Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 210 Establish a currency system and control the world!
"But my father is also one of the top four scholars in Zhejiang. Prime Minister Tuotuo valued him very much back then."

Liu Lian said unconvinced.

He now had to admit that Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Cheng and others would definitely win the world in the future. Therefore, he began to hope that his father could be appointed as an official by these people, so that his Liu family could also rise in the new dynasty in the future. One floor.

But Liu Lian did not expect that Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Cheng and others no longer need Confucian scholars like his father Liu Bowen.

Yang Xiansan smiled and said: "Now the Datong Society and the Chinese Army need two kinds of people, either people who are reliable in concept, advocate the concept of Datong and can withstand rigorous inspection, or people who are reliable in ability and have the ability to handle practical matters." A person with strong abilities, skills or management skills.”

"But to be honest with my mentor, his ideas have never been based on the people, but on ordering the world. What he is good at is also using conspiracy and power internally to centralize power, but this has no place in our Datong Society now. !”

"Not to mention people like Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou no longer need to be excluded. Even Zhang Shicheng and Liu Futong are now cooperating well with us."

"And if my mentor is only allowed to be a local official like me, he will definitely not be willing to do it. He will feel that his talents are being neglected."

"After all, it is just to crack down on powerful people and purge local officials. It is not what he wants. The official he really wants to be is one who can turn the world into a chess game like Mr. Zhang and hold the chess pieces himself."

"That's why I said that my mentor has missed him, and it would be better for him to study at home now."

But Liu Lian definitely didn't want his father to study at home.

Liu Bowen may be willing to study at home.

Liu Bowen glanced at his son, then smiled bitterly and said:

Liu Bowen said: "What else can we do? The general trend of the world is overwhelming. If you follow it, you will prosper, but if you go against it, you will perish. Our Liu family is not the master of the world. How can we go against the general trend?"

After hearing this, Liu Bowen let out a long sigh: "I also want to know why he can control the world. I want to know who he studied under. I want to know why he knows so much and why he has so much wisdom."

"So you said you didn't expect me to stop women from binding their feet. It's just a small change I made in this world."

"Because Mr. Zhang and his father are on a different path."

Liu Bowen said with a stern face, rather against his will.

Yang Xian said.

"If I ask him to change, he must change."

"What we fear most is that the world will change. He seems to be eager for the world to change. It seems that the world is just a plaything in his palm. If it doesn't move, it will make him unhappy!"
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"This world is just a plaything in the palm of my hand!"

Therefore, Liu Lian rushed home immediately after leaving Yang Xian, told Liu Bowen what he had seen in Jiqing, and deliberately spoke ill of Yang Xian in front of Liu Bowen: "This Yang Xiwu, he actually thinks that you are not worthy of being my father." Rule the world!”

After all, who doesn’t want his father to be a high official?

"Although he, Yang Xian, knows father better than you, he has misunderstood father. Father will not be unwilling to put down his status and become a local people-friendly official just because his status is too high!"

Liu Lian was silent for a while and asked: "Father, you just said that the general trend of the world is irreversible, but how did Mr. Zhang reverse the general trend of the world? Or is it that he knows the general trend of the world better than you?"

"Go to the festival!"

Liu Lian asked.

Liu Lian stood up after hearing this: "What does father mean?"

"If there is no change in him, there will be no change in him."

"Yang Xian is actually right. At least my father is not worthy of being a senior official of the Chinese Army of their Datong Society!"

"But father, what should we do?"

"Jiaying, you have to remember!"

"The land you live in carries not only a country, but a civilization, and what I rely on, sir, is not just one or two knowledge, or more knowledge than others, but a more advanced civilization. The wise men in that civilization only allow me to stand on their shoulders and overlook the world from above."

"Especially, sir, the shoulders of wise men I stand on are still the shoulders of wise men I have produced after the transformation of Chinese civilization."

Zhang Cheng got drunk again at the celebration banquet after the victory.

Therefore, in front of Jiaying, after she mentioned that she thought he was great and had made the rich girls in the world stop binding their feet, he proudly spoke his true feelings.

Jiaying didn't understand what she was hearing, and she didn't listen carefully. She only focused on taking off Zhang Cheng's shoes and socks.

Zhang Chengze continued to say, half awake and half asleep: "Don't worry, our world will get better and better, the people will get better and better, and other people will get better and better, but I don't just have to use firearms." To change them, make them better and better, and change them monetarily.”

Zhang Cheng indeed has plans to launch a monetary system. Therefore, the day after the celebration banquet, Zhang Cheng drafted an order to first issue cloth coins as legal tender, and Zhu Yuanzhang agreed. He also asked the newly established Financial Department to send an envoy with a batch of cloth coins. He went to see Zhang Shicheng, Liu Futong and others and said that he could give them loans to buy their own firearms, but they could only trade in cloth coins.

Zhu Yuanzhang is a very smart person and a practical person.

Basically, Zhang Cheng knew what kind of medicine Zhang Cheng was selling in his gourd.

Even sometimes, his ability to understand was better than Zhang Cheng's. Zhu Yuanzhang actually understood the concept before Zhang Cheng fully understood it. He also said that Zhang Cheng was the one who had the secret book but did not fully understand it. As for Zhu Yuanzhang, he often asked Zhang Cheng to come up with more theoretical knowledge.

Zhang Cheng himself had to admit that he was often not as smart as Zhu Yuanzhang.

In order to maintain his sacred status in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, he was sometimes reluctant to transfer the knowledge of later generations so quickly, because it would appear that his value was shrinking.

This is just like whether a master should give all his unique skills for free.

But because Zhang Cheng thought that he could eventually go back, he did not decide to do that. Instead, he decided to transfer the knowledge of later generations more slowly to prevent Zhu Yuanzhang from suddenly absorbing too much advanced knowledge and go to extremes, and also to allow Zhu Yuanzhang to be removed. Others outside also follow suit and make progress.

Zhu Yuanzhang is not the only one Zhang Cheng is determined to change now.

In fact, it was not just Zhu Yuanzhang who had his destiny changed under his influence.

The advanced firearms he brought have changed the fate of many people.

Such as Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou.

Now, Zhang Cheng still wants to change the fate of Zhang Shicheng, Liu Futong, etc., and he also needs to use the monetary system and theoretical knowledge to change them.

However, the reason why Zhang Cheng uses cloth coins now is because there are more cloth coins in the Jiangnan area, and the Yuan Dynasty's banknotes are still flooding. They have not yet completely seized the highest power in the world, so they temporarily use cloth coins as currency. .

When the cabinet envoy came to see Zhang Shicheng, Liu Futong and other forces with many cloth coins, Liu Futong had already used firearms such as blunderbuss bought from Jiqing to fight against the Yuan soldiers Dashi Batur's tribe.

Dashi Batur, Pingzhang of Henan Province, was a general who wanted to save the Yuan Dynasty. In Henan, he forcibly confiscated the fields of the powerful and wealthy gentry. Based on this, he recruited the refugees, farmed and fought, and now has an army of 100,000. As a result, the Han Song regime under the leadership of Liu Futong was unable to resist for a while and lost many cities in a row.

At present, Das Batur is besieging Taikang City, which is occupied by Han Song's regime, and is determined to win Taikang City.

For this reason, after giving the order to attack the city, Dashi Batur personally beat the drums to show his power, and a large number of Yuan soldiers rushed toward Taikang City.

But just as these Yuan soldiers approached Taikang City, Liu Futong waved his hand, and a large number of firearmsmen who had been trained in a short period of time took out their blunderbuss and started shooting at these Yuan soldiers.

As the white smoke rose, a large number of Yuan soldiers were killed on the ground. The Yuan soldiers' crossbows were unable to withstand the sophisticated muskets for a while, so they had to retreat under the order of the frontline commander.

But when the Yuan soldiers retreated in large numbers, Liu Futong sent a large number of firearmsmen out of the city to pursue them. Row after row, they chased the Yuan soldiers.

The Yuan soldiers had no choice but to be beaten passively, so the originally orderly retreat turned into a rout. Even the large number of cavalrymen in the Yuan army became frightened when they saw the appearance of a large number of gunmen and withdrew towards the central army.

Das Batur's face darkened when he learned of this situation: "How come these demon thieves suddenly have so many firearms?"

Marshal Boro Temuir handed a captured bird gun to Das Batur and replied: "Like the firearms seen in Qinghe in the past, they should have been sold to Liu Futong by demon thieves such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng. of!"

Das Batur was shocked after hearing this: "What did you say?!"

"I don't dare to lie. Only our people can make such a blunderbuss now, that's them!"

Brotmoor returned with a hand.

Dashi Batur said with a stern face: "I now hope that this was sold to Liu Futong by a corrupt official among us, and not with the help of evil thieves such as Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng! Otherwise, thieves and bandits from all over the world are uniting. I mean, this is undoubtedly not conducive to our army’s advance!”

"The fighter plane has been lost today, withdraw immediately! In addition, send a fast horse to inform Prime Minister Zuo of this matter."

Das Batur then gave instructions.

"Yes!"

After Liu Futong learned that Das Batur had retreated, he breathed a sigh of relief and said: "Sure enough, the money spent on buying gunshots was not wasted! Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng are people with big ambitions."
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"There are also a large number of bird shooters in Taikang?"

Kaifeng.

Prime Minister Zuo Dingzhu was quite surprised when he found out about this, and he couldn't help but frown, and thought to himself: "Have these demons and thieves from the south and north of the Yangtze River completely united? What should we do?"

After thinking this for a while, he started pacing around the room, thinking carefully about countermeasures.

After thinking for a long time, Dingzhu still decided to write an urgent message to Emperor Yuan Shun, advising Emperor Yuan Shun to increase his efforts to recruit all kinds of demon thieves except Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Cheng and other demon thieves, so as not to be unable to resist them when the time comes. .

(End of this chapter)