Chapter 766: Wenwu Worries

Since most of the academic officials in the provinces are now selected from the Hanlin Academy, and do not hold the official position of promoting the school or the deputy envoy, there is no special official party and yamen in the local area. However, he never expected that he had originally told himself that he had to select a group of students who could shine in the examination this time, but such a change happened in a blink of an eye.

"Alas, the world is unpredictable more than this, I heard that Jiaonan miasma is rampant, even if there is no rebellion, there are few officials who take office there to live long, why are you suffering!"

Zhang Yue had already scheduled to leave the next day, and this was to bid farewell to Shen Cang. Knowing that this division commander cared about himself, he could only smile bitterly: "Mr. Minwang, Yu Gong, back then, it was the Jiaolu strategy that I presented, and it was the second uncle who went to Jiaolu to guard it; Yu privately, now that Rong Changbo Chen Zhi has been defeated, Jiaozhou Mansion is in danger, and my father and second uncle are trapped here, I can't just watch and wait here. ”

"As soon as the imperial army arrives, it will naturally relieve the siege of Jiaozhou Mansion, and they will naturally be able to come back safely when the time comes......" Saying this, Shen Cang's voice gradually lowered, and in the end, he couldn't help but sigh deeply, "I know your thoughts, except for the fact that the first British Duke has won beautifully every time, and the army has been in a quagmire since then, until he was transferred back to the town guard lieutenant, and Huang Laoshang Shu and your second uncle were guarded and appeased, and then I heard that it was better, but it is a pity that it has fallen short now...... The small land of projectiles is not to be despised in the slightest! Rong Changbo's thought broke the good situation, and the defeat and humiliation of the country are nothing more than this! ”

Speaking of this, Shen Cang couldn't help but stroke a few neatly trimmed strands of beard on his chin, and wanted to speak, but in the end he didn't say anything. In his opinion, there were so many military ministers and nobles in the Manchu Dynasty, it was difficult to find a few really capable people - and those incompetent people were still arrogant one by one, so it was better to use civilian officials to lead the army.

Zhang Yue saw that Shen Cang was silent, and he also realized in his heart, but now is not the time to talk about that, he sincerely arched his hand and said: "Mr. Minwang, I will definitely not be able to come to the autumn festival this time, and I hope you will select a group of useful talents for our Guangdong, Lord Xiang, the political envoy of Youbu, has improved a lot now, he is careful and selfless, if there is anything, please discuss it with him." I am temporarily transferred to the military affairs of the counselor this time, and I should not transfer the political envoy of Zuo Bu again, and you can continue to live in this official house. During the time you are in Guangdong, I will ask you to take care of the situation at home. ”

"Not to mention that your daughter-in-law is also half of my student, even if you rely on your reputation as a gentleman, I should also deal with this matter. You can go with confidence, I only hope that this march will go smoothly and you can return with the army as soon as possible! ”

"Then Mr. Cheng Minwang Jiyan!"

Knowing that Vietnam is also in the tropics, June, July and August are rainy seasons, so when the family packed up, Zhang Yue specially ordered to make more tarpaulins, wrap all clothes and so on with tarpaulins, and specially purchased anti-mosquito medicines and all kinds of rain gear. In the past few days when he was preparing, two groups of people came to the capital one after another - one was eight sturdy family members sent by the British Gong Zhang Fu, and the other was a few elite men secretly transferred by Yuan Fang. In this way, the Sun family, who was originally worried about the lack of manpower, finally breathed a sigh of relief and took his family to Guangxiao Temple to ask for a signature.

On the last night of his departure, Zhang Yue placed his mother, and when he returned to his room, he couldn't help but hug his children one by one, and then comforted the crying autumn marks and pale amber. Seeing them supporting each other and leaving, when he finally faced his wife Du Juan, he simply took the person in his arms.

There was no one in the room, and Du Juan would not be as reserved as in front of people, but also snuggled in his arms and hugged him tightly. After a long time, she said softly: "You can go without worry, everything in the family has me." Whether it's the mother, the children, or the others, I will take good care of them......"

"With you, I wouldn't have worried about that."

Zhang Yue suddenly let go of his hand, and then held Du Juan's face and kissed it gently. The flickering lights on the side stretched the shadows of the two people to reflect on the white powder wall, and illuminated the dark green silk tent red. After a long separation, Zhang Yue pulled his wife to sit on the edge of the bed and tore off the curtain on his head.

As soon as the city gate of the square was opened, Guangzhou woke up from the silence in the early morning, although it was only the hour, but not only there were many passers-by walking on the street, but also a lot of street vendors were scattered, so when they heard a loud and rapid sound of horses' hooves in front of them, people all dodged to the side of the road, until more than 20 people roared away at a galloping speed, and people retreated back to the original road. Even the sharpest of people didn't see the figure that was surrounded by people. Only a few guards of the Guide Gate found that such a large group of people had left with the official documents of the chief secretary in their hands when they were checking out the people who had left the city, and they couldn't help but be suspicious.

From Guangzhou Mansion to Nanning Mansion for a thousand miles, even if it is an official road along the way, it is necessary to pass through Datengxia and other places where the Yao people haunt, so although Zhang Yue is in a hurry on this road, the entourage is all vigilant, and when they arrive at Nanning Mansion, everyone finds that the huge capital of Guangxi is already full of soldiers, and there are soldiers wearing military robes everywhere.

Because the chief military officer guarding Guangxi has always been to defend against barbarism, it is not a permanent position, and he often has to move around with the Yao chaos, so there is no general military office in Nanning Prefecture, and Liu Sheng, the Marquis of Anyuan, who began to dispatch troops here a few days earlier, directly lived in the Guangxi Metropolitan Division. As soon as he came in like this, the Dusi Yamen naturally stepped up their guards, and Zhang Yue and the others were stopped when they arrived at the gate.

"Master Hou has an order, if he is an officer, go directly to see Cui Dudu; If you are a local civil official, if you have something, you will go to find a political envoy, and if you have nothing to do, you will retreat, and you will not come here to make noise! ”

At this time, as soon as the young pawn left a sentence that had recently sent countless people away, there happened to be a family general who came out with two family members. The general had been to Guangzhou with Liu Sheng, and when he saw Zhang Yue, he immediately stepped forward in three or two steps to greet him, and said with a smile: "Lord Zhang came so fast, Hou Ye originally said that I am afraid you will have to wait two days before you come, who knows that you will arrive, Hou Ye also arrived in Nanning two days ago, and the rest of the people may have to wait for a few more days!" At this time, the Hou Ye is empty, the little one will take you to meet him! ”

Seeing that the general greeted Zhang Yue into the door courteously, the pawn couldn't help but be dumbfounded, and saw that an elderly sergeant who was guarding the door with him happened to come out of it, and he hurriedly asked, "Brother Liu, did you see the person who just entered?" The two feudal lords came together, and the Hou Ye was gone; According to the envoy, the envoy came to visit, but the Hou Ye still did not see; Even Cui Dudu waited for a while. Who was that young adult just now, who was sacred, and easily entered? ”

"Which side is sacred? Hey, I just heard a sentence when I just came out, the surname is Zhang, where do you say it is sacred? ”

Seeing each other again more than ten days later, Liu Shengxu had already accepted the order of this time, waved his hand so that Zhang Yue did not have to be polite, and then said: "The Duke of Qianguo was ordered to lead troops to respond this time, in addition to the tens of thousands of people under my command, he will also transfer another 20,000 people, in addition, the governor Cui Ju also brought more than 3,000 cavalry, so that the soldiers are enough." Your old boss, Li Qing, the secretary of the Nanjing Military Department, will come about late, after all, he is a lot old, and he is a civilian official, and he can't go anywhere sooner than he is in a hurry...... By the way, your eldest brother brought someone from me through Pingxiang's Jiaoluan, for the sake of the world, I also asked someone to escort him over, hoping to catch up...... Phew, looking at my nonsense, I should hope that your second uncle will live longer! ”

Hearing that Zhang Chao had rushed to Jiaoluan, Liu Sheng mentioned Zhang Yu again, Zhang Yue hurriedly asked: "Is there any news in Jiaoluan, how is my second uncle now?" ”

"The rebellion over there jumps up and down, the road is not easy to walk, and the news is slow. In addition, it is Chen Qia who is in charge now, and he reports one after another, I only know that Jiaozhou Mansion is still stable, as for the situation of your second uncle, he didn't say anything, so I don't know anything. Liu Sheng frowned and said this, and suddenly stepped forward and patted Zhang Yue's arm heavily, "A military attache is not a civilian official, since he is leading troops, he must be ready for such a trip at any time!" It's a pity that he is also a person who has fought for half his life, and he was plotted outside the battlefield! ”

Today's Jiaozhou Mansion can not be described by the words cold and depressed, due to the rout of the army led by Rong Changbo Chen Zhi before, in addition to some soldiers who were killed and fled to the mountains in a panic, after all, there are still some hundreds of thousands of households who have worked hard to keep some people under their command. As a result, since a few days ago, thousands of remnants of the defeated army have poured into the Jiaozhou Mansion at once. Needless to say, the most worrying thing is the storage of grain in the city.

Huang Fu, an old Shangshu who has been sick for more than a month, supported his body that had just improved and arranged errands, but he finally couldn't get up yesterday; Fang Zhengyin, who was in charge of military affairs, had been injured in a campaign before, and after rushing back, he was busy, and finally the old injury recurred, so he could only barely hold on to sit in the government to do things, but he was unable to meet people on horseback, so Chen Qia, who was temporarily in charge, was anxious.

Early that morning, he rushed to the General Soldier's Palace. Although this place was heavily guarded and no outsiders were allowed to enter or leave because of Chen Zhi's order before, but now that this Rong Changbo is dead and the guards have no backer, he will naturally never embarrass people again, and he watched this highest-ranking civil official in the city enter in a hurry.

rushed all the way to Zhang You's room, and Chen Qia was stopped by Zhen Fu. Staring at this low-eyed little guy, he calmed down and asked in a deep voice, "Who is in there right now?" ”

"Hui to Lord Chen, it is the third master of my family." Zhen Fu glanced at his head, and saw that Chen Qia's face was cloudy, as if he was planning to break in directly, and couldn't help but remind, "Lord Chen, when my lord was so easy to have strength last time, he had already explained all the affairs of the army to you, and even the generals under his command were handed over to you to guard the city and dispatch. It's not a small mouth, if my lord doesn't really can't resist, but with three points of strength, he will definitely reluctantly get up to meet people, and you don't know his condition! Now instead of coming here, you might as well gather all the other officials in the state capital to get an idea! ”

"If I can come up with an idea, I won't run here to disturb Yang Wubo!"

Although there was a whispered argument outside, the sound still came in through the cracks in the doors and windows. Seeing Zhang You lying on the bed with a black face, except for barely being able to pull the corners of his mouth to show a wry smile, he couldn't even say a word, Zhang Zhuo only felt pity in his heart.

Since he was a child, he is the most unsuccessful child in the family, and he only looks at Shanwen's eldest brother who thinks very highly of himself, and he won the Yuan Dynasty as an official early, and he watched the second brother who is good at martial arts to be competitive, and he has brought a road of military attaché to the point where it is now. Now that the two who have been so strong all their lives have ended up in this dying appearance, he remembered the past when his second brother used to have something to bring back when he was outside, and his eyes gradually moistened a little.

The doctors all said exactly the same, and now Zhang You's situation is a boiling word. It can be said that it is a miracle to survive for a month and a half after being poisoned, but how long can it survive like this?

"Open the door, please come in."

Hearing the words that came out of his own force, Zhang Zhuo couldn't help but be stunned, and then got up silently and went to open the door. Seeing that Chen Qia was outside the door, his face was quite unnatural, and Zhen Fu was taken aback, so he nodded and said, "Brother Chen Shangshu invited him to come in and talk." ”

Although he came with a full stomach, when he entered the room and saw Zhang You, who was thinner than a few days ago, Chen Qia was a little hesitant. He is not incompetent, however, the defeat of those remnants of the soldiers on the street is something that he, a civilian official, can't suppress no matter what, after all, the soldiers handed over to him by Zhang You are not what he wants to bring, if he wants to kill a hundred people, I am afraid that the result will be a mutiny. After thinking about it for a long time, he sat down on the chair next to the bed and told him what had happened, and then sighed.

"Uncle Yang Wu, it's not that the lower officials want to disturb your recuperation, but if you don't solve it, the granary of Jiaozhou Mansion will be empty! Many of the local Tuntian soldiers have fled, and the transfer of grain to Yunnan cannot be solved in a day or two, so the lower officials only want to find a way. ”

Seeing that Zhang You opened his mouth with great difficulty, but there was no sound, Zhang Zhuo hurriedly put his ear on it, and after listening carefully for a while, he stood up and said: "Chen Shangshu, my brother said that the defeat of the remnants of the army is indeed worrying, you might as well let his generals go to suppress those people separately, and when Peng Shisan comes back, I will lend you people again." ”

Chen Qia opened his mouth, and was about to say that if Zhang You's family was going to be transferred to do those things, if anything happened, he would not even have the last available force in his hands, you know, those soldiers were all under Fang Zheng's command, and they would not listen to him. At this moment, the voice of surprise and joy came from outside the door.

"Master, master, the eldest young master is here from the capital, and he also brought a imperial doctor!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a tall and sturdy man slammed open the door and rushed into the house like a gust of wind. Stumbled to the bed, he fell to his knees with a plop, grabbed Zhang You's hand tightly, and called Dad several times. Seeing Zhang You's face that turned from shock to joy, and then glanced at Zhang Chao, Zhang Zhuo suddenly let out a long breath, and saw that Chen Qia was still stunned, so he could only pull this one away.

As soon as he got outside, Zhang Zhuo saw two guards carrying a middle-aged man forty miles away to come in, only to see that the man was stained with blood, obviously caused by the fast horse riding on this road, and it was expected that it should be the imperial doctor. Behind this man, there were several young men who were limping away. Recognizing that it was the long-term follower of his own family, Zhang Zhuo left the person and walked forward, and before he could ask a question, the person in front of his head knelt down and kowtowed.

"Third master, when we passed by Pingxiang, I heard that the imperial court had ordered the army to be levied, and the Marquis of Anyuan hung the seal, and the third young master will accompany the army to counsel military affairs!"