"Not only that, there is one more thing." Zhang Jun stopped by the empty government office road, glanced at the government office not far behind him, and then looked at the intersection hundreds of steps ahead where people gathered, but there was
He shook his head and responded seriously. "Did you know that Han Shizhong had an attendant come to see me this morning?"
Liu Ziyu nodded immediately: "When Xiantai found me just now, he told me that fortunately Han Shizhong had the intention and did not let the attendant mention the summons last night, otherwise Xiantai would be closed today."
"Then do you know what the attendant said to me?"
"Please give me some advice from Xiantai." Under the bright morning sun, Liu Ziyu somewhat dissipated some of his previous resentment.
"The attendant told me that Lieutenant Han had heard that the official family was poor, and when the people below him paid tribute, they would definitely give it out as a reward, so that he didn't even have anything useful around him, and sometimes he even just lit candles at night.
Light one... Then he captured something in the front and wanted to use it as tribute, but he was afraid that the officials would not use it, so he asked me how to deal with it."
"I must have seen it with my own eyes last night." Liu Ziyu suddenly realized when he thought of Zhang Jun's narration before, and then sighed again. "I have been traveling for many days, and I have heard some opinions, but I didn't expect that the official family is really so poor.
…”
"It's not just poverty." Zhang Jun became more and more helpless. "Yanxiu, you really need to have a higher vision... In times of national crisis, who doesn't understand hardship? Living here, you can't get a salary for half a year, and many people have to take care of their families.
Before arriving in Huainan, the whole meal of ginger and black beans was treated as a treasure. Isn’t it considered a hardship? You, Liu Ziyu, just settled down with your family, so you came from the southeast and traveled thousands of miles on horseback. Isn’t it considered a hardship? I just ask you, you
Why don’t you feel miserable?”
"My father hanged himself to face the national calamity. My second brother and his family walked slowly, madam. All three sons died in the chaos. The country is the enemy of the family. How can we care about poverty and poverty?" Liu Ziyu almost blurted out.
"Aren't the officials the enemies of the country and the family?" Zhang Jun sighed again.
Liu Ziyu looked around and saw a group of royal guards wearing armor and sabers walking away. He frowned slightly: "Does the Tian family also have this kind of friendship? What's more, there is the strange incident of falling into a well. I heard that since then, the official family has...
He is rarely moved by what is happening in the north, and he does not rescue the two saints, as if he is at odds with his father and brother."
"Is this the case in the Southeast?" Zhang Deyuan paused obviously.
"Before the great victory in Shouzhou, there were quite a lot of such words spread, and even more after that, but they were spread in a positive light. After all, in the southeast, what good reputation can the two saints have?"
"That's alright." Zhang Deyuan couldn't help but breathed a sigh of relief. "In fact, everyone here knows that the official speech is indeed quite disrespectful to the two saints. Previously, they were not allowed to negotiate peace with the Jin people, and they were not allowed to negotiate between Xing and Fu.
He Qian talked about the matter of repaying the two saints. A few days ago on the road, he even said that the disaster of Jingkang was that the two saints descended from the world first... With such an attitude, it is unusual for people in the southeast to talk like this. It's just Yanxiu, you
Think about it, if you don't have resentment, why would you do this? And if you have resentment, you still care to some extent. It's just that the officials don't necessarily care about just one person."
"There is some truth in this." Liu Ziyu also took a deep breath. "The Jingkang Incident is an unprecedented shame. It is normal for officials to have resentment and hatred because of it... However, it is common for officials to do this.
Ambition, isn’t it a good thing?”
"It's a good thing, but it's not a good thing." Zhang Jun shook his head repeatedly. "This is the key point I want to say. In my opinion, it is right for the officials to focus on revival and revenge, but if there is only one idea of revival and revenge,
, so what if you don’t think about other things? You, Liu Ziyu, hate your country and are at odds with the Jin people. Don’t you care about your family and old friends in your hometown? There was chaos in Jianzhou a few days ago. Didn’t you ask me about the relevant things?
? All the ministers in the industry, who doesn’t want to have a higher official rank? Even Xianggong Lu, who has always been humble and peaceful, heard that Xianggong Li was not coming, so he followed the trend and accepted Nanyang? But what about the officials? "
"Official..."
"Xiangong Lu said to me that officials acted extremely selfishly before and after they fell into a well... But in my opinion, officials were undoubtedly selfish before they fell into a well, but after that, they acted without any selfish thoughts.
Or is it public and private? It's just hard to distinguish." Zhang Jun said sternly. "One piece of evidence is that since the official family fell into the trap, they have only been focused on resisting the revival of the Jin Dynasty, leaving behind their wealth, treasures, women, and even personal lives.
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"Yes." Liu Ziyu also thought thoughtfully. "Just like Li Boji and Mr. Li are now left in the southeast, people in the southeast say that he is in trouble because the officials have entrusted the emperor and the queen mother to him. As a minister, he has no other choice but to devote himself to his life.
So what can we do? But on the other hand, which emperor would entrust the vague responsibility of abolishing power to a minister, not to resist the money? But..."
"But how can a twenty-year-old man endure such an act?" Zhang Jun finally said what he really wanted to express. "The official family is too tired... Previously, Xianggong Li was like a puppet, fighting in Shouzhou
Sometimes I feel stretched to the point of collapse, but once I go west I feel uneasy, for fear that I won't do well. You know, when we were twenty, how could we carry the world on our shoulders?"
"But the official is the emperor after all."
"The emperor is also a human being, and the current emperor only roamed freely before he was twenty years old." Zhang Jun became more and more helpless. "You people only think that he is the emperor and think that he should be a sage, but you don't regard him as a human being...
...One moment a strong person comes and wants him to make wood carvings, another moment a mature person comes and thinks that he is too reckless in his fight against gold and wants him to take care of the overall situation, and then a reckless person comes and wants to make him wise and powerful. As everyone knows, if you only
If you continue to do this, the emperor will be unable to stand still in the future and will return to Nanjing (Shangqiu) in the past, choosing women in coats and trying to avoid war. What can you do? Are you going to replace that King Xin or the one in Wuma Mountain in the north?
The emperor's heir who is only a few months old in Yangzhou is pushing forward? Can Han Liangchen and Zhang Boying agree?!"
Liu Ziyu frowned slightly, as if he didn't want to get involved in this topic, but he had to ask: "So, you want me to stay and enrich the center?"
"What else?" Zhang Jun smiled helplessly. "In the current situation, as a minister, I can't choose a concubine for the official family. Should I advise the official family to pay less attention to state affairs and spend more time in the sun? The only thing I can do is to recommend talents as much as possible.
Let people like you, Yan Xiu, stay with the officials and help them plan, so that there will be fewer twists and turns when doing things..."
Liu Ziyu sighed loudly, as if he had been convinced, but he still couldn't help but feel slightly depressed.
"No matter what, the safety of the world now actually depends on this one person. Only when the official family is stable can the world be stable!" Zhang Jun said sincerely. "Why don't I want to go out and take charge of the political party and do something big? But at least I have to wait until the official family is stable.
Once the family is completely settled here, there will be rules and regulations, right?"
When Liu Ziyu heard this, he could only nod his head and say nothing more.
Moreover, Zhang Jun's remarks were mostly based on his own conjectures, and as an official and a private person, the so-called number one confidant among civil servants, his position is biased towards the official. Even though Liu Ziyu has been on good terms with him these days,
But I don't completely believe him.
However, there is one sentence that Zhang Deyuan made clear the key point, that is, the officials who came west after the victory in Shouzhou were obviously a little uneasy and didn't know what to do... This is natural, because Zhao Jiu never took it seriously.
I have been a serious official, but I don’t know how to be an official.
As soon as he came over, he was immediately isolated by several people. After finally breaking free, he just sat there and waited for Li Gang. Li Gang came to act as a puppet. After Li Gang got sick, he happened to be able to hold it back to the extreme, so he went to break jars and ran to the Huai River to lean on him.
Han Shizhong and Zhang Jun fought a battle... After the battle was won, the Zhao official family also accepted it. Logically speaking, he should be a good official. However, the road was not smooth and Nanyang could not land, and no one had the intention to teach the official family how to do it.
Secondly, the Shouzhou War added some color to Zhao Guan's family, and no one had the courage to teach him how to be an official, so the current impetuous situation resulted.
And this is also an important reason why Zhao Guan's family was confused and wanted to keep Wanyan Yinshuke. He seemed to have decided that the only "serious thing" to fight against the Jin was fighting, so he was somewhat happy when he heard about the enemy.
Back to the present moment, Zhao Guanjia himself may not have thought so much because of his stupidity or because he was in the game. On the contrary, he slept soundly until the afternoon and then received a piece of good news.
Then he became excited and Wu He stayed behind in Tokyo. Deputy Commander-in-Chief of the Generalissimo's Mansion and Privy Councilor Zongze came to write a memorial again, and the content of the memorial was exciting.
Grandpa Zong made it very clear in this letter that Huazhou was completely recovered by him. Qingzhou and Weizhou on Jingdong East Road were also definitely abandoned by the Jin people. Now they are occupied by a man named Li Cheng... In short, the Jin people are big
A large-scale withdrawal of troops is a foregone conclusion. As long as the Zhao Guan family manages to occupy the city and defend it securely, there is no need to worry about Wanyan Yinshuke. The latter may continue to attack, but if it fails, it will definitely go north.
Of course, at the end of the letter, I couldn’t help but ask Zhao Guan’s family again, whether they are coming to Tokyo or not?
Not to mention the important information in the first half, but the politeness in the latter words almost made Zhao Jiu cry with joy... You must know that it has been more than half a year since the time traveled. Except for the period when Li Gang was in power, Grandpa Zong gave
He, the official Zhao family, sent out twelve invitation letters, all asking him to return to his old capital to settle down, one every half month on average.
The previous eleven letters were all about national justice and loyalty and filial piety. They also said, "No matter how difficult it is to unify the ancestors," and "A small palace has been built for the two saints, and the officials will live in the old palace." Every sentence
They are poking someone's spine accurately, and the moral kidnapping is used so smoothly that it is difficult for Zhao Guan's family to explain. In addition, there are so many soldiers and horses in Tokyo, and how much food and fodder are waiting for the official.
Home is here, reorganize the Sixth Division to cross the river and march north!
But this time, it was really the first time for the Zhao Guan family to see such a polite invitation.
What does this mean? This means that after the battle of Shouzhou, the rapid and desperate actions of Zhao Guanjia after the war, and all the way to Ruyang, the number one commander in the world who is currently stationed in Tokyo just north of him finally began to trust him a little bit.
Zhao Guan’s family is here!
It's just because of face, so I still hold my neck and continue to invite. Of course, for a seventy-year-old person, it's completely understandable to be arrogant.
All in all, for the entire world, this spring of the second year of Jianyan saw the Kingdom of Jin further prospering and expanding, while the Song Dynasty further sluggished and lost control... After all, the two routes in Jingdong, Jingxi, and Kanxi were swept away, and large areas of troops were lost.
Scholars and people from all over the country went south one after another, and the urban storage was plundered. At the same time, several cities in Hebei that persisted in the war of resistance were constantly being uprooted.
However, if we only talk about the Zhao Guan family and Xing Zai, although there are still some turmoils at the moment, the overall situation is still improving.
This is mainly because soldiers and horses have been gathered, and people's hearts have also been united to a certain extent. And according to the remarks of Zongze, Han Shizhong, and Liu Ziyu, as long as it is dealt with properly, Wanyan Yinshu is not a big problem here, and then he will stand up
Nanyang is only visible to the naked eye.
The significance of a stable companion for success is self-evident.
The situation in the next few days developed roughly like this. Not to mention the ups and downs in the outer areas, just saying that here, with the recruiting troops sent by the Zhao Guan family, many defeated soldiers, bandits, and rebels in Caizhou surrendered one after another, and then
They all accepted the recruitment offer from the industry.
Among them, although Han Shizhong did not rush to unify and reorganize because the movement of Yin Shu can be unclear, but seeing the map change from enemy territory to own territory, everyone's sense of security was still significantly improved.
After a day or two, good news came to even Tangzhou and Yingchang Prefecture. Various independent armed forces there. Although they did not come forward to agree, as Liu Ziyu said, there was essentially no reason to refuse.
But most of them hesitated and waited, thinking that as Han Shizhong and Wang De advanced to the other side, maybe they should make up their minds.
However, on this day, the morning of the eighth day of March, Zhao Guanjia was playing chess with his new minister Liu Ziyu and discussing the matter of Tujuan, when he suddenly saw an unexpected minister.
"Lin Jingmo, the academician of the Hanlin Academy, has met the official!" Academician Xiao Lin was panting and pale. He was introduced by Lan Gui, the chief escort officer of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, but as soon as he saw the official, he bowed his head and faced him, and said something quite surprising.
Shocking words. "When I arrived at Biyang in Tangzhou, I received news that Fan Zhixu was frightened in Nanyang. Recently, he took the initiative to ask the monk Zongyin who was stationed in Wuguan to come out to rescue him. As a result, Zhao Zongyin led thousands of troops out.
Guan, was easily defeated by a branch of the Jin Army in the northwest of Nanyang. Zhao Zongyin knew that he had committed a serious crime, so he did not return to Wuguan or Nanyang at all, but fled to Xiangyang to join Fan Qiong!"
Under the eaves, Zhao Jiu held a chess piece and was silent for a while, but he didn't get angry.
"So... isn't Nanyang not safe?" Liu Ziyu, who had already stood up to avoid Academician Xiaolin, blurted out. "Because this time the Jin people can safely capture Nanyang and then return from Wuguan calmly."
Zhao Jiu still didn't speak, but felt a little weak... What can I say?
Han Shizhong, Zongze, Liu Ziyu, and even themselves and others in the group tried their best. The panting scholar Xiaolin in front of him was even more willing to take risks before. However, he still couldn't withstand a demonic monk.
"Officials!" Academician Xiao Lin hesitated for a moment, but tried his best to speak again. "Liu Yan went to find Lieutenant Han... He said, be careful that the Jin people don't go to Nanyang, but they will take advantage of the situation to come to Ruyang!"