Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 236 Zhu Yuanzhang was grateful to Zhang Cheng and threatened Zhang Shicheng!

Yuan Zhizheng seventeenth year, July.

Gathering.

In the afternoon of this day, Zhang Cheng, who had just finished his meal, was walking in the private garden of the Chief Minister of the Cabinet while looking at the koi carp swimming in the water with an indifferent expression.

As the chief minister of the cabinet, he already knew about Xie Zaixing's defection.

This was nothing shocking to him.

After all, he knows that people are complicated, and before the world is determined, everyone will have different choices.

Even, many times, people tend to make choices that are incomprehensible.

But when Zhang Cheng recalled the incident caused by Hu Weiyong's conspiracy to plot against him, he couldn't help but feel happy.

He was pleased that the outcome of this incident did not lead to a conflict between him and Zhu Yuanzhang, nor did it even lead to an intensification of the conflict between Zhu Yuanzhang and the senior officials in the entire court.

You must know that the basic base of Datong Society is Tingyi Bureau and the members of Datong Society derived from Tingyi Bureau.

At present, there is no internal strife in the Tingyi Bureau, which means that the fundamentals are not divided. This is undoubtedly of positive significance for the future development and growth of Datong Society.

Moreover, because Hu Weiyong and most of the internal officials of Datong Society who began to corrupt like him were arrested and killed.

Even if Xie Zaixing defected, he would still be considered expelled from Datong Society.

Therefore, the entire Datong Society has further eliminated a large number of double-dealers with evil intentions, which will undoubtedly help the Datong Society become purer, and also give people within the Datong Society a greater warning, so that they have to be more vigilant and dare not offend easily. Organizational Discipline and Regulations Decree.

Zhang Cheng knew that the reason why Hu Weiyong's attempt to separatist failed was because he changed the nature of the insurrection of the Chinese Army.

The current Chinese Army is no longer a peasant uprising team of peasants who have lost their right to survive, reshuffling this farming society and turning themselves into big landlords and nobles. Instead, they want to establish the concept of great harmony and truly fight for more rights for the people of the world. uprising team.

Of course, those who join the Chinese Army will also become new nobles.

However, these new nobles either began to transform under the influence of Zhang Cheng and no longer aimed at controlling the means of production such as land, or they refused to be influenced by Zhang Cheng and chose to betray the Datong Society and were squeezed out. Therefore, they eventually formed the Chinese Army. The new aristocrats are stronger in resourcefulness and determination than the newly rising aristocrats in the traditional peasant rebel army, and they are more able to allow the people greater freedom and be allocated more resources.

By using the silver obtained from Japan's Iwami Ginzan as the basic capital and taking advantage of the opportunity of declining land investment returns brought about by high grain yields, a large number of fields redeemed from the wealthy gentry were continued to be distributed to the unruly people under the rule of the Datong Society. land for the military and civilians, rather than being enclosed as the private land of the new nobles.

Therefore, the number of self-cultivated farmers under the rule of Datong Society is still increasing significantly. After the large-scale increase of self-cultivated farmers, in addition to the increase in tax revenue, it also brings an increase in a large number of educated people.

Yes, a large increase in yeoman farmers can bring a large number of educated people.

After all, when the number of self-cultivated farmers decreased significantly, it meant that a large number of people became servants and tenants. These people were exploited to a deeper extent, and there was not enough remaining wealth and time to educate their children.

On the contrary, the large increase in owner-peasants will lead to the emergence of a large number of people who are less exploited, which will allow more people to have spare energy to educate their children.

What's more, the large increase in the number of self-cultivated farmers also means that the government officials of this period were clear in their governance, and the powerful and bureaucratic groups were not so greedy and relatively abiding by the rules. Naturally, the self-cultivated farmers were not only less exploited, but also easier to accumulate wealth and willing to give up. Give your children time to study and get education.

The increase in taxes and the number of educated people means that Datong Society is not short of money to do things, let alone talents to arrange things.

However, Zhang Cheng also used his power as the chief assistant of the cabinet to manage money and talents, and kept spending money on science and technology trees, cultivating scientific and technological talents, and expanding the scale of industry.

This makes him and Zhu Yuanzhang, the new aristocrats of Datong Society, and the entire Datong Society, the biggest problem now is serious overproduction!
The consumption desire of the people who are accustomed to being frugal, even for thousands of years, does not grow faster than the progress of productivity, and the increased scale of consumption is not enough to consume the large number of new industrial products produced by Datong Society.

Therefore, dumping industrial products and increasing the consumer market have become what Datong Society needs to do most at the moment.

It happened that Xie Zaixing defected to Zhang Shicheng, so Zhang Cheng felt that this was an opportunity to declare war on Zhang Shicheng to further realize the dumping of industrial products.

For this reason, Zhang Cheng came to Zhu Yuanzhang after taking a walk and informed Zhu Yuanzhang of his idea.

Zhu Yuanzhang is still farming and conducting agricultural research, and has also cultivated many new crops and seasonal vegetables.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, this is no longer his hobby, but it is also his way to stay healthy.

Even when Zhang Cheng came to him to talk about Xie Zaixing, Zhu Yuanzhang was still watering and fertilizing, while listening to Zhang Cheng's idea that Zhang Shicheng should take the opportunity to further open the market to his Datong Society.

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhang Cheng say that Zhang Shicheng should be forced to hand over Xie Zaixing, he nodded and said: "We think so too. If we don't take the opportunity to benefit the people under Zhang Shicheng's rule now, we will undoubtedly be sorry for our Datong Society's philosophy. ”

"It is precisely for this reason that advanced civilizations have the obligation to drive backward civilizations, otherwise they will backfire on themselves."

Zhang Cheng replied. Zhu Yuanzhang smiled at this time and said: "Thanks to you, Mr. Zhang, for attaching great importance to industry and building factories, and also developed multiple spinning machines, steam engines, fertilizers, etc. Otherwise, how would we have the ability to force Zhang Shicheng to cooperate?" We do things.”

"This is mainly due to the advanced nature of the Datong concept, otherwise there would be so much advanced technology and knowledge."

Zhang Cheng said with a smile.

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said: "Yes, because the concept of Datong takes the people to seek wealth and wealth as the goal, rather than just establishing a life for the people, so not only many unimagined devices and crops will appear, but even the ancients have created things that were not taken seriously by the world and were buried. His good skills and knowledge have also been rediscovered.”

"Mr. Zhang!"

"Sometimes we actually wonder, if we really continue to use old rituals to fool the people, will the technology become worse as we go further back, and the Han people will become less intelligent than the Han people in the Han and Tang Dynasties?"

"It's possible!"

"I remember I told my superiors that if we continue to develop according to the original system of family and world, we will continue to dumb down the people and weaken the country."

"At that time, when the country is weak, there will still be powerful foreign invasions, and then there will again be a dynasty ruled by Han people like the Yuan Dynasty ruled by Hulu."

"And this dynasty will definitely learn from Hu Yuan's lessons in order to prevent the Han people from rebelling, and then further suppress the creativity of the Han people, so it may really make the Han people inferior in skills and knowledge to what they are now."

Zhang Cheng immediately answered Zhu Yuanzhang's question.

He had to admit that Zhu Yuanzhang was indeed an unusual person.

He loves to think, and loves to deduce the future through the knowledge and experience he has mastered, and then predict what will happen in the future if he does something.

Zhang Cheng's approval also made Zhu Yuanzhang more confident, confident that his speculation was very possible.

But this only made Zhu Yuanzhang admire Zhang Cheng even more, and continued to say with a smile:
"Fortunately, you, Mr. Zhang, are such an understanding person!"

"More importantly, you, Mr. Zhang, are not as selfish as other Confucian scholars. You are willing to enlighten us ordinary people who rebelled just because we don't want to starve to death. Otherwise, there would be no changes today."

talking.

Zhu Yuanzhang put down the dung ladle in his hand, stood up straight with a proud look on his face, stood in the ground with his hands on his hips, looked at the rolling mountains in the distance and said:

"Now, because of this concept of great harmony, not only Zhang Shicheng can be controlled by us with money, food and weapons, but also forces such as Chen Youliang and Liu Futong are also affected by us. Without even spending a single soldier, the world will be stable in the future. It will come soon."

"nature!"

"Because we brought back a large amount of silver from Iwami Silver Mountain, and the silver price plummeted, Chen Youliang and his officials are now exchanging a large amount of their own silver for cloth coins, and even privately buying our bonds in order to make profits. ”

"So if Chen Youliang and others turn against us in the future, we will stop supplying them with cloth coins, food, and ordnance on the grounds that they are immoral. We can even seize the merchants they sent privately to buy bonds and refuse to acknowledge the repayment. Interest on their debt!"

"At that time, whoever is an enemy of my Datong Society will not only be an enemy of us, but also an enemy of the nobles and bureaucrats under him! Naturally, he will also be an enemy of the people. After all, the people do not like wars where there is no money and food. of."

Zhang Cheng also smiled and started talking at this time.

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and suddenly said with a serious expression: "Now let's use these strategies to deal with Zhang Shicheng and force him to hand over the traitor Xie Zaixing!"

Zhu Yuanzhang still doesn't like others betraying him.

What's more, once a person is no longer a swordsman, he will become a fish.

Therefore, as long as Xie Zaixing chooses to betray Datong Society and join Zhang Shicheng as the swordsman of the world, Datong Society will have no choice but to start slaughtering him as a fish.

then.

It didn't take long for Zhu Yuanzhang to send an envoy to Zhang Shicheng, asking Zhang Shicheng to hand over the traitor Xie Zaixing and others as a sign of friendship between the two sides. Otherwise, Datong Society could only fight against Zhang Shicheng on the grounds that Zhang Shicheng was harboring thieves who were causing harm to the country and the people and also wanted to betray the Chinese people. !
After Zhang Shicheng received the letter, he was furious.

Although he didn't like Xie Zaixing either, he didn't like being threatened like this either.

Therefore, Zhang Shicheng also threatened Zhu Yuanzhang and said to the envoy:

"Tell Zhu Yuanzhang that if he dares to raise an army, he will definitely raise an army of 300,000 people and go south to fight back resolutely. He will seize Zhenjiang, Pingjiang, Changzhou, Hangzhou, and even Jiqing, making him a lost dog!"

After Zhu Yuanzhang heard Zhang Shicheng's reply from his envoy, he couldn't help but frown.

(End of this chapter)