The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 412 Place Chao Gai
When the time came to March, a huge fleet of ships was sailing towards the center of the lake among the blue waves and green waters of Liangshan Po.

On the front deck of the big ship, Mu Xu pointed to the front and said, "Brother Chao, look, there is a golden sand beach. If you pass there, there are three more passes, and you can get to the cottage."

Looking at the vast pool of water in front of him, Chao Gai sighed, "This place is really a gift from heaven!"

But Mu Xu shook his head and said, "Brother, you are absurd. Although there is a water pool here as a barrier, it is extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, but it is not the foundation of a career after all."

"How do you say that? I used to be from Dongxi Village, and I still live next to Liangshanbo. I heard that the island in the middle of the lake can accommodate hundreds of thousands of people. Besides, with such rich fishery resources, how can it not be the foundation of a business?"

Facing Chao Gai's question, Mu Xu replied, "Brother, I don't know, there are nearly [-] soldiers and people in Liangshan, and the village has already been overcrowded. In order to accommodate more people, I have ordered people to build a city on the north bank. "

Hearing this news, Chao Gai and the group of leaders who came to vote behind him all showed expressions of disbelief.They knew that Liang Shan was powerful before, but it was just a groundless guess. Today, they finally heard what Mu Xu said with their own ears, and it is conceivable that they were shocked.

After a long silence, Chao Gai calmed down and asked curiously, "Why did you build the city in the north? As far as I know, the terrain in the southeast is flatter."

Mu Xu explained, "That's because the north bank is sandwiched between the water park and the Yellow River, so it can be attacked or defended!"

Chao Gai's eyes flickered slightly, and he asked tentatively, "Listen to brother's implication, but don't you intend to accept the imperial court's offer?"

Mu Xu was startled when he heard the words, and then he saw the concerned eyes of Guan Sheng and Suo Chao behind him, and said with a smile, "You know, what conditions did the imperial court set for me a few days ago?"

Without waiting for others to ask questions, Mu Xu said disdainfully, "I'm just a nine-rank accompanying captain, and he's still a loose official. You really can't treat me, Mu Xu, as a fool!"

When everyone heard this, they all showed astonishment. Of course they knew what happened to loose officials.

Chao Gai didn't dare to believe it, "Didn't it mean that the imperial court is quite sincere in recruiting this time?"

Mu Xu laughed and said, "Brother Xian, I'm afraid he was deceived by that fellow Song Jiang. According to the information I got from Beijing, Su Yuanjing, the Si Taiwei in front of the palace, did mention this matter in the court, and the Zhao official family agreed.

But according to the old rules of recruiting security by the Song court, we people are just making small troubles at present, and don't expect others to look at us until we shake the world. "

Hearing Mu Xu's call, Chao Gai didn't feel much. Guan Sheng and the others were a little disappointed. They had thought that they could recruit directly to Mu Xu's sect, but they didn't know it was the result.

Mu Xu saw the expressions of several people, of course he knew what they were thinking, but he didn't intend to comfort them at all.

It's still the same old saying, before there is no absolute strength, it is very difficult for these traditional warriors of the Song Dynasty to change their minds.

While chatting and laughing, the golden sand beach was already in sight, and the leaders of the cottage had long been there to greet them.After abandoning the boat and landing on the shore, Mu Xu first introduced the new hero to everyone, and then ordered Zhu Wu to arrange the troops of Qingfeng Mountain properly, and then invited Chao Gai and others to the Juyi Hall on the mountain to have a banquet to welcome them.

After the banquet was over, Mu Xu made a special trip to stay with Chao Gai, wanting to talk about the arrangements for him.

Fortunately, Chao Gai was very knowledgeable, and before Mu Xu took the initiative to mention it, he stated that he wanted to take care of his life.

It would be great to be able to do this, but Mu Xu is also afraid that others will say that he is unkind and unkind.Therefore, it was suggested that
"Brother Xian is now in his prime, how can he waste his time, how about finding something to do?"

Of course Chao Gai was not willing to just sit there and wait to die, but he knew better in his heart that his status was really embarrassing, and he couldn't compare to those small village leaders.After all, in the eyes of outsiders, Qingfeng Mountain was once as famous as Liang Shanbo.

In order to prevent Mu Xu from being difficult, Chao Gai simply stated his position at the beginning, not wanting that Mu Xu would take the initiative to arrange things for him, which was far beyond his expectation, so he immediately patted his chest and said,

"Brother Mu might as well say it bluntly, Chao will never refuse!"

Mu Xu was even more satisfied with Chao Gai, from which it can be seen that this guy is actually a sensible person.It's a pity that I was unlucky. In the original book, I met Song Jiang and Wu Yong's black-hearted couple, so that I ended up like that.

"Heavenly King, please listen to me carefully. We have a salt field in Liangshanbo by the seaside of Dengzhou. Brother Ruan Xiaowu has always been in charge of it. But recently he has been sending me letters every now and then, wanting to be transferred back to the Liangshan headquarters.

I have never agreed because that saltworks is too important and there is really no one to replace it.It's also a coincidence, just now when I heard brother Xian said that he wanted to take care of his life, the younger brother suddenly had an idea, he wanted to be bold enough to ask brother Xian to come back for him, I don't know what brother would like? "

When Chao Gai heard that he was assigned to manage the salt field, he immediately laughed and said, "This is a trivial matter, brother, you can rest assured. Speaking of which, when I was working as Baozheng in Dongxi Village in the past, I often dealt with those private salt dealers. Now it’s considered to be back to my old job.”

Knowing this, Mu Xu racked his brains to arrange such a suitable position for Chao Gai.Seeing that he did not refuse at this moment, he was immediately very happy, and immediately told Chao Gai the size of the salt farm and the deal with Fang La and Wang Qing in detail.

When Chao Gai heard these inside stories, he couldn't help admiring Mu Xu, but also became more curious about his ambition.Just because judging from these actions, whoever says that Mu Xu wants to recruit security is simply fooling a fool.

Since he thought so in his heart, Chao Gai simply asked, "Please forgive Chao for being unreasonable. I don't know what brother Mu has done so many things for, so he won't be like Song Gongming, who wants to seek security. ?”

Mu Xu knew in his heart that Chao Gai was a faction against Zhao'an, and he didn't need to hide it deliberately, so he revealed his heart,
"Let me tell you the truth, I never thought of recruiting security, because it is a dead end. With the virtues of those treacherous parties in the current court, if they join the Song court, they will definitely not be able to escape being liquidated by them in the future. Instead of being controlled by others , why not set up a new stove and lead the brothers to do something earth-shattering."

Chao Gai first expressed his admiration to Mu Xu, and then said with emotion, "Song Jiang should really listen to this, maybe he can save the lives of those brothers who followed him!"

Mu Xu shook his head, he didn't agree with this, "Brother Xian is just joking, Song Gongming only wants to serve the king, how can he be willing to listen to these words!"

"It's also my fault that I don't know people well. If I had listened to my brother's words, I would have recognized Wu Yong's true face early in the morning. If the two of them hadn't colluded secretly, they wouldn't have fallen into such a situation. Many brothers even became Song Jiang's stepping stones." .”

Seeing Chao Gai's dejected expression when he said this, Mu Xu had no choice but to persuade, "I choose the road by myself, how can others force it, brother, it's better to be open."

……

Thanks to Chao Gai's active cooperation, the acquisition of Qingfengshan's forces went smoothly, and no one made any troubles.

In this way, a few more days passed, and in the blink of an eye, it was the eighth day of March. Mu Xu entrusted all the affairs of the cottage to Guan Zhong and Zhu Wu, and asked Yan Qing, Ruan Xiaoqi, and Li Jun to pretend to be personal followers, and accompanied Chao Gai, a group of people went straight to Dengzhou capital.

(End of this chapter)