The famous book tour starting from the Red House

Chapter 440 Song Jiang reveals the secret
Song Jiang followed his words, and sent Dai Zong to present a heavy gift to Xin Xingzong overnight.

Sure enough, this move had a miraculous effect. After Xin Xingzong received the gift, his attitude changed a lot immediately. He even ordered Dai Zong to send a message to Song Jiang, saying that since he was injured, there was no need to go to the camp tomorrow. it is good.

Song Jiang thought that the matter was over like this, but he didn't know that this was just Xin Xingzong's long-term fishing for big fish.

It turned out that after Xin Xingzong received Song Jiang's belongings, he suddenly realized that Song Jiang and his gang were born as bandits who robbed houses, and they must have a large amount of gold and silver with them.That being the case, is there any reason to let it go?

As Tong Guan's confidant, he knew that Tong Guan had agreed to Cai Jing and the others to punish Song Jiang and his party severely.But in order to extract more money, this matter can be slowed down.

Therefore, Xin Xingzong sent Dai Zong away, and took his belongings to see Tong Guan, and gave him some advice.

After hearing this, Tong Guan felt that it was very reasonable, so he expressed his position on the spot, so that Xin Xingzong could act cheaply without reporting to him.

In this way, Song Jiang and his gang will suffer bad luck for eight lifetimes.

Since the army moved to Liangzhe Road and began to confront Fangla's rebels, Xin Xingzong always sent Song Jiang's troops as forwards, either to perform the task of trapping the battle, or to be responsible for attacking the city and breaking through the barriers, and then his men collected the fruits of victory.

When the Song army arrived at the city of Hangzhou, nearly [-] of Erlongshan's original [-] troops had been lost, and seven or eight of their leaders were killed.

No matter how stupid Song Jiang was, he understood his situation at this moment.

In order to seek self-protection, Song Jiang took out his ability to be both right and wrong when he was in the Yamen of Yuncheng County, and spent a lot of property, not only bribing Xin Xingzong and others, but also under their recommendation, he got an interview with Tong Guan. Chance.

After seeing Tong Guan, Song Jiang showed extreme humility, not saying a word of kindness, and calmly sent five large boxes.

As one of the famous six thieves in the world at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty, apart from being greedy, Tong Guan still has some abilities.

Regardless of the other things, just taking the fact that he took command twice and conquered Xixia as an example, the merits outweigh the demerits.

It's not that Tong Guan's military accomplishment is high, but that this guy is quite proficient in the way of dealing with people.During his tenure as the head coach, he often used his relationship in the court to fight for the food and salaries owed by the court for the soldiers of the Western Army.

This is also the reason why Tong Guan was able to gain a foothold in the Western Army as an eunuch, and let those arrogant soldiers work for him.

It is said that after fighting for a period of time, Tong Guan suddenly discovered that Song Jiang's group is quite powerful and can be used for his own use.

In line with the principle of not wasting, and for the sake of those large boxes of belongings, Tong Guanyi changed his disdain for Song Jiang before, so he encouraged him a bit.

Not only promised to ask for credit for Song Jiang, but also promised that he was willing to save Cai Jing for him.

Song Jiang's eyelids are so flexible. Seeing this situation, he immediately expressed his willingness to vote for Tong Guan's sect.

Tong Guan readily accepted this.After dismissing Song Jiang, he immediately summoned Xin Xingzong and told him not to suppress Song Jiang any more, but to treat Erlongshan's troops equally.

Xin Xingzong was surprised when he heard the words, "Marshal, why is this?"

Tong Guan explained, "I see that Song Jiang's troops are not as powerful as the elite of the Western Army. Instead of wasting them on fighting the bandits, it is better to work together with the Shengjie Army in the future."

Of course, Xin Xingzong knew that the Shengjie army that Tong Guan was talking about was the troops he subdued during his attack on Xixia.

Hearing that Tong Guan actually compared Erlongshan's troops with Shengjie's army, Xin Xingzong was extremely puzzled.

"Marshal, how should we explain to Cai Xiang and Gao Taiwei?"

"Hmph, why do you need to explain to them what I am doing? That old man Cai Jing is running out of time, and the officials are already tired of him. I believe that the day when he will become an official is not far away. Don't be afraid of him?

As for Gao Qi, this guy doesn't have much ability and courage.After I return to Beijing, I will explain to him face to face, are you afraid that he won't sell me? "

In fact, the reason why Tong Guan wanted to protect Song Jiang was not that he was motivated by a whim, but his fundamental purpose was to use Song Jiang to work for him.

Because Tong Guan has had a dream of becoming a king for a long time, and to achieve this goal, he can only start from the sixteen prefectures of Youyun.So a long time ago, Tong Guan secretly planned to attack the Liao Kingdom in his heart.

Although Xin Xingzong only got a plausible answer from Tong Guan's mouth.But he didn't dare to disobey Tong Guan. Immediately after returning, he drew out the first sequence of Song Jiang's troops attacking Hangzhou in the past.

With Tong Guan's acquiescence, Song Jiang's situation really improved in the following days. Not only was he no longer used as cannon fodder, but he was gradually able to participate in some military meetings and offer some ideas to Tong Guan.

For example, on this day, Tong Guan ordered Song Jiang to go to his camp to discuss matters.

After Song Jiang arrived, he saw that Tong Guan hadn't appeared yet, only a few generals of the Western Army were talking in the tent, so he quickly put on a smiling face and sent greetings to them one by one.

From the bottom of their hearts, although these people disdain to be with Song Jiang and other grassroots gangsters, they dare not refuse Tong Guan's face, so they all returned the gift, and some even pretended to be affectionate and exchanged greetings with Song Jiang.

So when Tong Guan came, he saw a happy scene, and he couldn't help nodding his head in satisfaction.

"The commander-in-chief summoned you to come and discuss important matters." Tong Guanfang said impatiently as soon as he sat down.

"Yesterday evening, an urgent report came from the capital. A group of bandits suddenly appeared in Weizhou. The officials ordered me to return to defend the capital quickly. What do you think of this?"

Song Jiang learned the previous lesson this time, he didn't talk too much, he just stood silently and listened carefully to others' discussion.

Yang Weizhong was the first to ask, "Commander, did the military newspaper say, where did this group of bandits come from, and how many people are there?"

Tong Guan replied, "This group of rebels are flying the handsome flag with Chinese characters. Even the imperial court doesn't know where they came from. The local reports say that there are about [-] to [-] in number."

When everyone heard this, they all took a deep breath. After all, everyone knew the virtues of the imperial guards in Beijing.

Liu Yanqing frowned and said, "If this is the case, we must return to help, lest the thieves cross the river and kill them near Jingji Road, which will definitely cause shocks in the government and the public!"

Tong Guan slapped the desk with resentment, and cursed, "It's all those places that are useless, and the thieves are so open and aboveboard, they appear near the capital. It ruined my big business. Seeing that the city of Hangzhou will fall soon, at this time Withdrawing the troops is really unwilling!"

Seeing that the time was ripe, Song Jiang stepped out in due course and said, "I want to report to the commander, the villain has important clues to report."

Tong Guan waved his hand casually, "You say so."

Song Jiang saluted, and then replied loudly, "Just now, the villain heard from the commander-in-chief that the gang of thieves were wearing the handsome flag. If this is true, then the villain may know their origin."

Tong Guan was refreshed, and hurriedly asked, "Tell me quickly."

Facing everyone's surprised, contemptuous, or envious gazes, Song Jiang said without changing his face, "If the villain's prediction is correct, these people must be the subordinates of the traitor Mu Xu."

"What basis do you have?"

"The commander-in-chief doesn't know, when the villain was in Shandong, he once met a man, his surname was Hua and his name was Rong, and he was the Zhizhai of Qingfengzhai under the rule of Qingzhou.

Later, because he violated the national law, he voted for Mu Xu in Liangshan. He has always been Mu Xu's confidant and favorite general, so he went to Hedong with him.It is undoubtedly this person who appeared in Weizhou recently. "

Tong Guan was overjoyed at first, but then disappointed and said, "If you know the origin of this group of thieves, what can you do?"

When he said this, he saw that Song Jiang hesitated to speak, so he said, "Don't hide what you have to say, just say it."

(End of this chapter)