Across the Water Margin: Officials of Ximen

After that, Li Gang was demoted to Kuizhou because of this, but escaped the disaster of Jingkang by a blessing in disguise.After the establishment of the small court in the Southern Song Dynasty, Li Gang was appointed prime minister again because of his blood-red reputation in the war of resistance.However, he continued to implement his policy of ignoring the actual strength comparison and blindly sticking to the end when he was in office. He still shouted slogans and others went to the front to die.As a result, after 75 days in power, he was dismissed by Song Gaozong Zhao Gou and driven out of the power center.

At this time in the Song court, most of the civil servants were Li Gang and his like, who did not dare to go to the battlefield in person, and only dared to command blindly with wooden plans thousands of miles away.There are very few civil servants like Du Chong who consciously want to go to the front line of the battle.

The world has another evaluation of Du Chong, that is, he is cruel and easy to kill.

In the early years of Jingkang, when the Song and Jin Dynasties went to war, Du Chong, who had served as the magistrate of Cangzhou, was added to the Jiying Hall by the imperial court, and then reinstated as the magistrate of Cangzhou, allowing him to return to this despicable place facing the front line of the Kingdom of Jin.At that time, the Jin people invaded the south, and many people came from Yandi to live in Cangzhou City. Du Chong worried that they were the internal support of the Jin people, so he killed them all, regardless of men, women, or children.

During the war, there are no shortage of massacre generals who do extraordinary things in the past dynasties, let alone just kill some refugees?For the refugees in Yandi, Du Chong was cruel and easy to kill, and the crime was extremely heinous; but for the imperial court at that time, Du Chong was decisive in front of the enemy and had great courage.Du Chong was not punished for massacring the refugees in Yandi. On the contrary, he was later promoted to the guardian of the Daming Mansion in Beijing.

Du Chong was able to take over Zongze and take up the post of staying behind in Tokyo, which may also have something to do with the court's appreciation of his character traits.After that, Du Chong did a major event that has affected China for hundreds of years-breaking the Yellow River embankment.

In the autumn of the second year of Jianyan, Emperor Gaozong of Song Dynasty, Jin soldiers committed crimes from Shandong, Henan and Shaanxi.It was winter, Du Chong ordered to open the embankment of the Yellow River, so that the water of the Yellow River would flow into the Huaihe River from Surabaya, in an attempt to stop the pursuers behind him.It is impossible to cover Song Gaozong.

It is a pity that Du Chong Juehe not only failed to stop the Jin Guodong Army, but also caused more than 20 local people to be drowned, and the deaths caused by displacement and plague were several times that.

And from then on, the Yellow River began to flow southward into the Huaihe River for a long time. It was not until the Xianfeng, Tongzhi, and Guangxu years of the Qing Dynasty that the Yellow River slowly resumed the situation of flowing from Shandong to the sea.However, the Huaihe River Basin, which was once prosperous and prosperous, has become a flooded area due to the Yellow River flowing into the Huaihe River. After hundreds of years, the land is severely salinized and is no longer as rich as it used to be.

The biggest evil that Du Chong did in his life was to destroy the Yellow River, which can be said to be a disaster for the country and the people, and it will last for thousands of years.Compared with this, his defeat and surrender in the future, the impact on history is really nothing.

However, for Song Gaozong, Du Chong's decision to block the Yellow River against the Jin soldiers was to protect his safety and to be loyal to him and the court.Therefore, when Du Chong led his troops to withdraw southward to the south of the Yangtze River, Song Gaozong added officials to Du Chong and appointed Du Chong as a member of the Privy Council of Tongzhi, and the official came to power.After Du Chong's resignation, Song Gaozong made an exception and appointed Du Chong as the right servant of Shangshu Shetong Pingzhangshi (that is, the right minister).

In other words, the cruel and easy-to-kill Du Chong once again won the emperor's favor and became a high-ranking official like the prime minister.If he hadn't been defeated in Jiankang and surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, perhaps he would have been recorded as one of the famous ministers of ZTE in the Southern Song Dynasty in the history books of the Song Dynasty!

At this time, Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, personally led the army to arrest the robbers, and he already had some demeanor in the future.However, Ximen Qing only remembered that this guy became a traitor in the end, but he didn't know that Du Chong had done such a great thing in history, and he was an important person that could not be ignored.

What Ximenqing didn't even know was that when Du Chong served as the left-behind in Tokyo in history, the future famous generals Han Shizhong and Yue Fei were under the control of Du Chong's subordinates, and his current wife-in-law Hu Cheng was also under the control of Du Chong's subordinates at that time.Especially Yue Fei, because he was from Xiangzhou with Du Chong, he was valued by Du Chong and became a trusted general under Du Chong's account.

Before Du Chong surrendered to the Kingdom of Jin, how many of the things he did in history were participated by generals such as Yue Fei and Hu Cheng?

Of course, because Ximen Qing traveled from later generations, the little wings of the butterfly are already working hard to change history.For example, Zhujiazhuang and Hujiazhuang in Dulonggang were saved because Ximenqing defeated the Liangshan army; in the future, Zengtou City and Daming Mansion will also be weakened by the Liangshan army, and it is very likely that they will no longer be attacked and slaughtered by robbers.Another example is that Yue Fei and Hu Cheng got to know Ximen Qing, and obviously they would no longer follow the historical track to serve as Du's subordinates.

It was Du Chong, the prefect of Cangzhou, who had had an intersection with Ximen Qing from the moment his son was rescued.Will he still be as cruel and easy to kill as in history?Will his history still be the same?I am afraid that his future path will hardly be consistent with history.At least Zhu Ting was not forced to go to Liangshan, and now he has one more trusted general under his command.

Without his knowledge, Ximen Qing had unintentionally influenced Du Chong, and silently began to rewrite the history of the Yellow River breaking its embankment and flowing southward.If one day he can know how much his trip to Cangzhou has made to the Lianghuai region in the future, I'm afraid he won't believe it!

Chapter 397 Layout Cangzhou

Ximen Qing followed the future treacherous minister Du Chong and searched Chai Jin's two manors. He was very pleased to see Hong Zhen and Jiao Ting swept away all the valuables, and then set off two fires that were false.

The fires of these two manors were neither too big nor too small, and it looked as if they left in a hurry, did not prepare in time, and randomly ordered a few places.The officials put out the fire without much effort.You know, Chaijin Manor is surrounded by water!

Even if Du Chong is a shrewd person, he would only suspect Chai Jin and the Liangshan robbers when he saw the scene.What's more, the valuable furniture and the land deeds of the farm that Ximen Qing intentionally left for him are enough for him to have a full meal.Therefore, Du Chong never thought that there were third-party forces in Cangzhou who were profiting from it.

If it was an ordinary case, it would be time to withdraw the troops after getting benefits, but this time the Liangshan bandits attacked Du Chong's youngest son after all. Du Chong was still angry and refused to let it go. twenty miles.

Chai Jin and others rode fast horses for a long time, how could Du Chong catch up?After all, he is not a military commander, after riding a horse for so long, his muscles and bones are already weak and it is difficult to continue.

Ximen Qing observed secretly, and found that the team brought out by the prefect Du Chong, except for Zhu Ting and the soldier and horse Dujian, was still the same, and the rest were tired and out of breath.

These Hebei forbidden troops are too lacking in training!This is still Cangzhou, which is next to the Liao Kingdom, and the officers and soldiers all look like this!No wonder a few years later when Tong Guan went north to attack Liao, there were no soldiers available by the river, so he had to recruit brave soldiers from the village to join the battle.Ximen Qing sighed in his heart.

Ximenqing suddenly remembered that in history, Yue Fei also recruited brave soldiers to join the army at that time, and followed Tong Guan's army to attack Yanjing in the Liao Kingdom.It's a pity that the Song Army's combat effectiveness was so poor that it was beaten back by the remnants of the Liao Army who were repeatedly defeated by the Jin Army.

Fortunately, Yue Fei and his brothers were lucky, not to be cannon fodder in that humiliating battle against Yan.

Ximen Qing said in his heart, luck is not always so good, this time he must deceive Yue Fei to his side, and prevent him from being a brave soldier in Tongguan's death squad.

Although it is said that famous generals grow up in constant fighting, they cannot do without the test of blood and fire.But Ximenqing still hopes that Yue Fei will gradually grow into a famous general while fighting for himself.

With a small calculation in mind, Ximen Qing followed Du Chong and Zhu Dian back to Cangzhou City.What surprised him a little was that Du Chong, the prefect, was very concerned about the Liangshanbo robbers. He not only asked the Bingmadujian to send people to continue hunting down Chai Jin and others in the south, but also vowed to ask the imperial court to be transferred to Jeju to serve as the prefect. , To wipe out the Liangshanbo bandits in office.

Du Chong has a lot of ambition!It's a pity that he still doesn't understand how bad the official army in Jeju is.After Chao Gai and the others robbed the birth date, the thousands of officers and soldiers in Jeju City were defeated by Chao Gai's seven men and some fishermen from Shijie Village.

If Du Chong really went to Jeju, he would suffer a lot.Maybe I, the official Ximen, will save his life in a critical moment!

Fortunately, this guy didn't expect to be transferred to Dongping Mansion!If he had gone to Dongping Mansion, then Cheng Wanli would not have come to Dongping Mansion to take up his post.Ximen Qing also had no chance to meet the legendary Miss Cheng who was so beautiful and made Dong Ping, the "Merry Two Guns General" Dong Ping, so brutal.

Ximen Qing rode on the horse thinking about his thoughts, and followed the prefect Du Chong back to the prefect's yamen in Cangzhou City.

Although Chai Jin was not captured on the spot, Chai Jin's crime of colluding with the bandits to rebel can be confirmed from the fact that Chai Jin fled in fear of crime and the corpse of Ma Lin, the bandit leader in Liangshanbo.

Du Chong asked Ximenqing to wait for a while, and asked Zhu Dian to change his bloody clothes to meet him. He immediately wrote the official document against Chai Jin and the Liangshanbo robbers in his own handwriting, and urgently reported it to the court.

After finishing the business in a hurry, Du Chong solemnly saluted Ximen Qing, thanking him for saving his son's life.Du Chong also invited his wife out to pay homage to Mrs.When the lady came out with Xiaoya Nei in her arms, Xiao Ya Nei recognized Ximen Qing who gave him sweets, and opened his arms to hug Ximen Qing.

Ximen Qing also liked this little doll carved in powder and jade, so he held him in his arms and teased him a few times, which made Xiao Ya Nei smile.

When Du Chong and his wife met, they also showed a happy smile, and got closer to Ximen Qing emotionally.

On that day, Du Chong hosted a family banquet in honor of Ximen Qing at his mansion, and asked Zhu Dong to accompany him to show his gratitude to Ximen Qing.

During the meeting, after Du Chong learned about Ximenqing's deeds in Yunzhou from Zhu Tong, he admired Ximenqing even more, and sighed that Chen Wenzhao, the prefect of Dongping Prefecture in Yunzhou, was lucky to have such a powerful family under his management.It's a pity that my Cangzhou is located in a humble place, there is no one like Ximen Qing who shares the worries of the court, and there are only rebels like Chai Jin.

When the three of them were drinking, Du Chong had a whim and told Ximen Qing that he had confiscated the manor and land of the traitor Chai Jin, and that these lands would be disposed of according to the law after the official documents from the imperial court came down.He said that Ximen Qing was good at running manors, and asked Ximen Qing if he would be willing to buy the land at that time?

As soon as Ximen Qing heard it, he understood that Du Chong's proposal had two meanings.One is to thank him for saving his son, and to let him participate in the distribution of the benefits of Chai Jin Manor, and give himself a benefit.The second is to hope that in Cangzhou, I can also make the same momentum as Yanggu County, Yunzhou, and help him.

Prefect Du put the meat to his mouth, should he bite or not?Ximen Qing was thinking quickly.

When he came to Cangzhou, Ximenqing was not interested in the land of Chaijin Manor.This place is too far away from Yanggu, unlike Lijiazhuang in Dulonggang, it is really difficult to manage.

Furthermore, this Cangzhou is too close to Yanjing in the Liao Kingdom.Ximen Qing knew the history. The Song-Liao battle and the Song-Jin war would take place one after another in the future. Cangzhou was located on the front line and had no buffer, so it was easily affected.It is not easy to take root in this land!

But if I think about it again, if I want to stir up the situation in the future and participate in the battle of Youyan, this Cangzhou can be regarded as a place where I can sit back and watch the success or failure, and can deal with it as soon as possible!Now Ximenqing is not sure what he will develop into in a few years, and whether he will participate in the Youyan incident.So, why don't you lay a leisurely child in Cangzhou first?

Ximen Qing thought about it, and after thinking about it for a while, he thanked Du Chong for his kindness, and expressed his willingness to participate in it and help Du Chong.

There is no need for wise people to say much, Ximen Qing and Du Chong, the two historical villains, smiled at each other, and they hooked up.

"Beautiful bearded man" Zhu Dian was able to hear about this matter. Obviously, after the test last night, Du Chong took him a step closer and regarded him as a true confidant.Zhu Tie will have a bright future in Cangzhou.

Zhu Dian is a very loyal person, Ximen Qing saved him this time, and he will naturally get rewarded by Zhu Dian's sacrifice of his life in the future.

Unknowingly, the history of the two on the wine table was misled by Ximenqing again.

Chapter 398 Visiting from Qingzhou

Under the kind retention and supervision of the prefect Du Chong, Ximenqing stayed in Cangzhou City for another two days before leaving Du Chong and Zhu Dian and leaving Cangzhou City.Du Chong and Zhu Dian gave Ximen Qing a lot of gifts, but Ximen Qing was disrespectful and had to accept them all.

After leaving Cangzhou City, Ximenqing led his men on horseback and rode southwest to Nanpi County on the bank of the Yellow River.After Hong Zhen, Jiao Ting and Qiao Yun brought more than 100 brothers to remove all the belongings from Chai Jin's mansion, they came to Nanpi County to wait for Ximen Qing as agreed.

Nanpi County is the confluence of the Yuhe section of the Grand Canal and the Yellow River, and it is also an important transportation point.After meeting with Hong Zhen and others, Ximen Qing hired a few large boats on the pier, went down the Yuhe River, stayed overnight at Xiaoxing, entered the Yongji Canal section of the canal via Yongjing Army and Enzhou, and then went along the Yongji He traveled southwest, passed through Guanzhou, and arrived at Daming Mansion.

When he came to Daming Mansion, Ximen Qing didn't plan to transport the boxes of jewelry and antiques back to Yanggu County.Mr. Lu Junyi and Mr. Lu opened Jieku pawnshop in this Daming Mansion, and there is no place more suitable for dealing with these valuable jewelry and antiques than his place.

Ximen Qing visited Lu Junyi at home, and sold all the jewelry and antiques he brought to Mr. Lu, and exchanged them for a large amount of gold, silver and copper coins. Ximen Qing kept some of the money in the Daming Mansion for cooperation with Lu Junyi in various businesses , and more were used to purchase horses, copper, iron, sulfur, saltpeter and other materials, and Hong Zhen and Jiao Ting were escorted back to Ximenbao first.

For Ximen Qing, who knows that the world will be in chaos in the future, gold, jewelry and shellfish are of no use. Only strategic materials such as horses, weapons and food need to be hoarded.Anyway, Lu Junyi doesn't have the strength and ambition to be an independent sect now, so let him keep these jewelry and antiques first!