Outside Yanggu County, in Ximen Village, there was a big banquet at this time.

The chefs of Jingong Building arrived in the morning and brought a lot of chicken, duck, fish, meat and various fruits and vegetables. After a while, they fry and fry. When it was almost noon, Kaifeng dishes were delivered one after another, and wine pots, bowls and dishes were added to stuff the square tables placed in the courtyard.

The people who came to eat were Baoding from Ximenzhuang. As soon as the news of the Liangshan heroes attacking Fanjiazhuang reached Yanggu County, they were summoned. Hundreds of farmers wore war jackets made by the Ximen family, carried round shields and helmets of rattan, and bows and arrows and straight knives from various villages near Ximenzhuang.

After the Baodings arrived, they naturally had to have a big meal first! The emperor was not short of hungry soldiers, and Sister Ximen could not let her Baoding go to the battlefield with hunger.

In addition to a sumptuous banquet, Ximen Qing also asked the chefs of Jingong Building to prepare enough cookies and jerky meat for 500 people to eat for two days, and also prepared a gourd sour wine for each Baoding (not white wine). These sour wines were for Baoding to drink before fighting against the heroes of Liangshan!

The copper coins of big baskets have been prepared long ago! There is a treasury in Ximen Village, where a total of 10,000 copper coins are prepared at any time, which are specially used to reward Baoding for fighting. The Ximen family will not let Baoding and sweat in vain. The rewards they should give are given a lot of money.

Baoding, who participated in the war this time, had one counted one, and gave a little money to pay, which would be sent to Baoding's house by the manager of the Ximen family.

After going out, whenever they face the enemy, they are giving money to the match. One time they play, and one person will give money to each other.

Then it’s about money.

Everyone has a reward for winning battles, and the sword and shield hand and archers can also be discussed in other aspects. The sword and shield hand discusses the skill of "beheading" and the reward for cutting the head! The archers discusses the skill of "magic arrows". The feather arrow shaft used by the archers of the Ximen family are engraved on the shaft. When cleaning the battlefield, you can record the merits according to the name on the shaft of the arrow that hit the enemy.

Then there is profit sharing.

That is, after selling the snatched spoils, the money will be divided according to the size of the "official rank" and the size of the credit.

Finally, there is pension.

Anyone who is killed in battle and injured will be paid for the Ximen family according to the circumstances.

Oh, Ximen's military service not only receives rewards, but also severe punishments!

There are five types of punishments including military sticks, whipping, ditches, expulsion and beheading. Among them, military sticks, whipping and ditches are used to punish minor faults. Exit and beheading are severe punishments! The so-called expulsion includes seizing the tenant!

The Ximen family's security guards are all customers (tenants), but they do not need to pay tenant rent. Once expelled, they will not only lose the treatment of not paying the rent, but even the cultivated land will be taken back by the Ximen family, and a new tenant rent relationship will never be established.

The beheading will usually be carried out together with the expulsion! In other words, if Baoding himself is killed, the land will be taken back by the Ximen family! The killed Baoding family will face the dilemma of starvation to death, and will be severely punished by extermination!

These two inhumane punishments are naturally used to punish Baoding, who escaped and disobeyed military orders at the moment. Not only are the punishments severely, but they can also be implemented!

The Ximen family is truly a powerful man who can reward all achievements and punish all mistakes!

The "military law" of the Ximen family is much more stringent in the military law of the Song Dynasty imperial guards! The training intensity received by the Ximen family Baoding was also greater than that of the other Song troops except the Western Army. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is strong and will never be inferior to the Western Army of the Song Dynasty... If Ximen Qing's boast about Shi Da County at the banquet is true.

"My uncle, it's not a boast of me. If my 500th Baoding from the Ximen family arrives in Shaanxi, I can fight against the Western thieves. How can the bandits in Liangshan be compared with the Western thieves? It's not scary at all! And this time, there are Taiwei Wu from Kaifeng who is in the middle command, and General Zhao and General Lin charge in the battle. The only bandits in Liangshan are really not scary!"

Ximen Qing, Wu Haogu, Zhao Zhong, Lin Chong, Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong all dined in the lobby of Ximenzhuang. There was nothing particularly delicious. Just like the ones who ate outside, they all had big fish, big meat and soy sauce.

When the Magistrate Shi Da and Zhang Kegong arrived in Ximenzhuang, the banquet was already ready. Ximen Qing did not mention anything about dying from a hunger strike, but went out to greet him with his fiancé Wu Haogu. Brother Zhao and Lin Chong, who were supposed to go to Daming Mansion to withdraw money, also followed him. I don’t know if they had withdrawn the money or had never left at all?

To Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong's expectations, Ximen Qing, who had been wronged before, now understood the righteousness and agreed to send troops without mentioning any requests. Not long after she agreed to send troops, the soldiers arrived one after another, and then had a full meal, preparing to go to the battlefield after eating.

Moreover, they were prepared to fight, with weapons, combat jackets, and helmets all in one go, two days of food, wine and copper coins used to inspire fighting spirit, and were ready as soon as possible.

Zhang Kegong, who was born in a general and knew some soldiers, thought: With this decisive behavior alone, let alone the Kaifeng Imperial Guards or the Hebei Imperial Guards, even the Northwest Imperial Guards, aren't it? The Ximen family really had a wrong dynasty. If they were born in the Tang Ji or the Five Dynasties, they might be able to create a military governor!

But now it is the prosperous era of the Song Dynasty with civilized rule over the world. A powerful man like Yanggu Ximen is a hidden danger after all! If they collude with the Liangshan bandits, they might be devastated. Such a powerful man would be better able to eliminate...

"Magic magistrate Shi," Just as Zhang Kegong was thinking about how to eradicate the Ximen family, Ximen Qing's adulterer Wu Haogu suddenly spoke, "This time I went out to do some private affairs, but I didn't want to encounter the bandits in Yunzhou to cause trouble. After returning to Beijing, I would write a memorial to the official family. But this memorial is not easy to write..."

"What is the hard thing to write the memorial?" Shi Zhixian smiled, "As far as I know, the brothers at the East Gate are still tyrants."

Wu Haogu smiled and said, "I am still a little bit about the words, but... Is it necessary to write this memorial that I am entrusted by the magistrate Shi to lead Baoding from Yanggu County to suppress the bandits? Isn't this robbing magistrate Shi's credit?"

When Shi Guozhong heard this, he looked at Ximen Qing beside Wu Haogu, thinking to himself, why is this a robbery of merit? Didn’t Ximen Qing cheat on you? Everyone is yours, and the merit is of course yours!

What I thought in my heart, of course I couldn’t say it straightforwardly, so I asked, “What should I do according to the meaning of Wudongmen?”

"It's better to go with us?" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "The commander in this way will naturally be the magistrate."

The magistrate led troops to suppress bandits?

When Shi Guozhong thought of the fierce Liangshan bandits, he subconsciously shook his head.

Wu Haogu rushed to say: "Shi County Magistrate, now the official family likes to use both civil and military talents. For example, several ministers in the court and several ministers in the northwest, all of them are civil officials who know the soldiers. If Shi County Magistrate can lead the troops to suppress the bandits himself, how can they not be civil officials who know the soldiers?"

Wu Haogu is indeed a treacherous minister! Zhang Kegong frowned slightly. Shi Guozhong is a confused official and cannot even handle the official duties of civil servants well. He still knows the military?

Zhang Kegong knew Shi Da County Magistrate, but Shi Guozhong didn't know much about himself. Although he was old, he was still very addicted to officials. Not only did he never think about resigning and returning home, he was also dreaming of being promoted!

His Wensan official rank was from the seventh-rank Xuan Fenglang, and he was already at the court official level! After leaping up, he reached the fifth-rank and sixth-rank official rank. The two governments dare not think about it, but the Caochen (Transportation Envoy) and the Qianchen (Pussy Envoy) might be able to think about it...

However, when you reach a certain level, you have to show some outstanding performance! As a civil servant, Shi Da County Magistrate's literary talent is actually very ordinary. He cannot be a scholar of the Civic and does not have the courage to be the prime minister of the dynasty in the Censorate. His ability to manage local areas is even worse. After two years of being the magistrate of Yanggu, he has not even collected all taxes.

Now, showing off his ability to "know the army" is an opportunity to attract the attention of the officials!

"Madam Ximen," Shi Zhixian turned his head and looked at Ximen Qing extremely seriously, "There will be no surprises in this battle, right?"

An official wants to be an official, but his life is even more important!

"No," Ximen Qing smiled, "There will be no doubt about victory!" She paused, "There will be no war even... When the Liangshan bandits saw the army led by the Ming Dynasty, they should escape."

"Even if they escaped in sight, it was also the magistrate's credit." Wu Haogu added, "In fact, the credit for suppressing bandits is not important. What is important is your courage! How many civil officials dare to lead troops to battle today?"

Although the Song Dynasty used civil servants to control the military, civil servants who were vigilant usually did not dare to go into battle. They hid in the castle hundreds of miles behind.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with strategizing and winning a thousand miles. But the soldiers and generals on the battlefield are actually very unconscious, deceiving their subordinates, chasing their credit, citing their mistakes, and tabooing defeat into victory, etc. are all commonplace.

If all civil servants stay in the castle and don’t go out, it will be difficult to grasp the real situation. The so-called strategy and victory must be the kind of Confucian general who has enough confidants to control the troops can only play.

Therefore, the magistrate Shi Da dared to go out of the city to meet the enemy before the bandits attacked, which was a very outstanding performance!

"Is he really going to escape?" Shi Guozhong asked again.

“Seven or eight out of ten.”

Of course, Ximen Qing could not say anything to death. In fact, the Liangshan bandits were hired by her for 10,000 taels of silver, and now she has only given three thousand. Of course, they have to escape. If Ximen Qing is beaten to death, who will Song Jiang ask for money?
Chapter completed!