Chapter 41: Hug together for warmth
The regent Tuoba Feng, like his brother Emperor Jingxian, hated this arrogant and brainless woman. However, the situation forced him to cooperate with Gongde, especially when his son Tuoba Yi had just ascended the throne. , when I was still young.
In order to catch Zhang Chenglie smoothly, Tuo Bafeng and his cronies had already devised many plans, and even set up an ambush behind the door. As soon as Zhang Chenglie appeared, they would swarm up and tie him up, and then kill him or cut him into pieces. It's not a matter of his words.
Tuo Ba Feng had calculated everything, but he didn't expect that Zhang Chenglie would run away without even taking a chance. He punched the empty space with all his strength, which was very uncomfortable.
"Hurry up and seal the city gate and arrest the whole city!" Tuo Ba Feng became angry and shouted at his seventh brother Tuo Batao, who was responsible for watching over Zhang Chenglie.
"Your Highness the Regent, this is absolutely impossible!" someone shouted loudly.
Tuo Ba Feng was about to get angry when he turned around and saw that the person speaking was the Minister of Military Aircraft Liu Xingzhi. He quickly suppressed his anger and said calmly: "Old military aircraft, what do you mean?"
Liu Xingzhi's courtesy name was Xiaoda and his nickname was Xiangtao. He was promoted to the Yuan Dynasty in Shuntian Prefecture at the age of 16. He was ranked third in Jinshi at the age of 27. He served as governor, governor, military minister and other important positions. He was a bachelor of Tiren Pavilion and a veteran of three dynasties. , everyone called him "Liu Xiangshuai" at that time. He was as famous as Qian Dingguo and Wei Hongwen as the Minister of Zhongxing.
The reason why Liu Xingzhi wanted to protect Zhang Chenglie was not because of the friendship between them. On the contrary, in Liu Xingzhi's eyes, Zhang Chenglie was a gangster.
There is a saying that "Rogues are not to be feared, only that they are educated."
Zhang Chenglie is such a cultured gangster, and he is a big gangster with ideas, pursuits, and military power.
I remember one time when Liu Xingzhi asked Zhang Chenglie how he trained his troops, the guy said proudly: "It's quite simple. I hold the silver in one hand and the knife in the other. I give the money when I'm obedient, and use the knife when I'm disobedient."
This rogue theory made Liu Xingzhi, a great Confucian who read the books of sages and sages, so angry that he almost vomited blood.
Later, Liu Xingzhi also paid special attention to Zhang Chenglie's Minghe military training and found that this guy really did this. He even added private goods and shamelessly forced the soldiers to shout slogans like this:
"Who gave you food?"
"Lord Zhang Chenglie!"
"Who dressed us?
"Lord Zhang Chenglie!"
“Whose words will you only listen to from now on?”
"Lord Zhang Chenglie!"
In this way, Zhang Chenglie forcibly took the elite soldiers trained by the court and spent hundreds of millions of taels of silver and trained them into Zhang Chenglie's personal armed force.
After this incident, Liu Xingzhi crossed out this alien from the list of friends he made, so that they later became ministers of military aircraft and did not look at each other.
Even so, Liu Xingzhi now had to protect Zhang Chenglie.
The reason has to start with Dayan.
Dayan was originally a small and remote country in the north of the Southern Xinjiang continent. It took advantage of the chaos of the previous monarchy, the Shun Dynasty, to raise troops to conquer the world.
The people of Dayan are the Qing people. In the southern continent of Xinjiang, the population of the Qing people is less than one percent of the population of the Xia people. After winning the world, the Dayan royal family had to use Xia people to govern the world.
Therefore, there has been a long-standing power struggle between the Qing and Xia clans in the court. Among the seven military ministers, the Xia people only had three seats. Although Liu Xingzhi and Zhang Chenglie had different political views, they had to stay together because the three of them represented the The whole Xia people.
Moreover, Liu Xingzhi and another Xia military minister were already seventy years old and might leave one day, so it was particularly important to leave Zhang Chenglie in his prime.
After pondering for a while, Liu Xingzhi said: "The country has recently suffered a great loss, and the Lord is young. Stabilizing the overall situation is the most important thing at the moment. Killing the ministers at this time will cause endless troubles."
Tuo Ba Feng had not considered what Liu Xingzhi said, but when he thought about his brother, Emperor Jing Xian, who had been trapped in Nantai for twenty years and finally died in depression, he became so angry that he wanted to skin Zhang Chenglie and scrape his bones immediately.
Tuo Ba Feng was not a man of eloquent words and judgment. When he saw what Liu Xingzhi said, he immediately hesitated.
Liu Xingzhi saw that Tuo Ba Feng was hesitant, so he added: "Zhang Junji has not made any serious mistakes in these years. If he rashly captures and kills, it will be difficult to convince the crowd. The regent must also know that the soldiers and horses of the six towns guarding the capital are all made by Zhang Junji personally conducted the drill. If something happens to Zhang Junji and the soldiers and horses of the six towns are leaderless, there may be changes. I hope the Queen Mother and the Regent will think twice."
Liu Xingzhi's words really hit Tuo Ba Feng's heart. Zhang Chenglie had the military power, which was Tuo Ba Feng's biggest concern.
If it were better to capture Zhang Chenglie now, he could take over these soldiers and horses with thunderous means. But now that Zhang Chenglie escaped first, it would be like a dragon returning to the sea and a bird entering the dense forest, with no way to start.
If a nationwide arrest was imposed and Zhang Chenglie was forced to jump over the wall and rebel, I really don't know how it would end with the little fighting power left by the Yan tribe's two hundred years of pampering.
While Tuo Ba Feng was having a hard time, Zhang Chenglie was drinking coffee with Ambassador Raul at the Maudi Embassy.
The Maudi Kingdom is located on the Fenglei Continent, separated from the Southern Xinjiang Continent where the Qing Kingdom is located, by the Falling Star Sea and the Xifeng Sea.
Dayan and Maudi, two countries in the east and west, had a war sixty years ago due to trade disputes. Dayan, which was still in the cold weapon era, was defeated by Maudi's strong ships and cannons. Without even a chance to return the phone, they had to sign the first humiliating treaty with Maudi: compensating Maudi for military expenses of 6 million taels of silver and ceding Xiangjiang Island to Maudi.
As soon as this example started, the great powers from all continents in the world followed suit. The weak Dayan Dynasty had to cede territory and pay indemnities to satisfy the growing appetite of the great powers again and again. In just sixty years, the Dayan Dynasty and the world's great powers More than two thousand unequal treaties, large and small, were signed.
What is much more serious than these unequal treaties is that the backbone of the rulers of the Dayan Dynasty was broken by the great powers. They have a population of 40 million and a land of tens of millions of square kilometers, but they have been repeatedly ravaged by small countries with a population of less than ten million and a territory less than a province of Qingguo. In the end, they became numb, put down their dignity, and willingly became the lackeys of outsiders.
Zhang Chenglie escaped from the mansion quietly in disguise. In his words, "I thought that my heroic life of Zhang Chenglie would die at the hands of a resentful woman in the palace and a newly weaned baby. That would be too unworthy."
"Zhang, you made this move very cleverly." Raul, Ambassador of Mauritius, is an expert in foreign affairs. Hearing Zhang Chenglie's intention, he couldn't help but give Zhang Chenglie a thumbs up.
Zhang Chenglie had a lot of dealings with Raul, and he often sent money to bribe the Maudi Ambassador. Therefore, he was very casual in front of Raul: "Mr. Ambassador, you are joking. I can't help it. They want to kill me. I can’t just give my neck to them and chop it off, right?”
