In March, the weather is beautiful. The trees are green and tender, and the green grass is bright. When the gentle spring breeze blows on people, a feeling of relaxation and joy arises suddenly.

But at this time when time was good, a 17-year-old boy did not call his friends out for fun like a boy of the same age. Instead, he wore a narrow-sleeved short suit and long crotch-clogging trousers, and performed martial arts riding and shooting alone on a wide school ground.

"Dadadada!!!" The galloping horse was flying on the school ground. The young man carried this hard bow with a stone, and just grabbed the reins of the galloping horse under his crotch with one hand. No matter how he ran under his crotch, he was as stable and comfortable as if he was stuck on the horse's back.

The horse galloped in this wide school ground for a moment, and then perhaps it felt almost done. The young man on the horse couldn't help but take off the hard bow on his back. The only hand holding the reins loosened the reins and pulled out the arrow from the arrow bag. He would pull the bow like a full moon, and he actually rode and shot on the speeding horse.

"Swoosh!" Under the action of the elastic bowstring, the arrow in the boy's hand was like a lightning bolt falling from the sky. Seventy steps away, the arrow, with a strong sound of breaking through the air, suddenly hit the target that had been standing on the side of the school ground.

"Boom!" With a light sound, the arrow stabbed steadily on the target.

But this was just the beginning. The boy kept firing his hands and eyes, and he shot arrows like beads on the target. Seven arrows in a row actually hit the bull's eye.

After the right hand was shot, the boy changed his left hand again, and seven arrows were shot in succession, and the arrows were still hit.

On top of the galloping horse, draw the bow left and right.

Not to mention anything else, just because of this ability, the young man was enough to become a rich man in Longxi County where the people were strong and the Qiang and Han people lived together.

But the boy still seemed dissatisfied with this.

He pulled the bow in his hand and muttered, but he thought he was too weak and the hard bow in his hand was too light.

"I heard that Dong Zhuo from Lintao could open his bow left and right when he was twenty years old on a galloping horse. I am now seventeen, but my strength is only half that of his person."

As he said that, the boy who seemed very dissatisfied couldn't help but turn over and get off the horse. He first gently patted the black horse under his crotch, calling out a servant who was serving next to him and asked him to lead the horse to the horse shed. He took a heavier Shi Wubu bow from the side, preparing to work harder again.

"Brother, brother!"

As soon as he shot an arrow, a familiar shouting could not help but reach his ears. When he heard this sound, Zhao Xu, who was standing on the ground and holding the bow, did not care at all. He just pulled the bow and shot another arrow steadily on the target eighty steps away.

"Haha, brother, I knew that you were indeed here." I was ignored, but the person who came looked unhappy at all.

Haha, he ran to Zhao Xu with a smile. The young man with a horn on his head was still tied with a guan (guan) and shouted at Zhao Xu, who was holding a bow and shooting an arrow, "Brother, don't practice martial arts in such a good weather. I heard that a group of Shandong merchants came to the market. Let's go and have a look together?"

"Shandong businessmen? It's just the beginning of spring and I can't collect any fur. What are they doing?"

"Who knows, but I heard that this group of people brought a lot of rare things, including excellent silk, lacquerware worth thousands of dollars, and the rare sea beads and even a lot of paper."

"Paper. Are you saying that these Shandong businessmen brought a lot of paper?"

Hearing this, Zhao Xu, who bent his bow and shot an arrow, couldn't help but cheer up.

Although it had been decades since eunuch Cai Lun improved papermaking at this time, paper is still a rare rare thing in Longxi County, which is on the edge of the civilized world.

Here, a piece of ordinary hemp paper that is one foot wide and two feet long is even worth one cent. You should know that in Longxi, 120 kilograms of corn are only seventy or eighty cents.

In order to save paper, Zhao Xu had to use the difficult toilet chips to solve his physiological hygiene in recent years.

OK, it's far.

However, when Zhao Ang saw his admiration for his brother, he looked interested, he couldn't help but reply: "Yes. I heard from the group of merchants that they brought two thousand Zuo Bo papers this time. Well, it seems very rare."

"Haha, okay. Let's go and have a look."

After saying that, Zhao Xu put down his bow and arrow, changed into a straight skirt, and had a Chi Wei tied her head without a scarf, and then went out with his cousin with two or three followers.

His family is in Zheng County. Because of its location in the northwest and its strategic position is important, it was known as the "Western Barrier" for a long time, so the county is called "Zhang".

So from this point alone we can see that the poverty here is.

Not to mention the mountains in the county, nearly 90% of the arable land is also black soil with phosphorus and nitrogen deficiency. On such arable land, no matter how intensive you cultivate, the grain yield per mu will never exceed one and a half stone, and the land can be said to be barren.

However, even with such barren land, the population of Shan County is still among the best in Longxi County.

Because although the soil here cannot produce any grain, there are many minerals and salt under the land.

Especially salt. According to an old man in the clan, as early as the Emperor Ji's dynasty, the Ying surname of the pre-Qin period established the "Yanchuan Village" here, which has a history of hundreds of years.

Therefore, the elderly in Zheng County often say, "There is Zheng County first, and then the Zheng County."

After all, Jun County was officially established during the first year of Jianchu, and it was only a hundred years since its establishment.

There is a lot of salt and iron in the territory. The history of formal establishment of counties is not long. It has been a place where many ethnic groups live in the Han, Qiang, Quanrong and other ethnic groups for hundreds of years in the pre-Qin period. It is a place where many ethnic groups live together. Located on the border of the Han Dynasty, the tough folk customs can be imagined.

Walking on the street, looking around, seven or eight out of ten pedestrians on the street were wearing barbarian clothes, and more than 90% of the men even held swords and swords. Although they did not draw their blades at the same time when they said something was wrong, there were also many people who fought in the wine shop and the girl's house because of some quarrels.

Therefore, when many Shandong people came here, they couldn't help but sigh, "The people in Xiliang are brave, and women wear halberds and pick up spears, holding bows and arrows."

But what is in contrast is that even with such a tough folk custom, when they met Zhao Xu, a young underage boy, those pedestrians who looked fierce and looked not good at the sight of being good, all stood and bowed, which seemed very polite.

"Brother, you are really intimidating Jun County now. Did you see it just now? Even those Qiang people saluted you."

Seeing the rebellious and fierce men seeing their brothers so respectful, their thirteen-year-old cousin Zhao Ang couldn't help feeling honored. From the look he looked at his brother, he obviously regarded his brother as his idol.

But as the person involved, Zhao Xu's expression was faint.

Because he knew very well that the reason why these murderous men on the streets of Zheng County were so respectful to him was not only because he shot a tiger in the autumn before the New Year, but also because Zhao Xu was the chief of the Zhao family in Zheng County.

I have to say that God is really good at Zhao Xu.

Not only did he give him a chance to live again, he also gave birth to a serious county and powerful family.

Although the Zhao family in Zheng County is incomparable to the famous families of Hongnong and Yuan family, such as the Yuan family in Runan, there is no comparison. Even the largest official who was found in the eighth generation of their ancestors was only a six hundred stone army officer.

But in this area of ​​Zhen County, his family is definitely a local dominance.

As mentioned earlier, the most famous thing in Zheng County is Jingyan. And his family is a private salt dealer who profited from selling salt.

Therefore, his family is definitely not a good family that abides by the law and is dedicated to the public. He has never done anything less in the past few years. If this is in later generations, it would be absolutely unfair to be scolded as a "big dog family".

Because of this, the evil people on the street and even the Qiang people were so respectful to him.

Because no one wants to be enemies with a salt owl family that has hundreds of servants in the family, has raised hundreds of guests, and has protected more than a dozen outlaws.

As for Zhao Xu, although he became the evil young man who seemed to be a typical villain in later novels, he is now enjoying it.

‘The year of Jiazi is coming, and in the next hundred years, this world is not something that good people can eat.’

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