Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

In the Song Dynasty, calling someone a man directly was almost a curse word. After hearing this, Yu Baosi turned around angrily.Not far behind him was a fully clothed general riding a horse slowly walking up.

Yu Bao took a closer look at the man, he was handsome and talented.This made Yu Baosi feel a little annoyed.

The "God of Dangerous Dao" Yu Baosi was ugly at first, and he didn't like the good-looking young man when he was young.Ever since he was cut off in half by the handsome Ximenqing at Qianfo Mountain in Licheng, Qizhou, he has become even more dissatisfied with handsome people.

Later, when he met Ximenqing again, after a lot of troubles in Kushushan, Guanzhou, Yu Baosi had come to the true meaning of his life: no one who is good-looking is a good person!

The man in front of him is so handsome, which makes Yu Baosi upset for no reason.He glanced behind the white-faced gentleman, but there were only ten or twenty sergeants following him.

Seeing that there were few people on the other side, Yu Bao grew more courageous, and asked the general on horseback: "This meal was given to me by that fair and clean face, so what's the matter with you, a bird man? You can leave if you want, master. What do you do?" ?”

"Bold! This is General Dong, the military supervisor of my Dongping Mansion. How dare you speak rudely?" Wang Jun walked over.

The one riding on the horse and preventing Yu Baosi from leaving is none other than the "two-gun general" Dong Ping who came from the city.

"What General East and West General? The master is not his soldier, so he can't control me! Could it be that Dongping Mansion doesn't allow me to wait for the victims to walk?" Yu Bao saw that there were not many officers and soldiers outside the city, so he was not afraid of these two fair faces. the teenager.

The minions behind Yu Baosi also booed with Yu Baosi, completely ignoring the twenty or thirty officers and soldiers.

Seeing Yu Baosi rolling up his sleeves, stretching his arms and kicking his legs, Dong Ping smiled contemptuously and said to Yu Baosi, "Man! I will advise you not to rely on the large number of people to make trouble here. If something goes wrong, I will The general will protect you from this Dongping mansion! The general is a person who cherishes talents. Seeing that you are tall and strong, you are very useful in the army. I want to promote you as a general in my army. I don’t know what you want how?"

The recruiting system in the Song Dynasty was mainly to maintain the stability of internal governance. Therefore, part of the recruiting targets were victims of disasters, and the other part were all kinds of idle rogues and desperadoes.

To put it bluntly, it is to recruit those who are most prone to trouble into the army to raise them, so as to avoid large-scale turmoil.

As soon as Dong Ping left the city, he saw that Yu Baosi and his group were all outlaws and rascals, and they were the ones the imperial court wanted to recruit to appease them.

Because of the ineffective recruitment of soldiers by the Dongping Mansion this time, and few able-bodied disaster victims were recruited, Dong Ping was moved by the more than a hundred fierce men led by Yu Baosi, and wanted to recruit them into the imperial army for his own use.

After hearing Dong Ping's words, Yu Baosi rolled his eyes and asked, "Then what general Dong, what kind of bird officer is the team general? How many soldiers can he manage?"

Dong Ping pointed to Wang Jun with his finger, and said to Yu Baosi: "Hero, this is Wang Jun, the eighth general of our Xiongwei Army in Dongping Prefecture. If you join the army, you will be the ninth general of our Xiongwei Army. As a general, You can command one or two hundred sergeants. These brothers of yours can stay under your command."

When Yu Baosi heard Dong Ping say this, he couldn't help but feel a little moved, thinking that I can also become an officer? Wouldn't that be the same as eating and drinking, and there is no need to hide?

Yu Baosi looked at Wang Jun, who was seven feet tall and fair-skinned, and said to Dong Ping, "Anyone like him can be the eighth general, and he is still ranked ahead of me? If I want to join the army, why not?" You have to let me be the first general, and the second general."

When Wang Jun heard this, his sword eyebrows were raised slightly, but he didn't speak.

But Dong Ping laughed and said: "Hero, why don't you fight him here. If you win, I will let you be the eighth general. When you review and test the school's martial arts in the future, you can challenge the Xiongwei army again." As long as you can win the first general, it doesn’t matter if I let you be the first general? However, if you lose to Wang Jun today, you have to obediently come to my Xiongwei army as the ninth general. Hero, do you dare or not?"

"I don't know what the general wants the two of us to compete with?" Yu Bao asked majestically with his hips akimbo.

"Swords have no eyes, the two of you will compete with sticks, let's go as far as we can!" Dong Ping jumped off his horse and replied to Yu Baosi.

Competing sticks?Hehehe~ The white-faced gentleman on the opposite side is so much different from me in stature, and his strength must be insufficient.I'm afraid that if I hit the master with two sticks, I can drive him into the ground!

Yu Baosi looked at Wang Jun with a smirk on his face.The young people behind him were also chattering, betting that Yu Baosi could defeat the opponent with a few sticks.

Under the command of the soldiers brought by Dong Ping, Yu Baosi's minions, other officers and soldiers, and victims of the disaster retreated to form a circle in the distance, leaving enough room for Yu Baosi and Wang Jun to dodge and move. In the open space, another sergeant gave each of them a stick.

Dong Ping also stood happily on the sidelines, responsible for supervising and adjudicating the winners and losers of the two.

At the gate of the city, many passers-by stopped to watch, and the three of Ximen Qing also got off their horses and hid themselves inside.

Chapter 265 Dong Ping happily accepts pig teammates

The martial arts contest between Yu Baosi and Wang Jun ended soon, the two only fought for about thirty rounds, and Wang Jun lifted the stick in Yu Baosi's hand and knocked him to the ground.

Amidst the exclamation of the young men and the laughter of the officers and soldiers, Yu Baosi got up blushing and bowed his head to Wang Jun to admit defeat.

Wang Jun dropped the stick in his hand, stepped forward to hold Yu Baosi's hands, and comforted this future colleague without any arrogance of a winner.

Convinced by Wang Jun, Yu Baosi walked up to Dong Ping and said bluntly that he would keep his promise and join the army with his brothers.

Dong Ping patted Yu Baosi on the shoulder, laughed loudly, and accepted the outlaw.

"Brother, isn't that guy Yu Baosi? Unexpectedly, he also came to Yunzhou." Jiao Ting whispered in Ximen Qing's ear.

"Hehe~ What happened today is really wonderful! Dong Ping actually accepted Yu Baosi's wine bag and rice bag, and he will be troubled in the future. Hehehe~ This is really an unexpected harvest! Two brothers, let's go, don't fight with Yu Baosi. Let's meet each other." Ximen Qing sneered a few times, led Jiao Ting and Lu Xiaoyi quietly into the city gate, and went back to Jiang Menshen's hotel.

Yu Baosi still didn't know that he had been targeted by the nemesis Ximen Qing, the high official. He had newly joined Dong Ping, the supervisor of the military and horse capital of Yunzhou, and was given the post of team general. He immediately followed Dong Ping in disguise. After Ping died, he directed his gang of bandit brothers to line up to apply for the recruitment, and they all joined the Imperial Army and fell under his command.

Yu Baosi didn't realize that Li Xiaoer and a few rogues taken in on the road had disappeared after all the little ones had registered.

Yu Baosi knew in his heart that Li Xiaoer must be unwilling to enlist as a soldier, so he sneaked away and went to Liangshanbo to join that "leopard head" Lin Chong.

Yu Baosi's companionship with Li Xiaoer was only for him to introduce him to Lin Chong.Now that he has joined the army, he naturally doesn't need Li Xiaoer, so Yu Baosi didn't care about Li Xiaoer's departure, and didn't send anyone to look for him again.

It's just a few rogues, let them go!My Yu team has a lot of talented people, how could they be so crooked?

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The three of Ximen Qing returned to the hotel, and sat in a secluded pavilion with Jiang Menshen to drink again.

Thinking of the "Double Spear General" Dong Ping complacently subduing the "Danger God" Yu Baosi outside the city gate, Ximen Qing couldn't help but grinned happily.

Lu Xiaoyi toasted Ximen Qing with a glass of wine, and asked, "Brother, then Dong Ping just recruited some outlaws from all corners of the country into the Imperial Army to make up for it, no different from other state capitals. Why are you laughing?"

Ximen Qing looked at the three brothers and said to them: "Three brothers, what I'm laughing at is that Dong Ping thought he was smart and took Yu Baosi as his subordinate. Brother Jiao Ting, remember what I told you, that Yu Baosi Bao Si has his appearance, but he is actually a soft bone who is good at betraying and betraying his companions. I used to call him a "pig teammate", which means that whoever works with him will be betrayed by him. That guy Dong Ping will definitely be in trouble for this guy in the future. Yu Bao suffered four harms!"

Jiao Ting asked from the side: "Brother, you and Zhang Dujian in Mengzhou, Wei Tuanlian in Lingzhou, Shantuanlian, Zhang Dujian in Dongchang Prefecture, Chief Qin in Qizhou, Huang Dujian, and Wuweijun Wang Dujian are all generals. We've all become good friends, why do you only look down on Dong Dujian of Dongping Mansion and don't want to make friends with him?"

Ximen Qing smiled and said: "Brother Jiao Ting, those generals from the foreign government you mentioned may become our help. But if we want to develop power in Yunzhou, Dong Ping will become a hindrance sooner or later. Some things , brother, you will know in the future."

Jiao Ting smiled and said, "When does brother count as a miss? If you say yes, then it must be! Brother, I only listen to brother."

"Brother Ximen, I'm going to recruit soldiers and sell horses in Yanggu County with great fanfare this time to expand our strength. Will Dong Ping, the military supervisor, come to find me?" Jiang Menshen asked from the side.

"Brother Jiang, don't worry, this time Dong Ping can't hold us accountable. I have already informed the prefect Chen Wenzhao that the recruitment of local soldiers this time is necessary for disaster relief, which will help appease the victims and reduce the burden on the court; The other is to strengthen the local government and help the Yunzhou government to prevent the robbers from Liangshanbo from being harassed and robbed. In short, I, the high official of Ximen, is spending my own money to do things for the court and share the worries of the prefect Chen. The prefect Chen Wenzhao is very grateful to my brother for this Brother Jiang, tell me, what can Dong Dujian do to me?" Ximen Qing talked eloquently to Jiang Menshen.

The three of them laughed heartily after hearing Ximen Qing's words.

Next, Ximenqing explained to Lu Xiaoyi again, asking him to arrange a few well-behaved brothers to go outside the city to enlist in the army, sneak in under the hands of Dong Ping, Yu Baosi, and Wang Jun, and monitor the status of these people. Trends, and send the news back to yourself in time.

Lu Xiaoyi took the order and immediately got up and left the restaurant to follow Ximen Qing's arrangement.

Ximen Qing looked at Lu Xiaoyi's leaving back, and felt a faint feeling in his heart. It seemed that in Dongping Mansion, besides "Two Gun General" Dong Ping, the man named Wang Jun was also a role that could not be ignored.It's just for a while, I really can't remember what this guy has done in history.

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Jiusheng's son Li Xiaoer brought a few rogues who were willing to follow him up the mountain to become robbers, all the way south, and finally came to the edge of Liangshan.They didn't know that they could contact the heroes on Liangshan through the hotel by the lake, so they found a boat by themselves, and rowed to Liangshan in the middle of the lake.

After walking not far in the water, Li Xiaoer and others were captured alive by the Liang Shanshui army ambushing in the reed marsh, and they took them to meet the leader of the water army, "Huanjiang Dragon" Li Jun.

When Li Jun interrogated these rascals as spies of the army, Li Xiaoer told him that he was an old friend of Lin Chong, the leader of Liangshan, and he came from Cangzhou to join Lin Chong.

Li Jun thought to himself: Leader Lin Chong died in battle in the Wuwei Army. The government knows all about it. If you want to come to the secret work of the government army, it is impossible for you to pretend to be Lin Chong's old friend and come to join him.Maybe this person didn't know that Lin Chong was dead?This matter is not easy to decide, it is better to take this guy up the mountain and let Gongming brother and the military teacher distinguish between the real and the fake.