Hongyi waited for Jueluo Langqiu to finish all the unbearable things about the "historical figure" Zhang Jun, and he still wanted to finish telling the story about Zhang Jun himself, and then quote what kind of character Zheng Zhilong was.

Sure enough, after Lang Qiu finished saying "Song died Jin Xing is really the will of heaven", he was still unsatisfied, and then said:

As for Zhang Junqi, he is really a person with no talent and no virtue. Zhang Jun was born as a bandit, and his soldiers were known as the 'Free Army[1]", and there were countless arson and plunders in the annals of history. Even his own soldiers said that Zhang Jun 'worked in business, but was clumsy in the use of soldiers[2]'. Although he was lucky enough to detain the Jin Army several times, he was not worthy of the name of the 'Four Famous Generals of the Southern Song Dynasty'. Master Dai, you are full of poetry and books, I don't know if what Lang Qiu said is wrong? When Lang Qiu said this, Manchen snickered one after another to show his approval.

Deming said that he didn't know what little Baylor meant, so he didn't answer rashly, just a sentence of "ashamed", and continued to be embarrassed with all Hanchen. Seeing that his partner was silent, Lang Qiu didn't pay attention to it anymore and continued:

What's more, Zhang Jun attached himself to Qin Hui and framed Yue Fei, which was very despised. The slave also heard Fan Chengmo say that the former Ming Dynasty had set up Yue Wang Temple in Hangzhou, casting Qin Hui, Wang's family, Wan Qiao, Zhang Jun and other four people kneeling in front of the statue of Yue Fei, but they were often spurned and destroyed by the people! ”

Hongyi was a little surprised when he heard Lang Qiu's words: It seems that you Manchuria still agree with the famous Jin general Yue Fei!

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In fact, it is not surprising that the Manchurian nobles have this view. Throughout history, since Yue Fei Fengbo Pavilion was killed. Whether it is the officials of the Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, or the people have never stopped discussing and evaluating him. And in this process, Yue Fei's image also ups and downs, changing again and again, and the stories attached to him became more and more outrageous, and even slowly detached from his original appearance. In a sense, it was history that "consumed" Yue Fei.

After Yue Fei's death, his rights and wrongs were a very taboo topic among the courtiers of the Southern Song Dynasty, so not only was there little record in the official documents at that time, but even those who knew Yue Fei well never talked about it. In this way, over time. The witnesses at that time were dying away. Yue Fei's deeds gradually became obscure.

Until twenty years after Yue Fei's death, that is, in the thirty-second year of Shaoxing in the Southern Song Dynasty (1162). In this year, Song Gaozong abdicated, and his early successor son Zhao Yan became emperor. This Emperor Xiaozong was bent on restoring his ancestral inheritance and recovering the northern territories that had been plundered by the Jin. So he decided to "correct his name" for Yue Fei. In this way, Yue Fei suddenly became a model of the Great Song Dynasty military generals.

But problems arise. After years of lockdown. At this time, there was an extreme lack of information about Yue Fei, so Yue Fei's third son, Yue Lin, took on the work of sorting out documents and historical materials related to his father Yue Fei. However, it was unfortunate that Yue Lin died of illness just halfway through. So Yue Fei's grandson Yue Ke took over this task again, "The text of the big visit to make anecdotes, the things described since the Boguan Jianyan and Shaoxing, the things that have been passed down and the old man, so the officials have recorded them, and they have written in the book when they are involved...... It took five years to make a book". This is the most comprehensive reflection of Yue Fei's deeds that we can still see now. Of course, the material in this book is inevitably exaggerated because most of it is not first-hand, and because of the plot of grandchildren.

Nearly 180 years later, that is, in the third year of the Yuan Dynasty (1343), the Song Dynasty had fallen, and the Yuan Dynasty that followed it had also reached the end of the world. In order to gather people's hearts, the government of the Yuan Dynasty planned to compile the three histories of the Song, Liao, and Jin, but when the historians wrote about Yue Fei's biography, they found that in addition to Li Xinchuan's "Records of the Years since the Establishment of Yan" and Xu Mengxin's "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances" and other documents have some records about Yue Fei, there are very few other documents. So in order to save trouble, they simply copied a large section of the material in the "Eguo Jin Tuo Cui Compilation" and skillfully played it. In this way, a "History of the Song Dynasty. The Biography of Yue Fei was formed, but at this time, the deeds of Yue Fei in the History of the Song Dynasty had long been unrecognizable.

Objectively speaking, the Mongols treated Yue Fei well. In order to appease the Han people in the south of the Yangtze River, not only did not abolish the title of Yue Fei by the Southern Song Dynasty, but also "ordered the edict to be sealed and the Song Dynasty, and the word Baoyi was added". Even the tomb of Yue Fei, whose "tomb is gradually falling", has been allocated for repair. The official evaluation of Yue Fei is also much higher than that of the Song Dynasty, saying that "the Western Han Dynasty went down, if Han (Xin), Peng (Yue), Jiang (Zhou Bo), and Guan (Baby) generals, there is no shortage of people in the generation, seeking their civil and military weapons, benevolence and wisdom and benevolence like Song Yue Fei, how can a generation be common." ”

In the Ming Dynasty, there was the risk of foreign invasion outside, and there was the danger of rebellion by rogues inside. Especially in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, traitors and eunuchs were rampant, and the Ming Dynasty was in a turbulent situation, and history seemed to be repeating itself again in the Song Dynasty. As a result, Yue Fei, a figure in the former dynasty, has become the carrier of the most haode reflection on history and heartfelt sorrow. Whether in the official discourse or in the public eye, Yue Fei has been mentioned again and again, and his status has been raised again. For example, in the ninth year of Hongwu (1376), Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, issued an edict to list Yue Fei as one of the thirty-seven ministers of the past dynasties, "from the temple of the kings of the past dynasties, with the Song Taizu enjoy". In the fifth year of Jingtai (1454), the martial arts Bo Xu Youzhen created Yue Fei Temple in the homeland of Tangyin, and the title of Jingtai Emperor was "the temple of Jingzhong". In the forty-third year of Wanli (1615), the government even put Yue Fei in the position of a god and crowned him as the "Emperor of the Three Realms".

At that time, the emperor's edict was written like this: "Yue Fei, a loyal minister of the Song Dynasty, is loyal to the sun, filial piety Zhaotian, angrily vents the shame of Jingkang, swears to clear the desert teacher, the original Song Zhong Wenwu Mu Yue Ewang Wang, Zite Fenger is the Emperor of the Three Realms Jingmo." At this time, Yue Fei seemed to have become the spiritual totem of the Zhu Ming Dynasty and began to play the role of a kind of family guardian saint.

After the fall of the Ming Dynasty, the descendants of the Jin people who Yue Fei desperately resisted established the Qing Dynasty. Therefore, the Qing Dynasty's attitude towards Yue Fei was not as free and easy as in the Yuan and Ming dynasties, and it became extremely complicated. On the one hand, the Qing court hoped to continue to use Yue Fei to promote loyalty and influence the Han people; On the other hand, I don't want to see this person who has beaten his ancestors being worshipped. So in the fourth year of Yongzheng (1726), Emperor Yongzheng ordered Yue Fei to be removed from the Wu Temple that had been enshrined for hundreds of years, and posthumously sealed the three generations of Guan Yu, the Han general, and built the Guandi Temple throughout the country. wants to use the name of Guan Yu to transfer all the Han people's respect for Yue Fei. In this way, Yue Fei's status naturally plummeted, and most of the martial temples in various places were monopolized by Guan Yu. In the official evaluation system of the Qing Dynasty after that, Yue Fei was only stereotyped in a "Jingzhong" framework and became "Jingzhong Yue Fei".

However, at this time, in the Shunzhi Dynasty, Yue Fei was also "lucky" to continue to be enshrined in the Wu Temple.

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When Hongyi was stunned and thought about Yue Fei, Emperor Fulin thought that his youngest son was speechless for a while because Lang Qiu refuted the statement of the "Four Famous Generals of the Southern Song Dynasty", so he hurriedly took advantage of this effort to make a simple comment, which was regarded as saving face for Xuanye. It is also good to bring the topic of the meeting back to the right path:

"So to speak. How can Zhang Jun be compared to King Chuzhuang? It can be seen that Fulin is still a little uncertain.

"Huang Ama, what Jue Luo Langqiu said is reasonable. However, this Zhang Jun has the shadow of King Tong'an. It is also good and evil. If it's up to Mingjun. Then they can be pillars, and if they follow the evil lord, they will become eagles and dogs. Zhang Jun also happens to have a story that is undoubted. Hongyi turned around. Again, the "storytelling" requirement is raised. And in order to achieve this goal, he simply "waved his pen" and forced two people who could not beat 800 poles in history to mix together, which immediately aroused everyone's interest.

"Then you can hear it." Fu Lin couldn't resist the temptation and agreed to listen to the story—young people are curious, and that's a good thing.

"Xie Huang Ama! Erchen heard Master Fan Chengmo say that there is a story of 'following the king [3] old pawn" in the Southern Song Dynasty Luo Dajing notebook "Helin Yulu"......"

It turned out that in his later years, Zhang Jun once went for a walk in the back garden and saw a veteran lying in the sun, so he kicked him with his foot and asked him why he was so tired? The veteran got up and calmly replied that he had nothing to do but sleep. Zhang Jun asked, what will you do? The veteran replied that he would know a little bit about everything, just like things like Hui Yi, and he knew a little about it. Hui Yi is similar to today's international trade and trade. Zhang Jun said, I'll give 10,000 copper coins, how about you go overseas? The veteran replied, "Not busy enough." Zhang Jun said, how about giving you 50,000? The veteran replied that it was still not enough. Zhang Jun asked, then how much do you need? The veteran said that if not a million, at least half a million. Zhang Jun admired his courage and immediately gave him 500,000 at his disposal.

The veterans first built an extremely gorgeous ship, recruited more than 100 beauties and musicians who could sing and dance, purchased silk brocade toys, delicacies and gold and silver utensils everywhere, recruited more than 10 generals and more than 100 soldiers, and sailed across the sea after a month of training in accordance with the banquet etiquette of visiting overseas countries.

A year later, in addition to pearls, rhino horns, spices, and medicinal herbs, there are also horses, and the profit is dozens of times. At that time, all the generals lacked horses, but Zhang Jun had horses, and his military appearance was particularly majestic. Zhang Jun was very happy and asked the veteran, how do you do it so well? The veteran gave a detailed report on the experience of this overseas trade - "To overseas countries, call the Great Song Dynasty Hui Yi envoy, pay homage to the king of Rong, and give you the strange play of silk brocade." In order to recruit its nobility and proximity, cherish the shame of Bi Chen, and the female music is repeated. Its monarchs and ministers are happy, with famous horses and beautiful women, and for the management of boats and horses, with pearl rhino incense medicine Yi Aya brocade and other things, the gift is very rich, so it is to make a profit. Zhang Jun sighed and applauded, and the reward was particularly generous, and asked him if he could go again. The veteran replied that this is a joke, and if I go any further, I will fail, so you should let me go back to the back garden and continue to retire as usual.

After listening to this story, which he had never heard before, Fulin fell into deep thought-

If you talk about the truth of employing people, it is indeed the story of "following the king's old pawn" that Xuan Ye said is more appropriate than his own "Zhuang Wang's absolute help". But what is the meaning behind it? Could it really be that I was negligent and that mattered?

Seeing that Fulin was silent in thought, Hongyi secretly praised the little emperor's intelligence, so he hurriedly explained in depth:

"Huang Ama, my lords: In this story, Zhang Junneng gave 500,000 yuan to an old soldier who claimed to be able to be a returnee, and did not ask how to use it, this kind of courage is enough for the veteran to show it calmly. This sincerity is not doubtful for employing people! However, before employing people, it is still necessary to know people! Thinking that Gou Jian handed over state affairs to Wen Chong and Fan Li, and Liu Bang handed over Chen Ping with 400,000 gold, this is all Ming Jun's undoubted knowledge of his courtiers. Ignorance and credulity, and knowledge of people without use, are not enough to achieve great things. ”

Zhang Jun's brother Zhang Bao once complained that Zhang Jun did not introduce him. Zhang Jun said: Now that I have handed over 100,000 yuan and 5,000 soldiers to my brother, can you do it if you want to make the money flow with the people endlessly? Zhang Bao pondered for a long time before saying: No. Zhang Jun sighed: 'Brother Yi doesn't dare to quote lightly'! At this time, it is enough to prove that Zhang Jun is not an idle person. ”

"Isn't Zhang Jun worried that this old pawn will abscond with a huge amount of money? Definitely! Zhang Jun must have recognized this person's ability and political integrity! When the old man answered, he was neither humble nor arrogant, humble and confident, and it could be seen that he was by no means bragging; After getting a lot of money, he behaved in an orderly manner, and he was meticulous and thoughtful, and it could be seen that he was in his chest; When he returned with profits, he was not arrogant, but also knew the way to advance and retreat, and it could be seen that he was by no means a person who forgot his righteousness. Knowing people and then using their strengths, then employing people without suspicion, and its convenience, is there any reason? ”

"In his later years, Zhang Jun was addicted to money and amassed countless wealth, and some people even jokingly called him 'sitting in the eyes of money' in front of him. This person has such a heart, if he can't see that the old man is loyal and can succeed, how can he be willing to give him 500,000 yuan to act cheaply? Therefore, Xuan Ye came to some realizations——"

"The so-called employment is not suspicious, and the suspicious person is not used, what is doubt? In fact, the person who is suspicious is the talent and ability of the person who can be used, and the second is his ethics and righteousness, and the two are very different. Knowing its talent and knowing its meaning, both must be used, not suspicious; Those who doubt their talents and conduct are absolutely unusable. ”

Hongyi, who had a dry mouth, took the milk bowl that Wu Liangfu brought over again at the right time and drank it all. put down the bowl, and directly touched his mouth with a horseshoe sleeve with a child's characteristics, and quickly concluded -

"King Tong'an, both good and evil, can be quite high and the righteousness is slightly inferior, the two are one and one is missing, so you can 'use it and doubt it'!"

It's not "use people without suspicion", nor "don't use suspicious people", there is a third middle way - "use and doubt"!

[1] Zhang Jun's "Freedom in the Army" can be found in the "Three Dynasties and Northern Alliances" edited by Xu Mengxin, a historian of the Southern Song Dynasty, which is dedicated to the relationship between the three dynasties of Huizong, Qinzong, and Gaozong and Jin Hezhan.

[2] For the relevant content, see the three volumes of the "Chicken Rib Edition", the content of which is a study of ancient meanings, narrating anecdotes, and written by Zhuang Zhuang in the Song Dynasty, and its material value has always been recognized by people. The "Summary of the General Catalogue of the Four Libraries" says that its value can be compared with that of Zhou Mi's "Qi Dongye Yu". Lang Qiu is quoting a limerick poem recorded in "Chicken Rib Weaving": "There is no reason in Zhangjiazhai, so he spends his legs to carry stones." The two saints couldn't save themselves, so they built the Taiping Tower. Here, "flower legs" refers to the soldiers "from the buttocks down, the text stabs to the feet", and the Taiping Building is a hotel opened by Zhang Junjun. Zhang Jun himself is also a good woman, and it is recorded in the notes of the history books: Wang Yuan and Zhang Jun killed Zhao Shujin of the clan in order to snatch a prostitute surnamed Zhou, and transferred the prostitute to Han Shizhong.

[3] Xun Wang, i.e. Zhang Jun. The Southern Song Dynasty posthumously crowned the seven anti-Jin generals of the Gaozong period as the Seven Kings. That is, Han Shizhong, the king of Qi, Liu Guangshi is the king of Yan, Zhang Jun is the king of Xun, Yue Fei is the king of E, Yang Yizhong is the king of He, Wu Jue is the king of Fu, and Wu Ling is the king of Xin. (To be continued......)