Fu Song

Chapter 660 Zhang Family Patriarch
Zhang Chun is dark and thin.

Compared with the rich and flamboyant Si Li who joined the army in the past, Zhang Chun, the current magistrate of Tengchong County, looks like a completely different person.

This is a figure standing on the cusp of the times.

He accurately seized the opportunity that this era gave him.

In the eyes of many outsiders, Zhang Chun is completely in a cocoon.

Many people would rather lose their posts than to work in what they see as a barren place. In their opinion, the possibility of returning alive after arriving here is too low.

But Zhang Chun doesn't think so.

He felt that this was the best opportunity for his Zhang family to make an impact from an ordinary gentry family to the top class.

Therefore, when the imperial court's new policy came, he was the first bird to stand up regardless, and he was the first to stand up and agree with the imperial court's new policy with both hands and feet.

Of course, at that time, the two factions in the imperial court were still in the middle of a fierce game.

So he, a young bird, was retaliated against.

Want to be promoted to Zhang Chun's official?
Okay, let's go to Yunnan, Tengchong County just needs a county magistrate.

We highly recommend this guy to go.

So Zhang Chun went to Tengchong.

There are two sons in his family, one of them must be a soldier!

So Zhang Ren went to Bai Yujun.

At that time, everyone knew that the Baiyu army was bound to face a battle with the Liao army.

Many people gloated,
This is the fate of betrayal.

But it turns out that Zhang Chun won the bet.

As the dispute over the policy direction of the imperial court came to an end, after the chief assistant Xiao Cheng's family won a complete victory, his Zhang family finally saw the moon through the clouds and mist, and won the highlight moment.

County magistrate?

It's just a starting point for someone Zhang.

"Father, burn your feet!" The eldest son Zhang Ping brought a pot of hot water and put it in front of Zhang Chun.

Zhang Ping is tall and tall, and he is half or six points similar to Zhang Ren.

Taking off his shoes and socks, and putting his feet into the hot water with medicinal herbs, Zhang Chun groaned comfortably.

"Father, why do you need to go in person to persuade those savage tribes to go down the mountain? Wouldn't it be cheaper to let the garrison here go?" Squatting by the water basin, while gently pinching Zhang Chun's feet, Zhang Ping Said: "Cars and horses can't pass, just rely on one pair of feet, and those people are not easy to talk."

"What do you know!" Zhang Chun snorted coldly and said, "Now your father is still a little bit thin in this area. Those people are very wild, and they will not accept the soft. It is easy to go to the army, but the after-effects There are a lot of tribes around here, if you kill one, the others will have to run away, and then troubles will follow."

"The son is worried about the father!"

"There is nothing to worry about!" Zhang Chun shook his head and said, "Those people are wild, but they are not stupid. At the latest next year, your father will be able to persuade all the surrounding tribes to return. Hehe, this is another great achievement. one piece."

"Father will definitely be promoted after three years!" Zhang Ping said in admiration, "Father, you were right on the day, the first assistant really won a big victory."

Zhang Chun laughed triumphantly: "Maybe it won't take three years. Now the supervisory envoy of our supervisory envoy in Yunnan Province will leave his post next year. What your father wants is this position."

"This is the fifth grade." Zhang Ping was surprised.

"So I need more achievements to compare with others!" Zhang Chun said. "The first assistant must set a benchmark. Our family is his best choice. Of course, first of all, your father must make achievements that are clearly superior to others. In this way, the first assistant is superior to me. For good reason."

"Father, you are far-sighted, and your son is all-round. But I have always been puzzled, why did you think that the first assistant would win?" Zhang Ping said: "If the first assistant loses, our family will be in trouble."

"It's just a gamble!" Zhang Chundao: "The first and auxiliary army is in control. If you really want to annoy him, it's not like he doesn't have the strength to clear everything and start over. So this one seems risky, but in fact it's the same. Compared with the benefits, the risks are not worth mentioning."

"But Erlang was close to death!" Zhang Ping sighed.

"Our Zhang family wants to get rid of the original shackles. Everyone has to fight for it and even sacrifice everything." Zhang Chundao: "If you can survive, then you will be rich and powerful. If you can't, it is his fate. It is his fate." As a descendant of the Zhang family, you must bear the responsibility. Now, isn't everything going well?"

"Father, I got a letter from home today." Zhang Pingdao: "Erlang, he went home to visit his relatives. He has been promoted to a general now, but his mother said in the letter that Erlang didn't have a piece of good meat on his body. There were tears, and my mother was very sad."

"It's good if he doesn't die!" Zhang Chun laughed: "If he doesn't die, his luck lies in the future!"

"One more thing, mother asked father to make up his mind quickly!" Zhang Ping continued after glancing at his father.

"what's up?"

"Erlang married someone privately." Zhang Ping told Zhang Chun in detail that Zhang Ren was going to marry the eldest daughter of Laoshi.

Zhang Chun touched it for a while, but asked Zhang Ping back, "Tell me your opinion on this matter."

Zhang Pingdao: "My son thinks it's inappropriate. Even though my Zhang family is not a wealthy family, I can't marry such a woman with no background."

Thinking of the local women he saw here this year, Zhang Ping involuntarily shivered.

Does Erlang want to marry such a woman?

No wonder my mother firmly disagreed.

Zhang Chun sighed and said: "I brought you by my side to practice, it seems that this year, your growth is still not great! I will throw your brother out and let him grow wildly. Whether he lives or dies depends entirely on himself. It really came out of experience.”

Zhang Ping was startled: "Father, what do you mean?"

Zhang Chun snorted, pointed to the foot basin, Zhang Ping knowingly mentioned Mrs. Tang, and poured some hot water into it.

"Erlang wants to marry the old elder's daughter. Once he comes, of course he is repaying his kindness. He has regenerated Erlang. Without this person, Erlang will be gone!" Zhang Chun said.

"But you can give some more money, it doesn't have to be a physical promise!" Zhang Ping argued.

"Superficial!" Zhang Chun sneered: "Erlang has embarked on the road of joining the army. If he lived in a muddle-headed way, it would be fine if he survived three years as a conscript and returned home without dying. I want to take a few steps forward.”

"What does that have to do with marrying this woman?"

Zhang Chun glanced at his eldest son with some resentment.

"Erlang is in the Baiyu Army. Don't look at the Baiyu Army's origin in Guangxi, but their chief Wei Wu was born as a servant of the Shoufu, and he is a proper soldier of the Shoufu's direct line." Zhang Chun explained: "In such an army If you want to stand out among them, all you have to do is be brave? There are a lot of brave people in this world, and there are also a lot of people who dare to risk their lives for glory and wealth. Why is your second brother able to stand out?"

"Earlier, your second brother could still eat the bonus of our family being the first to respond to the first assistant, but at this point, he will be at the end, and it will not be easy to make meritorious service in the future. Unless your second brother is in Baiyu In the army, they regard them as one of their own."

"The expansion of the White Feather Army is no longer like before. The generals are all from Guangxi. Soldiers and generals from other places began to join in one after another. But don't forget, those who hold the power in the White Feather Army are still those old people from Guangxi. , even Wei Wu will take more care of his old subordinates!"

Hearing this, Zhang Ren finally understood.

"If Erlang marries this Guangxi woman, he will be regarded as one of his own by those old generals!"

"Finally thought about it?" Zhang Chundao: "Moreover, not only that, Erlang married an ordinary peasant girl in Guangxi as a famous scholar from the family of officials in the south of the Yangtze River. A hero who values ​​love and righteousness, do you think he will have a smoother journey in the White Feather Army in the future?"

"Erlang can think of these?" Zhang Ping was a little dumbfounded.

"Your second brother has climbed the line of life and death many times, and it's not surprising that he can realize this!" Zhang Chundao: "Also, you still think that I won't allow you to participate in this competition." Are you dissatisfied with Jinshi examination?"

Zhang Ping shook his head again and again: "It's a good thing my father didn't let me go, otherwise I would definitely end up failing the exam, and all the fuss was in vain. But I didn't expect that the imperial court would grant me the status of fellow Jinshi, so I don't have to take the exam anymore."

Looking at the happy Zhang Ping, Zhang Chun said: "If you only want to be a magistrate of a county or an auxiliary job in the province, a fellow Jinshi is enough. It will make people look down on it, and if you want to have greater development, you have to get a real identity."

"After watching this year's Jinshi examination, I'm afraid my child has more energy than energy!" Zhang Ping was a little worried.

"It's harder than your younger brother earning his life on the battlefield?" Zhang Chun sneered: "You don't want to work hard, and I won't force you, but it looks like Erlang has a bright future in the future. Your brother, your elder brother, I'm afraid you will have to rely on Erlang's breath for a living."

"My son, go to study and take the exam." Zhang Ping said.

"Don't study any poems, songs, Fu, Four Books and Five Classics!" Zhang Chundao: "Go to study practice, I guess the meaning of Shoufu, I am afraid that officials who understand practice will be reused more in the future."

"My child understands!" Zhang Ping nodded repeatedly.

Zhang Ping's father, Zhang Chun, has always been unpredictable.

Just like when he was in the south of the Yangtze River back then, when the situation was so unclear, his father's one-and-done act brought a bright future to the Zhang family. Now in Tengchong, many of his father's behaviors still make Zhang rely Can't figure it out.

Zhang Chun really loves the people like a son, and does everything by himself.

For more than a year, he has gained a great reputation in the local area, and when border counties like Tengchong were still troubled by the intrusions of those barbarians, Zhang Chun had already rushed up the mountain alone to persuade these people to come down and settle down. .

The government is clean, fair and strict, and even donates money to help the local people. Zhang Chun has not received the salary he has been here for more than a year, and has given it all away.

Those foods that Zhang Ping thought were like pig food, yet his father was able to sit in the field and drink happily with those old farmers.

Even his son must suffer this crime together.

But Zhang Ping knew what his father was like before.

The light was still on in the father's study room, and under the light, several figures gathered together to discuss something.

There are those from the pioneering regiment, and there are also the heads of the local garrison.

As a border county, Teng Tuo stationed a battalion of troops.

The leader of the pioneering group is from the Xu family in the south of the Yangtze River.

The Xu family also contributed a lot to getting their father here to be the county magistrate!
However, when the Xu family begged to come to the door later, his father treated him as if nothing had happened, and received him with a smile. They gained the trust of the local garrison.

Zhang Ping didn't understand.

The Xu family has already been defeated in the political struggle. Even though Xu Xiangqi is still occupying the position of Minister of the Ministry of Households, speaking in the Ministry does not have much weight.The current right servant and Lu Ze of the tax office is the most popular candidate for the next Hubu Shangshu.I'm afraid it won't be long before Xu Xiangqi has to ask to resign.

The Xu family has become a downhill tiger, a hair-plucking phoenix, why should they still be polite to them?

"Brother Tianyi, this time our Xu family wants to set up a large farm here in Tengchong, and you have to do a lot of it!" Xu Peng cupped his hands and said to Zhang Chun.

"It's easy to say, easy to say!" Zhang Chun said with a smile: "The Xu family is a wealthy family, and they are willing to buy property in this remote place like ours. Taxes and fees, but not a penny less!"

"Naturally!" Xu Peng laughed loudly: "Brother Tianyi, the Xu family needs [-] mu of farmland reclaimed today."

"Do you have so many people to plant?"

"This attack has yielded a lot!" Xu Peng said with a smile. "We are still counting the specific data. The county and the garrison will send it later."

Zhang Chun and the captain on the other side smiled and nodded.

"I plan to go out again this year, but the weapons need a lot of replenishment, especially the arrows! Now if you want to get a richer harvest, you have to go further."

"As long as the price is right, there will be no problem." The captain smiled and said, "Not long ago, we eliminated a group of people. Although it may be eliminated, it can be regarded as a magic weapon for the barbarians in Bagan. gone."

"That's great!" Xu Peng said. "I'll send someone to hand it over later."

"Brother Pengcheng also has to be careful." Zhang Chundao: "I heard that the pioneering team over there in Annan has had several accidents in the past month and suffered heavy losses. The second master didn't escape back."

"Thank you for the reminder!" Xu Peng said with a smile, "I'm not as stupid as Zhou Laoer. To do this kind of thing, it is natural to collude with the local people inside and outside, and it is easy for everyone to make a fortune together! Wherever he goes, he creates endless People's area, don't criticize everyone, that's strange!"

(End of this chapter)