Chapter 35: Tea is unpalatable when it cools

At the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, if it comes to the power of sending spies between them, Zhu Yuanzhang, the son of heaven, is definitely a leader, Chen Youliang attacked the sky four times, and the Ming Dynasty was six times, all of which were resisted by Zhu Yuanzhang, the battle of Jiangdong Shiqiao, Zhu Yuanzhang took Kang Maocai as the between, pretended to deceive him, and wrote a letter to deceive Chen Youliang, and Chen Youliang had a life-saving grace to Kang Maocai's housekeeper, so Kang Maocai's housekeeper was actually a spy placed by Chen Youliang on Zhu Yuanzhang's side.

The spies on both sides sat and probed each other for information, deceitful and deceitful, false and real, true and false. In the end, it was Zhu Yuanzhang who was superior, luring Chen Youliang with a deception at Jiangdong Shiqiao, and annihilating them in one fell swoop, so that Poyang Lake could gain an advantage in the water battle.

This destiny is also not a man-made disaster.

Otherwise, with the strength of Zhu Yuanzhang's Daming naval army, it would be difficult to have the strength to fight with Chen Youliang, who mainly developed the combat strength of the naval army.

You must know that Chen Youliang's dragon boat can carry thousands of people, up to ten or twenty meters high, more than 100 meters long, and even able to run horses.

This deception scheme seems simple, but in fact, in the case of the spies on both sides deceiving each other, you have me and I have you, Zhu Yuanzhang's layout finally won the sky and half a son to achieve hegemony.

There is no coincidence, coincidences and coincidences together, it is deliberate.

What's more, Chen Youliang wrote a letter to ask Zhang Shicheng to attack Zhu Yuanzhang together, and it was also the spy that Zhu Yuanzhang planted next to Zhang Shicheng who sent a message, and learned that Zhang Shicheng would not attack, so he could sit in Quarry and wait for Chen Youliang.

It can be seen that the strength of the Ming spy can be called unique today.

This can also be seen as a battle of national luck, the Ming Dynasty is prosperous, and it wins the heavenly opportunity everywhere.

Up to now, in the fifteenth year of Hongwu, the spies of the Ming Dynasty have not collected them at night, inspected schools, monks, nuns, Taoists, beggars, and all kinds of spy spies all over the world, with hundreds of thousands of people.

And Zhu Yuanzhang's use of power is unparalleled in the world without the right (×) left (√).

Jinyiwei, the eyes and ears of the world.

The night was dark, but Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong did not return to the house, but talked with Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhu Biao in the Fengtian Palace.

Zhu Biao rubbed his sore legs, straightened his legs, and sighed: "Dad, Xiongying's personality has suddenly changed so brightly, is it really a god who teaches dreams?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang held a teaspoon in his hand, and when he heard the words, he gently gave Zhu Biao a forehead, and Zhu Biao hurriedly dodged, covering his head and moistening his cheeks full of grievances, his black eyes widened, and he dared not speak angrily.

Li Wenzhong, the Duke of Cao Guogong on the side, was stunned, his expression was stunned, as if he remembered his mother, he picked up the teacup, looked at the tea soup in the teacup fixedly, the corners of his mouth slightly pursed, and turned into a faint sigh.

After Zhu Yuanzhang knocked Zhu Biao with a teaspoon, he picked up the teapot and poured new tea for Li Wenzhong, and said as he poured: "Xiongying, he grew up in the palace since he was a child, and there are no outsiders around him except for a few self-conscious people. ”

"I think back then, my old Zhu Na was also a well-known handsome descendant of ten miles and eight towns."

Zhu Biao was drinking tea with a teacup, and when he heard the words, he almost squirted out a mouthful of tea soup, almost choked, he and Li Wenzhong glanced at each other, and Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned, put down the teacup stiffly with his hands and feet, and found a silk scarf to wipe the corners of his mouth.

Li Wenzhong said with a smile: "Uncle has changed his temper recently. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang picked up the teacup, stirred it with a teaspoon, and said while stirring: "We are happy in our hearts, I have a successor to the Ming Dynasty, I have already decreed that all my descendants of the Son of Heaven must take the "Emperor's Political Program for a Hundred Years" as the governing program, and within 30 years, the world can be decided." ”

His tone suddenly became gloomy again.

"At that time, I will be in a different prosperous era......"

Zhu Biao and Li Wenzhong both heard what was in the words, and Zhu Biao hurriedly diverted the topic and said: "Dad, let's not talk about this, today we finally had a small gathering to talk about important military affairs." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's slender eyes narrowed, he picked up a cup of tea and took a sip, this tea is the sour jujube leaf tea explained by Zhu Xiongying, which has the effect of lowering blood pressure, he took a sip and smiled lightly: "Those spies around Xiongying, can you investigate clearly?" ”

Zhu Biao rubbed his somewhat sore arm, and the endless notes that he could not read during the day made Zhu Biao's back ache, and after he kneaded it, he glanced at Li Wenzhong on the opposite side and shouted: "Cao Guogong said first?" ”

When Li Wenzhong heard this, he scolded with a smile: "Brother Biao, our family doesn't talk about the two families, and besides, if I don't collect spies at night under my command, I haven't found out, where can I say it?" ”

Zhu Biao Kuanrun's face was correct with a smile, the smile on his cheeks was slowly solemn, his eyes glanced at the guards in the distance, and said in a low voice: "Xiongying is around except for the maid Yuhe, who belongs to the nurse Zhang has the most contact, let's seriously investigate, she is an old person under the command of Zhang Shicheng, the former king of Wu in Zhou, and a domestic slave of Zuocheng Zhang Qi in Nanzhili Province." ”

"Oh? Kun Party? ”

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes again, and his eyes showed a trace of recollection: "Zhang Shicheng is also a man, we captured him to Yingtian back then, and we didn't plan to kill him, he hanged himself, let's also bury him with a princely ceremony, what are these old Kun Party people still having?" ”

Zhu Biao had a solemn expression on his face, and said solemnly in his eyes: "Not obvious for the time being, Zhang Qi, father, do you remember?" ”

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded.

"There is no edge to poison our people......"

"It's also a hero for a while, he installed the old man next to our eldest grandson because I was dissatisfied with the heavy taxes imposed on Kunsu Songjiang and other places?"

Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry, but shook his head slightly, picked up the teacup with a smile and turned it.

Although the Ming Dynasty imposed heavy taxes on the Songhu area and Kundi, it was actually mainly aimed at landlords, smuggler salt dealers, and big merchants.

However, these landlords and smugglers set up clever names and passed on taxes to the common people at the bottom, which has been the case since ancient times, big fish eat small fish, small fish eat shrimp, and feudal society is always a society where people eat people.

Li Wenzhong said: "Uncle, Zhang Qi loves the villagers, and is also loved by the old people of Kunming and Shanghai, but he is a person who understands the times, otherwise when the great soldiers arrived, he would not have directly opened the city and annexed it, I think he installed his own people not to harm Xiongying, but just want the Zhang family to say a few good things to Xiongying in the future. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang squinted his eyes and sneered: "Compared with those people, his methods are indeed more decent. ”

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhu Biao.

"Biao'er, you just want to talk and stop, do you still have something to say?"

Zhu Biao frowned lightly and said, "Dad, we checked the records of Zhang's entry into the palace again, and this person was arranged by Mao Xiang to enter the palace......"

As he spoke, he lightly swept the brocade clothes outside the palace.

Zhu Yuanzhang glanced at him, and the father and son both knew it.

Li Wenzhong paused with his hand holding the teacup, but Zhu Yuanzhang took a sip of the teacup, looked at the tea soup in the teacup, and chuckled: "We already knew that Mao Xiang couldn't pass the old love of the old man in Huaixi, Mao Xiang, he was cold-faced and kind-hearted, lenient and narrow-minded, this Zhang family must be installed by Hu Weiyong, when Hu Weiyong was powerful, Mao Xiang also had to sell him a few thin noodles, let go of this matter for the time being......"

"Let's talk about the spies around Lao Shi, are they really Beiyuan spies?"

Zhu Biao sighed: "I can't be sure, but when the Northern Yuan Dynasty was defeated, there were several henchmen in charge of the cards in Qidi, specializing in spy detectives, which are said to be directly under the control of the Northern Yuan Privy Council, and there are thousands of spies scattered in Qidi." The inner servants around Lao Shi are somewhat connected with the White Lotus Sect in Qidi, and the Northern Yuan spies in the land of Qilu are mostly connected to the White Lotus remnants, so we suspect that those inner servants may be the second spies of the Northern Yuan. ”

"And Concubine Ning, Guo's ......"

Zhu Biao glanced at his father Zhu Yuanzhang, and stopped talking.

He said with a bitter face: "Dad, let's not say this, you should understand it in your own heart."

Zhu Biao and Li Wenzhong glanced at each other, both looking a little helpless.

Zhu Yuanzhang threw the teaspoon on the precious small-leaf rosewood tea tray on the small table, took the incense and twisted the lid of the incense plate, and said with a light smile: "I know about this matter, Biao'er, Bao'er, you two are rare to talk to us, go and ask for some wine to be scalded below." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang's narrow eyes narrowed.

He picked the incense by himself, and sneered: "When Li Hangong went out today, he drank a few sips of Haozhou's old wine in the official sedan chair, saying that it was difficult to drink hot drinks in the old cup, and that he Li Shanchang was just asking the world for two points, so that we also aroused the cravings in our stomachs." ”

Zhu Yuanzhang waved his hand into the distance, and the waiter had already understood, so he went to warm the wine stove and set up a wine feast.

"His younger brother and nephew occupy tens of thousands of hectares of imperial land, and secretly communicate with Hu Weiyong, you say that Li Hangong is smart, why are you pretending to be confused in such matters?"

"We are not mean and ungrateful people, Lao Li gives us advice and advice, and he has merit for us, Biao'er, we should personally inherit Li Hangong and ensure that he is the third prince and noble, you must also keep it in mind."

"Let's Zhu Chongba, a mouthful of spit and a nail!"

After he finished speaking, he stared at the teacup in his hand, the tea soup was cold, Zhu Yuanzhang frowned slightly, and sighed in a low voice: "The tea is cold, it's unpalatable......"