Tang riddles

Shen Sui still remembered that when he was studying in his early years, he had studied Zhang Daoji's writing style and ideas. At that time, he was already a well-known leader in the literary world.People at that time called it "Yan Xu's great handwriting" together with Xu Guogong Su Ting.In the early school examinations, the policy theory was the best in the world.After only five years in the middle school, he entered Fengge and became a Sheren.The officialdom was ups and downs, and his official career reached its peak after the sage ascended the throne.Kaifu Yitong Sansi, Shangshu Zuochengxiang, Jixian Palace Zhiyuanshi, Shangzhu Kingdom, Yan Guogong, these names shocked the world.He single-handedly founded Lizheng Academy, which was later renamed Jixiandian Academy, and became the object of worship of students all over the world.

When Wen Zong stepped on the board and walked to the boat where the people were, all the officials bowed to him and said:

"Mr. Zhang."

Although he has been dismissed from office, he is still a model of scholars in the world.

"Don't be too polite, everyone. I heard that the third department of the imperial court sent people. Who are they?" Zhang said that although he was highly respected, he behaved modestly and politely.

Shen Sui, Pei Yaoqing, and Liu Yucheng hurriedly stepped forward to salute again and introduce themselves.

"Huanzhi, Dongling, it's been a long time." Zhang said that he knew both of them.

"Mr. Zhang, is it safe to come in?" Pei Yaoqing spoke as a representative.

"Hehehe, looking at me like this, can I be called An?" Zhang said with a smile, but his words were a bit bitter.

Pei Yaoqing and Liu Yucheng didn't know how to answer. Looking at Zhang Shuo's haggard and older face, they felt a bit of a sense of desolation in their hearts.Zhang Gong was so glorious back then, but his glory was lost overnight. This may also be a portrayal of the end of their official career.It is not easy to be an official, but it is difficult to be with the king.

Zhang Shuo did not make things difficult for the two of them any more, but turned his attention to Shen Sui.Looking at this handsome young man, he smiled, with appreciation and sentimentality in his eyes:

"This is the famous Xuedao Mingjue, Shen Bozhao, and Shen Sizhi."

"Don't dare to be a late learner." Shen Sui said humbly with a bow.The temperament on his body gave Zhang Shuo a sense of being neither humble nor overbearing.

"Okay." Zhang said with a smile and praised, "Fengshen is handsome, with a clear demeanor and bones. He is a great young man. You don't have to be too modest. I have heard about the case of mercy, and it can be solved in a short time. A complicated and clueless case is enough to demonstrate your ability. But, I have to say, this case may be more mysterious than the Charity case, making people confused and chilling."

Liu Yucheng asked:

"Why did Mr. Zhang say such a thing?"

Zhang said, looking at the rolling yellow waves over the side of the boat, he sighed and said:

"I have a special status. I am the party involved in the incident. Yuan Mao was drinking with me on the deck at that time. His disappearance is extremely unbelievable to me. Three, my words are just the one-sided words of the parties. Believe me, and don’t be shy about my identity. I know that there are serious suspicions on me, and the three of you should treat it with caution.”

"I will handle the case impartially." Pei Yaoqing, the oldest person, said.Liu Yucheng felt disapproving, he couldn't figure out what motive Zhang Daoji had for killing Zhu Yuanmao, he believed that Zhu Yuanmao probably fell into the water because he was drunk.How complicated is this case?

Zhang said he leaned on a railing to look at the river, and slowly narrated:

"On the [-]th day of the first lunar month, the Yuanmao Court Meeting ended, and he made a detour from Chang'an to Shu and met me. I have been an old friend with him for more than ten years. When he was a central official in Chang'an in his early years, I was the one who single-handedly picked him up. In the tenth year (referring to the tenth year of Kaiyuan), it coincided with the Turkic War, and I went to Shuofang. He followed me in the front line and made great achievements. Later, he was appointed to Jingzhou as the governor. He already had relatives in Jingzhou. Although they are distant relatives, since he came, they have become close."

Officials are very clear about the past events that Zhang said.In the eighth year of Kaiyuan, the ambassador of Shuofang, Wang Jun, killed thousands of people from Abu Si, a descendant of the Turks, in order to falsify his military achievements.In order to quell the incident, Zhang Daoji led 20 people as an envoy to appease the various ministries, and moved the various ministries by taking personal risks.

In the ninth year of Kaiyuan, the misfortune recurred, and the Turkic general Kang Daibin rebelled.The sage sent Wang Jun to lead his army to attack, and Zhang Daoji was his military advisor.At that time, Kang Daibin secretly colluded with the party, broke through Yincheng, Liangu, and occupied the granary.Zhang Shuo led 1 people out of Heheguan to attack, defeated Kang Daibin, and pursued the victory.When they fled to Luotuoyan, Dangxiang rebelled and the rebels collapsed.Zhang said that he would appease the diaspora of Dangxiang, so that they could settle down to their own jobs, and rejected the suggestion of his subordinates to kill the whole Dangxiang family.Later, Zhang said that he would also like to set up Linzhou, settle down the party items, and convince the party items.

This battle was fought extremely beautifully, and Zhang said that his popularity was in full swing.After returning to Chang'an, he was promoted to Minister of the Ministry of War, worshiped under Tong Zhongshu's family, and went out to be a general and a minister.

In the tenth year of Kaiyuan, Zhang Shuo served as Shuofang Jiedu ambassador and inspected the five frontier cities.At that time, Kang Yuanzi, the remaining party of Kang Taibin, raised his troops to rebel, proclaimed himself a Khan, plundered horses, and crossed the Yellow River westward to leave the fortress.Zhang Shuo led his troops to pursue them. He captured Kang Yuanzi in Mupan Mountain and captured 3000 people. He also forcibly moved more than [-] people who lived in the six prefectures of Hequ to Deng, Xian, Yu, Xu, Ru, Tang, etc. in the Central Plains. State, put an end to hidden dangers, and made great contributions.Zhu Yuanmao was his deputy at the time, and he also made great military achievements, and was later named the governor of Jingzhou.

Zhang said with a sigh: "I know Yuan Mao's character. He is quite upright. Although there are many gaps in his chest, he also has pride. He loves loyalty and friendship. He is a very worthy friend. After I left office, I left Chang'an and met him. I hadn't seen him for many years, so I was naturally very happy when he came to see me this time. I boarded the boat and sent him down the river, drinking and laughing and talking all the way, which was very enjoyable. I never dreamed that he would encounter something unexpected.

To be honest, I don't remember clearly what happened that night.But it was rare in my life to get so drunk that I only vaguely remembered that I hadn't had much to drink, and that I lost consciousness very quickly.His drinking capacity is still higher than mine, and he shouldn't be so drunk that he stumbled and fell into the water.I still can't let it go, I always feel that there is something weird in it.In addition, the salvage in the river has lasted for such a long time. We pulled the net downstream almost immediately. It stands to reason that the body should not be found until now.The whole case had an air of strangeness that puzzled me. "

There was silence on the deck, and every official had a thoughtful look on his face.

"Mr. Zhang, Sui has some questions and wants to ask Mr. Zhang for advice." Shen Sui was the first to break the silence and asked.

Zhang said he looked at her and motioned her to ask.

"Do you remember which part of the river you went to before you fell asleep?"

Zhang Shuo thought for a while, then replied with a frown: "I just got out of the cabin, and when I was having a banquet on the deck, I asked the boatman, and the boatman said that the boat was approaching Fengjie. After that, I lost consciousness not long after I had a banquet with Yuanmao." , I was not able to see Fengjie Port either. I went to sleep on the evening of the [-]th and woke up at dawn on the [-]th. Yuanmao might have disappeared by then. No one saw him on the boat, but it also explained No one can be sure that he must not be on board. We searched the entire ship when we arrived in Zigui and found that he was indeed missing. Therefore, we can only roughly judge that the watershed where Yuanmao disappeared should be in the Fengjie to Zigui area. Duan Jiangzhong."

"In other words, you don't know where the boat has arrived when the boat is sailing across the river."

Zhang Shuo frowned, then said:

"I really don't know. I'm not a fisherman and boatman who travels in the river for many years. I'm not familiar with the scenery of the river bank, so naturally I don't know where the boat has gone. Unless there are some particularly famous landmarks, such as Qutang Gorge Kuimen, Wushan Goddess Feng, I am familiar with these."

Shen Sui nodded, then asked again:

"What kind of wine did you drink at the banquet? How much was it?"

"The sake produced in Luzhou was given to me by my friends in Yizhou. The wine is brewed by the farmers themselves. The purity is not high, but it is very mellow and not easy to intoxicate. We took three small altars, not too much. I remember I only opened one jar, and before I drank it all, I was already drunk." Zhang Shuo replied.

Shen Sui nodded thoughtfully again, and finally she asked:

"Do you remember where the boat went when you woke up at dawn?"

Zhang said that his gray eyebrows were furrowed even tighter. He thought hard, and finally shook his head:

"At that time, I felt sad all over my body and had a severe headache. I just wanted to fall asleep. I just asked the boatman casually about Yuanmao's whereabouts, and then I went back to my room and fell asleep. Let's go to the middle of Wu Gorge."

"That is, we are now fifteen or six miles downstream of the section of the river." Liu Zhi added.They are currently in the lower reaches of Qutang Gorge, and have not yet entered Wu Gorge, because Shen Sui has not yet seen the iconic Goddess Peak.

Shen Sui then asked Liu Zhi:

"Inspector Liu, may I ask where that ship is now?"

Knowing that she was asking about the boat Zhu Yuanmao was on, Liu Zhi replied:

"It has been parked in Zigui Port since the incident."

"What about the boat boss's family?"

"I've been waiting on the boat, guarded by officers and soldiers. We dared to release him only when the case came to light."

"I want to go to that boat to have a look now." Shen Sui said.

Liu Zhi was taken aback, and asked:

"Did Shen Sizhi stop looking at the salvage situation here?"

Shen Sui paused, with a smile on the corner of his mouth, and asked Pei Yaoqing and Liu Yucheng:

"Pei Shilang, Liu Yuanwailang, do you want to see more here?"

Pei Yaoqing and Liu Yucheng looked at each other, and finally shook their heads and said:

"We still listen to Shen Sizhi."

Seeing this scene, Zhang Shuo and the local officials present knew it well. It seemed that Shen Bozhao, who was sent by the Dali Temple, had the final say on the investigative team sent by the imperial court this time.

So the anchor was lifted again, and the boat went down the river.Shen Sui and the others were still standing on the deck to exchange the case. Shen Sui focused on two tasks. When talking with the officials, he divided his mind between Shi Haoye, Chief Governor of Jingzhou, Shi Li Zhongyuan, Chief Governor of Yizhou, and Jingzhou. Sima Jiang of the Nanjiedu Mansion was on top of these three people.She noticed that the three men did indeed have brocade embroidered brocade pouches hanging around their waists.Hao Ye’s brocade bag is embroidered with cloud patterns on a black background, Li Zhongyuan’s brocade bag is embroidered with peonies on a red background, and Jiang Teng’s brocade bag is embroidered with koi on a blue background.Other than that, there is nothing special about it.

Shen Sui gathered the three of them together without any trace, and cleverly asked how the three of them got their tips by way of small talk.I learned that Hao Ye and Jiang Teng's kits were all made by their wives, and only Li Zhongyuan's kits were given to him by a brothel woman.However, when it came to this topic, Shen Sui was inevitably asked questions about lifelong events, and was inevitably urged to marry in various ways.To this, she could only smile back, and only said that she was waiting for fate to come.

"Brother Bozhao is so handsome and suave, young and talented, there must be many women who want to marry you. I understand that Brother Bozhao doesn't want to start a family prematurely, because he is focused on his official career. Brother Yu shouldn't talk too much, But I still want to persuade my brother. Since ancient times, there are three kinds of unfilial piety, and having no offspring is the greatest. Brother Bo Zhao is not too young, so it is better to consider marrying a wife and having children as soon as possible. In this way, the spirit of parents in heaven will also comfort them." Hao Ye was serious. said.

"Hao Changshi is right. If Brother Bo Zhao is too picky and doesn't know what kind of girl to marry, there are many relatives and friends in Chang'an. As long as Brother Bo Zhao speaks, Jiang will spare no effort to share his worries .” Jiang Teng said with a smile.

Shen Sui secretly wiped off his cold sweat, looked down on the two people's speeches, and said in the stomach: It's amazing to have a wife, you actually put on airs to educate me.I have it too, um...but I haven't gotten married yet.

Suddenly imagining the appearance of someone with a phoenix crown and Xiapei, Shen Dasi straightened his eyes and became stunned.It wasn't until Li Zhongyuan who was at the side patted her on the shoulder that she suddenly came back to her senses and looked at Li Zhongyuan in a daze.

"Brother, did you hear what XX said just now?"

"What? Forgive me, Li Changshi, Shen just lost his mind."

"I said, don't take Hao Changshi's and Jiang Sima's words too seriously. Our manly ambitions are everywhere, why worry about women? Look at me, don't you have a wife in your forties? People don't waste their youth, While you are young, experience more and enjoy enough, and it will not be too late to marry a wife and have a few more sons." Li Zhongyuan laughed, that smile was indescribably wretched to Shen Sui.

What he said made the rigid Hao Ye shake his head, Jiang Teng laughed and scolded him for being old.

Shen Sui dealt with this group of rude men with a smile on his face, but in his heart he thought to himself: Do I want to follow your example of visiting the Qinlou Chu Pavilion all day long and yearning for the place of fireworks?Treat lust as flirtatious, this group of men is really enough!

Sighing, she sighed in her heart, even though the style of writing in today's world is very strong, some local officials are still from military backgrounds and do not have much cultural accomplishment, especially the officials in the Governor's Mansion and Jiedu Mansion.She missed Chang'an's aristocratic circle of scholars very much. Although there were many hypocrites, at least she didn't have to deal with these high-ranking and three-faced and lustful military officials, which made her embarrassed.The circle of nobles and scholars in Chang'an is much more refined.

Having said that, why on earth did she want to chat with these three vulgar men?

Suddenly reacting, she couldn't help but secretly smiled wryly, as if she had been tricked by Sister Lian Maid again.

The author has something to say: Thank you for your comfort, I read the book very openly, and I always believe that tomorrow will be better.

PS: There will be double updates tomorrow.