After all, Guo Zixing is a clown who jumps off the beam, and he will never be able to get on the stage, let alone be on the elegant stage.

We don't have much time to talk about him.

Let's get to know another person.

Before I talk about this person, I would like to give him a relatively pertinent assessment in my opinion.

This person is small and has no strategy.

Personally, I would rate him as a complete one: mountain artillery.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the world's heroes rose up, he seemed not willing to be lonely, under the oppression and fraud of the brutal rule of the Yuan Dynasty, he was furious and swore a blood oath with 17 other accomplices, and then rebelled in the Caoyan field.

His name is: Zhang Shicheng.

Well, let's take a look at him for what he really is.

Name: Shicheng Zhang;

Former name: Zhang Jiusi;

Nationality: Han nationality;

Place of birth: Baijuchang, Xinghua, Jiangsu Province (now Dafeng City, Jiangsu Province);

Occupation: Illicit salt dealer;

Major achievements: the establishment of the Great Zhou regime in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty;

Date of birth: August 23, 1321;

Date of death: October 9, 1367;

Cause of death: Death by hanging;

Character quality: Don't mess with me, otherwise you will look good!

Habits: Kill people with a quick knife and solve them quickly.

Slogan: What do you see, then look at me to cut you.

Identity: Nouveau riche.

Because of the sale of illicit salt gathered huge wealth, in the last years of the Yuan Dynasty anti-Yuan uprising leaders, Zhang Shicheng is a well-known rich man, known as: the most forgive, Shicheng the richest man.

On August 23, 1321, Zhang Shicheng was born, ranking the eldest. In the years that followed, his three younger brothers, Zhang Shiyi, Zhang Shide and Zhang Shixin, were born, respectively.

When he was a child, Zhang Shicheng's family was not wealthy, because his hometown in Taizhou was located on the southeast coast, and every midsummer, it would be hit by typhoons and flooded by the tide, in this case, the land that had just been repaired would be destroyed instantly, and the harvest of the year would be almost none.

When the sea receded, the original fertile land turned into saline-alkali land, and the local farmers were miserable.

Although natural disasters were unavoidable, the man-made disasters issued by the imperial court overwhelmed them.

In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, in the Central Plains ruled by the Yuan army, due to the extreme extravagance and profligacy of the Yuan army and a large amount of demand, the country's financial resources could not make ends meet. Because of the drought and floods for many years, geological disasters continue to occur, and the people's voices are full of grievances.

After natural disasters, the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty would not care about the lives of the people.

All they care about is the wine and the woman, and as long as the people pay the tribute on time and in the right amount, everything will be fine.

As for their life or death, they don't care, let them fend for themselves.

It's my business!

Under the influence and rendering of this thought, a major event occurred soon after, which made the already overstretched Yuan Dynasty machine even worse, that is, Han Shantong and Liu Futong rebelled in Yingzhou.

The rebel rebellion, as the only government functional agency at that time, the Yuan Army had the responsibility and obligation to suppress it.

But no matter which dynasty it is, it costs money to fight a war.

Every time the army took a step forward, it had to prepare mountains of silver, piles of grain and grass to supply, and people had to deal with money to eat and chew.

In the eyes of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, the money of the common people can be fooled, and the money of those who are deducted can be deducted, but the money of the army must not be manipulated.

As their own clan, everyone who came with them from the Horqin Grassland, and the brothers of the same mother, their lives are their own lives.

As the last line of defense of the Yuan Dynasty, the army cannot be ambiguous.

But they are also men who are soldiers, and they also need pleasure, and they also need the company of delicious food and wine, and beautiful women singing and dancing.

Brothers are like siblings, and women are like garments.

Your woman is my woman.

Who is with whom we brothers?

Then you're welcome.

You're welcome, you're welcome!

Under the influence of this extravagance and alcohol, the combat effectiveness of the Yuan army was constantly weakened, and the iron hooves that once walked all over the great rivers and mountains of the motherland, but the barbarians and Russian foreign devils were cold and timid, had long been lazy and loose under the demands of alcohol and women.

The Mongolian iron horseman, led by Genghis Khan, has long been no longer the steppe wolf that people call a nightmare.

Now they are still wolves, perverts who only blush when they see women, hungry wolves who only indulge in extravagant pleasures when they see gold and silver, and jackals who only oppress and exploit the common people.

For them, the belligerent genes in their bones have long since died.

Gengi Khan, who once led them to dominate the Mongolian steppe and conquered all directions, began to move to the bottom from the day he died.

The final destination will only be the abyss of sin and the destruction of the country.

Under the rule of this corrupt government, in order to raise military salaries, the Yuan army did not hesitate to increase the price of salt in large quantities, and finally the salt industry became the main source of income for the state finance.

The increase in the price of salt is by no means a good thing for the salt farmers on the southeast coast, because the Yuan Dynasty government stipulated that individuals were not allowed to process salt without permission.

There is only one way for the common people to get it, and that is to buy it from the Yuan army.

The price has to be set by me, and I can say as much as I want.

Do you love it or not, don't fuck off.

Who dares to dry the salt without authorization If you let it be caught, there will be only one result, pull it out and cut off your head directly.

But for the poor people, in an era when they are so poor that they can only sell their children and daughters, where is there money to buy expensive and poor quality official salt.

The sea water is right in front of your eyes, not white, not white, not white.

It's all money anyway, so why don't you do it.

Under the encouragement of this kind of thinking, there will inevitably be people who are bold and careful and do not want to die.

Zhang Shicheng is one of them.

Due to the meager income from transporting salt to the official family, Zhang Shicheng and several of his brothers and a few bold villagers started a business of selling illicit salt. Under the pretense of transporting salt to the government, they also carried a part of the private salt with them and sold it to local wealthy households, taking the opportunity to make a fortune.

And those bad businessmen also seem to know about Zhang Shicheng's sale of illicit salt, so they often threaten to report the government, not only do not give Zhang Shicheng salt money, but also beat and scold him.

Because Zhang Shicheng's own status is low, and selling smuggled salt is an illegal act, Zhang Shicheng and others, who were aggrieved by the knife, can only swallow their anger.

After being treated unequally, all Zhang Shicheng could do was smile on his face, trying to exchange a humble smile for peace between the two sides.

But his heart was definitely full of hatred.

He looked at the ugly guys in front of him who were rich, fat, and had a big belly like a ten-month pregnant child, with a murderous cold light in his eyes, but his face was still full of smiles, and he secretly cursed these beasts who ate people and didn't spit out bones.

You mountain cannons, don't give it to you.

Don't be complacent, let you live happily for a few days!

Wait, one day I will get it back with interest.

When the time comes...... Hmph, I'm sure I'm going to make you look good!

Finally, in the thirteenth year of Emperor Yuan Shun, that is, in 1353, Zhang Shicheng held a strong ideological feeling that there was no need to endure anymore, and he angrily raised troops and armed riots.

In order to prevent the leakage of the news and strictly control the secrets of the news, Zhang Shicheng and 17 other hot-blooded salt people made a bloody alliance in the North Pole Hall of Caoyan Field, picked up the flat pole used to pick up salt, and quietly entered the house of the salt policeman Qiu Yi in the cold wind, and beat to death this bully who usually harms his neighbors.

Eighteen men then rushed into the homes of the wealthy local families, opened the warehouses, distributed the grain and money to the local people, and then burned the houses clean.

This is what is very famous in history: the Eighteen Biantan Rebellion.

Subsequently, everyone jointly elected Zhang Shicheng as the leader of the righteous army, and quickly gathered heavy troops and captured Taizhou in one fell swoop by virtue of the thousands of family wealth obtained from selling illicit salt and looting bullies and corrupt officials.

At this time, the Yuan army was faced with the dilemma of the righteous army, and it was not appropriate to make enemies everywhere, so they chose to persuade Zhang Shicheng to surrender, after all, Zhang Shicheng had contributed to them, and they knew and understood, and the foundation of the two sides was relatively familiar, and it should not be difficult for the Yuan Dynasty to surrender him.

Zhang Shicheng, who heard the news of the surrender, did not directly refuse, but happily met the guests.

However, when he took the gift brought by Zhao Lian with full authority, Zhang Shicheng, who was born as a smuggler of salt, showed his hideous face, and he smiled and lifted the long sword in his hand, and when Li Qi could not escape, he slashed him alive in laughter.

After killing Zhao Lian, he led the army to defect again.

Soon after the defection, Zhang Shicheng captured Xinghua and assembled at Desheng Lake (Xinghua City, Jiangsu Province) with more than 10,000 soldiers.

For Zhang Shicheng, who had already killed one of his ministers, the Yuan Dynasty government did not seem to be reconciled.

They don't believe that Zhang Shicheng is determined to confront him.

At this time, the Yuan court seemed to be ready for a protracted war.

Soon after Zhang Shicheng captured Xinghua, Li Qi, the prefect of Gaoyou Mansion, was again sent to recruit Zhang Shicheng with a letter of appointment from "Wanhu" (the position of Wanhu should be equivalent to our current regiment head level).

Zhang Shicheng seems to like to play games very much, and he is also happy to receive Li Qi.

He looked at the Yuan Dynasty officials in the audience with a smile and said his thoughts: "Wanhu seems to be a little smaller!" ”

After some bargaining, Zhang Shicheng didn't seem to care about the size of the official position anymore, let alone negotiate the specific price of the cooperation between the two sides, and he also didn't kindly let Li Qi leave.

But after some bargaining, he played the same method again, and played a killing game with a bold sword.

In the midst of his smile, he once again slashed Li Qi alive.

After killing Li Qi, Zhang Shicheng quickly reassembled his army, took advantage of the gap that Gaoyou had no commander, quickly attacked Gaoyou, and succeeded in one fell swoop.

Later, after Zhang Shicheng was satisfied, he ascended the throne and became king.

Self-proclaimed: King Cheng.

Country name: Da Zhou,

Year name: God bless (estimated meaning: God blessed).

This year is the thirteenth year of Emperor Yuan Shun, that is, 1353 AD.