Watching Wei Xue leave, Zhang Chu deeply felt the difficulty of achieving a career, in the past, listening to books and watching plays, the founding emperors of various dynasties were all with a few brave generals, plus one or two resourceful strategists, you can overthrow the old world and establish a new world. But when I arrived at the end of the Ming Dynasty, let alone transform the old world, even eating became a big problem. Now Shaanxi and Shanxi are unable to feed the existing population due to famine, let alone support a strong army to fight abroad, although the imperial court has weakened its ability to control, it is also pouring the power of the whole country to encircle and suppress the righteous army, if it is not for the harassment of the Houjin from time to time, it is really a matter of time before the righteous army is wiped out.

Many of the courtiers of the Ming Dynasty still insisted that the thieves were caused by natural disasters, and as long as the weather improved and there was a harvest in the fields, the flames of the uprising of the displaced people would naturally be extinguished. It's not unreasonable to think like this, it's just that they didn't expect a continuous stream of natural disasters.

Zhang Chu shook his swollen head, let himself sober up, don't think about things that are too long-term, let's do the things in front of you first. Li Zicheng sent his nephew Li Guo here, he didn't just want to buy some weapons, he had to take a closer look when he met tomorrow.

Li Guo came to Zhang Chu early the next morning, the two had a relationship at the alliance meeting last time, and their impression of each other was not bad, so the atmosphere was very harmonious.

"Thank you Dashuai for being able to see me in your busy schedule, my uncle specially told me to say hello to you when I saw Dashuai before I came." Li came up and spoke politely first. Over the years, Li Guo has served as a soldier in the border town with Li Zicheng, and he has rebelled together, and he has come into contact with all kinds of people, although he is not very old, he has gradually matured.

"It's been a while since I said goodbye last time, and I don't know how your uncle and nephew are developing now."

Zhang Chu wanted to know at what speed a big hero like Li Zicheng could develop, and whether he would worry about living every day like himself.

"Our situation is very good these days, or my uncle has vision, the horse you bought here last time played a big role, we used the method of surprise attack, taking advantage of the unpreparedness of the landlord's fort, quickly rushed into the village, occupied several forts, seized a lot of food and property, we used the grain to recruit people to participate in the uprising, and now the team has expanded to several thousand." Li Guo is still very excited about the victory.

"Okay, great. The rebels have a strong force again. Zhang Chu thought to himself, a hero is a hero, and as long as he has the opportunity, he will achieve a career.

"My uncle said that the last time we met was in a hurry, and I didn't have time to talk deeply with Dashuai, so this time I specially asked you some questions." Li Guo turned his conversation back to the point.

"Don't dare to ask for advice, if there is anything we can analyze together." Zhang Chu said modestly.

"My uncle wants to know your opinion on the current situation in the world, whether the rebel army can overthrow the rule of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, and whether this society has not reached the time to change the dynasty?" Li Guo's mouth is full of big topics.

"When today's disasters continue to be repeated, especially in Shanxi and Shaanxi, the people are not living well, so there are so many righteous armies, the officials of the Zhu Ming Dynasty are corrupt, the emperor is incompetent, and the court has reached the time of crumbling, but it will not be the righteous army that will change the dynasty in the end." Zhang Chu also sighed in his heart the good luck of Houjin, there were too many accidents in Houjin replacing Daming, and in the end Houjin still succeeded.

"The rebels won't succeed?" Li Guo was very disappointed when he heard this, he always hoped that there would be a Zhu Yuanzhang-like figure in the righteous army, leading everyone to overthrow the rule of the Zhu Ming Dynasty, complete another change of dynasty, and the society will develop forward in the cycle of history. But because Zhang Chu is too young and has a bad reputation in the past, Li Zicheng is not very optimistic about Zhang Chu.

Chinese For the righteous army, Emperor Zhu Ming represents the orthodoxy of the dynasty, many people do not think that they will fall, and even many rebels still have the idea of anti-corruption officials and not anti-emperor, so the time is not on the side of the righteous army, not to mention the geographical advantage, the area where the righteous army is located has been in disasters for many years, the land has no production, there is no way to feed everyone, and there is no danger to defend the mobile battle. I can't even defend a state and county, so how can I get the location. As you can see, although the current rebels are allies, they do not have a unified leadership and unified action, everyone is scurrying around on their own territory, and all the rebels are robbing the landlords' food and then coercing the hungry people to strengthen themselves, not only the landlords and rich households hate the rebels, but even the rich households with a little assets do not stand on the side of the rebels. ”

"Then won't the Zhu Ming Dynasty die?" Li Guo couldn't help but interject.

"Of course, the Zhu Ming Dynasty will perish, but this requires our righteous army to make more changes, first of all, we must strictly discipline our own team, not do things that harm the people, and treat the rich differently, so as to win more people to support us. Another point is to develop as much as possible in some rich areas, where although the official army and the landlords are strong, they can also provide greater economic support for the rebels. It's all up to us. In addition, it depends on the will of God, and we can't let Houjin take away the fruits of our victory. Zhang Chu explained his understanding of the current situation to Li Guo.

"Houjin, isn't Houjin far away from the pass, they only go south to rob when the pasture withers, will they enter the Central Plains?" Li Guo didn't think about this at all.

"Due to the raids of the Later Jin and the defeat of the Guanwai troops of the imperial court several times, many Han Chinese joined the Later Jin, and these Han Chinese became the best leaders of the Later Jin invasion of the Central Plains. Last time, Houjin entered the Koujing Division, and the performance of the Ming Dynasty court made Huang Taiji see the weak nature of the Ming Dynasty clearly, and from the performance of his reluctance to withdraw the troops in the pass, he already had the heart to enter the Central Plains. ”

"I didn't think about it, I'd pass it on to my uncle and see what he thinks." Li Guo is more concerned about practical things, and let Li Zicheng think about more long-term things.

"What we have to do now is to take advantage of the setback of the official army to develop and strengthen our own strength, first stand on our feet and then say, try to talk about any difficulties your uncle and nephew, and it will be beneficial for everyone to cooperate with each other." Zhang Chu brought the topic back to reality.

"My uncle told me to buy some more horses to go back and strengthen the cavalry so that it can be easier to fight on the move." Li Guo explained his intentions.

"This is easy to do, I will take care of the following, choose the best horses for you, and sell them to you at a good price." Zhang Chu is still quite generous in the transaction with Li Guo.

"That's great, I thank you for my uncle." Li Guo was very happy in his heart. It seems that this time there will be a satisfactory result again, and I will say goodbye to Zhang Chu to choose horses.

Zhang Chu looked at his departing back and wondered, how could he speed up the process of the uprising of the rebels, promote the demise of the Ming Dynasty faster, seize the world before the Houjin entered the customs, and then turn his hand to eliminate the barbaric and reactionary force of the Houjin, so that China would not fall into a century-old disaster. (To be continued.) )