First Minister of Ming Dynasty

This kid jumped up very fast, coupled with his strong body and adequate nutrition, he looked like a calf, so he really couldn't be regarded as a child.

"Brother, can you hurry up! Today is a good day for my godfather!"

Zhang Ximeng chuckled, "It's a good day for your godfather, but why do I think you're happier than your godfather?"

Zhu Ying chuckled, "Brother, I've already told my godmother, and while my godfather is happy, ask me for a job and let me lead the army. Can you and I be unhappy?"

"Let you lead the army? Can you do it?" Zhang Ximeng asked with a frown.

Zhu Ying tensed her face, "Why not? Li Wenzhong has become a commander."

Zhang Ximeng thought for a while, "But Li Wenzhong's test scores are very good! Unlike someone who keeps counting down in class, how about this, you can lead the army if you want, no one is stopping you, get me a first-class diploma , and then I will approve you to join the army!"

Zhu Ying was stunned, let me pass the exam?

Why don't you kill me!

"Brother, can't my godfather approve it? You can't deny my godfather's order, can you?"

Zhang Ximeng chuckled, "Don't worry, I won't send the appointment documents to the lord, and even if the lord makes a special order, I don't think it's a problem to delay it for three to five years."

"You!" Zhu Ying was anxious, "Brother, I'm going to fight, not to be the number one scholar, my things are useless!"

"I know!"

Zhang Ximeng said with a smile: "If a person is in the examination room, facing things with standard answers, he will not be invincible. If he wants to go to the battlefield and deal with more complicated situations, it will be even more difficult! Even Huo Qubing, he is also well-read After that, you can control soldiers and horses."

Zhang Ximeng patted Zhu Ying on the shoulder, "If you get a good grade in the exam, just treat it as the first battle of your life!"

Zhu Ying was stunned for a long time, and could only clenched her fists and shouted loudly: "You, don't worry, I'm not only going to take the first grade exam, but also to take the No.1 exam!"

"Then you have to hurry up. After a hundred days, I wish you a smooth landing!"

Zhang Ximeng was all smiles, and went to visit Lao Zhu, preparing for a busy day.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang had invited Fang Guozhen over.The two chose a gazebo in the manor, talking and laughing happily.

"Brother Fang, I heard that your life was also very difficult in the past?"

Fang Guozhen nodded quickly, "Indeed, when I was a child, I let horses out for others, and then I worked with my family to cultivate the fields. When I was a little older, I went to smuggle salt!"

Thinking of the past, Fang Guozhen was still a little embarrassed.

Zhu Yuanzhang was much calmer, "We are not as good as you. When we were young, we herded cattle. Later, we were farmers. Later, we suffered from drought and plague. There were not many people left in our family...Brother Fang, poor people like you and us, this Where can I be satisfied in my life?"

Fang Guozhen was stunned. He didn't know how to answer. Naturally, the higher the status, the better, but when he asked himself, he didn't seem to be destined to become emperor, and that dragon chair was not something he could covet.

"Brother Fang, how about it, if you can be a hereditary prince, would you like it?"

Fang Guozhen nodded immediately without any hesitation, "I, I wish for it, but I'm afraid I won't have this blessing."

Zhu Yuanzhang smiled, "Then how about we make you a prince? The hereditary king of Yue, who will live with the country, will you follow us?"

Fang Guozhen looked at Zhu Yuanzhang stupidly, making sure he was not joking.

Suddenly, Fang Guozhen knelt down on her knees and said excitedly: "The superior is the superior, and I pay homage to the superior! There are [-] athletes and hundreds of large ships under my command. Guozhen has been wandering for half her life. She only regrets that she has not met the Ming Lord. Thanks to the superior, I will never give up. For the superior vanguard!"

Chapter 3 The Third Rise

"Get up, get up!"

Zhu Yuanzhang stretched out his big hand, like iron pliers, grabbed Fang Guozhen, lifted him abruptly, then moved his buttocks to the side, exposing half of the position, and pressed Fang Guozhen to his side again.

Lao Fang was also a man who fought at sea, with a strong body and strong muscles and bones, so he couldn't help but feel embarrassed when Lao Zhu played around like a chicken.

"Brother Fang, do you know why we named you King Yue and why we let you sit beside us?"

Fang Guozhen pondered for a while. Although he jumped repeatedly, he was definitely not stupid. In other words, a fool is not capable of repeatedly jumping sideways.

"Superior, I think the only thing that Laichen is worthy of praise is that he still has some warships, and he has some skills at sea. Besides..."

"Anything else?"

"Among the three families, when it comes to military strength, I, I am the weakest!"

"Hahaha!" Lao Zhu couldn't help laughing loudly, and patted Fang Guozhen's shoulder vigorously, "Brother Fang is indeed a smart person, so we won't hide it anymore. I will make you the King of Yue, and we can promise you A few things... First, we will give you a seal, so that you can enjoy the fief and act cheaply. Second, you will not betray us, and we will not abolish your Fang family... Both are heroes in troubled times, good guys who fought against Yuan together, we I also hope to have a friend like you, brother!"

Zhu Yuanzhang grabbed Fang Guozhen's arm and shook it vigorously for a while, "Brother Fang, what do you think?"

Fang Guozhen was quite shocked... Based on his understanding of Zhu Yuanzhang, this person is really not willing to tell lies, basically he does what he says.

Why Fang Guozhen is willing to come here is really as he said, he is not even as good as Chen Youding in terms of comprehensive strength, and he is asking Zhu Yuanzhang for food.

If Lao Zhu couldn't even tolerate him and just swallowed him, then those two people, even the people in the world, would underestimate Zhu Yuanzhang.

Among the top four in the southeast, Lao Zhu is the top leader, Zhang Shicheng is the second leader, Chen Youding is the third leader, and Fang Guozhen is the fourth... It is about the status of a little India at the end of the Yuan Dynasty. As long as he can play, the three big brothers will be more or less polite to him.

It is precisely because of his accurate understanding of his status that Fang Guozhen is very satisfied with the King of Yue. After all, even if he does his best, his height in this life will only be like this.

Even Fang Guozhen judged that this state could not last long, after all, the momentum of the Zhu family's army was too fierce.

However, Zhu Yuanzhang's statement exceeded Fang Guozhen's expectations, giving him a fief and allowing him to be hereditary. These words seemed to hide a mystery, and it was too late to understand, but it was not a bad thing after all.

Being able to sit firmly as the master of one party is also regarded as favored by God.

"Superior, Guozhen has nothing to say, I am willing to serve the superior as the master, always be loyal!"

Zhu Yuanzhang couldn't help laughing, then got up, took a nine-pronged crown from the tray behind him, turned around, came to Fang Guozhen, and said with a smile: "They prepared this hat for us. They made two. Let us Choose. We chose one for myself to wear, and I will give you the extra one. You can try it first and let them adjust it.”

When Fang Guozhen saw this exquisitely crafted nine-pronged crown, her whole body trembled, and her eyeballs straightened.

The emperor wore twelve hats, the prince nine hats, and Zhu Yuanzhang rewarded himself with one of the remaining king hats, which means it is self-evident!

He trembled and wanted to pick it up, but his eyes met Zhu Yuanzhang's, and he couldn't help lowering his head, "Thank you for the hat."

Smiling, Zhu Yuanzhang put the nine-pronged crown on Fang Guozhen's head with his own hands, and asked him to raise his head and take a closer look. He was very upright, and Lao Zhu was also very satisfied.

"Brother Fang, do you think the crown of the Han family is much more comfortable than the crown of the Mongols?"

Fang Guozhen was shocked, and hurriedly said: "The lesson from the superior is that Guozhen will never give his life to the Yuan Tartars again... Guozhen, Guozhen is willing to follow the superior, expel the barbarians, and restore China!"

This guy seemed to read Zhang Ximeng's articles a lot, and he shouted slogans very skillfully.

Zhu Yuanzhang was also happy to see him so upright, and nodded again and again.

"Very good, very good! Brother Fang, you have to take down this Nine-Handed Crown first, let them adjust it a little bit, and give it to you together with the boa robe and seal!"

Reluctantly, Fang Guozhen took off the nine-pronged crown, and when she left, she couldn't bear to peek at it twice before leaving.

Zhu Yuanzhang is in a good mood, a hat, a throne, tied to a dragon on the sea!

After figuring out Fang Guozhen, Zhu Yuanzhang's next task is to sacrifice to heaven and earth.

Also, there is no such building as the Temple of Heaven and Earth in Hangzhou, Lao Zhu just took many civil and military personnel to the temporary altar in the southern suburbs, read the sacrificial text, and then returned hastily, the whole process was very brief.

It's so short that the big guys don't feel anything, and it's over.

Although we advocate frugality, it seems not good to make such a hasty enthronement ceremony!

Just when the big guy was hesitating, Li Shanchang stood up and told the big guy, don't worry, the real key is to sacrifice to Yue Fei, and the superior has an important announcement in front of Yue Wang's grave!

Only then did the big guys understand that daring to sacrifice to heaven was just a passing scene.

In fact, this is also in line with the concept formed along the way, the heart of heaven is the heart of the people, and the will of heaven is the will of the people, so the actions of offering sacrifices to heaven and earth can naturally be simplified, and the key must fall on the hearts of the people!

Then how to win people's hearts?

The answer is imminent.

Headed by Zhu Yuanzhang, leading the so-called civil and military forces, plus Fang Guozhen, and other envoys, gathered the people of Hangzhou, scholars from all over the place, and rushed to Yue Fei's tomb together.

Sacrifice to the sage Zhu Jiajun was done once, and the last time it was Zongze from Zhenjiang, but this time it fell on Yue Fei, and the scale was more than ten times larger.

The last time it was Song Lian who read the sacrificial text. He counted the history, talked about the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, and the continuous inheritance of China, so that Zhao and Song were defeated by Yashan, and the country was cut off... and he thought that the people's hearts would never die, and his determination was unswerving, so he came to expel the Hulu and restore China the true meaning.

Song Lian asked himself, and then rewrote the article, perhaps the diction could be more beautiful, but the style and style are extremely difficult to surpass.

Because of this, Zhu Yuanzhang never dared to manipulate the manuscript of Zhu Yuanzhang's accession to the throne, and he dared not even touch it.

Such a big matter can only be done by Zhang Ximeng.

With 5000 years of history, how else can it be explained, and how can we carry on the past and usher in the future?

Everything depends on Mr. Zhang's big pen... After all, it still depends on Zhang Ximeng.

Sure enough, Zhang Ximeng lived up to expectations, wrote this article and handed it to Lao Zhu. Other outsiders had no chance to know the details, so he thought it would be good to let Lao Zhu read it in public.

Who knew that after meeting Fang Guozhen, Zhu Yuanzhang told Zhang Ximeng on the way to sacrifice to heaven, and he still read this article, and Lao Zhu just announced the specific strategies.

Zhang Ximeng was stunned. He wrote the article and asked him to read it. It was not too difficult, and it didn't have much impact on the whole process.

The only problem is that this imperial edict for ascension to the throne has an unusual status.

In future generations, no matter what, you have to recite and silently write the full text.

Didn't you see the old man Song Lian read it once, and he was so grateful and engraved in his heart!

I think this is because Lao Zhu wants to save the opportunity to show off to himself.

In the end Zhang Ximeng had nothing to say, he could only wear a big red robe, and in front of everyone's attention, strode proudly to Yue Fei's tomb.

"Since the Three Emperors and Five Emperors, the rise of China, the general trend of the world, the continuous division and integration, carefully sort out the context, above the dynasty, there are still two ups and downs, each for more than a thousand years..."

Zhang Ximeng's opening shocked many people.

It's really magnificent. The dynasties of the past dynasties have changed, and the long-term must be reunited and the long-term must be divided. It is a well-known thing, but Zhang Ximeng said that there are two more ups and downs above the dynasties. Let's see how you surpass the dynasties. How to interpret history?

"In ancient times, floods raged, thousands of miles of Yellow River, people's livelihood was difficult, and the tribes of China could not protect themselves. Therefore, some sages came forward to gather the power of all people to control the floods and form a country. This is the beginning of the Xia Dynasty..." Qiang Sacrifice reading sacrifice

The memory of the great flood is something shared by almost every source of civilization.It seems that thousands of years ago, it rained heavily all over the world, and the floods tested everyone.

At this time, in Eastern Shenzhou, Dayu took up his ax and led the people to split the mountains and dredge the rivers, and finally subdued the flood.

Without yielding or praying to the gods for help, we are relying on ourselves to tame the torrent and turn the land of the Central Plains into a land of China suitable for people to live and multiply.

Since then, the land of China has shown a different style of painting from other places... After the Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties, the enfeoffment system is coming to an end, and the Spring and Autumn and Warring States are always fighting. Where should the world go?

At this moment, that man stood up!

"The books are written in the same way, the cars are on the same track, and the world is unified... The merits of the first emperor will last for thousands of years. The Qin and Han Dynasties achieved a unified pattern. All the way, until the end of the Song Dynasty, there was another ups and downs."

Hearing this, the scholars present have already begun to nod.

Especially Song Lian's eyes brightened.

Because the last sacrificial article mentioned that after Zhao and Song Dynasties, the way for scholar-bureaucrats and kings to share the world has come to an end.

But how to look at it, it seems that it has not been made clear.

This time Zhang Ximeng made up for it.

From Dayu's flood control to the Spring and Autumn and Warring States period, it was almost 2000 years. Zhang Ximeng summarized it as the first ups and downs, that is, the period when the Chinese kingdoms gradually expanded outwards and occupied the land of East Asia.

Since it is easier to open up outside, the system of enfeoffment came into being.

But in the Warring States period, the land that could be divided was gone, and countries began to roll up, and mergers appeared. The so-called rule of three generations, by this time, also came to an end.

The second ups and downs started with Qin Shihuang's opening up of a unified pattern, which was perfected by the Qin and Han Dynasties, and reached a peak in the Tang Dynasty. With the Anshi Rebellion, this pattern went into decline, until the Mongols went south and the Song Dynasty perished. Thousands of hundreds of years have completed a reincarnation.

"Yuan court is cruel, the people are angry, the world is turbulent, and heroes rise together... This is the third rise of China. The core of this rise is that the king is no longer just ordered by the sky, but also upholds the hearts of the people, governs the world, and nurtures the people. , the monarch and the people are of one heart, and the upper and lower are of one mind..."

"Therefore, China will win! All peoples will win!"

Chapter 3 and six canonized

Zhang Ximeng was dressed in a red official uniform, as bright as blood, with a gleaming crown on his head and a delicate and gentle jade belt around his waist. He stood in the wind, with the tomb of King Yue behind him and thousands of soldiers and civilians in front of him.

After a sacrificial text came down, the cadence was up and down, and the sound was loud!

The pinnacle of life that all literati in the past had longed for was easily achieved by this young man in his twenties.

Zhang Ximeng, with fluttering sash and radiant spirit, has become the idol of almost all literati.

There is really no way not to be envious.

You must know that what the literati have always hoped for is to become the emperor's teacher, to teach a sage and hero, and to record it in the annals of history in the name of the emperor's teacher, which is more exciting than being the emperor himself.

This is what it means to be born as a tutor and die as a posthumous posthumous author.

But to Zhang Ximeng, this was nothing.

He not only taught an excellent king, but even started an era.

The discussion about the previous two ups and downs is enough to lead the general trend of the millennium... The Xia, Shang and Zhou dynasties adopted the method of enfeoffment to expand the territory and build the foundation of China.