Before taking Zhang Tongchang away, Kong Youde didn't forget to return the color, and also despised him, Zhang Tongchang wanted to scold him, but Kong Youde was a scoundrel and didn't give him a second chance at all.

Someone came to gag their mouths, Zhang Tongchang and the others naturally refused, stared back, and then no longer talked nonsense with Kong Youde, but both walked out of the yamen with their heads held high.

The two were confined in a small black house for more than 40 days, and before swimming across the Li River and returning to Guilin City, Zhang Tongchang said to his friend Qian Binglu: "Current affairs are like this, I will die." ”

And Kong Youde imprisoned the two to persuade them to surrender, how could he get his wish? Soon after, Kong Youde also seized the secret letter that the two passed to the outside, seeing that the longer the two were imprisoned, the more energetic they became, and they also acted as spies for Jinyiwei, Kong Youde found that leaving them could only increase the trouble, and finally ordered the two to be beheaded.

After Zhang Tongchang and his wife were imprisoned for more than 40 days, they were martyred at the foot of the Xianhe Ridge in Guilin's Diecai Mountain.

Before the execution, Zhang Tong wrote a desperate poem with an open stomach, and a section of his arms, which Yu Yuanye has been ghostwriting for him these days.

But on the day of his execution, it is said that Zhang Tongchang's right arm was suddenly able to stretch out, but his left arm was still unable to move, and when he wrote this desperate poem, his right arm was in unbearable pain again.

Later generations sighed that this poem is really a masterpiece.

This poem is nameless, and there is a message written to Qu Shiyun at the beginning, and Qu Shiyun is asked to forward this poem to two teachers, Xue Gong and Dao Gong, who said:

Dare to annoy the teacher to send Xue Gong and Dao Gong two divisions, such as the left and right hands of other mountains. The lonely minister is in the grass with the open prison.

The sad song of January waits at this time, and God knows that Chengren takes righteousness;

The clothes do not change the pre-life system, and the name and surname are empty and leave the posthumous poems.

The broken mountains and rivers are resting bones, and even the monarch's father has not raised his eyebrows.

The soul is lazy and refers to the way home, and goes straight to the tombs to worship the old monument.

It is said that when Zhang Tongchang's head was cut off by the executioner and fell to the ground, his head bounced three times, and three thunderclaps sounded in the sky at the same time, which frightened the executioners and the Qing soldiers who were present trembled.

Kong Youde's knees were even weaker, and he knelt down in front of Zhang Tongchang, kowtowing like pounding garlic, knocking all the moon doors in front of his forehead, and slapping himself while kowtowing and saying: "Lord Zhang, it's the villain who should die, the villain should die, the villain killed the adult by mistake, in the future, Youde promises to worship the adult every year!"

The two of them were martyred together with Zhu Hengshu, the king of Jingjiang, who was actually a rival to the throne of Emperor Yongli, and who had rebelled to seize his throne.

It's just that Zhu Hengshu, the king of Jingjiang, wanted to ascend the throne, because Qu Shiyun did not support him, but supported Emperor Yongli, and Jiao Lian, the general under Zhu Hengshu, sold him again, because Zhu Hengshu has been imprisoned in Guilin after his defeat.

Now Zhu Hengshu, the king of Jingjiang, can finally see the light of day again, but he will soon go to another world.

After Zhang Tongchang was martyred, he was persecuted by Wang Huacheng together with Fang Yizhi, so he also chose Jinbao, where he became a monk, and sent a letter to Kong Youde, asking for permission to collect the body.

Kong Youde did not refuse Jinbao's request, but a monk in Jinbao who had nowhere to place an order did not have much money, so he could only bury a few people in thin coffins at the foot of Baihe Mountain, (now on the east side of Tangjia Village, Chaoyang Township, Qixing District, Guilin City).

Zhang Tongchang's great-grandfather Zhang Juzheng, known as the first assistant of the Ming Dynasty, served as the first assistant of the cabinet for ten years in the Wanli Dynasty, and implemented a series of reform measures.

Militarily, he reused Qi Jiguang, Li Chengliang and other famous generals to the north of the town, so that the Ming Iron Army shocked Liaodong. He used Lingyunyi, Yin Zhengmao, etc. to quell the rebellion in the southwest, and for a time the Ming Haiyan River was clear.

In the administration of officials, Zhang Juzheng implemented the 'comprehensive examination of the name and reality', and adopted the "examination method" that has been used to this day to assess officials at all levels, so that in the territory of the Ming Dynasty, the central government issued to the two capitals and 13 provinces, "although thousands of miles away, the downward and night pursued", for a time the Ming political situation was solemn.

Ten years, Zhang Juzheng made these achievements in only ten years, if it were not for the toss after Wanli's pro-government, he would have to establish the iron rooster of the king of Fu and not the eldest son Zhu Changluo, so he directly trained Zhu Changluo and Zhu Youxiao father and son into two generations of illiterate, and even Wanli was absent for decades, and because of who was appointed as the prince and the minister had a so-called for fifteen years. The dispute over the country', even the officials are not needed in a fit of anger, and all the original officials are allowed to work in the same position until they die of old age, and then the official positions are vacated, causing the government to be paralyzed, and the Ming Dynasty will not collapse quickly, and Zhang Juzheng's reform can definitely save the Ming Dynasty.

There is also financially, Zhang Juzheng vigorously cleared the world's acres of land, the implementation of the "one whip law", the general endowment, service, are paid in silver, under the intensive cultivation, the country's Taicang grain storage can support ten years, almost comparable to the reign of Wenjing. The national treasury provident fund has reached more than 4 million taels.

That is to say, without Zhang Juzheng's reform, Emperor Wanli would not have been able to take out his military salary to engage in the three major expeditions of Wanli, let alone divide half of his private money millions of taels to his most beloved son when he went to Luoyang.

And his imperial tomb only built an outer city wall more than the other twelve imperial tombs, and it cost more than four million taels.

Zhang Juzheng, the first chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, had a prosperous future in his life, and was the only civil official in the Ming Dynasty who was awarded the Taifu and Taishi during his lifetime, except for Qin Liangyu, a martial general god.

He died for the Wanli Emperor, for the Ming Dynasty, and for the common people in the world, but he did not enjoy the posthumous glory, and was raided by the Mingshen Sect after his death.

Although it is said that the confiscated family property is quite rich, if even his own family is poor, how can he be qualified to make the next day rich? Confucianism pays attention to self-cultivation, Qi family, governing the country and leveling the world, and Zhang Juzheng has achieved these four points.

And by the generation of his great-grandson Zhang Tongchang, it was already miserable. Zhang Tongchang, no concubine, no surplus talent, has a wife Xu, who accompanied him in the troubled times, sharing weal and woe.

Zhang Ju was not rehabilitated until the second year of the Apocalypse, and the living conditions of his descendants were not changed because of his rehabilitation. It was not until the thirteenth year of Chongzhen that the emperor issued an edict to restore the official position of Zhang Juzheng's eldest son Zhang Jingxiu, and Zhang Jingxiu had died as early as the Wanli period.

What is a Chinese scholar? It sounds like a close minister of the Son of Heaven, but is there anyone he trusts around Chongzhen?

So it's not good, Zhang Tongchang is Chongzhen's secretary, a seven-grade petty official who runs errands for him.

Zhang Tongchang and his only wife, Xu, did not leave any heirs, and Xu died of depression shortly after Tongchang's martyrdom.

After the destruction of Guilin's military city, Zhao Yinxuan and Hu Yiqing, who fled back to Liuzhou, were demoted to generals by Qianqian and ordered to make meritorious contributions in Liuzhou, while Wang Yongzuo, Pu Ying, Yang Guodong, and Ma Yanglin were arrested by Guan Yinxi and Chen Youlong and dealt with by military law as soon as they fled back to Liuzhou.