Ruozhou is in the middle of Xiahe County, adjacent to the three cities of Quzhou, Hanzhou and Tuzhou on all sides.

Among them, Hanzhou is long and narrow, almost covering the southeast, south and southwest of Ruozhou, choking the north-south trade road of Dahua.

It is precisely because of this that the Salt Gang has set up a branch here.

And Hanzhou has always been the largest of the twelve branches, and there are eight rudders under it, and the annual silver handed over to Danyang City every year is more than 200,000 taels.

Song Hongfeng is one of Zhang Suiguang's two major cronies in the Yan Gang, and in the eyes of many people in the gang, he is even more important than Li Xueci.

At dawn this morning, he received a secret message.

It was a chess piece he planted in the Hanzhou Mansion, and he kept an eye on the movements in the Mansion for him.

Hanzhou is an important road between the north and the south, and the forces of all parties are intertwined, even with the strength of the Yan Gang, they cannot control the overall situation.

"The guards of Chengguan have been replaced?" After reading the secret letter, Song Hongfeng couldn't sit still, "According to the city defense law issued by the military department, the city guards of the state capital are changed in June every year. The sudden withdrawal of the guards of the city pass by the Hanzhou Yamen is really abnormal, could it be related to the martial arts alliance in Ruozhou?"

After thinking about it a few times, Song Hongfeng decided to go to Ruozhou in person and face Zhang Suiguang.

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Today is December 12, the first day of the Ruozhou Martial Arts Conference.

This meeting is a rare martial arts event in decades, and the Xu family has made careful arrangements in advance.

The site is just in front of the Xu Mansion, supervised by Xu Yigong himself, with pebbles as the base, fine sand as the auxiliary, and lime water as the medium to fill in the circular school field with a straight length of 240 zhang.

In the middle of the school field, there is a half-zhang high square platform, and the ground is drawn on the platform as the boundary, and a martial arts school circle of twenty-four zhang straight is determined. The key figures of each major sect and the candidates who have been determined to participate in the martial arts school are seated outside the circle.

The space on the stage is indeed narrow, and those who do not have seats can only stand under the stage.

Before the alliance began, the colonel's field was already crowded with people, who were divided into twelve pieces by the erected pillar ropes, adding up to more than 50,000 at least.

There is already a strong style in the martial arts, and they are not dissatisfied if they fail to earn a place on the stage, but there are many people who are gearing up during this period, and it seems that they all want to wait to show their skills in the qualification selection of the Sanmen Sanpai martial arts school for a while.

If you can stand out in the selection of martial arts schools, you can join the final election of the martial arts alliance leader, even if you fail to become the leader of the alliance in the end, you will definitely become famous in the world after this battle.

With such a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity, who doesn't want to try their skills?

Even if you don't go up and show your hands, just watching these top masters on the rivers and lakes below is a great blessing in life, and it will be more or less helpful to your own martial arts path.

Yes, almost all the Jianghu guests who are a little ambitious and can get out of the way have rushed here.

Crowded...

Voices......

As for what Xu Xiaoyi said on stage, these people didn't seem to care at all.

"Knock~~~!"

As soon as the gong sounded, many people rushed out of various districts. They found the Xujia Mansion who was on duty between the pillars and ropes, and signed up one by one to set the order of playing.

These people also need to go through a primary election, and only if they defeat the Xu family people on the stage, can they carry out the selection of the martial arts school of the scattered sect.

There were a hundred people from the Xu family in white clothes standing in the front row of the audience, and they were all selected by Xu Xiaoyi to screen the martial arts school players.

The person on the far left rose in response to the sound of the gong, jumped onto the square platform, and stood in the circle of the martial arts school.

His opponent was a fat-faced man with a mace.

"Let's start!" As soon as the deacon of the martial arts school gave the order, the fat-faced man rushed towards the mediocre-looking Xu family in front of him with a mace.

Go fast and retreat fast, and the man in white only made one move and kicked him to the ground.

"Wow~~~" The audience instantly exploded.

Everyone knows that the Xu family is the first family in martial arts, and their strength will never be weak, but no one would have imagined that the Xu family would send someone at random to have such skills.

Although the fat-faced man has vain steps and obviously doesn't know how to do internal skills, his mace dances well, and it looks like he has several years of skills.

And "one inch long, one inch strong", he holds an eight-foot blade in his hand, but the Xu family relies on his hands as blades and feet as soldiers. With such a disadvantage, he can also defeat the enemy with one move, and his martial arts can be seen.

The victory and defeat were divided, and the two mansions walked quickly to the square platform, helped the fat-faced man up, and walked down.

"Next!" the deacon of the martial school shouted coldly.

With this demonstration, the people who were lucky retreated instantly, and several abstentions appeared one after another.

The second to come to the stage was a white-haired old man, who was originally ranked sixth, and when he saw that the four people in front of him had fled in the desert, his face showed disdain.

"Cangzhou tour level, learn and recruit highly!"

Obviously, this old man's martial arts are not weak. At the beginning of the competition, he attacked sharply, and a pair of awls stabbed and poked in his hand, forcing the white-clothed men of the Xu family to retreat again and again.

"Wow, master!

"When did Cangzhou have such an unborn master!"

"Tut-tut, this Mr. You's martial arts are only afraid that they are not much better than the heads of the thirteen major sects?"

"Drink, the name of Cangzhou Tour Level, I'm afraid that after today, it will ring all over the entire martial arts!"

Seeing the old man's skills, all kinds of arguments sounded in the audience, but there was no doubt that they were all words of praise.

After the two of them exchanged more than 100 moves on the stage, the noise in the audience stopped abruptly - You Pingping was hit by two palms of the man in white in the chest one after another, his body failed to stabilize and fell to the ground, and his upper body was already out of the boundary of the martial arts circle.

By the rules, he lost.

You Ping quickly stood up and stared at the man in white in front of him.

He could feel that the other party had retracted his strength before the two palms, and it was obviously not meant to hurt anyone.

"If the Xu family in Ruozhou has many talents, the old man has finally seen it. I lost this battle, dare to ask which of the sons of the Xu family is Shaoxia?"

In the second generation of the Xu family, Xu Yiye, Xu Qimo, and Xu Yanyan are all famous in the rivers and lakes, and it is not a shame to lose in their hands. It's a pity that he is deep in the ground, and he doesn't know any people from the Xu family.

The old gentleman praised it falsely. The younger generation is a disciple of the Xu family, and in terms of martial arts, he is really not ranked among the masters, so he does not dare to report his name. The young man in white saluted with both hands and replied softly.

Not an elite child of the Xu family!

The young man in front of him, who was "superb" in the eyes of everyone in the audience, was not one of the several sons of the Xu family, but an outer disciple!

"Wow~~~" The noise came and went like a wave.

"There are so many young talents in the Xu family?"

"It's no wonder that the twelve major sects originally wanted to put aside the small sects on the rivers and lakes to take care of the martial arts school and directly elect the leader of the martial arts alliance. Now it seems that the heritage of the great sect really has a natural advantage. Compared to them, we small sects and lone rangers on the rivers and lakes are really far behind!"

Knowing one of its leaves, you can know its appearance.

An outer disciple of the Xu family still has such a strong martial arts, not to mention the in-law disciples, not to mention the three masters of the Xu family?

The other major sects may not be as good as the Xu family, but they are not far behind.

Looking at the unfamiliar old and young people sitting on the stage, the tens of thousands of people in the audience suddenly had a trace of awe.

This is the reverence of the weak for the strong.

Although they had never tried, they could think of the gap between themselves and these people. Like heaven and earth, clouds and mud, separated by 108,000 miles.

The noise gradually subsided, and nine out of ten people had left behind the idea of trying it.

You level martial arts, they have all seen. How many of these tens of thousands of people dare to pat their chests and say that they are better than him?