"Do you want to take a concubine? It's just inexplicable, how can there be a concubine and put on a show. Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head, he ceremoniously accepted the three-room concubine in order to calm the rumors last time, and he was nagged by the Wang family for several days, saying that he messed up the order of respect and inferiority. He was not able to explain the reason for doing this to the Wang family, but he firmly remembered the words of the order of respect and inferiority in his heart.

"You've wronged these women once, do you want to wronged them a second time?" Ma Xiuying shouted for the girls, "Which woman doesn't want to marry beautifully, because of your order, they can't choose a husband, if the wedding is not successful, they will regret it for the rest of their lives." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at her, "Why do I think you seem to be talking about yourself, aren't you satisfied with our wedding?" Don't worry, when I become emperor in the future, I will definitely hold a grand ceremony for you. ”

"Don't be poor here." Ma Xiuying said angrily: "Go and tell your generals that if they don't want to marry these women in style, I will hold a group wedding for them." ”

The group wedding was nothing less than a nightmare for the generals who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the early days, and they still have vivid memories of the first blind date conference and the group wedding. Especially Zhou Dexing was beaten all over his head in order to recognize the two brides, and at this moment, when he heard that he would not marry the rich gentry's daughter back home, Ma Xiuying was going to hold another group wedding, so he hurriedly nodded and agreed.

The generals who followed Zhu Yuanzhang in the later period saw that Zhou Dexing was such a brave and strong man and succumbed to the words "collective wedding" without saying a word, secretly inquired about the reason, and finally obediently complied.

In this way, the hearts of the wealthy gentry of Ying Tianfu were finally balanced, and the heads of Hu, Han, Yang, Liu, Zhao, Zhou, Zheng and other big families began to donate money and materials to Zhu Yuanzhang's army one after another.

With the donations of these rich gentry, Zhu Yuanzhang's army grew stronger and stronger.

Looking at the military flag that was hunting in the wind, Zhu Yuanzhang was full of ambition: Zhang Shicheng, lonely is here!

At this time, Zhang Shicheng had once again broken away from the Yuan court and established himself as king.

It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang's claim that the king alarmed all forces, and the Yuan court regarded it as a thorn in the side and repeatedly sent Zhang Shicheng to attack Zhu Yuanzhang. However, Zhu Yuanzhang annexed Chen Youliang's warships and became the overlord on the water, Zhang Shicheng fought and changed repeatedly, and was very annoyed that the Yuan court had greatly damaged his strength, and the generals were no longer willing to be driven by the Yuan court to fight every day, so they simply instigated him to imprison Dashi Timur and declared an uprising and rebellion.

Zhang Shicheng has always been dissatisfied with Dazhi Timur, and immediately killed Dazhi Timur to rebel, and he also fought against Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself King of Wu, and he also proclaimed himself King of Wu, so the people called the area of Suzhou as Dongwu, and the area of Yingtianfu as King Xiwu.

This time, the Yuan court was divided by Eastern Wu and Western Wu, and it was even more stretched to the limit, and Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless.

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't be happy, Zhang Shicheng's current power was far inferior to him, and he actually dared to proclaim himself King Wu, which was clearly provoking him, since Zhang Shicheng was so arrogant, he would beat Zhang Shicheng until he was convinced.

Just after the first month, Zhu Yuanzhang was ready to reorganize the army to deal with Zhang Shicheng, but first received the news that Zhang Dingbian had established Chen Li as the emperor in Wuchang, and he was immediately furious. He immediately personally led a large army to conquer Wuchang.

In this expedition, Zhu Yuanzhang's army has undergone an astonishing transformation from the inside out, regardless of the source of soldiers, the content of training, weapons and equipment, military management system, and the generation mode of military strength, all of which are rapidly improving.

In the past, Zhu Yuanzhang's army was all picking up weapons and ships used by others, but now Zhu Yuanzhang's territory has expanded, and with all kinds of minerals, he can also make weapons by himself, especially the weapons such as iron armor, gunpowder, fire guns, and stone cannons made in large quantities have become more and more sharp and durable.

Originally, Zhu Yuanzhang's army was dressed in colorful colors, but it was marked by a red scarf on its head, and it looked like a miscellaneous army. Now the soldiers are all dressed in red battle jackets, battle skirts, and broad-brimmed red leather hats, and the red battle flags are flying in the air.

The transformation of the Western Wu Army is inseparable from the financial support of the rich gentry, in addition to the previous in-law activities to tie everyone's interests together, Zhu Yuanzhang even promised that if the world is unified in the future, the assets of every wealthy gentry will not be checked, and everything will be as usual. With this guarantee, the rich gentry actively funded Zhu Yuanzhang, and of course, there were also some discerning wealthy businessmen who funded Zhu Yuanzhang with the idea of early investment and later returns.

This army of black guns for bird cannons was invincible all the way, and it was like a bamboo, and it came to Wuchang in a few days. The good news continued, first Fu Youde led only 500 strong men to capture Gaoguan Mountain controlled by Chen Hanjun; Then Guo Ying stabbed to death Chen Ying, the guard general of Wuchang; Within a few days, Chang Yuchun captured Zhang Bixian, the general who led the soldiers and horses in the Tanyue area to support.

Seeing that the general trend had gone, Chen Youliang's son Chen Li was in a panic all day long and intended to surrender.

Zhang Dingbian tried to persuade the little emperor to swear to defend the city, but the remnants of the Han army saw the menacing Western Wu army and worshipped the wind, the little emperor was weak and ignorant, and was persuaded by his subordinates, and finally insisted on taking off the crown and going out of the city to meet Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhang Dingbian refused to join Zhu Yuanzhang, so he had to abandon Chen Li and abandon the city.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also embarrassed to kill them all in public, personally helped Chen Li up, and said with a pleasant face: "Don't be afraid, your father is guilty, but he has passed away." You took the initiative to open the city and surrender to save the soldiers and the people from suffering, so I will not only not cure your sin, but reward you. ”

Chen Youliang has always advocated that after entering the city, he will make a big deal of scraping, and Chen Li is afraid that Zhu Yuanzhang's army will be the same, so he boldly pleaded: "The people in the city can't eat enough, and I beg King Wu's subordinates not to disturb the people anymore." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, "Don't worry, my army is strictly disciplined and will never allow anyone to disturb the people." After speaking, he instructed the soldiers to take out all the savings in the treasury and buy rice for disaster relief.

The people of Wuchang were originally worried about the imminent outbreak of war, but they never expected that not only did the Wu and Han sides not fight, but their lives were improved, and they couldn't help but be overjoyed, and preached the benefits of returning to Zhu Yuanzhang everywhere.

When the neighboring counties saw this situation, they all surrendered.

Since then, Chen Youliang's Han regime has completely perished, and the south of Hanshui, west of Ganzhou, north of Shaozhou, and east of Chenzhou are all owned by Zhu Yuanzhang, which can really be described as "the people of the vast land".

Zhu Yuanzhang set up Huguang Xingzhongshu Province in Wuchang, ordered Yang Jing to participate in politics to live and guard, and later built a memorial hall in Poyang Lake, Kanglang Mountain and Nanchang Mansion, which can be regarded as a tribute to loyalty.

appeased the people of Wuchang, Zhu Yuanzhang brought Chen Li back to Tianfu, because Chen Li surrendered on his own initiative, Zhu Yuanzhang was not good at killing him directly, but he was not worried about him, so he named him the Marquis of Guide and locked him in a mansion with the intention of placing him under house arrest for the rest of his life.

From the emperor becoming a hostage, and living under Zhu Yuanzhang's nose, the taste can be imagined. Chen Li was trembling every day, walking on ice floes, and the people around him were not having a good time, so he instigated him to give a gift to the Yan family, and asked the Yan family to help intercede and let Zhu Yuanzhang release him.