In the eighth year of Longfeng, Chen Youliang's subordinates, Hu Mei, the prime minister of Jiangxi Province, dedicated the town of Longxing City to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang was overjoyed and renamed it Hongdu Mansion.

In the southwest of Pinghan, the capital of Hongdu, non-flesh and blood ministers could not defend it, so Zhu Yuanzhang sent Zhu Wenzheng to guard Hongdu.

This annoyed the ferocious Chen Youliang. In the following year, Chen Youliang took advantage of Zhu Yuanzhang's troops to rescue Anfeng and Jiangnan, when the army was empty, and the whole army claimed to be 600,000 and surrounded Hongdu City.

At that time, Zhu Wenzheng only had 20,000 troops in his hands, and Chen Youliang didn't pay attention to it at all, and ordered to attack the city with all his might. After preparing to capture Hongdu, go straight to Yingtian!

Chen Youliang governed the army harshly, and his army did not dare to fight hard. The walls of Hongdu were breached in many places, and the defenders had to fight while building the walls. Soldiers on both sides stepped on the corpses and fought, suffering heavy casualties.

However, Zhu Wenzheng gave full play to his outstanding commanding talent, commanding the soldiers to respond to the battle calmly, and the walls were frustrated, and he was stunned to stick to Hongdu for 85 days! consumed a large amount of Chen Youliang's vital strength, and finally waited for Zhu Yuanzhang to complete the war preparations and return to the army to come to the rescue, Chen Youliang had no choice but to withdraw from the siege.

This is the miracle in the world's military history - the Battle of Hongdu.

It can be said that without the victory of the defense of Hongdu, there would have been no later battle for the founding of the Ming Dynasty - the Battle of Poyang Lake.

After the Battle of Poyang Lake eliminated Chen Youliang's regime in one fell swoop, Zhu Yuanzhang's class triumphed, rewarded Chang Yuchun, Liao Yongzhong and meritorious generals.

Maybe it was because he thought of his nephew's high profile before, or maybe because of other reasons, Zhu Yuanzhang didn't reward Zhu Wenzheng for a while.

This made Zhu Wenzheng extremely disappointed, and completely broke the defense, not only did he unusually indulge, but also appointed his subordinates to plunder people's property and rape women. The patron saint of Hongdu City has turned into a pest in Jiangxi.

According to the inspector, Li Yingbing played Zhu Wenzheng's arrogant look, so Zhu Yuanzhang sent an envoy to scold. Zhu Wenzheng did not repent, but became more and more angry, threatening to kill Li Yubing, so frightened that he hid in the Yamen of the Si Si and did not dare to go out.

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At that time, the people in Hongdu City thought that they had offended Zhu Yuanzhang's nephew, Li Yubing was dead, but Hu Weiyong didn't see it that way, he thought that it was Zhu Wenzheng who was dead.

"Why do you say that?" Zhu Zhen frowned and asked in a low voice.

"The sinners dare not say it." Shen Liben said busily.

"Less nonsense, let it go if you have a fart." Zhu Zhen said coldly.

"Yes, Hu Weiyong later had a drunken gaffe, saying that Zhu Wenzheng, a superior subordinate, was the official governor of the three armies, and he made immortal achievements, so how could the superior reward him?" Shen Liben said in a trembling voice:

"At that time, the upper position was only Wu Guogong, and there was nothing to reward him except for the prince of Guogong. But on the top, there is already a son. ”

"......" Zhu Zhen was directly silent.

"Therefore, Hu Weiyong thinks that the superior position is not because he doesn't want to reward Zhu Wenzheng, but because he can't reward him." Seeing that His Royal Highness did not express his position, Shen Liben had no choice but to continue:

"I can only wait until I am called the king and emperor in the future, and then I will make up for him. In addition, the crown prince had grown up at that time, but there were still many people in the army who regarded Zhu Wenzheng as the successor to the upper position. The superior remembered Zhu Wenzheng's high profile before, so he decided to postpone the reward.

"But here and there. When Zhu Wenzheng said that, the prince had not yet been born. He thought he could take over, and of course he didn't care about the reward. But during the Battle of Hongdu, the upper position already had a son, and he knew that he had no chance of succession, and he was aggrieved in his heart, how could he not care about the reward?

Therefore, he was aggrieved, angry, vented, and he indulged soldiers in violating military discipline. This may be sparse and ordinary in other armies, but in our army, which has strict military discipline, it is unforgivable. Shen Liben continued:

"Hu Dahai's eldest son, who violated the ban on winemaking in Wuzhou, deserves death for his crimes. Someone advised the superior not to kill him in order to avoid Hu Dahai's mutiny. But the superior said: 'I would rather let Hu Dahai rebel than let my military orders not be implemented.' In the end, the superior personally executed Hu Dahai's eldest son. ”

Shen Liben sighed with admiration and said, "Therefore, Zhu Wenzheng is unrepentant and will definitely be disposed of." But his identity and merit are there, if he is not knocked to death with a stick, he will definitely make a comeback in the future. By that time, all enemies will be retaliated against by him. ”

Therefore, Hu Weiyong persuaded Li Yingbing not to attack Zhu Wenzheng with those painless charges. It will be fatal with one blow, so that it will not be able to turn over for the rest of its life. Shen Liben said in a low voice:

"And then he came up with something lethal enough to kill him in one blow!"

"What's that?" Zhu Zhen asked.

"Zhu Wenzheng colluded with the White Lotus Society to curse the puppet of the prince's death." Shen Liben's voice became gloomy: "The White Lotus Society has a secret technique, sewing a person's eight characters, personal belongings and a drop of blood into a puppet, and then shooting a small arrow every day for seven seven hundred and forty-nine days, this person can die violently." ”

"Li Yubing presented this thing, and the upper position found the prince's eight characters, longevity lock and blood stains in the puppet." He continued: "The superior was furious and ordered Zhu Wenzheng to enter Beijing to ask for the guilt. Zhu Wenzheng was frightened and had plans to rebel. Who knew that before Zhang Luo had time, the superior had already come to the outside of the city by boat and beckoned him out of the city to see him.

"Zhu Wenzheng rushed out to greet him, and the superior whipped him with a whip on his head and face, and said several times: 'What are you going to do?' Then he escorted him back to the capital. Later, he was removed from office and placed under house arrest in Tongcheng, and he died not long after. ”

After listening to this secret, Zhu Zhen was in a trance. After a while, he calmed down and asked in a deep voice: "I asked you how Hu Weiyong got involved with Zheng, why are you talking about this?" ”

"That cursed puppet was revealed to Hu Weiyong and helped him take it from the White Lotus Society." Shen Liben hurriedly explained: "The White Lotus Society was very prosperous in those years, and the common people abandoned Zhengyi and converted to White Lotus, and Zhengyi naturally regarded it as a thorn in the flesh, and also took the opportunity to eradicate the White Lotus. ”

"Later, the White Lotus Society was really designated as a cult, and with the cooperation of Zhengyi, it was uprooted from Jiangxi." He also said: "Hu Weiyong also took advantage of this to rise to the top, until he entered the middle school to worship the prime minister, and was responsible for the compilation of household posts across the country, and asked him to give convenience, not to put all the disciples into the posts. ”

"Hu Weiyong agreed?" Zhu Zhen couldn't help but be speechless, there was really nothing that this guy didn't dare to do.

"Maybe in one hand, there is still Hu Xiang with some handle. Of course, Hu Weiyong will definitely not say it, and we don't know. Shen Liben shook his head and said:

However, Hu Xiang would not work in vain, so he instructed the criminal ministers to secretly compile the hidden household registration and land properties into a book. This is the origin of "Regardless of the Account Book". Of course, this kind of thing can be hidden from the top, but it can't be hidden from the bottom, so there are many related households, and they have also asked for entrustment. So there is not only one family in the account book, of course, they are still the main head. ”

Zhu Zhen nodded, and finally understood the ins and outs of "No Matter the Account Book".

Teacher Luo, who was listening silently on the side, suddenly laughed softly: "I thought it was such a tall thing, isn't this the private account in the hands of the officials?" ”

(End of chapter)