Just as Autumn Leaves was walking towards Zhu Yuanzhang's hut, Zhu Yuanzhang was listening to Wang Er's report in the house.

"Brother Zhu, we divided the grain we bought into two batches, and the grain bought with the Ma family's money is now stored in the cellar of the Ma family's compound. The grain we bought with our own money has been smuggled into Huanglong Mountain and hidden in a huge cave. Wang Er said seriously: "I have sent a few of my most trusted brothers to guard it, Zheng Yanfu...... Cough...... Desperate Saburo is also in charge of guarding the food there, and with him guarding it, there shouldn't be any problems. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, their action to purchase grain this time could not be carried out, before the autumn harvest, there were still some people who were selling grain intermittently, but after the news that the grain was not put away during the autumn harvest, all the grain merchants almost chose to stop selling grain at the same time and began to raise grain prices.

Zhu Yuanzhang stopped buying grain, counted his own grain stocks, the Ma family's 5,000 taels of silver had been used up, and the gold and silver treasures he had stolen from the shirt family had almost been exhausted. Half a year was enough for him to find new supplies for his army.

"Brother Zhu, I have a question...... Always wanted to ask you. Wang Er said very seriously.

"Well, you name it!"

Wang Er said in a low voice: "You said that the officers and soldiers are very strong, and it is not the best time to rebel now, and they will face great difficulties. Why do we have to revolt first to drive other heroes and heroes to rebel together? Why don't you continue to lurk, accumulate strength, and wait until the rebel army has gained a certain momentum, and then we will go to follow. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Wang Er seriously and said in a low voice: "Actually, the reason is very simple...... For the sake of prestige! ”

"I ...... I don't really understand! Wang Er said bluntly.

Zhu Yuanzhang lightly knocked his hand on the wooden tabletop a few times, and sighed: "Second brother Wang, if you ...... I mean, if, given a chance to choose, would you rather be a brother under a leader like Zheng Yanfu, or would you bring a team out yourself? ”

When Wang Er heard this, he was stunned for a moment, and then fell into deep thought, and he began to think about some rumors of Zheng Yanfu's uprising, as well as the results of the uprising as he saw it with his own eyes...... After thinking for a long time, he sighed and said: "I don't want to be a brother under Zheng Yanfu, because the group of people under him is not a rebel army at all, but a group of rogues, bandits, they kill people and set fires, ** women, when facing the officers and soldiers, they are vulnerable, and they are in chaos, instead of joining such a rebel army, I might as well bring out a team myself." ”

"Very good, then the second question ......" Zhu Yuanzhang said seriously: "If others revolt early and you revolt late, his reputation in the rivers and lakes is much higher than yours." When a common man wants to join the army, will he vote for you or for him? ”

"The third question, when your rebel army merges with his rebel army, should you listen to him, or should he listen to you?"

When Wang Er heard this, he suddenly realized: "Of course, the people are the leaders of the righteous army who are relatively famous, and when the two armies merge, of course, they listen to the words of those with high reputation who have low reputation...... I understand, Brother Zhu, if we lurk up and accumulate strength, and give up the name of the first uprising to others, we will be a head shorter when we encounter other rebels in the future. As a result, we can't do anything about those rogue bandits. ”

"That's right!" Zhu Yuanzhang sighed and said, "To be honest, I don't want to revolt in the first year of Chongzhen...... Like you, I should lie dormant and wait for others to revolt first, and wait for others to exhaust the officers and soldiers before coming out. But if we do this, it will be difficult to increase our prestige, and we will have to wait for these famous leaders to die before we can come out on top......"

Wang Er got the answer he wanted, and his spirits suddenly perked up: "Brother Zhu, now I understand everything, we just have to hurry up, the first to rise up, in the future in the rebel army can have the highest prestige, everyone has to listen to us, so that we can make those who may become bandits become real heroes." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded, and agreed.

But he didn't really agree, in fact, Wang Er was still too naïve to look at the problem. If you want others to listen to you, you don't have the highest prestige, you have to have power, and it is overwhelming. In fact, having power does not necessarily make others listen to you, because people's hearts are extremely complex, everyone has their own demands, if you can't meet the demands of others, even if you have the invincible power in the world, others may not listen to you.

For example, the current imperial court has invincible power in the world, but the peasants still do not listen to the imperial court and want to rebel, this is because the imperial court has not satisfied their demand for "survival".

Lü Buwei once said: "The world is not the world of one person, but the world of the people of the world, and those who benefit from the same world will win the world." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang understands this truth very deeply, if you want all the rebels to listen to your words, you must let them know that you can live with Zhu Ba! If you don't follow Zhu Ba, you will be dead!

Wang Er got up to say goodbye and walked to the door, just when he ran into Autumn Leaves, he saw that Autumn Leaves had a little flustered expression on his face, as if he had something on his mind. Wang Er couldn't help but smile and said, "Yo, Akiba, are you here to do housework for Bugs Zhu?" When will you marry Zhu Bugs? I'm going to call you sister-in-law then. ”

Akiba screamed "oops" and said hurriedly, "No...... There's no such thing, I have something to say to Zhu Baba ......"

"Huh? I see that your expression is wrong, is there something that is very difficult? "Wang Er is a person who can't see others sad, when Zhu Yuanzhang had just been reincarnated and his body was weak, Wang Er once gave his meat to Zhu Ba to eat. Now that she sees that Akiba's face is wrong, she naturally wants to help her.

Qiu Ye looked at Wang Er's tall and mighty figure, and couldn't help but think in his heart: Zhu Baba wrote a fake letter to deceive Miss and asked Miss to collect half of the rent, which will harm the tenants in the side courtyard, should I tell Second Brother Wang about this? With Second Brother Wang's integrity, after he knew it, he might rush into the house and beat Bugling Zhu severely...... No, I don't want him to be hurt, I can't tell Second Brother Wang about this, I still want to hear his explanation with my own ears.

Her face suddenly turned red, and she said in a low voice: "There's nothing to be embarrassed about, Second Brother Wang, you can do it yourself, I'm going to see Bugling Zhu......"

Wang Er nodded, turned around and left.

Autumn leaves looked left and right, back and forth, and confirmed that no one else was nearby, so he pushed open Zhu Yuanzhang's door and walked in.

The room was very bright, Zhu Yuanzhang was sitting by the window, looking through the account books and counting the grain in his hand by the sunlight that came in through the window. Qiu Ye looked at his resolute face from the side, and couldn't help but feel a little stupid, she had seen Zhu Bugling like this countless times, and every time she saw it, she was fascinated.

But today is a little different, her heart is beating fast, she is afraid to hear the answer she doesn't want to hear from Zhu Bugs's mouth, she doesn't know what she will do next! She didn't want to betray Zhu Bugs, but she also didn't want to betray the young lady who grew up together, both of whom were the most important people in her life......

"Brother Zhu......" Autumn leaves called in a low voice, "I'm here......"

"Well, you're on your own!" Zhu Yuanzhang heard Qiuye's voice, but just responded casually. When Akiba first started to do housework for him, he didn't even look at Akiba, but over time, he would also say a word or two to Akiba, and occasionally show a little gentle expression. This touched Akiba very much, and every time she heard him talk to herself, she would be happy for a long time.

"I ...... I'm looking for something to talk to you about......" Akiba whispered.

"Huh?" Zhu Yuanzhang slowly turned around and looked at the autumn leaves. How sharp his eyes were, just for a moment, he saw that Akiba's state was not right, a little different from the usual well-behaved and obedient, low-key and gentle girl, today's her, in the midst of weakness, with a touch of unwillingness and resentment, as if a weak person wanted to question the strong, but a little bit bothered.

With such an expression, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't know how much he had seen in his last life.

In the last life, after Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the throne and purged foreign enemies, in order to protect his own country, he attacked the old brothers who followed him to fight the world. I've done so much for you, why are you doing this to me? ”

Such an expression, during the hundreds of years of his wandering soul, kept turning over in his mind, constantly reminding him of how much of a mistake he had made in the first place.

I didn't expect to see it on the face of a little maid now, which is really strange.

"I ...... I saw the letter from the eldest young master! Qiu Ye lowered his voice and said timidly: "I recognize, that letter is Zhu Bugling's handwriting......"

"Oh?" Zhu Yuanzhang suddenly realized, it turned out that the problem was here, in fact, when he wrote this fake letter, he was ready to be debunked by the letter, and reserved a set of plans, if Miss Zhang saw through the fake letter, he planned to give an order, let thirty-five henchmen and young people, control the entire Ma family compound, and put Miss Zhang's family, her eighteen maids, and four family members under house arrest in the mansion, so that they lost contact with the outside world.

Now that Akiba has seen it, it's time to implement this preparatory plan.

He was about to shout "Someone is coming" when he suddenly heard Akiba say at a very fast speed: "I...... I haven't told Miss yet......"

Hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang stubbornly pressed the sentence "coming" back into his stomach, and then said in a low voice: "Well, are you going to ask me the reason for forging a fake letter, and then tell your young lady?" ”

"Hmm!" Akiba's face suddenly had two lines of clear tears flowing, down her face to her chin, and then slowly dripping to the ground, she suddenly weakened, sat on a chair weakly, and said blankly: "Brother Zhu, why do you want to lie to Miss?" I don't want you to lie to him...... I...... Can I turn a blind eye! ”