The Red Mansions Across the Four Seas

Chapter 205 Addition to the Group Arena

Niu Jizong, Liu Fang and others' actions to block Jia Min's pursuit of the champion of martial arts have now risen to the family level.Not just at the level of one family, but at the joint level of four companies.

It can be seen that their determination is still great.

This time, Niu Jizong's uncle, the Minister of the Ministry of War, came forward and asked his in-law Cheng Minister to cooperate internally. As a result, not only did it not interrupt Jia Min's promotion to Wujuren, but it attracted the investigation of the Shuntian Mansion.

Fortunately, Yin Xiutonggui of Shuntian Mansion is a veteran in the officialdom. Although he has obtained some clues, he knows that this is the work of several big families, so he intentionally slowed down the investigation process.

He knew Jia Min's ability, and thought that Jia Min passed the general examination, and Wu Jinshi in high school was not a big problem.When Jia Min won the Wu Jinshi, the lawsuit in the rural examination became very unimportant.

At that time, Jia Min won the Jinshi, so he would not pay too much attention to this matter. In this way, he can turn big things into small things and make small things into nothing.It didn't delay Jia Min's future, nor would he offend the Ma family, the Niu family and others.

Although Xiu Tonggui had a good plan and Jia Min did not pursue the case, Niu Jizong and others were unwilling to fail.

Now, Niu Jizong and the other four will get together with Luo Hanlin every once in a while.Although neither side said it clearly, in fact, the two sides have formed a common alliance against Jia Min.

The reason for maintaining this tacit understanding is not because they have a bottom line in doing things.Instead, he was concerned about the emperor's reaction.

The tradition of the Dade Dynasty is to restrict the communication between court officials and aristocratic families, just like restricting the communication between Beijing officials and foreign officials, it is a preventive measure against forming parties for personal gain.

If Luo Hanlin got too close to a few families, and the Yushi or even the Jia family would take advantage of it, they would be more passive.

Therefore, although the two parties have relatively close contacts, they both carefully maintain this certain distance.It was only the young people of Niu Jizong's generation who came forward from the big families, and the elders were just making suggestions behind the scenes.

Today, Luo Hanlin brought a new piece of news: In the martial arts examination of this branch, there will be an additional subject: the group arena competition.

In the martial arts in the early days of the Dade Dynasty, there used to be a part of the group arena.However, because of many disadvantages in the group arena and several incidents of beating people to death, the subject was finally cancelled.

For the martial arts part of the test, only non-competitive subjects such as riding and archery, infantry shooting, bow drawing, broadsword dancing, and stone lifting have been retained.Everyone compares themselves according to the subjects, and there is no direct confrontation between candidates.

Although the group arena competition has been added now, the courtiers also had a heated argument over it because of disagreement.This opinion was finally formed.

Because it is the first time to resume this link, many candidates are not prepared.Therefore, the results of the group arena competition are not directly included in the martial arts results, but they should be used as an important reference when recruiting and ranking, so as to facilitate the selection of more outstanding talents.

After Luo Hanlin released the news, he went to have sex with Gu Panpan, leaving Niu Jizong and others to continue drinking in Yuhualou.

Luo Hanlin believed that they would understand the meaning of this message.

Niu Jizong and others really understood that the group arena is the best time to stop Jia Min.

Although the results of the group arena are not officially included in the test results, they are just used as a reference, which is enough for every candidate to pay attention to.No one will give up this subject, even those who are not strong in fighting will try their best.

"How about it, Brother Ma, are you sure you can defeat Jia Min in the ring?"

Niu Jizong looked at Ma Shangde with anticipation in his eyes.

"No problem, it's easy to clean him up."

Martial arts are very popular in the Ma family, and Ma Shangde himself has some attainments in martial arts.As soon as he heard that the group arena was added, he thought that the opportunity had come.

Although he was No.1 in the first two rounds of exams, Jia Min's grades were not bad either, No.3 both times.

Given what they knew about Jia Min, they also wondered if Jia Min had hidden his strength in the first two rounds of exams.

However, Ma Shangde is still very confident about defeating Jia Min in the group arena.

"Brother Ma, don't be careless. I once heard Baoyu say that Jia Min once defeated more than a dozen servants by himself. I think he still has some skills."

Liu Fang resumed his role as a think tank.

"Even so, I have to reconsider. This time, I can't make any mistakes again. Yesterday my uncle came and taught me a lesson."

Niu Jizong asked his uncle to teach him a lesson yesterday, and he still blushes when he thinks about it.

"In the group arena, you have to sign a life-and-death certificate, and the death and injury are at your own risk. However, it is better not to let Brother Ma take the shot directly. The safe way is to let someone else take the shot first, even if Jia Min passed the test of others, When Brother Ma comes here, he must be seriously injured, and at this time, if Brother Ma makes another move, it will be much easier to deal with."

"However, it's hard to find such a person. If they pass the provincial examination, they are all elites from a province. Who doesn't expect to reach the sky in one step and get a Jinshi? Even if they sign a military order, if they are obviously defeated, or there are some If life is in danger, the examiner will intervene in time to interrupt the match."

"Brother Niu, there is no need to worry about this. Although the elites from all provinces gather here, the admission of the general examination is one out of [-]. Most of them will fail the ranking. Those who fail the ranking can get some money. It's a waste of time to come here. Besides, they are all martial arts, they have registered with the Ministry of War, and they can find an official position when they return home, so maybe no one will be indifferent to money."

"Brother Liu is right. We just need to spend some money to buy some of them and tell him to kill Jia Min. Even if we don't kill him, let him lose in the arena. It's just about the money..."

Niu Jizong was a little worried about money.

Not only Niu Jizong, but also several others are now often worried about money.

Although the financial resources of the several families were not bad in the past, they were cut off on the bus, and the recent training of the soldiers added a heavy burden. Therefore, these families now feel that they are stretched out in terms of money.

"This matter has the greatest relationship with me, and I should contribute more. I will only pay 3000 taels."

Marchand took the lead in expressing his opinion.

"How about it, we will each offer 500 taels. With 500 taels, we can hire a few decent people."

Niu Jizong set the number, and it was difficult for others to say anything.

So the four of them agreed on a specific plan, hiring a few people with high martial arts skills, and in the group arena, they tried to injure and maim Jia Min as much as possible, but they did not rule out beating Jia Min to death.

In short, it is impossible to let him achieve good results in the group arena.

Since the number of candidates in Shuntian Mansion is relatively small, and the Jia family still has some power, in order to prevent leakage of information, they did not find anyone among the candidates in Shuntian Mansion.

Martial arts prevailed in Zhili, and every year it was a major province of martial arts, so they found someone from Zhili candidates to block Jia Min in the ring.

If the blocking arena fails, the last set of plans will be implemented.The iron palm stele opener started from the sidelines.

Tiezhang Kaibeishou is not a martial arts candidate and is not eligible to participate in the group arena.If he participated in blocking Jia Min, it would be no different from an assassination.

Therefore, Niu Jizong was unwilling to take this move unless it was absolutely necessary.

The eagerness of several people to deal with Jia Min is also related to Jia Min's identity change.

Jia Min is now a martial arts examiner, and he has already made a name for himself.However, the examination has not yet ended, and the military examiner has not yet registered with the Ministry of War, so he is not yet a proper military officer.

Once the examination is over, even if Jia Min does not have a high-ranking martial arts Jinshi, as long as he registers with the Ministry of War, he will be an official military officer and an official appointed by the court.

If you want to deal with a court official, it's not just that the threshold has been raised.Once things are revealed, the price paid will be even greater.

Once they reached that point, their enemies might not only be the Jia family, but they might also cause strong reactions from other aristocratic families and civil officials, and become the target of public criticism.

Although Niu Jizong and the others planned to deal with Jia Min, they were also very afraid of Jia Min.

In addition to Jia Min's own ability, Jia Min's status as a child of the Jia family is also one of the factors that they are very afraid of.

If Jia Min was just a commoner, they wouldn't need to be so careful.There have been countless ways to make Jia Min disappear.

Of course, whether it can be done is another matter.At least in terms of the means of doing things, they can be unscrupulous.

A day off is coming to an end soon.

On this day, Princess Chang'an lived very happily.

In the morning, she walked all over the palace, announcing the news of her return.I went shopping in the afternoon and had a hard time.Finally, he let out the anger he had received in Yeduju these days.

In the evening, he was supposed to go back to Yeduju Barracks.However, when he thought of going back, he would have to suffer again, and he had already decided not to go back, so he stayed.

When I woke up this morning, I felt a little restless.Want to go shopping again, but ran out of money yesterday.For the next sum of money, I have to go to that damn Jia Lao Si to get it.

But at the thought of getting some money, Princess Chang'an was a little apprehensive.

I just slipped back from him like this, and then went to ask him for money, and I always felt that I didn't have much confidence in my heart.

But if you don't take money from him, where will you get it?Now there is only such a big guy who can be slaughtered.

How about going back?
But I didn't return to the team on time yesterday, and if I go back today, I will definitely be locked in the cage again.

This goddamn Jia Laosi, why don't you go to die, just make some bad moves, and don't even give me face, you should really ask your father to cut off your head.

"Your Highness, will you go back or not?"

This is the third time Lichun has come to ask.

Yes, can we go back?

These dead girls, why didn't you say it earlier?Why didn't you say it yesterday?If I had said it yesterday, wouldn't it have been decided long ago?

Li Chengbin didn't know where he went, so aren't you afraid of going back late and locking him in a cage?

(End of this chapter)