Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

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But this Ximenqing is not ordinary rich, but a wealthy and local magnate known as Ximen Banzhou in Dongping Mansion. Cheng Wanli's daughter marrying him will not humiliate the lintel.

And this Ximenqing is proficient in poetry, through the introduction of Zhao Mingcheng, Li Qingzhao, Qin Hui, Murong Yanda and others, he has an excellent reputation among scholars, and he is the wife of his daughter Cheng Momei.

The most important thing is that Ximenqing holds many powerful forces in many places in his hands, which is enough to help him wipe out the Liangshan Po bandits in Dongping Mansion, so that he can be reused by the emperor and Tong Taiwei!

Cheng Wanli secretly thought that, based on this calculation, marrying the official Ximen Qing would be of great benefit to his career.The only pity is that the senior official Ximen Qing has already married his wife, and his daughter married him. Wouldn't it be wronged for his daughter?

The magistrate Cheng Wanli sat in the yamen for a long time, and then looked at the secret letter sent by the Taiwei Tongguan. After all, he was reluctant to let go of the credit he got, so he decided to go to Yanggu County in person to discuss with his wife and daughter.

At this time, Dongping Mansion had just been recovered and was still in the middle of a war with the Liangshan Po bandit army, so Cheng Wanli entered Dongping Mansion with the army, and all his family members stayed in the safer Yanggu County. in the mansion.

I heard that my wife and daughter lived very well in Nayanggu County, and I was reluctant to move back to Dongping Fucheng after the war disaster.

While Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, was full of worries, the official Ximen Qing in Yanggu County was drinking and having fun with a group of brothers to celebrate the defeat of the Liangshanpo bandit army.

In Ximenbao, apart from Ximenqing, Hu Sanniang, Luan Tingyu, Wang Jin and other brothers, Hu Cheng and Hu Yong from Hujiazhuang, the three Zhu brothers from Zhujiazhuang, Shi Wengong from Zengtou City, Su Ding and Yue Fei from Tangyin County , Wang Gui and others all gathered together to have a feast to their heart's content.

After Yue Fei, Wang Gui and the others died of illness, Yao Daweng invited them a spear instructor named Chen Guang to teach them the martial arts of spear, stick and sword.

During the days when he was separated from Ximen Qing, Yue Fei's martial arts improved a lot, and his figure became bigger and stronger than before, obviously he has the qualifications of a fierce general.

In the battle with the bandit army in Liangshanbo, Yuncheng County, Yue Fei, who joined the battle for the first time, was very excited. Minions fled.

Luan Tingyu, Wang Jin, and Shi Wengong saw Yue Fei's bravery and fighting skills, and everyone praised Ximen Qing's nephew as a rare talent.

Ximen Qing also took the opportunity to let Shi Wengong and Wang Jin teach Yue Fei's spear skills, which made Xiao Yue Fei's martial arts improve a lot.

Yue Fei and others from Tangyin County have been following Ximen Qing these days, and their relationship with his uncle Ximen Qing has deepened a lot.

Although all the heroes had gathered at this time, Ximen Qing didn't intend to just take them to serve the imperial court and completely wipe out the Liangshanbo bandits.

After winning the battle in Yuncheng County and ensuring that Liangshan Po bandits were no threat to him, Ximenqing withdrew himself and the troops from Zengtou City, and completely handed over the battlefield to the officers and soldiers of the states.

Ximenqing only wants to be the one who can turn things around at the critical moment. As for going to fight for his life with the Liangshanbo robbers with one knife and one gun, this hard work should be left to the forbidden army of the imperial court to do it!

Today's banquet is not only a celebration banquet for the brothers, but also a farewell banquet for Shi Wengong and Yue Fei.After eating and drinking enough, Shi Wengong, Yue Fei and others will return to Zengtou City of Lingzhou and Tangyin County of Xiangzhou respectively.When Ximenqing wants to fight the Liangshan bandits, it will not be too late to invite them.

The two brothers, "Jiang Menshen" Jiang Zhong and "Golden Retriever" Duan Jingzhu, had to leave for Cangzhou, Hebei Province after drinking, where the manor still needed them to manage.

After a feast, Ximen Qing sent off all the brothers one by one, and then returned to Ximen Fort, to discuss gains and losses with Luan Tingyu, Wang Jin and other brothers, and plan the funeral together.

How did Ximenqing know at this time that the magistrate Cheng Wanli was making plans in the Dongping mansion to use his own strength to level Liangshanpo!

Ximen Qing is also a little confused about how to deal with the relationship with Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture.

After these days of working together, Ximen Qing found that the prefect Cheng Wanli was not stupid, and he was considered diligent and caring for the people, and had some official ambitions.

In history, he was wiped out by that shameless Dong Ping. It was mainly an accident. How did he know that Dong Ping, the military commander of the Dongping Mansion, would turn to the thief?

Cheng Wanli was saved this time, thanks to Ximenqing's dislike of Dong Ping, a scumbag who wanted to be honored by a traitor, killed a lot of people and took other people's daughters.

Ximen Qing had already placed someone beside Dong Ping, so that he could warn Dong Ping in time when he defected to the enemy.

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Among the people Ximen Qing placed in Dong Ping's army, apart from a few sergeants, the most important one was Dong Ping's former favorite general, Wang Jun, who is now the military commander of Dongping Mansion.

Wang Jun, nicknamed "Wang Diao'er", is well-behaved, loyal and brave, and also has good martial arts skills.The biggest characteristic of this person is that he is good at hiding his true face and giving a fatal blow when the opponent is paralyzed.Another feature of Wang Jun is that he has a high degree of loyalty to the court, unlike Dong Ping, who is so vulgar and shameless, he will never betray the court.

The reason why Ximenqing understood these qualities of Wang Jun was that after meeting Wang Jun twice in Dongping Mansion, he had already remembered who this hero of Dongping Mansion was in history and what he had done.

The "Wang Diaoer" Wang Jun, who also participated in the anti-golden war in history, was later transferred into Yue Fei's army by Song Gaozong, followed Yue Fei through life and death, and finally became Yue Fei's former deputy commander of the army and became one of Yue Fei's confidant generals.

Later, in order to take back the military power from Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei, who had initially formed local warlords, Song Gaozong conspired with Prime Minister Qin Hui to summon Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei from various places to Beijing in the name of discussing military plans, and sealed Zhang Jun. As the Privy Council envoys, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei were the deputy Privy Council envoys, allowing the three of them to take charge of the Privy Council in Beijing.

Nominally, the three generals in charge of the Privy Council in Beijing was the military that governed the whole country of the Southern Song Dynasty, but the three generals who stayed in Beijing separated from their direct troops and would inevitably lose their military power gradually.This can be regarded as the Southern Song Dynasty's version of "a cup of wine releases military power", using the method of rising up and down secretly, and giving high-ranking officials and generous salary to take away the military power in the hands of Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei.

Immediately, under the leadership of Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui, the imperial court began to incorporate the troops under the command of these three generals, intending to change them into armies that the emperor and the imperial court could directly control.In the Song Dynasty, it was the ancestral law to use literature to control military affairs. There was no emperor who did not hold a heavy army.Therefore, the civil officials headed by Song Gaozong and Qin Hui still did what their ancestors did: emptying the generals with real power, separating the generals from the soldiers, so that the generals do not know the soldiers and the soldiers do not know the generals. The rebellion succeeded.

The move played by Song Gaozong and Qin Hui undoubtedly affected the interests of Zhang Jun, Han Shizhong, and Yue Fei, the three local commanders who commanded the army. destiny.

Regarding the reform personally presided over by Emperor Song Gaozong and implemented by Prime Minister Qin Hui, Zhang Jun, the leader of the Zhang family army with the largest army and the most powerful in the local area, chose to cooperate unconditionally, surrendered his military power obediently, and acted as his privy envoy with peace of mind.As a result, Zhang Jun became the most trusted person of Song Gaozong among the three.

However, Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, the two deputy privy envoys of the Privy Council, were a little immature politically, and did not see Song Gaozong's determination to take back military power.The two are still asking to resume their original positions as system envoys and let them leave Beijing to return to the local army on the grounds that returning to the local area to lead the army is conducive to fighting against the Kingdom of Jin.

The so-called establishment of envoys means that they can be in charge of the military affairs of the states along the way, and most of them serve as appeasement ambassadors concurrently, which can be set up at a low cost.That is to say, the grasp of local military and political power is basically the prototype of a warlord group.Han Shizhong and Yue Fei didn't understand Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui's military reform, and they still wished to go back to their own territory and continue to be warlords.

Among Han Shizhong and Yue Fei, Han Shizhong was from the Western Army. Compared with Yue Fei, he had greater military achievements and a higher reputation at the time.After Yue Fei crossed the south of the Yangtze River, he was the general who was single-handedly promoted by Song Gaozong. At that time, the Yue family army was not as powerful as the Han family army.Therefore, when both of them resisted the military reform, Song Gaozong and Qin Hui naturally set their suspicious eyes on Han Shizhong, a veteran in the army, and planned to use Han Shizhong to liquidate him.

After deciding on the target of attacking Han Shizhong, Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui asked the Privy Council in charge of the national military to reorganize Han Shizhong's Han family army first.The two privy envoys, Zhang Jun and Yue Fei, went out to inspect Han Shizhong's army in person.

At that moment, Yue Fei couldn't see where the crisis was, and still wanted to restore the envoy system.In Han Shizhong's army, he actually discussed with Zhang Jun whether Han Shizhong's army could be divided, and he and Zhang Jun would take it back to the place to share.

Yue Fei used to work in Zhang Jun's army, and he was considered brothers to Zhang Jun's adoptive sons and generals, which is basically equivalent to recognizing Zhang Jun as a foster father, so his relationship with Zhang Jun can be regarded as good. Dare to discuss these secretly.

Zhang Jun is not a stunned young man like Yue Fei who is greedy for military power, so he naturally knows the importance of it, how could he agree to divide Han Shizhong's army with Yue Fei, and return to the local area to continue to be the overlord?When he sensed Yue Fei's dangerous thoughts, he distanced himself from Yue Fei and flatly rejected Yue Fei's proposal.

Since it's inseparable, let's check!As a result, the two investigated Han Shizhong's army and found out a lot of corruption issues about Han Shizhong.Now the imperial court can settle Han Shizhong's good life.At this time, Yue Fei quietly leaked the news to Han Shizhong, who was in a pity for him.

After Han Shizhong got the news, he suddenly came to his senses.Without hesitation, he immediately ran to Song Gaozong's main hall, displayed the strongest acting skills in his life, hugged Song Gaozong's thigh with snot and tears to admit his mistake, and begged Song Gaozong to forgive him for his meritorious service in saving him back then His old bones.The officials were stunned. How could this still be the majestic General Han who commanded thousands of troops and fought against Jin Guo Wanyan Wushu in Huang Tiandang?

However, Han Shizhong's hard work won Song Gaozong's sympathy, which greatly changed Song Gaozong's impression of this veteran, so the court's liquidation of the Han family army was over.From then on, Han Shizhong gave up his military power, enjoyed the glory and wealth all his life, and was finally crowned king, which can be said to have a good death.

Han Shizhong used this method to pass the level, but Yue Fei jumped out again.Yue Fei's idea of ​​returning to the local military command is still not put away. During the sensitive period of the military reform, he invited himself to return to his old residence on Lushan Mountain in Jiangzhou to take a job. It would inevitably make Song Gaozong and Prime Minister Qin Hui suspect that he wanted to take the opportunity to leave the capital and return to his hometown. Of course, Song Gaozong did not agree to go to the army.Afterwards, Yue Fei actually sent his cronies to the trusted generals in the army, and Zhang Xian, the former commander of the army, brought a secret letter to let him make changes in the army, so as to force the imperial court to use him to return to the army to suppress and appease, and took the opportunity to regain the local military power.

As Yue Fei's confidant, Zhang Xian's loyalty to Yue Fei is unwavering.When he received Yue Fei's instructions, he immediately planned to take the Yue family army from Ezhou to Xiangyang on the front line of Song and Jin Dynasties, forming de facto independence.

It was his close deputy, Wang Jun, the former deputy commander of the Yue Family Army, who Zhang Xian called to discuss this matter.

Chapter 551 Wang Jun's past and present life

After Yue Fei left, it was not Zhang Xian who was in charge of the former army, but Wang Gui who was in charge of the Yue family army he left behind.At this time, Wang Gui just left the Yue family army and went to report to Zhang Jun, the privy envoy.Before leaving, he handed over the command of the Yue Family Army stationed in Ezhou to Zhang Xian, the former commander of the army.

Therefore, when Zhang Xian was about to make trouble and cooperate with Yue Fei to escape from the golden cicada in the capital, he was in the state of leading the army.

In order to make the left, middle, right, and rear military commanders who were equal to him obey his orders, Zhang Xian called Wang Jun, the deputy commander, to discuss secretly, and decided to invite the military commanders to come to Zhang Xian to persuade them one by one.

Regarding the generals who might not obey his arrangement, Zhang Xian asked Wang Jun to be ready to use force to solve the problem.It can be said that Zhang Xian deserves to be Yue Fei's hard-core confidant, he is really bold and dark-hearted.

It is a pity that Zhang Xian found the wrong person, and his lieutenant Wang Jun was more loyal to the court than to Yue Fei and Zhang Xian.

After Wang Jun left Zhang Xian, he informed the court that Zhang Xian had the intention of rebellion.

Privy envoy Zhang Jun couldn't believe it after receiving Wang Jun's informant, so he arrested Zhang Xian and sent him to Dali Temple for interrogation, where he confirmed Zhang Xian and Yue Yun's charges of rebellion.

At this time, Yue Fei was naturally dragged into this attempted rebellion.Although there is no direct conclusive evidence to prove that Yue Fei instigated and directly participated in the conspiracy of Zhang Xian and Yue Yun behind the scenes, how could Yue Fei, who has such a close relationship with these two people, get rid of his suspicion?

For Song Gaozong, this kind of general who used to hold a heavy army but is now suspected of rebellion, if he doesn't cut the grass and roots, is he still waiting for him to stand up?