Back then, when the Empress Dowager Xiang was alive, Cai Jing, who had just been reinstated by Emperor Zhao Ji as an important minister of Beijing and had not yet become the prime minister, monopolized the Empress Dowager Xiang in order to curry favor with the power to influence the emperor's candidates, catered to the wishes of the Empress Dowager Xiang, and built a family temple for the Empress Dowager Xiang to show the merits and glory of the Xiang family. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info

In this way, Cai Jing found an opportunity to get rid of Zhang Kegong afterwards, and he couldn't allow Zhang Kegong's subordinate brother Zhang Shuye to be comfortable in the capital and always dangle in front of him, trying to find a way not to drive Zhang Shuye out of the capital to Haizhou to suffer and be frightened.

After Zhang Shuye arrived in Haizhou, he found that the rumored ferocious and rampant pirates did not harm the people, and they had never invaded Haizhou, attacked the city and destroyed the government, and engaged in large-scale looting and destruction, but the local maritime trade and smuggling were rampant, from the government, civil and military officials to the common people, almost all of them who had the capital and ability to participate in the smuggling of novel commodities or precious stones and other precious goods that were not sold by the pirates in the Great Song Dynasty made a windfall, seriously undermining the tax order, social order and disorder, especially the serious loss of population.

In order to rectify the order, stop the unhealthy trend, and appease and retain the people to remain loyal to the Great Song Dynasty, he first started with the army, strictly forbade the army to participate in smuggling, ruthlessly killed some generals who smuggled and made a fortune and did not obey orders, and participated in the concert to force away the big smuggling leaders who were forced to obey him, and then rectified the rule of the government officials, cleaned up many corrupt officials and corrupt officials, dismissed the magistrates of several subordinate counties from their crimes, abolished all kinds of additional harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed on the people, and ruthlessly killed the bad atmosphere of officialdom and madly harming the people and plundering the people's land.

It's a pity that his efforts didn't have much effect, not only was he treated his subordinate officials harshly, arrogant and ferocious, and killed officials indiscriminately, which made the emperor dislike, but the newly arrived officers headed by the soldiers and horses were still deliberately arranged by Cai Jing to make things difficult and disgusting his lackeys, and the army smuggling stopped for a while, and then restarted again, and became more and more arrogant and bold, openly disobeying Zhang Shuye's orders.

Uncle Zhang was furious at night and wanted to ask the officers such as the prisoner of the soldiers and horses, but he was resolutely stopped by the eunuchs of the prison army.

This eunuch was specially arranged by the great eunuch Liang Shicheng to cooperate with Cai Jing to contain Zhang Shuye's military power, representing Liang Shicheng's interests. Uncle Zhang did not let the army smuggle at night, which was equivalent to cutting off Liang Shicheng's financial route in Haizhou, and also ruined the financial route and future of the eunuchs in the prison army. Cutting off people's financial means is tantamount to killing their parents. With his back to Liang Shicheng, how could the eunuch of the prison army tolerate Uncle Zhang's insistence on going his own way.

What makes Zhang Shuye sad is that the newly appointed magistrates of the subordinate counties are also thieves of corrupt officials and cruel people, and continue to be corrupt and pervert the law to loot land, and even those magistrates who knew to avoid some of Zhang Shuye's superficial articles did not do it, they were very arrogant, and some even blatantly provoked.

These officials are all traitors in the DPRK and China, such as Cai Jing, Bai Shizhong, Zhang Bangchang, etc., how can they be afraid of Zhang Shuye, who has hated the prime minister and the DPRK and China? Uncle Zhang really can't help these people.

His participation in the recital did not appear on the emperor's imperial case at all, and was privately detained and destroyed by the traitor and the chief eunuch Liang Shicheng. Some news was deliberately heard by Liang Shicheng in the emperor's ears, and Zhao Ji's impression of Zhang Shuye was not good.

Why is it that the officials who have just been changed are not good again?

There are so many officials in Haizhou, all of them are corrupt/corrupt? You, Uncle Zhang, are you the only one left, who is honest and honest? Is Uncle Zhang too harsh on his subordinates? Or is he resentful of me belittleing his official position and deliberately tossing and making trouble?

Smuggling has become a common practice in Haizhou, and many ordinary people have made efforts to work for large smugglers to make money to improve their lives, which involves the interests of thousands of households, and Zhang Shuye's strong prohibition has harmed not only the interests of the ruling class with vested interests, but also the income of soldiers and ordinary people who are expected to smuggle workers to subsidize their families. Corrupt officials and corrupt officials have scooped the people too hard, and many people are counting on smuggling to earn money to survive.

These people, with good conduct and bold brains, ran away with the pirates. The rest are not uncommon pirates, and they have to be eliminated with the help of the butcher's knives of Manichaeism and the Jin Army, who are not conducive to the return of the pirate empire to the mainland and implement a new rule.

As a result, the Haizhou government, the army, the people, and the people up and down seem to be disgusted, rejected or even short-sighted Zhang Shuye.

Uncle Zhang, who is honest and honest and capable and daring, has always been deeply loved by the people under his rule when he was a magistrate before, and he was loved by many people when he left office, and he was reluctant to cry and kowtow and kneel desperately to keep him.

His heart was cold to the end, he was sad for himself, and for the first time he felt helpless and helpless against evil.

The miserable and depressed population in the interior continues to flow in to supplement the missing population in Haizhou, and it continues to be lost. Uncle Zhang didn't say that he couldn't comfort the people and give the people a peaceful life, even if he could, he couldn't stop Song Min from defecting to the pirates to live a life that the Great Song Dynasty would never provide. He can't stop smuggling. But Uncle Zhang is Uncle Zhang, iron-clad, capable, not discouraged, and does not admit defeat.

He changed his strategy, not bothering to control smuggling and population, but instead reorganized the army to guard against and combat pirates and raids to maintain the safety of the Great Song Dynasty.

This reason is above board, and the important thing is to use effective means of control, order the army to be fully loaded and conduct various training every day, and arrange for two sons who are brave and martial arts to supervise every day, and he himself will often personally inspect it, so that the subordinate officers cannot resist it. Otherwise, they will not be able to see the point, the lack of officers and men, the leading officers will be punished, and the lack of officers will be directly punished by military law, and the killing of the head will be justified and normal.

This is the power of the magistrate and the civil servant. No matter how hard the soldiers and horses and the eunuchs of the army and the eunuchs of the army are, they have to obey, otherwise they will be cleaned up and the emperor will not be afraid.

In the Great Song Dynasty, civilian officials killed generals to intimidate the army, which became a common practice and a means recognized by the imperial court. And the supervising army, without the support and cooperation of the officers, there will be no trouble.

Zhang Shuye took advantage of this to take the army in his hands, and trained a decent army, and finally had some right to speak in Haizhou. How much can be done. He also knew he couldn't force too much. Just want to be worthy of your heart.

Uncle Zhang used the old spice of officialdom at night, and worked hard to be a good official who was loyal to his duties, consciously worthy of the grace of heaven, and worthy of the people of Limin.

Those bullies who colluded up and down to harm the people and made smuggling windfalls, but Zhang Shuye could not be cured, were killed and looted, and the corrupt officials and corrupt officials and bullies and gentry in the county town were first cleaned up in the priority attack of pirates. These, because no one can come to the state city to report the news, Zhang Shuye is not sure, but he guessed the result.

Naturally, he did not feel heartache, but also felt a trace of joy and deep sadness.

Those filthy people deserve to die. Damn it.

But this was originally an illegal matter that should be rectified under the ruling order of the imperial court, but the imperial court not only could not solve the problem, but instead cultivated, connived and strengthened the evil forces, making trouble, and as a result, the pirates who wanted to continue to steal the interests of the Great Song Dynasty took action in the process of robbing the wealth of the population, and quickly and efficiently cleaned up these silverfish in the Great Song Dynasty.

What a bitter irony! What a ridiculous sorrow!

He was horrified that the small island country established by the ferocious pirates had such a great attraction to the rich and civilized people of the Great Song Dynasty, and the pirates had not yet come to brutally arrest and drive away the forced immigrants by force, and the people actually voluntarily took refuge and still rushed to be the first?

In the past, he also knew that many people who were struggling to make a living were constantly defecting to pirates, and he was worried, but he couldn't really prohibit it.

The coast is so long, you can smuggle it out anywhere. It is impossible to guard all the coasts, how to block and prohibit it?

Officials from all over the subordinate parts have the laziness of the Great Song Dynasty officials and the common problem that more things are better than less, and that little energy and mind are mostly used to make money and enjoy themselves, to cope with official business, and to manage chaotic things, coupled with the factors accumulated before, the population flow has changed too much, and it is impossible to effectively count and control it effectively, and Zhang Shuye will not be able to grasp the scale of the lost population.

This reflects the unpopularity of the Great Song Dynasty, which has become so serious that the people have betrayed it. If it weren't for the way out of defecting overseas, I am afraid that the hearts of these betrayed people would have formed a rebellion frenzy long ago, which would directly shake the foundation of the Great Song Dynasty and its critical dominance. Now only Hebei Tianhu and Huaixi Wang Qing are two rebels who have cut off the land and divided the territory, and they are still unable to make too much trouble, which is a fluke. This is ridiculous and ridiculous, and I am afraid that it is also due to the pirates who continued to steal the population of the Great Song Dynasty and drained the disgruntled people.

Uncle Zhang was in the city at night and watched the flow of people rolling away from his hometown without nostalgia, which was shocking and heartbroken.

He knew too well how much the Han people attached great importance to their land and hometown.

The people so decisively and resolutely abandoned the Great Song Dynasty, what happened to the Great Song Dynasty? Don't the Gungon Officers in the court see the danger?

Could this prosperous and wealthy and civilized dynasty be coming to an end, and it is time to change the dynasty?

He blamed himself even more for being a parent official, but he failed to soothe the people, failed to fight pirates to protect the territory and the people, was ashamed of God's grace and duty, and even more of the Great Song Dynasty fell into such a dangerous situation and was anxious to look up to the sky and lament, old tears flowed, and he hated those thieves who misled the country and harmed the people.

Among the two sons who accompanied him, the eldest son, Zhang Bofen, saw his father so painful, his heart burned, and said: "Why should my father be so sad and helpless? Wait for the child to lead the troops to intercept these fleeing people. ”

The youngest son, Zhang Zhongxiong, said, "Yes, father." My eldest brother and I went to fight the pirates, dealt a severe blow to the arrogance of the thieves, and drove the fleeing people back. Those who dare not listen to the call to betray the Great Song Dynasty will be killed, killed a group, and see who dares to join the pirates? ”

Uncle Zhang knew that the child was trying to comfort himself when he said something that was not level, but he still glared at him and said, "Hugh can talk nonsense if he succeeds." ”

"Intercept the people?

How do you intercept? ”

"Stop this, he goes from there. Plug that, he goes from here. Even if you can block it today, can you still block it tomorrow and the day after tomorrow?

When people's hearts are absent, it is like a flood that is overflowing, how can it be stopped by force? ”

"Kill? Kill whom? ”

Uncle Zhang pointed to the empty suburbs, "They are just honest people who can't stand the rule and exploitation of the remnants of the people, and want to find a place to live a better life. The blame lies with the government, and I, the parent official, is unable to make their lives better.

Even if we are not afraid of leaving a butcher who harms the people in the history books and is notorious for 10,000 years, how can we be ruthless? ”

"Besides, Hugh said stupid things about leading troops out of the city."

"I don't expect the county to be safe. The pirates did not come to attack our state city, but I was afraid that it was not because they were afraid of the power of my father and son, but because they knew that the soldiers in the state city had a certain combat effectiveness, not that those rotten waste soldiers elsewhere would collapse as soon as they hit it, and the city defense was comprehensive and tight, easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the pirates did not want to storm and lose troops and delay time. If you recklessly divide your troops and go out, you are afraid that you will fall into the hands of pirates. Not to mention that you will be ambushed or besieged by heavy troops. There are not enough defenders in the city, and pirates will come to attack the city. ”

As he spoke, he sighed and said, "I should go, I can't stay." Don't take the risk of forcing an unfruitful outcome. What we need to do now is to defend the important places of the state city and retain the vitality of Haizhou. If the pirates dare to come, it is not too late to strike hard. If the pirates can be severely damaged under the city, the difficulties of Haizhou will also be solved. The flow of people is self-decreasing. ”

Zhang Bofen nodded and said, "It's the child who thinks about it." It's still my father's cleverness, and the lesson is. ”

Zhang Zhongxiong clapped his hands fiercely and said, "I'm really looking forward to the pirates coming." Let these robbers know how good we are. ”

It seems that the heavens heard Zhang Zhongxiong's expectation, and the pirates actually appeared on the horizon in response, and they really came, and they were unhurriedly killed in front of the city under the leadership of the two horsemen.

The person who came was none other than Lin Chong, the commander of the Southern Army, and Lei Zhen, the boss of the four generals of the former Tiger Roaring Mountain, Ni Lin, Fei Zhen, and Xue Can, who returned Lin Chong to the general of the Central Army. The remaining three generals are separately commanding the Southern Army to carry out the immigration and looting work in Haizhou and other nearby state capitals.

Although today's Lin Chong has not suffered the hardships and cruel blows of the broken family in the Water Margin, and his relatives are all living in the Bay Island doing the work he likes and can do, the old ones are not satisfied with the old, and they are more energetic, Lin Niangzi Zhang also gave birth to a son, a daughter and two baby bloodlines to the Lin family, and now she is pregnant again, it is very likely to be another boy, Lin Chong is very happy and satisfied, and there is no ferocity caused by the anger and helplessness caused by the framing of Gao Yu's father and son, but the evil spirit of the body has not decreased, On the contrary, it is even more frightening, and the indecisive character in the past, and the willingness to endure humiliation for the sake of a stable and well-off life is long gone.

Zhao Yue's infinite affection, trust and expectations, heavy responsibilities, and a high sense of responsibility to repay his gratitude with dedication to his duties all prompted Lin Chong to work meticulously, for fear that he would not do well and be sorry for the high hopes placed on Zhao Yue and the Cangzhao family.

Several years of hard and bloody battles have also honed his ruthlessness and courage.

(To be continued.) )