Chapter 222: Yang Zhi: No Need to Rely on Distant Ancestors, I Will Surpass Them!

He looked around at the soldiers standing straight, exuding a fierce aura, and continued:

"Benefactor, although you are a star of literature descended from heaven,

I don't know why you were able to subdue these arrogant and fierce soldiers?"

Although they, these martial artists, were always looked down upon by scholars, they also had their own pride.

Even those who were praised as true stars of literature descended from heaven,

the brothers of the Emperor, the various Military Commissioners who governed the world,

did not receive the support of these Liang Shan soldiers as Zhang Zhang Jie did.

Having been in the army for many years, he could see at a glance that these soldiers were fanatical about Zhang Zhang Jie.

He feared that if Zhang Zhang Jie ordered them to die, not many would hesitate!

Such loyalty could not be achieved by the fame of a scholar.

One had to lead them from one victory to another.

Zhang Zhang Jie smiled without a word for the time being, and Wang Lun immediately stood up to popularize science for Yang Zhi, who was completely behind on information and hadn't kept up with the version.

He first bowed to Zhang Zhang Jie: "Our Village Master is no longer the top scholar of Qingzhou."

Yang Zhi nodded in realization: Zhang Zhang Jie had become a bandit, so the prefecture government must have stripped him of his fame, so he was no longer the top scholar.

This was not surprising at all.

Wang Lun, seeing what Yang Zhi was thinking, fanned his fan and directly threw out a bombshell:

"Our Village Master is the third-place winner of the imperial examination, the Tanhua!"

"What, Benefactor is the Tanhua of this year?"

The blue-purple birthmark on Yang Zhi's face turned red from excessive shock.

On one hand, he was shocked by Zhang Zhang Jie's fame completing a super-evolution from top scholar to Tanhua.

The Great Song was divided into more than ten routes, and every time there was a provincial examination, each route would produce a top scholar,

while the Tanhua was the only one in every imperial examination, a person ranked in the top three among millions of scholars in the Great Song.

The gold content of the two could not be mentioned in the same breath.

And what shocked him most was that Zhang Zhang Jie, a dignified Tanhua, had actually become a bandit.

Even though he was full of various beautifying filters for the Great Song imperial court,

he was now thinking about whether there was something wrong with this imperial court,

forcing even high-end talent like a Tanhua to become a bandit.

In the hundred years since the founding of the Great Song, there had never been a scholar who became a bandit!

Even if he racked his brains, Yang Zhi couldn't imagine that Zhang Zhang Jie was a

time-traveler with a rebellious bone growing behind his head.

Although he hadn't reached the level of "traveling to the Qing Dynasty without rebelling, chrysanthemum electric drill" for the Great Song,

but Song Huizong Zhao Ji and Song Gaozong Zhao Gou—no, it was the muddled Emperor Zhao Ji of the Great Jin Kingdom,

and the minister Wanyan Gou were objects that every time-traveler who traveled to the Great Song had to eliminate,

or at the very least, treat well.

Zhang Zhang Jie had no intention of playing political games with these insects;

he intended to directly push over this big tree of the Great Song that had rotted to the roots,

and replant a small tree that was more full of vitality.

Although this small tree was still very small, Zhang Zhang Jie believed that with him, this cheater,

and the nourishment from the myriad worlds, this small tree would eventually become a Jianmu that blocked the sky!

Zhang Zhang Jie: How can you do politics well when you are with these insects?

You must strike with a heavy fist!

"The Song Emperor is unfair; my Village Master has the talent to govern the world,

yet he was demoted to the Deputy Commander of the Qingzhou Training Corps when he was appointed; it is simply unreasonable!"

Wang Lun indignantly sought justice for Zhang Zhang Jie.

"This is indeed too unreasonable."

With Yang Zhi's loyalty to the Great Song imperial court, he could hardly wash the ground for the Emperor now.

What was a Deputy Commander of the Training Corps? As an old oil-slick who had been mixing in Bianliang for many years, would he not know?

This Deputy Commander of the Training Corps sounded like a military position, but it neither managed the training corps,

nor did it have the authority of a deputy commander, and it couldn't even lead troops.

In reality, it was just a title to settle demoted officials,

mockingly called the "three-no official position" of "no position, no power, no money" by other officials.

Yes, sometimes the Deputy Commander of the Training Corps didn't even have a salary!

Being an official and receiving a salary, being an official and receiving a salary—this didn't even have a salary,

it was simply pointing at the nose of the demoted official and scolding, you should get out!

Yang Zhi suddenly discovered that even if the imperial court wanted to attack Zhang Zhang Jie with this, there was no reason:

Although Zhang Zhang Jie had fame, he didn't receive the imperial court's salary.

Not eating the imperial court's food naturally meant not having to be managed by the imperial court.

"Zhengdao, these are all in the past, let's not mention them."

Zhang Zhang Jie raised his hand to interrupt the eloquent Wang Lun.

Anyway, he didn't plan to mix in the Great Song imperial court,

so whether he was demoted or not didn't have much meaning.

"Commander Yang, since you have come to join my Liang Shan, how about you first listen to the orders under the Horse Army?"

Thinking of Yang Zhi ranking seventeenth in the Liang Shan seating,

star sign Heavenly Dark Star, serving as the Horse Army's Eight Vanguard Generals, proficient in archery and horsemanship,

he was a good candidate for a cavalry general, so Zhang Zhang Jie made arrangements for him.

It just so happened that at this time, only Lin Chong among the Liang Shan Horse Army leaders could shoulder heavy responsibilities,

and having Yang Zhi as a supplement was extremely good.

Of course, Yang Zhi wasn't the second-in-command of the Horse Army second only to Lin Chong as soon as he went.

Zhang Zhang Jie planned to arrange for him to start as a small leader, both to lay a solid foundation in the army,

and to familiarize himself with various new weapons in the Horse Army, such as cavalry lances.

Cavalry bows and the like were already outdated; Zhang Zhang Jie specially asked the Firearms Design Bureau to design a firearm for the cavalry with a range and

power greater than the cavalry bow, which was mockingly called the "small soft bow."

As for the fact that firearms could only fire one shot?

Zhang Zhang Jie, who was gradually becoming wealthy, said just bring a few more.

"Thank you, Benefactor, for your appreciation!"

Yang Zhi readily accepted Zhang Zhang Jie's arrangement.

After letting a personal guard take Yang Zhi to report to the new recruit training camp, Zhang Zhang Jie left the guest hall.

"This little brother..."

Along the way, Yang Zhi greeted the personal guard very familiarly.

This personal guard didn't look like he had a high position, but being able to follow Zhang Zhang Jie,

he knew a lot of information and had a very high hidden status.

After being poisoned by society, he also became slick.

"Commander Yang..."

The personal guard was also happy to have a good relationship with Yang Zhi.

Just from the familiar conversation between Yang Zhi and Zhang Zhang Jie just now,

he knew that this ferocious-looking Blue-Faced Beast was favored by the Emperor,

and it was possible that one day he would leap to become their immediate superior, just like the Martial Commander Wu Song.

If it wasn't necessary to be too close, it was absolutely not to be offended.

Just like that, one intended to make friends, and one had the heart to flatter,

the atmosphere between the two became harmonious,

and they had already started calling each other brothers.

"I didn't expect my Liang Shan's strength to be so strong!"

Listening to the little information casually revealed by the personal guard,

Yang Zhi, who had already substituted himself into Liang Shan, sighed repeatedly.

At the same time, bits of thoughts that had been suppressed at the bottom of his heart in the past also surged:

"My goal in the past was to revitalize my Yang military clan and restore the reputation of my Yang family since the Old Commander;

but following the Village Master, is it possible for me to surpass the Old Commander?"

Thinking of some rebellious, but not entirely impossible future, Yang Zhi's heart was burning.

If Zhang Zhang Jie knew what Yang Zhi was thinking now, he would definitely complain:

"What kind of classic template is the Chen family and Chen Zhan?"

The Chen family in "Shen Mu": In order to resurrect the distant ancestor and restore the glory of my Chen family,

every generation needs an outstanding clansman to take the initiative to sacrifice.

Chen Zhan, the protagonist Chen Nan's father: Give me time, no need to resurrect the distant ancestor, I will surpass the distant ancestor! ===== CHAPTER 223 =====

The protagonist Chen Nan's father, Chen Zhan: Give me time; there is no need to resurrect the distant ancestors, I will surpass them!