Zhang Hu, a native of Gaoyang, Baoding, Northern Zhili, entered the palace at the age of twelve, and accompanied Kong Zhen to Liaodong with Gao Huai.

Compared to the inner court, Zhang Hu was not as tall as an eunuch at all. He was very tall and strong. He once competed with the local generals in Guangning, and the result was seven to seven, which made Guangning's military generals admire him.

Because of his strength, Zhang Hu first served as Gao Huai's personal guard when he came to Liaodong, and later helped Gao Huai recruit private soldiers and collect taxes. He became the commander of this private soldiers at the age of 25. The name of "Flying Tiger Army" came from Zhang Hu.

Gao Huai believed Zhang Hu very much, and Zhang Hu worked very hard. The tax soldiers' atrocities listed in the complaint received by Wei Liangchen at Shanhaiguan can be said to be the ones that Zhang Hu led to do.

When the army of Guanmen changed, Zhang Hu was not in Shanhaiguan, but led the Flying Tiger Army to supervise taxes in Taiping Fort, Yizhou Guard.

It was the fourth day of the incident when we learned about the news of the closing of the army. Moreover, the garrisons of the Zuotun Guard of Guangning and the Zhongzuo Office of Ningyuan were gathering to rush towards Taiping Fort, threatening to capture Zhang Hu alive and cut him into pieces to quell the grievances of Liaodong.

The matter was hasty, and the Flying Tiger Army was panicked, and more than half of it dispersed overnight. In a hurry, Zhang Hu, in addition to not knowing where Gao Huai was, he followed the advice of a captain from a horse bandit, and took his people to Shuangshantai first, so as not to be suppressed by the Liao army.

The scar man was the captain who persuaded Zhang Hu to go to Shuangshantai. This man was from a Korean, named Zheng Duo, and was born as a pariah. He fled to Liaodong because he killed his father and became a horse bandit.

Zheng Duo's father was two nobles in the North Korean country, and his mother was a untouchable in his family. The so-called untouchable is slave. North Korea implements a fourth-class man system, first-class royal family and two-class nobles, second-class middle-class civilians, and fourth-class civilians. The mother-based method is also adopted, that is, the father is not a untouchable, but as long as the mother is a untouchable, the child born is a untouchable.

Untouchables were like slaves in Korea and had no dignity. Zheng Duo's father often beat and scolded his mother, and once he even strangled her mother to death after drinking. Zheng Duo, who was only 13 years old at the time, was so angry that he cut off his sleeping father's neck with a kitchen knife late at night, and crossed the Yalu River to escape to Liaodong overnight. After twenty years, he lived a life of desperate attacks until he was recruited by Zhang Hu into the Flying Tiger Army.

When Zhang Hu led the rest of the people to flee to Shuangshantai, he asked Zheng Duo to bring people into the pass to find out whereabouts of Gao Huai. Zheng Duo and his party disguised as merchants and sneaked into the pass. Because they didn't know where Gao Huai was, Zheng Duo was going to take people to the capital to inquire.

Gao Huai has been the Liaodong Mining Supervisor for so many years, and he is also the eunuch in the hall of the Sili Hall. The capital has its own power. Zhang Hu gave Zheng Duo the list of those contacts and asked him to inquire about the situation after he arrived in Beijing, and asked these people to rescue Gao Huai. As a result, before he could enter Beijing, they heard halfway that the court had issued an order to seize Gao Huai, and ordered the Tongwan Tax Envoy Zhang Ye to be the Liaodong Mining Supervisor.

This news undoubtedly made Zheng Duo and others feel desperate, because the Flying Tiger Army was built by Gao Huai. If Gao Huai falls, the Flying Tiger Army will not exist. Not only will it not exist, but the people in the Flying Tiger Army will never end well.

Before joining the Flying Tiger Army, along with Zheng Duo, the tax soldiers were almost all horse bandits with murders. They joined the Flying Tiger Army because Zhang Hu offered a high price tag that made them moved, and on the other hand, they wanted to have a place to live. After all, no matter how good the skills are, they would make mistakes all day long. It is not a matter of peace.

Zheng Duo was unwilling to accept it. In the past ten years, there were impeachments about Gao Huai every year. At the most dangerous time, Gao Huai took them out of Guangqu Gate, the capital to prepare to cry to the emperor. In the end, the danger was turned into a barrage. Although there was a military change and the order was also brought down, Gao Huai might not have fallen.

So Zheng Duo continued to bring people to Beijing, but after entering Beijing, no one on Zhang Hu's list saw Zheng Duo. The trees fell and the money scattered. These big men who were previously managed by Gao Huai's heavy money were worthy of Gao Huai's filial piety at this time, so they would not think about saving him.

In desperation, Zheng Duo had to take people out of the seclusion. On the way, he met the Ming army who was patrolling. After a fight, he finally escaped. However, Zheng Duo also said that the Ming army had cut a knife on his face. If he had not retreated quickly, the knife would only cut his flesh and blood, otherwise his life would have been explained.

"So, is Eunuch Gao really... over?"

After hearing what Zheng Duo said, Zhang Hu sat dejectedly on the chair. He and Gao Huai were already grasshoppers on the same rope. Gao Huai was finished, and he was the next one. With his actions in Liaodong for the past ten years, it would be strange if the Liao army generals did not strip him alive.

"Eunuch Zhang... Someone said he wanted to see you." Zheng Duo hesitated for a moment and told him about this.

Seven days ago, while he was hiding in Songshan, a man who claimed to be his subordinates brought him a secret letter, which said that Wei Liangchen, the clan of the Secretariat, wanted to see Zhang Hu.

"Wei Liangchen, the clan of the Secretariat?" Zhang Hu thought repeatedly in his mind, but he did not remember that Gao Huai had dealt with this person at that time.

"Why did Eunuch Kong deliver a letter to you? Where is others now?" Zhang Hu did not doubt the authenticity of the letter, because Kong Zhen and his Flying Tiger Army had their own secret contact methods. This was also a method set by Gao Huai in case of impeachment. It was finally useful today.

"According to the sender, Eunuch Kong and Eunuch Gao were locked by the Jinyiwei together." Zheng Duo spoke fluently in Chinese, and could not hear any Korean accent. No matter who listened to it, he would only think that he was a native of Liaodong.

"Since you have been locked up, how could Eunuch Kong have a connection with this Wei Liangchen?" Zhang Hu was a little suspicious.

Zheng Duo said: "This Wei Sheren was said to be the one sent by the Emperor after Guanbian."

Zhang Hu nodded, this makes sense why Kong Zhen in the cage is still in contact with the outside world.

Zhang Hu pondered for a moment, a little confused: "What should he, a minister of the Secretariat, do to see me?"

"I don't know." Zheng Duo shook his head and said. The person who sent the letter to him at that time did not know why this Wei Sheren wanted to see Zhang Hu.

Zheng Duo asked, "Eunuch Zhang, is this person meeting or not?"

"See, why don't you see me... But let him come to Shuangshantai, we won't go." Zhang Hu frowned. He has lost a lot of weight these days, and his face has become smaller. Intuition told him that this Zhongshu Sheren named Wei must have a purpose, but what is the purpose, he could not imagine for a moment.

If you want to make money, Gong Zhen has been in charge of the gold and silver that Eunuch Gao has made over the years. He has some, but not a lot. If a man surnamed Wei wants to make money in the chaos, he will make a mistake.
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