Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 224 Fang Guozhen was ordered to support the enemy, and Hu Weiyong wanted to drag Zhu Yuanzhang into the water.
Yuan Zhizheng seventeenth year, February.

Zhoushan.

When Fang Guozhen, who had surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, was transporting grain and fodder to the Yuan Dynasty, the fleet passed by. Liao Yongan, who had been ambushing here for a long time, led his headquarters and the Sang family's fleet to attack from left and right.

Fang Guozhen was shocked when he saw this.

He really didn't expect to encounter such a huge fleet in Zhoushan. The key is that these warships are also very unique. They have no shipyards, and there are rows of windows in the cabins. The windows are full of cannons, and the ships are very fast.

When Fang Guozhen saw the battle flag of the opponent's warship approaching with the words "Chinese Army", he realized that this was Zhu Yuanzhang's navy, which had recently become famous in Jiangnan.

Boom!

Then, before Fang Guozhen had time to react, the other party had already fired, and the huge projectiles smashed the sails of several warships in front of him.

Fang Guozhen immediately opened her mouth.

In this era when naval battles were still dominated by side-to-side battles, this method of water warfare in which warships were spread out to form a battle line and bombarded with cannons was both unfamiliar and terrifying to Fang Guozhen.

no way.

After receiving the good news, Privy Councilor Guo Tianxu immediately informed Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng who were planting corn seedlings together.

For example, after the development of firearms, although the Mongolian cavalry still had advantages in mobility, their advantages have been sharply reduced.

After Fang Guozhen surrendered and intercepted 300,000 shi of grain and 200,000 shi of fodder, Liao Yongan immediately reported his victory to Jiqing.

This also makes the highly skilled sailors under his command completely unable to show their talents, and they can only be passively bombarded before they get close to the opponent's warship.

They are not stupid people. After seeing the situation in front of them, they naturally understand the importance of technological innovation.

After all, the Chinese navy can now start a naval battle without taking over the ship.

Naturally, he knew that he could not win.

Now that warships have developed, skilled sailors like Fang Guozhen have no choice but to surrender because their own warships are lagging behind.

"Three hundred thousand stones of grain and two hundred thousand stones of fodder have now become the food and fodder of our Datong Society. Now, the emperor of Hu Yuan and the princes and ministers will be hungry!"

He really couldn't think of any way to defeat the enemy.

Zhu Yuanzhang then stood up with a smile and received the good news, looked at it and said: "This Fang Guozhen has always been quite capable, which gave Hu Yuan a headache. As a result, as soon as the new warships and new naval battle tactics designed by Mr. Zhang came out, he surrendered directly. The so-called heroes of the sea are nothing more than local chickens and dogs in front of Mr. Zhang.”

Therefore, after Fang Guozhen came to his senses, he decisively ordered surrender with white flags raised.

He hopes that Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Tianxu understand that it is important to constantly innovate technology, which will make the advantages of many talents less important.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Guo Tianxu both nodded.

Fang Guozhen himself also had someone tie him up and have someone carry the coffin to kneel down to see Liao Yongan.

Zhang Cheng expressed his opinion.

But now, the war model displayed by the Chinese Navy is too advanced and terrifying.

"So it is very important to pay attention to technological innovation. As long as the technological innovation is good, no matter how strong your riding, shooting or boating skills are, it will be due to technological innovation and iteration, and you cannot use this to blackmail the people of the world into enslavement."

Then, Fang Guozhen gave all the 300,000 shi of grain and 200,000 shi of fodder that Shi Mo Yisun and Chen You had given him to transport to the Yuan Dynasty, and handed them over to Liao Yong'an and other Chinese naval forces.

Although he can be regarded as a tycoon at sea, he once caused Yuan Ting a headache, so Yuan Ting had to recruit him.

Zhu Yuanzhang even went on to say that corn seedlings were planted in the ground and echoed: "Technological innovation is very important. Not only that, grain types must be constantly innovated, otherwise who would know that there is such a new grain as corn."

"Yes, everything needs to be new. There are many good things now that I couldn't even think of before."

Guo Tianxu also started talking, and added: "With these 300,000 shi of grain and 200,000 shi of fodder, we can intensify our offensive against Shimo Yisun and help the two Zhejiang provinces be completely occupied by our Datong Society as soon as possible. have."

"Then we can ask Fang Guozhen to cooperate with us and lie to Shi Moyisun and Chen Youding, saying that he repelled our navy, and said that he can continue to transport food for the Yuan Dynasty, so that Shi Moyisun and Chen Youding can help the Yuan Dynasty. It is better to continue to transport food to us through Fang Guozhen, and we can sell their food to make money, or to transport it directly to the front line as military food for the attack on Shimo Yisun. "

Zhang Cheng raised his opinion at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang immediately nodded and said, "Mr. Zhang's plan is a good one!"

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered not to take Fang Guozhen to the celebration for the time being, but sent Mu Ying to meet Fang Guozhen on his behalf and express Datong Society's intention to Fang Guozhen.

Fang Guozhen was naturally happy about this.

He wished he could continue to be the overlord on the sea. Therefore, Fang Guozhen immediately agreed.

The "China News" also cooperated and did not announce the success of the grain robbery and Fang Guozhen's surrender. It only issued a notice that Zhu Yuanzhang recruited Fang Guozhen to surrender, so as to appear that Datong Society could not do anything to Fang Guozhen and could only use national justice. and various favorable conditions to recruit Fang Guozhen to surrender.

Shi Moyisun and Chen Youding still believed that Fang Guozhen sent people to tell them that the sea food route was still open, so they continued to give Fang Guozhen the food and grass collected in their jurisdiction and asked Fang Guozhen to transport it to the north. go.

But what Shi Moyisun and Chen Youding didn't know was that the food and grass they had worked so hard to raise were soon handed over to Liao Yongan by Fang Guozhen and fell into the Chinese army.

The Datong Society established by Zhang Cheng and Zhu Yuanzhang can now be said to be unfavorable to the outside world. Their opponents and competitors cannot even think of taking advantage of the Datong Society.

But the real enemy of Datong Society actually comes from within.

When Liao Yong'an was ordered to deliver the grain defrauded from Shi Mo Yisun and Chen Youding to Tang Chang, the guard of Mingzhou, Tang Chang organized warships to transport the grain to Pingjiang and prepared to take the horse-drawn train and return by railway. During the gathering, Hu Weiyong ordered his people to transport this batch of grain to Xie Zaixing.

Xie Zaixing sent someone to smuggle this batch of grain into the hands of Zhang Shicheng's general Lu Zhen, and made a fortune in silver by selling this batch of grain.

"Everyone says that the superior has a stratagem. The purpose of marrying Xie Zaixing is to win over more forces among the newly attached soldiers of Datong Society to be loyal to him, so that he can completely suppress people like Mr. Zhang and Guo Tianxu in terms of power in the future."

"But in my opinion, Mr. Hu has a more clever strategy. He secretly bribed Xie Zaixing's people and sold grain with them to make profits. In this way, Xie Zaixing, who is nominally a high-ranking person, is actually one of Mr. Hu's."

"In any case, although Mr. Hu is still the doctor of the Iron Administration Department, Li Shanchang, the second assistant to the cabinet, and Xie Zaixing, the commander-in-chief of Zhenjiang, are already members of Mr. Hu. They are undoubtedly the most powerful officials among all the departments. There is no need to become cabinet elders in the future. Doubtful thing.”

Zhao Zhongzhong, a member of the Iron Administration Department, had been bribed by Hu Weiyong, and together with him, he flattered Hu Weiyong one day when he was sharing the dirty laundry with Hu Weiyong's cronies at his private residence.

Hu Weiyong was quite proud, but he didn't show it too obviously. He just pretended to be angry and said: "Don't say that. The only people who can compete with the superiors are Mr. Zhang and Mr. Li Ge. How can I compare? I'm just Out of consideration for the brothers, I just do something that the brothers like."

Although Hu Weiyong said this, he still couldn't help but laugh when he looked at the box full of silver he earned from selling grain.

He was not happy because he got rich, but he was happy that through this matter of getting rich, Xie Zaixing fell into the same camp as him.

After all, Xie Zaixing was a military leader who had the qualification to sit in the Imperial Council in the past, and he was now the father-in-law of Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng and his favorite general Xu Da.

Therefore, Hu Weiyong felt that if he could drag Xie Zaixing into the water, he would have the opportunity to drag Zhu Wenzheng and Xu Dali into the water in the future, and then Zhu Yuanzhang!

At that time, there will be a split at the top level of power in Datong Society.

The entire Datong Society will deteriorate and even suffer serious internal strife, leading to its demise.

At that time, Zhang Cheng could no longer carry out technological innovations as calmly as he does now, so people like them could no longer safely be landlords who only collected land rent.

"Datong Club!"

Hu Weiyong couldn't help but glance at the "Program of the Datong Society" that he had always put on the table. He raised the corners of his mouth slightly and muttered something to himself. Then he suddenly had an idea and told Zhao Zhongzhong's cronies gathered around him. Asked: "Tell me the truth, are you really only loyal to Datong Society?"

"We are only loyal to Mr. Hu!"

"We are born as Hu Gong's people, and we die as Hu Gong's ghosts!"

Zhao Zhongzhong and others knew what Hu Weiyong wanted to hear, so they answered in this way.

Hu Weiyong smiled, then waved and stood up and said: "This is not good! The world has changed, and we can no longer do things the same way we did before! Being loyal to me alone is putting me on the fire and harming me. It will also harm yourselves. When the time comes, we will all be trapped in a place of injustice. We must learn from our superiors and Mr. Zhang and establish a society. We will only be loyal to the society we established, not to a certain person! "

"Establish a club?"

Zhao Zhongzhong was quite shocked after hearing this.

Hu Weiyong said: "That's right! This Datong Society was established by the superiors and Mr. Zhang. I don't like it, and you don't like it either. In this case, it's better for us to establish a new society ourselves and learn from the way the Datong Society was founded. According to the program, when a social affairs office is established, leaders responsible for social affairs must also be elected!”

"Hu Gong is wise!"

"Then we will ask Mr. Hu to be the leader of our society when the time comes!"

Zhao Zhongzhong said with a smile.

Hu Weiyong waved his hand again: "No, I'm not suitable to be the leader now."

After hearing this, Zhao Zhongzhong couldn't help asking: "Who is suitable?"

"It's better to be on top!"

"No matter how bad it is, it should be Mr. Li Ge!"

"In short, among those in the Tingyi Bureau, whoever is willing to establish a new social administration with us, we will make him the leader of the new society!"

(End of this chapter)