Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Make food at the third watch, set off at the fourth watch, and attack at the fifth watch.

Cao Zheng, Jiao Ting, and Yang Zhi, who received the order to attack Qingfeng Village, led the Bu Sanjun down the mountain in the dark, and before dawn, they invaded Qingfeng Village without Hua Rong guarding it, and then went straight to Liu Gao's house to kill.

When all the Liangshan heroes arrived at Liu Gao's house, Liu Gao and his wife, who were slow to respond, were still in bed.

It wasn't until Liangshan heroes broke into Liu Gao's home that Liu Gao hurriedly tried to escape by jumping out of the window, but was grabbed by Jiao Ting who came in from the back door.

Soon, several Liangshan soldiers found Liu Gao's wife who lied about being a maid from under the bed.

Later, the Liangshan heroes captured all Liu Gao's family and children, and looted all the belongings in Liu Gao's home.

Next, Cao Zheng and others followed the pre-planned plan and first asked Jiao Ting to send Liu Gao's family and all their belongings back to Erlong Mountain, while Cao Zheng and Yang Zhi led people to rob the wealthy and unkind people in Qingfeng Town. A wealthy family.

Cao Zheng and Yang Zhi took down four wealthy families who were full of evildoers.

In order to prevent the people in Qingfeng Village from thinking that Erlongshan was only targeting Liu Gao and to prevent the people in Qingfeng Village from accepting Hua Rong's favor, Cao Zheng and Yang Zhi robbed all four families and sent all their belongings back to Erlongshan.

At this time, Hua Rong led his dozens of defeated soldiers back to Qingfeng Village.

Yang Zhi went to war and had a huge fake fight with Hua Rong. In the end, he pretended to be defeated and led the Bu San Army to evacuate from Qingfeng Village with Cao Zheng.

Not to mention the return of the king, Hua Rong was welcomed like a hero.

Just say that in the evening, Hua Rong came to Erlong Mountain alone and was picked up by Cao Zheng.

Seeing Jiang Hongfei, Hua Rong bowed to the ground and said with tears of gratitude: "I deeply appreciate my brother's great kindness!"

Jiang Hongfei helped Hua Rong up and scolded: "Brother Xian, what do you mean by saying this?"

Hua Rong shook his head: "Brother doesn't know something. I don't care about my small knowledge of the village. It's just that my Hua family has fought for the Song Dynasty for generations. My father is also a hero. There are many loyal people watching. If I lose it here, I will After becoming an official and becoming a sinner, the younger brother became an unfilial descendant of the Hua family. Fortunately, the elder brother acted righteously and fulfilled the younger brother's filial piety. Moreover, the elder brother also captured Liu Gao for the younger brother, so that the younger brother could eliminate his endless hatred. How can I not be grateful to my brother?"

Jiang Hongfei waved his hand: "Hey, brothers from the same family don't talk about the two families."

Hua Rong wanted to say some more words of gratitude, but Jiang Hongfei stretched out his hand to stop Hua Rong, and then said to his left and right, "Who can take Liu Gao's guy with me?"

After hearing this, Jiao Ting went to fetch Liu Gao himself and tied him to the general's pillar.

Hua Rong said: "I will cut this guy myself!"

While talking, Hua Rong took the sharp knife from the hand of the gangster on the side, came to Liu Gao and cursed: "You guy! I have no grievances with you in the past, and we have no grudges recently, but you spared no effort to harm me. Seriously?" Damn it!"

Liu Gao cried and begged for mercy: "The villain knows that he is wrong, please let Hua know the village, no, please Master Hua, please spare the life of the villain!"

"What a sweet dream?!"

Hua Rong took the knife and cut out Liu Gao's heart, and the heart fell to the ground.

Then, Hua Rong kicked over, and the heart hit the wall and turned into powder with a "bang"!

Some minions dragged Liu Gao's body aside.

Hua Rong said: "Liu Gaogong is extremely unvirtuous. He only knows how to instigate his husband to do unkind things, harm good people, and take bribes. Wherever she is, her younger brother has also been punished."

Jiang Hongfei said: "My dear brother, I don't know that I, Shuibo Liangshan, have a written rule, which is not to kill women."

Afraid that Hua Rong would think too much, Jiang Hongfei took the initiative to explain: "Although we Liangshan heroes have a good reputation, how many good families are willing to marry into the stronghold? The brothers in the stronghold are all just young, how can we do such inhumane things?" The way? For my brother, I would capture those women who were rich and unkind and ration them to my brothers in the village, killing two birds with one stone. Over time, this matter became a rule."

When Hua Rong heard this, he had no choice but to give up: "Since it is the rule in my brother's village, let's spare this evil woman's life."

Jiang Hongfei said: "Brother, please don't worry that you won't be able to avenge this. When I return to Dazhai, I will instruct the person responsible for this matter to find a cruel brother to match this evil woman. She will not be able to die even if she wants to live."

Jiang Hongfei spoke carelessly, but Liu Gao's wife, who was not far away, listened intently. She remembered Jiang Hongfei's words in her heart, thinking: "I must find ways to save myself, otherwise the rest of my life will be difficult."

Liu Gao's wife observed Jiang Hongfei carefully for a while and saw Jiang Hongfei's eyebrows and phoenix eyes, white teeth and red lips, a majestic body, strong bones and muscles, and thought to herself: "I wonder if this person is a womanizer..."

Hearing what Jiang Hongfei said, Hua Rong's anger immediately disappeared, and he went on to brag and drink with a group of Liangshan heroes.

A night of silence.

At dawn the next day, we had breakfast.

Hua Rong came to say goodbye to Jiang Hongfei.

Jiang Hongfei knew that Hua Rong must have a lot of things that he needed to deal with, so he didn't try to persuade him to stay. He just asked him, "Has your good brother written a good report for your superiors?"

"this……"

Hua Rong was a little embarrassed.

First of all, Hua Rong was too busy yesterday and really didn't have time to write this good news.

Secondly, although Hua Rong admitted that everything Jiang Hongfei said was right, he still resisted from the bottom of his heart writing a victory report that exaggerated military achievements as Jiang Hongfei said.

Therefore, Hua Rong did not send the good news to his superiors as soon as possible as Jiang Hongfei said.

Seeing this, how could Jiang Hongfei not know that Hua Rong was up to something bad? He shook his head, and then shouted to the door: "Come in."

A man dressed as a scholar who had been waiting for a while outside the door stepped in after hearing this.

Jiang Hongfei asked: "Has the good news been written yet?"

The literati paid homage and said, "The niche has been completed. Please take a look at it from the head of the village."

Jiang Hongfei took it and looked at it, thinking it was okay, then handed it to Hua Rong and told him: "Brother, remember, after returning to the stronghold, send your confidants to report it as soon as possible."

"It makes me feel ashamed to trouble my brother to worry about little things." Hua Rong said with a look of embarrassment.

"It's a small effort, but it doesn't matter." Jiang Hongfei said.

Speaking of this, Jiang Hongfei slapped his forehead, and then pointed at the scholar who wrote the victory report for Hua Rong: "I was enjoying drinking yesterday, and I forgot to tell Brother Xian that Brother Wei was going to teach him to go to Qingqingfeng Village to become a Wenzhi Village , I wonder what my virtuous brother wants?"

Hua Rong was startled, and then went to see the scholar whom he had not paid much attention to just now.

Seeing Hua Rong looking at him, the scholar bowed deeply to Hua Rong: "Huang Rang, a young student, has seen Huazhi Village, and he will ask Huazhi Village to take care of him in the future."

After Chong Huangrang returned the gift, Hua Rong looked at Jiang Hongfei in confusion: "Brother, this is..."

Jiang Hongfei said: "Dear brother, please don't worry. The reason why I want to teach Huang Xuexue to go to your Qingfeng Village to become a Wenzhi Village is for two reasons: First, there happens to be a vacancy in your Qingfeng Village, so I don't have to worry about it anymore. Find another place; secondly, I don’t want my virtuous brother to be constrained by other Wenzhi strongholds in the future."

Afraid of Hua Rong's misunderstanding, Jiang Hongfei further explained: "To be fair, brother, I have already sent people to take care of the relationship between the two. As soon as there is a suitable place, Huang Xuexue will serve as an official in Qingzhou."

After a pause, Jiang Hongfei said again: "Brother Xian is not an outsider. As a brother, I won't hide anything from you. Huang Xuexue's position in Wenzhi Village of Qingfeng Village is just a simple transition. Say more for three months and say less for two. After a few months, my brother will teach him to go further."

"My dear brother, if you are willing, you can get closer to Huang Xuexue."

After nodding at Hua Rong, Jiang Hongfei came to Huang Rang, put his hand on Huang Rang's shoulder, and changed the topic in a joking way:

"Huang Xuegu is my first imperial student in Shuibo Liangshan. How can a scholar from the Wen Zhi village be looked down upon by Huang Xuegu?"

Huang Rang thought to himself: "It's not that I don't like this Wenzhi Village, it's obviously the owner of the village who doesn't like this little Wenzhi Village."

actually--

Huang Rang was simply taking advantage and acting like a good boy.

More than a year and less than two years ago, Huang Rang was just a student who had to work as a private school teacher in a rural rich man's house in order to make ends meet.

Just in time to go to Songjiazhuang to borrow food from Shuibo Liangshan, Huang Rang went to the public trial platform in a daze, and then got off the public trial platform in a daze.

Huang Rang was so frightened that he peed and ran outside the Song Family Village.

——Later, when Huang Rang learned that, except for him, none of the members of Song Baozheng’s family who had gone to the public trial alive had walked out of the public trial alive, and they had nightmares for several nights in a row.

Who would have thought that as soon as Huang Rang ran outside the village, he was kidnapped by Ruan Xiaoer.

At that time, Zhen Dou's eyebrows were raised, and Suo Chuo's mouth was punching in all directions. The chest is covered with yellow hair, and the back has two horizontal ribs. Ruan Xiaoer, who had an arm with a strength of thousands of kilograms and his eyes shot out tens of thousands of cold rays, asked Huang Rang with a smile: "Scholar, would you like to join me in Shuibo Liangshan?"

Huang Rang thought to himself at that time: "If I dare to say that I don't want to, I'm afraid that this demon king will be eaten in an instant. I'd better live as a thief."

In this way, Huang Rang went to Liangshan.

What Ling Huang Rang never expected was that the Liangshan heroes were completely different from other thieves and bandits. They acted in a disciplined and orderly manner, and they did not act randomly at all.

After all, Huang Rang had gone to Imperial College and had a certain vision. After careful observation, he vaguely felt that Liangshan heroes might be able to achieve great things.

In other words, Huang Rang realized that going to Liangshan was a blessing in disguise. Maybe it was an opportunity for him who was depressed and frustrated.

Of course, this was definitely not the reason why Huang Rang stayed in Shuibo Liangshan in the first place.

The main reason why Huang Rang stayed in Shuibo Liangshan at first was that he didn't dare to run away.

Soon after arriving in Liangshan, Huang Rang began to work with Wang Lun, helping Wang Lun manage Shuibo Liangshan and many base areas in Shuibo Liangshan.

Slowly, more and more literati went to Liangshan.

among them,

Some of them were literati who had committed crimes or offended people they could not afford to offend and fled to Shuibo Liangshan for refuge.

Some of them were officials or literati who were assassinated and kidnapped by Liangshan heroes.

Some of them were frustrated Tai students who were recruited from various places by Zhu Gui and Zhu Fu.

In short, although Shuibo Liangshan was a group of thieves, they really did not blindly develop the military and did not pay attention to civil administration. Instead, while attaching importance to the development of the military, they also secretly developed an organizational structure composed of civilians.

Let's put it this way, almost everyone knows that Wang Lun is the second in charge of Shuibo Liangshan and has great power. But for those who don't know Shuibo Liangshan, what kind of power does Wang Lun, who does not form cliques or factions, have? , but few people can explain it clearly.

——These people have no idea what Wang Lun is busy with every day? I also don’t understand why Wang Lun is so determined to be the second child in Shuibo Liangshan who has no chance of becoming the boss?

In fact, Wang Lun's greatest power was that he was in charge of all the literati in Shuibo Liangshan and was responsible for governing all places where Shuibo Liangshan's influence was.

In other words, if Shuibo Liangshan is really a royal court, then Wang Lun has become a real prime minister, truly one person below ten thousand people.

The literati managed by Wang Lun were scattered in every corner of Shuibo Liangshan. They and Wang Lun formed an effective organizational structure to govern Shuibo Liangshan and all areas vassalized by Shuibo Liangshan.

It can be seen that literati also have a high status in Shuibo Liangshan.

It is worth mentioning that with the proposal of a plan, the status of the scholars in Shuibo Liangshan was greatly improved.

This plan has a proper name - doves and magpie's nests.

The dove-living magpie's nest plan is roughly as follows:

Among the literati in Shuibo Liangshan, those who had passed the test and were suitable were selected and incorporated into the officials of the Zhao and Song Dynasties. To be precise, they were incorporated into the officials of various states and counties in Shandong.

This plan was presented to Jiang Hongfei by Sun Jing.

Its purpose is to use the corruption of the Zhao and Song dynasties to control Jeju, Yunzhou, Shanzhou, and Shanzhou in Shandong through all available means such as manipulation, bribery, wooing, corruption, threats, coercion, inducements, assassinations, and frame-ups. The main officials of Xuzhou, Yanzhou, Qizhou, Qingzhou, Yizhou, Mizhou, Weizhou, Laizhou, Dengzhou and other states were replaced by people from Shuibo Liangshan.

This is undoubtedly a big game.

Shuibo Liangshan currently does not have the strength to realize this big game.

Let's not talk about anything else. The few literati currently in Shuibo Liangshan, even if they all go into battle, are not as good as the hundred and one officials in Shandong.

What's more, the Zhao and Song Dynasties were not run by Shuibo Liangshan. How could it be so easy for Shuibo Liangshan to place people in various states and counties in Shandong, let alone place people in important positions that everyone was fighting for.

But then again, since Sun Jing dared to mention this plan, it was certainly feasible.

What Sun Jing means is to first concentrate on opening a few points, and then slowly turn the points into lines and the lines into a surface.

In human terms, they would first focus on promoting a few high-ranking officials, and then these high-ranking officials would bring the literati from Shuibo Liangshan into the officialdom of the Zhao and Song dynasties, promote them, and disperse them to various states and counties in Shandong.

Huang Rang was one of the lucky ones selected by Jiang Hongfei and Wang Lun.

The goal set by Jiang Hongfei and Wang Lun for Huang Rang was to make Huang Rang the prefect of Qingzhou.

Such Huang Rang would definitely not be able to remain a Wenzhi villager in Qingfeng Village for a long time.

In fact, Shuibo Liangshan has already made a plan to let the people from the Erlongshan branch cooperate with Huang Rang to "annihilate Erlongshan". If necessary, Huang Rang can even ask Huang Rang to wipe out the bandits on Qingfeng Mountain and Taohua Mountain. By then With some careful management, no one in Huang Rang would be promoted.

The reason why Jiang Hongfei revealed this matter to Hua Rong was actually to take Hua Rong on the fast track.

Jiang Hongfei's goal for Hua Rong is to become the commander of the Qingzhou Command Department, which is Qin Ming's current position, that is, the number one military person in Qingzhou.

If things can develop in the direction envisaged by Jiang Hongfei, then the two chief officials of Qingzhou, one civil and one military, will all be in Liangshan, and Qingzhou will naturally be in Liangshan.

It's just that Jiang Hongfei is not sure whether Hua Rong is willing to accept his arrangement, or it can be said that Jiang Hongfei still doesn't know whether Hua Rong is willing to secretly commit suicide in Liangshan.

Jiang Hongfei didn't force Hua Rong, but he had already shown Hua Rong the way.

Jiang Hongfei believed that with Hua Rong's intelligence, it was impossible not to understand what he meant.

The rest depends on what Hua Rong will choose...

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