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Chen Xizhen, Hua Rong, Luan Tingyu and others, who escorted more than 60,000 captives to return victoriously, came to Shuibo Liangshan without danger after six or seven days of marching, and then were sent to Liangshan Dazhai by the First Water Army, the Second Water Army and the Sixth Water Army in batches.

Xiao Jiasui and Chen Xizhen fought very beautifully in this battle in Yizhou.

It is no exaggeration to say that Xiao Jiasui and Chen Xizhen are equivalent to eliminating a big trouble and a worry for Jiang Hongfei, so that Jiang Hongfei can deal with Gao Yu wholeheartedly.

It is precisely because of this that when Chen Xizhen and his heroes arrived at the Golden Beach, Jiang Hongfei, who had rarely personally greeted people, personally greeted them up the mountain this time and held a grand celebration banquet for them.

Not only that, after holding a celebration banquet for Chen Xizhen and others, Jiang Hongfei announced that Chen Xizhen was appointed as the seventh military advisor of Shuibo Liangshan after Sun Jing, Zhu Wu, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, Gongsun Sheng, and Wu Yong.

The system of Shuibo Liangshan is that the military division does not have the right to lead the troops, and the right to lead the troops is in the hands of the generals below, but the military division has the power to command the army, and the generals do not have the power to command a large-scale army most of the time.

- Of course, this is only a temporary plan based on the fact that the generals of the Liangshan Army are not suitable for controlling the large army to fight, and it will definitely change in the future.

Moreover, in some transitional times, the military division of Shuibo Liangshan not only had to manage the army, but also temporarily manage the politics of a place.

For example, today's Sun Jing and Zhu Wu each led a team of men and horses to conquer cities in Hebei, which is to grasp the military and government.

Xiao Jiasui is located in Shandong, and he is also a military and political leader.

Xu Guanzhong sat in the Daimyo's Mansion and was responsible for the entire southern line of Hebei, which was also a military and political master.

Even Wu Yong assisted Fang Baihua in dealing with all military and political affairs in the southeast.

It can be seen how high the gold content of Shuibo Liangshan's military advisers is, and it is not difficult to see how much Jiang Hongfei values Chen Xizhen.

This is actually what Chen Xi is really pursuing.

You must know that Chen Xizhen is a very power-hungry person, and his desire for power is actually comparable to Song Jiang.

Although Chen Xizhen has only officially entered the management of Shuibo Liangshan now, in fact, Chen Xizhen has already invested in Shuibo Liangshan as early as three years ago, and he is extremely eager for power, how can he not pay attention to the power structure of Shuibo Liangshan? How can you not understand that as long as you become the military advisor of Shuibo Liangshan, it is equivalent to entering the cabinet of Shuibo Liangshan, and it is also equivalent to entering the highest level of power in Shuibo Liangshan?

Therefore, Chen Xizhen was very satisfied with Jiang Hongfei's arrangement, and even a little excited!

After the meal, Jiang Hongfei sent someone to call Chen Xizhen to discuss the matter.

Chen Xi really got the order, and came to the ear room next to the Juyi Hall as soon as possible.

However, although Chen Xizhen's speed was already very fast, when Chen Xizhen arrived at the ear room of the Gathering Hall, there were already three women in the room.

Chen Xizhen was not surprised by this, because these three women have been inseparable from Jiang Hongfei recently (or even most of the time).

This first woman is Jiang Hongfei's wife and Jiang Hongfei's number one personal bodyguard Gao Liang, at this moment she is sitting in the corner, not talking, nor participating in politics, but just protecting Jiang Hongfei.

This second woman is Liu Huiniang.

Before Chen Xizhen became the military advisor of Shuibo Liangshan, the people of Shuibo Liangshan usually only said that there were six military advisors, but in fact they were seven...... No, it's eight.

The seventh military advisor is Liu Huiniang.

Moreover, Liu Huiniang ranks seventh, not because Liu Huiniang's ability is seventh, but because Liu Huiniang is a woman and Jiang Hongfei's concubine, some things are inconvenient for her to do.

Chen Xizhen clearly understands that his only three advantages compared with Liu Huiniang are:

First, he is a man, and he can go out and sit in one party;

Second, he can do spells, and he can complete some other tasks that military advisors who can't spell can't do;

Third, he is thick and dark, which can be compared with Sun Jing and Wu Yong, and he can also do dirty work for Jiang Hongfei.

But although Chen Xizhen also has a lot of his own advantages, Chen Xizhen still admires Liu Huiniang, a woman who is super wise and super demonic, born with a discerning eye, clever mind, good at making tools, and knows all the art of war, Qimen Dunjia, Taiyi Liuren, and can even compare with Zhuge Liang.

As for the eighth military advisor, Chen Xizhen hadn't seen it yet, but if he hadn't guessed wrong, he should be the last woman with a ruddy face in the room.

This woman has a soft appearance and pleasant conversation, with "clever smile, beautiful eyes" to describe her most suitable, charming and graceful, noble and elegant, dignified atmosphere, beautiful and refined, when she is not smiling, there is a faint cold temperament; A shallow smile, charming and charming.

This woman is Mrs. Jia, the wife of Zhang Ji, the former general of Shandong Zhenfu.

Chen Xizhen heard that when Mrs. Jia was first caught by Jiang Hongfei, she would rather die than surrender, and her attitude was very resolute.

As a result, Jiang Hongfei pampered Mrs. Jia for seven days in a row, and after the Liangshan army captured Mrs. Jia's family after conquering Dongchang Mansion, Mrs. Jia surrendered to Shuibo Liangshan with half a push.

In other words, Chen Xizhen is most convinced of Jiang Hongfei is that Jiang Hongfei is really unscrupulous in order to achieve his goals!

Like Mrs. Jia.

Who in Shandong doesn't know that Zhang Ji is frail and sickly, cowardly and stealing, but even so, Mrs. Jia still did her best to assist Zhang Ji, so that Zhang Ji, who was like a waste snack, became the general of Shandong Zhenfu.

And, what is commendable is that Mrs. Jia is still clean and self-loving, and there has always been no scandal at all, even if she has been married to the sick son Zhang Ji for ten years, she has never been pregnant with a son and a half daughter, she is definitely a chaste woman, and she deserves to be chaste.

And in order to get Mrs. Jia, in order to let Mrs. Jia assist him like assisting Zhang Ji, Jiang Hongfei disregarded his face and had no lower limit, and directly ruined Mrs. Jia's reputation, and threatened Mrs. Jia with Mrs. Jia's family, forcing Mrs. Jia to obey him.

In terms of character, at least from Mrs. Jia's point of view, Jiang Hongfei can be said to be despicable and shameless.

But if you look at it from the perspective of becoming a big thing, you can get Mrs. Jia, who is smart and clever since childhood, full of poetry and books, well-informed, and insightful about the world, especially when he is born with a pair of discerning eyes, the hundred and ten people in the house, can distinguish the virtuous and traitorous at a glance, and all of them can be fulfilled in the future.

Chen Xizhen has heard that since Mrs. Jia became pregnant, she also accepted her fate, and offered Jiang Hongfei several strategies as a "vote for the name".

Chen Xizhen glanced at Mrs. Jia's unchanged lower abdomen without a trace: "Now everything has become a certainty. ”

Chen Xizhen bowed to Jiang Hongfei very solemnly: "Meet the lord." ”

Jiang Hongfei didn't blame Chen Xizhen for having a lot of courtesy, but continued to look at the documents and said casually: "Just find a place to sit for a while, and when Brother Wang Lunxian and Brother Gongsun Shengxian arrive, we will start discussing." ”

When Chen Xizhen heard this, Gao Liang and Mrs. Jia waved their hands in the room, and nodded to the junior Liu Huiniang.

Gao Liang and Mrs. Jia got up to return the salute, while Liu Huiniang directly arranged for Chen Xizhen to sit in the guest seat on the side.

Not long after, Wang Lun and Gongsun Sheng also came one after another.

Seeing this, Chen Xizhen got up and stood in front of Jiang Hongfei with Wang Lun and Gongsun Sheng.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Jiang Hongfei put down his pen and folded.

-- Shuibo Liangshan's earlier official documents did not have certain rules and procedures, and were not included in the official documents. Officials and generals in various localities, regardless of their official positions, as long as they are favored and authorized by Jiang Hongfei, even if they are members of the smallest ranks, or even just captains at the grassroots level, can write "chapters" for Jiang Hongfei. But these too many styles have brought a lot of trouble to Jiang Hongfei's review. Later, Jiang Hongfei felt that the paperwork of Qing Dynasty officials to the emperor was much more efficient and formal than the form at that time, so he imitated it.

Jiang Hongfei said straight to the point: "In Hebei, the Left Army of the Northern Expedition and the Right Army of the Northern Expedition are progressing relatively smoothly, and the biggest problem at present is the lack of civilian officials. ”

Wang Lun said with some embarrassment: "Since the southeast uprising last year, my Shuibo Liangshan has expanded greatly, and the southeast, Shandong, and now Hebei combined, there are already more than 40 prefectures and more than 260 counties, and the talents we trained earlier are all done by one person, including the literati recruited from Shandong, southeast, and Hebei, and they are all assigned after only simple training. ”

Jiang Hongfei also knew that the recent expansion speed of Shuibo Liangshan was too fast, and it was normal for the reserve to run out of talents.

You can't just let that happen.

Jiang Hongfei emphasized: "Hebei will be the cornerstone of my Shuibo Liangshan, and there is no room for any mistakes!" ”

Wang Lun heard this, thought for a while, and said: "Otherwise, a group of backbones will be transferred from Shandong, Liuqiu, and the southeast, and then some officials with good performance will be selected from the officials of Zhao and Song, and they will go to the emergency first?" ”

Jiang Hongfei pondered for a moment and said, "Treating the symptoms is not the root cause." ”

After thinking about it, Jiang Hongfei said: "Let's do the imperial examination, expand the propaganda as much as possible, regardless of region, regardless of background, only talent." ”

Wang Lun's eyes lit up, and he immediately responded: "The minister will first transfer a group of backbones from Shandong, Liuqiu, and southeast and select a group of officials from Zhao and Song to go to Hebei for emergencies, and at the same time hold a imperial examination." ”

Jiang Hongfei waved his hand and signaled that Wang Lun could do these two things, and the rest had nothing to do with him.

Wang Lun didn't feel nostalgic, he bowed to Jiang Hongfei, and then turned around and left.

Hearing Jiang Hongfei say that Shuibo Liangshan was going to hold the imperial examination, Chen Xizhen was very excited, and he thought: "My Shuibo Liangshan is becoming more and more like a political regime." ”

At the same time, Chen Xizhen discovered one of Jiang Hongfei's characteristics, that is, he is decisive, never drags mud and water, and responds quickly and has methods.

After Wang Lun left, Jiang Hongfei said bluntly: "I hope that Gao Yu can fight me again after I capture Hebei, but think about it from another position, unless Gao Yu is really stupid, he will definitely not give me such a chance." ”

Gongsun Sheng said: "Even if Gao Taiwei is really like this, his staff will not be like this, not to mention that those ten knots are all veteran generals who have been in battle for a long time, and they will definitely not make such a low-level mistake." ”

Chen Xizhen showed himself in a timely manner: "Gao Yu has a staff member named Wen Huanzhang, this person's wisdom is not under Sun Junshi, but the two have very different styles, with this person, Gao Yu will never make such a mistake." ”

Jiang Hongfei knew Wen Huanzhang's ability, so he nodded: "Just plan for the worst, everyone think about it, how to fight Gao Yu in the best interest for me?" ”

In fact, how to fight Gao Yu, Jiang Hongfei and Liu Huiniang, Gongsun Sheng, including Mrs. Jia have discussed many times, and even Sun Jing, Zhu Wu, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong, and Wu Yong have also given Jiang Hongfei a lesson and offered advice.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei brought up this matter again was mainly to hear if Chen Xizhen had any better suggestions, and also to give Chen Xizhen a chance to express himself.

Chen Xizhen saw that others didn't mean to speak, so he talked about his thoughts:

"Although the soldiers of my Liangshan Army are extremely powerful, how can it be cost-effective to kill 1,000 enemies and lose 300 themselves? The reason why Liangshan is the best way to beat other forces is because I have 800 miles of water, easy to defend and difficult to attack, if the decisive battle is placed on this water, it will be beneficial to me, and it will be harmful to the Song army, and the villain will have a kind of spiritual eye technique, on the day of the decisive battle, give my soldiers the spiritual eyes to the fullest, I and Gongsun Junshi and several mage leaders at the same time fog, will be able to defeat the Song army. ”

Eight hundred miles of Shuibo is definitely one of the biggest advantages of Shuibo Liangshan, if you can fight the Song army here, the Song army will definitely not have the slightest chance of winning.

It can be said that Chen Xizhen's proposal, theoretically speaking, is definitely no problem.

So Jiang Hongfei first affirmed Chen Xizhen's proposal: "The decisive battle on the water is indeed the most ideal, but we have to sit down and discuss this matter carefully, hoping to get our wish!" ”

Seeing that Jiang Hongfei affirmed his opinion, Chen Xi was really happy, but he felt that Jiang Hongfei's words had a spooky taste, as if there were loopholes in his suggestions?

Chen Xizhen is now one of Jiang Hongfei's military advisors, and he is also one of Jiang Hongfei's fathers-in-law, so there is no need to waste time guessing, he asked bluntly: "But what's wrong with the decisive battle on the water?" ”

Jiang Hongfei didn't hide it from Chen Xizhen, he said: "Your plan is good, but you only know one and don't know the other, the decisive battle on the water is the best, but unfortunately, I have a weakness, if Gao Yu catches it, I can only passively fight him on land." ”

"Weakness?"

Chen Xizhen was stunned for a moment.

After reacting for a while, Chen Xizhen asked, "But the people of Liangshanbo?" ”

Jiang Hongfei nodded, and then said leisurely: "I received information that Gao Yu came to attack my Shuibo Liangshan, Wang Hao only gave him one million spirit money and 100,000 stone grain, and recently he was sending people to harass the people in Xingren Mansion in the name of raising grain. ”

After a pause, Jiang Hongfei said again: "The people here in Liangshanbo are richer than the people of Xingren Mansion, and every family is full of grains, and it is impossible for Gao Yu not to know." The reason why Gao Yu didn't come to harass him before was because his soldiers and horses had not yet gathered, and the warships had not yet been built, and he didn't want to provoke my Liangshan army. After he has built the loach boat and is ready for a decisive battle, he will inevitably come and plunder the people of Liangshanbo. First, to raise grain, grass, and military expenses; Second, to force our Liangshan army to leave Liangshanbo, the most favorable battlefield for our Liangshan army, to go to a decisive battlefield in his favor. ”

With Chen Xizhen's understanding of Gao Yu, Gao Yu will definitely be able to do such a thing as abducting and plundering the people here in Liangshanbo.

And with Jiang Hongfei's consistent personality, even if he makes the Liangshan army suffer a little loss, he can't let the Song army kidnap his own people.

The key is that when Jiang Hongfei is in this position, he cannot only consider military affairs and ignore politics.

-- In the final analysis, military is always in the service of politics, otherwise military will be meaningless.

Chen Xizhen slowly came back to his senses.

After thinking clearly, it is almost impossible for Liang Shanjun and Song Jun to fight a decisive battle on Liangshanbo, Jiang Hongfei just said this, in fact, he was showing mercy to him.

Of course, Jiang Hongfei is not lying, he does hope that the location of the decisive battle will be 800 miles of water.

It's just that this probability is too low......

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(End of chapter)