Chapter 23 Preparation for the exam (Part 1)

"There is no time." Zhu Chongjiu sat in the command cabin of a northbound warship, with a huge map in front of him. Gunzhou, Jining, Zhending, Yizhou, Dadu, Feihu Pass, Jingxing Pass, and the major cities and strategic locations of the Central Secretariat are vividly remembered.

If we divide the time and space regions of Zhu Bashiyi in later generations, the map in front of us basically includes the municipalities directly under the central government of Beijing, Hebei and Shanxi, and even some areas in the southeast of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. Only Tianjin ignores it for the time being. The Zhigu Maritime Bureau of the Mongolian Yuan Dynasty has just been established, and it is so weak that it is not worth mentioning whether it is city size or military power.

According to his original expectation, it would take at least three years before the Huaiyang General Administration could take it under its jurisdiction. It would be divided into several stages, compressing and eroding step by step, rather than swallowing it in one bite. For this reason, he even spent a lot of money to tempt the princes and nobles in the north to raise sheep and replace farmland with large numbers of ranches. He only waited for the Northern Expedition to launch a fatal blow to the Mongolian Yuan in terms of food supply.

However, they didn't expect that they had no conditions to fight the Northern Expedition, but Tuhuantemuer and his son rushed to create conditions for themselves. The sons joined forces with his mother to force the palace. After failure, they led their troops to Ji Ning. The father-in-law and the emperor-general who had no time to escape were killed and killed. Then they handed over the government to Dingzhu, Wang Family Nu, Sang Geshuli and Li Siqi. They continued to hide in the deep palace to practice the secret method of "acting butterfly". Dingzhu did not think about stabilizing the political situation after he came to power. The first thing I did was to safe Zhaoxue, and then ordered the investigation of Hama, who "perse" Tuotuo, and the Xuexue brothers chased to the end. As a result, Xuexue was desperate and simply fled directly to Jiaozhou with a group of greedy soldiers and generals. Hama, after leaving the sea from Zhigu, went to Liaodong, and was hired as the left prime minister by Aluhui Timur, who had just become the emperor. Together with Yelu Zhao, the Minister of Revenue of Aluhui Timur, the Minister of Revenue of Aluhui Timur, was specifically responsible for the matter of connecting Huaiyang (Note 1, Note 2)

"God gives a good opportunity to Dawu. If people don't take it, God will abandon it." Faced with the Mongolian Yuan court that was quickly divided into three parts, the officials and scholars under the Huaiyang General Administration immediately became excited, including some laity experts who have always refused to cooperate with the Grand General Administration. In recent days, they have stood up and called on Mr. Wu to immediately march in the Northern Expedition. In their opinion, the slaughter of the Mongolian Yuan royal family is definitely a sign of the end of the world. At present, Huaiyang is closest to the capital and has the most strength to replace it.

The concept of the government and opposition parties has never been so unified since the establishment of the Huaiyang General Manager. They united as one, forcing Lu Luzeng, Su Mingzhe, Luo Ben and others who were left in Yangzhou to issue memorials to Fujian with clutches and carrier pigeons, asking the Grand Super Manager to make clear decisions quickly. However, Zhu Chongjiu, who had always dared to take risks, completely hesitated at this moment. He didn't know whether what God gave him was an opportunity or a huge trap.

What he wants to do now is to establish a regime that is completely different from the past, rather than to make a vote and leave. In his limited historical knowledge, in another time and space history, there are more than one example of the rebels conquering the capital but ending with tragedy as the end.

After Huang Chao conquered Chang'an, he established the Daqi. After only two years, he turned into a meteor. Li Zicheng entered Beijing for a shorter time. He forced Chongzhen to death in mid-March and withdrew on April 26. He had only one month left. If he was not stable in the south and there was still a tiger sleeping soundly beside his bed, the Huai'an army rushed to the north. Zhu Chongjiu was really not sure that he could stay in the capital for a few more days than Li Zicheng.

"What was the situation in Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition back then?" After counting the failed examples, Zhu Chongjiu scoured his heart and found success stories in the memory of another time and space. Unfortunately, his history teacher "dead" was really not the time. Regarding Zhu Yuanzhang's Northern Expedition, I only remember that it was after he wiped out Chen Youliang and Zhang Shicheng. When the Red Turban Army in the South fought, the Mongolian Yuan in the north seemed to be busy with father and son fighting each other, and there was no time to go south to reap profits.

In other words, in another time and space, God had cheated Zhu Chongba, giving him time to unify the south calmly, but then he gathered to build the country to the north. If he wanted to refer to Zhu Yuanzhang's successful method, the Huai'an army should definitely refuse the Northern Expedition and immediately kill Zhang Shicheng, Peng Yingyu, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Futong, integrate all the red scarf power and force into one place, and then compete with the Mongol Yuan. However, Zhu Chongjiu is not God's illegitimate son, and he cannot get the same treatment as Zhu Chongba in another time and space. When he finishes Zhang Shicheng, Liu Futong and others, it is estimated that the turmoil in the north will have long subsided, and the cause of the Northern Expedition will become an unprecedented gamble. If you win, China will resurrect, lose, and sink forever.

This bet is too big, and Zhu Chongjiu dare not bet easily. If he does not copy Zhu Yuanzhang's successful model in another time and space, the rest will probably be the red road in northern Shaanxi. Zhu Chongjiu is very familiar with the history of that road. He first goes to the Northeast and then sets down the Central Plains. In the battle of Huaihai, he will completely solve the opponent's vitality. Then he will have millions of troops in the Yangtze River. At this moment, the opponent is still busy changing the president and fighting for military power. Several major factions are having a lot of fun in the internal struggle.

But before the red swept across China, northern Shaanxi trained tens of thousands of cadres through the Anti-Japanese University in advance. Therefore, every time he captured a piece of land, he could ignore the existence of the original gentry and official system in the local area and directly issued the government orders to the bottom of the entire society. His Huaiyang University had just opened, and the talents recruited by several consecutive imperial examinations were only over 200. It was not enough for him to stay in the local area, so there were no extra cadres going north with the army.

After thinking about it, the answer is actually very clear. If you judge by reason, no matter from any angle, the time for the Northern Expedition is absolutely immature. But if you take the initiative to give up this opportunity in front of you, it will inevitably seriously damage Huaiyang's military and people's hearts. After all, the righteousness recognized by Huaiyang is to "expel the Tartars". Now that the "Tartars" have turned their butts, you are reluctant to kick them from behind. Wouldn't you prove that your original slogan was not out of sincerity?

"Lord, Liu Shumi is looking for a meeting." Just as he looked forward and thought, Lian Guoxing, the platoon leader of the guard, pushed the door and walked away recently, and reported in a low voice.

"Liu Shumi, let him come in." Zhu Chongjiu's thoughts were interrupted and he couldn't help frowning, "When did I say he was not allowed to come in?"

"He, he seems to have carried a thorn on his back. Lord, have you been to the door to pick him up?" Lian Guoxing thought for a while and reminded carefully.

He is Lian Lao Hei's eldest son. He graduated from the martial arts lecture hall this year. Because of his reliable status and excellent graduation grades, he was sent to Zhu Chongjiu as a guard. Of course, he was not as afraid of his lord as others, and he dared to speak in person anything.

"Yes." Zhu Chongjiu was slightly stunned by Lian Guoxing's reminder. Then, his face was filled with anger. He sucked the bitter sea breeze and ordered in a deep voice, "Xuan, come to the door and say that Xuan Liu Bowen, the general manager of Huaiyang, entered the inner court."

"Yes." Lian Guoxing keenly felt that the atmosphere in the command cabin was not right, so he immediately raised his hand to greet the standard military salute and ran out quickly.

"Hu." Looking at his hurried back, Zhu Chongjiu exhaled again. Then, he turned around and walked back to his handsome desk, sitting in a dangerous manner, his face as cold as ice.

"The chief general manager has an order, and Liu Bowen, deputy envoy of Privy Councilor Xuan, entered the house to make a statement." After a while, Lian Guoxing's slightly nervous shout came out outside the door. Then, a rushing footsteps sounded on the deck. The curtain was lifted by the guards from outside. Liu Bowen wore a long gown and walked in with a bamboo stick with a wide and narrow bamboo stick on his back, bent down and bowed down, "My minister, Liu Bowen, deputy envoy of Privy Councilor, bow to the lord, look for the lord, Qiansui, Qiansui, Qiansui."

"Hmph." Zhu Chongjiu's face began to turn black when he saw the bamboo strip. He deliberately raised his head and did not respond to the other party. It was not until Liu Bowen, who was a standard minister, bowed to the king three times in his grandfather's week to walk down from the commander's case, pulled out the bamboo strip behind the other party, and folded it into several sections, "Now, you are satisfied, Zhu has completely become a demon butcher, and his name can stop the child from crying at night."

"I was negligent and arranged for Chen Youding to take over Quanzhou. It is indeed a big mistake. I asked my lord to punish him according to the law." Liu Bowen was very honest once, neither refuting nor begging for mercy, and bowed down and let him deal with it.

"Bad, according to the law, of course you are not wrong at all. Whoever is dispatched to occupy Quanzhou and whoever is conquered, is all within the scope of your power, the Deputy Privy Councilor. Zhu also used a seal on the order to dispatch troops and generals. After that, he made a fuss, how could he push all the responsibility on your head?, Liu, yes, you are cruel, you have made up everything, you are not afraid of leaving the name of a butcher in history." Zhu Chongjiu was furious and broke the bamboo in his hand and then.

If there weren't enough counselors in his hands, he really ordered people to press Liu Bowen on the deck and beat him hard first. This guy dared to use different ways to become a man now and really join the cabinet in the future. He still didn't know what kind of bold things he would do.

"The name of the butcher, this is a bad word for the lord." Liu Bowen took a little step back, avoiding the saliva and anger that was spraying on his face, and responded very calmly, "The one who slaughtered Quanzhou is Chen Youding, who has to do with Liu, and what about the lord? Besides, the Pu family in Quanzhou killed more than 3,000 injured soldiers from the royal family in the surname Zhao and Lianghuai. It is natural for the lord to take Chen Youding's hands to avenge Zhao Song. When the historian mentioned it, he could only praise the lord for being loyal and righteous. How could he scold the lord for being bloodthirsty?"

After saying this, he was so righteous that Zhu Chongjiu was so angry that his face turned pale, but he could not find any flaws to refute. After gritting his teeth for a while, he threw the already broken bamboo strips on Liu Bowen and shouted loudly, "You, you, I'm talking about you, I understand. You, you, since you did this, how can I still win the hearts of the people in Quanzhou in the future, and how can those maritime merchants serve? If the people lose all their hearts, Zhu will take a dead port all the way, what's the use of birds?"

In desperation, he said all the swear words, and clasped his fingers at Liu Bowen. The news that the Pu family in Quanzhou City and the other major families attached to the Pu family were massacred by Chen Youding was sent by Chen Youding last night by a special fastener from the sea. According to the memorial of Zhu Qiang, the navy commander who stayed at Quanzhou Port to receive the Pu family fleet, when Chen Youding was at the city, the families left in Quanzhou had already taken the initiative to surrender. However, Chen Youding immediately detained the leaders of the family who came to apologize and the lecturers of the Tianfang Sect. Then he rushed into the city and ordered the four gates to be closed. Overnight, Pu, Huang, Xia, You and other major families who betrayed the Song family that had betrayed the Song family and burned all the temples of the Tianfang Sect in the city.

The next morning, Zhu Qiang and Fu Youde heard the tragic news and quickly came forward to stop it. At this moment, the blood was already flowing into a river. Pu, Huang, Xia, You and other adult males in various families, regardless of the main branch, died of misfortune. All the lecturers, crazy believers of the Tianfang Sect in Quanzhou City, and more than 40 Dashi Hu Shangshu, who had close contacts with the Pu family, were also suppressed by Chen Youding overnight because of trying to raise an army to rebellion. From the main plot to the threats, all of them were corpses on the streets.

Dissatisfied with Chen Youding's indiscriminate killing innocent people, Zhu Qiang and Fu Youde immediately joined forces to block the Quanzhou port and protected the remaining maritime merchants, not allowing the Chen family army to enter Neihu to do anything wrong. At the same time, they sent a clutch to chase his lord's ship and issued a memorial to impeach Chen Youding's indiscriminate killing. When Zhu Chongjiu received a joint memorial from Zhu Qiang and Fu Youde last night, he realized that he had accidentally taken advantage of the loophole by Liu Bowen. He roared in the command cabin with his head in his mouth for a short while, but finally found that he had no way to deal with Liu Bowen.

The General Staff sent Chen Youding to take over Quanzhou was the suggestion of the General Staff. Liu Bowen, the chief of staff, gave Zhu Chongjiu the reason that Chen Youding was familiar with the local situation and the Chen family had a strong influence in the local area, which could help the Huai'an army quickly stabilize Quanzhou. Zhu Chongjiu thought that he made sense, so he simply used the seal on the order. Now, all the unstable factors in Quanzhou City were killed by Chen Youding, of course they were so stable that they could not be stable anymore. However, in such a Quanzhou, what else would Zhu Chongjiu have to do? If he lost the hearts of the local people, how could the Huai'an army gain a long-term foothold there?

"The business school run by Huaiyang Trading has also cultivated a lot of people in the past two years. With the lord's order, the lord can immediately take over Quanzhou, including all maritime trade." He was ready to deal with Zhu Chongjiu's anger. Liu Bowen looked up at his lord's eyes and added slowly, "As for the people's hearts, the lord doesn't have to worry too much. General Fu Youde is brave and good at fighting," As for the people's hearts, the lord doesn't have to worry too much. General Fu Youde is brave and good at fighting.

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lass='character'style='background-image:url(/img/1446116226241/32846786/4913933150935485572.png)'>I have always been kind and can just enter the city to clean up the mess. As long as he quickly restores order in the city and drives away Chen Youding, the killing god, the local people will definitely regard him as a Buddha of thousands of families."

"What about Chen Youding? Do you ask me to kill him or arrest him or hand him over to Yousi for trial? I really arrested him. How could the other surrendered Zhejiang Army not be sad?" Zhu Chongjiu was stunned again when he heard this. After a little thought, he knew that this method might work, but he still couldn't vent his anger. He looked at Liu Bowen's eyes and continued to ask loudly.

"Strictly rebuke the order, and then let him make meritorious service and lead troops to recover Zhang and Tingzhi." Liu Bowen smiled slightly and quickly gave an answer.

"If he had made a meritorious service to recover all parts of southern Fujian, do you think he had killed few people?" Zhu Chongjiu heard this and his heart had just become smaller and angry, and he took a step forward, looking down at Liu Bowen and asked.

"There are many clans in southern Fujian, so the lord has no time to consume them slowly." Liu Bowen smiled again, his face calmly, as if he was talking about the weather outside the cabin, not tens of thousands of lives. "If you kill them all, the place will naturally be peaceful. If you send some good-hearted civil servants to go down, the local area will be in less than three years, and it will definitely be a great rule. As for Chen Youding, even if the lord issued an order, he would not be ruthless. He is a local and does not offend all the local wealthy families. How can he win the trust of the lord?"

"This." Zhu Chongjiu's body shook, and lightning flashed in his mind. Chen Youding was a surrendered general, holding heavy troops, and his family was deeply rooted in southern Fujian. Leaving this person there was a helpless move for him, and no one could guarantee that when the main force of the Huai'an army retreated north, Chen Youding would definitely become the next Pu Shougeng. After Liu Bowen used it to kill the local area, Chen Youding completely cut off his own foundation among the people and could no longer hold troops and respect himself. The General Administration also got what he wanted and stabilized Bamin as quickly as possible.

Two birds with one stone, two birds with one stone. Facing Liu Bowen's confident smile, Zhu Chongjiu instantly found that his anger was so unsustainable. He had no time. Now what Huaiyang lacked the most is time. Compared with the possible losses caused by delays in fighter jets in the northern battlefield, the massacre in Quanzhou immediately seemed insignificant.

However, this trick was so dark and bloody, so bloody that Zhu Chongjiu saw red when he thought of it. His breath was as heavy as a mountain. He was unwilling to kill people. Even the captured Mongols and Yuan soldiers were unwilling to kill them. As time went by, he found that he had killed more and more people and became more and more cold-blooded.

Maybe this is the path to the emperor. After clenching his fists for a long time, he slowly loosened his fingers and sighed, "Well, you have the ability and make sense. Zhu can't tell you, and he can't cure you. But if this continues, what's the difference between Zhu and the founding emperor of the Mongol Yuan that year?"

"At least, after the killing, the lord brought a peaceful and prosperous era." Liu Bowen glanced at him and responded quietly, "I firmly believe that this will happen, and the lord must do the same. After all, the history of the previous dynasty must be written by the new dynasty."

Note 1: Jining Road, today's Taiyuan area.

Note 2: Aluhuitemur, after the youngest son of Ogedei destroyed Li, at the end of the Yuan Dynasty, Aluhuitemur rebelled and wrote a letter to Tuohuan Temur: The ancestors gave you the world, why did you lose most of it? Why didn’t you hold the national seal for me? Let me be the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty. Although he was defeated and killed in the end, his rebellion in the north created a long opportunity for the Red Turban Army in the South.
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