Chapter 53: Uncle Zhang Qian

Zhang Zhen, Chongzhen seven years of jinshi, once served as the county governor of Linfen. Honest and self-controlled, diligent and loving the people, deeply loved by the people. Now Ding Wei is at home, and he can be regarded as the head of the Linying squire. At this moment, Luo Yulong grabbed him and wanted to persuade him to surrender.

"I, Cao Ying, have a rule not to kill Qing officials." Luo Yulong said: "This quality is a clean official. Besides, don't you want to gain a foothold in Linying? I thought that there was a local support, and it was much better, this quality happened to be a Linying person, and it would be great if I could subdue Zhang Qian. ”

"Thank you, big brother," Zhang Xuan said, "and let me meet Zhang Qian." ”

Zhang Zhen is only about thirty years old, with a Chinese face, and he looks very majestic. He closed his eyes and pondered, even if Zhang Xuan came to Zhang Qian, Zhang Zhen didn't open his eyes, but said, "I want to die in the next place." Needless to say. ”

"Mr. Zhang, why are you doing this?" Zhang Xuan said: "You are not an official of the Ming Dynasty now, why do you want to die for the Ming Dynasty?" ”

"In the official and in the township, Gu is one. In the high temple and worried about the people, in the far away of the rivers and lakes and thinking about the king, how can you understand a thief? Zhang Zhi said lightly, with a hint of contempt in his tone.

Zhang Xuan said: "Mr. is not afraid of death, don't you want to think about the Linying Zhang family?" ”

Zhang Zhen said: "If you insist on implicating your relatives, I can't help it?" I will send you today, and they will still be implicated by me, and I can't do anything about it. If you want to kill, you will kill, and everything will be empty after death, so why worry about this matter. ”

Zhang Xuan had no choice but to think about it for a while. But he was reluctant to kill Zhang Qian.

After all, the Ming officialdom in this era can be said to be as black as a crow in the world, and there are almost no real clean officials, but a clean official like Zhang Zhen who is recognized by a rough person like Luo Yulong, no matter what his ability is, at least in terms of conduct, he is passable. And anyone who can be admitted to the Jinshi, even if he is not a scholar-level person, is also a first-class smart person, at least much better than the big characters under his command who don't know a basket.

Zhang Xuan thought about it, and finally thought of it, and said secretly in his heart: "Isn't this Zhang Qian's way of doing it just to seek fame?" And he doesn't necessarily want to die, he wants to die, he is also a young jinshi, a middle jinshi in his twenties, an official, and his official reputation is very good. has a great future, how can you be willing to die. It's just that when the matter came, this situation forced him to die and have to die with full fame. All he cares about is his reputation. ”

"If you care about reputation, you have weaknesses. I don't believe it, Huang Taiji can collect Hong Chengchou, but I, Zhang Xuan, can't collect Zhang Qian. ”

Zhang Xuan then left here. After Zhang Xuan left, Zhang Zhen opened his eyes, looked at the back of Zhang Xuan leaving, let out a long breath, sighed, and closed his eyes again. He had already decided that he was going on a hunger strike to die.

Zhang Xuan immediately sent someone to inquire about the reputation of the Zhang family.

But in a moment, Zhang Xuan got the news. The Zhang family has a good reputation, and the family is not very wealthy, and the population is extremely simple. The entire Zhang family is only a hundred people, only a few acres of thin fields, and then there is the land donated by others after Zhang Zhizhong Jinshi, which can be regarded as rich, but he has never committed a traitor.

Zhang Xuan looked at the list of the Zhang family and said secretly: "I can also be regarded as a blood banker." If Zhang Zhen still doesn't agree, I can only kill the Zhang family. There was a fierce glint in his eyes.

However, now is not the time for Zhang Xuan to go to see Zhang Zhen, he has to send Luo Yulong away first.

Luo Yulong didn't have the heart to stay in Linying County, especially when the main forces of Cao Ying and Chuang Ying were already under the city of Linye County, he wanted to establish greater merits. The reason why Luo Rucai sent Luo Yulong was to let Luo Yulong establish a good relationship with Zhang Xuan, and secondly, he was afraid of encountering the Ming army. Zhang Xuan's 3,000 men were too thin, but with Luo Yulong's horse team, even if he couldn't win, it would be much easier to escape.

Who let Zhang Xuan be in Luo Rucai's heart, and he has long been labeled that he will not run for his life.

After Zhang Xuan sent Luo Yulong away, he immediately posted a notice for Anmin and opened a warehouse to release grain, but the granary in the county did not have much grain, Zhang Xuan did not hesitate to raid several gentry, gathered all the stored grain together, and integrated the military grain in Zhang Xuan's hands, which seemed to be able to support twenty or thirty thousand for half a year.

However, because of Zhang Qian's relationship, Zhang Xuan's methods are much gentler, of course, the so-called gentleness is just to give these gentry a blank strip. As long as the food does not cost life.

In addition, there is also tidying up the houses in the city and determining the place of residence for the three thousand soldiers, which is not a temporary camp, but a long-term residence, although Zhang Xuan does not know how long this time is. There is also an inspection of the city wall, to check if there are any weaknesses on the city wall, after all, Zhang Xuan is going to live here for a while, this city wall was Zhang Xuan's obstacle before, and now it is Zhang Xuan's barrier. Luo Dai's men also went to find out the movements of all parties, such as Xuzhou, Xiangxian, Yanling and other places, specifically, it should be in the east and north directions.

Yuncheng is now in the hands of the rebels, and the person who guards the town is Zhang Xuan's old acquaintance, He Ying. And the army marched westward, and Xiangcheng was also attacking, Zhang Xuan didn't have to worry much, but the north needed to worry more, after all, there were more than 10,000 elite soldiers of the Ming Dynasty in Kaifeng.

Zhang Xuan was busy with these, and it was already a day later.

Zhang Xuan thought about it for a long time and went to see Zhang Zhen again.

Within this day, Zhang Zhen did not eat a drop of water, and the whole person looked a lot haggard. It seemed that he didn't have the strength to open his eyes, Zhang Xuan came in, and he didn't even have the time to look at Zhang Xuan.

Zhang Xuan took a deep breath, bowed deeply and said, "Little nephew, visit uncle." ”

Zhang Zhen was so frightened that he opened his eyes violently and said, "My Zhang family has been innocent for generations, and there is no son of a thief like you." ”

"Uncle Xiang doesn't believe in the little nephew, the little nephew doesn't matter, I think someone will believe it, the little nephew Zhang Xuan is also from Henan. It's just a native of Zhengzhou. However, when I checked the genealogy of the Zhang family, it seems that the Zhang family has a lineage in Zhengzhou. I have already preached outside that I am the son of the Zhang family's lineage in Zhengzhou. The Zhang family with Linying is a family. I think my uncle is so upright and self-controlled, he refuses to win me, the son of a thief, but the children of the Zhang family in Linying resist the blade, and they may not be able to resist the wealth. Zhang Xuan said.

Zhang Xuan is a native of Zhengzhou, that's right. However, this Zhengzhou is not Zhengzhou, and there are millions of people living in Zhengzhou in later generations, and Zhang Xuan is also begging for a life in Zhengzhou. It's just that my parents moved from other places. It's not a lie. The reason why Zhang Xuan did this was to pull Zhang Zhen into the water.

Clan is a constant relationship between the ancients. It is a more important existence than the state.

And once Zhang Xuan is considered to be a child of the Linying Zhang family, don't say anything else, one hundred and ten people in Linying Zhang Xuan can be used by Zhang Xuan, and they must be loyal, after all, the clan concept is a bad habit in later generations, but it is the truth in this era. And the rebellion is to punish the nine clans, even if Zhang Zhen is innocent, he can't get out of it.

"You ---" Zhang Qianqi trembled. He never expected that Zhang Xuan would have such a poisonous plan, and said, "What do you want? ”

Zhang Xuan said: "Without him, I, Zhang Xuan, just want to live and find a way to live for the brothers behind me." ”

"Do you want to recruit An?" Zhang Zhen said.

"Zhao'an?" Zhang Xuan chuckled and said: "Ming has lost the deer, what if I am Zhao'an, wait until the next day to rebel?" I, Zhang Xuan, don't do this. I just want to help each other fight for the king, but the world's major events are both civil and military. You can't defeat the world by force alone, so I just ask my uncle for help. ”

Zhang Zhen also looked at Zhang Xuan, although Zhang Zhen was a little loyal to Daming, but he was not loyal to the point of pressing the whole family. However, he really doesn't look down on Li Zicheng. On Li Zicheng's way to attack Yuncheng from Shangshui, a Confucian student went to see Li Zicheng, and wanted to say that he was righteous, but he was cut by Li Zicheng.

Zhang Zhen didn't look down on that Confucian student, but he also had a sense of sadness about the death of a rabbit and a fox.

He understands very well that this Confucian is not righteous at all, but just a different way to seek officials, maybe there are many unpleasant words in his words, but he doesn't want to be killed by Li Zicheng. How can such a gentry achieve great things. At this moment, Zhang Zhen looked at Zhang Xuan and said secretly in his heart: "This person has a bit of a successful atmosphere. ”