Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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"Guangzu and Guangzong, you two must be the elders of the fathers. In the future, you must work together to revitalize our Liu family. Guangzong, although you are wild on weekdays, you spend all day flying around and hanging out with those idlers. But my father is not angry. You must know that it is not useless to make more friends with these market men. Why was it not like this when you were a father? However, you must learn the art of looking at others well like your elder brother Guangzu, and choose the right person Make friends with those who are able." Liu Shiquan taught Liu Guangzong patiently.

"Father, look quickly! The three people on the bow all have extraordinary looks. Could it be that they are the ones that father is waiting for?" Dalang Liu Guangzu suddenly whispered at the side.

Liu Shiquan raised his eyes, clapped his palms and sighed softly: "My father has seen colorful clouds coming from the sky in the past two days, and it should be on this son! Guangzu, Guangzong, quickly follow my father to see this son."

The two brothers Liu Guangzu and Liu Guangzong lifted the wooden box, followed their father off the pier, and came to a passenger ship that had just docked.I saw three handsome gentlemen coming down from the boat, all of them were dignified and extraordinary.

The three people who got off the passenger ship were Ximen Qing, Shi Jin and Yan Qi who went up the Huaihe River from Huaiyin and entered Hongze Lake.The three of them wanted to eat some fresh breakfast on the pier before boarding the boat and continuing to go to Sizhou City.

Ximen Qing had just set foot on the stone steps of the pier, when he heard someone shouting, "Hero, please stay! Can you take a step to speak?"

Ximen Qing looked sideways, and saw a hale and hearty old man with white beard and hair, gorgeous clothes, looking at him with a smile.Behind the old man stood two equally well-dressed and strong young men, who were carrying a large wooden box in their hands, and they didn't know what was inside.

"Is the old man calling me? I don't know what to teach?" Ximen Qing asked the old man kindly when he saw the three people's faces were kind.

"I'm visiting Huai Liu Shiquan, and I love to make friends with heroes all over the world. I foresee the arrival of a distinguished guest today, and I will prepare a special gift for the distinguished guest. I hope that the distinguished guest will accept it." Liu Shiquan pointed at the box behind him, and explained the purpose of coming to Ximen Qing. .

Hey, I don't know this person well, and no one else knows the whereabouts of this trip, so how could this old man wait for me here on purpose?Could it be that this old man picked up the wrong person?Ximen Qing turned his thoughts to Liu Shiquan and thanked Liu Shiquan: "I don't dare to accept the kindness of the old man. I don't remember that I have old friends in Linhuai City. I don't know if the old man denied the wrong person?"

Liu Shiquan smiled mysteriously, and said to Ximen Qing: "Your honored guest, how could this old man admit the wrong person? This old man came to this pier early this morning, and he was waiting for you, your honored guest! This is not a place to talk, so I wonder if I can board the boat to talk?"

Chapter 5 Liu Shiquan's Investment

On Hongzhen Lake, hundreds of sails catch the wind, thousands of wormwood break through the water, and large and small boats shuttle back and forth, creating a prosperous scene.Passenger ships and cargo ships sailed along the waterways, each going to the upper and lower reaches of the Huaihe River.The small boats of the fishermen appear and disappear in the reed marshes in the distance, harvesting fat fish and shrimp.

Ximen Qing stood at the bow of the boat, recalling the mysterious Liu's father and son he saw at Linhuai Wharf, and said to himself: "Is there really such a strange person in this world?"

In the cabin, there is a little gift from the Liu family father and son - a thousand taels of gold.The mysterious old man Liu Shiquan was so generous to Ximen Qing who had never lived, but he didn't ask Ximen Qing for anything in return, as long as Ximen Qing remembered his two sons Liu Guangzu and Liu Guangzong.

That Liu Shiquan claimed to be the largest family in Linhuai, but he also said that Ximen Qing was the richest person.He said that he might let his two sons come to join Ximen Qing in the future, and he only hoped that Ximen Qing would be able to stay by then.

In the past few years when Ximen Qing traveled north and south, he also met many rich officials and local tyrants and landlords, and many of them came together with Ximen Qing and formed various allies.However, as soon as they met, they believed that Ximen Qing would become a great weapon, and wanted to entrust the fate of their children to Ximen Qing's heroic family, this Liu Shiquan is still No. 1.

Ximen Qing secretly thought, could it be that I have finally cultivated a domineering air, that I can make people bow down and worship me wherever I go, and I will be loyal from then on?This is not scientific!

However, if the Liu family father and son want to kneel and lick him and give money to please him, if he stretches out his hand and doesn't hit the smiling person, the official Ximen Qing will naturally not turn him away.Gold is a good thing, Ximen Qing never has too much.

Besides, no matter what, I have to give this local snake in Huaixi some face!Maybe it will be useful for his father and son in the future.

Ximen Qing already knew in his heart who Liu Shiquan was who would rather give a thousand pieces of gold just to know him.

It turned out that Liu Shiquan was indeed a powerful figure in Linhuai City, and he had been kind to the current Taiwei Gao Qiu.

Gao Qiu, Gao Taiwei, who is in charge of the 80 forbidden troops in Tokyo today, was a rogue in Bianliang City, Tokyo more than 20 years ago. Call Liu Shiquan.Presumably it was the white-haired elder Ximen Qing saw now.

Ximenqing remembered the records in the book, that Liu Shiquan devoted his whole life to cherishing guests and supporting idlers, and recruiting men from all over the world.Gao Qiu entrusted Liu Dalang's family to live for three years without eating and drinking.

Later, Emperor Zhezong felt that the weather was good because he paid homage to the southern suburbs, and he relaxed his kindness and pardoned the world.Gao Qiu lived in Linhuai City for a long time, and because of the news that the criminal was pardoned, he became homesick and wanted to return to Tokyo.

However, Liu Shiquan was related to Dong Jiangshi who opened a herbal medicine shop under the Jinliang Bridge in Tokyo. He wrote another letter, cleared up some personnel matters, and sent Gao Qiu back to Bianliang, Tokyo, to live in Dong Jiangshi's family.

After Gao Qiu returned to Bianliang, Tokyo, through Dong Jiangshi, he hooked up with Su Dongpo, the son-in-law Xiao Wang Du Taiwei, and Duan Wang Zhao Ji.After Zhao Ji became emperor, he even promoted Gao Qiu to the high position of Taiwei.

It can be said that Liu Shiquan is benevolent and righteous to the downcast Gao Qiu, not only caring for Gao Qiu when he was at his worst, but also the beginning of Gao Qiu's later change in fate.

Although Gao Qiu persecuted Wang Jin and Lin Chong because of his personal anger, this person also has a good point, and he never forgets to repay those who have favored him.

When Song Huizong first became emperor, in order to promote Gao Qiu, he arranged Gao Qiu to practice in the Western Army on the front line of Xixia.Gao Qiu cooperated with Liu Zhongwu to fight there, and he was well taken care of by Liu Zhongwu.Later, after Gao Qiu was promoted to the high position of Taiwei, he did not forget Liu Zhongwu's friendship and took good care of his family.After Liu Zhongwu was defeated, thanks to Gao Qiu's rescue, he was not convicted.Liu Zhongwu's son and later famous general Liu Qi joined the army in the early days, and was also taken care of by Gao Qiu, the Taiwei of the court.

In addition to maintaining a close relationship with Liu Zhongwu's family in the Western Army, Gao Qiu also took good care of his original master, Su Dongpo's family.Although Su Dongpo was frustrated in politics, he was expelled from the capital and died of old age in Changzhou, but Gao Qiu never forgot the Su family, and whenever his children came to the capital, he paid him a lot of pensions.Therefore, these actions of his have also been well received by some people in the court.

Therefore, Gao Qiu is a humane person, and naturally he has never been ungrateful to Liu Shiquan who took care of him when he was young and destitute.Under the care of Gao Lian, Liu Shiquan also gradually developed from an idler Liu Dalang who opened a gambling shop in Linhuai County to a well-known rich man in Sizhou Liu Shiquan.

However, today's action shows that Liu Shiquan, who is proficient in physiognomy and has made a lot of money by helping Gao Lian, is not satisfied with Gao Taiwei's protection and care, but has set his sights on Ximen Qing in the future.However, Liu Shiquan didn't know that he knew the old story of Taiwei Gaoqiu giving charcoal in the snow more than 20 years ago, but the official Ximen Qing who is only 30 years old who is visiting today knows it well.

It was precisely because he thought of Liu Shiquan's betting on Gao Qi that year that Ximen Qing sighed at the bow of the boat, this Liu Shiquan really has a unique vision and is a strange person.

With a smooth journey, the passenger ships of Ximen Qing and others quickly sailed from Linhuai County to Sizhou City, the seat of Sizhou on Huainan East Road.

When they arrived in Sizhou City, Ximenqing and his party abandoned the boat and went overland, passing through Duliang Mountain and Baita Town on horseback, and entered Zhenzhou.Traveling all the way south in Zhenzhou, I finally came to Guabu Town, Liuhe County on the Yangtze River.Step, a port.The name of the mountain, in the southeast of Liuhe County, Zhenzhou, is also known as Taoye Mountain.The water is called the step. The south of this mountain is adjacent to the Yangtze River. It is also said that Wu people sold melons by the river, so they named it.

During the Southern and Northern Dynasties, Guabu Town once competed for important places for the military.In July of the 27th year of Yuanjia, Emperor Liu Songwen of the Southern Dynasty launched the Northern Expedition of Yuanjia, but was defeated by Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty.Later, Tuoba Tao of the Northern Wei Dynasty counterattacked Liu Song. In October, he sent troops from the north bank of the Yellow River, defeating many main forces of the Song army in succession. In December, he led his troops here.

Tuoba Tao's East Route Army reached Guabu Mountain in the north of Jiankang, and built a palace on Guabu Mountain.After the Northern Wei army withdrew and returned north, the palace of Tuoba Tao, Emperor Taiwu of the Northern Wei Dynasty, became a temple.

Tuoba Tao's small characters are called Buddha Beaver, so the folks call it the Buddha Beaver Temple.

Later, the common people only worshiped Buddha Fox as a god, but did not investigate the origin of this god.This temple still exists on the Guabu Mountain next to Guabu Town at this time, and the incense is still burning.

Xin Zan's grandson Xin Qiji later wrote a poem "Yongyule? Jingkou Beiguting Nostalgia":

Throughout the ages, a hero has never looked for Sun Zhongmou.

On the dance pavilion song stage, the wind is always blown away by the rain.

Grass trees in the setting sun, ordinary alleys,

Humane slaves once lived.

I think back then, gold and iron horses,

Swallowing thousands of miles like a tiger.

Yuan Jia hastily sealed the wolf to live in Xu,

Win a hasty look.

In 43 years, I still remember,

Beacon Fire Yangzhou Road.

It is worth looking back, under the Buddha Beaver Temple,

A piece of Shenyashe drum.

Who can ask, Lian Po is old,

Can you still eat?

In that word, "you can look back, under the Buddha Beaver Temple, there is a piece of Shenyashe drum." It is the allusion of the Buddha Beaver Temple in Guabu Mountain.

Chapter 5 and Four: An Daoquan and Li Qiaonu

Because Guabu Town is located on the other side of the river from Jiankang City, in history, when the northern regimes wanted to cross the river to attack the southern regimes whose capital was Jiankang, they often competed for this important military location.

During the period of Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, in the third year of Zhou Shizong Xiande, Zhao Kuangyin and the soldiers of the Southern Tang fought between Liuhe and Guapu, killing more than [-] Tang soldiers, and the rest fought for boats to cross the river, and many drowned.In the following year, Zhao Kuangyin defeated Li Jing of the Southern Tang Dynasty in Kuah with another [-] troops.

Historically, during the Song-Jin war, Wanyan Wushu, the fourth prince of the Kingdom of Jin, went to the south of the Yangtze River to "search the mountains and check the sea" to capture Zhao Gou, forcing Song Gaozong and Zhao Gou to flee to the sea. Set up troops in Liuhe County.Later, Wanyan Wushu led his army west to Shaanxi and participated in the Battle of Fuping.