Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 109: Burning fields and deeding houses, starting a rebellion! Open up the people’s wisdom!

Zhang Cheng here learned from Zhu Yuanzhang's letter that Zhang Tianyou, Li Shanchang, and Feng Guoyong had decided to leave Chuzhou City and develop outside.

Zhang Cheng was therefore very happy and said to Wang Guangyang: "Okay! I'll just say, it's impossible for them to not understand the truth that I understand."

talking.

Zhang Cheng said to Wang Guangyang: "This will undoubtedly have positive significance for the development and growth of our department outside."

"That's what Mr. Zhang said!"

"But many times, a good strategy does not necessarily mean good results. It also depends on the person!"

"So, what I'm worried about is whether they will just talk on paper, and like the so-called bandits, they will interpret flexibility as retreating in danger and cherishing their lives in danger. They don't know the truth of guerrilla warfare while looking for opportunities to build and develop, or even look at it. The possession of major cities and fortresses, and the contempt for the common people, made them eventually become the strongest from outside."

Wang Guangyang echoed Zhang Cheng and then talked about his concerns.

Zhang Cheng nodded: "It's hard to say, let's wait and see."

Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong were both accomplished in military affairs in history.

Historically, when Zhu Yuanzhang was in charge of the army in Hezhou, he only asked Li Shanchang to stay in Hezhou with a small number of troops because he was going to Jilong Mountain to attack the Yuan army.

As a result, the Yuan soldiers came to sneak attack Hezhou at this time. Li Shanchang behaved very calmly and planned to ambush the Yuan soldiers, thus saving Hezhou with few defenders and creating a record of defeating more with less.

Feng Guoyong personally led the troops to conquer the important town of Taiping for Zhu Yuanzhang in history. Later, in the battle of quarrying, he led the army to first attack the water stronghold stationed in Hague, the prime minister of the Yuan Dynasty, establishing the victory of the battle of quarrying. Later, they successively captured Zhenjiang, Danyang, Ningguo, Taixing, Yixing and other important towns.

It can be said.

Neither Li Shanchang nor Feng Guoyong were literati who were only good at internal affairs and strategy in history.

The two of them were also quite talented in the military, but it was only against the background of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Wenzheng, Xu Da, Chang Yuchun, and Li Wenzhong that they seemed not to be very prominent in the military.

Actually.

After Zhang Cheng carefully reviewed history, he realized that people like Feng Guoyong and Li Shanchang were still in the pocket even if Zhu Yuanzhang was not his boss.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng still has confidence in these people.

Let us say that after Li Shanchang returned home, he summoned his tribesmen and villagers, took out all the land deeds and house deeds used for renting at home, and said to his tribesmen and villagers:
"Dear relatives and friends, since you agreed that I would defect to the rebel army in order for the Li family to become a family of prominent officials and for the world to regain peace, we have bet the lives of the nine members of the Li family on the gambling table. But now the gamble has gone wrong. We You have to continue to raise your bets to win, otherwise the nine tribes may not be protected, or they may have to move to another place incognito."

"Why are there twists and turns?"

Li Cunfu, a brother of Li Shanchang's clan, asked at this time.

Li Shanchang said: "Because General Zhu and Mr. Zhang, whom I defected to, want to stabilize the world as soon as possible, and do not want to cause internal strife and quarrel, which will damage the strength of the entire rebel army."

"This is a good thing. It would be best if the world becomes peaceful as soon as possible!"

"Shan Chang, you are the smartest person in our family. Please tell me what to do."

"Yes, Shan Changqian told us what to do."

Everyone in the Li clan started talking at this time.

Li Shanchang said: "I have decided that our Li family will rebel on our own! Whoever can produce a young man will be given ten acres of land and a room."

With that said, Li Shanchang took out a stack of land and house deeds.

The villagers and villagers of the Li clan began to discuss whether they should exchange their land and houses.

At this time, a tenant leader named Li Cunren stood up and said:
"On my side, they pay thirty cents."

In ancient times.

Tenants under the names of powerful landlords often have a tenant leader who is responsible for the general contracting of the rented fields, and then sub-leases the general contracted fields to the tenants they have recruited. The tenant leaders are often relatives of the landlords.

"it is good!"

Li Shanchang found the fertile land and houses rented under Li Cunren's name, took out the land deed and house deed for thirty acres, and threw it directly into the brazier, turning it into ashes.

When the tribesmen and villagers saw this scene, their eyes lit up on the spot, and they all asked if any of the tenants under their names wanted to be divorced.

"Get out, let's get out!"

"We'll give you sixteen!"

"We'll pay twenty cents!"

……

Soon, Li Shanchang recruited more than 600 young people who were not relatives or neighbors and almost all had the same surname.

Feng Guoyong did the same here. He also raised more than 500 young men by dividing fields and houses. He also said that whoever kills a soldier next will have the interest on the loan from the tribe directly waived.

For a moment, some young men wanted to kill Yuan Bing immediately.

Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong's army, which has the same clan, same ethnicity and same hometown, is naturally highly organized. Although this organizational relationship is an organizational relationship formed by blood and geography in a farming economic environment, in the early days, both in terms of training and combat, They all progressed very quickly because of this.

In particular, Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong made their relatives and friends grow rapidly after referring to the book given to them by Zhu Yuanzhang.

“Terrain georecognition.”

"Signal and code transmission and recognition."

"reconnaissance."

"alert."

"march."

"Camp."

When Li Shanchang was reading the "Military Training Manual", he couldn't help but read it, and said to his brother Li Cunyi: "Mr. Zhang is our son after all. There are such easy-to-understand military books. With this book, even if my Li family is just an ordinary right-winger, I will be able to deal with the Yuan soldiers."

Li Cunyi asked: "Is it really so powerful?"

"That's natural. The important thing is that it's easy to understand." "And even if we don't have fire guns, it has already written down how to line up and shoot with fire guns."

The manual Li Shanchang received was adapted by Zhang Cheng, so he would see some content about the mandarin duck formation and various musket formations in it.

Li Cunyi said: "So, Mr. Zhang really doesn't hide his secrets."

"This shows that Mr. Zhang has a bigger plan. He may not only be destroying Yuan, but he may have greater confidence."

After Li Shanchang said this, he said: "In any case, since our Li family has this opportunity to obtain this book, we should take the opportunity to gain a noble background."

Li Cunyi nodded: "Brother said yes."

"Cit pits, toilets, etc. should be at least ten feet away from water sources."

"Open sand filter wells and boil the well water for disinfection."

Feng Guoyong also gave some instructions after carefully reading the "Barefoot Doctor's Manual" and said to his brother Feng Sheng:
"We must march according to these requirements when we march next. This may prevent us from losing troops and generals due to the epidemic."

Feng Sheng nodded in agreement and asked, "Brother, can these books by Mr. Zhang really help us?"

“Not only does it help, it’s a huge help!”

"It also teaches us how to disguise ourselves to deceive the enemy."

"Our first battle should be to use the disguise method here to trick Shouchun City into coming."

After Feng Guoyong said that, he said to Feng Sheng: "We will pretend to be Tsing Yi troops and go to Shouchun City. You go and prepare some Tsing Yi and flags."

"Yes!"

Next.

Feng Guoyong actually captured Shouchun City by pretending to be a Tsing Yi Army.

Li Shanchang led his Li family army to deceive Huaiyuan City in the name of donating food to the people.

Since both of them belonged to the landlords' armed forces, they began to make peace with the local landlords as soon as they captured the two cities. Although there was no clearing of land, no luxury tax, and no land distribution like in Chuzhou, they still Taxes were redefined and a series of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes created by the Semu people were eliminated.

However, the two of them did not copy Zhang Cheng's New Deal in Chuzhou. Like Zhang Cheng, the two of them joined forces with some landlords who surrendered to them to establish government-run trading firms and ordnance manufacturing plants.

In addition, the two also adopted the "nine-character motto" strategy proposed by Zhang Cheng when they first met Zhu Yuanzhang. Instead of calling themselves kings, they only claimed to be governors of the state, and appointed officials of Qianhu and Baihu in their own armies.

"Brother, I really didn't expect that one day I would raise an army by myself and become the magistrate of the state. I am really the one who holds the seal and controls the army!"

Li Shanchang said this to his younger brother Li Cunyi on the Huaiyuan City Tower that day, and smiled slightly.

Li Cunyi said: "Yes, originally I just bet the wealth of my Li family on the superior, but now I still have to rely on my own family to conquer the country."

"Whoever wants to be in power still has no ambitions."

"However, we cannot say that we are completely dependent on ourselves. If Mr. Zhang hadn't laid the foundation, we wouldn't have dared to reach this stage."

Li Shanchang said: "According to Mr. Zhang's wishes, we must be ready to abandon Huaiyuan City at any time, so we tell our relatives and friends not to have the idea of ​​settling here. We must be ready to evacuate at any time to prevent Xia Cai's Yuan soldiers from counterattack. "

Li Cunyi raised his hand and said yes.

Not long after, Li Shanchang really received the news that the Yuan soldiers from Xia Cai were attacking in large numbers, so he decisively led the Li army to Bagong Mountain, where he ambushed the Yuan soldiers, and then pretended to be Yuan soldiers and tricked them into leaving Xia Cai City. .

After Feng Guoyong occupied Shouchun, he recruited fishermen and bandits and built a navy to directly capture Anfeng.

The same goes for Zhang Tianyou.

After he led his troops out, he quickly occupied Quanjiao, raised tens of thousands of grains, and recruited three thousand troops.

Zhang Cheng is still developing in the surrounding villages of Waliang Lei, dividing the fields among the poor, and organizing craftsmen in Waliang Lei City to build many farm tools for the poor.

Many poor people, even without cattle, have begun to use humans instead of cattle to cultivate the fields that were abandoned due to wars and high rents after mergers by powerful powers.

at the same time.

Zhang Cheng also asked craftsmen to build an easy-to-carry hand-operated type ink printing press, and then printed a large number of propaganda literature and slogans to help the people understand what the rebels were and why they wanted to rebel.

Zhang Cheng also asked Shu Anguo and others to preach and use this more convenient and efficient printing press to run newspapers, and set up newspaper reading classes on the basis of literacy classes. Basically, the volunteers who passed the newspaper reading class would be immediately recruited. He was transferred to the countryside to serve as president and first-class official in the capital, responsible for grassroots democracy movement work.

Besides.

Zhang Cheng also organized craftsmen to use the iron materials seized by the rebels in Waliang Lei to make weapons such as swords and guns for the local people, so that everyone, including women and children, would carry swords and guns. He even organized children's teams and women's mutual aid associations.

In short, it seems that Zhang Cheng did not build a factory in Waliang Lei, nor did he attack new cities, but he expanded crazily in the countryside near Waliang Lei. Many talented people have begun to write their own slogans. The rebel army he organized himself had not developed enough for the villagers to establish a mutual aid society. He came to the rebel army to recognize his status as the president of the mutual aid society and to distribute weapons, farm tools, and grain seeds to his society.

"Ying Gong!"

Yang Xian also came to Waliang Lei during this period and stayed directly at Ying Guangzu's home.

Ying Guangzu was not in a good mood because he was forced by the rebels to reduce rent and interest and distribute land among the people, so after seeing Yang Xian, he just forced a smile and said: "Why did Xiwu suddenly come to this place where monsters and thieves are poisoned? "

"To be honest, I came here on the orders of my master to see where the demon thieves here came from."

“As the saying goes, if you know yourself and your enemy, you can fight a hundred battles without danger.”

"Having a better understanding of the demon thieves here can also help the court to pacify this place as soon as possible."

Yang Xian replied with a smile.

Ying Guangzu nodded and said: "You don't know, it's really bad that there is a demon thief queen here!"

"is it?"

Yang Xian asked after hearing this.

Ying Guangzu said: "You will know if you go and take a look. Now we, the country officials, have no say in this place. Next, if the court wants to exterminate the demons and thieves, it will have to kill all the old and young here to eliminate the demons." It’s delicious!”

(End of this chapter)