Chapter 343: Anger to the sky
The envoy sent by Huainan is named Zhang Zhiyuan, I heard that he was still a jinshi in the first imperial examination in Huainan, and he was only in his thirties, but he was born with a talent. Pen? Interesting? Pavilion wWw. biquge。 info
When Zhang Zhiyuan first arrived in Fuzhou, Wang Xianzhi sent his eldest son Wang Yanhan to meet him outside the city, and after he entered the city, Wang Shenzhi personally waited outside the palace gate, which was not unenthusiastic.
After seeing Zhang Zhiyuan's appearance, after listening to him speak, Wang Xianzhi had a good impression of him, because this Zhang Zhiyuan was also from Gwangju and his hometown!
In fact, the reason why Huainan chose this Zhang Zhiyuan to envoy Fuzhou was because he was also from Guangzhou.
Wang Xianzhi and his two elder brothers were well-known in Gwangju when they were in Guangzhou, and later traveled south with Wang Xu's army to present-day Fuzhou, but his Gwangju accent has not changed.
Now, with the old brothers who came out of Gwangju together leaving one by one, it is now difficult to listen to the authentic hometown dialect.
With this relationship, and Zhang Zhiyuan was a messenger sent by Huainan, Wang Xianzhi treated him very politely, not only directly arranging him to live in his own mansion, but also personally inquiring about his daily life; On weekdays, he even asked his eldest son Wang Yanhan to accompany him, completely treating him as an envoy of the "kingdom".
Who knows, this Zhang Zhiyuan was relatively polite to Wang Xianzhi at the beginning, but after a few days, his original form was revealed, not only putting on a faceless and crazy and disgusting all day long, but also looking like a big thorn when talking to Wang Zhenzhi.
Wang Zhenzhi was quite unhappy after seeing it, but in order not to affect the relationship with Huainan, he still reluctantly endured it.
Even many of his subordinates were dissatisfied with Zhang Zhiyuan and wanted to teach him a lesson, but they were all suppressed by Wang Zhenzhi.
As far as Wang Xianzhi is concerned, since Huainan is powerful and he can't afford to mess with him, then try to make friends with him.
Even if it is likely that the fate of Fujian being annexed by Huainan will not be avoided in the future, as long as his attitude is better, presumably King Wu will not be too embarrassed by himself, and at least the Wang family will be able to pass on safely.
After this decision, even though Zhang Zhiyuan's attitude became more and more arrogant and disrespectful to Wang Zhenzhi, he still endured it.
As long as he can do what he can do, he will try his best to meet all kinds of rude requests made by this person, and he only thinks that he will not have another incident and send this person back as soon as possible.
However, the development of things is a little different from what Wang Xianzhi imagined, Zhang Zhiyuan may have noticed that Wang Xianzhi wanted to befriend Huainan, and seeing that he agreed to all kinds of requests for himself, he became more and more proud in his heart, and he became more and more arrogant between his actions, and his requests were even more rude than the other.
At the beginning, Zhang Zhiyuan only hinted to Wang Shenzhi to ask for some property, but recently he has intensified his efforts, not only relying on the prestige of Huainan to make a fortune in Fuzhou City, but also belittling the army and generals of Fujian, and at the same time showing off the strength of the Huainan army to them.
Zhang Zhiyuan's attitude naturally aroused great resentment among Fujian's civil and military forces. If it weren't for Wang Shenzhi's efforts to suppress it, his subordinates would have chopped Zhang Zhiyuan into meat sauce long ago.
"I just hope this person will cause less trouble and go back as soon as possible!"
Thinking that this morning, his first-class horse brought by the maritime merchant from Dashi was asked for by Zhang Zhiyuan on the grounds that it was transferred to King Wu, Wang Zhenzhi felt a pain in his heart.
Fortunately, Quanzhou has developed shipping, and it is a place where all kinds of maritime merchants gather, as long as the price is sufficient, it is relatively easy to buy a good horse of the same level, but you need to wait for a long time.
Thinking quietly about his thoughts, Wang Xianzhi gradually felt a wave of sleepiness coming, and soon fell into a deep sleep.
But only a quarter of an hour later, he was suddenly awakened, and when he listened closely, it seemed that there was a noise outside.
"What's going on? Don't you know if Lone is taking a lunch break? Wang Zhenzhi was furious, turned over and scolded loudly.
The few maids who served him on the side turned pale with fright, but fortunately, they also knew that Wang Zhenzhi was not a cruel and murderous person, so although they were very afraid, they also knew that they were not in danger of dying.
However, his old butler walked in with an extremely ugly face at this time and said, "King, it was the second prince who killed Zhang Zhiyuan, the messenger of Huainan!" ”
"What?" Wang Xianzhi was so shocked that he could hardly believe his ears.
"You say it again?"
"The king, it was the second prince who killed the Huainan envoy Zhang Zhiyuan!"
Wang Xianzhi's face changed, and he gradually swelled red, and then suddenly broke out: "Bastard thing! This rebel, do you want my entire Wang family to bury him? Where is the rebel now? Lone is going to kill him......"
Wang Zhenzhi also has many sons, including the eldest son Wang Yanhan and the second son Wang Yanjun, who are now adults.
However, compared with his eldest son, the second son Wang Yanjun's personality is more unruly, and he is usually a lawless lord, but a famous evil boy in Fuzhou City.
So when he heard that Wang Yanjun had killed the Huainan envoy, he was so angry, and before he could ask the reason, he subconsciously thought that it was Wang Yanjun's fault.
"The king can't, as far as the villain knows, the reason why the second prince killed that Zhang Zhiyuan was completely because that person deceived people too much!" The butler hurriedly persuaded.
"Doesn't Lone know that Zhang Zhiyuan is arrogant and rude? Lone can bear him, how can he Wang Yanjun not bear it? Gu Ke specially told them to let them entertain them and not cause trouble, this is how he Wang Yanjun entertained Gu? ”
Of course, Wang Shenzhi knew what kind of character Zhang Zhiyuan was, he himself was very angry these days, if it weren't for the fact that he was a messenger sent by King Wu, Wang Shenzhi would have killed him a long time ago, where would he wait for Wang Yanjun to make a move.
However, it is easy to kill a Zhang Zhiyuan, but Zhang Zhiyuan is a messenger sent by King Wu to report the funeral, if he is killed after arriving in Fuzhou, how will Huainan's anger be calmed down at that time?
Now that Jiangxi Zhong Chuan has died of illness, how can he resist the elite division of Huainan with Zhong Kuangshi's ignorant junior who doesn't know the world, as well as a rabble composed of a group of frogs at the bottom of the well, such as Wei Quanyi and Peng Xuan?
Perhaps in a few years, it is inevitable that Jiangxi will fall into the hands of Huainan; And once Jiangxi is occupied by Huainan, how can the remaining Fujian survive alone?
As soon as he thought that perhaps in the near future, Fujian would encounter tens of thousands, or even hundreds of thousands, of elite Huainan troops to come to ask for guilt, Wang Zhenzhi trembled with anger.
"This is forcing my Wang family to a dead end!"
However, after listening to the housekeeper's account of the reason why Wang Yanjun killed the Huainan envoy, Wang Zhenzhi's attitude changed again.
"How dare you do this? Is it really true that the lone king doesn't dare to kill? ”
It turns out that this Zhang Zhiyuan's character was originally a bit of a bully and afraid of the hard, and he was not a good stubble when he was in Gwangju, and he did a lot of bad things with the power of his family.
But one thing this person knows is that he knows how to look at people's faces. Later, he only barely passed the Jinshi in the first imperial examination in Huainan, and then when the official positions were assigned, most of the other Jinshi were assigned to local officials such as county commanders, but this person and a few others were left in the Jiedu Envoy's Mansion to do things.
Thinking that he is just a newcomer to the officialdom who has just been admitted to the Jinshi, in a place where high-ranking officials and important generals can be encountered casually in the Jiedu Embassy, he can naturally only act cautiously, for fear of causing trouble, which also gives people the illusion that this person is stable.
When Huainan selected envoys to various places this time, Yin Wengui, who was in charge of selecting people, saw that he usually looked quite polite and a "calm" person, and he was also a native of Gwangju and a fellow villager with Wang Shenzhi, so he was asked to take on this mission to Fujian.
Who knew that after arriving in Fujian, he saw that Wang Xianzhi and others were extremely polite to him, and agreed to all kinds of unreasonable demands on him, and as a result, the side of his character that bullied the soft and feared the hard was undoubtedly revealed.
Thinking that Wang Xianzhi was afraid of Huainan behind him and didn't dare to touch him, Zhang Zhiyuan became more and more arrogant and rude.
This morning, in the name of Yang Wu, after asking Wang Shenzhi for his high-quality eating horse, he took a few entourages to celebrate, and after a few glasses of wine, he became a little drunk.
This person broke into the back house of Wang Shenzhi's house with the intention of drinking, and actually molested one of Wang Shenzhi's concubines. And this concubine is Wang Yanjun's mother!
My mother has been molested, can I bear it? Wang Yanjun was furious, and even personally led people to cut Zhang Zhiyuan.
After listening to the whole process, Wang Zhenzhi was also angry.
The mud bodhisattva still has three points of fire, let alone him? Although he is afraid of Huainan's forces and does not want to cause trouble for the Wang family, he can lay a foundation in this troubled world, and he is naturally not a bloodless person.
No matter what, he is also the king of Langya, who was personally crowned by the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, but now he is so oppressed by a small envoy from Huainan, if he can still endure it, I am afraid that if he does not wait for Huainan to call, the hearts of the people in Fujian will be dispersed in advance.
"Bastard thing, deceive people too much, and die innocently!" Wang Zhenzhi was furious, lifted the teapot and other items on the table next to him and slammed them on the ground, smashing things while cursing non-stop.
It was the first time for the housekeeper to see him so angry, so he naturally knew that he was really angry to the extreme, and he didn't dare to say a word immediately, for fear of causing Wang Xianzhi's anger.
After venting his anger for a while, Wang Xianzhi gradually calmed down and began to ask, "What about Yanjun?" Where is he now? And what about Yanhan? Didn't he let him be in charge of receiving that Zhang Zhiyuan? How did he make such a big mess? ”
If Wang Zhenzhi's mind was still full of anger towards Zhang Zhiyuan just now, but at this moment he began to think about how to deal with the aftermath.
Zhang Zhiyuan has been killed, and the relationship with Huainan has broken down, and it is impossible to redeem it.
So perhaps a war with Huainan is inevitable next.
Thinking of this, Wang Xianzhi, who had just calmed down a little, started the fire again, but this time the object of his anger, in addition to Zhang Zhiyuan, joined Wang Yanjun and Wang Yanhan.