Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

Zhang Qing listened to Huangfu Duan's words at the side, and also said: "Brother Huangfu is right, brother Ximen can come to this Dongchang mansion to open a new medicine shop. Brother also has some popularity in this Dongchang mansion, How much can help my brother manage a little."

Gong Wang also yelled: "Brother Ximen opened a shop, which one of the market in Dongchang Mansion would dare not accept it? If there are rogues who don't have eyesight to make trouble, brother just tell me, I "Huaxianghu" killed him !"

Ding Desun also laughed and said: "Gong Wang is right, we two brothers can clean up troublemakers on the street for brother Ximen, and brother Ximen can just make money with peace of mind."

"Okay! Since all the brothers have said so, I can't justify my refusal. Brother, after I go back to Yanggu to prepare, I will come to Dongchang Mansion to open a new medicine shop." Ximen Qing listened to Zhang Qing and the others If so, it was immediately decided to open a new herbal medicine shop in Dongchang Prefecture.

After Ximenqing saw the easy-to-defend and difficult-to-attack city of Dongchang Mansion, he decided to develop power in this Dongchang Mansion, making it correspond to Pingjiao, Yanggu County, and expanding his foothold in the future.

Therefore, when Huangfu Duan proposed that Ximen Qing come to Dongchang Mansion to open a medicine shop, it could be said that it was in Ximen Qing's arms.

The reason why Ximen Qing readily agreed to open a new raw medicine shop in Dongchang Mansion was not to make more money from it, but to win over the four heroes of Dongchang Mansion headed by Zhang Qing.

Ximen Qing had already made up his mind that when opening the store, Zhang Qing and the others should work hard for it, so that he could owe their favor.After the medicine shop is finished, distribute some of the money earned to Zhang Qing and the others. They have to accept it, right?

In this way, wouldn't he have a closer relationship with the four heroes of Dongchang Mansion? This is the foundation of Ximen Qing's future in Dongchang Mansion.

The six of Ximen Qing became more and more enthusiastic as they talked. They pushed and changed glasses on the wine table and drank a lot of wine.

After eating this, I ate for an hour or two.After everyone got a little drunk, Ximen Qing rushed to settle the bill with the store owner, and went down to Wangyun Tower with Zhang Qing and the others.

Everyone chatted and laughed all the way, and walked outside Huangfuduan's house on West Street.The poppi standing nearby couldn't help being surprised when he saw the official Ximen Qing walking back side by side with "Purple Bearded Uncle" Huang Fuduan.

Ximen Qing gave that poppi a wink secretly, and that poppi understood, turned around and mixed into the crowd, and retreated quietly.

After sending Huangfu Duan home, the three of Zhang Qing said goodbye first and left. Before leaving, Ximen Qing and Shi Wengong were invited to come to his house tomorrow to have a talk.

Because Shi Wengong was still concerned about the safety of his BMW "Chidian", he politely declined Zhang Qing's invitation, and made an appointment with Huangfuduan to pick him up at Huangfuduan's house on West Street tomorrow morning, and return to Zengtou City, Lingzhou together.

After Shi Wengong made an agreement with Huangfu Duan, he went back to the hotel with Ximen Qing and told his confidants to pack up and prepare.

Ximen Qing told Jiao Ting about meeting "No Feather Arrow" Zhang Qing today.

There was nothing wrong in Dongchang Mansion overnight, early the next morning, Shi Wengong left the hotel with a few of his subordinates to pick up Huangfu Duan back to Zengtou City.

After Ximen Qing and Jiao Ting wandered around Dongchang Mansion for half a day, they went to the Dujian Mansion to visit "No Feather Arrow" Zhang Qing.

Zhang Qing, Gong Wang, and Ding Desun had already prepared a banquet in the mansion, and the five of them naturally drank a lot, until Ximen Qing got all four of them drunk, the banquet was considered to be a successful conclusion.

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Ximen Qing and Jiao Ting stayed in Dongchang Mansion for a few more days, drinking and having fun with Zhang Qing and the other three every day, or going to the school grounds to exchange martial arts experience, or wandering around to visit the scenic spots and historic sites in Bozhou, just enjoying themselves.

After playing for a few days, Ximenqing bid farewell to Zhang Qing and Zhao Zhongming, took Jiao Ting and left Dongchang Mansion, heading south to Yanggu County.

On this trip, Zhao Zhongming arranged for a confidant to copy books to follow Ximen Qing.As agreed in advance, Ximenqing would dictate to him a few wonderful stories from "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" every day, and he would transcribe them on paper, polish them, and send them back to Zhao Zhongming.

Zhao Zhongming was in charge of printing these stories of the Three Kingdoms into volumes of booklets and selling them in batches to various states and governments, trying his best to earn more profits.

The market society in the Song Dynasty has developed to the present, and business has been very prosperous.As soon as this Ximenqing version of "Romance of the Three Kingdoms" was released, it was sought after by high-ranking officials and nobles, as well as ordinary people in the market.

Every time Zhao Zhongming released a pamphlet, it was sold out by the state capitals.Not long after, merchants frequently urged Zhao Zhongming to print the follow-up story as soon as possible.

Chapter 152

The printing and publication of "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms" brought a lot of money to Ximen Qing's officials and won him a new reputation.Wherever the books are sold, you will know that there is a senior official named Ximen Qing in Yanggu County, Shandong Province.

Of course, Ximenqing did not forget the agreement with Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui, the training envoys of the Lingzhou regiment. He asked Zhao Zhongming to send someone to Lingzhou to hand over to Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui in the fastest time every time he released a new book. Ting Gui.Wei Dingguo and Shan Tinggui were fascinated by "The Romance of the Three Kingdoms", and they really admired Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing and Jiao Ting returned to Yanggu County and met Hu Sanniang, Luan Tingyu, Ximenxin and others in Ximenbao.

At the reception banquet, Hu Sanniang told Ximen Qing that because she wanted to train cavalry, it was inconvenient to live in a mansion in the county town, so she decided to live in Ximen Fort for a long time, with Ximen Xin and Luan Tingyu as companions.

Luan Tingyu told Ximen Qing triumphantly that his wife Ximen Xin was pregnant and he was going to be a father.

Ximen Qing said in his heart, before I left Yanggu County, I asked this brother-in-law to work hard, and it seems that it has finally achieved results. "Iron Rod" Luan Tingyu is really good at guns and sticks, and he lives up to my trust!My sister is a little fox, she doesn't have the heart to trick her brother right now!

Seeing that the population of Ximen Fort is getting more and more prosperous, Ximen Qing decided to use the large amount of money he brought back from Dry Tree Mountain to expand the Ximen Fort so that more people can be accommodated in the fort, and the nearby weapon workshops are also surrounded by new buildings. Within the stone wall, strengthen the overall defense capability of Simon Fort.

After discussing the matter of expansion with Luan Tingyu and entrusting the matter to Luan Tingyu, Ximenqing invited Instructor Hong to discuss with him and Hu Sanniang the matter of expanding the township army.

Originally, there were only five or six hundred villager soldiers in Ximen Fort. After the careful teaching and training of Headmaster Hong and Luan Tingyu, they were able to skillfully use spears and sticks, and had some prototypes of elite soldiers, ready to go into battle and kill the enemy.

But Hu Sanniang is going to train five hundred elite cavalry this time.With the two or three hundred good horses brought back by Guanzhou, plus the horses already in Ximen Fort, five hundred war horses were raised enough to meet the current training needs.

There are horses, but the source of soldiers is not enough.Hu Sanniang brought back twenty or thirty young men from Guanzhou, and a few days ago, she summoned dozens of her former confidantes from Hu's Village to Ximenbao, barely gathering 100 people.

For the remaining 400 people, Hu Sanniang will select and transfer from the village soldiers trained in Ximen Fort.

In this way, the rudimentary form of the cavalry was established, but there were not many experienced infantry left under the command of the head coach Hong, so he had to start all over again.Ximenqing asked Coach Hong to recruit another 1000 people from the tenants and tenants in Yanggu County, as well as the farmers who knew the basics, so that they could be trained and trained to become elites.I will also let Jiao Ting, Shi Yong, Jiang Zhong and others take turns to help Coach Hong train recruits.

Seeing that Ximen Qing entrusted him with important tasks, Hong Jiaotou was very grateful, so he naturally agreed, and patted his chest to assure Ximen Qing that he would train a thousand elite soldiers for the officials.

After arranging the affairs of Coach Hong, Ximen Qing finally met Tang Long, Lu Xiaoyi and Qiao Yun who had rushed to Ximenbao to see him.

After transporting a large amount of firearm materials back from Lingzhou, Tang Long has developed and improved black powder according to the formula Ximenqing said.After Tang Long's repeated tests and comparisons, it is indeed much more powerful than the black powder used by the Song Army in the past.

This time, Tang Long was very happy, and his interest in developing new firearms was greatly increased.As soon as he saw Ximen Qing, he talked non-stop, excitedly telling Ximen Qing about the progress of firearms development.

Seeing Tang Long's dedication, Ximen Qing was also overjoyed.He told Tang Long, just do it boldly, no matter if you want people or things, you will definitely meet Tang Long's needs.

As for Lu Xiaoyi and Brother Qiao Yun, because Ximenqing let them be in charge of the current intelligence organization, Ximenqing also entrusted the protection of Tanglong's weapons workshop to these two confidantes who first took refuge in him.

Ximenqing's request to the two of them is to help Tang Long keep the secret of the development of new firearms, and never let outsiders know that he has made such a big progress here.Lu Xiaoyi and Qiao Yun knew that this matter was the most important to the officials of Ximen Qing, and immediately expressed that they would do their best to protect the secret of the weapon workshop.

Shi Yong and Jiang Zhong went out and did not return, Ximen Qing could only reunite with those two brothers another day.

After discussing so many subsequent developments with his brothers, the physically and mentally exhausted official Ximen Qing had no choice but to call Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan to serve him a warm soup, a real clean-up.

Hu Sanniang is now lingering on the training ground, but has no time to pay attention to these absurd affairs of Ximen officials.Anyway, Hu Sanniang was in the mood, so she just pushed Ximen Qing down and galloped away at night.As long as Ximen Qing has the physical strength to fight her several times, Hu Sanniang will no longer care how Ximen Qing works hard on other little ladies.

I don't know when this absurd Ximen official prepared such a big wooden barrel that several people could sit down and bathe in the fragrant soup at the same time.At this moment, Ximen Qing was sitting naked in a wooden barrel soaking fragrant soup, his eyes were rolling around, looking at Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan, two young ladies.

The two little faces of Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan were flushed with embarrassment, standing on both sides of the barrel, staring at the official Ximen Qing in a daze.

Just now, the senior officials actually proposed that we both take off our clothes at the same time and go into that bucket to serve him. How is this possible?It's really embarrassing!

Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan had never had this kind of experience of serving one person at the same time before. The sudden request made by the official Ximen Qing made the two young ladies very nervous and shy, but also inexplicably excited.

Seeing that the two young ladies were still hesitating, Ximen Qing couldn't bear it, so he directly pulled them into the barrel one by one.

ah!High officials are good or bad!

Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan's clothes were all wet, they had to take off their clothes, and treated each other frankly.The two daughters, Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan, quietly hugged each other's figure, raised their chests high, and refused to be inferior in front of the officials.

Seeing this, Ximen Qing laughed happily, hugged left and right, and buried his head in the gentle village for a while.This time, Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan sang softly, humming non-stop.

Ximenqing remembered that both Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan were good at rhythm and singing, so he asked them to sing to him in turn.Naturally, the two had a wonderful singing battle in Ximen Qing's arms.However, under Ximen Qing's hands, both Zhang Xixi and Zhang Yulan were out of tune from time to time, which was really annoying.