The British Zhang family is not only the most powerful and meritorious family in Daqian, but also the most loyal and brave pillars of the country.
More than two hundred years ago.
When Taizu, the founding king of the Daqian Dynasty, conquered the world, the first British Duke was Taizu's right-hand man and performed countless feats. In the end, he died tragically in the battle of Baishui River as Taizu's substitute.
Fifty years ago.
The reason why the imperial court was able to suppress the Wenxiang Religion uprising was that the ninth generation British Duke Zhang Mo, in the most critical battle of Zhuxian Town, collaborated with more than a dozen Zhang family nephews and fought to the death, fighting until the last moment, life and death. He used his flesh and blood to withstand the crazy counterattack of the main force of Wenxiang Cult!
Only then did reinforcements arrive and attack from several directions, completely defeating the main force of the Wenxiang Sect and allowing the imperial court to take the initiative in this war.
This battle.
There were nineteen male members of the Zhang family, except for the youngest son Zhang Wen, who was under fifteen years old, and was saved by Zhang Mo through deception. The other eighteen members all died tragically in Zhuxian Town in an extremely heroic manner.
This makes the Zhang family, although not the top nobility, the most favored and most trusted by the saints.
This also allowed the British public line to always firmly control the command of the Xishan Camp of the capital, and control the security of most of the capital, for more than fifty years.
At this time, the young prince of the British Duke is Zhang Wen’s eldest grandson and the first heir to the British Duke in the future!
After carefully combing through the information about the British Zhang family in his mind, Li Yuanjing couldn't help but curl up the corner of his mouth.
His previous strategy of showing off his literary talents has proven to be more effective than expected!
At this time, we actually recruited a top expert who was born with a silver spoon in his mouth!
but……
Although what the young master said now would be very beneficial to him, Li Yuanjing also knew the risks!
But something is better than nothing. Li Yuanjing quickly calmed down and said to Zhang Kun in a low voice:
"Let's not spread this matter to anyone else. How we were before is what we are now. Do you understand?"
"yes!"
…
"Brother Yuan Jingxian, but you already know the good news? Oh, brother Dong, I and I wanted to tell you just now, but we never had the chance..."
When Li Yuanjing returned to the room, Xue Dashan and Dong Ye had obviously made preparations in their hearts. Xue Dashan hurriedly stood up and said with a smile.
Mr. Dong stood up directly and asked for advice from the side.
How could Li Yuanjing not understand what these two guys were thinking?
smiled and said:
"The two old brothers are making love. The younger brother is just lucky. Come on, let's drink, drink."
Seeing that Li Yuanjing ignored this topic calmly and showed no trace of young people's impetuosity, Xue Dashan and Dong Ye were both a little dumbfounded.
If they were at Li Yuanjing's age and received this kind of news, their eyes would have long been raised to the sky. How could they still be as calm as Li Yuanjing?
This also made Xue Dashan and Dong Ye quickly understand!
Even though Li Yuanjing is young, he has serious ambitions!
He quickly adjusted his attitude immediately and started praising Li Yuanjing's bad feet.
Li Yuanjing saw all this, but he didn't have any fluctuations.
After drinking a few more glasses of wine and the atmosphere gradually relaxed, Li Yuanjing pretended to be puzzled and said:
"Two old brothers, haven't you heard that the young master has been in the capital, why did he suddenly come to our small and sleepy county?"
"Brother Yuan Jing, you don't know something about this. Isn't it caused by those thieves?"
Xue Dashanren was already quite drunk at this time, and wanted to show off in front of Li Yuanjing and Dong Ye, so he immediately said:
"A few years ago, our army had already defeated the main force of these thieves, and the last remnants were driven into the deep mountains and old forests in the southern part of the Central Plains."
"Who would have thought that in the past few years, the Central Plains has been hit by famines one after another, and the troublesome King Chuang actually turned around again and gathered more people than before, claiming to be half a million!"
"A few days ago, King Chuang even announced that he would first capture my land in Qizhou, and then go north to the capital!"
"How can the imperial court allow these bastards to act like this?"
"The young master must have been in such a state before he was ordered to come to Qizhou to take charge of the situation."
"I'm afraid it won't stop!"
Master Dong took a sip of wine and said:
"I'm afraid what Mr. Xue just said is just part of it. I once heard that the chaos in Yicheng County a few days ago was the work of the remnants of the Wenxiang Sect!"
"Although the Wenxiang Sect has been suppressed by the imperial court over the past few years, their roots are still there."
"I guess."
"It is very possible that the reason why the young master came to Qizhou to defend himself against the intruders is just one of the reasons."
"Another point, I'm afraid we need to clean up the Wenxiang Sect in Qizhou to prevent the Wenxiang Sect from joining the army of bandits and disrupting the safety of Qizhou."
"After all, if Qizhou falls, the capital will be directly exposed to the rogue blades."
"this……"
"Brother Dong, yes, is it that serious?"
As soon as Mr. Dong said this, even Xue Dashan could not help but take a breath of air-conditioning and hurriedly asked.
Master Dong shook his head and laughed:
"Master Xue, I just said it casually. It's just a guess. You don't need to take it too seriously."
"this……"
Xue Dashanren smiled hurriedly, drank a glass of wine, but stopped talking, obviously lost in thought.
Li Yuanjing naturally took in the performances of Xue Dashan and Dong Ye at this moment.
At this moment, although the rhythm has been controlled by Xue Dashan, Li Yuanjing can naturally feel that——
Xue Dashan was full of the arrogance of the traditional landlord class. Not to mention Li Yuanjing, even Mr. Dong didn't pay much attention to him.
Although Master Dong has always been humble, his military qualities and vision are obviously much better than those of Xue Dashan!
Very possible!
This Dongye was born in the military.
In particular, Li Yuanjing also discovered several key details!
He originally thought:
The reason why Mr. Dong is so humble right now is because he is afraid that Biaozi's incident will offend him, and he must seek help from Xue Dashanren, a 'peaceful old man'.
However.
Through the conversation between the two, Li Yuanjing discovered that Mr. Dong’s flattery to Xue Dashan was a habit.
In other words!
Even if Dong Ye has more powerful soldiers and horses, he is still inferior to Xue Dashan's side.
And another point!
Master Dong, who is supposed to be a very important figure in the Wenxiang Sect, actually directly talks about the Wenxiang Sect's affairs openly?
The key point is that after he talked about the Wenxiang Sect, the person who was nervous was not his boss but Xue Dashanren?
What is this situation?
Could it be.
Is this old man Xue Dashanren the big role in the Wenxiang Sect?
Are all my previous guesses about Master Dong wrong?
But the reason why Li Yuanjing had to deal with these two people was to get more information about the overall situation. Naturally, the atmosphere was not allowed to be so cold at this time, and no important information was revealed.
He immediately raised his glass and said with a smile:
"Come on, come on, two old brothers, these are things that the big shots should worry about. What does it have to do with us ordinary people? Come on, I'll give you two old brothers a drink."
Seeing Li Yuanjing drink a glass of wine directly, Xue Dashan also realized that he was a little lost his temper, so he drank the wine in the glass and said with a smile:
"Look at my brain. How come I can't turn my head even though I've been drinking so much. Come on, Mr. Dong, do it."
At this time, Mr. Dong seemed to have achieved some of his testing goals, and he also laughed and raised his glass to drink together.
But just as the atmosphere in the room was about to recover, Li Yuanjing was preparing to offer some advice and find out more detailed information.
Outside.
Suddenly Zhang Kun shouted in panic:
"My boss, my boss, please hurry up and get ready. Young Master Zhang Zhiji from the British government is here and has already arrived at the entrance of our village..."
"What?"
Li Yuanjing and the three people in the public room immediately exploded.