Water Margin farming to become powerful

While Liu Guangshi was struggling, far away in Kaide Mansion, in the early morning of late April, the weather was finally no longer cold. On the mountain road, a pair of sentinels on horseback were walking slowly forward.

Behind the cavalry was an old man who was over sixty years old. He was wearing a thin leather armor. Although his face looked tired, he was still energetic.

"Let's go to Kaide Mansion and rest again."

The old man said to the people behind him, and all the young generals behind him nodded.

A few horses had just turned down the mountain road when they saw a sentry post appearing in front of them.

"It's the post of the maternity team."

The old man thought for a while and said, "Go around."

Everyone quickly turned their horses and walked towards the side road.

After walking a few dozen steps forward, a voice was suddenly heard in the forest: "Where did the team come from?"

"We are also part of the maternity care team."

"From Kaide Mansion?"

"That's right."

"Password."

"Resist gold and protect the country."

There was silence in the forest for a while, and just when everyone was breathing a sigh of relief, they suddenly saw dozens of maternity care teams holding muskets standing around them.

The old man and all the generals around him were caught off their horses. When he saw the man leading the troops, the old man was stunned for a moment.

"Why is it you?" Zongze asked in surprise.

It turned out that the man who led the troops was the official who worked under him when he was the magistrate of Dengzhou Prefecture.

"Sir, let's go together. The owner of the village is waiting for you not far away."

Zongze was stunned when he heard this, and the generals around him still had a look of resistance in their eyes. Zongze thought for a long time, and finally sighed and nodded and said: "I will go with you."

The young generals around him finally gave up their resistance and allowed the maternity team to press them away.

After a stick of incense, Zongze was sent to Kaide Mansion. Along the way, Zongze couldn't help but lift the curtains of the car and look at the scenes on both sides of the road.

"Has the market resumed in Kaide Mansion?"

Hearing this, the cadre of the Supervisory Committee who was originally an official in Dengzhou smiled and said: "This is natural. After our Supervisory Committee entered the city, we eliminated the banditry in the surrounding area. Now the re-excavation has returned to calm."

"Where is the Song army that originally took over here?"

"More than 1000 people have been beaten away, and the remaining people have surrendered. The Supervisory Committee has just been sent back to Shandong and is being sorted and renovated. However, our Supervisory Committee is currently short of people. It is estimated that in a few days, we will also be Sent to the battlefield in Hebei."

"Can the army of the Song Dynasty fight?"

Zongze couldn't help but say this, because he had seen too much of the actual combat power of the Song Army in the past six months. It can be said that this group of people was completely corrupted to the extreme. He was not even willing to use the rebel army in Cizhou. Willing to fight with the Song army.

Hearing this, the cadre burst out laughing: "Of course the Song Dynasty's official army cannot fight in the hands of others, but joining the Supervisory Committee will naturally enable them to fight. Even if they can't fight, they will know after winning two battles with the Supervisory Committee. If you have any ability, you know that the swords and guns in your hands can kill people, and you also know that the Jurchens are just living people who will die if they are stabbed, so what is there to be afraid of?"

He smiled at Zongze and said, "This is what our propaganda materials say. Winning the war can best solve ideological problems."

When Zongze heard this, he remained silent.He was hurriedly found by Zhao Ji from Jiangsu at the beginning of this year. Zongze had already retired to the mountains and forests, but when the country was in danger, he still had to come out again.

As soon as Zongze came out of the mountain at the beginning of this year, he was assigned the official position of Cizhou Prefecture by Zhao Ji. At this time, the Jurchens had already begun to attack Yanshan, and many prefectures and counties had been lost along the way to Yunzhong. Officials appointed to the Lianghe area often had excuses to not take up their posts. .

However, after receiving the letter of appointment, Zongze still rode alone on the road on the day of the appointment. He was accompanied by only a dozen old and weak soldiers who had difficulty even carrying a gun. Most of those soldiers were old military households who had no family to care about.

When Zongze came to Cizhou, the area had just been attacked by the Jurchens. The Jurchens only left troops on the marching route, so they did not leave heavy troops to defend the area after passing through.

The situation Zongze faced was that the people were fleeing, the warehouses were empty, and there were almost no soldiers under his command.

As soon as he took office, he began to repair the city walls and equipment, and began to recruit rebels.Everyone was very surprised to learn that, because at this time, the whole of Hebei thought that the Song Dynasty was in danger, and many people had even planned to surrender to the Jurchens, but Zongze was still repairing the city.

No one thought highly of him, but Zongze kept doing this, and he actually got a response.

Zongze was certainly not a fool. The reason why he thought he could successfully repair it was because Cizhou was located in the center of Xingzhou, Luozhou, Yuezhou and Xiangzhou. It was an important transportation thoroughfare. These five states had just suffered military disasters from the Jurchens. The original Song Dynasty All the rule was wiped out, but the Jurchens did not leave many guards.

At this time, the Supervisory Committee was still preparing to go west, and took advantage of this strategic gap to form rebels near Cizhou.

Although some of these rebels pretended to be loyal to the Song Dynasty, they actually wanted to take advantage of the troubled times to make a profit. They were eager to find a backer endorsed by the big political power.

Whoever can provide them with this support at this time, these rebels will defect to them.

Zongze saw this clearly, and after raising the banner of the prefect, he began to recruit rebels and soon recruited more than [-] rebels.

Although these people are just peasant soldiers with little training, and they cannot fight a tough battle at all, they are a very large armed force after all.

Zhao Ji was quite surprised by this. At this time, all Song Dynasty officials in Hebei had basically finished running away. Only Zongze went upstream. Zongze almost suddenly became the only bright spot in the lonely sea.

Zhao Ji directly appointed Zongze as the general manager of the Hebei Volunteer Army, and he truly managed the soldiers on horseback and the people on horseback.

Now that Zongze had the power and people, he started the construction of the vast Cizhou project with [-] rebels.

Then came the battle between the Supervisory Committee and the Jurchens and a series of tricks by Zhao Ji.

Just as he was thinking about this, the carriage finally stopped in front of a mansion.

Zongze was asked to dismount and led into the courtyard.

This place was probably a government office originally, and it was very majestic. However, upon closer inspection, one found that the decoration was not exquisite, and many of the houses were very old.

In an old concierge, Zongze finally saw Sun Xin.

Sun Xin looked up from a pile of information and smiled casually when he saw Zongze.

"I haven't seen you for several years, and my beard and hair have turned gray."

Facing Sun Xin's smiling face, Zongze was a little embarrassed. He forced a smile and replied, "Master Sun still looks young."

"That's natural. I'm only in my 20s."

Sun Xin turned around and said to the banker beside him: "Go and make a pot of good tea."

Then he stretched out his hand and pointed directly at the seat in front of him. Zongze saw that although his attitude was kind, he did not stand up to welcome him. He understood in his heart that Sun Xin was using actions to show that although he still had an old friendship with him, after all, he was no longer on the boarding committee before. When he was in Zhou Dynasty, he was an official and Sun Xin was a citizen, but now he was strictly speaking a prisoner under Sun Xin's rank.

After thinking for a while, Zongze sat down honestly.

(End of this chapter)