First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Zhu Yuanzhang encountered a little trouble... The Tianwan Emperor Xu Shouhui had already swept through the two provinces of Huguang and Jiangxi, and his troops were directed at Chizhou.

Although they did not attack Chizhou, there is no doubt that this upstream neighbor has already extended their minions.

On the other side, Zhang Shicheng ordered the barbarian Hague to lead the fleet, and assist Zhang Shide in taking Jiangyin after he had attacked the horses.

The upstream and downstream encounter opponents at the same time, and the pressure can be imagined.

However, this trivial matter was not enough to trouble Lao Zhu. It was mainly a group of wealthy businessmen from Jinling who started to sneak away.

Many of them went to take refuge with Zhang Shicheng.

This made Lao Zhu very angry.

What kind of thing is Zhang Shicheng? Are you all blind?

Just because he is worthy to fight with us?

You take refuge in Zhang Shicheng today, and we will make you a bereaved dog tomorrow!

Lao Zhu was aggressive and wanted to send troops. But he knew very well that now was not the time to mobilize. Zhu Jiajun's war has its own rhythm.

For example, after the capture of Chuzhou, troops were not used outside until the summer grain was harvested, and after the harvest of Hezhou, it was only after a season of grain was harvested that they crossed the river.

Today, the use of troops in Jiangnan and the cost of supplying Jinling have consumed a lot of accumulation.

Be sure to wait until the harvest again before you can have rations to support the fight.

And now Jinling is still a mess, and other places are not much better... The Zhu family's army is not a rogue, and cannot rob the people, and must have enough food and salaries.

Secondly, every time a place is occupied, a thorough reform must be carried out, a new order must be established, and sufficient benefits can be generated under the rule.

At least part of the military supplies can be supplied, and it will not drag down the overall situation. Only in this way will the Zhu Family Army consider the next target.

It is very important to grab the territory and expand, but it is more important to take it one step at a time.

However, some things were not quite what Zhu Yuanzhang thought.

Just like these wealthy and wealthy businessmen, they would rather go to Zhang Shicheng than to cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang.

What did we do wrong? Make you hate our old Zhu so much?

The irritable Lao Zhu encountered Liu Ji again, a scholar who got perfect marks in the exam. Lao Zhu thought he had picked up a talent, but he didn't expect it to be an official of the Yuan court, and he was a loyal one.

He came here to investigate the truth!

Fortunately, the exam results were not announced, otherwise, his face would be lost!

It turns out that not only Yuan Ting would be embarrassed, but Zhu Yuanzhang almost died!

According to Zhu Yuanzhang's character, he really wanted to slaughter Liu Bowen, skin it, make it into a pillow, and hang it in the Temple of the City God, in order to relieve his hatred.

But Zhang Ximeng had to stuff Liu Bowen into a prisoner of war camp.

What can you think about?

Zhu Yuanzhang endured it for a while, but in the end he couldn't hold back, so he called Zhang Ximeng, but before Zhang Ximeng came, Ma came with his son, sat next to him, and stared at Lao Zhu without making a sound. .

Zhu Yuanzhang was made very uncomfortable, "Sister, you, go down with your son and let me tell you later!"

Mrs. Ma was unmoved at all, "You can say whatever you want, and I'll just listen to you? Is it possible that you can still make trouble?"

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyes, didn't you ask this knowingly?

However, he thought so, but he didn't dare to say so.

After all, Zhang Ximeng is half of his teacher, and arguing with Zhang Ximeng is too much. If he were still in front of his wife, he would have his face on the soles of his feet.

Lao Zhu tried his best to control his emotions. Facing Zhang Ximeng coming over, Lao Zhu tried his best to squeeze a smile.

"Sir, how is that Liu Ji? Is he willing to make a change?"

Zhang Ximeng pondered a little, but when he saw that Ma was here, he breathed a sigh of relief. He might be able to say something.

"My lord, Liu Ji has served Yuan Ting for more than 20 years. What should my lord think he should do?"

"What else can I do? Feeling remorse! Could he still serve Yuan Ting?"

"Cough cough!" Ma Shi suddenly coughed: "Chongba, why are you making such a loud noise? Don't scare the child. For more than 20 years, let alone a human being, even if it is a dog or a cat, that's another problem. Emotional. If Liu Ji has no nostalgia for Yuan Ting, isn't that ungrateful?"

Zhu Yuanzhang rolled his eyelids and said angrily: "If you say that you have long hair and short knowledge, what is ungrateful? Kindness is big, benevolence and righteousness are serious. What Yuan Ting gave him was personal kindness, restoring the Central Plains, and taking back our territory, this is righteousness. If you can't even tell the priority of this, this person is a fool, and it's no pity to kill him!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said a few words, and Zhang Ximeng showed a look of surprise, which was simply too surprising. He really wanted to tell Zhu Yuanzhang about this, but he didn't expect Lao Zhu to figure it out on his own, so the next thing would be easy to talk about.

"My lord, our territory is getting bigger and bigger, and more and more people will be used. Many old people of Yuan Ting have been enriched in our team. How to treat these people, we urgently need the lord to set a tone in order to appease people's hearts. , to stabilize the order.”

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned and said in a low voice, "Speak clearly."

"It's like this, please think about it, lord, people like Liu Ji, who served the Yuan Dynasty for more than 20 years, in order to prevent others from gossiping, they will definitely show some reminiscence of Yuan Ting, it's okay to say that they really think so. , in order to deal with outsiders' pointing and pointing, they all have to act like they are."

"It happens that this matter has come to the lord again. Of course the lord doesn't like that they miss Yuan Ting, and asks them to serve the lord wholeheartedly. But the question is if they really abandon Yuan Ting, will they become unrighteous villains again? It becomes a father and son riding a donkey, not advancing or retreating!"

As Zhang Ximeng analyzed it, he gradually realized the embarrassment of Liu Bowen and others. They show nostalgia for Yuan Ting, that is infidelity, no nostalgia, that is injustice. Repeatedly jumping in the middle is unfaithful and unrighteous!

In history, Liu Bowen and others were like this. Even when they arrived in Yingtian, they were uneasy, and they said, "I can't be indifferent."

When Emperor Yuanshun died, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally wanted to celebrate, and Liu Bowen and other courtiers who had served the Yuan Dynasty also wanted to flatter Lao Zhu, but Zhu Yuanzhang directly warned them that they once served Yuan and were not allowed to celebrate. He directly hit Liu Bowen's old face to the ground.

Was Liu Bowen wronged?

not at all!

After all, he also wrote the poem "His life experience is not guaranteed, even if he dares to speak of his merits", you are deeply concerned about your life experience, and you are apprehensive about your merits.

Once you figure this out, you will understand why Liu Bowen only named Uncle Chengyi, and why the literati from eastern Zhejiang could not fight against Huaixi Xungui... Even Li Shanchang and others didn't do much, so Liu Bowen fell.

The difference between closeness and distance, the psychological gap, is far from being able to be compensated by intellect.

In two and a half of the four major cases in the early Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang tried to erase the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty. If you can't be convinced, then I will send you to the underground and serve the Yuan Dynasty well!

Zhu Yuanzhang's logic is simple and crude, is he wrong?

Obviously not.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang, Liu Bowen and others must have a higher-level identity, unify their thoughts, and eliminate barriers.

But unfortunately, in the original history, it was impossible to find this thing, so the result is needless to say.

But this time Zhang Ximeng wanted to try.

His layout is not a day or two. It can even be said that Zheng Sixiao, Mo Lantu and Zhang Ximeng have been subtly influencing Lao Zhu since the beginning.

To this day, Zhu Yuanzhang said that being loyal to Dayuan is a personal favor, and restoring the homeland is a great righteousness!

Zhang Ximeng was moved to tears, my good student! The painstaking effort of being a teacher is really not in vain!

Lao Zhu figured it out, and Liu Bowen's side was easy too.

Otherwise, both sides would be suspicious, and the immortals would be no different.

"Sir, why are you so immersed in it that you can't jump out?" Old Zhu asked in a deep voice, he felt that Zhang Ximeng should see it more clearly than himself!

"My lord, the key to this matter is to let Liu Bowen and others figure it out."

"What if they don't understand!"

"Then continue to reform!" Zhang Ximeng smiled and said: "Actually, the lord can be more optimistic... Those who can distinguish their priorities will naturally stand on the lord's side. As for those who are unrepentant, they have always been greedy for the glory and wealth given to them by the Yuan Dynasty. , the lord can hold the knife high, kill a person with rolling heads and blood, and I will help the lord to investigate thoroughly!"

Mr. Zhang is willing to help himself!

The corners of Lao Zhu's mouth couldn't help but turn up, the two of them still maintained a high degree of consistency!

Ma Shi observed the words and expressions, and saw the smiles on the faces of these two people, and the words were talked about together, she finally breathed a sigh of relief, she deliberately said angrily: "You know how to fight, kill and kill, I'm a woman, I'm too lazy to listen. It's gone!"

Ma turned around and left, Lao Zhu smiled awkwardly, and then said to Zhang Ximeng sternly: "Sir, we haven't talked carefully for a long time, so let's take this opportunity to have a long talk and talk about this matter thoroughly!"

Zhang Ximeng also agrees. It is indeed at a critical moment. There must be a conclusion on which direction the Zhu Family Army should go. Otherwise, if it develops further, different factions will be split. Even if it can be suppressed by force, It's hard to be monolithic.

Zhang Ximeng and Zhu Yuanzhang had a long talk all night, but Liu Bowen's side was devastated.

For him, the POW camp was too unfriendly.

The last thing he didn't want to see was not only here, but also super doubled!

Also, Timur, Tuotuo's two sons, Fushou, Dujian, Xuexue, Nahachu... all of them were Mongolian officials, and no one had a higher status than him.

Even Gong Bosui's influence is far from what he can match.

And such a group of people have already surrendered obediently, not holding out hope, and even looking forward to Yuan Ting's early demise, but they themselves are not afraid of danger, so they came to investigate the enemy's situation and want to be loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, which is really unnecessary.

"I said, what do you think? What good will it be for you to live a few more years in the Yuan Dynasty? You also want to be sent to Yunnan, if you die in a foreign land? Are you worthy?"

First, Timur also mocked rudely!

Xue Xue next to him coughed and said, "Let me say it first, our Yuan Dynasty will not die in the end, maybe there is still a chance of life, you don't want to be yin and yang, this is a loyal minister!"

"Bah!" Timur also snorted coldly first: "You envy loyal ministers, why are you not a loyal minister? You died for the Yuan Dynasty!"

Xue Xue grinned, "Forget it, I want to live for two more years... I marked the exam paper for the superior this time, and I don't think it's too difficult, let us go out later, I can also take the exam as a clerk, by myself If you have the ability, eat a piece of imperial grain, stay safe and secure, let’s live with this... By the way, who do you think gave the imperial grain at that time? Is it possible?”

"It's not the Yuan Dynasty anyway!"

Timur also said another sentence first, which immediately left everyone speechless.

There is such a "Da Yuan's lifetime black" on the stall, what else can you say!

Liu Bowen's days in the prisoner of war camp were like sitting on pins and needles, and every moment was torture. As a Han Chinese, he could not give up the past of the Yuan Dynasty... But a group of Mongolian nobles wished that the Yuan Dynasty would end sooner, the contrast was too great.

It's completely unreasonable, how should you explain it?

On the third day, Zhang Ximeng came, not only he, but also Zhu Yuanzhang, even Zhu Sheng, Jia Lu and others.

After they arrived, they called everyone in the prisoner of war camp over, and in front of the big guy, there were 16 words: expel the captives, restore China; divide the land equally, and relieve the people.

Seeing these sixteen characters, Zhu Sheng couldn't help being excited and sat up straight.

Liu Ji, the last of the POW team, stared straight at him, his hands trembling uncontrollably.

Zhang Ximeng stood up at this moment, smiled and said: "We have different identities, so I won't say more, let's just discuss some small issues... For example, the defeat of Yuan Ting, such as our uprising, what is it for? Please speak freely below. !"