Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

This Kong Yanzhou was brave, resourceful and talented, and Ximen Qing admired him somewhat.But although this person was out for revenge, he was able to skillfully deal with the group of thieves and betrayed the group of thieves without hesitation, which inevitably made people feel a little wary of him.

This time, the cooperation with Kong Yanzhou was only temporary for a few days, and Ximen Qing didn't know much about Kong Yanzhou's personality.Therefore, he didn't think about accepting Kong Yanzhou as his brother, and decided to let Kong Yanzhou go.

If we can still meet in the future, it will not be too late to talk about it!

Ximenqing remembered that the agreement also allowed Kong Yanzhou to get a share of the seized money, so he reminded Kong Yanzhou to go to the warehouse to collect it himself.

Kong Yanzhou thanked everyone, took 200 taels of gold, led the horse, and went down the mountain with Ma Fang's head.

After sending Kong Yanzhou away, Ximen Qing, Zhou Tong and the others set the robber's body on fire and burned it clean.Then, they carried the seized money and grain down the mountain on horses and returned to Yuejiazhuang.

Due to too much food, the horses could not be transported all at once, so Zhou Tong left some soldiers to guard the cottage, waiting for Yuejiazhuang to send people up the mountain to carry them again.

After returning to Yuejiazhuang, Zhou Tong called Yue He and Yao Daweng together to discuss with Ximen Qing how to distribute the money and food seized by Mu Shan.

Zhou Tong suggested that the victory over hundreds of ferocious Moushan bandits this time depends entirely on the five hundred elite soldiers brought by the officials of Ximen Qing.Considering that Ximen Qing made the most contributions, and he had to travel long distances to return to Yanggu, Shandong, and it was inconvenient to carry food, it would be better to give all of the more than [-] yuan to Ximen Qing, and only share the tens of thousands of shi in his own villages. food.

Without Ximenqing, the Moushan bandits would have broken through Yuejiazhuang for the first time.Yuehe's family will also be killed by robbers.Therefore, Yue He and Yao Daweng always remembered Ximen Qing's kindness and had no objection to Zhou Tong's proposal.They even thought that most of the vicious battles were fought by Ximen Qing's people, and the few villages did not contribute much, but got tens of thousands of shi of grain for nothing, which was already taking advantage of Ximen Qing, and they felt very ashamed.

The first purpose of Ximen Qing's efforts to wipe out the bandits in Xiangzhou this time is to win over the young Yue Fei and others, and money is not that important compared to it.However, it was impossible for him to confide the real plan in his heart to Zhou Tong and the other three.Therefore, if he insisted not to seize the money, Zhou Tong, Yue He and Yao Daweng would feel uneasy.

Seeing that the three of Zhou Tong were so sincere, Ximenqing had no choice but to accept the distribution plan proposed by Zhou Tong.The 20 guan of money seized went to Ximenqing, and the [-] shi of grain that was inconvenient to carry went to the three villages.

In addition, more than 400 war horses, dozens of armors, and thousands of weapons such as knives and guns were seized in the Battle of Mushan.

Ximenqing got another [-] good horses from them, and left the rest of the horses, armor and weapons to Yuejiazhuang.

With these weapons and horses in Yuejiazhuang, he can also organize a capable village soldier, and Yue Fei has increased a lot of capital than before.

After going back and forth from Yuejiazhuang to Mushan several times, he finally moved all the money and food accumulated on Mushan.Ximen Qing and the others set a big fire and burned the robber's den into a white field.

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In front of the ruins of Huanxia Village, Linlu County, Xiangzhou, Kong Yanzhou, who had returned to his hometown, also lit a fire, roasted a sheep borrowed from an unknown village, drank wine from a gourd, and muttered to the air.

Beside him, there is a large table dragged from the temple. On the table are the tablets of the villagers who were killed by the bandits in Huanxia Village.

In front of the memorial tablet, there are piles of incense candles and fruits, but the sacrifice in the middle is a ferocious human head.That was Ma Fang, the second leader of Mou Shan who led people to slaughter the village.

Kong Yanzhou sat in front of the ruins for a long time, ate up the roast lamb, drank the wine in the gourd, and said what was on his mind.He stood up, got on his horse, and went south without looking back.

The Talents of Xiangzhou in Chapter 3 and Nine

In Hedong Village, at Zhou Tong's house, Ximen Qing and Zhou Tong, sworn brothers with a big difference in age, are having a long conversation.

When the two fought against the Mushan bandits, they had a common understanding, and they also saw each other's strength, and they admired and appreciated each other.

The matter of the Mushan robbers is over, and Ximenqing is going to lead his team to leave Tangyin County and return to Yanggu County.Zhou Tong specially invited him to his home to say goodbye to him.

Just as Ximenqing expected, after Zhou Tong returned to Hedong Village from Mushan, he became even older, and his energy and energy were much lower.Ximen Qing knew that this was the reason why Zhou Tong's lifespan was about to run out, and it could not be restored by manpower or soup.

Zhou Tong didn't care about this, and he faced it calmly.Ximenqing sighed in his heart, and had no choice but to persuade him to take more of the sealwort and ginseng he gave him, so as to prolong his life.Ximen Qing told Zhou Tong that when he returned to Yanggu County, he would ask Brother Qiao Yun to send some health-preserving medicinal materials from time to time, so that Zhou Tong could take it regularly and take good care of his body.

Zhou Tong said indifferently that he should have died in the battle of Yongle City with his son, but now he has been stealing alive for 35 years, so why not be satisfied?Furthermore, before he died, he was able to receive a gifted Yue Fei as his adoptive son, and then became a brother with the civil and military official Ximen Qing. He felt that his life was complete and he had no regrets.

Zhou Tong just asked Ximen Qing again, hoping that Ximen Qing could take care of the young Yue Fei on his behalf after a hundred years, so that he would have the opportunity to spread his wings and take off in the future.

Ximen Qing knew that Zhou Tong and him made friends with each other mainly to entrust Yue Fei to him.It's just that this is exactly what I want, so how could Ximen Qing refuse? Naturally, he swore to accept it.

Zhou Tong looked at Ximen Qing with relief, took out a package from the house, and handed it to Ximen Qing.He told Ximen Qing that the package contained a book he had written in the past few years, called "The Essentials of Shooting Technique".This book records Zhou Tong's experience in using bows in his life, his archery training methods, and various methods of training bow soldiers in the army.

Zhou Tong said that he had originally promised Ximen Qing that after he wiped out the Moushan bandits, he would go to Yanggu County to help him train archers.But now that I'm exhausted, I'm afraid I'm dying, so I really can't fulfill my promise to Ximen Qing.Therefore, he specially presented the "Essence of Archery" written by himself to Ximen Qing for Ximen Qing's detailed study, hoping that it would be beneficial to Ximen Qing's archer training.

After Ximen Qing solemnly accepted this generous gift, he extended an invitation to Zhou Tong.He told Zhou Tong that his three wives and concubines were pregnant and would have children soon.When my child is full moon, I must invite elder brother Zhou Tong to Yanggu County as a guest and have the child's full moon wine.

After hearing this, Zhou Tong was really happy for Ximen Qing. He promised Ximen Qing that he would take Yue Feitong to Yanggu County to participate in the full moon ceremony of Ximen Qinglin'er's children and "add pots" to the children.

According to the custom of the Song Dynasty, when a child is full moon, the host family burns fragrant soup in a basin, and relatives and friends who come to participate in the full moon ceremony throw money into the soup, which is called "Tianpan".This is a unique gift ceremony, representing the blessings of the elders to the children.That's why Zhou Tong said that he would go to Yanggu County to "grow a pot" for Ximen Qing's children.

After Ximen Qing talked with Zhou Tong in detail, he bid farewell to Zhou Tong, left Hedong Village, and returned to Yuejiazhuang.

Knowing that Ximen Qing and others were leaving Tangyin County, Yue He held a grand practice banquet for Ximen Qing, Jiao Ting and others at home. Yao Daweng also came from Yaojiazhuang to see Ximen Qing off, and thanked Ximen Qing and his party for their behavior in Tangyin. The people in the county eliminated the harm and relieved the serious troubles in Yuejiazhuang.

The kindness of Yuejiazhuang was hard to be dismissed, Ximenqing and others ate wine and stayed in the village for another night.After getting up early the next day, Ximen Qing divided his 20 soldiers into three teams, led by Jiang Menshen, Ximen Qing and Jiao Ting, with the [-] horses and [-] troops Qian Cai bid farewell to everyone in Yuejiazhuang, and embarked on the way home facing the rising sun.

Ximenqing's trip to Xiangzhou this time is mainly to win over the young Yue Fei so that he can be used by him in the future.Unexpectedly, after three battles with the Moushan bandits, not only did he gain the trust of Yue Fei and his family, but he also sworn brothers with the famous "Iron Arm" Zhou and the great Xia Zhou, and received the "Willow Bow" and "Shooting Sword" presented by him. The Essentials of Art".

Yue Fei is now his nephew, and he also has the kindness of teaching him, so he can be regarded as half of his master.With this relationship, wouldn't it be easy for him to recruit Yue Fei to his subordinates in the future?

There are also Yue Fei's friends, such as Wang Gui, Zhang Xian, Xu Qing, Yao Zheng, etc., after going through experience in the future, they are all candidates for the command of the army!Tangyin County, a small Xiangzhou, has so many talents!

Compared with these talents, the 20 coins obtained this time is not the most important gain.However, after all, it is also a lot of gold, silver and copper coins!It will allow Ximenbao to expand his strength again!

Thinking of these beautiful things, Ximen Qing laughed from ear to ear while riding a horse.

Brother Qiao Yun followed Ximen Qing on horseback. When he saw Ximen Qing's appearance, he thought to himself, the high official smiled like that, either he was thinking of gold and silver, or he was thinking of some little lady.

The cavalry team traveled east all the way, and finally left Tangyin County, Xiangzhou, and entered Huang County, Neihuang County, Daming Mansion.Ximen Qing didn't know that during his trip to Xiangzhou, he also missed two leading talents, and killed a big thief in advance, which changed some history.

Historically, during the Song-Jin war, Xiangzhou student Li Qiong served in Zongze's army and fought against the Jin army.After Zongze's death, he was transferred to Huazhou.In the early years of Jianyan, due to his military exploits, he was promoted to be the appeasement envoy of Chuzhou and under the jurisdiction of Huainan East Road Bing Maqian, and then promoted to the Xuan envoy of Wutai Army, and became the deputy of Liu Guangshi, one of the four generals of Zhongxing in the Southern Song Dynasty.

Later, because the imperial court accepted Liu Guangshi's military power, he wanted other generals to annex Liu Guangshi's army.Uneasy, Li Qiong led his troops to join Liu Yu's puppet Qi regime in order to protect himself. He was granted the title of Jiedu envoy of the Jingnan Army and Zhigongzhou, moved to Bozhou defense envoy, and was promoted to general of hussars.

Later, Li Qiong worked in gold again, and successively held the positions of thousands of crossbowmen on Shandong Road, Zhibozhou affairs, Jiedu envoy of Wuning and Taining army, and doctor of Jinzi Guanglu.In short, although this person betrayed the Southern Song Dynasty, he was also a general who commanded troops.

Kong Yanzhou, who cooperated with Ximenqing, enlisted in the army at the beginning of Jingkang, and was tired of officials and went to Beijing East and West Road under the jurisdiction of Ma Qian.Later, he recruited envoys along the river in the Southern Song Dynasty.After that, he also defected to Liu Yu's puppet Qi regime, became the commander of the marching army, and changed his job to the commander of the left battalion.

After Jin Guo abolished the puppet Qi regime, Kong Yanzhou learned about Zizhou and was awarded the Zhengzhou Defense Envoy. Later, he became a minister of the Ministry of Industry and War in the Jin State, Yin Yin of Henan Province, and was named the King of Guangping County.

This guy later became a bigger official than Li Qiong in the Kingdom of Jin, which shows that Kong Yanzhou is also a capable general.

And the giant bandit that Ximenqing wiped out in advance was Jia Jin, the fourth leader of the Mushan Bandits.In history, that guy once gathered a crowd of one hundred thousand people, who did harm in Hebei and Shandong, and became one of the great thieves.It's a pity that when Jia Jin was fledgling, he met Ximen Qing unluckily, and then fell into the sand and submerged in the small river ditch of Yuejiazhuang.

How will the fate of Li Qiong and Kong Yanzhou change after meeting Ximen Qing?

3 Chapter [-] News from the Brothers

Ximenqing was eager to return home, and the group left Tangyin County eastward and directly entered Neihuang County in Daming Prefecture, instead of going to Linzhang County.

In the future, I will have more contacts with Yue Fei, Zhou Tong and the others, and then I will go to see how Ximen Leopard's Leopard Temple is being rebuilt, and take a random beauty to visit Tongque Terrace.

Ximenqing and his party had a large number of people, and they were specially divided into three teams, bypassing Neihuang County, so as not to disturb the place.Fortunately, there was no incident on the way. After crossing the Yellow River, I passed Nanle and Chaocheng counties of Kaide Prefecture and returned to Yanggu County, Yunzhou smoothly.

Hearing that Ximen Qing was back, Hu Sanniang, Liu Xiuxiang, and Li Jiaojiao, all with big bellies, came out with the crowd to welcome Ximen Qing with the help of the maid.Rao Ximen Qing was full of wit and scheming in his daily life, but when he jumped off the horse and saw the three ladies, thinking that he was about to become a father, he also became smirking and at a loss what to do.

This time, Hu Sanniang, Liu Xiuxiang, and Li Jiaojiao attracted the attention of everyone present, but the horses and money brought back by Ximen Qing and others were ignored by everyone.

Pan Jinlian, Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan's bodies did not change, they could only stand aside and look at Hu Sanniang with jealous eyes.