First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Lao Zhu spoke softly and smiled warmly.

After the three people heard this, they nodded again and again, and Dai Shou said: "Your Majesty, before my king came, he once told the foreign ministers that we are in Bashu, and the Ming Dynasty is dominating the river, just like Liu Sun back then... and The Yuan court is very powerful and has many soldiers and horses. Chahan Timur and others are all mighty generals in the world, just like Cao Wei. Only Sun and Liu join forces to fight against the enemy together, can there be a chance of victory."

Actually using the Three Kingdoms to solve the problem, Zhang Ximeng was expressionless, but unhappy in his heart.

This example is very wrong.

Not to mention the presence of Liu Futong's Han Song, the battle in the northern region has not yet ended, Zhang Ximeng is quite dissatisfied with Ming Yuzhen's self-proclaimed Ji Han.

What do you mean?

Do you dare to be orthodox?We are the king of Wei Wu?

Doesn't Ming Yuzhen not know that since the sacrifice to Yashan, I, Ming, have achieved orthodox status, which is the result of Zhang Ximeng's hard work.

And we are now sitting on 50 million horses.

The Son of Heaven is for those with strong soldiers and horses, how many soldiers and horses can Ming Yuzhen have?

I also want to keep pace with us, it's just a dream!

Zhang Ximeng still didn't say much, and continued to watch with cold eyes.

Zhu Yuanzhang was a little bit astonished when he heard this, and then he said: "It's hard for you to think so, the Yuan court is no better than Cao Wei...their emperors and ministers are cruel, exploiting and oppressing the people. By now, Sun and Liu should join hands to make the Northern Expedition together, eradicate Ni Yuan, and restore Huaxia, this is the right thing to do!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang finished speaking, he looked at these three people again.

After a short hesitation, he bowed to the tycoon and said, "If you go back to the Son of Heaven, the Northern Expedition is naturally right, but the Bashu army is weak and the food and wages are not enough. If your majesty can give some money and food, maybe we can discuss it."

As soon as these words came out, Zhu Yuanzhang's face suddenly became gloomy. His fiery temper was directly poured with cold water.

Asking for money without talking about anything, do you think we are fools?

At this time, Zhang Ximeng suddenly said quietly: "Is there a Shu Han who prayed to Wu for food and went to the Northern Expedition?"

This sound was not loud, but it was quite lethal, which made the three of them startled, and Xiang Daheng, a martial artist, obviously couldn't stand it.

Dai Shou immediately said: "The story of Wu and Shu is just a metaphor. What I mean by saying this is also because Wu and Shu broke the alliance and attacked each other, so that Cao Wei gained power. The servant thought that our two families should make an alliance and never attack each other. , that’s the most important thing right now.”

Zhang Ximeng smiled slightly, "So, Sun Liu Kangcao is fake?"

"This? Of course not... Let's make a covenant first, make a friend, communicate with each other, and exchange needs. When the time is right and the preparations are ready, we can naturally go to the Northern Expedition together."

Zhang Ximeng smiled and said, "Does that mean we can't attack Bashu before the time is right?"

"This...naturally!" Dai Shou reluctantly said.

Zhang Ximeng said again: "So, it's just a piece of paper, in exchange for your long-term safety? Then I would like to ask, why do you think I will agree?"

The three of them were all startled, Dai Shou grinned, and suddenly said with a smile: "Ms. Zhang is really sharp and admirable... But I think that Daming intends to expel the barbarians and restore China. We inherit the will of the ancestor Peng. , I also want to rejuvenate the Han family. In this way, how can we not be friends? The word Huaxia is divided into two, and each takes one. My family's king is ready to ascend the throne and proclaim himself emperor. The name of the country is Daxia, just to echo Daming, it is our sincerity!"

Snapped!

Zhu Yuanzhang slapped the table angrily, raised his brows, and a ball of anger rushed straight to his forehead.

He also knew at this moment that he wanted to be simple.He wanted to give up his prejudices, work together for the time being, complete the Northern Expedition, and then talk about other things.

But Ming Yuzhen wanted to keep his position in Bashu first, and even wanted to go one step further, becoming the emperor of Daxia, fighting against him, the son of the great emperor, and dividing China equally.

wishful thinking!

Zhu Yuanzhang has begun to regret it, because he overestimated the hearts of these people.

Zhang Ximeng smiled, not surprised at all, "China has great etiquette, so it is called Xia; it has the beauty of obedience, so it is called Hua. How can the two characters of Huaxia be separated? In addition to expelling the barbarians, my son of heaven wants to restore the country of China In addition, there is another proposition, that is, the unity of Kyushu and the unity of the world!"

Zhang Ximeng got up and said with a sneer: "Go back and tell Ming Yuzhen...At first Zhao Song failed to recover Yanyun, then lost the Northwest, the Central Plains fell, since the end of the Tang Dynasty for hundreds of years, Kyushu was incomplete, and the Hulu occupied the Central Plains. Disgrace to China! If you can follow the general trend, it would be the best. If you want to divide China evenly, so that the Kyushu is incomplete, then you are the same as the Emperor Yuan Ting, and you are the enemy of my Ming Dynasty! The heavenly soldiers will surely fall apart!"

Chapter 442 Learn from Zhang Xiang

After Zhang Ximeng finished speaking, Dai Shou and Xiang Daheng were still in astonishment. They had heard of Zhang Ximeng's name, but they didn't know his weight. After all, wars and major events should be decided by the emperor!

They all looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and Lao Zhu also turned to them slowly at this moment, with a gloomy face, and said coldly: "Our emperor also knows a word, which is called Han and traitors are not at odds. Tell Ming Yuzhen that if he has the ability, he will be killed." If he has no guts, he should quickly give up and join us in the Northern Expedition. If he still wants to divide China equally, unless we die!"

"see a visitor out!"

Old Zhu was furious, and his guards directly drove the three of them out of the palace without being polite at all.

After they left, Lao Zhu sat there with a sullen face, angry for a while, and then suddenly smiled again.

"Sir, it seems that we have made things simple, and we can't be wishful thinking in the future."

Zhang Ximeng had a smile on his face, "My lord, this matter is not wrong... Let's do our best. If Ming Yuzhen is not on the right track and doesn't want to be decent, let's help him to be decent. It's nothing special."

Old Zhu thought for a while, but he didn't agree immediately, but said earnestly: "Sir, Ming Yuzhen is suffering from scabies, it's not a big deal. What's more, the terrain of Bashu is dangerous, and it's not so easy to get in all at once. Yes. It would not be good if the army is restrained, the strength is dispersed, and the overall situation in the north is affected."

After pondering for a while, Zhu Yuanzhang finally said: "Let's see that Liu Futong is not Chahan Timur's opponent!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's sigh was not without reason, and Zhang Ximeng knew it well...Liu Futong was already in a state of decline.

Even before using troops against Chen Youliang, this was the case.

Whether a country is strong or not depends largely not on the number of troops, the size of the territory, or the strength of the forces, but on the unity of the people.

People's hearts move together.

If people's hearts are not in harmony, even a small mound cannot be moved away.

Then look at Han Song's heart, how good is it?

When the Ming army attacked Chen Youliang, Guan Duo of the Northern Expedition Central Army also tried to attack Liaodong, supporting Liu Futong. He led the troops from Koryo and returned to Liaodong. As a result, hundreds of thousands of horses were defeated by the Yuan army in Liaoxi, with heavy losses. , had to retreat to Goryeo.

At this moment, Goryeo's soldiers and horses were also dispatched, wanting to cooperate with the Yuan army and expel the Red Scarf Army.

Guan Duo and the others were at the moment of life and death, and at this moment, Zhang Dingbian stepped forward. He led [-] soldiers and took the initiative to face the Goryeo soldiers.

Three battles and three victories, in the last battle, Zhang Dingbian held a long knife, chased and killed for thirty miles, beheaded eight thousand, killed the Goryeo soldiers and horses, and fled south in embarrassment.

Zhang Dingbian became famous in the first battle, and the children in Korea did not sleep, and their parents used Zhang Dingbian to scare people.

The victory of Zhang Dingbian greatly encouraged Guan Duo and others, and barely repelled the Yuan army, but they suffered great losses. They had lost more than half of the original 20 people.

Such rogue tactics like theirs, engulfing a large number of people, once they suffer a defeat, especially after losing many veterans, they will easily lose their hearts and become devastated.

Guan Duo was so upset that he had to ask Zhang Dingbian for help.

Zhang Dingbian is also very straightforward, you want to organize the army and continue to support it, which is good, but what can we, a rough man, do to help you?

If you want to live, the ready-made examples are there, you just need to learn from Zhang Xiang's deeds.

Zhang Dingbian thoughtfully sent Guan Duo a copy of Zhang Ximeng's article.

"Take it and read it!"

Guan Duo had no choice but to smile bitterly, "Brother Zhang was joking, how could anyone rely on books to conquer the world?"

Zhang Dingbian sneered, "Do you think this is an ordinary book? This is not something that a Confucian scholar moaned about without a disease, sat in his study, and searched his stomach! This is a book for a beggar who has changed from a nine husband to a great emperor. It’s another sage of the world, who wrote the words of wisdom with painstaking efforts... If you think this thing is ordinary, you can find me an extraordinary one? Could it be that you thought that there would be a King Ming who would come to save you? ?”

Guan Duo's face was pale, and Zhang Dingbian robbed him of his whiteness, and he was speechless immediately. After pondering for a long time, he stretched out his hand to grab the manuscript, saluted Zhang Dingbian, and then left in a hurry.

Guan Duo, who was in a difficult situation, actually opened Zhang Ximeng's manuscript and began to learn from the advanced experience of Ming Dynasty.

In fact, this thing is like this, not afraid of you watching, but afraid of you not watching.

Zhang Ximeng made the case clear and made it very clear.

If you want soldiers to fight bravely, a very simple question is to let soldiers know why they are fighting!

If it is simply to motivate with loyalty, to encourage with money, to lure with officials...these are things that the enemy can do, it is not uncommon.

Only by completely equalizing the acres of land, giving the soldiers property, and letting the soldiers fight for the fundamental land, can they burst out with a hundred times the combat power, rather than surrender, and persevere.

Guan Duo is not a fool, on the contrary, he is very smart. In fact, in the early years when Zhu Jiajun did this, someone from Liu Futong also suggested it, but it is a pity that if he can't do it, he can't do it.

Liu Futong himself is powerful, and the people around him are also in similar situations.

What they want is to enter the capital and replace the Yuan court. Those who should be emperors should be emperors, and those who should be ministers should be ministers.

After all, they just saw that Yuan Ting couldn't survive and wanted to replace it, but they didn't think about building a brand new country.

At the very beginning, Yuan Ting was incompetent, but it gave them hope.But with the rise of Chahan Timur, Liu Futong and the others met their opponents.

Those gathered under Chahan Timur's command are all landlords' armed forces. Compared with the decadent Yuan army, this group of people is more organized and has strong logistics. They understand the local situation, communicate with each other and cooperate with each other, where are they? , can be supported.

Both powerful, it is obvious that Chahan Timur is more powerful than Liu Futong, and they are backed by the Yuan court. No matter how bad it is, it is a dynasty that has been around for nearly 100 years, and there is still some power after all.

If you want to really defeat the Yuan court, you must find a new way, come up with new ideas, and show something different... Implement a strict land equalization system, get the full support of the army and civilians, and propose to expel the Hulu and restore China. Firmly occupy the righteous name.

Establish a solid foundation, eliminate the powerful, split up the big households, and prevent these people from colluding with Yuan Ting. Only by doing this step by step and doing it in a down-to-earth manner can we successfully defeat Yuan Ting.

Otherwise, it's just bad. I'm sorry, you are not as experienced as Yuan Ting, and you can't be his opponent.

Guan Duo spent three days, almost without sleep, reading Zhang Ximeng's manuscript over and over again. When he saw the end, Guan Duo couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

This is the truth, and it cannot be unreasonable because of what Zhang Ximeng said.

What's more, this is Koryo, not the Central Plains. Even if you do what Zhang Ximeng said, it doesn't mean you have taken refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang... That's right, it's done!

Before the Yuan army came, Guan Duo immediately ordered to grant the soldiers land, encourage the big guys, combine farming with war, and keep the results of the battle.

First take root in the northern part of Koryo, then enter Liaodong and recover Dadu...

In order to boost morale, Guan Duo also personally made a batch of land deeds and distributed them to his soldiers.

The soldier who got the land deed showed a smile on his face, and finally got a piece of land, but the soldier's smile was somewhat forced.

"Do you think the land is not good? Or do you think it's not enough?" Guan Duo asked earnestly.

The soldiers under him were silent for a long time, they didn't dare to speak, they just tapped the big red seal... Guan Duo was stunned for a moment, then suddenly his old face turned red and he almost fell down!

The land deed you gave is still printed with the seal of the Great Song Dynasty. What is the use of this thing?

Almost like waste paper!

It would be useful if we could give us the land deed of Daming with Emperor Zhu's seal on it!

Guan Duo was ashamed, but he also understood one word: Dong Shi imitates!

Although averaging fields is an excellent method, not everyone can learn it.

Zhu Yuanzhang's land equalization order worked, and that was what he had done since the beginning of the army. After ten years of work, he not only laid down a huge territory, but also established a golden signboard.

The land deed promised by Zhu Yuanzhang is the land deed.

The land deed promised by others is likely to be a piece of waste paper.

What's more, everyone knows that the Central Route Army is in jeopardy, and it would be too ridiculous to try to change their fate by relying on a few land deeds.

After learning from the painful experience, Guan Duo found Zhang Dingbian again.

"I don't understand anything. If you don't understand Zhang Xiang's manuscript, don't come looking for me!"

Guan Duo smiled helplessly, "I understand the manuscript, but Guangyou's manuscript is not enough. I still want to ask Brother Zhang for help?"

"I, how can I help?"

"Brother Zhang is invited to serve as the Ping Zhang of Liaoyang Province, and I am willing to submit to Brother Zhang!"

After finishing speaking, Guan Duo knelt down on both knees and even kowtowed to Zhang Dingbian.

This time, Lao Zhang was totally fooled.

What do you want me to do?

"I, I'm just a vassal under Da Tianzi's command. I, I can't help you or anything." Zhang Dingbian tried desperately to explain.

Guan Duo had no choice but to smile bitterly, "Brother Zhang, what my little brother wants is the four words Da Tianzi!"

"You, you want to change the court?" Zhang Dingbian keenly grasped Guan Duo's meaning.

"I, I am also at a loss now. Only by relying on Da Tianzi, I may be able to maintain my subordinates and not collapse. I don't want to be a person who betrays the master, but when things have reached this point, I, I have no choice!"

Zhang Dingbian looked at Guan Duo seriously, chewing on his words. After a long while, Zhang Dingbian sneered and said, "Guan Duo, listen to what you said reluctantly. It is the Emperor Daming who begged you to co-author? Didn't you ask the Emperor Daming? "

"Where did this... come from?" Guan Duo hurriedly shook his head, "I, I didn't mean that!"

"Why not? If you were desperate, why would you think of joining Daming? You are not sincere, and you are not loyal enough!"

Guan Duo was stunned, Zhang Dingbian was clearly a martial artist, why did he have the acumen of an assassin at this moment?

Loyalty is not absolute, it is absolutely not loyal!

"Zhang, brother Zhang thinks, what should my younger brother do to be loyal?"

Zhang Dingbian chuckled, "I don't want you to surrender immediately, and I don't need me to be a Pingzhang... You are still the Pingzhang of Liaoyang Province, and I will be your deputy. As long as you allow us to make friends with each other, and take those of Zhang Xiang Advocate, preach in the army, let the brothers know, that's it!"