Chapter 2 Purple Horse

The tip was full of ink, and Shi Weizheng, the governor of Wuyang County, couldn't put pen to paper for a long time.

He is a well-educated man, whether it is a long strategy or a seven-character poem, he always comes at his fingertips and can do it with a wave. But today's article clearly made him think dry. Almost every word, every sentence, had to be considered repeatedly, and the pen was raised several times, and finally a clean white paper was still in front of him.

It was very clean, as clean as the room where he was now on business, with white curtains hanging from the windows and the floor being wiped spotlessly. Wei Zheng likes to be clean, he can't learn the kind of lice and wine since the Wei and Jin dynasties, and he doesn't care about it. He believed that everything in the world had rules, rules, and order to follow. **The people of order will also be subjected to order in the end**. And now, what he is doing is just outside the order, the court can't talk about it, and his colleagues can't see the light. Even the slightest omission will lead to his complete disrepute.

But he had to do it. Whether it is the proprietor Yuan Treasure or the giant deer Ze group of thieves, he is the best candidate. In case before this strategy of division and collapse worked, Juluze had been broken by the soldiers and horses of the imperial court, and the letter of peace written to Zhang Jincheng unfortunately fell into the hands of outsiders, Wuyang County would have to give the imperial court an explanation. Of course, the county keeper cannot bear this charge of raising thieves to protect himself, and the county keeper is responsible for it. In case Zhang Jin said that he was not satisfied with the price offered by Wuyang and wanted to find a place to talk face-to-face, and Shi Shi, the head of the county guard, would come forward, first, it could show that Wuyang County did indeed have the sincerity to negotiate peace, and second, with Wei Zheng's calmness and change, it could just deal with Zhang Jin's cunning and ruthlessness.

But I want to be worthy of my heart, I am worthy of the kindness of the county guard, and I am worthy of the people of Wuyang, so why should I care about my reputation outside my body! I don't know how many times he lifted the pen, but he quickly put it down again. It is difficult to write a letter, not only in the crux of the heart, but also in the grasp of the scale. First of all, how should Zhang Jincheng be called? It's a real headache. Call it the "King"? It looks too flattering and too spineless. After all, this person is just a thief with a little more power, and the treasure of Wuyang County Shouyuan is a dignified four-grade feudal official! Call it "Brother Zhang", right? Seems too close, too fake. It was so fake that Wei Zheng got goosebumps on his own. Even to his colleagues in Wuyang County, he rarely calls him a brother, let alone a bandit who has never known his life? It can be called a "strong man", but it is too blunt and too sluggish, it is not easy to narrow the distance between each other, and it is not conducive to further communication between the two sides.

After thinking about it for several hours, seeing that the sky outside was starting to darken, Wei Zheng finally decided to start with the word "Zhang Gong". This title is not a title, but a title that is applicable to anyone who is famous or older. Zhang Gongjin said that it was like a meeting, like writing a letter to an old friend, Wei Zheng wrote this beginning on a white "Yangzhou paper". Then write it down with a similar intimacy and report his name, Shi Weizheng, the governor of Wuyang County, once witnessed the great military power of Julu Ze and the heroes who have won every battle for more than a year, and admired it to the extreme.

"And the soldiers are in danger, there is no victorious general in the world!" Next, Wei Zheng began to talk about the impact of the war on both sides. Many heroes and heroes are buried underground, and the people of Qinghe, Wuyang, Xiangguo, and Wu'an counties have not been able to recuperate for many years. When spring begins, no one dares to plow a little far from the city. When it was time to harvest in the autumn, the grain that was caught could not fall into the hands of the people. The government had to double its collection in order to raise troops for war, and the heroes of the green forest also needed to collect food to meet the needs of the brothers. In the long run, the government and the green forest will not be able to receive food, and the life of the people will be worse and worse.

In the third part of "The year before Zhang Gongbing's visit to the pavilion and the opening of a warehouse to help the poor, the people are still ...... by Yu Ze", Wei Zheng began to summarize Zhang Jiajun's few good deeds, and tried his best to put Zhang Jincheng on a moral high point that he was embarrassed to "slip out" after reading it himself. Wei Zhengxin swore that this was not a disobedient statement, and as a native of the pavilion, he also had relatives who benefited from Zhang's grain release operation. If it weren't for Zhang Jiajun, many poor people might not have been able to survive that harsh winter.

Moreover, Wei Zheng, who is a Guantao person, has to add that he thinks that Guantao County Ling Lin Deen definitely deserves to be killed. He also hated corrupt officials to the core. But people are soft-spoken, and they can't make the court make up their minds to eradicate this kind of city fox and society rat. Therefore, the behavior of Julu Ze and the heroes killing officials and chasing officials cannot be completely wrong.

"Wei has heard that Cheng Mingzhen, a general under Zhang Gong, was a soldier of Guantao County, Cao ......" While smiling bitterly, Wei Zheng hid his true intentions in the pen. He frankly told Zhang Jin that Cheng Mingzhen's arrest was purely unjust. When the county keeper heard about this, he sighed. thinks that it was Guantao County that forced Lin Deen to be a thief, not Cheng Mingzhen's intention to rebel. If Mingzhen hadn't been forced to rebel at that time, with his talent and ability, over time, the position of the county would have been at his fingertips. Even if Cheng Mingzhen doesn't look down on the local official position and has the intention to seek a bigger exhibition, with the level of strategy and courage he showed after joining Julu Ze, it is not completely impossible to be a marquis and worship the general.

Of course, the same regret is also suitable for Zhang Jin, if it weren't for the local officials' expropriation and persecution too much, presumably Zhang Da was also rectifying the equipment in his small courtyard at this time and preparing for spring ploughing, instead of sharpening his knives in Juluze.

All this has made people miserable, so that everyone has embarked on a path that they are unwilling to take, and there is no turning back. Wei Zheng understood Zhang Jin's distress, and also hoped that Zhang Jin would be called a plan for the people of Li and would not continue to enter Wuyang County to plunder. As the governor of the county governor, Wei Zheng was willing to do his best to raise a batch of grain, copper coins and silk cloth within the scope of his authority to thank Juluze for his kindness. Wei Zheng emphasized in the letter that he knew that there were rules for green forests, and he also knew that some places had set similar precedents. As Cheng Mingzhen's fellow villager, he didn't want Zhang Da to be embarrassed, and he didn't want to watch his boss worry every day, so he took the initiative to undertake this matter for both parties, hoping that Zhang Gongjin would consider it as appropriate.

If Zhang Jin said that he insisted on destroying Wuyang County in the army, as the head of the county guard, Wei Zheng would inevitably lead the soldiers of each county to fight to the last man. In that case, the losses on both sides will be very large, and the result is definitely not what Zhang Jin said he wanted to see, and Wei Zheng was also unwilling to see it. The only people who are happy to see this will probably be those villains with evil intentions. When Wuyang County and Juluze were both defeated, they rushed up and just took advantage of the fisherman.

Written like this, it doesn't look too humble or too tough. Wei Zheng blew onto the paper, sighed again and read it from beginning to end. After confirming that the meaning he wanted to express and the meaning he had hidden, he picked up the pen again and wrote his name instead of his official position at the end of the letter. The old man Wei Zheng of the pavilion!

He only represents himself, not the treasure of the county Shouyuan, nor the county of Wuyang. Although anyone who saw this letter knew that without the concerted efforts of the whole Wuyang County, it would be impossible to transport such a large sum of grain and grass across Zhangshui. However, referring to the invisible rules of the Great Sui officialdom, right and wrong will be borne by Wei Zheng, which has nothing to do with the treasure of the county Shouyuan, and has nothing to do with other colleagues in Wuyang County.

That's a duty! With a wry smile, Wei Zheng slowly put the letter to his mouth and slowly dried it, while examining the contents of the letter again. Guantao County released grain, Jingcheng released grain, Boren County distributed wheat seeds to the people, and the recent Liyang opened a warehouse for relief, counting them one by one, it seems that there are too many good deeds of Zhang Jiajun that he mentioned now. But this made him feel a little more comfortable, and it was better to stoop to the thief, to find a thief who could occasionally do some good things for the people, and force him to do more good deeds, than to find a heinous thief to act as a tiger!

But what will future generations think? Wei Zheng continued to smile wryly. After all, it is a stain, just like the ink on the pixels, no matter how you wash it, it will not return to its original whiteness. If he were a few years ago, he would never have tarnished his name so much. At that time, he was full of poetry and books, and his heart was full of pride. I'd rather bend than bend, although tens of millions of people will go to me! No matter how many setbacks you encounter, they are as clean as the cloth robes on your body.

"I've done everything, why should I care so much!" He stood up with hard support and sneered at the dark clouds outside the window, "As long as this group of thieves can be completely eradicated in the end, why should Wei care about personal gains and losses?" ”

No one responded to him, only lightning outside the window, illuminating his lonely eyes. What about eradicating Juluze? Zhang Jincheng and Cheng Mingzhen are dead, and Wang Jincheng and Chu Mingzhen will rise up. The Great Sui Dynasty was already terminally ill, and it could be saved for a while, but it couldn't be saved for a lifetime.

The building will fall, and there will be no wood to support it. And these people are not even rotten rafters and broken tiles, they can only be regarded as weeds growing between the cracks of the tiles, thinking that they can stand tall and see far, but in fact they are just greedy for a little sunshine in the sky, a little hope......

"Boom!" A thunderclap fell from the sky, swept across the eaves of the opposite roof, and smashed the weeds on the tiles to pieces.

Dead God, the last bit of hope has been struck by lightning! Wei raised his head and smirked. At this moment, several servants hurriedly ran to the door, nodded and asked, "Your Excellency called us just now?" What can the little ones do, and can the adults make it clear again? ”

"It's not ......" Wei Zheng covered up in a panic, and then quickly changed his mind, "A few of you help me call Tang Zuwang, who is in charge of the account book, I have something to ask him here?" Go now, don't delay! ”

Note 1: Out of the slip, Hebei dialect, slide down.