Hearing this, Zhang Wuji asked, "But Li Shanchang?" ”

Su Mengqing nodded and said, "Our Majesty Mingzun is really like a god, yes, this is the person." ”

Zhang Wuji snorted coldly and said, "This old boy has already found a way back for himself. ”

Zhao Min looked back at the crying Xu Da and the others, and then looked at the accounts counted by Li Shanchang in Zhang Wuji's hand.

Zhao Min said: "What is the use of such disloyal and unrighteous people? Brother Wuji, I think it's better to kill it. ”

Zhang Wuji waved his hand and said: "That's not it, I know a little about Li Shanchang, although this person sees the wind and makes the rudder, but he is also a capable minister." As long as we can give him safety and fame and fortune, his loyalty to us can still be guaranteed. ”

Zhang Wuji then said to Su Mengqing: "Okay, I'll leave these things to my sister Su to do." After counting our booty, we immediately persuaded the remnants of Zhu Yuanzhang's army in several surrounding strongholds, and I will give you a month to restore order in Jiangnan as soon as possible. Let Jiangnan completely become a part of our territory. After that, the whole army turned around and headed north, and I wanted to fight a decisive battle with my father-in-law, and lay the foundation for victory or defeat in the Central Plains in one fell swoop. Oh! By the way, inform Sister Zhu and Yang Zuo's envoy and ask them to move the imperial court back to Bianjing. ”

After getting Zhang Wuji's order, Su Mengqing went to arrange it non-stop.

In the next few days, Zhang Wuji also briefly met with the representatives of the gentry who surrendered to him and Zhu Yuanzhang's old subordinates.

Zhang Wuji basically retained their original positions for some available people, and for some people who knew the times, Zhang Wuji even gave them a promotion to the next level.

However, not everyone Zhang Wuji stayed, and some still had to be beheaded.

And the person Zhang Wuji named and killed was Hu Weiyong. killed Hu Weiyong, not because of anything else, but because Zhang Wuji simply didn't like this person.

He is different from Li Shanchang, who sees the wind and steers the rudder, Hu Weiyong is a very ambitious guy. If this person is reused, then it will be a disaster. But this person is talented, and if he lets it go, he is afraid that he will be used by others. Therefore, Zhang Wuji made a decree and killed Hu Weiyong by name.

And Zhang Wuji's hat for Hu Weiyong is also very big, that is, his previous admonition to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhang Wuji charged him with inciting King Wu to rebel. Resulting in fratricide.

After giving Hu Weiyong this charge, he dragged Hu Weiyong to the vegetable market in Jinling City and executed him.

But after the intersection of the past few days, Zhang Wuji also felt the strength of the Jiangnan gentry.

Previously, in order to envelop Chen Youliang's forces, he selected many children of the gentry to enter his harem. Compared with the Jingxiang clan and the Jiangdong gentry, they are simply not on the same level.

Zhang Wuji is also glad that his basic plate is in the Central Plains and is not constrained by these people, otherwise, he really can't clean them up.

And in the past few days, these people have given Zhang Wuji the most advice on the issue of Dingdu.

The capital city selected by Zhang Wuji was the former capital of the Northern Song Dynasty, "Bianliang", with Bianjing as the capital to show orthodoxy. After the capture of Dadu, the system of north and south capitals was implemented.

But these Jiangnan gentry all urged Zhang Wuji to set the capital in Jinling or Hangzhou.

And the reason given is also very strange, saying that Jinling has been the place of Longxing since ancient times, or that Hangzhou is the former capital of the Song Dynasty. It is even said that the abundance of money and grain in the south of the Yangtze River is better than the bitter cold in the north.

In short, in the past few days, they have been in feng shui, history and humanities, and they are even willing to "crowdfund" Zhang Wuji to build a bigger palace in Hangzhou or Jinling, and some people have already begun to give Zhang Wuji Yangzhou thin horses, all kinds of beautiful girls.

In the past few days, Zhang Wuji even felt that the wind on the road in Jinling City was fragrant.

Seeing the soft knives of these Jiangdong gentry, Zhang Wuji also somewhat understood why the emperors of the Southern Dynasty were so wasteful.

If it weren't for the fact that there were already beautiful women around him, and he didn't have such a big need, maybe he would have to trip over these sugar-coated cannonballs and plant a big heel.

For the requests of these gentry, Zhang Wuji refused them all.

Seeing that His Majesty Mingzun was soft and hard, these gentry had no choice, after all, the emperor's hundreds of thousands of troops were still there, how could they, little loaches, afford to make waves?

After Zhu Yuanzhang's funeral was completed, Zhang Wuji also summoned Xu Da and others.

Zhang Wuji wanted to laugh when he saw Xu Da, Li Wenzhong, Tang He, Feng Sheng, Deng Yu, Zhu Wenzheng, all of them wrapped in white hoops and wearing filial piety clothes.

But out of an atmosphere of sadness, he held back.

Zhang Wuji looked at everyone and said, "I respect King Wu's last wish before his death, and I don't embarrass everyone. To tell the truth, although I have a disagreement with King Wu, I still remember the old relationship. After breaking the city this time, I just want to depose him as a concubine, and degrade him to go to the Western Regions to be a toast, and don't come back from now on. How do you know that King Wu's temperament is so strong. I didn't arrive, but he did first! ”

If someone else said this, everyone would surely scoff at it.

But this was said by Zhang Wuji, others don't know if they believe it or not, anyway, Xu Da, Tang He, Feng Sheng, people who had contact with Zhang Wuji in the early years believed it.

Zhang Wuji looked at them one by one, and then said, "Okay." I ask one last time, who is willing to stay and continue to lead the troops to help me expel Hu Yuan in the Northern Expedition? If you don't want to, then I think of the merits of your past anti-yuan, and what money will go back to your hometown to support and farm. ”

Saying that, Zhang Wuji, who was sitting in the main hall, waved his hand, and each of the seven or eight guards stood in front of the generals with a tray full of gold.

Zhang Wuji said: "This money is enough for you to settle down for the rest of your life, let's go." ”

Looking at everyone, the severance pay given by Zhang Wuji can be regarded as generous. Each of them was given a thousand taels of gold.

This thousand taels of gold is not much, but it is definitely a lot, if they are sent back to their hometowns to farm, with this thousand taels of gold, they can build a good manor, and then buy hundreds of hectares of land, and finally buy dozens of servants, and the family has lived for several generations.

Zhu Wenzheng took the lead in accepting the reward given by Zhang Wuji, although Zhu Wenzheng is a great talent, he is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew.

Zhu Yuanzhang died because of Zhang Wuji, even if Zhang Wuji still dared to use him, but in the future, he would be excluded by other colleagues because he was a family member of a criminal minister.

Rather than doing this, it is better to unload the armor and return to the field and live a peaceful life.

After Zhu Wenzheng knelt three times and bowed nine times in front of Zhang Wuji, he accepted the reward, and then turned around and left.

The others looked at each other, and with Zhu Wenzheng at the beginning, there was soon a second one.

The second person to receive Zhang Wuji's reward was Li Wenzhong.

Li Wenzhong's concerns are the same as Zhu Wenzheng, Li Wenzhong is Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew and Zhu Yuanzhang's righteous son. He was also afraid that he would not be tolerated by the ministers and Zhang Wuji in the future, so he also planned to unload his armor and return to the field.

After Li Wenzhong knelt down to thank the reward, he also left with the "settling-in allowance" and "retirement pension" given by Zhang Wuji.

However, since Zhu Wenzheng and Li Wenzhong thanked the reward, everyone has not moved.

(End of chapter)