Capital.

In the cabinet, Zhang Zhifa, Kong Zhenyun, Huang Shijun, He Fengsheng, Liu Yuliang, and Fu Guan all had bitter faces.

Gangnam is lost!

The city of Nanjing is besieged!

Compared with the occupation of Jiangnan, the rebellion in other places can only be said to be the trouble of scabies, after all, nearly half of the taxes of the Ming Dynasty come from Jiangnan, and the loss of Jiangnan means that the Ming Dynasty has nearly half of the taxes.

What's more, it was Daqi who took Jiangnan, Daqi was the henchman of Daming, and if Jiangnan was won again, it was undoubtedly a tiger with wings, and I am afraid that Daming would die in his hands sooner or later.

"Everyone, this Jiangnan has to be saved."

After being silent for a long time, Kong Zhenyun opened his mouth and said, now that Great Qi has become a trend, Confucianism has no place in Great Qi, once Great Qi unifies the Central Plains, I am afraid that there will really be no Confucianism in the Central Plains.

"How can this be saved?"

Huang Shijun sighed: "Now that the soldiers and horses on Huguang's side have not been assembled for a long time, I'm afraid someone has a different heart."

Hearing this, the hearts of everyone present sank, this is the last thing they want to see, since ancient times, every time the last year of the dynasty, countless careerists will emerge.

Now the pseudo-Qi occupies Shandong, occupies the south of the Yangtze River, and there is a great sign of success, and Gao Yingxiang, Zhang Xianzhong, Luo Rucai, they are wandering around, coercing the people of the disaster, and causing disasters everywhere, and the Ming Dynasty has been like a scene of the last years.

What's more serious is that now Henan, Shaanxi, Shanxi, and Sichuan are all in drought, and only a few southern provinces can collect taxes.

"Why don't you reappoint the governor of Huguang."

After thinking for a while, He Fengsheng spoke: "Arrange for someone who has no ambition to go to Huguang, and arrange for a few fierce generals to go over."

"Who will you arrange?"

Hearing this, Zhang Zhifa frowned and said, "If you want to suppress the situation in Huguang, I'm afraid it's not easy."

If you want to suppress the situation in Huguang, the person sent must have the ability, and it is not easy to find someone who has the ability and has no ambition.

"Let Yu Yinggui go."

After thinking for a while, He Fengsheng spoke: "By the way, Zu Dashou, Zhao Shujiao, Cao Wenzhao, and Cao Bianjiao will be transferred to assist Yu Yinggui, so it should be about the same."

Hearing He Fengsheng's words, Zhang Zhifa fell into deep thought, Zu Dashou and Zhao Shujiao are fierce generals in Liaodong, needless to say, and Cao Wenzhao and Cao Bianjiao's uncle and nephew are also fierce generals, in recent years, they have been famous in the northwest, and the Shaanxi rebels are running around, if these four people are transferred to Huguang to cooperate with Yu Yinggui, they should be able to suppress Huguang.

"What do you think?"

After pondering for a long time, Zhang Zhifa looked at Kong Zhenyun and Huang Shijun and others, although he was the first assistant, but things were not something he could decide alone.

"I think so."

Kong Zhenyun nodded.

"I think it's okay too."

Huang Shijun and the others also nodded.

"Then go and see Your Majesty."

Zhang Zhifa said in a deep voice, even if they agreed, but in the end, they still had to be checked by Zhu You.

………

Yangtze.

On the river, several small fishing boats are casting nets, and one of them is a young fisherman of seventeen or eighteen years old.

"Three dogs, how's the harvest?"

At this moment, another small fishing boat approached, and an old fisherman with a dark face on board said with a smile.

"Uncle Ade, this fish is too hard to fight."

Hearing the words of the old fisherman, Hu Zhongwu said with a bitter face, he and the old fisherman are of the same clan, the family lives by the Yangtze River, so they all make a living from farming and fishing, and his boat was originally his father Hu Qing's, and his father fished for him to learn martial arts in the martial arts hall.

However, two months ago, his father suddenly became seriously ill, and he could only leave the martial arts hall to pick him up

Hand this fishing boat, fishing to support his family, but he is inexperienced, and he can't catch fish for a long time.

"You, complain less, pay more attention, have more experience, and this fish will be easier to fight."

The old fisherman shook his head imperceptibly, Hu Zhongwu's father Hu Qing is a famous fisherman in the vicinity, and he can catch more fish than them every day, so he wants to let Hu Zhongwu learn martial arts, so that he can find a skill, and he does not need to take risks on the river, and Hu Zhongwu is also angry, and he learns martial arts very hard.

Originally, according to this trend, Hu Zhongwu could learn a good martial arts to get ahead, but unfortunately there were unforeseen circumstances, Hu Qing suddenly fell seriously ill, and the burden of the family fell on Hu Zhongwu's shoulders.

After saying a few more words, the old fisherman propped up the boat and left, leaving Hu Zhongwu alone on the river.

Glancing at the sunset that had begun to set in the west, Hu Zhongwu sighed, and then cast his net towards the river again, he needed a lot of meat to learn martial arts, and nearly half of the fish he caught every day fell into his stomach, if he couldn't catch a little more fish, he had to eat a little less.

However, in this way, his martial arts entry will have to be slowed down, and without the medicinal food of the martial arts hall, his martial arts entry will be slowed down, and if he eats less meat, his martial arts entry will be even slower.

Slowly retracting the fishing net, there were only a few small fish in the net, Hu Zhongwu could only prop the boat a little farther away again, and then cast the net again.

After a while, Hu Zhongwu slowly pulled up the fishing net again, just pulling and pulling, Hu Zhongwu found that something was wrong, this time the fishing net was too heavy, dozens of times heavier than before, and it seemed that the net had caught a big fish.

It's just that Hu Zhongwu's face is not happy, but ugly, it is not a good thing to catch a big fish in the net, once the big fish struggles, the fishing net can't hold up at all, if the fishing net is too bad, you have to spend money to buy a new one, and now the Hu family is just in the time of spending money, his father's illness costs money, and the family has to spend, and there is not much money left at all.

Thinking of this, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly tied the fishing net to the bow of the boat, took out a harpoon from the side, bit it in his mouth, and then dived into the bottom of the water with a fish jump.

At this time, a whirlpool suddenly appeared, and Hu Zhongwu didn't have time to react at all, and was swept deep into the bottom of the river by the current.

…

After a long time, Hu Zhongwu slowly opened his eyes, and what came into view was a deep cave, and the two sides of the cave were inlaid with bright beads, illuminating the cave brightly.

"Come here!"

At this moment, a long voice sounded from the depths of the cave.

Hearing this voice, Hu Zhongwu involuntarily walked towards the depths of the cave, and as he went deeper and deeper, the cave became wider and wider, and finally he came to the edge of a waterhole, and under the waterhole was a luxurious palace.

"Come down."

The long voice sounded again from the pool, and Hu Zhongwu involuntarily walked down the pool.

When he walked outside the palace, Hu Zhongwu woke up like a dream, and in front of him was a luxurious pavilion, gold as bricks, white jade as a column, glass into the top, pearl curtains, in the pavilion is a middle-aged man wearing a dragon robe, the man's forehead also has a pair of horns, like the legendary dragon god, from the inside to the outside are full of majesty.

"Who are you?"

Hu Zhongwu said tremblingly, and his hands and feet were a little at a loss.

"Sages, don't be too frightened."

At this time, the middle-aged man slowly spoke: "This god is the dragon god of the Yangtze River."

The deep voice seemed to have the power to soothe people's hearts, which made Hu Zhongwu relax.

"Xiaomin greets the Dragon God!"

Hearing that the other party called himself the dragon god, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly knelt down, as the son of a fisherman, from childhood to adulthood, the elders of the family told him that their family depended on the Yangtze River for a living, and they must not disrespect the dragon god.

"A virtuous man doesn't have to be polite."

Before Hu Zhongwu knelt down, the middle-aged man's hand waved slightly, and Hu Zhongwu couldn't kneel.

"I wonder what the dragon god has to summon the people?"

Hu Zhongwu bent down and said humbly.

"Sages don't have to be like that."

The middle-aged man said gently, "This god invited the sage to come this time because he wanted to ask the sage to save the world."

"Master Dragon God, have you invited the wrong person, Xiaomin is just a fisherman, how can He De save the common people?"

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly said, "If the Dragon God Lord wants to save the common people, he should go to the Son of Heaven."

As the son of a fisherman, his greatest wish is to learn martial arts, open his own martial arts gym or dart game, and never think of saving the common people.

Hearing this, the middle-aged man shook his head and said: "The sage doesn't know, the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty continues, the national fortune has come to an end, the Central Plains is about to be in chaos, this god world is worshiped by the human race, I really can't bear to see the chaos in the world, and the lives of the people are ruined.

"Master Dragon God is saying that I have the True Dragon Son of Heaven Destiny?"

At this time, Hu Zhongwu was also stunned, he never thought that the dragon god would say that he had the destiny of the true dragon son of heaven.

"Rest assured, the gods are not wrong."

The middle-aged man said in a deep voice, "I hope that the sage can save the world."

After finishing speaking, the middle-aged man also got up and bowed solemnly.

"Lord Dragon God can't help it."

Seeing the middle-aged man saluting, he hurriedly stepped forward to support the middle-aged man, he didn't dare to let the dragon god salute, it was going to be thundered five times in the sky.

After being silent for a while, Hu Zhongwu spoke: "Master Dragon God, Xiaomin is just a fisherman, even if he has the heart to save the world, he is also powerless."

"Sage rest assured."

The middle-aged man stroked his long beard and said, "Since this god has invited the sage to come, he will help the sage, and the god has a drop of natal dragon blood, which can help the sage to be reborn, and since then, the practice of martial arts has been a thousand miles a day."

After finishing speaking, a drop of golden light flew out of the middle-aged man's heart, and the next moment, the golden bead merged into Hu Zhongwu's body.

At this time, Hu Zhongwu just felt that there were wisps of extremely soft power in his body, and the extremely thin internal force in his body was growing stronger as if he had taken a great tonic under this power.

"There are still 5,000 taels of gold here in this god, and the sages can take them back to recruit troops and horses, form an army, overthrow the tyranny of the Ming Dynasty, and save the world from fire and water."

At this time, the middle-aged man said again, and at the same time, with a wave of his hand, small wooden boxes appeared, and when the boxes were opened, the yellow gold bars were dazzling.

Looking at the boxes of gold bars, Hu Zhongwu couldn't help but swallow his saliva, as the son of a fisherman, how could he ever see gold, let alone boxes of gold bars.

"Sage, with these golden recruits, Sage will soon be able to have his own army."

The middle-aged man said in a deep voice: "Now that the fortunes of the Ming Dynasty have come to an end, and natural disasters are continuous, when the sage only needs to raise his arms and shout, everyone will definitely follow."

Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Hu Zhongwu's eyes also gave birth to a glimmer of light, which was the light of ambition.

Seeing that Hu Zhongwu had ambition in his eyes, the middle-aged man's eyes were a little more inexplicable, like gratification, and greed, but unfortunately Hu Zhongwu was only immersed in ambition at this time and did not find it.

"Sage, this is the dragon scale of this god, this dragon scale will be given to the sage, if the sage wants to see this god, just come to this river, this god can know."

At this time, a scale appeared in the middle-aged man's hand, and then with a wave of his hand, the dragon scale was attached to Hu Zhongwu's forehead, and the next moment, the dragon scale disappeared into Hu Zhongwu's forehead, leaving only a faint trace, which gave Hu Zhongwu a sense of mysterious majesty.

At this time, Hu Zhongwu was completely dazed, and then returned to the fishing boat in a daze, until the cold river wind blew, Hu Zhongwu suddenly woke up, even the fishing nets were not collected, all the small wooden boxes on the boat were moved to the cabin, and then hurriedly rowed back home.

Deep at the bottom of the river, the middle-aged man watched Hu Zhongwu's fishing boat head towards the shore, with a strange look in his eyes.

…

Back on the shore, Hu Zhongwu took advantage of the night to move all the small wooden boxes back to his home, and then told his father what happened to him

Qin Hu Qing said it again.

"You said you met the dragon god?"

Hu Qing's pale face was full of disbelief, he had been fluttering on the river for more than 20 years, and he had heard many people encounter water ghosts and be dragged down, but he had never heard of the dragon god.

"Dad, you've seen this gold too, this can still be fake."

Hu Zhongwu was a little dissatisfied, the dragon god said that he had the true dragon son of heaven life, and his father still doubted the dragon god, so wouldn't it be doubtful of his true dragon son of heaven life.

After being silent for nearly an hour, Hu Qingcai said, "Zhongwu, you cut a small corner of gold tomorrow to exchange it for silver, and then go back to the martial arts hall to practice martial arts."

Hu Zhongwu frowned and said, "Dad, now that we don't recruit troops, why do we go to the martial arts hall?"

"Are you stupid?"

Hearing this, Hu Qing slapped Hu Zhongwu's head and said hatefully: "You are still recruiting troops with this little strength now, and if the news leaks out, the county catcher will be able to carry your head to receive the reward!"

"Didn't the dragon god make you reborn?"

After a pause, Hu Qingcai continued: "Practice martial arts first, and then learn a little more about the art of war, and when your strength is stronger than that of headhunters, then recruit troops and horses to capture the county seat, and raise the banner of rebellion is the right way."

"It's still Daddy, you're thoughtful."

Hearing Hu Qing's words, Hu Zhongwu hurriedly nodded in agreement, he really thought too simply, he is now recruiting troops and horses on a large scale will only alarm the government, it is better to wait until the martial arts are stronger, anyway, the dragon god has already used the natal dragon blood to reincarnate him, and practicing martial arts should be a very simple matter.