Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 28 Zhu Yuanzhang’s Proposal Chapter
  After a long time, Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong with an incredible expression.

Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong also looked at each other.

But not for a while.

Zhu Yuanzhang blurted out "Okay".

Because no matter what, the capture of a large Zhili Prefecture-level city like Chuzhou City was a great thing for Zhu Yuanzhang who took the initiative to leave Haozhou City and look for a place to stay.

It was impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang not to be ecstatic.

After all, these days, he and his troops have been living in the open. Only recently have they been able to live better and have better food in the Li family's Dazhai, but in the end they are living under someone else's roof.

As the saying goes, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has a short mouth when eating people and a short hand when taking people, has a strong self-esteem. It is impossible for him to regard himself as a conqueror to the Li family Dazhai who actively surrendered. In many cases, he was too polite and respectful to Li Shanchang and the Li family chief.

But it's different now. With Chuzhou City, he and his troops are not dependent on others, but can collect money and food by themselves, instead of having to depend on the Li family's face for food and fodder.

Feng Guoyong was also very happy, because he knew that this meant that it would be difficult for Li Shanchang to get Zhu Yuanzhang closer to him by donating food to support the army.

For other people in Zhu Yuanzhang's army, it is also a very happy thing to have a Chuzhou city where they can settle down.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang did not want to make things difficult for the Li family, and after the army settled in the Li family's stronghold, he had higher demands on everyone in the army and stricter restraints, which made not only Zhu Yuanzhang, but everyone in the entire army have a sense of The feeling of being under someone else’s roof.

What's more, not all members of the Li family are as reasonable as Li Shanchang. Naturally, many members of the family did ridicule because the army ate the Li family's food and used the Li family's things.

As a result, the two sides had great hatred, and they relied on two people headed by Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang to suppress it, so that it did not break out.

But now that Chuzhou City was captured, the grievances between the two sides naturally had a channel to vent.

Li Shanchang was also happy, because after Chuzhou City was captured, his Li family would no longer be needed to continue blood transfusions for the army. The key was that once Chuzhou City was captured, it meant that there would be many official positions.

As a person who dreams of becoming an official, Li Shanchang persuaded his tribe to use the grain stored by his Li family for many years to supply Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers and horses free of charge. This was not really to restore peace to the world without any expectation of reward, but to give to himself and the Li family. Fight for several official positions.

After all, the Yuan Dynasty now has more and more descendants of Mongolian nobles, and has stopped imperial examinations and expansion. There are fewer and fewer official positions for Han people, especially Han people in the south. It makes it difficult for local tyrants like the Li family to have Han people pass through. To obtain an official position by being loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, and then upgrade from a local powerful to a bureaucratic family, they can only look for other opportunities.

Now that Chuzhou City has been captured, his hopes of relying on Zhu Yuanzhang to make his Li family noble are much greater. It can also be regarded that his venture capital seems to be really successful, and the voices of his own people who doubt his vision should be smaller.

Like Li Shanchang, everyone in the army led by Zhu Yuanzhang was actually happy because there would be many more official positions after the capture of Chuzhou City.

These people who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in rebellion all wanted to be officials.

Including Zhu Yuanzhang himself.

no matter what.

After Chuzhou was occupied, in the civil service, it was necessary to have a magistrate of the state, plus the official positions of tongzhi, tongpan, and push official.

Then, there may be the magistrate, county magistrate, and chief minister of Fuguo County.

In addition, among the military positions, there must be a thousand households, and there must be a few more such as Zhen Fu, Guan Gou, and Hundred Houses.

What's more, there are many official positions.

For most of the rebel brothers who were just common people in the past, a small official position was a position that was beyond their reach before, so it was enough to arouse their interest and make them excited because Chuzhou City was captured.

Moreover, even if you are not assigned an official position because of your insufficient status, you can still grab some wealth.

The huge Chuzhou City was famous as a prosperous commercial port in this area. Even if it was just to rob some goods, it would be more cost-effective than robbing the landlord Dazhai.

Therefore, these people next ignored the fact that Zhang Cheng personally beheaded Daru Hua Chima and lost his place, and could not wait to be at the gate of Chuzhou City in a moment. "Your Majesty, we should go to Chuzhou City as soon as possible. We should not take any of the jars and jars with us. After all, Chuzhou City has just been conquered, and Brother Huayun does not have many troops. If our army cannot arrive in time, there may be Yuan Ting reinforcements. Come here and make Chuzhou City gain and lose again!"

At this time, Li Shanchang immediately made a strong case against Zhu Yuanzhang.

Feng Guoyong also quickly agreed: "My subordinates agree that we should send more cavalry troops as soon as possible!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, couldn't wait to whip his horse, came over and told Xu Da: "You can control the infantry, and the rest of the horse army will follow me to Chuzhou City first!"

Xu Da said yes.

Then, Zhu Yuanzhang led all the soldiers on horseback and rode lightly to Chuzhou first.

As for the army, Xu Da also hurriedly ordered all his entourage to reduce their burdens as much as possible and rush to Chuzhou City as quickly as possible.

All the people accompanying the army were very cooperative and did not complain about being tired. Regardless of the fierceness of the June sun, they all sped up faster than usual, especially the brave soldiers who wanted to carry some old, weak, women and children on their backs, and just wanted to reach Chuzhou as soon as possible. city.

But after Zhu Yuanzhang arrived at Chuzhou City first, he found that there was a long queue under the Chuzhou City Wall. Many hungry people, naked and naked, were holding earthenware bowls and receiving porridge one by one under the guard of the rebels.

After Zhu Yuanzhang saw these hungry people, he couldn't help but think of his father, mother, brother and sister-in-law. Suddenly, his father's hungry stomach and his eager look at the grains appeared in his mind.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and did not rush into the city.

"Ascend!"

Tang He, who was looking around on the city wall, spotted Zhu Yuanzhang at this moment, so he hurriedly ran out of the city and came to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang came to his senses because of Tang He's shout. He got off his horse and asked, "Why do you think of helping these hungry people?"

"Mr. Zhang requested it."

"He said that rescuing these people means rescuing ourselves. After we capture Chuzhou City, we can't be like the bandits and think about looting and making a fortune. We want to keep the wealth of Chuzhou City and let Chuzhou City become worse in our hands. Richer, because our greatest wealth is the people of Chuzhou City, especially the people. As long as there are more people, Chuzhou City will be richer and we will have more taxes to support the army."

Tang He replied with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded repeatedly, and looked at the endless line of hungry people with a look of shame on his face and said: "Mr. Zhang has great wisdom and great benevolence. As we said, he really cares about the people, so we sent him to be your The supervisor is just afraid that you guys will do whatever you want, but now it seems that he has stopped you from killing people indiscriminately, right?"

"Just as the superior expected."

"Mr. Zhang did not disappoint you, and neither did our brothers."

"At the beginning, when the Qianhu official deliberately threw a lot of property on the ground, many of our brothers couldn't hold back and scrambled to grab it. Fortunately, Mr. Zhang asked us to stop it in time, and the brothers also Now that I understand, not only have we not killed people indiscriminately, but we have not looted, and we have not even killed the soldiers who surrendered. Many soldiers and people knelt down to welcome us and praised us for this."

Tang He replied truthfully.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang felt more and more guilty that he had only thought about coming to Chuzhou City to show off his power and prevent Chuzhou City from being lost again. He had forgotten that the people of Chuzhou, like his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law, needed protection most at this time. , and frowned in thought.

Seeing this, Tang He couldn't help but take the initiative and asked: "Sir, let's go into the city."

The officers and soldiers behind Zhu Yuanzhang all looked at him.

But Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly waved his hand and refused. He dismounted directly and told Tang He who came with him:

"Close the city gate first, and don't tell others about our arrival!"

"If we don't make an agreement with the brothers who came to Chuzhou City today, we won't enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)