Xianxia version of Water Margin

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Xu Huai committed suicide, and the high-ranking officials, wealthy families, and gentry in Yuncheng who had resisted opened their doors and surrendered under the leadership of the county magistrate Zhang Wenyuan, and Yuncheng was destroyed.

Jiang Hongfei strictly ordered the Liangshan Army units not to enter civilian residences and offices, and sent civil servants to post notices along the streets and alleys, and read loudly: Anyone in the city, whether military or civilian, who surrenders immediately will not be killed. If they resist, they will not be killed.

The people of Yuncheng County understood that the last piece of territory belonging to the Zhao and Song Dynasty in their Liangshanbo area had also become Shuibo Liangshan.

——In fact, people in Yuncheng County had known that such a day would happen for a long time, so they were not surprised.

Jiang Hongfei walked into the county government office and sat in the middle.

Zhang Wenyuan led all the dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry in Yuncheng County to pay their respects.

Jiang Hongfei looked at Zhang Wenyuan and said: "Except for you, all other dignitaries, wealthy families, and gentry in Yuncheng will go to the public trial stage to accept the public trial by the people of this county."

Zhang Wenyuan was overjoyed when he heard that he was an exception!

But Zhang Wenyuan still suppressed the joy in his heart and pretended to plead with others: "I hope the leader of the village can also be merciful to others!"

Jiang Hongfei looked at Zhang Wenyuan, who had beautiful features, white teeth and red lips, and was a handsome and elegant man. He was also good at bamboo silk silk. He bared his teeth and said, "Zhang Wenyuan, have you misunderstood?"

Zhang Wenyuan was slightly startled, thinking to himself: "Misunderstanding? What misunderstanding? Isn't it because I have a dignified appearance, an extraordinary conversation, and I took the lead in surrender? You wanted to recruit me, so you let me go?"

No wonder Zhang Wenyuan thinks so. You know, because he has a good skin and is eloquent, Zhang Wenyuan can do things easier than many people. Even Song Jiang, the former Yuncheng brother, is willing to make friends with him and let him fight. He was nicknamed "Little Zhang San".

It can be said that with his good looks and good conversation, Zhang Wenyuan has prospered in recent years, and even completed the gorgeous transition from clerk to official that Song Jiang had not completed.

Zhang Wenyuan, who relies on his appearance and conversation to achieve success, will inevitably have some mysterious self-confidence.

Therefore, Zhang Wenyuan, who really didn't understand what Jiang Hongfei meant, bowed to Jiang Hongfei and said, "Please let the leader of the village make it clear."

Jiang Hongfei said: "When you were serving as postmaster, Song Jiang was a colleague of yours and was sincerely friends with you. He invited you to his house for a drink. However, you were greedy for beauty and hooked up with Yan Poxi, Song Jiang's concubine. Later, Yan Poxi was killed by Song Jiang. He also instigated Yan Poxi's mother to sue Song Jiang. He also served as a witness in the case of Song Jiang's murder of Yan Poxi. How can I keep you, a frivolous, frivolous, flirtatious, ungrateful villain like you? !”

At this point, Jiang Hongfei stood up and gave the order: "Zhang Wenyuan does not need to go to the public trial, just behead him. His house will be ransacked, and all the men in his family will go to the public trial and accept the public trial; all the women in his family will be convicted of crimes." Status, redistribute!"

Zhang Wenyuan was shocked when he heard this!

Because of the grudge he had with Song Jiang, Zhang Wenyuan always paid attention to Song Jiang's movements.

Later, after learning that Song Jiang Shang Naitoushan Luocao had become the underworld's big brother, Zhang Wenyuan was worried all day long, fearing that one day Song Jiang would return to Yuncheng County to seek revenge on him.

But slowly, Zhang Wenyuan discovered that Song Jiang was really a fat man. He didn't care at all that he had cheated on Song Jiang and wanted to put Song Jiang to death. He had no intention of seeking revenge against him.

Later, Zhang Wenyuan heard that Song Jiang was annexed by Jiang Hongfei, and his whole family died under the iron heel of the Liangshan Army. Zhang Wenyuan was completely relieved - Zhang Wenyuan felt that he had stolen Yan Poxi and caused Song Jiang to lose his official status and even become a prisoner. The incident that indirectly caused the death of Song Jiang's family was completely over.

I don’t want to, God’s way is easy to reincarnate, no one will be spared by heaven.

In the end, Zhang Wenyuan died in this incident.

Zhang Wenyuan was dissatisfied and said: "Fortress leader, isn't Song Jiang your enemy? Why do you want to avenge him?"

Not to mention that Zhang Wenyuan will be a dead man soon. Explaining to a dead man that he killed him was purely because he couldn't understand that he could still live happily after doing bad things, making him one of the few fish in the Water Margin that slipped through the net. It was a waste of time. .

Even if Zhang Wenyuan hadn't died, Jiang Hongfei wouldn't have explained anything to this little guy.

It was only after Zhang Wenyuan was pushed down and beheaded that Jiang Hongfei said to the people around him: "This generation of ungrateful people will be punished by everyone."

After Zhang Wenyuan was executed, Jiang Hongfei sent people to find Tang Niuer who had returned to Yuncheng County after serving his sentence two years ago.

This Tang Niuer was a small helper on the streets of Yuncheng County, selling pickled glutinous rice as a trade. He was very close to Song Jiang and often had Song Jiang help him. However, when he went to sue Song Jiang for some official matters, he also lost a lot of money. Song Jiang wanted to use his time. , moving forward desperately.

Song Jiang killed Yan Po Xi. When he saw Yan Po and the county government coming up to grab Song Jiang, he went over and gave Yan Po a slap in the face, just to show his quickness. Song Jiang escaped, but he was twisted into the Yamen by Yan Po. Tang Niu'er had no idea about Song Jiang's murder of Yan Poxi, but people in Yuncheng County were determined to protect Song Jiang, so they pinned the murder case on Tang Niu'er, who was charged with "leaving the murderer to escape". Wenbin has twenty spine staffs and thorns five hundred miles away.

The murderer, Song Jiang, was known to everyone from the county magistrate to Zhu Dian and Lei Heng to the common people. They all excused Song Jiang, but Song Jiang ran away.

Tang Niu'er, who was so good at making soy sauce, became a scapegoat. First, he was beaten thirty or fifty times indiscriminately, detained, and then given twenty sticks, stabbed in the face, exiled for five hundred miles, and became a prisoner.

What's more frightening is that everyone regards Tang Niu'er as if he is nothing.

Wen Bin, the county magistrate, knew that Tang Niu'er was unjustly accused, but deliberately slandered Tang Niu'er as an accomplice.

Zhu Tong took care of Zhang Wenyuan, the officials in the state, and even Yan Po, without even thinking about Tang Niu'er.

Song Jiang later became the boss and seemed to have forgotten this humble life that once took the blame for him.

It has to be said that being a human being like Tang Niuer is extremely sad.

In Jiang Hongfei's opinion, Tang Niuer was not bad, at least not bad. No, it should be said that he was still a bit loyal. Whatever Song Jiang asked him to do, he would do his best.

The key is that after dealing with the ungrateful villain Zhang Wenyuan, Jiang Hongfei wanted to establish a loyal villain as the "corporate culture" of Shuibo Liangshan.

Therefore, Jiang Hongfei rewarded Tang Niu'er with one hundred acres of spiritual land and five hundred spiritual coins on the grounds that Tang Niu'er took the initiative to slap Yan Po in the face and gave Song Jiang a chance to escape and was punished for Song Jiang. Er entered the Yuncheng County brigade and became a small leader.

Needless to say, Tang Niuer was grateful to Jiang Hongfei.

Just say that this can be regarded as Jiang Hongfei doing a small favor for Song Jiang.

In fact, this is just a small episode.

The overall situation is that once Yuncheng County is captured, Shuibo Liangshan will immediately have greater strategic space.

However, Jiang Hongfei's ambition is obviously not satisfied with this.

After pulling out the nail in Yuncheng County, Jiang Hongfei sent Liu Huiniang to lead the Beiwei Army, Tabai Army, Po Enemy Army, Youyi Army, as well as the Tiefutu Left Army and Tiefutu Right Army to go to Xingqing City at intervals to challenge the battle. On one side, Chen Xizhen was sent to lead the Ma Fifth Army, Ma Sixth Army, Ma Fourteenth Army, Bu Eleventh Army and Bu Thirteenth Army to capture Puzhou as well...

Faced with the Liangshan Army's unscrupulous expansion of the results, Gao Qiu chose to defend Xingqing Mansion and stay behind closed doors.

The reason why Gao Qiu is like this:

Firstly, it was because of this defeat that Gao Qiu was greatly weakened and his courage was frightened, making Gao Qiu easily afraid to send people out of the city to fight against Liangshan's army.

The second reason is that after this defeat, the position of Xingqing Mansion becomes even more important. If Gao Qiu loses Xingqing Mansion, then the Liangshan Army can enter Henan and directly capture Bianliang City in Tokyo. In this way, Zhao The Song Dynasty was in danger of being destroyed.

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The news that Gao Qiu was defeated by the Liangshan Army had already spread in Bianliang City, Tokyo.

Wang Fu really didn't expect that Gao Qiu would be so vulnerable.

It was Wang Fu who gave Zhao Ji the idea to send Gao Qiu to suppress Shuibo Liangshan.

Now that the troops have failed, who should bear the responsibility?

Wang Fu has just sat on the throne of prime minister, so don't let this capsize the boat.

Wang Fu was very worried. He paced back and forth in the capital hall, thinking hard about countermeasures.

Wang Fu felt that the failure of this military expedition was too undeserved. It's true that Gao Qiu is a jester, but Zhang Shuye is capable, and Shi Jiedu is a battle-hardened veteran. How could they be defeated by the Liangshan bandits?

Moreover, Wang Fu has been watching Gao Qiu's preparation process. It can be said that Gao Qiu has brought all the power he can bring with him, so he should be foolproof.

How can we still lose?

Wang Fu was puzzled.

At this time, the chamberlain Zhang Di suddenly came to deliver the order and Zhao Ji asked him to go to Chongzheng Hall to discuss matters.

Wang Fu hurried to Chongzheng Hall. As soon as he entered the palace gate, he saw Zhao Ji angrily throwing a memorial on the ground, and the chamberlain Liang Shicheng was squatting on the ground to pick it up.

Zhao Ji said: "A hundred thousand troops were killed and wounded in one battle! Shameful! Incompetent! Fortunately, I promoted him to the post of Taiwei in the Palace Commander's Palace. Is this how he repays me?!"

Zhao Ji's face was gloomy, and his voice seemed to have changed, not as soft as usual.

Wang Fu's heart skipped a beat. He glanced at the memorial in Liang Shicheng's hand and said quickly: "Your Majesty, please calm down. It's impossible to kill all the casualties? Whose memorial is so exaggerated?"

Liang Shicheng handed the memorial to Wang Fu and winked at him, indicating that the memorial was not credible.

Wang Fu nodded slightly to express his understanding. He lowered his head and looked at the memorial. It turned out to be written by Hou Meng, the magistrate of Dongming. A smile immediately spread on his face: "Your Majesty, Hou Meng always likes to show off his literary talent and use exaggeration. Your Majesty, you don't have to believe it."

Hou Meng was originally appointed as the magistrate of Bozhou. Wang Fu promoted him and sent him to Dongming. He originally wanted him to go to Dongming to inquire about the internal affairs of Shuibo Liangshan and claim credit for his contribution to the annihilation of Shuibo Liangshan. Unexpectedly, he repeatedly appealed to the emperor to recruit him. Shuibo Liangshan was sent to exterminate the other three bandits. This echoed the internal opposition to the suppression of Shuibo Liangshan. It aroused strong resentment from Wang Fu, who was leading the battle. Wang Fu had long wanted to find a suitable position to transfer him. .

Wang Fu said: "Officially, I estimate that Lieutenant Gao's memorial should be coming soon. Let's see what he says."

Wang Fu felt that although the Song army suffered a defeat, it could not be as serious as Hou Meng said.

After a while, the Bank of China sent Gao Qiu's memorial, three in a row, all impeachment memorials. One article impeached Wang Huan, saying that Wang Huan underestimated the enemy and advanced rashly, helped the thieves in their plans, and ignored the overall situation; the second article impeached Xu Huai, saying that Xu Huai ignored the danger and defended himself with troops, and was defeated by the Liangshan army one by one; The third article impeached Hou Meng. He did not want to defeat the enemy, but only wanted to recruit the Liangshan bandits who were unwilling to die, fueling the thieves' flames and destroying the prestige of the Song Dynasty.

Wang Fu quickly understood Gao Qiu's intentions. He felt that letting Wang Huan and Xu Huai bear the responsibility for the defeat was the best result.

At the same time, Wang Fu had to admire Gao Qiu. Jiang was indeed very old.

Wang Fu said: "For the officials, Captain Gao made it very clear in the memorial that it was Wang Huan and Xu Huai who failed to lead the army well, which is why they suffered this defeat. If they could follow the plan formulated by Captain Gao, If we defend carefully and wait for the loach boat to be built before we fight the Liangshan bandits, the situation will never come to this. In order to uphold military law, I suggest that the two of them be severely punished for their crimes."

Wang Fu knew that he had to be consistent with Gao Qiu, because only in this way could he keep his position as prime minister.

Zhao Ji was no stranger to Wang Huan. He had heard of Wang Huan's deeds as early as twenty years ago.

More than forty years ago, Wang Huan was still a young man, known as the "Romantic Wang Huan". He fell in love with the singing girl He Lianlian. Later, Wang Huan was kicked out by He's mother, and He Lianlian was forcibly married. But He Lianlian secretly helped Wang Huan to join the army at the border. Wang Huan made military exploits and was named a military governor. The two of them joined forces to punish the villain who forcibly married He Lianlian. The couple is reunited, successful and famous, and everyone is happy.

Zhao Ji couldn't figure out why the romantic Wang Huan was so useless now?

Zhao Ji asked: "Is Wang Huan over seventy this year?"

Liang Shicheng rushed to answer: "It's already seventy-one."

Zhao Ji sighed softly: "Seventy years are rare in life. He is already seventy-one, so don't punish him severely. Just demote him to an official position."

Later, news came that Xu Huai had died for his country. Zhao Ji did not punish Xu Huai. Instead, he promoted Xu Huai to the rank of direct bachelor of Longtuge.

As for Hou Meng, Zhao Ji did not deal with it because he also had the idea of ​​​​recruiting Shuibo Liangshan, and Hou Meng might not be able to use it.

Soon, the imperial edict from the Zhao and Song Dynasties was issued to the Xingqing Mansion, ordering Wang Huan to be taken to the Privy Council of the capital to accept punishment.

Everyone knew in their hearts that Wang Huan was taking the blame for Gao Qiu and serving as a scapegoat for Gao Qiu.

Many people said: "Wang Jiedu is a veteran general. He has been in the army for decades. Wherever his troops are headed, why can't he fight? What city can't be conquered? It's a pity that he has been humiliated today!"

Some people also said: "The person who has an overview of the overall situation is a Taiwei. Wang Jiedu led his army to stop the enemy, but was defeated in a hard fight and almost survived. What crime is there?"

There were also some people who sympathized with Wang Huan. They said to Wang Huan, "It's time for the old general to take a break after spending his whole life in the military. Let's retire from the world and enjoy peace and happiness."

But Wang Huan didn't appreciate it. He gave Zhao Ji a sincere memorial, saying that he could accept the punishment of demotion, but he was unwilling to leave the front line. He hoped to go to the battlefield again to avenge his shame, instead of going back to retire. .

Zhao Ji was moved by Wang Huan's persistence and demoted Wang Huan to be the deputy training envoy of Dingtao. He still obeyed orders in Gao Qiu's army...

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