Chapter 14: The Conspiracy Behind the Scenes
Guo Zixing gritted his teeth and wrote a letter, in this difficult environment, he had no choice.
The recipient is: Zhu Yuanzhang.
The content of Guo Zixing's letter is relatively simple, in addition to telling what happened after Zhu Yuanzhang left, more importantly, it focuses on his experience and current predicament.
It means: My dear son-in-law, save me. The things I did in the past were all done by Guo Tianxu, a bastard, and what I did was not my intention, for the sake of saving you from danger back then, you adults have a lot of don't worry about it anymore.
Now you should have heard of my situation, since Peng Zaozhu that useless thing braided, my situation is completely isolated, in front of the crowd, I alone can not resist everyone anyway.
What's more, even if I want to leave now, Zhao Jun won't let go of that Wang Ba Lamb and the rest of the bastards, they have self-respecting troops and trapped me in Haozhou City, and now mine can be said to be the Wang Ba in the pot who can't move.
For the sake of me who once saved you, how to say that I am also your savior, and I am also the father of your wife Ma, for the sake of not looking at the monk's face and you looking at the Buddha's face, help me, let me get out of the bitter sea of Haozhou as soon as possible, and go to Chuyang with you to enjoy two days of Qingfu, it is better than living and suffering here.
Guo Zixing's letter did not disappoint him.
After Zhu Yuanzhang received Guo Zixing's letter, Zhu Yuanzhang did intervene in the matter.
He wrote a letter to Zhao Junyong, in which he briefly explained his views.
The content is: The world is in chaos now, and this is a good time for us to collect the world's heroes. After you were defeated in Xuzhou and fled to Haozhou, my father-in-law Guo Zixing did not dislike you, nor did he refuse you to stay outside the city gate.
He opened the door to receive you, and not only that, but he also deigned to be under your stewardship and at your command. In this respect, my father-in-law has been very kind to you. ("Ming Shilu" records: Guo openly accepted the door, treated each other sincerely, did not have doubts, and condescended to the public.) Guo Gong's virtue is very great in the public. )
Now that my father-in-law is weak, how about you do it?
Not only do you not repay his kindness to you, but listen to the slander of those villains, and want to put him to death, you are tantamount to one-sided achievement of the interests of those villains, and when they grow up one day, will they in turn take you under the knife?
If you do this, it will be tantamount to cocooning yourself and raising tigers, which will not only fail to achieve great things, but will make the ambition chill of the group. They will say in their hearts that you have no virtue and do not repay the kindness. (Virtue is not rewarded, it is said to be contrary to morality; If there is kindness and no repayment, it is called lonely grace. )
Even if we abandon Ende's long-cherished wish, although Guo Gong is weak now, but he still has at least more than 10,000 subordinates in his hands, if you really want to wipe him out, then he will definitely resist hard, even if the thing really succeeds in the end, then your strength will definitely be greatly reduced, and the rest of the wolf-like marshals will still obey your orders as now?
I don't think so!
So I'll give you a win-win-win idea, so you might as well listen to it first.
From now on, you will be kind to my father-in-law, and take the initiative to let him leave the city, so that he can make room for you and your soldiers, so that you can not only win the hearts of the heroes, but also win a good reputation for you, so that you will not lose any benefits at the same time, and gain a high status and status in the group.
If you do this, the city you are in will be stronger, and your position will be more stable.
Otherwise, your lips will be cold, and not only will you not clean up Guo Gong, but you will have to compensate yourself.
I'm afraid you don't have anything to do with the business of losing your wife and breaking your soldiers.
You may wish to consider my opinion!
I'm good for you too!
That's all there is to Zhu Yuanzhang's letter to Zhao Jun in the history books, but I think there must be some Zhu Yuanzhang who uses his existing army to intimidate Zhao Junyong, or there are some "grandsons, show the highlights to the master, and release the people who know each other at the speed, otherwise the lord will collapse with a fart!" It's just that in view of Zhu Yuanzhang's authority in the history books, it was not written.
Because from the fact that they all entered Chuzhou, the army was very strong, and the heart was quite afraid, and the son was a little polite, and the clues can be seen in this sentence.
On the one hand, Zhu Yuanzhang wrote to Zhao Junyong, and on the other hand, he bribed Guo Zixing's subordinates and asked them to help say some good things about Guo Zixing.
It was under this double pressure of both sticks and dates that Zhao Junyong finally agreed to let Guo Zixing go.
Let Guo Zixing lead his 10,000 horses out of Haozhou City.
After leaving Haozhou City, Guo Zixing took all his things and family members non-stop and defected to Zhu Yuanzhang's command.
But what no one expected at this time was that Zhu Yuanzhang's approach surprised everyone.
After breaking away from Haozhou City controlled by Zhao Junyong and others, Guo Zixing came to Chuyang happily, and with him came Guo Zixing's family and more than 10,000 people.
In front of this rabble of 10,000 people, standing impressively is a fierce division with strict orders and a clean army.
Seeing this scene, Guo Zixing was naturally happy.
Guo Zixing is happy, but some people are unhappy, and they are very unhappy.
They are Guo Tianxu and Zhang Tianyou.
Here I would like to briefly express my opinion, I have roughly divided the people of the world into the following categories:
One type of person is smart, this kind of person can see the hearts of other people clearly, and withdraw in time when he feels the other party's killing intent, and take advantage of the small, this kind of person is the most rare, such as Tang He;
The second type of people is wise, these people know what they want, and they know the scope of their ability, and they will never take what they shouldn't take materially, such as Xu Da;
The three types of people are desireless, these people don't care about any interests, they only care about their own dedication, and they don't care about any material enjoyment at all, such as often encountering spring;
The four types of people are greedy, this kind of people want to get any cheap, and they are mercenary, but they are relatively smart, such as Hu Weiyong (we will talk about it later);
The last group of people is extremely stupid, these people have no brains, and they are particularly greedy, they are shameless, greedy and ambitious people, and they are the masters who dare to make money in the oil pot, so to speak, there is nothing in this world that they dare not do, there is no money they dare not take, but the bad thing is that they only have guts, no brains, and they are a group of fools who can dig up three hundred taels without silver here.
It is just unfortunate that Guo Zixing is the fifth type of person, and his son and brother-in-law are even more of this kind of people.
According to our common sense, when others help you when you are most sad, you should remember the good of others and have the opportunity to repay them well in the future.
But Guo Zixing doesn't think so, his son Guo Tianxu and brother-in-law Zhang Tianyou don't think so either, in their eyes, Zhu Yuanzhang seems to be a matter of course for him to save them from fire and water, and it is his Zhu Yuanzhang's business to do so, and he has nothing to repay.
There is no need to reciprocate.
After coming to Chuyang, the three of them seemed to have forgotten the humiliation they had received a few days ago, and they had also forgotten the blow they had suffered in Haozhou City.
"Have I ever been in Haozhou City?"
"I don't think so, I remember that I've been staying in Chuyang!"
"Where is Haozhou City? Why am I not impressed at all? ”
"How good this Chuyang City is, there are mountains, rivers and beautiful women, why am I staying in that place where birds don't in Haozhou!"
Within a few days of coming to Chuyang City, Marshal Guo's old mistake was committed again, because when he saw Zhu Yuanzhang's 30,000 neat troops, Guo Zixing's habit of listening to slander began to be committed again.
Under the drumming of the other two and the indiscriminate bombardment of his wife's pillow, he first became suspicious, feeling that Zhu Yuanzhang didn't really want to stay here, and the reason why he stayed was because he wanted to hurt himself that day.
In order to dispel suspicions, he successively arranged several important positions in the Zhu Jiajun army as his own people, and then asked that Li Shanchang be placed under Guo Zixing's command for his use and deployment.
Guo Zixing believes that doing so is equivalent to cutting off Zhu Yuanzhang's left and right arms.
But what he didn't know was that in Li Shanchang's eyes, he didn't look down on Guo Zixing in his heart, where could Guo Zixing's waste dim sum be compared with Zhu Yuanzhang.
If Zhu Yuanzhang is a real dragon, Guo Zixing is a worm who can only scream.
If the Yuan army is a waste of dim sum, then Guo Zixing is not even a waste.
He's just good for nothing but spending money.
So Li Shanchang touched his nose and shed tears very smartly, crying and complaining to Zhu Yuanzhang, not wanting to leave. (Ming Shilu: The benevolent Frank walked, and wept and complained.) )
But Zhu Yuanzhang didn't seem to have the intention of stopping Guo Zixing, nor did he meet Li Shanchang's request, he agreed to Guo Zixing's request.
Zhu Yuanzhang not only did not have any complaints, but also made a decision that no one expected after Guo Zixing arrived in Chuyang.
After Guo Zixing made all the arrangements, Zhu Yuanzhang announced the general order to hand over all the 30,000 horses and horses to Guo Zixing's command and deployment.
This shocked everyone.
Because everyone present knows that Guo Zixing has no strengths other than being a complete rich second generation.
He can't lead troops, let alone fight.
All that will be done is to spend money and spend the family property left to him by his old man.
There is no difference between this kind of person and a gentleman.
If it weren't for Zhu Yuanzhang's help, Guo Zixing would still be nesting in Haozhou City in front of the incompetent Misan, crying his father and calling his mother every day, asking which fairy sister to help.
Zhu Yuanzhang was able to help him get out of the sea of suffering regardless of his previous suspicions, which was already considered benevolent and righteous, and there was no need to hand over the military power he had worked so hard to pull up into his hands.
Let such a person who is not even a waste command their army of tigers and wolves, how can they be convinced.
But when everyone looked at Zhu Yuanzhang's expression, it didn't seem like he was joking.
At this time, everyone seemed to see Zhu Yuanzhang's determination.
In the army, Zhu Yuanzhang, who killed the ruthless Zhu Yuanzhang, was like a god in their hearts, provoking the king of Hades (Yuan Jun) and probably having a chance to live, but if he provoked the gods, there was only one way to die.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang had made up his mind, everyone didn't dare to say anything more, and this matter was settled.
But I think there are some weird smells in this, first of all, judging from the various later performances, Zhu Yuanzhang's intelligence is definitely above many people, judging from the fact that he has killed heroes since he became the emperor, he is also a person who will never allow others to get involved in his military power.
In the heart of such a wise and possessive person, would he really hand over the military power to others without complaint, change the name and surname of the team he worked so hard to pull up and give it to others for nothing, and more importantly, hang a sword of Damocles on his head that would kill him at any time?
And this person is only his father-in-law, not his own prince Laozi, and he is also the old father-in-law who once preemptively eliminated him, a host that is full of contradictions between the two sides.
Can Zhu Yuanzhang really be absolutely assured?
I don't think so, at least morally speaking.
The reasonable explanation is that Zhu Yuanzhang did this because he didn't want things to get bigger, because soon after Guo Zixing came to Chuyang City, the Yuan Dynasty army surrounded Chuyang.
On the other hand, Zhu Yuanzhang should not take Guo Zixing as a character from the bottom of his heart, in his eyes, saving Guo Zixing from the danger of Haozhou is to repay his kindness and repay his life-saving grace. But when he came to Chuyang, the grievances between himself and each other had been settled, and no one owed anyone more.
And since Guo Zixing has come under his nose, this waste snack can no longer pose any threat to him, in his eyes, the current Guo Zixing is like a piece of fat on his mouth, and he can eat him whenever he wants.
While eating it, along with more than 10,000 horses under his command, he also had to obediently change his surname to Zhu.
This explanation is really in line with Zhu Yuanzhang's psychology.
Now the military power is ostensibly handed over to Guo Zixing, but in fact, the real leader of this 30,000-horse army is still himself, or the commander-level figure who led the twenty-four people to pull it up step by step.
The god-like existence that dominates the crowd but is full of words.
Zhu Yuanzhang.
The real surname of this team is still the surname: Zhu.
Guo Zixing, let him be stunned for two days first, and wait for a chance to ...... Hmph, kill you, I won't even blink an eye.