Yu Zhilong naturally didn't know that he happened to miss Yu Lan and his party just now, so he took Sun Xing and came to Tian Lie's house with a gift. Yu Zhilong didn't know what items should be prepared, thinking that Tian Lie was a scholar, since he was a disciple of a saint and knew how to read, he would not care about yellow and white things, these things commonly used by Confucians should be able to come in handy.

The manservant at the door asked if it was the young man who had been relieved of the siege yesterday to visit here, and hurriedly introduced Zhilong into the hall, and hurriedly ran into the backyard to inform Tian Lie after confessing the crime. Tian Lie was talking with Kong Ying, and when he learned that it was yesterday's benefactor who came here, he hurriedly dressed up and came out with Kong Ying to meet the guests.

"I don't know if the general is coming, the little old man is far away, don't blame the general!" As soon as Tian Lie came out, he bowed his hand, Kong Ying also bowed down with his side, Yu Zhilong didn't dare to hold it up, and hurriedly returned the salute.

"This time I came to confess yesterday's crimes, and Mr. and others are frightened! I prepared some small gifts and asked my husband to smile at them. Sun Xing offered tea, inkstone and rice paper at the back, and Tian Lie said happily: "The general is the benefactor of my family and the Kong family, and he has not yet repaid it, how can he accept this gift with shame?" ”

"It's okay, please smile at it."

Sun Xing stepped forward again, raised the object in his hand and saluted, Tian Lie turned his head and glanced at Kong Ying, nodded, Kong Ying knew his mind, took it with both hands with a smile, bowed to Zhilong, and said, "Thank you!" He turned around and stepped back, handed it to the manservant in the back, and asked him to accept it.

Tian Lie smiled, stretched out his hand to signal, invited Yu Zhilong into the hall, sat down with his left hand at the table, and sat on his right hand, Kong Ying smiled slightly, and sat next to Tian Lie on the right side of the table. Tian Lie urged to hurry up and serve tea, and his own servants prepared according to his instructions.

"I'm tired of the general making a special trip to greet him, I don't know what else the general has to teach here?" Tian Lie saw Yu Zhilong sitting down, leaned over and asked with a smile.

"Don't dare, the kid is rude. In fact, I don't hide it, my army started from recklessness, and the vast majority of them are illiterate people, although there is no shortage of resolute and resolute people in the army, but from top to bottom, both generals and soldiers behave perversely and speak vulgarly. I am deeply concerned with the compilation and implementation of laws and regulations in the army, and I do not know about local civil affairs, my army in the Ming Shijie has studied under Mr. for several years, listening to Mr. teachings, he and the local county Yin Xie Lin have vigorously recommended Mr. to me, praise Mr. has always been attentive to reading and asking, upright temperament, for decades peach and plum all over the world, most of the contacts are capable people in the land of Qilu. Zhilong is not talented, and if he wants to achieve great things, I implore Mr. Can you give me some guidance and recommend one or two disciples under the seat? ”

"This ——, the general praised it falsely!" Tian Lie listened, but he was a little embarrassed.

Yu Zhilong angrily beat the person who robbed the marriage, was kind to the Tian family, and also saved the beloved daughter of his best friend, he studied the book of sages and sages, and did it as a matter of truth and learning, the so-called gratitude and retribution, it is said that Yu Zhilong should be repaid as much as possible, but now, Yu Zhilong and his gang are a gang of bandits to put it bluntly. Not to mention that in the eyes of the government, he is not only a bandit, but also a thief. Even if it seems that its military discipline and combat power are acceptable now, but a group of foreign thieves has no roots here, and the Yuan court is powerful, how can these people with families and businesses easily make up their minds to take refuge?

At this time, the inscriptions and notices drafted by Yu Zhilong had just begun to be posted everywhere in the city, and Tian Lie and Kong Ying had been in the house without knowing it. If he knew these contents, Tian Lie might be more cautious about Zhilong's invitation.

Ming Shijie is a disciple of Tian Lie, and Tian Lie's impression of him is that he has a resolute personality, a clear distinction between good and evil, and is calm and unfazed. Although this scripture is not outstanding, it is of a more generous character. And Xie Lin has been an official for many years, although he has gone with the flow and embezzled bribes, but he is quite talented, and he can be regarded as doing a lot of practical things for the locality. If it weren't for his conscience, he wouldn't have befriended him for many years.

In the past few years, Xie Lin recommended Tian Lie as a local scholar several times, all because Tian Lie was arrogant and would rather be dressed in white than to be recruited several times.

Knowing that it was Xie Lin and Ming Shijie who recommended him, Tian Lie had mixed feelings in his heart. These two people are familiar with each other, and they can recommend themselves, which shows that they don't want to live their whole lives. Xie Lin has been operating in officialdom for many years without success, he is originally a Han Chinese, there is no foundation in the court, and there is little hope of climbing up, so after this incident, he completely fell to Yu Zhilong.

Although Tian Lie has the desire to become famous in the world, he used to focus on the realm of talent and learning, rather than being as shocking as Xie and Ming, who actually became anti-thieves!

After all, he has a family, a wife and children, and although he has no ambition, he has no worries about food and clothing. As for his local children, most of them are people with small family businesses, after all, those who can afford to go to school have some family background. If Tian Lie is asked to recommend Yu Zhilong, in case his family is unwilling, and Yu Zhilong loses, wouldn't it hurt his own children!

Tian Lie was silent for a while, this is one of them.

Second, Tian Lie has studied the Four Books and Five Classics for many years, the way of Confucius and Mencius, paying attention to the teachers of heaven and earth, and the Mongolian people have been in the Central Plains for decades, and finally began to use Hanchen, Nahan Law, and opened the imperial examination, after many years, under the whole world, most of the Confucian scholars have recognized the legitimacy of the Mengyuan court, especially those who were admitted to the Han family Confucianism, and their loyalty to the Mengyuan court far exceeded that of the Mengren themselves.

In the recent years of counter-tide in various places, I don't know how many Mongolian officials fled in despair, or feared the enemy like tigers, hesitated, but on the contrary, most of the Han officials in those places lived and died with the city in a dangerous situation, even if they were captured by thieves, few of them surrendered to bandits, and finally died and their families were destroyed, and the Yuan court showed his deeds a lot.

According to the righteousness of Zhongjun, these Confucian students died well, and they were fierce. Although Tian Lie is a Han Chinese, he has read the so-called sage books for many years, and he agrees with this principle to some extent. At this time, he could hear Yu Zhilong's plea, so he was naturally reluctant to recommend his own disciples to enter Yu Zhilong's army. From the bottom of his heart, Tian Lie thought that Xie Lin and his people should sacrifice their lives on the day the city was broken!

If you become a bandit, you will have a stigma for the rest of your life, not only will you be exterminated by the Yuan Court in the future, but it will also be difficult to wash away the stigma in the Confucian circle. I don't want to be known to the court magnates, I am willing to teach and educate people all my life, and naturally I don't want my disciples to be with thieves in the future and have their reputation damaged for the rest of their lives! It's just that I can't find the words for a while.

Kong Ying is a descendant of Tian Lie and the son of his best friend, and he understands Tian Lie's thoughts in his heart, but Kong Ying has a young heart, although he has studied for many years, he does not have a good impression of the Mengyuan court. He has a free and easy personality, not only learns literature, but also martial arts, so in his spare time, he learns some boxing and kicking. Someone came to rob his relatives yesterday, and Tian Lie thought that his words were rude, so he brushed his sleeves away. Kong Ying's blood was strong, but he came forward to refuse, his words were useless, he was forced to move his hands and feet, and he didn't fall behind for a while.

"Although Uncle Tian is the leader of all the disciples, it is a matter of everyone's future, so it is not appropriate to come forward directly. Please forgive me, general! Kong Ying arched his hand and smiled.

"Ah, it's a pity." Yu Zhilong was very sorry, "I hope Mr. understands, the kid is formless, abrupt!" ”

He also knew that it was indeed a bit hasty and presumptuous to rush to put forward it in person at this time, but if Xie Lin and Ming Shijie could jointly recommend it, there must be talent and learning, and he was now very short of all kinds of auxiliary people, although this Tian Lie was not good at martial arts, but he was commendable in talent and learning, and he had a clear reputation among Shilin students, and if he could use it, he would have a strong weather vane effect.

At this time, Yu Zhilong's thirst for talent was no less than that of Uncle Liu Huang, who looked at the thatched house. When there are celebrities today, Yu Zhilong doesn't know at all, he only knows that there are many celebrities under Zhu Chongba, and the most awesome is Liu Bowen. But most of these celebrities belong to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and in Zhu Chongba's sphere of influence, Yu Zhilong's current strength and influence can't be inserted at all, besides, you are a grass coward, why are people willing to abandon their families and businesses, leave their hometowns, and come all the way to join you?

Even now, Zhu Chongba has only just shown his grandeur, and even Jiqing has won it. Of course, he had good luck in the early stage, the geographical location was excellent, and the offensive of the entire Yuan army on the northern front was blocked by Liu Futong, Zhang Shicheng, and Ming Yuzhen, and occupied the richest Jiangsu and Zhejiang. Plan and then act, and eventually become the emperor's business.

Of course, Junjie talents are not unique to Jiangsu and Zhejiang, Yu Zhilong believes that there are talented people in the abdomen, Sichuan and Shaanxi.

It's just that now Yu Zhilong and others only have a county seat, and the strength and influence are not enough to be humane, even the Jingshi Zhongshu doesn't care much about it. In fact, the military espionage report that Linqu fell into the hands of thieves is now pressed in a thick stack of spy documents in the Privy Council, and if you don't pay attention to finding it, it is really not easy to find!

Yu Zhilong saw that the recruitment was fruitless, although he was sorry and not anxious, he just talked slowly with Tian Lie and Kong Ying, everyone is born and mature, as long as they are sincere, open up the situation, and don't worry about someone coming to vote.

During the conversation, although Tian Lie insisted on his own opinion, Yu Zhilong found that Kong Ying was quite curious about himself, and he was very interested in the encounters and ideas of Zhilong and others. Kong Ying was born in a famous family, since he was a child, he studied sage books, and also traveled abroad, this knowledge and knowledge is by no means comparable to Yu Zhilong today, he saw Yu Zhilong so young, but the conversation is not at all like a country man, and he can't help but turn around and ask about Yu Zhilong's origin.

Thinking of the tragic family situation in this life, Yu Zhilong sighed slightly, and said a word.

Seeing that Yu Zhilong's face darkened, knowing that it had touched Yu Zhilong's sadness, Kong Ying immediately changed the topic.

The three of them then chatted for a while, and Yu Zhilong said: "I have asked the big leader, I can open the city gate today, and allow all kinds of traders to enter and exit freely, Brother Kong can rest assured, and after the city gate is confirmed, Brother Kong can pack up and set off with Ling Mei." During the chat, Yu Zhilong knew that Kong Ying and his sister-in-law were coming to visit Tian Lie this time through Linqu Huiqufu, and he didn't want to encounter this drastic change and delay.

"Oh, that's really thanks to the general, the general acted vigorously and resolutely, which made Kong admire! If there is a chance, Kong will definitely sweep the couch at home to greet him. Kong Ying was overjoyed when she heard this.

Depending on the situation, these people will not give up this city easily, and when the war comes, it is the people who suffer, and if they stay here with their sisters, they are afraid that they will affect the pond fish. It's better to go, well, you should persuade Uncle Tian's family to go with you, leave here, and avoid the scourge of war for the time being. I went to my own home to live temporarily, so that I could see Xin'er's sister every day and have more opportunities to enhance my relationship.