Where will Li Qingshui believe.

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Once our early soil taro is harvested, the life of the people here will become better, compared to the war elsewhere, southern Shaanxi will become the hometown of Taoyuan, He*nan, Si*chuan, Gan*su (note, the name of the Yuan Dynasty was called Gan * Su Xingzhongshu Province, and the Ming Dynasty Gan * Su Province was under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi * West, but there is still the name of Gansu * Su) The people will pour here, so I said that the population here will increase." ”

Li Qing said dissatisfiedly: "You are a thief, even if you have food here, how can the good people vote for you?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang blinked and said in a slightly funny tone: "Do you think that the people who can't even eat enough will talk to you about loyalty and patriotism?" I think a taro is far more important to them than loyalty and patriotism. ”

"You...... Of course a person like you, who has no country and no king, will say such bastard words! Li Qingshui was angry.

Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, but said lightly: "Loyalty to the monarch and patriotism is the favorite words of people who have received privileges from the king or the country, because the country has given them a lot, they naturally have to defend their interests, and they are 'loyal to the monarch and patriotic', and they also want to coerce the public opinion, so that the people will also be loyal to the monarch and patriotism, and let the people become partners in protecting their interests." But they forgot the most crucial point, if the state does not protect its own people, do not let the people have enough food and warm clothes, why should the people be loyal to the king and patriotic? Who will be loyal to a king who oppresses him? Who would love a country that has abandoned themselves? Why should the common people shed their blood for the benefit of a small privileged class? ”

Li Qingshui was dumbfounded, if he was an old brand of Donglin Party literati, he would roll on the ground at this time, and say shamelessly: "I don't care, anyway, everyone should be loyal to the monarch and patriotic." "But he's a young man. His thinking is still very malleable, and he will not discredit his conscience like the old brand of sour Confucianism.

After a long while, Li Qingshui finally grasped something and said loudly: "You say that the privileged class is not good, but aren't you the privileged class?" Your subordinates Wang Er, Miao Mei, and Desperate Saburo, which one is not a privileged class? They now have a house, a yard, and a lot of money, and have become people. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang snorted and said: "This is what they earned, and they contribute more to the people than ordinary people." They charged into battle, killed the enemy bravely, and protected the people under their rule to farm and earn a living in peace, and they were qualified to stand on it. I would like to ask you a question, your mentor Qian Qianyi. What else can you do other than write two poems? What has been done for the people? ”

Li Qingshui was dumbfounded again, the last time the promotion of soil taro was unfavorable, he had a trace of dissatisfaction with his teacher, and this dissatisfaction has always been hidden in his heart, making him unable to forget it. At this moment, Zhu Yuanzhang's question made him unable to find the words to refute for a long time. But as a teacher for one day and a father for life, he can't let his teacher be dusty after all. I had to argue forcibly: "The teacher has all the people in mind, but he doesn't have the opportunity to govern......"

"Heart? What a heart! Zhu Yuanzhang laughed, and his laughter was full of sarcasm.

Li Qingshui also felt that his words were a little untenable, and his face was as red as a peach.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed a few times and said, "Forget it, I won't fight with you." It's boring. In short, you should calculate more when calculating the population, at least more than 100,000 people's food, so as not to be caught off guard by the flood of victims from all directions. In addition, although Xi'an City has not been taken by us. But you also have to prepare the food that the people in Xi'an need...... If you are in charge of civil affairs, you must take precautions in all aspects in order to be qualified. ”

Li Qingshui snorted and went back to his office, although on the surface he didn't look like he was throwing Zhu Yuanzhang, he was secretly surprised in his heart, this Zhu Ba thought farther than him, and he was obviously a step above him in terms of vision layout. Indeed, as he said, the ruler must not only look at the population written in his register, but also look a little further and prepare for possible changes in the future, which is a mistake on the part of his young man.

As soon as Li Qingshui turned to leave, a post guard ran in front of Zhu Yuanzhang and reported urgently: "Brother Zhu, our spies have sent back the news that the East Road Righteous Army swept the King of the Earth and the Taiping Wang, captured Fengyang, and burned the Ming Ancestral Mausoleum...... The imperial court was furious, and Lu Xiang was promoted to the governor of the seven provinces, and pursued it with all its might. ”

"Oh!" When Zhu Yuanzhang heard the news, he felt sad for a while: the ancestral tomb of Fengyang is actually the mausoleum of Zhu Yuanzhang's father Zhu Wusi.

It's not that he doesn't know that Fengyang will be ruined after the division of troops, but he knows that he doesn't plan to care. Because Fengyang was too far away, almost all of China was from the base he had proposed, and Fengyang's strategic location was very poor, too close to the power center of the imperial court, and it was not conducive to accumulating strength to operate there. For the sake of the world's hegemony, he gave up the opportunity to save the ancestral tomb. I only hope that history may change because of the butterfly effect and avoid this catastrophe, but the giant wheel of history is really not so easy to twist.

The post soldiers didn't notice Zhu Yuanzhang's bad face, and said with a smile: "The news we got from within the righteous army said that Fengyang was burned by the King of Sweeping and the King of Taiping, but the pond on the side of the court wrote that it was burned by Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong...... Laugh to death! The intelligence work of the imperial court is really not up to par. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand to let the soldier leave, and then hurriedly summoned Yang Hong, and ordered seriously: "Pass the order, strengthen the garrisons of Tongguan and Wuguan, renovate the wall, and transfer crossbowmen, heavy steps and firecrackers to the wall, and take precautions day and night...... It won't be long before the 72nd battalion of rogues wants to enter Shaanxi. ”

Yang Hong was surprised in his heart: "Why does Zhu Bugling say this?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "Fengyang is burned, Chongzhen's kid must be furious, I don't know if I will transfer the troops of Beijing and Liaodong, appoint a general, and go all out to suppress the bandits...... When the officers and soldiers are forced to the Central Plains again, these rebels will want to enter Shaanxi. We must block all of them from the Guanzhong, prevent them from entering the Guanzhong Land, and force them to fight to the death with the officers and soldiers in the Central Plains! We can get a valuable opportunity to recuperate. ”

Yang Hong nodded in response: "Understood, brother go to Wuguan, and Tongguan will be handed over to Sister Xue Hongqi to be responsible." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded: "Very good!" ”

The leaders under Zhu Yuanzhang were scattered, Xu Renjie sat in Luochuan, the northernmost place, desperately Sanlang stayed in the old base of Chengcheng and Baishui, Yang Hong went to Wuguan, and Xue Hongqi went to Tongguan...... Zhu Yuanzhang sat in Xianyang, and the plate was opened at once, and at this time it was the easiest time to make mistakes, and if he was not careful, he was likely to be broken by the enemy, so the intelligence work must be perfect.

Fortunately, the strength of the Zhu army also expanded extremely quickly, because of the successive defeats of Xiao Da Cao and Hong Chengchou, the Zhu army was in the limelight for a while, and all the mountain bandits and bandits in Shaanxi regarded him as the boss, and dozens of bandits came to join the gang every day, and the total strength increased rapidly.

However, the quality of the rogue soldiers is really not very good, if they are sent to guard the place, it will become a place of plunder, Zhu Yuanzhang hopes most that he can absorb the township warriors from all over the country as soon as possible......

Luochuan, county governance.

Xu Renjie crossed his legs and sat in the lobby of the yamen, Luochuan's county order had already been dragged out of the city by Zhu Jun and beheaded for public display, and now the heavy responsibility of managing this small county town has fallen on Xu Renjie's head. But Xu Renjie is not in shape, and even sitting in the public court to deal with official business, he does not sit properly.

There are now two rows of squires sitting in the court, all of them are famous families in various towns and villages in Luochuan, and they are all the same characters in their respective townships, but they are constantly trembling in front of Xu Renjie, and they don't even dare to raise their heads...... Just kidding, the head of the county commander is still hanging at the gate of the city, who dares to compete with the thief army?

Xu Renjie took the startling wood and slapped it for a while, and snorted: "How did you get the taro that you took the lead in promoting?" ”

"The king has an order, how dare I not listen." A squire said with a smile: "The thing that is planted in all the fields of my family, I don't even dare to plant onions, ginger and garlic." ”

"Me too!"

"So is my family!"

Xu Renjie Khan: "Ah, hey, I didn't forbid you to plant onions, ginger and garlic!" If you don't grow onions, ginger and garlic all the taro, how can you eat and stir-fry? How good is that? ”

The squires wiped their sweat together and said, "But the original words you said last time were, 'Plant all the potatoes for me'...... How dare we disobey? ”

Xu Renjie almost vomited blood.

There is only one businessman named Zheng Feng in the hall, who is more courageous, this person has had a few encounters with Xu Renjie, and is not afraid of him like other businessmen (note, Zheng Feng appeared in Chapter 278 Luochuan Chao), he raised a hand and said in a low voice: "My family has planted some green onions, ginger and garlic in the field." ”

Xu Renjie was overjoyed: "Yo, yes, only you know my orders best." ”

All the squires smiled bitterly.

Just then, a sentry ran in and shouted, "Brother Generalissimo, trouble is coming...... The mixed 100,000 troops in Yan'an Mansion in the north sent dozens of small teams out to fetch grain, and one of them crossed the border and entered the boundary of our Luochuan, and the northernmost villages will be ...... soon."

When Xu Renjie heard this, he was immediately furious: "Fuck, the territory is clearly demarcated, isn't it good for him to be a birdman to collect food in his northern Shaanxi?" Do you want to get into our territory? We all grow our own grain here, and isn't he beating us when he fetches it? Come on, gather the army, and beat him! (To be continued.) )