the five elders in the underworld, namely: Lao Rong who steals things, Lao Scum, Lao Scum who abducts and sells people, Lao Chai who catches rapists, Lao Yue who goes out of thousands and Lao He who cheats.

This category of people also includes those who open black shops, those who block roads and rob people, those who beat up stuffy sticks, those who rob homes and houses, and so on.

These people can't see the light, so they are called gangsters. Most of them are despised by people, and they generally do not have mountain gates, and they dare not make it public.

The rest of the underworld business, that is, what the Jianghu sect is doing, including: acting as a thug for others, being a killer for others, collecting tolls, collecting protection fees, and so on. ”

Liu Jizu didn't understand, and interjected and asked: "It's easy to understand being a thug and a killer for others, what do you say about collecting tolls and protection fees?"

Seeing that the time was almost up, Elder Long motioned for everyone to eat together, and while eating, Elder Long said, "Don't worry, I'll tell you the same." Being a thug for others is generally done by the disciples of small and medium-sized sects, to put it bluntly, they are accomplices, and those under the four evils are. Because the fee for being a killer is very high, many sects secretly take this job, but it is not made public.

The issue of tolls and protection fees is related to the question you asked before, and I will say that these tolls and protection fees are also one of the important incomes of each sect. First of all, you must know that there are very few official roads in our country, and there are still many places that do not have official roads, but those places also need the flow of personnel, money and materials, especially where there are various products, special products and developed industry and commerce, and the flow of logistics and personnel is very frequent.

However, these roads inevitably pass through some sparsely populated mountains, forests, rivers, lakes and even oceans, and in places where the government cannot control, there will be robbers, bandits, lake bandits, and pirates who will come out to block the road and rob them.

They didn't dare to rob the government, so they only robbed the people and merchants, so the road was cut off. As I told you earlier, in this dynasty, the various sects have slowly monopolized the transportation and logistics, the roads are broken, and the biggest losses are not only ordinary people, but also their own sects.

Therefore, in order to prevent such a thing from happening, the sect will train some secret disciples, let them occupy the mountains, rivers, lakes, and islands within their sphere of influence, and kill the original robbers, bandits, lake bandits, and pirates, and then occupy the mountains themselves. ”

Liu Jizu, Ye Zi, Seventh Sister and others were all shocked when they heard this, Liu Jizu even screamed, and then coughed, it turned out that he was choked by something in his mouth.

Wu Lun saw that he was rare and strange, and patted him on the back and asked him to continue to listen carefully.

Elder Long waited for him to stop coughing, and then continued to speak with a smile: "It's not a secret, they are very different, anyone who doesn't rob the poor people, reasoned with you, and collected money and released people is mostly arranged by various sects, and those who pluck their feathers, are unreasonable, and kill people and goods are generally real robbers."

As mentioned earlier, without the government's management, the road is not very smooth, and the carriages and horses cannot walk, so they will be escorted by the dart master, and they will fly the flag. If the king of the mountain and the dart master are from the same mountain gate, then they will be released as soon as they see the flag, and the toll will not be charged. Of course, there are also those who come out to act, jump out and deliberately act for the employer, and then the dart master settles it. That's because they're afraid that the road will be too peaceful, and the dart business will not be good.

If the Mountain King and the Dart Master belong to different sects, then they have to deal with each other. It's complicated, and there are many situations. The first is for the doormen of both parties to come forward to deal with each other in advance, or even sign an agreement promising not to rob each other of the dart carts, or how much toll one party gives to the other. The second is that the two sects have not dealt with each other in advance, so they have to meet. The dart master will generally say a large set of good words, and then give a certain amount of silver to pay for the journey, and the other party will let people go over the mountain when they are satisfied. If you are not satisfied, you will inevitably have to compete to see whose fist is hard. However, this situation does not happen much, most of the martial arts skills of the dart master are average, not to mention that people come out to earn money to support their families, who wants to work hard every day.

Of course, when it comes to interests, disputes are inevitable, and the rivers and lakes have never been peaceful. What's more, the border of the Great Zhou Dynasty is so big, many places are poor and unprofitable, and the sect cannot and is unwilling to control all the roads, so there are many robbers who are not arranged by the sect. It's not easy to talk when you meet them, this is the third situation, this situation can only be lucky, when you encounter a thief, you can only pay the money, and you can only do it if you encounter an unreasonable person.

Such battles happen from time to time, and after the fight between the dart master and this kind of bandit bandits, the sect behind the dart game will take action according to the situation.

If that path is profitable, they will usually send their disciples to explore first to see how strong the other party is.

If the opponent's strength is average and they can deal with it, they will gather their strength to destroy it.

If the other party is strong and they can't deal with it themselves, they will spend money to hire someone to help exterminate it. To say more, most of the disciples they invited were from the three sects, and your master took over a lot of such tasks.

If the other party is too strong, they can't afford to provoke it, and they can't afford to spend so much money to hire a master, they will find other ways to bypass it or simply abandon this road.

This is the rivers and lakes, these sects often fight and kill for their own interests, mostly because they are fighting for territory.

As for why you can't see those sects, it's because the hills of these sects are a certain distance away from the official road, and the location is generally similar to the academy, which is in a relatively hidden place, so you can't see it.

As for the people of other rivers and lakes, they are everywhere! It's just that you have little experience in the rivers and lakes, so you can't see it! They hide their identities when they walk on the official road, and generally only the dart master shows their identity, but the official road doesn't use the dart master very much, so you can't even see the dart master, but this situation may change later. As for the other people in the rivers and lakes who are not right-minded, when they see Wu Lun and me, they know that they are old rivers and lakes, and they will not easily provoke them.

There is also the fact that your martial arts skills are very high now, and experienced people can see it at a glance, although they don't know how powerful they are, but they are not completely sure, and they will not come to provoke you.

Let me teach you some simple ways to distinguish them! Those who have simple and kind eyes, and whose eyes are steady, gentle, or even dull, are mostly ordinary people, and they can keep an appropriate distance.

Those who are strong, have eyes like electricity, and are agile are masters, and if they carry the burden of weapons, it will be even more obvious, and they need to be vigilant, and it is best to stay away.

Those who have wandering eyes, uncertain eyes, dare not look at people squarely, and like to get together are mostly young people, so be careful, try not to deal with them, and leave the place where they are as soon as possible. ”

Liu Jizu nodded again and again when he heard this, studied seriously and humbly, and had a deeper understanding of the rivers and lakes in this life, and he admired Elder Long more and more.

After eating, they just rested the mules and horses for a while, and then went on their way again.

Liu Jizu found that the land in Jiangbei Province was very fertile, and there were many fields, which were much better than his own home, and it stands to reason that the people should be very rich, but many people here are full of vegetables, and they feel that they are not as good as the people in the small ravine of their own house.