That night, Li Shanchang came to the Marshal's Mansion to find Zhu Yuanzhang and proposed to go to Jiangdu Mansion in person to buy grain from Jiangdu Army.
Zhu Yuanzhang sat back on his chair and stared at him without saying a word.
Li Shanchang said calmly: "If your Majesty does not believe me, just pretend that I didn't say anything and say goodbye."
"Why should you be anxious, sir?"
Zhu Yuanzhang stood up and said with a smile: "When did I lose my trust in you? If you really wanted to leave me, you would have left me long ago without saying goodbye!"
Li Shanchang said proudly: "The commander-in-chief means that he agrees?"
Zhu Yuanzhang did not answer immediately. He sat back slowly and said calmly: "At noon today, I heard that a scholar visited my husband's house. I wonder who that person is?"
Li Shanchang said calmly: "He is one of my students."
"What is this person's name?"
"Hu Weiyong!"
Zhu Yuanzhang nodded. In fact, he had sent people to investigate Hu Weiyong and had not heard of such a number one figure among Jiangdu's military and civilian officials.
"In that case, let General Hua Yun go with you sir!" he said.
Li Shanchang said: "Okay, I'll take my leave then."
"Wait a minute." Zhu Yuanzhang stopped him again and said, "I wonder what kind of rhetoric you are going to use to persuade the King of Chu?"
Li Shanchang said: "Of course it's Han Song!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and said: "Please give me some advice, sir!"
Li Shanchang said slowly: "Han and Song conquered Bianliang and shocked the world. The most worried people should be Zhang Yangquan and Xu Shouhui. Now that Han and Song have come to win over us, I guess the King of Chu doesn't want us to completely fall to Liu Futong. Let's just
Use this to negotiate terms with him!"
Zhu Yuanzhang praised: "As expected of Mr. Li!" He stood up, cupped his hands and said: "Then I'll leave it all to you, sir!"
Li Shanchang bowed his hands, resigned and left.
As soon as he left, a pretty woman came out of the ear door and said, "Husband, Mr. Li's heart is no longer with us!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a long time and sighed: "Now that the world's situation has become clear, every day there are generals urging me to surrender to this and to join that. It is normal for Li Shanchang to want to find a way out!"
The woman walked up behind him, gently rubbed his temples, and said softly: "Don't push yourself too hard. No matter what you choose, I will support you!"
Zhu Yuanzhang patted her arm and said with a smile: "Xiuying, Xu Da and I talked all night yesterday. What do you think we were discussing?"
Ma Xiuying smiled and said: "I can't guess."
An eager light flashed in Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes and he said: "We are discussing which of the three major rebel armies to attack!"
Zhu Yuanzhang only had one road and no more than 20,000 troops, but he actually wanted to attack the three major rebel armies. If others heard this, they would definitely think that Zhu Yuanzhang was overestimating his capabilities.
Ma Xiuying did not have the slightest doubt and asked with concern: "Which company do you want to fight?"
Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly became very excited, stood up, hugged Ma Xiuying on his lap, and said with a smile: "The three major rebel armies actually have weaknesses, but one has the greatest weakness, and we plan to start with him!"
Ma Xiuying hurriedly asked: "Do the three rebel armies have weaknesses?"
Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and said: "Of course. Although Liu Futong has a fierce military force, he is not good at governing the local area. In the future, problems will sooner or later occur when the territory becomes large!"
Ma Xiuying asked: "Where is Zhang Yangquan?"
Zhu Yuanzhang laughed and said: "The biggest problem with this person is that he has chosen the wrong capital. Jiangdu's army has already controlled the provinces of Jiangsu and Zhejiang, but he still sets the capital in Jiangbei. As long as there is a surprise attack on Jiangdu, the soldiers and horses in Jiangnan will not have time to rescue!" Ma Xiuying nodded and asked: "Where is Xu Shouhui?"
Zhu Yuanzhang chuckled and said: "Xu Shouhui is just a puppet. Now the leader of Tianwan Army is Chen Youliang!"
Ma Xiuying hummed and asked again: "What are the weaknesses of Tianwanjun?"
Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes and said: "As I said just now, Chen Youliang has secretly controlled Xu Shouhui. And unlike Ni Wenjun, he has joined the Tianwan Army for less than three years and is not popular. In the future, the division within the Tianwan Army will become even more serious!
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Ma Xiuying thought for a while and said: "It sounds like Tianwanjun's biggest problem!"
Zhu Yuanzhang praised: "That's right, so after discussing it, we decided to operate on Tian Wanjun!"
Ma Xiuying said softly: "I believe Chen Youliang is definitely no match for you, but what about the food and grass issue? Li Shanchang no longer wants to help you, I'm afraid he won't beg for food for you with all his heart!"
Zhu Yuanzhang was silent for a while and said: "I know Li Shanchang very well. Even if he wants to leave, he will definitely handle this matter well so that others cannot point out his faults!"
Ma Xiuying suddenly sighed and said: "Husband, it's a pity that my adoptive father didn't listen to you earlier, otherwise you wouldn't have to work so hard now!"
Zhu Yuanzhang also sighed softly.
He asked himself that he would not lose to anyone, but he didn't get it at the right time. When he had the strength, the world's structure was already established, leaving him no chance to develop at all.
Although what he just said sounds nice, there are many hidden dangers within the Tianwan Army, but after all, the opponent has strong troops and sufficient food and grass.
He took the initiative to attack Tianwan's army as a last resort. This was his last move.
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Early the next morning, Li Shanchang and Hua Yun led a dozen followers from Wuwei and headed all the way towards Jiangdu Prefecture. Hu Weiyong also followed the team openly.
Wuwei and Jiangdu Prefecture are only separated by Hezhou and Zhenzhou roads. Now that Jiangdu Army controls Jiangdong, they can directly take the Yangtze River waterway and go straight down the river.
The group took a passenger ship and headed east along the Yangtze River, arriving in Jiangdu Prefecture in only five days.
That afternoon, everyone checked into the hotel.
In the evening, Li Shanchang only said that he would go to see the King of Chu immediately, left the hotel directly, and went to Zuo Xiangfu with Hu Weiyong to pay homage to Guo Niansheng.
Hu Weiyong is an official in the Prime Minister's Mansion, and he can enter the government directly if he has the badge.
After entering the Prime Minister's Mansion, Hu Weiyong approached the housekeeper of the Prime Minister's Mansion and asked if Guo Niansheng was in the mansion.
The housekeeper said: "While we were still at the house just now, the king suddenly sent someone to call the prime minister over."
Hu Weiyong nodded and said to Li Shanchang: "Teacher, let's wait in the side hall first."
Guo Niansheng was not the only one who was called to the palace. Right Prime Minister Lu Liangzuo, Liu Bowen, Chen Ji and other Pingzhang political officials were also called over.
The atmosphere in the study seemed to have solidified. Zhang Yangquan had a calm face and did not say a word for a long time.
This was the first time that several prime ministers saw Zhang Yangquan's attitude. They couldn't help but look at each other, not knowing what was going on.
Everyone winked at Guo Niansheng and asked him to ask.
Guo Niansheng, however, did not want to get into trouble and kept his mouth tightly shut.
Chen Ji had no choice but to say: "Your Majesty, has something happened?"
Zhang Yangquan said in a deep voice: "Have you received any news about Danyang County recently?"
Everyone looked at each other and shook their heads.
Zhang Yangquan glanced at everyone one by one and said solemnly: "The people in Danyang County are almost being forced to rebel, but you don't know anything?"
Liu Bowen frowned and said: "Please, Your Majesty, please suspend your thunderous anger and inform us of the details."
Zhang Yangquan glanced at him, took a deep breath, picked up a piece of paper from the table, spread it out, and said, "Look at what this is?"
Everyone came together and couldn't help but change their colors.
It turned out that the piece of paper was stained with blood, and it was full of names written in blood. In addition to the names, there were also many bloody fingerprints, which were obviously pressed by people who could not write.
Liu Bowen said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, I wonder where this blood letter comes from?"
Zhang Yangquan said: "It was Geng San who brought it over. His wife Shu Ting went to Qingyuan to pick up her relatives. She passed by Danyang County by boat and met a group of people at the dock. They wanted to come to Jiangdu Prefecture to complain!"
Chen Ji asked: "Where are those people now?"
Zhang Yangquan said coldly: "Just when the boat was about to set off, a group of government soldiers broke into the boat and wanted to take them back. When the two sides clashed, a commoner handed a blood letter to Shu Ting, hoping that she would show it to me!" These government soldiers were recently set up by Zhang Yangquan. They were originally intended to maintain public order in various places and arrest bandits. There were 500 soldiers in each county.
Who would have thought that these government soldiers would be used by officials to suppress the people.
Chen Ji was furious and said: "Who is the magistrate of Danyang County? How dare you send troops to prevent people from complaining!"
Lu Liangzuo said: "The name of the Danyang County magistrate is Chen Ning. He was originally a small official in Zhenjiang. He ranked 32nd in the imperial examination last September. He is proficient in legal studies and good at policy theory."
Zhang Yangquan couldn't help but glance at Lu Liangzuo. He could remember Chen Ning's situation so clearly, which shows that he really pays attention to his work.
Guo Niansheng changed his color slightly and said: "I remembered that when we were promoting new rice planting a while ago, Chen Ning's Danyang County had a very high promotion rate, second only to Wu County's Lu Yiming."
A thought suddenly arose in the minds of several people: Could this matter be related to the promotion of new rice?
Zhang Yangquan pushed hard for this matter. Even if they suspected it, they did not dare to say it casually.
Ma Yulin suddenly asked: "What did Chen Ning do that caused the people to write letters in blood?"
"I have sent people to investigate this matter."
Zhang Yangquan said solemnly: "It is very simple to deal with Chen Ning. The question is whether there are any officials like Chen Ning! Don't you feel a chill on your back? If Miss Shu Ting hadn't happened to get this blood letter, the people of Danyang would have
What should I do?"
Liu Bowen cupped his hands and said: "As a censor, I didn't notice this matter at all. Please punish me!"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hands and said: "Now is not the time to ask questions, but how to prevent similar things from happening again!"
Liu Bowen said: "I think the supervision of local officials should be strengthened immediately."
"How to supervise?"
"Establish a censor's office in the local area to supervise local officials!"
Zhang Yangquan nodded: "This method is okay."
Ma Yulin said: "You can also send out inspection officials regularly to check the local situation!"
Zhang Yangquan looked at the two of them and said: "These two matters are left to you. We must establish a supervision agency as soon as possible!"
Both of them raised their hands.
Zhang Yangquan said to Lu Liangzuo again: "Prime Minister Lu, you choose a capable person from the candidate officials to serve as the temporary magistrate of Danyang County. You must appease the people!"
Lu Liangzuo said loudly: "I accept your order!"
Zhang Yangquan waved his hand and said: "Okay, you all can go down."
All the officials bowed their hands and resigned together.