Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 141 Zhu Yuanzhang held a military parade and set up an anti-traitor team
After Li Menggen came to his senses, he hurriedly endured the pain and knelt down: "Prime Minister, spare your life, I don't dare to do it anymore!"

"With our temper, I really want to chop you down!"

"But the book Mr. Zhang gave us makes us understand that even if I chop you, let alone chop you, it will be useless!"

"So, take him back and send him to Gongdeyuan for the crime of plotting to frame others, and ask our brother-in-law to let him reflect and reform!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he ordered his treatment of Li Menggen.

"The Garden of Merit?"

Li Menggeng had heard about the Gongde Garden several times recently, and also knew that Alu, the Minister of the Ministry of Punishment of the Yuan Dynasty, and several Jin gentry who violated the foot-binding order went to the Gongde Garden.

But Li Menggeng didn't know why Zhu Yuanzhang didn't kill him now, but arranged for him to be sent to Gongde Garden just like those others.

Although Li Menggeng understood, he still thanked him and said, "Thank you, Prime Minister, for not killing me. Please rest assured, Prime Minister. I will reflect on my humble position and reform myself."

After Li Mengeng left, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at the green patches outside the city and began to think seriously.

Feng Guoyong cursed because of this.

"What are you doing?!"

Zhang Cheng replied.

Zhu Yuanzhang then waved and spoke.

"It's not just because I'm afraid of hardship, it's because I have a way out, so I don't have to be the emperor, but you have no way out when you get the upper hand."

Zhang Cheng asked at this time.

"Stop talking about this."

Feng Guoyong set out for Chaohu the day after he took the initiative to ask Ying to go to Chaohu Navy.

"What is the superior thinking?"

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while, then put his hands on his hips and sighed:
"Yeah, we have no way out!"

Zhang Cheng came to Hezhou City at this time and came to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Let’s talk.

"You are bandits, a group of bandits!"

"Does the superior really intend to seek global unity in the future?"

"I don't know what will happen to Feng Guoyong now, but our troops and horses have been deployed in various waterways of Chaohu Lake. Now we are waiting for Li Pusheng and Yu Tonghai to express their stance."

"Brother Guoyong, don't use such harsh words."

Even after Feng Guoyong was imprisoned for several days, he was still scolding these people.

"It's our common ideal."

Zhang Cheng nodded when he heard what Zhu Yuanzhang said, knowing that it was probably because of his influence that Feng Guoyong had his own troops that the Chaohu Navy had other thoughts:
"The superior is right! From this point of view, we can only show our fists to the Chaohu navy first."

Zhang Cheng frowned and said, "I didn't expect there was still no news about the Chaohu Naval Forces."

"Mr. Zhang, although you are different from them, you don't look down on us reckless people."

When Zhu Yuanzhang asked Zhang Cheng, he smiled and said: "We are thinking that Wen Zheng does not follow the rules in his military use and is quite good at strategizing. It would be better to place him on that continent in the future."

Zhu Yuanzhang said solemnly.

"Bandits!"

"However, don't underestimate the badness of people like us. Sometimes, those of us who are reckless are not any better than you scholars. Especially those who raise armies, many of them can be very bad, and the badness is very direct."

Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly said seriously: "Isn't this a common ideal between you and me? Only in this way can we avoid the endless poisonous tricks of fooling the people, and can we avoid that in the end, our Zhu family will also go down the path of not being able to trust relatives at home, but only daring to trust outsiders. The situation?"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Is this how your Chaohu naval forces treat envoys?!"

"I'm afraid!"

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "We didn't force you, Mr. Zhang, to endure hardship. However, just because you were afraid of hardship, you must have never thought about conquering the country and becoming the emperor yourself."

"You are simply bandits!"

"Maybe they saw that Feng Guoyong also had his own troops, and wanted to unite with Feng Guoyong to annex Zhu Yuanzhang with fire."

But as soon as Feng Guoyong arrived at the Chaohu Navy camp, he was locked in a small dark room by Li Pusheng's people before he saw Li Pusheng.

Zhang Cheng replied truthfully with a smile.

"For example, there is a hero named Liu Ju who is still burning, killing and looting in this area. He commits all kinds of evil and has no intention of building a city. He is even more hateful than Yuan soldiers."

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "We are not afraid of hardship!"

"But the road is not easy to walk, it will be very hard."

"And these Chaohu naval forces must be the same. They are not much better. They may plan to eat us because they see that Feng Guoyong has some troops."

Zhang Cheng smiled.

……

"That's right! It still depends on who has the harder fist!"

"If we really were bandits, you wouldn't be alive today."

One night, an unknown number of days after Feng Guoyong was imprisoned, Li Pusheng came to see him.

Along with Li Pusheng, in addition to his old troops, was Ren Zhigong, who had recently brought troops to surrender.

Saying.

After Ren Zhigong became a bandit, he originally wanted to join Yuan Ting again, but at present, Yuan Ting's attitude towards recruiting security was not relaxed enough to be willing to recruit a small-scale armed force like him.

The local Yuan Ting bureaucracy still focused on annihilating small-scale armed forces like him.

Therefore, Ren Zhigong simply joined Li Pusheng's Chaohu naval force, which was stronger than himself.

Feng Guoyong also recognized Ren Zhigong at this time.

But Feng Guoyong didn't say much, he just snorted to Li Pusheng:
"Is this how a general should treat an envoy?"

"How offending!"

"This is not because I am afraid that the guild will have to do this because it is unwilling to annex Zhu Yuanzhang with me."

Li Pusheng smiled.

Feng Guoyong said: "What do you mean?"

"Isn't it obvious?"

"The public has his own soldiers and horses, and we also have our own soldiers and horses. We can just annex Zhu Yuanzhang's Hezhou City together. Why should we sacrifice our lives for him, Zhu Yuanzhang?"

Ren Zhigong said.

Feng Guoyong chuckled: "Ren Zhigong, are you afraid that you will be retaliated by our superiors after following General Li and joining us?"

Ren Zhigong's face darkened: "Of course there are reasons for this, but Zhu Yuanzhang's rule is too strict. Women are not allowed to be robbed, and money is not allowed to be collected. He even has to take care of his wife, and he has to pay more than half of the tax when he visits a brothel. We only treat the common people as human beings, why do we set up Datong Society? We are forced to seek wealth and honor for those common people. We raise the army just to live happily for the sake of the mother. Who the hell wants to be detained like this? , we still have to deal with those high-sounding things!”

"Brother Ren is right!"

"What kind of thing is he, Zhu Yuanzhang? He is just like me, he came from a family background. Why should I vote for him and let him control everything?"

"What's more, brother Guoyong, now that your Feng family also has your own troops, why don't we annex him Zhu Yuanzhang together, and let your brother Feng Sheng lead your troops as an internal response. We should cooperate internally and externally, capture Hezhou first, and kill him Zhu Yuanzhang , and then force people like Guo Tianxu, Zhang Tianyou, and Li Shanchang to join us, then we will become bigger and stronger and seize the throne of the Hu Emperor, and you and I will share the world!"

Li Pusheng agreed with Ren Zhigong and continued to persuade Feng Guoyong.

Feng Guoyong laughed again: "If I really wanted to betray the superior, I would have done so long ago. Why wait until now? Therefore, you should give up on this idea."

"Then we can only continue to wrong our brothers Guoyong for the time being."

Li Pusheng said, turned around and walked out, and ordered:

"Starting today, stop eating his food until he agrees!"

After Li Pusheng finished his instructions, he looked back at Feng Guoyong and asked, "Brother Guoyong must have never been hungry. You don't know what it feels like to be hungry?"

After Li Pusheng said that, he smiled and left.

Ren Zhigong also smiled coldly and left.

When Feng Guoyong saw this, he yelled: "Despicable! You are really despicable!"

But who knows how many days have passed.

Feng Guoyong did not respond.

then.

On this day, Li Pusheng had to come to see Feng Guoyong again and said:

"Guoyong brothers are really unwilling to vote for us?"

Feng Guoyong smiled slightly and said feebly: "Are you worthy?"

Li Pusheng's face darkened after hearing this.

Ren Zhigong couldn't help but said: "General, why not kill him, and then we persuade General Yu and the others to go to Tianwan together?"

Bang!
But that's it.

There was a lot of gunfire outside.

Li Pusheng was shocked: "What is the sound?"

Not long after.

Zhao Pusheng, who was close to Li Pusheng, came over and said: "It was Zhu Yuanzhang's navy who fired guns outside my Hanshan County. The entire lake was full of his infantry and cavalry, all wearing armor! My Hanshan County has been breached!" But they said it was a military exercise, only destroying the city, not killing people, so let us make a decision quickly!"

After hearing this, Li Pusheng felt nervous and said hurriedly: "Let's go and have a look!"

So, Li Pusheng and Zhao Pusheng took a boat to Hanshan County.

Suddenly.

They saw that the entire lakeside was full of Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers and horses.

Firearms and armor are densely arranged like a wall, swords and spears are like a forest, and flags are like clouds. There is also a sailing warship equipped with a large gun muzzle thicker than a human head, and the gun muzzle is also the muzzle of the cannon. It is firing at the grass-made empty water fort on the water bank. The cannonballs go over one after another and directly hit the water fort. Sawdust flew everywhere.

Simultaneously.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng also rode a black horse and a white horse respectively. They galloped in front of the assembled soldiers and horses and shouted loudly:

"Cross the river!"

"Cross the river!"

"Cross the river!"

The whole army responded loudly.

On land and on board ships, there were war drums and sounds like thunder.

Li Pusheng opened his mouth wide when he saw this.

"Now it seems that they are indeed quite powerful, and we can only talk to them."

Zhao Pusheng said at this time.

Li Pusheng also nodded.

But Ren Zhigong said at this time: "General, even if we want to talk, we can only let him, Zhu Yuanzhang, come to our ship to talk, lest he, Zhu Yuanzhang, directly put several generals under house arrest and force them to surrender!"

"We should also ask Zhang Cheng to come with him, because Zhang Cheng has now been ordered by Guo Zixing, and his prestige among the rebel generals in Chuzhou is no less than that of Zhu Yuanzhang. We must be careful to prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from taking the lead and saying that Zhu Yuanzhang was killed by us. Let the armies merge with us so that he can become king!"

"You are absolutely right."

Li Pusheng therefore sent people to contact Zhu Yuanzhang.

……

"Let's go to your ship to talk?"

Zhu Yuanzhang received the letter soon after and asked about Li Guocheng.

Li Guocheng smiled and said, "Why, don't you dare to go?"

"Why don't you dare to go!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said: "But Mr. Zhang can't go, he has to stay."

"Our general wants Mr. Zhang to go!"

Li Guocheng replied.

Zhang Cheng also came over at this time: "Come on, I'll follow you! I have tens of thousands of brothers here, so what are you afraid of!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang thought for a while, he nodded and said: "That's good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng came to Li Pusheng's boat.

The reason why Zhang Cheng dared to come was not only because he had tens of thousands of troops outside, but also because he could leave at any time.

But in the eyes of Zhu Yuanzhang, Guo Tianxu, Zhang Tianyou and others, Zhang Cheng is indeed very courageous.

After Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang arrived on Li Pusheng's ship, Li Pusheng had already released Feng Guoyong, and also called Yu Tingyu and his son, Liao Yong'an brothers, Sang Shijie and other important generals of the Chaohu Navy on board the ship.

Naturally, Zhao Pusheng and Ren Zhigong are also here.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw Ren Zhigong as soon as he arrived on the ship, and his expression suddenly changed and asked: "Why are you here?"

"He is now my general, Prime Minister Zhu. I know there are disputes between you, but that is all in the past. I hope that for my sake, don't worry about it anymore."

Li Pusheng spoke at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang directly sat in the first place and said:

"Face is not given by others, you have to earn it yourself."

Li Pusheng also looked serious after hearing this: "Prime Minister, what do you mean?"

"The general asked us to give you some face, so let's ask the general to give us some face first."

Zhu Yuanzhang said calmly at this time.

Li Pusheng asked: "What kind of face?"

"Kill him! Think of it as a vote for Chuzhou Xingzhong Secretary."

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Ren Zhigong.

"Yes, all generals should submit a certificate of surrender. Otherwise, how can we convince the tens of thousands of our brothers outside that you are sincerely loyal?"

Zhang Cheng said.

Snapped!
At this time, Li Pusheng slapped the table, stood up, and looked at Zhang Cheng:

"If you want me to accept the certificate of surrender, don't be afraid. I will chop you with a knife first?"

"Then the general isn't afraid that our cannon will bomb your ship?"

Zhang Cheng asked with a faint smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang also said: "Yes, why do you have to force two families to fight and lose each other's brothers for a villain?"

After hearing this, Yu Tingyu looked at Li Pusheng: "They are right. Compared with losing one's own brother, killing this person is nothing. He is an outsider anyway!"

Li Pusheng also hesitated at this time.

"Zhu Yuanzhang!"

When Ren Zhigong saw this, he directly raised his finger and pointed at Zhu Yuanzhang and shouted loudly:
"If you hadn't used despicable means to ruin my family, would I need to target you?!"

"If you hadn't repeatedly tempted the commander into doing mean and unkind things, would I have been forced to vote for Hu Yuan?!"

Ren Zhigong then walked up to Zhang Cheng and pointed at Zhang Cheng:

"And you, Mr. Zhang, you are half responsible for making Zhu Yuanzhang what he is now! You are the real insidious villain, and you will not stop until you disturb the world!"

"In that case, why don't you continue to vote for your court, Hu Yuan, and pacify us for your court? Why bother pretending to be aggrieved here?"

"Not only does your master Hu Yuan dislike you, but he still doesn't want you, right?"

Zhang Cheng stood up and asked with a smile.

Ren Zhigong was so angry that he suddenly pointed at Zhang Cheng and roared: "Shut up! You son of a bitch, you are a self-indulgent son of a bitch, you have to work with Zhu Yuanzhang, a beggar!"

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and asked coldly: "Do you accept it or not?!"

"General Lee!"

"Thank you for taking me in."

"You want to vote for Zhu Yuanzhang. I can't stop you, but please let me go. Otherwise, I will have to fight with you first."

Ren Zhigong shouted: "Li Guocheng!"

At this time.

Li Guocheng stood up, raised his hands to Ren Zhigong and said, "Yue Weng!"

"Prepare the boat, let's go!"

Ren Zhigong said and left the cabin first.

Li Guocheng also said yes.

Seeing this, Li Pusheng walked up to Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Prime Minister Zhu, you can ask us to surrender to you, but we cannot accept this declaration of surrender! And, for my sake, please let him go! Otherwise, we will have no choice but to If you fight to the death, the only thing that will be delayed is your Prime Minister Zhu’s great project of crossing the river, and the only ones that will be cheaper are Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou. As for your Prime Minister Zhu’s face, just treat it as a debt and we will pay it back to you in the future.”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng with a livid face at this time.

Zhang Cheng suppressed his anger and only looked at Ren Zhigong's back. He was yelled at in vain. If he was not on Li Pusheng's territory now, he really wanted to kill Ren Zhigong on the spot.

"it is good!"

"General Lee is a hero of the world."

"We'll give you this face!"

"But today Ren Zhigong was disrespectful to our rebel Pingzhang and our husband. We have to avenge him!"

"Therefore, the general should not hold any grudges against him if he does any good or bad things in the future."

Zhu Yuanzhang finally agreed to Li Pusheng.

Li Pusheng said: "Of course!"

"Then please come ashore with us to discuss the reorganization."

Zhang Cheng also came back to his senses and said something.

Li Pusheng and others all replied: "Okay!"

Therefore, the generals of the Chaohu navy went ashore together with Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng, came to Zhu Yuanzhang's Chinese army camp, and accepted Zhu Yuanzhang's reorganization.

Li Pusheng, Zhao Pusheng, Yu Tingyu, Liao Yongan, and Sang Shijie were all appointed commander-in-chief of the Fifth Route Navy, responsible for transporting the army across the river.

To show their trust, the Chinese army led by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng chose to board Liao Yong'an's ship.

After boarding the ship, Zhu Yuanzhang came to Zhang Cheng and said: "If a villain like Ren Zhigong escapes, he will be in serious trouble, especially if he really invests in Yuan, it will not be a good thing. After all, this person knows many secrets of Chuzhou." pungent!"

"I know, otherwise, the higher-ups wouldn't be on the ship and would force Li Pusheng to kill him first!"

"Unexpectedly, this person had a premeditated plan. He secretly colluded with Li Pusheng's generals, made Li Guocheng his son-in-law, and made Li Pusheng a rat-proof weapon."

Zhang Cheng then said.

He had to admit that when he came to this chaotic world at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, his experience was still different from the game. After meeting disgusting people, he felt more emotionally angry.

to this end.

Zhang Cheng suddenly looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"In this case, regardless of whether Ren Zhigong will take the opportunity to directly take a boat to join Hu Yuan, we should select smart and good fighters from our officers and soldiers from all over the Datong Society to form an anti-traitor team! Let the anti-traitor team cross the river in disguise in advance and use it in advance Use various means to get rid of some traitors who will only be more destructive if you keep them!"

"That's right!"

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately nodded: "The first person to be removed is the traitor Ren Zhigong!"

(End of this chapter)