Not to mention that Liang Shanbo, Wang Lun and others showed their strength and prospered.

However, it was said that the Jeju Prefecture Taishou saw that Huang An's soldiers had fled back and said that Liang Shanbo had killed the officers and soldiers and captured Huang An; also said that Liangshan Bo is a hero, and no one is close to him, and it is difficult to arrest him; Or the waterways are difficult to recognize, and the ports are complicated, so they can't win.

The pursuit of Chao Gai and other matters could not be solved, and Bai Sheng, who was imprisoned in Jeju Prison, was also rescued, and Jeju Taishou was anxious for a while.

Within the jurisdiction, there were two groups of strongmen, and Jeju Taishou invited a new member of the official army to guard Jeju, and immediately discussed recruiting troops and horses, collecting grass and grain, recruiting brave people, wise men, and preparing to capture the heroes of Yangsan and Erlongshan.

On the one hand, he applied for Zhongshu Province, changed his career to nearby states and counties, and vigorously suppressed the arrest; On the one hand, he issued his own state and county, notified the requisition, and ordered the subordinate county to guard the territory; That's fine.

There is an old official in Jeju, surnamed Wang Mingjin, who has overcome poison in his life, and is called "the king of the heart".

This Wang Jin loves to figure out people's thoughts, and he saw Zhizhou frowning for days. Coupled with the transfer of people and horses in the state, he came to offer advice, and said: "Xianggong is worried about the Liangshan thieves? ”

Taishou Sun Jing nodded and said: "Exactly, if the thieves are wrapped up in disasters and attack the city, I am afraid that the soldiers and horses in the city will not be able to stop it for a day." ”

Sun Jing is the new Taishou, Cai Jing's protégé and former official.

Wang Jin said: "According to the villain's humble opinion, the Liangshan thieves should not make trouble. That Liangshan Wang Lun is not a stupid person. There are 800,000 forbidden troops in the imperial court, how can he shake it with those rabble. ”

Sun Jing shook his head and said: "For the sake of heaven, in the name of benevolence and righteousness, it cannot be said that it is just a tool to realize his ambitions." Although this Wang Lun is young. But he is a hero. ”

Wang Jin said: "If he is a hero, he should know that there is no good end to the chaos now." In his past. Most of them will still lie dormant in Liangshan, just spreading some reputation, and they still want to use these reputations to change the court to recruit peace. However, he recruited Lin Chong, who wanted to kill Gao Taiwei, and Yang Zhi, who robbed Tai Sheng Chengang and others, but it was a little difficult to recruit An. After all, he is still a little younger, and he can't say that he just wants to be a king in the mountains and forests. ”

Sun Jing nodded and said, "When the Taishi and Taiwei free their hands, they will send another army to exterminate Liangshan, and they will never be appeased." ”

Hearing Sun Jing say this, Wang Jin said: "This time, the Liangshan thieves recruited a lot of soldiers and horses from Zhujiazhuang, and Lin Chong, Yang Zhi and other thieves and prime ministers helped. The imperial court will send a large army to recruit An, but I am afraid that it will not be easy. If you want to exterminate Liangshan, you have to find another way. ”

"Oh?"

Sun Jing finally heard something fresh, looked at Wang Jin and said, "What do you think?" Let's hear it. "Sun Jing still has some manpower in Tokyo, but he doesn't have enough spare power in Jeju.

Wang Jin smiled: "We can divide them from the inside, and then exterminate them." ”

Sun Jing listened and said bluntly: "You mean to buy or recruit some of these people?" ”

Wang Jin nodded and said: "Exactly, there are many leaders in Liangshan, there must be people who hope to recruit peace, as long as the prime minister gives them some promises, when the two armies fight, let them fight back, or cut off the way for the thieves to retreat, why worry about not being able to exterminate them." ”

Sun Jing frowned and said: "What you said is right, except for Wang Lun, Lin Chong, and Yang Zhi, it is not impossible to recruit others." But if there are no competent people, how can they be approached? ”

After being reminded by Wang Jin, Sun Jing also said: "In addition, Qingfeng Mountain and Baihu Mountain in Qingzhou are also entrenched by thieves, if you let the two people and horses have a conflict with Chao Gai and Wang Lun, it will be the best!" ”

Wang Jin listened to the compliments and said: "Clever plan!" ”

Then, Wang Jin said: "The villain knows a person, if he can let him go to Liangshan, he will definitely be able to recruit some leaders." ”

Sun Jing saw that Wang Jin had already thought about it, so she didn't ask again, just nodded.

Wang Jin naturally didn't dare to wait for Sun Jing to ask again, and continued: "This person is the director of Yuncheng County, surnamed Song Mingjiang, although he is a small official, but he has a great reputation in the rivers and lakes, and they all call him to be Song Jiang in time." In the past, he also took in many outlaws, and the minister allowed him an official position, which should allow him to work. ”

Sun Jing nodded and muttered, "Timely rain Song Jiang?" ”

Wang Jin explained: "I heard that he often spreads coffin bait to help the poor, the urgency of the Zhou people, and the help of the poor. But he compared him to the timely rain in the sky, which can save all things. ”

After listening to Wang Jin's words, Sun Jing smiled and said: "When he said this, he was a benevolent person, and now that he has this opportunity to serve the court, he should not miss it." ”

Wang Jin said again: "This person also has a nickname called Zhongxiao Hei Saburo, and now that the prime minister has given him a chance to be loyal, he should not refuse." ”

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It is said that Confucius sent people to Yuncheng County, which belonged to the official document of Benzhou, to teach and guard against the thieves of Liangshanbo and Erlong Mountain.

Shi Wenbin, the magistrate of Yuncheng County, read the official document and taught Song Jiang to fold it into a copywriter, go down to the villages, and guard it as one.

Song Jiang saw the official document and thought in his heart: "Chao Gai and the others don't want to do such a big thing!" robbed the Birthday Gang, killed the public, and injured He Tao to observe; He also damaged many officers, soldiers, and horses, and Wang Lun captured Huang An alive on the mountain: such a crime is the work of exterminating the nine clans! Although they are persecuted by others, they have to be forced to do so, but they cannot be forgiven in the law. ”

One of his own families wondered in his heart, and after distributing the book, Zhang Wenyuan, the secretary, set up this document into a copy, and went down to the township to protect it, and took care of the document by himself.

Song Jiang walked out of the county, but he couldn't walk more than twenty or thirty steps, only to hear someone behind him shouting, "Oshi." ”

One day later, Song Jiang came out of the county and went to sit down in the tea room to eat tea.

I saw a big man with a white fan yang felt hat on his head; Wearing a black-and-green robe; Eight bast shoes on the lower leg knee pads; There was a waist knife in his waist; Carrying a large bag; Walking sweaty and rainy, short of breath, don't turn your face to the county.

Song Jiang saw that this big man was walking strangely, so he hurriedly got up and drove out of the tea room and followed the man.

After walking about thirty or twenty steps, the man turned around, looked at Song Jiang, walked in front of him, sang a big song, and said, "Does the priest recognize the little brother?" ”

Song Jiang looked at it and said, "There is some kindness under the feet. ”

Nahan said: "You can borrow a step to speak." ”

Song Jiang knew that there must be a reason, so he entered a secluded alley with Na Han.

Nahan said: "It's easy to talk in this hotel. ”

The two of them went up to the restaurant and sat down in a secluded pavilion. The man leaned on the knife, unwrapped the package, and left it under the table.

The man turned over and bowed. Song Jiang hurriedly replied: "Don't you dare to ask the surname of the high? ”

The man said, "How did the great benefactor forget the younger brother?" I also visited my brother with King Chao last month! ”

Song Jiang couldn't remember for a while, and asked, "Who is my brother?" It's a little familiar. The villain forgot. ”

Na Han said: "The little brother is Liu Tang, the red-haired ghost who once worshipped Zunyan and saved his life by grace in Chao Baozheng Zhuang. ”

Song Jiang was shocked when he heard this, and said, "Brother Xian, you are so bold!" I haven't seen it for a long time! Almost got into trouble! ”

Liu Tang said: "Thank you for your great kindness, and I am not afraid of death, so I came to thank you." ”

It turned out that Chao Gai and Gongsun Sheng and others returned to Bai Sheng last time, and they missed Song Jiang's kindness, so they gave them good rice paper and an inkstone. This month, Chao Gai talked to Liu Tang, and missed Song Jianglai again, so he asked Liu Tang to take this trip.

Song Jianggang received the documents for the pursuit of Chao Gai and others, so he asked, "How are the brothers Chao Baozheng doing?" Brother, who taught you to come? ”

Liu Tang said: "Brother Chao repeatedly worships the great benefactor. Demeng saved his life, Brother Chao Gai, the king of Tota, took Zhiduoxing Wu Yong, Gongsun Sheng, Gongsun Sheng, one ear, He Tao, and six brothers. I saw that there were seven or eight hundred people gathered in the cottage today, and there was countless food. Because he wanted his brother to be kind and had nothing to repay, the special envoy Liu Tangyun sent a letter and one hundred taels of gold to thank the priest, and then went to Xie Na Zhu Dutou. ”

Liu Tang opened the package, took out the book, and handed it to Song Jiang.

Song Jiang listened to his heart, although this Zhu Tong and Lei Heng have a good relationship with me, they also have righteousness with Chao Gai. If you have a disagreement with Chao Gai in the future, I don't know which one the two prefer!

I also heard that Chao Gai is sitting in Erlong Mountain, and now there are six leaders, I wonder how many people and horses I can order if I fall into the grass, and which heroes can obey my orders!

Song Jiang read the letter, then lifted the front of the pleats and took out the bag of the message. When he opened the bag, Liu Tang took the gold and put it on the table.

Song Jiang took a piece of gold and this schoolbag from the book, inserted it in the poster bag, put down the placket, and said, "Brother Xian, this gold is still wrapped." ”

Immediately, he called the wine measurer to beat the wine, asked a large piece to cut a plate of meat, laid down some vegetables, vegetables and fruits, etc., and asked the wine measurer to sift the wine and eat it with Liu Tang.

Seeing that it was getting late, Liu Tang ate the wine, and the people who measured the wine went down.

Liu Tang opened the gold bag on the table and wanted to take it out.

Song Jiang hurriedly stopped and said, "Brother Xian, listen to me." When you six brothers first arrived at the cottage, they were about to use the gold and silver. Song Jiang's family is quite lively, and you are in the cottage, and when Song Jiang is short of entanglement, you come to pick it up. Today, Song Jiang has seen the outside, but has already received a piece inside. Zhu Tong also has some furniture, so he doesn't need to send it. I told him that I knew the people. Brother Xian, I don't dare to leave you to live at home, if someone recognizes you, it's not a trick. The moonlight will be bright tonight, and you can go back to the cottage, and don't stop here. Song Jiang repeatedly affirmed that the leaders could not come to celebrate, and begged for forgiveness. ”

Liu Tang said: "My brother is very gracious, and I have nothing to repay, so I specially ordered my younger brother to send some favors to the priest to show his filial piety." Brother Baozheng is now the leader, and the orders of the pedantic military advisor are not the past, how dare the younger brother go back? To the cottage must be responsible. ”

Song Jiang said: "Since the order is strict, I will write a reply and go with you." ”

Liu Tang begged each other hard, Song Jiang still had a plan, and he was willing to accept it. Immediately took a piece of paper, borrowed a pen and inkstone from the restaurant, and prepared a reply letter to Liu Tang and put it in the bag.

Liu Tang is a straight person, and when he saw Song Jiang pushing back like this, he thought that he would not accept it, so he wrapped the gold in front of him.

Looking at the sky and night, Liu Tang said: "Since my brother has a reply, my younger brother will go overnight." ”

Song Jiang said: "Virtuous brother, don't stay with each other, take care of each other with your heart." ”

Liu Tang bowed four more times, put the package on his back, took the Pu knife, and followed Song Jiang downstairs.

Leaving the restaurant, out of the alley, the sky is dusk, it is the weather in the middle of August, and the moon ring is up. Song Jiang took Liu Tang's hand and said, "Take care of your brother, don't come again: there are many people who do business here, not a trick." Now there are newcomers Zhao Neng and Zhao De, both of whom have some means. ”

reminded him, Song Jiang said: "I'm not far away, just say goodbye." ”

Liu Tang saw that the moon was bright, Fang opened his steps, looked at the west road and left, and returned to Erlong Mountain overnight.

Song Jiang slowly walked back down; walked headlong, while thinking in his stomach: "I didn't see it for a long time!" Almost caused a big incident! He thought, "That cover has fallen to the grass!" Straight so big, call me how! ”