Han Gong Li Shanchang, like Xu Da, the Duke of Wei, and Chang Yuchun, the king of Kaiping, are all from Fengyang, Anhui Province, Zhu Yuanzhang's hometown, and the first strategist who followed Zhu Yuanzhang's rebellion to raise troops, and was a well-known Conglong faction. Although it is not like Xu Da and Chang Yuchun, who are charging into battle, they have made meritorious achievements, but they are resourceful, give advice, and have outstanding achievements.

Zhu Yuanzhang established the Ming Empire, named Li Shanchang as the prime minister of the left, and gave him a golden book and iron scroll, and was named the Duke of Korea.

In addition to his name, Li Shanchang also gained real power, as the leader of the Huaixi civil official group, he successfully squeezed out Liu Ji, the only sincere man in the civil officials who could compete with him, from the court, forcing Liu Ji to resign and return to his hometown, and go to his hometown Qingtian County to recuperate, so Li Shanchang, who was not constrained by his opponent, called for wind and rain in the court, and was almost omnipotent.

In addition to reaching the pinnacle of fame and fortune, Li Shanchang also has an advantage, that is, expensive. Li Shanchang and Emperor Hongwu are monarchs and ministers, and they are also sons and daughters.

Princess Lin'an married Li Shanchang's eldest son Li Qi and became the daughter-in-law of the Li family, and Princess Lin'an is the eldest daughter of Emperor Hongwu, and her status is incomparable.

Li Shanchang is thoughtful and thoughtful. It is rare that at the peak of fame and fortune, his mind is still clear, and he knows the truth of prosperity and decline, and he tries his best to promote his eldest son Li Qi to become a princess, with the protection of the princess, even if the descendants of the Li family have no ability in the future, they will be able to keep it.

Xu Miaoyi had suspected Li Shanchang before, including his opponent Liu Ji, because of his ability to hide from the world, he had been hiding behind his back to cut off clues, and even played Jinyiwei between the applause, there are only a few people in the court who have this kind of strength, and a slap can be counted, and his father-in-law Daoyan Zen Master listed this list one by one, and Li Shanchang's name was among them at that time.

With a candidate, what is lacking is sufficient motivation: who has to kill Xie Zaixing?

The intermittent top-secret documents in Zhang Shicheng's study uncovered all the key clues......

In fact, everything is doomed at the source. At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, when the people were not able to make a living, Han Shantong founded the Ming Sect, raised his arms and shouted, declaring that "the Ming King was born, and all living beings were purified", pointing out a way of life to the people who were about to starve to death.

In order to survive, the people responded one after another, the rebel army of Mingjiao was called the Red Turban Army, and the Red Turban Army soon swept through Dayuan with the momentum of sparks, and Dayuan sent troops to suppress it countless times, but held down the gourd and floated out of the scoop, and the sparks became more and more extinguished, and Dayuan's army did not regain the glory of entering the Central Plains before, and was beaten by the Red Turban Army that seemed to be a rabble and withdrew from Jiangnan.

Dayuan temporarily made a truce with the Red Turban Army, and the Red Turban Army in Jiangnan started infighting, and soon went their separate ways, annexing each other and killing each other, and Han Shantong, the king of the Ming Dynasty, was set up in the air, like a puppet, Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng, and Chen Youliang divided the world into three parts.

So before the three-point world, although Li Shanchang has been following Zhu Yuanzhang's side to give advice, he actually belongs to the same camp as Zhang Shicheng, both are Mingjiao Red Turban Army, the two have some personal relations, and Zhang Shicheng was born as a private salt dealer, he likes to be vassally elegant on weekdays, and is deeply respected by Jiangnan literati.

Later, Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang both proclaimed themselves King Wu and broke up completely, and the strategists and generals under the tent naturally had their own masters, and they turned from allies to opponents. Zhang Shicheng, who started as a private salt and maritime merchant, was the richest, controlling a large number of salt pans and shipping ships, and people wanted to eat salt, so when Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Shicheng started a war, the salt trade was never broken.

Zhu Yuanzhang has issued many bans and is not allowed to trade with Soochow, and violators are treated as traitors, but in practical considerations, this ban did not work very well

played a big role, Zhu Yuanzhang turned a blind eye to this, pretending not to know.

Li Shanchang, as the first strategist around Zhu Yuanzhang, shouldered the heavy responsibility of preparing grain and grass, salt is indispensable, and when the water is clear, there is no fish.

Judging from the ledgers in the secret room, Li Shanchang and Zhang Shicheng's private salt trading is millions. In addition to Li Shanchang, even his grandfather Xie Zaixing, his father Xu Da, and his uncle-in-law Zhu Wenzheng also had private salt transactions with Zhang Shicheng, and it can be said that almost everyone under Zhu Yuanzhang's account has done this, after all, salt is an indispensable thing like food.

Zhang Shicheng took the opportunity to dig into the corner of Zhu Yuanzhang's wall and wanted to recruit Li Shanchang under the tent, but Li Shanchang politely refused.

But as Zhu Yuanzhang suffered frequent heavy blows, he repeatedly fell into a predicament, and was attacked by Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang, and even Dayuan from three sides:

Chen Youliang's general, Zhang Dingbian, captured Raozhou and annexed this important city.

Lü Zhen, the general of Zhang Shicheng, the king of Eastern Wu, captured Anfeng, killed Liu Futong, and captured Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow privy councillor Liao Ru'an alive.

Zhu Yuanzhang's generals Jiang Ying and Liu Zhen rebelled and killed Jinhua's guards Hu Dahai and Langzhong Wang Kai, and Jinhua was lost.

Zhu Yuanzhang's rear Hongdu was surrounded by Chen Youliang, and it was Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew Zhu Wenzheng who defended the city, when Zhu Wenzheng was defending less than 50,000 troops, Chen Youliang led 300,000 troops to attack the city!

Li Shanchang felt that Zhu Wenzheng was young and could not withstand the pressure, and he would definitely collapse. What's more, at that time, several other generals under Zhu Yuanzhang were fighting outside, and they had no time to return to the camp to help Zhu Wenzheng relieve the siege of Hongdu.

Hu Dahai, Gong, Shaoxing; Shao Rong attacked Huzhou; Often meet the spring attack on Hangzhou...... They were all unable to attack for a long time, and they were in a stalemate, unable to retreat to support.

If the guard is a character like Xu Da or Li Wenzhong, Li Shanchang thinks that he may have a chance of winning, but the guard will be Zhu Wenzheng, who is like a son-in-law, although Zhu Wenzheng is known as Wen Tao and Wu are all proficient, but in Li Shanchang's eyes, he is just a false name won under the care of his uncle Zhu Yuanzhang, and he can't be taken seriously, similar to Zhao Kuo who talks on paper, he just has a good skin and background.

Li Shanchang dreamed that Hongdu was lost, Zhu Yuanzhang suffered from the enemy on his back, defeated Maicheng, and Western Wu perished...... Li Shanchang's confidence in Zhu Yuanzhang, the lord, began to waver, and he began to respond implicitly to Zhang Shicheng's repeated invitations.

After all, Zhang Shicheng's strength is the strongest, if Zhu Yuanzhang is defeated, Li Shanchang can choose a tree to perch, and he can find another job, and his interests will not be lost.

This is Li Shanchang's character, always far-sighted, and always leaving a way back for himself.

Zhu Yuanzhang did not betray Zhu Yuanzhang immediately under Zhang Shicheng's repeated invitation, but pointed out that his henchmen secretly took refuge in Zhang Shicheng, and betrayed some irrelevant information as a letter of nomination, including the general Li Mengeng, who gave Zhang Shicheng a little sweetness first.

But the later situation was beyond Li Shanchang's prediction:

First of all, Li Wenzhong and Xie Zaixing teamed up to defeat the rebellious Jiang Ying and Liu Zhen, recaptured Jinhua City, and regained control of this important place in the south of the Yangtze River. When the breath was not timed, Zhang Shixin's 100,000 army of Eastern Wu besieged the city, and at that time Li Wenzhong had already left Jinhua to support Zhu Yuanzhang, leaving only Xie Zaixing and Luanfeng, the prefect of Jinhua, to defend the city, and the defenders were less than 10,000 sick and disabled.

Li Shanchang thought that Xie Zaixing would definitely lose. He felt that Xie Zaixing and Zhu Wenzheng, the son-in-law, would die, and the eldest daughter of the Xie family was really miserable, losing her husband and father overnight.

But miracles always appear again and again, which makes Li Shanchang extremely embarrassed: Xie Zaixing defeated the strong with the weak, 10,000 against 100,000, and once again held Jinhua City.

Zhu Wenzheng simply 50,000 to 300,000 Chen Youliang and defended Hongdu, which created a miracle for Weng son-in-law, and Zhu Yuanzhang also miraculously got out of the predicament and regained his strength.

The successive miracles made Li Shanchang regain his confidence in Zhu Yuanzhang, who has achieved great things, luck is more important than strength, and good luck seems to always be on the side of Zhu Yuanzhang, who was born as a farmer in Fengyang. So Li Shanchang and Zhang Shicheng showed their loyalty to Zhu Yuanzhang and cut off contact.

But at this moment, variables appeared, Xie Zaixing and Luan Fengluan prefect found that Zuo Guan and Lu Wanhu were bought by Zhang Shicheng, and sold intelligence to Dongwu while selling illicit salt, and these two people were found to be beheaded by Zhu Yuanzhang's order, and their heads were hung in Xie Zaixing's military tent to warn him of the crime of negligence.

Xie Zaixing was shocked by the betrayal of his subordinates, and Luan Feng deduced that there must be a bigger official behind him who took refuge in Zhang Shicheng.

In order to lure out the traitor, Xie Zaixing and the prefect of Luan decided to play a drama of "Zhou Yu beating Huang Gai".

First of all, Xie Zaixing used the excuse that Manager Zuo and Lu Wanhu were wronged, dissatisfied with Zhu Yuanzhang's death order, and buried the heads of the two people, and also made a fuss about the yamen of the prefect Luan in anger, and scolded Zhu Yuanzhang for being "stupid and incompetent" and "not distinguishing between loyalty and traitor".

Xie Zaixing set up a stage in the prefect's yamen, sang "Dou E's Injustice", and almost openly expressed his dissatisfaction with Zhu Yuanzhang's punishment, Zhu Yuanzhang is not a good-tempered person, he once again sternly warned Xie Zaixing, and sent the general Li Mengeng to Jinhua to replace Xie Zaixing to defend the city.

As a result, the disagreement between Xie Zaixing and Zhu Yuanzhang, the king of Western Wu, spread out of Jinhua City, and everyone in Jiangnan knew about it, and Zhang Shicheng, Chen Youliang and others certainly knew it. Zhang Shicheng got the moon first near the water, thinking that his younger brother Zhang Shixin's 100,000 troops could not capture Jinhua, so why not buy Xie Zaixing and let him surrender?

Seeing the secret envoy sent by Zhang Shicheng to surrender, Xie Zaixing was overjoyed, and the fish finally took the bait! Xie Zaixing soon performed the second scene with the prefect of Luan: "Hongmen Banquet", and wrote this serial plan into a secret letter and sent it to Zhu Yuanzhang.

At the Hongmen banquet, Xie Zaixing first stunned Li Mengeng who came to replace him with the hilt of his sword, and then staged a tragedy with the prefect of Luan and his wife who killed both husband and wife, and kidnapped Li Mengeng who was unconscious.

The original plan was that Li Mengeng and his wife faked their deaths, waiting for Xie Zaixing to go deep into the enemy camp and get the list of traitors before resurrecting. But the secret letter of the serial plan fell into the hands of Li Shanchang, Li Shanchang is Zhu Yuanzhang's most trusted confidant strategist, it is not difficult to intercept a secret letter, he immediately decided to plan the plan, fake the real play, after the Hongmen banquet, sent the dead to kill the husband and wife of the Luan prefect.

This is the first move, and then Li Shanchang used a two-pronged approach, taking advantage of the suspicion and jealousy of the lord Zhu Yuanzhang to his nephew Zhu Wenzheng, and separated the uncle and nephew who were once in love with father and son. Because Zhu Wen is Xie Zaixing's son-in-law, every loss is lost.

Xie Zaixing kidnapped Li Mengeng and defected to Zhang Shicheng, he wanted to deliberately release Li Mengeng halfway, but Li Mengeng, who woke up, actually told him that he had already defected to Xiwu, and it happened that the two went to Xiwu together to get promoted and make a fortune.

Xie Zaixing simply killed Li Mengeng, pretended not to know, and carried his head as a letter of surrender to see Zhang Shicheng. said that he wanted to surrender with Luan Feng and sacrifice Jinhua City, but Luan Feng did not cooperate, he had no choice, so he had to kill Luan Feng and his wife, and presented Li Menggeng's head to Zhang Shicheng as a gift.

Zhang Shicheng was overjoyed, thinking that Xie Zaixing sincerely surrendered, and got a secret report, saying that Luan Feng and his wife were dead, and the corpses were verified, Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, declared Xie Zaixing a traitor, and sent troops to surround the Xie Mansion in Shaoxing, and ordered the whole house to be beheaded.

It's all come to this point, it shouldn't be a fraud. Zhang Shicheng's relieved army of 100,000 was handed over to Zhang Shicheng and ordered him to attack Jinhua City.

Li Shanchang knew that Xie Zaixing had surrendered by fraud, but he did not write to tell Zhang Shicheng, because if he wanted to be convicted of Xie Zaixing's surrender, he had to help Xie Zaixing conceal his attempt to surrender.

At that time, Zhang Shicheng was very anxious, he heard every day that the Xie family was trapped and the Xie family was going to die, he thought at first that after Zhu Yuanzhang got the secret letter, in order to make the fake drama of surrender more real, he deliberately released the news that the Xie family was all over the house, but in fact, the Xie family was just fake death. But when he found out that his secret contact with Luan Feng was broken, he began to lose his self-confidence, suspecting that Luan Feng was dead, and Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know the inside story!

When Zhu Yuanzhang sent the general Li Wenzhong to guard Jinhua City and fight against the traitor Xie Zaixing's 100,000 army, Xie Zaixing repeatedly tested Li Wenzhong's tone before the battle, and Li Wenzhong's expression did not react, Xie Zaixing's suspicions were confirmed.

Looking at Li Wenzhong's indifferent expression, for a moment, Xie Zaixing finally understood that the Xie family's ancestral hall hanged, together with his youngest daughter Xiao Xie was assassinated to death, and the bad news of the disappearance of his granddaughter Xu Feng was actually true!

It's true.

The dejected Xie Zaixing lost the battle of Jinhua without accident, and the 100,000-strong army collapsed in one fell swoop, and only he fled to Suzhou City.

In order to go back to prove his innocence, Xie Zaixing persuaded Zhang Shicheng again and led another 100,000 Western Wu troops to attack Yiwu City. This time, he planned to bury another 100,000 troops, do his last strength to weaken Zhang Shicheng's military strength, and take advantage of the chaos to flee to Zhu Yuanzhang's side to confess his innocence.

From beginning to end, Xie Zaixing never betrayed Zhu Yuanzhang, even if Xie Zaixing knew that Zhu Yuanzhang forced the Xie family to commit suicide, his loyalty to Xiwu would not waver.

But Li Shanchang would not give Xie Zaixing any chance to turn over, while he used Xie Zaixing to plot against Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Wenzheng, he repeatedly instigated Zhu Wenzheng to intercede with his father-in-law Xie Zaixing, begging Zhu Yuanzhang to open the net and let go of Xie Zaixing and the remaining Xie family, so Zhu Yuanzhang's fear of Zhu Wenzheng became ten.

The evil result is that Zhu Yuanzhang has no patience for Xie Zaixing's rebellion, and just wants to kill Xie Zaixing as soon as possible to close the case, because in Zhu Yuanzhang's heart, the threat of Xie Zaixing, Zhu Yuanzheng, and Xu Daweng's son-in-law is too great, and he must quickly cut through the chaos and eliminate all possibilities at the beginning of the journey.

On the other hand, Li Shanchang bribed Li Wenzhong's subordinates and killed Xie Zaixing in the Battle of Yiwu.

In order to destroy the corpse, Li Shanchang ordered Xie Zaixing's body to be knocked into a burlap bag, trampled under the horse's hooves to pieces, and threw the minced meat into the river to feed the fish, so Li Wenzhong never found Xie Zaixing's whereabouts.

The family hanged themselves, Xie Zaixing disappeared, and his younger brother Xie Si Xie Wu accepted Zhang Shicheng's surrender in despair, but Li Wenzhong persuaded him bitterly and promised not to kill them, Xie Si Xie Wu didn't want to betray Zhu Yuanzhang, and felt that Li Wenzhong was a general or Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, and his words should be reliable, so he put down his arms and opened the city gate to surrender.

But it's too late, it is impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang at this time to listen to any pleading and advice, Xu Da, Zhu Wenzheng, Li Wenzhong, and even Li Shanchang also pretended to intercede, he coldly sentenced Xie Si Xie to death.

In less than half a year, Zhu Wenzheng was framed by Zhu Yuanzhang for rebellion, seized the official position and was imprisoned, and died depressed......

And the real traitor Li Shanchang is a very popular minister, and the scenery is infinite. 166 Reading Network