Boundless falling trees, an autumn rain and a cold.

Outside, the rain hit the window lattice, the hall was lonely and quiet, and the breath was cold.

Zhao Ta picked up the pen, dipped it in ink, and wrote it carefully on the case, making the first scattering order small pink.

A city of autumn rain bean flowers cool, idle leaning on the flat mountain look.

It is not like the year on the lake, the golden clouds are fragrant, and the lotus picking people talk about the lotus.

The west wind geese walk, the clear stream fishes and sings, blowing hatred into the waves.

After writing it, I thought about it, took out the seal of the master of the waves carved in Jiangnan, and lightly stamped it.

Very good, very appropriate to the occasion, the font size matches the song.

Then he sat for a while, and then went to the door to listen to the rain, not knowing what was in his mind, and his face was dull and complicated.

Bai Zhan trotted over from under the eaves of the outside, and after seeing the salute, he entered the hall and lit two silver candlesticks, each with six candles, and suddenly it became bright, sweeping away the previous darkness and even some warmth.

After a while, Bai Ba took the food box, and at this moment, Yuan Ying led the troops to the north in disguise, and only Zhao Ta ate by himself.

The meal is very simple, a bowl of brown rice, a lot of rice grains and rice husk wraps that have not been removed, a plate of vegetarian fried vegetables, and a plate of steamed lamb chops.

At this time, there was actually stir-frying, roughly calculated, as early as before the Tang Dynasty, seen in the Northern and Southern Dynasties' "Qi Min Yaoshu", which recorded the ancestors of stir-frying, is a very simple dish, scrambled eggs.

However, at that time, stir-fried food could not be easily and simply realized, and it would not be placed on the table of ordinary people's homes, until this dynasty, although it was gradually known, it was not something that ordinary people could afford to eat.

Some of the main restaurants in Tokyo have stir-fried dishes, such as fried chicken, fried rabbit, fried sheep, fried oysters, fried kidneys, etc., which are very expensive.

But although there is a menu in the hotel, it still can't prevail, after all, although the iron pot can be built at this time, it is very expensive to be light and thin, and few people can use it.

The great development of iron pot technology was after this dynasty, when the iron pot was gradually finalized and perfected, and the thin iron pot could be easily built, and the status of stir-frying was laid, and the iron pot technology was one of the two necessary conditions for the popularity of stir-frying.

The second condition is the popularization of oilseeds, oil is the most critical raw material for stir-frying, in front of the Tang Dynasty, oil did not appear in large quantities, only a small amount of animal oil, and will not be used for stir-frying, to the Tang Dynasty, vegetable oil that is, vegetable oil began to be manufactured in batches, stir-fry became possible, and then hundreds of years later, peanut oil was passed from overseas, only to completely detonate the popularity of stir-frying.

Zhao Ta ate all the green vegetables on a plate, finished the rice, and then waved his hand, Bai Zhan cleaned up the table, Bai Ba boiled tea and sent it over, Zhao Ta began to look at a list while drinking tea.

The list was presented by Li Zhong when he came, written by Song Jiang, and it recorded the names and surnames of the remaining generals in Liangshan at the moment, as well as their origins.

This is something like a letter of nomination, writing out your own strength hole cards and showing them to the people who take refuge to show your sincerity.

Zhao Ta had read this list more than once before, and then he couldn't help but look at it again, it was recorded carefully, and there were only eighteen people left in Liangshan.

These eighteen, including Song Jiang.

But it does not include Le He, Gongsun Sheng, Fan Rui, Xiang Chong, Li Gon, Lin Chong, and Hu Sanniang.

Among them, Le He accompanied Wang in Tokyo, Gongsun Sheng returned to the mountains to live in seclusion, Fan Rui and the three of them were under his command, and Lin Chong and Hu Sanniang were nowhere to be found.

Of course, it does not include Lu Junyi, Lu Da, Wu Song, Yang Zhi, Shi Jin, Xu Ning, Tang Long, Shi Qian, and Yan Qing, these nine were originally recruited by him and have always been his people.

In this way, Song Jiang has eighteen people, plus Lehe's seven, plus these nine around him, there are a total of thirty-four heroes in Liangshan at the moment.

There was nothing wrong or missing in these thirty-four people, but the rest of them all, because although many heroes in the army did not conquer Tianhu with Song Jiang at that time, they were also sent to the north by Tong Guan Gao Yu one after another.

Now there are thirty-four people left, and they should have made up one hundred and eight, but for various reasons, they have never made up for coincidences.

If Song Jiang's eighteen come over together, then Zhao Ta can basically be regarded as tidying up the current Liangshan, but Shao Lehe, Gongsun Sheng, Lin Chong, Hu Sanniang, remove these four, there are still thirty people in total.

At this time, when he was short of people, Song Jiang's eighteen people, as well as the seven or eight thousand soldiers mentioned in the letter, were already a lot of strength.

However, those who can follow Song Jiang to this time are counted as his descendants, and Song Jiang has a unique set of skills to buy people's hearts, as long as he reports his name, he can make people worship and call him brother.

The loyalty of these people to Song Jiang is also Song Jiang's bargaining chip, which can determine Song Jiang's status in front of him, the more loyal these eighteen people are, the more they will attach importance to Song Jiang, after all, the more useful Song Jiang will be at this time.

But although Zhao Ta thought about this, he didn't care very much in his heart, even if these people were loyal to Song Jiang, he had countless ways to deal with them.

The worst thing is that there is still a trick to draw salary from the bottom of the kettle, and it is a big deal to let Song Jiang follow in the footsteps of Chao Gai.

However, Zhao Ta didn't want to do that too much, after all, when his position became higher and higher, in fact, the good, bad, loyalty, and treachery of people were often not the same, and the expectations of the people in the market were even more different.

He originally stood tall, and now he is leaving the court, even if he says it, not to say that he has a look at the mountains, but also the world I am the peak, looking at human nature is different, the means and methods to be made are not black and white, usually good to see the kind, always have to think about all aspects, where is as simple as the appearance is revealed, it can be as simple as cutting it out.

Zhao Ta's eyes swirled on the list and he exhaled softly.

Eighteen people, in fact, not all of them are generals, but this is normal, the general dies on the battlefield, the general dies on the battlefield, after a few years of fighting, those who can survive must be less on the battlefield, or those who are lucky and clever.

The eighteen are:

Hu Baoyi, timely rain, filial piety, Hei Saburo, Song Jiang.

Zhi Duoxing, Wu Yong.

Thunderbolt, Qin Ming.

Double whips, exhalation.

Xiao Li Guang, Hua Rong.

Urgent pioneer, Suo Chao.

Sai Rengui, Guo Sheng.

Zhen Sanshan, Huang Xin.

Shenxing Taibao, Dai Zong.

Iron fan, Song Qing.

Black Whirlwind, Li Kui.

Living Yama, Ruan Xiaoqi.

Two-headed snake, Xie Zhen.

Twin-tailed scorpion, Xie Bao.

Fight the tiger general, Li Zhong.

Shenji Military Division, Zhu Wu.

Divine doctor, An Daoquan.

Purple-haired uncle, Huangfu Duan.

Eighteen people, Zhao Ta watched it several times, if it weren't for the fact that there were only so many left, Song Jiang would really not be able to vote.

At the beginning, there were hundreds of people, and all the family members stayed in Kaifeng Mansion as hostages, and even Song Jiang's own father, Song Taigong, also stayed in Tokyo.

At that time, even if you want to take refuge, you can't, after all, as long as you have relatives, you will be hostage in Tokyo, where to go elsewhere or resign and go into hiding, after all, there are not many people who seem to have no relatives in Fan Rui.

But now, the Zhengtian Tiger has lost its troops, and the people in Liangshan have died, and the dead have died, and there is only so much left, and the court has also seen it loose.

The families of those who died still have to be bereaved and taken care of, which is also a burden to the imperial court, after all, they all have some official positions, and when they die, they not only have to posthumously be awarded some titles, but also send money, rice and grain.

So in the past year or two, as there are fewer and fewer people in Liangshan, there are only eighteen left, and the imperial court has basically turned a blind eye.

After all, at the beginning, it was necessary to smooth out these hundreds of anti-thieves, but now there are few of them, so they naturally slack off and don't care.

And these eighteen people, several of them are singles, and the number of people in the family with families is not large, that is, Song Jiang is single, and as for the old lady Song, he has passed away more than a year ago.

Song Jiang's younger brother Song Qing is slightly different, originally he did not go out with the army, stayed in Tokyo to take care of Song Taigong, at that time he had a Beijing job, colleagues introduced him to a famous woman, in order to reassure the court, he married, did not think that he would die of illness in a few years, but left him a son, named Song Anping.

But Song Qing was also sent to the north later, and this son stayed in Beijing to hire someone to take care of him, but Zhao Ta heard Li Zhong say that some time ago, Song Qing had secretly begged someone to go to Tokyo and wanted to take his son out.

After all, at this moment, a large number of military horses in the imperial court are in Liao, Zhao Kai, Tong Guan, and Cai You are not in the capital, and Gao Yu has already died, so it is very good to send someone to pick it up, not only that, but there are not too many other family members left, and they have to be picked up together.

As for the wives and children of those deceased heroes, they can't be managed, and it's not good to learn from Fanren Siyi to do some uncle-in-law deeds.

Among the eighteen people in Song Jiang, about half of them are generals, Qin Ming, Hu Yanzhuo, Hua Rong, Suo Chao, Guo Sheng, Huang Xin, Li Kui, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Li Zhong.

There are exactly nine of them, and the level of force is different, from the five tiger generals to Li Zhong and other rivers and lakes selling dog skin plasters, and there are all those with low combat power.

The people next to him are okay, but Li Kui is not very likable, but it is still the same sentence, which height to look at people and things.

From a level-headed angle, or a slightly higher, or even lower angle, Li Kui is worthy of death, and he is the kind of crime that deserves death, so it is good to behead and cut off his head immediately.

These kind of people have no idea of home and country, they only know how to be foolish and loyal to death, kill people like hemp, never reason, only rely on their mood, not to mention that they can't have anything to do with good people, and they can't even have anything to do with bad people.

Most of the bad guys do things with a purpose, but he often relies on his sudden thoughts, just likes and dislikes his own family, does whatever he wants, and does whatever he wants, and it is not an exaggeration to say that he is a demon.

But from Zhao Ta's point of view at the moment, even if he deserves to die, he still has to die on the battlefield, and he can't kill the other party with his likes and dislikes.

Even if Li Kui is only loyal to Song Jiang, he won't care, Song Jiang is obedient enough, isn't Li Kui willing to kill? Then let's go and kill the Western Xia army, if you can't kill the battle, just let him die as he deserves!

The nine people on the list are generals, and the remaining nine have everything.

Song Jiang is naturally a leader, and he has the ability to unite the army and coordinate all aspects.

Wu Yong and Zhu Wu belonged to the military division.

But although these two people belong to the same kind of characters, they are actually very different.

Wu uses this person, the pattern is not enough, and the vision is not enough, but the strength lies in the good use of intrigue and trickery, and the means of indiscriminate, no matter whether it is internal or external fighting, insidious and fierce, and cheeky, in order to achieve the goal, he can do anything.

And Zhu Wu's pattern is naturally higher than Wu Yong's, in fact, in comparison, Zhu Wucai is more like a military advisor.

And Zhu Wu is both civil and military, and can also make two steel knives, although he is not very capable, but he is proficient in formation, and has a wide range of strategies, known as "Zhike Zhang Liangbi, only to bully Fan Li", Zhang Liang and Fan Li are both famous strategists, Zhu Wu claims to be able to compare these two people, that is simply amazing.

Although this is a bit of a boast, but Zhu Wu is really powerful in the arrangement of troops, compared with Wu Yong, Wu Yong will, Zhu Wu will do most, Wu will not, Zhu Wu will still have some.

The two were not in harmony with each other, Wu Yong had always been worried about Zhu Wu, so he kept Zhu Wu by his side, asking for advice in the morning and evening, of course, secretly looking for someone to monitor, but Zhu Wu just took advantage of the situation and kept quiet.

And according to the development of the normal people in Liangshan, Zhu Wu is also the one who has achieved fame, retired with his whole body, and has a good death, which is incomparable to many people, and Wu Yong is naturally incomparable.

The other three Dai Zong, Xie Zhen, and Xie Bao are special talents, and they can even be said to be special forces.

The Xie Zhen and Xie Bao brothers are good at crossing mountains and mountains, and they dare to go up the mountain to catch tigers, they are the No. 1 hunters in Dengzhou, and the two can climb cliffs and climb the city, like geckos, not some special martial arts, they are really born skills, and ordinary people are difficult to achieve and cannot use them.

The remaining three divine doctors An Daoquan, the purple-haired Bohuang Fuduan, and the iron fan Song Qing.

This miracle doctor An Daoquan does not need to be said, he is a person with real skills, his medical skills are quite clever, he was originally known as a famous doctor, and he cured Song Jiang's illness as soon as he got rid of the disease in Liangshan, and he also has a special ability to remove the golden seal on the face of the criminal, and the thorn mark on Song Jiang's face was removed by him.

Purple-haired Bo Huangduan was once a famous veterinarian in the city of Dongchang Mansion, good at horses, familiar with all kinds of livestock cold and heat diseases, under the medicine and needle, all healed, quite praised by people, but also has a real ability.

The last iron fan Song Qing, this person looks relatively mediocre, he can't write, he doesn't hold any important positions when he was in Liangshan, his main job is to prepare a banquet, his sense of presence is relatively low, and he has hardly personally carried a knife on the battlefield, and because of this, there is basically no danger to life, and life has been relatively safe.

But this person's temperament is good, as Song Jiang's younger brother, he has never been low-key, and knows how to forbear, and if he continues to develop according to the original, the ending is also good.

After Song Jiang's death, the imperial court let him inherit Song Jiang's position, he said that he was sick and could not take on this responsibility, said that he only wanted to farm in his hometown, the imperial court agreed to his request, and rewarded him with money and land, and ordered that his son would be used by the imperial court in the future.

It can be seen that his low-key and forbearance not only eliminated the court's suspicion of him and saved his life, but also paved the way for his descendants.

Zhao Ta's gaze fell on Song Qing's nickname Iron Fan at this moment, and his expression was complicated.

The fan is made of iron, it is a useless thing, the iron fan means useless waste, the fan is used to fan the wind, but if it is made of iron, it is heavy and falls, who will use it?

But Song Qing has such a nickname, is Song Qing stupid? Nature is not stupid.

Zhao Ta shook his head and said to himself: "This person's skills are obscure, but he has a piece of ...... in his chest."

(End of chapter)