Start with the humble bridegroom

Chapter 354
Shi Qiao and Tang Bo flew away from Zhaoyang.

The road from Zhaoyang to Jinling is full of rivers and plains, and Xinhe County is the only commanding height.The terrain here is isolated and high, surrounded by mountains on three sides, and several waterfalls hang down from the mountain peaks, converging into a small new river.

Because of the extremely narrow terrain here, the arable land has just exceeded 3000, and it was abolished after being established several times as a county, and it was re-established as a county government nine years ago.The terrain here is extremely dangerous, and it belongs to the traditional private domain of the Zhao family. There are less than [-] permanent residents living here, all of whom are slaves of the Wu royal family.

If Zhaoyang soldiers and horses go out to the south of Zhaoyang, Xinhe can threaten the Zhaoyang army's flanks, and can even monitor Zhaoyang's movements condescendingly.However, if Xinhe was assigned to the Lord Wuling, it would become the outpost for the King of Zhaoyang to enter the Southern Wu Plain, and even compete with the guards of Zhaoyang County.

It is very difficult for Shi Qiao to persuade the royal family to accept this!Because this means that if you want to regain Zhaoyang by force in the future, you must first capture Xinhe.However, Xinhe's terrain is almost unsolvable. The Xinhe defenders only need to guard the only exit, and they can hold down the attacker on the narrow ten-mile gentle slope.

But he had to do it, and now the only one who can save Nan Wu is the crown princess in their name.

It was the first time for Zhang Zhe to hold a private banquet in the government office of Zhaoyang County.

Not many people attended the meeting, so he only invited Cao Lingwen, Wu Huai, Liu Chong, Wei Po, Xu Qian, and Han Danian, as well as Zhou Wu, the prime minister of Feng'an County, Wang Xiu, the prime minister of Linlan County, Wan Maochun, the prime minister of Lan Xu Tingyou, Prime Minister of Jiangxian County, Kang Yongxian, Director of Lianyang County, and Dong Shifang, the left chief of Zhaoyang County Prince's Mansion, who had just arrived in Zhaoyang County to stand in front of Yang Zongchao and his son.

Dong Shifang was nearly fifty years old, and Zuo Changshi and Zhang Zhe were both of the fifth grade. This person sat opposite Zhang Zhe, talking and laughing with everyone at the banquet.This person once sat in the position of the prefect of Fuzhou, and then Ding You spent three years because of the death of his mother, and then his grandfather passed away, and Ding You again for three years.Zhang Zhe had heard of this person's name when he was in Shizhong Temple.

Ding You has been at home for six years, and Dong Shifang must write a letter to impeach the chief assistant every time, resulting in Ding You being suppressed for another three years after the end.

Zhang Zhe had heard Han Danian introduce this person before, and knew that this person had been favored by Concubine Shentu, so he was selected as the Zuo Changshi of the palace.The difference between the Prince's Mansion of Zhaoyang County and other prince's mansions is that there are two long history on the left and right, and there is also a long history on the right, Mei Helin, who is now accompanying Yang Zongchao and his son.According to the division of labor, Dong Shifang will accept the political affairs of the fief in the future, and Mei Helin will be responsible for the internal and external affairs of the palace.

Dong Shifang, who was talking and laughing before, restrained his smile at this moment, and was looking meaningfully at the soldier who was talking to Zhang Xinzhi in the middle of the hall.This soldier is none other than Xue Ying, the captain of Xue Xiong's personal guard.

"The army is busy, so my general can't go to the feast of your lord. Besides..." Xue Ying blushed slightly, and he gritted his teeth and said what Xue Xiong told him. Justify yourself."

After Xue Ying finished speaking, he bowed his hands to Zhang Zhe and went away, leaving everyone in the hall looking at each other.

Compared with the astonishment of others, only Zhang Zhe didn't show any surprise.

Just when he took advantage of his power to assign 200 million crowns to the palace, Xue Xiong had no choice but to part ways with him.The Eighth Prince was weak before, Xue Xiong's help can also show the prince's benevolence to the younger brother.However, Zhang Zhe's economic war against Southern Wu expanded the power of Zhaoyang County Prince's Mansion to a terrifying level.

With 2000 million catties of food in storage, plus 1000. powerful.

Xue Xiong's background determined that he could only choose to immediately impeach Zhang Zhe and draw a line with the Eight Kings camp.Asking Xue Ying not to give Zhang Zhe face in person, of course, is also for the newcomer Dong Shifang to see, and it can also be regarded as helping Zhang Zhe prove that he has not joined the prince's command.

"This person, no one is stupid!" Zhang Zhe sighed secretly in his heart. Xue Xiong's actions, Dong Shifang's half-smile, and other people's deliberate "wrongness" were all tacit understanding of each other.

Zhang Zhe was not surprised to be impeached, he was even clear about the things that Xue Xiong would impeach him.

Although he made great achievements, he also committed several crimes.

First, as a defender, he left his post without authorization and went straight into the heart of the enemy country;

Second, the multiple identities given to Zhang Zhe by the emperor are to allow him to freely operate the government office and the assets of the palace with his left and right hands.But when it came to the division of tens of millions of guan, Zhang Zhe did not ask for instructions, but rather boldly used his authority to allocate.Although he didn't exceed his authority, it was a proper authority!With assets of nearly 3000 million yuan, does he, a fifth-rank official, dare to call the shots?
The second one is Zhang Zhe's biggest crime at the moment.

After Zhang Zhe made this decision, he knew that from Jiangling to Yushitai, from the household department to the cabinet, no one would let him go.Especially the henchmen of the kings!Although they will all rejoice at the gold worth 300 million guan and 460 million official tickets from other countries that Zhang Zhe sent to Chang'an.

Rewarding Zhang Xinzhi may be in between, but dealing with Zhang Xinzhi is imperative!
With the size of Zheng Guo, the annual income is 1000 to [-] million guan.After taking office for half a year, Zhang Zhe has earned more than two years of net income for the country. Such credit makes people mad with envy.But he dared not ask for instructions or report, so he sent wealth worth a year's income to the palace.

So will the emperor take back the money his youngest son "due"?

There is a high probability that it will not!Emperor Zhang Hua still couldn't lose face, and went to grab the wealth of his youngest son, and the current king of Zhaoyang County has an extremely important influence on the situation in Southern Wu, no one would attack the king of Zhaoyang County at this time.

And Zhang Xinzhi became the only target that the only emperor and officials could vent their anger on!
Hundreds of officials are to maintain officialdom rules, but the emperor should be out of fear.

What Zhang Zhe wants is the fear from the emperor!This was also one of his goals for attacking Southern Wu. He was using his ability and temperament to tell the emperor that he was no longer the talented Zhang Xinzhi who was allowed to be manipulated by others.

He has been holding back this breath for more than a year!The newlywed Yan Er, the emperor sent him to the battlefield, and almost died in the river; his own sister Mi was just born, but was kicked to the south of the Yangtze River by the emperor.

After all, Zhang Zhe has the temper of modern people. He endured it for the first time, but he couldn't bear to part with Miss Mi!Whenever he thought of Meng Xiaowan living alone with the child, he was so irritable that he couldn't fall asleep.

With the gradual formation of the Zhaoyang Army, Xue Xiong began to transfer some troops to the north.There were 700 people in the first batch, and they also escorted property worth more than [-] million to Chang'an.

And what arrived in Chang'an one step earlier than the gold was not Jiang Zuodao's petition for Zhang Xinzhi, but the bullet list of dozens of Jiangzuo officials.After the news spread in Beijing and China, more than 200 officials in Beijing and China wrote letters to impeach Zhang Xinzhi on the second day.

The first crime: leave your post without authorization; the second crime: leave the enemy country; the third crime: act without authority;Some people even divided Zhang Zhe's merits and demerits separately, please punish Zhang Xinzhi, and reward Zhang Mengshi heavily.

In the small courtyard of Zhuchi, He Linggu was hugging Miss Mi and teasing her, but she was comforting Meng Xiaowan.

"Don't look at those people yelling at your man, they are just jealous and crazy. If the court really punishes your man, who else in this country would dare to do something? What's more, they said they killed your man, and then I will give you Rewarding a child with a lot of nonsense, can such a person be an official?"

Meng Xiaowan was sorting out the manuscript at the side, when she heard this, she just smiled faintly: "I am here when he is here, and he is gone, what am I doing in this world? Do you see those people pretending?"

What He Linggu disliked the most was this kind of femininity, and she became dissatisfied.

"Why are you so pedantic? It seems that getting married is really scary, and a good talented woman has become like this!"

Meng Xiaowan stopped her hands, and her smile faded for a moment: "I walked with him, apart from being reluctant to part with him, I also didn't want the people in this world to suffer disaster for those people."

Immediately, Meng Xiaowan smiled sweetly at He Linggu, which made He Linggu dizzy for a while.

"If I insist on revenge and confuse the world, how confident do senior sisters think I am?"

He Linggu swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "Even I, who was born in this world, can't bear this suffering in the world, so I must kill you first, so I'll go to hell with you."

Meng Xiaowan gave her a blank look: "I have my own husband to accompany me, what do you want?"

"Your husband is too amazing this time." He Linggu's eyes lit up, and he rarely praised a man. Such a man, no wonder you love him. Hey, it's just a pity this time..."

Meng Xiaowan also turned her head to think about Zhang Zhe's talent, but what filled her mind was the jokes he had told.It turns out that what she loves now is not the talented Zhang Xinzhi, but that rascal and dishonest guy who loves her like a treasure!
She started sorting out the manuscripts again, but He Linggu sat a little further away with the child in her arms, and didn't realize that this time Meng Xiaowan was sorting out not poems, books and articles, but some drawings with strange symbols.

The inscription on one of them reads "Natural method for extracting nitroglycerin from lard", while the other has no inscription, only some pictures of peaches, plums and apricots, which seem to be illustrations of what is extracted from these seeds.

These are all things that Zhang Zhe repeatedly told her not to learn unless she had to, before leaving Beijing.

"Where's that child?!" He Linggu lifted Miss Mi and pointed her face at Meng Xiaowan, "Are you willing?"

There was warmth in Meng Xiaowan's smile.

"There are old people in the family, there are servants, there is no shortage of wealth, and the reputation left by her father, probably she will not be wronged."

"Pedantic! Pedantic!"

He Linggu was very angry and her voice became louder.This startled the sleepy Mi Jieer, she was different from ordinary babies, subconsciously, she bravely grabbed He Linggu's hair with her hand, and then pulled it!
Meng Xiaowan comforted the teary-eyed Senior Sister He with a funny face, while Sister Mi woke up happily and crawled all over the blanket.

Not long after, the seven-month-old Miss Mi found He Linggu again with a piece of paper in her hand.

He Linggu nodded the villain's nose angrily, but she couldn't bear Mi Jieer's cuteness, so she hugged her up.

"Well, what's written on this piece of paper?"

When Sister Mi grabbed the piece of paper, Meng Xiaowan saw it and knew it was poetry, so she didn't stop her.

"Ask what love is in the world, and teach you the promise of life and death?" He Linggu only read the first sentence, and her whole body was mesmerized. There are even more idiotic children. You should have something to say, ten thousand miles of stratus clouds, thousands of mountains and evening snow, who does the shadow go to? Hengfen Road, lonely years ago, the flute and drums, the barren smoke is still flat Chu. Calling the soul, "Why, the mountain ghost Crying about the wind and rain secretly.The sky is also jealous, and if you don't believe in it, Yinger and swallows are all loess.For thousands of years, to keep it for the poets, sing and drink wildly, and visit Yanqiu. "

She was in a daze, Meng Xiaowan ignored her, put away the manuscript and took the child back.

After a while, He Linggu let out a breath.

"Where is this Hengfen Road? I also pay a lot of respect to this pair of geese. If I don't pay homage to them once, my whole life will be in vain."

"How would I know?" Meng Xiaowan smiled, "He likes to make things up, maybe he's trying to trick people."

This time it was He Linggu who shook his head.

"Such a tragedy, how could it be fabricated?"

He Linggu didn't ask Meng Xiaowan, she went to the book case and flipped through the manuscript, hoping to find some clues about Yanqiu.

At this moment, all the poems between Meng Xiaowan and Zhang Zhe were left on the desk, and the discrepancy made He Linggu see another poem, and it was the first sentence that made her fall into the devil again.

"Bowl."

He Linggu left the Zhuchi courtyard as if fleeing from a disaster, and took away a stomach full of the most vicious "dog food" in the world.

As soon as she left, Egret came in and whispered something in her ear.

Meng Xiaowan's eyes lit up: "Quickly call him in to talk!"

The dusty little Zhao Ping was brought into the room, and he first kowtowed to the eldest lady.But the eldest lady laughed: "Stupid or not? Now that your family is a servant's family, how can there be any reason to kowtow?"

Little Zhao Ping rubbed his head in embarrassment, and when he saw the egrets laughing hard, he lowered his face and became serious on purpose.

"Lang Jun asked the servant to bring a confidential message to the eldest lady, and asked Sister Bailu to avoid it."

The Bailu Baiying had no choice but to get up angrily, and walked out indignantly.

Only then did Zhao Ping tell the eldest lady what Zhang Zhe had confessed.

Little Zhao Ping had just left the door of the main room when Bai Juan grabbed his ear, and a group of servant girls angrily took him away.

"Little Zhao Ping also learned from Zhang Sanqi and broke! But he must be rectified!"

In the main room, Meng Xiaowan kissed the child's little face, and teased Miss Mi with a soft smile: "Miss Mi, who is bad, but fights with your mother for your father, you little man, how do you need more than 1000 million powder money to support you?" ? Your father's heart has gone to the sky!"

Sister Mi didn't understand either, but seeing her mother smiling happily, she also happily kissed her mother's saliva.

Meng Xiaowan picked up the child and wiped all her saliva on her little face.

"Sister Mi, let's go back to Wuling together? That's our home."

(End of this chapter)