Chapter 241: Tell the Peace
Zhu Yuanzhang has been in a very bad mood recently, and he has been in a bad mood since he beat Chen Youliang and called him emperor. Zhu Yuanzhang's fierce general Hua Yun guarded the peace, and the number was only a few thousand, and he resisted stubbornly. Three days later, when Chen Youliang was riding the rising water, the huge ship was moored in the southwest corner of Taiping City, the stern of the big ship was high and the city was flat, and the soldiers flocked to the city, and Taiping City was captured. The fierce general Huayun was captured, and he scolded unyieldingly: "Thief slave! Thou hast bound me now, and my lord will avenge me and cut you off ten thousand pieces! Then he jumped up and broke free of the ropes, snatched his sword and killed five or six people. Chen Youfu was angry, sent someone to tie Hua Yun to the mast of the big ship, and ordered the soldiers to shoot a salvo of ten thousand arrows to shoot Hua Yun into a hedgehog.
I feel sorry for the death of my general, but I am more worried, today's Zhu Yuanzhang is no longer Zhu Chongba, who asked for a meal to be a monk, since the capture of Jiqing changed to Yingtian, set up the sky to build the Generalissimo Mansion of Kangyi, with Liao Xiaoan as the marshal of the unified army, and Li Shanchang as the left and right Shilangzhong. Now he has 100,000 troops, but he is in a place of four wars.
There is Chen Youliang in the upper reaches of the Yangtze River, Zhang Shicheng in the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, Fang Guozhen in the southeast, and Chen Youding in the south. Fang Guozhen and Chen Youding's goal was to protect the land and divide the territory, while Zhang Shicheng did not have much ambition for the two ends of the Yuan Dynasty, Chen Youliang was the strongest and most ambitious, and was the most dangerous enemy encountered by Zhu Yuanzhang after occupying Yingtian.
But what could he do? Chen Youliang ascended the throne and became the emperor, took over the manpower and material resources of the entire Tianwan, and his soldiers were at least hundreds of thousands more than him, and wrote to Zhang Shicheng, the two families made an appointment to clean him up together Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhu Yuanzhang was very troubled, he was richer than Zhang Shicheng, and he was not as strong as Chen Youliang, he was angry on both sides, and a group of Ziwenchen under his command all had the idea of dying if they died, and they surrendered just to change their masters and continue to be courtiers, but can he Zhu Yuanzhang?
The wind and rain along the way, a small soldier in Haozhou City, to this day, how much he has paid, I'm afraid no one knows, he has no way out, he may be able to have a glimmer of life in a fight, if he doesn't fight, it will be a catastrophe, he Zhu Yuanzhang has gotten less since he was a child, and he deeply understands a truth, as long as it is a good thing, it must be held tightly, and fate can only be in his own hands.
Even though he had such and such thoughts in his heart, Zhu Yuanzhang still rode on a tall horse, with a smile on his face, with his entourage, slowly patrolling in Yingtian City, he had to do this, he had to let the people of Yingtian see his self-confidence, and see that he was not afraid of Chen Youliang, and the people's hearts were in turmoil, and they were even more out of control. He is telling the people of Yingtian in a gesture, I, Zhu Yuanzhang, am still the master of Yingtian, I am not afraid of anyone, no matter who he is, I have the ability to protect you.
Zhu Yuanzhang felt that he had done a very successful job, and the people in the past were not panicked, they were still busy with their firewood, rice, oil and salt, and when they saw him, the marshal, they all bowed down respectfully, and whenever they saw this scene, Zhu Yuanzhang would smile and wave to them.
After a turn in Yingtian City, Zhu Yuanzhang ordered his entourage to turn around, and at this moment, a person suddenly burst out of the crowd, stepped forward and grabbed Zhu Yuanzhang's reins, and shouted at him in a daze: "Sue Taiping, sue Taiping!" Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, there was no shortage of masters among his guards, this person rushed out and grabbed the reins, but no one stopped him, wouldn't it be bad if he was an assassin?
Zhu Yuanzhang was thoughtful, just calmed down when he was shocked, at this time his guards reacted, the sword was unsheathed and was about to take down the person, Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, this person really wants to harm his own thoughts, I am afraid that he has already fallen on the road, can he wait until these mediocre people dance swords and make swords? As soon as he thought of this, Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand, asked his guards to retreat, and carefully looked at the person who was holding the reins of his horse.
But seeing that this was a stout man, extremely ugly, with a yin and yang face, he stared at him with big eyes in a daze, without the slightest fear and awe in his eyes, and couldn't help asking: "What did you sue Taiping?" ”
This person is Zhou Dian, Lin Qi and Leng Qian discussed all night, according to Leng Qian's intentions, take the initiative to send it to the door, no matter how good it is, others don't pay attention to it, it is better to let a few people go to the vicinity of Yingtian, let Zhou Dian come out, show a few hands, and tell Zhu Yuanzhang that Lin Qi is nearby, let him come to invite him in person, naturally it is different.
Lin Qi clapped his hands and praised kindness, Leng Qian deserved to be the number one general under Peng Yingyu, he was thoughtful and deep, much better than others, and after discussion, he decided to send Zhou Dian to attract Zhu Yuanzhang's attention, so there was this scene.
Zhou Dian was talking nonsense, and it really aroused Zhu Yuanzhang's idea, but Zhou Dian's words were too difficult to understand, so he couldn't help but ask, Zhou Dian smiled and said: "Sue Taiping is my old Zhou to tell you, the peaceful and prosperous era is coming, I told you, is there any reward?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but feel angry, Lao Tzu was caught between Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng on both sides, and even the opportunity to breathe was almost gone, what else did he complain about? Turning his gaze, he looked at his entourage and asked, "Who is this?" ”
Zhou Dian came to Yingtian for a while, crazy, talking nonsense, almost everyone in the city knew that there was such a madman, and a guard stepped forward and said: "Marshal, this is a madman in the city, you don't need to be familiar with him." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was puzzled, a madman could break through the guards of the Marshal's Mansion and grab the reins of his horse? But looking at Zhou Dian's ugly face, the clothes on his body were also tattered, and the person was even more crazy and giggled, and there was a burst of irritability in his heart for no reason, so that his entourage drove Zhou Dian away and turned him back to the marshal's mansion. Zhou Dian didn't care either, and looked at it with a smile.
The next day, Zhu Yuanzhang came out to patrol the city again, this time bringing more guards, but he never thought that he walked halfway to Zhou Dian and came out of the crowd again, grabbed his horse's reins, and said with a smile: "Sue Taiping, sue Taiping......"
Zhu Yuanzhang held back his anger, asked his subordinates to push him away, and continued to patrol the city, but who knew that this ghost was like a ghost that would not disperse, as long as he went out, he would be stopped, no matter how many guards, no one could stop him, crazy, so repeatedly entangled, Zhu Yuanzhang's anger was provoked little by little.
On this day, Zhu Yuanzhang took a few generals and hundreds of sergeants to the outside to relax, walking and walking, Zhou Dian came out again, still grabbed Zhu Yuanzhang's reins, and said with a smile: "Sue Taiping, sue Taiping......" Zhu Yuanzhang sneered, and said that he was going out of the city today, in order to lure Zhou Dian.
At the moment, he shouted that his subordinates would arrest Zhou Dian and tie him up, Zhu Yuanzhang jumped off the horse, looked at Zhou Dian and said: "You have played with me three or four times, are you really a good bully?" Come, put him in an urn for me, pile up firewood, and cook this ugly monster, I want to see if he is really capable, or if he is pretending to be a ghost! ”
Zhu Yuanzhang gave an order, and a soldier walked forward quickly with a large urn, and the wood was piled up below, Zhou Dian was still smiling and not struggling, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "Fill the urn with water, only to cook thoroughly, if you want to taste good, you have to add some spices, salt is the most indispensable, otherwise there is no taste." ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was furious, ordered his subordinates to quickly raise the fire, everyone did not dare to slack off, stuffed Zhou Dian into the urn, added water, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was hideous, and threw in a bag of salt, covered the lid, and the fire burned, Zhou Dian did not struggle, nor shouted, let him do it, the water in the small kung fu urn boiled, bursts of white smoke came out, Zhu Yuanzhang had a gloomy face, just looked at it, and after an hour, when the firewood below was burned clean, he let his subordinates lift the lid.
I thought that with this cooking method, Zhou Dian had already become cooked meat, but he never thought that when he lifted the lid, a hot air spread, forcing a few people who were close to him to take a few steps back, and then looked at Zhou Dian soaked in hot water, sleeping deeply, and snoring.
There were also two or three hundred people traveling with Zhu Yuanzhang, there was an uproar, and the eyes that looked at Zhou Dian were full of awe, Zhu Yuanzhang was also full of incredulity, what kind of character is this, so boiled, he is not dead, is he an immortal?
He has this thought, and his subordinates are even more so, there is that timid person who offended Zhou Dian and hurriedly knelt down, so Zhu Yuanzhang is even more angry, if this person is not removed, doesn't it seem that he is incompetent? At the moment, let people bring dry firewood and continue to burn the urn, this time it burned for two hours, lifted the lid and looked, Zhou Dian took off a red strip, was taking a bath inside, showed his head, and said: "Burn hotter, such tepid, take a bath is not pleasant." Sure enough, the water in the urn was as black as mud soup, and Zhou Dian really used this urn as a bathtub.
Zhu Yuanzhang's face became more and more ugly, and asked people to go back to the city to get charcoal fire, and continue to burn, the charcoal fire is not better than dry firewood, the firepower is stronger, and the urn is burned to burst, I thought that Zhou Dian had no luck this time, but he saw Zhou Dian stumbling up, and scolded loudly: "Mother, you want to cook Lao Tzu, why don't you find a stronger urn, Lao Tzu fell!" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang's face was already gloomy and about to drip water, and the subordinates he brought did not dare to look directly at Zhou Dian, and under the anger, Zhu Yuanzhang asked his two ruthless generals, with more than a dozen unbelieving armorers, to tie up Zhou Dian, tie a big stone on him, and sink into the river.
It was already dusk, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhou Dian fought for a day, and he also felt a little tired, so he asked his subordinates to salvage Zhou Dian, thinking that this time he would have to peel off a layer of skin if he didn't die, but Zhou Dian was still in good spirits, and said to Zhu Yuanzhang: "First boiled the water and invited me to take a bath, but I didn't wash it thoroughly, and then sank me into the river, but this time it was cleaned, I don't understand, even if I am dirty, I don't need you to invite me to visit the kiln, what are you doing so clean?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang was shocked, but also knew that Zhou Dian was not an ordinary person, so he hurriedly asked: "Mr. appeared and showed miracles, can you give me some advice." ”
Zhou Dian smiled: "What do you want to ask?" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang pondered and asked, "Chen Youliang has established himself as the emperor, does he have this destiny?" ”
Zhou Dian looked up at the sky for a while, and said solemnly: "God didn't arrange the emperor's seat for him. After speaking, he got up and left, it was so fast that the figure disappeared in a blink of an eye, only the voice came: "My old Zhou is here to help you, if you want to find me, come to the Zen Temple on the Purple Mountain!" ”
Zhu Yuanzhang looked up at the sky, thoughtful. (To be continued.) )