Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

There were also some victims with sticks in their hands and unfriendly faces hiding in the crowd and looking at the luxuriously dressed Ximen Qing and others.If it wasn't for seeing Ximen Qing and all his brothers armed with weapons and majestic, they wouldn't be easy to provoke, I'm afraid something would happen along the way.

How could the various expressions of the victims escape Ximen Qing, who was watching attentively.Along the way, he saw that Mr. Fang Zhixian's worries were not unreasonable.

If they don't appease these victims who have fallen to Yanggu County, I'm afraid they will really riot, harass the prefecture and county, and become the accomplices of the Liangshanbo robbers.

When they returned to Ximen Fort, they saw that Luan Tingyu and Ximenxin were already organizing dealers for disaster relief.Outside each village, there are hastily built wooden houses and thatched sheds, providing shelter from the wind and rain for the homeless victims.

On the side of the village, there is also a porridge shed that distributes gruel to provide life rations for the victims.Near Simon Fort, the victims have recovered a little bit of life.

Ximenqing entered the fort, and immediately called everyone to the lobby to discuss how to deal with these Cangzhou victims going south.

Seeing that everyone was seated, Ximen Qing said, "Tingyu and Sister Xin'er have done a good job in this matter, and they have comforted the disaster victims around Ximen Castle very well. Today's daily charity of porridge and rice can only be a stopgap measure, and it will not last long."

Chapter 259 Disaster Relief Recruitment

Luan Tingyu heard the words and asked: "Why do you say that? I have enough money and food in Ximen Fort. Even if I help the victims in the surrounding area for a year and a half, I still have enough energy. When the flood in Cangzhou subsides and the next spring can be used for farming, the victims will be able to help the victims." Will return to my hometown, why is it not a long-term solution?"

Ximenqing replied: "Brother Luan, I don't know. Today, the county magistrate invited me to come to the government to discuss the disaster relief. I have promised him to do my best to help the Cangzhou victims in Yanggu County, so as to prevent the refugees from continuing to go south and being recruited by the robbers in Liangshanpo." , And then lead to great changes. Therefore, what we want to rescue is not only the victims of the disaster around Ximen Fort, but also the victims of the disaster in Yanggu County."

Ximen Xin heard this, and said aside: "Brother, this disaster relief is originally a matter of the imperial court. I will do my best when I appease the victims around the manor. How can I take over the burden of disaster relief for the whole county? There is a way to make money, and the gold and silver accumulated in the family should not be squandered like this! Why do you bother to take such a hard job?"

Ximen Qing said with a smile: "Good girl, don't worry, my uncle will keep the gold and silver at home for my good nephew, and I won't throw them away at will, hahaha~"

When everyone in the lobby heard this, they couldn't help laughing and burst out laughing.

Ximen Xin also smiled and said: "Brother, you must remember what you said today! Ting Yu, watch me closely in the future, my brother is romantic and sentimental, I can't let him lose this family to Goulan Washeri! Wan Guan’s wealth must be kept for my son and San Niang’s little nephew!”

"Iron Rod" Luan Tingyu is a fierce general who is unduly brave outside, but he is always soft in front of his wife Ximenxin.Hearing Ximen Xin's words, he nodded hastily, making everyone in the hall burst into laughter again.

The two old directors, Ximen Zhong and Ximen Fu, also came to join in the fun and said in unison that, as the old servants of Ximen's family, they should stand with the second lady to safeguard the interests of Ximen's family, and Da Lang should not let Da Lang defeat this one at will. Home.

Ximenqing listened, where did I lose my fortune, a high-ranking official?I ran around the world and robbed robbers everywhere for this family, so I accumulated such a solid family background for this family!

Since transmigrating to this world, in just two years, how many places have I, the official Ximen, robbed?Centipede Ridge, Cross Slope, Dead Tree Mountain, Qingfeng Mountain, Peach Blossom Mountain, Duiying Mountain, Xiaogu Mountain, and Mujiazhuang in Jieyang Town, they were all earned by real swords and guns!

In addition, there are dowries from Hujiazhuang and Taohuazhuang, and gifts from Master Li, which were also brought back by me, a senior official of Ximen, with a real gun!

It's really not easy for me, a time traveler without a system, to be in the last years of the Northern Song Dynasty!

Ximen Qing slandered in his heart, and he didn't open his mouth until everyone had had enough of laughing, and told everyone about his plan.

Ximenqing told everyone that the victims who were exiled from Cangzhou, Hebei to Yanggu County this time are different from those in other places. Most of them have a tradition of martial arts and are brave.These people, with a little training, are good seedlings to become sergeants.

Therefore, Ximenqing decided to take the opportunity of this disaster relief, and before the Yunzhou government recruited the forbidden army, he first recruited the strong victims in Yanggu County as Ximenbao's township soldiers to expand the scale of his own private soldiers.

In order to keep these young people in Yanggu County and serve Ximenbao in a down-to-earth manner, and prevent them from returning to Cangzhou because of homesickness, Ximenqing decided to organize the victims to reclaim wasteland northward, build houses, and build many new villages. , so that their family can settle in Yanggu County.

Because the farming season has passed, in order to allow the victims to survive the autumn and winter in Yanggu County, Ximen Qing decided to expand the scale of Ximen Fort, and built several villages around Laowubao to defend Ximen Fort.

The construction requires a lot of manpower. Ximenqing plans to allow the victims to work for relief, and rely on their labor in Ximenbao to exchange for the money and food they need to survive the winter.

Ximen Qing hoped that through such means, those Cangzhou disaster victims would be led to the surrounding area of ​​his Ximen Fort, so that they could really take root and live here.In this way, the population and land under the jurisdiction of Simon Fort Manor can be donated in large quantities, which also increases the source of high-quality soldiers.

In time, Ximenqing intends to select and recruit thousands of elite soldiers from these victims as a force to deal with unexpected events in the future.

Of course, Ximenqing also considered that there might be a lot of victims, which would exceed the limit that Ximenbao can currently accommodate.For this reason, Ximenqing decided to go to Dulonggang in the near future, meet with people from Hujiazhuang, Zhujiazhuang and Lijiazhuang, and persuade them to take in some Cangzhou victims.

With the efforts of the major manors, the wave of refugees in Yanggu County can be properly resolved this time.The remaining few victims who cannot be taken care of have their own disaster relief from the governments of Nayanggu County and Yunzhou Prefecture.

Everyone in the hall knew that Ximen Qing was a person with ulterior motives. Hearing that he wanted to recruit Jingzhuang, they immediately understood Ximen Qing's intentions.Therefore, everyone expressed their opinions and supplemented Ximen Qing's plan to make it more feasible.

After discussing for half a day in Simon Fort, and drawing up various plans, they split up and carried out the matter of absorbing the victims, providing relief with work, and recruiting strong men in an orderly manner.When the autumn harvest and construction outside Ximen Fort were all in order, they started at the same time, and the fields were crowded with people, creating a lively scene.

After setting up all the things in Ximen Fort, Ximen Qing immediately took the pregnant Hu Sanniang back to her mother's house, and went to Hu's Manor in Dulonggang.Old Mrs. Hu and Hu Cheng were overjoyed when they met the two of them. They held a grand banquet in Hu's manor to receive their daughter and son-in-law warmly.

During the dinner, Ximenqing proposed his own strategy to relieve the victims to Mrs. Hu and Hu Cheng, hoping that the Hu family village could also absorb some refugees and take the opportunity to expand the scale of the manor.

At this time, Ximenqing in Yanggu County has the most wealth and is the richest man in Yanggu County.The old lady Hu and Hu Cheng have always loved Ximen Qing, and both thought he was a capable person.Therefore, the two readily accepted Ximen Qing's proposal.Hujiazhuang and Ximenbao are connected with each other, so they should advance and retreat together.

On the second day Ximenqing came to Dulonggang, the three brothers of the Zhu family in Zhujiazhuang got the news, and specially invited Ximenqing to Zhujiazhuang as a guest.

The three brothers of the Zhu family and Ximen Qing had hit it off, and they had already worshiped Luan Tingyu as their teacher under Ximen Qing's instruction, and their relationship with Ximen Qing was even closer. It can be said that Ximen Qing had already pulled him into his own thief .

Therefore, when Ximenqing asked them for disaster relief, the three brothers of the Zhu family immediately agreed with their chests, and quickly persuaded Zhu Lao Chaofeng.As a result, Ximenqing's plan was also carried out in Hujiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang.

However, when Ximen Qing went from Zhujiazhuang to Lijiazhuang, when discussing this matter with the "Popping Eagle" Li Yingli, he hit a wall once.

Chapter 2 Sixty: Yu Baosi and Li Xiaoer

"Fighting the Eagle" Li Ying Li Daguan has a lot of money and is good at managing money.He is also loyal to the heroes of the Jianghu, and he is very prestigious in the Jianghu.However, Mr. Li was a little unhappy to ask him to use real money to help those mud-legged people who fled from Cangzhou.

In Li Ying's eyes, these victims did not bring him any benefit, but instead stole a lot of mature crops from his Li family farm.If the local people were hit by a disaster, Li Ying could take the opportunity to annex their land at a low price, but the land of these victims is far away in Cangzhou, and it is a desolate place with frequent floods. Li Ying has no interest in those lands.Rather than spending money on these mud-legged people who can only open their mouths to eat, it's better to save two more concubines!

Li Ying was not happy in his heart, although he warmly received Ximen Qing, he made excuses and only agreed to donate some old food to the county magistrate of Yanggu County.

Seeing that this "Popping Eagle" Li Ying is a miser, Ximen Qing doesn't agree with him, so he doesn't force it anymore.After thanking Li Daguan for his generosity on behalf of the county magistrate, he bid farewell to Li Ying and returned to Hujiazhuang.

Looking back at the large-scale Lijiazhuang on the road, Ximen Qing sneered in his heart, thinking Li Ying, Li Ying, I, a senior official of Ximen, is pulling you a little bit now.If you still don't distinguish between right and wrong as in history, and secretly communicated with the Liangshan bandits, then don't blame me, a senior official in Ximen, for not thinking of the love of fellow countrymen and the righteousness of the alliance!Every penny you save now, I will accept it all with a smile!

Ximenqing made up his mind, and after returning to Ximen Fort, he asked Lu Xiaoyi to arrange secret agents to sneak into Li's village and secretly monitor the movements of Li's village.

After returning to Hu's Village for a few days, Ximen Qing took Hu Sanniang back to Ximen Fort.Hu Cheng asked his family to lead Hu Yong to escort them all the way to Ximen Fort, and only then returned to Hu's Village by the same route.

After Hu Sanniang became pregnant, it was inappropriate to go to the training ground where they fought and killed.She handed over her cavalry team to Ximen Qing, and asked Ximen Qing to select strong men who could ride horses from the victims and expand them into her team.

Ximen Qing received this errand from his wife, so naturally he had to do it with all his might.At this time, the child in Hu Sanniang's womb is the most important thing, Ximen Qing can't make Hu Sanniang worry about these chores and get angry.

To Ximenqing's surprise, Cangzhou is close to Yanjing of the Liao Kingdom. Like the people of the Liao Kingdom, many of the people can ride horses, which made it easier for him to select cavalry candidates.

Ximenbao pays money and food to hire people to repair the houses, and the repaired houses will be distributed to the victims of the disaster to live in.As long as one young man in the family goes to Naximenbao to serve as a village soldier, the whole family can be properly settled.After the news spread, most of the Cangzhou victims in Yanggu County flocked to Ximenbao, and some of the victims who had already traveled to the south of Yanggu County went to Hujiazhuang and Zhujiazhuang in Dulonggang.

This time, Ximenqing took the lead in uniting with large families in the county to help the prefecture and county in disaster relief, and actively arranged for the application of medicine to treat the injured and sick victims, stabilized Yanggu County, and relieved the urgent need for the county magistrate.As a result, Ximenqing further consolidated his good relationship with the government and won more reputation among the people.

In the past, Ximen Qing was feared by the whole county, but now the whole county respects him.

While Ximenqing and his brothers were busy recruiting soldiers for disaster relief, a group of more than a hundred people passed through the territory of Yunzhou and came to the bank of Dongping Lake.From a distance, you can see the city of Dongping Mansion.

At the head of the team, a strong man with a face like a diamond, one foot long, and several circumferences in width looked at Dongping Lake, then at Dongping Fucheng in the distance, and said in bewilderment, "This is Liangshan Lake? Why not?" As vast as the rumors on the rivers and lakes? There is such a big state city to the south of the water pond, could it be that I have arrived at Jeju Prefecture?"

The strong man turned around and asked a person behind him, "Li Xiaoer, are you sure you didn't go the wrong way?"

This strong man is none other than Ximen Qing's old acquaintance, the Qingzhou bandit "God of Dangerous Dao" Yu Baosi.

After Yu Baosi was released by Ximenqing in Guanzhou, he took the remaining dozens of Qingzhou brothers and ran around Hebei, and ran north to Cangzhou at the junction of Song and Liao, and continued to be his bandit king.

It's a pity that the good times didn't last long. Not long after staying in Cangzhou, Yu Baosi and his group encountered a major flood that they hadn't seen in many years.Like the local people, their group of robbers also became victims of the flood.

Cangzhou is full of victims who survived the disaster. They are penniless, and Yu Baosi and his gang have no place to rob. They cannot stay in Cangzhou, so they can only go south with the victims.