Chapter Eighty-Nine: Miserable Zhuji
In the small body, at this moment, there is a great thought, but at this moment, Zhao Huirou's eyes are extremely firm.
Su Shi, who went down the mountain, sat back on the wheelchair, couldn't help but look back in the direction of the rockery, and then shook his head.
How could he not feel Zhao Huirou's feelings for himself?
But... Zhao Huirou was so small that Su Shi didn't dare to think about it. "Perhaps, when she is older, her mind will change. Maybe... Maybe she lacks fatherly love. ”
Su Shi comforted himself like this, and then smiled, he has only just established himself in the capital until now, and he is far from any real security, if he wants to keep the secret of the system, he needs to have a bigger and stronger network.
"Lou Yang, go to Jiaomenzi." Su Shi saw that it was still some time before it got dark, so he decided to go and meet this Zhu Ji for a while.
Jiaomenzi Street, located in the west of Kaifeng Mansion, is not far from the Bianhe Water Gate, because many people have dumped garbage here, making the smell here unpleasant, the distance is still far away, and some go straight to the nose.
In such an environment, anyone with some family resources will not choose to settle here, and over time, those who live here are the poorest people in the entire Bianliang City.
When Su Shi came here, it was Jiaomenzi Street before it was transformed, and when he came from afar, a pungent smell drilled into his nostrils, causing Lou Yang to twitch his nose, "Young master, who are you looking for, I'll pass it on, you don't have to go in person." ”
"Yes, yes, we're running fast, who is the young master going to talk to." The accompanying Dragon and Tiger brothers also nodded in approval.
"Even if you invite someone, you still need to be sincere, let's go." Su Shi shook his head stubbornly.
In Su Shi's imprint, all those who have the ability are also temperamental.
Su Shi invited not an ordinary nurse, give him some money and let him keep you safe. What he wants is a general who can really lead the troops to fight, who can really trust enough to put his own armed forces in his hands.
Such a person, whose identity is so important, naturally asked Su Shi to invite him personally.
"You go and inquire, the person we are looking for is called Zhu Ji, who was a commander in Xijing before." Su Shi only heard Pang Ji say that Zhu Ji lived in this vicinity, but he didn't know exactly where he lived.
After the two dragon and tiger brothers agreed, they went in two directions, leaving Lou Yang and the little white pigeon beside the carriage to protect Su Shi's safety.
Su Shi in the carriage was thinking about some of the deeds that Pang Ji said about this Zhu Ji.
Zhu Ji has been practicing martial arts since he was a child, and his personal martial arts are superb, and when he grew up, he joined the army, and was soon promoted from an ordinary soldier to a tenth general, a guard, a deputy commander, and a battalion commander until now. (100 people are one capital, five are one battalion, five battalions are one labor, and three to five armies are one box)
In other words, Zhu Ji has become a middle-level officer commanding 500 soldiers, which is a rank above the battalion commander compared to later generations.
The important thing is that Zhu Ji is only in his early twenties, and he has such an official position at such an age, so as long as he continues to go normally, it will not take much effort to become a famous general in the future. But all this changed because a fellow villager suddenly sent him a message that his younger brother had been framed and imprisoned, and his mother was critically ill.
Zhu Ji is a person who attaches great importance to filial piety, lost his father at a very young age, and it was his mother who worked hard to raise him and his younger brother by doing needlework for rich families, and provided him with martial arts, so that he has everything now.
Although Zhu Ji was married, and his mother accompanied his mother in Bianliang City, he still couldn't rest assured, so he had the courage to go to Shangguan and the commander of the army, saying that he wanted to ask for leave to go back to visit his mother and younger brother.
At this time, it was the eve of the battle of Dingchuan Village, and the army was naturally not allowed to take leave.
Zhu Ji was very worried, and asked the official to send his Yulu back to Bianliang City, and to check up and down first. But perhaps because he was too young, too arrogant, and the relationship with Shangguan was not very harmonious, this request was rejected by Shangguan.
In turn, the commander of the military capital also taught him that as a soldier, he should think of being loyal to the country, rather than returning to his own mother to do his filial piety. Everything is said after the war.
The news from the villagers is that his mother is already critically ill, and there is no delay at all, and of course Zhu Ji can't wait.
His mother and younger brother are his relatives in this world, his heaven, and his everything, and in a hurry, he made the move of leaving the camp and returning to Beijing without permission.
This was no different from a deserter, and he was arrested and imprisoned. After the defeat in the battle of Chuanzhai, his commanders were killed, and the new commanders were brought out of prison after taking office.
It was at this time that news also came from Bianliang City, saying that Zhu Ji's old mother died in a hurry because of the framing of her second son.
When Zhu Ji's younger brother learned the news in prison, he was also angry and hanged himself in prison.
A good and decent home was tossed and scattered like this, and there were no people. Zhu Ji immediately received a lot of sympathy.
But whatever the cause, Zhu Ji's actions were no different from desertion. After the military commander reported the report, he convicted Zhu Ji and exiled him to Quancheng for thousands of miles, and tattooed a tattoo on his face as a crime. However, considering that this person had a reason, and that he had made war exploits, there were many intercessors in the army, and he was finally allowed to return to Bianliang City, and then went to the place of Quancheng after arranging the funeral of his mother and younger brother.
That's everything Pang Ji said about Zhu Ji. Anyway, what Su Shi wants is talent, so he gave it, and as for how to operate next, it is not something he should care about.
"It's really a hard life!" Hearing this story, Su Shi not only sighed, but why wasn't such a person the person he was looking for?
Needless to say, he has the ability to command 500 troops at a young age, and he can have such a position in the Western Army, which is a very strong combat effectiveness of the Song Army, which shows his ability. But more importantly, he is now a prisoner, a person abandoned by the Great Song Dynasty, and if you reuse such a person, you don't have to worry about him betraying him.
Su Shi now employs people, ability is the second, loyalty is the first.
If you don't have the ability, you can exercise your ability.
On the contrary, if the ability is too strong and disloyal, then if you don't get it right, you will raise a white-eyed wolf, which Su Shi will never allow.
Su Shi will never allow outsiders to know about the matter of Shangcang Mountain, otherwise once it is exposed, someone will inevitably be charged with raising a private army and having rebellious intentions. If that's the case, even if he had saved His Royal Highness King Jing, it would be difficult to offset the merits.
Even if the matter of Shangcang Mountain is so important, the people who lead it must be trustworthy.
Just as Su Shi was thinking about things in the carriage, the Dragon and Tiger brothers had already run back, "Young Master, the person has found it, it is not far away, but there is something going on there, you better go and see for yourself." ”
"Oh, lead the way." Su Shi saw that Long Xingyun looked like he wanted to speak and stopped, so he didn't ask any more, anyway, he could see what happened immediately.
The carriage moved, and in less than half an hour, came to a halt in front of a courtyard. Su Shi opened the curtain of the car, and he saw a group of villagers gathered here to watch the lively scene.
"You're here again, get out of the way, don't anger them."
As soon as the carriage stopped, the people who were watching the bustle retreated to both sides.
The lower the people, the more uneducated the people, the more fearful they are of the powerful, which seems to happen in every dynasty.
Su Shi got off the carriage from the inclined board, Lou Yang pushed the wheelchair and came from the road made by the people towards the small courtyard, and the first scene was a young man with tattoos on his face holding a hair and wanting to write something, and at his feet, a woman who even had many patches on her clothes, but still couldn't hide her beauty and graceful figure, was holding his legs and crying.
"Official, official, don't divorce me, if I do, I will die here to show you, die to show you."
Seeing this scene in the eyes of the surrounding people, many women showed unbearable tears on their faces.
"Oh, it's really unfair, the family that is forced to force for a woman is a broken family, it's really a sin." An old woman was weeping and muttering.
Among the people, it was also you who whispered a word, and Su Shi, who was in a wheelchair in the crowd, quickly figured out what was going on. It turned out that all the disasters of the Zhu family were caused by this beautiful woman.
The woman's original name was He Li, and she changed her name to Zhu He after marrying Zhu Ji.
Respecting the uncle at home and honoring the old lady is also a person who values love and righteousness. But because she was so beautiful, when she went to the street to buy something, she was taken by the silk merchant Hu Dan at a glance, and buried the root of the Zhu family's disaster.
Hu Dan inherited the family's silk industry and was quite wealthy. Because he himself is the only son in the family, he has been misbehaving since he was a child, and his father was killed by him.
But Hu Dan did not repent, and continued to do domineering things, bullying men and women from time to time, and rampaging in the township.
This time, after he saw Zhu He's family, he started to think, first made friends with Zhu Zhi (Zhu Ji's brother), coaxed him into the restaurant, poured him into a brocade robe, and then sent someone to report to the official, and the officials of Kaifeng Mansion detained him for the crime that the people were not allowed to wear silk brocade.
It is said that this is not a big crime, as long as you admit your mistakes and have a good attitude, Li Zheng is willing to come forward as a guarantee, and you can pay some fines. But the problem is that this Hu Dan sent money to Li Zheng, and when Kaifeng Mansion called Li Zheng Zhu Bei for questioning, he insisted that Zhu Zhi usually likes and dislikes to work hard, does not produce, and is not a good citizen.