So, after holding a banquet with the anger in his chest to entertain and send the court envoy out of the house, Zhang Yongde, who returned to the study, said viciously to Zhang Huaisheng, Zhang Fei and Zhang Neng, who were summoned by him: "This Taiwei has no grudge against the court envoy last time, and in order to seal his mouth, he also gave the envoy a large sum of money. If he can return to the capital one day, he will never spare this villain. ”

"I'm afraid this matter was not done by the imperial envoy who came last time." Zhang Fei waited for Zhang Yongde to lose his temper, and then said carefully.

"Didn't the messenger do it? Who did it? What news did 'Feiyantang' get before? Zhang Yongde asked when he heard this.

"When I was entertaining the imperial envoy who came this time, the child just received a secret letter from the Kaifeng branch of the 'Feiyan Hall'." Zhang Fei continued to reply cautiously, "According to the report of the spies in the Kaifeng branch who monitored the envoy and his entourage last time according to the child's instructions, after the imperial envoy who came to announce the decree last time returned to the capital, he was extremely strict and did not reveal to anyone what happened to him on the side of Lanzhou. Moreover, not only did he keep his mouth shut, but he also repeatedly told his subordinates not to reveal the course of their trip to Lanzhou to anyone—after all, such an experience was not a glorious thing, and he did not want others to know about it. It's just that what he didn't expect was that among his entourage, there was a spy who was inserted by someone with ulterior motives. The other entourages obeyed his orders and did not reveal the news, but the spy gave his master the details of this trip to Lanzhou word for word. And it was the master of the spy who stabbed this matter to the court and put it in front of the officials and auxiliary ministers. Therefore, the court will issue the second holy decree to rebuke the righteous father. ”

"Has the 'Feiyan Hall' ever visited who the master of that spy is?" Zhang Yongde asked anxiously.

"Found it. According to the report of the Kaifeng branch of the 'Feiyan Hall', the master of the spy is none other than your father-in-law's old rival, Zhao Kuangyin, who has just taken over the post of inspection of his father-in-law. Zhang Fei replied immediately.

"Zhao-Kuang-Yin!" When Zhang Yongde heard this, the anger that had just been suppressed was raging again, and he gritted his teeth and pronounced the name word by word, "This despicable villain does not dare to compete with the gongs and drums of this Taiwei in person, but he secretly does such an obscene and dirty thing, and traps Taiwei Ben in such an unfavorable situation, and Taiwei Ben will be inseparable from him." ”

When Zhang Huaisheng heard this, he comforted his father and analyzed. "Then Zhao Kuangyin can do such a shameless thing, but I am afraid that the previous 'Shijie Wei' and folk nursery rhyme incidents in the capital, as well as the last time the imperial court issued an edict to reprimand his father's so-called 'drunken immorality and inappropriate speech', it is also inseparable from him."

"What the righteous brother said is reasonable." Zhang Fei agreed, "The previous few things are a little confusing when you look at them alone, and I can't figure out which people have such a deep hatred for my father-in-law, and they have come forward one after another to frame my father-in-law, wanting to put my father-in-law to death." Now that these things are connected, the context becomes clear. The person who did this is thoughtful, smart-minded, and does things interlockingly and pressing step by step. He first secretly sent people to create 'Shijie Wei' and folk nursery rhymes in the capital, which made the court and officials suspicious and suspicious of your father-in-law, and then stripped his father-in-law from the position of inspector and drove his father-in-law out of the capital. Subsequently, he took advantage of the common idea that the father-in-law would be dissatisfied with the father-in-law and was demoted out of Beijing without guilt or error, and secretly caused people to spread rumors in the court that the father-in-law was dissatisfied with the court, the official family, the queen mother, and the auxiliary ministers on the way to the office, and even intended to 'clear the monarch's side and eliminate traitors', which made the suspicion, suspicion, and misunderstanding of the father-in-law deeper, and the chances of the father-in-law returning to the court even more slim. And after the father-in-law was known last time because he was framed and had a bad attitude towards the envoy of the court and refused to accept the order, he was given the opportunity to continue to ruin the reputation of the father-in-law, so as to completely cut off the possibility of the father-in-law's reinstatement and return to the capital, and continue to attack the father-in-law. ”

"And my father can't be reinstated and return to the capital, among the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty, the biggest beneficiary is Zhao Kuangyin, who took over my father's position and actually controlled the forbidden army in front of the palace." Zhang Huaisheng continued to analyze Zhang Fei's words, "From this point of view, the mastermind behind framing my father and listing this series of crimes for my father is definitely none other than him, Zhao Kuangyin. ”

"Zhao Kuangyin, Zhuzi, you deceive people too much, and this Taiwei has no common hatred with you." Zhang Yongde swore with an angry gambling curse.

"Father (father-in-law) is angry for the time being, and the most important thing now is to find a way to resolve the current crisis. Otherwise, let him Zhao Kuangyin continue to slander and frame, sooner or later, the court and the official family will completely lose their trust and tolerance for your father (father-in-law). When the time comes, I am afraid that it will no longer be the envoy and the holy decree of reprimand, but the army led by Zhao Kuangyin. Zhang Huaisheng and Zhang Fei almost unanimously expressed their worries.

Although Zhang Yongde was so angry with Zhao Kuangyin's behavior that he was about to smoke at this time, his judgment of the matter and the situation was not affected. What the son and the righteous son said was exactly the likely direction of the situation, and it was certainly the situation that Zhao Kuangyin and his subordinates Shili wanted to happen and were trying to promote. However, because his side was an afterthought and rushed to the battle, when the opponent struck first and already had a clear advantage, it was quite difficult to turn the situation around with his own Liliang. Therefore, although he agrees with the inference of his son and Yizi, when it comes to solving the problem, Zhang Yongde can't think of it for a while.

In Zhang Yongde's view, he now has only two paths to go. The first is to be a man with his tail between his legs as decided before, and he is a man with his tail between his legs completely and completely. On the one hand, he tried his best to prove his absolute loyalty to the court and the officials, and proved that the accusations against him before were slander and rumors by others, so as to win the trust of the court and the officials. On the other hand, keep an absolute low profile, be cautious everywhere, be cautious in words and deeds, and try not to provide any reason and handle that the opponent may use to attack and discredit yourself. However, while this may win you temporary security, it is not a complete solution to the problem. As the saying goes, "There is only a thousand days to be a thief, and there is no thousand days to prevent thieves." As a big family, you can live a day, ten days, and a month carefully, but it is difficult to live a year or ten years like this. As long as the other party pays attention, there will always be times when they find their mistakes and flaws. Moreover, since the opponent can fabricate facts, spread rumors and slander this time, he can use the same method to deal with himself next time, and there is no need to bother to find his own mistakes and flaws. In addition, the imperial court so easily believed in the so-called "prophecy", "nursery rhymes", and "rumors", in order to take the opportunity to take away his military position and drive himself out of the capital, so as to eliminate the threat of the military generals with heavy troops to the Chai family, so that the Great Zhou Dynasty and the descendants of the Chai family will no longer be like the previous Liang, Tang, Jin, and Han dynasties, so short-lived and miserable. In this way, I am afraid that the court and the official family will not only not regain trust in themselves, but also are likely to use the so-called "crimes" that attack, slander, and frame themselves that do not exist at all as a reason to continue to suppress and weaken themselves, and even use this as an excuse to kill themselves when the time is ripe.

The other way is to rebel and fight to the death for himself, for his family, and for his followers. If he wins, he can sit on the chair in the Kaifeng Palace like his father-in-law. Even if you lose, it will only be the end of a dead race, which is better than being suppressed and taught a lesson everywhere like now, and you may still end up with a full end of beheading. Rather than stealing a life and suffering humiliation, in the end it is still impossible to get rid of the fate of being killed, it is better to do it vigorously. Even if Zuihou fails, he will die like a manly man, and he will not be in vain to walk in this world.

Thinking of this, Zhang Yongde no longer hesitated, he bit his teeth and crossed his heart, and said to his children and nephews: "What my son said is reasonable. Thinking that Zhao Kuangyin is only afraid that he has been planning for a long time in this matter, no matter how much our Zhang family swallows his anger and behaves with his tail between his legs, he will not let us go with mercy, but will put my Zhang family to death and then hurry up. Rather than this, it is better to straighten your waist and fight with this despicable villain, and fight him to the death. If we win, our Zhang family will be the Guo family eleven years ago. If you lose, it's better than being slaughtered like a fish on a chopping board. What do you think of your brothers? ”

Although they all complained about their father (father-in-law/uncle) in their hearts, although they kept complaining in their hearts that the official family and the court had done too much this time, and although they all scolded the eighteenth generation of Zhao Kuangyin's ancestors in their hearts, whether it was their parent Zhang Huaisheng, their righteous son Zhang Fei, or their nephew Zhang Neng, they actually didn't think of completely turning their faces with the court and the official family for this matter, and they wanted to pull the flag and rebel. Therefore, at this moment, when they heard Zhang Yongde say that he wanted to fight with the other party, or to put it more bluntly, he wanted to rebel, and the three brothers were a little stunned, and they couldn't react immediately for a while. It wasn't until Zhang Yongde asked a little unhappily the second time, "What do you and other brothers think?" that Zhang Huaisheng came back to his senses and immediately replied: "The child obeys his father's arrangement." ”

Zhang Huaisheng replied here, and Zhang Fei and Zhang Neng next to him also reacted, one replied, "The child is obedient to his father-in-law", and the other replied, "The little nephew and uncle are the first to look forward, and they will go to the soup and fire." ”

Zhang Yongde was very satisfied with the replies of several nephews, he smiled and nodded, and said, "In this case, the four of us can make a good calculation of this military incident." ”

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