Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 209 Yang Xian: He has the same ambition as the First Emperor!

Ma, Zhu Biao and Guo Tianxu's mother, Zhang, have now been brought to Jiqing.

So, on this day, Zhang Cheng, Jiaying, Zhu Yuanzhang, Ma, Guo Tianxu, Zhang and others came to the market in casual clothes, ready to buy.

Zhang Cheng bought a lot of porcelain in the name of revitalizing industry.

Zhu Yuanzhang bought many things for children, and even spent a lot of money to buy a glass kang screen with a global map engraved on it. He said that when Zhu Biao grew up, he could know how big the world was by seeing the screen every day.

Guo Tianxu bought a spring bed for his mother Zhang, saying it was to make Zhang sleep more comfortable.

Zhu Yuanzhang was quite envious when he saw this.

What he envied was not that Guo Tianxu could afford a spring bed, but that Guo Tianxu could buy a spring bed for his mother and fulfill his filial piety.

"If our mother were here, we would be filial to her, even more so than he is!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but said this to Ma.

Ma smiled and said: "In any case, many mothers in the world now have the opportunity to be respected by their children because of our Chinese Army."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "The girl is right!"

Nowadays, Jiqing City has a large population and is packed with people.

Although the industrial products of the Chinese Army are still unsaleable, the overall consumption situation is improving.

Therefore, there are actually many people shopping in the street market.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw the smiles on the faces of these strangers, especially when he saw some people who, although wearing rags and patched clothes, were helping their parents to go into the store to pull cloth and buy medicine, he felt an uncontrollable feeling in his heart. The sense of accomplishment that comes with a name.

He knew that he had his own merit in this.

Simultaneously.

Zhu Yuanzhang also knew that Zhang Cheng had some credit for this.

Because if it weren't for Zhang Cheng, he wouldn't know how he could have kept so many people alive.

Zhang Cheng is now looking at the people coming and going.

Seeing the hopeful smiles on their faces, Zhang Cheng was also happy.

He also felt a sense of accomplishment.

Liu Lian, who also came to Jiqing City, was in a very complicated mood at this time.

Because he also saw many people coming and going shopping in the market in Jiqing City, and he also saw smiles on the faces of many people in Jiqing City, not that all industries were depressed, nor that everyone was miserable.

This puzzled Liu Lian.

He originally thought that the Chinese army occupying Jiqing City would be troubled by the influx of too many people, and would even plunder the property of wealthy officials and gentry, or expand its troops and kill people to reduce population pressure.

But he didn't expect that Jiqing City would be so peaceful and prosperous now.

Unbelievable.

Very incredible!

"Isn't your company worried about the next money and food due to the influx of so many people?"

Liu Lian, who was full of doubts, found his father's student Yang Xian, who was then the prefect of Jiqing in Datong Society, and asked him about it.

Yang Xian replied: "Do you think that Mr. Zhang, like his mentor, only knows how to demand the people with the principles of ethics, the officials and the gentry with the way of saints, act with power and deceit, and handle cases with an iron fist?"

"It's not that I don't respect my tutor, but to be honest, Mr. Zhang is better than his tutor in managing finances and ensuring people's safety, and he is far better than the scholar-bureaucrats in the world!"

After hearing this, Liu Lian was quite dissatisfied and his expression darkened.

But he felt that Yang Xian, as his father's student, would not have said such words of contempt for his father and the world's scholar-bureaucrats if he had not been truly impressed by Zhang Cheng.

Because he clearly remembered that as a northerner, Yang Xian came to the south to settle down because he admired his father's knowledge.

Therefore, Liu Lian gritted his teeth and asked, "Why do you say that?"

"Because what Mr. Zhang does is really people-oriented."

"You should pay attention, the people-oriented approach here is not based on scholar-bureaucrats, but really on the people!"

"Because he is people-oriented, Mr. Zhang gave up fighting for the master of the world and only focused on how to maximize the interests of the world. Conspiracy and power were never used for internal strife, or even against each other. Amid the strife from external forces, domestic industries can only benefit from expanding externally.”

Yang Xian spoke with a look of reverence.

Liu Lian was even more shocked: "He really doesn't like being a master?"

"I didn't believe that he really didn't like it, but now it seems that he really doesn't like it and really wants to be a sage!"

"So, Mr. Zhang will not do anything at the expense of his own interests just to be able to ride on others."

"When I was working with him, I saw it with my own eyes several times. Hua Yun, Tang, people like him, and even an ordinary craftsman argued with him over some specific matters. It was obvious that at the end of the argument, when it was discovered that Mr. Zhang was wrong, Zhang Sir, he is not willing to ignore the facts and force the people below him to admit that he is right just because he is in a higher position."

"In short, Mr. Zhang really values ​​facts and actual interests more than face. He would rather be humiliated by others than to understand the truth."

"All this is to make people live better."

"Otherwise, with Mr. Zhang's status, he can discuss the superiority first, then the facts, and use his power to force the truth to surrender to him!" After Yang Xian said this, he laughed and looked at Liu Lian: "Do you think the world's scholar-officials "How many people can really do what Mr. Zhang does?"

"There are such sages in the world!"

Liu Lian couldn't help but sigh.

Yang Xian said more and more excitedly: "That's right! Therefore, a large number of refugees are led to gather to celebrate. This will not stop our Datong Society Chinese Army, which benefits the people, but will only make us stronger, because our Mr. Zhang has already prepared to be productive." We have received new grains and have prepared new trade goods, but now I feel that there are too few people coming to celebrate, not that there are too many people.”

"You guys are on top."

"Didn't he just become the Duke of Wu?"

"Is he willing to just sit back and watch a selfless man like Mr. Zhang accumulate high prestige through his great merits in reassuring and enriching the people?"

"Isn't he worried that Mr. Zhang's prestige will threaten his throne sooner or later?"

"Isn't he worried that even if he becomes emperor in the future, the Zhu family will be replaced by the Zhang family sooner or later?"

Liu Lian continued to ask Yang Xian.

Yang Xian pondered for a while.

Then, Yang Xian said: "Maybe, but now he can't."

"why?"

Liu Lian asked in confusion.

Yang Xian smiled: "Because Mr. Zhang has brought him so many benefits! So much so that he is richer than the current emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Why doesn't this make him look forward to whether Mr. Zhang will completely destroy Hu Yuan in the future?" He has brought more benefits, not to mention the hope that Mr. Zhang has brought to him, which has given him the same ambition as the First Emperor, or even greater ambitions than the First Emperor!"

"A bigger ambition than the First Emperor?"

Liu Lian was even more stunned.

Because the Han people have not had a so-called hero for many years who has the same ambition as the First Emperor, or even a greater ambition than the First Emperor.

You must know that even now, there are still a small number of Han people who are willing to rebel against the Yuan Dynasty and restore China, and these few people are still the bottom people who are least looked down upon by the scholar-bureaucrats, and are denounced as thieves by most of the scholar-bureaucrats.

The wave of the Northern Expedition had already started, and many of the leaders of the peasant army who had reached Yuan Shangdu did not even have names. Even if they had names, they were only named Mr. Guan and Po Tou Pan.

Yang Xian said: "That's right."

Then, Yang Xian looked at Liu Lian: "Do you know what is the most conspicuous furnishing in our superior's study?"

After Yang Xian said this, he replied: "The most eye-catching thing is the "Comprehensive Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms" that Mr. Zhang personally had people draw!"

"This painting has been hanging on his wall. It is said that he stops in front of the picture for a long time almost every day, because Mr. Zhang wrote on it the mineral deposits, the number of cultivated fields, the climate conditions, the seven continents and four oceans, and the whole world. Up there, the superior who has always wanted to have land and food for his children and grandchildren knows the meaning of that picture better than anyone else, knows what he should live for in this life, and who he should regard as his enemy. "

Liu Lian couldn't understand Yang Xian's words, so he asked, "What is the Complete Map of Kunyu and Ten Thousand Kingdoms?"

"You come with me!"

Yang Xian took Liu Lian to his study room, and then pointed to a much smaller map of the world to Liu Lian: "This is it."

Simultaneously.

Yang Xian also explained it in detail to Liu Lian.

After hearing this, Liu Lian said: "Actually, my father also told me about some of these places. After all, our family has also been to Fanshang."

"I know that my mentor will not be ignorant of the situation overseas."

Yang Xian replied with a smile, and then asked Liu Lian: "But if it were him, would he be willing to tell the superiors this?"

Liu Lian smiled slightly and looked at Yang Xian seriously: "Young Master should know the consequences of letting an emperor know this!"

"I know, it's just that Taoism is becoming more and more useless, and it will be difficult for us Confucian scholars to be masters. After all, Taoism only helps to maintain the status quo, and is not conducive to development."

Yang Xian replied, and then said: "That's why I say that Mr. Zhang is truly people-oriented, and neither his mentor nor the scholar-bureaucrats in the world are as good as him!"

Liu Lian looked at the map and smiled bitterly and said: "But I didn't expect Mr. Zhang to know more! If the world is really so big, I don't think my father would be willing to let the country prosper in the name of making the world more prosperous." Actively develop! ”

Liu Lian then glanced at Yang Xian meaningfully and asked, "When do you plan to recommend my father to Mr. He and Mr. Zhang?"

"useless."

Yang Xian replied.

Liu Lian felt nervous after hearing this: "How do you say this?"

Yang Xian frowned and said: "Now our Datong Society and the Chinese Army select officials, instead of recruiting and recruiting people, we train and select them ourselves!"

"Therefore, not to mention my mentor, even the Confucian scholars in Jiqing City are not conscripted. Even if it is a matter like camp, we would rather let the students we train graduate early and work in the camp army, and there is no conquest. Avoid outsiders."

"what?"

Liu Lian was stunned.

Disappointment and frustration washed over him.

Yang Xianze continued: "Teacher should not look forward and backward! It is easy to miss many opportunities by looking forward and backward."

(End of this chapter)