Luoyang.

Today is the 70th birthday of Taifu Yuan Kui, and Yuan Fu invited high-ranking officials in Beijing to the banquet with great fanfare, and Zhu Jun was also invited. As soon as he arrived at Yuan's mansion, he immediately went to see Yuan Kui.

He saw Yuan Kui in the study: "Congratulations to Taifu, I wish Taifu a long life." ”

Zhu Jun walked over with a spring on his face, and Yuan Kui greeted him with a smile when he saw him: "Gongwei is here, please take a seat." ”

"Taifu, today is really a double happiness"

Yuan Kui smiled: "Oh? The old man's birthday is for a joy, I don't know where this other joy comes from? ”

"Naturally, it's coming from the north." Zhu Jun smiled very happily, "My subordinates came back to report that the last batch of thieves had been escorted, and now there was a sea of people outside Linyu City." ”

Yuan Kui also applauded happily: "Okay, well, so this Zhang Hao is dead." ”

"Exactly, these nearly a million people gathered together are like a pile of dry firewood, and as long as there is a little spark, it will ignite a sky-high fire."

Speaking of this, the smile on Zhu Jun's face became a little gloomy: "What's more, I have reduced the original supplies by nearly one-third, which is the torch that ignites dry firewood." Sooner or later, these thieves will change, and even if this Zhang Hao does not die in the chaos, His Majesty will punish him with death. ”

He thought to himself: You brought it all on yourself, and if you want to blame it, you are too young, and you got what I have been pursuing all my life at such a young age.

From the day he won his first defeat and Zhang Hao won his first victory, Zhu Jun has always hated Zhang Hao, even if the two have never met.

Sure enough, if you hate someone in this world, anything can be a reason.

Yuan Kui nodded: "We and other scholars have worked hard to eradicate the eunuchs, but Zhang Hao still has to be with the eunuchs, and it is not a pity for a scum like him to die." It's a pity that those people will bear the name of rebellion again. ”

Zhu Jun snorted coldly: "They are rebellious, and they are also innocent." If it weren't for Zhang Hao's slander to His Majesty, I would have killed them on the battlefield. Rebellion is rebellion, if you don't cut the grass and eradicate the roots, how can you show the world? ”

If you really have these first-level combat exploits, you can be on an equal footing with Huangfu Song, and you won't always be subservient.

Yuan Kui waved his hand, he was just pretending to be compassionate just now, if he really loved the people like a son, his Yuan family would not have this world-class property.

"Okay, okay, don't say anything else on the big day, in a word, Gongwei, you did a good job this time."

Zhu Jun smiled and arched his hand: "I have to thank Taifu, thanks to Taifu's promotion and cultivation over the years, otherwise how could I have today." ”

"The old man can promote you, mainly because you are really a talented person. If it is a mediocre person, even if I agree, the princes in the court will not agree. ”

"It's so ridiculous, hahaha~"

"Hahaha~"

When the two laughed, a servant came to report: "Old lady, there is a person outside who says that he is a servant in Lord Zhu's mansion, and he is looking for Lord Zhu in a hurry." ”

Yuan Kui felt a little disappointed: "I know what's going on, right now Gongwei is about to participate in the old man's birthday banquet, and the banquet is about to start, if it's not an important matter, let him go back." ”

The servant looked at Zhu Jun and stopped talking.

Zhu Jun was a little displeased when he saw this: "What do you mean by this, is it something unsightly?" Say it. ”

The servant replied boldly, "The man said that Lord Zhu's mother had just fallen ill... He died of illness. ”

Zhu Jun stood up suddenly, and accidentally knocked over the tea: "What did you say!" ”

He still couldn't believe it at this time, when he left the house, his mother was still lying quietly on the sickbed, and there was no one after a while.

Yuan Kui had a look of disgust on his face, but he disappeared immediately. It's just that the so-called double happiness in my heart was washed away.

"Baishan puts filial piety first, your old man has received it, Gongwei should go back and deal with the aftermath."

Zhu Jun bowed and said, "Mrs. Xie is considerate. After saying that, he rushed out crying.

"It's unlucky, it's too unlucky. Who can be lucky enough to live to the age of antiquity, and this kind of thing happened to a great joy that is only once in life. ”

Yuan Kui was very angry and left the study with the support of the servants.

……

Within three days, Zhang Hao settled some of the people in Linyu, making the people outside the city fewer. But in terms of overall numbers, the situation has not been alleviated.

And now he is faced with the fact that he is almost out of food.

Fang Zhu was in charge of preparing the food, but if he didn't bring back enough food tomorrow, he wouldn't need anyone else to do it, Zhang Hao thought in his heart that he had made a calculation.

"Did you do something wrong in the first place, maybe you shouldn't have saved these people and let them become emperors in history. The combat exploits in the hands of Zhu Jun and others may be a little better, so that at least many people can escape and survive, and there is no need to wait for death like now.

He shouldn't have a good relationship with the eunuchs, even if they are the closest people to the emperor, but after all, they are trees without roots and water without a source, as long as Emperor Ling dies, none of these eunuchs will have a good end.

None of these nobles and magnates are good things, and in less than 20 years, they have tried to bring down the eunuchs many times, but they have not succeeded, and the two disasters of the party have been rectified by the eunuchs. If they don't dare to move the eunuchs, they will move people like themselves who are close to them.

The bastard who bullies the soft and is afraid of the hard actually makes a fuss about the people, and the human blood steamed buns are eaten faster than one another, and one is more ruthless than the other. If I can get through the difficulties, if I don't complain directly, I won't be surnamed Zhang. ”

A soldier ran over and brought the cranky Zhang Hao back to reality: "General, Fang has returned from joining the army." ”

Zhang Hao got up and ran over, Fang Zhu saw him, and arched his hand: "Lord, my subordinates are back." ”

"Now is not the time to talk about these rituals. Brother, tell me quickly, have you ever borrowed food? ”

Fang Zhu pointed to the grain cart and sighed: "Due to the urgency of the situation, I didn't go too far, and only borrowed two carts of grain. ”

Zhang Hao looked at the grain truck blankly, just these grains, even if they are boiled into gruel, are not enough for these people to eat.

"I'm not doing well, and I'm sorry for my lord."

"It's not my brother's fault, it's just that God is going to kill me."

By now, a lot of things have changed differently. Originally, there was no administrative region of Pingzhou, and at least half of these people would have died in the war, and they themselves would have died a long time ago......

But I came back to life, and many things followed the same trajectory, and a small part began to change slowly.

So everything now is just punishment for these changes.

Looking at Zhang Hao's disheartened appearance, Fang Zhu felt uncomfortable in his heart. is not only worried about his brother-in-law, but also worried about the future of Zhang and Fang.

"General! Checkmate! A soldier shouted as he ran in a panic.

Zhang Hao asked weakly, "What's the alarm?" ”

"Boats, ships, on the sea, there are so many big ships!"

Raising his head suddenly, Zhang Hao looked at the soldier in surprise: "Boat? ”