Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 118 Zhu Yuanzhang once again led the army independently, and Guo Zixing was furious

Zhu Yuanzhang and others were also very surprised. They did not expect that Hezhou City had been occupied by Zhang Tianyou, and Zhang Tianyou's army was not completely wiped out.

Not long after, Zhu Yuanzhang and others entered Hezhou City and explained their intention to Zhang Tianyou. Zhang Tianyou also told him about his capture of Hezhou.

The two of them immediately reported the latest news to Guo Zixing.

Soon, Guo Zixing learned about this and breathed a sigh of relief: "It turned out to be a false alarm."

Li Mengeng, who was still serving as a counselor next to Guo Zixing, took the opportunity to say: "Commander, although it is a false alarm, my uncle has already occupied Quanjiao, and now he has occupied the big city and state again. It may be very difficult to control the situation!"

After hearing this, Guo Zixing nodded and frowned: "Mr. Li is absolutely right, what should we do?"

"While General Manager Zhu is still in Hezhou, we should make General Manager Zhu the commander-in-chief of Hezhou to control my uncle's power, and send my uncle back to town Quanjiao as the commander-in-chief. This will allow them to check and balance each other."

Li Mengeng did not dare to offend Zhu Yuanzhang now, because Zhu Yuanzhang had a handle on him.

In fact, Li Menggeng had to change his attitude again and began to actively cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang and show his kindness to Zhu Yuanzhang in order to ask Zhu Yuanzhang not to flip the table on him.

Zhu Yuanzhang persuaded Zhang Tianyou at this time.

Therefore, Zhang Tianyou said to Zhu Yuanzhang on the spot: "Brother-in-law, why is he like this now? He was guarding you Yuanzhang in Chuzhou and not allowing you to exercise military power, and now he is guarding me. I obviously conquered Hezhou City, but he didn't Asking me to guard Hezhou is obviously because he is afraid that if I occupy the two cities of Quanjiao and Hezhou, it will affect the authority of his commander-in-chief Guo."

Zhang Tianyou said and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang: "Yuanzhang, do you think this is true?"

After Guo Zixing heard what Li Menggen said, he felt that it made sense and said, "That's it!"

You know, Hezhou is more valuable than Quanjiao.

"At the beginning, you conquered Chuzhou. When he came out of Haozhou, he came to Chuzhou instead of conquering the country by himself, forcing you to not hand over the Chuzhou that you worked so hard to conquer and manage. Now that I conquered Hezhou, he came to Chuzhou again. In this way, how could he accomplish such a great thing, and the world has not yet been conquered, and he is just trying to guard against his own people!"

But Zhang Tianyou was not as calm as Zhu Yuanzhang.

Therefore, Zhang Tianyou was naturally not very willing to give up Hezhou City.

Zhang Tianyou was quite dissatisfied with this.

Zhu Yuanzhang continued to persuade Zhang Tianyou.

Therefore, although Li Menggen still hoped to provoke infighting within Guo Zixing's group, he tried his best to make the situation favorable to Zhu Yuanzhang in the beginning.

"Uncle!"

"As you just said, we haven't conquered the world yet, so it's not a good thing to have internal discord between the emperor and his ministers at this time, and it will be easier to be eliminated by Yuan soldiers!"

Zhang Tianyou was quite disappointed by this.

Because Hezhou is the capital of Yuanting Hezhou Road.

Zhang Tianyou sat down with a face and said, "We won't give up Hezhou City anyway!"

"Since he is so afraid of others becoming big, and so distrustful of his own children, why doesn't he lead his own troops to fight!"

"My handsome father must have been instigated by the villains around him."

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Tianyou who were in Hezhou soon received Guo Zixing's order for Zhu Yuanzhang to return to Hezhou and Zhang Tianyou to Quanjiao.

"Uncle, calm down."

"No matter what the commander-in-chief says, he is our master now. We cannot disobey his orders, otherwise everyone will follow the rules and the civil strife will intensify in the entire rebel army!"

Zhang Tianyou looked a little moved after hearing this: "What you said makes some sense, but even if we are willing to take the overall situation into consideration, those brothers under us are not willing to take into account the overall situation. We are worried that they will vent their dissatisfaction on the people of Hezhou City and feel harmonious The state city won’t be garrisoned by ourselves anyway, so we might as well not be merciful and make long-term plans.”

"That's what my uncle said."

Zhu Yuanzhang replied, thought deeply, and then said:

"That's not as good as this. Uncle, you should obey the father's command and lead the troops back to Quanjiao, but you take away all the money, horses, weapons and gunpowder in Hu Yuan's treasury in Hezhou, leaving only the population and land of Hezhou. Here, I will use this as a reward to my brothers to resolve their grievances. At the same time, uncle, your hard work is not in vain. Bringing these supplies back to Quanjiao will still be helpful to you, uncle, in recruiting troops."

After hearing this, Zhang Tianyou asked: "In that case, wouldn't you just have an empty city and many mouths?"

"Don't worry, Yuan Zhang has his own way."

Zhu Yuanzhang replied.

Zhang Tianyou nodded after hearing this, and then patted Zhu Yuanzhang on the shoulder: "Then let's do it. You Yuanzhang is more concerned about the overall situation!"

then.

Zhang Tianyou took all Hezhou's money, grain and other materials and returned to Quanjiao to guard under Guo Zixing's order.

Guo Zixing was very angry when he found out about this: "This Zhang Tianyou, I am his brother-in-law, and he actually said that to me behind my back! Doesn't he even want to listen to my orders?!"

Guo Zixing said, "Yuanzhang also gave him all the money and food in Hezhou so that he could continue to recruit more soldiers. Does he regard Zhang Tianyou as his real uncle? Isn't he afraid that he can recruit more soldiers?" More soldiers?! That’s so weak, we’re so disappointed!”

As Guo Zixing spoke, he coughed violently and became a little unsteady, making his face a little pale.

Li Menggeng hurriedly advised: "Commander, please calm down. Mr. Zhu must have no choice. After all, he can't really force Uncle Zhang to leave Hezhou with swords, and he is also afraid that the officers and soldiers under Uncle Zhang will be very resentful and put this resentment to death." I have to vent my anger on the people, so I have to do this."

When Guo Zixing heard what Li Menggen said, his face returned to a trace of rosy color, and he said: "You are right, it really made things difficult for him."

"Report!"

At this time, Shao Si, a general under Guo Zixing, came to report: "Commander, the Second Young Master took advantage of A'lu, the Minister of Punishment, to leave Qinghe and go to Haining Prefecture and other places to recruit troops. He completely wiped out his division, captured A'lu, and attacked Down the Qinghe River!" Guo Zixing was not surprised after hearing this, and just stood there in silence for a long time.

After a while.

Guo Zixing suddenly looked at Li Mengeng with cold eyes: "After Mr. Zhang's sixteen-character formula was proposed, we should not stay in Chuzhou! It was you who asked us to stay in Chuzhou, saying that we should not take risks ourselves. As a result, now, not only is my brother-in-law stronger, so he is becoming dissatisfied with me, but also Tianxu has grown a lot, captured Qinghe, and pushed into the canal. Are you helping us, or are you wronging us?"

"Commander, calm down!"

Li Menggeng hurriedly knelt down and said: "Even if the commander-in-chief stays in Chuzhou, he will indeed be suspected of causing the leader of the army to become a big man, but this is worse than the commander-in-chief who has a body of ten thousand gold, personally committing danger and causing the Guo family's thousand-year achievements to be wasted. Be strong!"

"As for those who lead troops outside to become bigger, the commander-in-chief doesn't have to worry too much. He can recruit talented people from within and use strategies skillfully to check and balance each other outside!"

"This is the art that the emperor is best at!"

"The commander-in-chief will definitely be the emperor in the future. From now on, he should practice skillfully so that he can become the founding monarch who will create a foundation for eternity in the future."

Li Menggeng took the opportunity to fool Guo Zixing, hoping that Guo Zixing could follow the traditional path of an emperor.

After hearing this, Guo Zixing said: "Get up."

"Thank you, Marshal!"

Li Menggeng was overjoyed and hurriedly thanked him.

Then, Guo Zixing said: "But the wise men in the world still don't recognize me, Guo Zixing!"

"Then the commander-in-chief might as well be more sincere, and he will definitely recruit talented people from all over the world to come to Chuzhou."

Li Mengeng said.

Guo Zixing asked: "How can I be more sincere?"

"When we open the imperial examination, we express that we will share the world with the scholar-bureaucrats in the future. Therefore, we have ordered that the scholars be exempted from corvee service and have tax-free fields. In this way, the scholars around Chuzhou will be willing to serve as ministers of the general."

Li Mengeng said.

Guo Zixing nodded.

Li Menggeng said again: "But now we have to get the second young master back quickly, lest the local Confucian scholars vote for the second young master and let the second young master do the same, and let the second young master win the hearts of the scholars first and even be taught how to deal with you. What's more, at the moment, the Yuan Dynasty Alu, the Secretary of the Ministry of Punishment, was captured by him, so we must prevent him from helping the second young master achieve his great cause!"

"How to get him back?"

Guo Zixing asked.

Li Menggeng said: "Just say that you want to be emperor, and you want to make him the prince, and let him come back to receive the ceremony, so let the third son go to Sizhou to take charge of the army in his place, and let him return to Chuzhou with the captive Alu."

"What if he doesn't listen?"

Guo Zixing asked.

Li Menggeng said: "The second young master is unfilial, and the commander-in-chief can order all the generals to punish him! Especially Manager Zhu, he has always been loyal to the commander-in-chief and regards him as his own father, so he resolutely took the initiative to give in to the commander-in-chief when he was in the most difficult situation. When he leaves Chuzhou City, if the commander asks him to challenge Guo Tianxu and promises him the title of crown prince, he will definitely obey the order happily!"

After hearing this, Guo Zixing felt that it was reasonable, so he quickly ordered Guo Tianxu to come back and asked Guo Tianjue to guard Sizhou in his place.

Guo Tianxu, like Zhang Tianyou, was quite annoyed when he received this order: "How come my father is like this! I finally made some achievements here, but he let Tianjue take away my foundation. Isn't this heartbreaking?"

A Luze, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment of the Yuan Dynasty, who had been invited by Guo Tianxu as an aide, said: "But the commander-in-chief is the lord after all, and he is also the son's biological father. The son has to obey his orders, otherwise it will be difficult for him to see the world."

"But if I obey, all my efforts will be in vain, and I will gain advantage over that boy Guo Tianjue!"

Guo Tianxu said reluctantly.

Alu, who was well versed in internal fighting in the Yuan Dynasty and therefore became the Minister of the Ministry of Justice, quickly came up with countermeasures for this situation, and narrowed his eyes and said:

"There is no way to solve this problem. Young Master, you can first let trustworthy people stay in Sizhou and Qinghe. When you go back, go see your uncle first and ask him to stand up for you to prevent you from returning to Chuzhou and prevent Tianjue from coming to Sizhou. "

Guo Tianxu nodded: "Yes, now I can only rely on my uncle."

Guo Tianxu actually went to Quanjiao first and met Zhang Tianyou. Zhang Tianyou was already dissatisfied with Guo Zixing. Now that Guo Zixing wanted to alienate his son, he became even more angry and said:

"Brother-in-law is getting more and more confused now."

"Tianxu, don't go. Just stay in Quanjiao. Just say that I control you and won't let you go back!"

Zhang Tianyou said that he personally stopped Guo Tianjue on his way to Sizhou and said to Guo Tianjue: "What do you want to do? You really want to seize the city that your second brother worked so hard to build. Don't worry about others saying you are disrespectful." Brother, are you ignoring the overall situation?"

"But this is Father's order."

Guo Tianjue replied.

Zhang Tianyou said: "Just say that you are sick and you can't bear to take away your brother's inheritance, so you stay in Quanjiao for the time being."

Guo Tianjue did not dare to offend Zhang Tianyou and Guo Tianxu, so he had no choice but to obey.

Guo Zixing soon learned about this.

"What, Tianxu is controlled by Zhang Tianyou?"

"Tianjue also stayed at his place to recuperate?"

(End of this chapter)