The contents of the chest, carefully carried out by the servant, were a man-tall red coral tree. This coral tree is dazzling and glows brightly in the light of candles. The shape is also very unique, roughly looking like a thriving small tree, and if you look closely, you will find that some places resemble jagged antlers, some places resemble blooming flowers, and some places resemble stretched mushrooms......

"Wow, it's so beautiful!" the women's eyes were immediately attracted.

Guo Ninglian stepped forward and stroked: "What kind of treasure is this? It's so strange, like a tree and like a stone." ”

"The tree has no flowers and leaves, neither stone nor Qiong, where can the world get it, Penglai stone is born. This is the coral in the poem of Wei Yingwu of the Tang Dynasty, which is said to be able to pray for blessings and ward off evil spirits. Zhu Yuanzhang said triumphantly. This was the first time he had seen this coral, and he was amazed and asked the gift giver about its characteristics and provenance.

Ma Xiuying had seen coral in her previous life, but she had never seen such a big coral tree, so she couldn't help but ask curiously: "There is no coral city, but there must be one in the people." This is indeed a rare coral tree, it is said to grow at the bottom of the sea, how did the prince get it?"

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at Ma Xiuying in surprise, and he didn't expect that she even knew about Coral, "It was presented by Fang Guozhen, and he asked someone to intercede and wanted to return to me." This man is capricious at both ends, but this coral is good. ”

It turned out that Fang Guozhen had previously sent envoys to Zhu Yuanzhang to pay tribute, and he had always been on good terms with Ying Tianfu, but when Zhu Yuanzhang was competing for territory with Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng, Fang Guozhen took the opportunity to seize several counties along the coast.

Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to ask, but Fang Guozhen was hesitant and couldn't say why.

Zhu Yuanzhang was annoyed that he was capricious and decided to march into Wenzhou.

Fang Guozhen sent someone to apologize, and lied that after conquering Hangzhou, he would pay for food immediately. But when Hangzhou was pacified and Zhu Yuanzhang asked him for 200,000 stones, he ignored it.

This time, Zhu Yuanzhang decided not to tolerate Fang Guozhen again, and ordered Tang He and Wu Zhen to catch Fang Guozhen when they went south.

Tang He and Wu Zhen were ordered to besiege Qingyuan.

Fang Guozhen also wanted to guard against it.

Who knew that his subordinate Xu Shan was rebelled by the shadow guard who was lurking in the camp before, and he actually took his father and fellow villagers to surrender in the city, causing Fang Guozhen to be alone, so he had to take some cronies to take refuge at sea.

Tang He divided his troops to capture Dinghai, Cixi and other counties, and joined forces with Liao Yongzhong to attack Fang Guozhen.

Fang Guozhen was desperate and panicked.

Fortunately, Liu Ji and others persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to open the net, and Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to recruit him.

Fang Guozhen knew that there was no other way but to surrender, so he hurriedly offered the 26 Great Seals of Ruling the Throne, 10,000 taels of silver, 2,000 yuan, and some jewelry, and asked his son Fang Mingwan to be a minister.

How could the women have the heart to listen to Zhu Yuanzhang talk about the war, they all looked at the coral tree with envy.

Guo Hui said sourly: "No wonder my sister can't look down on those mundane things, this coral is worth a whole box of jewelry." ”

"Lord Wang, you can't just favor my sister, we also want to ......" The girls were suddenly unwilling, and begged around Zhu Yuanzhang.

If it was usual, Ma Xiuying would give things to others, but there is only one coral tree, and if it is scattered, it is worthless, and giving it to one person cannot satisfy others, so she has to be silent, looking at everyone and smiling.

Guo Hui suppressed the jealousy in his heart, and took Zhu Yuanzhang's hand and shook it, "Lord Wang, since Coral can pray for blessings and drive away evil spirits, can you give Ning Guo a piece, you know that Ning Guo has been in poor health, if there is a Coral Town House, maybe she will be able to get better completely." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang was entangled and couldn't help it, "Okay, it's all there, it's all there." Originally, I saw that Fang Guozhen was sinister and cunning, and wanted to give him the death penalty, but as soon as he died, no one would sacrifice coral, forget it, spare his life, and let him collect some more coral for me. ”

The women immediately smiled and thanked her.

Fang Guozhen didn't know that he relied on a coral tree to save his life, he rushed to Yingtianfu with his subordinates, saw Zhu Yuanzhang crying bitterly, beating his chest, and begging Zhu Yuanzhang to give him another chance to repent and reform his mind.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw him desolate and tactful, and couldn't help but feel pitiful, and accused: "You are capricious, yang and yin, and you are a lonely laborer." However, you are not a great traitor, and I am willing to spare your life. Now that you've surrendered, you won't pursue it anymore......! More than a dozen corals came. ”

"The sinner, this is to have the coral brought in. Fang Guozhen kowtowed and apologized, hurriedly ordered people to collect all kinds of corals, and pulled them to Yingtianfu for more than ten cars.

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was sincere in surrendering this time, so he also named him the general of Zhengnan.

Fang Guozhen is very familiar with Fujian, and he has been stationed in this area for many years and has a certain number of connections, so he sent people to collect coral while sending people to persuade Chen Youding, the political affairs of Pingzhang, Fujian Province.

Unexpectedly, Chen Youding killed the messenger and swore not to surrender.

Outside there was Fang Guozhen persuaded to surrender, and there were people from Zhumen inside who rebelled, Chen Youding was unwilling to surrender, but his subordinate Yuan Ren quietly handed over the surrender letter, expressing his willingness to open the city and surrender. Early the next morning, Yuan Ren really opened the south gate. The Western Wu army took the opportunity to rush in, Qu Chu, Lai Zhengsun, Xie Yingfu and others fled successively, Deng Yi died in battle, Yin Keren, who joined the army, committed suicide by throwing himself into the water, and Tiemur, the uncle of the Yuanyuan, drew his sword and killed himself. After that, 13 counties including Xinghua and Putian were all pacified.

When Chen Youding heard that Xinghua was lost, he ordered his soldiers to defend the city and prepare for a protracted battle with Zhu Yuanzhang.

The generals are only obedient.

Chen Youding ordered that the soldiers defending the city should not take turns to rest, and they were not allowed to turn heads and ears, and those who violated the order were beheaded.

The soldiers all complained about this, and the generals Xiao Yuanju and Liu Shouren complained a few words, and Chen Youding immediately killed Xiao Yuanju and cut Liu Shouren's military power.

Chen Youding's actions forced Liu Shouren to decide to go out of the city and surrender. Later, the armory in the city was quietly set on fire by the shadow guards, and the cannon fire in the city shook the sky.

Tang He and Ying Wei set a code, and once there was a change in the city, they would immediately flock to it. At this time, Liu Shouren quietly opened the city gate, and the city was immediately breached. Chen Youding was captured with his son and beheaded in the downtown area.

Yang Jing, Zhou Dexing, Zhang Bin and others sent their divisions from Huguang and went south to Yongzhou, attacking all along the way and being invincible.

Yongzhou guard Deng Zusheng sent troops to defend it.

Yang Jing built a pontoon bridge on the Xijiang River and crossed troops to attack the city.

Dozens of days later, all the food in the city was eaten. Deng Zusheng committed suicide by taking poison, and Yongzhou was immediately captured.

Immediately afterwards, Zhou Dexing and Zhang Bin captured Quanzhou, and Liao Yongzhong captured Guangzhou, Wuzhou, Tengzhou, and Guilin. The fighting is escalating and unstoppable.

However, Yang Jing, Zhou Dexing, Zhang Bin and others attacked Jingjiang and did not capture it for dozens of days. Zhu Liangzu led the troops to join the division and stationed at the foot of Elephant Trunk Mountain. Besieged on all sides, it still can't be overcome. Yang Jing was so angry that he ordered all the water in the moat to be drained, and built an earthen embankment from the trench to the north gate. Then he sent troops to pounce and immediately landed in the city. Later, he moved his troops to Chenzhou and recruited Huang Yingyan, Cen Bayan and others, the local officials of Liangjiang.

Liao Yongzhong also commanded Geng Tianbi to attack Penn and Xiangzhou.

Liangguang was pacified, and Yang Jing and others returned triumphantly.

After defeating the Yuan army in Fujian and Guangdong, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da to be the general of the conquest, and the Northern Expedition to the Central Plains quickly captured the counties of Shandong. It was in accordance with this strategic deployment that the Northern Expeditionary Army led by Xu Da was overwhelmed, and soon occupied Shandong, Henan and other places, and finally marched into the capital of Yuan.

In the twenty-eighth year of Zheng, the army occupied Kaifeng, conquered the capital of Yuan in August, and Emperor Shun of Yuan fled to Shangdu in a hurry, and the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was overthrown.

This year the Yuan Dynasty fell, and this year was also the year when Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Dynasty, known as the first year of Hongwu.

Subsequently, Zhu Yuanzhang spent several years to eliminate the remnants of the Yuan Dynasty and other peasant rebels who did not obey orders, and completely unified China.