"Official, that boy should have come to take the Yuntai Academy exam, right?"

Ximen Qing smiled and said to Wu Haogu: "Why don't you let me go to the police patrol and get their case book and see who the boy in white is? Then I'll recruit him to the school."

"No need." When Wu Haogu said this, he never expected that the person he met today was Yelu Dashi. "If he had the ability, he would definitely pass the exam... and it would not be difficult to take the exam."

The admission requirements of the two Yuntai Academy are actually very low. The future millennium universities are not very popular in this era! Although Su Dongpo is famous, his knowledge is not a prominent school at present. He does not take this exam. The standard for the imperial examination is still Wang Anshi's new school.

As for the positivism and natural way proposed by Wu Haogu, he hasn't even been on the table yet!

Otherwise, Wu Haogu would not have opened a branch in Jiehe Commercial City, and recruited students from the Liao Kingdom for free. This is all laying the foundation for the upcoming school struggle and Confucianism biography.

"Let's go," Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Sister, let's go to Mazhi's village today. Should he come from Xijin Mansion today?"

Ximen Qing nodded and said, "Uncle Ma arrived last night, and today should be in his farm."

"Okay, let's go and be a villain."

Ma Zhi was also very busy during this period. His uncle Ma Renwang was ordered to assist Xiao Baoxian. Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Sixian three brothers went to arrest the criminals who had participated in the persecution of the Great Filial Holy Emperor (Yelu Yanxi's father) and the Empress Xuanyi Xiao Guanyin. Ma Zhi was waiting for the list sent by his uncle in Xijin Mansion, and immediately arrested people after getting the list. Dozens of sinners who had realized their awareness were arrested, and more sinners received news and hid in Jiehe Market to avoid the limelight.

Ma Zhi, who could explain, finally got nothing, so he took his family away from Xijin Prefecture, which caused panic due to the large-scale search, and arrived at the fortress north of Jiehe Shang City.

This fort was just built this year, just next to the northern border of the market and guards the avenue. It is also tall and sturdy, and it is wrapped in a large amount of red bricks.

Such a fortress naturally has a defensive function. It is nominally the Song people on the south bank of Jiehe River, but in fact it is an important branch of Jiehe Shangshi North City. It can be used to block the north of the North City of Shangshi.

Wu Haogu and Ximen Qing, with dozens of cavalry followers, were mainly the children of the Ximen family, Murong family and Chai family. Wu Haogu also gave them land according to the standards of the former knights, turning them into knights who depended on the market and went outside the fortress of Ma Zhi.

The Ma family servants who were looking out at the high place had already discovered them, so when Wu Haogu arrived at the south gate of the fortress, Ma Zhi had already brought two sons who were less than ten years old, and two big men of brocade robes who were similar to Wu Haogu followed him, standing at the open gate with a smile.

"Brother Ma," Wu Haogu got off the horse, then laughed and went up, grabbed Ma Zhi's arms that were stretching over, and shook them hard, "I really want to kill you."

"Wow!" Ma Zhi had already felt Wu Haogu's hand strength and was surprised, "Dalang, you have practiced a lot of kung fu these days, right?"

"That's it," Wu Haogu smiled, "I am a military officer from the Song Dynasty now, and I still have to be a few tricks, right?"

Wu Haogu turned his gaze to the two dolls following Ma Zhi, "These two should be men, right?"

"Yan'er, Yun'er, come and pay homage to Uncle Wu." Ma Zhi smiled and introduced his two sons, Ma Yan and Jack Ma to Wu Haogu to meet.

The two boys born with tiger heads and brains respectfully bowed to Wu Haogu and called their uncle. Ximen Qing, behind Wu Haogu, probably knew that the Ma family's young man was coming, and had prepared the gift money for meeting. He was not just stuffed with a large denomination of a private friend, but a small string of copper coins, tied with a red rope, and handed it to the Ma family's two young man with a smile.

"Dalang, I'll introduce you to two great men from Yan." Ma Zhi then introduced the two big men in brocade robe behind him to Wu Haogu.

"This is Liu Fan of Wuqing, and this Li Shi from Wuqing are both good men who are in the same heart as you and me!"

Of course, many of the Han heroes in Yan were interested in the Song Dynasty. The Liao Kingdom pursued the world-selected system and supported the wealthy families like the Yan family. For ordinary Han people in Yanyun, there was no way out except being oppressed by the wealthy families like the Yan family and the Khitans.

Therefore, during the chaos at the end of Liao, it was not the people of Yanyun that launched an riot, broke away from the control of the wealthy families, and surrendered to the Song Dynasty.

Nowadays, among the Liao people attracted by Jiehe Trading City, a considerable number of them are civilians from Yan and even wealthy families. The merchants who originally started trading in Xijin Prefecture City have now moved to Jiehe Trading City in large numbers.

However, the two people introduced to Wu Haogu were not merchants who were preparing to move south to Jiehe Market, but Ma Zhi's newly acquired backbone retainer. Now Ma Zhi's life trajectory has also changed due to the emergence of Wu Haogu. He is no longer a child of the Ma family in Yiwulu Mountain, but has become Xiao Baoxian's confidant by participating in the in charge of Jiehe Market.

The current Emperor of the Liao Dynasty has no team, and the three brothers of the queen who can really rely on are Xiao Baoxian, Xiao Fengxian and Xiao Sixian.

As Xiao Baoxian's confidant, Ma Zhi naturally had greater room for development and was able to operate a manor and fortress in Wuqing County, Liao Kingdom, north of the Jiehe River, and establish private soldiers. This is not the fortress and private army of the Ma family in Yiwulu Mountain, but Ma Zhi's own strength!

Liu Fan and Li Shi are mostly local tyrants in Wuqing County, and are now used by Ma Zhi.

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"Brother Ma, your city is really good!"

Accompanied by Ma Zhi and Ximen Qing, Wu Haogu had already climbed to the city of Majia Fort. On the Liao Kingdom, it was not a big deal to build a city privately. The so-called Junzhou was built by a private person. After the imperial court was expanded, it was considered the territory of the country. However, the head of Junzhou was replaced by the ruler.

The private city built by Ma Zhi in the southern part of Wuqing County is extremely strong. The city wall is about three meters high and wrapped in red bricks. There are also protective corner tower convex walls next to the city gates in the north and south. There are half-digged trenches outside the city, which look deep and wide.

Although the area in the city is not large, it has complete facilities, including houses, warehouses, stables, schoolyards, and handicraft workshops.

Ma Zhi was so proud that he leaned against a skeleton, stroked his beloved city wall with his hands, and grinned: "Dalang, this city is a certain city that can be regarded as a certain strong city in the Liao Kingdom, not to mention the Liao Kingdom, even in the Song Dynasty... Two years ago, I didn't dare to think that there would be such a city."

Two years ago, the red bricks and marsh and mortars were ground and calcined with lime and clay, and then mixed them with crushed bricks together, then added water, glutinous rice juice and sand and mixed evenly. It is considered a soil cement invented by Wu Haogu, Huang Silang and some other craftsmen. The quality is actually not good, but it is much better than the original Sanhe soil. The city built with red bricks is indeed one of the few strong cities in the world.

"All the land around this city has been submissive to Ma's second brother?"

Wu Haogu stood at another trough and visited the north. At this time, the winter sun shone down from the west, covering the river plains in front of him with a layer of warm gold.

The Liao land north of the Jiehe River is slightly more prosperous than the Song land south of the Jiehe River. You can see many small wall fortresses. None of them can be compared with the fortresses of Mazhi in the sight.

Ma Zhi laughed when he heard this and said proudly: "The land for building the castle and the tens of thousands of acres around him were originally from other families, but they were bought at a high price. After starting this city, many local tyrants came to join him. Now half of Wuqing can be said to be Ma's territory.

Someone selected 1,000 heroes from the rich family and moved into the city with his family. He gave them to Liu Fan and Li Shi for training. He was considered to be a bit of strength. In another two or three years, when the family trained these thousand people, he could go to the mission of the governor of the Anfu Army of Suzhou."

It turns out that Ma Zhi is also building his own private army!

However, his progress was much faster than that of Wugu! Because the land of Yanyun under the rule of the Liao Kingdom was originally the foundation of the manor system, and manors of all sizes were all armed. Ma Zhi was a son of Yanyun's famous family, and he received the credit of Xiao Baoxian. He had no shortage of appeal and power. Jiehe Shangshi gave Ma Zhi the financial resources needed to build a castle and establish a private army, so that he could buy the small local tyrants in Wuqing County and use it for his own use. Therefore, he accumulated thousands of heroes in a very short time. These Han heroes were not from large clans, so they did not have high recognition of the Khitan emperor, so Ma Zhi was the monarch they were loyal to.

With these thousands of private soldiers, Ma Zhi can further seek the status of military governors in the military prefecture. Otherwise, even if he bought a military governor through Xiao Baoxian's relationship, he would have no real power after taking office.

In contrast, Wu Haogu's pace of establishing an army in Jiehe was much smaller. Although the knights in Beicangzhou were all organized by him, Murong Wangyou and Shi Guozhong, most of them were loyal to Song Huizong!

Even those knights of the Ximen family and Chai family who were not listed in front of the palace, but were privately invested by Wu Haogu, could not be considered Wu Haogu's private army. The Song people had very low recognition of warlords. Not to mention Wu Haogu, even people like Yue Fei and Han Shizhong in history could not withstand Zhao Gou's power cut.

Therefore, if Wu Haogu wants to establish his own strength, he must find a different approach and establish a new type of army model that is completely different from any previous military model, armed with the ideas of the Confucian empirical faction, determined to be a benevolent for the world, to live in justice for the people, to spread the way for the sages, and to create peace for the world.
Chapter completed!