Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his big hands, like iron pliers, grabbed Fang Guozhen, lifted him up forcibly, then moved his butt to the side, exposing half of the position, and pressed Fang Guozhen to his side.
Lao Fang is also a man who fights at sea. He is strong and strong, but he is being manipulated like a chicken by Lao Zhu, and his face cannot help but feel embarrassed.
"Brother Fang, do you know why we want to make you King of Yue and why we let you sit next to us?"
Fang Guozhen thought for a moment. Although he jumped horizontally repeatedly, he was definitely not stupid. In other words, a fool was incapable of jumping horizontally repeatedly.
"Your Excellency, I think the only thing worthy of my praise is that I still have some warships and am capable at sea. Besides..."
"What more?"
"Among the three families, in terms of military strength, I am the weakest!"
"Hahaha!" Lao Zhu couldn't help but laugh loudly and patted Fang Guozhen on the shoulder, "Brother Fang is indeed a smart man, so we won't hide it anymore. I will make you the king of Yue. I can promise you
A few things... First, we will give you a real fief, so that you can enjoy the fief and do things conveniently. Second, if you don't betray us, we will not destroy your Fang family... We are both heroes in troubled times and good men who fought against the Yuan Dynasty together.
I also hope to have a friend like you, brother!"
Zhu Yuanzhang grabbed Fang Guozhen's arm and shook it vigorously for a while, "Brother Fang, what do you think?"
Fang Guozhen was quite shocked... Based on his understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang, this man was really not willing to tell lies and basically kept his word.
Why did Fang Guozhen want to come? It was exactly as he said. In terms of overall strength, he was not even as good as Chen Youding, and he also relied on Zhu Yuanzhang for food.
If Lao Zhu couldn't even tolerate him and swallowed him directly, then those two people, and even the people in the world, would look down on Zhu Yuanzhang.
Among the top four in the Southeast, Lao Zhu is the number one, Zhang Shicheng is the second, Chen Youding is the third, and Fang Guozhen is the fourth... He is roughly the status of a little India in the late Yuan Dynasty. As long as he can play, the three eldest brothers will be more or less polite to him.
Precisely because of his accurate understanding of his status, Fang Guozhen was very satisfied with the King of Yue. After all, even if he tried his best, his height in this life would only be this.
Fang Guozhen even judged that this state could not last long, after all, Zhu Jiajun's momentum was too strong.
However, Zhu Yuanzhang's statement went beyond Fang Guozhen's expectations. He gave him a fiefdom and allowed him to inherit the throne. There seemed to be a mystery behind this, and he had no time to understand it, but it was not a bad thing after all.
Being able to be the leader of one party is considered favored by God.
"Your Majesty, Guozhen has nothing more to say. I am willing to serve you as my master. I will be loyal to you forever!"
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help laughing, and then stood up, took down a Jiuying crown from the tray behind him, turned around, came in front of Fang Guozhen, and said with a smile: "They prepared this hat for us. They made two hats for us."
Choose. I chose one for myself to wear, and the rest will be given to you. You can try it first to see if it fits, and then let them adjust it."
When Fang Guozhen saw this well-made nine-shaped crown, she trembled all over and her eyes straightened.
The emperor wore twelve hats, the prince wore nine hats, and Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded himself with a spare royal hat. The meaning is self-evident!
He trembled and wanted to pick it up, but when his eyes met Zhu Yuanzhang's, he couldn't help lowering his head and said, "Thank you, superior, for the hat."
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and put the Jiuying Mian on Fang Guozhen's head with his own hands. He asked him to raise his head and take a closer look. It was very upright, and Lao Zhu was also very satisfied.
"Brother Fang, do you think this Han family's crown is much more comfortable than the Mongolian crown?"
Fang Guozhen was greatly excited, and said quickly: "What the superior taught me is that Guozhen will never work for the Yuan Tatars again... Guozhen, Guozhen is willing to follow the superior, expel the Hulu, and restore China!"
This person seems to have read Zhang Ximeng’s articles frequently, and he is very proficient in shouting slogans.
When Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was so righteous, he was also happy and nodded repeatedly.
"Very good, very good! Brother Fang, you have to take off this Nine Crowns first, let them adjust it a little, and then give it to you together with the python robe and the big seal!"
Fang Guozhen was reluctant to leave, took off the Jiuzhaigou crown, and when he exited, he couldn't bear to take a peek before leaving.
Zhu Yuanzhang was in a good mood. A hat and a throne tied a dragon on the sea!
After figuring out Fang Guozhen, Zhu Yuanzhang's next task was to sacrifice to heaven and earth.
There is no such building as the Temple of Heaven and Earth in Hangzhou. Lao Zhu just took many civil and military officials to the temporary altar in the southern suburbs, read out the sacrificial text, and then returned hastily. The whole process was very brief.
It's so short that the big guy doesn't even feel anything, and it's already over.
Although we advocate frugality, it seems not good to make the enthronement ceremony so hasty!
Just when everyone was hesitating, Li Shanchang stood up and told everyone, don't worry, the real key is to worship Yue Fei, the superior has important things to announce in front of King Yue's tomb!
Only then did everyone realize that daring to sacrifice love was just a formality.
In fact, this is also in line with the concepts that have been formed along the way. The heart of heaven is the heart of the people, and the will of heaven is the will of the people. So the action of worshiping heaven and earth can naturally be simplified, and the key lies in the hearts of the people!
So how to win people's hearts?
The answer will be revealed soon.
With Zhu Yuanzhang as the leader, he led the so-called civil and military officials, plus Fang Guozhen, and other envoys from all parties, gathering the people of Hangzhou and scholars from all over the country, and rushed to Yue Fei's tomb.
Sacrifice to the sage Zhu Jiajun has been done once. The last time it was to worship Zongze of Zhenjiang, but this time it fell to Yue Fei, and the scale was more than ten times larger.
The last time Song Lian read the memorial text, he recounted the history, talked about the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, and the continuous inheritance of China, so that Zhao and Song Dynasties were defeated in Yashan, and the country was cut off... He also concluded that the people's hearts will not die and the determination will be unswerving, and he came up with the idea of expelling the barbarians and restoring China.
its true meaning.
Song Lian asked himself, and if he rewrote the article, maybe the words could be more beautiful, but the layout and magnanimity would never be surpassed.
Because of this, he never dared to manipulate or even touch Zhu Yuanzhang's accession documents.
Such a big thing can only be done by Zhang Ximeng.
With five thousand years of history laid out there, how else can we explain it and how can we carry on the past and open up the future?
Everything depends on Mr. Zhang’s big pen... After all, it still depends on Zhang Ximeng.
Sure enough, Zhang Ximeng lived up to expectations and wrote this article and handed it to Lao Zhu. Other outsiders had no chance to know the details. They originally thought that Lao Zhu would read it out in public.
Who would have known that after Zhu Yuanzhang met Fang Guozhen, he told Zhang Ximeng on the way to worship heaven that he should read this article, and Lao Zhu just announced the specific strategies.
Zhang Ximeng was startled. He wrote the article and asked him to read it. It was not difficult and it did not have much impact on the entire process.
The only problem is that this kind of imperial edict has an unusual status.
In future generations, the whole text will have to be memorized and written silently.
Didn’t you see that old man Song Lian burst into tears of gratitude after reading it once? It was engraved in his heart!
I guess this is because Lao Zhu wants to keep the opportunity to shine for himself.
Zhang Ximeng had nothing to say, so he could only dress in a red robe and walk proudly in front of Yue Fei's tomb in front of everyone. He first offered incense and saluted, then held up the memorial inscription and read it aloud in front of everyone.
"Since the Three Sovereigns and Five Emperors, China has flourished, and the general trend of the world has continued to divide and merge. If we carefully sort out the context, there are still two rises and two falls in the dynasty, each lasting more than a thousand years..."
Zhang Ximeng's opening startled many people.
It’s so grand. Dynasties have changed over the past dynasties. Everyone knows that if they divide for a long time, they will unite and unite for a long time. However, Zhang Ximeng said that there are two more ups and downs above the dynasty. Let’s see how you can surpass the dynasty.
How to interpret history?
"In ancient times, floods were raging across thousands of miles of the Yellow River, and people's livelihood was difficult. The Chinese tribes could not protect themselves, so some wise men stepped forward to gather the power of the people, control the floods, and form a country. This was the beginning of the Xia Dynasty..." Qiang sacrificed
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The memory of the Great Flood is something shared by almost every civilization. It seems that thousands of years ago, it rained heavily all over the world, and floods tested everyone.
At this time, in Eastern China, Dayu took up his axe, led the people, split the mountains, dredged the rivers, went on and on, and finally subdued the flood.
Without surrendering or praying to the gods for help, we relied on ourselves to tame the torrent and transform the Central Plains into a Chinese land suitable for people to live and reproduce.
From then on, the land of China showed a different style of painting from other places... After the Xia, Shang and Wednesday dynasties, the feudal system came to an end. In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were always wars. Where should the world go?
At this time, the man stood up!
"The writings of the same text, the carriages of the same track, the world is unified... The merits of the First Emperor will last forever. The Qin and Han Dynasties achieved a unified pattern, and they continued all the way until the fall of the Song Dynasty."
Hearing this, the scholars present began to nod.
Especially Song Lian's eyes lit up.
Because the last memorial article mentioned that after the Zhao and Song Dynasties, the road of sharing the world between scholar-bureaucrats and kings came to an end.
But it seems that it has not been made clear how to look at it specifically.
This time Zhang Ximeng made up for it.
From Dayu's flood control to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, it lasted almost two thousand years. Zhang Ximeng summarized it as the first ups and downs, which was the period when the Chinese countries gradually expanded outward and occupied the land of East Asia.
Because it was easier to expand outside, the enfeoffment system came into being.
But during the Warring States Period, there was no more land that could be enfeoffed, and countries began to roll up, and annexations began to appear. The so-called Three Generations of Rules also came to an end at this time.
The second ups and downs began with Qin Shihuang's creation of a unified pattern. After the Qin and Han Dynasties, it was perfected and reached a peak in the Tang Dynasty. With the Anshi Rebellion, this pattern declined until the Mongols went south and the Song Dynasty perished. It was almost another period.
Over thousands of years, a reincarnation has been completed.
"The Yuan court was brutal, the people were angry, the world was turbulent, and heroes emerged... This was the third rise of China. The core of this rise is that the king is no longer just ordered by heaven, but also upholds the hearts of the people, governs the world, and nurtures the people.
, the ruler and the people are of one heart, and the superiors and subordinates share the same virtue..."
"Therefore, China will win! All peoples will win!"