CHAPTER XXXV

Zou Li stayed at home for ten days, instructed Yu'er on a set of swordsmanship, a set of light skills, and also bought a Bailian Qingfeng sword for her. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info

In the past ten days, Yu'er has completely accepted Zou Li, although she keeps claiming to be a "childe", she has not put herself in the position of a slave at all. Zou Li didn't care, but felt normal.

In addition to practicing, there were bursts of girlish laughter in this courtyard.

Ten days later, the gang sent Zou Li's salary for the ministry, ten taels of purple gold a year, plus the ten taels of purple gold he received as an elder's salary a month ago and the ten taels of purple gold he had just received from the martial arts sect, he should have thirty taels of purple gold in his hands. However, when he returned home, he left ten taels of purple gold at home, and now there are twenty taels of purple gold in total. As an elder, the gang also arranged an inner disciple for him to drive, and this disciple's surname was Feng Mingyuan.

Zou Li knew it was time for him to take up his post.

When parting, Zou Li handed her the only two Qi Induction Pills in his bag and told her to practice hard at home, these two pills were for her to use when she broke through the fourth or sixth layer.

Yu'er was reluctant, Zou Li patted her head, pinched her face again, and said with a smile: "Does Yu'er want to follow Ben Gongzi's side and take care of Ben Gongzi? No, no!!" he laughed and left.

Yu'er dropped her foot, "Childe, when my cultivation is high, I will follow you." Where you go, I'll go!"

The jade mine is located in Yejun, but it is located in the westernmost part of Yejun, bordering Chizhou. In recent months, some unidentified figures have appeared near the jade mine, making the Crouching Tigers nervous.

As a major source of income for the Crouching Tigers, the jade mine makes an annual profit of more than 2 million taels of silver, accounting for 40% of the Crouching Tigers' annual income. Once lost, the blow to the Crouching Tigers can be imagined.

To this end, the Crouching Tiger Gang has long stationed two innate warriors, 10 martial artists, and more than 500 martial artists and samurai. With one death and two injuries of the seven innate martial artists in the general altar, this was originally the top-secret news of the Crouching Tiger Gang, but it was somehow leaked out.

The Jiaolong Gang robbed the Crouching Tiger Gang of the second-grade elixir bought in Xiangcheng, the capital of Jingzhou Prefecture, but the Jiaolong Gang was short of chess, and was secretly ambushed by the Crouching Tiger Gang, injuring an innate martial artist, triggering a battle between the Crouching Tiger Gang and the Jiaolong Gang.

Xia County, which was originally in the buffer land recognized by both parties, was suddenly occupied by the Jiaolong Gang in the three counties, killing and injuring the rudder masters of the Crouching Tiger Gang stationed in the three counties. Only a few escaped.

When the news came back, shocking the Crouching Tiger Gang, the Great Elder of the Innate Taishang immediately secretly recruited one of the two innate martial artists stationed in the jade mine, and two more innate martial artists stationed in other places. He led three innate martial artists and rushed to Xia County. Seeing that a big war was about to break out.

After the Xia County Government and the five county families learned of the inside story of the Crouching Tiger Gang, they did not want the Jiaolong Gang to be dominant, and they came forward to mediate. The interests that the Jiaolong Gang has swallowed naturally don't want to spit out, and the Crouching Tiger Gang doesn't want to suffer this secret loss, and the two sides have been in a stalemate in Du County.

The jade mine is located on the border between Zhushan County and Chizhou, 60 miles away from the county seat, and the Crouching Tigers have been mining here for hundreds of years. The original barren mountains and valleys have now become a prosperous town, named Jade Town. The long-term population is 5 to 6,000 people, and a big road leads directly to Zhushan County.

In the town where the jade mine is located and around the jade mine, the Crouching Tiger Gang has laid down many checkpoints. These levels are naturally nothing to a martial artist like a martial artist or even an innate martial artist. But the people here are not worried at all, in Ye County, people believe that except for the King of Chu and the great families of several states and counties, no one dares to touch the butt of the Crouching Tiger Gang.

The King of Chu and several major families can't afford to offend the Crouching Tiger Gang, the head snake of Ye County, for the sake of this little income from the jade mine, unless they want to destroy the Crouching Tiger Gang.

At the beginning, the first generation of the founding patriarch of the Crouching Tiger Gang sprung up, and after Ye County annexed the first small gang in the rivers and lakes: the "Medicine Picking Gang", it quickly swept the entire Ye County. It can be said that there is a river of blood, and countless gangs in the rivers and lakes have disappeared.

Many gangs in the rivers and lakes have a close relationship with several major families in Ye County, and they have asked these families for help, and several major families are also afraid of the menacing Crouching Tiger Gang. Discuss the joint elimination of the Crouching Tiger Gang, and everyone takes the largest family in Ye County, the thousand-year-old Qian family, as the leader.

The alliance failed, but the Qian family was wiped out by the Crouching Tigers by thunderbolt, and the alliance collapsed.

Afterwards, the Crouching Tiger Gang took out a small part of the resources owned by the Qian family and distributed the profits to the rest of the major families. To ensure that the resource interests occupied by the major families are not moved, they only need to recognize the existence of the Crouching Tiger Gang and become friendly.

After weighing the pros and cons, several major families sent representatives to negotiate with the Crouching Tiger Gang. Since then, Ye County has formed a situation where the Crouching Tigers are respected.

Due to the rapid integration of the Crouching Tiger Gang, by the time the court responded, the entire Ye County had calmed down. The Crouching Tigers also sent representatives to express their sincerity to the court, and were willing to hand over some of the benefits due to the court, but it is unknown whether the court sent experts to fight the Crouching Tigers.

Two years later, the Crouching Tiger Gang marched to Xiangjun again, still only focusing on the integration of gangs in the rivers and lakes, and did not commit any crimes against the interests of the major families and the court. In a very short time, it occupied three counties of Xiangjun.

Several major families in Xiangjun signed the lesson of Ye County, and in the name of jointly inviting the leaders of the Crouching Tiger Gang to the city to mediate and negotiate the Xiangjun gang, they wanted to wipe out the high-level leaders of the Crouching Tiger Gang. Unexpectedly, the leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang was bold and arrogant, and only brought two or three followers to the banquet alone.

After a battle, several of the innate warriors of several major gangs and families were killed, and the leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang escaped calmly. Subsequently, the leader of the Crouching Tiger Gang lurked near the county capital Xiangcheng, often ambushing the other party's innate warriors by surprise.

For several days, several people were killed one after another, and in the end, several major families invited their ancestors, and the master of the Crouching Tiger Gang also came out of the air.

After a round of competition, the two sides reached an agreement that the Crouching Tigers would use the three counties they currently occupy as the boundary in the future. The interests of the families concerned in the three counties must not be infringed upon, and the Crouching Tigers are allowed to have their own commercial interests in the state capital, and the Crouching Tigers are allowed to recruit disciples in Xiangjun.

Since then, the expansion of the Crouching Tiger Gang has finally stopped, and it has been operating based on the three counties of Yejun and Xiangjun, focusing on three directions: first, focusing on collecting medicines, taking the Qinmang Mountains as the direction, and planting medicines, pharmaceuticals, and selling medicines as supplements.

The second is to develop jade mines, and Yejun has a lot of jade. It is supplemented by the processing, wholesale and retail of jade.

The third is to operate restaurants, pawnshops and daily necessities shops that have been seized in the past.

Later, the Crouching Tigers found that these shops were too troublesome and had low profits, so they rented or sold some of these shops to some disciples or wealthy families in order to win people's hearts, while they themselves operated a small number of profitable ones.

Five years later, the founder of the Crouching Tiger Gang took the initiative to abdicate to his junior disciple who was only cultivated by Wu Zong. All the martial artists who have cultivated above the innate realm have all taken a back seat, called the Supreme Elder, no longer managing the affairs of the gang, concentrating on cultivation, and will not appear again until the critical moment in the gang.

After that, there was no longer the sound of the gang leader, only the gang leader's outstanding martial arts, and the iron bone skills were famous in the world.

Five hundred years later, no one in the Crouching Tigers has been able to break through to the fourteenth layer.

Seven hundred years later, a generation of Tianjiao appeared in the Crouching Tiger Gang, and after countless adventures, they stubbornly practiced the iron bone skills to the early stage of the twelfth layer, and led the gang to march into Xia County.

The Jiaolong Gang, the old rival of the Crouching Tiger Gang, also appeared a Tianjiao and also marched into Xia County. After several wars between the two sides, regardless of victory or defeat, several major families do not want to see a monopoly, under the mediation of several major families, the two sides settled.

Later, the two sides had many private fighting methods in Xia County, the Crouching Tiger Gang was slightly stronger, occupying two counties, and the Jiaolong Gang occupying one county. Shaxian County and Du County, where the Xia County County is located, are used as buffer land, so they can be regarded as stopping.