Xu Renjie's eyes lit up: "Brother Zhu, now there is a chaos in Shaanxi. We should take this opportunity to quickly conquer the city and occupy more territory..."

"No!" Zhu Yuanzhang shook his head: "Although the chaos is at this time, the officers and soldiers are still strong. The happier these rebels are now, the faster they die. It is not difficult for us to take advantage of the chaos to attack cities and territories, but we have also lost the opportunity to lay a solid foundation. After Hong Chengchou took some rebels, he will turn around and attack us... We will be unable to resist at that time."

Speaking of this, Zhu Yuanzhang concluded: "Instead of using this chaos to compete for a large number of uncontrollable territory, it is better to take the opportunity to train troops and lay a solid foundation for ourselves."

At this time, the total strength of Zhu Yuanzhang's army was nearly 10,000. Since it occupied Baishui and Chengcheng, small groups of rebels from the east route came to invest. In just a few months, the strength of the troops expanded from 3,000 to 10,000, but the newly added 7,000 people were almost all untrained, unorganized and undisciplined bandits, which were no different from the seven thousand young and strong who were lighting the lamp.

Relying on these mobs, it is no problem to forcibly capture some small county towns with the advantage of numbers, but it is impossible to defend them after occupying them. Once Hong Chengchou's officers and soldiers arrive, these guys will have to scatter! Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang planned to use the time when Hong Chengchou's clone was unable to train these newcomers to become soldiers who could stand alone.

The leaders thought about it carefully for a while and felt that the leader was right, so they went back and quickly trained their troops to create weapons for the new recruits...

In the fifth year of Chongzhen, the first month of spring has arrived!

In this spring, there is still a hint of wetness in the air, and farmers who are very sensitive to the climate breathe a sigh of relief. From the end of the Apocalypse to the end of the third year of Chongzhen, the continuous drought has scared the farmers. Now every spring, they look at God eagerly, hoping that God can give a spring rain like the fourth year of Chongzhen.

Fortunately, this year is also a rare good year in the Little Ice Age. Just after the Spring Festival, a light rain came, making the world peaceful. The Huanglong bandits who had just distributed a large number of fields from Zhu Yuanzhang seemed to have seen their fields full of crops, and they all smiled happily.

As usual, Zhu Yuanzhang got up before dawn and punched the yard. The yard he lives in is opposite the street of Baishui Yamen. It is a vacant mansion after a small businessman escaped. Zhu Yuanzhang took Zhang Yingxian and two of them to live in, each occupying a room. There were dozens of rooms in the yard that were empty and no one could live in. The huge courtyard was deserted.

Zhu Yuanzhang likes this kind of desertedness very much!

After two punches and sweating, Zhang Yingxian walked over from the side. She was dressed beautifully today. She looked very beautiful in the light green silk shirt in the morning light, and looked a bit like a lady. When she was in Huanglong Mountain, all supplies were scarce, which made her wear coarse cloth clothes that she had been wearing for several years. Now she came to the county town and got some silk clothes to wear. She had a little leisure time and could give herself a little bourgeoisie. Fortunately, although her dress was a little bourgeoisie, her heart had changed a lot. The temper of those officials' ladies in the past was now impossible. No one would see her when she saw her, she would think she was a gentle, virtuous, hardworking and capable woman.

Zhang Yingxian held a bowl of porridge and said softly: "My husband, you're tired of boxing, come and have breakfast..."

"Yes!" Zhu Yuanzhang sat on the stone bench next to the yard, took the porridge and drank it. Zhang Yingxian stood beside him, took out a handkerchief from his arms, wiped the sweat beads of Zhu Yuanzhang's cheeks, and said softly: "It's early spring at this time, and it's still cold. You're afraid that your close-fitting clothes will be soaked in sweat. I'll get a piece of clothes to change for you, otherwise you will catch a cold when wearing wet clothes."

"Yeah!" Zhu Yuanzhang responded dryly.

Zhang Yingxian was about to turn around and leave, suddenly, there was a loud knock at the gate of the yard, followed by Miao Mei's voice: "Brother Zhu, you should have gotten up long ago, right? I was about to hire some idle men to help with farm work, Brother Leng Feng also asked me to hire people for him. Do you want me to hire a few for you?"

It turned out... Since several big leaders in the village made great contributions and received a lot of land when rewarding merits, they have become real landlords. In this year's good times, the crops will definitely grow well. According to the rules, the landlords' families will hire more tenants to make more harvests in their own fields.

Miao Mei got up early and joined Ma Xiaotian, Feishanhu, Dahonglang and others to go to the place where idle men gather in the city and hire a few co-fighters... As a result, Yang Hong also came in. In fact, he just had to send his servants to hire people, but in order to get along with the old leaders, he deliberately gave this matter to Miao Mei for help, which was considered a good intention.

Zhu Yuanzhang laughed in his heart. Yang Hong was scared by others in the court. He is really careful now! Forget it, let him do it. He opened his throat and shouted to the outside: "Don't hire me, you can take care of yourself."

"Okay!" Miao Mei's voice went away.

Zhu Yuanzhang was about to stand up and go to change his clothes when a gentle knock on the door suddenly sounded at the door, which was too weak to hear.

"Who is it?"

"It's me...Li...Li Sanmei..."

"What?" Zhu Yuanzhang Daqi: "What are you doing here?"

Zhang Yingxian went over and opened the door. Li Sanmei blushed and flashed through the crack of the door with a whoosh. She quickly closed the door. Then she turned around and knelt on the ground with a thud: "Brother Zhu... help me!"

"What are you doing? Get up and say it!" A bad premonition flashed through Zhu Yuanzhang's heart. It would be no good for a woman to come to him for help!

Sure enough! Li Sanmei turned her face and said in a crying voice: "Brother Zhu, I have been staying at Brother Leng Feng's house for several months. I helped him serve tea and water and cook rice. But he is ignorant of the wood fish and doesn't even propose marriage to my father... If this continues, I, a girl, can't stay in his house so unclear, right? Brother Zhu, you have a clever idea and you are invincible. You know astronomy and geography... Please help me think of a way and let him marry me!"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

Zhang Yingxian: “…”

"Brother Zhu... Why don't you speak?"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

Zhang Yingxian: “…”

"Brother Zhu, don't be dazed like this... I have no choice but to come to ask you. You have always been the most urgent thing to save the villagers, why can't you save the little girl..."

Zhu Yuanzhang took two steps at a time, and then flashed to the door. He pushed open the door with his left hand, grabbed Li Sanmei's clothes on the back of his neck with his right hand, threw it out, and shouted, Li Sanmei fell back to the middle of the street. Then Zhu Yuanzhang closed the door at a speed that was too lightning, inserted the door bolt, and then moved a stone mill to the ground and pushed it behind the door.

"Huh! Come to me for any messy things? Find a way to go by yourself!" Zhu Yuanzhang finally breathed a sigh of relief, and the yard immediately responded to Qingjing.

Zhang Yingxian blinked beside her: "Honey man... are you so afraid of being involved in things like this?"

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

Zhang Yingxian continued: "My husband is a perfect person, but I found this one shortcoming..." She smiled softly: "If you are intrigue and plotting, your husband is very powerful, and even the high-ranking officials of the court are not your opponents. But if you meet the true feelings and the continuous flow of water, your husband will be at a loss and don't know how to deal with it."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

"It's useless to throw Li Sanmei out!" Zhang Yingxian suddenly became naughty: "I have the same thing to ask you for help. I have been staying at your house for several years. Why have you never understood my intentions? If you are so confused, what should I do, a girl? Husband, you should give me a real marriage to me!"

Zhu Yuanzhang Khan.

"How is it? Do you want to throw me out too?" Zhang Yingxian blinked mischievously.

Zhu Yuanzhang was stunned and sighed helplessly. He walked to the door, moved the big stone mill first, then pulled off the door bolt, and opened the door. He saw Li Sanmei still sitting on the ground outside the door. He waved, and Li Sanmei quickly jumped up and rushed into the yard.

"I really want to marry Leng Feng?" Zhu Yuanzhang asked.

"I really want to!"

"Isn't it just talking about it?"

"How can a girl play with such things?" Li Sanmei pouted.

"I don't know the changing intestines of women." Zhu Yuanzhang smiled bitterly and said, "Forget it, I'll go and talk about the matchmaker, is this okay?"

When he said the first half of the sentence, he looked at Li Sanmei and said the second half of the sentence "It's OK to do this", but his face turned to Zhang Yingxian, obviously he wanted to give Zhang Yingxian an explanation.

When Zhang Yingxian heard this, a gentle flower slowly bloomed on her face. She was not a stupid village woman. She could understand Zhu Yuanzhang's way of speaking in a roundabout way! Since Zhu Yuanzhang said that he was willing to help Li Sanmei's relationship blossom and bear fruit, the subtext of course agreed to reward Zhang Yingxian's relationship.

She said softly to Zhu Yuanzhang: "My husband... that's all!"

Zhu Yuanzhang sighed: "Then I'll go find Leng Feng!"

"Yeah!" Zhang Ying gave a blessed lightly: "Young man, go and go back quickly, I will prepare the wine and food... and red candles... um..." Later, two peach blossoms flew up on her snow-white face, which was very cute.

After hearing this, Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help but blushed slightly.

It was just when the atmosphere was beautiful, Li Sanmei suddenly said, "Sister-in-law, you are such a good person. You are actually willing to organize the wine, food and red candles for my wedding with Leng Feng... I am so grateful to you! Can you please prepare a few more red wedding words, as well as red gauze tents and bedding..."

Zhu Yuanzhang: "..."

Zhang Yingxian: “…”

"Honey, I think...you'd better throw her out!"

"Yeah, I feel the same!"...)
Chapter completed!