Daming: Lend the system to Emperor Hongwu at the beginning

Chapter 31
The situation facing the Ming Dynasty today is quite complicated.

The northern Tartars had already captured the city of Peiping, and Wu Sangui had surrendered after two consecutive defeats.

Li Zicheng from the west had a big fight with the halal knives and real guns, and they completely huddled in Xi'an.

Zuo Liangyu, who is entrenched in Henan, is still there, but this person is a warlord in the late Ming Dynasty. It is a first-class skill to let him kill Liang and take risks and escape to save his life.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw it very clearly. It was as short as one year and as long as three years. The north of the Yangtze River would basically fall into the hands of the Manchus.

In the south of the Yangtze River, Zhang Xianzhong seized Sichuan, and Zheng Zhilong occupied the coast of Fujian. The same should not be underestimated. Of course, the biggest force south of the Yangtze River was the Chongzhen Emperor's Nanming regime.

Although Zhu Yuanzhang did not show up to meet Emperor Chongzhen, he trained the [-] army that was protecting Emperor Chongzhen going south.

If Zhu Yuanzhang really left at the end of the Ming Dynasty, this army in the hands of Emperor Chongzhen might really be corrupted quickly by those gentry and wealthy families with money, but it is a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang came back just a few days after leaving.

The generals of this army, including the middle and lower-level Baihu and Xiaoqi officials, were basically the gang members of Qingshan Hall two years ago, and the former direct leaders of these gang members were Wubaihao brought by Zhu Yuanzhang from the early Ming Dynasty. State old man.

So in fact, the [-]-strong army of Nanming's most elite is still under the control of Zhu Yuanzhang. Even for more than a year, he used this as a fulcrum, used some means, and mastered two other soldiers and horses.

It can be said that nearly [-]% of the army in Nanjing now has allegiance to Zhu Yuanzhang.

If you add Yan Jiu, who is being used by Emperor Chongzhen and has now become the commander of Jinyiweidu, the entire Nanjing city is basically under Zhu Yuanzhang's control.

If he wanted to replace Emperor Chongzhen and become the emperor himself, or be the Marshal of the world as before, it would be very easy.

But Zhu Yuanzhang no longer wanted to do that.

Today's Ming Dynasty is wrapped in a large net layer by layer, and the oppressed can hardly even breathe, and whether it is the Chongzhen Emperor, the Manchu civil and military officials, or the nobles and the royal family are actually in this big net, they themselves are A member of the Ming Dynasty who was overwhelmed.

Zhang Juzheng once wanted to tear this net apart, but unfortunately he was also in this net, so he only opened the net a little, and he was powerless to continue.

If you want to tear off this net completely, you can't just use force from the inside, you need to borrow external force.

This is the reason why Zhu Yuanzhang did not re-enter the court. He has already jumped out of this net. What he has to do now is not to go back, but to accumulate strength and complete the career that Zhang Juzheng has just started.

"Come with me!" Zhu Yuanzhang took one last look at the bustling city of Nanjing, and with a wave of his hand, led the three of Xu Da into a guest room inside.

It was transformed into a large conference room by Zhu Yuanzhang.

In the middle of the conference room is a map larger than a person, on which countless dotted and solid lines are outlined with various lines, and there are more than 30 red dots, large and small.

How could Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, and Mu Ying, who have fought for a lifetime, be unfamiliar with maps.

After just a few glances, I realized that this should be the map of the actual control area of ​​Nanming today.

"Have you seen the red dot on this?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

The three of Xu Da nodded.

A smile appeared on Zhu Yuanzhang's face: "This is all the rebels in Daming today, and [-]% of these people are our own people."

"This...!" The three of Xu Da looked at each other, although they all knew that their lord always liked to play tricks, but he was actually organizing people to create a rebellion against the Ming Dynasty. This is really a long time to see.

Zhu Yuanzhang ignored the weird expressions on the faces of the three people, and continued: "These people have almost 10 people in total, but it is difficult to control if there are too many people. Several forces have already shown signs of breaking away from us, so now We need a competent person to integrate these people."

Zhu Yuanzhang said, turned his head to look at Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and Mu Ying, and said almost without hesitation: "Let Xu Da do this, give you half a year, I want these people to really form a bond, what do we mean, Where did they fight and how?"

"Definitely not humiliated!" Xu Da nodded calmly.

In Xu Da's opinion, the rebel army that had just risen from the rebellion was simply too easy to reorganize. He has also been doing this kind of thing for 20 years, so it can be said that he is handy.

"very good!"

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded with satisfaction, then looked at Li Wenzhong and said, "Wenzhong, I need you to enter the court as a general, you don't have to worry about your origins, your mission is to control the army of the court, wait for Xu Da to reorganize the rebel army, and start When attacking a city, you lead your troops to quell the rebellion."

"Of course, this is just your obvious task. What you really need to do is to cooperate with Xu Da and carry out raids and liquidations on some of the big clans that I have highlighted."

"You should work together inside and out. Presumably even those big families with more than [-] clansmen and more than [-] slaves will be wiped out in an instant."

"I have a list here, you can take a look. When the time comes, let's come here one by one, and we can't let one go."

Xu Da and Li Wenzhong took a look at the list, and the corners of their mouths couldn't help grinning. It was full of names, and there were probably [-] if there were not [-]. Xu Da even saw the royal family surnamed Zhu on it.

"This is to wipe out the great nobles in the south of the Yangtze River!" Li Wenzhong couldn't help but sigh.

"Your Majesty, will the royal family stay still this time?" Xu Da asked cautiously.

"Since it is to remove the poison, how can there be a reason to keep a piece of it?"

"You just do it. We have already said that the Zhu family in this plane has nothing to do with us."

Seeing Zhu Yuanzhang's cold face, Xu Da, Li Wenzhong and the others couldn't help but feel a chill in their hearts and did not dare to persuade them any further.

They saw Zhu Yuanzhang's determination. Obviously, this time Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to take advantage of the fact that the Tartars had no energy to go south, and he was determined to start a bloody storm south of the Yangtze River.

"I know that there are actually loyal and patriotic people in these big families, but there is no way. Now, in such a rotten situation, there is no way to use thunder. It is an idiot to want to integrate the south of the Yangtze River in three or five years, or even counterattack Jiangbei."

"It just so happens that the country has suffered from the common people for more than 200 years, and this time it can only suffer from these noble families."

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed as if to explain, and as if he was talking to himself.

"Your Majesty is merciful!" The three of Xu Da were silent for a moment, and finally knelt down on one knee and saluted Zhu Yuanzhang.

The three of them were also ordinary people 20 years ago. They were also poor and almost starved to death. If Zhu Yuanzhang hadn't led them to fight a bloody way through the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, they might have died long ago.

These things, they were about to forget, but now suddenly, they all remembered again.

(End of this chapter)