The so-called Zengtou City is a fixed market located in the southwest of Lingzhou, although it is close to Lingzhou, but it belongs to the jurisdiction of Qingzhou.

Twenty years ago, Zengtou City was originally a small village, and the scale of the village was even inferior to Bai Sheng's hometown Anle Village. But since a northeastern merchant named Zeng Lane migrated here, he turned it into a market to operate, and after 20 years of development, the village has become a super-large bazaar, extremely prosperous.

Zengtou City's trade is not only limited to agricultural and sideline products, it is also a distribution center for military materials, and the main business item is military horses. There are many bandits in Shandong, and the bandits are the most particular about coming and going like the wind, so these bandits are the biggest customers of Zengtou City.

As we all know, the Great Song Dynasty is a country that lacks horses, where did Zengtou City get the military horses? This has to start with the identity of Zeng Rong.

Zeng Lang is a Jurchen. When he was young, he was a visitor to Changbai Mountain, and he dug up ginseng and sold it in the Great Song Dynasty. Ginseng is a precious medicinal material, can be hanged, so the value is high, the pharmacy buys a lot of money, and the princes and nobles buy it to collect it in case of emergency. As a result, Zeng Lane has accumulated a considerable wealth in just a few years.

Zeng got rich, and the matter reached the ears of Wanyan Aguta, who found Zeng Rong and asked him to move to live in the Great Song Dynasty, and the initial task was only to buy tea and other necessities for the Jurchens, and then transfer them to Liaodong.

Zeng made martial arts. The visitors who can pick ginseng in Changbai Mountain all the year round have not weak martial arts, which is not only to guard against tigers, leopards, wolves and bears in the deep mountains and old forests, but also to prevent others from snatching ginseng.

Zeng Rong's martial arts are not weak, after settling in Qingzhou, there were bandits from nearby who went to the village where he lived many times to rob property, but he was repulsed.

Having money and martial arts is the premise for Zengtou City to prosper. Using force to repel unreasonable bandits, and bribing local government officials with money, Zengtou City gradually developed into a black and white all-encompassing existence on the border of Lingzhou, Qingzhou.

In the last ten years, as the Song Dynasty became more and more chaotic, the scale of bandits in various mountains in Shandong was also growing, Zengtou City started the business of selling military horses, the Jurchens never lacked horses, the Jurchen tribe was the horse breeding land of the Liao State, and the military horses of the Liao State were provided by the Jurchens.

Of course, the sale of military horses is a prohibited act, but Zengtou City is well organized, so the local government officials turn a blind eye to Zengtou City, open their eyes when they are short of money, and close them when they receive bribes.

It was also profitable to collect tea and sell it to the Jurchens, but the robbers and bandits who sold horses to Shandong and even the whole country were even more profitable, and Zengtou City achieved unprecedented development.

Wealth is proportional to the strength to protect wealth, if only wealth growth and strength does not grow, then it is not profit, that is the fat pig to be slaughtered. So he raised thousands of soldiers and horses, and hired two top masters in martial arts, Shi Wengong and Su Ding, to teach his son martial arts on the one hand, and train the warriors and soldiers of Zengtou City on the other hand.

In the autumn of last year, Wanyan Zongwang came to Zengtou City on behalf of the Jin Emperor Wanyan Aguda and gave Zeng Lane the latest task, that is, to continue to expand the scale, and to be ready to respond to the Jin State Invasion of the Song Dynasty in the near future.

Compared with the Great Northern Wilderness, the hometown of the Jin people, the territory of the Great Song Dynasty was too fat, so why should these incompetent Nanban be allowed to occupy it for a long time? Before the Liao State was destroyed, Wanyan and Agu already had the idea of devouring the Great Song Dynasty. The reason is simple, Da Song is too weak.

Just like a child who is holding a treasure worth a thousand gold and walking alone on the street, there is no reason for no one to rob it, Liao State has bullied enough Xixia to bully, and after Xixia bullied, Jin Guo began to make up his mind.

With Wanyan Zongwang's order, Zengtou City recruited troops again, increasing the number of soldiers and horses to more than 10,000.

What is the concept of 10,000 soldiers and horses? Even Liangshan a month ago was nothing more than that. Liangshan has such a scale that it has been attacked several times by the official army, and if it were not for Bai Sheng's outing, the war between the official army and Liangshan would not have ended today. Although Zengtou City also had 10,000 soldiers and horses, it did not have any conflicts with the official army, which of course was due to Zeng Rong's tireless bribery.

Today's Zengtou City, the ground is hundreds of miles around, the soldiers are strong and the horses are strong, according to the five directions of the southeast, northwest and the middle of the five villages, there is the power of the tiger and the dragon, even the officials and troops of Qingzhou and Lingzhou do not dare to face it.

It is said that there are seven fierce generals in Zengtou City.

The first one is naturally Shi Wengong, a teacher in Zengtou City. He was nine feet tall, with a slightly pale complexion, three locks of beard, broad shoulders and a round waist, and was about thirty-eight or nine years old. Eighteen kinds of martial arts are proficient, and there is the courage of ten thousand people.

The second is Su Ding. This person is also very good, and was hired by Zeng Rong as the deputy teacher of guns and sticks in Zengtou City. He was eight feet six or seven long, with a pale complexion and a beard. He is the first master of the Five Tigers of the Zeng family. The origin of martial arts is unknown, but it can be hired by Zeng Lang at any cost, and naturally it will not be in vain.

Then there are the five tigers of the Zeng family who are famous in Qingling Erzhou. The five tigers of the Zeng family are the five sons of Zeng Rong.

The eldest son, Zeng Tu, wears a golden helmet, iron armor, velvet around his waist, rides a fast horse, hangs a scarlet robe, steps on a stirrup, and twists a steel spear. In another time and space, he once fought alone against Lu Fang Guo Sheng and was undefeated, but he was unfortunately shot by Hua Rong's secret arrow, so he died under the halberds of Lu and Guo.

The second son, Zeng Mi, was worse in martial arts than his eldest brother Zeng Tu, and in another time and space, he couldn't steal the camp, and was poked under the horse by a steel fork by the two-headed snake Xie Zhen on the way to escape.

The third son, Zeng Suo, also failed to attack at night in another time and space, and was slashed to death by the bearded prince Zhu Tong on the way to retreat.

The fourth son, Zeng Kui, wore a familiar bronze helmet, wore a chain armor, made a steel spear, and rode a rushing horse. Later, after the failure of the robbery, he trampled like mud in the chaotic army.

The fifth son has been promoted, and his martial arts are extremely high, so that the two flying knives are not approached.

In that time and space without Bai Sheng, the armed forces of Zengtou City, both in terms of scale and background, were the same as in this life.

It's just that in another time and space, Zengtou City did not openly argue with the government, and the reason why Zengtou City resisted accepting grain was because Zeng Lane received an order from Wanyan Zongwang to prepare enough grain and grass.

Zengtou City did hoard a large amount of grain and grass, but these grain and grass were prepared for the Jin army, and the officials of the Great Song Dynasty came to collect it, so how could they give it?

The levy of military rations is not a trivial matter, once the levy is not effective, there will be a hat that delays the war is buckled on the head, this hat can not be borne by any official, if it is victorious, it is good to say, but the problem is that except for the recent Song-Xia War, the army of the Great Song Dynasty basically did not win.

Therefore, no matter how many bribes these officials received from Zengtou City in the past, they could not be accommodating in this matter, but they were afraid of the strength of Zengtou City and did not dare to directly send troops to forcibly recruit them, so they could only hand over the problem to Zhang Shuye.

When Bai Sheng and Zhang Shuye met, Chao Gai and Song Jiang had already come to Zengtou City with 60,000 soldiers and horses from Liangshan.

In the same place in the land of Qilu, Liangshan has also heard of Zengtou City, if it were not for the expansion of the army to 60,000 after Zhao'an, Song Jiang really did not dare to come to Zengtou City to grab this merit.

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