In the twenty-fourth year of Yuan Zhizheng, that is, in February 1364, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been fully able to rest and recuperate, and all the soldiers and horses were adjusted in place, after resting for several months, finally launched a hunt and kill order against Chen Youliang's second son Chen Li after killing Chen Youliang!

If you want to cut the grass, you must eradicate it!

Although Chen Li is far inferior to Chen Youliang in his bones, he is Chen Youliang's species after all!

It's always a hidden danger to keep it;

He must be killed and this scourge removed.

Hubei, Wuchang!

This is the strategic base where Chen Li and Zhang Dingbian, who took advantage of the chaos to flee last year, were stationed.

It is also the national capital of the Han Dynasty now!

And now Chen Li took over his old man's class, and now he is the emperor of the Han Dynasty, and the temple name is Deshou.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had already made up his mind to clean up this hidden danger, ordered Li Shanchang, Deng Yu, Chang Yuchun, Kang Maocai, Liao Yongzhong, Hu Tingrui and others to lead a large army to conquer Chen Li.

The rest of the soldiers and horses began to uproot the strongholds that Chen Youliang once occupied one by one!

For Zhu Yuanzhang's army, Chen Li, as Chen Youliang's second son, is simply unable to compete.

In the face of the Zhu Jiajun, who was completely a tiger and wolf army, Chen Li, who had good military thinking, completely relied on the important minister Zhang Dingbian in military affairs.

But what Chen Li didn't expect was that Zhang Dingbian was bizarrely captured in the first round of confrontation with Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is absolutely fatal for Chen Li.

In his own imperial power, Zhang Dingbian is the only general who can compete with Zhu Yuanzhang.

His capture equated to the fact that the Han Dynasty no longer had any generals to use.

At this time, Chen Li, who was completely in a passive situation, finally made a decision.

A decision that if he is still alive, he will be angry, and even if he is dead, he will definitely jump off the wall in a hurry.

He decided to lead his troops to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.

For Chen Li's surrender, Zhang Dingbian should have been unexpected.

Compared with Chen Youliang, this second master is too far behind in terms of courage and courage!

The two are not of the same level at all!

If Chen Youliang is still alive now, he will definitely not surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Even if he dies on the battlefield, he will never lead his troops to surrender.

In Chen Youliang's eyes, surrender is an absolute shame for him and the greatest insult to his personality!

This is also the reason why in the end, Chen Youliang would rather escape and be killed than surrender!

But his son made a surprising decision at this last minute!

He surrendered.

Surrendered to his father-killing enemy!

Surrender to his greatest enemy who almost betrayed his friends for glory!

Perhaps in Chen Li's view, his choice was forced and helpless.

But what he did was just as shameful!

Lao Tzu hero, son bear!

That's all!

After Chen Li surrendered, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him, but treated him like a surrendered army, gave him a military rank, and would never give him soldiers and horses!

At this time, Zhang Dingbian, who had completely lost confidence in Chen Li, the second master, knew his enmity with Zhu Yuanzhang, and Chen Youliang, who had made a bloody alliance and never thought of surrendering, did not accept the official position and political canonization given by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Instead, choose to leave.

Zhang Dingbian, who no longer wants to set foot in officialdom, let alone get involved in the military, seems to have seen through all the warmth and coldness of the world.

penetrates all the emotional entanglements in the world.

The mentality is dead, and everything is empty, Zhang Dingbian chooses to escape into the empty door.

From then on, I became attached to the Buddha!

Don't ask about the world.

Out of the world!

Since then, the Han regime at the end of the Yuan Dynasty has completely collapsed.

After completely disposing of the trouble of Chen Youliang's Han regime, Zhu Yuanzhang, under the admiration of generals such as Li Shanchang and Xu Da, called himself: King Wu!

And established the province of Zhongshu on its own.

and the establishment of political officials at all levels of the ministry.

Here I would like to briefly share my opinion.

First of all, this King Wu was not officially approved by Han Lin'er's Longfeng regime.

In other words, Zhu Yuanzhang's own self-titled King Wu was not recognized by the Longfeng regime at all!

Because the history books say that this King Wu was self-reliant by Zhu Yuanzhang, that is, a title he gave himself.

In the ancient imperial era, the title of king could not be casually sealed.

For Zhu Yuanzhang, a prince with a completely different surname, it is even more impossible to exist.

Those who are familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty should know that there were princes and kings during the founding of the Ming Dynasty.

But these princes and kings are all Zhu Yuanzhang's sons or his grandsons.

The real princes and kings with different surnames also appeared, but they were all posthumously crowned after death, such as Xu Da was posthumously crowned as the king of Zhongshan after his death, and Chang Yuchun was posthumously crowned as the king of Kaiping after his death!

When they were alive, the highest title was only a duke, and never a prince!

In the Western Han Dynasty, where Liu Bang was located, the Western Han Dynasty he founded had princes and kings with different surnames, but none of these princes with different surnames had a good end in the end.

They were either eliminated or killed.

That's why I said that Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself the king of Wu at this time, and his motives were by no means simple, nor were they simple.

I think that now he has gradually begun to break away from the control of the dragon and phoenix regime, and he has also begun to gradually fade out of the position of the dragon and phoenix regime, and has begun to prepare for his future self-reliance.

To put it bluntly, the current dragon and phoenix regime is completely an ornament for him, a puppet that he can clear whenever he wants.

The current dragon and phoenix regime has completely lost its role as a shelter for Zhu Yuanzhang.

The reason why he still respected Han Lin'er in the past was only because of the constraints of many strong military enemies, and he needed the shield of the Dragon and Phoenix regime to shield himself from the wind and arrows.

But now he doesn't need it anymore.

Now completely independent, he no longer needs others to protect him.

Now he can be on his own!

Now he can be basically independent.

It's just that it's not yet time to really make a face!

Wait, the dawn of victory is at hand!

The dragon and phoenix regime will also come to an end that is not far away with the demise of Chen Youliang!

……

After solving the trouble of Chen Li, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been enduring for a long time, launched a challenge to his other political enemy.

This person is: Zhang Shicheng.

His political identity was: the de facto ruler of the Great Zhou regime.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Zhang Shicheng will always be a smuggled salt dealer, and he is a huge mountain cannon who does not understand politics and military affairs at all.

This mountain artillery does not understand military affairs, let alone strategy.

But he has money!

What he has is money!

If you touch it under the butt of this mountain cannon, you can grab the oil!

In this age of bastards, the one who has money is the uncle!

In this age of riots, having money is the same as having power!

If you have money, you can buy the right, and you can exchange the right for money!

This is the way of the world!

If it weren't for the fact that his family was not close to the beach when he was a child, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been restless and self-conscious since he was a child, would definitely be like this mountain cannon, selling illicit salt and earning money.

But it's a pity that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't have such a good life!

So when he was a child, Zhu Yuanzhang could only eat bran vegetables, herd cattle and drive donkeys to walk the world!

Seeing this mountain cannon showing off his might all day long under his nose, and being arrogant all day long, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has always been uninterested in him, will not fight anywhere.

From the beginning, after settling in Xinqiao, Zhang Shicheng, a mountain cannon, took care of his business from time to time and held his own field.

A small fight in three days, a big fuss in five days.

Anyway, how to make yourself uncomfortable, how can this mountain cannon come!

Zhu Yuanzhang can't figure it out, I didn't recruit you, I didn't provoke you, I didn't provoke you.

Why do you keep targeting me?

If I take your place, or if I stab your nest, it's understandable that you're bullying me.

After all, I provoked you in the first place.

But I never dared to offend you!

Why do you keep holding me back?

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't figure it out.

What made him even more incomprehensible was how Chen Youliang deceived his eldest nephew's trust, and in what form did he gain Zhu Wenzheng's trust?

Although his eldest nephew does have a big problem in terms of life style, his heart is still towards him after all, and he has never shown any deviant behavior before.

I have always respected my uncle!

But after the Battle of Poyang Lake, everything changed.

The eyes that used to look at him were full of respect and admiration, but now they have turned into anger and resentment from the heart, and the cold light from the bottom of his heart makes even the murderous Zhu Yuanzhang tremble.

He couldn't figure out what kind of magic Zhang Shicheng's big mountain cannon had exerted on his own nephew, so that Zhu Wenzheng could be so ruthless to his own uncle.

If you just give him a lot of gold, silver and jewelry, then it couldn't be simpler, and I will give him ten times as much as you give him.

No, give him a hundredfold!

As long as he can exchange for Wenzheng's inner return, no matter how much money he spends, Zhu Yuanzhang is not afraid.

After all, all this money is from his own nephew, and it is equivalent to his own.

Anyway, in my own ideology, what's yours is mine, and what's mine is still mine!

If it was by other means, then he would have to ask for clarification.

This method of forcibly brainwashing one's dearest relatives in just a few days is definitely worth learning from Zhu Yuanzhang.

Because as long as he learns this, he is no longer afraid that someone will betray him!

So after solving Chen Li's huge annoyance, he decided to ask Zhang Shicheng, the mountain cannon, to understand in person!

If you dare not recruit you, I will definitely want you to look good!

On the issue of Zhang Shicheng, Zhu Yuanzhang has a positive and cautious attitude.

Zhu Yuanzhang thinks that although Zhang Shicheng is far inferior to Chen Youliang in terms of force, this guy is rich.

He's too rich.

This mountain cannon is poor and has money left!

In these days, as long as you have money, you can buy a lot of things.

For example, the army, and for example, the hearts of the people!

In the face of the temptation of huge financial benefits, there is always a group of people who are desperate for him for money.

Therefore, in the face of Zhang Shicheng, a big chaebol who can definitely be called a rich country, Zhu Yuanzhang, who has already killed his strong rival Chen Youliang, whose military strength has improved by leaps and bounds, still does not dare to take it lightly.