Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 49 Zhang Cheng: Did I ask Zhu Yuanzhang to brake again?

Under the long summer night sky, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was soaked through his clothes, did not answer Zhang Cheng.

He just continued to wield the hoe and dig into the ground.

as if.

He just wants to be a farmer in a peaceful world. Even if he keeps digging and weeding every day, he feels more at ease than having to face various choices in this troubled world.

Zhu Yuanzhang was actually a farmer.

A farmer who grew up in the countryside and has never been anywhere.

If there was no chaos in the world, he might never leave the world within a hundred miles in his life, just like a frog who grew up in a well.

In this case, he will be a farmer all his life, and he will be Zhu Chongba, who only knows how to farm. He will never know what it means to make a living for the people, nor how rich the powerful bureaucrats are. Even the good deeds of small and middle-level landlords in the village will make him feel... Warmth, I feel that the rich know etiquette and kindness, and I feel that the world is very beautiful.

But unfortunately, Zhu Yuanzhang encountered an era of natural and man-made disasters, and was forced to climb to the mouth of the well. He became the adopted son of the rebel leader Guo Zixing and the general manager of the rebel army. He then saw the outside world and more evils of human nature.

Simultaneously.

His childhood was also overshadowed by the advent of troubled times, and he experienced many tragic things that people in peaceful times may never encounter in several lifetimes.

As the saying goes, childhood trauma takes the rest of your life to repair.

As a flesh-and-blood person, Zhu Yuanzhang is not exempt from vulgarity. Naturally, he instinctively wants all the powerful officials and gentry who only know how to make money and would rather let the food rot than save the people to be executed, and then feel the same feeling as he did back then. pain.

But Zhang Cheng doesn't let him do this now and wants him to be rational. This is undoubtedly making him fight against his emotional instinct.

Therefore, it was not easy for Zhu Yuanzhang to be rational immediately.

What's more, he is still at a young age.

of course.

As mentioned before, what Zhu Yuanzhang hates now is not Zhang Cheng, but the class of powerful officials and gentry. His anger with Zhang Cheng is just a struggle between his inner sensibility and rationality, and he has actually recognized Zhang Cheng intellectually. It was right, so he did not continue to refute Zhang Cheng, and just continued to dig up the ground at this time.

Like many people, when they are frustrated, they just need to return to their most comfortable environment and state.

Zhu Yuanzhang's most comfortable state is to turn himself into a farmer, thinking and talking about nothing, just farming.

Zhang Cheng also found that he seemed to have been discouraging Zhu Yuanzhang from sympathizing with and being tolerant of the landlord class, and was telling Zhu Yuanzhang to brake and go to the right.

Zhang Cheng also didn't expect that after following Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country, he would turn into a character who always put the brakes on Zhu Yuanzhang's uprising.

Because he knew that as an ordinary young man from the bottom of the future, he was also very radical. He could not understand everything, wished he could change everything, and despised everything.

However, due to his familiarity with history and his exposure to more information sources in later generations, his cognition is indeed richer than that of Zhu Yuanzhang, which makes him actually play a role in helping powerful bureaucrats. role, and did not hesitate to argue with Zhu Yuanzhang for these powerful bureaucrats.

Therefore, it is no wonder that Zhu Yuanzhang, who is still a general of the Peasant Rebel Army, began to criticize himself and question his position.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but smile bitterly, then turned around and looked at the sky without saying anything.

In the long sky under the Milky Way, the evening breeze blows and everything is silent.

The two of them were silent and looked at each other secretly.

"Your Majesty! A group of officials and gentry from Chuzhou have come to pay their respects. They say they want to see you for the sake of peace in the world."

At this time, Lu Zhongheng, who was on duty at the General Manager's Mansion, came over, broke the silence, and said something to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped the hoe in his hand and became confused.

Zhang Cheng also turned around and glanced at Zhu Yuanzhang. Seeing that he was silent, he took the initiative to ask for instructions: "How about I go to see them first? You can wash up and have a rest first. I will see them tomorrow. No matter whether you continue Whether you want to confiscate your home, you should do it as I suggested. There is a system to confiscate your home, it all depends on you, after all, you are the one in charge!"

Zhu Yuanzhang rarely responded to Zhang Cheng this time and nodded.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng left Zhu Yuanzhang's place and asked Lu Zhongheng to tell these people first and ask them to come to Zhizhou Yamen to see him tomorrow morning.

When Zhang Cheng left, Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Zhang Cheng's back and opened his mouth to stop Zhang Cheng from saying something, but in the end he didn't say anything.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little worried that a true gentleman like Zhang Cheng, who had the same ambitions as himself, would be disappointed in himself, a ruler of commoner origin, because of his wayward unwillingness to compromise with the officials and gentry. As a result, he would not only be unable to realize his ambitions, but also be unable to realize his ambitions. Losing talents like Zhang Cheng.

At least in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, Zhang Cheng was a true gentleman. Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang opened his mouth to explain, explaining that he had actually been persuaded by Zhang Cheng and was willing to stop the confiscation of his house.

But in the end, Zhu Yuanzhang still found it difficult to admit it directly, because he still felt that by doing so, he would be sorry for his parents, brothers and sisters-in-law who starved to death, and for the villagers he had seen with his own eyes who begged the government and gentry for help but eventually died of starvation and illness. civil.

Zhu Yuanzhang could only glance at Zhang Cheng's back, and then followed Zhang Cheng's instructions in action. He did not dig any more, but returned to the house. After resting for a while, he took a shower with cold water, and then ordered his soldiers After remembering to wake him up early tomorrow, he fell asleep in a haze.

The next day.

The sky is clear and the sky is blue and clear.

Zhang Cheng, who had caught up on some sleep, hurriedly washed up and went to the front hall of the Zhizhou Yamen, where he met the officials and gentry of Chuzhou City who took the initiative to meet the leaders of the rebel army.

Zhang Cheng knew that these officials and gentry suddenly came to see him en masse. It must have been that the house search was excessively carried out last night, which caused too much noise and frightened them, so he took the initiative to come to see Zhu Yuanzhang, hoping to dissuade Zhu Yuanzhang, or to test Zhu Yuanzhang. true attitude.

"Let all the wise men wait."

"The city of Chuzhou has just been recaptured from the Tatars by our rebel army. It can be said that everything is waiting for things to happen. Therefore, I haven't had time to invite all the gentry and wise men to come to see me. Instead, after asking the people's sentiments carefully, I asked you to come to see me on your own initiative."

"There is something rude about this, but I hope Haihan will do it."

In order to reassure the Han officials and gentry who were willing to take the initiative to meet with his rebels, Zhang Cheng forced himself to speak to these people in a friendly manner and even expressed a slight apology.

After Zhang Cheng said this, these Han officials and gentry were indeed much more relieved. Although they even said "dare not", their expressions were indeed much calmer. There were even young Confucian scholars who could only stand outside and whispered to each other. stand up.

"This Zhang Zhizhou is a courteous and virtuous corporal. It seems that he is not going to confiscate our home."

"Yes, after Chuzhou City was captured that day, it was Zhang Zhizhou who ordered not to plunder and even to help the hungry people. He should be a benevolent Lord. If he is willing to see us today, he must not have any intention to fight with us. The meaning of the enemy."

"Maybe the ransacking of the house yesterday was not his intention, but in any case, it is always a good thing to have a leader who is willing to be benevolent. I just don't know what Manager Zhu's attitude is."

While the young Confucian scholars outside the hall were muttering in low voices, officials and gentry Ren Qiande and others also began to dare not express their gratitude.

Zhang Cheng then smiled and said: "Please sit down first!"

These people also sat down with endless gratitude.

As soon as Ren Qiande sat down, he asked, "When will General Zhu be willing to see us?"

"Our superiors are still busy, please don't be impatient and please forgive me. If you have anything, you can tell me first."

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

in fact.

Zhu Yuanzhang had already appeared at this time, but he didn't show up. Instead, he hid inside and peeked at these people.

Moreover, when Zhu Yuanzhang saw Zhang Cheng looking polite and courteous to these people and taking the initiative to apologize, he straightened his face and said to himself: "This Zhang Cheng is really the same as them. He is more polite than a commoner like me." More than that, luckily we are still his employer and have spent money on him."

At this time.

Since Zhang Cheng, the magistrate, did not have any servants around him, Zhu Wenzheng temporarily acted as a tea boy and served tea to these people.

And Zhu Wenzheng, like Zhu Yuanzhang, glanced at these officials and gentry with a gloomy face. When serving tea to these people, his eyes were full of displeasure. Especially when he saw Zhang Cheng being so polite to these people, he felt even more unhappy.

Zhu Yuanzhang also saw Zhu Wen was serving tea, and he felt increasingly unhappy: "Do we, the Zhu family, deserve to serve these people tea and water?!"

"In this case, we want to say that the public should ask the soldiers to stop ransacking homes, otherwise it will make people uneasy if this continues!"

"Yes, they are all Confucian nobles, how can they be treated like this?"

At this time.

Ren Qiande spoke to Zhang Cheng, and other officials and gentry also followed suit.

Zhu Yuanzhang's face darkened even more after hearing this.

Snapped!
  But at this moment, Zhang Cheng suddenly slammed the table, and asked these officials and gentry with a stern face: "Is this something you can't comment on?! Do you want to rebel?!"

(End of this chapter)