Chapter 221 Dayuan loyal ministers, what we have is
Zhang Shide took over Hangzhou, the paradise on earth, Suzhou, and Hangzhou, and they all fell into the hands of Zhang Shicheng. The land of wealth and culture... Zhang Shicheng's little life became beautiful in an instant.
If you need salt, we have it!
If you want silk, we have it too!
If you want money, we have more!
We need food... With silk salt, will we still be short of food?
Since we have everything, happiness is only one day, and unhappiness is also one day, so why not be happy?
Zhang Shicheng's pursuit is not high, he must first have a good house.
This man began to spend all his money to build a house, take his wife over, and enjoy family happiness as a family. He did this, and his subordinates followed suit.
The original ambition of conquering the world with eighteen carrying poles has long been gone.
To be fair, Zhang Shicheng did some good things, such as canceling the Yuan court's exorbitant taxes, encouraging farmers to teach mulberry farming, building water conservancy projects, and encouraging trade...
But there is no doubt that these measures are what local officials should do in peacetime. They are not what a hero who wants to dominate the world should do.
If you want to create a prosperous era, you must redistribute interests. To put it bluntly, you have to move the land...
Unfortunately, Zhang Shicheng had no such idea at all.
"Zhang Shicheng is short-sighted and capricious. He is only qualified to be an old guard dog. How can he rule the world? The sinner is not talented. He is willing to surrender to Duke Wu. Please take him in!"
Luo Guanzhong knelt on one knee and lowered his head.
He was not optimistic about Zhu Yuanzhang at first, but today, he has to admit that maybe there is something wrong with his eyes, and he cannot recognize a true hero.
Zhu Yuanzhang remembered something, "Mr. Luo, we remember that we asked you to be our teacher and asked you to read so many official documents... but you stole our secret letters and went to seek refuge with Zhang Shicheng.
Why do you want to join us today?"
Lao Zhu actually started to investigate what happened before. Luo Guanzhong was sweating profusely and panicked.
He could only prostrate himself on the ground and beg: "In the past, it was all sinners who were confused and missed opportunities. Their confusion clouded their minds. Please give Lord Wu Guogong a lot of money to give sinners a way out!"
Lao Luo kept saluting, and his forehead was red and swollen.
Zhu Yuanzhang pressed his forehead and sighed helplessly, "That's not what I meant. When we said we would give you a place at the university, we really meant it. But now with Liu Ji, Song Lian and the others, the Bachelor's College is also under the control of Mr. Zhang. We
I want to give you a high official position, but I can't. Hey! Why didn't you surrender earlier?"
Luo Guanzhong was stunned, did you think I took refuge too late?
I wanted to do it earlier too, but didn’t I look down on you back then?
Lao Luo has a hard time saying that you didn’t accompany me when I was down and out. Who are you now that I am so prosperous?
If Lao Luo had voted in the first place, he would have been at least in the top five in Zhu Yuanzhang's list of civil servants, but now he wouldn't even have fifty or five hundred to worry about.
In terms of qualifications, Sun Yan's classmates who had participated in the imperial examination were all far ahead of Lao Luo.
How do you ask Zhu Yuanzhang to arrange him?
"Mr. Zhang, what do you have in mind?"
What can Zhang Ximeng say? It's not that this lousy code writer has a bad eye. Even if I want to help, there's nothing I can do. The main positions are all taken, and there's not much I can give him.
"My lord, Mr. Luo has excellent writing skills, a clever mind, and is good at writing... We happen to have a theater troupe here that is in urgent need of experts who can write plays. If Mr. Luo is willing, he can be responsible for publicity."
When Lao Luo heard this, he suddenly became bitter. What do you mean? You want me to be an actor? How can that work? Even my ancestors have lost their face!
Zhang Ximeng, you can’t harm me!
Seeing that Lao Luo didn't speak, Zhang Ximeng immediately understood what Luo Guanzhong meant.
You are so confused!
Zhu Jiajun's propaganda is different from other places, and opera is not low-level. On the contrary, opera is Zhu Jiajun's main form of propaganda, and the effect is very good.
Wu Datou has already held the title of Qianhu... Some people even suggested that he be promoted one level to a commander. After all, everyone knows the power of propaganda work. Sometimes thousands of elite soldiers may not be able to achieve the effect.
, they took action and succeeded immediately.
However, Wu Datou was very humble and believed that he could not be superior to those soldiers who actually killed the enemy on the battlefield. A thousand households had already come to an end, and it would be too much to promote him to an official position.
Wu Datou's humility was well regarded in the military.
Zhang Ximeng also thinks that for military positions, it is enough to reach 1,000 households. Next, it is best to change to a civilian official. To put it bluntly, it means adding a separate yamen to be responsible for propaganda work.
If Luo Guanzhong joins now, with his skill, it will not be difficult for him to become the Minister of the Secretariat in the future.
But his vision is just not good enough, what else can he do?
"My lord, how about this? If Mr. Luo is willing, he can help with the work of taking prisoners. This work may be a bit harder."
When Luo Guanzhong heard this, he finally became interested. He was really familiar with the prisoner work.
When the hundreds of thousands of troops were defeated, he assisted Zhang Shicheng and gathered his troops. This was a good thing. Those who surrendered became Zhang Shicheng's trusted subordinates. In the future, no matter how they fought and made meritorious deeds, they would all be counted among themselves.
The generals in the army will also be polite to themselves.
Luo Guanzhong agreed to Zhang Ximeng without any hesitation.
"Sinners, sinners are not afraid of hard work. Sinners are willing to persuade their superiors to surrender! Let them faithfully join their superiors and fight on the battlefield for them!"
Hearing this, Zhang Ximeng knew that Luo Guanzhong did not understand Zhu Jiajun's prisoner work at all, but it didn't matter if he didn't understand it. He would just learn it slowly in the future.
It's just that Lao Luo has to experience how painful this thing is.
Now that we have finished talking to Lao Luo, Zhu Yuanzhang still has important matters to do. The matter of Miao Bing was temporarily handed over to Zhang Ximeng.
On the other side, Sun Yan also explained clearly to the five generals, and then led them to file in to pay their respects.
Yang Zhengren, Yang Tongtai, Yang Zhongping, Li Caifu, and Xiao Yu were Yang Wanzhe's uncles, plus the four generals he sent out.
First of all, Yang Zhengren, this man is indeed a mature man. Even if he doesn't waste money to buy money for the bridal chamber, he still has enough energy to pay attention to the trends in the city.
He found that the gentry was uneasy and seemed to be moving, so he immediately prepared in advance. When Zhang Shide came to kill him, he decisively ran away with his confidants. After he ran away, he found Yang Tongtai, and then went to find Yang Tongtai.
Yang Tongtai got the news and decisively contacted Xiao Yu.
The four of them followed Sun Yan and came to seek refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang.
As for Li Caifu, he was originally closest to Hangzhou. Yang Zhengren was worried that Zhang Shicheng would attack them, so he gave up on Li Caifu. However, he did not expect that Luo Guanzhong came out. He directly found Li Caifu, told Yang Wanzhe's last words, and persuaded him to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.
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Li Caifu was not stupid. Zhang Shicheng made a sneak attack on Hangzhou and forced Yang Wanzhe to death. If they surrendered to Zhang Shicheng, they would not end well.
Just like that, he followed Luo Guanzhong over obediently.
Good guy!
All the elite Miao soldiers rushed to Zhu's army to gather.
"How many people are there in your four armies?"
Zhang Ximeng asked directly. Several people looked at each other. Yang Zhengren said first: "In reply to Prime Minister Zhang, we originally had a hundred thousand troops. After deducting the losses, there are now almost 80,000 troops in the four armies!"
Several other people also nodded, "About that, my subordinates alone number more than 23,000." Yang Tongtai added confidently.
These people were vying to brag, and Sun Yan simply shut up and cursed in his mind, "These fools, my instructions were in vain. Zhang Xiang is so smart, how could he be deceived by you! Look,
You're going to be in trouble."
Sure enough, Zhang Ximeng said seriously: "There are so many? Then the food and salary we originally prepared are not enough, and we need to increase it!"
Food and wages!
These people all showed proud smiles.
"Prime Minister Zhang, our Miao soldiers can endure hardships. If your army lacks food and pay, it's okay to pay less. It's okay to pay 60,000 people."
Zhang Ximeng smiled and said, "How can this be done? How many soldiers are there, how much food and salary are given, and they are all treated equally. Here, there are no Han soldiers or Miao soldiers. We are all soldiers of the lord, and we are all people of the Wu Kingdom in China! Let's do this, Sun Yan
, you first lead a few distinguished guests to continue to understand the military regulations...Mr. Luo and I will check the number of people and re-draw the plan for distributing food and wages."
After Zhang Ximeng finished speaking, he stood up, called Luo Guanzhong, and went out together.
Yang Zhengren and others were stunned. They sensed something was wrong and wanted to get rid of them!
They stood up at the same time and wanted to stop them, but Sun Yan said with a smile: "Guys, please be patient. The biggest difference between our Zhu Jiajun and other soldiers is that we must adhere to military discipline in everything. Everyone must be honest and honest, and must not lie or brag.
.You can’t live on empty pay or drink soldiers’ blood. But don’t worry, after all, it’s not surprising to those who don’t know, we will be lenient, don’t worry.”
fart!
What are you worried about?
Does this relieve us of military power?
You have gone too far!
Yang Zhengren's brows trembled. He gritted his teeth and said to Sun Yan: "Sir, some time ago, we gambled and borrowed a lot of gold from you. Do you think we will return it to you?"
When Sun Yan heard this, he was very happy and said with a smile: "That's great. I'm just worried about how to explain it to Prime Minister Zhang. This is what you guys did voluntarily, and I didn't intimidate you?"
"No, absolutely not! We are all willing."
Sun Yan smiled and said: "Then... can we establish the words as evidence?"
Several people were stunned, but when they thought of military power, they gritted their teeth and agreed, "Okay!"
Yang Zhengren took the lead and signed a pledge to return all the gold they had taken away.
Sun Yan happily put away the paperwork, finally being able to explain.
Yang Zhengren pondered for a moment, then suddenly leaned forward and said: "Mr. Sun, to be honest, our subordinates are all Miao people. They are wild-tempered and dissatisfied with Wang Hua... In the past, everyone followed Yuan Ting. After so many years, I only know
We all obey the orders of the Yuan court. We are all willing to submit to Duke Wu, but they don’t recognize others. What should we do?"
Sun Yan blinked his eyes and suddenly laughed loudly, "Just listen to the Yuan court's orders? Okay! Don't worry, we have many loyal ministers of the Yuan Dynasty here. It turns out that you Cheng of Zhejiang Province, imperial envoy, political advisor, privy envoy,
They will manage your department well! You should just drink tea in peace!"