Li Guodong reached out and patted Zhang Shuheng on the shoulder: "Little brother, but you must remember one thing, you are my eyes and ears. This time you saved the people, and this is a good thing. But in the future, when you encounter such things, you must adapt to the situation and not let others save them and put yourself in! Each of you is my elite, my eyes and ears and ears, and my sword. What you need more to do in this industry is a flexible mind."

"Lord, I'm not a mistake in my duty." Zhang Shuheng hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed.

"Get up," Li Guodong stretched out his hand and helped Zhang Shuheng up, "The right or wrong in this world is not absolute. Sit down and I will talk to you slowly about this issue."

Zhang Shuheng sat down, Li Guodong asked someone to bring two cups of tea, and then asked the servant to retreat, and then said slowly: "Just say things are right and wrong, and people are good and bad, there is no absolute. Donglin Party and the eunuch Party, who do you think they are right and who is wrong?"

"Although the low-level position is a little talented and knowledgeable, I have also heard of the eunuch party being domineering and harming the loyal and kind; the Donglin party is upright and upright. The six gentlemen of the Donglin are willing to sacrifice their lives to fight the eunuch party."

"Since the eunuch party is a treacherous and the Donglin party is a gentleman, why did the eunuch party still stabilize the court when he controlled the government, and neither did Jiannu invade or did refugees rebel? On the contrary, after the Donglin party controlled the government, the situation of the court was deteriorating?"

"Is it the devastation left by the eunuch party?" Zhang Shuheng asked in confusion.

"Wrong! Although the eunuch party is not a good thing, they are loyal to the Emperor of Ming Dynasty. With them, at least the taxes can be collected. The court can still pay military salaries, and some money can be paid to relieve disasters and comfort the victims. However, after the Donglin Party controlled the government, the court could not even collect taxes. His Majesty was so poor that his dragon robe patched, but he still couldn't afford military salaries, and there was no money to provide disasters. Why is this?"

"I don't know the humble position."

"The so-called protest of the Donglin Party is to reduce taxes for Jiangnan merchants who have supported themselves. Since merchants who are rich enough to match the country have reduced taxes, then the taxes can only be added to the already poor farmers. Wouldn't this force the farmers to rebel?"

Zhang Shuheng said: "Since that's the case, why is the Donglin Party so famous?"

"The pen is in their hands, but they can write as much as they want? It is undeniable that there are many gentlemen in the Donglin Party, and there are also many corrupt officials in the eunuch Party. However, the Donglin Party spoke for the wealthy businessmen in the Jiangnan region. Since the Tumubao Incident, the civil servant group has gradually grasped the government and controlled the military power. They need the support of rich people, and the wealthy businessmen who support them are the wealthy businessmen. So after they took office, they gained benefits from the wealthy businessmen, and tried every means to help the wealthy businessmen reduce taxes. In this way, the country's fiscal revenue will be reduced, and their own private pockets will be full."

"I understand that right or wrong is not absolute."

Li Guodong nodded and said, "Just understand this principle. In the future, act, adapt to changes and make your mind more. You can do whatever you want and what you can't do under what circumstances. I don't need to teach you these things step by step. You have your own mind and consider it yourself."

Qianshan Mountain Area, which belongs to the Dabie Mountains. On the plains in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River, the Dabie Mountains stretch for 800 miles across the northern bank of the Yangtze River. The mountains here are dense forests, beautiful mountains and rivers, and complex terrain. The part of Zhang Xianzhong's bandit army who were defeated by the officers and soldiers hid in the Dabie Mountain Area.

A team of merchants dressed up was walking on the mountain road, with a basket on the donkey carrying salt, grain and other goods inside. This team was Zhang Shuheng's personal guards. After they left Huaian, they set out on the itinerary to go to the mountainous area to find the remnants of Zhang Xianzhong's troops.

"It's better to be in the south, with beautiful mountains and rivers, and you won't have to worry about not having food." Zhang Dingguo came out of a straw shed and stretched.

"The second brother is right," Zhang Wenxiu stepped forward and said, "The bamboo shoots, wild vegetables, and wild fruits in the mountains can't be eaten even if they are digging, and there are still birds and beasts that can be beaten."

"I don't know how it's going on with my adoptive father and elder brother." Zhang Nengqi didn't know when he came out.

Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi were both adopted sons of Zhang Xianzhong. Zhang Xianzhong captured Fengyang and looted in Luzhou, Anqing, Hezhou and Chuzhou for several months. Later, he met with Ma Shouying in Hubei, and then defeated the official army and killed Cao Wenzhao, Ai Wannian and other Ming generals. Several bandits of bandits entered Henan and traitors across the Central Plains. However, the good times did not last long. Gao Yingxiang, the leader of the bandits, fell into the ambush of Sun Chuanting, was defeated and captured, and was taken to the capital to Lingchi to execute him.

The Ming Dynasty took on the important task of suppressing the bandits with Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng. After the bandit army encountered them, they retreated step by step.

Many bandits fled in scattered areas. Li Zicheng fled to Shaanxi, Zhang Xianzhong entered Henan, and the mountainous areas in eastern Hubei and western Anhui. The Ming army was defeated repeatedly. First, he killed Zuo Liangyu's brother's family in Xuzhou. All Zuo Liangyu's family were killed. Only Zuo Liangyu's son Zuo Menggeng survived because he led troops away. Later, Zhang Xianzhong killed Ming general Pan Keda in Anqing.

But soon, Yang Sichang, the newly appointed Minister of War, adopted the strategy of encirclement and suppression of four main characters, six corners, and ten sides. There were also two great men, Sun Chuanting and Lu Xiangsheng. The bandits were defeated and Zhang Xianzhong was defeated and almost died. Fortunately, he was saved by Zhang Kewang before he could save his life.

Zhang Xianzhong and Zhang Kewang fled to Hubei, Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi led the remnants to stay in the Dabie Mountains.

Zhang Shuheng's small team climbed over several hills and crossed through several jungles.

"Which brother is here?" A small minion suddenly jumped out of a rock on the side of the road.

Zhang Shuheng looked around and suddenly ordered: "Take it!"

Several soldiers of the personal guards surrounded him with swords and guns, took down the minion and tied it up like rice dumplings.

"Why are you arresting me?" the minion shouted in a hurry.

"We are the businessmen of Dadewang, you are thieves, I'm afraid you will report the news." Zhang Shuheng snorted coldly.

"Let me go quickly! Otherwise, General Zhang will bring people here and you will be dead!" the minion shouted.

Several soldiers from the personal guards searched the minion's body and found the waist cards and other items of Zhang Xianzhong's army, proving that the minion was from Zhang Dingguo.

Zhang Shuheng nodded slightly: "It's really General Zhang's man, let him go."

A soldier of the personal guard waved his knife and cut the rope. The minion asked, "Are you really the people of Dadewang?"

"Of course it's true." Zhang Shuheng handed over the road to the government office for Dadewang's merchants.

The minion took Lu Yin and looked at him a few times. Seeing that he was skeptical, Zhang Shuheng took out his 100-household waist sign and handed it on.

"It's really the one from Manager Wang, so come with us." The minion nodded and agreed after reading the badge, and sent Zhang Shuheng and the others to Zhang Dingguo.

Walking on the road, the minion asked, "Zhang Baihu, are you too careful in your work? You couldn't trust me at first?"

"Now the court mobilized heavy troops to encircle you, we must be cautious in doing things. If someone seizes any handle, it will be fine if I die. It will be bad for Manager Wang to implicate Manager Wang. But you are also very cautious in this little brother."

"Of course, we are also afraid that the spies of officers and soldiers will come in."

In the valley, crisp springs flowed down from the top of the mountain. Zhang Dingguo, Zhang Wenxiu and Zhang Nengqi brought a group of veterans to raise a bonfire in the valley to cook. The hot water was burning in the pot. The soldiers put the wild vegetables, wild mushrooms, wild mountain bamboo shoots and small fish hanging from the stream into the pot, and put some wild ginger and wild onions. Soon, the steaming pot emitted a mouth-watering fragrance.

Zhang Dingguo scooped a bowl of soup and took a sip. The fish soup stewed with wild vegetables smelled very fragrant, and wild mushrooms and wild mountain bamboo shoots were also fresh enough, but wild vegetables, wild onions, and wild mountain bamboo shoots had a strong bitter taste and were very bitter at the mouth.
Chapter completed!