Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 14 Li Shanchang chooses to be submissive
  The next day.

As soon as a red sun jumped out of the field, the army was already heading south in a mighty way.

Zhang Cheng and Feng Guoyong were still riding alongside Zhu Yuanzhang in the middle of the army.

Hua Yun, on the other hand, held an iron sword and led cavalry, riding horses on both sides of Zhu Yuanzhang. When he saw the gentle slope, he would rush up to take a look.

Xu Da led the front army, reining in the reins from time to time and looking back.

Tang He led the rear army and at the same time took care of the old, young, women and children between the rear army and the middle army.

Jiaying followed Wang and other old and weak people to sit on a donkey cart behind the Chinese army. She used her baggage as a pillow and exchanged embroidery matters with Wang. She would smile from time to time, but she would also smile after laughing. He looked up at Zhang Cheng in front of him. As soon as he raised his eyes, his eyes met with Zhang Cheng's. Then he suddenly blushed and lowered his head.

Zhang Cheng was not that sensitive to the girl's thoughts. After just one glance, he turned back and looked at the blue sky and white clouds ahead.

Under the blue sky and white clouds in front of us, there were people dying of hunger from time to time. On the cracked earth, there were also wild dogs running wild, barking and calling, causing their companions to quickly put down the carrion in their mouths and flee into the distance together.

Hua Yun couldn't help but take his bow to shoot the wild dogs, but Zhu Yuanzhang stopped him with his eyes.

Now that the army is about to receive three thousand stones of food, there is no need to hunt wild dog meat for the time being, and there is no need to waste salt for pickling wild dog meat.

Although the army will now have three thousand shi of food to deal with the consumption caused by the rest in the past few days, if it continues to rest, it will still fall into a food shortage, so Zhu Yuanzhang had to let the army continue to move south in advance.

When they arrived at Landlord Dazhai where Li Shanchang was located, because Li Shanchang chose to actively surrender, Zhu Yuanzhang's army also enjoyed the treatment of a king's division.

Zhang Cheng saw with his own eyes the scene of people eating pots of pulp, and saw many people standing beside the village road, preparing water and food.

Li Shanchang even took several elders from the village to pay homage at the entrance of the village.

Choosing to actively seek refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang was a well-thought-out decision by Li Shanchang, his tribe, and the big families in the village. It was based on the fact that the Yuan Dynasty was now more suppressive of southerners in official positions and no longer held imperial examinations for this reason, and the rebels were now more capable of breaking through. The decision was made by the landlord Dazhai.

And since such a decision has been made, squires like Li Shanchang will naturally not be picky. Not only will they donate food themselves, but they will also call on the people to donate food and soil.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng can now see that their army is very popular among the people.

Zhang Cheng noticed that the faces of Zhu Yuanzhang and others were already full of beauty. Even Hua Yun and others had much gentler eyes. They were all very civilized. They neither robbed women at sight nor snatched chickens and ducks at sight. They also gave them to the common people. At that time, he also said "I don't dare to take it", which was very polite.

Soon.

Zhu Yuanzhang even got off his horse and walked hurriedly towards Li Shanchang and others.

Zhang Cheng, who was holding a cattail leaf fan, and Feng Guoyong, who was well-dressed, also dismounted.

Seeing this, Xu Da and others from the front army also dismounted.

Immediately afterwards, Tang He and others from the rear army also dismounted.

Even Hua Yun and other cavalrymen who were standing far away dismounted.

Suddenly, everyone got off their horses and no longer had the nerve to ride on their horses.

Li Shanchang also noticed at this time that there were already scribes around Zhu Yuanzhang, and there were two of them!

As a result, there was a hint of disappointment in his eyes, and he was worried that he might have lost the opportunity to become the number one civil advisor around Zhu Yuanzhang, and his hope of becoming the number one civil adviser in the future was also reduced.

As the saying goes, it is better to have a chicken head than a phoenix tail.

Although Li Shanchang chose to be a chicken head, now that he can't be a chicken head, Li Shanchang is naturally a little disappointed.

after all. He made a lot of determination and took a lot of risks when he chose to bring investment to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang is now strictly speaking a bandit in the eyes of the world's bureaucrats and scholar-bureaucrats, and he is not very powerful among the bandits.

If he couldn't become the first civilized counselor, wouldn't he have taken such a big risk in vain?

But it is too late for Li Shanchang to regret now, and he also knows that this does not mean that he has no chance to become the first civil servant counselor. After all, there is still a long way to go in the future. He also believes that his strength is not bad. Although the starting point is not that good, but It might be impossible to catch up from behind.

Therefore, Li Shanchang quickly concealed his inner disappointment and only carefully observed the scribes around Zhu Yuanzhang.

He found that the well-dressed old scribe was obviously a little arrogant. While following his lord closely, he also glanced sideways at the armored generals who were receiving things.

But the young and white-faced scholar who was shaking the cattail fan was very calm and calm. He only stared at his fellow villagers and smiled from time to time. It seemed that the world in front of him had nothing to do with him, but a person who was detached from everything else. , only has a Bodhisattva-like heart towards the simple villagers, but does not follow his master closely.

Li Shanchang immediately understood that these two scribes were obviously not very respectful to Zhu Yuanzhang, and if he wanted to stand out, he needed to work on being respectful.

Therefore, Li Shanchang gritted his teeth decisively, knelt down at this moment, bowed his head to the ground, and kowtowed: "Shanchang leads the villagers to kowtow to the young master!"

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was walking with a smile, stopped when he saw this, stopped smiling, and froze in place.

Zhu Yuanzhang, who was only twenty-six years old at the time, was not used to the feeling of being a master in front of old Confucian scholars in his hometown, so he was surprised by this scene.

While Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, as Li Shanchang knelt down, his brothers, nephews and township party members all had to kneel down.

Even the people in the village along the road knelt down at the instruction of their old man.

After all, Li Shanchang, a highly respected person in Dazhai, knelt down.

This made Zhu Yuanzhang, who was already delighted by the sight of Tano eating a pot of pulp, even more overwhelmed. He looked back at his horse, seeming to regret dismounting, and then he helped Li Shanchang up with a forced smile.

Many of the soldiers who were already happy about getting a lot of chickens and ducks soon came to their senses, laughed even more happily, and began to straighten their chests.

Zhang Chengze couldn't help but sigh at this moment: "Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang had already dismounted and planned to get along with the soldiers and the people on an equal footing. However, Li Shanchang took the initiative to kneel down again and asked the people to kneel down as well. This time, it was unavoidable. The feeling of being superior to others, indeed in this era, some people will take the initiative to make themselves inferior."

"Why do you need to do this if you are good at it? Let the villagers get up."

Zhu Yuanzhang also said this when he helped Li Shanchang up. Although he meant to blame, his eyes were full of joy.

"Thank you, sir."

Li Shanchang replied, waved his hand to make the villagers stand up, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Nowadays, there are constant wars and wars, and the villagers are all worried. I have heard for a long time that the master is good at running the army and loves the people like a son, so I I have long expected the young master’s army to come to quell the war, just like waiting for the sweet rain, and now I kneel down to welcome the young master, which is also the result of love.”

"How virtuous and capable is Yuan Zhang?"

Zhu Yuanzhang replied, took Li Shanchang's hand, and was led by Li Shanchang into the Li family's stronghold, and then entered the Li family hall, where he and Li Shanchang sat down equally as guests and hosts.

Zhang Chenghe also followed Zhu Yuanzhang in, and when Zhu Yuanzhang introduced everyone to Li Shanchang, he greeted Li Shanchang. Li Shanchang also praised Zhang Cheng humbly, saying that he was so talented at such a young age. If Zhang Cheng hadn't known what he relied on to become Zhu Yuanzhang's adviser, he would have become arrogant because of it.

For example, Feng Guoyong was already a little in a mood at this time. After Zhu Yuanzhang introduced him and was praised sweetly by Li Shanchang, he actually took the first seat on the right in front of Xu Da.

From this period until the early Ming Dynasty, the right was respected.

Therefore, the first seat on the right naturally has a different meaning.

Hua Yun and Tang He both glared at Feng Guoyong fiercely.

(End of this chapter)