Chai Yuanwai, also known as Chai Daguanren, is not the little whirlwind Chai Jin, a Miao descendant from the Later Zhou Dynasty in "Water Margin".

In real history, the descendants of Chai Rong, the Emperor of Later Zhou, were not publicly passed down to the late Northern Song Dynasty. Three of his four sons "don't know where they ended" in the early years of the Song Dynasty. Chai Zongxun, who had been emperor for several days, was demoted to Fangzhou and died mysteriously in March of the sixth year of Kaibao, Song Taizu, at the age of 24, and no son or half of his daughter was left behind.

Therefore, Chai Rong and his group have long been extinct. The little whirlwind Chai Jin and the Princess Chai among the Yang family generals do not exist.

There are also some unofficial history records that Chai Rong's son was adopted by Pan Mei, the ancestor of Pan Qiaolian, under the acquiescence of Zhao Kuangyin, and later changed his surname to Pan Xiao'an. I don't know if he has blood relationship with Pan Xiao'an?

However, the Chai family, who now lives in Cangzhou, Hebei, has some blood relationship with Chai Rong. They and Chai Rong are both descendants of Chai Lie (the grandfather of Chai Shao), the general of the Northern Zhou cavalry. They have moved to Cangzhou for more than two hundred years since the end of the Tang Dynasty.

More than two hundred years of reproduction have made this Chai clan prosperous and became a large clan in Wudi County, Cangzhou, called Wudi Chai clan.

The Wudi Chai family, like Wu Haogu's clan in Baibo in Luoyang, is also a Yimen Sect, also known as Cangzhou Yimen Sect.

Wu Haogu arrived with Ximen Qing and others at dusk that day. When he arrived at the place, he realized that Wudi Chai family originally lived in a clan. The entire Chai Village seemed to be a castle, with hundreds of small courtyards inside the walls, and the Chai family lived in each courtyard.

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

There was Baoding, a surnamed Chai, who was standing guard outside the gate of Chaijiazhuang, blocking Wu Haogu and his party's way. Ximen Qing took out the prayer letter that had been prepared long ago and presented it to one of the young men with thick eyebrows and big eyes with both hands.

Baoding took the letter of worship and looked at it, asked Ximen Qing to wait, and then ran to report it.

"Xiao Yi, are there often thieves in Cangzhou?" Wu Haogu turned over and got off the horse, arrived beside Ximen Qing, looked at the tall walls of the Chai family courtyard and the main gate like a city gate tower, and asked Ximen Qingdao.

Ximen Qing nodded and whispered: "Cangzhou is a wealthy place, but unfortunately he has suffered from floods for decades. He has been to ten households for five or six. Some unfilial people have taken advantage of the disaster and become thieves.

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

"So that's it," Wu Haogu nodded and asked again, "The government doesn't care about them?"

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

"Guard the Chai family," said Wu Haogu, "Gathering tribes to build 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 big eyes and looked at Wu Haogu with a strange look. "If the government wants to manage the floods and catch robbers, how can he manage the Chai family well?

Haven't you heard me just now that Chai Yuanwai called Chai Du Baozheng? Chai Yuanwai was the one who was strong. Chai Jin was all strong, and they were all protected. Baoding naturally had weapons, and the government had to review them regularly!"

Wu Haogu only remembered that there was a "society system" that the Song Dynasty did not have in later generations, which was a civil armed organization controlled by landlords and tyrants, also known as the Bow and Archery Society or the Zhongyi Society.

In the new policy implemented by Wang Anshi, the Baojia Law was implemented, turning a considerable number of the bow and arrow clubs and the Zhongyi Club into the Baojia armed forces. They are the legal local armed forces of the court!

The Zhang Dubao that Wu Haogu met in Yucheng before was only one of them, and he also had hundreds of them.

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

Because the Chai family is a Yimen who lives in a clan, hundreds of Baoding are all the same clan, and it is easy to unite. Ximen Qing also told Wu Haogu that the Chai family's Yimen has been practicing martial arts and farming for generations.

Practicing martial arts is to take the military exam to get an official position, and working as a farming is a means of making a living for the Chai family. Moreover, the Chai family is a "Zhenyi Sect" with hundreds of children and regardless of family. Except for the Chai family branch who had been a martial Jinshi, the other clan members do not have much private property. The clan is the foundation for their survival. Therefore, they are all famous fierce people when fighting!

In order to smuggle in Cangzhou, families like Ximen of Yanggu have always been friends with the Chai family. Ximen Qing’s grandfather is also Chai Du Baozheng’s brother.

So as long as you find Chai Du Baozheng, you will not encounter any danger on the road to Cangzhou.

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"My family is guaranteed to invite you."

Soon, the Chai family Baoding who went to report the news put Ximen Qing and others in Chaijiazhuang with a smile on his face.

"Dalang, official Xiaomi, Master Zhishen, hand over all the horses to Baoding of the Chai family... Come with me." Ximen Qing had obviously been here a few times, recognized the roads in the village, so he led the way in front.

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

Compared with the people in Kaifeng Prefecture, the Chai family in Cangzhou must be poor. Hundreds of men guard 10,000 or 20,000 acres of not-fertile farmland, and are often flooded and have no other industries.

However, the lives of these Chai family members are also thriving, with houses, families, clans, and land. Now it is time to eat late (the Chai family must have two meals a day), and the aroma of fat is everywhere in the village.

There are two streets in the village, intersecting in a cross. There are continuous houses on both sides of the street and no shops. Where the two streets intersect, there is a small square. There are many weapons and racks all around the square, all of which are empty and there are no weapons inserted.

There are several buildings with large surfaces around the square, with plaques such as Yimen House, Zuxun Hall, Zheng Zhan Hall, Chai Family Ancestral Hall, Chai Family School, Martial Arts Hall and other plaques hanging on their doors.

Although this Chaijiazhuang is not big, it has all the internal organs, and it is like a small kingdom...

Wu Haogu followed Ximen Qing in and thought: The Chai Yimen is a force, and I don’t know if the Wu Yimen in Baibo in Luoyang is the same? If one or two hundred Wu’s children can be brought to Haizhou to establish a village, it would be a support.

It seems that this feudal clan is sometimes useful.

Just as Wu Haogu was thinking about how to recognize his ancestors and return to his ancestors when he became a famous scholar in the future, and then pulled out some of the people from the Baibo Wu family, he suddenly heard a hoarse voice shouting.

"Sister Ximen, why did he come so soon?"

What? Sister Ximen? Could it be that the daughter of the Ximen family has married into the Chai family? Then I have to meet him.

Wu Haogu raised his head and was about to find where Ximen Qing's "sister" was, but he saw an old man with a short and fat figure, dark skin, a round face, a white beard with a chest-like eyes narrowed into slits, standing under a porch, waving to him. Was he the one who was talking just now?

"Ximen Qing has seen the Chai family's eldest father," Ximen Qing took a few steps forward and saluted the short and fat old man. "This time, I was ordered by my eldest father to escort a few friends to the Northern Dynasties, and asked the Chai family to send someone to escort them."

The old man laughed and said in a hoarse voice: "It's easy to say, it's easy to say. Sister, is that old man Ximen He okay? By the way... you are so old that you are so old that you are not young, and you even hire a grandson-in-law for Mr. He?"

What? What? Ximen Qing, no, Ximen Qing is the eldest sister? Wu Haogu opened his mouth so hard that he looked at Ximen Qing carefully, and then he realized that he, oh, it must be that she is really tender and tender, with beautiful eyebrows and eyes, and her voice is not like a man.
Chapter completed!