“…… Chenben is a mustard grass people, and Weinan farming is a business. Fortunately, he was exceptionally promoted by the saint and entrusted with the post of chief of the ordnance supervisor. After taking office, he trembled and walked on thin ice. lest I be unworthy of a high position and live up to His Majesty's trust......"

Holding a brush in his right hand and a cane in his left hand, he got up early in the morning, Zhang Qian came to the study and began to rack his brains to concoct a recital for the Divine Dragon Emperor Li Xian.

"Fortunately, we have worked together to build useful things such as windmills, machine shafts, and dragon cars, so that we will no longer have trouble sleeping and eating. I want to make persistent efforts to repay the grace of the saints. But unexpectedly, the evil monk bullied the courtier's family and humiliated him, and stabbed him in the back when he was in the street......"

"Loyalty" is in the first place, followed by "miserable sales". Although the Divine Dragon Emperor Li Xian's thigh is not very strong. But at the moment, this thigh represents the country.

According to Zhang Qianqian's understanding of the 21 st century, those money-lending companies that were arrogant for a while, no matter how big or small, could only be wiped out in the face of the iron fist of the state apparatus. It will only depend on whether those in power can make up their minds to let it go up in smoke.

As for whether the writing is good or not, it doesn't matter. can make the Shenlong Emperor Li Xian understand, "The minister is very loyal, the minister is very aggrieved, the minister was bullied by the evil monk, you have to be angry with the minister." These three meanings are fine.

"Shaolang-kun, drink tea!" Zijuan walked in cautiously with a saucer in her hand, her voice as gentle as a kitten.

Last night, she was knocked unconscious by Luo Huaizu in her sleep and tied up, and it wasn't until after this person left that she was secretly untied by Zhang Qian. Therefore, he did not witness the physical and spiritual fight between Zhang Qian and Luo Huaizu. However, perhaps because she was frightened during the day, she was now in rather poor spirits. It looks like a small animal that has just been abandoned.

"Lay it down, and you go to sleep for a while. If there is something, I will call the housekeeper and Zhang Gui to come in and help! Seeing Zijuan's haggard appearance, Zhang Qian immediately remembered her tearful advice on the day Luo Huaizu first came to Zhuangzi. Suddenly, my heart was a little empty. He smiled and commanded softly.

"Yes, young owner!" Zijuan weakly agreed, put down the saucer, and slowly turned around and went out. The thin figure is as thin as a reed stick in the cold wind.

"Alas-" Looking at Zijuan's back and exhaling softly, Zhang Qian turned his head and continued to search his stomach and concoct a twist. Before I knew it, the pen stopped, and I was out of the way again.

The transaction between himself and Luo Huaizu last night was completely unavoidable. In the case that his martial arts and physique are not as good as the other party, and he doesn't dare to call someone to come in to help, Zhang Qian doesn't even have the qualifications to fight with the other party, so he can only find a way to stabilize this person first, and then try to the future.

In the future, with his own growth rate, Zhang Qian believes that it should not take more than five years to have enough strength to let Luo Huaizu take the initiative to put away those evil intentions and honestly become his partner. If not, relying on those national treasure-level craftsmen in the Ordnance Prison, five years is enough for Zhang Qian to create a flintlock pistol that can be activated at any time!

And Luo Huaizu is obviously aware of Zhang Qian's commitment to himself, and there are many elements of delaying the army. However, apart from killing Zhang Qian immediately, he had no better choice than "fair trade" at that time.

Only by making a "fair deal" with Zhang Qian can he have the opportunity to lay more traps for Zhang Qian without knowing it, so that Zhang Qian can become more and more inseparable from him. And five years, in his opinion, is enough for Zhang Qian to be completely controlled by himself.

So, last night's deal was actually the third fight between the two sides. It's just that from the physical level, it has been transferred to the spiritual battlefield.

With a wider vision than Luo Huaizu and more confidence, Zhang Qian finally fought a draw with the other party at the spiritual level after two failed physical fights. reluctantly changed the relationship between the two parties from simply being arranged by Luo Huaizu at will, to negotiation and cooperation.

As for how long this cooperation will last? It completely depends on the strength of both sides and where the limit of endurance is. Zhang Qian didn't dare to guarantee that Luo Huaizu would not suddenly attack one day, smash his head with a scale, and then go to find the next target. Luo Huaizu probably didn't dare to guarantee that Zhang Qian would one day arrange a knife and axe hand first, and then trick him into a certain room and divide his body indiscriminately.

"For now, leave a time bomb around. lest life be too comfortable, and Zhang forgot where he was. Suddenly, he let out a long breath, and Zhang Qian put pen to paper again.

Since he became an official of the Tang Dynasty, he no longer worries about being bullied by the petty officials and going bankrupt, his vigilance and precaution have been decreasing. It's just that he hasn't realized it all along. Otherwise, last night would not have been so easy, and he was touched into his bedroom by outsiders.

And the existence of Luo Huaizu can remind him at any time that this is the Tang Dynasty, and it is one of the most chaotic periods in the history of the Tang Dynasty. Don't think that you can sit back and relax if you are a five-grade official. Every political battle can involve people and end up with no bones left.

"Guo Huailiang, Guo Huaishan, you two, are responsible for guarding here with the family, if there is an outsider who trespasses into the mansion of the senior brother without notification, just let the dog bite him first, and then shoot him with arrows. All the consequences, Lao Tzu will bear it for you! Guo Nu's voice entered through the window, with undisguised ferocity.

"Wang, Wang, Wang......" The dogs barked one after another, turning the whole yard into a pot of porridge. Zhang Qian's train of thought was interrupted again, and he put down his pen helplessly and walked to the window with a cane.

Looking through the glass embedded in the center of the pane, he could clearly see that four thin black and red dogs were brought into the courtyard by Guo Nu and more than 20 family members. The family members are all bowed shoulders, knives in hand, and fully armed. As for Guo Nu himself, even the Mingguang armor and the fierce helmet were put on, as if he was ready to rush to the battlefield at any time. (Note: The thin dog, an excellent guard dog in ancient China, is the prototype of the Howling Dog.) ）

"Second junior brother, what's going on?" Worried that Guo Nu would go out without permission to cause trouble, Zhang Qian pushed open the window and asked loudly.

"Senior brother, you are up. How is the wound and does it still hurt? Guo Nu immediately changed his smiling face, and ran over with a fart, shushing the cold and asking for warmth. I thought you were asleep in the bedroom, but you were already in the study. ”

"I ask you, what are you going to do like this?" The two sides were already very familiar with each other, so much so that Zhang Qian knew that his worries might not be superfluous at all as soon as he looked at each other's expressions and movements. Frowning, he continued to get to the bottom of it.

"I'm not prepared to do anything, I'm not prepared to do anything. I'm just worried that the monks will come to the house to make trouble. So I went back to Chang'an City early in the morning, and asked my father for four hounds! Guo Nu resolutely refused to reveal his true purpose, and continued to talk about it with a smile.

"Okay, then leave the hounds behind. I need them just right! Thinking about the situation when Luo Huaizu touched his side in the middle of the night last night, Zhang Qian suddenly felt that the arrival of the hound was simply a relief in the snow. In order to express his gratitude to Guo Nu, he quickly smiled and added, "You come in, call the third junior brother in." Recently I had a leg injury and couldn't get out. Just tell you both about the basics of philosophy. ”

"Big brother!" Guo Nu let out a wail from his mouth, and the smile on his face was instantly replaced by grievance. Among the scholars, mathematics is his and Ren Cong's favorite, physics is secondary, and philosophy can be regarded as punishment. Although Zhang Qian, the senior brother, praised this course to the sky.

"Go quickly, don't push!" Seeing Guo Nu's reaction, Zhang Qian was even more convinced that his worries were right. glared at the person fiercely and urged sharply.

"Senior brother-" Guo Nu blinked pitifully, begging Zhang Qian to take back his fate. After a while, but there was no result, so I had to hang my head and prepare to go to Ren Cong to accept the "punishment" together.

And that Ren Cong is actually separated from him by a moon door. After listening to Zhang Qian's words from afar, he immediately rushed over and took the initiative to be a "tainted witness": "Senior brother, it was the second senior brother who borrowed two hundred family members from his father, and was going to kill Xinfeng County and dismantle the White Horse Temple into a pigsty. I don't think it's appropriate, and I've been persuading him. However, he was bigger than me and had harder fists than me, and I persuaded him not to stop. ”

"You borrowed a family from your father to demolish the White Horse Temple?" Zhang Qian's brows immediately rose, staring at Guo Nu's face and asking.

Although yesterday's situation was dangerous, after careful calculation, everyone did not really suffer. First of all, the assassins were killed, and the capture was captured, and no one was taught to become a fish that slipped through the net. Secondly, the actions of the monks, although they seem to be happy on the surface, have pushed themselves to a very passive position politically, and it is difficult to make a fuss about the slaughter of the White Horse Temple.

And if Guo Nu took his family to demolish the Xinfeng White Horse Temple, and then injured or killed a few monks of the White Horse Temple, it happened to offset this unfavorable situation for the monks. Between the two sides, it has become Zhang Qian's own personal grievances with some monks, and it is easy to be turned into a small thing by someone with a heart, and a small thing into nothing!

"I told my father to borrow some people to protect you and our workshop!" Seeing that Zhang Qian's expression was wrong, Guo Nu didn't dare to lie, lowered his head, and explained honestly. "I didn't tell him to demolish the White Horse Temple in Xinfeng County."

Immediately, he quickly added, "But my family has always been like this, no matter who dares to target my family, I will return it ten times immediately!" In this way, you can deter others from being divided and eaten! ”

"You ......" Zhang Qian was so angry that his eyes smoked, but he was helpless to take Guo Fu.

It's not like when I first came to Datang, and my eyes were black all around. He had already understood the roots of his two junior disciples by now.

The Guo family runs the largest express shop in Datang, which is equivalent to SF Express in another time and space. And Guo Nu's father is also the leader of Chang'an's underground society. How could such a family, when encountering an attack, choose to swallow their anger?!

"I knew that the second senior brother was not doing it right, so I kept persuading him just now!" In order not to suffer from the fish in the pond, he was punished to study philosophy together, and Ren Cong decisively fell into the well next to him, "But I persuaded him, but he didn't listen to me." What else do you say about a manly husband, hatred can't be overnight. ”

"Nonsense, you're not persuading at all!" Guo was furious and hurriedly launched a counterattack with a red face, "Senior brother, don't listen to him." He didn't try to persuade me at all. He just told me that if I retaliate now, the monk must be on guard. In a few days, when the monks have relaxed their vigilance, they will choose a dark and windy night to kill the monks by surprise! ”

Regardless of Ren Cong's pulling, he paused and continued to add, "He also said that it is not enough to demolish the Xinfeng White Horse Zhaojue Temple, we have to bulldoze all the temples around Chang'an, with the word white horse, in order to kill the prestige of our Mo family, so that whoever provokes us in the future will be weighed first!" ”

"Nonsense, all of them took off their armor and went into the house to recite articles. Today, I will study the three articles of Luo Zi (Russell), and if you don't memorize a word for word, you are not allowed to sleep! Zhang Qian's face was so angry that his face darkened, he shouted angrily, and slammed the window hard.

Although Luo Huaizu said something ugly last night, he was not wrong at all. These two juniors and disciples are both good at doing business. In officialdom and other aspects, it's really not very bright.

Turning his head to look at himself, Zhang Qian could only shake his head and smile bitterly. The two juniors are not very sensitive to politics, and they themselves are the same. Recently, life has been smooth sailing, because his scope of activities is completely limited to the ordnance superintendent, and he has not been involved in any complicated matters. And once it is involved, it becomes a headless fly.

Just like this time, I originally thought that by beating Monk Hui'an and putting on a posture that is not easy to mess with, I can scare those black hands who are trying to reach out to the flower water industry. But I didn't expect that behind Monk Hui'an, it was not a certain dignitary who was standing, but a whole lending group!

I didn't expect it, or because the recent days have been too smooth, and I ignored the fact that during the reign of Emperor Li Xian, the Heavenly Dragon Emperor, his prestige was seriously insufficient, and he couldn't suppress the impatience of the forces below.

If it was Li Longji or a male lord like Li Shimin who was on the stage right now, I am afraid that with one hundred and twenty guts, the monks would not dare to come to the door to blackmail officials, let alone assassinate this kind of thing on the street! And Guo Nu is spoiled again, and when he encounters grievances, he will expect the government to come forward to uphold justice, instead of organizing people to pay for blood debts and blood debts.

"Senior brother, we're here! We know it's wrong, please punish it! After entering the house, seeing that Zhang Qian's eyes had been staring at the window, and there was no sound of teaching a lesson in his mouth, Guo Nu and Ren Cong both felt more and more worried, and quickly lowered their heads and begged for mercy in a low voice.

"Forget it, I'm just afraid that something will happen to you again!" Zhang Qian didn't look back, raised his right hand and rubbed his temple, and commanded in a low voice, "Recently, except for the weapons supervisor, you are not allowed to go anywhere." Every time I go out, I have to take a horse-drawn carriage and bring enough family! ”

At present, it is not a chaotic era in the ordinary sense, and it is far from the prosperous era. Zhang Qian himself couldn't figure out what to do to deal with it correctly. Therefore, after pondering again and again, he could only whisper: "What's the matter, let's discuss it with the three of us, and no one should make any claims on their own." Although I don't know much, I am your big brother after all. ”

"Senior brother, we know it's wrong. Don't dare again! ”

"Senior brother, it's not that we don't discuss with you, it's that we see that you are sick and don't want you to be distracted!"

As long as they can not suffer from the "torture" of philosophy, Guo Nu and Ren Cong are satisfied, so the answer is called a scramble.

"Then go and rest, I'm tired too!" Zhang Qian sighed and waved his hand distraughtly.

After tossing for most of the night yesterday, and a lot of blood was shed because of the torn wound, he was really exhausted. However, before Guo Nu and Ren Cong could agree, the housekeeper Ren Quan ran in with a hot sweat, "The owner, the royal family, and the imperial doctor are here to visit you." He, his entourage said that his name was Dou Huaizhen, which was his name. ”

"Dou Huaizhen?" Zhang Qian was stunned, and the image of a handsome man in his fifties quickly flashed in front of him.

Although he has no dealings with this imperial doctor, Zhang Qian has heard a lot of gossip about this person in the weapons prison. It is said that this person's great-great-grandfather was the father of Empress Taimu. And his grandfather was the little cousin of Emperor Taizong. His father, Dou Dexuan, is also very powerful, he was the prime minister of Emperor Gaozong, and he admired Xu Jingzong with his profound knowledge.

However, when it came to Dou Huaizhen himself, he became famous not by family background and knowledge, but at the beginning of this year, he married the queen's nurse as a continuation, and then was appreciated by the queen and promoted to the high position of the imperial historian.

Because he roughly remembers how Emperor Zhongzong of the Tang Dynasty died in history, Zhang Qian has always been respectful of those who are stained with the word "Empress Wei". And Dou Huaizhen, as the son of the prime minister, probably doesn't look down on Zhang Qian, a "fortunate progress" who has risen to a high position by relying on one or two strange and ingenious things. The two parties are naturally not able to have a good impression of each other, so they don't have any contact at all.

"Senior brother, this Dou Huaizhen doesn't have a good reputation, or I'll go out for you and tell him that you are unconscious?" It's just that Zhang Qian thinks that Dou Huaizhen is snobbish, and Guo Nu also looks down on this kind of guy who betrays his hue, so he hesitated for a moment and took the initiative to ask for help.

"Let's see him, after all, he is here to take the initiative to visit the patient." Ren Cong was always kind, and immediately retorted cautiously, "If the senior brother is closed, it will make people feel stingy." ”

"Senior brother is not familiar with him, and he may not have any good intentions when he comes to visit the patient!" Guo angrily glanced at Ren Cong and argued in a low voice.

"He's not the only one who comes to visit. Senior brother can't never see anyone. Ren Cong shook his head and retorted sullenly. There is no guarantee that everyone else is well-intentioned. ”

After saying that, both of them felt that their ideas might not be appropriate, and they both raised their heads and looked at Zhang Qian, waiting for the omnipotent senior brother to make a decision.

And Zhang Qian, but after thinking about it again, he shook his head and smiled, "See, why don't you see it." Third junior brother, you went to greet Dr. Dou for me, saying that I bled too much yesterday and can't get up now. Ask him for forgiveness and visit him in his bedroom. Second junior brother, you ask someone to help me prepare cold water, turmeric and other things, and dress up. Whoever you see today must let them know that I was badly injured and couldn't get out of bed for a month or two! ”

This trick is called Sima Zhao pretending to be sick and playing Cao Shuang.

"Romance of the Three Kingdoms", it just so happens that Zhang Qian has also seen it, and he clearly remembers the general details.