The successive defeats of the official army made Zhang Chu's prestige in the righteous army greatly enhanced, and the victory of the security army was in stark contrast to Wang Jiayin's defeat, who was the strongest in the righteous army, and was most likely to become the person who changed the dynasty in this chaos.

But Zhang Chu is a person who naturally doesn't like to accept his younger brother, and he has not responded to the temptations of all forces, he has been running his own territory as always, and has not shown the desire to expand his own territory or make an alliance leader. He still likes money as always, not that he captured tens of thousands of officers and soldiers at once, he did not add them to his army, but only selected some elites to make some additions to the original troops, and most of the prisoners were sent to work in mines or factories, and it was also called labor reform. This is simply a loser in other rebel armies, these officers and soldiers have been trained, experienced wars, and can be used as elites in the rebel army, which shows how ambitious Zhang Chu is. Not only that, Zhang Chu fully exposed his greedy nature, and started the idea of the captured weapons and armor of the officers and soldiers, and released the wind to the outside world to sell these materials.

Zhang Chu wiped out the forty or fifty thousand officers and soldiers under Hong Chengchou at once, the officers and soldiers were frightened, the landlord's family Ding Yiyong lost his backer, and the pressure on the rebels from all over the country was greatly reduced, it was a good time for great development, everyone recruited troops and bought horses, and the demand for weapons increased greatly, and everyone looked around to find that only Zhang Chu had enough weapons to provide to everyone, although Zhang Chu was greedy for money, but his reputation was still good when doing business, so all the rebels ran to Zhang Chu to find what they needed and bought.

Zhang Chu happily received all the buyers, the price was fair, and Tong Su sold all kinds of weapons to everyone. This also ushered in two big buyers, one was Wei Xue, who was sent by Wang Ziyong, and the other was Li Guo, Li Zicheng's nephew.

Wang Ziyong became the leader of the alliance of the rebel armies from all walks of life, his prestige was high, more and more people took refuge in him, and the demand for weapons increased greatly, so in order to purchase weapons, he naturally sent Zhang Chu's old acquaintance Wei Xue.

Wei Xue came to Yanchang County to see Zhang Chu but was not as excited as before, and the spirit of bargaining with Zhang Chu was not enough, which made Zhang Chu very strange, and he was originally holding back his strength to have a bargaining struggle with Wei Xue, but this time it all failed, which made Zhang Chu very unhappy at this time. For this reason, Zhang Chu specially prepared food and wine in the evening, and asked people to find Wei Xue, hoping to arouse his fighting spirit, so that it would be interesting.

Wei Xue was invited to Zhang Chu's residence, the two were old acquaintances, and they were not polite to Zhang Chu, they sat down to drink and eat together, but Wei Xue's words were very few.

There was no way, Zhang Chu had to open his mouth first: "Wei Xue, this is not right, you use it to buy weapons on behalf of the king, you should bargain with me fiercely, this is the right thing for the king's own use." ”

"What if it's right, what's sorry." Wei Xue sighed and said.

"What, it's not good for you for Wang to use himself?" Zhang Chu saw Wei Xueyi's frustrated look.

"Don't talk nonsense, Wang Cheng is very good to me." Wei Xue still habitually called the king for his own use.

"And why are you doing this?" Zhang Chu was even more strange.

"You have also chosen for several years, how much do you say that our righteous army can hold on, and the righteous army from all walks of life was wiped out by the official army in batches, and even Wang Jiayin and Wang Dawang were killed by the official army." Wei Xue always wanted to find someone to pour out the words in his heart.

"Wang Jiayin is gone, isn't there still Wang Cheng who uses Wang Cheng for his own use." Zhang Chu hurriedly comforted.

"That's different, when King Wang was there, there were tens of thousands of elites with the king, and the king established various military, military and political institutions, and obviously had the atmosphere of overthrowing the Zhu Ming Dynasty and establishing a new dynasty. Now although Wang Ziyong Wang Chengxiang is elected as the leader of the alliance, but it is only a nominal alliance leader, the rebels are still fighting separately, if it is not for Hong Chengchou to attack you this time, you were defeated, if the strength of the official army is full of encirclement and suppression of the rebel army in Shanxi, this so-called hundreds of thousands of horses will disappear immediately, and everyone does not know where to go. The most fatal thing is this problem of wandering, every time the rebels go to one place, they can only eat it all up, and then run to the next place, the hungry people are not decreasing but more and more, when is this a head. I don't know one day we will be surrounded by the officers and soldiers of the brigade, and then we will not be able to run and will be wiped out. Wei Xue expressed the bitterness in his heart.

"Things are not all like that, you look at me, I don't wander around, I have improved the living standards of the people in Yanchang County and other places a lot." Although Zhang Chu said this a bit of self-aggrandizement, what he said is also true.

"At first, I thought you might have hope, but you don't seem to be interested in leading everyone, and you don't want to accept the rebels who want to join you. Moreover, they are particularly greedy for money, and when they seize weapons, they do not take the opportunity to develop and strengthen themselves, but take them out and sell them for money. Wei Xue was really polite this time, and said that Zhang Chu was a person who had no ambitions and was greedy for money in front of Zhang Chu. Fortunately, the word lust was not added after greedy money.

Zhang Chu shouted in his heart, I am a wronged person, the security army needs money in all aspects of development, don't I work hard to grab money? The security forces have now turned to firearms, and the weapons of the officers and soldiers are a treasure in the hands of others, but they are less and less useful in the security forces. What do you do if you don't sell it. These words can't be clearly said to Wei Xue, otherwise this business will not be able to be done. I had to say to Wei Xue: "This Ming court has rotted to the bottom, and sooner or later it will be overthrown by our rebels, so don't be pessimistic, victory is just around the corner, as for me, I just want to take a different path from others, and see what can be done in the fall of this Ming Dynasty, and what can be reserved for us Han people." ”

"I hope you can succeed, and then you can eliminate some more officers and soldiers. Maybe there will be a Zhu Yuanzhang-like figure who will start a new dynasty. "Wei Xue has little confidence in the current leaders of the rebel army, and can only hope for those who come after him.

Zhang Chu said in his heart: "When you see me and see me, don't I have the spirit of a king, won't I raise my arms and gather in responses." "The reality is that no one thinks that the person who has achieved great things will be like Zhang Chu. Zhang Chu, who was helpless, could only say: "I told you last time, if Wang Jiayin dies, you will come to me, but you refuse, and follow Wang for your own use." This time, I also want to ask, if the king dies, do you want to defect to me? ”

Wei Xue smiled when he heard this, took a sip of wine and said, "Do you think I have such good luck, when Prime Minister Wang is dead, I will still be alive." If you want people to come to you, you have to show the courage to dominate one side. ”

"Well, that's a deal." Zhang Chu still has confidence in himself.

The two talked together for a long time, and Wei Xuecai said goodbye and left. (To be continued.) )