"Teach you to fight?" Zhu Yuanzhang had already guessed the purpose of his coming, but he deliberately made a very surprised expression: "I said you are a rice merchant, right?" You don't think about the abacus, but you come to think about the war? ”

"Well...... this" Xu Renjie was a little old and slightly red, his age was actually more than ten years older than Zhu Ba (judging from appearance), and he was a little laughed at by a person younger than himself, so he was a little laughed at his lack of business, so he had to blush and defend: "People, you have to do something you like to do, you look at those businessmen's sons and brothers in Xi'an Mansion, this one likes to chant poems, that one likes flowers, birds, insects and fish, this one likes to go on outings, and that one likes to look for flowers and ask willows...... The things I like are just a little different from theirs, and there's nothing wrong with that, right? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled and shook his head: "I think it is more suitable for you to ask for flowers and willows, is it a war...... Alas, not very suitable. ”

"This ...... Why is it not suitable? Xu Renjie's expression was a little indignant: "You mean that I am not the material to be a general?" ”

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head and said, "You are more like a general than many mediocre generals I have seen. ”

"Then why do you say I'm not suitable?" Xu Renjie shouted.

"You don't have any conditions!" Zhu Yuanzhang said word by word: "Yong generals, but also regular generals of the imperial court, take the salaries of the imperial court, manage the soldiers of the imperial court, they train soldiers, put on armor, and build weapons are reasonable and legal things, when there are bandits and rogues, when people like me appear, these generals can go out on orders and fight openly......

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang paused and asked, "But what about you?" ”

"I'm ......" Xu Renjie suddenly fell.

"You are a rice merchant...... Zhu Yuanzhang said with a smile: "If you train soldiers, put on armor, and fight, you will have violated the royal law, and the government will come to arrest you, kneel down at the entrance of the vegetable market, and cut off your head with a knife." ”

"But aren't I practicing right now?" Xu Renjie shouted: "You see, in the past year or so, I have trained five or six hundred soldiers, all of whom look like ...... Didn't the court care? ”

"The court doesn't care about you, the reason is very simple!" Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to himself and said very seriously: "Because Baishui has me, Yichuan has Wang Zuohang, and Fugu has Wang Jiayin...... We bandits and rogues are making trouble, we are making trouble, the court only connived at you, a 'good guy', to train the army, and only then did you condone you to fight with our group of 'bad guys', when we stopped making trouble...... Do you want to try training again? Even if you only train a hundred soldiers, you will no longer be a 'good person', but a 'bad guy' like me. ”

"Then you're all here anyway now, so let me practice to fight." Xu Renjie climbed up the pole.

"Joke!" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted: "I will teach you to train and fight, who will you fight with after you learn?" Is it with me? Why should I teach you how to fight with myself? ”

"This ......" Xu Renjie wiped a handful of sweat: "Can I go and fight with the king of Yichuan......"

"King Yichuan hangs this kind of person, he can't make a big deal, and within a year, he will die!" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously.

"Then I'll go to fight with Fugu Wang Jiayin, and I won't fight with you anyway." Xu Renjie's face is really thick-skinned, everyone has clearly refused, he actually changed his way to Salai, a businessman is such a thing, there is this kind of kung fu to pull down face, if you change to an orthodox literati, you really can't do it.

"What is there to fight Wang Jiayin?" Zhu Yuanzhang snorted coldly: "He won't be much stronger than Wang Zuojiao, but he is just a rogue, and it's the same thing when he fights left and right." It's messy, it's unorthodox, and if you touch it, you'll die. Not long ago, I heard that he was defeated by Hong Chengchou, the governor of the grain channel, with less than a thousand men, and fled to the mountains. ”

"This ......" Xu Renjie exerted the ability of the merchant to bargain, and continued to say: "I don't care, anyway, it doesn't matter which rogues he has to come, I like to fight, I have to learn to fight, you teach me, the tuition fee is easy to say, how much silver you want, you report the number, I will immediately ask someone to move over." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang didn't go to pick up the tuition, but changed his words and said: "Actually...... There's an opponent worth fighting. ”

"Who?" Xu Renjie was overjoyed.

"The most capable and tricky army in the world...... Zhu Yuanzhang pointed to the northeast, which is the direction of Yanjing and Yanjing City, and snorted coldly: "The officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty!" ”

"Scare?" Xu Renjie was shocked.

"The Taizu of this dynasty founded the country with a million heroes, although after more than two hundred years, a large part of the officers and soldiers became peasants, but the Ming Dynasty still has hundreds of thousands of troops, you have to think about the addiction of war, if you don't fight with this opponent, it is a little regrettable."

"You say this opponent, will it be too much...... Cough...... That's a little bit too much. Xu Renjie swallowed two mouthfuls of saliva, he really likes to fight, and when he talks about war, his eyebrows flutter, and he is overjoyed. At first glance, when he heard that the Ming Dynasty had hundreds of thousands of troops, his first thought was that hundreds of thousands of troops were lined up in a long front, and a general commanded this army and built fortifications on this front, and he Xu Renjie also led an army of hundreds of thousands of people, standing on the opposite side of the Ming army's defense line, and also set up a gorgeous front.

But after the fantasy is over, it is a matter of reality, if it is against the officers and soldiers of the Ming Dynasty, then it will be ...... That's a thief! If you want him to rebel, he will never do it. He was not naïve enough to think that Zhu Ba could succeed in rebellion by relying on such a copycat.

"Let's go back!" Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand: "I only teach you how to deal with powerful officers and soldiers, I don't want to teach you how to deal with unorthodox rogues, that's not teaching people to fight, but teaching people to bully people, it's boring." ”

Xu Renjie sighed...... He thought about it, thought about it, thought for a long time, and suddenly said in a low voice: "Brother Zhu, take a step to speak......"

Zhu Yuanzhang saw that he was mysterious and knew that he had something to say that he didn't want others to hear, so he took the two of them into a remote grove.

After entering the woods, Xu Renjie looked left and right, and after making sure that there was no one around, he said seriously: "Brother Zhu, I really want to learn to fight, even if I fight with officers and soldiers, I also want to learn...... But my Xu family has been a white family for many years, and I can't blatantly follow the thief, you see if this will work, I usually go in and out of your stockade with my face covered, you teach me the kung fu of fighting, and when officers and soldiers come in the future, I will also follow you to fight officers and soldiers...... But...... I'm going to have to cover my face and make up my name. If I die on the battlefield, it will not affect my Xu family's clansmen. ”

As soon as Xu Renjie's request came out, Zhu Yuanzhang immediately laughed! This person is really hooked!

Although his request may sound unbelievable, it is actually a very normal thing. In the long peasant uprising war at the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many famous rebel leaders, most of whom were pseudonyms, and did not use their real names to rebel, why? It's just to not involve relatives.

The ancients are not like us modern people, and there are only about a dozen relatives in a family. The ancients, even those who were as poor as pants, often had a huge number of relatives, some even as many as hundreds, thousands of people, living in a village or a large town...... If one of them rebels, the result will be hundreds or even thousands of deaths!

The family concept of the ancients is very strong, that is, it is better to lose your own head, than to destroy the whole family together, otherwise you will harm your own clansmen, that is, you have no face to see your father and mother under Jiuquan.

Under this premise, the leaders of the rebel army often used pseudonyms, such as Luo Rucai, who was named "Cao Ying" when he first rebelled, Li Zicheng was named "Chuang General", Zhang Xianzhong was named "Eight Kings of Xiying", and what other flying mountain tigers and big red wolves were not real names.

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard Xu Renjie make such a request, he knew that he was already planning to follow him to play rebellion, and this person's love for war was so deep, it was really interesting.

"Well, since you are interested in fighting with officers and soldiers, then I can teach you!" Zhu Yuanzhang smiled.

Xu Renjie was overjoyed, and he quickly wanted to worship the teacher, but this place is very deserted, and there is not even a cup of tea, how to worship? He hurriedly flicked his sleeves and knelt down on his knees: "The master is above, please accept the disciple's worship." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Get up, there are no masters and apprentices in the army, some are only generals, partial generals, deputy generals, military orders are like mountains, and there is no master-apprentice relationship, this is the first lesson I want to teach you." ”

"Yes!" Xu Renjie jumped up and said with great joy: "When will I start learning to fight with you?" ”

"Huh? How can it be so fast! Zhu Yuanzhang smiled: "If you want to learn to be a general, first learn to be a soldier, from today on, I will put you into the old team of the cottage, be the one hundred and first soldier of the old team, and come to the training ground on the top of the mountain tomorrow morning and train with everyone." ”

"Yes! No problem! Xu Renjie actually agreed honestly: "Brother Zhu, I have already given myself a bandit name!" ”

"Huh?"

"My bandit name is the Generalissimo!"

When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this bandit, he was really angry and funny, this guy, can you choose a more elegant name? The name is also really vulgar. But when he thought about it, the name ...... Alas, it's okay, it's always many times stronger than the flying tigers and big red wolves that the rogues take.

The next morning, during the morning exercise, Xu Renjie actually waited on the training ground early. Zhu Yuanzhang said that he wanted to be a general and a soldier first, which was also said in a military book, so he did not have the slightest resistance, and waited for the experience with joy.

As a result, for the next few days, he followed the old group under the command of the marching band, forward, backward, left and right...... His head kept spinning...... Turning around, his body slowly realized...... It turns out that a marching band is really essential...... It only took a few days for his body to learn to follow the command of the instrument and act on its own, and when a note sounded, his body turned before his mind turned!

Xu Renjie was overjoyed with the first thing he learned: "In the future, my hometown warrior army will also have a military band, and invite the best musicians in Baishui to play music, hahahaha!" ”