Chapter Seventy-Six: Shaohua Mountain
Hearing the official family to play this chapter to everyone, the official of the household department stood up without hesitation, opened his mouth and began to call the poor, saying that the southeast and Zhejiang are the big taxpayers of the imperial court, and the silk field is also concentrated here, and now these key points have fallen into the hands of thieves, and this year's tax will drink the northwest wind, please think of a way for the official family to hurry up.
The officials of the Transshipment Department also jumped out, saying that the southeast is reversed, and the grain and rice for the capital cannot be transported in this year, and the problem of eating millions of people in Bianliang City has to be judged by the officials.
Huizong listened to the fire for a while, he wanted to find a way below, but he asked him to find a way below! If you have a way, what are you doing with these rice buckets? So he glanced at his minister Cai Jing.
Cai Jing then rushed out - the latest news came, Fang La's rebel army even dug up his ancestral grave, can the old lady not be angry? ——Loud voice: "The traitors in the southeast are rampant, and the ministers invite a million soldiers to go and suppress them." Where the sword and fire go, the plough court sweeps the holes, and there is no ugliness, it is the way for people to be good! ”
Next to him, the newly favored Su Yuan Jingsu Taiwei came, this person has never been on good terms with Zhu Mian, and at this time he started to play: "The chaos of the people is all because of the greed of the local officials, so they force the people to be chaotic." Is blindly using soldiers the way to persuade good? It is better to appease first, if you can avoid a sword soldier, how much food and military salary will be saved for the country. ”
So above the court, the two factions had a war of words, the public said that the public was reasonable, the mother-in-law said that the mother-in-law was reasonable, and Huizong was a no-brainer, but they quarreled with him......
At this time, Ximen Qing was also strategizing in Liangshan, and the people in Liangshan were united in their efforts, just waiting for the time to make a big move.
On this day, the spy news came, saying that the imperial court had issued thirteen urgent gold medals, and sent them to Lanzhou in the starry night, where the camp of Tong Guan, the commander of the Western Army, was located.
It turned out that when Cai Taishi** and Su Taiwei** were arguing with each other, the Fangla rebel army became more and more fierce in the southeast, and the Great Song Dynasty finally couldn't bear it, so it decided to suppress it. As for the candidates for the invasion of the army, Su Taiwei did not forget his justice because of the private anger of the quarrel in the past few days, and he ceremoniously recommended to Huizong the virtuous son-in-law of Cai Lao Taishi - Hebei Liang Zhongshu.
Cai Jing had an insight into Captain Su's sinister intentions at a glance - this is to roast the Cai family on the fire! Liang Zhongshu Qingzhou newly defeated Liangshan, under his own mediation, the reward has been extreme, if this time to quell the southeast rebellion and make new contributions, the reward is not rewardable, it will inevitably be a high merit to shock the master, at that time will not recruit the jealousy of the official?
Therefore, Cai Jinglian said that it was impossible, and said that now the emperor of Liao claimed to want to crusade against the Jurchens, gathered 200,000 cavalry, 700,000 foot soldiers, and the mountains and rains were about to come for a while. But the question is, what if these 900,000 Liao soldiers did not go to fight the Jurchens, but suddenly rushed across Baigou and attacked the Great Song Dynasty? Hu Lusu has no faith and must not be guarded against, so Liang Zhongshu stuck to the four towns of Hebei and must not move.
Huizong nodded when he heard this, and he thought it was true. Cai Jing recommended his good partner Tong Guanlai in a timely manner, saying that under his wise command, Li Qianshun of Western Xia had broken his courage, and he no longer dared to look at my Central Plains.
In the end, it was the minister of the humerus, these words really entered Huizong's heart, so Huizong called it good, and issued the jade decree of the Immortal Emperor with a fast horse of 500 miles, plus 13 gold medals urging, and ordered Tong Guan to quickly order troops and send them to Jiangnan to quell the rebellion.
Liangshan's spy also found out, saying that there was a Hangzhou observation envoy Chen Yan who was driven away by the Fangla rebel army and fled, in order to exonerate his own family, so he voted for Huizong's favor, pretending to be a ghost, saying that he got the guidance of the heavenly Tai Bai Xing in Hangzhou West Lake, and became a feng shui master, saying that Huizong's Mingtang foundation was selected right, and if it could be a little east of the C-side, it would be possible to take advantage of the land of fortune for a long time.
Huizong finally suddenly realized - no wonder everything has not gone well in the past two years, it turned out that the feng shui of Mingtang is not good - so regardless of the current financial constraints, just an edict was issued, ordering Chen Yan's secretary province where the so-called land of good fortune is located to move to other places, and the place is Xinmingtang, and Cai Jing became the new Mingtang envoy, starting to start construction, serving 10,000 people a day, making the people on Gyeonggi Road miserable.
Ximenqing heard this and sneered: "Hmph! If you don't die, you won't die! Let's toss! Toss the water and fly away, and Zhao Song's qi is over! ”
So Ximen Qing sent scouts to Qinfeng Road and Yongxing Military Road to inquire about the details of Tong Guan's march. When the flower monk Lu Zhi saw it, he couldn't help but be moved, so he stepped forward and said to Ximen Qing: "The Sprinkle family has a good brother who knows each other, and the Li Zhong brothers also recognize it, and they are called the Nine Pattern Dragon Shi Jin." He used to help the Sprinkle family in the Clay Pot Temple, and he never forgot it. I heard that he is now on Shaohua Mountain in Huayin County, Huazhou on Yongxing Army Road, and Zhu Wu, a god machine military division, and Chen Da, a jumping tiger, Yang Chun, a white flower snake, and four heroes gather righteousness, officers and soldiers from near and far, and they dare not look at him squarely. Today, we Liangshan want to seek Tongguan, if there is a brother Shi Jin to help, it will definitely be like a tiger with wings. Therefore, the Sprinkle family asked the marshal for an order, and went to Shaohua Mountain to visit him, and said that he came to join our Dazhai - but I don't know what the marshal wants? ”
Ximenqing was overjoyed when he heard this: "Okay! All right! The rivers and lakes have heard of Shi Dalang's name, if he comes to Liangshan, our army will have another general! I asked Master Lu to go first, and temporarily borrowed Shi Jin Cottage to be a center for information turnover and contact. ”
Lu Zhishen agreed to go, and Ximenqing arranged for Li Zhong, the tiger general, and Zhou Tong, the little overlord, to accompany him.
In the days that followed, news kept coming. First of all, the four leaders of Shaohua Mountain, Shi Jin, Zhu Wu, Chen Da, and Yang Chun followed Lu Zhishen and others, and when everyone was feasting, Lu Zhishen said that Shi Jin went to Liangshan to gather righteousness. Shi Jin, Zhu Wu and others had long admired the names of Liangshan and Ximenqing, and Lu Zhishen said that it was done, and with the help of this group of local snakes, they found out the situation of Tong Guanjun, and the result was doubled with half the effort.
It turned out that after Tong Guan received the golden medal decree, he did not dare to slack off, so he moved his camp from Lanzhou on Qinfeng Road to Jingzhao Mansion on Yongxing Military Road, where he ordered a large number of western soldiers, allocated grain, horses, and weapons, and prepared to go out on a large scale to pacify Jiangnan.
Ximen Qing looked at the map for a long time, and discussed with Lin Chong, Guan Sheng and others: "If you wait for the Tong Guan Western Army to assemble and go south to Liangzhe, our Liangshan Labor Division will go on an expedition, and invite the attack halfway, the battle line is too long, and the grain road is easy to be taken by the officers and soldiers. ”
All the generals nodded, and Lin Chong asked with a smile: "But I don't know if the commander-in-chief will come out?" ”
Ximen Qingyi smiled: "Just like this, like this!" ”
Everyone listened to it and amazed: "Good plan! ”
At that moment, the first flying pigeon passed the book, informed Shaohua Mountain, ordered Lu Zhishen and Shi Jin to arrange to respond, and then counted the points to go out to fight the people, and the various departments were divided into parts, divided into batches, or disguised and disguised, or sneaked and hidden, all to Shaohua Mountain.
Ximen Qing led Wu Song, Jiao Ting, Lu Fang, Guo Sheng, Jiang Jing, and Ma Lin to pretend to be merchants, escorted grain and grass goods as cover, and traveled all the way to Shaohua Mountain. Along the way, they passed through states and counties, and paid taxes, but they were several times more expensive than usual. The official who collected taxes said in a heartfelt manner that the rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River would drag the people of the Great Song Dynasty into dire straits, but fortunately, the imperial court sent heavenly soldiers to crusade against it, which was to save the people of Li from fire and water, so all the people must have money to contribute, and they should make a strong contribution, and no one should be missing! The tax is only a few times over, which is already very cheap.
Jiang Jing, who was in charge of the negotiations, pretended to have a sad face, and said in a low voice: "What the official said is true! That's what the official said! ”
When he came back to talk to Ximen Qing, Ximen Qing sneered: "Jiangnan's financial resources have dried up, so do you have to grow hair on the people of the Central Plains?" Hey! The emperor's old son doubled the tax, and the corrupt officials at the bottom would have to multiply it several times, to say the least. In this way, the people's resentment boils, and one day, they will be asked to dig their own graves! ”
was slaughtered all the way to Shaohua Mountain, Jiang Jing calculated, if he was really a businessman, he would not make any money at all along the way, and it would be all for the government. Jiang Jing sighed: "This is forcing honest people to smuggle!" ”
Before he could sigh with emotion, he heard a chirp in the air, and jumped out of a small minion early, shouting: "I opened this mountain, I planted this tree, if you want to live from here, leave to buy road money." Half a word is broken, and the old man doesn't care about killing or burying it-bah! Why don't you guests stop the car soon? ”
Ximenqing, Lu Fang and others glanced at each other, and they were all like a world away - Liangshan had not engaged in this set of road robbery tricks for several years, and now they relived the old dream under this Shaohua Mountain, and everyone not only did not think it was sad, but they all had a sense of warmth.
With a "hey", Ximenqing laughed at himself in his heart: "This is really a taste of being a thief - but in this troubled world, being a thief is really the most promising job!" Those who steal the hook will be punished, and those who steal the country will be punished - hurry up and clean up Tong Guan here, Lao Tzu is going to attack Bianliang! ”
Over there, Jiang Jing had already connected with the little minions: "Hero, how do you pay the money for buying roads in Guishan?" "This god operator has already suffered from an occupational disease, and when he arrives in a place, he has to know the prices of goods in a place and update his database.
The little minions said a number that was not as low as the government.
Ximen Qing and the others looked at each other when they heard this, and couldn't help asking: "Hero, you just charge such a little money, are the people of Yishan full?" ”
The little minions said very vicissitudes: "We can't help it!" The corrupt officials and corrupt officials outside are blowing so hard, no matter how much we eat and occupy more, if you don't come in the future, won't everyone have to go to the northwest wind? Let's have to suffer some losses! By the way, I see that you guys are good, and by the way, I would like to warn you - the camp of the big corrupt official Tong Guan is in front of Jingzhao Mansion, you businessmen must not touch the nails, turn around, flash as far as you can! ”
This little minion was just pointing fingers at others, when he suddenly heard a shout from behind: "Ahhh Isn't this Brother Ximenqing? ”
"Huh? Ximen Qing? Where?! When the little minions heard this, their eyes turned into brass bells, and they stood on tiptoe to look into the distance of the road, but they turned a blind eye to the true Buddha in front of him. This is exactly what it is:
I don't know the true face of Lushan, only because I am in this mountain. But I don't know what will happen next, and listen to the next breakdown.