Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

While the people were chatting, they heard the sound of horseshoes in the distance, and maybe 50 or [-] people were coming.

Cao Zheng said: "Brother Yang Zhi must be here!"

Before he finished speaking, he saw a horse coming up on the road, and the man on the horse was a big man over seven feet tall.I saw him wearing a Fan Yang hat, a big red tassel on his hat, a green mark on his face, and a simple knife in his hand, rushing over immediately.Behind him, more than a dozen riders appeared.

The big man rode on the horse and shouted loudly: "Brother, the Sa family is here!"

Lu Zhishen also yelled loudly to the big man: "Restrainer, the family is fine! We are all good brothers here!"

The person who came was the green-faced beast Yang Zhi.On the mountain, after he learned that Lu Zhishen and Cao Zheng were going after the enemy's family, he was worried that Lu Zhishen would make a mistake, so he hurriedly led dozens of young men down the mountain and rode over on horseback.

Seeing that Lu Zhishen and Cao Zheng had nothing to do, they were chatting and laughing happily with the people around them, Yang Zhi reined in his horse, jumped off with a kick, and asked, "Didn't you say that some of these people have enemies of senior brother? What's the matter?" Become a good brother?"

Cao Zheng walked up to Yang Zhi's side, and told Yang Zhi in detail what happened today and what happened on the cross slope of the big tree in Mengzhou that day.

Yang Zhi also gritted his teeth with hatred when he heard that "vegetable garden" Zhang Qing and "Mother Yaksha" Sun Erniang opened a black shop and killed passers-by to make steamed bun stuffing, and called out that the villain should be killed.

After learning that it was Ximen Qing and Jiao Ting who killed Zhang Qing and his wife, Yang Zhi became very fond of them and praised them as real heroes.

Ximenqing and his party met Yang Zhi again, they exchanged names, and they had a hot conversation for a while.

Seeing that he and this "monk of flowers" Lu Zhishen were able to turn enemies into friends, Ximen Qing was also secretly happy.

The "Flower Monk" Lu Zhishen and the "Blue-faced Beast" Yang Zhi of Erlong Mountain are both heroes with high martial arts skills, and they are both people with chivalrous spirit and personal integrity. They are by no means comparable to ordinary grass bandits who kill innocent people indiscriminately.

Both of them were military officers in the imperial court, and they were rare talents who could lead troops to fight.Now they are just out of luck, forced to temporarily hide in Erlong Mountain.

In a few years from the war between Song and Jin, when the world is in chaos, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi from Erlong Mountain can be a useful help.

Ximen Qing said in his heart, since he has met Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, he naturally wants to make friends with them, and try to prevent them from getting into the pirate ship in Liangshan in the future.If you want to board the boat, you have to board the boat of the high officials of Ximen!

The three of Lu Zhishen and Ximenqing and the others shared the same spirit of loyalty, and proposed to invite everyone to come to Erlong Mountain for a gathering.Ximen Qing pulled Xin Zan aside and asked Xin Zan for his opinion.

After all, Xin Zan is the family of officials whose ancestors have been officials for generations. If he wants to go to the robber's den in Erlong Mountain, Ximen Qing has to take Xin Zan's feelings into consideration.

Unexpectedly, after Ximenqing asked Xin Zan, Xin Zan agreed to go to the Erlong Mountain together without hesitation, and didn't mind the fact that he was in the robber's den.

Xin Zan told Ximen Qing that he also admired Lu Zhishen, a strange man, and was willing to make friends with him.The few people I brought with me are all confidantes, so I'm not afraid that the news will leak out.

There was no objection from Xin Zan, Ximen Qing and others readily accepted the invitation of Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi, and returned to Erlong Mountain with them.

Passing through the three closed gates and going up the mountain, Ximen Qing and others were full of praise for the dangerous terrain of Erlong Mountain.The Erlong Mountain is sandwiched between two high mountains, and there is only one stone step up the mountain in the middle.Three checkpoints block the stone steps, even thousands of troops can hardly conquer this mountain.

When they came up to the mountain, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi held a banquet to receive Ximen Qing and his party.

During the banquet, Ximen Qing looked at Yang Zhi with a lot of emotion in his heart.

After Ximenqing knew that the "green-faced beast" Yang Zhi was the golden swordsman Yang Linggong, he had always had a heart to serve the country in his heart, and he wanted to use real swords and guns to make military exploits on the border and win a wife.

It's a pity that Yang Zhi was a good-natured person, no matter how hard he tried, he was always plagued by bad luck and couldn't help.

Yang Zhi participated in the martial arts examination, gained fame, and became an envoy in Bianliang, Tokyo.When he was ordered to escort Hua Shigang, nine of the ten boats were safe, and he was the only one who escorted the boat overturned, so he was punished and dismissed from office.

Yang Zhi was desperate, and when he was selling the Seller's Legendary Sword at Bianliangzhou Bridge, he met the rogue Niu Er again.Under Niu Er's stalking, he killed Niu Er in anger, and was dispatched to Beijing Daming Mansion.

Liang Zhongshu of the famous mansion appreciated Yang Zhi and asked him to escort the birthday outline, but was robbed by Chao Gai's seven people in Huangnigang.Ended up fleeing the rivers and lakes, with nowhere to go.

It can be said that Yang Zhi was unlucky before he met Lu Zhishen, and everything went wrong.

Chapter 1 Seventy Qingzhou City

After Yang Zhi met Lu Zhishen and Cao Zheng, he did something.Together with Lu Zhishen, he annexed Erlong Mountain, killed Deng Long, seized the cottage, and got involved with the second master of a bandit cottage.

Because Ximen Qing knew about Yang Zhi's past, he secretly watched Yang Zhi's expression carefully at the banquet.I saw that although Yang Zhi also chatted happily with everyone, there was always a hint of depression between his brows and eyes, and his temperament was very different from Lu Zhishen who was naturally heroic.

This Yang Zhi still remembers that he is the general of the Yang family, so he is frustrated with the situation of being forced to fall into the grass now!

So exactly what I want!Ximen Qing decided to give Yang Zhi a glimmer of hope, not to let him slip further and further down the road of bandits and robbers.In history, it was he who suggested to Lu Zhishen to invite Liangshan soldiers and horses to attack Qingzhou together, which led to the merger of Erlongshan into Shuibo Liangshan.Ximen Qing didn't want him to give Lu Zhishen such a bad idea in the future.

So, when everyone was talking about rumors of heroes in the world, Ximen Qing told everyone about the war between the Song Dynasty and Xixia, and the ongoing war between Liao and Jin in the north.

Ximen Qing heard these news from military officers such as Xu Ning, Ling Zhen, Wei Dingguo, and Zengtou City Shi Wengong, and added some Ximen Qing's insights from the history he learned from later generations, so that everyone listened with gusto.

Xin Zan is from a family of officials and officials, so he naturally knows something about the northwest border and the northern Liao Kingdom.What Ximen Qing didn't know, he made some additions.

After hearing the words of Ximen Qing and Xin Zan, everyone knew that the world was raging with war, and they were afraid that it would become more turbulent.

Both Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi were from Kansai, and Lu Zhishen used to be a member of the Western Army. When he heard about the war in the Northwest, he couldn't help but feel his blood boil, wishing he could go to the Xixia border to kill the enemy and serve the country.

Yang Zhi's eyes lit up when he heard it, as if he saw a glimmer of hope.After a while, it gradually dimmed down again, and said with a long sigh: "Hey, I want to say that the Sa family is the descendant of three generations of generals, and the grandson of the fifth prince Yang Linggong. My parents gave birth to the Sa family, with a dignified appearance and a dignified body. With such martial arts skills, he had hoped to win his wife and son with a single shot in the front court, and he would not humiliate his ancestors. Now that the court is employing people for border affairs, the Sa family intends to kill the enemy for the country, but there is no way to serve the country! "

Yang Zhi's words also mentioned Lu Zhishen's dissatisfaction.Lu Zhishen was originally a confidant of the senior minister Gongzhong Shidao in the Western Army, and was later sent by the Zhongshidao to the small Zhongxiang Gongzhong division, and became a trusted aide of the small Zhongxiang Gongzhong division.At this moment, I heard that the old Xijun Zhonggong and the Xiaozhong Xianggong are leading the army to fight against Xixia, why can't he be fascinated?

Lu Zhishen also let out a long sigh, and drank a bowl of mulled wine.

Cao Zheng, Luan Tingyu and the others knew that the two of them had been touched, so they all spoke kindly to each other.

However, after Ximen Qing drank a bowl of wine, he told Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi in shocking words that he judged that the Liao Kingdom would collapse under the attack of the Jin people within a few years, and the imperial court would send troops northward to compete for the land of Youyan. land.Because of the lack of armaments of the Hebei Forbidden Army, it is very likely that volunteers who dare to fight will be recruited in Hebei and Shandong.Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi only need to wait patiently, and then they can enlist in the army again, and even join the old and young ministers again.

After listening to Ximen Qing's analysis, Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi felt a sense of pride in their hearts, and felt that there was finally hope for this bleak life that had been turned into a bandit.The two immediately expressed that they would mobilize their troops for the future.

Seeing that he had successfully disintegrated a force of future Liangshan bandits, Ximen Qing was very unhappy.For now, let's stabilize Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi first.There are still a few years before the imperial court's Northern Expedition. As long as I work hard to win over the heroes of Erlong Mountain during this period, whether Lu Zhishen and Yang Zhi will follow the imperial court's officers and soldiers, or follow me, the senior officials of Ximen, It is also unknown!

Everyone drank until late at night in Baozhu Temple, and then they went back to their rooms to rest.

After waking up the next day, Ximen Qing and his party said goodbye to Lu Zhishen and the others, went down Erlong Mountain, and headed straight for Qingzhou City.

Two days later, Ximen Qing and the others finally arrived at Qingzhou City, and saw the high city wall from a distance.

Qingzhou is located between the East China Sea and Mount Dai, one of the ancient Kyushu.Qingzhou City has been a famous city in the east of China since the Eastern Han Dynasty.

This place is adjacent to the mountainous area, and the folk customs have been strong since ancient times.At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Qingzhou soldiers under Cao Cao's command were famous for their bravery and combat skills.Of course, the Qingzhou soldier also has another reputation, that is, the military discipline is corrupt.

In the Huizong Dynasty of the Song Dynasty, Qingzhou people still inherited the advantages of their ancestors, and thieves flocked to cause disaster.The "Dangerous Dao God" Yu Baosi is one of the outstanding figures.

The Qingzhou City that Ximenqing and the others saw originally had only one Dongyang City. Since Wei Xiaoming Emperor Xiping expanded Nanyang City in the second year, it has been composed of Dongyang City and Nanyang City. It has been 600 years so far.

The Guilai Hall where Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao lived is located in the ancient city of Dongyang in Qingzhou City.Xin Zan was familiar with the way, and led the people into Qingzhou City, and went directly to Guilai Hall.

Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao saw that Ximen Qing, Xin Zan and others had arrived, and happily held a big banquet to welcome everyone.

Ximenqing presented the inscription rubbing on Qianfo Mountain in Licheng, which made Zhao Mingcheng love it for a while.

Cui couldn't come this time because her son was only one month old. She asked Xin Zan to bring Li Qingzhao many specialties from his hometown in Licheng, which also made Li Qingzhao think about others.

After the banquet, Zhao Mingcheng and Li Qingzhao took Ximen Qing and others to visit the places of interest and historic sites in Qingzhou City before they had finished their entertainment.

They first led the crowd to visit the famous Nanyang Bridge throughout the country.