Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 242 Everyone in this world is Zhang Cheng, Zhang Shicheng loves peace!
"That's what the superior said."

"Right now, most of the millions of people in Taiping City are refugees who have relied on Mr. Zhang's industrial development. Not to mention, even if Chen Youliang's 600,000 reactionary army comes to attack, it will not make a large number of innocent people appear here. circumstances of death.”

"On the contrary, the officers and soldiers of Chen's army who just followed Chen Youliang and wanted to do reactionary things suffered heavy losses."

Feng Guoyong echoed, and added: "Furthermore, because of Chen Jun's invasion, the surplus problem of many factories and workshops in Taiping City was also solved. The demand for guns, guns and bullets increased greatly, and even the demand for wheelbarrows increased greatly. For a while, , many factories and workshops have made a lot of profits, and they have continued to recruit a lot of employees, and many incentive measures have been put forward, and the income of many people has increased because of the war. "

"This is the advanced nature of the Datong concept mentioned in Mr. Zhang's book."

"This concept can allow an industry to be born in a place where the majority of farmers are farmers, and can easily block Chen Youliang's 600,000-strong army."

"It can be said that without the concept of Datong, there would be no Jiangnan today!"

"It can also be said that as long as the concept of Datong exists, there will be no industrialization at this time! Therefore, Chen Youliang's army cannot be blocked so easily!"

"And there is no one as understanding as Mr. Zhang around Chen Youliang. How could he know this? He just thinks that he can accomplish all his tasks by using all his national strength to attack. Little does he know that he is now taking the initiative to do something like a sheep entering a tiger's mouth!"

Zhu Yuanzhang put his hands on his hips and started talking with great energy.

Feng Guoyong nodded, then directly accused Chen Youliang and said:

"This Chen Youliang is simply a violent and ruthless reactionary!"

"He didn't treat his soldiers as human beings at all, and he tried his best to force them to charge, causing many soldiers to die tragically. The key is that he obviously didn't treat his soldiers very well."

"Come on, take a look."

"Now at noon, his soldiers can only feed on the potatoes and sweet potatoes we sold to him Chen Youliang."

"And it seems that they don't have enough potatoes and sweet potatoes. Everyone only has one or two potatoes or sweet potatoes in their hands. Compared with our military and civilian meals, it's far behind!"

Feng Guo used this to hold a telescope in one hand and pointed at Chen Jun's lunch situation in the camp in the direction of Chen Youliang.

Zhu Yuanzhang also picked up the telescope and looked at it, and then said with a smile:
"How can someone who doesn't know the principles of building high walls and hoarding grain know how to show compassion to the soldiers and the people, and know how to conduct benevolent government before carrying out military government?"

"However, Chen Youliang does not regard his soldiers as human beings."

"We have to treat these his soldiers as human beings. After all, these are poor people who were forced or fooled into becoming reactionaries by him."

"As Mr. Zhang said, unlike Chen Youliang who needs fewer people alive, we need to keep as many people alive as possible."

As Zhu Yuanzhang spoke, he glanced at Feng Guoyong, expressed his opinion, and said: "So, we decided to take the initiative. We cannot sit back and watch Chen Youliang fill a lot of lives here."

"What the superior said is that Chen Youliang is an arrogant person who came here to raise an entire country's army. He will never go back easily. If we give him one or two traps, he will definitely fall into the trap easily because he does not want to fail."

Feng Guoyong spoke.

Zhu Yuanzhang asked Feng Guoyong at this time: "I heard that Kang Maocai and Chen Youliang have an old relationship?"

Feng Guoyong nodded: "They are indeed old friends."

"Then you go tell Kang Maocai and ask him to write a letter to Chen Youliang, saying that he will help him capture Jiqing, and ask Chen Youliang to abandon Taiping and go directly to capture Jiqing. He will meet Chen Youliang at Longjiangkou."

Zhu Yuanzhang said and left Feng Guoyong.

Feng Guoyong raised his hands and said yes.

Chen Youliang is eating lunch and reading "China News" here.

Originally, he was dismissive of Datong Society, thinking that Datong Society was just good at doing business, accumulating money, and making equipment. However, he obviously did not have enough understanding of human ethics and morals to be afraid of it, so he did not read "China News" very much.

But now that he has repeatedly failed to attack Taiping City, and after seeing the great strength of Taiping City under the rule of Datong Society, he has to start to seriously examine Datong Society, and naturally he will take the initiative to read "China News", and I want to know more about Datong Society through "China News" and achieve the purpose of knowing myself and the enemy.

"China News" now contains many words of abuse against Chen Youliang, accusing him of excessive taxation, and even directly accusing him of being stupid without realizing it, having no strategic awareness, and no sense of uniting the people.

Simultaneously.

"China News" now also publishes many words criticizing some Confucian scholars around Chen Youliang.

These are naturally a kind of attitude expressed by the literati under the rule of Datong Society.

Many literati among them, although they also hope that the people can continue to be as docile as cattle and horses, but because they naturally like stability, and because they are greedy for profit and bought a lot of Datong Society bonds, they do not welcome Chen Youliang, at least Chen Youliang did not win. Before, they would not support Chen Youliang, nor would they welcome Chen Youliang, they would only scold Chen Youliang.

for example. Even Liu Bowen denounced Chen Youliang's series of actions in the "China News" as reactionary behaviors. He also scolded Confucian scholars like Zhou Wenxian for helping the emperor to do evil. He even took the initiative to analyze for the people of the world and said that Chen Youliang had nothing to fear and victory was the end. Will belong to Datong Society.

Zhang Cheng liked this article written by Liu Bowen very much, and specially recommended Liu Bowen to serve as a doctor in the National Defense Department to do military analysis in the "China News", analyzing the final outcome of Chen Youliang's eastward invasion, and analyzing whether Chen Youliang would form an alliance with Zhang Shicheng success.

Now Chen Youliang has seen a lot of curse words on him in the "China News", as well as some remarks by Liu Bowen.

"Damn!"

"I discovered that there is not only one Zhang Cheng in Datong Society, but all the scholars in Datong Society are Zhang Cheng!"

"For example, this Liu Bowen not only called me stupid, but also called you Mr. Zhou blind, saying that in order to enslave the people of the world, you ignored the reality and voted for me, the most stupid and stupid one-man villain who would only become a tyrant even if he became emperor. "

"He also said that even if you don't want to treat the people as human beings and want to ride on the people's heads and be a superior hypocrite, you should seek refuge with Zhang Shicheng, saying that although Zhang Shicheng has no great ambitions, he is at least shrewd and self-aware, unlike me who is stupid and stubborn. "

Chen Youliang therefore complained about Zhou Wenxian, and handed the China News to Zhou Wenxian: "Read it for yourself."

Zhou Wen first took the "China News" and read it carefully.

Zhou Wen looked at it first, then took a deep breath, then gritted his teeth and cursed secretly: "This Liu Bowen actually scolded me so badly! Why bother when a monk scolds a nun!"

Afterwards, Zhou Wenxian looked at Chen Youliang and said with a strong smile:
"Your Majesty, there is no need to be angry. I know these shameless scholars like Liu Bowen best. They always support whoever wins! As long as Your Majesty can defeat Datong Society, they will praise Your Majesty as much as they scold Him now." good!"

"Mr. Zhou is right."

"But I do think that the shameless literati in the China News who flattered the Datong Society have a certain truth. We should unite with Zhang Shicheng and not act so rashly."

As he spoke, Chen Youliang looked at Prime Minister Zhang Bixian: "Prime Minister Zhang, please send someone to contact Zhang Shicheng and tell him that I will ask him to fight against the rebellion together. After the matter is completed, we will share the land south of the Yangtze River."

Zhang Bixian raised his hand and said yes.

Zhou Wenxian frowned here.

Seeing this, Chen Youliang asked him: "Mr. Zhou, what are your concerns?"

Zhou Wenxian said: "I don't understand why their Datong Society published all the strategies of these scholars in the newspaper? Do they really not take the strategies of these scholars seriously, or are they confident? I really feel that their Datong Society Won’t lose?”

"So, the one who is really arrogant is his Datong Society!"

Chen Youliang said something.

But then, Chen Youliang became more frustrated because he thought that Taiping City in front of him could not be conquered, and suddenly felt that Datong Society seemed to be the one who really had the arrogance.

"Your Majesty said so."

"This idea of ​​great harmony is indeed the evil theory that stirs up the world. He really doesn't take us Confucian scholars in his eyes, nor does he take the teachings of saints in his eyes!"

Zhou Wenxian spoke seriously.
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"It seems that I shouldn't care about the teachings of saints or the orthodoxy of Taoism. I should only care about how much benefit it can bring to me."

Zhang Shicheng looked at the large amount of commercial taxes and customs taxes that had been increased after the trade with Datong Society, and his eyes lit up as he spoke.

It turned out that after Zhang Shicheng agreed to trade with his Datong Society and open all ports, in order to allow Zhang Shicheng to have enough military strength to maintain internal commercial order, he still finalized the tariff and commercial tax details for Zhang Shicheng's Dazhou, allowing him to The merchants here paid taxes honestly on Zhang Shicheng's territory, and Zhang Cheng even took the initiative to send his own talents who graduated from the Central School of Finance to Zhang Shicheng to manage taxes for Zhang Shicheng.

For Zhang Cheng, the current purpose of Datong Society is to dump industrial products anyway, so the point tax will not have much impact.

But for Zhang Shicheng himself, it was a huge income.

Because he has not yet carried out drastic internal affairs reforms, he has not been able to collect much tax from the powerful bureaucrats, and the people are so poor that they depend on potatoes and sweet potatoes to survive, and they cannot earn any money.

Therefore, before Zhang Shicheng generated a large amount of customs and commercial tax revenue after trade, his financial revenue for the Zhou regime was pitiful.

Now, after trade has generated a large amount of customs and commercial tax revenue, Zhang Shicheng is naturally happy, and he feels that it is a wise move for him to give in to Datong Society.

Therefore, after the envoy sent by Chen Youliang came to convey that Chen Youliang invited him to attack Datong Society together, he directly refused sternly:
"How could I do anything to destroy the tranquility and peace of the world!"

"Everyone in the world doesn't know that I don't like conquests the most. When Datong Society came to force me to hand over Xie Zaixing, I couldn't bear to raise troops for the sake of the peace of the people!"

"So, how could Gu and Chen Youliang attack others for no reason and harm the people of the world?"

"You go back and tell Chen Youliang that he only protects the country and the people, practices benevolent government, makes friends from all over the world, and will not do anything the people don't want to do!"

(End of this chapter)