Editing Agents of Empress Wu:Iron Flute Zhang (section)

=== Background:===


Iron Flute Zhang is the quintessential ''youxia,'' wandering the countryside with just his scrip and his robe, playing his flute and righting wrongs with his longsword. He's also one of the best poets of the age, although he's atrociously irresponsible about it, dropping his manuscripts by the wayside or paying for wine with poems. His true origins and background are a mystery, one that he deliberately cultivates and embroiders; there are strong suspicions that he is the child of a good family, roaming under a false identity to sow his wild oats and avoid besmirching the family name. His trademark iron flute is his muse, and also a cudgel and a blowpipe when it needs to be. If he can't subdue or shame his adversaries with his flute, he pulls out his straight ''jian,'' which stretches from his shoulders to his knees and which he carries slung on his back.
Zhang wears a taichi disk on his chest, and is actually a far more serious and devout Taoist than he pretends to be. He takes the Taoist principle of going with the flow to extremes, and often the flow is out of a wine gourd.

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