"It's not your business." Yu Ren gently patted Lu Yue on the shoulder and walked to Ruolan.

"Okay! People cannot be resurrected, so you don't have to be too sad. When your sixth uncle rebelled from Juhetang, he should have thought that sooner or later there would be the ending today. It would be a great happiness for him to see you before he died." Yu Ren said, reaching out to close his eyes for Liang Ruming.

The fragrant smelling scholars who came with him saw that their elders were ended by Lu Yue's sword, and they were so scared that they ran away one by one. In order to kill the wrong person, Lu Yue of course had no intention of paying attention to these minions. In front of the ruined temple, only Yu Ren and Li Zhaoji were left.

Li Zhaoji put away his big sword, walked to Lu Yue, and gave her a deep salute. "Thank you for helping me, so I saved my next life."

According to the rules of the world, Li Zhaoji did not claim to be his own official, which was also a kind of respect for Lu Yue.

Lu Yue quickly helped him up. "General, don't have to be too polite. In fact, we are looking for you."

"Oh!" When Li Zhaoji heard this, his face couldn't help but show his alertness.

"This is Princess Wangyue, the beloved daughter of King Lu. Below is the garrison of Yanzhou. We just rushed out of the siege yesterday and planned to go to Jinan for help. Later, we learned from Li Xianzhong that the general was taking office alone. This news was also heard by the scented scholars present at the time.

We quickly went to you separately, worried that you would be besieged by the Scented Sect.”

"So it's Your Highness!" Li Zhaoji said, bowing to Lu Yue again.

Lu Yue hurriedly stopped him.

"General, don't be polite. We don't have so much time to slowly make trouble here. Now we have to hurry to Jinan and organize our troops to Yanzhou to rescue the siege." Lu Yue said anxiously.

Li Zhaoji sighed after hearing this.

"I also want to arrive in Jinan earlier. But there are thieves everywhere in Shandong. Let's talk about it all the way! At least ten groups of people have met. Fortunately, these people are almost not very strong, so we all made us break through.

But there is a group of thieves in front of us who can never break through. They occupy the only pass from Taizhou to Jinan, which prevents me from reaching Jinan."

"Oh! What kind of thief is it?" Yu Ren asked hurriedly. Only then did he understand why Li Zhaoji is still wandering here.

Li Zhaoji seemed a little discouraged when he heard Yu Ren ask about this group of thieves. He leaned the heavy sword in his hand against the tree and sat down slowly.

"To put it, I am really ashamed! I have fought all my life and went to fight with my father at the age of fourteen to kill the enemy. I have never lost as badly as this time." Speaking of this, Li Zhaoji's expression became gloomy.

"The general is a general who is good at planning. Most of these thieves are tyrants. They lose to them alone. This does not mean that the general will not fight, nor will it affect the general's reputation." Yu Ren hurriedly comforted him when he saw Li Zhaoji's expression frustrated.

But Li Zhaoji shook his head and looked even more depressed.

"I didn't fight them alone. I'm not the kind of person who just knows how to fight bravely.

At that time, I was surrounded by more than fifty personal guards, all of whom were elite soldiers who had been fighting with me for many years. As I entered Shandong, I relied on them to break through obstacles one after another.

Although we defeated more than ten strong men along the way, we did not meet a real opponent. These strong men were defeated in one battle with us and were vulnerable.

So, when we were stopped by this group of strong men at the foot of Mount Tai, I didn't care. However, after the two sides fought, I realized how outrageous I was.

My people were all cavalrymen. When they saw a strong man blocking the road in front of them, they didn't say much, so they waved their swords and rushed over. However, the other party seemed to be ready. Before my personal soldiers could arrive, a dense rain of arrows shot out from both sides of the mountain road. They injured more than ten of us in an instant.

I quickly asked them to return.

At this time, a group of people appeared at the intersection opposite, about a hundred people. Among them was the man named Thirty-five and Six. He claimed his surname was Zhang.

Seeing that I was dissatisfied with losing, the Zhang man gave me a suggestion. He asked me to pick thirty people by myself, and there were thirty people on his side. Both sides lined up in the open space in front to fight. If I win, he would let us go. If I lose, then please return automatically, or exchange the heads of the prefect of Jinan Yao Wenguang to pass.

I thought the surname Zhang was too conceited. But that would be fine. Otherwise, there were many people and seemed to be prepared. It would be really not easy to force him to rush over."

Speaking of this, Li Zhaoji sighed heavily and said nothing more.

"What's the result?" Yu Ren asked.

"The result?" Li Zhaoji smiled bitterly, "As a result, my thirty personal soldiers were captured alive by his thirty subordinates named Zhang. I was shocked at that time, turned my horse's head and ran away, and I didn't have time to find out the details of these people."

Yu Ren stopped talking. He really didn't expect that there was such a group of powerful people in Taizhou. Yu Ren habitually called "Zongyi". Only then did he remember that Liang Zongyi was separated from him when he broke through yesterday.

Yu Ren couldn't help but sigh. Liang Zongyi was a well-known person in the Ming Dynasty. From south to north, there were almost no one he didn't know from him. If he were here, he would definitely know who the robber head named Zhang appeared at the foot of Mount Tai.

"Can you change your way to Jinan from another place?" Yu Ren asked Lu Yue. At present, among the people left around him, she is the only one who is most familiar with Shandong.

"Yes. But we have to turn back to Zhili, and this path is not peaceful." Without waiting for Lu Yue to answer, Li Zhaoji answered him first. "Just with us, we can't get to Zhili at all."

After hearing this, Yu Ren lowered his head and said softly, "It seems that I can only find Yao Wenguang!"

Li Zhaoji was shocked when he heard this. "I'm afraid it won't work! I'm just a general in Shandong, specializing in quelling the rebellion. The emperor did not grant me the power to arbitrarily on the occasion. What's more, I heard that Yao Wenguang was a division of Zhao Shangshu. Shandong Governor Zhao Yan sent him to defend Taizhou to prevent the Wenxiang Sect from going north to Jinan. If we kill him, it will not only weaken the defensive ability of Taizhou City, but also make enemies with the Donglin Party!"

"Which Secretary Zhao?" Yu Ren asked.

"It's Zhao Nanxing, Mr. Zhao! Mr. Zhao has just been appointed by the emperor as the Minister of Personnel, in charge of all officials, and is the leader of the Donglin Party. It can be said that he is a person under the Ming Dynasty and above ten thousand people. Apart from the emperor, he has the greatest power, and even the emperor has to listen to him for many things!

If we didn't even have a notification, we killed his disciples. I'm afraid we won't explain it to him, right?"

Yu Ren was also very surprised to hear that Yao Wenguang was still Zhao Nanxing's disciple. He had always thought that even if the Donglin Party members were not good officials who were dedicated to serving the people, they could at least keep their duties and distinguish the boundaries from the official worms that could be seen everywhere. Unexpectedly, there would be scum among officials like Yao Wenguang who specializes in exploiting the people to satisfy their personal desires.

When it comes to Zhao Nanxing, Yu Ren has to be cautious. Although Mr. Zhao is actually his father-in-law, he also knows that his father-in-law has hated him to the extreme now. The grudge he had made in the past has not yet been eliminated! If he kills his favorite disciple this time, the grudge will be even more impossible to resolve.

What's more, even if he doesn't think about himself and thinks about the overall situation, he can't do this. Because the next task he promised to Qi Shijiao was to go to Beijing to persuade the Donglin Party members and support Xiong Tingbi's comeback, and to have a heavy responsibility for the Liaodong strategy. To complete this task, the first person he had to convince was Zhao Nanxing. If he killed Yao Wenguang this time, his hatred with Zhao Nanxing would become deeper, and it would be even more difficult to convince him, his father-in-law.

Yu Ren weighed the pros and cons in his mind and decided to go and meet the Zhang surnamed first to see if there was any other way.

The few people rode their horses towards Jinan, walked for about twenty miles, and arrived at Taizhou City, but the four gates of Taizhou City were already closed. However, they unexpectedly met Liang Zongyi here. At this time, there were five or six brothers left by Liang Zongyi.

When the few people met, Yu Ren quickly asked him about the details of the surname Zhang.

Through Liang Zongyi's explanation, Yu Rencai learned that the name of Zhang was Zhang Pan, and he was one of the two most powerful sects in the Taizhou River and Lake.

"Speaking of this, Zhang Pan can also be said to be a family with him."
Chapter completed!