Chapter 1,122: Taking the top spot in the Juyi Hall, Su Mingzhe sets the agenda
September.
More than a dozen Liangshan leaders led the Liangshan army to sweep across Qingzhou, Zizhou, and Qizhou.
Because soldiers and horses from all over the country were sent by the imperial court to support Qingzhou, the defense forces in various places were weak.
Faced with the pressure of Liangshan's army, various state capitals chose to surrender or flee.
End of September.
The entire Jingdong East Road fell.
In late September.
Su Mingzhe surrendered all the 60,000 captured troops, and then the preparations were completed.
Early October.
Su Mingzhe led the army back to Liangshan. When passing through Dongping Mansion, he defeated the city in one battle.
Cheng Wan of Dongping Prefecture wanted to commit suicide and die for his country, but was stopped by Su Mingzhe.
Su Mingzhe doesn't care whether this old guy dies or not.
However, it would be meaningless if Cheng Wan died and his daughter Cheng Wan'er also committed suicide.
After capturing Cheng Wan, Su Mingzhe took Murong Yanran into the government office.
It was a coincidence that as soon as I entered the backyard, I saw three girls dressed as peasant women. Their faces were covered with a layer of dust from the bottom of the pot, and they looked shabby.
Looking at the three girls, even the commoner Jing Chai could not hide the graceful figure of the girl, Su Mingzhe smiled directly:
"Which one of you is Cheng Wan'er?"
Upon hearing the question, a girl shivered with fright and quickly buried her head in the arms of another girl.
A brave girl said bravely:
"The slave family is Cheng Wan'er!"
"How brave!"
Su Mingzhe took a closer look and saw that this 'Cheng Waner' had good facial features and a beautiful oval face. Although her skin color could not be seen clearly, she had a voluptuous figure.
"Vanilla, take the three of them to wash up and change into nicer clothes!"
Su Mingzhe said, after letting people watch the back house, he returned to the front hall and began to deal with the internal affairs.
At night.
Su Mingzhe returned to the backyard. After a romantic affair, he lay down on the bed outside regardless of the crying of the three girls and began to think about an imminent question:
"Winter is coming soon. A hundred thousand troops have only over 50,000 sets of winter clothes!"
"It is said that the emperor has no shortage of hungry soldiers. The problem is, even if they are exposed to the cold!"
"It seems that this winter, we can only shrink our strength and consolidate first..."
After a while, Murong Yanran's maid Xiang Xiang heard the noise in the house and came in to help the man clean up the mess.
With Vanilla's careful comfort and comfort, the three girls on the bed finally stopped crying.
Su Mingzhe, who was lying outside, listened for a while and then realized.
Among the three girls, the one who previously admitted that she was Cheng Wan'er was actually Cheng Wan's concubine Hong Xiu.
Among the other two girls, the one with tender skin that oozes water when pinched is Cheng Wan's daughter, Cheng Wan'er.
There is another girl, Cheng Wan'er's personal maid Qiu Yun.
As Cheng Wan'er became Su Mingzhe's woman, Cheng Wan, who was originally imprisoned in a cell, had his treatment improved and was transferred to a small courtyard where he continued to be imprisoned.
After Su Mingzhe wiped out the entire Dongping Prefecture, he did not continue to attack Puzhou, but returned to Liangshan with an army of 100,000.
Mid October.
Except for some leaders who stayed in various state capitals, the other leaders returned to Liangshan and participated in the first 'all-hands meeting' after the Liangshan uprising.
Inside Liangshan Juyi Hall.
More than thirty leaders gathered together, and the first thing they did was arrange seats.
The first spot must still belong to Su Mingzhe.
At Su Mingzhe's insistence, Qiao Lie and Gongsun Sheng sat on his left and right sides.
He started with two Taoist priests, namely Lu Zhishen and Lin Chong.
Chao Gai and Song Jiang can only rank third among the two columns.
In fact, although Song Jiang took refuge in Liangshan very early, he did not have many achievements. His main job was to greet people and send them off, and to deal with various interpersonal relationships politely.
Song Jiang, who has no credit, logically speaking, the seats should be arranged one row downwards.
As a result, those leaders who had enough merit did not dare to sit in front of Song Jiang.
With no choice but to speak, Su Mingzhe asked Song Jiang and Chao Gai to sit down side by side.
Followed by Wu Yong, Qin Ming, Yang Zhi, Sun Li and other leaders.
As for leaders such as Zhu Gui, Zhu Fu, Yang Xiong, Shi Xiu, Hua Rong, Liu Bai, Liu Qing, Zhu Tong, Lei Heng, Luan Tingyu, Hu Cheng, and Li Ying, they can only stay further back.
After everyone decided on the seating ranking.
Su Mingzhe asked Gongsun Sheng to summarize the changes in Liangshan in the past six months.
Gongsun Sheng was not polite, stood up, and read out a long list of data.
At present, Liangshan has occupied most of the areas along Jingdong Road, leaving only Yingtian Mansion, Xingren Mansion, Guangji Army, and Puzhou, still under the control of the imperial court.
In fact, Liangshan's spies have long been lurking in various places. After Liangshan's army is well prepared, they can march westward to Bianliang anytime, anywhere, go north to attack Hebei East Road, and go south to attack Huainan East Road.
The problem is that Liangshan's foundation is too shallow, and it doesn't even have enough winter clothes for an army of 100,000 people.
Now that winter is approaching, Liangshan has stopped the war under forced circumstances.
In addition, due to the rapid expansion of the territory, the population within the territory skyrocketed by one million households, reaching a population of about five million (this is data from the Northern Song Dynasty court).
Gongsun Sheng finished his report.
Su Mingzhe asked Qiao Lie to announce the appointment and dismissal of officials in various places.
Liangshan has always boasted that Liangshan established a stronghold to save the poor people in the world and pursue fairness and justice.
Now, it's Liangshan's turn to make the decision. Su Mingzhe can't break his promise, can he?
Therefore, this time, Liangshan focused on appointing and removing officials from various places: appointing people on their merits.
After finishing the list of officials from various places, Qiao Lie sat down.
Su Mingzhe then came up with a list with higher specifications:
In the area under the jurisdiction of Liangshan, there is a general manager, whose status is similar to that of a prime minister in the imperial court. Qiao Lie is temporarily in charge.
Under the general manager, there are four deputy general managers, namely Gongsun Sheng, Lu Zhishen, Wu Yong, and Song Jiang.
The four people are responsible for the Department of Household Affairs, the Department of Punishment, the Department of Officials, and the Department of Work.
Under the four ministries, there are twelve envoys who are responsible for various affairs.
These general managers, deputy general managers, and envoys constitute a government system.
In addition to the government system, there is also a military system.
In the military system, Lin Chong served as the Grand Marshal of the Liangshan Army.
Under the Generalissimo, there are six divisions: foot, horse, water, fire, work, and exploration.
The six chief generals are respectively Yang Zhi, Qin Ming, Ruan Xiaoer, Hua Rong, Shi Xiu, and Zhu Guilai.
Under the commander-in-chief, there are seven levels: commander-in-chief, commander-in-chief, captain-general, captain, squadron leader, squad leader and squad leader.
The leaders present all have the lowest rank of metropolitan rank.
After the government system and military system are announced.
Su Mingzhe sat down again, glanced at the excited leaders, and said solemnly:
"We in Liangshan are developing, but Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing are not bad either."
With the support of Liangshan and Jin, Fang La conquered the Liangzhe Road and Jiangnan East Road.
More than half of the 100,000 troops that Tong Guan led over were lost, and they fled back to the north of the Yangtze River in embarrassment to avoid the Manichaean attack and rest for a while.
Tong Guan, the Great Marshal of the Song Dynasty, was made disgraced by Fang La. Naturally, the Shijiedu envoy on the other side also had no good results.
Pursued by several Jiedushi envoys, Tian Hu captured Hebei West Road, Hedong Road, and part of Hebei East Road, doubling his territory.
Wang Qing was a little worse. Under the siege of several Jiedu envoys, he could only continue to work as a bandit near Jinghu North Road, Jinghu South Road, Huainan West Road, and Jiangnan West Road.
Su Mingzhe explained the situation clearly to everyone, and then said with bright eyes:
"Wang Qing and Tian Hu were ruffians. Although they were kings in the establishment, they did not change their nature. After the founding of the country, they still behaved wildly and poisoned the people. I think these two people are rebellious and unpopular with the people. They will definitely not be able to last long and will not go out. In one year, I’m afraid I’ll be put down by the imperial court!”
"As for Jiangnan La, although he is better than Wang Qing and Tian Hu, after conquering a piece of territory, he does not want to be brave and diligent, but indulges in pleasure. If he is so unwilling to make progress, I think he will not escape the result of being wiped out."
"Taizong of the Tang Dynasty once said: If you use copper as a mirror, you can straighten your clothes; if you use history as a mirror, you can know the ups and downs; if you use people as a mirror, you can know gains and losses!"
"We in Liangshan must learn from the lessons of Fang La, Tian Hu, and Wang Qing, and remember the foundation of Liangshan's stronghold..."