Chapter 158: Confidant in the Sea
Along the way up the mountain, Cui Geng probably understood the origin of the name "Radius Mountain" - this mountain road is too difficult to walk, and it is doubtful whether it can be called a "path", so it is said that there is a radius, right?
Before he went up this radius mountain, he was still wondering, there are many filial sons and virtuous grandchildren in the world, what is the great deal about guarding the tomb of his grandmother for three years? As for the world's praise of Chen Yuanguang so much?
I didn't understand until I went up the mountain, and it was difficult to transport living materials to guard the tomb in such a place, and I am afraid that General Chen's life of guarding the tomb was not easy. The name of "General Radius" is indeed well deserved!
The mountain road was not long, but it was narrow and steep, and it was mossy and slippery, and it took nearly two hours before everyone came to a relatively flat high platform.
But I saw a waterfall cascading straight down, forming a pool of blue pools, which was crystal clear. There are also several live fish swimming around in the pool, so happy.
The willows are reflected in the pond, which is more picturesque.
Not far from the edge of the pond is where the cemetery of the old lady of the Wei family is located, and Chen Yuanguang lives next to it.
As early as three days ago, Cui Geng had already sent someone to inform Chen Yuanguang that he would visit soon.
Therefore, as soon as he stepped on the platform, Chen Yuanguang came out with his subordinates and said, "Grass people Chen Yuanguang see ......"
Cui Geng hurriedly stepped forward and stopped him with his hand: "General Chen, hurry up and excuse me, I can't deserve such a big gift from you." β
Although Chen Yuanguang is only 35 years old this year, he joined the army at the age of 15, and with the merits of killing with a knife and a shot on the battlefield, he became the assassin of Zhangzhou.
Moreover, Chen Yuanguang's grandfather Chen Qian was the son of Chen Guoren, a general of the Sui Dynasty, and when Emperor Gaozu Li Yuan raised troops, Chen Qian persuaded his father Chen Guoren to surrender to the Tang Dynasty.
Chen Zheng, the father of Chen Yuanguang, conquered Linfen and other counties with his father Chen Qian when he was young, and Tang Taizong appointed him as the general of Zuolang. Later, Chen Zheng was ordered by Emperor Gaozong to lead the generals of Zhuwei to be the head of the Lingnan march, Ping Guangkou, created Zhangzhou, and led the state affairs with Zuo Lang. In the end, Chen Zheng was killed in battle, and the people of Zhangren still think about it.
In Chen Yuanguang's generation, after the family of Jiangmen and loyal ministers! He not only received the shadow of his ancestors, but also outlived the blue!
The deployment of the Chen family and their former protΓ©gΓ©s are all over Lingnan Road, especially in Fujian, which is deeply rooted.
Now Chen Yuanguang Ding is worried that he has no official position and no position, and when his filial piety is completed in three years, even if the imperial court does not let him reinstate his official position, it is inevitable that the history of a state assassin will always be inevitable, and the rank of the product is definitely above Cui Geng, and it is not at all comparable to him in the new tenderness of officialdom.
Chen Yuanguang naturally won't really bow down, but it's just for show, anyway, Cui Geng is the political envoy of Lingnan Province who was sealed by the imperial court, and now he is Ding Wubai, so he can't see the imperial history and not worship, right?
But if Cui Geng really dares to accept his worship, then he really can't chat happily next.
Seeing that Cui Geng was so interested, Chen Yuanguang was obviously much more enthusiastic, and invited: "This place is not a place to speak, and I also invite Cui Yushi to come in to serve tea." β
"General Chen, please." Cui Geng followed.
In the thatched house, the furnishings are very simple, that is, a bed, a stone table, and a dozen stone benches.
Cui Geng only brought Song Genhai into the thatched house, and Chen Yuanguang introduced him to the six generals who guarded the tomb with him, namely Li Boyao, Shen Shishi, Xu Tianzheng, Ma Ren, Zhang Boji, and Ou Zhe.
These people are only eight-rank captains in the army, but Cui Geng knows that these six people have a particularly loud honorific title in later generations, that is, "Pingmin Six Generals".
It's not good now, but it's also a bit of a drama in history, he didn't plan to slack off, he stood up and rushed to the six generals to hug his fists politely.
Seeing this, these six people were a little stunned, because they were only the Xuanjie lieutenant of the eighth grade, and the Lingnan Provincial political envoy in front of them was actually very polite to them, you must know that they have seen a lot of poor people from the imperial court, even if it is a small nine-rank official, they are all above the top.
This Cui Yushi is very good at Corporal Lixian.
For a time, Cui Geng also won the first favor of the six generals.
One of the lieutenants was named Xu Tianzheng, 42 years old this year, tall, dark-skinned, and with a violent temperament on weekdays.
He looked at the politeness of the dignified imperial history to a few of them, and felt a little strange in his heart, and the more he thought about it, the more wrong it became, and he asked directly: "Cui Yushi, I am a rough person, I only know how to use my head on the battlefield to be rich and rich, and I don't have as many flowers and flowers as you literati, can we open the skylight and say something bright?" β
Cui Geng heard the hostility in the other party's words, and couldn't help but be stunned, and asked, "What kind of irrelevant words did Captain Xu say?" How did this imperial history spend its intestines? To tell the truth, although this imperial history is now doing civil affairs, he is not a literati. A year ago, Cui was just a famous prodigal child in Qingyuan City! A few months ago, Qingyuan City was attacked by mountain bandits at night, and this official can be regarded as having led troops to fight against ......"
Syllable~~
Without waiting for Cui Geng to finish speaking, Xu Tianzheng slapped the stone table suddenly, his dark face was full of excitement, and shouted: "Cui Yushi doesn't have to work hard to get close, why you came, we know it!" β
"Huh?" Cui Geng was so confused by this fight that the second monk was confused, buddy is just here to visit the legendary figures in history, why are you so excited?
As the host, Chen Yuanguang had a good impression of Cui Geng, so he naturally would not let his subordinates snub the guests, so he immediately lowered his face and shouted: "Presumptuous, you are a guest from afar, how can you be so rude to Cui Yushi?" Don't apologize yet! β
Chen Yuanguang's reprimand was good, and Xu Tianzheng, who was still very excited just now, just said that he had just hit the pliers, and apologized to Cui Geng like Feng Lunyin.
Cui Geng naturally didn't bother with him, after all, most of the generals were rough people, but he was deeply inexplicable at Xu Tianzheng's sudden hostility, and asked suspiciously: "Captain Xu, the two of us haven't met before, right?" You just said that you know what I want to do today, but is there some misunderstanding in it? β
"Humph! You ......"
Xu Tianzheng was about to snort again, but Chen Yuanguang glared at him, so he had to swallow it, and said in an urn voice: "You really weren't invited by Jia Renyi?" β
Cui Geng was stunned and asked, "Who is Jia Renyi?" This official has never heard of it. β
At this time, not only Xu Tianzheng and the other five generals, but also Chen Yuanguang himself were stunned, and couldn't help but wonder: "Cui Yushi, you're not kidding, are you?" The current Zhangzhou assassin history is Jia Renyi, haven't you heard of it? β
"Uh......"
Cui Geng couldn't help but be embarrassed, he patronized the star-chasing star to see the historical celebrity Chen Yuanguang, and he forgot his own work, and he didn't even check who the current Zhangzhou assassin name was.
Of course, Cui Geng, as the political envoy of Lingnan Province, can't say that he doesn't know who the current Zhangzhou assassin is, right?
So, he played his head and said: "Cui Mou, as a Fujian person, only knows that the Zhangzhou assassin Shi is General Chen, as for the others, I really don't know!" β
"Hahaha, I love to hear you say that."
Xu Tianzheng was a man with no scheming, and immediately smiled, and said happily: "I'll just say, most of the people in Zhangzhou are subordinates of the Chen family, and of course General Chen has to sit in this assassination history, what kind of thing is Jia Renyi?" I didn't expect Cui Yushi to recognize this reason......"
Subsequently, the big-mouthed Xu Tianzheng slowly revealed the root cause of this misunderstanding.
It turned out that three years ago, Chen Yuanguang resigned from the post of Zhangzhou assassin in order to keep filial piety to his grandmother, and his successor was Jia Renyi.
This person was born in Wen Jinshi, and he thought that the fighting men of the Chen family were useful in the pacification of the rebellion of the bureaucrats in Fujian, but it was not enough to use it to build Zhangzhou. Therefore, taking advantage of the opportunity to take over the Zhangzhou Mansion, some people were dismissed from their official positions. These people are basically old subordinates supported by Chen Yuanguang, and Jia Renyi's eagerness to exclude dissidents naturally caused dissatisfaction among Chen Yuanguang's old subordinates, including Xu Tianzheng.
That's it, the key is that Chen Yuanguang's filial piety period is about to expire.
Jia Renyi's master of low eyes does not know how to govern the local area at all, and in the past three years, Zhangzhou has become a miasma, and the evaluation of the officials is very poor. Once Chen Yuanguang comes back to take over the position of Zhangzhou Assassin, he will definitely be laid off and unemployed. If you're lucky, you can still get an idle official position with no power, and if you're unlucky, you have to go home and eat yourself, and wait for the officials to see where there are any suitable pits, and then arrange for him to go to the pit.
So, in order to keep his official position, Jia Renyi invested a lot of money and sent several henchmen to investigate Chen Yuanguang's illegal affairs, preparing to sue for a lawsuit.
Because as long as something happens to Chen Yuanguang, no one will compete with him for the position of Zhangzhou assassin.
However, Chen Yuanguang is the biggest snake in Zhangzhou, and Jia Renyi's plan was told by someone with a heart as soon as it began, and the result was that no bullshit evidence was collected.
However, this incident has become a big heart problem for Chen Yuanguang and others, they all understand that this matter is not over, and maybe Jia Renyi will have something in the future.
What is good is that at this sensitive time, I received a notice of Cui Geng's personal visit three days ago.
What does Cui Geng do? Imperial history, I specially picked out the mistakes of the officials and reported them.
Cui Geng and Chen Yuanguang are not related, and the other is not related, and the other is not related, and the more important thing is that Chen Yuanguang is still in the Ding worry period, Cui Geng is in such a hurry to visit, what do the people on Chen Yuanguang's side think?
In addition, as soon as they met, Cui Geng's performance was different from the imperial historians he had seen in the past, and people were cold and cold, but what about this Cui Yushi? The attitude is too enthusiastic. It's no wonder that Xu Tianzheng, who has never had a city government, couldn't help but be furious.
After listening to the ins and outs, Cui Geng finally understood, and said with a smile: "General Chen misunderstood, the reason why this official came to visit the general is purely because he admires the prestige of the Chen family, the four generations of loyal and famous generals of the Chen family, and the matter of making his grandmother's late Mrs. Wei have long been praised in Lingnan Road. Therefore, Cui had the idea of going up the mountain to visit and pay tribute today. β
Naturally, everyone loves to listen to good words, especially when it comes to the praise of the ancestors, which makes the corners of Chen Yuanguang's mouth slightly purse and smile, obviously being said by Cui Geng to come over to the heart of the mountain.
Seeing this, Cui Geng added another fire, saying that there were already some opera troupes in small counties in the mountains and wilderness, and they sang the deeds of Chen Yuanguang Kaizhang into a drama.
Of course, this drama is the story of Yang Wen Guangping Fujian Eighteen Caves that he heard in his absurd dream, but the protagonist was changed to Chen Yuanguang. This story is naturally real, and the history is based on Chen Yuanguang's Pingmin Kaizhang, and the story of Yang Wenguang's eighteen caves has indeed been compiled. Cui Geng said that he has a nose and eyes, and some of the plots are indeed Chen Yuanguang's own personal experience.
The person concerned is in front of him, although it is a slight exaggeration, but in general, he can say it so informatively, I can't help but Chen Yuanguang and his subordinates don't believe it!
After finishing the play, Cui Geng embezzled the evaluation of Chen Yuanguang by later generations, especially focusing on his great significance to the development of Zhangzhou.
Except for the four words "Kaizhang Holy King", the others were mentioned.
Speaking good words to please people, what we pay attention to is to see the subtleties of kung fu.
If a person is fat, and you praise others for their good figure, that is looking for scolding. But if you want to praise him for his substance, he will gladly accept it.
What's more, what Cui Geng said later was not a sycophant, whoever listened to it carefully and pondered it had to admit that it was indeed the case!
For a while, the six generals of Pingmin shook their heads when they heard it, and they felt deeply honored.
Chen Yuanguang thought that he was young, and he was ordered by Emperor Gaozong to calm Fujian and open Zhang, with the death of Emperor Gaozong, the new lord succeeded to the throne, and the Empress Wu came to the court, so many years the court has not been public about himself, let alone praise.
I have suffered a lot of hardships and grievances in Fujian for so many years, and I am very depressed.
Now I suddenly found that in this world, there are still people, no, there are still many people who read their own good, and they even changed it to a drama and sang it in the countryside.
There is also the Cui Yushi in front of him, who can actually treasure the deeds of himself and his grandmother, and know himself better than himself.
For a while, Chen Yuanguang really had mixed feelings, and his throat kept squirming, as if something called a confidant was constantly resonating in his chest.
He sighed sincerely: "Those who know me, Cui Yushi! β
Xu Tianzheng, a general with a rough temperament, laughed even more, and said: "I'll just say, Cui Yushi is not bad, I know that our hardships are not easy, you are worth making friends, haha!" β
The previous suspicion was released, Cui Geng took the opportunity to mention worshiping the old lady of the Wei family, and Chen Yuanguang readily agreed.
The incense, candles, paper and money were all prepared in advance, Cui Geng knelt in front of the tomb of Mrs. Wei to mourn silently, and Chen Yuanguang and others accompanied him behind.
At this solemn and solemn moment, there was a sudden shout of killing: "Rush! Kill! took Chen Yuanguang's head, don't let that guy slip away! β