Zhang Xiaowu was surrounded by a group of military generals to drink. Everyone understood that Zhang Xiaowu was about to leave the Ghost Guard and was valued. Although he felt reluctant to leave, they were soldiers of the Holy Han after all, and they were not the leader of the bandits of the Mountain King. If Zhang Xiaowu left Zhang Xiaowu, they were still the border troops of the Holy Han. The so-called military orders were difficult. Seeing that the generals of the Ghost Guard were scattered in all fields, everyone could only wish that the robes would be better in the future.

But after all, the Ghost Guard was founded by Zhang Xiaowu, and was built from the most difficult and difficult environment and the most dangerous surroundings of the dog barbarians. The Ghost Guard was full of traces of Zhang Xiaowu. Therefore, they found it difficult for them to accept Zhang Xiaowu's departure for a while. Even everyone felt that Zhang Xiaowu temporarily left the Ghost Guard in order to return to the Ghost Guard in the future and better lead everyone to achieve new achievements.

Zhang Xiaowu was in a complicated mood. In fact, after he came to this world, he did not know what he wanted. He was not an ambitious person. Everything he did was just to make the people around him live a better life, and he could only help his brothers.

Perhaps Kang Tianen was right. He fought several times in life, but he always had a leisurely life in the border, but he had no experience. Now, the northern border is in the Great Desert, and all ethnic groups and countries of the Quanyi people are resting and recuperating. He cannot go south for at least ten years. If he stayed in the northern border, he would still live his own free life ten years later, but he could indeed see it at a glance. In the previous life, he worked in the library and felt that he had been like this for the rest of his life. If he lived again in this life, he would never live such a peaceful life.

The generals were clamoring, and Kang Tianen was about to take a step, but Ruan Qingwen stopped him and whispered: "You shouldn't provoke the general's ambitions. Do you know how dangerous it is? Although you kept saying that you wouldn't let him be Dushanbo, what is the difference between what you are doing now?"

Kang Tianen asked back: "Senior brother, if the general has no ambition, what's the use of my provocation? If he dares to fight, why do I need my provocation? Senior brother, what do you think the reason why the general killed the old nanny?"

Ruan Qingwen said: "What is it?"

Kang Tianen said confidently: "I think the general is not willing to be the garrison of the border army, and the general is not a person who is willing to be lonely at all."

"Impossible." Ruan Qingwen denied it flatly, "The general has always worked hard to manage the ghost guards and build a wooden city. If the general had two intentions, he would have been...independent on the north of the border."

"What you and I are talking about is not just one thing." Kang Tianen smiled calmly and said, "The general is not unwilling to be the general of the border army, but unwilling to be lonely and unwilling to have no enemies. If the general is in the north of the border, he will even provoke the Dog and the Barbarians, causing the two countries to fight, and drag the Holy Han to the more dangerous brink of national war. I think the general is an unparalleled double-edged sword. If the country is established, the general can establish a country, and the country is in chaos, and the general can shake the world."

"So you want the general to be in the Central Plains..." Ruan Qingwen pointed at him and suddenly realized.

Kang Tianen nodded and said, "Only the general can have a more glorious future in Longdu, and the most dangerous thing now is not the foreign tribes of the Quanyi tribe, but the internal, the internal, the empire." He shook his head and whispered: "The Taiqian Dynasty exhausted its national strength and left a mess for Emperor Dade. Although Zhang Kuan, Dushanbo and others tried their best to maintain it, the empire was still broken. If you want to maintain the empire, you need talents like the general to help Your Majesty and turn the tide."

Ruan Qingwen said: "The empire is not as unbearable as you said."

Kang Tianen said: "Senior brother, you have been in the army for a long time and are not familiar with the people's conditions. You don't know how difficult the people's lives are now. Because the border is facing the Japanese, the military and civilians are united in foreign countries, and they can fight together. However, various conflicts have frequently erupted in the Central Plains, including people and government officials, civilians and gentry, tenants and landlords. Last year, rebellions have been frequent in various places. Have you found that there are many more martial arts bandits now?"

"This is..."

"If the world is stable, the people are harmonious, and the lives are rich, there will be no need for many rangers." Kang Tianen said, and then he showed his ambition in his eyes and said with some intentions: "So the general should make arrangements in advance and lay enough prestige before the chaos in the world."

Ruan Qingwen shook his head and said, "You don't know what the general thinks, so the general will definitely not have such ambition."

"Ambition needs to be cultivated." Kang Tianen smiled.

The next day was September 15th. The rule of the Holy Han Dynasty was to go to the morning court on the first and fifteenth day of each month. Zhang Xiaowu slept until the sun was noon. Last night, Xia Ming and Bao Yin and other bastards poured him too much. Especially Xia Ming, this guy couldn't beat him and tried his best to drink wine with him. In the end, he poured himself down first, and now he was sleeping naked.

After drinking some sobering soup, Zhang Xiaowu prepared to visit the Gu family.

The head of the Gu family, namely Gu Yong's father, Gu Chuang, and Gu Yong's eldest brother Gu Zhao, the chief shopkeeper of Gu family, have always run the Gu family business. Zhang Xiaowu plans to use fine salt and leather to first develop a home trade partnership with the Gu family, and then establish a trade network with the foreign races through them, thereby realizing self-sufficiency in Mucheng.

The biggest advantage of the northern border is that Mucheng is convenient for trade with Quanyi, but Mucheng has no funds and resources and can only serve as a trade transfer station. Zhang Xiaowu is preparing to build Mucheng into the largest trading city between the Central Plains and the alien race. He needs to attract a large number of Central Plains vendors and merchants from the alien race internally, and to attract foreign merchants from the alien race externally. Moreover, the aliens' demand for goods and spices for Central Plains is a necessity, so it is not difficult to attract foreign merchants from the operation. Even the Martyr, known as barbarians, is eager to trade with the Central Plains. However, Zhang Xiaowu's headache is how to attract more Central Plains merchants and protect the interests of Central Plains merchants.

The Gu family business is one of the four major businesses in the Central Plains. Although it became silent because of the prince's incident, the Gu family's industry did not suffer much loss. Even the prince's father-in-law, former Minister of the Ministry of Revenue Chi Wen, was removed from office because of the prince's loss of power. This is why Xiang Rui was quickly promoted to the Minister of Revenue. Now Xiang Rui was quickly promoted to the right prime minister. This is why Xiang Rui's luck is not ordinary.

Although Chi Wen was dismissed, the Chi family's Hengtong Money House did not suffer much loss. After all, the Chi family is also a gentry, and it is still a family among the gentry. They are just becoming much more low-key now.

Zhang Xiaowu planned to visit the Gu family first and then the Chi family, but he was not going to disclose the prince's orphans to the Chi family, so as not to bring danger to the Chi family and Meng Shi Meng Ran'er.

However, early in the morning, the Ministry of War sent people. It turned out that one of the disciples of the Zhang Party, the Censor Zuo Shen, learned that Zhang Xiaowu's palace had killed Empress Dowager Zhang's old nanny, so he ran to the Ministry of War for condoning Zhang Xiaowu in the morning. Friends who had walked in deep support and asked the Ministry of War to restrain Zhang Xiaowu, and asked the Ministry of War to imprison him and wait for tomorrow's morning disposal.

The Minister of War Shi Yong had no choice but to order the former General Wei Yuan, General Che, to take Zhang Xiaowu to the Ministry of War in the Imperial City for questioning.

Wei Yuan and Zhang Xiaowu are considered old acquaintances, so although they carried the orders, they still smiled after seeing Zhang Xiaowu: "General Zhang, Lord Shangshu is invited - you are in great trouble now - but it doesn't matter. The censors are just making a fuss. Without the Left Prime Minister, they dare not do anything."

"You know?"

"You are the only one in the entire empire who dares to kill the Queen Mother. You are really not afraid of ghosts and gods." Wei Yuan stretched out his thumb and said.

Zhang Xiaowu said: "Do you think I'm a little stupid?"

Wei Yuan said: "Either you are stupid or you are too smart. I want a ghost general who can defeat the Tuyi tribes in the northern border. No one will think he is stupid."

"Then you guessed it wrong." Zhang Xiaowu smiled, "Once upon a time my former call me Zhang Hanlang."

Wei Yuandao: "The general is too modest."

Zhang Xiaowu followed Wei Yuan to the Imperial City War Office again. He was quite familiar with this place and went directly to the convention office. Most of the institutions of the War Office were located in Liulifang, while the offices in the Imperial City were not big, and they were all temporary offices, mostly for meetings and resting places for all the officials who went to the morning court.

The office where the Minister of War was Huweitang of the Ministry of War. The Minister of War Shi Yong and the Left Minister of War Ju Hongzhen looked sad. Seeing that Zhang Xiaowu was coming, they were about to scold him, but they didn't know where to start. Instead, Zhang Xiaowu explained openly how arrogant and domineering the old lady was in the palace and did not take His Majesty seriously, so that His Majesty secretly ordered him to behead him. He also told His Majesty what he next arranged with the two of them. The two looked at each other and knew it in their hearts, so they no longer got involved.

Zhang Xiaowu did not take chicken feathers as a command arrow, but this reduced a lot of trouble. Now that Dushanbo was expeditioning to Jiangnan, the power of the court returned to the hands of Emperor Dade, and officials naturally had to consider their position and position. The Ministry of War has always been Dushanbo's territory. Zhang Xiaowu killed Empress Dowager Zhang's people and offended Zhang Dang. The Ministry of War did not need to take risks to help Zhang Dang. As for the impeachment of the censors, they just pretended that they had not seen it, and they would leave it to the emperor if there was any problem.

Zhang Xiaowu walked out of the inner yamen of the Ministry of War in a magnificent way. When he saw several censors eager to try to prepare to come forward to argue, he couldn't help but hold the purple gold mace on his shoulders. Several censors were so scared that they dared not go forward. Zhang Xiaowu laughed, spitted on the ground, and left the imperial city with a contemptuous smile.

After leaving the imperial city, he always felt stalked behind him with vague feelings. Zhang Xiaowu turned around and ordered Chen Guanxi and Wang Yijin, "Catch me your tail."

"Here."

After walking for a while, he saw Chen Guanxi and Wang Yijin coming over with a servant. The two servants were bruised and swollen. Zhang Xiaowu shook his head, knowing that the car would be lost behind the scenes of following him. He did not sympathize with these two servants. Since he was a younger brother, he was ready to be sacrificed at any time. He waved his hand and said, "Beat it up and throw it to the roadside, don't beat anyone to death."

"Here."

Although Wang Yijin is not capable of fighting among the border troops, he is a fierce general here, and he beats the servant to cry and calls his parents with three punches and two kicks.

After a while, a team of patrolling yamen runners came over, but before that, Zhang Xiaowu and others had already left. The yamen runners looked at the two people with bruised noses on the ground and planned to ask the reason clearly, but the two hurriedly said that they had fallen and beat themselves like this. The yamen runners knew that in this Longdu City, there was no need to ask more questions, and no need to care about what they should not care about, so they let them go.

The yamen runners were curious and asked passers-by. They said that it seemed that several border troops were fighting. Speaking of border troops, the yamen runners had always only the northern ghost guards and their group came to Longdu recently. Could it be that the ghost guards were fighting? Then these two deserved it. The ghost guards are the most capable border troops in the world. Why did these two rascals even provoke the ghost guards?

After returning to the inn, someone had already been waiting here. Ruan Qingwen introduced: "This is Qian San, the manager of Zhang's family. There will be a poetry meeting in Mingyue Tower tonight, and the organizer is Zhang Biao, the Grand Secretary of Tai Academy."

"Zhang Mansion? Which Zhang Mansion?"

"It's the Zuo Prime Minister's Mansion."

"Ah?" Zhang Xiaowu was stunned at first, and then even more incredible. He killed Empress Dowager Zhang's nanny, but Empress Dowager Zhang's brother invited him to attend the Mingyuelou Poetry Festival. What's the situation? Is Hongmen Banquet? He was so amused and asked: "Maintain Qian, is the head of the Zhang family the left prime minister?"

"Yes."

"Is it the invitation from the left?"

"No, it was the invitation of the second young master."

Zhang Xiaowu immediately thought that Wei Yuan had sent him a letter for Zhang Biao, saying that Zhang Biao admired his poems very much and hoped to communicate with him when he came to Beijing. Unfortunately, he and Zhang Party are now in a state of influence. He also thought of Wei Yuan's evaluation of Zhang Biao. This person was obsessed with learning, did not like party struggles, and did not like court struggles. He could have served in various departments as a major position, but he directly received two official positions. One position was to be a Grand Secretary at Tai Academy and explain historical allusions to juren; the other position was to be a member of the Ministry of Rites, responsible for examining and copying test papers for imperial examination candidates. Both work were focused on academic research, so even Zhang Kuan's son was respected by everyone in the court.

"Okay, I'll go there later." Zhang Xiaowu felt that for such a person who specializes in academic research, he should not speculate that others are not in good intentions, so he borrowed a letter to him.

Qian San said goodbye, and before leaving, he said: "The second young master likes to write poems and writes against each other and does not fight with the court. He invites the general, simply because the general writes excellent poems."

Zhang Xiaowu is not a poet or a scholar. Even before traveling through time, he was just a science and engineering man. He could not say that he recited poems, essays and talked about the past and the present. He was just a plagiarist. Fortunately, when he was a child, he read a lot of books and was forced to memorize many poems, songs and essays by his parents and teachers. He could fool others and disguise himself as a cultural person.

Later, Zhang Xiaowu wore casual clothes and only brought Meng Shi and Kang Tianen to Mingyue Tower on Mudanfang.

Mingyue Tower is a brothel singer with a famous reputation in Longdu. It is a building dedicated to serving literati and poets. As the saying goes, it is better to steal than to secretly than to concubines. The charm of Qingyue Tower lies in the fact that men can't steal even if they want to steal, and they can't get it. Zhang Biao chose to hold a poetry meeting in Mingyue Tower, which shows that this person is not a completely corrupt scholar. Of course, on the other hand, it can be seen that Zhang Biao, who is rich and powerful, grew up in a wealthy countryside, naturally believes that the poetry meeting should be held in such a place.
Chapter completed!