(I am grateful every day, I am grateful that I can continue, and I am glad that I have a starting point as a platform that allows me to realize my dreams, and I will write it down clearly no matter what, because the theme outline has been completed many years ago.) Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info）

Zhang Yongde stood quietly with his hands in his hands, looking at the person in front of him.

The person in front of him was so calm, this man with a calm face looked calm, and there was no stage fright in front of him.

He quietly told himself what was happening around him, and what had happened to his relatives and friends in the past few days.

This man has a good demeanor, he looks like a gentleman, thinking about the means and ideas of his contact with himself, and suddenly, a mysterious person appears in front of him. Although Zhang Yongde is not the kind of swordsman who flies off the wall, he is also a famous general of the Great Zhou Kingdom, and a person who has really been on the battlefield and commanded the army.

There are also many doormen and guards in his house, but in front of this person, Zhang Yongde thought of the swordsmen and rangers who were rumored on the rivers and lakes at the end of the Tang Dynasty, but his heart was turned upside down at the moment. If you offend these people, no matter how famous and wealthy you are, I am afraid that it will be in vain.

Eh, everything is a headache, and maybe everything is an opportunity. Zhang Yongde has also seen a lot of masters, and in the face of these elusive masters, Zhang Yongde found that his character and way of doing things reflected both good and bad at this time. After all, with his own identity and status, he has naturally seen a lot of big scenes, and if the other party sees that he is going to be unfavorable to himself, he is sure that he is not the other party's food.

The other party just said that he knew about it through a few people in the court who knew the secret, of course, it must have been told to him by the emperor's instructions, and all this, whether it was a hint or an inevitable move, was a means of those in power. Now even few people in the court know, but the other party knows everything about it, obviously he not only knows things, but also knows these things in advance!

Who is he? Zhang Yongde doesn't feel that anyone will blackmail him. With his usual methods and ways of doing things, as well as the low-key nature of himself and the princess, it should be impossible for anyone to do this article at least in Zhou Kingdom. As for the so-called inspection of the Son of Heaven, the spread of this rumor, Zhang Yongde felt that Emperor Guo Rong would definitely analyze it if he knew.

Of course, as for why there is this rumor, Zhang Yongde feels that there are no more than two points. One is that his position makes people red, and he tries to kill himself; Either someone is afraid that they have a mind and take greater power, as for this person, it is self-evident.

Now the Zhou State and the Northern Han Dynasty have not been at odds, that is the reason since history, if they make a fuss about themselves, there will be this possibility. But the information he has in his own hands, the Northern Han Dynasty, which is partial to peace, should not have this manpower and material resources now.

There is also Shuzhong, where Emperor Chai Rong has always wanted to do it, and it is even more impossible for Shuzhong, who enjoys peace and happiness, to have this posture. Because the ruler in power doesn't have this mind at all, it's too late for the people below to dodge.

As for the Southern Tang Kingdom, which has always wanted to do something, Zhang Yongde thought that it was even more impossible, because now more than half of the spies in the Zhou State are in the Southern Tang Dynasty. It can be said that the monitoring of the Southern Tang Kingdom is strict from top to bottom, and now the Zhou Kingdom is gathering the last trace of thoughtfulness, preparing to strike a fatal blow to the Southern Tang Dynasty, and the actions of the Southern Tang Dynasty are even more clear.

They dealt with themselves in order to provoke the relationship between themselves and Emperor Guo Rong. He is not a fool, and the emperor will not be confused. No matter how deep or shallow these people's intentions are, there will naturally be follow-ups, Zhang Yongde is well aware of this, so he did not express his position first. Of course, Zhang Yongde did not rule out that the emperor had thoughts about himself.

First of all, his cousin Zhang Yongheng was in Sima Ren in Bianzhou, because he relied on his identity and power to bully men and women, he was assassinated on the street by one of the people from the bitter master's family; Then his brother-in-law Lu Xie led the army in the Yangtze River, conniving and unable to prevent the soldiers who found that it was unfavorable to stop them from fleeing south, but was beheaded in the barracks by the soldiers who wanted to escape; And just last night, his uncle Zhang Jun, the former supervisor of the Luozhou Soldiers and Horses, a family of more than 150 people, was actually killed in his own courtyard, which was considered to be full of blood.

No matter what it is, it is not a trivial matter for the imperial court. And for the relationship between each subject and Zhang Yongde, it is not a good thing for Zhang Yongde's position. If it is an era of peace and prosperity, each of these things is enough to make Zhang Yongde hurt the fundamentals; For this era of careless human life, this may be insignificant, or it can be earth-shattering.

However, Zhang Yongde knows that these things are not so simple. Of course, he will not speculate, after all, whether these things are coincidental or deliberate, Zhang Yongde knows that he is the most suitable at this time, so as to respond to all changes.

Indeed, now as a politician in the Great Zhou State, standing in Zhang Yongde's position, his situation in the Zhou State is very delicate and sensitive, and everyone knows the secret between him and the lord of the country. Zhang Yongde is in a high position, Guo Rong is young and promising, and the two of them are bright for a while.

Because of the past 100 years, his family has been heirloom with martial arts, although all of them are military generals, but they are also both civil and military. Most of the children in the family are famous for their benevolence and filial piety, and all of them have good martial arts. His cousin, although Zhang Yongheng is not the kind of particularly outstanding celebrity, nor is he the best brothers in the family, nor is he the kind of commander of the army, in fact, his martial arts are not much different from his own, and his sword and horse kung fu is okay. Ordinary more than ten big men are not a problem at all, not to mention that now as Sima, he will definitely have a few followers around him, and he can't imagine that he will be assassinated on the street.

When someone is assassinated on the street, this kind of scene is either the murderer's outstanding martial arts skills, or his cousin is too bad and as vulnerable as a child, but is this kind of thing possible! When he told Zhang Yongde, he wouldn't believe it.

His cousin still wants to make achievements in the political arena, so the family has gradually cultivated him in recent years. I just met him during the Spring Festival, and it can be said that he is full of anger, and it is also the most desperate year. Although his cousin has taken a few wives and concubines, even if he usually continues to pamper him, but he suffers because of this, Zhang Yongde feels that things are a little mysterious.

His brother-in-law Lu Xie is his youngest maternal uncle, and he is not a few years older than him. Although it was also because of the first emperor Guo Wei's ascension to the throne that the first emperor promoted him for the sake of his own face, he was indeed a person with great ideas and abilities.

Now as the general of Dingyuan on the fifth grade, he is following the army of Zhou to garrison along the Yangtze River. Since the Tang State surrendered to the feudal domain, the north of the Yangtze River belonged to the Zhou State. As the general of the Zhou State, Lu Xie naturally led an army and set up a camp as a base.

As for the fact that some soldiers fled to the Southern Tang Dynasty, Zhang Yongde completely believed it. No matter how strong the Zhou army is, now it is even forcing the Tang State to cede land and surrender to the domain. But the Tang State has always been more prosperous than the Zhou State, and there are many soldiers stationed along the Zhou State, who turned out to be people from the Tang State. Although they have rearranged and joined different teams, it is difficult for a small area to become a climate.

However, the soldiers of the Zhou State have always been veterans mixed with new soldiers, and the soldiers are separated from the original generals. There is an obvious proportion of soldiers and recruits in each military camp, as for the soldiers in Lu Xie's military camp, they can kill the generals and escape, Zhang Yongde deeply doubts, after all, Lu Xie also has his own pro-army, it is said that all the pro-army of Lu Xie have been killed cleanly, and now his brother-in-law's ability to lead the army in peacetime, and this complicated situation made Zhang Yongde fall into contemplation.

Because, Lu Xie was able to gradually become a general that day, and it was indeed the favor of the first emperor Guo Wei at the beginning. Later, it was Lu Xie himself who had the ability to embody and emerge in the army, and was discovered by the first emperor that his strengths were gradually promoted to a middle-level general, and he was being trained and led by high-level generals. If it was just to look at his own face, the first emperor could have left Lu Xie in the capital and become an idle official.

Today's emperor Guo Rong is indeed young and promising, and he didn't look at Zhang Yongde's face and tried his best to promote Lu Xie, but Lu Xie was also promoted smoothly in Guo Rong's hands. This just shows that Lu Xie is capable of doing so, and the incident of the soldiers fleeing under his command and being killed by the fleeing soldiers in the end made Zhang Yongde feel sad in his heart.

His uncle Zhang Jun once served as the supervisor of the soldiers and horses in Luozhou, although his position was not high and his status was not obvious. But because of his father and grandfather's posthumous titles, and his status in the Zhou State, he also enjoyed a very high status and treatment.

He also wisely withdrew from the officialdom and bought a village outside the capital to retire, and lived a good life. Unexpectedly, now he suffered a catastrophe inexplicably, and the family was killed cleanly. It is said that some time ago, he fell in love with a widow who lifted his son, and he escaped inexplicably.

When I received the news, although I sent someone to investigate and look for it, I still hadn't seen my uncle, and I didn't know what the reason was and why these things happened suddenly. Zhang Yongde has always been benevolent and filial to the world, if the person in front of him does not come to look for him, he is preparing to rush to the village outside the city in person.

He has never revealed anything to others, about the differences between himself and the emperor Guo Rong, Zhang Yongde has never mentioned half a sentence to others about the Great Zhou Kingdom and his own thoughts, even he has been silent about his family's own thoughts. He didn't care about anything, but felt what he should do as a courtier.

Now in the Zhou State, he is not only the commander of the palace, but also the supreme commander of the Emperor Guo Rong's forbidden army, no matter what relationship he is in with the emperor, Zhang Yongde understands his position. For an emperor, Zhang Yongde's position and identity must be the most taboo and taboo. Although the emperor has never revealed anything and made any moves to Zhang Yongde, Zhang Yongde himself understands that his current position must be very embarrassing and sensitive.

Zhou now has only two high-ranking human rights, and on the surface, there is a direct threat to the position of Emperor Guo Rong, because now these two people have heavy troops in their hands, and they both have a deep relationship with the former emperor Guo Wei. The first emperor Guo Wei, whether in the previous dynasty or in the Great Zhou Kingdom, relied on these people to have a smooth ride.

Zhang Yongde knew that one was barely himself, and the other was the father-in-law of the current emperor Guo Rong, the Huaiyang Wang family, who was known as a family of military generals in the Central Plains, and now Fu Yanqing, the king of Wei, who is now the sole ruler of the Tianxiong Army in the feudal town. The identity of Wei Wang Fu Yanqing is even more special, but he is a general with no ambitions, but no one is jealous of him when he has been elected for four dynasties.

As the emperor, Guo Rong, himself and Fu Yanqing should be considered close relatives. But for power and fame, which dynasty's superior can naturally let go! Although he has never shown anything wrong, he will definitely monitor the behavior of the two of them, and Zhang Yongde has no doubt about this.

Zhang Yongde was born in a wealthy family in Yangqu, Bingzhou, since he was a child, and the ancestors in the family have practiced martial arts for generations, and he is a famous military general family since the Tang Dynasty. His father, Zhang Yinggong, once served as a senior military attache in the hands of Shi Jingjiao of the Later Jin Dynasty, and was the defense envoy of Anzhou at that time. For the position configuration of the military generals at that time, it was a big high-ranking official.

The guard envoy of the Emperor of the Later Jin State was Guo Wei, the later Emperor Taizu of the Zhou State, who was the father of Guo Rong, the current Emperor of the Zhou State, and was known as Guo Que'er in the rivers and lakes. At that time, Zhang Yongde's father, Zhang Ying, was a minister in the same palace as Emperor Taizu Guo Wei, and he was a very good friend back then. Therefore, Zhang Yongde, who has been known by Guo Wei since he was a child, was known and appreciated by Guo Wei when he was young.

However, Guo Wei appreciated Zhang Yongde not because of his martial arts and talent, but because of the virtues he had cultivated in the family since he was a child. Because Zhang Yongde was still very young, his biological mother died, and later his father Zhang Ying continued to marry again. But Zhang Yongde serves this stepmother like his biological mother, so since he was a child, Zhang Yongde has been famous for his virtuous and filial piety in his hometown, and has won the praise of the villagers and the family.

When Zhang Yongde was 20 years old, Emperor Taizu Guo Wei married his fourth daughter to him.

Of course, at that time, no one thought about how the situation would develop, and Emperor Taizu was still the minister of the Han State. Later, Emperor Taizu ascended the throne, and Zhang Yongde naturally became the master of the horse. That is, in the year of Zhang Yongde's marriage, Emperor Taizu Guo Wei, who was good at fighting and had a deep military heart, was promoted to the privy envoy of the Han State by the Yin Emperor of the Han State in the Central Plains, and mastered the decision-making power of the entire Han State. And Emperor Taizu Guo Wei did not avoid suspicion because of the importance of the imperial court, and recommended his excellent son-in-law Zhang Yongde to be the official of the Han Kingdom.

However, the young Emperor Yin was very afraid of Guo Wei's power, and he was also afraid that Zhang Yongde would be the head of the worship official team around him, so the more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. Later, at the instigation of the people around him, and he was really not at ease with Guo Wei, he wanted to harm Zhang Yongde first to convince Guo Wei.

He first asked Zhang Yongde to send something to Chang Si, the envoy of the Zhaoyi Festival at that time, and this kind of nominal gift was the birthday gang that was common in the later Song Dynasty. As the emperor of a country, he was supposed to pay tribute to himself, but in the fifth dynasty, the power of the warlords was so strong that the central government could not govern it. For this common thought, Emperor Yin adopted Huairou, of course, these may not be something that Emperor Yin, a fool, can come up with. Then, Emperor Yin sent a secret edict to Chang Si, hoping that after Chang Si saw Zhang Yongde, he would find an excuse to kill him. Because Emperor Yin knew that although Chang Si and Guo Wei were ministers, the two of them had always been on the wrong path, and because of the problem of unifying the army, they often fought and dealt with.

However, Emperor Yin ignored Chang Si's courage and ignored Chang Si's ideals. Although Chang Si usually was a minister with Guo Wei, because of the emperor's cover, he dared to compete for favor with Guo Wei. Later, the emperor fell, and the new emperor came to power without support. Chang Si knew that Guo Wei's power was getting bigger and bigger, and there were more and more people around him, and he was obviously no longer Guo Wei's opponent. He was unwilling to take chestnuts for Emperor Yin, but at that time, he also imprisoned Zhang Yongde, and he was entertained with good wine and food, obviously wanting to be a wall grass.

Sure enough, it didn't take long for the little emperor Yindi, who was confused, listened to slander and overestimated his ability, and did a very cruel thing in the history of the five dynasties. designed to kill the privy envoy Guo Wei's family in the capital, and boldly wanted to kill Guo Wei. What he did directly led to the demise of a country.

The reason is that the grief-stricken Guo Wei rebelled, and finally mutiny killed Emperor Yin, and even forced Emperor Yin's uncle to retire, and later wanted to attack the emperor's biological father Liu Yun, who also served in Beijing (Taiyuan) with troops outside, stayed behind Liu Chong, and since then has controlled the power of the imperial court. Although he vaguely avoided it for a while, Guo Wei still inevitably became the emperor.

Seeing the wind and rudder, Chang Si was quite wise, and at this time, he immediately sent Zhang Yongde, who was under house arrest, to the capital, completely pleasing Guo Wei, who was in the limelight, and also preserved Zhang Yongde, who was grateful. Of course, Zhang Yongde was able to really enter the power center of the Zhou State later, naturally after Guo Wei ascended the throne, and Zhang Yongde's own talent was displayed.

It seems that Guo Wei's accession to the throne is a happy event, but his biggest distress comes from the lack of male offspring. At the beginning, Emperor Yin went crazy and killed the descendants of the Guo family, which was a real annihilation, and even the eldest son of the current emperor Guo Rong did not let go.

No one thought that things would be like this, and Guo Wei has also made all kinds of efforts. But the perennial horseback riding campaign will naturally have an impact on male fertility, not to mention Guo Wei's age, which is already old in this era. Although Guo Wei was surrounded by a group of concubines, he never left half of his descendants.

Originally, as Guo Wei's own daughter and son-in-law, Zhang Yongde should have an advantage. However, Zhang Yongde knew the strength of his family and the large number of members of the Zhang family, which made Emperor Taizu Guo Wei, who had always been traditional and nostalgic, suspicious. What's more, Zhang Yongde also knows that he is not the strongest and most prestigious person in the family, and Guo Wei, as the emperor, must doubt whether he can maintain the smooth development of this house under his name in the Zhang family. In other words, maintaining this country is the world of yourself and the princess's descendants.

The most important thing is that Guo Rong, who is recognized as a righteous son by Guo Wei's side, was originally Guo Wei's nephew, and he is shrewd and capable and strategic. The emerging talents in many places are even better than themselves, although they did not fight for anything, but Zhang Yongde understands that in his life, he is only suitable for what to do and not to do.

The man looked at Zhang Yongde with a smile and said lightly: "A certain Ji Hongzhong, whose ancestral home is in the Central Plains, now lives in Lingnan, usually travels to and from the Central Plains countries, mainly engaged in the resale of various special products in various places, fortunately Lord Zhang!" ”

"Lingnan!" Seeing that this elegant and refined man was actually a businessman, Zhang Yongde was still extremely surprised. Of course, Guo Rong, the emperor of the Great Zhou Kingdom, had also been a businessman before, and Zhang Yongde would definitely not despise this man.

Hearing him say this place, Zhang Yongde really felt a little strange, it was a too distant place in his memory. Historically, before the previous dynasties, all places other than the five mountains of Chu were collectively referred to as barbaric places. The forces and feudal towns in the Central Plains didn't bother to pay attention to the information about that wild land.

Zhang Yongde's information seems to be still stuck in a person I heard many years ago, and that person is the person who established that power, Emperor Gaozu of the Southern Han Kingdom, Liu Yan. Of course, there is also Liu Yan and his family history. In the Central Plains, Liu Yan was disdainful of the forces and territories outside Wuling.

Sometimes, Zhang Yongde would occasionally hear someone talk about that far-flung place in Lingnan, which is said to be rich in fruit and seafood. However, because of the ruggedness and the isolation of thousands of mountains, and the lack of civilization of the local people, it was a barbaric place where sinners were exiled from previous dynasties and previous dynasties.

Even, Zhang Yongde later heard that some messy things in the Southern Han Kingdom, of course, even demonized the people of Lingnan. It is said that after the death of Emperor Liu Yan, one of his sons inherited the throne. There was an uprising in the territory of one year, all the way to the Southern Tang Kingdom, and later the Southern Tang Kingdom took action together to destroy the revolting forces.

Because it is too far away, Zhang Yongde has no concept of that distant place, in his mind, it is the euphemism of Jiangnan and the atmosphere of the Central Plains. Even the Central Plains has always been dominated by the center, looking at this man with a lofty bearing, like a dreamlike person in the painting. Zhang Yongde didn't believe at this moment that this personable figure would come from the barbaric place he imagined.

No matter where he was, Zhang Yongde had a strong interest in this personable man, and he almost couldn't wait to know everything about this distant place. And, what does this man have to do with what happened around him!

So he personally came over to close the distance and invited this man named Ji Hongzhong to take a seat.