After Li Zhu and the spy leader Liu Wen glanced at each other, they frowned and said, "Brother Yue, Tian Hu is becoming stronger, and he will accelerate and become stronger and stronger." Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

Although Wang Qing suffered a lot of losses in the elite soldiers of this horse trafficking, he lost two henchmen and cadres, his prestige was frustrated, and he made no progress in Huaixi for a while, but it was only temporary.

On the other hand, in Erlongshan, there are more war horses, but the generals are weaker, and after the backbone of the army is weakened, although a lot of soldiers have been absorbed recently, and the number of troops has recovered, on the whole, the strength has not only not developed and grown, but has retreated a lot. Compared with Tian Hu, it is like sailing against the current, if you don't advance, you will retreat. If this continues, the gap will only widen.

Chao Gai has occupied Erlongshan for so long, and he has the advantage of strength, but he can't even swallow the other two cottagers in Qingzhou, and he can't recruit heroes and heroes to take refuge. Chao Gai's ability is worrying, and it is not enough to get things done. If you want to use the power of Erlongshan to eliminate other thieves, you have to hurry up and think about helping Erlongshan grow rapidly, otherwise, in the future, let alone dealing with the powerful Tian Hu, Wang Qing, and Fang La, it is difficult to toss out of Qingzhou, so you can only rely on Erlongshan to protect yourself. ”

Zhao Yue is also anxious about this.

He knows that Chao Gai is a good man, a good person in front of a robber, and has a certain leadership ability, so he can be a general who stands alone, but he is not a material for playing rebellious politics.

It's not that Chao Gai is not open-minded and capable, but it is not a big deal that Longshan insists on paying attention to the rules of action of heroes and heroes in the green forest, rather than the rules of the political game. Qingfeng Mountain and Taohua Mountain do not take the initiative to take refuge, as long as they do not provoke Erlong Mountain, Erlong Mountain will not rely on their strength to bully and annex their fellow people to do things that violate the morality of the green forest.

In other words, Chao Gai is doing the cause of a hero in the green forest, not a political cause.

He also doesn't know how to play politics, it is the peasants who rebel against the ideology, not the bureaucracy's consciousness of seizing the world, and he is jealous and hateful, and he requires heroes to be upright and upright, and what he likes and pursues is to be brothers with the real righteous heroes in Erlong Mountain, and resist the oppressors, and he looks down on the virtues of the leaders of the two cottages, and subjectively has no motivation to conquer.

The problem is that the rulers of the Northern Song Dynasty were firmly on the verge of extinction. This is an era of fierce competition, requiring political commanders and military groups to rebel and clearly seize power, not an era when heroes in the green forest gather to rely on force to occupy mountains and work together to survive and be happy, and by the way, add blockages to the imperial court and create trouble for the local government.

Under the continuous influence and control of Zhao Yue, Chao Gai also realized that the Great Song Dynasty might be finished, and had the ideological consciousness of seizing the world, with ambition in this regard, he bought horses and trained the regular army at any cost, and actively did everything to strengthen the armed forces.

And Tian Hu, Wang Qing, including Fang La, what they like most is power and majesty, and what they desire in their hearts is to be the emperor who has everything. The crude Rutian Hu also began to pay attention to recruiting and reusing civilian talents to govern internal affairs at an early stage, and now occupies several state capitals, and strives to build a formal political structure, in order to establish a complete and stable regime and establish a country for a long time.

Zhao Yue suggested that Erlongshan set up the banner of 'walking for the sky'.

Chao Gai played this banner, but it was really just to fight the evil of the rulers and maintain social fairness, eradicate a lot of corrupt officials, corrupt officials, evil landlords and inferior gentry in Qingzhou and the surrounding areas in the process of collecting money and grain, punish the evil, and protect the weak, but won the gratitude and support of many people.

However, his quality determined that he could not enter the role of a politician, and he did not grasp the political meaning and goal of acting for heaven.

Wu Yong, a rural teacher, is smart, but he has great limitations in ideological insight and pattern, as well as ability limitations, and he has not comprehended this, what he can do is to make suggestions on specific details rather than overall strategic planning, and he is proficient in the calculation of small people, who focuses on conspiracy and can't make atmospheric schemes, the most important thing is that he does not have his own political propositions, strategic opinions and persistence, that is, he is a vassal staff officer who passively follows the will of the leader, and cannot help Chao Gai build an effective political power model.

In other words, no matter how powerful Erlong Mountain is, it is essentially just a robber cottage.

Of course, this is actually in line with Zhao Yue's political requirements for the role of Erlongshan. If Chao Gai is really a political figure, Zhao Yue will not be able to support Erlong Mountain.

Zhao Yue did not need Erlongshan to form a regular political regime with complete civil and military talents, nor did he want Erlongshan to be regarded by the imperial court as a huge disaster to seize the world of the Great Song Dynasty, so as to avoid Cai Jing's strong desire to deliberately make Erlongshan suffer a priority attack and let Tian Hu and others get cheap, and also affected Zhao Yue's plan to stimulate the military and people of the Great Song Dynasty, strengthen the knowledge and psychological quality of the Song military and civilians, and improve the overall combat experience, will and combat effectiveness of the Han people.

Zhao Yue was the last thing he wanted to see in history, when the Jin army suddenly killed, and tens of millions of soldiers and civilians in the Great Song Dynasty were like headless flies, wantonly wiped out and slaughtered by the barbarians with few troops.

As for the talents and heroes who do not really have the ability to take the initiative to take refuge in Erlongshan, Zhao Yue knows that this is because Erlongshan has not played a prestige, has no popularity in the world, does not prove the strength and future of Erlongshan, and does not let people see hope.

Now, Tian Hu has finally hardened his wings, made a big noise, and has a great tendency to ride into the dust, seriously threatening the stability of the Great Song Dynasty, and will definitely become the first priority target of the imperial court in the north, attracting the firepower of officers and soldiers.

In contrast, a small force like Erlongshan is nothing more than a gangster in the eyes of the imperial court, no different from the many bandits everywhere in the Great Song Dynasty, insignificant, then it is time to show its muscles and play prestige, enhance its appeal and attraction to talents, and take the opportunity to develop and grow rapidly.

However, if you want to develop Erlongshan quickly and achieve a plan to eliminate Kou and clean up together, you have to be carried out by Song Jiang, who is born with political mind and skill.

Song Jiang's filial piety and timely rain have a long list of nicknames, indicating the chivalrous and reliable noble character and demeanor, which is undoubtedly several times stronger than Chao Gai's nickname of King Tota to the heroes of the green forest, and is also more convincing and more convincing to the captured officers and generals.

Although Song Jiang's political talent and insight were only limited to the level of low-level officials due to his career as a small leader of civil servants in small counties, his outstanding political skills and interpersonal skills were indeed excellent, and he was able to effectively recruit and gather all kinds of complex forces of officials and bandits in his hands and control the common goal.

This person's thinking is deeply influenced and controlled by the traditional education of Confucian political thought, and his mind is the three outlines and five constants of the monarch and the ministers, the monarch and the minister, and the loyalty and patriotism of the monarch, and the emperor is the unreachable, absolutely tall mysterious and majestic boundless species with blind awe, surrender, worship and trust in the heart, even if he takes the road of rebellion, he still regards himself as the emperor's people, and longs for the emperor to understand, forgive, accept, trust, and maintain his son, and is most eager to be recognized and reused by the emperor. It must be a proper surrender faction, and the comprehensive quality is exactly what Zhao Yue needs.

Song Jiang was the most important and crucial chess piece for Zhao Yue to implement the Erlongshan plan.

Without the Song River on Erlong Mountain, the layout of Erlong Mountain will lose its main strategic significance and will not be worth the effort.

Zhao Yue has a bottom on the strategic affairs of the Great Song Dynasty and outside the Song Dynasty, but he is not sure whether Erlongshan can take on the plan.

His focus now shifted to Erlong Mountain.

The opportunity for Erlongshan to rise up came, but there was no news of Song Jiang for several months.

Zhao Yue couldn't help but be a little anxious, wanting to know Song Jiang's current situation as soon as possible.

Is this black dwarf dead or alive, and what is he doing?

Song Jiang naturally can't die if he doesn't complete the glorious task implied by the name 'Send Jiang'. He had a big plan, and he wanted to subdue the forces of Snake Horn Ridge for his own help and increase his weight in Erlong Mountain, but when he went to Snake Horn Ridge, his life was once in suspense, and it was quite difficult to pass these months.

A few months ago, he took dozens of heroes from Chai Jin to run to Erlong Mountain, and happened to meet Puzhou Sun Fu Sun Zhizhou led the army to storm Snake Horn Ridge, and attacked decisively, and raided the officers and soldiers at the most critical moment when the Snake Horn Ridge group was in trouble and faced a big defeat, killing Sun Zhizhou to escape with his life, and the main general of the officers and soldiers died first, and only the deputy general Mo Dacheng was lucky to escape.

Song Jiang's impromptu decision can be said to have turned things around in one fell swoop, not only dismantling the siege of Snake Horn Ridge, but also helping to obtain a large number of weapons and equipment and grain and grass that the cottage needed most, so that the cottage became famous and strengthened a lot, and he suddenly became a great benefactor of the Snake Horn Ridge bandits.

Song Jiang's righteous act was the introduction to get acquainted with the heroes of Snake Horn Ridge.

His nickname is the source of the guarantee that he will have a chance to subdue this gang of robbers while visiting Snake Horn Ridge.

Hubaoyi, filial piety, and timely rain, this nickname, in fact, Song Jiang himself never expected how strong the appeal would be.

In the eyes of ordinary people, the image of the government and its personnel is strong and domineering, with the right to adjudicate, and they are exploiters and looters. Even if the people in the government are temporary workers, they have public power, and they are also officials, and they have to be feared. This is the root cause of the Chinese people's enthusiasm for being a civil servant.

Although the head of the priest does not even have a grade, he connects the officials and the officials, and is a wall between the officials and the officials and the people. Ordinary people who want to see the official and ask for things must first try to pass the level of the charge, otherwise it is a dream, the position of the charge is low, but the position is quite critical.

Even the temporary workers of the government are officials in the eyes of the people, not to mention the important positions such as the secretary who has a record in the higher-level government.

Song Abbot is an official, but not only is he not an arrogant and domineering official image riding on the heads of the people, nor is he a vampire who blatantly oppresses the people with public power, but he is willing to take money to subsidize the weak.

This is already an outlier in officialdom, and he is a very good person who is deeply loved by the people.

As an official, Song Zhisi actually has a chivalrous mind and style, not only does he not despise and examine and make it difficult to exploit the rivers and lakes like other officials, but he is even very understanding and considerate of the heroes of the green forest, and is willing to pay out of his pocket to fund the out-and-out criminals and heroes who should be most disgusted and beware of the 'scum and social scourges' such as the down-and-out criminals and heroes who should be tried to get rid of.

This kind of generosity and chivalry of officials was too prominent and touching in the feudal era of the Great Song Dynasty, which was extremely heavy on literature and light on martial arts.

Song Jiang's unique image of righteousness and timely rain that was completely different from other officials was deeply rooted in the hearts of the Han people in Shandong and neighboring Hebei. His status in the hearts of the heroes of the green forests of Shandong and Hebei is not ordinarily high, and he is highly respected by the people of the rivers and lakes.

This is also the main reason why Song Jiang can influence and attract so many heroes to follow in Chai Jinzhuang.

The biggest influence of Cangzhao commerce on the social structure of the Great Song Dynasty is the formation of population flow and the consciousness of going abroad.

People other than businessmen and officials who have traveled from south to north are no longer confined to the big area of my hometown where I was born and raised, and I am buried all my life, and I am so good that I am resigned to my fate, and it is difficult to survive in the local area, or if I want to see the outside world and look for new opportunities, I will try to get out of the village, out of the town, out of the state...... This remote location is not good for me, and I will continue to go further away......

This formed an irrepressible torrent, which could not be stopped by the various means used by the Great Song Dynasty to restrict the flow of people.

People from Shandong and Hebei flowed to the northwest, Tokyo, Lianghuai, and even closed Shuzhong, and the great name and glorious image of Song Jiang also passed on, especially the spread and praise of the heroes of the rivers and lakes and green forests who wandered around looking for opportunities, and Song Jiang even got a certain recognition in the hearts of the two major groups of heroes in Jiangnan La and Huaixi Wangqing, and had considerable status and influence. Tian Hu, not to mention that.

It's a pity that Song Jiang is not a rebel, following Song Jiang has no great profit and a promising future, and it is not worth taking the initiative to take refuge in the heroes who have political ambitions and want to be officials and even more so to be the heroes of the founding of the country. Song Jiang's lofty status is only limited to the consciousness of the heroes of the green forest, and the admiration is verbal, and it cannot reflect the real choice of the heroes.

After all, people live in reality, succumb to the needs of reality, how to survive and live a better and more comfortable life and development is the most important. It's one thing to respect and admire a person, but it's another thing to be that kind of person and choose who to follow according to realistic interests.

Due to the limitations of information circulation, Song Jiang himself did not have a clear sense of the charisma of the image of the tall and charismatic, and only discovered the appeal of the nickname when Taishan met Ren Sen, and only began to try to use his nickname to strengthen trust and persuasion when recruiting Chai Jinzhuang to be a hero.

It is his glorious nickname in the hearts of the heroes of the green forest, when the four heroes of Snake Horn Ridge are the four masters of the mountain bear, Zhang Daneng, the old fifth degree world traveler Wang Bin, and the old sixth iron-faced soul chasing shovel Li Yan learned that the benefactor in front of him was actually the legendary famous living Bodhisattva Shi Yu, and immediately completely ignored Song Jiang's image of being a short, black, inconspicuous, and not at all like a hero.

This treatment, not to mention others, even Zhao Yue couldn't help but feel a trace of jealousy and envy.

The one-horned Jiao Qin Hui saw that the three-hearted and arrogant righteous brothers actually admired and convinced this black dwarf in front of him who was only afraid of the power of the unrestrained chicken, whether it was out of gratitude or out of the face of the righteous brothers, he had to invite Song Jiang and his gang to go up the mountain to get together.

In addition, he also had other plans in his heart, so he was extremely enthusiastic at that time to guide the other leaders to invite Song Jiang to live in the mountain.

Song Jiang also had a plan, so he took advantage of the situation. (To be continued.) )