Chapter 764: Crow's Beak

A messenger was suddenly sent over at the address, and the next day Zhang Yue's father, Zhang Zhuo, left in a hurry with more than a dozen people, which naturally could not be concealed from the subordinate officials of the Guangdong Political Division. Although they didn't understand what was going on, Zhang Yue, who had always been approachable, was silent a lot, and even often in a daze, and everyone naturally saw it. So, after a few days of discussion, many people's speculations gradually approached the truth.

If you can alarm the eldest in the family to run in person, it must be that the chief military officer Yang Wubo has an accident!

Regarding the speculation of others, Zhang Yue saw it in his eyes, but he didn't say a word, just silently promoted to the council, and when he was in the morning and dusk, he couldn't help but comfort his worried mother. A month has passed, and no one has been sent to deliver the letter there, but the news channel from the capital that his father and Yuan Fang have laid down a long time ago is unusually smooth, and there will be messages every two or three days. A member of the imperial physician has been sent from the DPRK to fly south with Zhang Chao; When it came to the court, there were different opinions, and Hou Liu of Anyuan was promoted to the chief military officer, and the call was the highest; and then to the British public Zhang Fu automatically asked for help, and the government and the opposition were in an uproar...... Occasionally, there are ministers who don't know how to look at the eyes of the Son of Heaven who is desolate on his knees, and he should be elected as a lady to enrich the harem and extend the heir, but he was demoted by Shen Yu. In short, the big thing is that it can't be discussed for a long time.

In the past, when Zhu Di was still there, he didn't feel much, but now that he thinks about it, compared with the heroes of the founding of the country, there are too few real generals among the heroes of Jingnan. Chengguo Gong Zhu can be counted as one, but unfortunately died young; Qiu Fu, the Duke of Qi, used to be counted as one, but the defeat of the Northern Expedition proved that it was just a tall man among the short; British Gong Zhang Fu rose in the three expeditions, and he was brave and good at dealing with people, but now it is difficult to be the commander of the first army. As for the rest of the marquis and earls, the first generation is either old or dead, and the second and third generations are far inferior to the previous generation......

He is really afraid that this elder of the world, who is more than brave and lacks strategy, will poke some leaks because of the underestimation of the enemy, but there are lessons from the past in the history books!

"Teacher."

Zhang Yue, who was reviewing the official documents, was losing his mind, and suddenly heard a few low calls, and immediately looked up. Seeing that it was Li Guoxiu in front of him, he put down his pen and asked, "What's the matter?" ”

"Someone from outside has come to report that someone from Guangxi has come, and the person who came claimed to be a messenger from the General Military Office is waiting in the ear room east of the Boshui Hall." Seeing Zhang Yue frowning, he hurriedly added, "I just saw that the teacher was thinking, so I went over and glanced at it through the wooden window." There were three people in total, two of whom seemed to be retinues, and the one at the head was sturdy, broad-eyed, and looked very imposing, not like an ordinary messenger. ”

Glancing at Li Guoxiu, Zhang Yue couldn't help but smile and said, "You are clever." ”

Although he had a lot of friendship with Anyuan Hou Liu Sheng at the beginning, since Liu Sheng was transferred to Guangxi, the two had no contact. Liu Sheng is not like Gu Xingzu who wants to show the authority of the general army everywhere, and there are few things like moving the text to consult, and sending a messenger is the first time before. After thinking about it carefully, he instructed Li Guoxiu: "You stay here, and Ziqin and Ziqin will read these official documents one by one, leave your clips, and I will look at them later." If anyone comes, let them wait if I have to make a decision, and let the rest go to Master Xiang. ”

Out of the third hall, Zhang Yue passed through the second hall along the central axis of the front office of the political secretary, and bypassed a corner door next to it, which was the three water halls dedicated to receiving messengers from all over there. In the past, there were always soap servants here to make tea and so on, but this time the two soaps stood at the gate of the courtyard and watched. As soon as they saw him, the two hurriedly stepped forward to make amends, saying that they had a big shelf and drove them out. Hearing this strange news, Zhang Yue was suddenly even more suspicious.

When he arrived at the door of the ear room, he saw a man in his early thirties standing at the door like a benchmark, vaguely familiar. When he approached, he saw that the man had opened the curtain without saying a word, and bent down to salute again, and he suddenly remembered that he had seen this person in the capital Anyuan Marquis's Mansion, and his eyes suddenly looked into the house. Although his eyes were a little unaccustomed to going from light to dark at first, he still saw the person sitting in the center clearly at once, and he was immediately surprised.

"An ......" he swallowed back the other two words that came to his lips, walked forward quickly and saluted, and then smiled bitterly, "Why did my uncle come in person?" ”

"You think I want to come?" Anyuan Hou Liusheng has always been straightforward, and when he heard this, he said angrily, "If it weren't for the unease everywhere in Guangxi, and the news from Zuo one after another made people upset, why would I change my face and go quietly for such a trip, and I would have to risk the impeachment of Jinyiwei by the imperial history?" ”

As he spoke, he beckoned Zhang Yue to come closer, stared at him for a while, and complained: "I said little Zhang Yue, this time I have to settle accounts with you." When the King of Han rebelled, I automatically asked for help, but you didn't take many people to run away to solve the matter, robbing me of the opportunity to move my muscles. When I am ready to live and live in peace now, you pulled Gu Xingzu off the horse in a dignified manner, and I can only let go of the governor of the right army and go to Guangxi, where there are barbarians, to guard; This time your second uncle has an accident, if you recommend me to hand over the address, I won't be done with you! Cutting off the heads of those Annan barbarians doesn't change much military merit, it's not interesting! ”

When Liu Sheng was not knighted back then, he had handed over the address from Zhang Fuzheng, so he was naturally more suitable for going out of the town than other nobles, but he himself was never happy. He speaks straightforwardly, but his heart is clear. When Emperor Zhu Di of Yongle was still there, he was in charge of the Beijing camp, except for the British public Zhang Fu, and he had to be regarded as favored. And he is already a marquis, this time he will go to hand over the address, not to mention that it must be hopeless to enter the lord, and he can only return to the court in the year of the monkey? It's not a pleasure to fight in a place where it's either a jungle or a big river!

Even if he wanted to break his head, Zhang Yue didn't expect Liu Sheng to come to Xingshi to ask for guilt like this, and he only smiled bitterly. There are very few people in this world who are not utilitarian, and Liu Sheng's promotion to the marquis is by no means a pure rough person. Therefore, after hearing what Liu Sheng meant, he simply spread his hands and left the truth.

"My uncle helped me a lot at the beginning, and our two families are friends and in-laws, so I won't say those vague words. After getting the news of the address, I handed over the note to the emperor and proposed two measures. The first is to ask the British Princess-in-Chief to levy the address. ”

After a big call, Liu Sheng was drinking water to moisten his throat at this time, and when he heard this, he almost squirted out a mouthful of water, and his eyes widened when he put down the tea cup: "What, you actually recommend the British duke?" Don't you know that your uncle is already a master? He put aside the rest of the military affairs and did not plan it, and ran to hand over the address, don't you think this is a big fuss? ”

"Uncle, where is the chaos today?"

Zhang Yue was stunned when he saw Liu Sheng, so he snapped his fingers and said: "The three warats in the north are sometimes infighting, sometimes they are united against Arutai, and the two sides have not stopped fighting into a pot of porridge, although there are sometimes Kou Kaiping Daning, but after all, the offensive is smaller than before; Liaodong women are also very peaceful in Nuergandusi; Since the Kamui ship went to Japan, there has been no more trouble in the coastal areas; There are many canonized Dharma kings and Buddhas in the Western Regions, and they are also stable. As for the localities, although there are also rebellions or rebellions, they are only sporadic fire ideas after all. In contrast, the handover side is the biggest militaristic event in recent times...... It's not that I'm too worried, I'm afraid it's really a mess there. Since the people are afraid of the British like tigers, then send the people they are most afraid of! ”

At this point, Liu Sheng was suddenly dumbfounded. And Zhang Yue remembered that the messenger had mentioned that the military power had been replaced by Rong Changbo Chen Zhi, who had a gap with Zhang You, and he couldn't help but sigh: "Actually, the situation of the address should not be like this, as long as the guard is stubborn, it may not really want the British to go." It's just that when I heard that Deputy Chief Soldier Rong Changbo is now taking over the military power, I can't help but think about the worst. Now that most of the garrisons at the Jiaozhou address are along the Jiaozhou Mansion, I am afraid that Rong Changbo will lead his troops to attack rashly for the sake of greed, in case he is ambushed...... Uncle, since the Yongle Dynasty, the few times our dynasty has been defeated with troops, either the enemy and I were outnumbered and besieged and defeated, or because we were ambushed, so we were finally defeated! ”

Liu Sheng fought the address, fought against the Japanese invaders, and led the Chinese army to march from the north, and has always disdained to negotiate with civilian officials about the use of troops. It's just that Zhang Yue is different from those civilian officials who talk on paper after all, and he listened to what he said just now. He didn't pay attention to the second-generation nobles like Rong Changbo Chen Zhi, thinking about the pustule like he had seen Chen Zhi before, he even nodded.

"You're not wrong, just because your second uncle is seriously injured and Huang Fu is seriously ill, you don't necessarily need to be so nervous, but if you leave such a guy to lead the troops, maybe it will really be bad...... However, if I didn't pour cold water on you, most of the court would not agree to let you go on the expedition! ”

Of course, Zhang Yue knew the difficulty of this matter, that is, after the two defeats of Xuande Chu in the history books, Zhang Fu, the British prince of Taishi, also failed to get the opportunity to lead the troops to the expedition, so he watched the address being abandoned when he couldn't fight for it. This was only at the beginning, and then he abandoned Kaiping, and he didn't see Zhang Fu play any role. Yingzong ascended the throne, although Zhang Fu was the head of the ministers, but he had no right to plan, and a generation of famous generals fell into the civil fort, so the nobles almost collapsed, and the Ming Dynasty became a world of civil servants and eunuchs.

However, today's Zhu Zhanji treats Zhang Fu much more kindly after all, and he clearly stated in the song that if he thinks that he doesn't need a knife to kill chickens, and that raising chickens and tigers will become a tiger on a different day, it will be difficult to slaughter a tiger with a knife.

Just when he and Liu Sheng were relatively speechless, a shout suddenly sounded outside. The next moment, the curtain was lifted, and the general standing outside the door poked his head in and whispered: "Master, Lord Zhang, there is a messenger from the address!" ”

"Call people here!"

"Let him in!"

Although Liu Sheng was a guest, he was anti-guest at this time, and yelled at Zhang Yue almost at the same time. It didn't take long for a dusty person to cross the threshold, and it was a long-term entourage who accompanied Zhang Zhuo to the address at that time. As soon as he entered the door and saw an outsider, he was a little stunned, and when Zhang Yue urged, he hurriedly stepped forward and presented a letter with both hands. Zhang Yue didn't care that Liu Sheng stepped forward to take a look, took out the letterhead and unfolded it to browse from left to right, and his face suddenly froze.

"I said virtuous nephew, you are really a crow's mouth......"

Hearing such a voice in his ear that he couldn't tell whether he was sighing or complaining, Zhang Yue couldn't help but rub his temples with the thumb and middle finger of his right hand, and said with a bitter smile: "I only regret that I thought that my second uncle Zhang You had taken care of everything properly at the address, and I didn't make any more efforts to let Rong Changbo return to Beijing and replace him as the deputy commander-in-chief...... Unexpectedly, he would rashly set out this time, resulting in a rout! He is an earl, and the second uncle and Huang Laoshangshu can still suppress him, but Chen Shangshu and the others can't do it! ”

"Needless to say? What are those civil officials who can only grind their mouths! ”

Although Rong Changbo and Chen Zhi suffered a big defeat this time, Liu Sheng, Marquis of An Yuan, still disdained those civil officials during his speech. It's no wonder that he is like this, when he raised troops with Jing Nan at that time, and then fought in the north and south, those civil officials were either planning in a safe place, or they were still studying at home to prepare for the imperial examination, but now they occupy a position of real power layer by layer, and they are naturally quite angry in their hearts.

Angrily leaving Zhang Yue's side, he didn't look at the messenger with a suspicious face, walked a few steps behind his back and then turned around and said, "The matter has come to this, and it is inconvenient for me to stay longer, so I will go back." If the emperor sends the British Duke this time, everything will be fine, if I ...... I won't say anything else, I will definitely order you and me when the time comes! How, do you dare or not? ”

"Why don't you dare?"

The life and death of the second uncle Zhang You is uncertain, and now that his father Zhang Zuo is already in Jiaozhou Mansion, Zhang Yue only feels that his heart is in a mess, and when he heard Liu Sheng say this, he almost didn't think about it and answered. Seeing that Liu Sheng had changed his previous color, he suddenly looked at himself with a smile, and he immediately came to his senses.

"Why does my uncle use this method of agitation, I originally said in the recital, one is to use the British Duke to lead the army, and the other is that if another chief officer is sent to the army, then I will invite myself to the counselor's military affairs."

"Sure enough, he is worthy of being a child of the Zhang family, and he is responsible!"

Liu Sheng strode over, patted Zhang Yue on the shoulder with satisfaction, and then went out without saying a word. As soon as he had gone away, the other two generals hurried to follow, and the next moment he and the messenger who had come back were the only ones left in the great room. Zhang Yue asked a few words about the situation over there, and learned that Zhang You's condition was very bad, but thanks to the fact that he had invited the governor Fang Zheng to preside over the military affairs of Jiaozhou, he finally saved a little vitality, and he couldn't help but sigh deeply.

Needless to say, those who raised the flag of rebellion are probably gathering momentum for a long time.

Seeing Zhang Yue's face changing standing there, Na Changsui finally couldn't help it, and asked cautiously: "Young master, do you really want to ask Ying to hand over the address?" It's completely chaotic there, it's okay to Jiaozhou Mansion, but the rest of the place is rampant with thieves! ”

"It's hard to say whether to go or not." Zhang Yue lightly put down a sentence, then looked at the long follower, and ordered, "Remember, don't go out and talk about the people you just met." Mrs. may see you later, and let them go in and rest when the letter comes out. You have worked hard all the way, and the credit is not small, I don't reward you for anything, I will promote your boy one day. ”

The long man was only frightened when he traveled all the way, but at this moment he was overjoyed, and he knelt down and kowtowed, and then left satisfied. As soon as he left, Zhang Yuefang patted his forehead lightly and muttered to himself.

"I just hope that the second uncle and father are safe and sound, Amitabha!"