The news that made Zhu Yuanzhang divert his attention was that Zhang Shicheng was also called the king, and the most laughable thing was that Zhang Shicheng also listened to the belief that "the rich man does not get up, and the poor man does not get the house." But looking at the Year of the Sheep, it is the nursery rhyme of Wu Jiaguo", he didn't care that Zhu Yuanzhang had established the Wu regime, and he had to call himself the king of Wu.

It turned out that Zhang Shicheng looked at the opportunity of Zhu Yuanzhang's westward expedition to fight Chen Youliang, and took the opportunity to invade the city. Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang had no time to take care of him at that time, so they went to Shaoxing in the south, Tongtai, Gaoyou, Huai'an, and Haosi in the north, and Jining in the northeast, all of which became Zhang Shicheng's territory. It's really a vast territory and a huge momentum.

Zhang Shicheng's self-confidence swelled infinitely in the praise of his subordinates' merits, and when he heard that Zhu Yuanzhang was crowned king, he also invited the Yuan court to be crowned. Of course, the Yuan court would not agree to such an unreasonable demand, and Zhang Shicheng, who was accustomed to repeating himself, simply betrayed the Yuan court again and proclaimed himself King Wu. appointed his younger brother Zhang Shixin as the prime minister of Zuo, and his son-in-law Pan Yuanshao as his staff officer, and all political affairs were decided by the two of them.

Every day, they "sat in the White Jade Hall and stayed overnight in the Golden House," spending all their days drinking and drinking, and all the administrative affairs of the DPRK and China were handed over to Huang Jingfu, Cai Yanwen, Ye Dexin, and others, while these three literati only knew how to dance and write and talk about state affairs.

So the local folk slowly spread a ballad that sang: "The prime minister does business, and he uses yellow cabbage leaves, and when the west wind rises, it will dry up." It refers to Zhang Shixin.

The place occupied by Zhang Shicheng is a grain producing area, and it has the benefit of fish and salt, and the population is large and the richest. Although he is short-sighted, he is not a fool, and he knows that Zhu Yuanzhang will inevitably deal with himself after defeating Chen Youliang. On the one hand, he sent troops to resist Zhu Yuanzhang's attack, and on the other hand, he lured Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers to surrender. The last thing this smuggler lacks is money, as long as Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers are willing to surrender, he is willing to pay any amount of money.

Zhang Shicheng's wealthy behavior was not in vain, compared with Zhu Yuanzhang's stinginess and harsh requirements for officials, some subordinates who were dissatisfied in their hearts really rebelled. First Jiang Ying and others surrendered, and then Xie Zaixing took refuge, but he contacted an unexpected big man under Zhu Yuanzhang - Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng.

Zhu Wenzheng was reprimanded by Zhu Yuanzhang and returned to Hongdu to feel sad, even if Ma Xiuying wrote a letter to comfort him, it could not resolve the grievances in his heart. He thinks that he is no worse than Li Wenzhong and Zhu Muying, but Zhu Yuanzhang only sees the strengths of Li Wenzhong and Zhu Muying in his eyes, and cannot see his advantages. Obviously, the two are uncles and nephews with similar blood, and they even have father and son, but he will never be cared for like Zhu Biao, and he will always only be reprimanded and blamed......

For example, a few years ago, Zhu Yuanzhang's family went to Jiming Temple to offer incense, obviously the local ruffians pretended to have a friendship with him to do evil, but Zhu Yuanzhang blamed him for making fox friends and dog friends to cause trouble and ruin the reputation of the Zhu family.

Another example is the battle of guarding Hongdu, at that time, he really put his head on the crotch of his pants at any time, and was ready to fight with the Han army that broke the city at any time, and the hardships of his life were indescribable, but Zhu Yuanzhang only commended Deng Yu and others, and he was a merit to him.

It was obvious that Zhu Yuanzhang himself forced Xie Zaixing to defect, but he put the blame on him, just because he did not respect his father-in-law, he could not get rid of the involvement that prompted Xie Zaixing's rebellion.

Not only is the outside not clean, but the home is also untidy, and there is no peace and tranquility in the past. Xie Cuiying washed her face with tears all day long, crying and complaining that his uncle and nephew were too ruthless and forced his father to death.

Zhu Wenzheng scolded angrily, everyone turned a blind eye to his credits, but his mistakes were infinitely magnified, this kind of life is really fucking aggrieved!

Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that it was Li Wenzhong who led the army to crusade against Xie Zaixing, and in the end Xie Zaixing himself jumped off the city wall and died. What to do with him! If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang forcibly marrying Xie Cuiying to him, would he have become a son-in-law with Xie Zaixing? If it weren't for Xie Zaixing's unworthy father-in-law, would he be disrespectful? Why did everyone blame him and blame him for his mistakes? Even his daughter-in-law dared to point at his nose and scold him for being useless!

In a fit of rage, Zhu Wenzheng pushed Xie Cuiying with his palm, which was a bad thing.

Xie Cuiying was caught off guard, fell to the ground heavily, and before she could come back to her senses, her stomach hurt sharply, and blood oozed from her skirt. It turned out that she was so sad because of Xie Zaixing's death that she didn't realize that she was pregnant.

At this point, the two quarreled all day long, complaining to each other, and the couple who were once a couple with a harmonious piano gradually became resentful couples.

The disheartened Zhu Wenzheng began to give up on himself, no longer dealing with military affairs, borrowing wine all day long to drown his sorrows, often indiscriminately sending out nameless fires, and often punishing his subordinates heavily. In order to please him, one of his subordinates specially offered a beautiful woman, and he immediately took it into the house to enjoy it without asking why.

He is the highest executive officer of Hongdu, and no one dares to offend easily, he will only try his best to curry favor. Seeing that he liked beauty, the generals tried every means to collect all kinds of women, and even saw beautiful women, regardless of whether the other party was married or not, they all snatched them away and presented them to him.

The people reported to the government, but Zhu Wenzheng defended and protected the subordinates who disturbed the people and robbed women, and did not allow Hongdu to punish his people.

Officials succumbed to his power and resigned themselves to his actions and those of his generals.

Over time, the people no longer regarded him as a respectable hero of Hongdu, but became a bully who talked about tigers and changed colors.

Zhu Wenzheng still didn't know how to restrain, and gradually became obsessed with this arrogant and extravagant life, he often complained to people that Zhu Yuanzhang erased his merits and did not give him corresponding rewards, and in the end he simply put dragon and phoenix patterns on his own food and clothing items, not only in the mansion like the respect of the prince, but also illegally occupied a large number of people's land, and stored a large number of slaves and maids.

Jiangxi inspector Li Yingbing was furious when he heard the news, and immediately went to Hongdu to verify the impeachment of Zhu Wenzheng's various crimes, saying that he was arrogant and arrogant in Hongdu......

Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and became more and more disappointed in Zhu Wenzheng, sending an envoy to Hongdu to reprimand him, and calling him to respond to the trial of Tianfu and plan to follow up the punishment.

Zhu Wenzheng knew that he could not escape punishment, and he was panicked and desperate in his heart, delaying time and unwilling to respond to Tianfu.

At this time, Zhang Shicheng bribed one of his generals and persuaded him to defect. At the instigation of his subordinates, Zhu Wenzheng simply made a desperate bet and decided to join forces with Zhang Shicheng to resist Zhu Yuanzhang.