Chapter 25: Coincidentally Encountered by Qianjiang and Delivered)
The store owner said oh, and didn't know how important this old friend was, so he was able to take risks. But seeing that Zhang Yuntian was young and heroic, he probably should be the one he liked.
He had no choice but to warn nervously: "Since the guest's intention to go north has been decided, I hope you can set off quickly. Don't delay the time, as if you are afraid of a change!"
Zhang Yuntian secretly wondered, even if he had an old friend who was anxious, he was so anxious that he didn't even have time to drink a bowl of tea, right?
The store saw Zhang Yuntian’s question and whispered: “I’m not hiding the customer. The bandits in this area have been rampant recently, especially the way to Daming Mansion. Many of the merchants who have traveled have suffered a big loss. The small ones think you are kind-hearted, so I advise you to leave as soon as possible, go west to Shanxi and enter Zhili, and bypass Daming Mansion to avoid being hit by evil people!”
As soon as he finished speaking, a man in his forties looked like a scholar stumbled over and ran over. The package behind him was cut into a big hole, and his book clothes were scattered all over the floor. He ran and shouted, "Go away, go quickly, the bandits are here!"
This is a coincidence. He really came from whatever he said. Before Zhang Yuntian could react, the store owner was so scared that he simply didn't even want the tea set. He picked up his wallet and ran into the forest without looking back.
Zhang Yuntian himself has the ability to integrate planes, and with a pistol, he is not afraid of the bandits. He just took out an anesthesia gun and pushed the syringes that were fed with the corpse guard vaccine one by one, looking fearless.
The scholar Zhang Yuntian heard that there was a bandit and did not leave. He knew that this person would definitely have some skills, so he rolled and crawled to Zhang Yuntian and begged: "Hero helps, heroes, helps! Some evil people are going to harm me!"
Zhang Yuntian said that the anesthesia gun was in his hand and smiled and said, "Don't panic, but... you, a scholar, don't look like a rich man. What are they doing for you?"
The scholar hurriedly said: "Those robbers are crazy. What are the wealth and poverty that can be divided into robbery? I am afraid that I can't pay for it and I will take my life later. Please help the hero!"
After a while, the sound of horse hooves went from far to near. Four bandits wearing civilian clothes and holding steel knives rushed over on horseback. The four horses stood at four corners and surrounded Zhang Yuntian and the scholar.
These four people have big arms, round waists, dark skin, and blue veins on the back of their hands holding the knife. They are obviously the ones who are Jian Jiazi.
The leader said with a big bearded man with his eyes as torched and his voice was like a loud bang: "Mr. Qian, don't be safe! The King of Heaven misses you so hard!"
Military Advisor Qian? King of Heaven? Zhang Yuntian quickly recalled in his mind that the King of Heaven should refer to Hong Xiuquan, the leader of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. As for Military Advisor Qian... Could it be Hong Xiuquan's right-hand man Qian Jiang Qian Dongping?
Zhang Yuntian's heart moved. If he was really this person, then God would have helped him achieve his hegemony.
According to records, Qian Jiang was once Lin Zexu's mute, who advocated resisting foreign invasions, and also organized thousands of people to fight against the British army in Guangzhou. However, he was dismissed from his post as the Iribu, the imperial envoy of the Qing Dynasty who presided over foreign negotiations. He joined the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom a few years later. He was highly praised by Hong Xiuquan for offering "Xing***" and was named a military advisor. The Heavenly Kingdom would discuss with him whether it was governing the military or governing the country.
It was with his assistance that the Tianping Heavenly Kingdom reached an unprecedented prosperous period. It is not without coincidence that it was also during the Tianjing Incident that Qian Jiang was completely disappointed with the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom and quietly left, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom began to decline step by step.
Although the decline of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom was affected by multiple factors, it is not an exaggeration to say that Qianjiang was the mainstay of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom. If he was still in Jiangning, at least the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom would not have fallen so quickly.
As for why he came to Zhili from Jiangsu far away, Zhang Yuntian couldn't understand this.
"I don't know what you are talking about! What are the former and later military advisors? I have told you so many times. I am just a scholar and I really don't understand anything about marching and fighting!"
The scholar had an innocent expression on his face, and he was so aggrieved that he almost cried.
"Precaution, right?" The bearded man took out a scroll of portrait from his arms and threw it in front of the scholar, saying, "Look, who is the one in this portrait?
The scholar opened the scroll tremblingly, and only glanced at it, then shouted: "How come there is no such thing as me? Let this hero judge and see if the painting is on the picture is below?" He said that, he handed the scroll to Zhang Yuntian.
Zhang Yuntian was also very curious about the identity of the scholar. When he opened the scroll, he saw a rough figure on it. The eyes and nose were indeed somewhat similar to those of the scholar, but there was a black mole on the corner of the person's mouth in the painting. This mole was painted very strangely. Although it was also black, the ink traces were newer than the lines of the portrait. If you don't look carefully, you will definitely not see any clues.
Zhang Yuntian wiped it with his hand and actually put a piece of the black mole on. In this way, he was a little more sure about the scholar Qian Jiang himself, so he shook his head and said, "The painting scroll is indeed not as similar to this person!"
Qian Jiang then secretly breathed a sigh of relief and said to the bearded man: "How is it? Are you trusting now? If you recognize the wrong person, it will be useless even if you arrest me. What if your king sees that you arrest the wrong person and blame him again, can you afford it?"
If you say these words to others, you will naturally be confused and dare not act rashly. However, this bearded man is straightforward and doesn't have so many crooked ideas. He waved his hand and said indifferently: "No matter how others think, I think it's like it anyway. As for whether it's or not, naturally someone will judge it. Take the scholar down and take it back to Jiangning!"
The name he called was no longer Qian Junshi, but a scholar, which just means that he was not sure about this person's identity. However, when a scholar met a soldier, he couldn't explain it clearly. This bearded man was unreasonable and it was useless to say anything.
The two bandits turned over and dismounted, holding a steel knife in one hand and a rope in the other, slowly pressing towards Qian Jiang from the front and back, scaring the latter to ask Zhang Yuntian for help: "Hero saves me, hero saves me! I really don't know them!"
Zhang Yuntian smiled and said, "It's not difficult to save you, but you have to promise me something!"
Seeing that the situation was critical, Qian Jiang did not have the time to bargain, so he hurriedly said, "As long as you don't go against your conscience, don't say one thing, a hundred things are fine. Please help the hero quickly!"
"Okay, a real man can't catch up with just one word!"
Zhang Yuntian said, while holding up the anesthesia gun and making a puff, it was about to penetrate the bearded man's left leg. The latter fell off the horse with a roar.
The other three saw that the objects in Zhang Yuntian's hand were very strange, dark and slender, not any weapon they had ever seen, but were somewhat similar to foreign guns.
Because foreign guns can only fire one bullet at a time, and each time they have to fill the bullets from the muzzle again, they naturally thought that Zhang Yuntian’s guns are useless now, so they shouted and rushed over together.
Chapter completed!