Shanhaiguan, the eastern starting point of the Ming Great Wall, leaning against Yanshan Mountain in the north and Bohai Sea in the south, tightly squeezing the throat of Liaodong entering the Central Plains. It is known as the "No. 1 Pass in the World"! Standing under this majestic Pass City, Master Zhang suddenly felt a dazed and timid, and couldn't help but mutter to himself, "Shanhaiguan, this is Shanhaiguan! Once I enter this Pass, I can see countless celebrities in history, including Sun Chengzong, Sun Yuanhua, Yuan Chonghua, Zu Dashou brothers, Cao Wenzhao brothers, Man Gui, Zhao Rujiao, Mao Wenlong, Heiyunlong, He Kegang, Mao Yuanyi, by the way, there are also Wu Xiang and Wu Sangui, the best father and son, who are too numerous to count. But how many of these people will be heart-warming with me, the eunuch lackey, and devote themselves to my life...?"

"Woo--!" The sound of the trumpet to welcome the commander interrupted the thoughts of Master Zhang. Amid the drum music, the suspension bridge at the south gate of Shanhaiguan was slowly lowered and the door was closed. A large group of civil and military officials of various grades surrounded an old man of Qing and walked out of the gate slowly. The old man was dressed in casual clothes and elegant temperament. He thought he was Sun Chengzong who had resigned from office for the people. At the same time, two teams of Ming soldiers rushed out from left to right, and the leader ran until five hundred steps away from the closing gate before standing still. He shouted two more slogans. The two teams of soldiers stood together, turned left and right and stood upright, with one person on each step, and a total of a thousand soldiers were not uneven at all, and they were still moving, which was in sharp contrast with the style of Ming soldiers who were used to being scattered in the Central Plains.

"Welcome to the Chief Supervisor!" The Qianhu led the leader shouted. As soon as he finished speaking, thousands of Ming soldiers shouted in unison: "Welcome to the Chief Supervisor!"

The shouts of thousands of people at the same time were so majestic that the mountains echoed. The trees and leaves on both sides of the road fell in clusters. Master Zhang and Gao Di, who came here in the front, were buzzing their eardrums. Gao Di, who was a literati, turned pale and almost sat on the ground. Fortunately, Master Zhang was used to such scenes on TV in the 21st century. He quietly supported Gao Di and whispered: "Master Gao, this is a warning to us. You must not show weakness, otherwise, we will be demoted by the Liaodong generals."

"Yes, yes." Gao Di agreed in a low voice. Master Zhang walked to Qianhu, the leader of the team, quietly walked to Qianhu, wiped a small mud spot on the leaf armor on Qianhu's chest with his thumb, and smiled: "This general, you are so careless? It seems that you should hit the butt of the personal soldiers when you go back." Qianhu's face turned red and immediately replied loudly: "Yes, after the last general returns to the camp, he will definitely whip the personal soldiers who are wiping the armor today!"

Master Zhang nodded and smiled, and then walked towards Sun Chengzong and his group again. Seeing this scene, Gao Di was naturally relieved, glad that he had not been silly and had a good assistant like Master Zhang. Sun Chengzong on the opposite side nodded secretly, thinking that Zhang Haogu was indeed well-known and had some courage. It was also his blessing to have such an assistant. The generals in Liaodong had expressionless expressions, but only in their impression, he eliminated the image of Master Zhang as a pussy.

"Master Gao, Sun has been waiting here for two months, and finally he has come to you." After more than ten steps, Sun Chengzong smiled and raised his hand at Gao Di, with a very kind and friendly attitude. Gao Di did not dare to be negligent and quickly returned the court and said, "Don't blame Mr. Sun. The Xiaguan brought a lot of military supplies this time, so he walked a little slower. I hope Mr. Gong will forgive him."

Sun Chengzong looked up and found that Gao Di brought a lot of baggage carriages this time, so he smiled and said, "No wonder, by the way, Lord Gao, this young hero, is this famous new science, Zhang Haogu, the famous Zhang Haogu?" When he said this, the person Sun Chengzong pointed at was of course Mr. Zhang. Before Gao Di answered, Mr. Zhang quickly bowed and said respectfully: "Secretary Zhang Haogu, I have been paying homage to Master Sun. I have long admired Master Gong's name, like thunder. I have met him today, and I have no regrets in this life."

"Mr. Zhang is too awarded." Sun Chengzong looked at Master Zhang carefully and found that our Master Zhang is indeed good-looking. Although he has a slender figure and beautiful eyebrows and looks very like a little white face, he has a righteous face, straight waist and bright eyes, and can barely be regarded as a material for being a leader. Of course, if Sun Chengzong saw Master Zhang smiling and greasy and slick-mouthed appearance when he teased the ignorant girl, he would definitely not have come to such a conclusion. After nodding secretly, Sun Chengzong tentatively asked Master Zhang: "Mr. Zhang, this time you have followed Master Gao to Liaodong to take office. What is your strategy of Liaodong? Attack or defend?"

The question of Sun Chengzong is actually an old question. No matter which official goes to Liaodong to take office, there will always be colleagues, superiors, ex-officials or emperors asking him this question - for example, Yuan Chonghuan was asked by Xiong Tingbi, and the answers are all kinds of. Of course, Master Zhang was mentally prepared for this, and immediately replied with his fists: "Return to Master Sun, the subordinates plan to suggest that Master Gao adopt a strategy of defending as an offense."

"Defense as an attack? How to use defense as an attack?" Sun Chengzong raised his eyebrows and asked. Master Zhang clasped his fists and replied: "Return to Master Sun Ge, before he went to Liaodong to take office, the Xiaguan had carefully reviewed the information records in various aspects of Liaodong. He found that since the Tianqi Year, the Liaodong Prefecture occupied by Jiannu has been in constant drought, the climate is extremely cold, and the food cannot be self-sufficient. Therefore, the Xiaguan believes that our Ming army only needs to strictly block the border, cut off the source of Jiannu's food, and then use the tactics of the city and clearing the fields to prevent Jiannu from plundering. Within a few months, there will inevitably be food shortages in Jiannu's territory. If the food shortages are in chaos, chaos will be in chaos. If our Ming army is a heavy attack or continues to block and divide the enemy, there will be great chances to win."

There are many people present, so Mr. Zhang certainly did not dare to say all his methods in public, so he could only use the old accent of his father-in-law Xiong Tingbi. In fact, Sun Chengzong, who was also the executive of Xiong Tingbi's strategy, was not too surprised, but was not disappointed. He just nodded and did not comment. Sun Chengzong made an invitation gesture to Mr. Zhang and Gao Di, and smiled and said, "Master Gao, Lord Zhang, I have prepared a welcome banquet for you in Shanhaiguan, and I will introduce the generals of Liaodong to you. As for the handover of the seal, I plan to put it tomorrow. I wonder what Mr. Gao wants to do?"

"No problem, it doesn't matter if it's late." Gao Di agreed in full, thinking that you'd better never give the seal and take back the resignation request. Sun Chengzong smiled and said a request, holding hands with Gao Di and entering the pass side by side. Master Zhang, who was behind, kept looking at the generals of Liaodong, trying to find out who was Yuan Chonghuan, who was Man Gui, and who was the legendary Wu Sangui. General Liaodong also looked at Master Zhang silently. Many people's eyes were full of disdain, and they seemed to look down on a young and white-faced and creamy young man like Master Zhang. At this time, a Gao Daming general at the level of a hundred households suddenly walked quickly to Master Zhang, patted Master Zhang on the shoulder, and smiled and said, "Mr. Zhang, it's been a long time since I saw him."

"Wu Liuqi!" Master Zhang shouted in surprise. It turned out that the person who appeared in front of him was Wu Liuqi, the powerful general who was recommended by Master Zhang to Sun Chengzong with a letter. He was wearing the armor of the Ming army's hundred households. After patting each other's shoulders and making out, Master Zhang lowered his voice and asked, "Brother Wu, how are you doing? Did you do well in Liaodong? Have you made any contributions?"

After being poked by Master Zhang, Wu Liuqi sighed and replied in a low voice: "Brother, I am ashamed. Although Master Sun gave me a hundred households for the sake of my respect, I have not fought a war for a few months and have no chance to make meritorious service. This time, the Liuhe War was not transferred to my army, so I am still a hundred households, eating and drinking in the army and waiting to die. This time, Lord Sun heard that Lord Zhang, you are going to come to Shanhaiguan, so he sent someone to greet you. Otherwise, I am afraid that I will still be training and running with more than one hundred soldiers in the army."

"It doesn't matter, gold will shine." Master Zhang also knew that the Liaodong army was deep and foreigners like Wu Liuqi had no backing, so it was difficult for them to have the opportunity to show their talents. He patted Wu Liuqi's shoulder and said, "Don't worry, when Lord Gao and Lord Sun hand over the seal, I will transfer you over and serve under my command. At that time, there will be opportunities to make achievements."

Wu Liuqi was overjoyed and thanked him repeatedly, and whispered, "Mr. Zhang, remember, I am under General Yang Qi and Yang." Master Zhang nodded and asked quickly, "By the way, Brother Wu, who is Yuan Chonghuan here?" Before Wu Liuqi answered, an official walking on the other side of Master Zhang suddenly interrupted and said, "The lower official is Yuan Chonghuan. What's the matter with Lord Zhang looking for the lower official?"

"Mom, Yuan Chonghuan is next to me?" Master Zhang was startled. When he quickly turned his head to look at Yuan Chonghuan, he found that the person who appeared in front of him was a black and thin middle-aged man with ordinary appearance, bright eyes and stiff expression. He looked like an extremely stubborn and stubborn personality. Yuan Chonghuan also looked at Master Zhang, and he didn't like the frivolous and slick temperament that Master Zhang exuded when he was not paying attention. He asked coldly: "Mr. Zhang, what's wrong with you when you find a official?"

"It's okay, it's okay." Master Zhang quickly waved his hand and said with a smile: "Actually that's the case. When I was discussing the Liaodong war with my former Liaodong General Xiong Tingbi, Lord Xiong praised that among the people in Liaodong, except for Sun Chengzong and Sun Ge Lao, only Lord Yuan, you are the one who respects Yuan, and you are the second person in Liaodong, the sky-high pillar of the Liaodong battlefield! Lord Xiong's words left a deep impression on me, so after arriving at Shanhaiguan, of course I want to see what you look like."

If you want to change someone else, Master Zhang flattered him, and at least he could smile without saying anything. But Yuan Chonghuan was different, so he just said coldly, "Mr. Xiong is too much." After that, Yuan Chonghuan accelerated his pace and left. Wu Liuqi was a little strange and asked in a low voice: "Brother Zhang, why did you offend him? Judging from his appearance, he doesn't seem to like you very much?" Master Zhang smiled bitterly, and didn't quite understand why Yuan Chonghuan was so cold to himself. Of course, with Master Zhang's understanding, of course he thought that he was Gao Di's assistant and confidant brought from the capital, and Yuan Chonghuan was Sun Chengzong's right-hand assistant, so Yuan Chonghuan might be worried that he would rob his class and seize his power, but Master Zhang quickly wiped this idea from his mind, and really didn't want to think about Yuan Chonghuan in this regard...

After entering Shanhaiguan, the military supplies brought by Mr. Zhang and his party were naturally commanded by the army. Mr. Zhang and Gao Di were led by Sun Chengzong to the governor's mansion where he had already had a banquet. When he sat down, Mr. Zhang learned how repulsive the Liaodong generals were. Except for Wu Liuqi who was above the level of attending the banquet, no general official was willing to come and sit with Mr. Zhang. They all sat in their own small group, rather crowded than be at the same table with Mr. Zhang. In this way, even Sun Chengzong could not bear it anymore and scolded the generals: "What are you doing? Why don't you sit at the same table with Mr. Zhang?"

"Supervisor Sun, it's not that we don't want to sit with Lord Zhang." A general with a bearded face said with a smile: "It's just that we are all rough people, and we drink with bowls. The wine from Liaodong is strong. I'm afraid that Lord Zhang, who is a civil servant, will not get used to it, so I feel embarrassed to sit at the same table with him."

"Hahahahaha..." Many Liaodong generals laughed, their tone filled with disdain for the young Master Zhang. Wu Liuqi was furious and was about to stand up, but Master Zhang held him quietly. He smelled the wine jar and found that the rice wine in the jar was just a relatively primitive fermented wine, with a maximum of only ten or twenty degrees. Master Zhang then smiled and said, "Although this general, Zhang is a literati, he is actually not weak in alcohol. It is absolutely no problem to drink three or five bowls of rice. Those generals come over, let's meet a bowl first?"

"It's good, but one bowl is not enough, at least three bowls!" said the bearded general. The bearded man smiled and nodded. The bearded man then smiled proudly. He picked up a wine jar and said to the people around him. Five or six generals immediately stood up, smiled and sat at the table with him, and then slapped the wine jar and filled it with seven or eight bowls of wine. The bearded man was not polite, and raised a bowl of wine and said, "Generals, please." Wu Liuqi also picked up a bowl of wine angrily, and touched Master Zhang and other generals, and held his head high and poured it down.

As soon as the wine was in my mouth, Master Zhang found that the beard was playing with slut, and his table was low-grade fermented wine. The jar of wine he brought was a distilled wine invented after the Yuan Dynasty, with a degree of about forty degrees - but for Master Zhang, who is used to drinking Moutai Wuliangye, this is really nothing. So Master Zhang did not hesitate, and Gudong Gudong poured the bowl of wine into his stomach, put down the wine bowl and smiled: "What a good wine!"

"Huh?" Seeing that Mr. Zhang was drinking six or seven taels (16 taels of ancient scale) that only people in Northeast China dared to drink, the generals at the same table were very surprised and looked at Mr. Zhang with some admiration. The bearded general was dissatisfied with his fill of the eldest son Zhang and said loudly: "Tanhualang is really refreshing, let's come again!"

"Damn!" Master Zhang agreed with a smile, touched the wine bowl and drank it all in one go. In this way, the young master Zhang's face did not show a little red on his face, and his speech was very clear. As a result, even the bearded general was a little shocked - you know, among the generals who came with him, there were two of them who had not finished drinking three bowls. In amazement, the bearded general rarely put away his contempt tone, gave Master Zhang a thumbs up, and said admiringly: "Tanhualang, I have a good alcohol tolerance, and my ancestors admire him!"

"Zu Dale? Zu Dashou's brother?" Master Zhang nodded secretly and smiled, "General Zu, this is nothing. It's just that when Lord Gao came, he issued an order. In order to prevent delaying military information, no three bowls of alcohol in the army were allowed to drink in the army. Otherwise, I might be able to drink two more bowls. But it doesn't matter. When we defeated Jiannu and celebrated the merits, I will definitely have a drink with General Zu for a happy drink."

"Yes, for the sake of military affairs, you cannot drink three bowls of wine in the army!" Gao Di nodded repeatedly and said, "The situation today is special. Zhang Tanhua can drink more with General Zu and the others, but you are not allowed to use bowls."

"Thank you, Lord Gao." Mr. Zhang agreed with a smile, and then he made people change the wine bowl to a wine glass, and then chatted with Zu Dale and his generals at the same table. Seeing that Mr. Zhang was so generous, the generals at the same table also understood that Mr. Zhang was not the kind of sour scholar he imagined. His attitude towards Mr. Zhang became a little closer. He didn't deliberately sarcastic when he talked with Mr. Zhang while talking. His mouth was not covered. He didn't talk a few words. He started to be brothers with several generals at the same table. His words seemed casual but implicitly flattered, and he praised the rough and generous generals at the same table and laughed out loud, and he became more kind to Mr. Zhang. But in this way, some people were unhappy...

"Tanhualang, Xiaosheng, I wish you a glass." A man dressed in a literati came to toast. Master Zhang met him. The literati smiled again: "I have heard that Tanhualang has both civil and military affairs for a long time. I'm lucky to meet today. I wonder if Tanhualang can show his skills to open your eyes. Generals, are you okay?"

"Okay!" Several civil servants present applauded. Sun Chengzong frowned and shouted, "Lu Shanji, Zhang Tanhua is a literati, what kind of martial arts do you have? Get out of here!"

"Lu Shanji? The sympathizer of the Donglin Party, the opponent of Wei Zhongxian?" Master Zhang remembered the story of Zuo Guangdou, and his face remained silent, but he smiled: "Mr. Lu praised Zhang Haogu, who is a literary man, so what kind of civil and military skills?" Speaking of this, Master Zhang patted Wu Liuqi next to him again and smiled at Lu Shanji: "It's because of my good brotherhood, I have a three-legged kung fu. If Mr. Lu can give him a few tips, Zhang Haogu will definitely be grateful."

When Wu Liuqi came to see Sun Chengzong with the recommendation letter from Master Zhang, Lu Shanji happened to see Wu Liuqi in Ningyuan. Later, Wu Liuqi went to be a hundred households and never had a chance to stand out, so Lu Shanji had never seen him. Now Master Zhang suddenly pushed Wu Liuqi out of martial arts. Lu Shanji was of course hesitant and did not understand Wu Liuqi's background. Wu Liuqi stood up calmly and grabbed the corner of the table. The corner of the table made of birch trees was immediately pulled down by him. He then pinched it with his hands, and the wood chips immediately fell from the gap between his fingers. Wu Liuqi smiled and asked, "Mr. Lu, how about it? Can you give me some hands?"
Chapter completed!