Han Dang is stronger

Chapter 435 Unreasonable

He was skeptical, and really missed the old master, so he managed the court music for Xiang Kang, a layman with no elegance in his body. So he found an excuse to go home, changed into plain clothes, took a reliable servant out, and went straight to Xianyang Medicine Market on the north bank of the Weishui River.

Although Zhang Zhi didn't say which store Ziying would go to buy medicine to study medicine, but as a former Xianyang order, Chen Zongzheng was of course very familiar with Xianyang's stores, and almost subconsciously came to the largest medicine market in Xianyang, pretending to be As if preparing to buy medicine, while wandering casually in the market, he waited patiently for Ziying's arrival with not much hope.

To Chen Zongzheng's surprise, perhaps the information provided by Zhang Zhi was inaccurate, or maybe he chose the wrong place. After wandering around the drug market for nearly an hour, he never saw Ziying's shadow. When he was gradually disappointed, a vaguely familiar figure suddenly appeared in his field of vision in the crowd, and when he took a closer look at the figure that must have been seen before, Chen Zongzheng's heartbeat immediately accelerated, and he couldn't help it. Live in his heart and said excitedly: "It's Brother Wang! It's definitely him!"

The figure from the back is indeed Wang Ming, the commander of the Han army who was once in love with Chen Zongzheng. What was quite surprising was that Wang Ming, like him, was wearing ordinary civilian clothes, and deliberately combed the oblique bun that is common among common people, Chen Zongzheng was also unavoidably suspicious, and secretly said: "Brother Wang, what are you doing? He's a leveling order, so it's reasonable to come here to learn about drug prices, but there's no need for him to dress up like this?"

"Could it be? The purpose of Brother Wang's coming here is also the same as mine?!"

After suddenly waking up, Chen Zongzheng was inevitably more excited, and resolutely gave up the idea of ​​giving up. While carefully avoiding Wang Ming, he patiently waited for Ziying to arrive, and then, as Chen Zongzheng expected, he pretended to be While wandering around the drug market, Wang Ming really paid close attention to the entrances and exits of the store. No matter what kind of vehicle entered or exited the store, Wang Ming would stretch his neck to take a closer look, obviously waiting for someone or something.

Hard work pays off, at noon, surrounded by a few attendants, a carriage with not very gorgeous decoration suddenly entered the shop, and after seeing the driver, Chen Zongzheng was so excited that he almost didn't shout out. Voice, "Han Tan! Han Lang Zhongling!"

That's right, the person driving the car was indeed Han Tan, a loyal eunuch of the Qin Dynasty who helped Ziying beheaded at the beginning. After being made a Lang Zhongling by Ziying and forced to surrender to the Han army, Han Tan, who was loyal to Ziying, resigned on his own initiative , returned to Ziying's mansion and continued to be Ziying's housekeeper. Even if he was turned into ashes, Chen Zongzheng would recognize a loyal minister like him, and he would not admit his mistake!The same is true of Wang Ming, another loyal minister of the Great Qin Dynasty!
The carriage stopped on the square in the shop, and when the curtains were flipped, a dwarf less than one meter tall got out first, seeing the familiar figure of the dwarf, Chen Zongzheng and Wang Ming on the other side were also blurred by tears , and called out the dwarf's name in their hearts together, "Yuan Zhan!"

Chen Zongzheng and Wang Ming could confirm that the dwarf was Yuan Zhan without looking closely. Qin II's absurd decision to paint all the walls of the Xianyang Palace with red paint has reduced countless burdens for the poor people of Daqin and saved countless expenses for the treasury of Daqin. After Ziying was forced to surrender, he resolutely gave up his court position , Accompanying Ziying to live the life of a prisoner under house arrest by the Han army for a long time, proved his unwavering loyalty to the Great Qin court with practical actions, and also made normal people Wang Ming and Chen Zongzheng respect him.

When Yuan Zhan raised the car curtain with a ridiculous look and funny expression, the abandoned Prince Ying of Qin, who had been dreaming of Chen Zongzheng, Wang Ming and other loyal officials of the Qin Dynasty for a long time, finally reappeared in front of them, and was captured by Han with a smile. After Tan got out of the carriage, Ziying raised his head and looked up at the sky, as if thanking God for his mercy, and finally gave him a little free time.

Without the guts to go up to recognize Ziying, Chen Zongzheng could only walk through the crowd with tears in his eyes, peeking at Ziying visiting the medicine market and buying various folk medicines. The distance from Ziying was only dozens of steps, but So close to the world, so far away, my heart kept crying, "My lord, my subject is here, my subject is here."

There was a sudden accident in the market. Yuan Zhan, who had been doing all kinds of exaggerated actions to please the public, didn't know what medicine he had taken wrongly, and turned somersaults in public in the market, and gradually lost his direction as he turned faster and faster. , tied one end to several bamboo baskets piled together, and when the herbs in the bamboo baskets were spilled all over the floor, the ordinary people who were watching the excitement by the side were in a crowd, but the owners of those herbs were furious, and immediately grabbed Yuan Zhan. He came out and cursed angrily, and even beat Yuan Zhan with his hands.

Seeing this scene, Ziying, of course, rushed forward to apologize for Yuan Zhan, and several of his attendants followed him quickly. Just as Chen Zong was about to get closer, he suddenly caught sight of Ziying's most trusted eunuch. Han Tan stood next to a medicine stall, and was still whispering something to the stall owner on the medicine beach. Chen Zongzheng, who had investigated many cases for the Great Qin court, was also moved in his heart, and secretly said: "Coincidence? Or is Yuan Zhan here?" deliberately?"

After some negotiations, Ziying compensated the drug dealer and bought several rare herbal medicines from him. Han Tan soon returned to his side and walked away with him. Zongzheng also kept an eye out, instead of rushing to keep up with Ziying, he hid in the crowd, carefully paying attention to the medicine stall where he had talked with Han, and as Chen Zongzheng expected, after a short time, he and His friend Wang Ming, who was also loyal to the Great Qin court, walked to the side of the medicine stall intentionally or unintentionally, and had a conversation with the stall owner.

A smile appeared on the corner of Chen Zongzheng's mouth. After carefully memorizing the appearance of the stall owner and the location of his medicine stall, Chen Zongzheng walked away quietly, hesitating in his heart whether to take the risk of meeting Ziying, but it was only a little After thinking about it for a while, Chen Zongzheng dismissed the idea, and thought: "Don't take any risks. Your Majesty is still misunderstood that I am a despicable villain who sells me for glory. It is useless to see me. Maybe your Majesty will die just because he saw me." More misunderstandings, affecting his communication channels with the outside world."

After visiting and purchasing in the store for nearly two hours, Ziying led Han Tan, Yuan Zhan and others into the car and left. Before leaving, Ziying casually asked Han Tan to buy medicines at the previous drug stall. After picking up some medicinal materials and bringing them with him, Chen Zongzheng immediately understood that Ziying must have known about the situation at the medicine stall long ago!

"Your Majesty, be careful. If this matter is exposed, that traitor Xiang Kang will definitely not let you go. Take care, I beg you!"

Silently muttering in his heart, after watching Ziying's carriage leave with tears in his eyes, Chen Zongzheng, whose legs had been sore for a long time, ordered to the accompanying servants: "Go back."

The servant agreed, and hurriedly followed Chen Zongzheng towards the gate of the shop. When he was about to walk out of the shop, the servant suddenly reminded in a low voice: "My lord, pay attention to the front, Mr. Zhang from yesterday!"

Chen Zongzheng, who was full of worries, was startled. When he looked up quickly, he saw that Zhang Zhi, who reported to him yesterday, was also wearing ordinary clothes, and was standing by the gate of the shop looking around. Chen Zongzheng hurriedly wanted to bow his head and walk out of the shop. Unexpectedly, Chen Zongzheng had already recognized him, and greeted him with a smile on his face, and said loudly: "Uncle, there is no need to look for it, my nephew has already bought the barbarian medicine you want for you in Youshi, and it has already been sold." sent to your home."

"What do you mean?"

Chen Zongzheng was stunned, but Zhang Zhi quickly walked to his side, and said in a low voice: "Uncle Chen, you are too careless. After wandering around the drug market for so long, you finally went out empty-handed. If someone who cares notices you , how could you not be suspicious?"

Chen Zongzheng suddenly realized, he hurriedly pretended to thank Zhang Zhi, and followed Zhang Zhi to leave the medicine market as a matter of course, and after reaching a place with few people, Zhang Zhi looked ahead and said: "Uncle, how are you? My nephew I didn't lie to you, did I?"

After hesitating for a moment, unable to hold back his curiosity, Chen Zongzheng still couldn't help but let his servant go to the back, and then asked in a low voice, "How do you know?"

"Beside Zhou Zeng, there is my nephew's eyeliner. He is a Guanzhong Qin person who has not forgotten Daqin." Zhang Zhi replied in a low voice: "Such a Guanzhong Qin person who does not forget Daqin, a strong man with blood, my nephew also knows many people." , as long as Daqin needs it, they can shed their blood at any time."

Chen Zongzheng was skeptical, and asked again: "Then you forgot, the King of Han is your cousin-in-law."

"Uncle, when did the King of Han recognize me as a relative?" Zhang Zhi asked with a smile.

Chen Zongzheng was silent, and he also knew that after Zhang Ping was forced to lead the Zhang family to surrender to the Han army, Xiang Kang only gave Zhang Ping the false title of a miscellaneous general, and did not give the Zhang family any official position with real power—of course , This is also to blame for Lao Zhang's family leading the Qin army to surrender to Xiang Yu, and allowing the allied forces outside the Guanzhong to humiliate and kill the Qin people in Guanzhong, so Xiang Kang could not offend the Qin people in Guanzhong in order to please the Zhang family.

After hesitating for a long time, Chen Zongzheng asked in a low voice: "Then what do you want to do?"

"I want to ask my uncle to help me introduce our king to my nephew." Zhang Ping replied very directly, "As long as he can serve the king and help our king restore the country, my nephew is willing to pay any price! Even..."

Before Zhang Zhi finished speaking, Chen Zongzheng had already smiled, the smile was still extremely bitter, he waved his hand to interrupt Zhang Zhi and said: "Nephew, you have found the wrong person, let's not say that I don't have the ability and opportunity, even if I have With such an opportunity, Your Majesty will never believe you."

"Why?" Seeing that there was something in Chen Zongzheng's words, Zhang Zhi hurriedly changed his words and asked: "As long as I can prove my loyalty to the king, no matter what the king wants me to do, this is not okay?"

Chen Zongzheng, who had an unspeakable secret in his heart, shook his head in pain, unwilling to explain to Zhang Zhi, but Zhang Zhi refused to give up, and said: "Uncle, have you forgotten the heavenly kindness that I, the second emperor and king of Qin, have shown you? Or, Uncle, you still can't trust your nephew? If that's the case, please tell my uncle, what do you want my nephew to do so that my nephew can gain your trust?"

After all, he was not a professional anti-espionage officer, and he was in a state of extreme depression. Chen Zongzheng said casually: "Nephew, I really can't help you, do you know? The news of the death of General Xi Tengxi in Lantian was sent to Xianyang In the end, among the most trusted courtiers of the king, I was the only one who persuaded the king to surrender, and the others called me a shameless bastard who betrayed his master and begged for glory. ? Will the king believe it?"

"What else?" Zhang Zhi was taken aback, and quickly asked in a low voice: "Uncle, you were the one who persuaded the king to surrender? How come my nephew has never heard of this matter?"

"The people who participated that time were all the king's absolute confidantes, of course they would not publicize it." Chen Zongzheng replied painfully.

"Who are those people involved?" Zhang Zhi almost wanted to ask this question out of his mouth, but fortunately Zhang Zhi was still alert, swallowed the sentence back in time, and changed his words: "So that's the case, don't worry, uncle. Even if the whole world doesn’t believe you, my nephew, I believe in you! Otherwise, my nephew would have been taken down by you yesterday and dedicated to the traitors!”

Zhang Zhi's words made Chen Zongzheng feel better, and then Chen Zongzheng said: "Nephew, it's not that uncle can't trust you, it's that uncle himself has fallen into the mud, dealing with me will only hurt you, so you really don't Come to me, so as not to stain you with mud."

"Uncle, can you tell me who my nephew should go to?" Zhang Zhi asked cautiously in a low voice.

"You can..." Chen Zongzheng swallowed the words at the beginning, then quickly shook his head and said, "I don't know either, anyway, just leave it alone and don't come to me in the future, I'm doing it for your own good. "

After saying that, Chen Zongzheng hurried away, and the servants who were far behind also hurriedly followed, but Zhang Zhi stopped for a while, looked at Chen Zongzheng's back and said in his heart: "This Chen Zongzheng must know something useful. Things, at first he was the only one who persuaded Ziying to surrender, but the other Ziying confidants turned against him? This seems to be a clue, as long as you follow this clue and follow it..."

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On Ziying's side, after returning to his mansion by car, leaving aside the guards sent by the Han army to monitor him, Ziying of course led Han Tan and Yuan Zhan directly back to his back house. Hui, Pizhuang, and Shu Wen, the physician who studied medical skills with Ziying, hurried up to greet him. Ziying waved his hand to express his forgiveness, and then handed over the medicines he personally bought today to Shu Wen, and asked him to classify and store them. He asked his two sons and Yuan Zhan to guard the door, and finally asked Han Tan in a low voice: "What's the matter? Why is Wang Ming in the market today, dressed like that? Does he know that the widow is wearing clothes today? going there?"

"Report to Your Majesty, Wang Yucheng did know in advance." Han Tan replied in a low voice, "It was Zhang Zhi, the nephew of the former general Zhang Han, who gave him the wind yesterday evening. To help you restore the king, Wang Yucheng didn't dare to trust him, so he drove him away."

"Zhang Zhi, the nephew of Zhang Han's traitor?" Ziying was very surprised, and said, "How could that Zhuzi have such kindness? Not only is their Zhang family a traitor who surrendered to the princes outside the pass, but they also have a daughter married to Xiang." Kang Rebel is a concubine, how can he be so loyal?"

"The villain can't understand the reason." Han Tan replied with a frown: "The villain even has some doubts. Could that thief Zhang Zhi be sent by the Han thief to test Wang Yucheng? Sending someone to test Wang Yucheng should be someone who is easy to get Wang Yucheng. How could he send nephew Zhang Han who Wang Yucheng will never trust easily? That's why the villain just stepped in and asked Wang Yucheng not to trust that little guy, but also to be careful. Check out the situation of that little stick."

Ziying nodded, and asked again: "Apart from this, what else is important?"

"Xiang Kang's rebels have captured Wancheng, the capital of Nanyang traitor Liu Ji, and the hinterland of Nanyang." Han Tan replied in a low voice: "The king of Western Chu thieves counterattacked and entered Yingchuan, Xiang Kang's rebels were captured Forced to return to Ye County, but there is no fight yet."

"Pay attention to this situation, this may be an opportunity." Ziying said: "The thief king of Western Chu is also our last hope. As long as he can defeat the Han thieves, or severely damage the Han thieves, there is hope for us to restore the country. The Western Chu thief king is gone, and we have no hope at all."

Han Tan sang promises in a low voice, and said, "Your Majesty, Wang Yucheng also asked, can we put aside our past suspicions, stop worrying about those bloody feuds, and take the initiative to contact the Western Chu Thief King?"

Ziying hesitated a little, and then asked: "Wang Ming and the others are sure they can do this?"

"The villain doesn't know either." Han Tan replied helplessly: "But if we must do it, there may be hope to do it, but I don't know how much the King of Western Chu can help us."

"Then... let's give it a try." Ziying said with the idea of ​​giving it a try: "Tell Wang Ming, we must choose someone who is absolutely trustworthy to do this, and we must not let the traitors know, let alone It implicated him, Jia Ping, Gao Jia and the others."

After Han Tan sang the promise again, it was a coincidence that the voice of the doctor Shu Wen came from outside the door, reporting that the medicinal materials bought by Ziying had been sorted. At the drug market, I obtained two new prescriptions from private medical workers, and Medical Officer Shu quickly come in and take a look with Ben Hou."

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On Wang Ming's side, according to Han Tan's instructions, Wang Ming and several of his friends quickly dispatched manpower to investigate the situation related to Zhang Zhi carefully. Unfortunately, there was not enough manpower and material resources. What can be found is that after Zhang Ping brought the members of the Zhang family to the Han Dynasty, he only got the official position of a miscellaneous general and a little money and grain rewards, and returned the original land and house of the Zhang family, and Zhang Zhi, the uncle of the country, did not get any I don't know anything about the other official rewards.

"Could it be that this Zhu Zi was dissatisfied with Xiang Kang's traitor for treating him badly, so he came up with the idea of ​​killing his relatives righteously? If this is the case, this Zhu Zi may be able to use it." Wang Ming thought in his heart, and reminded himself with great worry: " You can't believe it, this son not only surrendered to the traitor outside the pass, but also married the traitor Xiang Kang as his concubine. He is the most dangerous and unreliable person, and it is very likely that he was sent by the traitor to test our rebellion."

Having said that, Wang Ming still had a huge question in his heart, and said secretly: "But it's not right? If the Han thieves want to send rebels to test us, it should be the most sure to send other talents? How could it be impossible for them to get us?" What about the trustworthy Zhang Zhizi? Is this completely unreasonable?"

In fact, Wang Ming doesn't need to worry about it, because he will soon understand that this is the most reasonable thing!

(End of this chapter)