"The king is clever, and it is really a good idea to set up a township honor monument and a township shame monument in the hometowns of officials. Hehe, think about it, most of the officials who are in office outside the country, but most of their parents, brothers and sisters live in the township. If officials want to be corrupt and bend the law, even if they don't care, they must think about their families.

After all, if his corruption and perversion of the law were engraved on the monument of shame in the township, his parents, brothers and sisters would no longer have the face to gain a foothold in the township. After figuring out some of these joints, Guo Yu, who didn't often speak on such occasions, couldn't help but admire.

"Hehe, that's not all. In these years, the villagers also want to be face-saving. You say, if the officials who went out of this township, eight out of ten names were engraved on the monument of the township. It is estimated that the people of this township will be ridiculed by outsiders.

In this way, there is no need for the central court to say anything. The old people of the villagers are estimated to have a good ear to the younger generations, "The boy is an official, and his name must not be seen in the township"! ”

"Uh, hahahaha!" Seeing that Li Chongshan, who has always been square in doing things, suddenly came to such a sentence this time.

Including Zhang Shihua, everyone in the main hall of the palace couldn't help laughing.

yes, as the saying goes. 'A man lives a breath, a tree lives a skin'. This is not the era of smiling at poverty and not smiling at prostitutes in later generations.

When you go out, no one wants to be told by outsiders that if you don't have anything else to do in your hometown, there are many shameful monuments in your hometown, and there are many corrupt officials and corrupt officials.

So if it is in Dachu, after the township glory monument and the township shame monument are implemented. These officials who do things must inevitably have concerns about corruption before they want to bend the law.

After all, the concept of local is very important in these years, and no one will want to be like the overlord of Chu, who wanted to return to his hometown, but in the end ended up with a "shameless face to the Jiangdong fathers".

Therefore, the method of the Township Honor Monument and the Township Shame Monument can definitely be regarded as a clever plan to do big things with a small effort.

Therefore, after Zhang Shihua put forward such an idea, these important ministers in the palace also unanimously agreed to such a proposal of their own king.

And in this case, don't really say it. When the Imperial Historical Observatory was established, and the policy of the Township Honor Monument and the Township Shame Monument was also implemented, many officials under the rule of Da Chu really became close to the people and low-key. There is no banquet, no invitation, and the atmosphere is solemn.

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Time flies day by day, and it is really just like what Confucius said back then, "The deceased is like a husband, reluctant to give up day and night."

In the blink of an eye, when the establishment of the Great Chu Imperial Historical Observatory and the implementation of the Township Honor Monument and Township Shame Monument plan gradually improved the bureaucratic style under the rule of Great Chu. The sixteenth year of Zhengzheng has passed unconsciously. In this way, in the blink of an eye, it was the beginning of the spring of the seventeenth year.

And at this time, in the far north of the Yuan court capital.

After the New Year's Eve was over, but he had rested for more than three hours, and Hou Chuanzhong, the director of Guanglu Temple, who was in charge of the Yuan Court's sacrificial court meeting in his own robe at the bottom of the box, couldn't help but be alone, carrying the gifts he had carefully prepared for a long time, and went out of the house early.

On this day when everyone is visiting relatives and friends, I will go to visit Lord Shengzong of the Fourth Rank Ministry of Officials, who is seven levels higher than him.

"Ahh Wearing half-new robes, walking on the streets that have become cold and cold due to the lack of good luck and soaring prices. A gust of cold wind blew, and Hou Chuanzhong, who was not so healthy, couldn't help but sneeze fiercely.

"This hellish weather, after a year, is getting colder and colder." Tightening the half-new robe on his body, Hou Chuanzhong, who was walking on the street, scolded like this first. Then looking at the market that was still clear and cold on the first day of the Lunar New Year, I couldn't help but recall a few years ago, when the world was not chaotic, the prosperity of the Yuan capital.

"When there was no red turban thief, how prosperous this capital was. On both sides of Jishuitan (Haizi), all kinds of shops are one after another, porcelain from the south, Shu brocade from Xichuan, BMW from the northwest, and even spices from Fanbang, it can be said that there is everything. Ay! But now, it's all gone! ”

Lowered his head like this and sighed, for those ant thieves who rebelled and ruined all this, Hou Chuanzhong, a rich and noble son who was born in a landlord family in Zhongshu Province, couldn't help but resentful of him from the bottom of his heart.

"This group of damned ant thieves, not to mention the chaos that disturbs this good world, and even worsens the labor and capital to decorate grandchildren to others. Hey, damn it! Thinking of the past few months, he has been running around the mansions of various adults like a grandson, and Hou Chuanzhong can't help but become more and more resentful of the "thieves" who rebel and rebel in the world.

And the reason why this is the case is that two months ago, Hou Chuanzhong, who had a lot of money in his family and was able to be well-informed among his colleagues, suddenly heard a piece of news.

It is said that it is the central side, and if you want to mobilize a Beijing official with a low official position in this large capital, let him go south from Beijing, and go to the south side of the Yangtze River to be a magistrate.

Ha, if you want to talk about such a thing, if you put it seven or eight years ago, there was no chaos in the world. That is definitely a good thing that all small Beijing officials like him, Hou Chuanzhong, who are cold benches in the Qingshui Yamen like Guanglu Temple, can't grab their heads.

But, now. Hehe, this group of small Beijing officials in Beijing would rather starve and suffer in this increasingly deserted capital than accept such a ghost errand.

After all, no one will be a fool to be an official in this year.

Now in Jiangnan, the rebels from all walks of life, such as Zhang Shicheng and Zhu Yuanzhang, have simply turned the originally rich and peaceful Jiangnan water towns into a pot of porridge.

At this time, don't say that it is difficult for a small magistrate such as the governor of the prefecture and county to save his life in such a chaotic situation. Even the feudal officials such as Zuo Dan Na Li, who was in the political affairs of Pingzhang in Jiangsu and Zhejiang provinces, did not die under the knife of the thief Zhang Shicheng not long ago.

So after knowing such a piece of news, Hou Chuanzhong couldn't help but use up the connections he had accumulated over the years, ran countless relationships, and sent countless gifts, so that he could escape the doom of leaving Beijing and going to Jiangnan.

However, this time, although Hou Chuanzhong successfully escaped the doom of leaving Beijing and going south.

But this time, the relationship also made Hou Chuanzhong bleed. Therefore, under such circumstances, Hou Chuanzhong couldn't help but take out his last bit of capital, hoping to move his position this year.

There is a saying that 'trees die, people live'!

Of course, it is also true that in today's Yuan Dadu, where rice grain is priced at one price a day. He, a small Jingguan from the seventh grade, if he only relied on the little money given by the imperial court, it would definitely be a matter of time before he starved to death in the capital of Yuan.

After all, what kind of bullshit treasure money issued by the imperial court is completely hard when it is used as butt paper.

Take this waste paper and go shopping on the street, unless you put a knife on the neck of the vendors, no vendor will accept this kind of ten-pound treasure bill and can't exchange it for three or two meters of broken things.

"Eh, it's only five o'clock at this time, and it's the time when the sun is shining, why is it dark today!?" With all kinds of messy thoughts in his heart, Hou Chuanzhong, who was holding a gift in his hand, walked and walked, but suddenly he couldn't help but find that Tai Se suddenly darkened a lot.

So at this moment, he couldn't help but subconsciously look up at the sky.

"Bang...... This, a solar eclipse, a solar eclipse!! Looking at the sun in the sky that was constantly being eroded, Hou Chuanzhong's hand shook, and when the gift fell to the ground, the whole person couldn't help shouting in panic.

But at this time, the solar eclipse, which was given the meaning of 'the Son of Heaven is not virtuous', is really too big a blow to Hou Chuanzhong, who has no hope for officials.

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"Haha, eclipse. This is a revelation from heaven at this time of the solar eclipse! The Yuan Court's mandate has been lost, and this year is a good day for my Great Song Dynasty to expel the Tartars and dominate the world! But he said that when the Yuan Dadu side was becoming panicked because of the appearance of the solar eclipse, Liu Futong on Anfeng Road couldn't help but rejoice about it.

"This year, I should lead the army north again and attack Bianliang Road, this time, this prime minister must also recover the former capital of my Great Song Dynasty!" With the establishment of Han Lin'er, the king of Xiaoming, as the emperor, his own power has become by leaps and bounds again in the past two years.

As the leader of the Northern Righteous Army, Liu Futong couldn't help but once again show his lofty ambitions.

wants to completely conquer the Bianliang Road that made him sink into the sand this year, and recover the entire Central Plains in one fell swoop.

Therefore, under such circumstances, the Red Turban Army in the Central Plains couldn't help but start actively making preparations. The situation in the Central Plains cannot help but change again.

And again, this time when Liu Futong and other Central Plains rebels launched active preparations. In Huguang, Zhang Shihua, as the lord of Huguang, also couldn't help but formulate the military strategic policy of 'capturing the whole of Xichuan within this year'.

Yes, after more than a year of silence, Da Chu's side has become a little impatient.

However, since it is a war, it is naturally impossible to send troops as soon as the mind is hot. Therefore, after deciding on the strategic policy of capturing the entire Xichuan, Zhang Shihua did not directly transfer troops to attack Xichuan in this season close to spring ploughing, but used Li Wu and Cui De, who had been placed in Nanyang by him.

Let these two guys take the more than 3,000 strong miners that Zhang Shihua had prepared for them a long time ago. With weapons in hand, carrying enough grain for them to eat for seven days, they walked the long official road from Nanyang to Shangzhou, which was hundreds of miles long, and went straight to the Shaanxi Province of the Yuan Dynasty.

As for the results, don't really say.

The defenders on the Shangzhou side did not expect that Li Wu and Cui De would lead their soldiers and horses to attack them from the Nanyang side on this rugged and difficult official road that was six or seven hundred miles long.

Therefore, with mental calculation or unintentionality, it only took less than a day for Li Wu and Cui De to lead the elite miner troops given to him by Zhang Shihua to conquer Shangzhou City.

Then Li Wu and Cui De, who were like tigers returning to the mountains and enjoying water, in order to vent the resentment accumulated in their chests over the past few days, they couldn't help but lead their troops to kill in Shangzhou City. So much so that Shangzhou City, which has a population of tens of thousands of people, was killed by Li Wu and Cui De in a ten-room and five-room space in the three-day killing.

But I have to say that Li Wu and Cui De's brutal approach allowed them to quickly take full control of the army under them.

Then, the convict miner troops, who tasted the wonderful pleasure of war for the first time, couldn't help but obediently obey the orders of Li Wu and Cui De. Heading north, he bypassed Qipan Mountain and conquered Lantian in one fell swoop, the southwest barrier of Chang'an City, where the western center of Shaanxi was located.

Therefore, it only took half a month for Li Wu and Cui De to successfully advance the front of the army to the area of Chang'an City.

And when such a news was deliberately spread to the Central Plains by Zhang Shihua, Liu Futong, who learned the news, couldn't help but be very excited.

After all, if he wanted to achieve his strategic goals, he absolutely could not let the officers and soldiers on the side of Bianliang get the support of Shaanxi Xixing Province again.

Therefore, there was no need for Zhang Shihua to say anything, so he ordered his subordinates, Bai Buxin and Dadao Ao, to lead their own men and horses, and enter the customs through Nanyang to support Li Wu and Cui De.

And in this regard, Zhang Shihua, who wants to capture Xichuan, is naturally happy.

You know, Shaanxi Province is also next to Xichuan. If Shaanxi Xixing Province is not messed up, the difficulty of the Chu army to occupy Xichuan will undoubtedly be doubled.

Therefore, for free thugs like Bai Buxin and Dadao Ao, Zhang Shihua, as the lord of Xiangjing Lake, also generously supported some of their money, food, and armor, and let them each lead their own troops and horses, take the official road of Nanyang-Shangzhou, and enter Guanzhong.

As for Zhang Shihua's side, he also took advantage of this opportunity to mobilize two divisions, that is, 6,000 ironclad soldiers and horses, and three divisions of 9,000 Zhongguo Army soldiers and horses, a total of one army of soldiers and horses, and drove into Xiazhou Road.

Xiazhou Road, next to the west is Guizhou Ziguicheng.

At the beginning, Guizhou Zigui was actually a part of Huguang Province. But with the turmoil in the world, it became more and more serious, that is, in the fifteenth year of Zhizheng, that is, the year when Zhang Shihua became king in Jiangling.

After the Yuanmeng center found that Zhang Shihua's occupation of Huguang had become inevitable, he wisely reclassified the place of Guizhou to Xichuan.

So in this way, Da Chu is actually quite close to Xichuan.

After all, the distance between Yiling City and Zigui City on Xiazhou Road is only more than 200 miles away by water.

Therefore, under the condition that the distance is so close, Zhang Shihua transferred troops here. Moreover, it is such a large-scale transfer of troops, and the current right man of Xichuan Province will naturally notice it early if he does not spend it.

So in such a situation, the finisher couldn't help but make his own plans.