The plan to encircle the cities from rural areas is constantly being improved, and gaps are constantly being checked and filled.

It was not until the end of April that the Fourth Alliance Gang sent its first company to the districts and counties.

This company, headed by Zhao Dazhu, the incense master of Xuanwu Hall, and assisted by Sun Si, the deputy master of Baihu Hall, aimed at Zhang Chu's hometown, Jintian County.

Zhang Chu wants to use Jintian County as a pilot to collect experience in expanding districts and counties, and then make full progress after confirming that there are no omissions.

Zhao Dazhu's company arrived in Jintian County that day.

On the third day, news came back that they had captured a piece of territory in Jintian County and established a firm foothold.

On the seventh day, Zhao Dazhu's company sent back news that they had established a relationship with Jintian County Lieutenant Liu Degui using 500 taels of silver as a stepping stone.

On the 16th day, Zhao Dazhu's company encountered a strong enemy. Sun Si was seriously injured and asked for help from the commander-in-chief of Jintian Mansion.

The next day, Li Zheng led 20 people to Jintian County, raised the banner of Heiyun Village, and attacked and killed Hong Xiuquan, a powerful man in Jintian County, at night.

In early May, the Tieshi Gang founded by Zhao Dazhu in Jintian County had expanded to 300 people, occupying one-third of the territory of Jintian County. Many side businesses in the county, as well as the specialty old bacon business in Jintian County, were all controlled by the Tieshi Gang.

hand.

On the tenth day of the fifth lunar month, Sun Si personally escorted three thousand taels of silver back to the main rudder to resume his duties.

At the end of May, seven companies secretly rushed to the seven counties of Shuangliu, Linjiang, Tianling, Shaoli, Dianhe, Suqin and Dabao under the jurisdiction of Jintian Mansion.

In the next two months, Li Zheng and Da Xiong, who was promoted to the ninth level in mid-May, acted as firefighters.

The two secretly left Jintian Mansion many times and rushed to the seven counties. Under the banner of bandits, bandits, and roaming thieves around each county, they attacked and killed the martial arts apprentices in each county who were enemies of Fenduo.

To deal with those powerful men who had reached the top level, the two of them directly used the name of the county's helmsman. Instead of confronting them head-on, the results were mixed.

But regardless of victory or defeat, most of the ninth-grade powerful people will take a stance of retreating or peaceful coexistence after learning that there is a ninth-grade powerful person at the helm of the county.

Competition between gangs in districts and counties is far less intense than in Jintianfu.

But even in the Jintianfu gang world, there are rarely scenes of ninth-grade warriors fighting to the death before the decisive battle between two big gangs.

After all, those who can reach the top grade have to work hard for several years, right?

Seeing the promise of glory and wealth, who is willing to risk life and death easily?

During this period, Zhang Chu only took action once.

He went to Dabao County, the farthest place from Jintian Mansion, and single-handedly hacked to death a ninth-grade powerful man who was ignorant of current affairs.

After getting through the most difficult period of opening up, the development of the eight major districts and counties is slowly getting on the right track.

Zhang Chu lives in the general rudder, and based on the information passed back by the blood shadow guards of each branch rudder, he sends people to suppress the radicals and reprimands the lax ones, and has been firmly controlling the development momentum of each district and county branch.

Under his guidance, each district and county branch is slowly learning how to bribe officials, how to steal business through interest exchange with other gangs, and how to kill people with soft knives.

The noise made became smaller and smaller.

By July, the eight districts and counties had secretly sent the total amount of 38,110 taels of silver to the General Director of the Four United Gang, which had already exceeded the income of the General Director of the Four United Gang!

Moreover, there is no need to pay tribute to Hou Juntang for these thirty-eight thousand taels.

According to the established allocation mechanism for reserve funds, one for each of the four main halls, Zhang Chu, and 20%.

Zhang Chu is allocated more than 20,000 taels of silver every month from the general helmsman of the Silian Gang and the eight sub-rudders.

Twenty thousand taels!

This is an astronomical figure for many wealthy and wealthy families in Jintian Mansion!

Zhang Chu's financial crisis was completely resolved in an instant.

By mid-July, Zhang Chu also finished tempering his arms and began to temper his left leg.

With the investment of a lot of money regardless of consumption, he has maintained about ten hours of marrow training time every day. Perhaps it is to maintain a long time of blood tempering to get twice the result with half the effort, or perhaps it is practice that makes perfect. He clearly feels that now tempering a piece of

The speed of the bones is much faster than at the beginning.

He originally planned to finish tempering his arms in four months, but in fact, he finished tempering his arms in less than three and a half months.

According to this progress, he is confident that he will be able to temper all his bones before the end of the year... Whether he will be directly promoted to the seventh level or undergo a second tempering will depend on next year's situation.

…

While the Silian Gang was making great progress in the districts and counties, the fighting was also in full swing in Jintian Mansion.

The gangs in the three major districts of Chengdong, Beicheng, and Nancheng were all in a mess.

Various linkages and alliances.

Dozens, hundreds, or even thousands of people were fighting.

Although the Four Alliance Gang did not use weapons, they were not spared in name.

In early June, Zhang Chudu, under the instruction of Hou Juntang, issued a statement to form an alliance with the Changle Gang in Beicheng to deter the Qinghong Gang's attack in East City.

Anyone with a discerning eye can see that behind the chaos in the gang circles in Jintian Mansion is Hou Juntang and the county soldier Cao Lu Andi fighting in the air.

But what can you do if you know?

Even the Silian Gang, the largest gang in Jintian Mansion, did not dare to disobey Hou Juntang's order.

Other gangs are even less confident.

let's hit.

When the two giant Buddhas are tired from fighting and are willing to sit down and talk, everyone will have a peaceful time.

…

July 20th.

The scorching sun was baking the earth, and the few sweet-scented osmanthus trees planted in the main helm of the Silian Gang seemed weak. Only Zhizhi was hiding in the shade, singing happily.

Zhang Chu was sitting in the lobby, with his left leg flat on a soft platform. There was a brocade box on his left hand, which contained a whole plant of old wild ginseng. He was holding a book of swordsmanship in his right hand and was flipping through it slowly.

As the Four Alliance Gang and the Eight Counties Branch became more and more powerful, more and more various exercises and techniques flowed into Zhang Chu's hands.

Descendants of high-level warriors may not necessarily be high-level.

But even if you are unable to enter the imperial examination, or you simply give up martial arts and follow literature, the secret books left by your ancestors will be kept in the best possible way.

After the eight-county branch helmsman stalls were opened, the brothers from the county branch helmsmen came to visit families in each county who had martial arts practitioners in their homes.

Then each secret book was quickly delivered to Zhang Chu.

In the past few months, Zhang Chu has read through no less than twenty various martial arts secret books.

There are Kung Fu techniques, as well as various boxing techniques, sword techniques, spear techniques and knife techniques.

Among them, spear skills and sword skills are the most popular. Perhaps because Wuding County is close to northern Xinjiang, most of the martial arts practitioners who have come out are practicing spear or sword skills.

But none of them made Zhang Chu's eyes light up.

Not to mention the exercises, most of them are aimed at martial arts apprentices, such as "Crane-shaped Zhuang Essentials", "Songbai Zhuang Essentials", as well as "Horse-shaped Zhuang Rough Interpretation" and "Mangniu Jin" that Zhang Chu himself has practiced.

All in it.

The only ninth-grade Kung Fu book, "Boiling Blood Kung Fu", is a self-mutilation technique based on the demon disintegration style. It is meaningless to Zhang Chu, who is already at the eighth grade.

So are the techniques.

Perhaps the starting point for Zhang Chu's study of "Tian Shuang Dao" was too high. Most of the dozen or so techniques that were given to him were too rough for him once he got started. He had never practiced swordsmanship or marksmanship, so he didn't have much say in them.

But he was considered an expert in both boxing and sword skills. Most of the boxing manuals and sword manuals that fell into his hands had just been read by him, and several methods of cracking them appeared in his mind.

Also, if he can get into a family where all the family secrets appear in his hands, how strong can the warriors he has produced be?

Even if he is an eighth-grade warrior, he will not be able to train a ninth-grade descendant.

However, Zhang Chu is not picky. No matter what secret book is given to him, he will study it carefully.

This is more or less a kind of martial arts foundation.

Isn't there an old saying that goes like this: Read three hundred Tang poems by heart, and you can recite them even if you don't know how to recite them.

Zhang Chu finished flipping through the "Soul-Breaking Knife" in his hand, but found nothing.

He put it aside casually, rubbed his swollen eyes, and said to himself: "These secret books are useless to me, but maybe I can use them to build a martial arts pavilion... The top-grade warriors in the gang are really

It’s too little.”
Chapter completed!