The old east wind comes to dream

Chapter 64

A few days later, a person came to the small courtyard where Gu Zizhan and Chu Lan lived.

Li Dai inspected the person's token, then turned and ran to report to Gu Zizhan.After running a few steps, the smile on his face could no longer be hidden.

Soon, Gu Zizhan and Chu Lan saw the person coming.

This man was tall and burly, wearing a coarse cloth bunt, and his beard was covered by a bamboo hat, but he still couldn't hide his murderous aura.Seeing Gu Zizhan, the visitor took off his bamboo hat and smiled.On the face of it, he is not very old.

The visitor stepped forward and kowtowed, and said: "I have seen the young master! I have seen the madam!"

Gu Zizhan was overjoyed. He looked at Chu Lan, helped him up and said with a smile, "Vice General Ma, you don't need to be polite! Please worry about this matter."

Vice-General Ma respectfully completed all the etiquette, then stood up and sat down, waved his hands again and again and said: "Young master, don't say that, this is what I should do in the first place. It just so happened that I had some friendship with the second brother of the Lian family when we were young. He It was taught by Old General Lian himself, he is really shrewd, I just need to hand many things to him, and he will naturally understand a little bit."

Gu Zizhan nodded and smiled, and said: "Okay, after you go back, let him not be in a hurry, and don't go back to Beijing. Your Majesty won't urge him. In a few days, there should be a decree for him to investigate more carefully."

Vice-General Ma quickly responded, and then heard Gu Zizhan ask: "How is your general?"

Vice-General Ma smiled heartily when he heard the words, and replied: "The general said before leaving that the young master is the most polite person, but he is not polite to the young master, just say that he is not doing well recently!"

Gu Zizhan was amused, so he followed the words and asked: "He is a general of the first army, what's wrong?"

Deputy General Ma scratched his head, and said with a smile: "I can't even say this, but my general insisted on asking me to take the lead, so Ma had no choice but to say it brazenly. The general said, when we meet again in the future, I need to ask Mr. Xiaoyao to make a painting for his wife, he is worried about his wife's birthday gift recently, he is so worried that he can't eat or sleep well, and the whole life is not good." After saying that, he looked at Chu Lan.

Gu Zizhan refused, and scolded with a smile: "Why would he think so! My Mr. Xiaoyao's masterpiece is worth a thousand dollars! Besides, he is afraid of his wife, so maybe I won't be afraid? If Mr. Xiaoyao gets tired, I will be the one who suffers." gone."

Vice-General Ma laughed out loud, Chu Lan glared at Gu Zizhan, and stepped forward to agree, "The general and his wife are deeply in love. When we meet in the future, I will definitely draw a picture for Mrs. Duan."

Vice-General Ma quickly thanked, then looked at Gu Zizhan, Gu Zizhan leaned on the back of the chair, waved his hand weakly, and pointed at Chu Lan, "Listen to her, listen to her, she is the master of our family!" He couldn't help muttering: "Duan The boss is talkative, so his brother asked my wife to talk about it, but the result was the same, but he asked you to taunt me face to face. He is afraid of my wife, he is as good as me, hehe, who is still laughing at whom? .”

Vice General Ma couldn't help laughing again, "Hahaha, on this point, the young master and my general are indeed on the same path!" Then he changed the subject and bowed to the end, "Thank you for your help, young master, about my father back then. Today, it is all thanks to the help of the young master, I dare not say thank you for my great kindness, I will engrave it in my heart!"

Gu Zizhan sat upright, stopped him from laughing and said: "Why be polite, you should learn more from your general about thick-skinned. Besides, what happened back then was also thanks to your general's foresight , To me, it was nothing more than a little effort. Besides, your father helped me a lot later on, and I am very grateful. I am ashamed of what you said."

Vice-General Ma also laughed, "Young Master treats people as before, which makes Ma admire. No matter what plans you have in the future, I will definitely be the first to greet you!"

Gu Zizhan laughed heartily and said, "That's it, it's a deal!"

This Vice General Ma is the formidable general of the Zhenyuan Army who is now in the official residence - Duan Wu's confidant Vice General.Before Duan Wu went to the northern border, Vice General Ma quietly left behind Lian Yongan, the dragon rider guard who came from the capital to investigate the truth of Gu Zizhan's death.

Vice General Ma and Lian Yong'an have known each other since childhood, he is the son of Ma Chengda, he and Lian Yong'an were the sons of officials in the capital in the early years, and they had a lot of contacts.Ma Chengda, who used to be the Shaoqing of Dali Temple, mistook the prince as the mastermind because of the false evidence in the case of privately casting official silver, and had a rift with Emperor Tianshun.After he resigned, Duan Wu worried that he would be in danger on the road, so he specially sent someone to escort him, and met Duan Yong who was investigating Liu An outside the city.Duan Wu and Duan Yong, no one knew that these two were actually brothers.

Duan's family is a run-down military family. Duan Yong left home in his early years and drifted in the rivers and lakes for a while.He didn't want to rely on his family, let alone cling to his elder brother Duan Wu who was gradually becoming famous, so he concealed this part of his life experience.That time when the two brothers met, Duan Wu learned that his little brother had followed Gu Zizhan.Duan Wu had a good impression of Gu Zizhan, and felt that his brother was finally on the right track again.Because of this relationship, Gu Zizhan and Duan Wu have also known each other for many years.

When Ma Chengda returned to his hometown, there were some officials at the lower levels who made it their own way to share the worries of the superiors and made things difficult for his family. Thanks to the secret protection of Gu Zizhan and Duan Wu, they were safe.As time went by, Ma Chengda gradually understood a lot. He hated these intrigues among civil servants, so he simply sent his son to Duan Wu's army to train. Until now, he has become Duan Wu's capable lieutenant general.

Right now, Vice General Ma has approached Lian Yong'an and handed over all of Xing Kang's means in the Jiangbei officialdom to him. When the time is right, he can reverse the case for Gu Zizhan.

As for when this opportunity will come, it all depends on Gu Zizhan's arrangements.

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As for Gu Zizhan this time, in addition to taking the private soldiers raised by King Yu in the south of the Yangtze River for her own use, she and Chu Lan also need to check for themselves.That was another major event that they had quietly started to do during the three years of mourning for Princess Xianyu - training the female army.

In Dazhao, although the folk customs are much more open than before, the status of women is still inferior to that of men.A man can be an official in the court, but a woman can only be trapped in her boudoir. Even someone as talented as Chu Lan can only be buried outside the temple for nothing.Women seem to be born as accessories of men, and their life value can only be reflected in the two words of bearing children, caring for husbands and children, and "women's way".

Gu Zizhan and Chu Lan naturally would not bow to this prejudice.

There are countless talented women in this world, and even more ambitious ones!Since Gu Zizhan has the so-called Ziwei fate as a woman, she has the responsibility to open up a new world for women in this world!This point has always been kept in Gu Zizhan's heart, and it is also a turning point that she has been thinking about for a long time.

Besides, on the other hand, her identity as a woman is destined to be impossible to hide for a lifetime.If King Yu had the upper hand by luck, then Gu Zizhan's female status would be the best excuse for him to replace him without changing his life!

Only with more rights in hand, too much to be shaken, and women's power is too big to be underestimated, can one have the capital to fight against those pedantic and old-fashioned dignitaries in the future.Destiny, after all, must be in your own hands.

Therefore, the establishment of a women's army can be the first step in bringing women into court.With knives, guns and blood, cut through the thick fog covering the sky and welcome the dazzling morning sun.This point, as early as when Gu Zizhan told Chu Lan the story of Hua Mulan, had taken root in Chu Lan's heart.What's more, right now, there happens to be such a group of women who are unwilling to be controlled by others, and would rather sacrifice everything to fight for a piece of the world.They are the girls brought by Li Xiangjun who were born in brothels.Therefore, they became Gu Zizhan's initial team, and Li Xiangjun naturally became the leader.

It has to be said that Li Xiangjun is very skillful in doing things, unknowingly growing the team, and also brought them unexpected surprises.

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At that time, Gu Zizhan and Chu Lan hadn't found any traces of Yu Wang's private soldiers, and the people they sent were mainly going to the southwest, and the focus in Jiangnan was still on the officialdom.

King Yu was cautious in his work. He never interacted with officials in person. Instead, he would find a few trustworthy people in various places to cultivate them, and gradually put them in positions with real power.Then use these people to spread the net step by step and connect them into one piece.

Zhang Ming, governor of Fengdu, is such a person.He used to work in Jiangnan Xuedao, and was the chief examiner of the state and county examinations. He used his power to attract many people for King Yu.Later, he was promoted to the governor of Fengdu and became the governor of a prefecture, so he was valued even more by King Yu, and he became the spokesperson of King Yu's family in the south of the Yangtze River.

The reason why Gu Zizhan was able to win him over was thanks to Ma Chengda who had retired and returned home at that time.

In Dazhao, the teacher who was enlightened when he was young was called "Mengshi", and the examiner who took part in the imperial examination was called "Zuoshi".Most of the tutors are rural teachers, and their power and status are naturally incomparable with those of the teachers. Therefore, most scholars in the world have more than one teacher and despise the teacher.Even in order to cover up their downfall in the early years, many people even cut off their relationship with the teacher after Tengda.But Zhang Ming was just the opposite. He always cared about and relied heavily on the teachers he had taught him when he was studying in his early years.And his mentor is Ma Chengda.

Ma Chengda failed in many trials in his early years and worked as a teacher for a period of time.Later, when he became an official in the court, these became the past and were never mentioned, so no one in the court knew about them.In addition, Zhang Ming traveled to many places with his clansmen later, and when he passed the Jinshi examination, he was no longer the original household registration.What's more, after he entered politics, he never interacted with Ma Chengdamming on the surface, and even Gu Quan didn't know about it.

It wasn't until after Ma Cheng was in distress that Zhang Ming ran around secretly, and then Gu Zizhan noticed it.

It can be said that the willows and willows are planted unintentionally, and all fates are already destined.