Prime Minister

Chapter 850 Relying on Zhang Gong
The sound of horseshoes is especially clear at night.

The caravans in the reverse journey were all in a mess, busy harnessing their carts and donkeys, and some people even wanted to climb out of the courtyard wall at the back gate in the dark before dawn.

As a result, several arrows came, and all the people who turned over from the courtyard wall were shot down.

The thieves outside were still shouting: "I said that I don't want human life, but only gold, silver and women."

There were cries in the rebellious brigade, and more people were frightened by the scene of chaos.

Zhang Yue suddenly remembered that when he went to Beijing when he was young and was attacked by bandits by the Huai River, he lived in Bianjing and thought it was a peaceful and prosperous age.

However, the law and order in the Great Song Dynasty was extremely poor, and it was even worse when Huizong arrived. There were Song Jiang, Fang La and other four major bandits, and famous books such as Water Margin were born.

The people in the entire rebellious journey are fearful of the robbers' attack, but Zhang Yue is thinking carefully about how to clean up the world's law and order in the future.

Tang Jiu, Zhang Gong and a dozen or so followers were all dressed neatly, and the dozen or so healthy horses were well-fed last night.

"Marshal, kill the general and go out?" Tang Jiu asked for instructions.

Zhang Yue said: "Wait a minute."

As soon as the words fell, there was a loud shout from the yard next door.

"You dare to do that?"

Zhang Yue heard the voice, it was the businessman who looked down on him yesterday.

At this time, a woman's cry sounded.

"no, do not want!"

Another rough voice came: "Little lady, didn't you hear? There are only gold, silver and women outside. Only by offering you to us can we survive!"

"Maybe I can ask for some rewards."

"I spent thirty pennies to hire you to protect me, how dare you treat me like this? Do you have faith?" said the merchant.

"How much is Xinyi one tael worth?"

"Help! Help!"

Hearing the businessman's angry voice, Zhang Yue shook his head.

"You still dare to shout! Take out the gold and silver quickly."

"Otherwise, kill someone and try the knife first!"

"Hero, hero, spare your life! I'll give it to me!"

At this moment, the inside of Nilv was in a panic, and the thieves outside obviously had sneaked in, screaming loudly on purpose to create panic and confusion.

Zhang Yue said to Tang Jiu: "Don't worry about the rest, just break up the thieves outside."

Immediately Zhang Yue and his party got on their horses, while Peng Jingyi and Huang Haoyi guarded the house.

The courtyard where Zhang Yue lives leads directly to the gate outside. Zhang Yue rode his horse and arrived at the central road of Nilu.

Some people also said: "Hero, I will fight with you!"

Zhang Yue didn't greet anyone, he just drove his horse towards him, but he saw several corpses lying at the gate of Nilu, and several sneaky people were opening the gate, preparing to welcome the bandits from outside.

Zhang Gong took the lead in riding his horse to speed up, and knocked several people over with a stick.

With the door half open, Tang Jiu took the lead and took off the bow on his back, and grabbed an arrow from Hulu...

Generals like Wang Shunchen, Liu Changzuo, and Xiang Bao who are good at shooting are all good at shooting.

For example, in a battle with the Xia people, Wang Shunchen shot thousands of arrows with one rider and one rider, and all the arrows were shot without fail, which can be called Gatling on horseback.

Regardless of whether the historical data is exaggerated or not, in this era, the battle between the two armies is the first in cavalry and shooting!

More than a dozen sharpshooters with good bows and horses are enough to be worth an army.

The sky was just before dawn, and after Tang's ninety-odd riders rushed out, they were confronted by a black army of thieves.

There are more than fifty riders on horseback, and the rest are infantry, and there is no formation scattered.

Seeing that someone dared to rush out, the thieves immediately dispatched five or six riders. A big man held a huge ax and said, "Hero! How dare you fight me across the mountain?"

Seeing Tang Jiu, they didn't answer.

The other party was furious and rushed forward with a huge ax in hand.

Tang Jiu raised his hand and shot an arrow, which hit 'Guo Shan Feng' between the eyebrows!

While everyone was stunned, Guo Shanfeng turned over and fell off his horse, Tang Jiu shot several arrows from the cavalry around him, and all the cavalry discharged by the bandits fell off the horse with arrows in their faces.

"It's the official army!"

This kind of riding and archery only shoots at people's faces, which is not at the level of ordinary officers and soldiers.

When the thieves knew that they met the elite of the Song army, they immediately dispersed.The dozens of riders didn't hesitate for a moment, turned their horses' heads and ran away.

Tang Jiu waited to catch up with him, stretched his bow and set up an arrow, but another seven or eight cavalry bandits shot through their backs and fell off their horses.

The Song Army's horses were fast and strong, and they were well-trained. They immediately chased the fifty or so riders, and in the end they only allowed the opponent to escape by a few riders.

The five or six hundred thieves who followed them had long since dispersed, but they had only run for less than half a mile. Tang Jiu and the other dozen or so cavalry had already wiped out the thieves' cavalry and came back.

"Is it going to drop or not?"

Without saying a word, these thieves threw their weapons and said, "I wish to surrender!"

Zhang Yuefang watched the scene expressionlessly from beginning to end.

He steered his horse back to Nilu and said to the probing caravan guards: "The bandits have surrendered, you go up and disarm and collect them, and escort them to the government together."

At this moment, everyone in Nilv was in awe of Zhang Yue, and hurriedly agreed.

All the courtyards opened their doors, and businessmen rushed out to get acquainted. Seeing that Zhang Yue was even reserved, they didn't dare to inquire about his identity, and just kept complimenting him.

Zhang Yue saw that the door was half opened in the yard next door to him.It turned out that the businessman had a bruised nose and a swollen face, and there was a look of embarrassment on his face, which seemed to be flattering.

Taking advantage of Zhang Yue's return to the hospital, the other party stepped forward and said: "Thanks to the officials for saving my life, the little girl survived."

The businessman looked at Zhang Yue secretly, thinking that he was so young and had more than a dozen elite soldiers under his command. He was probably the son of some general in the northwest, and he just took this opportunity to get in touch.

As long as he is willing to part with money, his family may have the possibility of getting married.

"I don't know if the official has married?"

Zhang Yue heard the other party's second sentence and said this, thinking that his husband's popularity had come again.

And it was reported outside that tens of thousands of gold and silver were seized from the bandits, as well as other property, as well as dozens of healthy horses.

At this time, smoke and dust rolled up in the distance, but I saw more than a hundred cavalry coming towards the road.

Everyone's hearts tightened again.

"It's the official army!"

"Official army!"

But when he saw the officer and general who was the leader, he stared straight at the gold, silver and jewels all over the floor.

It's been like this all these years, one wave of thieves, another wave of soldiers.

The thieves plundered a place, and the officers and soldiers took the opportunity to catch up and negotiate with the thieves, asking them to share some benefits with them.

Therefore, it is often the thieves who loot in front, and the officers and soldiers deliberately let them go, just following behind to share the spoils.

The so-called family of soldiers and bandits, the government also likes to recruit security. It is not uncommon to be a thief today and a soldier tomorrow, and a soldier today and a thief tomorrow.

"I don't know which group of people did it?"

When the officers and generals saw Qian Cai, their eyes were extremely keen, and they were thinking of vicious and treacherous ideas in their hearts.

Tang Jiu immediately stepped forward and shouted: "Mr. Zhang Jinglue is here, and I'm not getting off the horse to meet you!"

The officer and general was shocked, seeing all the young and healthy horses in Tang Dynasty, he immediately understood why he turned over and fell off the horse and said: "I don't know the strategy and strategy, and you are here, the general deserves death!"

Soon the county magistrate, chief bookkeeper, and county lieutenant arrived here one after another.

The county magistrate was born as a top-ranked Jinshi, and he is still selecting candidates. I heard that a big official in the frontier was besieged by hundreds of thieves in the county. If the other party impeached them, their official careers would come to an end.

The county magistrate gave the county lieutenant a glance and scolded the other party, planning to take the blame for him later.

The county captain is an honest man, and he admitted it silently.

But the master was very calm, he was the youngest among the three.

At this moment, the three of them held the notebook high in both hands.As for the merchants in the courtyard, they were all locked in the courtyard by officers and soldiers to prevent thieves from committing crimes.

The businessman in the yard next door saw these civil servants sweating profusely from the crack of the door, and realized that the young man was not just a general.

Thanks to myself, I still wanted to call the other party as my son-in-law, and I would never be able to climb up to such a family status in my life.

He looked back and glanced at his daughter, the daughter was leaning against the door at the moment, her neck was wrapped in white gauze, just now he hired an attendant to sacrifice her to the thief, but the other party stabbed her neck with a knife and vowed to die.

Now she asked in a low voice: "Father, are those people outside here to pay respects to benefactor?"

The merchant nodded and said, "Yes."

"I don't know the identity of the benefactor? What is the name?"

The businessman said: "It's a blessing to save your life this time. As for the identity of benefactor, it's not for people like us to inquire about it."

"That's it!" the woman nodded and said, bowing three times to the courtyard next door.

At this moment, the county magistrate, chief bookkeeper, and county lieutenant waited for a while before allowing them to come in to see him.

They saw that although Zhang Yue was young, he had no airs and was very kind to them, and he didn't care about being attacked under the rule.

Several people are overjoyed.

Instead, Zhang Yue asked them a few words about local people's conditions, finance and taxation, and the implementation of the new law, as if he wanted to compare them deliberately.

Several people cheered up and answered, Zhang Yue nodded in satisfaction, then just told them a few words to cherish people's livelihood, and set off with his entourage.

After several people sent Zhang Yue away, they all breathed a sigh of relief. The county magistrate said: "Now the imperial court is in a tight spot in Hebei. It is rumored that the officials plan to transfer Zhang Jinglue to the public to know Yingzhou, so they let it go lightly. I'm glad I waited." Bar."

"Knowing Yingzhou?" The county master smiled, "Mr. Zhang Jinglue has collected an army from seven states this time, and he must pay homage to Beijing. How could he just go to know Yingzhou? These words are just deceiving people. Curl."

The county magistrate felt that the county master's words were reasonable and said: "It's no wonder that Mr. Jinglue just asked me about the people's financial and taxation. It must be used when returning to the court in the future."

The county magistrate also thought to himself, whether they had left a good impression on Zhang Yue just now, if one or two words were pertinent, maybe their official career would be prominent.

The county magistrate joked: "I can't tell, I will rely on Mr. Zhang for my official career in the future."

Several people said a few words, and the county master sighed: "With Zhang Gong's knowledge and talent, he will definitely do something when he enters the court. At that time, not only I will have to rely on Zhang Gong, but all the people in the world will rely on Zhang Gong."

……

Zhang Yue went to Luoyang to meet Sima Guang and Guo Lin.

After Zheng Xia went to Shu, the emperor issued an edict of sinning himself, and Sima Guang immediately wrote a letter criticizing Wang Anshi's new law.

Although Wang Anshi gave up, the new law was not abolished, and even Lu Huiqing, whom Sima Guang hated the most, was replaced.

Sima Guang felt very disappointed and felt unwell immediately.When Zhang Yue arrived in Duyuan, Sima Guang just asked Guo Lin to tell him a word.

Guo Lin said that Sima Guang said on the sick bed that this new law is wrong or wrong, and it will not change!

Seeing that Sima Guang was sick like this, and he still spared no effort to criticize the new law, Zhang Yue told Guo Lin to comfort Sima Guang to recover from his illness.

Then Guo Lin took Zhang Yue out.

Zhang Yue and Guo Lin asked silently for a moment: "Where's Chunfu?"

Guo Lindao: "The last time Chunfu went to Xihe to see you, he lost his temper after he came back and burned many poems and articles he wrote in the past. This time when you come to Luoyang, he doesn't want to see you either."

Zhang Yue said: "I understand."

Zhang Yue asked Guo Lin rather in a bad mood at the moment: "Brother, do you think what I did is right?"

(End of this chapter)