Chapter 1270 The official family edict, recruit Song Jiang to surrender
Xiao Tang sat at the head of the main hall of Baozhu Temple, staring at the pitiful Cai Fu and Cai Qing brothers. When they saw them, they shouted in unison: "Xiao Renxia... No, brother Xiao Tang
, the two younger brothers are also willing to come and join the gang, to work together for the great cause of justice, and to hope to take him in!"
Xiao Tang shook his head and laughed when he saw this, and thought to himself: Let's gather together for righteousness? In fact, you two brothers are desperate, so you have no choice but to come and seek refuge with me, right?
It turned out that after Xiao Tang openly revolted, Liang Shijie, the left-behind commander of Daming Mansion, knew that the leader of the green forest and mountain bandits who made him abandon the city and fled that day was actually the one who was highly valued by him in the past, but later gradually drifted away from each other.
During Xiaotang's time, the humiliation and hatred of fleeing after the city was destroyed suddenly came to his heart. The court really wanted to reduce the blame and blame. After all, Xiaotang was an officer from the left-behind department of Daming Mansion. Liang Shijie said to himself that Zhemo himself would also be implicated.
Although Liang Shijie regretted his unclear employment and missed his official career, he wanted to thoroughly investigate the accomplices in the Daming Mansion who might still be involved with the rebel Xiao Tang. All the brothers and their families in the Xiao family had moved to Qingzhou.
Shan Dazhai here and the government office have launched a large-scale search at this time. Who can be caught?
It seems that he is still serving in Daming Mansion and even serves in the government office, and the only two brothers who can have some relationship with Xiao Tang are Cai Fu and Cai Qing.
In fact, it was unfair to the two brothers Cai Fu and Cai Qing. After Xiao Tang became famous in Hebei, in fact, he and their brothers, who were fighting in the Fuya Prison, had only remained close to each other.
Distance. Most of the time, Cai Fu and Cai Qing rely on Xiao Tang's influence, and because of the opportunity to get to know each other, they often go to get a hot face or a cold butt. In addition, Cai Qing is equally famous in Hebei as Xiao Tang
Lu Junyi from the underworld also went to the two mountains of Qingzhou to become a bandit. Coupled with the fact that he was cared for and cared for by the Cai brothers in prison, Liang Shijie, who realized later, began to suspect that the two brothers were secretly dealing with the bandits under Xiao Tang's command.
possible.
After all, Cai Fu and Cai Qing were both veterans who had been hanging out in the Daming Palace for a long time. They had heard in advance that the lawsuit was about to arrest their two brothers and put them in prison.
How could he be willing to turn around and end up behind bars at the mercy of others? So he took his family's property and fled in the rivers and lakes overnight. After thinking about it, Cai Fu and Cai Qingxin said that since they already knew that Xiao Tang was the big leader who commanded all the gangsters in the green forest.
...At least I still had some friendship in the past, so I had no choice but to come immediately and ask him to take him in.
Xiao Tang recalled that when he first met Cai Qing, one of the Cai brothers, although he was a prison warden who asked for money, he was indeed a small official who took money to do things and helped people out of trouble as usual. And his brother Cai
Fu admired the things he and Wu Song had done at that time, and they had taken care of them in prison. The two brothers had never done anything to abuse power for personal gain, but their consciences were still intact, and now they were pursued by the lawsuit. It was because they agreed to take care of Lu Junyi again.
He had some connections, so he also said: "Your brothers and I are old acquaintances. At that time, we also had the favor of taking care of brother Lu Junyi in prison. Since we have defected, I will help you two find a place to stay in the village."
Although he was once a member of the Daming Mansion Prison, Cai Fu also knew that the two brothers were involved in the relationship with Xiao Tang, but he did not want to escape from prison. Now he only had the option of Luocao.
Well, now that they heard that Xiao Tang was willing to take in their two brothers, Cai Fu and Cai Qing suddenly looked happy, and they quickly kowtowed to the ground and expressed their thanks. However, they heard Xiao Tang say in a stern tone: "But you two are so good
I also know that the two mountains in Qingzhou have a common reputation and copy military orders, which is a gathering of righteousness. If there is any violation, it will be dealt with according to the rules and will not be merciful! I know that you two brothers used to look down on me in the prison yard.
Although I have used the public to seek some personal gains, I have never committed any evil crime of taking money from others and taking people's lives, so I can tolerate you. However, there are some things I did in the past that I will never do again in the future. Do you know that?"
Cai Fu and Cai Qing were shocked after hearing this, and immediately claimed that they would not dare to violate the strict orders of the village. But when Xiao Tang ordered Lin Ren, who was also a prisoner in the state capital, to temporarily settle the Cai brothers.
I heard Cai Fu tell me something: Guan Sheng, Hao Siwen, and Xuan Zan were originally responsible for the defeat and were stripped of their official status and sentenced to exile. After Xiao Tang openly revolted, Liang Shijie saw that
First, Suo Chao, Zhou Jin and other famous officials rebelled. Although Guan Sheng and others would rather die than surrender to the two mountains of Qingzhou, Liang Shijie said in his heart that Guan Sheng and other officials had often obeyed orders in front of Xiao Tang's tent, so there was no guarantee that they would succeed.
He would not be tempted to surrender to Luocao because of the loss of power now, so he also sent an urgent order to Guan Sheng and Hao Siwen to declare the location where they were sent to Jinan Fulao City Camp. Haosheng looked at these few people.
Individuals are assigned to the army and are not allowed to change their nationality due to merit.
In other words, even if Guan Sheng, Hao Siwen, and Xuan Zan would rather start over from scratch, struggle hard to clear their names and continue to serve the country as soldiers, there is probably no hope for them anymore.
After hearing this, Xiao Tang was speechless for a while, thinking that now Guan Sheng, Hao Siwen and Xuan Zan, the three brothers, should have a very clear idea of why Quan Yu, the original co-owner of several mountains, was willing to let them go back.
At that time, Guan Sheng learned that Xiao Tang had no intention of surrendering to the imperial court and would rather die than surrender. If he still wants to be dealt with by the government now, he will end up with a more miserable end than when he was subordinate to subordinates in the Pudong Inspection Department.
Falling out of grass and becoming a thief is an insult to our ancestors, but it is very likely that you will have to endure the humiliation of being a thief in a prison camp for the rest of your life. This is not to say that you have buried your ability, tarnished the lintel, and dragged your two brothers into following him.
suffer?
So at this time, we should use emotion and reason to teach the three of them to believe that the most important purpose of joining together with the brothers is to resist the coming national disaster. Then recruit Guan Sheng and others,
Will there be any improvement?...
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Soldiers and horses from all walks of life came one after another. After discussion with Xiao Tang, Xiao Jiasui, Xu Guanzhong and others, it was natural to organize the warehouses, repair the buildings, decide how to reorganize the army, and appoint generals and assistants.
To form a new army, the capable men and generals of the horse and infantry troops in the village have already made arrangements, and have begun to supervise the fighting and formation of the soldiers. They teach martial arts in the village every day, train the men and horses, and prepare to meet the enemy's army.
At the same time, Xiao Tang successively dispatched Yan Qing, Shi Xiu, and Shi Qian to accompany him personally. Le He, Sun Xin, and Gu Dasao led a group of people to sneak into Jinan Mansion, and Daming Mansion sneaked in in disguise.
There are other instructions for dressing up the city.
A few days later, Gongsun Sheng from Shuibo Liangshan finally came and sent a secret letter, reporting to Xiao Tang a secret event that he could roughly predict: an envoy from the court sent Hou Meng, the secretary-general of the Central Committee, to meet with Xiao Tang.
Chen Zongshan, the court official, Zhang Qianban of Cai Taishi Mansion, Li Yuhou of Gaodian Marshal Mansion, etc., took the pardon and summoned An Danzhao and went to the Jeju Pavilion to rest first. While Huiyou Pavilion was waiting to be built, Haizhou Prefect Zhang Shuye had already transferred him to
Jeju immediately dispatched its officers to go to Liangshanbo to report the news, and discussed that if the Liangshan bandits were willing to submit to the imperial court, they would be pardoned for the lawsuit crimes they had committed. They must first agree on a time, send leaders to greet the imperial envoys, and then go to the mountain stronghold.
Among them, the official edict was read out.
One stone stirred up a thousand waves and immediately aroused strong opposition from many leaders in Liangshan Village. However, Song Jiang still said that only when our brothers were recruited and accepted as state ministers, the many hardships we endured were not in vain, and now we have achieved success.
Zhengguo, if you are still willing to gather in the mountains and forests, you will be ruining the word "loyalty"... But Song Jiang's rhetoric naturally has no way to convince the leader of the village who has no intention of accepting the recruitment.
However, the one who opposed the acceptance of recruitment the most fiercely was Chao Gai, the nominal and real leader of Dazhai in Shuibo Liangshan.
