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After "Nine-tailed Turtle" Tao Zongwang was accepted by Ximenqing as his subordinate, he worked hard in Qingzhou and Dengzhou, and took on the heavy task of building cities and docks without complaint, and never made any mistakes.Of course, he also enjoyed generous treatment from the officials of Ximen Qing, and the people in Qingzhou Taohuazhuang and Dengzhou Ximenzhuang also respected him very much, and did not despise him because of his experience as a robber .
Tao Zongwang stayed in Ximen Qing's camp, but he was much more at ease than when he was in the Liangshan robber's den. In addition, he had heard and witnessed Ximen Qing's various deeds, and he had already regarded Ximen Qing as a god-like figure in his heart. Be loyal.
At this time, Liangshan Dazhai was taken down by Ximen Qing. After Tao Zongwang learned of the fate of the Liangshan bandit leaders, when he secretly lamented his luck, he did not miss Ximen Qing and left himself alone among so many bandit leaders. I am also grateful for giving myself the opportunity to reform myself.
It can be said that even if Tao Zongwang is driven away now, it is impossible for Tao Zongwang to leave Ximenqing and go back to join the Liangshan bandits.
Ximen Qing observed carefully for a long time, and now after confirming the loyalty of "Nine-Tailed Turtle" Tao Zongwang, he decided to teach him a secret technique to strengthen his special skills of building cities and cultivating Taoism.
What Ximenqing taught Tao Zongwang was to fire cement.Ximenqing told Tao Zongwang that limestone, clay and broken porcelain broken tiles ground into fine powder can be properly combined and calcined to obtain an extremely excellent construction adhesive.
Chapter 596 Gao Lian Conquers the South
The Chinese have long used lime and fine sand mixed with water as a binder for masonry, and that technology was used when the Great Wall was built in the Qin Dynasty.Later, if you are more particular, you will add tung oil, glutinous rice, etc. to increase the viscosity.
However, on the one hand, adding tung oil, glutinous rice, etc. is expensive and a waste of materials. On the other hand, the strength of the adhesive produced by this method is still not as good as the "cement" that Ximen Qing intends to produce with later methods.
Once the leader in charge of building cities and villages on Liangshan Mountain, he was also responsible for building Qingzhou Peach Blossom Village and Dengzhou Ximen Village after he joined the officials of Ximenqing. Of course Tao Zongwang knew how to use lime and fine sand mixed with water as a masonry adhesive.In his hands, he also has building materials such as lime.As for the clay and broken tiles mentioned by Ximen Qing, they are also extremely easy to obtain.Therefore, Tao Zongwang, who knew the method, could try firing "cement" soon.
Ximenqing also told Tao Zongwang that as long as the soil and rocks burned at high temperature, such as slag burned during ironmaking, and coal ash left after coal burning, can be ground and used to replace broken porcelain and rotten tile powder for "cement" firing.
Qingzhou Taohuazhuang Lingzhen produces weapons and firearms, but there are many such slag and coal ash wastes.This time Tao Zongwang can use waste.
What Ximenqing can't remember now is only the ratio data of lime, clay and broken porcelain and tile powder.However, Tao Zongwang should be left to explore this work. With the current level of productivity, Tao Zongwang's development of cement is much easier than Tang Long and Ling Zhen's development of firearms.
"Nine-Tailed Turtle" Tao Zongwang learned the secret technique from the official Ximen Qing, knowing that the official finally tried himself as a confidant.After he grinned and said goodbye to Ximen Qing, he happily went to develop cement.
The official Ximen Qing is really unfathomable, it is really what the brothers said, he is a god descending from the earth!
Tao Zongwang's blind worship of Ximen Qing has increased a lot.
Ximen Qing looked at Tao Zongwang's dancing, and thought that this brother is pure-hearted. Fortunately, I have told him to keep it secret.When he succeeds in firing the cement, I will teach him to pour the concrete. Hehehe, Tao Zongwang is afraid that he will enshrine this high official as a god!
When Ximenqing and his party arrived in Dengzhou with Ma Kuo, Gao Lian, the prefect of Gaotang Prefecture, also entered Dongping Prefecture with his troops from Gaotang Prefecture and the reinforcements from Kouzhou and Dongchang Prefecture. At the foot of the city of Dongpingfu, Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongpingfu, has to hand over the command of the coalition forces of the government and army in various states.
Among the prefectures in Hebei, the prefects of Kouzhou and Dongchangfu were all promoted by Taiwei Gaoqiu, and of course they had to repay Taiwei Gaoqiu's kindness.After hearing the news that Gao Tang prefect Gao Lian sent troops, the prefects of the two prefectures also put together an army and followed Gao Lian.
Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping prefecture, held a grand banquet in the city, and warmly received Gao Lian, the prefect of Gaotang prefecture, and the generals of the armies of Gaotang prefecture, Kou prefecture, and Dongchang prefecture.
Although Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, and Wang Jun, the soldier and horse capital, were very enthusiastic, Gao Lian felt very unhappy when he saw the generals and generals from various states present at the welcome banquet, and then asked the prefect of Cheng Cheng.
It turned out that since Ximenqing withdrew and the imperial court issued an order to replace the coalition commander Cheng Wanli, some officers and soldiers from the state capital had gone back to their homes, and did not show any favor to Gao Lian, the new commander.
The Daming Mansion army led by the "Heavenly King" Li Cheng and the "Pioneer" Suo Chao of Hebei Daming Mansion was originally dispatched by Liang Zhongshu by Prime Minister Cai Jing in order to support Taiwei Tong Guan.
Although Cai Jing couldn't stop Gao Qiu, Liang Shicheng and others in the court this time from instigating the Daojun emperor to change his commander, he still had his duty to do something that would draw his salary from the bottom of the pot.
After Cai Jing sent a secret letter to Liang Zhongshu of the Daming Mansion in Beijing, Liang Zhongshu, who stayed behind in the Daming Mansion, immediately transferred Li Cheng and Suo Chaojun back to the Daming Mansion in the name of rampant banditry in the Taihang Mountains and might harass the Daming Mansion.
Du Chong, the magistrate of Cangzhou, Hebei, is obviously not the same as Taiwei Gao Qiu.He and Zhu Ting came south for friendship with Ximenqing. After Ximenqing left, grass bandits also appeared in Cangzhou, and unknown troops were mobilized in the Jizhou area bordering Cangzhou and Khitan of Liao Kingdom.In order to ensure the safety of the Song Dynasty's frontier, Zhu Dianjun led the army back to the north.
Qizhou Xinzan Army, Laizhou Liu Wujun, and Dengzhou Ma Zhengjun also withdrew their troops due to the unrest in their respective territories.
After Qingzhou's Huang Xinjun handed over Xuzhou and Jezhou to the Yanzhou Army and the Puzhou Army, he also left the Beijing East and West Road, went northeast and entered the junction of Qingzhou and Yizhou, and went to join forces with the Qin and Ming Army to jointly prevent the Liangshan Po thief army from going north.
Murong Yanda, the prefect of Qingzhou, is the brother-in-law of the Emperor Daojun, and a relative of the emperor. Of course, he did not want to sell the face of Gao Lian or even Gao Qiu, and transferred all the Qingzhou Army away.Furthermore, the Qingzhou army returned to Qingzhou to intercept the Songjiang bandit army, wasn't it also helping Gaotang prefect Gao Lian to suppress the bandits?
After the officers and troops of various prefectures withdrew one after another, only the army led by Zhang Qing in Dongchang Prefecture did not evacuate.Because the prefect of Dongchang Mansion was promoted by Gao Qiu, he sent a letter asking Zhang Qing to continue to follow Gao Lian to destroy the Liangshan bandits, so Zhang Qing had to stay and pretend to be a snake.
In addition, the only ones who came to meet the new coach Gao Lian today were the generals of the neighboring Yanzhou and Puzhou armies, and the Zizhou army who came late not long ago.
Seeing that half of the state's officers and troops left, Gao Lian, the newly appointed coach, could not help but curse inwardly, blaming the prefects of the states who had withdrawn their troops.
However, although Gao Lian was annoyed, his face did not change. Instead, he continued to chat and laugh happily with Cheng Zhifu and others, congratulating Cheng Zhifu and others for their great achievements, and humbly asking them for advice on how to wipe out the bandits in Liangshanpo.
Although the officers and soldiers from six states were gone, Gao Lian also brought officers and soldiers from three states this time. In addition, Chao Gai's bandit army has been wiped out, and half of the bandit army's strength has gone. Gao Lian is still full of confidence, and he doesn't think there will be any accidents during the Southern Expedition.
After a feast, the host and guests had a good time, Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture, also handed over the command of exterminating the bandits in Liangshan Po to Gao Lian, and asked the generals in charge of the states present to follow Gao Lian's orders in the future.
At the same time as the military power was handed over to Gao Lian, there were also felons Chao Gai, Wu Yong, and Dong Ping who were detained in Jeju City.Among them, only one "iron fan" Song Qing was missing among the captives.
Before Ximen Qing left, in order to prevent Song Wan's secret from being leaked, Song Qing, who might know about it, was cut off and his head cut off.
When Gao Lian was surprised that Chao Gai and others were still imprisoned in Jeju City, Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture, explained to him: "It has been a while since the bandits' Dazhai in Liangshan Po has been captured, and Chao Gai and others have also been captured for a while." Well, the government should have escorted these villains to Bianliang City, Tokyo as soon as possible, but the government troops from various states have withdrawn one after another. Therefore, it was too late to arrange for the army to escort Chao Gai and others to Beijing."
After hearing this, Gao Lian had no choice but to take over Chao Gai and others.
Brother just asked me to grab some merit, why is there still so much trouble?
Chapter 597 Prefect Candidates
After Cheng Wanli, the governor of Dongping Prefecture, handed over the matter of suppressing the bandits to Gao Lian, the prefect of Gaotang Prefecture, he immediately arranged for the military and horse superintendent Wang Jun to lead Gao Lian's army, and sent them to Jeju City, south of Liangshanbo.
From now on, the defense of the newly recovered Jeju and Xuzhou will be handed over to Gao Lian. Cheng Wanli only needs to guard his Dongping mansion with Wang Jun, and take Gao Lian's matter of suppressing bandits as nothing to do with him. strategy.
Would Gao Lian not know about the open and secret struggle between his elder brother Gao Qiu and Taiwei Tong Guan?The officers and troops of the various prefectures retreated so quickly, isn't there a reason why Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture, deliberately condoned it?Gao Lian knew very well that when he came here, it was impossible to get the sincere help from Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, and everything had to be done by himself.
Gao Lian came to Jeju City and used the Yamen of the prefect of Jeju as a temporary commander-in-chief.
It is said that after the prefect of Jeju was killed by bandits in Liangshanpo, no one was willing to come to Jeju City to serve as the prefect because of the turmoil of the war.A few days ago, Cheng Wanli, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture, was in charge of Jeju.Now that Gao Lian is here, naturally he should take care of it for a few days.
I heard that the ministers in Bianliang City, Tokyo, were arguing endlessly, and finally selected a man named Liu Yu to take over as the prefect of Jeju.
That Liu Yu is a native of Fucheng, Yongjing Army, Hebei. His family has been farming for a living, and he was able to step into the officialdom of the Song Dynasty by studying hard and getting a Jinshi.
However, Liu Yu had neither a big family background nor an outstanding appearance and elegant conversation. He couldn't get into the eyes of the Taoist emperor Song Huizong who liked his appearance. He was once ridiculed by Song Huizong as an uninformed Hebei mud leg.
Since no one wanted to come to Jeju, where the situation was uncertain, as the magistrate, the court officials searched for him thousands of times, and finally caught such a person with no background and sufficient qualifications, and awarded him the post of prefect of Jeju.
Liu Yu couldn't shirk it, and heard that he was already suffering.Gao Lian guessed that if Liu Yu dawdled on the road, he would arrive at Jeju City in ten days or so.At that time, Gao Lian can hand over the civil affairs of Jeju to Liu Yu to take care of it.
Compared with the fact that the position of the prefect of Jeju was once undecided, the changes of the prefect of Xuzhou are even more bitter.
When the Song Jiang army was rampant across the Huaihe River, Hou Meng, the magistrate of Bozhou, was frightened and did not dare to fight the Song Jiang army, but he repeatedly wrote to the court requesting to recruit the bandit Song Jiang.
Especially after learning of Fangla's rebellion in the south of the Yangtze River, Hou Meng even wrote to the court, suggesting that after recruiting the Song Jiang bandit army, let them go to the south of the Yangtze River to attack Fangla.Hou Meng's strategy is to let the two groups of thieves kill each other. Whether it is Song Jiang who kills Fang La or Fang La who kills Song Jiang, it is to eliminate thieves for the country and is beneficial to the court.
When Song Jiang's defeat of Huyanzhuo's army in Huaiyang was overwhelming, there were voices in the court that supported Hou Meng's strategy of recruiting security.However, Taiwei Tongguan, who holds a heavy army, strongly opposes Hou Meng's proposal, saying that the official army can quell the chaos of Fangla in the south of the Yangtze River, and that using the power of the Songjiang bandit army to quell Fangla will damage the dignity of the court and the official army.
Daojun Emperor Song Huizong just needed Taiwei Tong Guan and his gang of arrogant soldiers to go south to quell the chaos, so he adopted Tong Guan's intention and denied the strategy of recruiting peace from Bozhou prefect Hou Meng.
When Cheng Wanli, the magistrate of Dongping Prefecture, led the troops to pacify the Liangshanbo bandits in Dongping Prefecture and Jeju, and took back Xuzhou from the Songjiang bandits, the court believed that the Liangshanpo bandits were not as difficult to conquer as Hou Meng said.Public opinion in the DPRK and China began to overwhelmingly condemn Hou Meng, the magistrate of Bozhou, for being passive and fearful of war, and sat by and watched the Songjiang bandit army kill the people in neighboring states.The officials of Yushitai impeached Hou Meng one after another, saying that he advocated security because he did not dare to fight with the Song Jiang bandit army, which really hurt the face of the court.
Taking advantage of this gust of wind, Prime Minister Cai Jing made a move.When Hou Meng was the Minister of Zhongshu in Beijing, he was at odds with Cai Jing, and Cai Jing did not forget this political enemy.
When Hou Meng was in the center of Beijing, one day, Emperor Huizong of Song Dynasty suddenly asked him: "Ai Qing thinks, what kind of person is my prime minister, Cai Jing?"
Hou Meng replied: "Cai Jing, the prime minister, is so talented that he can correct his mind. Even if he is an ancient virtuous prime minister, why should he be added?"