Zhang Xun sat in front of the window and recited "Three Kingdoms", and when he read the section of Zhuge Liang's teacher's table, he couldn't help but say: "Bow down and die, this is the wish of my generation." ”

The sound of rustling footsteps came from not far away, and he did not take his eyes off the page, and said leisurely: "Don't waste your thoughts, no matter who you send to persuade me, don't try to move my loyalty." ”

"Mr. Zhang Xun only wants to die, and he will inevitably be famous for eternity after death."

Only then did he raise his head, and saw a man in a coarse garment of kudzu standing outside the door with his hands behind his back, smiling and smiling, and inadvertently looking at everything under his eyebrows. Although he has no ability to look at faces, after seeing all the people in the world, he knows that this person is by no means an ordinary ordinary man.

"Who does your Excellency dare to act as a lobbyist for the traitor?"

Li Siye walked around the house, looked left and right, the sandalwood in the copper stove in the room was rising, and the furnishings and utensils were very luxurious. Zhang Xun was still sitting cross-legged in place, still wearing the shabby blood-stained middle single, as if the magnificence here had nothing to do with him.

"It's just a martial artist, unlike Mr. Zhang, you are full of poetry and books, and your pursuit and realm are different from others."

Zhang Xun laughed self-deprecatingly: "Where did Zhang come from, he only has a seven-foot body, a loyal liver and a righteous courage." “

Li Siye laughed: "The so-called loyalty to the liver and courage is just to win the name of the posthumous and vain attempt to get known to future generations." ”

"So what? I, Zhang Xun, have made great achievements in this life from the north to the south, and I will have a place in the future historians who write the history of the Tang Dynasty and the biographies of loyal ministers. And if you are in the company of traitors and aiding and abetting, you will be infamous for a thousand years. ”

Li Siye was not shy about this, and smiled wildly with his hands on his chest: "I don't know anything else, but since history, there has never been a person who seized power to leave a reputation for eternity, such as Cao Cao, Sima Zhao, Yuwentai, Yang Jian and others. Today, King Yong personally quelled the Anshi rebellion, and accumulated immeasurable merits so that the destiny of heaven returned, and he must be treated by Tang. Later generations must have a higher evaluation of him than the above. Let's not forget that all history is written by the victors. ”

Zhang Xun suddenly looked up and looked, his guess was not wrong, this person was Li Siye, a traitor who betrayed the Tang Dynasty halfway, seized the north with a million troops, and tried in vain to seize the world.

He was now unarmed and unable to kill the thief at once, but he was more than happy to do it with the speed of his tongue and make him angry.

Zhang Xun put down the book in his hand, turned to face Li Siye on his knees, and began to brew the words of the attack: "The official history is indeed written by the successor dynasty, even if an old minister of the Shu Han Dynasty like Chen Shou is under the Sima clan, he has to bend his will to welcome many beautiful words. However, right and wrong are at ease in the hearts of the people, and the folk history is passed on by word of mouth, and it is also to praise loyalty and belittle, and usurpation and rebellion. You don't know that the people call Cao a thief and respect Liu as orthodox, not to mention the bloody Gao Pingling of the Sima family, and the predecessors will follow suit if they rebel against it. When Cao Pi usurped the Han Dynasty, did he ever think that his descendants would also be killed by the usurpation? Sima's country was not right, and he was afraid of foreign ministers and sealed the clan, which caused the chaos of the Eight Kings to be ruined for 16 years, and caused five chaos, which filled in the history of the sins of the Sima family. ”

Zhang Xun spoke heartily, and saw that Li Siye's face was not good, and his chest became more and more comfortable: "The leader of the Huns who destroyed the Western Jin Dynasty was a descendant of Mao Dun named Liu Yuan, and he thought that the Han Dynasty had captured Luoyang in the name of the country. What does this mean? This shows that even the Huns who lived outside the Central Plains believed that the Sima clan was deeply guilty and did not deserve to enjoy the social world. Is this the will of the human heart, or is it the will of God? The court set up by those who were scheming and usurping after Sima, such as Yuwentai and Yang Jian, which is not the king of the second and third generations, is this the heart of the people, or the will of heaven? ”

"Now that the Tang Dynasty is still there, Li Siye is an unrighteous soldier who rebels against him, even if he temporarily occupies the time and place, he still thinks of me Datang today. If Your Majesty can't go north and fail, as long as you hold the river, the traitor will die after three lifetimes. ”

"I'm sitting here today, and I've already made the worst plan, if my Tang Dynasty is really attacked and destroyed by Li Thief, even if I fall into the hell of the ninth reincarnation, I will be reborn and reincarnated to reincarnate my Tang Dynasty, and keep the court created by Li Thief to die after three lifetimes."

Zhang Xun said the most ruthless words in understatement, which made Li Siye, who was sitting opposite him, angry and secret. He tugged at the corners of his mouth and smiled: "Scholars are really sharp-tongued, but I don't believe in ghosts and gods, reincarnation, and even more providence." I believe that today's Yongwang does not believe in these things either. However, I can suggest to his old man that after killing you Zhang Xun, you should be cremated immediately, and your ashes should be thrown into the sea, and all your clothes and utensils should be burned, so that no one will secretly set up a grave for you. After the pacification of Jiangnan in the future, all the historical materials that record you will be burned, and no matter whether it is the people or the temple, you will not be allowed to leave a single word of paper. In order to avoid trouble, the Zhang clan will inevitably kick you out of the family tree, and after more than ten years in such a high-pressure situation, all your deeds will be forgotten. I believe that with the absolute power of the lord of a country, he should be able to do it. ”

Zhang Xun's face was pale at first, and then he laughed loudly: "Haha, the mouth of the people is worse than the Sichuan, no matter how dense the fishing net is, it can't drain the fish in the river, a person's existence in the long river of history, is it so easy to erase?" You can erase the words on the paper, but you can't erase the imprint on the hearts of the people. I can't see what happens in the future, you can't see either, and your delusions can't be confirmed. ”

Zhang Xun is right, there is no victory or defeat in this verbal confrontation, what they say can only be speculation, and no one can predict how history will develop.

Li Siye turned around and walked out of the house, bowing his head and pacing slowly in contemplation. Yan Zhuang hurriedly greeted him, and when he saw the face of the lord, he knew that he was also defeated.

"Since you don't want to give in, there's no need to keep it."

"What about the others?"

"Anyone else?" Li Siye turned around and asked, "Can Nanba persuade him to surrender?" ”

"No, like Zhang Xun, they are all stones in the pit."

"If these two refuse to surrender, what is the use of asking for the rest? Let's execute them all. ”

Gao Shang stepped forward and said flatteringly: "Lord, this patrol is really hateful, it is too cheap to kill him, the minister has nine ways to kill him, the car is split, the dung is killed, the people are killed, and the lord is also asked to decide." ”

Li Siye glanced at him and said: "It's just a punishment, there's no need to do so many tricks, either behead or hang, you decide." After the execution, a monument was erected for the burial of the two people, and the spirit of loyalty and righteousness was established for future generations to praise. ”

"This ......" Gao Shang thought that Zhang Xun had angered Li Siye, but he didn't expect to be treated like this.

Li Siye rubbed his forehead, he was so tired today, he said tiredly: "There are so many loyal ministers and righteous people throughout the ages, and they are not inferior to the two of them. ”

Two days later, Zhang Xun, Nanba, and a dozen of their subordinates were taken to a grove outside Nanyang City to be secretly executed, and no civilians were allowed to visit.

Yan Zhuang personally supervised the beheading, as a person who changed jobs twice, he really couldn't accept these people who chose to hang themselves on a tree in Datang. He persuaded the two of them again: "Zhang Xun, Nanba, if you cut off the blade, your head will fall to the ground, and now it's too late to regret it, isn't it beautiful for high-ranking officials to be generous?" ”

Zhang Xun glanced at Yan Zhuang contemptuously: "If the thief wants to kill, he will kill, why do you need to say more." ”

Yan Zhuang looked at Nanba again, but Nanba closed his eyes and said nothing, Zhang Xun thought that he had loosened, so he shouted: "Nanba, the seven-foot man is going to die, don't be unjust!" ”

Nanba laughed loudly and responded: "What else am I going to do, Zhang Gong has a word, how dare Yun not die?" ”

The executioner's blade fell, and the last loyal man of the Tang Dynasty died in the suburbs of Nanyang.

Yan Zhuang buried their bodies in the nearby woods, but he did not follow Li Siye's instructions to erect a tombstone, and he did not even seal the mound.