Outside the Chai Yuan, also called Chai Daguanren, it is not the little whirlwind Chai Jin of the Later Zhou Miao descendant in "Water Margin".

In real history, the descendants of the Later Zhou Emperor Chai Rong were passed down to the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, and three of his four sons were "unknown" in the early years of the Song Dynasty. Chai Zongxun, who had been the emperor for a few days, was relegated to Fangzhou, and died mysteriously in March of the sixth year of Song Taizu Kaibao at the age of 24, leaving no son and half a daughter.

Therefore, Chai Rong's family has long been extinct. The little whirlwind Chai Jin, as well as the Cheshire Lord in the Yang family, do not exist.

There are also some wild histories that record that one of Chai Rong's sons was adopted by Pan Qiaolian's ancestor Pan Mei with the tacit consent of Zhao Kuangyin, and later changed his surname to Pan. I don't know if I am related to Pan Xiao'an and Pan Qiaolian?

However, the Chai family, who now lives in Cangzhou, Hebei, is a little related to Chai Rong. They and Chai Rong are both descendants of Chai Lie, the general of the Northern Zhou Hussars (that is, Chai Shao's grandfather), who moved to Cangzhou at the end of the Tang Dynasty for more than 200 years.

More than 200 years of reproduction have made this Chai family prosperous and become a big family in Wudi County, Cangzhou, called Wudi Chai.

And the Wudi Chai clan, like Wu Haogu's clansmen in Luoyang Baibo, is also a righteous family, also known as Cangzhou Yimen Chai.

Wu Haogu arrived with Ximen Qing and others at dusk that day. When he arrived at the place, he found that the Wudi Chai family originally lived in a gathering family, and the entire Chai family village seemed to be a castle, with hundreds of small courtyards within the walls, and each courtyard was inhabited by the Chai family.

"This little brother is Ximen Qing of the Ximen family in Yanggu, and he is a friend of Chai Guodong and Chai Du Baozheng."

There was a Bao Ding surnamed Chai standing guard outside the gate of Chaijiazhuang, blocking the way of Wu Haogu and his party, and Ximen Qing took out the worship post that had been prepared a long time ago, and gave it to one of the young Bao Ding with thick eyebrows and big eyes with both hands.

The Bao Ding took the post and looked at it, and asked Ximen Qing to wait a while, and then ran to report it.

"Xiao Yi, are there often thieves in Cangzhou?" Wu Haogu turned over and got off the horse, came to Ximen Qing's side, looked at the tall wall of the Chai family compound and the main gate like a city gate tower, and asked Ximen Qingdao.

Ximen Qing nodded and said in a low voice: "Cangzhou was originally a rich land, but it is a pity that it has been flooded for decades, and the ten rooms have gone to five or six, and there are still some unscrupulous people who take advantage of the disaster to make trouble and become thieves.

In order to prevent thieves, and also to save their lives in the flood, most of the big clans in Cangzhou gathered clans and built such forts to live. The Chai family is also a first-class family in Cangzhou, so naturally. ”

"I see," Wu Haogu nodded, and asked again, "The government doesn't care about them?" ”

"Who is in charge of the government?" Ximen Qing didn't understand Wu Haogu's question.

"Guan Chai's family," Wu Haogu said, "The gathering clan builds forts, and there are clan soldiers, and they still hold sharp weapons, this ......"

"Dalang, what are you talking about?" Ximen Qing stared at Wu Haogu with wide eyes, and looked at Wu Haogu a little strangely, "If the government wants to take care of the flood, how can you manage the Chai family well?"

Didn't you hear me call the firewood keeper to keep the firewood upright? The firewood staff is all upright, and the hundreds of Dingzhuang who enter the firewood are all Baoding, and Baoding naturally has weapons, and the government has to review it regularly! ”

Wu Haogu only remembered at this time that the Song Dynasty had a "patrol system" that did not exist in later generations, which was a kind of civil armed organization controlled by landlords and local tyrants, also known as the Bow and Arrow Society or the Zhongyi Society.

In the new policy implemented by Wang Anshi, the armor protection law was implemented, and a considerable part of the bow and arrow society and the Zhongyi Society became armor protection weapons. That is, the legal local armed forces of the imperial court!

Zhang Dubao, whom Wu Haogu met in Yucheng before, was a Du Baozheng, and there were hundreds of Baoding under him.

However, compared with Zhang Du Baozheng, Chai Du Baozheng's strength is definitely stronger.

Because the Chai family is a righteous family living in a gathering family, hundreds of Baoding are all one family, and it is easy to unite. Moreover, Ximen Qing also told Wu Haogu that the Chai family Yimen has been following the path of practicing martial arts and farming for generations.

The purpose of practicing martial arts is to obtain an official position in martial arts, and farming is a means of livelihood for the Chai family. And the Chai family is a "true righteous door" with hundreds of children who are not separated, except for the branch of the Chai family who has been out of Wujinshi, the other clansmen do not have much private property, and the clan is the foundation of their lives, so they are famous murderers when they fight!

And a family like Yanggu Ximen, in order to smuggle in Cangzhou, has always befriended the Chai family, and Ximen Qing's grandfather is still the brother of Chai Dubao.

Therefore, as long as you find Chai Du Baozheng, there will be no danger on the road in Cangzhou.

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"My family is all upright, please."

Not long after, the Chai family Baoding, who went to report, put Ximen Qing and the others into Chai Jiazhuang with a smile on his face.

"Da Lang, the millet official, Master Zhishen, hand over all the horses to the Chai family's Baoding...... Come with me. "Ximenqing has obviously been here a few times, and he knows the road in the village, so he leads the way in front.

After entering Zhuangzi, Wu Haogu immediately felt a kind of thriving poverty.

Compared with the people of Kaifeng Mansion, the Chai family in Cangzhou must be poor, with hundreds of Ding men guarding 10,000 or 20,000 acres of not fertile farmland, which is often flooded, and there is no other industry.

But the lives of these children of the Chai family are also thriving, with houses, families, clans, and land. Now is the time for dinner (the Chai family must have two meals a day), and the Zhuangzi is full of the aroma of fatty meat.

There are two streets in the Zhuangzi, which intersect in a cross. The streets are lined with contiguous houses and no shops. Where the two streets intersect is a small square. There were many weapon racks around the square, all of which were empty and not armed.

Around the square, there are several buildings with large openings, and there are plaques hanging on the front of the door, such as the main house of the righteous gate, the ancestral training hall, the torture hall, the ancestral hall of the Chai family, the Chai family study, the lecture hall and so on.

Although this Chaijiazhuang is not big, it is full of internal organs, like a small kingdom......

Wu Haogu thought while following Ximen Qing inside: This Chai family Yimen is a force, and I don't know if the Wujia Yimen in Luoyang Baibo is the same? If you can pull one or two hundred martial arts children to Haizhou to establish a Zhuangzi, it will be a reliance.

It seems that this feudal clan is sometimes useful.

Just when Wu Haogu was thinking about how to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors after becoming a celebrity in the future, and then pull some of the people of the Baibo martial arts family out, he suddenly heard a hoarse voice shouting.

"Sister Simon, why did you come so soon?"

What the? Sister Simon? Could it be that the daughter of the Simon family married into the Chai family? We'll see.

Wu Haogu raised his head, and just wanted to find out where Ximenqing's "sister" was, but he saw an old man with a short and fat stature, a dark complexion, a round face, a chest-length white beard, and small eyes narrowed into a slit, standing under a porch, waving to his side, was he talking just now?

"Ximen Qing has seen the big daddy of the Chai family," At this time, Ximen Qing took a few steps forward and saluted the short and fat old man. "This time, I was ordered by my father's father to escort a few friends to the Northern Dynasty, and I also asked the Chai family to send someone to escort him."

The old man laughed, and opened his mouth in a hoarse voice: "Good to say, easy to say." Eldest sister, is Ximen He's okay? That's right...... You're not too young, when will you recruit a grandson-in-law for Crane Lao'er? ”

What the? What the? Ximen Qing, no, Ximen Qing is a big sister? Wu Haogu's mouth opened widely, and then he took a closer look at Ximen Qing, only to find that he, oh, it should be that she is really thin skin and tender meat, with beautiful eyebrows, and her voice is not like a man.

This is really a companion for dozens of days, and I don't know if Simon is my sister......