Chapter 220: Complete Control of the Red Turban Army
Guo Zixing and Guo Tianxu passed away one after another, the big Zhang family was crazy, the little Zhang family had no owner, Guo Tianjue was a gentleman who couldn't support the wall, and no one who could be in charge could find out, and the future affairs of the Guo family had to be taken care of by Zhang Tianyou. Pen, fun, pavilion www. biquge。 info
Zhang Tianyou said that on the day of Guo Tianxu's burial, he witnessed many generals of the Guo family surrounding Zhu Yuanzhang, and almost few people came sincerely for Guo Tianxu's funeral, especially when he saw Guo Tianxu's incomplete body, he was even more sad, and the people who opposed Zhu Yuanzhang did not end well, will he be next?
He regretted it very much, he shouldn't have followed Guo Tianxu to frame Zhu Yuanzhang in the first place, fortunately, his daughter-in-law Zhou Huniu and his second sister Xiao Zhang's relationship with Ma Xiuying has always been good, and when Ma Xiuying arrives in Jiqing, they must be asked to be closer to Ma Xiuying, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang can let him go in this relationship.
Zhang Tianyou didn't know that the big Zhang family had caused an earth-shattering disaster, he was trying to persuade the little Zhang family to come out to take charge of the matter, and suddenly saw Guo Hui enter the door angrily, and couldn't help sighing: "You|mother went to Zhu's mansion to make trouble again?" She tosses every day like this is not a way, it will only break down the relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang more and more, you should persuade her." ”
Guo Hui's expression was extremely unnatural, "My mother pushed Ma Xiuying down." ”
"What?" Zhang Tianyou, Zhou Huniu, and Xiao Zhang stood up, shocked, and asked again and again: "What about you, mother, how is Ma Xiuying now?"
"I asked her to be sent back to the room, and my little sister accompanied her. Alas, Ma Xiuying's life is really big, and people and children are fine. Guo Hui told the matter again, and regretted that Ma Xiuying's mother and son were safe, and she completely forgot that she begged Ma Xiuying to let her mother go.
At this moment, her henchman Guo Xia walked in and whispered in her ear, and her calm face suddenly became panicked, "Uncle, Li Qi'er had a miscarriage to save Ma Xiuying." ”
Zhang Tianyou broke out in a cold sweat and fell back into his chair. He was also glad that Ma Xiuying had no accident, and there was still room for redemption, who knew that Zhu Yuanzhang's concubine had a miscarriage because of this incident, what should I do, Zhu Yuanzhang was already having a difficult heir, and he was not furious when he heard that the child died young, maybe even he Zhang Tianyou would be implicated.
Guo Hui will really feel scared, she has the same mind as Zhang Tianyou, thinking that if nothing happens, it is not a big deal, who knows that Ma Xiuying is fine, but Li Qi'er has a miscarriage, Zhu Yuanzhang will not let her mother go easily if she knows, she is panicked, complaining about Li Qi'er's troubles, and worrying about Zhu Yuanzhang's revenge.
"You dare to murder Zhu Yuanzhang's heir in front of everyone, you are really sincere in looking for death. Zhang Tianyou was so angry that he was no longer soft-hearted at the moment, and ordered someone to put Da Zhang's family under house arrest, and he was not allowed to leave the house from now on.
Guo Huiyu couldn't bear it, "My mother is in a bad mood, and if she is locked up, she will be even more uncomfortable." ”
"She dares to do such a thing today, and I don't know what she will do in the future, she doesn't care if she dies, does she have to drag the people in this room to bury her?" Zhang Tianyou really wanted to cut off relations with the Guo family immediately, but unfortunately this idea could not be realized, and a sister like the Da Zhang family could only consider herself unlucky. Only by restricting her activities can she not continue to cause trouble.
"Third brother, I'll go to Zhu's mansion. Xiao Zhang couldn't sit still, although she knew that Ma Xiuying was fine, but Zhu Yuanzhang's heir had a problem, she still planned to take a look in person.
"Second sister, you must say more good things in front of Ma Xiuying, let her persuade Zhu Yuanzhang, the eldest sister's affairs have nothing to do with us. The tonic medicinal materials of Guo's mansion were almost taken out by Zhang Tianyou, and he took out some gold, silver and jewelry from his mansion, and asked Zhou Huniu to follow him to visit Ma Xiuying. What is this money, it is important to save your life and future.
Xiao Zhang and Zhou Huniu arrived at Ma Xiuying's courtyard and happened to meet Zhu Yuanzhang who was going to visit Li Qi'er. The two of them trembled, and they didn't dare to make a sound, and they didn't know how Zhu Yuanzhang would send down their Guo family.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was gloomy, his tone was cold, and he said "You are here" and left.
Xiao Zhang and Zhou Huniu didn't sit on the ground until they couldn't see Zhu Yuanzhang's figure, and the powerful murderous aura just now almost flew out of their hearts, and they had no doubt that Zhu Yuanzhang really had the determination to kill them. The two came back to their senses, hurriedly ran into the house, and pleaded with Ma Xiuying without caring about greetings, "Xiuying, all the mistakes this time are the fault of the eldest lady, you have a lot of forgiveness for her this time, we will not let her out of the house half a step in the future, and we will not let her appear in front of you again......"
Hearing that the arrogant and domineering Da Zhang was under house arrest, Ma Xiuying was in a slightly relaxed mood, and reluctantly smiled and said: "I have already persuaded my husband just now, this matter is like this, you go back and tell your uncle, let him not worry, as long as he serves his husband well, his husband will not count the past." ”
The two breathed a sigh of relief, and Zhou Huniu hurriedly presented the gift.
Ma Xiuying smiled unceremoniously, and instructed Xunying to send the supplements to Li Qi'er, and put the gold, silver and jewelry in the warehouse.
There is no impermeable wall in the world, and although Ma Xiuying greeted her in the mansion, the news of Da Zhang's persecution of Zhu Yuanzhang's heirs still spread quietly.
Many people speculated that this time the Guo family was completely finished, but it made people's eyes plummet, Zhu Yuanzhang actually did not punish Da Zhang, and Zhu Fu did not say a word about this matter. This made everyone sigh at the same time that Zhu Yuanzhang's generosity also made Guo Tianxu's old department completely relieved, they used to follow Guo Tianxu to do a lot of things to be sorry for Zhu Yuanzhang, and now they see that Zhu Yuanzhang can even forgive the crime of killing his wife and children of the Da Zhang family, and he will probably not worry about them anymore. So except for a few people who left the barracks, most of them sincerely submitted to Zhu Yuanzhang and fought for him.
At this point, the Red Turban Army surnamed Guo was completely controlled by Zhu Yuanzhang, and the Jiqing City Wall was full of banners with the surname Zhu waving in the wind.
The military generals reorganized the army, the civilian officials governed the people's livelihood, and the whole celebration was like the rising sun, full of vigorous atmosphere.
Jiqing is the name of Nanjing by the Yuan court, and Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to overthrow the Yuan court, so he no longer used the old system of the Yuan court, and renamed Jiqing Mansion as Yingtianfu. He stepped on the earth of the dragon vein, boasted that he was "born in the sky", and believed that Ying Tianfu would definitely become his place of dragon prosperity.
This time he really achieved his prestige, his power has long surpassed that of Guo Zixing in the past, and no one regards him as Guo Zixing's subordinate anymore. With the passage of time, Guo Zixing and Guo Tianxu have gradually been forgotten by the world.
After Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, received the report, he immediately commended Zhu Yuanzhang as a fellow of the Privy Council, and soon he was promoted to Jiangnan and other places in the province of Pingzhang.
Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinates were very dissatisfied with this appointment, and they felt that Zhu Yuanzhang's power should be crowned a prince, and they persuaded Zhu Yuanzhang to become king himself.
Zhu Yuanzhang was quite moved, what men are pursuing is not princes and generals.
Ma Xiuying chose a time when he was in a better mood to persuade him not to be king for the time being.
"Why?" Zhu Yuanzhang immediately turned cloudy, and his face was a little unsightly.
Only Ma Xiuying was not afraid of his angry appearance, and said slowly: "Your momentum is much greater than in the past, but you still occupy very little territory, and you are surrounded by enemies on all sides. To the east and south are the Yuan army, to the southeast is Zhang Shicheng, and to the west is Xu Shouhui. At the beginning, Tokhtar attacked Zhang Shicheng because Zhang Shicheng was king, if you are king, I am afraid that the Yuan army will soon come to deal with you. Now you should take advantage of the other main forces of the Red Turban Army to contain the Yuan Army, take the opportunity to develop your power, don't be the first bird to be targeted by the Yuan Army. ”
At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, countless rebel armies rose up, among which the most powerful were Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui in addition to Han Lin'er. One of these two rebelled in Taihu Lake and the other in Poyang Lake, although they were both anti-Yuan forces, but Zhang and Xu did not agree with Han Lin'er's Red Turban Army, and even opposed each other with Han Lin'er, so naturally they were also Zhu Yuanzhang's enemies. Fortunately, Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui's strength was not enough to annex Zhu Yuanzhang, and they were busy dealing with the Yuan army, which allowed Zhu Yuanzhang to gain a firm foothold in Yingtian.
Zhu Yuanzhang thought about it carefully, and suddenly felt that strong enemies were around, and the idea of becoming the king disappeared, and he increased his efforts to consolidate the forces in Yingtianfu and the surrounding areas.
He called himself Wu Guogong, set up Jiangnan and other places to serve in the province of Zhongshu, appointed Li Shanchang and Song Sixian as senators, Tao An, Li Mengeng and others as the left and right Shilang, Zhongren and Wailang and other officials; set up the Jiangnan Privy Council, so that Xu Da and Tang He were also the privy council members; set up the pro-army in front of the account, and appointed Feng Guoyong as the commander of the general system; and set up the front, rear, left, right, and middle five wings of the marshal's office, as well as the vanguard of the five departments. Everything is divided into officials and is well organized.
After rewarding the soldiers, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered a large number of people to develop water conservancy, open up the tuntian, develop production, reserve grain and grass, and spread it to the surrounding areas based on the sky. These measures are all derived from the national policy proposed by Mr. Feng Lin and Zhu Sheng, "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowing down the king".
To be able to get Zhu Sheng's assistance, Zhu Yuanzhang has made a lot of effort, he just captured Jiqing, Ma Xiuying said to him, Wen can Anbang, Wu can set the country, there are many scholars in Jiangnan who are full of poetry and books, and asked him to take the opportunity to recruit a group of people with lofty ideals.
Zhu Yuanzhang posted notices to recruit wise men, but the situation was turbulent, and many literati were in a wait-and-see state, unwilling to take refuge easily.
Ma Xiuying said with a smile: "There are many literati who are high-minded, and they can't look down on martial artists who are reckless, if you are willing to give a step to the wise men and give them a step, maybe they will be willing to join them." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang also ordered his subordinates to inquire around where there were famous scholars, and they were willing to invite them in person.
One day, Deng Yue came to report excitedly, "Marshal, the last general heard that there is an old man named Zhu Sheng near Huizhou, who has been a scholar and a politician, has read scriptures and books, and is very famous in this area. When our army surrounded the capital city of Huizhou, Zhu Sheng, in order to avoid the victims of the people, was willing to brave the cluster of thousands of arrows, independent of the city, and persuaded the marshal Fu Tong to open the city and surrender. ”
"Do not neglect such a righteous man. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed, and immediately asked Deng Yu to take him to visit Zhu Sheng.