Take the system back to the Northern Song Dynasty

Chapter 239 Even Eating Leopard Gallbladder Is Not a Beast
It's a bit late, there is another chapter later.In addition, there was a clerical error yesterday, and He Zhizhong was written as Wu Zhizhong. The main reason is that these two people are in the imperial court and have similar names. In addition, Wu Zhixiang's soy sauce appeared in the same scene, so Xiaobao messed up a bit. It has been edited

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Zhang Shuye's "office" is just across from Lao Cai, the door is wide open but he never communicates with each other.

In the same center, Cai Jing has news about Chizhou, and Zhang Shuye also has news, but it is not from Shidai County, but from Chizhou Yongfeng Supervisor, which is directly under the supervision of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

It seems to be popular, or it is a unified culture in the officialdom. Yongfengjian’s report has no surprises. Like Wu Zhixiang, Yongfeng Supervisor stated various mistakes made by Zhao Cheng in this Chizhou battle.

Generally speaking, Lao Zhang didn't know Zhao Cheng either. Apart from listening to his daughter Zhang Ji, who had been reduced to a soft-footed shrimp, boasting, Lao Zhang's trust in Zhao Cheng was relatively limited.

But it does not affect the desire to arrest the people from Yongfeng Prison and hang them in the capital to hang street lamps after receiving the documents, because no matter what is right or wrong, this kind of situation is the worst, and the enemy is most tolerant at the moment. careful thinking.

Zhang Shuye, who has quite a lot of experience in the local area, knows that when the more we rely on solidarity as a support, once the catastrophe is imminent, and the thoughts of flying in the back and stabbing a knife appear, no matter how big the plate is, it will collapse very quickly.

"Master."

With a scar on his face, the ruthless confidant clasped his fists and said, "Since the Wuwei Army first entered Chizhou, Xishan was defeated, then Lingyangshan was defeated, and then Shiliting in Zhao'an was defeated. How many people died in a row in the court?" I don’t know. It seems that Chizhou’s overall defeat is a foregone conclusion. I’m afraid you have to turn to Mr. Zhang Kangguo to conspire and plan early so that a large army can enter the southeast to quell the chaos in the early spring.”

Lao Zhang stood up and said, "It doesn't hurt my back at all. The old man wanted to ask, the army left without using money and food. The army is simple. There are more than 20 deployed in Tokyo alone. How easy it is to draw 10 people to the southeast with a single order, but These veteran soldiers, without enough money and food, can they really fight? Who has calculated the financial and livelihood disasters brought about by a large army transfer?"

Dao Scar wanted to talk, but Lao Zhang interrupted again, "Shut up! Wang Xiu is a nobody. If the old man is in Chizhou, how can he let him jump around? When will my Great Song Dynasty be killed by a little boy?" The horse thieves led by the nose? If the horse thieves in a state are in trouble, they can count on the imperial court’s 500 troops to march. How many troops will the imperial court have to support, 800 million or 1000 million? If you need to deploy a large army, then you only need Xixia Zhuoluo Army Commander to push forward a hundred miles, and you will dare to send a letter to ask for money and food for a [-] million army?"

"Absurd, nonsense, children's opinion!"

Lao Zhang complained until the end and was still aggrieved.

Dao Scarqiang is very helpless. Recently, Lao Zhang has basically become a troll. No matter who talks to him, as long as he does not talk about money, he can talk about anything. When it comes to money and food, he will not complain about Cai Jing in person. , even He Zhizhong can be sprayed.

Dao Scarqiang was born in Lanzhou in the northwest of the Great Northwest. He was an orphan with extraordinary talent and strength since he was a child. He fled for life in the market, joined the gang of beggars, met hooligans, and made small troubles.Later, he ate food with the butcher gang, and he couldn't eat hot food for a few months. The butcher gang made a disturbance and killed someone. Dao Scarqiang was thrown out as a scapegoat and sent to prison in a daze.

Dao Scarqiang, who was still young at that time, was very frightened, sitting in the dark cell, thinking about how to justify "I didn't do it" during the interrogation, but unfortunately, he was never good at words, and he still couldn't organize the language he should have.

Unexpectedly, without being tried by the county government, half a year later, Youtian Daoba forced himself to eat wine and meat, and was told, "You have been sentenced to death, and the approval document from the Ministry of Criminal Justice in Beijing has arrived, and you will be beheaded after autumn."

At that time, Dao Scar wanted to cry but had no tears. He didn't know why he was convicted of death without going to court. He didn't know what tricks and connections the police, gangs, and officials from the county government, state government, and even the capital's criminal department had.

The reason why he survived was that Zhang Shuye, who was then Lanzhou's official and joined the army, discovered something fishy about the county government from another incident.

The rule of the Song Dynasty is that when an official has a problem, all cases and affairs he handles must be independently reviewed.So at a young age, Zhang Shuye, who was an official for the first time in his life, began to examine the past of Jiang Jing, the county magistrate, and finally found out that Scar Qiang was convicted of death without trial.

Dao Baqiang, who was still a child at the time, didn't understand much, but he understands now. At that time, Zhang Shuye offended all the bureaucrats in the state, but he withstood the pressure and threatened to get to the bottom of it.

In fact, Lao Zhang is really awesome. Not only does he have the blood of two former prime ministers, he is also a relative of the emperor.So yes, as a young man who has not passed the exam, Lao Zhang's first official position is to start as a secretary and join the army. This start is higher than that of Wang Anshi, who was appointed by the emperor as No. 4 in the imperial examination.

This position is roughly equivalent to the "1 Municipal Commission for Discipline Inspection, 1 Secretary, 1 Secretary and Director of Finance" in later generations, and shoulders the important responsibility of inspectors.

Even so, Lao Zhang was unable to proceed with the case, because the stabbing was serious, and he was warned by his superiors "no further investigation", and at the same time, he was caught by the family members and beaten and told "no more trouble".That's all.

Of course, as a compromise, but also as a face for the Zhang family, although the court did not support the overthrow of the entire border officialdom under the cloud of war, it also changed the case of Dao Scarqiang. At the same time, the magistrate Jiang Jing was dismissed and transferred back to the capital waiting position.

Dao Scarqiang's death penalty was exonerated, but the court refused to correct his mistakes completely for the sake of face, and still maintained the view that Dao Scarqiang was guilty. In the end, he changed the sentence to Dao Scarqiang's military registration, and "deserved crimes and meritorious service" in Lanzhou as a thief with the army.

I once remembered that when leaving the death row to go to the prison camp, Zhang Shuye came and patted Dao Baqiang on the shoulder and said, "I have tried my best, and the world needs some compromises, but don't be discouraged. There are many people who are worse than you, follow me to kill horse thieves as a soldier, and I will give you a birth in the future."

This is the first time Dao Scarqiang met Zhang Shuye, and since then he has followed Lao Zhang as a dead man.I haven't experienced a real confrontation between the two armies at the border, but I really followed Lao Zhang out of the death pit.

Dao Scarqiang swears that apart from being unable to defeat the inherent bureaucratic system, Lao Zhang is definitely the toughest arrogant scholar from the prime minister's family.

And he has maintained this virtue since he was young. Now that Zhang Shuye is sitting in the temple, his mother Chizhou has been surrounded and is about to break the city. He still killed him. That's all, he can be killed without an army at all."

"Enxiang... It is related to the stability of the entire southeast. I am not arguing against you. After three defeats, Chizhou has no counterattack force available. It is really necessary to prepare early at the court level. Once Chizhou is won, the king Xiu's feathers will be full."

Scar clenched his fists and said.

Zhang Shuye shook his head greatly, "I don't agree with this old man. There is a counterattack force. It depends on whether they will use it. The annoying thing is that these bureaucrats have their own status, and they will never and look down on going deep into the grassroots. They will not launch It's the power of the people."

Dao Scarqiang doesn't agree with this weird theory now, but he can't refute it.Because Lao Zhang has always been this kind of virtue.

When I was at the Lanzhou border at the earliest, I was harassed by horse thieves who came and went without a trace. The situation was complicated and the cloud of war was shrouded.So how did Zhang Shuye, who had no military power and did not trust the officers and soldiers, do it?
Dao Scarqiang clearly remembered that Lao Zhang selected fifty people with strange skeletons from the slums and trained them as urban management, er, they were actually his exclusive "tax inspection team".Afterwards, he went to send the documents to the prison department, and brought the file of the reform-through-labour prisoner Da Baqiang to his side.

In this way, a scholar led fifty city management officers including Dao Scarqiang to go out into the battle, went deep into the territory of Xixia, ambushed in the wild for eleven days, and finally ambushed in the first generation of Lingbo Mountain, annihilating a group of horse thieves with more than 90 people. Dominance wins.

There are more than one horse thief, but Lanzhou has never been harassed by horse thieves since then.

There is no credit for credit, this is not Zhang Shuye's business at all, so the whole Lanzhou officialdom is getting bigger.

General Gao Yongnian, who was stationed on Qinfeng Road at that time, jumped his feet angrily, and wrote to the Privy Council like walking on thin ice, saying, "Lanzhou Uncle Zhang took the rats at night and killed the small horse thieves. It is not beneficial to the improvement of the war environment, but it may trigger a large-scale national war."

The result, of course, was that Gao Yongnian was reprimanded by the Privy Council, "Shut up, mind your own business, you can blame Zhang Shuye, damn you are the dog and the mouse".

In the end, there is no merit and no fault. It is impossible for them to reward Zhang Shuye for this, but of course punishment and accountability are even more impossible, so let it go.

Therefore, in Dao Scarqiang's view, Lao Zhang didn't have any great achievements in the military, but his virtue was so good, he always believed that the old soldiers were useless, and the real usable power was around him, among the people.

This way of thinking and style has been retained by Lao Zhang until now, so after his daughter reported about Zhao Cheng in Chizhou, Lao Zhang saw hope.

Especially on the eve of the Battle of Xishan, no one believed Zhao Cheng's judgment. When there was a problem with the deployment of the army, Zhao Cheng led fifty city managers out of Xishan. Perhaps this incident made Zhang Shuye feel like he saw himself in the past. ?

Although it failed to reverse the Xishan Battle in the overall situation in the end, it really let Lao Zhang see the last ray of hope remaining in Chizhou.

This was Zhang Shuye's first attempt to trust Zhao Cheng.

(End of this chapter)