"Kou Zheng? Isn't that the first place in the sixteenth year of the Hongde exam?"

After reminiscing, Zhao Hongrun Pan Ran woke up, his eyes flashed with surprise and surprise, he still remembered the top three in the gold list of Hong De's sixteenth year examination. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info

The third place, the grandson of He Xiangxu, the former Chinese scholar, He Xinxian, the son of the He family of the famous Liang family, was the closest friend and poet friend of Zhao Hongzhao, who is currently the left minister of Qi State.

At the same time, He Xinxian was also the fourth place in the 19th annual examination of Hong De.

In fact, in Zhao Hongrun's view, among the thousands of students, he can win the third place once and the fourth place once, which is good enough, at least better than him Zhao Hongrun.

However, in the eyes of the He family, this achievement does not seem to be outstanding enough, therefore, He Xinxian did not become a high-ranking official, but worked part-time in the Hanlin Department, and became a relatively idle scribe quite condescendingly, and I don't know if he intends to continue to challenge Hong De's 22nd year, that is, next year's imperial examination after two failures that are not considered failures.

The second place is Luo Ying.

Don't look at Luo Ying, who was ranked in the front, was once stirred up by Zhou Yu, who was ranked in the back, and once lost the trust of Zhao Hongli, the former prince of the East Palace, but in Zhao Hongrun's eyes, Luo Ying is still a rare talent, and this person is stable and loyal, enough to entrust him with important tasks.

But unfortunately, it is precisely because Luo Ying is loyal that he did his best after choosing to be loyal to Zhao Hongli, so that Zhao Hongrun did not have the slightest chance even if he wanted to win him over for his own use.

And the first place in the exam at that time was this Kou Zheng.

But what makes people extremely stunned is that after Kou Zheng topped the high school gold list, he neither had the intention of defecting to Zhao Hongli, the prince of the East Palace at that time, to be a minister of the dragon, nor did he have the intention of defecting to King Yong and King Xiang as ministers of the palace, he did not even stay in Daliang, but begged the imperial court to allow him to serve as the local county commander - a small county in his hometown that gave birth to him and raised him.

Because of this, when Luo Ying and Zhou Yu's students this year gradually showed their talents in Daliang, as the top of the gold list of the year's examination, Kou Zheng disappeared, and there has been no news of him in Daliang since then.

Unexpectedly, when he returned to Tianmen Pass today, Zhao Hongrun learned the news of this great sage from Lu Zhan's mouth, which really made him feel that "it takes no effort to step on iron shoes and find nowhere to get them".

"Quick, take this king to that ...... What the...... Shang County, to Shang County! Zhao Hongrun said with some eagerness.

Lu Zhan gladly accepted the order, took dozens of Shangshui soldiers as guides, and took Zhao Hongrun to "Shang County".

Considering security concerns, Yan Mo placed 5,000 Yanling troops in Tianmen Pass, and only took 200 Yanling troops with him.

Under the guidance of Lu Zhan, the group walked out of Tianmen Pass and walked west along the mountain path.

During this period, Lu Zhan told Zhao Hongrun about the deeds of "Kou Zhengshang County resisting the enemy".

It turned out that when the guards of Tianmen Pass evacuated to the south, they left behind the broken South Korean infantry to set fire to Tianmen Pass.

When these broken Han soldiers evacuated, they happened to meet the army led by Pang Huan, the deputy general under the command of Zhao Yuanzuo, the king of Southern Liang, and in order to survive, these Korean soldiers fled into the Taihang Mountains.

The number of this group of Korean deserters was not large, only about two or three hundred people, and Pang Huanxin, the deputy general of the Northern Second Army at that time, was so busy with the exploits of recovering Tianmen Pass that he ignored these Korean deserters.

Later, Lu Zhan of the Shang Water Army led the army into Tianmen Pass, after he heard that there were still signs of the remnants of the Korean army's activities in the Taihang Mountain Mountains around Tianmen Pass, because he was idle, he took two 500 generals and led his soldiers to search all over the mountain, so that those Korean deserters did not dare to stay here, but fled westward, and found a mountain city - "Shang".

At that time, these Korean deserters hid in Taihang Mountain for a whole winter without food, during which they did not know how many people died of starvation, and the rest of the people were also hungry, so when they found that there was a small mountain city in the mountains on the west side of Tianmen Pass, this group of Korean deserters suddenly showed their fierce side, trying to steal food from that mountain city.

At that time, Kou Zheng, the county commander of the mountain city of Shangxian County, led the mountain people and hunters in the city to resist desperately, and actually repelled the attacks of those Korean deserters three times, killing more than 150 enemies.

"At that time, the general followed the sound of the battle and took a look, it was unbelievable that a group of mountain people and hunters actually repelled the hungry Korean deserters with hunting crossbows, pitchforks, hoes, and bamboo poles......

Probably recalling the scene at that time, Lu Zhan showed an incredible look on his face.

You must know that although the infantry of the Korean army is not as good as the infantry of the Wei State, it is not so weak that even a group of mountain people can't beat it, not to mention, those Korean deserters were suffering from hunger at that time, in other words, these people are more fierce and terrible than usual.

But even so, Kou Zheng still led a group of mountain people and hunters to repel these Korean deserters several times, which is really an incredible thing.

However, Yan Mo didn't feel strange about this, and said strangely when he heard this: "That Han army was defeated and starved for a whole winter, and the battle was already greatly reduced, and there are people in Shang County, and there are city walls as a danger, so it is nothing to repel the rout, right?" ”

Hearing this, Lu Zhan glanced at Yan Mo contemptuously and said mockingly: "When you arrive in Shang County, you will know how difficult it is for this mountain city to repel more than two hundred Han army routs. ”

After that, he saw Zhao Hongrun frowning slightly and looking at himself, and he didn't care about selling Guanzi anymore, so he hurriedly said: "Your Highness doesn't know, Nashang County, in the eyes of the last general, is simply just a mountain village, and there are only a few dozen households in the county......"

Actually, Zhao Hongrun didn't have any opinion on Lu Zhan's ridicule of Yan Mo, he was just thinking about Lu Zhan's words, and he didn't understand why Lu Zhan would say such things, until Lu Zhan revealed the truth, Zhao Hongrun suddenly realized.

Suddenly realized, he, like Yan Mo, was also a little dumbfounded.

Shanxi, which has only a few dozen households in the county, actually repelled the frantic attack of more than 200 South Korean troops? With hunting crossbows, pitchforks, hoes, and bamboo poles?

Just kidding, right? The mountain people and hunters of Shang County are stronger than the soldiers of any army in the Wei State!

The sect guards also looked at each other.

After that, Zhao Hongrun and his party walked in the mountains with difficulty.

The steepness of the road is secondary, the problem lies in the jackals, tigers and leopards in the mountains, as well as poisonous snakes and poisonous insects, remember that on the way to the road, the group encountered a leopard, and the soldiers of the Su Wang army were shocked to draw their blades.

No one dares to relax - as a meritorious soldier who forced down Korea, he has not yet been rewarded by the imperial court, and it would be too unjust to die in such a place.

However, the leopard was smarter, and when he saw Zhao Hongrun and his party of nearly 300 people, he fled.

Subsequently, although Zhao Hongrun and his party also encountered some jackals, tigers and leopards, these beasts did not dare to provoke so many humans after all.

Compared with these fierce beasts, the threat of poisonous insects is greater, and one soldier was bitten by an insect on the back of his hand, and then the back of his hand immediately swollen and itched.

"Is there really a mountain town in this kind of place?"

Zhao Hongrun thought with a frown.

It was the third time he had seen a big furry spider on a tree trunk, and this little poison was far more terrifying to him than a jackal, tiger and leopard.

And at this moment, a figure flashed behind the tree in front of him.

"Who?!"

Zongwei Changwei Jiao subconsciously drew his sword and shouted.

Probably hearing Wei Jiao's authentic Wei accent, a hunter walked out from behind the tree in front of him, looked at Zhao Hongrun and his party in amazement, and asked in Wei Yan with a local accent: "Where are you troops?" ”

Before Zhao Hongrun and Wei Jiao could answer, they saw Lu Zhan take a few steps forward, beckoned and said, "Hey, who is that, it's me, me." ”

"General Lu?"

The hunter seemed to recognize Lu Zhan, and the vigilance in his eyes suddenly dissipated, and he put the hunting crossbow on his back and walked over.

"Is General Lu still searching for those South Korean routs?" Orion asked with a smile.

Lu Zhan's expression was a little embarrassed when he heard this, because he was idle and had nothing to do before he led his troops to search for those Korean army routs, but he didn't expect that when he arrived in Shang County, he was warmly welcomed by the local county people, which made Lu Zhan embarrassed to tell the truth.

Responding vaguely, Lu Zhan wanted to be the first to introduce Zhao Hongrun, but after noticing Zhao Hongrun's gesture with his eyes, he asked the hunter: "Where is Kou Zheng and Kou County?" ”

"Bring people to build roads, Xiaomin leads the general over." Orion said.

"Build roads?" Zhao Hongrun looked at Lu Zhan in puzzlement.

Seeing this, Lu Zhan explained in a low voice: "Your Highness, Shang County is a city in a mountain, and the road down the mountain is inconvenient, so that Kou County Commander hopes to lead the villagers to build a mountain road. ”

"In this Taihang Mountain? Road? Zhao Hongrun asked in surprise.

You must know that as far as he knows, the depth of Taihang Mountain is nearly 100 miles at most, and 30 or 40 miles at least, although Zhao Hongrun still does not know where the mountain city of "Shang County" is located, but according to his estimate, these villagers have to build at least a mountain road of more than ten or twenty miles.

In this steep Taihang Mountain, build a mountain road of more than ten or twenty miles?

Even if it is placed in the Ministry of Industry of the Imperial Court, this is also a difficult project.

However, Shang County, which has only a few dozen county residents, is actually ready to rely on itself and dig this mountain road?

Holding the mood of doubt, Zhao Hongrun came to a cliff under the guidance of the hunter.

"Go down here, and the rest of the way will be easy." Orion said.

"......" Zhao Hongrun didn't say a word, stood on the edge of the cliff, looked down at the cliff, and saw that on the mountain under the cliff, more than 100 mountain people were wielding hoes, chiseling the mountain one by one, trying to repair a smooth mountain road.

Among these people, one was wearing the uniform of a prefectural magistrate.

"That's Kou Zheng, Kou County Order?" Zhao Hongrun asked the Orion.

The Orion glanced at Zhao Hongrun strangely, nodded and said, "Exactly." ”

『……』

Zhao Hongrun's lips moved slightly, and he was silent.

The dignified Hongde was the first on the gold list for 16 years, and he could have stayed in Daliang as a high-ranking official, but Kou Zheng abandoned his bright future and resolutely returned to his hometown Shangxian.

This alone is enough to make Zhao Hongrun awe of this person.