For four or five days in a row, Deng She went to see Guan Duo in the morning, met guests in the afternoon, and either attended banquets in the evening, or invited Mao Jujing and others back. He eats a trench and grows wise, learns to be obedient, and does not have to be present, and the wine persuaded by others can escape if he can, and he can rely on it. I really can't do it, lie on the table and pretend to be drunk.

Pan Mei has not contacted him since that invitation; Sha Liu Er, a subordinate in the city, at the level of tens of thousands of households, heard about Deng She's rejection of Pan Mei, so he didn't send an invitation and visited him in person. Deng She's warm reception, generous gifts, and good work in all aspects.

Guan Duo must know these things, if Fang Buzhen doesn't report it, the neighbors on the street will also report it. However, he didn't say anything, and still treated Deng She with the attitude of a kind elder; The thousand sets of armor and three hundred firearms that were given to Deng She were handed over in the first time, and they generously came with some standing medicines in the army such as gold sore medicine. Dunshe was naturally grateful to Dade.

Li Aguan also inquired about the details in every possible way, and Guan Duo was her cousin. When Guan Duo joined the army, many clansmen followed, and Li Aguan's father was one of them, and he died in battle. Her husband's name is Li Dunru, and the two have been married for more than ten years.

Li Dunru's participation in the red scarf was purely out of desperation, Guan Duo reversed, his father-in-law followed him, there was no chance for him to choose, he didn't want to kill his head, so he followed it. He and Guan Duo are fellow villagers, his family has been cultivating and reading for generations, and he is an out-and-out scholar, but his knowledge is not good, at most he is middle-class, but he is good at practice, especially has a talent for financial management. Guan Duo was promoted and reused, and is now the left and right divisions of Liaoyang Province, which can be called a high power.

is a relative, a high-ranking official, and a person who is dozens of years old, and in turn apologizes to Deng She. This result made Deng She frown, Guan Duo gave him too much face, and he put down a high hat, he didn't feel cool, it was very heavy.

After learning the address of the Li Mansion, he visited the door and went twice, Li Dunru was not in the house, Li Aguan turned him away under the pretext of "cheap concubines and girls, no outsiders", and did not accept the gifts he brought.

Bi Qianniu spoke with a northeast accent and muttered: "Guan Pingzhang too, what are you sorry for?" Net to the general to find old trouble. ”

Perhaps, this is the true intention of Guan Duo. On the surface, it gives you a lot of face; Actually? A thorn in your heart. Deng She smiled bitterly and said, "It's also a good idea for Lord Pingzhang,...... Don't force it, don't force it, let's go, go home. ”

Halfway through, he happened to meet Guan Duo's guards and came to look for him. When I asked, I learned that Pan Cheng and Sha Liu Er had returned to the city, and Guan Duo convened the generals to hold a military discussion. Deng She didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed the guards and rushed to the provincial capital.

When he arrived at the gate of the provincial capital, Deng She noticed that several surrounding streets had been cleared, no people were moving, and there were many more soldiers under martial law. It was very different from what I saw in normal times, with a fierce complexion and excellent armament, and many of them still had a murderous aura on them, so they obviously came down from the battlefield. It is expected to be Pan Cheng and Sha Liu Er's personal soldiers.

Relying on Guan Duo's token, the passage is unimpeded. Along the way, the sound of horses' hooves continued, and dozens of hundreds of civil and military officials came from the mansions in the city, the camps outside the city, and other places, and their personal soldiers, retinues, and generals, together with their mounts and sedan chairs, were all parked two streets away. It is also customary to only allow single people to enter, on the one hand, for safety, and on the other hand, the provincial government cannot accommodate these many people.

Because Guan Duo still opened the door and put it in, the black pressure in front of the provincial capital pressed people's heads. The voices of the people are noisy, and the dialects of Tiannan and Haibei can be heard everywhere.

Through the communication and gifts in the past few days, Deng She not only successfully picked up the past friendships, but also met many new friends. Seeing him coming, people who knew him came over to say hello. Deng She responded with a smile, peeking around, most of the officials waiting in front of the door were military and less civilian.

The civil officials are quiet, and even if they talk, they are whispering. The lowest official positions of the generals are also above 10,000 households, and most of them climb up step by step from the bottom, and they are rude, loud and loud, and the voices of bragging and scolding their mothers come and go. It seems to be chaotic, but faintly distinct.

It is roughly divided into five groups. The largest group lived in the middle, and the most swaggering was the most aggressive, and there were a dozen or so marshals present, more than half of them, all here; There are not only military attachés, but also many civilian officials. The second and third groups, next in number, one next to the largest group and one a little further apart; There are also a few civil servants mixed in.

The fourth group is small in number and generally has low positions, and the highest is the chief and there are no civil officials. The fifth group is a pure civil official, with seven or eight people, and looking at their official uniforms, their quality is not low. Most of the officers who greeted Dunshe were from the fourth group, and some were from the first group; Except for Fang Buzhen, who came one step earlier, none of the other three groups had any.

Deng She has been entertaining and socializing in the past few days, not for eating and drinking, but in the process of talking with old friends, he has the latest front-line information. At a glance, it is clear that the first three groups must be the descendants of Guan Duo, Pan Cheng, and Sha Liu Er, and the fourth group is naturally an idle and miscellaneous family that does not hurt the grandmother and uncle, and the final civil official group should be a more traditional group that looks down on the martial arts.

I heard someone next to me: "Lao Li, don't blow nonsense anywhere, who will seal your bag and inquire?" , now Lao Tzu will test you, do you know why Guan Pingzhang suddenly summoned the generals? ”

Deng She listened attentively, and Lao Li replied: "It doesn't matter if you ask or not, you ,...... Don't play with Lao Tzu. But Lao Tzu is still eating, I will eat this set, I heard it clearly, Lao Tzu told you. ”

But it was a stammer, Deng She was concerned about Goryeo after all, and he couldn't help but think of Zhao Guo, and then Zhao Guo thought of Pyongyang, I don't know if he and Wen Huaguo can manage it. As soon as he was distracted, Lao Li's answer missed a few words, and he said a few perfunctory words to the person who was talking to him, and then listened carefully.

Hearing that, Lao Li said: "...... Why did Lao Tzu say that there should be a big military operation? Xiao, do you know that Pan Pingzhang and Liu Pingzhang are back? Do you know when they will return? Everyone looked at each other, Pan and Liu returned to the city very secretively, and there were really few who knew when they would come back, Lao Li smiled proudly and said, "No, I don't know, right?" Pan Pingzhang was the night before and the night before yesterday, and Liu Pingzhang was the night before and the night before yesterday. ”

Someone asked, "How do you know?" ”

Lao Li said: "The night before yesterday, Lao Tzu took turns guarding the city gate, and he happened to run into it. When Pan Pingzhang entered the city, he brought two hundred-person teams, if Lao Tzu didn't recognize him, he wouldn't know. Liu, Liu Pingzhang, how did Lao Tzu know? That's the book and ability of Bao inquiring. ”

He stammered, smug, and ambitious, and was so amused that everyone laughed. One person said: "It's useless to talk less, talk about business, talk about business." ”

Lao Li had a good temper and was not angry, and then said, "Don't, don't laugh." Xiao, know Pan and Liu, why don't they ride back to the city alone? Why? Secrecy! Why, why secrecy? Conclusion: There must be big, big military operations. ”

Someone said: "Liaoxi is still fighting, will it be necessary to reinforce Liaoxi?" Chakhan Timur has been besieging Bianliang for several months, and Liu Pingzhang has been supervising the front line for more than a month, so he is probably in a hurry. "The news of the destruction of Bianliang City, most people don't know.

The man who provoked the old Li Jiang said: "I can't see it, Shenyang and Gaizhou are attacking left and right, and there are Tan Ma Chi from the front of the Sijian Prison, if you don't solve them first, what will you do to reinforce them?" ”

Someone lowered his voice and said, "Isn't Gaoli Xiao Deng coming,...... who has never seen Deng She asked: "Xiao Deng?" The man pursed his lips and said, "That's it, seventeen or eighteen years old, and a group of people are talking around it." Deng She felt several eyes fall on him, and one of them said softly: "Is that him?" Eight hundred people defeated Goryeo? ”

Lao Li said: "People, people can't be disguised. He asked mysteriously, "Who do you know and don't know his father?" ”

"Who?"

"Deng, Deng San." Deng San has a thousand households with a foreign system, and there are not many people who have heard of it. Lao Li continued: "Do you know if you are a thief on the horse? The one who knew Deng She said: "Nonsense, you still need to talk about it." South Flower Mountain, North Horse, the two famous Kou, the famous one. ”

Nanhua Mountain, that is, Jiqing Huashan thieves, before Liu Futong got up, they defeated tens of thousands of yuan with 36 people. Later, the king of Zhennan, who died in the hands of Zhao Junyong, sent more than a dozen army to crusade, but was killed and injured countless times. In terms of prestige, it is more prominent than the horse thief. Unfortunately, he died at the hands of the Green Army, which was composed of salt disciples.

Mongolia's iron hooves crisscross the world, under the prestige of nearly a hundred years, the red scarves dare to rise on a large scale, in addition to the main reason that the people are not living and have no way to live, Huashan and Shangma are roaring north and south, and the Mongolian Yuan can not be controlled also plays a part of the stimulating role. Therefore, when it comes to horse thieves, almost everyone knows it.

Lao Li said: "Deng Sanbian is the leader of the horse thieves. ”

When everyone heard this, they were immediately impressed, and the previous man said: "The tiger father has no dogs." Some people who know more about Goryeo said: "It's better to say that the blue is out of the blue, some time ago, Pyongyang was beaten down by him." From east to west, dozens of cities, good guys, let the lord know, we can't have more provinces in the Great Song Dynasty? ”

There are those who admire, and there are those who are not angry, and there are humanitarians: "The Korean people do not need to be beaten." ”

"Phew, you're going to try? 800 people, less than half a year, 40,000 or 50,000 people. Can you do it? Lao Li said: "Small, gossip, more than forty or fifty thousand,......" "More than forty or fifty thousand?" You just blow it. The person who spoke looked at Deng She and said, "It's a manager." ”

"You, have you seen the chief of seventeen or eighteen? Do you know what it means to be a young man? Guan Pingzhang didn't give him high-ranking officials, but he loved him. That's it, aren't you—aren't you red-eyed? Lao Li's words, most of them disapprove, clamored, and said: "It's far-fetched, it's far-fetched." ”

Another humane: "Do you know the twin walls of Liaoxi?" Zhang Jujing, Shijiabao. A few years ago, Mao Jujing and Mao Dashuai suffered losses under the two of them; In recent months, Liu Pingzhang has personally supervised the battle in western Liaoning, and the fight is in full swing, and he can be called evenly matched. These two are famous generals, right? However, I heard that a few months ago, Mr. Deng killed the two of them with a group of new pawns. ”

"That's different, Xiao Deng is a field battle, Mao Dashuai and Liu Pingzhang are attacking fortifications, two different things." Lao Li pouted and said, "Ming'er and I will play the customs declaration and Pingzhang, and transfer you to Liaoxi, and go to the field and the field!" One person muttered: "If his surname is Guan, let alone the general manager, the marshal is also a piece of cake." ”

Lao Li said: "Don't, don't talk about the marshal, Deng San is dead, and it is normal for Guan Pingzhang to recognize him as a righteous son." The red-eyed one sneered: "You just said that the young man Mo Dezhi, in a blink of an eye, he was promoted to a righteous son." Lao Li said: "You, don't laugh, Xiao Deng will be a man." See, see? The crowd around him laughed and laughed so happily. ”

"It's all a ragtag lineage."

"He, his son is from a miscellaneous background. Among the group of people surrounding him, why are there no people from Pan Pingzhang and Liu Pingzhang? Well, think about it! Everyone thought about it, and one said: "There are few miscellaneous people, and the miscellaneous ones are added together, and there are twenty or thirty thousand people." Many of them are old, weak, and disabled, and their ordnance is not excellent, so they are of little use. Lao Li gave a thumbs up: "Smart, smart." ”

Someone squeezed his eyes and asked, "Many people say that Xiao Deng has brought a lot of Goryeo beauties?" One said, "Is it so rare?" There are many Koreans in the city. The previous man said: "It's different, all he brought are the daughters of the eunuchs." The man said, "So what? Stripped off his clothes, a bird-like. Lao Tzu didn't believe that she could put two birds in it. ”

Lao Li shook his head again and again, and said, "Outsider, layman you." Know, do you know the radish? Do you know ginseng? Turnips are like ginseng, but not ginseng, what is the difference? It's the difference between radish and ginseng. ”

"Blow again, blow again, have you ever eaten ginseng?" Lao Li glanced at Deng She, smiled, and said, "No, I won't tell you, Lao Tzu has tasted it." ”

Everyone was very interested, and urged: "Talk about it, talk about it." Lao Li grinned and said teasingly: "Lao Tzu is a brother, and Deng San knows each other, I went to see Xiao Deng two days ago, and Xiao Deng gave him one." Thanks to him, Lao Tzu was stained. Do you know what it tastes like? ”

"Tell me what you shit!"

"I'll tell you a word." Lao Li stretched out three fingers and said, "Don't, don't talk about two birds, it's okay to be a bird!" ”

Hearing this, Deng She almost burst out laughing. Lao Li and the others talked about the women, and got down to business, and some people said: "It's strange, Goryeo is talented, unstable, what did Guan Pingzhang call him back for?" I have heard that Lao Yao is also in Goryeo,......" he lowered his voice and said, "Isn't it that you want to withdraw from Liaoyang and transfer the whole army to Goryeo?" ”

Lao Li sneered and said, "Did you withdraw, withdraw?" The brain, the head has elm pimples. ”

"Then you say, what kind of military action?"

Lao Li looked sneakily left and right, and whispered: "Small, gossip, to fight Liao, Liao、......" After a long time, no "Liao" came out, and his face was flushed. Someone couldn't wait, slapped him on the head hard, hit his helmet with a clang, and blurted out: "Liaonan!" The voice was a little louder, and he was busy covering his mouth, but no one around him paid attention to him, so he put his mind at ease and advised: "That's it, I'll tell you, brothers, don't, don't spread the word." ”

His information was very accurate, and Deng She looked at him quietly a few times and made a note of his appearance.

As soon as the word "Liaonan" came out, a few people on his side were startled, you look at me, I look at you, staring at you with big eyes. After a while, someone spoke, "From which side of the road did you hear this?" Hit Liaonan? Bianliang is not saved? Guan Pingzhang agreed, Pan Pingzhang agreed, what about Liu Pingzhang? He was adamantly opposed. ”

Lao Li asked, "You, who do you listen to?" The man said: "Naturally, Guan Pingzhang." Lao Li asked others again: "You, you, who do you listen to?" He pointed around, drew a circle, and asked, "Who do they listen to?" Three flat chapters, two agreed, this, this thing is done. Xiao, do you know why Pan Pingzhang came back a day earlier than Liu Pingzhang? ”

One humanitarian: "Guangning is near, and Liaoxi is far away." Lao Li disdainfully said, "Don't, don't talk to me, you, you ......" He pointed to his head, "Low, low." No matter how close Guangning is, Liao, Liao, and Liaoxi are farther, Pan Pingzhang came back the first day, and Liu Pingzhang came back the next day, so coincidentally? Who is Guan Pingzhang? He counts, counts good days. ”

It makes sense, and everyone suddenly realized. One hesitated: "The lord?" Lao Li said: "Stupid, stupid, right?" Lord, Lord, do you eat or not? Who cares what you wear and what you wear? ”

The man who had provoked him before hurriedly looked around, stretched out his hand to stop him and said, "The truth is good, how can the words be explained?" said: "Okay, okay, stop here." As a subordinate, what does Lord Pingzhang say, let's do it. It is useless to say more. With a wave of his hand, "Disperse, disperse." ”

Everyone dispersed in a hurry, and Lao Li told again: "Everyone, everyone, don't, don't spread the word!" ”

While speaking, the door of the mansion opened, and two civil officials came out, waved at everyone, and said: "Lord Pingzhang will order, the military meeting will be opened, and the civil and military forces will be invited in." The one on the left added: "The provincial capital is important, before entering, the generals please untie the knife first." ”

The guards pulled two long ropes outside the palace, and the generals untied their swords and hung them on them. According to the dignity of the official position and the distance of the relationship, the civil officials are on the left, and the military attaches are on the right, and they are lined up into the palace in two long snakes.

Deng She had participated in several large-scale military meetings with Deng San, but Deng San was only a thousand households, far less advanced than this time. The official of the chief steward, not high, not low, ranked in the middle, he was modest and young, he did not dare to be in the front, and fell last in the rank of the chief steward.

Guan Duo's military discipline was strict, and as soon as he entered the provincial capital, no one spoke loudly anymore. There are three steps and one post in the house, five steps and one sentry, and Deng She slowly advances with the team. One hundred and ten civil and military, the place of discussion is too small, the location is selected in the main hall of the provincial capital, Guan Duo is in the center, Pan Cheng and Sha Liu are sitting on both sides, and the three of them have arrived.

Everyone came in, divided into four columns, stood in shifts, bowed down the mountain and shouted: "The lowly and the last general have seen Lord Pingzhang." ”

Guan Duo smiled like Maitreya and said with a smile: "Get up." His gaze softened, and for a moment he turned around on everyone's faces, and Deng She felt that the time he had stayed on him was a little longer. Taking the opportunity of everyone to visit, he quietly looked at Pan Cheng and Sha Liu Er.

Pan Cheng's old appearance has not changed, with a Chinese face, thick eyebrows and big eyes. He was in his prime, and he was praised by beautiful men in the army, and sitting next to Guan Duo, he looked more and more energetic and heroic. Sha Liu Er has changed a lot, Deng She was surprised to find that he was much older, a person in his thirties, with white hair on his temples, a face full of weather, frowning, absent-minded, and he didn't know what he was thinking.

Guan Duo said: "I have summoned you to come today to announce two things. ”

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1, left and right Shirouzhong.

The provincial governor is below the command, and the left and right divisions are set up as their subordinates to deal with daily affairs. The left and right divisions are modeled after the left and right divisions of Zhongshu Province. "Provincial ,...... There are left and right divisions in the house, the province is divided into two, and the province is combined into one, with two members of Langzhong, Wailang, and Metropolitan Affairs, and one province praises and paints Laiyan. "Capital Province", that is, the province of Zhongshu.

The left and right Shi Langzhong, the staff outside Lang, and the capital are called "chief officials", "there are always six Cao, and there is no difference between them, and the order has been admired and the position is especially dramatic, and the repetition of the appointment is unprecedented. …… From this, the rulers of Bandeng have looked at each other with martial arts, and they are called the prime minister's princes, and they are also the high-ranking officials who are honest. ”

The middle grade of the left and right Shiro is from the fifth grade.

"The number is the prime minister's prince, and the high election of the honest official", this sentence is not bad at all, Li Shanchang, who is regarded by Zhu Yuanzhang as the first meritorious hero, has held this position. In the third year of Hongwu, Zhu Yuanzhang was crowned six dukes, and Li Shanchang ranked first and the only civil servant among them, and he also became the prime minister, "the first of the hundred officials".

——In the Yuan Dynasty, there were not many scholars in the imperial examination, and the officials were selected, one was a guard, one was an official, and the other was an imperial examination. The former two account for a much larger proportion than the latter. There are not many Han people in the north who have entered the imperial examination; There are only a handful of southerners in the south.

2, Flower Bandit.

In the seventh year of Zheng, "thieves along the river, plundering without taboo, there is no way to prohibit it." …… There were only 36 robbers in Jiqing Huashan, and tens of thousands of officers and soldiers, so they could not enter the bargain, but were defeated. Later, he faked his hands to salt apprentices, although he could succeed, wouldn't he laugh. ”

"When the Central Plains Red Kou did not rise, there were only thirty-six Huashan thieves, and one woman was especially brave. Jumao Mountain a palace, vertical and horizontal, slightly unscrupulous, always more than three months. The three provinces sent troops, but they could not be arrested, and countless officers and soldiers were killed and wounded. The imperial court recruited the salt disciples Zhu and Chen, led their party to fight with them, and captured them with one drum. From then on, the people of the world regarded the officials and the army as useless. In less than three or five years, from the south of the river, there were many thieves, and their number was also husbandry. ”

Although the Huashan thieves were active in the area of Maoshan and Jiangning on Jiqing Road, they passed through the Huai River. "......, there are thieves from Huaidian Li Zhu Fang, waiting for Maofu, wading the earth bridge, asking about Longtan, and wanting to go to the river." When they planned to cross the Yangtze River, "the king of Zhennan ordered Sima Hui Province, Tai Shuaichen, and more than ten road soldiers to surround Donghua Mountain,...... Captain Wan and Jiangning Prison died. There is half a full moon, and it is extinguished. "Jiangning Jianyi", that is, Dalu Huachi, Jiangning County.

——Thirty-six people, just in Shi Nai'an's "Water Margin" Tiangang Star thirty-six members.