Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 20 Li Shanchang’s kneeling admonishment
  "You can't get on top!"

Li Shanchang knelt down at this time, determined to plead for Zhang Cheng, and immediately shouted, and said with great emotion:
  "Mr. Zhang is a young master after all. He is kind to his superiors, not to mention he is indeed talented!"

"Killing him now will only make those around him uneasy!"

Feng Guoyong continued: "The superior, Zhang Cheng, can't do it without killing him, otherwise it will only damage the majesty of the superior, and the ethics will be greatly damaged in the future, because there has never been such a rebellious person since ancient times!"

"All right!"

"He actually has a point!"

"We have no reason to kill him."

"He is not considered a criminal, because from the beginning, we have admitted that he is fighting with us as a brother and friend, not as our domestic slave!"

"So, what Feng Guoyong said just now was obviously wrong."

"If we kill him for this, we will lose our friendship, lose our credibility, and lose our trust. How can we establish our authority?"

"How can we chill the hearts of all the brothers by killing him? I'm afraid you won't dare to regard us as friends. As Shan Chang said, the brothers will also be uneasy."

"He is actually right. We are only qualified to persuade him, not to demand him. Whether we listen or not is up to him."

Zhu Yuanzhang sat down at this time, and then laughed a little frustratedly, watching Feng Guoyong and Li Shanchang talking a lot.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not so much saying these words to Feng Guoyong and Li Shanchang as he was saying to himself, persuading himself to look at Zhang Cheng's behavior rationally.

"Since he doesn't want to be a gentleman and is only willing to be a person who is sometimes noble and sometimes mediocre, then we can only accept it!"

In order to calm down my anger and return myself to rationality more completely.

Zhu Yuanzhang even continued talking and asked Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong to intercede for Zhang Cheng:

"You two are older than him and have a higher consciousness than him. Please be more tolerant and tolerant of him in the future. As long as he does not break the rules and what he does is conducive to ending the troubled times and restoring peace to the world, please try to tolerate him. Him, civilize him.”

"The same goes for us. If we are so angry that we forget to tolerate it, you must remember to remind us!"

Zhu Yuanzhang continued.

"But if you want to achieve great things when you are in a superior position, you must have respect and inferiority. Brotherhood is not enough. You should talk about the order of superiors and subordinates."

"We are all willing to treat the superiors as masters. Even if the superiors make me wait for death, we will never complain, because we believe that the superiors are the ones destined by fate and can bring peace to the world. If the superiors want me to wait for death, it must be for the sake of the world."

"But Zhang Cheng has no such awareness. The world is nothing in his eyes, and even the superiors are not considered in his eyes. If he doesn't bow his head, others may imitate him and have no respect for the superiors. How can this be done? Give orders to the three armies!"

Feng Guoyong said.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Feng Guoyong: "But he does not have any bad rules, and he still abides by them."

"On the job, if he disobeys orders, we will kill him without hesitation, but outside of the job, we must treat him as a brother."

"In short, steel swords are steel swords, brothers are brothers, not only for him, but also for you two and other brothers, we all think the same way!"

Feng Guoyong was startled after hearing this, and then he had to hand it over and say yes.

Li Shanchang was slightly startled here, and then he bowed to the ground: "The superior is wise, and the subordinates recognize the superior, it is a blessing in life!"

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly helped Li Shanchang up: "A good leader doesn't have to give advice with great courtesy so often. We are not the kind of stupid people who have to bend our knees like this before we are willing to listen."

"What the superior said is that when I see the superior, I can't help but treat him with great courtesy."

Li Shanchang smiled and replied:

"As the superior said, Mr. Zhang is relatively young, so it is inevitable that he will be a little unruly." "The sage said that the goodness of human nature is like the water that flows down. There is no evil in people, and there is nothing in the water that does not flow. "

"Mr. Zhang may be willing to be a gentleman in his heart, but he is overshadowed by the desires of those who like leisure and hate work, and does not know the benefits of being a gentleman."

"As long as he is guided as the superiors say and we lead by example, he will know the joy of being a gentleman."

Zhu Yuanzhang cast an admiring look at Li Shanchang and nodded: "As Shanchang said, human nature is good. Although Mr. Zhang is arrogant, his nature is not bad. He must be allowed to see that being a gentleman is actually more conducive to ending troubled times. , which is conducive to making the people peaceful. He actually hopes that the people will be well, and they will naturally be transformed by the time."

"People have the heart to empathize with others when they see good people. The key is that we must see the benefits of a true gentleman from Mr. Zhang."

Li Shanchang continued.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

Feng Guoyong looked at Li Shanchang here, feeling confused and angry.

But he couldn't say anything. After leaving Zhu Yuanzhang's place, he came to Zhang Cheng with a lantern.

After Zhang Cheng left here, he returned to his house.

"gentlemen!"

When Jiaying heard the hurried footsteps, she opened the door first, called out with a smile, and was about to bring a bowl of magnolia jelly. She expected to get Zhang Cheng's praise, but she saw Zhang Cheng's serious face. , he hurriedly stopped his smile and put the magnolia jelly on the wooden table aside. Without daring to say anything, he only carefully stood it under the eaves of the corridor, with his hands folded on his waist, and a pair of beautiful big eyes. She peeked at Zhang Cheng, waiting for him to transfer his bad emotions to himself, such as blaming himself for not taking good care of the newly cultivated tomatoes.

But Zhang Cheng didn't say anything. He just went inside the house and spread out the paper.

With sharp eyes, Jiaying stepped in quickly and began to study the ink.

When Zhang Cheng started to dip his pen into ink, he saw that a pool of dark color had gathered on the slightly concave inkstone. He hurriedly said thank you and began to write furiously.

Zhang Cheng was going to write a letter to Zhu Wenzheng and Hua Yun, people with whom he had gotten along well these days.

Because Zhang Cheng knew that he had confronted Zhu Yuanzhang who dared to kill people today, he was determined to leave.

And before he left, he wanted to remind people like Zhu Wenzheng and Hua Yun, for example, let Zhu Wenzheng show off his talents, learn to be forbearing, and believe that his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang would conquer the world, and as long as he persisted, no matter how low his merits were, he would win the world. Even though he is a nephew, he cannot escape his status as a hereditary prince.

Zhang Cheng also plans to remind Hua Yun to be careful when keeping peace.

But Zhang Cheng thought about it and decided to write a letter to Zhu Yuanzhang, reminding him not to be too self-righteous and think that if he kills all the people who threaten his Zhu family, his Zhu family will really be safe. The emperor will still be forced to hang by the powerful bureaucrats, and the Han family will still be occupied by the surrounding ethnic groups. His Zhu family will either be cooked, or even if he is over seventy years old, he will be punished. Even his fantasy of using vassals to guard the border , the model of benevolent emperor at the center will also be destroyed three months after his death. In the end, the person who won the world was not the benevolent and sage emperor he expected, but the prince Zhu Di who was most like him.

of course.

Zhang Cheng reminded Zhu Yuanzhang not for his Zhu family, but for the entire Han family.

But before Zhang Cheng started writing, and while he was still contemplating the words in his mind, Feng Guoyong's voice came from outside: "Is Mr. Zhang here?"

Zhang Cheng was stunned.

He did not expect that the person who came to him was not a warrior wearing armor and holding a sword, but Feng Guoyong.

This allowed Zhang Cheng to be sure that Zhu Yuanzhang had no intention of executing him for this.

Zhang Cheng was quite surprised, thinking to himself that this was different from the legendary Zhu Yuanzhang who was cruel and easy to kill, or was his impression of Zhu Yuanzhang based on his historical notes not completely accurate?

In any case, because Zhu Yuanzhang didn't seem to be planning to kill him, Zhang Cheng stopped rushing to write the letter and just got up and walked out of the house and opened the door.

"What are you doing here? Don't you want him to kill me immediately?"

(End of this chapter)