please make me king

Chapter 1214 Report it with a countryman

After Han Yu surrendered, he served as the Taifu of the Yijun.

He couldn't help recommending to Zhang Shun successively more than a dozen of his disciples and the descendants of famous officials Zhang Siwei and Wang Chonggu in the Wanli period.

That piece of Siwei was the chief assistant of the cabinet during the Wanli period, and Wang Chonggu was the Fuchen who "went through the seven towns and served the frontier" during the Wanli period.

The relationship between the two is uncle and nephew, so they have a great reputation in Shanxi.

Zhang Shun inspected them one by one, and found that although these people were not great talents, they were all from a scholarly family, and they were qualified to be in charge of some documents and secretaries, so they all retained them.

Han Yu also thought that these people would not be in Zhang Shun's eyes, and he couldn't help recommending: "King Shun has the world in his heart and his ambitions are everywhere, so he should recruit talents and recruit talents."

"Now there is a fellow townsman of King Shun in this city of Puzhou, who is serving as Deputy Envoy of Hedong here. I also invite King Shun to recruit him personally, and consider him a pillar of support."

"Oh? I don't know which great talent it is?" Zhang Shun couldn't help being happy when he heard this.

Isn't it just visiting the thatched cottage three times, I am good at this.

"This person's surname is Wu, his name is Aheng, and his style name is Longhui. He is from Yuzhou, Henan." Han Yu couldn't help laughing.

"He successively served as the county magistrate of Zichuan and Licheng in Shandong. At that time, the white lotus monster was in trouble, and the magistrate of Wu set up an ambush and was defeated."

"Shortly thereafter, he was promoted to Huguangdao censor and Zhejiang inspector, and he took office in Puzhou before. It happened that there was a former Ming clan who raped the people, and Wu's deputy envoy punished him. Everyone called him capable."

"Wu Aheng?" Zhang Shun couldn't help but happily said when he heard the words, "Please ask Master Han to lead the way, I will go and invite him right away!"

Zhang Shun didn't know how lucky he was, this Wu Aheng was quite knowledgeable about military affairs.

Not only did he ambush the White Lotus Sect when he was serving in Shandong, but when Ding You returned to his hometown, it was also the day when the rebel army conquered Nanyang.

At that time, Wu Aheng was worried about the intrusion of the rebel army, so he helped Tang Hui, the governor of Huguang, "build enemy buildings, build cannons, repair moats, and donate bulk food to drive soldiers and people to climb the city to strictly guard".

It was only later that Zhang Shun detoured Runing Mansion and attacked Nanyang by surprise, which completely bypassed the defense line of officers and soldiers in Yuzhou.

Tang Hui, governor of Huguang, begged Zhu Yujian, the king of the Tang Dynasty, to lead his army southward, but was defeated by Zhang Shun under the city of Nanyang.

For a time, the notoriety of "killing the clan and humiliating the princess" and "successful thieves" resounded all over the world, and children could stop crying at night in Nanyang.

At that time, Wu Aheng was startled three times a day, fearing that the rebels would take Yuzhou, so he worked long hours and nights to train the people, vowing to live and die with the city.

As a result, for several months in a row, Wu Aheng did not wait for the "thief" to attack the city. Instead, he saw that the officers and soldiers of Ming Dynasty burned, killed and looted a hundred times more than the "thief", which made him feel a little fond of the "shun thief".

Because of this, when the "rebel army" captured Puzhou again.

He looked like a clay sculpture of a Bodhisattva, he didn't hear or inquire, only relying on He Fu, the governor of Puzhou, to think so hard, that's why "He Fu died, Puzhou descended".

It's just that although Wu Aheng has a good impression of Zhang Shun, he definitely has no reason to "be a thief".

Therefore, when Han Yu, the former chief assistant of the Ming Dynasty, and Zhang Shang, a thousand households in Puzhou, surrendered themselves, Wu Abianheng silently changed his official uniform and hid in a private house in the city.

"Your Highness, this is the place!" After Zhang Shun agreed, Han Yu led the crowd to a dilapidated thatched hut in Puzhou City not long after.

"Who are you looking for?" A blind old man came out tremblingly and asked after hearing the movement.

"Old man, I am King Shun, the leader of the Rebel Army, and I am here to visit the famous scholar Wu Longhui. I wonder if he is there?" Zhang Shun hurriedly stepped forward and cupped his hands, asking in a harmonious voice.

"What? King Shun? Isn't King Shun buried in Puban City five miles east of the city?" Before Qin Shihuang, there were no distinctions between emperors, so Emperor Shun was also called King Shun in the Puzhou area.

"Bold!" Han Yu became anxious when he heard the words, and couldn't help but stepped forward and scolded.

What do you mean old man?Do you still want to die?
"What do you want?" The blind old man was so frightened that he sat down on the ground, his eyes rolled around, and he was about to roll and squirm on the spot.

Zhang Shun quickly stopped Han Yu, stepped forward to help the blind old man and said, "Old man, you have misunderstood. I am an old man who is born with a loud voice. In fact, there is no malice."

"You're a human being!" Seeing Zhang Shun's upright attitude, the blind old man nodded at Zhang Shun and said with a smile, "I don't know what Wu Longhui is."

"You..." Han Yu was so angry that he wanted to hit someone.

If you don’t know, just say you don’t know. Do you know what happens when you tease King Shun?

After the blind old man said this, he pricked up his ears for a while, but he didn't hear Zhang Shun's angry voice.

He couldn't help but shook his head with some regret, and then continued: "It's just that there was an old guy in his forties last night who claimed to stay overnight."

"I'm kind-hearted, and I don't want to see a hard-working person, so I kept him for one night."

"After eating this morning, he heard the excitement outside, so he left without a trace!"

Nima, Han Yu felt that he had been wise for half his life and would be ruined by this bad old man.

"Then thank you, old man!" Zhang Shun was not annoyed.

It would be too violent to beat and kill a hob meat like this who has lived for most of his life just because he teased himself.

He turned around and asked Song Xiance for dozens of pennies, but he didn't count much. He handed it out to the rough hand of the blind old man, and said: "This is a little wish from me. I will sell some meat when I have time."

"Huh?" The blind old man was stunned, is there still such a good person in the world?

He rubbed it quickly, and felt that most of them were Chongzhen Tongbao, and the rest were Tianqi Tongbao and Wanli Tongbao.

"Wait, wait!" Zhang Shun was about to leave, but the blind old man grabbed Zhang Shun and whispered in his ear, "You are a good man, since you really intend to find him, why don't you go to the haystack behind my house. "

Before the blind old man could finish his sentence, he had heard movement behind the thatched cottage, and three or five soldiers rushed towards him.

Not long after, under the leadership of Ji Longfeng, the crowd escorted an old man with gray hair.

"Old man, why are you cheating on me!" Obviously this person is Wu Aheng, and only because he just heard the betrayal of the blind old man, has his deeds been exposed.

"You gave me thirty coins earlier, but this little brother got seventy-eight coins!" The blind old man couldn't help sneering.

"Aren't you ungrateful for profit?" Wu Aheng almost vomited blood. He had calculated thousands of times, but he never thought that there would be such unreasonable things in the world.

"It's not the old man who forgets righteousness when he sees profit, but you who forget righteousness when he sees profit!" The blind old man couldn't help laughing when he heard this.

"In the eyes of your Excellency, I am only worth thirty coins, but in the eyes of this little brother, I am worth seventy-eight coins."

"You wait for Eli to see me, why can't I treat Eli like you?"

"Okay, okay, don't argue with this old man!" Zhang Shun couldn't help smiling when he heard this.

"Actually, sir, I don't know something. It is this old man who thinks that the king is kind-hearted and will not embarrass you, so he told the truth."

"His Royal Highness King Shun!" Wu Aheng couldn't help raising his head and sighed.

"People often say: be courteous to the virtuous and corporal. It is also said: be courteous to the common people. Now that I see the virtue of King Shun, I know that it is wrong!"

This is the difference between the ancient and modern thoughts of the two.

According to the modern point of view "all men are created equal", even if the other party is poor, rich, beggar and powerful, he is a "person" first, and then other identities.

According to the point of view of this era, if you want me to respect you, you must first be a "scholar".

Then Wu Aheng broke free from the soldiers, threw himself into the air and said, "Since he is so loved by King Shun, wouldn't Aheng obey to death?"

No, this is the end?
I thought you had a lot of backbone, but you played a game of "peek-a-boo" for me?
"In the past, I broke the white lotus monster to keep one side safe. The late emperor gave me a pair of armor and a piece of 'loyalty' in the imperial brush." ​​Wu Aheng saw the doubts of the crowd and couldn't help explaining.

"The late emperor treated me as a gentleman of the country, and I will repay him as a soldier of the country!"

Hearing the words, Han Yu gave a "poof" and laughed out loud.

Is this how you repay Emperor Tianqi?
"King Shun now treats the people of the world with a gentleman of the country, how can the people of the world not repay him with a scholar of the country!" Wu Aheng said eloquently.

"Therefore, the former emperor's kindness to me alone was private; the king Shun's kindness to the world was public."

"Although Ah Heng is stupid, he didn't dare to abolish the public for personal reasons!"

(End of this chapter)