Rise From the Humble

"We thought Master Zhu was worried about military rations at first, but that's not the case." Hu Wei shook his head vigorously.

"What is that?" Uncle Zhu Shouren and Xia Qiang asked quickly.

"I remind you of one word, the word 'borrow'. The key point is this word. Please feel it in your heart!" Hu Wei reminded the two of them.

"Borrow?" Uncle Zhu Shouren was still a little confused.

"Borrow? The key point is 'borrow'?" Xia Qiang was thoughtful, then suddenly raised his head, he seemed to have an epiphany, "Brother Hu, you are saying that today's story is that Er Zhurong borrowed the head of his nephew to train his troops; Cao Cao The point of the story is that Cao Cao borrowed the head of the grain and grass officer to calm the morale of the army, and he also borrowed the head."

Even without Hu Wei's reminder, Xia Qiang took the initiative to think of Sun Wu's story and said in disbelief, "So, we also misunderstood the story about Sun Wu's military training in front of the palace. The point is not that Sun Wu used troops to emphasize military discipline, but It was Sun Wu who borrowed the concubine’s head to train his troops, and he also borrowed the head.”

Then, suddenly, Xia Qiang thought of something, his face turned pale, and his whole body was filled with fear.

"Yes, Brother Xia, you must have thought of it too." Hu Wei swallowed and said with a wry smile.

"Why are you borrowing a head? What are you talking about?" Uncle Zhu Shouren reacted slowly and didn't understand what the two of them were talking about.

"Hey, Brother Zhu, why don't you understand? What these three stories have in common is the borrowing of human heads. Rather than saying that Mr. Zhu has read three stories, it is better to say that Mr. Zhu has read one story, which is the story of borrowing heads. !”

Hu Wei looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren with hatred, sighed, and said word by word.

"Borrowing a head?" Uncle Zhu Shouren raised his eyebrows.

"Why don't you understand? If there is any enlightenment from these three stories, it is to borrow human heads. Mr. Zhu also wants to borrow human heads. He is also thinking of borrowing human heads to train troops, my brother Zhu!"

Xia Qiang said with a trembling voice.

"What? You said that my nephew is trying to borrow people's heads for training?! Impossible, absolutely impossible. Don't talk nonsense. My nephew is not that kind of person."

After hearing this, uncle Zhu Shouren shook his head without hesitation and waved his hands vigorously several times.

"Haha, Brother Zhu, who do you think your nephew is?" Hu Wei chuckled and looked at his uncle Zhu Shouren with burning eyes.

"My nephew is kind, honest, and simple. He is very similar to my brother. He is the kind of person who likes to think about others. He didn't even kill a chicken when he was a child, so how could he use human heads to train soldiers."

Uncle Zhu Shouren squinted his eyes and recalled the past, and said slowly, firmly stating that Zhu Pingan was not that kind of person.

"Honest? Honest? Honest? Haha, my brother Zhu, your eyes are still in your childhood, right?!"

Hu Wei listened to his uncle Zhu Shouren's evaluation of Zhu Ping'an's honesty and simplicity, and his smile was worse than his cry.

"What do you mean by this? My nephew is like this now." Uncle Zhu Shouren frowned.

"Brother Zhu, my brother Zhu, on the way here and in the military camp, we also listened to the stories of your wise nephew. Come, let me tell you one by one."

"Your wise nephew is recognized by both the government and the public as 'the best performer of the Ming Dynasty'. He first impeached an officer from the Qianhu family who had taken refuge with Mr. Yan Ge. As a result, the Qianhu family was beheaded, and also involved an officer from the Ministry of War. The big boss was demoted from his position to the people; then, he impeached the Taicang Treasury case, even Yan Ge was fined a sum of money, hundreds of officials were fined, and thousands of Treasury officials, Treasury soldiers, and servants were confiscated and exiled. It is said that countless people died on the road to exile; then, he impeached a high-ranking official named Gao, and twenty or thirty high-ranking officials were implicated and were thrown into jail. Life was worse than death, which was miserable; There is Yang Jisheng, who is very famous among our people recently. When he impeached Mr. Yan Ge, wasn’t your nephew also involved in it? People said it would be great if Yang Jisheng listened to your nephew’s opinion and revised the impeachment memorial. , if you had listened, it would be Mr. Yan Ge who is in prison now, not Yang Jisheng. It is because Yang Jisheng failed to listen to your nephew's opinion that he failed to impeach and was imprisoned. Your nephew also After being implicated, he was demoted to a small county in the south of the Yangtze River and became the magistrate of Zhima County."

"Brother Zhu, your wise nephew is named as the 'No. 1 God of the Ming Dynasty', but he has many bones to support him."

"Also, your nephew was demoted to be a county magistrate in a small county in the south of the Yangtze River. How could he make a comeback and even become a fourth-rank official now? How did he do it? Brother Zhu, have you ever thought about it?!"

Hu Wei pointed at his uncle Zhu Shouren's nose and started tearing it apart word by word.

"My wise nephew has made great achievements. He has made great achievements one after another and has been promoted to one level after another."

Uncle Zhu Shouren replied without thinking.

"Then do you know how your wise nephew achieved such merit?" Hu Wei asked.

The uncle scratched his head

"Let me tell you, Brother Zhu, when your nephew was in charge of Jingnan County, more than two thousand Japanese pirates attacked, but Jingnan only had a few dozen soldiers, which were not even enough to fill the gaps in the Japanese pirates' teeth. In order to perform meritorious service, your nephew , treated the common people as nothing, ordered them to guard the city, issued a beheading order, and killed whoever retreated, so he took the lives of the common people to defend the county, not only killed thousands of Japanese pirates, but also liberated a nearby county , it can be said that he made a great contribution by heaping the heads of ordinary people, which promoted him from the seventh-level county magistrate to the fifth-level judge and inspector. Under the black gauze hat on his head, including the common people and Japanese pirates, there were at least several Thousands of lives.”

"I won't talk about his merits such as disaster relief. Let's talk about his promotion from the punishment and inspection envoy Si Qianshi to the punishment and inspection envoy Si Dai deputy envoy. Dozens of Japanese pirates landed from Shaoxing and killed ten of them in one breath. Several counties, seven or eight prefectures, two to three thousand miles across, killed hundreds of people, and they all reached the city of Liuyingtian in one breath. They also killed thousands of people under the city. No one could stop them, and they killed many officials. And the common people were timid, and no one who was an official, whether civil or military, dared to take the position; in the end, it was your wise nephew who, regardless of the life and death of his men, ordered his soldiers to kill all the Japanese pirates while they were sleeping."

"There is also the meritorious service your nephew made recently when he was offering sacrifices to the sea. I heard that he killed hundreds of Japanese pirates. Under these great achievements, there are many bones. Since your nephew became an official, he died in his death. I don’t have ten thousand, but I have eight thousand.”

"He is also honest and honest. He has never killed a chicken. To describe him as murderous is not an exaggeration at all."

Hu Wei counted on his fingers one after another Zhu Ping'an's great achievements to his uncle Zhu Shouren.

"Brother Zhu, you are too honest and honest, and you only see the surface of your nephew, but don't know the true face of your nephew. Before he was a young man, he won three yuan in a row, became the top scholar in high school, and offended the powerful Mr. Yan Ge. , can he make a comeback and go further, do you think such a person can be an honest and honest person?"

Xia Qiang couldn't help but follow the preaching.