Chapter 234: Unsolvable Mystery (1/2)
Chapter 234: Unsolvable Mystery
”Hehe, it's nothing. I've only heard of Commandery Chief Zhang's name from my family members. Right, I heard that Commandery Chief Zhang is a very lustful person?” Wang Chong asked nonchalantly.
”Hahaha, little brother, where did you hear those things from?” Hearing Wang Chong's teasing remarks, Yang Zhao found himself forgetting his purpose here and burst into laughter.
”I've only met Zhang Qiantuo once from afar before. From what I know, he's a martial general, as well as a valiant and upright man. No one has ever seen him visiting any of those taverns, brothels, or that sort of improper places. Many have teased him, saying that he must be a monk for shying away from such entertainment. However, I've once heard from Lord Zhangchou that Commandery Chief Zhang is a person who is obedient to his wife. Little brother, where did you hear those words from?”
”A person who is obedient to his wife?” A dark shadow flashed across Wang Chong's mind.
”Haha, little brother, I understand. You aren't young anymore, and it's about time for you to understand the pleasures of the human body too. Don't worry, I'll bring you to the interesting spots around the capital some other day when you're free,” Yang Zhao said with an attitude of hinting that he had been through the same phase as well. Wang Chong couldn't help but feel his head hurt. This was not what he meant at all. Yang Zhao had misunderstood his words.
Wang Chong hurriedly changed the topic to divert Yang Zhao's attention. Then, after asking for a few more details about Jiannan Commandery Chief Zhang Qiantuo in a roundabout manner, he found an excuse to persuade Yang Zhao to leave.
Zhang Qiantuo is a person who is obedient to his wife? What's going on? After Yang Zhao left, Wang Chong sat on a rock by the foot of the mountain and fell into deep contemplation.
Yang Zhao had regarded the words that he had spoken as a joke. If he were to know what Wang Chong was thinking, and why he had asked about Zhang Qiantuo, Wang Chong would dare to bet his entire fortune that Yang Zhao would surely be astounded.
In fact, when that event in the future occurred, Wang Chong dared bet that when Yang Zhao recalled the conversation they had today, the other party would surely fall into extreme shock.
Wang Chong wasn't just asking about Zhang Wentuo casually.
The Battle of Nanzhao!
That was the main reason why Wang Chong asked those questions.
In the future, Great Tang would suffer a tragic defeat in the southeast. It would become the greatest failure in its long history of invincibility.
180,000 elite Great Tang soldiers, along with countless lieutenants and commanders, would be reduced to lifeless corpses with severed heads. Their blood would converge and flow on into the horizon.
This failure would shake the entire Central Plains, and in turn, determine the fate of Great Tang several decades later.
The Southern Protectorate Manor that Zhangchou Jianqiong had guarded for two decades would completely fall due to this, and the Five Great Protectorates would be reduced to just four.
Losing its southern barrier, countless civilians of the empire would be embroiled in the flames of war, and the casualties would eventually add up to nearly a million!
And the cause all of this was a man and two women.
The man was Jiannan Commandery Chief Zhang Qiantuo, while the two women...
Neither of them was ordinary. They were the famously beautiful wife and daughter of Emperor Ge Luofeng of Mengshe Zhao!
However, there were no eyewitnesses to the incident. After all, that kind of matter couldn't possibly have any eyewitnesses!
Wang Chong only heard the truth from rumors.
A lustful lecher, when Erhai Mengshe Zhao's Emperor Ge Luofeng's wife and daughter visited him, Zhang Wentuo raped and killed the both of them in the City Lord’s Residence.
Ge Luofeng erupted in anger when he received the news. He immediately led his army into Great Tang and took down the closest fortress to exact vengeance for his wife and daughter. Eventually, Zhang Qiantuo died in the initial phase of the war as well.
Out of lust, Zhang Wentuo humiliated the wife and daughter of Mengshe Zhao's Emperor, thus triggering a huge war. 180,000 valiant elite troops of Great Tang ended up lying eternally in sleep in the southeast. With such heinous crimes, there would be no punishment too harsh for him.
After the Battle of Nanzhao, the entire empire flew into an outrage. The wrath of the entire Great Tang was focused on Zhang Qiantuo. In fact, there were even few who went to the extent of digging up his bones to vent their anger.
Because of that war, Zhang Qiantuo went down in history as a heinous criminal!
Wang Chong didn't know much about Zhang Qiantuo as Jiannan was simply too far away. Not to mention, the person in question had always maintained a low-profile. Even Yang Zhao, a socialite, knew very little of him despite having stayed in Jiannan for a period of time.
Even so, Wang Chong had a feeling that there was something that went deeper than the surface. There were simply too many doubtful aspects to the Battle of Nanzhao and the Jiannan Incident.
The reason was simple. Zhang Qiantuo had committed suicide!
When Ge Luofeng mobilized his army to attack Jiannan, Zhang Qiantuo, as the Jiannan Commandery Chief, understood the weight of his sins and chose neither to retreat nor escape. Instead, he chose to kill himself in repentance to his country!
Ge Luofeng didn't deny this matter either.
Furthermore, if Zhang Qiantuo had truly kidnapped Ge Luofeng's wife and daughter, he would have surely made sure that news didn't leak out.