At present, the people of the Central Plains, who do not know what the Western calendar is, will not have such a saying as "golden autumn and October". And if you have to find a suitable month for "Golden Autumn", it must be August.

Whether it is north or south, August is a wonderful season, a season that means harvest.

But it was in this month that Zong Ze took a foot boat from Quzhou Longyou and went straight north to Qilu. Zong Ze, who had been in the county magistrate for sixteen years, was finally promoted and was appointed by the imperial court as the general judge of Dengzhou.

This is a leap forward in development, from a county magistrate to Dengzhou such a heavy judgment, just like the later generations of small county magistrates in eastern Henan were suddenly promoted to the deputy mayor of Zhengzhou, with a fourth-class person who was born as a jinshi, this can be said to be a milestone achievement. But Zong Ze didn't care much. Because it was never his intention to be promoted and get rich. Otherwise, when the palace examination was made, he would not have ignored the provisions of the word limit, and wrote more than 10,000 words in a free manner, vigorously stating the disadvantages of the times, criticizing the imperial court for believing in Wu Chuhou's false accusations and banishing Cai Qu, thinking that "the disaster of the friends began here." So much so that the chief examiner "used his straightforward words and feared resentment" to put Zong Ze in the "last subject" and gave him "the same Jinshi background". Otherwise, with his talent, how could he fall to the fourth class, nearly sixty years old, and be sentenced to the end?

Zong Ze is no stranger to Qilu. Although Qilu in August does not have the fragrant osmanthus in the hometown of Jiangnan, it also has the fruits of the harvest. He has never been an official in Dengzhou, but he has served two terms in Laizhou. From the first year of Yuan Fu to the fourth year of Zhenghe, in the past 16 years, he successively served as the magistrate of four counties, including Laizhou Glue, Jinzhou Zhaocheng, Laizhou Ye County, and Quzhou Longyou. Throughout his more than 20 years in politics, he has been able to serve as an official for one term, benefit one party, have outstanding political achievements, and "rule as he goes", winning the trust and love of all localities and people. It's a pity that today's Zhao Song is a traitor, and no matter how good his political achievements are, it is difficult to be promoted and reused.

Hesitating to this day, he is fifty years old, and he has only sat in the position of general judgment.

Lifting the bamboo curtain and walking to the bow of the boat, the oncoming cool breeze shook the cyan embellishment on Zong Ze's body. The green gauze and horned turban on his head also rose with the wind, setting off his furrowed bronze face, with deep wrinkles on his forehead, sparse mustache, and a lot of gray hair mixed on his temples. But Zong Ze is very strong, he sits like a tiger when he sits, and he looks like a wolf when he walks. Ambitious and beautiful-minded.

"Father." The second son, Zong Ying, greeted him, his eldest son died early, and there was only one son left in his name.

"That's the court of Liangshanbo?" Right in his eyes, a big flag with red letters on a black background was hung high. The flag is only embroidered with the word 'law' of Douda.

The crowds were crowded around, and on the restaurant stalls, the shouts of the merchants and vendors were faintly heard on the boat. It's like a small bazaar.

Not only the young descendants gathered, but also the pale old man, and even the women and children with dolls. In that area, you can clearly see thieves with swords and guns patrolling around, but none of the people and traders are afraid of color.

Zong Ze is not the nerd who is poor in books, he has been a eunuch for more than 20 years, transferred to many places, and is a good minister who really started in the state and county. He knew that this was because the people believed in Liangshan and obeyed Liangshan.

"Let's go. My father and son got off the boat to take a look. ”

"Father, no." Zong Ying was taken aback. His father is a minister of the court, so that the Liang thief knows, and he is not ......

Zong Ze smiled, "Don't make a fuss. For the father, there is no front and back, and there is no official robe, how can others know that the father is the general sentence? The old man had long heard of the name of Liangshanbo. Do the right thing for heaven, eliminate violence and peace. Recently, this court for the people has been played, sweeping the surrounding county soldiers, and it has a good reputation. "But it's just a good time to see if it's in vain.

The boat docked, and the father and son of the Zong family walked ashore. Looking at the stall vendors and merchants around you closely, you can see the stretched smiles on each other's faces. The Liangshan bandit soldiers walked through the crowd with a team of five people, and there was no fear or fear among the people. During this time, a child was playing and hit one of the thieves on the thigh, and the thief was wearing armor, and the child's strength was naturally unhindered, but the child fell down.

Zong Ze just had a worry in his heart, but he saw that the thief didn't care at all, but pulled the child up and rubbed his forehead. The two children who were playing together next to him only laughed and laughed on the side, mocking the child who stumbled, but they were not afraid of the thieves at all.

This made the wrinkles on Zong Ze's forehead faintly deeper. It's that Zong Ying who is stunned. "I don't want the thieves to win the hearts of the people."

There is no need for a heavy hammer to ring a drum, and there is no need for a whip to whip a fast horse. Whether it is true or false, whether it is false or real, it can be seen at a glance in small details.

This was greatly unexpected by Zong Ze, and it also made Zong Ying stunned. For a while, the father and son didn't even have the heart to go to the courtroom to watch. It was mainly Zong Ze, and the scene in front of him made him very unacceptable. That's a bunch of thieves, they're a bunch of thieves, they're a bunch of grass bandits.

"Is there really anything righteous in this world?" Back on the boat, Zong Ze stood on the bow of the boat and looked at the market, unable to turn his eyes away for a long time.

This official is not an official, a bandit is not a bandit, and if the people are ......, they are still the same group of people. So that he is not stunned. It's a kind of vibration like 'turning things upside down'. So much so that when Zong Ze was caught in front of Lu Qian, the shock that this name brought to Lu Qian also made him feel like he had turned over, and his whole person was a little dizzy at that moment.

It's just that the self-control that has become stronger and stronger after crossing over made him react immediately and didn't make any embarrassing moves. But for the father and son of the Zong family, he still respects him very much.

At least when the three of them met, it was not Zong Ze and Zong Ying's father and son who were brought to Lu Qian, but Lu Qian walked with his feet to meet the father and son. At that time, the father and son were not half restrained. Lu Qian glanced at it, the father and son were not threatening, they were just two ordinary people with strong bodies. I couldn't see a single red thread.

Of course, the father and son were not angry with Lu Qian at all. And why the hell were the two invited here, didn't they leave the courtroom? But it can only be described by the words 'karma'.

Zong Ze's front foot left the scene of Court No. 1 because his inner emotions fluctuated too much, and his back foot came to the scene of Court No. 2 of Eighteen Mile Shop, and then the father and son leaked their mouths when they spoke, and they were reported by the 'Chaoyang District people' who listened to an ear next to them, and then they entered the local bureau.

Many years later, the father and son of the Zong family who have achieved fame may be grateful for the extra mouth of the nameless little man back then, but now, hehe, both father and son have the heart to die. Especially after knowing the cause and effect, I will vomit to death.

In the face of Lu Qian, it is naturally better to be silent than to say anything. That Zong Zezong Rulin even closed his eyes, as if he was Weng Zhong.

Lu Qian came to see Lao Tzu in this father and son with a feeling of admiration. Grandpa Zongzezong! Judging from the official history at the turn of the Song Dynasty and the Song Dynasty, although the time for Zong Ze to shine his own light was short, and it seemed that he did not save the sky, his actions were extremely significant.

In terms of his own ability, Lu Qian also thinks that Zong Ze is better than Li Gang and Zhang Shuye. After the shame of Jingkang, the sect lost its owner, but there was a call from Zong Ze, and hundreds of thousands of people in Hebei responded to the uprising, and stayed in Tokyo for several months, the city has been solidified, the building has been rectified, the ridge has been opened, the fence has been listed, the righteous have been united, the Cai River and the Wuzhang River have all flowed, and hundreds of thousands of thieves in Shaanxi, Beijing, and northeast of Hebei have been attached. The situation is completely different from the unprepared scene of Jingkang in the past.

Although the changes in the current situation have not caused the people of the Central Plains to be angry after witnessing the Jingkang tragedy, who can say that there is no Zong Ze's inspiration with his own loyalty and righteousness?

Look at Du Chong, who replaced Zong Ze after his death.

If Zong Ze is there, the thief can be used as a soldier, and Du Chong can be used as a soldier. The difference between these is not counted in the way.

Of course, Lu Qian knew that Zong Ze's deeds that touched him the most were his unwilling three shouts when he was dying, "Cross the river!" Crossing! Crossing! ”

I remember the first time I knew about it, when I was a child, I read comic books, and at that time, the comic books were still separated from the top and bottom, with pictures on the top and text on the bottom, black and white. It was also from that time that the name "Zong Ze" left a mark on his heart.

That Yue Fei and Yue Pengju were of course the most famous figures for Lu Qian during the Two Song Dynasty, and Zong Ze was secondary.

Zheng Guanying of the late Qing Dynasty has such a passage in the book "The Danger of the Prosperous Age": The ancient is a general, the scriptures are martial, and the courage is complete; can win people, know people, love people, and control people; The opportunity to save time, to observe the importance of geography, to conform to the people's feelings, and to understand the situation of safety and danger. All the gains and losses of ancient and modern times, the careful changes of formations, the reality of soldiers, and the clumsiness, all of them are insightful.

Lu Qian thought that this was even more about 'handsome'. After the Jingkang Change, Zong Ze was able to run that business in Tokyo in just a few months, isn't that the answer to the above paragraph?

So he didn't care about the faces of the Zong family's father and son, and now he didn't have the capital to recruit Zong Ze. Even speaking, when he really captured the Jiaodong Peninsula and gained a firm foothold, and even got the canonization edict from the Tokyo court, he still had little chance of recruiting Zong Ze.

Grandpa Renzong is a person who forgets his home for the sake of the country. In his early years, he served under Lu Huiqing, who was demoted from Beijing, and Lu Huiqing ordered Zong Ze to inspect the construction of the imperial river. Meticulous and conscientious.

Lu Qian felt that the fundamental magic weapon that he could recruit Zong Ze was not his power and future, but the benevolence and righteousness that 'he' was adhering to now.

When Zong Ze was young, he resolutely left home to go out to study, which lasted more than ten years, and there were dozens of places to study. He not only studied carefully, studied the classics, and applied what he had learned, inspected the society, understood the people's feelings, and tirelessly pursued the way of governing the country and helping the people in his own heart, but also naturally saw clearly the corruption of the Zhao and Song Dynasty officials and the difficulties of the people.

In this way, what Lu Qian wanted to show him was a very different appearance from Zhao and Song's world.

Lu Qian, who did not have Song Jiang's 'persuasion halo' in the original work, thought that it was more reliable to treat Zong Ze in such a way.