Chapter 109: Martial Arts Competition to Select Squad Leaders

Jiang Jinshi quickly figured it out and immediately responded to Xiao Chunqiu: "Since that's the case, then I will trouble Brother Xiao to help me invite the heads of the families up the mountain to talk."

Hearing this, Xiao Chunqiu was also very happy and hurriedly went down the mountain to prepare to notify the heads of the families.

According to common sense, this matter had no disadvantages for Xiao Chunqiu, but it also had no advantages. His active promotion of all this was unreasonable.

But Xiao Chunqiu thought from another aspect: how long had it taken Jiang Jinshi to go from an unknown mountain bandit to today?

He saw countless potential in Jiang Jinshi, so he didn't mind doing the other party a favor.

Xiao Chunqiu had walked to today from childhood and sat in the position of county magistrate; what he had paid and thought about was more than ordinary people.

He clearly knew that this was his end point. He didn't know any high-ranking officials, and there was no way for a remote place like Qingcheng to have any outstanding performance.

He was not reconciled to being unknown like this. Investing in Jiang Jinshi was just a casual move for him.

Once Jiang Jinshi soared, he could follow behind and pick up some benefits. Even if the situation was the opposite, it was nothing more than spending some words for him.

This was a business that was sure to make a profit without losing; only a fool wouldn't do it.

For Jiang Jinshi, this was sending Licheng to his door; it was impossible not to take it.

Originally, this refined salt had to be sold, and it was the same to whom it was sold. It could also disguise the control of a city, so this business was sure to make a profit.

Therefore, for the three parties, this business was profitable, and reaching a consensus naturally had no obstacles.

Each family had its own channels to sell this refined salt, and in a short time, the accumulated refined salt was snapped up, making Jiang Jinshi and Li Xinyue both make a fortune.

In the blink of an eye, it was the end of the month. Today, Lianhuan Shan seemed exceptionally lively because the martial arts competition that Jiang Jinshi had mentioned was today.

The entire Yangguangzhai currently had a total of about nine hundred people, and the number of people who signed up to participate was as many as two hundred and forty.

This number was not small. You must know that excluding logistics personnel and the elderly and children, the number of mountain bandits in Yangguangzhai was only six hundred, and the number of people who signed up was almost half.

According to Jiang Jinshi's previous idea, every fifty people formed a small squad, which required twelve teams.

And now there were only five squad leaders: Zhang Honghong, Wang Sixi, Wang Hou, Luo Feng, and Nie Fengyun, which meant that today's martial arts competition would produce seven new squad leaders.

Of course, there were also some special positions among them, such as Xiao Hu as Jiang Jinshi's personal guard, and Ye Chang as the general coach of the mountain bandits; their status was naturally not lower than that of the squad leaders.

On such a special day, even those who didn't compete wanted to come and join in the fun, so Jiang Jinshi simply gave everyone a day off, and even the people from Shi Xian Shan were called back.

"Child, come on, let the Big Boss see your strength."

"There should be one for me among the seven positions, right?"

"Phew! They don't look like easy targets!"

The discussion was rising and falling in the martial arts field. Because there were too many people, the martial arts field seemed exceptionally crowded at this moment.

For everyone's safety, this competition naturally couldn't use weapons, and everyone went into battle with bare hands.

As long as they didn't use underhanded means, the rest was free; it was a competition of strength.

Jiang Jinshi and Li Xinyue arrived at the martial arts field early. Looking at the excited crowd, Jiang Jinshi began to introduce the rules.

"This competition has a total of seven arenas. The participants draw lots, and whichever arena they draw, they compete in that arena. The final winner of the arena is the newly promoted squad leader."

Calculated this way, there were more than thirty people in one arena on average, adopting a point system. Everyone had three challenge opportunities. A successful challenge added one point, and a failure subtracted one point. The same applied to defending the arena. The person with the most points was the arena winner.

This system was very simple. Only those who continuously defended the arena and won could get the most points, and challengers would also judge whether to challenge the arena based on their own strength, after all, everyone only had three opportunities.

The reason why they didn't adopt the one-on-one draw method was to prevent two strong people from meeting at the beginning and being forced to eliminate one.

"Now, I announce, the competition begins!"

After Jiang Jinshi finished speaking, he and Li Xinyue sat on stools to watch the competition, and several other squad leaders sat beside them.

In the middle of the martial arts field, seven large circles were drawn with white ash as arenas, and those who went out of the circle were also considered failures.

Although Jiang Jinshi had announced the start of the competition, everyone had no movement for a while, all wanting to see the strength of others before making plans.

"Pah! This is a point system. Everyone has three challenge opportunities, it's not like you have no chance if you go down. I'll go first!" A strong man moved his muscles and bones and jumped straight into the circle.

Jiang Jinshi had some impression of this person; he was one of the first strong men to follow Zhang Honghong.

"His strength is good!" Zhang Honghong had confidence in her subordinates.

"I'll come and meet you!" One person ran and jumped into the circle. Looking at their body types, the two were not of the same weight class.

The strong man laughed: "Brother, I don't even dare to make a move here, fearing I'll hurt you. Otherwise, you'd better go down!"

"Who wins and who loses is not certain yet!" As soon as the words fell, this person rushed toward the strong man quickly, his clenched fist heading toward the strong man's temple.

Wang Hou smiled and said to Zhang Honghong: "This is my man, his skills are very fast."

You must know that the people under Wang Hou were all carefully selected by him, and they must have some strengths in one field. It was just that in such a bare-handed competition, in fact, people with thin bodies would always be at a disadvantage.

Sure enough! The moment the two fought, the gap appeared. Although the other party's speed was fast, the strength was too different.

If one was not careful and was grabbed, then this competition was basically over.

Seeing this, the others couldn't help it either, and they jumped into other arenas to compete.

Each arena had a referee responsible for recording scores and determining the winner, ensuring that the competition was fair and just.

The competition continued until the afternoon before the winner was decided. Jiang Ze's body type looked relatively thin and weak, but in fact, his explosive power was very strong. He was treated as a soft persimmon, but instead, he was given a chance to win a wave of consecutive victories and gained a lot of points, successfully taking a squad leader position.

And Jiang Cai also signed up for the competition, but the result was three wins and three losses, missing the position of squad leader.

The other six squad leaders were basically old people of Yangguangzhai, the batch of people who joined Yangguangzhai at the beginning.

Up to here, the competition had just entered the climax stage. According to what Jiang Jinshi said, ten squad leaders were managed by one middle squad leader, so now these twelve squad leaders needed to select a middle squad leader in the form of a martial arts competition.

That is to say, if the newly promoted squad leader had strength, he could immediately be promoted to middle squad leader.

But the competition for middle squad leader allowed the use of weapons, and there was no arena circle limit.

"Speaking of which, I don't seem to have practiced with everyone yet, so I'll go first!" Nie Fengyun laughed and got up, walked to the weapon rack, and drew a long knife. ===== CHAPTER 110 =====