Tang Zhongshi sighed, but he did not hide his high opinion of Zhu Yuanzhang at this time.

Therefore, seeing this, his second son Tang Wenfeng couldn't help but ask his father with a puzzled face: "Even if you think so highly of him, father, and this Zhu Pingzhang seems to respect his father very much, then why didn't you agree to be a leader, father?" ”

"Hey, Wen Feng, you're still too young and reckless!" Glaring at his son, Tang Zhongshi shook his head with some hatred, but in the end, he couldn't help but explain to his son with a puzzled face: "Although this son is extraordinary, he was born in such a troubled world of big waves and sands, if he can't achieve great things in the end, what's the use."

Although this Zhu Pingzhang is also a first-class hero, is he the only hero in the world? Shandong Mao Gui, Central Plains Liu Futong, they are not stronger than this Zhu Yuanzhang Ma Zhuangbing.

Besides, Zhang Shihua, the great Chu who is already adjacent to my Jiangsu and Zhejiang, is only twenty-seven or eighteen years old so far, but he can recover a great master like Lu Gong to serve himself. Its people are located in the four provinces of Xiangjing, Xichuan, Huguang and Jiang.

Govern the people for the sake of generosity, and treat my saints and disciples with great respect. Most of the talented scholars in the four provinces are now working for them under their accounts. Under the crusade of his people in the east and west, he already has a bit of an emperor's appearance. Even if Zhu Yuanzhang is really talented, what can he compare with such heroes. ”

"I see. The son understood, and the son should go down and pack his things now, and return home with his father the day after tomorrow. ”

"Well, go, go." Seeing his son leave, thinking about Zhu Yuanzhang's impressive words and deeds today, Tang Zhongshi shook his head, he was already a little tired, shook his head and returned to his bedroom and rested.

In the world of great controversy, fish and dragons are mixed. He Tang Zhongshi is already old, does he have the ability to distinguish between this turbid fish pond, in the end, the carp can finally turn into a real dragon, and naturally he doesn't want to participate in this world of destroying the family and destroying the clan at every turn.

Although this behavior gives people a sense of escapism, in the chaotic world of this person eating people, this is the best way for him Tang Zhongshi to protect himself.

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Time flies by day by day, and it feels like it's just a blink of an eye, and the warm spring just passes, but immediately after, it can't help but reach the midsummer season of July.

And in these months that make people feel like it's just a flash, the world has naturally undergone a lot of changes that only make people sigh at what is wrong with people.

First of all, which was praised as the fierce general Chakhan Timur of the late Yuan Dynasty, after not being suppressed by a veteran from a noble military family, Badulu, who was born in a noble military family, could finally give full play to his talents unscrupulously in this troubled era.

In June of this year, this Yuanmeng general, who loved Han culture and even wanted to live in the Song Dynasty and be a merry scholar in the Song Dynasty, couldn't help but succeed in replacing the former position of Badulu and became the most relied on general of the Yuanmeng court.

Baichakhan Timur Shaanxi [] Xixing Province Pingzhang political affairs, allowed him to act cheaply, and let him concurrently serve as the imperial history of Shaanxi Province, and allowed him to know Henan Xingxing Privy Council affairs. This canonization is completely equivalent to handing over all Shaanxi Province and the Central Plains to Chakhan Timur.

Therefore, with the strong support of the Yuan court, in the past few months, Chakhan Timur has won again and again in the war against Liu Futong.

In just two or three months, Liu Futong's vigorous Northern Expedition was completely turned into a bubble, not to mention, but also pulled up Liu Futong's soldiers and horses from the north of the river, so that the once arrogant Red Turban Army once again shrank to the south and Central Plains of the river.

Of course, in the past few months, the form of the rebel army in the south has developed quite well.

In the past few months, the overwhelming Chu army has successively conquered Ji'an Road, Jianchang Road and Ganzhou Road, and successfully captured and killed the last head of the Yuan court in Jiangxixing Province - Jiangxixing Province Governor Quanpuan Sali, and completely conquered most of Jiangxi.

Therefore, at this time, the king of Chu was appointed to the heavens, and the irresistible voice of the Chu army could not help but spread in the land south of the Yangtze River.

Therefore, at the beginning of August, Qiandi, which Zhang Shihua had not cared much about, couldn't help but come out of a group of messengers.

Qiandi, thought that the area was mountainous and it was not easy to conquer, so in order to govern here, the Yuan court created the Tusi system for the first time. That is, as long as the local chiefs are willing to be loyal to the central government, the central government will allow their clans to be hereditary and continue to last for generations.

Of course, although the Tusi system was created in the Yuan Dynasty. However, this kind of system in which chieftains were loyal to the imperial court and then succeeded by hereditary succession had actually been established as early as the Sui and Tang dynasties.

For example, the Banzhou Yang clan and the Sizhou Tian clan both can be traced back to the Tusi regime of the Sui and Tang dynasties.

And the reason why these two Tusi families have been able to exist for so long, in addition to the huge geographical advantages of Qiandi, what is more important is that these Tusi families, they will always stand by the side of the winner.

Therefore, when the annexation of Jiangxi by Great Chu had become a foregone conclusion, Yang Jian, the contemporary consolation envoy of the Yang clan in Banzhou, could not help but join forces with Tian Maolie, the contemporary consolation envoy of Sizhou, and sent envoys to Jiangling with Luo, Cheng, Wei, Fang and other eight Shunyuan barbarian officials, and bowed down to Zhang Shihua.

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"Gangneung, the last time I came to this city, it was more than ten years ago. But I didn't expect that Gangneung City has become so prosperous today. Tian Renhou, the envoy of the mission, who will become the future ruler of Sizhou without accident, looked at the various ships coming and going at the Gangneung Wharf, who had been staying in Sizhou and rarely traveled, and he couldn't help but sigh with heartfelt emotion because of the great changes in Gangneung City.

"There is an ancient saying: 'A glimpse of the whole leopard'. Just looking at this Jiangling City, you can know that the strength of Great Chu is really worthy of its name! ”

After entering the city under the personal reception of the prefect of Jiangling, these guys in the mission, who had always been the king and hegemon on their own territory, couldn't help but cleverly put away their lawless temperament, and were obediently arranged in the post house specially used to receive envoys in Dachu.

"Ladies and gentlemen, the post house is simple, and you have condescended to it." Huang Zai, the prefect of Jiangling, who came to greet the envoy in person and arranged the mission, came to greet the envoy with hundreds of people to the post house in the city, and couldn't help but clench his fists and politely greeted these people.

In this regard, Tian Renhou, as the chief envoy of the mission, was naturally polite again and again.

So after Huang Zai briefly explained a few words, the Jiangling prefect also left here, so that these envoys who came from afar could rest.

As soon as Huang Zai left, Tian Renhou, the main envoy of the mission, Yang Keng, the deputy envoy, and the eight envoys sent by the Baban barbarian officials, had a sumptuous meal specially prepared for them in the hall of the post house, and these people also returned to the courtyard prepared for them with their subordinates and rested.

"General Lin, I think you should understand now why my father and I are willing to agree to Yang Jian and bring the Eight Barbarian Officials to Chu together, right?" Coming to the small courtyard that was still delicate in Tian Renhou's opinion, in the main house of the courtyard, Tian Renhou looked at Lin Kuan, a subordinate of their Tian family's long-term Xinzhong, and couldn't help but say such words to him.

"The boss and the son are far-sighted, and they are really beyond the reach of their subordinates." Along the way, after having a general understanding of Da Chu's national strength, Lin Kuan suddenly couldn't help but answer Tian Renhou with admiration.

Hearing his words, Tian Renhou nodded with satisfaction at first, but then he seemed to think of something, so he couldn't help but snort disdainfully, "It's ridiculous that my uncle, with a mouse's eyes, is full of unrealistic and stupid ideas."

This idiot doesn't want to think about it, now Qiandi has been surrounded by Great Chu on all sides, and Huguang and Xichuan are all lands under the rule of Great Chu. is still uncertain now, how can he not be worried about the tough King of Chu in the future. ”

Tian Renhou scolded his uncle angrily, and did not avoid his subordinates at all because of this.

However, in this regard, Lin Kuan on the side was already surprised. Sizhou Tian's family, the dispute between the long house and the concubine, that is, the dispute between Sibei and Sinan, has long been no secret.

Ever since Tian Renhou's grandfather, the fool who likes concubines, handed over Sinan's land to Tian Maozhong, the second uncle of Tian Renhou, Tian Maolie, who is the orthodox heir of Sizhou, has always wanted to take Sinan back.

And this kind of contradiction became even more intense after Tian Renhou's childless second uncle died, but instead entrusted the land of Sinan, which obviously belonged to the long house, to the third room Tian Maoan.

To put it mildly, if it weren't for Tian Renhou's third uncle, who was still nominally subservient to the long house, the Sizhou Tian clan would have been in civil strife a long time ago.

But even so, Sinan's Tian Sanye has always been obedient to the Changfang, and the policies issued by the Changfang are completely opposed to it.

In this way, Tian Renhou, as the future heir of the long house, naturally hates Sinan's third uncle very much.

If it weren't even for the fact that he hadn't caught any decent handle on the third room, the Tian family's long house would have killed the third room that occupied Sinan and engaged in secession.

But although Zhang Shihua also knew something about such dirty things within the Sizhou Tian family, he didn't take it to heart now. After all, the current Qiandi, for the great Chu who is in full swing, is completely equivalent to a dispensable chicken rib.

Even if he surrendered to Da Chu at this time, all Da Chu could get was just some nominal benefits.

However, speaking of which, after all, the Banzhou Yang clan and the Sizhou Tian clan are both Guizhou land separatist regimes that have been inherited for six or seven hundred years. Therefore, for their surrender this time, even though Da Chu could not get any practical benefits in a short period of time, Da Chu still expressed enough solemnity.

On July 20, the day when the Banzhou Yang clan, the Sizhou Tian clan and the Baban barbarian officials officially handed over the surrender table to Zhang Shihua, Zhang Shihua also put on his royal clothes and brought his crown despite the heat of the weather.

Then, under the witness of the civil and military officials of Dachu, and above the main hall of the palace, he accepted the surrender table presented by these Qiandi Tusi.

Then, as his "King of Chu", he officially canonized the official position canonized to them by the Yuan Court and handed them the seal letter cast by the Great Chu.

Therefore, from this day on, Qiandi officially became the territory of Dachu in name, and the Yang clan of Banzhou, the Tian clan of Sizhou, and the Baban barbarian officials also became courtiers under Zhang Shihua.

In this way, the post that had been destroyed by the Banzhou Yang clan, the Sizhou Tian clan and the Baban barbarian officials in order to protect themselves was also rebuilt under the auspices of Da Chu.

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At night, on a side hall of the palace of the king of Chu, the lights were already bright.

At this time when he should have rested a long time ago, Zhang Shihua, as the supreme ruler of Xiangjing, Huguang, Xichuan, Jiangxi, and Guizhou, still couldn't sleep.

"The land of Guizhou has surrendered, and the southern Yunnan side is closed and locked, looking like the world is peaceful. In both places, there is no need to worry. As he spoke, Zhang Shihua picked up a brush contaminated with green fuel, and couldn't help but draw two green circles on the map that included the entire Yuan and Mongolian empires on the wall, and on the location of Qiandi and southern Yunnan on the map.

"In the land of the four provinces in the south, Xichuan and Huguang all think that they are outside my palm. Jiangxi, at the end of the year, it can also be completely recovered. Now, there is only this Jiangsu and Zhejiang left. Saying that, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but turn his gaze to the land of Jiangsu and Zhejiang that was marked by himself with red cinnabar.

As a person whose soul comes from the afterlife, Zhang Shihua naturally knows who the last person to laugh at is in this cannibalistic generation.

Therefore, after annexing the Tianwan regime, Zhang Shihua, who opened up the passage with Jiangsu and Zhejiang, sent hundreds of excellent spies to that person's territory.

Then, as the hundreds of spies in front of him continued to send information, Zhang Shihua couldn't help but have a gradual understanding of the only two cloth-clothed men in Chinese history.

This is a man who will stop at nothing to achieve his goals.

He was not as glorious as his children boasted, nor as rude as the pigtails denigrated.

He has great courage and ambition that ordinary people can hardly match, and he is not stingy with his own life to take risks.

Be decisive in doing things, know people well. These are also the two characteristics that impressed Zhang Shihua the most.

So when he gradually got to know this person, Zhang Shihua, who was still full of confidence, couldn't help but get smaller and smaller in his heart.

To be honest, he really didn't know if he would be able to defeat this man in the future.

After all, in the original history, Chen Youliang, who had also occupied the land of Huguang, Jiangxi, and Xiangjing, and whose strength was not much weaker than his current self, was defeated by this person.