Chapter 137 Five-star Emperor Zhu Yuanzhang! Zhu Han, the first hero of the Ming Dynasty

After coming into contact with some new Confucianism in Jiangnan, he also greatly appreciated those new Confucian theories.

Therefore, when Chen Youliang fled from Huguang to Sichuan, he brought with him many literati who studied the new Confucianism. The truly useful talents were actually this group of people, not these old-style Confucian scholars in Sichuan.

After discussing with Zou Pusheng, Chen Youliang immediately ordered the recommendation of talents in Sichuan, and asked the generals stationed in various places to recommend the landlords in their ruled areas to serve as officials.

All recommended gentry leaders must come to Chengdu to meet Chen Youliang.

After Chen Youliang's final selection, a large number of Sichuan landlords and gentry were appointed by Chen Youliang as local county magistrates and other officials of various sizes.

However, the power of these officials, due to the presence of the Red Scarf Army garrison, is not as great as imagined, but it is also a very good way out. The selection of officials is also based on people's choices. Those who are not strong

Landowners, even if they have considerable talents and reputation, cannot be appointed to official positions.

As a result, not only was he unable to get an official appointment, Chen Youliang immediately issued a decree to attack local tyrants and divide their land.

The Red Turban Army throughout Sichuan immediately took action. A large number of landowners were accused of having liaisons with the Mongols of the Yuan Dynasty. Their homes were confiscated, and the young men were moved to Zigong and other salt fields and mines to work as coolies.

Almost half of the local landlords' homes in Sichuan were wiped out.

But in this way, it also controlled the local land in Sichuan.

Using these lands, Chen Youliang expanded his army on a large scale in Sichuan, greatly increasing the number of troops originally brought from Huguang from 50,000 to 150,000.

Moreover, these 150,000 people are all military households with land for everyone, similar to the soldiers of the Tang Dynasty.

Each soldier can be allocated at least thirty acres of land.

This is not those dry fields that are short of water and drought, but high-quality fertile fields with sufficient water sources in the plains of the Land of Abundance, close to rivers.

Through this series of measures to allocate land to local tyrants, as well as some previous measures to recommend gentry as officials, Chen Youliang quickly established a foothold in Sichuan.

After he gained a foothold, he officially announced that he would move the capital of the Han Empire from Hanyang, Hubei to Chengdu.

As a result, the capital of the Han Empire became Chengdu, Sichuan.

Talents from Sichuan have flocked to Chengdu. Relying on Sichuan's unique geographical advantages, Chen Youliang has shown himself to be a promising leader in Sichuan.

The morale of all the Han Red Turban soldiers was also boosted.

The news that Chen Youliang was allocating land to local tycoons in Sichuan quickly reached Zhu Yuanzhang's ears.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had already pacified Hunan and Hubei.

A large area of ​​land from Huguang to Guangdong has been connected into one. In this way, there is no fear of Chen Youliang's invasion to the east and they can support each other.

After learning that Chen Youliang also carried out land distribution among local tyrants in Sichuan, Zhu Yuanzhang showed a sarcastic smile.

"This guy Chen Youliang, what he did can be said to be a tiger made into a cat."

Sichuan was originally a place with congested traffic, and because it was easy to defend and difficult to attack, it was very easy for his soldiers to become lazy. Now he has given all the land in Sichuan to the soldiers. This will allow the soldiers to have a comfortable place, and then

It would be extremely difficult to conquer Sichuan.

It must be said that Zhu Yuanzhang's grasp of people's hearts is a level higher than that of Chen Youliang.

Although the Ming Dynasty still distributes land to local tyrants, the land is not simply distributed to the soldiers, but to many poor farmers.

Then, taxes were collected from these farmers and soldiers were recruited.

Otherwise, allocating all the land to soldiers will create a large area of ​​wealthy old soldiers.

A wealthy old soldier who has no worries about food and clothing and no enterprising spirit has little fighting ability.

After learning about Chen Youliang's series of actions in Sichuan, Zhu Yuanzhang no longer regarded Chen Youliang as a huge threat.

Zhu Han also felt that Chen Youliang's behavior of attacking local tycoons in Sichuan to allocate their land did not pose any threat to him.

He said to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang, "Brother, in this case, Chen Youliang is just a withered bone in the grave. As long as we stick to Anzhou, Chen Youliang will never be able to invade Huguang again."

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Yes, Chen Youliang wants to imitate Han Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei, but how many people in the world are Han Zhaolie Emperor Liu Bei? And he sent his soldiers to the fertile land of Sichuan

Once we are trapped, it will be even more difficult to get these soldiers to move. Without high morale, they will no longer pose a threat to us."

Zhu Han also agreed very much with the analysis of his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang. He nodded and said: "Now Chen Youliang has nothing to worry about. Our last enemies are the Mongols."

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Yes, now Huguang, Guangdong, and Fujian have settled down, and only the Mongols in the north are left. Xu Da has already sent good news, and Henan and Shandong have been basically pacified. Now the remaining

Even most of them are relatively medium-sized."

"Qiwu, what do you think should we take Guanzhong first or Dadu first?"

Today's Ming army can be said to be fighting on three fronts.

First of all, the front line is the battle to pacify Chen Youliang, and the other front line is the pioneering war arranged by Zhu Han in Goryeo, Japan and other places.

The remaining front line is the campaign from the north led by Xu Da to expel the Tartars and restore China to the Mongols.

Zhu Han said with a smile, "Now Chen Youliang has nothing to fear. The only ones left are the Mongols. Naturally, we have to fight slowly and steadily. There is no need to rush. Most of the Mongolians have no fighting spirit, so we will let them bleed slowly."

If we kill them brutally and run them all to the grassland, it will not be so easy to bleed them."

Zhu Yuanzhang naturally knew that Zhu Han's follow-up strategy was to have the Mongols retreat to the grasslands in large numbers.

Then they moved north from Liaoyang and Youyun, using fortress tactics to advance to the grasslands, forcing the Mongols to repeat the Great Migration of the Western Expedition on the grasslands.

Zhu Yuanzhang also strongly agreed with the strategy of letting Xu Daxi enter Guanzhong.

The situation in the Ming Dynasty is now very good. Whether it is heading north to Dadu or attacking Guanzhong, it is actually not difficult at all.

The combat effectiveness of the Ming Dynasty's army is definitely the best in the world.

"On the 75th, marching westward to Guanzhong is second only to the recovery of the Sixteenth Province of Youyun." Zhu Yuanzhang said, looking at Zhu Han and smiling.

"We think, let Xu Daxi enter Guanzhong, and you can lead the army north to Dadu and divide the troops into two groups, how about it?" said my elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang.

"Let me take back the Sixteenth Province of Youyun?" Zhu Han was stunned when he heard this suggestion.

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said, "Yes, the contribution of sixteen weeks to regain Youyun is really great. We think it is most appropriate to let you go. Moreover, when Xu Da regains Guanzhong, he must also beware of Chen Youliang in the south.

, we also need to be on guard against the Mongols in the northwest, who will not be able to spare any time! If you are allowed to attack Dadu directly, it will also speed up the pace of the Mongols getting out of the Central Plains. But we have heard that the Mongols see that they cannot sustain themselves.

, in Dadu, they imposed extortionate taxes without any scruples. The earlier they were driven out of the Central Plains, the sooner they would be given a chance to breathe for the people."

Zhu Yuanzhang's words are not unfounded, based on the reports of various spies. Because the Mongols felt that their empire could not be sustained, they had no scruples at all about looting and killing in various places. Many towns in Hebei refused to pay high taxes.

Whole villages were slaughtered for food and grass by the Mongols.

Let Xu Daxi enter Guanzhong, and then Zhu Han personally lead the army to recover the sixteen states of Youyun, which is the capital, which is also a more suitable strategy.

However, after Zhu Han heard this suggestion, he rejected it directly without thinking.

He is not a fool, so how can he not understand what his brother Zhu Yuanzhang is thinking?

In fact, this is because Zhu Yuanzhang still has no intention of giving up and wants to establish himself as the emperor's younger brother. His idea has not changed.

Let Zhu Han lead the army to regain the Sixteenth Prefecture of Youyun just to give him a higher prestige.

Now that the crown prince Zhu Biao has been officially canonized, my elder brother still has not given up and still wants to make himself the crown prince's younger brother.

This idea is very dangerous.

That is to say, the eldest nephew Zhu Biao is still young. If he were a little older, it would be very easy to cause distrust and resentment between them.

"Brother, I don't agree with this suggestion. Since the responsibility of the Northern Expedition has been given to Xu Da, it is not appropriate to divide the troops from him. The strength of the Ming army is already a bit tense. There is no time to train new recruits, so it is not appropriate to divide the troops.

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Zhu Han's words actually made Zhu Yuanzhang a lot more cautious.

Nowadays, although the Ming Dynasty attacks on all sides, it does not rely on the numerical advantage of large numbers of troops, but relies more on the main military idea of ​​elite soldiers and strong generals.

Xu Da had many soldiers and horses, but they did not seem to be enough for the entire vast northern battlefield.

Therefore, if the troops are divided, it will indeed increase the difficulty of attacking Guanzhong.

Zhu Han did not hesitate and refused to lead the army to regain the Sixteenth Province of Youyun!

He also clearly expressed to his elder brother Zhu Yuanzhang that he had no intention of being the emperor's younger brother.

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang naturally understood. He nodded and said to Zhu Han, "Hey, well, since you don't want to, we won't force you. Let Xu Da handle the matter of expelling the Tartars slowly."

do it."

"However, there are not many new troops in Xu Da's army. Once the Mongols are expelled from the Central Plains, there will be fewer opportunities for war in the future. It is better to send Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu, Chen Baodao and others to Xu Da's army.

Let them practice their cooperation with each other. It can be regarded as military training, how about it?" Zhu Han suggested.

Brother Zhu Yuanzhang immediately nodded and said: "Well, yes, Qi Wu, this is a good idea. Chen Youliang will definitely not dare to invade Huguang again without fighting. If Chang Yuchun, Lan Yu and others don't kill the Tartars,

, I’m afraid there really won’t be any chance to make military exploits in the future.”

Among the Ming army, Xu Da was the most trusted direct general, and he trained all his troops himself.

The other armies were all trained and controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han personally.

In other words, Xu Da's army is of its own kind!

The armies in the hands of Zhu Han and Zhu Yuanzhang were from another group. Now that the world is about to be unified, it is very necessary to mix the two armies into one.

After all, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Han trusted Xu Da very much, but their soldiers may not understand such an unbreakable friendship.

It is necessary to strengthen cooperation and trust among the various generals to prevent any estrangement and suspicion.
To be continued...