Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 90: Killing the Jin gentry was more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang? !
  "Of course not!"

"Mr. Zhang misunderstood."

Guo Zixing started talking with a smile and glared at Ren Zhigong: "Why are you so crazy! Why don't you apologize to Mr. Zhang!"

Ren Zhigong saw that he could not scare Zhang Cheng, so he stood up and said yes, and bowed to Zhang Cheng: "I was so reckless just now, Mr. Zhang, please forgive me!"

After hearing this, Zhang Cheng sneered and didn't say much. He just breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, thinking that he was just trying to scare him.

Guo Zixing continued here: "Mr. Zhang is right, this matter should be discussed with Yuan Zhang."

"Father, it's getting late now, why don't we discuss it tomorrow."

"Guorui must be meeting his girl at this time."

Guo Tianlu said something for Zhu Yuanzhang at this time.

As Guo Tianlu, who is not Guo Zixing's biological son, has always been kinder to Zhu Yuanzhang.

After hearing this, Guo Zixing understood that Zhu Yuanzhang might be at Ma's place now, so he nodded: "That's fine! Let's discuss it tomorrow!"

Then, Guo Zixing smiled at Zhang Cheng and said, "Then please ask Mr. Zhang to leave first and talk about it another day?"

"Row!"

Zhang Cheng also resigned from here.

After Zhang Cheng came out, he returned to Zhizhou Yamen.

But as soon as he came back, Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong, Zhang Mian, Li Menggeng, Guo Jingxiang, etc. all came to see him immediately.

Feng Guoyong asked first: "Did Marshal Guo really be brought into the city by his superiors?"

Zhang Cheng nodded.

"oops!"

Feng Guoyong couldn't help but slap his thigh and sighed loudly.

He still couldn't understand Zhu Yuanzhang's behavior.

Li Mengeng and Guo Jingxiang looked complicated.

"No matter what, we can't be messy at this time, we must keep our moral integrity!"

Li Shanchang closed his eyes at this time, then emphasized again, looked at a group of civil servants, and then looked at Zhang Cheng.

Zhang Cheng just smiled slightly and looked at Zhang Mian.

Zhang Mian nodded and agreed: "That makes sense!"

Zhang Cheng then just smiled faintly and entered the inner room.

Next.

Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong, Zhang Mian, Li Mengeng, and Guo Jingxiang all left Zhizhou Yamen one after another, becoming the first group of people to get off work, and they were no longer as busy as before.

Wang Guangyang, who happened to be walking towards him, couldn't help but ask: "Hey, why are you all leaving?"

"I don't even know if I can survive."

"Why are you still sitting here?"

Feng Guoyong smiled coldly, and then complained.

Li Shanchang said bitterly at this moment: "Mr. Zhang said, don't complain!"

Feng Guoyong said nothing more.

Wang Guangyang didn't say anything when he saw this. He only came to Zhang Cheng and asked, "General manager, did he really ask Marshal Guo to come?"

"That's right!"

"I just met him."

Zhang Cheng looked at Wang Guangyang and replied.

Wang Guangyang didn't say anything after hearing this. He just continued to work and gave Zhang Cheng the list of newly made firecrackers for Zhang Cheng to sign.

But Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong, and Zhang Mian didn't say anything else and just went home.

Only Li Menggeng and Guo Jingxiang got together to discuss it after returning.

"We might as well switch to Guo Zixing!"

Li Mengeng took the initiative to mention it first.

Guo Jingxiang nodded: "I have the same intention!"

talking.

Guo Jingxiang sneered and said: "He Zhu Yuanzhang is just a common man in the countryside. He is so naive and rebellious. He doesn't know the interests and dangers in this power field. He actually took the initiative to pick up Guo Zixing into the city and gave up Chuzhou City. Apparently, Haozhou City He didn’t learn from the lessons learned at all!”

"That's right!"

"This Zhu Yuanzhang is too benevolent and too simple, and is not suitable for the future emperor at all!"

"Sooner or later we will get burned by following people like this."

"Since ancient times, there has never been a person who truly followed the instructions of the sage and achieved success!"

"What's more, he also supported Zhang Cheng's ideas of clearing land, collecting luxury taxes, and establishing government and merchants. He didn't respect etiquette very much. He overemphasized Huayi and intended to destroy the good governance of the Yuan Dynasty that favored scholar-bureaucrats."

"As for Zhang Cheng's tricks, to be honest, I can't stand it for a long time!"

Li Menggeng gnashed his teeth as he spoke, looked at Guo Jingxiang and said: "Every day, in order to let Zhang Cheng know the beauty of power, I turn myself into a human being and a ghost. If this continues, I will go crazy sooner or later!"

"Me too!"

"My fields can't really be divided like this, and Dayuan can't really be destroyed like this!"

"Even if the Great Yuan is to be destroyed, it should only be destroyed by the true emperor of the new dynasty who is willing to inherit the rule of the Great Yuan."

"Otherwise, you are a bandit!"

"I can't really go to see my ancestors just carrying the name of a bandit!"

Guo Jingxiang echoed.

Li Menggeng said: "Anyway, Guo Zixing is also his master, Zhu Yuanzhang. Now that we are changing families, it is not considered a betrayal. At worst, everyone only recognizes one master."

Guo Jingxiang said: "That's exactly what it is! However, Zhu Yuanzhang is too bad. Not only did he raid the house of our scholar-bureaucrat, but he also delayed the sacrifice of his ministers to observe etiquette. We cannot keep him! We have to find a way to get Guo Zixing to get rid of Zhu Yuanzhang!"

"That's right!"

"No matter what Zhang Cheng is, he is still a member of our scholarly community. In the future, he will be nothing more than a deviant scholar, which is still tolerable!"

"And he, Zhu Yuanzhang, is now a traitor in the world who wants to mess with etiquette. He can only be worse than Huang Chao and will never be tolerated!" "Once he really takes over the world, he will destroy the Yuan system and the consequences will be unimaginable. We should use Guo Zixing to make him prosperous. Get rid of your hands!"

Li Menggeng also nodded and started talking.

Today's Zhu Yuanzhang is influenced by Zhang Cheng, which is indeed different from that in history. Generally speaking, his butt is not tilted towards the landlord class. Therefore, Li Menggeng thinks it is appropriate to get rid of Zhu Yuanzhang.

Guo Jingxiang also continued: "Yes, as Li Shanchang said, it takes too much effort to slowly change him!"

"Besides, as a commoner, the best outcome for him would be to die miserably! Instead of being successfully transformed, lest more unscrupulous people develop the ambition to obtain destiny themselves."

"That's exactly what I said. Marshal Guo is from a powerful family, and is undoubtedly more suitable for receiving destiny!"

"Let's go!"

"Let's go see Marshal Guo now! Don't wait too long, let Li Shanchang and the others get there first."

Li Mengeng said.

Guo Jingxiang immediately stood up and said: "Exactly what I said. In the past few days, we, the sons of scholars and officials from Chuzhou official families, have to succumb to ordinary local wealthy families with no foundation like Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong. It is really frustrating." Die!"

In other words, the scholar-bureaucrats were very supportive of the Yuan system's loose approach to local taxation and cultural management.

Therefore, historically, many years after the establishment of the Ming Dynasty, there were still many scholar-bureaucrats who were nostalgic for the Yuan Dynasty. Scholar-bureaucrats like Song Lian, who were re-appointed by Zhu Yuanzhang as the teacher of the Ming Dynasty prince, would secretly use the Zhizheng reign title, so it can be seen that .

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The Kong family, who had always been very flexible in taking sides when changing dynasties, became a little tougher when the Ming Dynasty destroyed the Yuan Dynasty. They did not surrender decisively from the beginning. Instead, Zhu Yuanzhang had to intimidate him before he was willing to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Therefore, even if scholar-bureaucrats like Li Menggen and Guo Jingxiang were not physically brave enough to keep the integrity of the Yuan Dynasty, they were still mentally loyal to the Yuan Dynasty, that is, they had a strong sense of "Jingyuan".

For them, even if they change dynasties, they still hope that the new dynasty will still have the loose model of the Yuan Dynasty.

Maybe people who have never been a landlord in the Yuan Dynasty will never experience how exciting it is to be a landlord in the Yuan Dynasty, so they may not quite understand why they like the Yuan Dynasty so much.

But in short, Li Mengeng and Guo Jingxiang chose to switch to Guo Zixing for this reason.

"Li Menggeng, Guo Jingxiang?"

The next day.

It's not bright yet.

Guo Zixing received the name cards of these two people.

But Guo Zixing was not too happy. After all, the feeling of coming to the door was different from the one he invited. He just asked Ren Zhigong: "Manager Ren, you are also from Chuzhou, do you know their details?"

"Commander!"

"They all come from a family of officials. Some of them have served as officials in the Yuan Dynasty. They are very knowledgeable. I'm afraid their talents are not inferior to Mr. Zhang's."

Ren Zhigong replied accordingly.

Guo Zixing became interested when Ren Zhigong said that they might be as talented as Zhang Cheng, so he still said: "Then bring them in!"

"Yes!"

Not long after.

Li Menggeng and Guo Jingxiang met Guo Zixing.

Following Li Shanchang's advice, in order to let the rebel leaders like Guo Zixing experience the pleasure of becoming a master in advance, Li Menggeng did not have the arrogance that a scholar-official should have. After seeing Guo Zixing, he decisively knelt down and kowtowed:

"I have met the handsome man!"

When Guo Jingxiang saw Li Menggeng like this, he suddenly realized that he also knelt down and kowtowed one more time:

"I've also seen the commander-in-chief!"

"They are more respectful than Mr. Zhang just now."

Guo Zixing was very satisfied, so he couldn't help but whisper to Ren Zhigong in front of him.

Ren Zhigong said with a smile: "The descendants of officials are naturally more aware of etiquette!"

After hearing this, Guo Zixing smiled slightly. On the way to Chuzhou, he saw the situation in Chuzhou with his own eyes, and after talking with Zhu Yuanzhang, and then knowing the real reason for his failure in Haozhou through Zhu Yuanzhang's mouth, he actually didn't believe much in our children. , just asked lightly: "Why do you guys come to see me?"

"I have come to seek refuge with the commander-in-chief!"

Li Mengeng replied.

Guo Jingxiang also replied: "After the general entered the city, he strictly enforced military discipline and loved the people like a son. We admire him, so he is willing to serve."

After hearing this, Guo Zixing smiled slightly and said, "Then tell me, what should I do next?"

"The commander-in-chief should establish a foothold in Chuzhou City and wait for the opportunity."

Guo Jingxiang replied first.

Guo Zixing asked: "What time should we wait?"

Guo Jingxiang replied: "Of course it's time to accept the recruitment, get rid of the name of a bandit, and become a high-ranking official!"

"Then what should I do to gain a foothold?"

Guo Zixing continued to ask.

Guo Jingxiang hurriedly said: "Being a wise man internally, you should be good to the court. For example, there are more than 500 Mongolian war horses copied from Daruhuachi Mansion and they are still in the stables of the General Manager's Mansion. The commander can return them to the court." , expressed that he has no intention of enmity with the imperial court, and now he is occupying Chuzhou, just to build a stronghold to protect the people and resist bandits, and to ask the imperial court to recruit him as soon as possible. "

"Then this wise man of internal etiquette is asking the officials in Chuzhou City to help me manage the affairs of the court, so that the court can issue an order to appease him as soon as possible?"

Guo Zixing took the initiative and asked with a smile.

Guo Jingxiang said hurriedly: "Commander is wise! This is a shortcut to get rid of the name of a thief and become rich as soon as possible! In the future, he will definitely be famous in history!"

The landlord class has always liked to reduce the revolutionary nature of the uprising. They also hope that the insurrectionists can be recruited. If they are not recruited, they must inherit the system of the previous dynasty.

Therefore, historically, the Ming Dynasty established by Zhu Yuanzhang had to inherit the Yuan system and recognize the status of the Yuan Dynasty before it could be accepted by the landlords, just like the Qing Dynasty later had to inherit the Ming system and recognize the status of the Ming Dynasty before it could be accepted by the landlords.

Now, Guo Jingxiang instinctively hopes that Guo Zixing will accept the recruitment. He even feels that Guo Zixing wants to be recruited, wants to be an official, and wants to clear his name as a bandit.

After all, the mainstream values ​​at that time were to discriminate against rebels as thieves and bandits, and only by accepting recruitment could they start a new life.

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  But at this time, Guo Zixing suddenly stood up and raised his eyebrows and said: "If it were before, I would have believed you, and I would have felt that you were not playing tricks on me, and you were speaking from the bottom of my heart!"

"But now, I have already seen through the thoughts of people like you. You are treating me like a fool, asking me to give you all my money, and making me unable to do anything else! Then, let me Shuai is waiting helplessly to be wiped out by the imperial court and destroyed by other rebels!"

As he spoke, Guo Zixing ordered: "Left and right, drag him out, chop him up, and hang him at the city gate for public display. Anyone who dares to bully me, Guo Zixing, will end up like this!"

Guo Jingxiang was stunned on the spot.

"How can he be more ruthless than Zhu Yuanzhang! He will kill someone if he disagrees with you!"

(End of this chapter)