Daming: From the end of Hongwu

290 Chapter 288 - Ji Gang stopped Zhu Di in front of the horse

Life is full of twists and turns, and all kinds of accidents are always coming one after another, but hope and abyss stand on the other side and look at every walker with a smile, guessing whose direction they will approach.

Together, the day and night were ups and downs, and he could already smell the abyss more and more. He felt uneasy and afraid of what would happen next, but when he saw Zhen Wu looking back at him, there was even an expression on his face. After showing that familiar smile, there seemed to be countless rays of light suddenly blooming in the bottom of my heart.

It was like a strong rope sinking in the abyss, even if the rope was rough and had thorns, it was enough to save him from the abyss.

He Zhi pointed to Ze Run beside him, and couldn't wait to tell all the factors that might attract Zhen Wu to him: "Brother Huang Qian, I am Jiao Zong, do you remember? Dongchang Mansion, and look, Lin Lin is here too, we are all here."

These people were exactly the group of scholars that Zhen Wu met in Dongchang Mansion when he returned to Beijing from the capital. Among them, Zhen Wu was most familiar with two people, Jiao Zong and Lin Lin.

Lin Lin was the kind-hearted scholar who opened the door of his house and let Zhen Wu go in to shelter from the rain when Zhen Wu encountered a rainy night.

It's just that Lin Lin's relationship problem is a bit inappropriate.

Lin Lin also recognized Zhen Wu at this time, and shouted together with Jiao Zong in surprise. They shouted that it was okay, but the appearance of the two of them knowing Zhen Wu scared the scout team and the remnant soldiers of the Southern Army. .

On the other side, Zhu Di glanced curiously, and then asked, "Know you?"

"It's an acquaintance."

Zhen Wu nodded, and briefly explained to Zhu Di: "A few years ago, because of Sapphire, I fled from the capital back to Beiping. When I passed by Dongchang Mansion, I met them."

Zhu Di hummed, thinking about the Sapphire who didn't get along with him back then, a look of disdain appeared on the corner of his mouth, then he glanced at the scholars again, and said to Zhen Wu: "Since it's an old friend, go and have a look , if it's an unimportant person, it doesn't matter if you let it go."

"Thank you, Your Highness."

Then, Zhen Wu turned his horse's head and walked towards the scout team, and the leader of the scout team became more and more excited when he saw Zhen Wu walking towards him.

No, not only the leader, but the entire scout team became excited.

The scholars, including the remnants of the Southern Army, looked at the scouts with some doubts. They didn't understand why these well-trained and extremely tough men, when they saw Zhen Wu getting closer, their eyes projected a frantic look .

It was as if a young scholar had met a famous Confucian of a generation who was famous all over the world.

Just when they were still wondering, Zhen Wu had already walked over, and the leader of the scout team stood up excitedly and performed a standard military salute by kneeling on one knee, expressing his respect to Zhen Wu with the loudest voice .

"Mark that Wu Tie has seen General You."

General right? ! !
The scholars and the remnants of the Southern Army were shocked.

Although they could see that Zhen Wu and his party had a lot of official positions, no one would have thought that Zhen Wu and his party were actually some of the most powerful men in the army.

Jiao Zong and Lin Lin looked at each other at this moment, with surprise bursting out in their eyes.

Huang Qian's official position is so high, so wouldn't they enter the Yan army's camp as if they were walking on flat ground? !
At this time, Zhen Wu didn't need to pay attention to Jiao Zong and the others immediately.

He nodded at Wu Tie, signaled Wu Tie to get up, then he got off his horse and asked kindly: "Did you go out this morning? Did you encounter any danger?"

Wu Tie shook his head with his chest straightened out, looking proud.

Zhen Wu laughed, teased Wu Tie a few words, and then got down to business, pouted at Jiao Zong and the others, and asked, "Where did you get these people?"

"General You, there is a small hill five miles east of Dezhou City. Our hundred families said that it is the easiest to hide soldiers, so let us go over and investigate. They were all caught in a ruined temple near the hill."

Zhen Wu looked towards the east. Their barracks were stationed in the north of Dezhou City. The location Wu Tie mentioned was not too close to their barracks. Thinking of this, Zhen Wu looked at Wu Tie with some appreciation.

"well done."

After Zhen Wu praised him, he encouraged him with a smile: "Speaking of which, when I first joined the army, I was also a scout. With such vigor, one day you may also be in the position of my right general."

Some deeds of Zhen Wu have always been circulated in the military camp.

Wu Tie also heard about Zhen Wu's scouting deeds a long time ago, and this incident even inspired many soldiers. You must know that in Zhen Wu's scouting team back then, there were two generals named Zhen Wu and Zhu Neng. Zhang Wu, Gu Ming and others are all at least at the level of guard commanders, and they are all in charge of at least a thousand soldiers and horses.

For such a legendary thing, there is basically no one who does not yearn for a younger soldier like Wu Tie. Not to mention anything else, when Wu Tie joked with his team members in private, he also joked freely However, in the future, everyone will be like thousands of households.

However, Wu Tie was a little embarrassed by what Zhen Wu said at the moment.

No matter how beautiful he thought about the high position of the right general, he never dared to imagine that one day he would become the right general, but now seeing Zhen Wu's kind appearance, he couldn't help feeling that the rumors seemed to be true, and the right general really had no airs. The most close to their soldiers.

Wu Tie smiled naively at Zhen Wu, smiled, and suddenly realized that Zhen Wu probably knew those scholars, and it must be because of those scholars that he came here this time, so he said quickly: " Does General You know those scholars? Let’s be honest, General You, before we arrived at the ruined temple, those scholars were being beaten by the Southern Army, but our people didn’t target them very much. General You can ask them personally, or General You can take them away That's fine too."

"Knowledge is knowing."

As Zhen Wu said, he waved his hands and said, "However, you don't have to waste your time with the military for the sake of personal friendship. You can take them back to torture them, but during the torture process, it's good to be polite to those scholars. They sent it to me."

These people were arrested, and there would probably be no problems in themselves. The main purpose of arresting them was to torture them for information about the Southern Army or Texas City.

It is best to be useful, and nothing is lost if it is useless.

Basically, after asking, they will all be released. At most, those who are strong or have good martial arts skills will be recruited into the army.

At this time, Zhen Wu saw Jiao Zong raised his tied hands towards him, with an unbearable expression on his face, Zhen Wu felt a little funny, presumably the delicate skin and tender flesh of Jiao Zong and the others were uncomfortable being tied up.

However, Zhen Wu didn't immediately ask Wu Tie to help them untie them. Instead, he came to Jiao Zong and the others, and told them to let Jiao Zong and the others follow Wu Tie to cooperate well. Wu will guarantee that their lives will be safe.

Jiao Zong and others naturally nodded repeatedly.

Only then did Zhen Wu ask Wu Tie to untie Jiao Zong and the others.

He originally thought that the scholars like Jiao Zong would not run around after they were untied, but he didn't expect that just after these scholars were untied, a tall scholar ran straight in the direction of Zhu Di.

Zhen Wu's complexion sank all of a sudden, Jiao Zong and the others also changed their complexions when they saw this, and hurriedly shouted at the tall scholar: "Ji Gang, what are you going to do again?!"

Ji Gang? !
This name fell into Zhen Wu's ears, and Zhen Wu was startled. This is Yongle's famous villain, the future commander of Jin Yiwei, and Zhu Di's number one lackey in the years before he took the throne.

But Ji Gang, who ran towards Zhu Di, turned a deaf ear to Jiao Zong and others' anxious shouts behind him. He was different from those scholars. His classmates don't like him, his teachers don't like him, and his relatives don't like him.

He doesn't care.

It's just that he was excluded and isolated in the first half of his life, and the voices that still linger in his mind from time to time scolding him as a rotten wood and waste wood have tempered his desire to be strong.

He wants to tell everyone.

Who said that a scholar must only look the same!
Who said that the rules of the sage Confucius must be followed by everyone obediently!
Who said that those who deviate from the classics and who do not fit in with the crowd cannot stand out and leave their names in history!
He ran to Zhu Di's horse and stopped, his chest rose and fell, causing his mouth and nose to gasp. He looked at Zhu Di who was sitting on the tall horse, his knees softened and he knelt down straight, and then Ji Gang knocked heavily down.

"Ji Gang pays his respects to His Royal Highness King Yan."

These words surprised the scholars not far away. That handsome man is Zhu Di, king of Yan? !But the next moment, they realized that the person who needs to be accompanied by the right general, who else could it be besides Zhu Di? !

They couldn't help looking sideways at Zhen Wu.

At this time, Zhen Wu looked at Zhu Di's scene in a daze. He recalled the memory of later generations in his heart, and couldn't help sighing, could this be the record in history that Ji Gang stopped Zhu Di before him? !
interesting.

There are always people in this world who have a lot of gambling, and they are willing to use their lives to gamble on an unknown fortune.

You must know that Ji Gang is not the same as Zhen Wu and others or the command of the guards in Beiping Prefecture. Ji Gang has nothing to do with Zhu Di, and he is not from Beiping Prefecture. More importantly, Ji Gang is still a scholar.

Scholars need face most, they pay attention to loyalty to the emperor, except Ji Gang, who would vote for Zhu Di at this moment?
Even if they want to vote for Zhu Di, the scholars all over the world must at least wait until the moment when Zhu Yunqi is about to fall. At this time, everyone votes, so there is no need to pay attention to face and loyalty.

Zhu Di looked at Ji Gang kneeling in front of him now, and there was interest in his eyes, and he asked lightly, "Scholar?"

"Yes, I studied sage books hard since I was a child." Ji Gang replied.

"Then what do you want to kneel in front of?" Zhu Di still asked calmly.

Ji Gang took a deep breath, as if exhausting all his strength, to express his firmness, he said: "Ji Gang is willing to work like a dog for His Highness, never regretting a hundred deaths, I beg Your Highness to take him in."

These words echoed in this piece of heaven and earth.

Jiao Zong and other scholars looked at Ji Gang in disbelief.

They don't understand, how dare Ji Gang do this!
Zhu Di suddenly burst out laughing. Since he joined the army, he has been attacked by many scholars, and he has not stopped until today. He did not expect to meet a scholar who voluntarily surrendered today.

It was a fucking first.

What does this mean? It means that Zhu Di also has the support of scholars.

Zhu Di looked at the bold Ji Gang for a while, and the more he looked at it, the more he liked it, but then Zhu Di put away his smiling face, deliberately put on a face, and deliberately tested: "There is no position in our army for you, but there is a shortage of people around me." A person who leads a horse and supports the pedals, would you like it?"

"Humble job." Ji Gang replied loudly without any hesitation.

Zhu Di couldn't help laughing again, his stern face suddenly broke his defenses, and the way he looked at Ji Gang, he became more and more satisfied with Ji Gang.

He seemed to feel that since the big victory over Li Jinglong, everything has become smoother.

"Okay, get up." Zhu Di said to Ji Gang.

Ji Gang should be the last, slowly got up, and then came to Zhu Di's side firmly step by step, stretched out his hand, and obediently helped Zhu Di hold the horse rope under Zhu Di's crotch, like a obedient servant.

People around him, whether it was Yan Jun, scholars like Jiao Zong, or remnants of the Southern Army, all looked at him with contempt.

Ke Ji Gang didn't care.

Zhen Wu couldn't help sighing, if someone like Ji Gang had such a trick on him, he would be willing to use Ji Gang, what a good template for a running dog, ah no, it should be loyal.

He then glanced sideways at Jiao Zong and the others.

The eyes of Jiao Zong's several scholars were a little bored and annoyed towards Ji Gang, as if Ji Gang had lost their integrity as a scholar, which made Zhen Wu feel a little funny.

Different choices are bound to lead to different results.

I don't know if Jiao Zong and the others will regret that they didn't flatter Zhu Di today when they learned that Ji Gang was promoted step by step.

However, these had little to do with Zhen Wu, and he was not interested in Jiao Zong and the others saying anything, but simply explained a few words to Wu Tie, and then got on his horse and returned to Zhu Di's side again.

Then the group of them disappeared in the eyes of Jiao Zong and others.

……

In the afternoon, when Zhen Wu returned to the camp, he thought of Jiao Zong and others again, and asked Cao Xiaoman to go down to ask, only to realize that Wu Tie had sent the people here, so Zhen Wu asked Cao Xiaoman to call them over.

After Cao Xiaoman left Zhen Wu's tent, he found Jiao Zong and others, and then took Jiao Zong and others to see Zhen Wu.

Only then did Lin Lin recognize Cao Xiaoman, and said in surprise, "You...you...Aren't you the book boy of Brother Huang Qian? Why did you follow Brother Huang Qian into the Yan Army?"

Cao Xiaoman turned his head and smiled at Lin Lin. He recalled the situation back then, and couldn't help but talk about sex: "Actually, I am not General You's book boy, and General You is not called Huang Qian, but we had some unavoidable reasons at that time. I have to keep my name incognito, please forgive me, and I will see General You later, please don’t be too abrupt.”

Lin Lin and the others actually had some guesses in their hearts, so they were not surprised. They nodded repeatedly and said, "Understand, understand, you can rest assured that we will not be rude, but please tell me, what is the name of the general? What is the name of the right general?"

"My name is Cao Xiaoman. I have been with General You for almost ten years. I am now the head of a thousand households of his personal guard. As for General You, does the Yan Army have a second General Right? You must have guessed it. The name of General Right is taboo." It is indeed called Zhen Wu, and he was also the horse of Yong'an County in the current dynasty."

As soon as Cao Xiaoman's words fell, although Lin Lin and the others had expected it, they still couldn't help but exclaim.

In the past, they never imagined that they would come into contact with such a person. Not to mention Zhen Wu's official position and status, even Zhen Wu's name as a martial god had already been spread in the Shandong area.

The No. [-] general in the hands of the King of Yan was an existence that could scare children so that they would not dare to cry.

They never dared to imagine that a scholar they knew before was actually Zhen Wu, which was enough to refresh their three views.

Soon.

Cao Xiaoman led them to meet Zhen Wu in Zhen Wu's tent, and Zhen Wu asked them casually after sitting them down, "Is there anyone in the army who makes things difficult for you?"

When Lin Lin and other scholars heard Zhen Wu's question, they stood up reflexively, shook their heads and said no.

Zhen Wu was a little surprised when he saw their reaction, but he didn't think too much about it, thinking that Lin Lin and the others figured out the difference between them and him, so it was only natural for them to become cautious.

It's just that this made him lose the mood to chat.

Zhen Wu's expression turned pale, and he said calmly: "Since no one in the army makes things difficult for you, what are your plans for the future? For the sake of the previous acquaintance, as long as it is not too much, I will satisfy you."

Lin Lin and the others looked at each other.

Jiao Zong, who was the most sociable, stood up and said, "We want to borrow some money from General You so that we can go back to Dongchang."

After saying this, even Cao Xiaoman on the side was a little puzzled, how powerful Zhen Wu is, since he said that, it was a chance to change their fate, but they just borrowed some money to go back to Dongchang.

Is the brain really stupid when reading? !

However, Zhen Wu was not surprised. He had seen the guilty expressions of these scholars before, so he could roughly guess what these people were thinking.

It is nothing more than that Zhen Wu is always a traitor. They are scholars who are rooted in Miaohong, and they disdain to get involved with Zhen Wu. This is normal. As for their distress, they should feel compelled to ask Zhen Wu for help. .

That being the case, Zhen Wu didn't say anything more, and nodded to Cao Xiaoman. Cao Xiaoman took out some money knowingly and sent it to Lin Lin.

From now on, the two parties will have nothing to do with each other, and the previous acquaintance will disappear with this borrowing of money.

Later, Zhen Wu asked Cao Xiaoman to send them out of the barracks himself.

However, when Lin Lin walked to the door, he suddenly turned around and said to Zhen Wu, "General You, there is something I don't know if I should say it or not."

"Let's talk." Zhen Wu said indifferently.

After Lin Lin organized his words, he said, "In Dongchang before, I saw General You and Ms. Zhang get along very well. At the beginning, because of me, we slandered Ms. Zhang's reputation. Although we tried our best to make up for it later, it was still the same. I have hurt her, this matter has always made me worry about it, but I am weak and have no other way, if the right general has spare power in the future, I will ask the right general to help her."

Zhen Wu frowned: "What happened to her? Could it be because of her reputation that she is still unmarried?"

Lin Lin nodded and said: "Troubled by her reputation, she managed to talk about a relationship in the next few years, but before she got married, her fiancé died of illness. Since then, Miss Zhang has stopped talking about marriage. It is reported that she is now studying with an old Taoist nun. As a doctor, someone once saw her picking medicine in the mountains, and they put their affection on it."

Zhen Wu was stunned, as if the girl with outstanding marksmanship appeared in his eyes again, and he seemed to recall the girl's proud words in his ears.

She said that she is a first-class person in the world and does not need a marriage certificate to be consummated.

Zhen Wu sighed, thinking of the absurd thing he did when he was so happy, he was a little upset for a while, so he waved his hand and said: "Okay, I understand."

Seeing this, Lin Lin also sighed, and then followed Cao Xiaoman, and slowly left until outside the barracks.

After Cao Xiaoman returned to the barracks, Lin Lin and the others walked so far away that they could no longer see the barracks, so they were relieved, and he couldn't help sighing: "After all, the whole beard and the whole shadow came out. Everyone will be happy."

Everyone else agreed.

It's just that after the other people's voices died down, Jiao Zong said something in a daze.

"You say, based on our acquaintance with Zhen Wu, if we all vote for the Yan army, will we end up rich?"

The scholars were all stunned.

a long time.

Someone sneered and said, "How is that possible? It's true that you went down to the underworld with the Yan thief. Besides, do you still want to learn from that idiot Ji Gang?!"

Everyone looked at each other.

Afterwards, the scholars burst into hearty laughter.

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