Chapter 470: The Zhang Family Faction
No matter what it is, it is not a trivial matter for the imperial court.
And for the relationship between each subject and Zhang Yongde, they are direct relatives. And in terms of Zhang Yongde's position, it is naturally not a good thing.
If it is an era of peace and prosperity, each of these things is enough to make Zhang Yongde hurt the fundamentals. Of course, this kind of family of imperial relatives and relatives, this kind of high position of extremely popular ministers, any murderer is enough to confiscate the nine clans.
Even in this era of careless disregard for human life, these things may seem trivial in the secession regimes everywhere, but they can also turn the world upside down.
Fu Yanqing is concerned about these things, firstly, because Guo Rong is his son-in-law, and secondly, all the princes are his nephews. As the most authoritative foreign vassal of the royal family, the reason why Fu Yanqing stands tall is because of this caution.
According to the information obtained, Zhang Yongde knew that these things were not so simple, and although he did not take any action, he would definitely take precautions.
Of course, Fu Yanqing will not speculate, after all, whether these things are coincidental or deliberate, Emperor Guo Rong and Zhang Yongde, the commander of the horses, are not fools. They are the leaders of this era, and they are the most promising people of this era.
According to Fu Yanqing's thoughts, Zhang Yongde is a very smart person, otherwise how could he survive in such a cruel environment in the Central Plains Zhou Kingdom. He must know that he is the most suitable at this time, so he will not change everything, so even if he gets the news of Guo Rong's death, there is no change.
If it had been before, Fu Yanqing would naturally have been skeptical of this. But after Guo Rong became seriously ill, Fu Yanqing sent someone to monitor Zhang Yongde. Because no matter whether Zhang Yongde is disguised or really belongs to this kind of person, Zhang Yongde at this time really has no change.
Indeed, now as a politician in the Great Zhou State, standing in Zhang Yongde's position, his situation in the Zhou State is very delicate and sensitive, and everyone knows the secret between him and the lord of the country. Zhang Yongde is in a high position, Guo Rong is young and promising, and the two of them are bright for a while. If it is to be replaced, it must be Zhang Yongde.
Zhang Yongde's family has been heirloom in martial arts and military law for nearly a hundred years, although all of them are military generals, but they are also both civil and military.
In particular, most of the children of the Zhang family are famous for their benevolence and filial piety, and all of them have good martial arts. For example, Zhang Yongde himself looks more elegant, but he is also a famous general who immediately leads the army.
And his killed cousin Zhang Yongheng, although he is not the kind of particularly outstanding celebrity, nor is he the best in the family, let alone the kind of commander who responds to every call. But his martial arts are not much different from Zhang Yongde, and this kind of character will still have a lot of achievements if he really goes out to lead the army.
The brothers of the Zhang family are okay with their sword and horse kung fu, and more than ten ordinary men are not a problem at all, not to mention that he was a local Sima at the beginning, there will definitely be a few people around him who will follow him left and right, and he can't imagine that he will be assassinated on the street. Fu Yanqing's most intuitive idea is that someone deliberately did this to the Zhang family.
When someone is assassinated on the street, this kind of scene is either the murderer's outstanding martial arts and swaying freely, or his cousin Zhang Yongde is too bad and as vulnerable as an ordinary child, but is this kind of thing possible!
He wouldn't believe it when he told Zhang Yongde, even Fu Yanqing wouldn't believe it. Because of the perennial battles on the border, Fu Yanqing did not communicate with many people in the rivers and lakes, but he had a lot of people in the rivers and lakes. Thinking about the strangeness of this matter, everyone agreed that this was someone trying to stir up the situation.
Zhang Yongde, a cousin, has made achievements in the political arena, so the family has gradually cultivated him in recent years. Fu Yanqing naturally saw it back then, and it was also the most desperate years.
And Zhang Yongde's brother-in-law Lu Xie is said to be Zhang Yongde's youngest maternal uncle, who is not a few years older than Zhang Yongde, because of his relationship with the Zhang family, Fu Yanqing also met and knew each other back then. Although it was also because of the first emperor Guo Wei's ascension to the throne, the first emperor promoted him to serve in the face of the Zhang family, but he is indeed a person with great ideas and abilities.
As the general of Dingyuan on the fifth grade, he followed the Zhou army to garrison along the Yangtze River. Since the Tang State surrendered to the feudal domain, the north of the Yangtze River belonged to the Zhou State. As the general of the Zhou State, Lu Xie naturally led an army and set up a camp as a base. As long as he doesn't make mistakes, when the imperial court marches south again, he will definitely establish miraculous achievements.
As for saying that his crime was because some soldiers fled to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yongde completely believed it, and Fu Yanqing would believe it even more. Because no matter how strong the Zhou State is, and now even the Tang State is forced to cede land and surrender to the domain, but the Tang State has always been more prosperous than the Zhou State.
The Central Plains fought for many years, and all the places were barren, and there were many soldiers stationed along the Zhou State, who turned out to be people from the Tang State. Although they were rearranged and joined different teams, they still thought about the south in their hearts. What's more, the Zhou army has just conquered the other party, even if there are some temptations, it is difficult for a small range of favors to become a climate.
However, the soldiers of the Zhou State have always been veterans mixed with new soldiers, and the soldiers were separated from the original generals. There is a clear proportion and treatment of the surrendered and new recruits in each military camp. As for the soldiers in the Lu Xie military camp at the beginning, they were able to escape smoothly, Zhang Yongde felt deeply suspicious, and even Fu Yanqing also felt oolong.
After all, Lu Xie also has his own pro-army, and it is said that all of Lu Xie's pro-army were killed at that time, how big of a desertion army does this have to be?
Because, Lu Xie was able to gradually become a general that day, and it was indeed the first emperor Guo Wei who favored the Zhang family at the beginning. Later, as far as Fu Yanqing knew, it was Lu Xie himself who had the ability to embody and emerge in the army, and was discovered by the former emperor Guo Rong, so he was gradually promoted to a middle-level general, and he was being trained and led by high-level generals.
Guo Rong's eyesight, Fu Yanqing will definitely believe it. If it was just to look at the face of the Zhang family and Zhang Yongde, Guo Rong could have left Lu Xie in the capital and become an idle senior military official.
Emperor Guo Rong was indeed young and promising, and he didn't look at Zhang Yongde's face and tried his best to promote Lu Xie, but Lu Xie was also promoted smoothly in Guo Rong's hands. This just shows that Lu Xie is competent, and the incident of the soldiers fleeing under his subordinates, and in the end, he was killed by the fleeing soldiers, which made Zhang Yongde feel sad in his heart, and also made Fu Yanqing feel the crisis.
This is a premeditated plan, not only the emperor Guo Rong and the concubine Zhang Yongde, but even more people are involved in this whirlpool.