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Chapter 41 Prequel Zhang Family Courtyard
The owner of the Zhang Family Courtyard is back.

The news spread throughout the Zhang family in Jizhou.

The Zhang family in Jizhou has lasted for a hundred years, and passed on the family with the martial spirit, and there have been many famous generals in the past dynasties.The Zhang Family Courtyard is the place where the ancestors lived and the holy land of the Zhang family in Jizhou.

Seventeen years ago, bad news suddenly came from the capital. The emperor accused Zhang Jing, the prime minister of the right court, of rebellion and executed him all over the house.The emperor originally ordered to burn the Zhang's ancestral hall and the Zhang family's courtyard in Jizhou, but was stopped by the entire Zhang family.Under the circumstances at that time, if Zhang's ancestral hall and Zhang's courtyard were forcibly burned down, Jizhou would really be reversed.

The Jizhou prefect had no choice but to demolish the gates of the ancestral hall and the compound, and transport them to the capital, saying that they had been ordered to burn them.A few days later, the clansman installed the new gate back.

For 17 years, the Zhang family compound has been empty, only Zhang Zhongbao, an old servant of the Zhang family, came to look after him from time to time.

There has always been a rumor circulating in the Zhang family that the owner of the Zhang family compound and the only remaining member of the main house will definitely come back.

***
Zhang Zhongbao pushed open the door of the Famous Sword Hall, the sound of the nails turning slowly echoed in the dim hall.

What is enshrined in the hall is not the ancestral tablets, but the swords of Zhang's famous generals.After the famous generals of the past dynasties passed away, their swords would be sent to the Famous Sword Hall of the Zhang Family Courtyard to be enshrined, inspiring future generations to revitalize their martial spirits and help the world.

There was a young man sitting in the hall. He had a black bun, broad shoulders and narrow waist, and he was wearing a black sword suit. He had a sword in his hand, and the light from the door hit his straight back.

"Young master, the clan elders are here." Zhang Zhongbao cupped his hands facing the young master's back.

Zhang Jianshan picked up the sword beside him in one hand, stood up, turned his head, his eyes were gloomy.

"it is good."

The Zhang family in Jizhou has a total of 32 houses, the largest of which has five houses, namely Yaoding, Yanzhou, Taicang, Lizhou, and Xiachuan.Hearing that the young master of the main house has returned, the elders of the Wufang clan rushed over from various mansions.

Zhang Zhongbao followed behind the young master.The young master is seventeen years old, with sword-like eyebrows and slender features, and his steps are steady, reminiscent of the style of the master back then.It's just that he is still young, and has been reclusive in Zhangjia Village all these years, and has lost contact with Jizhou for 12 years. I don't know if the clan elders will recognize the only legitimate son of the main house.

In the meeting hall, the five clan elders sat separately, and no one spoke.As soon as Zhang Qi, the patriarch of the Zhang family in Yao Dingfu, picked up the teacup from the table, he saw the eldest son of the eldest son walk in, and he put the teacup back.

The five clan elders stood up and saluted, the young master returned the salute one by one, turned around and sat on the master's seat.

Several clan elders exchanged glances, and Zhang Yun, the clan elder of Yanzhou Mansion, got up and said, "Dare to ask the young master of the house, is he wearing the ideal sword?"

Zhang Jianshan smiled, untied the sword from his waist, walked up to Zhang Yun, handed it to him with both hands, and said, "Uncle, this is the sword of my nephew, named Mo Yang."

The length of the sword is two feet and one inch. The body of the sword is made of fine iron.

"What a good sword." Zhang Yun sighed, "It's a pity that this is not the ideal sword."

"The virtuous nephew and grandson should know that back then our Zhang family's Taizu used the Weixin sword to command all the prefectures in Jizhou, but now the uncles and children in the clan only recognize the Weixin sword." Zhang Fan, the elder of the Taicang clan, said.

Zhang Jianshan was calm and calm, and said: "My uncle said it very well. When I was at home when I was young, my father often taught that 'the sword is the best, but the heart is not easy'. The sword and the sword can cut everything in the world, but only a firm mind can't cut it. Father It is often said that the heart is in the sword, and we must not forget the original intention in order to be consistent."

Several clan elders in the seat exchanged glances after hearing this.

Zhang Zhongbao thought in his heart, what the young master said is not talking about swords, but hitting people's hearts.

Seeing that everyone was silent, Zhang Jianshan laughed again: "My nephew still remembers that when he was three years old, Uncle Tai Cang came to the capital to visit his nephew and gave me a wooden sword. The sword was one foot long, and my name was engraved on the sword. , At that time, I couldn't put it down, and I even held the food in my hand."

"Do you still remember?" Zhang Fan, the elder of the Taicang clan, was stunned, he could not remember this matter clearly, the son of the eldest son was only three years old at the time, how could he remember it so clearly.

Zhang Jianshan laughed again: "At that time, my uncle came to see my father in the capital, and I listened to the matter. My uncle said at the time that the harvest of autumn grain in Taicang was in short supply, and the wheat harvested was 100 million shi less than the previous year. Jizhou is not a granary like Jiangnan. The government couldn’t afford so much food. Only Yanzhou gave 10 shi, Lizhou gave [-] shi, and Xiachuan gave [-] shi, which is a drop in the bucket. My father immediately ordered someone to write a note to the Ministry of Households and distribute [-] relief silver to Taicang. Wanliang, the Yangzhou transfer envoys collect food from the south of the Yangtze River, and transport it to Taicang by water and land, and only give them ten days."

Zhang Fan stood up tremblingly: "You, you remember everything? You were only three years old..."

Zhang Jianshan turned to the elder Zhang Qi of the Yao Ding clan, and said with a smile, "Uncle Yao Ding came to the capital when I was four years old, and I also remember the situation at that time."

So he recounted the history of Yao Ding and the nearby Yanzhou fighting for land and Zhang Qi personally visiting his father in the capital. Zhi, and how his father made a fair decision, he remembered clearly.

The elders of the clan were too stunned to speak.Zhang Jianshan told the old stories of the other clan elders one by one, all of which he saw and heard with his own eyes when he was young. Some things, even the clan elders couldn't remember clearly, but he said that the scores were not bad. .

After recounting the past, the five elders were silent.

After a long time, Zhang Yun, the oldest member of the Yanzhou tribe, stood up tremblingly from his seat, walked in front of the Lord, and bowed tremblingly, saying: "The long house is the big one. Now that there are frequent foreign aggressions and the decline of the national fortune, Jizhou is already a big place." It’s not as good as before. From now on, the important task of revitalizing Jizhou will be handed over to the young master, and the only young master in our Yanzhou lineage will follow the lead. If you are so devastated, you will never return!”

Seeing this, several other clan elders also stood up to follow suit.

***
Everyone in the Zhang family in Jizhou is spreading rumors that the owner of the Zhang family compound has really returned.

The young master is only seventeen years old, and has a natural talent of never forgetting.

He was very much like Zhang Jing, the right prime minister back then, and he was a little more gentle than his father.Everyone she meets is gentle and kind, and she analyzes things in detail and without prejudice.

Over the years, the imperial court has been deliberately weakening the Jizhou Zhang family and the Jizhou army.The military in Jizhou is in charge of the military pay, food, grass, and military equipment required by the imperial court, and the imperial court only pays [-]% of it.

Since the young master came back, the Jizhou army has gradually run out of food and salaries.The deserters who sneaked back home unexpectedly also returned to camp one after another, and the situation of losing land on the border was finally contained.I don't know how this young young master did it.

Everyone said that Jizhou was saved.

(End of this chapter)