Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 6 Hindsight
  When Zhang Cheng said this, Feng Guoyong couldn't help but sigh and defended: "Originally, I thought that after I surrendered to the throne, I could work with me to transform those reckless people into people who know etiquette and morality! Who knew that I would be even more deviant than them!"

After saying that, Feng Guoyong looked at Zhang Cheng and clapped his hands: "So, I impulsively became murderous towards my subordinates."

"But I ordered Hua Yun to kill me, a person who is kind to my lord, without asking Master Zhu Jun's orders. Isn't it against etiquette, law and morality?"

Zhang Cheng asked with a smile.

Feng Guoyong looked uneasy, so he had to stop and turn around, bowing to Zhang Cheng: "This is my fault! I would like to express my apologies to you."

Zhang Cheng didn't say anything, just took a step away.

Feng Guoyong followed up and continued: "Please rest assured, my superiors. The superiors do not have the intention to eliminate me because of this, and they even regard me as my enemies. I no longer regard my men as my enemies. I am willing to fight with you in the future." If we all work together to help the superior, we can completely end the troubled times and bring peace to the common people in the world!"

"It seems that I have changed my mind and am very confident in the ethics and teachings I adhere to. Do you believe that I, a deviant, will be changed by you?"

Zhang Cheng replied with a smile.

Feng Guoyong said: "It's not that we can change you, it's the world that will make you understand that ethics and education are the foundation of long-term peace and order in the world."

"Then we'll see!"

Zhang Cheng flicked his sleeves, put his hands behind his back, looked forward, and said to Feng Guoyong: "However, I have some suggestions for you, which may make it easier for the world to end the troubled times, and also help you. If the master achieves great things early, it will be more conducive for his personal achievements to reach a higher level."

"Please enlighten me."

Feng Guoyong replied disapprovingly.

Zhang Cheng looked ahead at the light after the rain and the sky cleared, and said:

"Since I have joined the rebel army and believe that destiny is on the side of the rebel army, I should put aside my disdain and use of my brothers in the rebel army and face up to their value instead of treating them as reckless and acting like scholar-bureaucrats!"

"Although many of them are rude, they are not stupid. Your lack of sincerity will only cause people like you to fall apart in advance due to inherent dissatisfaction before the great cause is accomplished."

"Since ancient times, how many rioters have been defeated due to internal strife. I must be a person who knows everything about the past and the present."

"Now that you are the generals under your command, you have old friends from the same hometown, friends you met when you were the governor of the Guo Department, people from the green forest you recruited along the way, and even sons of wealthy families like me who were attached to you by destiny. You can be said to be both wise and foolish. There is a mixture of fish and dragons, and there are many rifts and conflicts.”

"As the first scholar-strategist to surrender to you, I don't think about coordinating the conflicts among the generals at this time. Instead, I only exacerbate the chaos in order to realize my little idea of ​​using civility to suppress the military. I still despise those who came from a humble background in my heart." General, if the civil and military forces cannot work together as one, there will undoubtedly be an internal loss of strength."

"In this case, wouldn't it go against Yu Zuixi's goal of ending the troubled times and bringing order to the world as soon as possible?"

"I'm afraid that because of this, it will be difficult for me to become the first civil servant under your superiors in the future, right?"

As Zhang Cheng said, since ancient times, peasant rebel armies have always encountered the problem of intensifying internal conflicts as their power grows, and this is inevitable.

After all, as the peasant uprising army grows bigger, the forces of the landlord class will join. Once these people join, it is easy for them to conflict with the forces originally belonging to the common people.

In addition, the expansion of the territory will also lead to conflicts among regions due to uneven distribution of interests.

Many peasant rebel armies did not succeed in the end. Many of them were because they could not handle internal conflicts well. They were either too partial to one side or did not know how to coordinate, such as Huang Chao and Li Zicheng. Of course, like the late Southern Ming Dynasty in history, there were many conflicts between the original bureaucrats of the Ming Dynasty and the peasant rebels who came from the Daxi Army, which ultimately led to the failure of the resistance to the Qing Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang was able to succeed because he realized this problem very early and found a very suitable mediator for the conflict.

For example, "Records of Taizu of the Ming Dynasty" records that when Li Shanchang joined his team in the early days of the uprising, Zhu Yuanzhang said to Li Shanchang: "Nowadays, all the heroes are fighting, and only the wise can't make plans with them. I see among the heroes, there are those who are holding documents and planning things." Many soldiers on the left and right will be destroyed. The soldiers will not be able to use their abilities and will be defeated. Once their wings are gone, the master can survive alone, so they will also die one after another. You should learn from his mistakes and cooperate with others to succeed and do not imitate what he did. also."

This passage shows that Zhu Yuanzhang has been keenly aware of the problem that with the addition of different classes of forces, the conflicts between civil and military forces have intensified, which is not conducive to the achievement of the great cause. It also tells Li Shanchang not to slander and despise generals just because he is an adviser and often lives in secrets. , but should know how to coordinate the generals.

It was during this year that Li Shanchang joined Zhu Yuanzhang.

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During this period, the main internal problem faced by Zhu Yuanzhang was the intensification of internal conflicts due to the recruitment of forces from all sides along the way. The main manifestation was the contradiction between civil and military affairs. Specifically, the civil servants who came from the landlord class looked down upon those who came from a reckless background. The generals also want to overwhelm them.

Li Shanchang did indeed do a good job later. He did not show the arrogance of a civil servant and avoided the intensification of civil-military conflicts. This is one of the reasons why he became the first Duke of the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

You know, originally the first scholar to join Zhu Yuanzhang's team was supposed to be Feng Guoyong, but why did Zhu Yuanzhang ask Li Shanchang to do this, and later Li Shanchang gradually became the first among Zhu Yuanzhang's literary ministers, so he might as well have followed Feng Guoyong It is related to the fact that Li Shanchang did not achieve this.

Zhang Cheng knows this, not because he is really powerful, but because he can go back at any time, he also crammed in a lot of homework, read a lot of historical materials, told in advance what Zhu Yuanzhang and others did later, and gave Feng Guoyong some advice. That's all, equivalent to hindsight.

Naturally, Feng Guoyong didn't know that Zhang Cheng was "extraordinary", so he gave Zhang Cheng a surprised look, and his face was full of embarrassment. He didn't know how to answer, so he just stopped and said a long and solemn speech to Zhang Cheng. Yi Yi.

Zhang Cheng ignored it and continued walking to Zhu Yuanzhang's camp.

Hua Yun had already arrived at Zhu Yuanzhang's place first. As soon as he saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he complained to Zhu Yuanzhang and said: "Your superiors, Feng Guoyong is a very bad guy and cannot be kept. We should find an opportunity to kill him! It's not as good as that surname." Zhang, he really hates Tatars, he is more cheerful, not so shady, has a good heart, and deserves to be our brother."

Zhu Yuanzhang is holding a new cattail leaf fan here and looking at the map.

boom!
  As soon as Hua Yun finished speaking, Zhu Yuanzhang smashed the cattail leaf fan in his hand towards Hua Yun's face: "We still want to chop you down!"

Hua Yun caught the cattail leaf fan flying in the air and fanned himself with the wind. He put his hands on his hips and said in confusion: "Why do you want to kill us? We didn't go against your life. You asked us to give the best to you." The woman we are looking at belongs to the Zhang brothers, we have selected her and sent it off early in the morning."

"He, Feng Guoyong, is our counselor, military advisor, and a brother who just joined us. He broke any law. Why did you beat him innocently? Even if he broke the law, it's not your turn to deal with it, Hua Yun!"

Zhu Yuanzhang shouted: "Give us back the fan!"

Hua Yun quickly handed the fan to Zhu Yuanzhang obediently.

"Things that don't grow!"

Zhu Yuanzhang took advantage of the situation and gave Hua Yun another kick. When Hua Yun touched his butt, he said: "Out of the more than 20,000 soldiers, we only have twenty-four original brothers. The others are all officers, soldiers and civilians who surrendered along the way. Originally, these people didn’t trust us, but it’s better for you. If you don’t agree with us, you’ll punch and kick the new brothers who came to the country. I really want to kill you immediately and make a show of it to the new brothers!”

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he held the cattail leaf fan and pointed at Huayun again, gritting his teeth.

　Thank you Dan Feng Jiangyue for the reward.
  　　
  　
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