Chapter 93: Rivers and Lakes Shaking (2)
Anzhou.
This is a state located in the central part of Qi State. It has a wide terrain and is dotted with a few mountains. It has developed agriculture, commerce, and people have enough food and clothing. It is an extremely wealthy state.
This state belongs to the sphere of influence of Zhanjiabao, but Zhanjiabao is not the only large-scale jianghu force in Anzhou. However, the Zhan family can rule other jianghu forces because the Zhan family is not large, so it is not enough to control a state. Moreover, the Zhan family is an existence standing at the top of the food chain and has enough strength and prestige to control all jianghu forces in Anzhou.
Every three years, the Zhan family will hold a banquet in Zhanjiabao, and invite the Anzhou Jianghu forces to the banquet. The people who come to the banquet must bring enough supplies, money, genius treasures, or magic weapons and blades.
In fact, it is a disguised protection fee.
The Zhan family dominated the entire Anzhou and protected all the forces in the rivers and lakes in Anzhou. On the contrary, all the forces in Anzhou must support the Zhan family.
The people in the Zhan family are born as swordsmen. Every generation has top swordsmen on the Tianlist. As the saying goes, swordsmen in the world, they go to war with families.
The Zhan family has existed for thousands of years, and this situation in Anzhou has been maintained for thousands of years. Even if the Blood River God Sect dominated the world more than a thousand years ago, it could only make the Zhan family surrender temporarily, and not destroy the Zhan family.
The Zhan family is one of the top, oldest and most powerful forces in the entire Qi Kingdom.
Zhanjiabao is located on a plain in Anzhou. The plain is called Bolangsha. The plain is full of fertile land, with hundreds of thousands of acres, and these are Zhanjia's industries.
There is even no city in this area of the imperial court, and this Bolangsha seems to be the private kingdom of the Zhan family, owned by the Zhan family's power.
The Zhan family has a small population, and Cheng Ding only has dozens of people. Logically speaking, the Zhan family has been passed down for so long and has such a strong power, and there is no shortage of women.
The population of the Zhan family should be at least tens of thousands, and even more than tens or twenty-hundreds or twenty-hundreds of thousands is not unacceptable. But the people in the Zhan family are too pretentious.
Compared to Zhang Ning, a person who has reached the peak with his talent and has not killed a single person but is already a top swordsman, the Zhan family is the real traditional swordsman.
When the Zhan family was young, they only learned ordinary second-rate swordsmanship, which were all kinds of skills. After a little success, they would enter the world.
And hide the name.
Because of ordinary second-rate sword techniques, people in the martial arts world cannot know that this young man is from the Zhan family. After entering the martial arts world, the young man in the martial arts world specializes in doing dangerous things and challenging various masters.
The mortality rate is very high.
If the young man from the Zhan family died incognito and died outside, the people from the Zhan family would not cause trouble for the enemy, and there would not even be anyone who collected the corpse.
Even the Zhan family didn't know that their children were dead.
Because it's anonymous.
Under such circumstances, there are always not many male members in the Zhan family, and each generation maintains a relatively fixed number. The people who get the method of training their children in this way are naturally elites.
When the males of the Zhan family come back alive, they basically have the cultivation level of the Heaven Realm and are first-class swordsmen. Only after these males come back can they learn the sword skills of the Zhan family and the internal skills of the Zhan family.
Therefore, the adult males in the Zhan family are at least all in the Heavenly Realm.
These heavenly realms are divided into seclusion people, contemporary and next generations.
The Red Refining Ghost King walked with Zhang Ning in the battle, and Zhan Tianya, who was present in the battle of the Badao Sect, was the contemporary swordsman of the Zhan family. He was on the 31st place and belonged to one of the facades of the Zhan family.
During the battle of the Blood River Divine Art, the Zhan family also sent people there, but Zhan Tianya.
Because Zhan Tianya is the most lively and active among the contemporary swordsmen of the Zhan family, basically the things Zhan family does outside are left to Zhan Tianya.
However, Zhan Tianya was not in Shanliu City, but in other places in Changhezhou, so he did not see Zhang Ning.
Zhan Tianya is still the same, with a strict appearance and a burly figure, and seems to be in close proximity to him. He is wearing simple coarse cloth clothes.
The people in the Zhan family basically wear coarse cloth clothes, and few people wear good materials.
"You idiot, letting you wash clothes, why are you doing that hard?" Zhan Tianya, a contemporary swordsman of the Zhan family, was at the well at this moment, lowering his head and being scolded with a brilliant face.
The one who scolded Zhan Tianya was Zhan Tianya's wife, Wu Jingxiu. Wu Jingxiu was born in an ordinary background and had an ordinary appearance, but she met when Zhan Tianya was a boy who set foot in the world. Wu Jingxiu liked Zhan Tianya, and Zhan Tianya didn't hate Wu Jingxiu, so after Zhan Tianya came back, she married Wu Jingxiu.
Wu Jingxiu has a heroic personality, is also stingy, and is simple. After giving birth to children for Zhan Tianya, she generally does everything she needs to serve in food, clothing, housing and transportation.
Today, Wu Jingxiu went to see her sister-in-law and gave her clothes to Zhan Tianya to wash. As a result, Zhan Tianya tried too hard and her clothes were torn to pieces, so she could only bow her head and get scolded.
"Get out, I'll do it myself." Wu Jingxiu scolded Zhan Tianya for a few words, lifted up the sleeves of her clothes, squatted down to wash her clothes, and asked Zhan Tianya to get out.
Zhan Tianya didn't chew it, and got out obediently.
Zhan Tianya was an ostrich at home, but when he went out, he became proud and proud. When the servants and servants who came and went, they lowered their heads and called him "The Eighth Master".
"Master Eighth Master, the head of the family is waiting for you at home." A slave hurried over and reported.
"Oh." Zhan Tianya said oh and headed east. Zhanjiabao belongs to a huge building complex, and it is not an exaggeration to say that it is a county town.
The head of the Zhan family is not inherited by the father and son, but is held by the strongest person in each generation according to generation.
The head of the Zhan family in this generation is ranked second. He is Zhan Tianya's second brother, named Zhan Tianqing. He ranks sixth on the Tianlist and is the top swordsman.
Zhan Tianya came to the head of the family mansion and saw Zhan Tianqing in the lobby. Then he went up and called out, "Second brother."
"Sit." Zhan Tianqing sat in the main seat, fighting against Tianya. Zhan Tianya obediently sat in the guest seat again.
Zhan Tianya and Zhan Tianqing are brothers of the same generation, but they are very concerned about blood. The two families were brothers in the fifteenth generation ago. Therefore, Zhan Tianya has a strict appearance, while Zhan Tianqing has an ordinary appearance and an ordinary figure, and the ordinary ones seem to be passers-by. If anyone who doesn't know him would not have thought that he was the sixth-ranked swordsman on the Tianlist.
Zhan Tianqing was wearing an ordinary dress, with a black robe made of coarse cloth, cloth shoes under her feet, her long hair was simply braided into a bun, and a wooden hairpin was inserted.
He is a very traditional swordsman in the war family.
"Have you hidden Wuming's other things?" Zhan Tianqing asked.
"Yes." Zhan Tianya admitted it happily, but then said, "But I can't tell you."
Zhan Tianya once told Zhan Tianqing that he knew Wuming, but kept his promise and did not reveal the battle between the Red Refining Ghost King. Zhan Tianqing investigated it and felt something was wrong, and suspected that Zhan Tianya had concealed something.
Zhan Tianya is a heroic and upright person, admitting but never telling the secret. Zhan Tianqing frowned slightly, but did not ask too much.
"Wu Xionglie, a swordsman in white, was killed. I suspect it was made by people from Juedian City. Juedian City has ambitions and is a little uneasy. At this time, my Zhan family also needs foreign aid. Can you find Wuming and make friends with you?" Zhan Tianqing asked again.
As the top swordsman of the Zhan family, Zhan Tianqing is never afraid of fighting, but as the head of the Zhan family, the inheritance of the Zhan family must be the first priority.
He thought a lot.
"I don't know what Wuming is and where he lives, but I know that even if I can find Wuming, he will not agree to be our foreign aid for the Zhan family. To be honest, second brother, you can't help him."
Zhan Tianya did not leave any face to Zhan Tianqing, nor did he be proud of himself as the Zhan family, because the Yunjianke, or Wuming, who he knew, was comparable to the four generals of the Yinsi.
Zhan Tianqing's eyebrows were even more locked, and he looked at Zhan Tianya with a headache and said, "What do you know? What did you hide?"
The proud Zhan Tianya would actually say that.
Obviously, Wuming had a very terrible secret, in front of this secret. In Lao Ba's opinion, the Zhan family was insignificant.
Chapter completed!