stubborn thief

Chapter 128 Tailored
The Liu brothers in Qingyang Mansion are not as effective as the two main families in Yan'an Mansion.

But they were very good at running. They took 200 people from Wu Weifan on a seven-day tour of Qingyang Prefecture, running from Huan County to Heshui, from Heshui to Ziwuling, and finally out of Zhenning County.

If they meet the impatient Li Bei, they will probably die.

But Wu Weifan is not good at marching fast. He lost his way in Ziwuling, and finally ran out of food. He found his way back by picking up wild fruits. He robbed two villages in Anhua County and rushed to Ningzhou to take revenge. He ran into Meridian Ridge again.

In the end, Wu Weifan had no choice but to lead his troops back to the Anbian camp.

Liu Chengzong has no worries about the future, but he has captured a lot in this battle, and there are still many wounded soldiers. The convoy brought by the carrier is only enough to transport the wounded soldiers, and the supplies and artillery have to be transported three or four times. Besides, he really doesn't know where to go. transport.

I wanted Chengyun to mobilize the people, but Chengyun didn't bother to deliver it, so he said: "Just throw it away and let someone else carry it."

Later, Liu Chengzong led his troops to besiege Yan'an Fucheng, and the fierce general Yang Yanchang went out to fight again.

The [-] Banner Army of Yan'an Guard became more and more courageous as they fought, and broke through three battalions in a row. Its general Baihu Ren Quan'er became more and more courageous as he fought, and led the general banner king Ziyong, Shi Wanzhong, small banner officers Chen Ruji, Lu Bin and others to rush forward. Discuss Liu Chengzong's head.

Then Liu Chengzong, the leader of the bandit, fled in panic, leaving behind his armored battle and three heavy artillery, and fled to the northern mountains.

The prefect Zhang Nian issued an official document to requisition private vehicles, and personally led Lifu to transport the three thousand-jin cannons and Jiazhan weapons back to Yan'anwei to besiege the city.

A month later, three messages were sent to Xingzihe Wangzhuang by Yan'an Guard.

The first news is that Li Bei, who commanded the envoy and general of Yan'an, encountered a siege when he was attacking the giant thief Liu Chengzong who was entrenched in Yan'an Mansion. He failed to break through and died.

As usual, the imperial court bestowed [-] stones of rice on his Yulin family, [-] bolts of woven gold wenqi cloth and silk each, [-] taels of silver for burial, and the second-rank Duduqian.

The second news is that General Ma Ke, who was cut off due to defeat and escaped, became the chief officer again and became a frontier soldier in Yulin Town.

The third news is that Yang Yanchang, a thousand households of the Yan'an Guard, received the news, led the 150 Banner Army to intercept the victorious and returned bandit soldiers, defeated Liu Chengzong, captured the head of [-], reported it to the list, and was promoted to the commander of the Yan'an Guard.

Ren Quan'er, Liu En, Zongqi Wang Ziyong and other hundred households under his command all made achievements. After being inspected by Fushi County, all of them made meritorious deeds, please be rewarded for their contributions.

Before the reward was approved, Ren Quan'er wore a black gauze cap with silver flowers and variegated Wenqiqing official robes, a bear patch on his chest, and a few soldiers with big arms and round waists, and rode on a tall bay red Malay apricot. He Wangzhuang paid a visit to Chief Liu.

In Wangzhuang's stone castle, Liu Chengzong and Mei Dianmei were lying on the roof basking in the sun, looked down and said with a smile, "Oh, not bad, you've been promoted to the fifth rank so quickly!"

Ren Quan'er took off his official hat from below, knelt down on one knee, paused and said, "It all depends on the cultivation of Chief Liu!"

"Get up quickly and don't like this set, come up and bask in the sun."

"Follow your orders!"

The well-dressed beast had quick legs and feet, handed the official hat to the soldiers, climbed up the cracks of the wall and climbed up to the roof, lay down happily on the quilt covered with tiles, and squinted his eyes.

Liu Chengzong leaned on his arm and asked, "How is it? Where is the imperial court going to arrange you?"

"Saimensuo, sir, don't worry, as long as there is a lowly position, there will be no official soldiers coming in at the north gate of Yan'an Mansion!"

"Okay, I'm very relieved."

Liu Chengzong asked again: "But you left, and Liu En was also transferred to the security station. You, Commander Yang, will not be accompanied. Without your right-hand men, Commander Yang may not be able to regain the courage of the past."

"Don't worry, sir, the imperial court has made arrangements. Yan'an Guard also has Deputy Wang Qianhu, Shi Baihu, Chen Baihu, Lu Baihu and others. Commander Yang still has a lot of talents under his command."

Ren Quan'er paused, and said: "Besides, I asked a craftsman to make him a big fishing rod. You don't have to go out of Nanguan to besiege the city. You can fish by sitting on Fan Gong's well. The commander now has the two mothers-in-law and aunts who bought it earlier. Serving, both of them are pregnant with babies, and there are five more babies serving under their knees, the days are leisurely and the family is happy."

I bought two mothers-in-law and five children, which seemed to be the seven people Yang Yanchang wanted to buy for himself.

Liu Chengzong smiled, Ren Quan'er, whose black and white identities are intertwined, spoke more and more yin and yang.

"Just let him fish, is there any fish in the river?"

"Yes, but it's not easy to catch. I caught one in two or three days. I asked someone to block a section of the river and watch them catch small fish."

The development of things has embarked on an unimagined path.

Yang Shibai, who was so poor that he wanted to rebel, lived a life like this. He went fishing every day when he was full, and when he caught enough fish, he went to enjoy the blessing of being equal to everyone.

Enjoying retirement life in advance, except for staying at home, is not too bad.

He nodded: "General Li, how is General Li? And Liu Guoneng who is recuperating in Yan'an Guard, how are they doing?"

"General Li is very good. He is besieging the city at Beiguan. There are [-] masters around him to protect his safety day and night. General Liu, Master Liu and Mr. Yang often visit him. He will also teach me reading, writing and martial arts, and talk about some The principles of being a man and using soldiers."

The General Liu that Ren Quaner said was Liu Chengzu.

"Oh? Art of war?" Liu Chengzong noticed the problem: "What art of war do you teach?"

"He taught me to capture the thief first and the king first."

Liu Chengzong had a strange expression on his face, and asked again: "What characters did he teach you to write?"

Ren Quan'er sat up and wrote on the quilt with his fingers: "The seven years of Zhengde expelled thieves, beheaded one rank, granted one rank, hereditary."

Liu Chengzong's expression became even weirder: "Then what martial arts did he teach you?"

Ren Quan'er didn't lift his head when writing, and wrote very slowly: "Teach me to assassinate at close quarters with a dagger and a flying knife... From the third rank of thief to those killed in battle, all will be given a rank, hereditary."

The more he wrote, the more fearful Liu Chengzong felt, his hands touched his waist, and he felt empty. Who would carry a knife while basking in the sun at his own home.

In the end, I had to break off the tiles on the roof and hide them in my hands.

Damn it, Li Bei is a very bad old man, so he won't teach his children to be good.

After finishing writing, Ren Quan'er raised his head and said with a smile: "He also taught me about being loyal to the emperor. I think it makes sense. He eats from Chief Liu and does things for him."

Only then did Liu Chengzong heave a sigh of relief, and looked at Ren Quan'er with pity in his eyes: "Silly boy, do you know that you've been shutting the gate of hell just now?"

"Should I send Li Bei to Wangzhuang, or to the Saimen Office?"

"Leave it alone, anyway, it's only sixty miles away, and you can come here to learn from him later when you're all right."

Liu Chengzong was very helpless, what Li Bei taught Ren Quan'er, from thinking, martial arts, tactics, and even writing, was completely tailor-made, and he wanted Ren Quan'er to take his own head without any distraction.

He is a dead man in the court, and he is still so firm.

Liu Chengzong let out a long sigh: "You tell Li Bei, I won't let him go, because when he goes back to the court, he will either make him escape from the battlefield, or make him a gangster. Let him stay with me safely."

He guessed that Ma Ke wanted to fight for a reward for Li Bei's family, so he didn't say he was captured, he said he was killed in battle, and he didn't hesitate to pay for his guilt of being a deserter for this.

It may also be that Ma Ke really felt that if the general fell into his hands, he would be gone.

But no matter what, this Li Bei is the result of a dead man in the government, which is not a bad thing for him.

"Oh, by the way, the officer also asked me about Liu Guoneng. Liu Guoneng's left leg was not seriously injured. It was pierced through the calf by an iron ball. It will be better if he is taken care of. The right leg is seriously injured and the bone is broken. The doctor said that he can do it in the future." Stand up, but he must be limping a little... I say the man has no idea what to do."

Ren Quan'er sighed and said: "He actually blamed Chief Cao, saying that he was pretending to be dead on the ground, but was dragged up by Chief Cao and broke his leg."

Liu Chengzong sat up and savored carefully, thinking that this is indeed the case.

Moreover, Cao Yao probably didn't want to save Liu Guoneng at the time, it was Liu Guoneng who blocked his artillery fire, and he didn't want to use his own artillery to kill Liu Guoneng, so he dragged him to the back.

If Liu Chengzong didn't block the shooting range of the artillery, based on Liu Chengzong's understanding of Cao Yao, the old thief Cao probably wouldn't run out and take the risk of pulling him back.

But objectively, Cao Yao did save Liu Guoneng, otherwise Liu Guoneng would have been trampled to death in the last chasing scene with a few of their troops.

At that time, some people were trampled to death, and there were quite a few.

Afterwards, it was impossible to tell whether he was trampled to death by his own family or by the enemy.

If you are lame, you can be lame, at least you can save your life, how many people can't even save their lives.

In fact, having said that, Liu Chengzong feels that the commander behind Yan'an Guard should be the eldest brother.

Yang Yanchang still commanded the Banner Army of Yan'an Guard.

On the contrary, Ren Quan'er, Wang Ziyong, his uncle's brother-in-law Chen Ruji, Shi Wanzhong, a loyal tenant of the old Liu family, Liu En, a stable tenant of the old Liu family, and Lu Bin, the lucky boy of the old Miaozhuang, were all his own people.

The eldest brother should be able to direct like an arm and a finger.

Not to mention that the Banner Army is also a rebel army.

But Liu Chengzong did not expect that there are more outrageous things in this world.

Ren Quan'er said: "Mr. Liu, Mr. Yang from Zhuantianmao opened a private school there and asked you to send some educated children there."

"Why did you send them to study in the past?"

Ren Quan'er looked surprised and said: "Next year is the year of the township examination. Yan'an Guard will give Yu Ding Ji to a military household, and test for talent!"

Liu Chengzong is still a little confused, a group of rebels, he has no problem with studying, but why are they trying to be a scholar?Will never be... an official?
He asked: "I really plan to let them take the examination of scholars and work in Yan'an Mansion?"

Ren Quan'er nodded heavily: "The old man said, whoever can be admitted as a scholar, you will be considered a son, and whoever can be admitted as a juren, you will be considered a brother."

Are all the exam candidates scheduled?

Dad is too obsessed with Lao Liu's family being a juren, even if he recognizes him, he still has to recognize a juren son?

Just at this moment, Lin Wei passed by the stone fortress, and Liu Chengzong called out: "Lin Wei, there is an academy in my university, Jinshi and Juren will teach you the imperial examination, give you a military household registration, and take the exam in March next year. Scholars, will you take the Juren examination in the next year?"

Lin Wei, who was holding the account book under his ribs in the courtyard, was startled, and raised his head and said, "I was doing arithmetic just now. I didn't hear it. The monkey from heaven smashed another castle and brought a batch of grain and grass over. What are you talking about, my lord?"

"I told you to give you the birthplace of Yu Ding, a military household in Yan'an. Next year, you will be admitted as a scholar, and the year after that, will you go to the exam?"

"I'm a scholar. What kind of scholar should I take? Besides, I can't pass the exam. If I pass the exam, I'll go to Beijing to reveal my secrets. I have too many acquaintances."

Lin Wei shrugged his shoulders helplessly. Although he really wanted to take the exam again and become an official freely, it was just a daydream. His path had been cut off and he couldn't pass the exam.

After finishing speaking, he made a gesture of "five" with his hands, and walked quickly with the ledger under his ribs: "Your Majesty, let's continue to enjoy the sun. I have to quickly calculate the military rations, five hundred shi rice rations."

After a while, he entered the middle hall in a hurry.

Liu Chengzong spread his hands and said: "Look, you can't take the test. No one else has read books seriously. At most, you can know a few words. How can you take the test?"

The old man also thought that it would be a one-time out, and it would be fine to instigate some subordinate staff to tip off the news and let a few low-level officials not do serious things.

Seeing this, he actually wanted to send Tongsheng to take the imperial examination under a fake name.

Liu Chengzong is not optimistic about the idea of ​​sending people to take the imperial examination, but it is very good to let people study.

"I will send someone to Zhuantianmao. You stay here for a day, and leave tomorrow. When you go back, bring me a letter and send it to Zhuantianmao. You can't just expect your children to take the imperial examinations, but also train your own children."

His father had such an idea, and Liu Chengzong followed this line of thinking. Now they have many people under their command, but not many can read.

Besides, even if you are literate, your knowledge is limited, and it is difficult to teach others knowledge.

And the few people who are educated themselves have their own things to do, so it is difficult to be a teacher and cultivate more educated people.

We can't just rely on a few Jinshi, Juren, Xiucai, or cultivate a few more such people, this will not accomplish anything.

He needs people with a certain level of education. This level of education does not need to be too high, it is enough to help them learn and progress more efficiently in life and battle in the future.

The more Liu Chengzong thought about it, the happier he became, so Pat Ren Quan'er thought about it, went into the room to write down his thoughts, and further refined them.

But in the middle of getting up, Dianmei stepped on the tiles and walked back with her eyebrows under her ribs, and asked: "You go to the Saimensuo, I don't have anything to give you, so I will ask someone to bring you a hundred taels later." Silver, if you are short of food when you are in office, send someone to send a letter, and Wang Zhuang will send it to you."

"Thank you for your cultivation, sir!"

Ren Quan'er doesn't know much about other things. I don't know how Yang Yanchang taught him the military salute. He should salute everything he says.

Then Ren Quan'er said: "Actually, I have an idea in my heart. The guards have military farms. I will go and see who owns the military fields in Saimen. There are also big local families who are robbing the civilian fields. At that time, the chief will need to come forward." , kill them all."

"As long as the army farms are taken back and some good fields from big families are taken over, the people in Guaizichuan will be able to support themselves by taking advantage of the Yanhe River. Why can't the humble Saimensuo do it?"

Liu Chengzong was overjoyed, but Ren Quan'er still had some ideas.

"It's good that you can think so, but the water conservancy has been in disrepair for a long time, and the drought has to be taken seriously. It's so easy, and Ansai will not be like this."

Liu Chengzong didn't expect Saimen to be self-sufficient, but it would be a great thing to take back the army's farmland and swallow up some big households' fields. If the construction of water conservancy can reduce the food pressure to some extent, it would be a great thing.

"Do it well!" He patted Ren Quan'er on the shoulder: "Sooner or later, the big family will be finished. There are too many people in the camp. If you need anything, feel free to send a message. I will fully support you!"

Ren Quan'er saluted again, paused and said, "Thank you, Chief Liu, for your kindness!"

　Good morning!I wish everyone a happy family and a prosperous career!

　　
　
(End of this chapter)