Zhang Jun's camp in Hongzhou is now heavily guarded, and every soldier holds his head high and his chest high, making people dare not look down upon him.
At this time, Zhang Jun, the general with the highest official position in Jiangnan, was facing a young man very respectfully.
The reason for this is that this young man is called Chen Dong, and he is a student from Luoyang.
Of course, a mere imperial student would be nothing more than this, but this imperial student was solely favored by His Majesty. After the officials cleaned up the court, they actually replaced a large group of court officials with the imperial students who supported them at that time.
However, Chen Dong, the representative with the greatest contribution, did not receive any reward.
But no one would think that this person was being excluded.
After all, no marginalized imperial college student can freely enter the court to impeach officials, and no unpopular imperial college student can receive the attention and guidance of many ministers and ministers in the imperial court.
Now that he has taken the initiative to come to Jiangnan, in Zhang Jun's opinion, it is very likely that this person will be in charge of Jiangnan next.
This is also in line with the consistent style of the imperial court!
It's just that Chen Dong's attitude at this time made Zhang Jun a little uncertain.
"I heard that General Zhang Jun also started from a humble background?" When Chen Dong was chatting with Zhang Jun, he suddenly mentioned Zhang Jun's background, which made Zhang Jun ponder.
"This... villain is indeed an archer. When he was sixteen, he became a rural soldier in Sanyang. Because of his strength, he was appointed as an archer, so he could practice bow and crossbow shooting."
"A good archer, a good archer." Chen Dong suddenly burst into laughter, "Many generals in our Song Dynasty are archers. Isn't there some tradition in this?"
"Sir, you misunderstood." Zhang Jun immediately stood up and explained, "There have always been only two paths to promotion in our Song Dynasty army. One is for those who are born as generals. They have inherited the position of general since they were born. With merit and time, Naturally, he can lead troops in battle.
The second is to recruit soldiers and select brave and powerful people from among the village warriors.
At this time of recruiting troops, cavalry is the rarest and has almost no chance of recruiting, and the only ones left are archers.
An archer needs to be strong, with both arms able to draw a bow and shoot arrows for a long time, and at the same time, he must have the ability to fight at close quarters.
Comparatively speaking, what archers need is the most rare, and they are often elites in the army. The same thing is scouts, but it is quite difficult for scouts to become generals. "
"Well...how many years has the general been a soldier in the army?"
"The villain was Ren Duoquan who joined the Xiangyong in the first year of Jingguo. Later, in the sixth year of Zhenghe, he accompanied the army to attack Xixia. Because of his considerable merit, he was awarded the official position of Chengxinlang.
At that time, the villain was already thirty-one and had been in the army for fifteen years. "
"I have been in the army for fifteen years and have reached the smallest official position in the army. Some people say that a general walks his way step by step. This statement is indeed true."
"Thank you sir." Zhang Jun was getting more and more nervous at this time, always feeling like something was going to happen to him.
"It's not easy these years, General. It's really not easy." Chen Dong suddenly grabbed Zhang Jun's arm, pushed away everyone around him, and walked side by side with him in the camp. "General, is he from the Western Army?"
"Back then, I followed Lieutenant General Zhongshi and sent troops to Hedong. It was a real Western Army."
"Someone has heard that the two battles at Yuci were the general's famous battles." Chen Dong suddenly recalled Zhang Jun's military exploits. "Back then, the general was the vanguard of the army and first stationed in Yuci. However, he was surrounded by Jin men and the commander died on the battlefield. , the general led hundreds of people to break through and refused to surrender.
In this battle, the general fought and retreated, killing more than 500 enemies in total, which was called heroic.
In May of the same year, the general once again followed Lieutenant General Zhongshi into the Hedong battlefield and fought to the end, still in Yuci City.
Among the generals who died here, the general fought desperately to kill the enemy. Among the generals who came out from Hedong, except Liu Zhongwu Zheyan Zhi, I am afraid that General Zhang Jun and you are the only few generals left.
Good job, General. "
"The final general will not dare to express his suffering."
"The general did not dare to say that his hard work was a great achievement for so many years, but he risked his own life and never dared to retreat when charging into battle. The Song Dynasty will naturally remember the general's abilities and achievements.
But Chen Dong wanted to ask the general something else!
The general's family has a lot of wealth... "
After hearing this sentence, Zhang Jun understood. He didn't think too much. He wanted to liquidate himself.
Zhang Jun's face suddenly stiffened, his body even stopped moving, and his whole person became nervous.
"Don't worry. Since a certain family has blocked everyone around them, they don't want to take action. Besides, this is the general's camp. What do I want to do?"
Chen Dong's words were interesting and made Zhang Jun feel slightly relaxed.
"There is a saying from a certain family that tells the gentleman that a certain family only has one wife in his life and has never even found a concubine.
In the end, he will not be fond of sex, gambling, drinking, or even greed for food and drink.
Mo Jiang has been greedy for money all his life.
The villain has been born in hard times since he was a child. He has not had enough to eat for many years. Before joining the army, his life was indeed miserable.
Therefore, after gaining some influence, the general couldn't help but want to buy more land in Tianlang, but don't worry, sir.
A certain family had not done anything evil for so many years, perhaps engaging in forced buying and selling. Up to that time, they had not done anything clever and plundered, nor had they forced people to death because of such things.
The world is in chaos, and the fields and ridges are mostly barren, and the general has gathered a lot from it... from it.
You will eventually be convicted! "
Zhang Jun didn't quibble after he finished speaking. He knew that since Chen Dong said so and did this, he had found out and it was enough to give him face.
If you continue to cover up and refuse to admit it, you will be shameless.
When Chen Dong heard that Zhang Jun recognized what he had done, he nodded slightly, and then said softly.
"The officials already know these things, but don't worry, General. The officials have never asked someone to do anything to you, which means he has not given up. As for the outcome of the general... General, don't worry too much."
"General... Many thanks, sir, and many thanks to the officials!"
When Chen Dong mentioned Zhang Jun, Yue Fei and Zhao Huan, who were about to enter Hongzhou, were also saying these words.
"Zhang Jun, although he is a little greedy for money, he is not a bad person.
In these years, whether it was fighting against Xixia, guarding the border, aiding Hedong, fighting against the Jin people, or conquering bandits such as Li Yu and Zhang Yu who were entrenched in Rencheng.
He and Zhang Jun were fighting for their lives.
In the land south of the Yangtze River, many bandits were put down, and in the battle of Daming Mansion, Zhang Jun also acted as a coordinator and fought bravely under Zong Shuai to kill the enemy.
All the generals who have served as his superior, Zhang Jun, all have good evaluations of him.
Dare to fight hard and have brains, he is a good general of the contemporary era.
Even after Li Gang became the same as Zhang Jun, he told everyone that Zhang Jun was powerful and could be the general in charge of Jiangnan to stabilize the situation.
He was appointed envoy to the west of Zhejiang and Jiangdong, and became the chief general of Jiangnan because of Li Gang's recommendation.
He has been a general for many years, and he is fair to his subordinates and the people. He is not as strict as our army in terms of military discipline, but in the Song Dynasty, he can be regarded as a clean army.
But this guy was afraid of poverty when he was young.
After sixteen years of starvation and fifteen years of hard work, the result was the youngest Cheng Xinlang.
The late emperor looked down upon him and could not even see him. At that time, he refused to rely on his superiors and always fought for the lead in every battle. However, every time he discussed his merits, he could not get into the eyes of those above him.
This was once a lonely person.
Until he really couldn't stand this kind of life anymore, he gave in to his superior officer and got a real official body.
Maybe we can say that this kind of person doesn't insist, but... we really can't blame him. "
Zhao Huan knew more about Zhang Jun than anyone else. In addition to history, there was also the Imperial City Department's investigation of Zhang Jun.
When Zhao Huan combined the two into one, he couldn't feel any ill feelings toward the guy who had slandered Yue Fei in history.
How good is his reputation historically?
Of course it's not good. This guy's sculpture is still kneeling in front of Yue Fei's tomb.
This guy was extremely rich when he died, claiming that he "occupied land all over the world, and his family accumulated tens of thousands."
This guy has more than one million acres of fertile land, and the annual rent is more than 600,000 shi. Zhang Jun's current status is not enough, and it is not considered evil. He just got a lot of land from it.
In the later period, he began to plunder and occupy a large number of gardens and houses. The rent collected alone was as much as 73,000 guan per year. That is to say, the rent alone was an annual income of 730 million guan. money.
Zhang Jun's descendants once donated 100,000 shi to the Southern Song Dynasty to rent rice. The list lists the amount of rice rented by ten counties in the six prefectures of Jiangdong and Liangzhe Road, totaling fifteen villages.
Just this number, no one can look at it and think about it.
But in other words, is this guy resistant to gold?
If he, Zhang Jun, is not resistant to gold, then how many people in the world are resistant to gold?
He fought against Xixia when he debuted, and then followed Zhong Shizhong to fight fiercely in Taiyuan, fighting to the death twice to break through. Historically, the Miao and Liu rebellions wanted to negotiate peace with the Jin people, so he went over and killed these two guys.
He turned around and carried Jin Wushu hard. In the Battle of Mingzhou, he almost died and his family was wiped out. Finally, he and Han Shizhong were able to encircle Jin Wushu in Huang Tiandang.
In history, there were thirteen military exploits in the Southern Song Dynasty's fight against the Jin Dynasty that ensured the stability of the Southern Song Dynasty, and Zhang Jun's Battle of Mingzhou ranked first among them.
No matter how powerful his results were, at that time in history, even Yue Fei was tortured by the Jin people and was in a dilemma of life and death, and was held back from time to time by those behind him.
At that time, the Song Dynasty was losing consecutive battles and had no hope. It was Zhang Jun who gave the Song Dynasty new hope.
Defeat the bandits, fight against Liu Yu, fight to the death against Jin Wushu, and finally unite with Liu Qi to defend against the Jin's invasion and attack for twenty years. The results are not great, but they cannot be said to be unimportant.
But for this guy, for the first thirty years of his life, he was bullied into darkness and had almost no way to survive.
Therefore, it is difficult for Zhao Huan to lick his face and say, I am not wrong, but the world is wrong.
