Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 94: Zhu Yuanzhang was gifted a sacred book by Zhang Cheng, and the reactionary landlord plotted bankruptcy!

Seeing this, Zhang Cheng bowed to these people and said, "Thanks to you for being willing to accompany me, I am honored to have you sacrifice your lives to accompany me!"

Seeing this, Zhu Yuanzhang also bowed to these people.

No matter what, he admired those who were willing to follow Zhang Cheng out, and he was also touched by those who were willing to stay with him.

Because, at this time, it does take courage to choose to go out, which means forgetting life and death, while staying here means facing possible hardships and grievances with Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang himself also knew that with the Guo family in Chuzhou City, he would definitely not be as comfortable as before, and his people would naturally not be as comfortable as before, and they would all have to compromise.

And this was caused by him, the boss, so he really had no right to blame anyone. He could only respect and understand everyone's decision.

After Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang took the initiative to hand over their hands, Hua Yun, Tang He, Wang Guangyang, Qi Xiang, Shu Anguo, etc. all returned the gift.

During this period of time, their hierarchical concepts of superiority and inferiority were not yet so clear.

At this time, Li Shanchang also came over to Zhang Cheng and said, "Mr. Zhang, it's not that the subordinates are unwilling to follow you, it's that the superiors here need subordinates more. Please forgive me, Mr. Zhang."

"I understand that when it comes to compromise, you are better at it than I am."

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

"A good person is a loyal person, so it's appropriate to stay here."

Zhu Yuanzhang also said this.

Li Shanchang had nothing to say about this.

"As the superior said."

Zhang Cheng also said something at this time, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Shanchang and others:

"When the time comes, we ask the superiors and good leaders to try their best to preserve the new policies we are implementing in Chuzhou! If it cannot be preserved, don't force it. The people will understand. In many cases, they also need to grow."

Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang nodded.

"As for Huimin Trading Company and Chuzhou Ordnance Company, in my opinion, the dividends will not be divided for the time being. They will be deposited with the two brothers Shanchang and Guoyong and the Cheng and Zhai families. The dividends will be distributed after the future situation is determined."

"In this way, on the surface, we will only tell the outside world that this is the property of the four of them and has nothing to do with us."

"If Marshal Guo decides to protect the property of the powerful and bureaucratic, he will not take away their property rashly. If Marshal Guo wants to protect the property of the common people, he will not take away their property rashly."

"It's just that we shouldn't reveal the financial benefits here to Marshal Guo."

"It's not that I'm afraid that Marshal Guo will be jealous! It's that I'm afraid that the villains around Marshal Guo will be jealous. They don't want everyone to make profits together to benefit the people. They just want to take this opportunity to swallow up all the profits and do gluttonous things, thereby damaging the cause of the rebel army!"

"In any case, everything will have to wait until Dashuai Guo decides that he is willing to work with all of us to make profits and benefit the people before Dashuai Guo can know the details of these two trading companies."

"For this reason, if necessary, both firms will have to relocate at that time."

"Very true!"

"Although this is just a trading house, it is just for profit, but now we also understand that it is related to the great cause of saving the people of the world and overthrowing Hu Yuan!"

"But how can we be sure that the commander-in-chief is willing to work with us to make money and benefit the people?"

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng after asking.

Zhang Cheng said: "Since everyone has invested in these two firms, let's have a meeting together and decide by tossing red and black beans in the bottle. Red means that you are willing to believe in Marshal Guo, and black means that you don't believe in Marshal Guo. The more red beans you have, the better." From the moment he believed in Dashuai Guo’s decision, Heidouduo never believed in Dashuai Guo’s decision.”

"What do you think, superior?"

Zhang Cheng asked.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "This will convince everyone, so that when a commercial bank needs to raise shares in the future, everyone will not be willing to invest again."

"That's what the superior said."

After Zhang Cheng said this, he asked Li Shanchang, Feng Guoyong and others: "You are also investors, what do you think?"

"Everything is at the command of the superiors!"

"Because we follow the superiors to conquer the country. We are not seeking profit, but only to conquer the world."

Li Shanchang replied.

Feng Guoyong also followed: "Yes, a gentleman is about righteousness, and a villain is about benefit. Even if I am not as good as a gentleman, I am still willing to practice the way of a gentleman!"

"What's more, Mr. Zhang is making profits for the world and is also a gentleman. How can I treat him with a villain's heart? I just leave everything to the superiors."

Next.

Others either thought Zhang Cheng's proposal was good, or they said they listened to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang had limited knowledge of business, and he thought Zhang Cheng's proposal was good, he was worried that the benefits of business would be known to the Guo family too early, which would be detrimental to internal unity, so he said: "Then do as Mr. Zhang says!"

then.

Zhang Cheng then said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Sir, when I go out this time, I will put myself to death and survive. After you stay, you need to think twice. First, you must think about advancement, second, you must think about retreat, and third, you must think about change. When advancing, Advance, retreat when you need to, and change when you change. Don't rush to rebuke when you see injustice, and ask Marshal Guo to deal with it strictly. Don't get restless because Marshal Guo ignores you for a while, and don't stand up when you need to. Just stop being angry and try to persuade Marshal Guo. In short, everything must be weighed and discussed with those who are good at it.”

"After all, the future will be different from when Chuzhou was only in power. At that time, most of the people in charge were the brothers who were in charge, and the boss punished his brothers. Naturally, the brothers would not dare to complain and would obey your control."

"But other people will not be convinced, but will only think that you are nosy, or even think that you are manipulating authority!"

"rest assured!"

"We know how to get along with my father and other managers."

"Mr. Zhang, you talked too much today!"

Zhu Yuanzhang pretended to be impatient and then looked at Zhang Cheng eagerly and said:
  "Otherwise, don't leave and stay in Chuzhou. The worst is possible. When the time comes, we will do whatever you say without any hesitation!"

Zhang Cheng smiled and said: "After all, we have been getting along honestly for several months, and now that we are about to separate, it is inevitable that we will talk a lot."

"Row!"

"Say, let me finish!"

"We all want to hear you out."

Zhu Yuanzhang actually sat down as he spoke, clasped his hands in his belly, leaned forward, frowned and said, "Mr. Zhang, please tell me."

"it is good!"

Zhang Cheng responded, went directly to the case, and handed a stack of books that he had prepared these days to Zhu Yuanzhang's hands.

After Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his hands to catch it, while his arms sank down, he glanced at the book on his arm and saw "Farmer Survey and Analysis" written on it. He picked up the book and flipped through the next few books in his arms.

Suddenly.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw "Analysis of Various Classes", followed by "History of Humanity", "Farmland Irrigation Project", "On Plague", "100,000 Whys", "World Geography", "On the Evolution of Heaven", and "The Wealth of Nations" ” and “Das Kapital”.

These are ancient line books that Zhang Cheng tried his best to select and adapt based on Zhu Yuanzhang's ability to read them, and then had them printed.

Therefore, after Zhu Yuanzhang saw these books, he thought they were secretly kept by Zhang Cheng's family, and asked, "Why do Mr. Zhang have these books with strange titles in his family?"

"The strange thing is that a commoner like us can roughly know what these books are about and whether they are useful just by looking at the titles."

After Zhu Yuanzhang asked, he specifically explained why he found these books strange.

Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong were also surprised. They did not expect Zhang Cheng to have such a straightforward title.

"These are all left to me by my master, and he also compiled these books. He compiled them in order to enlighten the people's wisdom, so that they can be understood by ordinary people, and can also be understood by aspiring people with commoner backgrounds like the superiors, and then become true The great hero!"

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang was greatly impressed: "Master Wen Zheng is the true saint!"

"Now I am giving these books to the superior, hoping that the superior will take a serious look at them next."

"If it's not what I expected, the superior should have a lot of free time next, and with this free time, instead of feeling resentful, it's better to read a book."

Zhang Cheng said.

"rest assured!"

"We love reading books!"

"I wish I had more books that are so interesting to read."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed after hearing this: "I made some annotations in some places. I'm afraid that you, the superior, won't understand, and I won't be able to give you guidance in time. The superior can read the annotations when the time comes."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, then looked at Zhang Cheng: "It seems that you have put in a lot of time to do things for us behind the scenes!"

"Does this count as overtime?"

Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

Zhang Cheng waved his hand and said, "Personal interests don't count!" "It can't be counted. I'm not a stingy person. The Huimin Trading Company gave us some profit. When the profit is greater in the future, I will give it to you from my own personal money. out!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

"Row!"

"Thank you, sir, for being so generous!"

Zhang Cheng was not polite and agreed directly with a smile.

Next.

Zhu Yuanzhang took the books Zhang Cheng gave him back to Ma and asked Ma to keep them for him. He also told Ma: "Don't tell others, we have these books!"

Ma smiled and said, "Okay!"

Later, Zhu Yuanzhang came to Guo Zixing, ready to tell Zhang Cheng that he had decided to take Shenjiying, Hua Yun, Tang He and others out.

When Zhu Yuanzhang came to Guo Zixing, Ren Zhigong and Li Menggeng also came to Guo Zixing.

Ren Zhigong couldn't help but said to Li Menggen: "I just went to ask Guo Zixing if he wanted to prepare to become king. As a result, Guo Zixing said that he would not become king for the time being. He also scolded me, saying that I only wanted to be a hero of Conglong and not Conglong. Long Gongchen is so capable that he doesn’t even think about whether he is suitable to be king now. He only wants to flatter him, saying that I don’t want him to be king, but that I am too addicted to being a high official! He said that I am not good enough in this aspect. Zhu Yuanzhang also said that he would no longer be king for the time being!"

"what?!"

"No longer king?!"

Li Menggeng was greatly disappointed after hearing this: "If he doesn't call himself king, how can we instigate him to eradicate his dissidents, and how can we use him to get rid of Zhu Yuanzhang?!"

"Exactly what he said!"

"If you don't arouse Guo Zixing's desire to become king, how can you arouse his and the Guo family's desire to eradicate dissidents."

"But now, if Guo Zixing wants to just accumulate strength first, he will still rely on Zhu Yuanzhang, a man who can run the army and is honest, and he will be more tolerant of his offenses!"

Ren Zhigong echoed.

then.

Ren Zhigong continued: "I heard from the Guo family that Zhu Yuanzhang used Zhang Cheng's words to persuade Guo Zixing to give up the idea of ​​becoming king."

"Why do Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng always ruin our affairs!"

After hearing this, Li Menggeng couldn't help but gnashed his teeth and said: "This Zhu Yuanzhang must be eliminated first with the help of Guo Zixing! Otherwise, the harm of Zhang Cheng, a deviant person, will be magnified!"

"In any case, I will try it in front of Guo Zixing later. First, I will try to say that Zhu Yuanzhang has too much prestige and has become a rival to him. But if we really want to achieve great things, we need to unify the powers and eradicate those who threaten us. Only then can we calmly expand our strength.”

"At that time, we will see if Guo Zixing will be motivated to eradicate Zhu Yuanzhang because of this. If so, it will be better. If not, we can only encourage Guo Zixing's sons first."

"The auspiciousness still needs to be created first. It may be of great use at a critical moment."

Li Menggeng continued.

Ren Zhigong nodded.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already walked towards the two of them.

Li Menggeng and Ren Zhigong both stopped talking and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang with a smile.

"Master, come to see the superior?"

Ren Zhigong also took the initiative to ask.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and asked, "Is the superior here?"

"exist!"

"Just in time, we are going too, let's go together."

So, Zhu Yuanzhang, Li Mengeng and Ren Zhigong went to Guo Zixing together.

On the way, Zhu Yuanzhang also took the initiative to ask Ren Zhigong:
  "Why was Guo Jingxiang killed?"

"This bastard deceived our commander and persuaded him to wait for recruitment."

Ren Zhigong replied.

Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly after hearing this.

Ren Zhigong kept Zhu Yuanzhang's attitude in mind.

Soon.

Zhu Yuanzhang, Ren Zhigong, and Li Menggeng met Guo Zixing.

As soon as Guo Zixing saw Zhu Yuanzhang, he asked, "Mr. Zhang, are you willing to come?"

"Father is so handsome and handsome!"

Zhu Yuanzhang hurriedly bowed his hands and replied: "Mr. Zhang has decided to take the Shenji Battalion, Hua Yun, Tang He and others out to deal with the Yuan army to reduce the pressure on the Chuzhou Marshal!"

"What's he doing out of town?"

"Is he unwilling to do things for us?!"

"We are not favored by him?"

After hearing this, Guo Zixing felt very disappointed, got angry for no reason, and threw the teacup directly to the ground, saying:

"Can I ask for any benefits you want?"

"Why did he just leave? Isn't he afraid that we, Guo Zixing, would kill him with a knife?"

"Father, calm down!"

"Mr. Zhang does not look down on you, Marshal, nor is he afraid of your power, but it is precisely because he believes that Marshal you are the hero of the world that he made such a decision."

When Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Guo Zixing lost his temper a lot and asked, "What do you mean?"

"Because Mr. Zhang said that after my father comes to Chuzhou City, someone will instigate my father to kill Yuan Zhang!"

"Since Yuan Zhang has been kind to him, and his commander-in-chief has the friendship to use him in important ways, he will definitely be in a dilemma when the time comes, so he might as well go out and deal with the Yuan soldiers for his commander-in-chief and the people of Chuzhou!"

"Mr. Zhang also said that he only asked his commander-in-chief to love the people and strengthen the army in Chuzhou and fight out as soon as possible. In this way, he would be safe outside and he could still send people to Chuzhou to convey his advice to his commander-in-chief at any time!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, Li Menggeng and Ren Zhigong felt nervous and looked at each other.

Zhu Yuanzhang also glanced at these two people.

Guo Zixing was also stunned, and then became more serious:

"nonsense!"

"How could we kill our adopted son, and kill him who is so loyal and filial to us!"

"Mr. Ta Zhang still underestimated me, Guo Zixing. I, Guo Zixing, am not such a despicable and shameless person!"

After Guo Zixing said that, thinking that he needed to strengthen his strength now and make Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng feel at ease about him, he turned around and looked at Zhu Yuanzhang and said:

"I will issue an order now. From now on, whoever dares to suggest that I kill you Yuan Zhang in front of us, we will kill him with our own hands without asking for the reason!"

"Even if it's our own son, it won't work. I'll kill him with my own hands!"

Guo Zixing said and glanced at his two sons who were also here.

Guo Tianxu and Guo Tianjue both said they didn't dare.

Ren Zhigong couldn't help but widen his eyes after hearing this, and thought to himself: "Is this Zhang Cheng deliberately teaching Zhu Yuanzhang to say this?!"

Li Menggen couldn't help but close his eyes and thought to himself: "It's so nice of you, Zhang Cheng, to ruin my business again! Now how can I suggest that Guo Zixing kill Zhu Yuanzhang!"

Actually.

It should be noted that this was not what Zhang Cheng meant. Zhu Yuanzhang was just using Zhang Cheng's words to protect his own life.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang knew his father-in-law very well. He knew that his father-in-law had a character of loyalty and loyalty, and he could be easily provoked.

Therefore, when Zhang Cheng reminded him to be careful of anyone instigating Guo Zixing to fight with him, he came up with the idea of ​​using Zhang Cheng's words to block the way of those who wanted to kill him.

Because once the conspiracy is revealed in advance, it has no meaning.

This was one of the reasons why Zhu Yuanzhang finally agreed to Zhang Cheng's departure.

Zhu Yuanzhang also noticed the disappointment of the two people at this time, and then just laughed secretly, and immediately knelt down with tears:

"My father values ​​Yuan Zhang so much. Yuan Zhang is so virtuous and capable. I can only repay my father with all my heart. I will go through fire and water for my father without hesitation!"

(End of this chapter)