Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 105 Ask Liu Bowen to come out! Zhu Yuanzhang re-examines Liu Bowen after reading the Book of Gods
  Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but smile after seeing Li Menggeng's depressed look.

"Shouldn't you be happy when you come to serve as censor under us?"

"Why do you still look unhappy?"

Zhu Yuanzhang also asked Li Mengeng about this.

Li Menggeng could only forcefully grin: "I'm not unhappy, Manager Zhu was joking."

Guo Zixing is quite satisfied here.

Because, he would rather see Li Menggeng watch for him whether Zhu Yuanzhang would protect some people when supervising various political affairs.

Therefore, Guo Zixing smiled and said at this moment: "Okay, Yuan Zhang, please stop teasing Mr. Li. After all, his brother is now being punished by Ming Zhengdian. He must still be a little sad, I'm afraid he is also a little sad." Blame us."

"Commander Mingjian!"

"My brother's sins are heinous, and he is to blame for himself when he ends up like this. Therefore, I have no complaints at all!"

Li Mengeng hurriedly replied.

Guo Zixing nodded: "That's good, get up."

Li Menggeng stood up and said yes.

then.

Guo Zixing glanced at the clock and saw that it was almost noon, so he said: "Let's stop here for the time being. Let's go back to eat. There is no need to come in the afternoon. We have to go to the ordnance factory to have a look."

Everyone said yes and said goodbye to Guo Zixing.

After Li Menggeng and Ren Zhigong left Guo Zixing, they both still had lingering fears.

The two of them came to a teahouse box together and began to think over what happened today.

Li Menggeng was no longer in the mood to feel sad and resentful for his brother. He just slapped the table and gritted his teeth and said, "Why did Zhu Yuanzhang think of asking Guo Zixing for the power of supervision? What's even more hateful is that he asked me to follow him to supervise."

"Isn't this pushing me into a pit of fire and forcing me to kill one of my own people with a knife?"

As he spoke, Li Mengeng spread his hands and asked about Ren Zhigong.

Ren Zhigong also said solemnly: "He suddenly became eloquent, so you have to say that you are stupid. Even I have to say that I only know how to agree with you, a scholar and doctor, and have no brain of my own. Guo Zixing will either think we are hypocritical now, or he really thinks we are not good enough."

"It's really weird."

"This Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be more powerful and different than before."

Li Menggeng started talking to himself, then leaned closer to Ren Zhigong and whispered:
  "I can even feel that he is more confident than before. Although he hated evil and was very ruthless in dealing with people who disobeyed him, he still looked at us Confucian scholars with a sense of inferiority."

"But it's different now. I clearly noticed today that there was a sense of contempt and even a trace of pity in his eyes when he looked at me."

talking.

Bang!
  Li Menggeng couldn't help but slap the table again, stood up, looked at Ren Zhigong, and said with a ridiculous expression: "Why does he, a humble commoner, despise me, a son of an official?"

"I noticed it too."

"He's starting to look at us all with disdain now."

"I've only seen this look on one person."

Ren Zhigong started talking.

Li Menggeng asked hurriedly: "Who?"

"That's Mr. Zhang!"

"Although I haven't met him a few times, he looks at us like this!"

"It seems that in his eyes, our plans and strategies are like watching children quarreling over candy."

Ren Zhigong replied.

After hearing this, Li Menggeng nodded as if he had some understanding.

then.

Li Menggeng stood up and looked out the window.

At this time, autumn rain began to fall outside the window, and the cold autumn wind blew the dense rain on Li Menggeng's still swollen and sore face, which immediately made Li Menggeng sober up.

"I understand!"

Sudden.

Li Menggeng said excitedly.

Ren Zhigong, who was drinking tea with frowning eyebrows, heard what Li Menggen said. He quickly put down the teacup in his hand and asked Li Menggen, "What do you understand?"

Li Menggen turned to look at Ren Zhigong: "I understand who made Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly become so powerful."

"who is it?"

Ren Zhigong asked hurriedly.

Li Mengeng raised his eyebrows and said, "This is Zhang Cheng!"

Ren Zhigong said nothing after hearing this.

Li Menggeng said: "I even feel that all of us are in his Zhangcheng plan!"

"What's the meaning of this statement?"

Ren Zhigong asked hurriedly.

"From the beginning, Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to give up Chuzhou City to Guo Zixing, and also took the initiative to greet Guo Zixing outside the city. Later, Zhang Cheng took the initiative to lead the Shenji Battalion and other troops to attack Waliang Barrier. It was obvious that these were all intentional by Zhang Cheng Set up a trap!"

"He Zhang Cheng persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to give up Chuzhou City and gain Guo Zixing's trust, in order to test whether we people can be stable in this situation!"

"He wants to know if we are going to fight among ourselves because of this, so we will fight against each other and stop being serious about rebellion!"

"and then!"

"He can tell who really wants to overthrow Hu Yuan and seriously want to conquer the country, and who doesn't really want to overthrow Hu Yuan, but wants to be recruited quickly so that he can be a stable official again and get rid of the reputation of a bandit."

"to this end!"

"He Zhang Cheng then chose to go out on his own initiative, not to participate in the internal fighting, and used the advanced firearms he mastered to fight a big victory outside, which in turn made us all afraid of him, made Zhu Yuanzhang more dependent on his support outside, and made Guo Zixing There is pressure, and I dare not just focus on internal fighting, but also think about strengthening my own strength.”

"at the same time!"

"He must have been secretly communicating with Zhu Yuanzhang, and guessed that Zhu Yuanzhang would be suppressed by Guo Zixing because of our instigation, and intended to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang to use the tens of thousands of taels of silver he suddenly sent to him when he was suppressed by Guo Zixing. To win over the Zhang family, Guo Zixing had to crack down on corruption severely for his own foundation, and then gave Zhu Yuanzhang an opportunity to influence Guo Zixing and obtain the power of supervision." "I'm afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang is so eloquent and confident now, it's also Zhang Yuanzhang's fault. Cheng taught me behind my back."

Li Menggeng started talking and said: "This Zhang Cheng is really as talented as Zhang Liang and Zhuge, but it's a pity that he wants to overthrow me, Dayuan."

"That's why he deliberately used various strategies to put us in embarrassing situations in front of reckless people like Guo Zixing and Zhu Yuanzhang, and even almost lost our lives."

"This is such a big deal from Zhang Cheng!"

"He's too scary!"

Ren Zhigong shuddered and murmured a few words to himself, then asked Li Menggeng: "But, why does he hate me Dayuan so much?!"

Li Menggeng thought for a while and said: "Maybe he is a descendant of the previous Song Dynasty ministers and intends to restore the Song Dynasty!"

"Isn't it?"

"I am also a scholar-official in the previous dynasty, so I don't think it is necessary to restore the Song Dynasty?"

"You don't think Dayuan is not good enough now, do you?"

Ren Zhigong asked puzzledly.

Li Menggeng said: "This is just a conjecture on my part."

Ren Zhigong nodded and asked: "Then what should we do now? There is such a resourceful person who is truly determined to help the thieves succeed. We are afraid that if we go against his will again, we will be shattered to pieces, right?"

"Don't forget that before my brother's bones are cold, we will also be cut into pieces in the city."

Ren Zhigong shrank his neck as he spoke.

Li Menggeng said thoughtfully: "Now that I think about it, I shouldn't have let him go out in the first place!"

"I originally thought it was a good thing that he went out, so that he could be wiped out by the army as soon as possible, and we could also remove a powerful strategist in Chuzhou City, which would challenge our position. But in the end, we just let the tiger go back to the mountain."

"Yeah, once he gets out, you can't do anything to him."

Ren Zhigong sighed as he spoke: "If Dayuan is really going to be destroyed because of this, I'm afraid it will also be related to our original mistake."

Li Menggeng smiled coldly and said, "Don't worry too much. We are not the only ones loyal to Dayuan. We can't fight Zhang Cheng, but there are people who can fight him."

"Who?"

Ren Zhigong asked hurriedly.

Li Menggeng said without hesitation: "Liu Bowen from eastern Zhejiang!"

"Liu Bowen?"

Ren Zhigong asked.

Li Menggen turned his hand behind his back and said: "Yes, this man is extremely loyal to Dayuan and very strategic. I am far inferior to him. Even Ren Qiande, the brother of the imperial family, is far inferior to him. Not only are we inferior to him, but also his Disciple Yang Xiwu (Yang Xian) is far inferior!"

"Is he really loyal to Dayuan?"

Ren Zhigong replied.

Li Menggeng nodded: "Of course!"

"In April this year, His Majesty the Dayuan Emperor Tianshou Festival, I had the honor to go to Shaoxing to meet him. I held a ceremony to celebrate the Tianshou Festival with him and a group of officials and celebrities at the Baolin Temple in Guishan, south of Shaoxing City. At that time, he wanted to express his loyalty. , I wrote a five-character poem, and the poem is excellent!"

"In his poem, he said that the current sage 'lives long for ten thousand years, and his ministers are the first to worship him'."

"He also said that the current Taishi Tuotuo 'the Taishi is only Yuanying, smart and truly enlightened'."

"Moreover, I wish Dayuan's majestic imperial legacy will be deeply rooted in Qiao Yue."

"The bandits are naturally rated as 'the mantis is strong enough to lift its axe, and its broken head can stand up in the stream'."

After Li Menggeng said that, Ren Zhigong couldn't help but nodded: "He is truly a loyal and good minister of my great Yuan Dynasty, and he is not as good as me!"

……

"Liu Bowen!"

"Celebrities from eastern Zhejiang."

“When Prime Minister Hu Yuan Tuo Tuo put down Zhima Li’s uprising army, he massacred the city and left all the people in Hecheng behind. Even now, the bones of the people are still covering the ground, and the grass is everywhere.”

"But it is this kind of common people's executioner who was praised by Liu Bowen, a famous scholar in eastern Zhejiang, as 'the great master of the Yuan Dynasty, wise and truly enlightened', and he praised the common people's butchers."

"So, in general, this person is currently standing on the opposite side of the Han people in the world, and is the enemy of our rebel army. If he joins the rebel army, our rebel army must reform him, eliminate his ideas, and at the same time prevent him from being This kind of ideological influence has turned the people against him."

After Zhu Yuanzhang came back, he continued to read the book Zhang Cheng gave him.

Zhu Yuanzhang also saw Zhang Cheng's special analysis of some famous figures in the world in his book "Analysis of Various Classes".

After hearing this, Xu Da couldn't help but said: "This person should be called Mingguo instead of Mingshi. He is so loyal to Hu Yuan!"

Ma, who was sitting nearby making children's clothes, couldn't help laughing after hearing this:
  "The Xu Da brothers said they were dogs, which is quite appropriate, but they became dogs not because they wanted to be dogs. As Mr. Zhang said in his book, it was the landlord economy that turned them into dogs."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "What the girl is saying is that what Mr. Zhang means is to prevent people like this from joining us and turning our rebel army into a rebel army that is not the people's army."

When Zhu Yuanzhang was discussing Liu Bowen with Ma and others, Li Menggeng had already written a letter to Yang Xian, saying to Ren Zhigong:

"You find a way to find a reliable sergeant to send this letter to Yang's house in Jiqing. I have to go to Zhu Yuanzhang's place early."

"Why are you in such a hurry?"

Ren Zhigong couldn't help but ask.

Li Menggeng frowned and sighed: "You should know that Zhu Yuanzhang is not Guo Zixing. He is someone who can't wait to rest at all times. If I don't hurry over like I did with Guo Zixing before, he will be angry."

Ren Zhigong nodded and said, "I don't know if Liu Bowen will come."

Li Menggeng smiled and said, "Who knows?"

Let’s talk.

After Yang Xian received Li Menggeng's letter, he forwarded the letter to eastern Zhejiang and delivered it to Liu Bowen.

Liu Bowen learned about Zhang Cheng after reading it.

"How terrible!"

After Liu Bowen saw the letter, he slammed the table on the spot and said:
  "In this way, all the scholars who do practical things for the people have become traitors, and they would rather put their hope of saving the world on the thieves than on the court!"

(End of this chapter)