Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 16 Cautious Xu Da

"Isn't this some of the remaining stuff from before? I haven't finished it yet!"

"My mother doesn't want to have threads left."

"Let's kill our sleepiness by the way. Besides, the boss is in the mood again, and the brothers are also drinking and eating meat. I have to watch out for them if anything happens in the middle of the night."

Hua Yun, who was sitting on the beauty's back and took care of her shoes by the light of the big lantern, blinked her slightly sleepy eyes after the meal and looked into the distance.

Zhang Cheng nodded.

Hua Yun took the initiative and said at this time: "The superior exempted us from punishment because of your request, Mr. Zhang. I will remember it. If you need me in the future, Mr. Zhang, just give me your order and I owe you a favor." "

"Small things."

Zhang Cheng replied, then sat on the beauty's back and yawned.

"Mr. Zhang, please go back to sleep. We are still watching. Even if something happens, don't worry."

Hua Yun said and raised the sword beside him.

Zhang Cheng smiled and said, "I'm just sleepy after eating. It's not appropriate to go to bed now. I'll talk to you to relieve my sleepiness."

"Mr. Zhang!"

At this time, Xu Da came over. Thinking of Zhu Yuanzhang's instructions to take the lead in saluting Zhang Cheng, he took the initiative to bow to Zhang Cheng and bowed.

Zhang Cheng was so frightened that he stood up and returned the salute. Seeing that Xu Da still didn't take off his armor, he asked curiously: "Why is brother Xu Da still wearing armor so late?"

Then, Zhang Cheng discovered that Hua Yun also had armor on his outer robe.

This surprised him.

"Because we have to set up camp."

Xu Da did not hide anything from Zhang Cheng and showed his trust in Zhang Cheng. At this time, he said to Hua Yun: "Since Brother Hua Yun did not gamble and drink with the brothers, the defense of this village is left to you. I will take Tang He and Tang Shengzong to camp at Lingshan outside the stronghold, and you can ask Fei Ju, Lu Zhongheng and others to strengthen the security inside the stronghold."

After Xu Da said this, he gave his talisman to Hua Yun.

Hua Yun took it and asked, "Why do you still want to camp outside the village?"

"Don't you think this Confucian scholar today is too docile?"

Xu Da couldn't help but ask.

Huayun nodded.

"If something goes wrong, there must be a monster!"

"What's more, we must be on guard against others. In order to show their trust in these people, the superiors have to pretend to be relieved and sleep with Li Shanchang, but we cannot relax and be careful! Beware that he is so docile and has colluded. The government's Yuan army deliberately paralyzed us, and then some Yuan army suddenly appeared and destroyed us."

"These days, there are a lot of cheap people who deceive our rebels!"

"I took some brothers to Lingshan outside the city, so that I could ambush the Yuan army who might pass there in advance, and when the Yuan army appeared from other places and attacked the stronghold, we could cooperate inside and outside. When the time comes, we could use three cannon blasts as a signal. !”

Xu Da said. "Okay, don't worry, I'll go right away!"

Hua Yun said and walked towards the corridor.

Xu Da also went down the corridor, mounted his horse at the Chuihua Gate, and led a group of soldiers out of the village.

Zhang Cheng caught up with Hua Yun here and asked proactively: "Is this brother Xu Da always so polite and humble?"

"Mr. Zhang doesn't know something."

"Among the twenty-four people who follow us, Xu Da is the most sensible. Take you, Mr. Zhang, for example. Although you are kind to our superiors, you have never been very respectful to our superiors. Even if you surrender to our superiors, you have to do it every year I'll give you five hundred taels of silver. It seems that the friendship between our superior brother is not worth five hundred taels of silver?"

"Brothers always have a clear distinction between grudges and grievances. If you are kind to your superiors, you will be kind to us brothers, and we will respect you. If you want to humiliate our brothers, we can tolerate it. But if you belittle our superiors, we will naturally be dissatisfied."

"Many brothers said that you were arrogant because of this, and even wanted to teach you a lesson. Fortunately, Xu Da persuaded them, saying that no matter how you treat your superiors and brothers, you are sincere and true, and you do not use secret tricks or be greedy for money. Being lecherous or something is just a personal shortcoming, as long as we are honest with each other, we are still good brothers, after all, we are not good people."

"And since everyone wants to work together to gain wealth, we can't all be like saints."

"The brothers think it's reasonable, and since you interceded for us, the brothers really don't dislike you anymore."

"Otherwise, just like you did during the day, everyone was very restrained in order to support the superiors. They didn't dare to shout and fan themselves, but you still dared to use a fan to fan yourself, and then you became the only one in the hall except for the superiors. The only person who goes his own way is afraid that he will be beaten by the brothers tonight."

Hua Yun said, "However, although Mr. Zhang went his own way, he didn't mean to step on the brothers. He let Xu Da sit in the first seat on the left. That Feng Guoyong was so disgusting that he took the seat on the right first. He is in the top position, and he obviously wants to step on us warriors!"

"Because of this, I believe that brothers will not care about you, Mr. Zhang, so much. Xu Da is naturally willing to be more kind to you, Mr. Zhang, and will bow to you when it is time to bow."

Zhang Cheng was in trance for a long time after hearing this.

He had to admit that if he hadn't been involved, he might not have been able to know in such detail why Li Shanchang later became the first prime minister of the Ming Dynasty, and why Xu Da later became the commander-in-chief of the Northern Expedition. The Han family has not been recovered for four hundred years. The land of Youyan.

The so-called subtle knowledge makes a difference.

Not to mention Li Shanchang's exquisite appearance, Xu Da's cautiousness in military affairs and his ability to protect Zhu Yuanzhang in cleaning up the aftermath, and even Hua Yun is not really as rough as he appears.

It can be said that these people are famous in history, which can be said to be accidental, but it can also be said to be inevitable.

Zhang Cheng found that he seemed to be the only one among these people who really "made up the numbers". He relied on the ability of "hindsight" to get in among them. He also acted the most arrogant and was reluctant to join the team and made various demands. , I am still alive thanks to the tolerance of these people.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, and felt that he should be more humble and studious in the future, and should not be too arrogant just relying on his knowledge of the future.

Of course, fortunately, most Confucian scholars in this era despised Zhu Yuanzhang and other rebel figures, even more than Zhang Cheng, so Zhang Cheng showed less humility, but did not arouse the suspicion of these rebel figures, and even made them feel normal , I feel that it is very common for literati to be arrogant.

On the contrary, Li Shanchang felt that he had used excessive force in the eyes of the rebels, which made Xu Da and others have to be more careful.

However, Zhang Cheng didn't know that it was Zhu Yuanzhang who really tolerated him.

anyway.

After Zhang Cheng thought this, he smiled at Hua Yun and said, "Brother Hua Yun, please tell Xu Da and other brothers another day. I thank them for their tolerance. As long as the superiors keep using me, brothers are willing to believe me." I, I will try my best to let the superiors win the world, and I also believe that all my brothers will become either Dukes or Marquises in the future, and they will all be high officials and live a wealthy life."

Hua Yun was quite happy after hearing this, and hurriedly raised her hand to Zhang Cheng and said with a smile: "Then take Mr.'s good advice!"

(End of this chapter)