Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 187 We scholar-bureaucrats are not as brave as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng!

Zhang Cheng now finds it very funny that almost every captured Yuan court official, in addition to scolding him for being unfaithful and unfilial by working for the bandits, would also ask him why he wanted to rebel against the imperial court and do such unloyal and unfilial things.

In the eyes of these people, it seems that people like him should not cause rebellion against the Yuan Dynasty.

Haya and other Mongolian nobles also asked him this. They did not feel that they were invaders of this land at all, but only thought that Zhang Cheng was their betrayer.

In their understanding, literati like Zhang Cheng should be in the same group as them.

But what Zhang Cheng wanted to say was, not to mention rebelling against Yuan Ting, if Zhu Yuanzhang was sorry for himself, he would rebel against Zhu Yuanzhang.

However, in the eyes of Yuanting officials, they all felt that Yuanting had not treated people like themselves wrongly, and it was inappropriate for them to rebel.

The key is that he is not here to be the emperor, which makes these people even more incomprehensible.

Therefore, Zhang Cheng found it ridiculous.

But he thought it was ridiculous, so Zhang Cheng didn't bother to explain. He explained that he came to this world just to subvert and take an unimagined path.

Therefore, he has no intention of stopping doing this.

After Fushou saw the letter, he looked at the dense clouds outside the city. His expression became even more depressed. He didn't want to leave Jiangnan.

Dingzhu had even decided to ask Fushou and others to abandon Jiangnan and first concentrate their forces to clear out the rebels in Jiangbei.

However, many local officials and gentry in Jiangnan did not want Fushou and others to leave, and also wanted Fushou and others to keep Jiangnan.

However, there are still many bureaucrats in the city who have begun to want to persuade Fushou to retreat north.

What's more, some time ago, he also accumulated a lot of goods by going to the countryside to clean up, but now he no longer has enough ships to take away these goods.

Because he has a large amount of land and property in Jiangnan, his annual rent income alone is as rich as the country.

The only reason that can make him give up doing this can only be that doing so is not humane enough to the majority of kind people in the world, is not conducive to the development of China in this world, and more importantly, is not beneficial to his own interests.

Since the army had just experienced a major war and needed to rest and recuperate, Zhang Cheng and others did not rush to attack the city. They only set up camp outside Jiqing to prepare for the war, and at the same time carried out persuasion to surrender, hoping that the Yuan soldiers could surrender without a fight.

Therefore, it is only a matter of time before Jiqing is captured by the rebels.

Because the Yuan soldiers and naval forces were also completely annihilated, the river defenses were all filled with rebel naval forces.

After all, he has a way out and is not from this world.

And Xu Da and others had already cleared the towns around Jiqing.

With the 50,000 yuan soldiers almost wiped out outside the city, there are not many defenders in Jiqing City now, let alone any reinforcements.

Fushou received a letter from Prime Minister Zuo Dingzhu here.

Looking at the nearby Jiqing City, he still wanted to conquer it and transform it, so that it could become the Jiqing City he wanted to see in his heart, instead of a comfortable place where landlords and bureaucrats were arrogant and luxurious, and the people were slaves. The maid’s blood transfusion place.

Zhu Wenzheng also blocked the waterway for Yuan soldiers to retreat to the sea at Pingjiang.

But now, the path Zhang Cheng is taking does not have this problem.

Therefore, Fushou now only hopes that heavenly soldiers and generals will suddenly appear to wipe out the rebels outside and save Jiqing City.

After Zuo Prime Minister Dingzhu knew that the Yuan soldiers had failed in their attack on Taiping, he simply did not cross the river and stayed in the north of the river.

Therefore, Dingzhu wrote a letter to Fushou expressing this idea.

"Xingtai, Jiqing has become an isolated city. We'd better evacuate as soon as possible."

Darugaqi, who participated in politics, encouraged happiness and longevity.

But He Fang, a local official and gentry in Jiangnan, and others knelt down.

He Fang even shouted: "Xingtai! Please don't abandon the people and leave! Who doesn't know that Zhu Yuanzhang and other demon thieves messed up etiquette and ruined documents, so Jin Gong and others were martyred and humiliated, and even You Cheng was forced to confront the unruly people. Kneel down and confess your sins, and if you leave the stage, my father, Jiqing, will never have peace, woo woo!”

After He Fang said this, he burst into tears.

"What else can we do if we don't leave?"

"You only know that you want us to defend Jiqing City, but as for you, you are unwilling to provide money and food, and you are unwilling to provide strong men and women. We can only catch the common people to make up for it, but the common people are not weeds after all. They can grow quickly if they are told, and they cannot You can really survive by enduring hardship, and if you keep pushing, it will only help the demon thief grow bigger!"

"You should understand this better than us!"

Darugaqi then questioned He Fang, turned around and raised his hands to Fushou and said:

"Xingtai, we can only withdraw now. Staying here will not benefit the country of the Yuan Dynasty. Only by leaving here and reporting the true situation in the south of the Yangtze River to the princes in the court can we save the country of the Yuan Dynasty!"

Fu Shou did not answer.

In his heart, he wants to leave now, but he doesn't want to leave. He wants to leave because he is afraid that if he doesn't evacuate, he will be put on trial after the city is broken. Even if he commits suicide in advance, he will not get the treatment that a martyr deserves, but will only be liquidated. More thoroughly, he was even cast into a kneeling statue, and all the property he had amassed was confiscated. The reason why he didn't want to leave was because he, as a lustful man, was really reluctant to part with the property he had amassed, the fertile land he had annexed, and the good land he had annexed. The feeling of being a local emperor and a superior person in Jiangnan.

Here, He Fang gritted his teeth and said: "I am willing to break up my family and build a country, call on my tribe to be brave, live and die with Jiqing City, and protect our Yuan Dynasty!"

Daruga sneered: "What's the use of ruining your family and your country?"

"I will urge all the big families in the city to destroy their families and become a country!"

"I just ask Xingtai to give me one day." He Fang kowtowed again.

He really didn't want Fushou and other Yuan Ting officials to leave just like that, leaving Jiqing City completely in the hands of the rebels.

Because as a Jiangnan gentry, he really likes Dayuan and really hopes that Dayuan can continue to exist in Jiangnan!
How could Fushou want to leave Jiangnan?

You know, the Semu people under the rule of Dayuan were very happy in Jiangnan. Not only did they own a large amount of real estate, they could also ride on the heads of the Han people and dominate them.

Therefore, when Fushou saw what He Fang said, he said: "Well, as an important minister of the country, how can I abandon the people of the city so easily? I will give you one day and hope that you can quickly call on the people to guard Jiqing together."

"Xie Xingtai!"

"It is admirable that Xingtai protects the people of Jiangnan!"

He Fang kowtowed again.

And next.

He Fang actually met with many officials and gentry in Jiqing in Jiqing City, and called on these officials and gentry to say: "My lords, at this time when the country is in trouble, it is time for us to retaliate. We must destroy our homes and save our lives." In the great Yuan Dynasty, we cannot sit back and watch Jiqing fall to the head of the bandits."

"He surnamed He, why do you say such things to deceive your master and destroy your ancestors!"

At this time.

Jiang Chunde, an official and gentry, suddenly pointed at He Fang and shouted, his face full of anger.

He Fang couldn't help but be startled.

"Yes, what you said is so shameless!"

"The barbarians have been living in China for nearly a hundred years. They have lost their integrity and abandoned their rituals, and their civilization has been almost completely destroyed. All Han people in the world want to drive them away! It's just that they hate people in different ways, so they have never been able to resist the invaders successfully. This makes Prime Minister Wen and others loyal and courageous. The scholars all cried in Jiuquan, and the Yi Di continued to oppress us."

"Fortunately, heroes such as Zhu and Zhang rose up and fought hard. They enlightened the people with wisdom, and finally achieved the feat of sweeping away the evil! It is admirable and admirable. We and other scholar-bureaucrats are not as good as us!"

"That's right. Even if we, the incompetent and corrupt scholars, could not raise troops to rebel early to save the people, why do we still accuse these heroes who are trying to restore China and restore the glory of our Han family as bandits?"

"Even if a saint were alive, he would not accuse a hero like this."

Confucian scholar Sun Yan and others also followed up and questioned He Fang.

He Fang was a little confused for a moment, and he felt like he didn't recognize his scholarly friends.

He Fang frowned and asked, "Are you calling me shameless?"

"That's right!"

"It's okay that you sacrificed your life for the Tatars. Let's assume that you, like us, had to bend your body and serve as captives to save the lives of your tribe. How can you still ignore right from wrong and regard the captives as masters!"

"Look at the clothes on your body. Isn't that one made by Han people?"

"How can the blood shed on your body not be passed down by the Han people?"

"You are here shamelessly asking us to be loyal to Hu Yuan. It is because of you that there are too many cheap Confucians who do not distinguish between Chinese and Yi, so our Han family has been humiliated for nearly a hundred years! Otherwise, why did Zhao and Song Dynasty come first? He died in Nüzhi and then in Meng Yuan."

The Confucian scholar Xia Xie pointed at He Fang's nose with excitement and cursed loudly.

He Fang completely lost his guard for a moment, slapped the table and stood up, trembling lips and said:
"Why are you so hypocritical and weak!"

"Jiqing City has not yet fallen into the hands of the bandits, and you are eager to be loyal to the bandits. It is precisely because of shameless people like you that the world's etiquette has been ruined to this extent!"

"I recognized you all in vain!"

He Fang said something.

Snapped!
But at this time, He Fang's uncle He Jian suddenly came over and slapped He Fang directly:

"You son of a bitch! You accept the captive as your master, and your friends are admonishing you for this, but you still don't think about your fault. You are really unworthy of my He family!"

He Fang felt his face burning with pain, and looked at He Jian in shock, with tears streaming down his face: "Uncle, do you also blame your nephew?"

"If you continue to be so stubborn, I, the He family, will treat you as a non-existent person!"

After He Jian said this, he turned his back and raised his head and sighed: "I think that my family, the He family, has always been a loyal and good man in China, and I hope that the evil in the world will go away soon. Now that I have finally waited for this day, it is truly a blessing in the sky." Having eyes allows me to reappear in China, and my ancestors of the He family can rest in peace under the Nine Springs!"

"Mr. Sijin, your nephew should be tied up and presented to Mr. Xiwu (Yang Xian) in the future. This will also prevent the rebels from misunderstanding that your nephew's shameless behavior is the intention of the entire He family."

At this time, Sun Yan persuaded He Jian to come.

Xia Xie also followed up and said: "Yes, Mr. Xiwu wrote a letter saying that the rebel army is only to eliminate backward and reactionary corrupt officials, not to eliminate every person with land and property. It does not advocate violent seizure of property from large households, and as long as it cooperates with meritorious service, Even if you have done something wrong to the people of the Han family before, you can still deal with it lightly. "

He Jian nodded and had He Fang tied up.

At the same time, Sun Yan, Xia Xie and others also brought their children to the city gate and climbed the city wall in the name of helping the army defend the city.

Pfft!

However, when Xia Xie saw Darugaqi, who was patrolling the city, he gave him a knife.

(End of this chapter)