This kind of feast lasted for more than 20 days, and the amount of silver collected was nearly 700,000 yuan. Such an appalling speed of accumulating money has left anyone who hears of this number jaw-dropping. Even Zhao Ji himself was surprised, it turned out that these merchants in Bianliang City were so rich that they could just scrape a layer of oil and harvest so amazingly, no wonder their predecessor was still desperately tossing when he was in the Great Song Dynasty, and he was really rich and capricious!

The harvest is so amazing, not only alleviating the embarrassment of Duanwangfu's current insufficiency, but also the expenses of the first year of the opening of the martial arts hall are more than enough. Although the method is not high-class and noble, it can finally solve the urgent need and get things done, and Zhou Tong is also very happy. The court has already determined that the Imperial Boxing Gym will not be reopened, and Zhou Tong has also made up his mind to open a martial arts hall outside Bianliang City, and has initially contacted more than a dozen former colleagues and old friends, so he can completely lay the stall first.

Now that you have the money and the people are gradually in place, you can start to do it. Zhao Ji took a look at the old friends that Zhou Dong had contacted, most of them were the teachers or protégés of the original Royal Boxing Gym, although they may not be able to compare with Zhou Dong in terms of martial arts, but if they are placed in the martial arts, they are definitely first-class masters, but because the identity of the official face rarely interacts with people in the rivers and lakes, most of them are not famous in the martial arts. But in fact, each of them has amazing skills, such as one of them has several Shaolin stunts, and the other has even practiced the dragon descending palm of the beggar gang!

Zhao Ji also knew for the first time that there were so many masters hidden in the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army, and what was particularly rare was that these masters were not cultivated by the folk martial arts. Just gathering these people is already a considerable force, not inferior to any sect in the martial arts. It's a pity that they were all buried in the military states of the world before, and their amazing skills were rarely able to be displayed.

The location of the lecture hall was chosen in the northeast of Bianliang City, and it only cost 5,000 yuan to buy several hectares of ridge land, and in the prosperous area of Bianliang City, the money could not even buy a house with a small courtyard.

Although the matter was completely left to Zhou Tong to plan, Zhao Ji spent so much effort, and he still had many ideas for the future development of the martial arts, so he naturally had to arrange his own people to watch. The first thing he thought of was naturally Liang Shicheng, but Liang Shicheng took care of the intelligence system in Bianliang City, and at the same time had to deal with many affairs of the Duanwang Mansion, so he was already lacking in skills. So Zhao Ji remembered the eunuch Tong Guan who knew martial arts.

After such a long time of getting along, Zhao Ji's own discrimination against eunuchs has gradually been eliminated, in general, eunuchs are also human beings, and their physical defects cannot rise to the level of personality slander. Most of the civil officials have contempt for the eunuchs, and Zhao Ji guesses that most of the reason is that the promotion of the eunuchs to power is against the rules of the game and cheating for the civil system. You don't need a ten-year cold window, you don't need the title of the gold list, cut that thing, and rely on flattery to serve people, you can enjoy the honorable position, and the power is in your hands, this is too unreasonable!

But for the emperor, no matter what you have for ten years, what you need is someone who can do things after all. And relatively speaking, the eunuchs are more credible and amiable in the eyes of the emperor than those sanctimonious pavilion ministers. This is the difference in concept caused by different status, the reason why the eunuchs in power in previous dynasties did not have a good reputation, this is because they are a kind of open existence in the officialdom, and secondly, there are many unscrupulous civil officials who also want to follow the naked, which hurts the normal channels for promotion and promotion in the officialdom, and then causes castration.

Zhao Ji doesn't have much psychological obstacle to using Tong Guan, the only thing that needs to be considered is Tong Guan's loyalty, after all, he is not his own person who has served him for many years like Liang Shicheng. Therefore, he also had some understanding of Tong Guan, Tong Guan was a protégé of Li Xian, the great eunuch of the Shenzong Dynasty, this Li Xian was a military minister when he opened the border in Xining, and established some meritorious deeds in Western Xinjiang, but later committed a crime and was deposed, Tong Guan was also affected by this, and was assigned to the kind of place where there is no oil and water and few people in the arsenal, and it can be said that it has reached the end of the road.

Zhao Ji was still quite satisfied with Tong Guan's situation, and there was not much to do with the cleanliness, so he came forward to take Tong Guan out of the palace. The movements of such a lowly miscellaneous little eunuch don't even need to alarm those deacons and eunuchs in the inner court, and the matter is very simple. Zhao Ji only entered the palace once, then he brought Tong Guan out, explained some things, and sent Zhou Tong to do some chores.

For Tong Guan, the previous situation has been extremely bad, and any change in the situation is a good change. Although he entered the palace from the inner court, he had no chance to enter the inner center in the future, but in fact, even if he stayed in the palace, those opponents of Li Xian in the palace in the past would not give him a good life, and when he entered the Duanwang Mansion, there was another situation. And he was worried about his internal injuries, and when he was assigned to Zhou Tong, he had the opportunity to consult and recuperate from time to time. Therefore, for the favor and promotion of Duan Wangye, Tong Guan is grateful from the bottom of his heart.

From the completion of the lecture hall to the official recruitment of apprentices, it will be at the end of the year at the earliest. Zhao Ji used the name of going out of Beijing to cultivate the Taoist temple for a period of time, if he took the money and stayed in Bianliang City, not to mention that those merchants who were beaten in the autumn wind should have a slight resignation, first of all, the official family in the palace who has been acquiescing to him during this time will not be happy.

Therefore, after sorting out a clue about the preparations for the martial arts hall, Zhao Ji began to prepare to leave Beijing. At this time, Quan Guanqing, who rushed to Luoyang to track down the rumors, also returned to Bianliang City. Because the whereabouts of the rumors were not traced, when he met Zhao Ji, Quan Guanqing was a little weak, and only said: "Lord Wang, the person who is hidden in the shadows is too fast, and the villain has just controlled the spread of the rumors after arriving in Luoyang, and even if he is noticed by the other party, he will take the first step to get rid of the trouble." With such a quick response, the villain suspected that there should be an eyeliner planted by the other party in the helm, but he was afraid that this matter would alarm the rest of the elders of the elder hall, so he did not make a big deal of the search, and only arranged some of his subordinates to investigate secretly in the helm. ”

Zhao Ji nodded and said, "The matter has not found a single result, and you are not to blame." Bianliang City has also revealed some clues recently, Steward Liang is already eyeing this line, you go to him later to ask, he will explain to you carefully. ”

After a pause, Zhao Ji said again: "Also, during this time, you choose some capable and simple disciples in the beggar gang, the most important thing is that the net worth must be innocent, don't be treacherous, and there are about one hundred and ten people with some martial arts foundation." Let's gather in Bianliang City first, and arrange a place for them to go later. ”

Although some sects in the martial arts recruit disciples, they rarely accept some people who bring art masters, this is because they are worried about the origin of their apprentices, and they are afraid of revealing the secrets of the sect's martial arts inheritance, and secondly, there may be conflicts when practicing different martial arts. First of all, for the people of the rivers and lakes, this is a rare step to enter the body, who would be stupid enough to give up the official background, learn martial arts and then go to the rivers and lakes to mingle? Secondly, the martial arts hall has the original Musashi capital of the Imperial Boxing Gym, and the disciples can be taught according to their aptitude, and there is no need to stick to the inheritance of one school.

Quan Guanqing nodded and carefully wrote down Zhao Ji's instructions.

After thinking about it, Zhao Ji decided to cultivate Quan Guanqing's force value. This person is an important bridge channel for him to mobilize the manpower of the beggar gang, if he is simply assassinated, it is also a big loss for Zhao Ji, and it is not easy to find such a well-behaved and obedient candidate.

Although there were many musashi in the Imperial Boxing Gym, Zhao Ji didn't know what martial arts to practice for Quan Guanqing, so he took him to visit Zhou Dong. It is also appropriate for Zhou Tong, a grandmaster-level figure, to make an analysis of Quan Guanqing's situation.

Zhou Tong didn't know the relationship between Zhao Ji and Quan Guanqing, but since it was the person brought by Duan Wangye himself, he also seriously tested Quan Guanqing's current skills. Quan Guanqing is not very old, although his status in the rivers and lakes is not low, but his martial arts are really not brilliant, and he is barely ranked as a second-rate master in the rivers and lakes. If you want to directly improve your strength to a level in a short period of time, even a grandmaster-level figure like Zhou Dong in martial arts feels that it is a problem.

After thinking about it for an afternoon, Zhou Tong finally came up with an ingenious method. First of all, it is impossible to fundamentally and quickly improve a person's internal strength, so it can only be supplemented with external moves and blades. Zhou Tong designed a Qimen blade, three feet long and more than a wooden stick, in this stick inlaid with a hook or sickle seven or eight inches long transverse protrusion, although the appearance looks funny, but with as many as a dozen external skills to hit the acupoint method, even if the opponent's martial arts are higher than the full crown of the Qing number, if the move practice is proficient, can also have the power of self-preservation. Of course, this method of relying entirely on moves is a trick after all, but even so, no sect in the martial arts can do it.

Zhao Ji looked at the sketch of the blade on the side, and the corners of his eyes couldn't help twitching, if this is created, it will obviously cost you three thousand! Although he felt funny in his heart, he still told Quan Guanqing to hurry up and build it after he went back, and at the same time sent someone to the arsenal to recruit the cheats of the dozen or so acupuncture martial arts issued by Zhou Dong, and let Quan Guanqing copy it and take it back to practice hard. The dark tide is surging in the martial arts, and his subordinates have more self-protection ability, so Zhao Ji does not need to deal with everything passively.

After the affairs of Bianliang City were roughly arranged, Zhao Ji was officially ready to leave. This time he went out of Beijing to Yuntai Mountain, and Zhao Ji also planned to inquire about the location of the Drum Mountain, and if possible, to visit the Wuyazi.

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Where is Drum Mountain? I only know that it is Henan, and I can't find out the specific location