"Thirty years ago, my father was killed by Zhu Yuanzhang..." Li Meinu fell into the memories.

"My father was born in Taizhou, the family was very poor since he was a child, and when his father was ten years old, he went to the salt field of the government to help transport official salt, but at that time, the officialdom of the Yuan Dynasty was corrupt, and the people were very taxed, and the meager income of my father and several uncles to transport salt was also levied by the imperial court to collect huge taxes. While transporting salt to the government, they also carried a portion of the salt with them and sold it to the local wealthy households. ”

"In order to inspect the smugglers of salt, the Yuan court set up salt police in various salt farms. There is a local salt policeman named Qiu Yi in Baijuchang, who is responsible for supervising the work of salt farmers and arresting smuggling salt dealers. This Qiu Yi not only often deducted the labor income of the salt people in Baijuchang, but also the salt farmers had to pay tribute to him every month, and whenever there was an omission, he would beat and scold the salt people. My father and the salt people were afraid of his obscenity, so they could only hold back their anger in secret... Wang Zhi, pour me a glass of water. After saying a series of words, Li Meinu seemed very struggling.

Wang Zhi hurriedly poured a glass of water and handed it over, and Li Meinu took it and drank a few sips.

"Sister Li, don't say it, wait until you're better, talk to me. "Looking at Li Beauty's appearance, I really can't bear to let her continue, although I really want to know the true identity of this Li Beauty.

"No, I must tell you today, you are my good sister, Wang Zhi is also my good junior brother, I will not hide anything about my affairs, or I won't be able to pass my own level. After speaking, Li Meinu continued to speak.

"In the last years of the Yuan Dynasty, the common people could not stand the corrupt rule of the Yuan Dynasty, and armed uprisings against the tyranny of the Yuan Dynasty sprung up everywhere. In the eighth year of Zhizheng, Fang Guozhen, the leader of the peasant uprising, launched an uprising in Taizhou, in the eleventh year of Zhizheng, Liu Futong led the Red Turban Army to revolt in Yingzhou, and Guo Zixing and Sun Deya of Haozhou then responded. The struggle of peasant rebels against the rule of the Yuan Dynasty was victorious, which encouraged my father.

"In the first month of the thirteenth year of Emperor Yuan Shun, my father secretly contacted seventeen daring salt people and actively prepared for an armed riot. This matter is very important, and in order to prevent the secret from being leaked, my father chose the site of the uprising in the grass weir field near the white koma field. One night, my father and the seventeen hot-blooded salt people made a bloody alliance in the North Pole Hall of Caoyan Field, picked up the flat pole used to pick up salt, and quietly entered the house of the salt policeman Qiu Yi in the cold wind, and beat to death this bully who usually harmed his neighbors. Eighteen men then rushed into the homes of the wealthy local families, opened the warehouses, distributed the grain and money to the local people, and then burned the houses clean. The actions of my father and others greatly encouraged the salt people near Caoyanchang, and they responded to my father's call to join the anti-Yuan uprising. In less than a month, the Yanmin Rebel Army led by his father reached the scale of tens of thousands of people, becoming one of the main forces in the anti-Yuan rebel army at the end of the Yuan Dynasty at that time. ”

Then the father's momentum continued to grow, the siege of the city, three months later captured the Huaidong town of Taizhou City, to the thirteenth year of May the righteous army has captured Xinghua and Gaoyou two cities, to the first month of the fourteenth year, the father established a temporary regime in Gaoyou, the country name Da Zhou, changed the Yuan "Tianyu", the father called himself "King Cheng". In September of the fourteenth year of Zheng, Emperor Yuan Shun ordered the right prime minister to take off his father in person, the situation was very critical at that time, Gaoyou City was surrounded by the Yuan army, several times the Yuan army almost broke through the city, just when the rebel army was alive and dead, the situation changed radically, and the backyard of the Yuan army "caught fire". At the beginning of the fifteenth year, the political enemy of the DPRK and China, Hama, instigated the supervision of the imperial history to impeach the commander, and the two armies were the most taboo to change the commander before the battle, and after learning that the Yuan army was replaced by the Yuan army, the father Yuan army collapsed without a fight, and immediately led the only few thousand salt people in the city to kill out of the city and defeat the Yuan army. ”

Li Meinu then drank the water in the cup in her hand, and Wang Zhi followed to pour another glass.

In the winter of the fifteenth year, my father sent his third brother Zhang Shide, who is my third uncle, to lead the army to cross the river to the south, and by March of the following year, he had captured Fushan Port, Changshu, Jiading and other places. In March of the sixteenth year of Zheng, my father led the main army into Pingjiang and renamed Pingjiang Longpingfu. Then, my father set up the capital of Longping Mansion, and my father ordered the abolition of the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes imposed on the peasants and salt people in the Yuan Dynasty, and in the 22nd and 25th years of Zheng, my father held two township examinations in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and selected a group of outstanding scholars to enter the office; ”

Ah, I am very familiar with the names of Shi Nai'an and Luo Guanzhong, but I never thought that these two literary masters would still stay under Zhang Shicheng's account, there are really a lot of secrets in this history, I don't know if I don't hear it, I was shocked when I heard it.

At the same time that my father occupied Jiangsu and Zhejiang, another team in the peasant rebel army was also growing and growing, and he was Zhu Yuanzhang. ”

"In June of the sixteenth year of Zheng, Zhu Yuanzhang sent a messenger to his father, but his father did not want to be with Zhu Yuanzhang who wanted to eat, and sent troops to attack Zhenjiang occupied by Zhu Yuanzhang, but he did not expect that the third uncle Zhang Shide was defeated and was arrested by Zhu Yuanzhang, for a time there were many rumors in the father's camp, some old ministers of the Yuan Dynasty and landlords who surrendered to the rebels advocated that their father surrender to the Yuan Dynasty, and in July of the seventeenth year of Zheng, his father attacked Zhu Yuanzhang with the help of the Yuan Dynasty, negotiated peace with the Yuan Dynasty, and then contracted the Yuan Dynasty army to attack Zhu Yuanzhang。 ”

In the twenty-third year of Zhizheng, my father broke away from the government of the Yuan Dynasty and established himself as the "King of Wu", and was divided into hundreds of officials. But at this time, there were a large number of former ministers of the Yuan Dynasty and landlords who surrendered to the rebels among the hundred officials of my father's regime, these people were greedy for life and afraid of death, and they would only enjoy the glory and wealth, and they levied high taxes behind my father's back, and also assimilated many poor people who rebelled with my father at the beginning, which made my father unable to understand the real situation of the Great Zhou at that time, which led to many people's complaints about my father's regime. ”

In September of the twenty-sixth year, Zhu Yuanzhang appointed Xu Da as the general, Chang Yuchun as the deputy general, and led 200,000 elite soldiers to launch a general attack on his father. Zhu Yuanzhang's troops arrived outside Pingjiang City one after another, forming a siege of his father. ”

This Xu Da and Chang Yuchun I also knew that there was really such a person in history, the two super generals who founded the Ming Dynasty, no wonder the army of Li Meinu's father couldn't beat these two people, I didn't hear that there were any powerful generals in this Zhang Shicheng's army.

After besieging the Pingjiang River, Zhu Yuanzhang listened to the opinions of the strategists, adopted the method of locking the city, divided the troops to garrison each gate, and built a long siege around the city. It lasted for ten months, and there was no food and grass in Pingjiang City, and there were no rescuers outside, but my father and his subordinate soldiers and civilians worked together and defended it with all their might. Due to the long siege of the city, the city was finally exhausted of ammunition and food, and his father could not bear the people to suffer, so he called the people in the city and said that he was willing to take the initiative to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang to avoid the slaughter of the people in the city, but the people and the soldiers did not agree, during which Zhu Yuanzhang also sent people to persuade his father to make his father king as long as his father surrendered, and his father resolutely refused. ”

"In September of the twenty-seventh year, Pingjiang City was broken. ”

"On the day the city broke, my father was very desperate, and returned to the palace with a team of generals, and killed all the relatives in the palace with his own hands. The father's sword was on the mother's neck, the mother did not have a trace of fear, her eyes were closed with tears, the father sighed loudly, and when he was about to swing the sword, a family general next to him hugged his father. ”

"That family will be called Cui Geng, that is, Uncle Cheng's father, Cui Geng persuaded his father to leave a bloodline for himself, saying that his mother was originally a folk woman that his father had met in private, and many people outside did not know the existence of his mother at that time, and now his mother is about to give birth, let his father let go of his mother, and let his son Cui Jiancheng secretly run out of the palace with his mother, and finally his father relented, agreed to Cui Geng's request, and handed Cui Jiancheng a small box, and told Cui Jiancheng to wait for me to be born and sensible before handing over the box to me. ”

At that time, Uncle Cheng was only eighteen years old, and he had been in the palace with Cui Geng, and it was difficult for outsiders to recognize him, Uncle Cheng had been good at practicing martial arts since he was a child, and he was deeply liked by Cui Geng, and invited many masters to teach Uncle Cheng since he was a child, so although Uncle Cheng was only eighteen years old at that time, he was also very good at martial arts, and his father entrusted the box and mother to Uncle Cheng and locked himself in a room, and his mother did not want to be separated from his father at that time, but it was impossible for his father to escape, Zhu Yuanzhang's army had poured into Pingjiang, and Uncle Cheng had to pull his mother out of the palace gate as soon as possible, mixed into a group of ordinary people, and finally escaped from Pingjiang。 ”

Li Meinu said that there was a pause here, the room was very quiet, Wang Zhi and I had already entered the chaotic scene of the war described by Li Meinu, if Li Meinu didn't tell these things, I am afraid that few people in the world would know.

"Father waited for his mother to leave and stayed alone in the house, and then planned to hang himself, the father of the family will see that the father stayed in the house for too long and felt that something was wrong, so he rushed into the house and saw the roof beam hanging his father, the generals hurriedly rescued the father, the father has not yet lost his breath, at this time the palace has been surrounded by Zhu Yuanzhang's soldiers, the father was arrested by Zhu Yuanzhang in this way, escorted all the way to Yingtian. ”

In Yingtian Prison, Zhu Yuanzhang sent Li Shanchang many times to persuade his father to surrender, but his father was always unwilling to surrender to the cowherd baby, and Zhu Yuanzhang never killed his father, which has a big secret. ”

Li Meinu stopped, her pale face was as still as water, her eyes closed slightly and then slowly opened again, as if she was hesitating whether to tell the secret or not.

I really look forward to Li Meinu continuing to talk about it, the little bit of historical knowledge in modern textbooks is too little, and what comes out of her mouth is the real historical blank.

Wang Zhi on the side also stared at Li Meinu who was half-sitting on the bed with wide eyes, with a surprised expression, and anyone in this era would have such an expression when they heard it.

Three minutes later.

"When my father Pingjiang was the emperor, he controlled the entire rich places in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, and accumulated a lot of wealth in the capture of the Yuan Dynasty city, which was secretly transported out of Pingjiang City and buried in a very secret place at the same time when his father called the emperor, as for the exact location of this place, my father took great pains to make a map and then divided it into two parts, one of which was kept by my father, and one was given to my father's third brother, that is, my third uncle Zhang Shide, but what I never expected was that the third uncle was arrested by Zhu Yuanzhang when he attacked Zhu Yuanzhang, and later Zhu Yuanzhang knew the secret, and wanted his father to hand over another treasure map。 ”

"Is the picture on Zhang Shide's body in the hands of Zhu Yuanzhang? I asked anxiously.

"Yes, this Zhu Yuanzhang wanted to get this batch of treasures and imprisoned his father in Yingtian Prison, and his father was bent on seeking death, but Zhu Yuanzhang would not kill his father before he got the map, and later his father found an opportunity to hang himself in the cell. ”

Li Meinu's tone looked very sad, this woman who had never seen her father since she was born was indeed very pitiful, it was okay to be an ordinary person, but she was still Zhang Shicheng's daughter, and if she wanted revenge, she could only find that Zhu Yuanzhang to take revenge, how easy it was to talk.

Li Meinu sighed softly and swallowed a small mouthful of water.

"Sister Li, where did your father get the half-cent treasure map in his hand?" I couldn't help but ask softly.

"Hehe, I'm also about to tell you, when Uncle Cheng took his mother to leave Yingtian all the way south, a few days later he wandered to Shaoxing, and gave birth to me in a farmer's house, I encountered dystocia, and my mother hemorrhaged and closed her eyes in less than two hours after giving birth to me..."

Li Meinu's eyes flashed with tears, I took out a handkerchief and handed it to her, Li Meinu smiled at me, wiped her eyes with a handkerchief and continued.

After the death of the mother, Uncle Cheng quietly buried his mother, and found an errand in an Anping town outside Shaoxing City, helping a rich family to take care of the yard, at that time Uncle Cheng was really young and strong, and had a good martial arts, which won the love of the rich master, the master was willing to give his daughter to Uncle Cheng, but Uncle Cheng refused, because Uncle Cheng wanted to take care of me, he had vowed not to marry a wife again for the rest of his life, and later the rich man also appreciated his father's solar terms and rewarded Uncle Cheng with a courtyard and a few acres of farmland. ”

"Twelve years have passed like this, and I have always thought that Uncle Cheng is my father for twelve years, until one day, Uncle Cheng took me to a barren mountain outside Shaoxing City to worship my mother, and Uncle Cheng explained my life experience to me in front of my mother's grave, I was still young at the time, and I didn't have any strong thoughts about revenge, but from that day after that, Uncle Cheng changed his previous fatherly appearance, and was strict with me every day, teaching me martial arts and various formations. ”

"Five years later, Uncle Cheng secretly made friends with some of his father's former subordinates and some anti-Zhu Yuanzhang people in the rivers and lakes, those father's old subordinates were very excited when they saw me, they didn't expect that my father still had blood left in this world, and when it came to avenging his father, they were all impassioned, and they were all willing to obey my command. ”

"On the day I was twenty years old, Uncle Cheng took me to worship my mother again, it was gloomy that day, in front of my mother's grave, Uncle Cheng took out a square box, this box is the one that my father gave to Uncle Cheng, Uncle Cheng never opened, he promised my father to return it to me on the day I grew up. The box is very beautiful, heavy in my hand, this is what my father left me, I swore in front of my mother's grave at that time that I would kill Zhu Yuanzhang with my own hands to avenge my father, mother and dead brothers and sisters. ”

Li Meinu paused and took a small sip of water.

"Returning to Anping Town from my mother's grave, I went into my house and carefully opened this small square metal box, which contained the half of the treasure map. ”