This Liangshan Bo, also known as Liangshan Luo at this time, is located in the triangle of Jeju Juye, Yuncheng County and Yunzhou on Jingxi Road, and is composed of four main peaks of Liangshan, Qinglong Mountain, Phoenix Mountain, Turtle Mountain and seven branches such as Hutou Peak, Snow Mountain Peak, Hao Mountain Peak and Xiaohuang Mountain.

This Liangshanbo was formed in the Five Dynasties period, and this place was still a rural place during the Sui and Tang dynasties. Later, the Yellow River had three big breaches, and the rolling river water poured down to the foot of Liangshan, and connected with the ancient giant Yeze, forming an endless large water pool, known as "the port is thousands of lines longitudinal and horizontal, and the four sides are around 800 miles".

As a result, some heroes stared at this natural blessed land, and started the idea of "building camps and villages, gathering mountains and forests", but no one knew whether they were also doing something to "resist violence and peace, kill the rich and help the poor, and do the right thing for heaven". At least Huang Jie didn't find out that there were any heroes here in recent years, just like the Huanghuadang in the lower reaches of Huangzhou, it is said that there are more than a dozen thieves who rely on water to draft in these 800 miles of water.

On the day of arriving in Yuncheng County, it was the twenty-first winter month of the first year, Huang Jie and his entourage of more than 50 people escorted five carriages into the county seat, and then they also stayed in a big inn, and then let Lin Chong take his palace division and all classes to inspect the school Du Yu Hou waist card to Yuncheng County, and asked the local county order to check what Song Jiang, Chao Gai, and the Ruan brothers, and soon got the news, saying that Song Jiang has his own people, but he is from Songjia Village, Yuncheng County, alias Hei Sanlang, and the people in the rivers and lakes are called "Hu Baoyi", However, he committed a serious crime the year before last and was sent to Jiangzhou (now Jiujiang, Jiangxi), and no one knows what happened now.

As for that Chao Gai, there are also people, it is Baozheng of Xiadongxi Village, Yuncheng County, who is obviously a local tyrant in the township, but in private he also does some murderous deeds, because he is good at making a pagoda iron whip of the same style as Li Jing, the king of Tota, so the villagers also call him the Iron King, but last year because he robbed a Dengzhou caravan passing through Yunzhou, he failed to wipe out the other party's group and revealed his whereabouts, so he also fled with his family into Liangshanbo and fell into the grass.

There is also that Shijie Village, but there is really this place, but it is the residence of the Ruan brothers, the big Ruan brothers are called Ruan Xiaoer, and the small one is called Ruan Xiaoqi, who has long been a famous water coward in Liangshan Boli, even if it is Yuncheng County, he has also ordered three hundred yuan to take his two brothers.

After coming back with such news, Huang Jie also stared at Lin Chong with wide eyes, and Huang Jie was eager to immediately order someone to go to Ryukyu to detain the flower pass and ask him how he found out the news.

However, later a lot of news came, but it also corroborated that it was not that Huatong did not give gifts, for example, although Song Jiang's family was a local tyrant in the countryside, he had never been a knife and pen official or a priest, and he used to make a living in Yunzhou, and everything was also because of an argument with an observation (fast capture leader) of Yunzhou City and County for a singer, and he was inadvertently killed with a knife and seriously injured.

This Yuncheng County is Yuncheng County, Yunzhou is Yunzhou, the two places are more than 200 miles apart, and there is a Liangshanbo in the middle.

Besides, Chao Gai, who is usually low-key, does not say it, and the name he uses is also Chao Family Dalang, not to mention Yuncheng County, even if he is from Dongxi Village, his hometown, there are very few people who know his name, and it is not that after this incident, Yuncheng County issued a sea fishing document to ask the old people in the township to learn about his name, and I am afraid that few people know who Chao Gai is.

As for the Ruan brothers, Huang Jie didn't ask Hua Tong to look for it, he also mistakenly remembered Chao Gai as a person from Shijie Village, with such a bull's head and wrong horse's mouth, he could really find someone and meet a ghost.

Knowing that he was wrong and blamed Huatong, Huang Jie no longer bothered about this matter, so he also tried to let people inquire about the matter of Liangshanbo Water Village, but he was also dumbfounded when he asked, they all said that the Shuibo River was vertical and horizontal, and the water village was everywhere, and the small thieves of more than a dozen people were not counted, and there were more than a dozen shares of hundreds of people.

Even, this Yuncheng County, as well as Jeju and Yunzhou, have carried out several large-scale joint law enforcement, and organized people and horses to enter Liangshanbo to clean up these thieves, but they have not gained much after a few times.

This time, Huang Jie also made a difficulty, but he also knew that this matter was not in a hurry, and it would not be so simple.

At that moment, he also stayed in Yuncheng County for two days, and two days later, after Tian Bao, Sima Gan, Mo Hong, Pan Ruo, Kong Guan, and Shi Tianyang led by Huangzhou Wei also arrived, they sent them out in groups of two to find out the news. After waiting for three days, I finally got the exact news, but it was said that the four largest thieves in Liangshan Boli now occupied Xiaoliang Mountain, Phoenix Mountain, Turtle Mountain and Xiaohuang Mountain to set up water villages, but there was no leader named Song Jiang or Chao Gai in these water villages, and there was no name that Huang Jie heard familiar to him.

And Yan Qing and the others also turned back at this time, before he took Li Yun, Li Gu and others to divide into two ends, one went to Mount Tai and Tai'an to investigate, and the other returned to the Daimyo's Mansion to see if Lu Junyi turned back, and now the news brought is that no one has been found at either end.

After staying for another two days, the Huangzhou guards who had sent out to inquire about the news all turned back, and after summarizing the news, they also found that first, they did not find out Lu Junyi's whereabouts, and second, they did not find out where Song Jiang and Chao Gai were, but third, they got the news, that is, not long ago, it was reported that the government intended to make the 800 miles of water "public ownership", stipulating that all the people who entered the lake to fish, collect lotus roots, and cut pu should be taxed heavily according to the size of the boat, and if there were any violators of the prohibition, they would be punished as thieves.

Now in Yunzhou and Jeju and other places, the common people are very indignant when they get the news, and they also have a lot of sympathy for the thieves in Liangshanbo, saying that many of them are also good people, but because they can't pay the taxes of the imperial court, they have to go into the water and fall into the grass.

It's just that this kind of news is meaningless, as a last resort, Huang Jie divided the people into three groups, one group remained in Yuncheng County, he led a group to Yunzhou to investigate, Lin Chong led a group to Jeju,

On the twenty-ninth day of the winter month, Huang Jie and others arrived at the city of Yunzhou, and saw that the city was actually hung with a battle flag, and the city gate was also closed.

Huang Jie was also stunned this time, but even if he took out the military talisman waist card of the front division of the palace, it would not help, and the Yunzhou side refused to open the city gate, and the gang of bandits in the straight road had already come to earn the city gate once, so if it was not a familiar official army, they would not open the door alive or dead. (To be continued.) )