Outside Yanggu County, in Ximen Village, a banquet was being held at this time.

The cooks of the Golden Arch Building arrived in the morning, and brought a large number of chickens, ducks, fish, and all kinds of fruits and vegetables, which were fried and fried for a while, and when it was close to noon, one after another Kaifeng dishes were constantly delivered, plus wine pots and dishes, and the square tables placed in the courtyard were stuffed to the brim.

The people who came to eat were all Baoding from Ximenzhuang, and as soon as the news of the Liangshan heroes attacking Fanjiazhuang reached Yanggu County, they were summoned. Hundreds of farmer men wore uniformly made war jackets made by the Ximen family, carried rattan round shields and helmets, and rushed from various villages near Ximenzhuang with bows and arrows and straight knives.

When the Baoding arrived, they naturally had to eat a big meal first! The emperor is not short of hungry soldiers, and Sister Ximen can't let her own Baoding go to the battlefield hungry.

In addition to a sumptuous feast, Ximen Qing also asked the cooks of the Golden Arch Tower to prepare enough cooking cakes and dried meat for 500 people to eat for two days, and also prepared a gourd of soju (not white wine) for each Baoding - these soju were given to the Baoding to drink before fighting the heroes of Liangshan!

The big basket of copper coins has also been prepared for a long time! There is a treasury in Ximen Village, which is ready at any time with a full 10,000 copper coins, which is specially used to reward Baoding for fighting. The Simon family will not let the Baoding sweat in vain, and the reward should be given a penny.

This time, the Baoding who participated in the war, one of them was counted as one, and the first to give a piece of money to the Baoding, which would be sent to the Baoding's house by the steward of the Simon family.

After the battle, anyone who fights against the enemy is giving money to the opponent, and if he fights for a while, he will also give one money.

And then there's the money.

Victory in battle is a reward for everyone, and sword and shield bearers and archers can also be judged for their merits. The sword and shield hand is about the "decapitation" skill, and cutting off the head to receive the reward is also! The archers talk about the "magic arrow" work. The shafts of the feathered arrows used by the archers of Simon's house were engraved with their names. When cleaning the battlefield, you can credit the name on the shaft of the enemy's arrow.

And then there's the sharing of profits.

That is, after selling the loot that was snatched, the money was divided according to the size of the "official rank" and the size of the merit.

Finally, there is the pension money.

All those who were killed in battle and wounded were paid for by the Simon family according to the circumstances.

Oh, Simon's household soldiers are not only rewarded, but also severely punished!

There are five types of punishment, including sticks, flogging, dungeons, expulsion, and beheading. Among them, sticks, whippings, and dungeons were used to punish minor offenses. And expulsion and beheading are severe punishments! The so-called expulsion includes the seizure of tenants!

Simon's Baoding are all customers (tenants), but they are not required to pay tenant rent. Once they are evicted, not only will they lose their non-payment of rent, but even the cultivated land will be taken back by the Simon family, and no new tenant relationship will be established.

Decapitation is usually performed in conjunction with expulsion! That is, Bao Ding himself was killed, and the land was recovered by the Simon family! The family members of Baoding who are killed will face the dilemma of starving to death, and it will almost be a severe punishment for extinction!

These two inhumane punishments were naturally used to punish Bao Ding who escaped from the battle and disobeyed military orders. Not only is the punishment severe, but it will also be enforced!

The Ximen family is a heroic family that can really be rewarded for meritorious service and punished for mistakes!

This Ximen family's "military law", but the military law of the Great Song Dynasty Forbidden Army is much stricter! And the training intensity received by the Ximen family Baoding also exceeded that of other Song troops except for the Western Army. Therefore, the combat effectiveness is just now, and it will never be under the Western Army of the Great Song Dynasty...... If Ximen Qing's boasting to Shi Dazhi County at the banquet is true.

"Mingfujun, it's not the slave family to boast, my Ximen family's 500 baoding, if you go to Shaanxi, you can also fight with the soldiers and horses of the Western thieves. How can the thief in Liangshan be compared to the thief in the west? There's nothing to be afraid of! And this time, there is also Captain Wu Taiwei from Kaifeng in the middle command, as well as General Zhao and General Lin charging into battle, just Liangshan bandits, there is really nothing to be afraid of! ”

Ximen Qing, Wu Haogu, Zhao Zhongge, Lin Chong, Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong all dined in the lobby of Ximenzhuang, and there was nothing particularly delicious, just like the food eaten by the Baoding outside, all of them were big fish and meat with soju cookcakes.

When Shi Dazhi County and Zhang Kegong rushed to Ximenzhuang, the banquet was already being prepared, and Ximen Qing did not mention anything about dying on a hunger strike, but generously greeted his fiancé Wu Haogu. Zhao Zhongge and Lin Chong, who were supposed to go to the Daimyo's Mansion to withdraw money, actually followed, and I don't know if they came back with the money, or if they never left at all?

Contrary to Shi Guozhong and Zhang Kegong's expectations, Ximen Qing, who had been wronged before, actually understood the righteousness at this time, and agreed to send troops without mentioning any requirements. Not long after she agreed to send troops, the soldiers arrived, and then they had a full meal, ready to go to the battlefield after eating.

Moreover, the people were still prepared for battle, weapons, battle jackets, helmets, two days' rations, wine and copper coins to stimulate fighting spirit, and they were also ready at the first time.

Zhang Kegong, who was born in Jiangmen and knew more or less about soldiers, thought: Just this vigorous and resolute action, let alone the Kaifeng Forbidden Army, the Hebei Forbidden Army, and even the Northwest Forbidden Army may not be able to do it, right? This Ximen family was really born in the wrong dynasty, if it was reincarnated in the Tang Dynasty or the Five Dynasties, maybe it would be able to make a festival!

It's just that now it is the prosperous era of the Great Song Dynasty that governs the world, and a strong man like Yanggu Ximen is a hidden danger after all! If they collude with the Liangshan bandits, they may have to corrupt one side. It's best to eradicate such a strong ......

"Shi Zhixian," just when Zhang Kegong was thinking about how to eradicate the Ximen family was a scourge, Ximen Qing's adulterer Wu Haogu suddenly opened his mouth, "This time the official went out to do some private affairs, and he didn't want to encounter the thieves in Yunzhou, so after returning to Beijing, he would write a chapter about the incident and submit it to the official family." It's just that this piece is not very easy to write......"

"What's so hard to write?" Shi Zhixian said with a smile, "As far as this official knows, Dongmen's brother is still a student." ”

Wu Haogu said with a smile: "This official still knows a little bit of writing, but it's just ...... Does this piece write that the official was entrusted by Shizhi County to lead Baoding of Yanggu County to suppress bandits? Isn't this robbing Shizhi County of the credit? ”

When Shi Guozhong heard this, he looked at Ximen Qing beside Wu Haogu, and said in his heart, how can this be a credit grab? Didn't Ximen Qing commit adultery with you? She is all yours, and the credit is naturally yours!

What did he think in his heart, of course, he couldn't say it directly, so he asked: "Then according to the meaning of Wu Dongmen, what should I do?" ”

"Why don't you go with us?" Wu Haogu said with a smile, "Naturally, it is the magistrate who commands in the middle like this." ”

The magistrate led the troops to suppress the bandits?

As soon as Shi Guozhong thought of the fierce Liangshan bandits, he subconsciously shook his head.

Wu Haogu hurriedly said: "Shi Zhi County, now the official family likes to use both civil and military talents, such as several ministers in the court, and several envoys in the northwest, all of whom are civil officials who know the soldiers. If you can personally lead the troops to suppress the bandits, how can you not be a Wenchen of the soldiers? ”

This Wu Haogu is really a traitor! Zhang Kegong frowned slightly, Shi Guozhong is a confused official, he can't even handle the official duties of civil officials, and he still knows the soldiers?

Zhang Kegong knows Shi Dazhi County, but Shi Guozhong doesn't know much about himself. Don't look at his age, but he is still very addicted. Not only did I never think about going home, but I was still dreaming of being promoted!

His official rank is from the seventh rank of Xuan Fenglang, and he is already at the level of a court official! Jumping up again, you will reach the official rank of five or six grades, and the two governments dare not think about it, but Cao Chen (transit envoy) and Yan Chen (pacification envoy) may be able to think about it......

But when you become an official, you have to talk about some outstanding performance at a certain level! As a civil official, Shi Dazhi's literary style is actually very ordinary, he can't be a bachelor, and he doesn't have the courage to be the prime minister of the dynasty in the imperial history platform. The ability to manage the local area is even worse, and after two years as the magistrate of Yanggu, even the taxes have been confiscated.

Now it is an opportunity to show the skills of "knowing soldiers", which is an opportunity to attract the attention of officials!

"Ximen Niang," Shi Zhixian turned his head and looked at Ximen Qing very seriously, "There won't be any surprises in this battle, right?" ”

The official wants to be an official, but life is more important!

"No," Ximen Qing said with a smile, "there is no doubt that we will win!" She paused, "Probably not even fighting...... When the Liangshan thief saw the army led by the Ming Mansion himself, he should flee from the wind. ”

"It was they who fled in despair, and it was also the credit of the magistrate." Wu Haogu added, "In fact, the credit for suppressing the bandits is not important, what matters is your courage in the county!" How many of today's civilian officials dare to lead troops into battle? ”

Although the Song Dynasty was a civil and military force, the civil officials of the imperial military usually did not dare to go into battle, and they were all hiding in the castle hundreds of miles away.

Of course, there is nothing wrong with strategizing and winning a thousand miles. It's just that the generals on the battlefield are actually very unconscious, and it is common for them to deceive their subordinates and conceal their superiors, compete for merit and blame, and turn defeat into victory.

If the civil officials are all staying in the castle and not going out, it is difficult to grasp the real situation. The so-called strategizing and winning a decisive victory for a thousand miles can only be played by the kind of Confucian commander who has enough henchmen to control the troops.

Therefore, Shi Dazhi County dared to go out of the city to meet the enemy before the bandits came, which was still a very outstanding performance!

"Will you really run away from the wind?" Shi Guozhong asked again.

"Seven or eight times out of ten."

Of course, Ximen Qing can't say it to death. In fact, the Liangshan thief Kou was hired by her for 10,000 taels of silver, and now she has only given 3,000, of course people will flee from the wind, if Ximen Qing is killed, who will Chao Gai and Song Jiang find for silver?

Moreover, the Liangshan thieves really can't beat the Ximen family. Liangshan is a rabble, and the Baoding of the Ximen family escaped from the battle to kill the head and destroy the door (starve to death), and the so-called group fights are all in advance and without retreat, how can Liangshan Kou be beaten?