Zhang Xiaowu was surrounded by a group of generals and went to drink, everyone understood that Zhang Xiaowu was about to leave the ghost guard to be reused, although there were thousands of reluctance in their hearts, but after all, they were the soldiers of the Holy Han, not the bandit leaders of the Mountain King, leaving Zhang Xiaowu, they were still the border army of the Holy Han. The so-called military order is difficult, and seeing that the ghost guards will be scattered in the four fields, everyone can only wish the robe a better future.

But after all, the Ghost Guard was founded by Zhang Xiaowu, and was established from the most difficult and difficult environment, from the most dangerous Dog Yi encirclement, and the Ghost Guard is engraved with traces of Zhang Xiaowu. Therefore, it was difficult for them to accept Zhang Xiaowu's departure for a while, and even everyone felt that Zhang Xiaowu temporarily left the Ghost Guard in order to return to the Ghost Guard in the future and better lead everyone to create new achievements.

Zhang Xiaowu had mixed feelings, in fact, after he came to this world, he didn't know what he wanted. He is not an ambitious man, all he does is make life better for those around him, and all he can do is help his brothers.

Maybe Kang Tianen is right, he has fought several times in life, and although he is always chic at the border, he has less experience. Now Saibei is in Dading, and all the ethnic groups and countries of the Inuyi are recuperating, and they can't go south for at least ten years. In his previous life, he worked in the library, and he already felt like this all his life, and he could never live that peaceful life again.

The generals went out noisily, and Kang Tianen was about to take a step, but was stopped by Ruan Qingwen and reprimanded in a low voice: "You shouldn't provoke the general's ambitions, do you know how dangerous it is?" Although you keep saying that you don't want him to be a Dushan uncle, what is the difference between what you are doing now? ”

Kang Tianen asked rhetorically: "Senior brother, if the general has no ambitions, what is the use of my provocation, if he dares to fight the waves, why do you need my provocation?" Senior brother, what do you think is the reason why the general killed the old lady? ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "What is it?" ”

Kang Tianen said firmly: "I think that the general is not willing to be the border army guard, and the general is not a person who is willing to be lonely at all." ”

"Impossible." Ruan Qingwen categorically denied, "The general has always worked hard to manage the ghost guard and build the wooden city, if the general had two hearts, he would have ...... long ago Stand on your own in the north of the country. ”

"It's not the same thing that you and I are talking about." Kang Tianen smiled indifferently and said: "The general is not unwilling to be a general in the border army, but unwilling to be lonely, unwilling to have no enemies. If the general was in Saibei, he would even take the initiative to provoke Inuyi, causing the two countries to fight, dragging Shenghan to the brink of an even more dangerous national war. I think that the general is an invincible double-edged sword, the country is determined, the general can establish the country, the country is in chaos, and the general can shake the world. ”

"It turns out that you want the general to ...... in the Central Plains" Ruan Qingwen pointed at him and suddenly realized.

Kang Tianen nodded and said: "The general is in Longdu, so he can have a more brilliant future, and now the most dangerous thing is not the Inuyi foreign race, but the inside, the interior of the empire." He shook his head and whispered: "The Taiqian Dynasty has exhausted its national strength, leaving Emperor Dade a mess, although Zhang Kuan, Dushanbo and others tried their best to maintain it, but the empire is still broken. If you want to maintain the empire, you need a talent like a general to help your majesty turn the tide. ”

Ruan Qingwen said: "The empire is not as unbearable as you say. ”

Kang Tianen said: "Senior brother, you have been in the army for a long time, you are not familiar with the people's conditions, and you don't know how difficult the people's lives are now. Because the border pass is facing Inuyi, the army and the people are united with the outside world, and they can fight as one. But everywhere in the Central Plains, all kinds of contradictions broke out frequently between the common people and the government, the commoners and the nobles, the tenants and the landlords. Last year, there were frequent rebellions in various places, have you noticed that there are many more martial arts rangers now? ”

"That's ......"

"If the world is stable, the people are harmonious, and life is rich, why do you need many rangers." Kang Tianen said, and then there was ambition in his eyes, and he said: "So the general should make arrangements in advance and lay enough prestige before the world is in chaos." ”

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "You don't know what the general thinks, the general will definitely not have such ambitions." ”

"Ambition needs to be cultivated." Kang Tianen smiled.

The next day was September 15, and the rule of the Holy Han Dynasty was that the first and fifteenth days of each month were not early, Zhang Xiaowu slept until the third pole of the sun, and last night Xia Ming and Bao Yin, a group of bastards, poured him too much. Especially Xia Ming, this thing couldn't beat himself, so he tried his best to drink with himself, and finally poured himself down first, and he was still sleeping with his bare ass at this time.

After Zhang Xiaowu drank some sobering soup, he was ready to visit the Gu family.

The head of the Gu family, that is, Gu Yong's father, Yanyang Hou Gu Chuang, and Gu Yongzhi, the eldest brother of Gu Yongzhi, the chief treasurer of the Gu family's business, have been operating the Gu family's business.

The biggest advantage of Saibei is that Mucheng is convenient for trade with Inuyi, but Mucheng has no funds and resources, so it can only act as a trade transit point. Zhang Xiaowu plans to build Mucheng into the largest trading city between the Central Plains and foreign races, and needs to attract a large number of Central Plains merchants and shops internally, and foreign merchants also need to be recruited externally. Moreover, the demand of foreign races for goods and spices in the Central Plains is a rigid demand, so it is not difficult to attract foreign merchants to operate, even the Tatar people, who are called barbarians, are also eager to exchange markets with the Central Plains, but Zhang Xiaowu's headache is how to attract more Central Plains merchants and protect the interests of Central Plains merchants.

The Gu family business is one of the four major business names in the Central Plains, although it has become silent because of the princelings, but the Gu family's industry has not suffered much loss. Even the prince's father-in-law, Chi Wen, the former head of the household department, was removed from the official position because the princeling lost power, so Xiang Rui was quickly promoted to the head of the household department, and now Xiang Rui was quickly promoted to the right prime minister, this Xiang Rui's luck can be said to be not ordinarily good.

Although Chi Wen was dismissed, the Chi family's Hengtong Money Village did not suffer much loss, after all, the Chi family is also a scholar family, or a family among the scholars, they have just become much more low-key now.

Zhang Xiaowu planned to visit the Gu family first and then the Chi family, but he was not prepared to reveal the prince's widowed daughter to the Chi family, so as not to bring danger to the Chi family and Meng Shi Meng Ran'er.

However, early in the morning, the Ministry of War sent someone to come, and it turned out that one of the disciples of the Zhang Party, Yu Shi went deep to learn that Zhang Xiaowu Palace had killed the old mother of the Empress Dowager Zhang, so he ran to the Yamen of the Ministry of War early in the morning to reprimand the Ministry of War for conniving at Zhang Xiaowu. And the friends who went deep also expressed their support, asking the Ministry of War to restrain Zhang Xiaowu, and asking the Ministry of War to imprison him and wait for the morning of tomorrow to deal with him.

Shi Yong, the secretary of the military department, had no choice but to order Wei Yuan, the former general, to bring Zhang Xiaowu to the yamen of the military department in the imperial city for questioning.

Wei Yuan and Zhang Xiaowu are also old acquaintances, so although they have orders, they still smile and say after seeing Zhang Xiaowu: "General Zhang, Lord Shangshu is invited-you are in big trouble right now-but it doesn't matter, the imperial historians are just making trouble, and they don't dare to do anything without Zuo Xiang's words." ”

"You got it?"

"In the entire empire, you are the only one who dares to kill the Queen Mother, you are really not afraid of ghosts and gods." Wei Yuan stretched out his thumb and said.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Do you also think I'm a little silly? ”

Wei Yuan said: "Either you are Han, or you are too fine, I think a ghost general who can defeat the various Inuyi in the north of the Saibei, no one will think he is Han." ”

"Then you're wrong." Zhang Xiaowu said with a smile, "In the past, people called me Zhang Hanlang. ”

Wei Yuan said: "The general is too modest. ”

Zhang Xiaowu followed Wei Yuan to the Yamen of the Imperial City Military Department, he was quite familiar with this place, and came directly to the council office. Most of the Yamen of the Ministry of War are located in Liulifang, but the Yamen office in the Imperial City is not large, and they are all temporary office spaces, most of which are used for meetings and rests of the senior officials of the early dynasty.

The office where the military department is located is the Huwei Hall of the military department, Shangshu Shi Yong and Zuo Shilang Gu Hongzhen looked sad, and when they saw Zhang Xiaowu coming, they were ready to drink him, but they didn't know where to start. On the contrary, Zhang Xiaowu generously explained how this old lady was arrogant and domineering in the palace, and did not put His Majesty in his eyes, so that His Majesty secretly ordered her to be killed. He also told the two of them about His Majesty's next arrangement, and the two glanced at each other, and they knew it in their hearts, so they no longer got involved.

Zhang Xiaowu is not holding chicken feathers as an arrow, but in this way it has reduced a lot of trouble, and now Dushanbo is on an expedition to the south of the Yangtze River, and the power of the DPRK has returned to the hands of Emperor Dade, and the officials naturally have to consider their positions and positions clearly. And the military department has always been the territory of Dushanbo, Zhang Xiaowu killed the Empress Dowager Zhang's people, and it was only Zhang Dang who offended, and there was no need for the military department to take risks to help Zhang Dang. As for the impeachment of the imperial historians, they just didn't see it, and leave any problems to the emperor.

Zhang Xiaowu walked out of the yamen of the military department in a grand manner, and when he saw several imperial historians eager to try and prepare to come forward to theorize, he couldn't help but put the purple gold gong on his shoulder. Several imperial historians were suddenly too frightened to step forward, Zhang Xiaowu laughed, spat on the ground, and left the imperial city with a contemptuous smile.

After leaving the imperial city, he always felt like he was being followed, Zhang Xiaowu turned around and instructed Chen Guanxi and Wang Yijin: "You guys catch the tail for me." ”

"Whoa."

After walking for a while, he saw Chen Guanxi and Wang Yijin coming over with a small guy, the two guys had blue noses and swollen faces, Zhang Xiaowu shook his head, knowing that he would definitely lose his car behind the scenes. He didn't sympathize with these two little guys, since he was a little brother, he was ready to be sacrificed at any time, he waved his hand and said, "Beat them and throw them on the side of the road, don't kill people." ”

"Whoa."

Although Wang Yijin is not able to fight in the border army, he is a terrible general here, beating the little guy with three punches and two feet to cry his father and mother.

After a while, a team of patrol officials rushed over, but Zhang Xiaowu and the others had already left before that. The officials looked at the two people on the ground with blue noses and swollen faces, and were about to ask the reason, but the two people hurriedly said that they had fallen and beat themselves like this. The officials knew that in this dragon capital city, there was no need to ask more about what should not be asked, and there was no need to take care of what should not be taken care of, so they let them go.

The officials were curious, and asked passers-by, passers-by said that it seemed that a few border troops had beaten them, and when it came to the border army, the officials had always only recently come to Longdu with the ghost guards of Saibei, could it be that the ghost guards beat them? Then these two people deserve it, the ghost guard is the most capable border army in the world, how can these two splashes still provoke the ghost guard?

After returning to the inn, there were already people waiting here, Ruan Qingwen introduced: "This is Qian San, the steward of Zhang's mansion, there is a poetry meeting in Mingyue Tower tonight, and the organizer is Zhang Biao, a bachelor of Tai College." ”

"Zhangfu? Which Zhangfu? ”

"It's the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Huh?" Zhang Xiaowu was stunned at first, and then it was even more incredible, he killed Empress Dowager Zhang's mother, and as a result, Empress Dowager Zhang's brother invited him to participate in the Mingyuelou Poetry Meeting, what is the situation? Hongmen feast? He couldn't cry or laugh, and asked, "Steward Qian, is the head of the Zhang family the head of the Zuo Xiang?" ”

"Yes."

"Is it an invitation from the left minister?"

"No, it was the second young master's invitation."

Zhang Xiaowu immediately thought that Wei Yuan had sent a letter to him for Zhang Biao, saying that Zhang Biao admired his poems very much and hoped that he would communicate with him when he came to Beijing, but unfortunately now he and Zhang Dang are in trouble. He thought of Wei Yuan's evaluation of Zhang Biao, this person was obsessed with learning, did not like party struggle, and did not like court disputes, he could have entered various ministries to hold important positions, but he accepted two official positions, one was to be a scholar in Tai Academy, explaining historical allusions to people; The other position is to be a clerk in the Ministry of Rites, responsible for inspecting and transcribing the examination papers for the imperial examination candidates, and both jobs are dedicated to learning, so even Zhang Kuan's son is respected by everyone in the court.

"Okay, I'll come later." Zhang Xiaowu felt that for such a person who specializes in learning, he should not speculate that others have bad intentions, so he borrowed the post.

Qian San said goodbye, and when he was leaving, he said: "The second young master likes to write poems against him, and he doesn't fight with the court, he invited the general, simply because the general's poetry is excellent." ”

Zhang Xiaowu is not a poet, nor is he a scholar, even before the crossing, he was just a science and engineering man, not to mention poetry and writing to talk about the past and the present, he is just a plagiarist. Fortunately, when he was a child, he read a lot of books, and was forced by his parents and teachers to memorize a lot of poems and songs.

Later, Zhang Xiaowu wore civilian clothes and only brought Meng Shi and Kang Tianen to Mingyue Tower in Peony Fang.

Mingyue Lou is a well-known Qinglou song shop in Longdu, it is a building dedicated to serving literati and ink writers, as the so-called wife is not as good as a concubine and concubine is better than stealing is not as good as stealing, the charm of Chun Qier is that men want to steal but can't steal, think about it but can't get it. Zhang Biao chose to hold a poetry meeting in Mingyue Building, which shows that this person is not completely corrupt, of course, on the other hand, it can also be seen that Zhang Biao, who grew up in a rich township, naturally thinks that the poetry meeting should be held in this kind of place.

"The son of a rich family is really unusual." Zhang Xiaowu looked at the peony shop full of green buildings and wine shops, gambling houses and song houses, and exclaimed that most of the flowers in Longdu originated from the flowers of the peony shop.