Zhang Juzheng arranged for Lao Liu to prepare wine and food, go and see, and pay tribute to the fallen soldiers and his family by the way. Originally, the barracks were not allowed to bring alcohol, but the two of us were civil officials and did not belong to the barracks, so when they left, Wang Chonggu and Fang Fengshi brought more than a dozen jars of self-brewed liquor from Xuanfu on their behalf, according to Wang Chonggu, this is a very high degree, and when the soldiers patrol the border in winter, they can warm up their bodies, and they are usually not allowed to drink.

Lao Liu went to find a wine jug, three wine cups, and also 'made' three side dishes, packed them in a food box, and we followed Zhang Juzheng to the small mountain bag that day of the battle, which had been cleaned up, and it turned out to be a severed arm and stump, which was probably buried by them.

Zhang Juzheng stood on the top of the mountain, looked to the north, and said loudly to Yue Fei's Man Jianghong: "Angry hair rushes to the crown, relying on the place, Xiaoxiao rain rest." Raise your eyes, look up to the sky and roar, and be 'fierce'. Thirty fame, dust and earth, eight thousand miles of clouds and moons. Don't wait, the young man's head is white, empty and sad.

Jing Kang is ashamed, and it is still snowing; When the courtiers hate, when will they perish. Drive a long car and step through the lack of Helan Mountain. Zhuang is hungry for Hulu 'meat', laughing and thirsty for Hun blood. To start from the beginning, clean up the old mountains and rivers, and face the sky. ”

After the recitation, Zhang Juzheng said to me: "Yun Jie, I really want to have the momentum of Marshal Yue, carry an iron horse of 100,000, and step on this 'Mongolian' ancient grassland. It's a pity, I have no power to tie the 'chicken', I am ashamed to be a scholar in this life, if there is an afterlife, I must be a general, and like Marshal Yue, I am ambitious to eat Hulu 'meat', laughing and thirsty for Hun blood. ”

"Teacher, your achievements today have been withstood thousands of troops, and the soldiers who surrendered without a fight are also the highest means of war, and few people can do it, teacher, you can solve the problem while talking and laughing, which is not possible in war."

"Yunjie, you can speak, the future is yours, you are still young, there is still a long way to go, the Ming Dynasty will be your stage in the future, do it well."

"Our Ming Dynasty still has to rely on ministers like teachers to govern, and students are not competent if they are sparse and shallow."

"Okay, you and I don't have to be modest, and you will understand what the teacher said later. Now let's go down the mountain, do you know where the cemetery of the fallen soldiers was a few days ago, I'll go and pay my respects. ”

"My lord, the cemetery is in the southeast corner of here, facing the direction of the capital." It was Lao Liu who spoke.

"Let's go, let's take a look, this Wu Dashan is really a person with a heart, he knows how to bury the fallen soldiers in the southeast corner, let the soldiers die, and also look at the direction of the capital."

Along the path that just stepped out a few days ago, we came to the cemetery, a few days ago there were more than 200 memorials, one by one graves, in the open field it seems particularly abrupt, these graves are very regular row by row, neat and tidy without the slightest mistake 'chaos', Zhang Juzheng's family cemetery in front of a separate row, each grave has a wooden plaque, written the name of the fallen soldiers.

Zhang Juzheng squatted in the front, Lao Liu took out the wine and food, and laid them out one by one, but there was no fragrance, Zhang Juzheng poured three glasses of wine and spilled them on the ground, and then he was there to recite the eulogy silently, because the voice was small, and we didn't hear what he read.

After the memorial, we returned to the camp, Zhang Juzheng went to his big tent to rest, this period of intense negotiations, but also made him very tired, I was worried about this Zhao Quan's matter, after Zhang Juzheng rested, I went to the back of the convoy.

This is composed of nine prisoner carts, and now Zhao Quanjiu is still in the prisoner cart, shivering from the cold wind. This is a convoy guarded by the Beijing army alone, and the guard is a thousand households, who saw me coming over and hurriedly stepped forward to salute me and asked, "Lord Lan, what are the instructions for coming?" ”

"This Qianhu, I'm here to see how your defense is, and by the way, take a look at the prisoners."

"Lord Lan, please here, we have a special guard day and night to ensure that there will be no problems."

As I spoke, I followed the thousand households to the prisoner car, the first prisoner car was locked up in Zhao Quan, Zhao Quan was in the cage, his hands were fixed by iron chains, the wooden sticks of the prisoner car were already frozen and blackened, Zhao Quan looked at us with a resentful look, and his mouth was tied up with rags by the soldiers, otherwise, it is estimated that he would open his mouth and scold.

I looked at the thousand households and said, "This general, you can't treat the prisoners like this, we will be in the capital for several days, if we freeze them to death on the way, when the time comes, it will not be good to 'hand' the errand, but the emperor is waiting to interrogate them." ”

The thousand households who said this were scared, and asked resignedly: "Lord Lan, then you can find a way for the little ones, you can't freeze them to death, but also ensure their safety." ”

"Well, I think so, when you camp at night, you set up a tent and cover the prisoner cart directly, so that they will not be frozen, and it will be safer, you see that if you go on like this, their hands are frozen. If it doesn't work like this, you prepare some leather gloves for them to wear, even if they are criminals, our Ming Dynasty is also a state of benevolence and righteousness, and we can't abuse criminals, and punishing them is also a matter for the imperial court, not you and me. ”

"Okay, my lord, I'll do it now, and set up a tent for them before it's dark. My lord, you can take a look at it first, and I'll arrange it. ”

The thousand households left in a hurry to arrange for the soldiers to prepare tents, Zhao Quan in the prisoner car looked at me with 'excitement', he couldn't speak now, just nodded, for a dying person, there is no big begging, as long as he can be comfortable and suffer less sin.

Watching the thousand households walk away, I said to the soldiers guarding it: "You go in and untie the rag that tied Zhao Quan's mouth, I have something to ask him." ”

The soldier on guard, although he didn't know who I was, but looking at the attitude of the thousand households towards me, he also knew that I was a big man, and when he saw my orders, he immediately opened the car 'door' and went in to remove the rags from Zhao Quan's mouth.

Zhao Quan, who was unraveled the rags, breathed a long sigh of relief and said: "Thank you Lord Lan, alas, I, Zhao Quan, also have today, I have been in the world all my life, and I never thought that I could become a prisoner of others, and I was still suffering inhumanely. ”

"Zhao Quan, don't you know your mistakes to this day, a person living in the world, you can starve to death, die of illness, be killed, and you can't sell your motherland for your life, what you do is the behavior of having no king and no father, you are living as a walking corpse 'meat', and you take so many brothers to join the enemy together, I know that you are from the White Lotus Sect, what is the purpose of your White Lotus Sect, you tell me, don't say you don't know."

"I know Lord Lan, since the establishment of our White Lotus Sect, we have been adhering to the prosperity of the era to accumulate wealth, the 'chaotic' world to raise the banner of rebellion, to resist foreign enemies as our own responsibility."

What Zhao Quan said is not unreasonable, looking at the White Lotus Sect, in the process of its development, its name has changed one after another, and the branches have multiplied, and the teachings, organizations, rituals, and activities of each sect are still similar, so they can be collectively called the White Lotus Sect. For example, in the Ming Dynasty, there were red sun, clear space, wuwei, and Western Mahayana. After the Ming Dynasty, the White Lotus Society was influenced by Luojiao (founded by Luo Qing in the Ming Dynasty, with a purpose close to the southern school of Zen Buddhism), absorbed the idea of "vacuum hometown, no biological parents", and regarded the lifeless old mother as the creator, claiming that the lifeless old mother sent Maitreya and other gods and Buddhas to descend to earth, and the "lost" emperor fetus "daughter" in the red dust was returned to the vacuum hometown. Since then, there have been many sects, with many names, and each faction does not belong to each other, and the leader of the sect has monopolized power, and the father dies and the son succeeds; The hierarchy is strict, and when the believers enter the church, they hold certain ceremonies, 'hand' money, meet regularly, burn incense and worship, preach the scriptures, and teach the 'stick' of boxing. During the Wanli period of Shenzong, Xu Hongru and Wang Sen rose up again and advocated the White Lotus Sect, which was the beginning of the White Lotus Sect. However, if we talk about the ideological origin of Maitreya's reincarnation in the White Lotus Sect, it should start from the Sui and Tang dynasties; In terms of the form of 'mixing' beliefs, it should have been formed in the Southern Song Dynasty or the Yuan Dynasty. Wang Sen used the strange fragrance of the demon fox to claim to be the leader of the incense sect, and led the people to rebel, and the "wave" and Shandong, Shanxi, Henan, and Shaanxi provinces were also defeated.

Zhao Quan is led by the White Lotus Sect in Yanbei, and they are also dedicated to the childless old mother and belong to the Red Yang Sect.

"Zhao Quan, your purpose is to defend against foreign enemies, so why do you still defect to the enemy and commit treason."

"Lord Lan, it's not that I want to defect to the enemy and commit treason, it's that I really can't live anymore, and there is no way to live, so I, Zhao Quan, have no choice but to commit treason."

"Well, I'm not here to talk to you about what's right and what's wrong today. Your mistake has been made, I hope your descendants can see the situation clearly, be a loyal and patriotic Han person, and don't be like you, go down the wrong path again. ”

While we were talking, the Qianhu had already brought the soldiers, holding the tents, to Zhao Quan's prisoner car, seeing that we were talking, they didn't bother anymore, just stayed on the side, I wanted to say something to Zhao Quan's 'private' room, but so many soldiers, it was not easy to say more, so I had to say to the Qianhu: "This general, I still have a few questions to ask Zhao Quan at night, I will come back at night, you must also arrange their food, and let them go to the capital safely." ”

After 'handing over' the thousand households, I returned to my tent and said to Lao Liu: "Brother Liu, I am on the road now." You have to pay more attention to the safety of Lord Zhang, I will go to Zhao Quan in the evening, and it will depend on you here. "Let Lao Liu protect Zhang Juzheng, in fact, it is to monitor Zhang Juzheng and not let him go to the back, tonight I want to have an in-depth talk with Zhao Quan to see how many resources he has that I can use, it is best to let Zhao Quan leave something as a token, so that his old department is mine."

Not long after dinner, I took Liu Lianjiang to Zhao Quan's tent behind, and the guards were already waiting for me, and I said to the thousand households: "General, if it is convenient, prepare me with paper, ink, pen and inkstone, and I will let Zhao Quan write a confession, and have someone untie his handcuffs, or I will not be able to write a confession." ”

"My lord, you wait in the tent for a while, and I'll go and prepare now."

Watching the thousand households leave, I said to Liu Lianjiang: "You will stay at the 'door' of the tent for a while, and no one will disturb my conversation with Zhao Quan." ”