Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Therefore, Ximen Qing persuaded Lu Junyi to be at ease in running business, and took advantage of the opportunity that Ximen Qing was in power in Chu State and had a good relationship with Jin State, and spread all kinds of business cooperation between the two of them all over the world.

Lu Junyi has the hobby and talent of dancing guns and clubs, and Ximen Qing doesn't stop him.

Ximen Qing asked Yan Qing to help Lu Junyi build a secret armed force to protect the trade routes.

This army invested by Ximen Qing and hidden among the people will also become a force of Ximen Qing.

After the Jin army occupied Hebei, the elder Zeng and the five tigers of Zeng's family in Zengtou City, Lingzhou led their troops to join the Wanyanchang tribe of the Jin army.

According to the agreement between the two countries, after Hebei was assigned to the Kingdom of Jin, the people of Hebei were the citizens of the Kingdom of Jin.In addition, the ancestors of the Zeng family were also Jurchens, so it was reasonable for Zengtou City to join the Jin army. Ximen Qing was not surprised when he got the news.

To Ximen Qing's delight, Shi Wengong, the head coach of Zengtou City, and Su Ding, the deputy head coach, did not want to serve in the Jin Army. .

Ximen Qing was happy to win two strong generals, and placed Shi Wengong and Su Ding in his own army.

In addition, Liu Shiquan of Huainan has long been optimistic about Ximen Qing, and this time he also sent his two sons Liu Guangzu and Liu Guangzong to the capital to join Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing had long promised to support the two brothers, so he left Liu Guangzu in Beijing and handed it over to Zhao Mingcheng, Minister of the Ministry of Officials.

After experience, Zhao Mingcheng was naturally able to plan a promotion path for Liu Guangzu in the civil service system.

Liu Guangzong was left by Ximen Qing to practice in his own army.

9 Chapter Eighty

After Shi Wengong, Su Ding, and Liu Guangzong joined Ximenqing's army, Ximenqing asked them, together with Lu Zhishen, Yue Fei and other generals, to select another [-] athletes from the prisoner camp outside the city and reorganize into an army. martial arts.

So far, Ximenqing has selected 10,000 people from the 5+ restored Song army captured as his new Chu army.

The rest of the more than [-] people who were not selected were sent back to the states under the instruction of Ximen Qing, and they were still used as local forbidden troops.

For those disabled soldiers who can no longer serve in the imperial army, the government of Chu State also provided compensation in accordance with the law.

The sergeants in the captive camp learned that Ximen Qing's army was treated very well, and saw An Daoquan's life-saving and wounded. They have long admired Ximen Qing's army, and all of them wanted to serve under Ximen Qing's command.

It's a pity that Ximenqing's selection criteria are higher than those of the Song Army's Forbidden Army. From the 10,000+ sergeants, only [-] young and strong men were selected.

Even these 5 people were not elite enough in Ximen Qing's eyes, so they were handed over to Guan Sheng, Wang Jin, Lu Zhishen, and Shi Wengong, these invincible generals, for retraining.

The remaining more than [-] unsuccessful people had to sigh, and followed their own officers to Huainan, Jinghu, Shaanxi, Sichuan and other places in frustration.

These people didn't know that even though they were ruthlessly eliminated, they were still serving the Privy Councilor Ximen Qing unconsciously.

Ximen Qing defeated the 20 Zhao Family Restoration Army in Bianliang City, Tokyo, and has initially shocked the heroes of the world.

However, after all, there are thousands of mountains and rivers away, and officials, soldiers and local tyrants from all over the country only know that Ximen Qing has won, but they have no intuitive experience of the combat effectiveness of Ximen Qing's army.

It is inevitable that some people will speculate whether it is because there are many factions in the Zhao Restoration Army, which hinder each other, so that the Ximen Qing Army has an opportunity to defeat each of them?

Is it true that Ximen Qing, who has stolen a high position, is really invincible?

Ximen Qing scattered the more than [-] defeated soldiers to various places, perhaps because he wanted to use their [-] mouths to publicize the strength of Ximen Qing's army to the local people.

"It's not that our army is incompetent, it's that Ximen Qing's army is so terrifying!"

For the sake of their own face, these defeated soldiers would brag about the combat effectiveness of Ximen Qing's army.

Therefore, these [-] defeated troops are destined to become Ximen Qing's free propaganda team.

In addition, Ximenqing has Tong Guan, Qin Hui, Ma Zhi, Zong Ze, Xin Zan, Huang Wenbing, Du Chong and other capable ministers in the central and local areas, which are enough to support the structure of Chu State. Today's Chu State It is not what it used to be, and it should be possible to smoothly take over the local power of the Song Dynasty.

Ximenqing won the hearts of Bianliang City in winter by rescuing more than 4000 women from the capital, and restored the Song Army by breaking 20.

After adding officials from his own faction to ranks and placing them in key positions in the court, Ximen Qing can be said to have had power in the court and the public, and no one can control it for a while.

However, Zhang Bangchang, the emperor of the Chu state who was trapped in Bianliang City in Tokyo, could only obey Ximen Qing's words, and officials from all over the world may not be convinced.

For example, Fan Zhixu, Qian Gai and the like, although they have obeyed the order of Chu State in the situation, but they are only forced by Ximen Qing's military pressure, and they dare not easily provoke Ximen Qing.

No matter how many Song troops Ximen Qing defeated, in the eyes of these scholars, he was nothing more than a militaristic hero.

There are no heroes in civil war, and scholars all over the world will be afraid of Ximen Qing, but they will not respect him for it.

If Ximenqing wants to further enhance his reputation, he needs to win great victories in foreign wars and open up territories for the newly established Chu State.

Only in this way can Ximenqing truly establish the image of a hero of the Han people in the hearts of scholars all over the world.

The Xixia Kingdom was the target that Ximen Qing was going to use to gain his reputation.

Knowing that Ximenqing is going to use Xixia as a soldier, Ma Kuo finds Ximenqing and recommends his sworn brother Liu Kai to him.

Liu Kai was a famous general who fought against the Jin Dynasty in history, and he was posthumously named "Wu Mu" after his death.

In the Fuping decisive battle between the Song and Jin Dynasties for Shaanxi, Liu Kai led the most elite Jingyuan army on the right wing to storm the Wanyan Zongbi army on the left wing of the Jin army.

During the battle, Liu Kai led the Jingyuan army to shoot and blind Wanyan Zongbi's general Han Chang in one eye, almost piercing through the left wing of the Jin army, and forcing Wanyan Zongbi into a desperate situation.

Unfortunately, because the left wing and central army of the Song army could not withstand the attack of Wanyan Loushi, the god of war of the Jin army, the whole army collapsed, causing Liu Kai to fall short.

Later, in the Shunchang Great Victory in the Southern Song Dynasty, it was Liu Kai who used long axes to resist Wanyan Zongbi's armored cavalry head-on, and defeated Wanyan Zongbi's army again.

It is said that later, when Emperor Wan Yanliang of the Kingdom of Jin marched south, he asked all the generals under his command who would dare to lead the troops to fight against Liu Kai's army, but none of them showed up.This shows the importance of Liu Kai's prestige in the Jin army.

The four ZTE generals in the Southern Song Dynasty in Song history, but Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, Yue Fei and Liu Qi, did not have the general Liu Guangshi who was good at "strategic retreat".

Liu Guangshi had already been shot to death by Ximen Qing, it can be seen that the long-legged general Liu Guangshi's legs were still not as fast as Ximen Qing's musket bullets.

What Ximenqing didn't know was that his messy gun not only killed the long-legged general Liu Guangshi, but also killed a historical celebrity in later generations, that is, Liu Ji and Liu Bowen, Zhu Yuanzhang's advisor in the late Yuan and early Ming dynasties.

Because, Liu Bowen's ancestor is Liu Guangshi.

Ximenqing slapped Zhu Yuanzhang's army division without a trace with one wing.

Of course, Ximenqing has changed history, and there will be no Southern Song Dynasty in later generations, let alone Yuan, Ming and Qing.

Zhu Chongba has no chance to rebel, and it doesn't matter whether he has a military adviser or not.

Among the four generals of ZTE in the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei have all been taken under Ximen Qing's command.

Now that Ma Kuo recommended Liu Kai, the well-deserved Four Generals of ZTE in the Southern Song Dynasty were wiped out by Ximen Qing.

After hearing what Ma Kuo said, Ximenqing asked Ma Kuo to go to Liu Kai to recruit border residents and Fanren who were good at fighting at the border to build a new army.

At the same time, Ximenqing asked Ma Kuo to visit the two brothers Wu Jie and Wu Lin in the Western Army.Those two brothers are also famous generals in the future, and they still hold low-level military positions in the army.

Without war, it would be difficult for these young talents to succeed in the army.

Ximenqing wants to give Liu Kai, Wu Jie, and Wu Lin the opportunity to gain experience in the Xixia Battle and become the backbone of his army.