Chapter 57: Fraud
In the afternoon of the second day after living in the house of the clan uncle Zhang Zhili, Zhang Yan and all his subordinates, who had just eaten lunch, gathered in the main hall where they were hospitalized, and sat or lay down, frowned, or wrote hard there. However, they were neither compiling a plan of action for the future, nor were they preparing useful news for the Kaifeng side, but they were completing a task that Zhang Zhili and Zhang Da Boss had instructed them to do at lunch just now -- to compile a document about the identity and origin of the individual and the intention of coming to Beiping.
This task is that after Boss Zhang was called by Jia Wenqing, the magistrate of the county, and returned from "tea" this morning, he took the opportunity to eat with Zhang Yan and others to arrange it for Zhang Yan, and it was not questionable or objectionable that Zhang Yan and others must write it before the lamp this afternoon.
Of course, Boss Zhang did not deliberately make things difficult for Zhang Yan and others, but the death order given to him by Jia Zhixian who invited him to "drink tea". According to the meaning of the county magistrate conveyed by Boss Zhang, if Zhang Yan and the others could not come up with a true, reliable, and unconcealed relevant document before the lantern was turned on this afternoon, then Zhang Yan and the others would have to leave Lu County within three days. Otherwise, they will be charged with deliberately concealing their identity, malicious intentions, and conspiracy, and will be immediately expelled from the Beiping Army at the worst and detained for examination at the worst. And the reason why this county magistrate, who has always had a close personal relationship with Boss Zhang, suddenly turned his face and did not recognize people, and was iron-faced and selfless, was naturally related to the urgent official letter from Jiedu Mansion yesterday and the local "Dark Feather" branch hall master who quietly visited last night.
Last night, when he sent away the "Dark Feather" Luxian branch hall master who didn't let him see his face clearly from beginning to end - if it wasn't for the other party showing him the "Dark Feather" waist card, Jia Zhixian even suspected that the other party was impersonating - this Master Jia was annoyed. He regretted that he was in the way of his friends, and when he did not send someone to verify or see the documents such as Lu Yin, he applied for more than a dozen temporary residence permits for this big boss Zhang. You must know that if it is just an official document issued by the Jiedu Mansion, requiring all prefectures and counties to strictly investigate outsiders, as long as the Beiping Mansion or the Jiedu Mansion does not send someone to supervise it, he Jia Zhixian can still find a way to erase these dozen temporary residence permits that he used for favoritism from the relevant records either in the name of natural wear and tear, or in the name of having destroyed the typographical error. But now it is "Dark Feather" who is directly involved in it, and the head of its local branch hall has personally come to explain and emphasize the matter to him. This not only shows the importance attached to this matter, but also makes him soberly realize that he has no chance to perfunctory and prevaricate at all-in the matter that "Dark Feather" is extremely concerned about, he Jia Da asked himself if he still has the courage and the ability to deceive. All he can do now is to remedy the situation and find a way to make it reasonable and legal before the private temporary residence permit is discovered by others. So, after tossing and turning and sleepless all night, Master Jia got up early in the morning and was anxious to call Boss Zhang to drink tea.
Although she expressed her understanding and support for this request on the surface, after sending Zhang Zhili away, Zhang Yan was secretly surprised in her heart. She didn't expect that after arresting dozens of her subordinates, and she and the rest of her subordinates had already left Beiping City before they could attract the attention of the other party, intending to lurk for a long time and wait for the opportunity, the "Qingyuan" brothers and the so-called "Dark Feather Hall" still refused to give up, and still deployed the entire Beiping army as if they were facing a great enemy. After thinking about it, in the end, it was the leader of the D team, Director Liu, who reminded Zhang Yan with a sentence: "According to the subordinates, the Beiping Army is so aggressive, I am afraid that it has learned from those arrested brothers that this time the head hall master did it himself and came in person, and most of his intention is to capture the head hall master you." ”…,
Zhang Yan was stunned for a moment when she heard this, but immediately understood, nodded lightly, and sighed: "What Master Liu said is right. I think that at the beginning, when the 'Qingyuan' brothers and the 'Dark Feather Hall' were still among the people, they had the ability to wipe out my 'Feiyan Hall' Youzhou Branch. Now, they have become the Lord of the Clouds, and in the face of the resurgence of the 'Feiyan Hall', knowing that I have gone north, if they can't capture me, the head hall master, in one fell swoop, won't they fall into their prestige. ”
"Fortunately, at the beginning, you summoned each of the principals of the north alone, and assigned us tasks separately, and all the brothers involved in the north journey, except for you, the others did not know the exact number of people who went north, nor did they know each other's names, and they all relied on the secret mark of my 'Feiyan Hall' to contact them. Otherwise, I'm afraid that this time we will really be wiped out. Director Liu of Team Ding praised at the right time.
Zhang Yan shook his head helplessly when he heard this, and said: "How about summoning alone, and what about going north separately, the result is not that the seven roads have lost the five roads." Now even our two roads may be unsustainable, and one carelessness will also lead to the annihilation of the entire army. ”
Speaking of this, Zhang Yan couldn't help but think of Liu Yunyan, who was still nowhere to be found, and was inseparable from the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou branch being wiped out by the opponent, which made her hate the root of her teeth when she thought about it, and couldn't help but grit her teeth and say: "I hate that Liu Yunyan." If it weren't for the fact that she colluded with the enemy and betrayed my 'Feiyan Hall' Youzhou Branch, how could the head of the hall and the other brothers end up with no one of their own, and can only rely on lies and cover-ups to take refuge in my clan uncle, who only knows how to make money and do business, knows nothing about our true identity, and cannot help me in completing the task at all. After appreciating the ability of "Dark Feather" in counter-espionage, whether it was Zhang Yan or that Director Liu, or the dozen or so subordinates who followed them, they had all unswervingly equated "Dark Feather Hall" with the mysterious liliang that had connected the "Feiyan Hall" Youzhou Branch to the pot.
It's just that hatred and hatred, sigh and sigh, Zhang Zhili still has to do what he told them. After complaining, Zhang Yan stared at the so-called "temporary residence permit" that was only the size of a palm, and together with Director Liu and his subordinates, he fabricated a true and credible identity and origin for himself and everyone, as well as the purpose and intention of going to the Beiping Army.
Zhang Ruyan was the pseudonym used by Zhang Yan to go north to the Beiping Army this time, and the names used by Director Liu and his subordinates were also pseudonyms used specifically for this operation. When explaining to his uncle Zhang Zhili why he used a pseudonym, Zhang Yan used the excuse that he followed the instructions of his father-in-law Zhang Yongde to do business in the Beiping Army under a pseudonym, so as not to be known by his colleagues in the imperial court. After all, in this era, merchants were ranked among the four major classes of scholars, farmers, workers, and merchants, and the imperial relatives and important ministers of the imperial court of the Great Zhou Dynasty were engaged in business and business, and it was to be laughed at if others knew about it. Because of this, Zhang Zhili had no doubt about Zhang Yan's remarks, and when he went to the county magistrate to go through the back door and apply for a temporary residence permit, it was Zhang Ruyan who reported it instead of Zhang Yan.
After the joint efforts of everyone, when it came to Shen, a thick stack of situation instructions was sent by Zhang Yan to his uncle Zhang Zhili. And after Zhang Zhili got this stack of materials, he did not delay for a moment, and immediately handed it over to Jia Wenqing, the magistrate of the county. Looking at the detailed and complete information in his hand, the heart that Master Jia Wenqing had been hanging on since last night finally settled down and fell back into his stomach.