The iron cavalry roared, the sound shook the earth, and Emperor Chongzhen led three thousand tigers to rush towards Fan's mansion.

More than ten miles away, the war horses have not yet sweated, and the army has surrounded Fanfu.

The courtyard of Fanfu is deep, covers a vast area, there are hundreds of houses, dozens of large and small courtyards, the soldiers stand five or six meters alone, and it takes hundreds of people to surround it.

From this, how big is the Fan family?

And the Fan Mansion was obviously prepared, and when the guards saw the shadow of the cavalry from a distance, they quickly locked the gate and stumbled towards the mansion to report the news.

At this time, after three days of tidying up, Fan's Mansion was almost cleaned up.

Gold and silver ingots were dug out of the cellar and filled dozens of carts.

There are also dozens of cars of jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings and other precious objects, more than 100 cars of things, squeezing the vast central square of Fanfu, tightly squeezed, magnificent.

It's just that this is only a small part of the Fan family's property.

Countless fertile land, shops, real estate and other real estate distributed in Shanxi and even near the capital are the big ones.

Unfortunately, these things can't be moved.

Fan Yongdou, who was packing up the house deed and land deed in the study, seemed to be dripping blood in his heart.

But he still carefully sorted them out and packed them, hoping that one day the Qing Dynasty would be able to win the Central Plains.

If that's where these things come in.

Suddenly, there was a noise outside the house, and then the Fan family's guard commander Silly Biao shouted: "Patriarch, it's not good, the mansion is surrounded by the imperial army." ”

Hearing this, Fan Yongdou was stunned, and his mind was blank.

"Patriarch, what should I do?"

Outside, the Fan family members who rushed to hear the news shouted anxiously.

"What to do? What else can I do? ”

Fan Yongdou muttered to himself, his face full of remorse.

I was really fascinated by money, how could I leave two days earlier?

It's just that he suddenly remembered, where did the army come from in the imperial court?

Quickly rushing out of the house, he asked Silly Biao, "How many people have come to the imperial court?" ”

"The patriarch, thousands of cavalry, is the brave guard battalion of the imperial court."

Silly Biao replied helplessly.

Obviously, everyone in the Fan family knew a lot about the army of the Ming court.

After all, they are not serious businessmen, and they also have the heavy responsibility of building slaves.

When Fan Yongdou heard this, he immediately sat down on the ground in fright, and the Fan family was finished.

The emperor's Imperial Forest Army traveled hundreds of miles to arrest the Fan family, can things be small?

The Fan family also panicked when they saw this, making a mess, and didn't know what to do.

"Boss, hurry up and let people open the door of the mansion, do you still want to resist stubbornly and resist the imperial army, and the crime will be added to the crime?"

In the chaos, Fan Yongdou's second uncle, who lived in another courtyard, came over and came up with an idea.

He is a person who understands that there is a difference between collaborating with the enemy and plotting rebellion.

Directly confronting the imperial army is tantamount to rebellion, it is a crime of treason, the crime is unforgivable, and the nine clans will be punished!

And collaborating with the enemy is not the same as plotting rebellion, and there is also a saying in this, which is to be judged by the three divisions of the imperial court.

But even if the three clans of Yi are there, as long as the nine clans are there, someone can get out after all, and there is still the possibility of a comeback for the family one day.

"Hurry up and open the door of the house, and you will be arrested!"

After being reminded by the second uncle, Fan Yongdou also came back to his senses and hurriedly ordered the clansmen.

So far, that's all it can be.

At the same time, he was still lucky, what if the court didn't know so much?

Just as Emperor Chongzhen was about to give the order to attack, the door of Fan's mansion opened, and Fan Yongdou was full of smiles, leading a group of clansmen, looking like he was welcoming the imperial army.

I really don't shed tears when I don't see the coffin!

"You're Fan Yongdou?"

Riding on a horse, Emperor Chongzhen took a horsewhip and pointed at Fan Yongdou, who came to "greet", and asked.

"It's a contemptible person, dare to ask the general's name?"

Fan Yongdou saw that the imperial army did not do it directly, and he couldn't help but have some kind of expectation in his heart.

"Bold, don't you hurry up and bow down when you see the emperor?"

Seeing Fan Yongdou kicking his nose and face, and actually asked the name of the emperor, Fang Zhenghua was furious, and whipped him over, beating him to shreds and blood.

As soon as they heard that the emperor had arrived in person, Fan Yongdou and his people hurriedly knelt down and kowtowed, and said: "The grass people don't know that Your Majesty is coming to the cold house, please forgive Your Majesty!" ”

"Forgiveness?" Emperor Chongzhen snorted coldly, and shouted in a loud voice: "How can you forgive the sins of forgiving the Jiannu, selling weapons, grain and grass, and selling border information, and letting the Jiannu come to kill my Ming people?" ”

When Fan Yongdou and his clansmen heard that the traitorous things they had done were clearly known to the emperor, they were frightened on the spot.

The Fan family is finished.

"Blockade the entire Fan Mansion and take down all the traitors, and no one will be left behind!"

Emperor Chongzhen

At this time, although Zhu Yuanzhang had 100,000 troops, he still occupied very little territory, and he was surrounded by enemies on all sides. To the east and south is the Yuan army, to the southeast is Zhang Shicheng, and to the west is Xu Shouhui, although they are both anti-Yuan forces, but Zhang and Xu are hostile to each other with King Xiaoming. However, the main force of the Red Turban Army led by King Xiaoming and Liu Futong in the north greatly contained the Yuan army, and the strength of Zhang Shicheng and Xu Shouhui was not enough to annex Zhu Yuanzhang. In this way, Zhu Yuanzhang is temporarily facing a good development opportunity. [68-69]

In the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), Liu Ji was invited by Zhu Yuanzhang to Yingtian (now Nanjing) and appointed him as a minister. In view of the situation at that time, Liu Ji proposed to Zhu Yuanzhang to avoid two-front battles and break through each other, which was adopted. After completing the deployment of "building a high wall", Zhu Yuanzhang began to implement the "extensive accumulation of grain". In order to solve the grain problem, in addition to mobilizing the people to carry out production, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to implement the Tuntian Law, vigorously develop the army's tuntian, and appointed Marshal Kang Maocai as the envoy of the capital water camp, responsible for the construction of water conservancy, and assigned generals to cultivate and farm land in various places. After a few years of work, Xingtun was everywhere, the treasury was full, and the military rations were sufficient. In the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered that the "village grain" should no longer be levied to reduce the burden on the peasants. [70] In order to accumulate grain, Zhu Yuanzhang explicitly banned alcohol, but Hu Sanshe, the son of his general Hu Dahai, violated the ban with others and made profits from brewing wine privately. Someone admonished that Hu Dahai was attacking Shaoxing at this time, hoping that Zhu Yuanzhang could put Hu Sanshe on Hu Dahai's face. Zhu Yuanzhang was furious and resolutely strict with military discipline, so he killed Hu Sanshe by himself.

While winning the hearts and minds of the people, Zhu Yuanzhang also continued to recruit talents, especially intellectuals, and Zhu Yuanzhang also built a special Lixian Hall in Yingtian to receive them. These people played an important role in Zhu Yuanzhang's process of unifying the whole country. Zhu Yuanzhang respected Confucian scholars very much, and he summoned the Confucian scholar Tang Zhongshi in the eighteenth year of Zhizheng (1358) to ask Emperor Gao of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty, Taizu of the Song Dynasty, and Yuan Shizu on the way to pacify the world[71], which also showed that Zhu Yuanzhang was determined to create a new dynasty. [72]

Break Chen Han

Zhu Yuanzhang established a base with Yingtian as the center, with Chen Youliang in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhang Shicheng in the lower reaches, Fang Guozhen in the southeast, and Chen Youding in the south. Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding's goal was to protect the land and divide the territory, while Zhang Shicheng did not have much ambition for the two ends of the Yuan Dynasty; Chen Youliang was the strongest, and he was the most dangerous enemy that Zhu Yuanzhang encountered after occupying Yingtian. [73]

The situation of the Battle of Poyang Lake

The situation of the Battle of Poyang Lake

Chen Youliang was originally a subordinate of Ni Wenjun, a general under Xu Shouhui. [74] Later, he killed Ni Wenjun and held Xu Shouhui hostage in the twentieth year of Zhizheng (1360), capturing Taiping and Quarrying. So Chen Youliang thought that Yingtian was within reach, so he killed Xu Shouhui, called the emperor in quarrying, the country was called Han, and changed the righteousness of the Yuan. [75-76]

Then, Chen Youliang asked Zhang Shicheng to attack Yingtian from east to west, divide Zhu Yuanzhang's territory equally, and Yingtian was shaken. [76] Zhu Yuanzhang had no choice but to convene the generals to discuss countermeasures, and for a while there were different opinions. [77] However, Liu Ji remained silent, so Zhu Yuanzhang asked for his opinion, and Liu Ji believed that the most dangerous enemy now was Chen Youliang, and that he must concentrate his efforts to eliminate him. Although Chen Youliang's power is strong, he kills the king and stands on his own, his troops are separated, and the people are tired, so it is not difficult to defeat, as long as they go deeper, and then attack them with ambushes, it is not difficult to win. Zhu Yuanzhang agreed with Liu Ji's judgment, so he designed to lure the enemy deep and build fighters. Zhu Yuanzhang's subordinate Kang Maocai and Chen Youliang were old friends, so he repaired a letter and sent someone to Chen Youliang's camp, asking Chen to attack Yingtian, and said that he was willing to respond at Jiangdong Bridge. [78] [79]

On the morning of 23 June, Chen Youliang led the main force of the fleet to the Jiangdong Bridge on the outskirts of Yingtian, only to find that the bridge was a stone bridge instead of a wooden bridge. But it was too late, Zhu Yuanzhang's ambush troops rose up to attack, and Chen Youliang was defeated. [80] Zhu Yuanzhang collected Taiping and occupied Xinzhou and Anqing. Chen Youliang was defeated and fled to Jiujiang, and captured Anqing in August of the following year, so Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to take Chen Youliang's old Chaojiang Prefecture, Chen Youliang fled to Wuchang,[81] and Zhu Yuanzhang conquered Jiangxi and southeastern Hubei. [78] [82]

Zhu Yuanzhang's battle to destroy Chen Han

Zhu Yuanzhang's battle to destroy Chen Han

At this time, the Central Plains Red Turban Army split and weakened. In February of the twenty-third year of Zhizheng (1363), Zhang Shicheng took advantage of the danger and sent his troops to attack Anfeng, and Liu Futong asked Zhu Yuanzhang for help. Zhu Yuanzhang led the army to Anfeng, rescued Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, and arranged for them to live in Chuzhou. When Zhu Yuanzhang led the main force to rescue King Xiaoming, Chen Youliang thought that the time for a counterattack had come, so he led his troops to attack Hongdu. [83] Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, Zhu Wenzheng, led his soldiers to hold out for 85 days. [84] In July of the twenty-third year of Zhizheng (1363), Zhu Yuanzhang commanded 200,000 troops and marched to Hongdu. The Poyang Lake Water Battle lasted 36 days, which began on 29 August and ended on 3 October. Zhu Yuanzhang's army gave full play to the advantages of the small boat's agility and attacked Chen's army with fire, and finally won,[85] and Chen Youliang was killed by random arrows. [86]

On the New Year's Day of the twenty-fourth year of Zheng (1364), Zhu Yuanzhang was elected as the king of Wu by hundreds of officials, and built a hundred officials. [87] Because in the twenty-third year of Zhizheng (1363), Zhang Shicheng had already established himself as the king of Wu, so Zhang Shicheng was called Eastern Wu and Zhu Yuanzhang was called Western Wu in history.

In March of the twenty-fourth year of Zhizheng (1364), Zhu Yuanzhang went to Wuchang again to supervise the siege of the city, and Chen Li finally surrendered out of the city. [88] After annexing Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang's next target was Zhang Shicheng.

Dominate Jiangnan

After Chen Youliang was killed, Zhang Shicheng and Fang Guozhen in the east became the next target of elimination. In his early years, Zhang Shicheng sold illicit salt as a business. [89] At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the salt rebellion was launched, and in the fourteenth year of Zhizheng (1354), he was called King Cheng in Gaoyou, and the founding name was Zhou, and the Jianyuan Tianyou was born. [90] In the sixteenth year of Zhizheng (1356), the capital was built in Pingjiang. After eliminating Chen Youliang, Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Zhang Shicheng in October of the 25th year of Zhizheng (1365), and captured Tongzhou, Xinghua, Yancheng, Taizhou, Gaoyou, Huai'an, Xuzhou, Suzhou, and Anfeng counties in one fell swoop, driving the forces of Eastern Wu out of the Jiangbei region. [69] [91]

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the situation of secession in various places

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the situation of secession in various places

In May of the twenty-sixth year of Zhizheng (1366), Zhu Yuanzhang issued a document to denounce Zhang Shicheng. [92] In November of the same year, Hangzhou and Huzhou surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Pingjiang became an isolated city. [93] So Zhu Yuanzhang surrounded Pingjiang with heavy troops and launched the Battle of Pingjiang. At the same time as besieging the city, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Liao Yongzhong to Chuzhou to pick up Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, to Yingtianlai, but when he crossed the river in Guabu, he quietly chiseled the bottom of the boat, and the king of Xiaoming sank to the bottom of the river. Then, Zhu Yuanzhang announced that he would no longer take the year of the dragon and phoenix, and called the twenty-seventh year of Zhizheng (1367) as the "first year of Wu". [94-95]

At the beginning of the Battle of Pingjiang, Zhu Yuanzhang built a wall to besiege the city, and built a three-story wooden tower, higher than the city wall, with bows and crossbows, fire guns to shoot into the city, and also set up Xiangyang artillery to bombard day and night. There was a panic in the city, and Zhang Shicheng failed to break through several times. Zhang Shicheng is capricious, greedy for enjoyment, and very indulgent to his subordinates. On the last day of the siege of Pingjiang, Zhang Shicheng's younger brother Zhang Shixin supervised the battle at the head of the city, but he still did not forget to have fun, sat on the silver chair and drank, and the people who served on the left and right handed him peaches, but before the peaches arrived, he happened to be hit by a cannon and his head was shattered. Zhu Yuanzhang sent people to persuade him to surrender many times, but Zhang Shicheng refused. Zhang Shicheng defended the Pingjiang River, and after the grain was exhausted, he fed on rats and dry grass; After the arrows are exhausted, the roof tiles are used as bullets. Until the eighth day of September in the twenty-seventh year of Zheng (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang led his army to attack Pingjiang City, and Zhang Shicheng launched a street battle to resist. [96-97]

In the first year of Wu (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Tang He to be the general of the southern expedition to defeat Fang Guozhen, who had been in eastern Zhejiang for many years. [98] Later, he ordered Hu Tingrui to be the general of Zhengnan and He Wenhui to be the deputy general to attack Fujian. In the same year, Fang Guozhen surrendered. [99]

On October 21, the first year of Wu (1367), Zhu Yuanzhang ordered Xu Da, the right prime minister of the book, to be the general of the conquest, and Chang Yuchun of Pingzhang to be the deputy general, leading an army of 250,000 to the north into the Central Plains. [100] During the Northern Expedition, the "Edict to the Central Plains" was issued, in which the proclamation put forward the program of "expelling Hulu, restoring China, establishing a program of Chen Ji, and relieving the people",[101] which inspired the people in the north to rise up against the Yuan. Zhu Yuanzhang made another deployment for the Northern Expedition, proposing to take Shandong first and remove the barrier of Mengyuan; march into Henan, cut off its wings, seize Tongguan, and occupy its threshold; Then he marched into the capital, and at this time the Yuan Dynasty was lonely and took it without a fight; If troops are sent to the west, Shanxi, northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong, and Gansu can be swept down. [102] The Northern Expedition marched as planned. Xu Da led his troops to take Shandong first, then marched westward, captured Bianliang, and then waved his army to Tongguan. Zhu Yuanzhang went to Bianliang to command.

It's too late, modify it that night, please forgive me!