Chapter 306: Simon, the Virgin
Fan Wulang ran away with a roll!
Ran from under the noses of more than a thousand Liangshan heroes!
After all, this is the territory of the Fan family, and Fan Wulang played in this area when he wore open crotch pants, so he couldn't be more familiar with the terrain. And his reaction was fast enough, when he saw that the signs were wrong, he ignored Fan Jiuxiucai, threw the hakama knife directly, and got into the wheat field on the side of the road that was more than half a person high, and the cat ran wildly, and soon disappeared into the night.
And the Liangshan thief didn't care about his little shrimp and ran away...... What's there to care about? Didn't you just run back to Yanggu County to move the rescuers?
The question is, are there rescuers in Yanggu County to move? Although Yanggu County is close to Liangshanbo, but because it is the base camp of the Ximen family, there is not much oil and water - of course the Ximen family has oil and water, the problem is that Liangshan can't afford to provoke it, otherwise the Ximen family's "Liao Song Qiao" will teach Liangshan how to be a thief - so Yanggu County has been peaceful for many years, so there is only the county lieutenant department, and there is no inspection department.
The county lieutenant is Zhang Kegong's yamen, with one hundred and eighty archers, which is equivalent to the police station in later generations, and those archers are also policemen. The counties of the Great Song Dynasty, no matter how big or small, had at least one county lieutenant.
The Inspection Department is a military department, and the chief officer is served by the envoys, and the management is the township soldiers, which is relatively combative. Unlike the county lieutenant divisions that exist in every county, the inspection division is not available in every county, and in many places there is an inspection division in several counties.
In Yunzhou, Yanggu County and Shouzhang County have a joint inspection department, Xucheng County and Zhongdu County have a joint inspection department, and Dong'e County and Pingyin County have a joint inspection department.
Therefore, there are only three inspection divisions in the entire Yunzhou. And each inspection department has jurisdiction over one or two hundred township soldiers, and its combat effectiveness is much stronger than that of the county lieutenant division, which only has archers.
However, even if the township soldiers were moved from the inspection department of Shouzhang and Sucheng, they would definitely not be able to defeat 1,000 Liangshan heroes.
In addition to the archers and village soldiers, there were two other armed forces in the Song Dynasty, one was the forbidden army and the box army stationed in the place. On Jingdong East Road, the number of forbidden troops is not much, and they are all not generals and forbidden troops, and they have no combat effectiveness. Of course, the situation of the van soldiers is even worse, and there is basically no war. In Yunzhou, a very small number of forbidden troops and Xiang troops are in the state city of Xucheng, and they are all under the command of Yunzhou soldiers and horses, of course, they have no combat effectiveness.
The other force is the Baoding established according to the "Baojia Law", and this force is in the hands of local tyrants! The strength of them often depends on whether they are willing to invest.
In Yunzhou, the most powerful Baoding is in Yanggu County, which is the Baoding of Ximenzhuang Dubao outside Yanggu County. That is, the force controlled by the Simon family!
Ximenzhuang is in the west of Yanggu County, in the early years it was the ancestral home of the Ximen family - the Ximen family was also the structure of the righteous door in the early years of the Song Dynasty.
But now, the Ximen family is no longer a righteous family, and most of the children are scattered all over the country, even the family members who live in Yanggu County, and most of them live in the county seat. However, the Ximen Village outside the city was not deserted, but became the location of the Ximen Family School. The land of the Ximen family in Yanggu is also the school field of the Ximen family school, and the children of the Ximen family do not plant it, but only collect rent to supply the family school.
Different from the Fan family's family school, the Ximen family school still follows the path of the ancestors who emphasized martial arts and light literature (the children of the Ximen family made a fortune by smuggling, and the moral articles were not used, and the ability to fight was more reliable), and the poems and texts taught were not much, mainly martial arts.
The jurisdiction of the Ximen family school (including Xuetian and Ximenzhuang) belongs to the patriarch of the Ximen family, that is, Ximen Qing's grandfather.
Similarly, the capital of Ximen Zhuang is also served by the patriarch of the Ximen family, and the person sitting in this seat is Ximen Qing's grandfather Ximen He.
Only Ximen Crane or Ximen Crane's designated agent will be dispatched, and the number of up to 500 Ximen Zhuang Baoding will be dispatched. And without the order of Ximen He or his agent, even Yanggu Zhixian could not transfer the Baoding of Ximenzhuang.
With Wen Yuwu or something, it doesn't work in Ximenzhuang!
As for the reason, it is also simple, because the core of Ximenzhuang's Baoding is the children of the Ximen family, there are about twenty or thirty people, all of whom are good at fighting, and they are also the teachers and heads of the Ximen family school. The rest of the Baoding are the children of the tenants of the Ximen family, and the Ximen family will exempt their family from the land rent, and if they die in battle, they will also support their families - this set of rules for the Yanyunhao family to raise private soldiers, all of which were moved to Yanggu County by the Ximen family. As a result, the Ximen family firmly controlled the 500 baoding, making them the foundation of the Ximen family's foothold in Yunzhou. If the Ximen family is really ruthless, these 500 people can take the city of Yunzhou Prefecture!
Of course, the Baoding of the Ximen family and the private soldiers of the Yanyun Hao clan are still incomparable, mainly because the equipment is too poor. The Yanyun Hao clan is the route of the manor economy, can be self-sufficient, has a workshop to build weapons and armor, and also has a way to get the iron material of Longyan Iron Mountain, and the cowhide or something is even more of a problem.
Therefore, the private soldiers of the Yanyun Hao clan always have an armor rate of two or three percent. And the Baoding of the Simon family all have no armor, and they don't even have a collar of paper armor on the surface (in fact, there are a lot of paper armor).
In addition, the Baoding of the Simon family also did not have the ability to counter cavalry and break heavy armor. Because military spears and crossbows are forbidden to be privately possessed by the people, and the Baoding of the Ximen family has no need for anti-cavalry and armor-breaking, and they do not plan to rebel, the thieves on the rivers and lakes on Jingdong Road may also have a large number of armor and war horses.
Therefore, the weapons of the Baoding of the Simon family are knives, shields, and bows and arrows, and the specific types of troops are sword, shieldmen, archers, and a small number of light horsemen (cavalry).
With such combat power, it is impossible to fight against armor soldiers and cavalry, but if you deal with thieves like Liang Shan, it is enough.
Therefore, after learning the news that the Liangshan thieves sent troops to attack Fanjiazhuang, Zhang Kegong, the governor of Yanggu County, immediately sent someone to recruit the person in charge of the Ximen family to the county government to discuss sending troops, and then hurriedly went to Shi Dazhi County to discuss.
"What? Liangshan thief Kou went down the mountain? How many? There's no problem with the county, right? ”
As soon as Shi Dazhi County heard that there were Liangshan thieves, he immediately jumped up and was in a hurry in the yamen.
No matter how nerdy he is, he also knows how empty the defense of Yanggu County is, and the strength of the government is those archers under Zhang Kegong, if Liangshan calls, he will definitely be able to break the city. At that time, he, the magistrate, will only have one way to be loyal to the official family!
But he hasn't lived enough, and his son hasn't been born, so how can he be willing to die?
"It's okay in the county seat," Zhang Ke said fairly, "the lower official has already sent someone to Ximen's house." ”
"What are you sending someone to Simon's house for?"
"Let the head of the Simon family come to discuss the matter of sending troops to fight the thieves."
"Simon's family has soldiers?"
"The Ximen family has 500 baoding, and there are twenty or thirty good players, so they can fight with Liangshan."
"Yes, yes," Shi Dazhi County pressed his forehead, "I almost forgot that the capital of Ximen Zhuang is the ...... of Ximen Crane."
Before the county magistrate's words were finished, a subordinate of Zhang Kegong crawled in.
"County lieutenant, county lieutenant, no!"
Oh no?
Didn't Liangshan call!?
Shi Zhixian and Zhang Kegong both took a breath, and Zhang Kegong asked, "What's wrong?" Is it that the Liangshan thieves have arrived outside the county? ”
"No, it's the Ximen Crane of the Ximen family who is not in Yanggu County."
It turned out that this was the case, the Ximen family was a businessman, and the patriarch Ximen He had a lot of business outside, so it was not surprising that he often went out.
"Then who is in charge of the Simon family?" Zhang Kegong asked.
"Yes, the young master...... Ximen Qing. ”
Ximen Qing is still the young master!
Because Ximen He has not yet decided who to accept as his adopted son, the position of the young master is still Ximen Qing's. Now that Ximen Crane is gone, the head of the Ximen family is naturally Ximen Qing.
Zhang Kegong already knows that something is wrong!
Fan Zhijin's accusation against Wu Chengzhi is related to Ximen Qing...... That refers to Ximen Qing and her husband Wu Cheng's ashes! Ximen Qing, that girl, can swallow this bad breath? Moreover, Shi Zhixian also asked Wu Chengzhi to pay 5,000 yuan to Fan Zhijin, which is not equivalent to taking Ximenqing's money?
"She won't come?" Zhang Kegong asked tentatively.
The officer cried and said, "She...... She couldn't think about it. ”
Zhang Kegong was stunned, "Can't think of it?" ”
"She's looking for a short time!"
"What?" Zhang Kegong didn't do much, Shi Zhixian jumped up, "She, she, she wants to find a short meeting?" ”
"yes!"
Zhang Kegong asked, "What's the matter?" ”
"The people of the Ximen family said that the eldest sister of Ximen was a chaste martyr, and she was wronged by the Fan family, so she was very sad and angry, and decided to start a hunger strike from noon today!"
Starting at noon?
Zhang Kegong looked at the sky outside, it was only early morning! That means it's almost two hours before you start to get hungry? I don't know if I started to get hungry after lunch, or if I started hungry without dinner? When Zhang Kegong pondered the issue of hunger strike, he saw Shi Guozhong, the magistrate of the county, pick up his official robe and go out.
"Zhixian, where are you going?" Zhang Kegong hurriedly chased after him and asked, "Now that the Liangshan thieves haven't called, they haven't called yet?" ”
yes, I didn't call, so I didn't need to run away, right?
Shi Guozhong said as he ran: "This official is going to persuade Sister Ximen to eat...... If such a chaste woman starved to death, wouldn't it be a shame for the elders of Yanggu County? ”
"Ah......h
Zhang Kegong was stunned and stunned, why is Ximen Qing a chaste woman? Even if she didn't seduce Wu Dalang as a thief, she wouldn't be able to escape Tong's rape! If she is chaste, then the prostitutes in Jiufang Pavilion can also be considered chaste.
Shi Zhixian said seriously: "The official also wants to tell Sister Ximen that the father of Yanggu County, in order to commend her for her chastity, is ready to raise funds to give her a chaste archway!" ”
Chastity archway?
Zhang Kegong rolled his eyelids, this Shi Zhixian is really a confused official! I actually want to give a lewd Fu to establish a chaste archway...... How could the Great Song Dynasty have such a confused official? is also a civil official who has been famous outside the Donghua Gate, which is incredible!