First Minister of Ming Dynasty

Is it him?

Although the words are good, they always feel a little funny when they come out of Zhao Guangyi's mouth... Especially the show operation related to the Zhao family, it is almost the opposite of these sixteen words.

As a result, when many people mentioned these sixteen words, they could only think of the Hongwu Emperor who was decisive and decisive, and ruled officials with an iron fist!

Lao Zhu has been practicing these sixteen words all his life. He used the bloody heads of 10,000+ officials to warn everyone, whoever dares not to take the common people seriously, we will not take you seriously!

Under Zhu Yuanzhang's rule, the lives of ordinary people may not be the best in ancient times, but the lives of officials are definitely the most miserable.Even in the world of war and strife, there will not be such a high loss rate.

At this time, Zhang Ximeng dedicated these sixteen words to Lao Zhu, and it hit Zhu Yuanzhang's heart all at once.

He read it silently several times before he said with a smile: "Mr. Zhang, we accept this gift. You are not only giving us a gift, but also a wake-up call for all the officials! This gift is very good and very timely!"

Zhang Ximeng smiled, "Don't be too busy, my lord, let Rong Chen explain a few words..." Zhang Ximeng put his eyes on Zhu Sheng, and said with a smile: "Mr. Fenglin, you just revealed the origin of these sixteen characters, I would like to ask you You, these sixteen words, do they make sense?"

Zhu Sheng chuckled, "This is a question for Zhang Xiang to test the old man. Although I also despise Song Taizong, these sixteen words are still good. He advocated it and spread it widely. It can be counted as his achievements."

Zhang Ximeng nodded, "That's right, that's what I thought at first too... But I later found out that these words may not be true, the mistake lies in these four words, the common people are easy to abuse..."

Zhang Ximeng turned his head suddenly, looked at Zhu Yuanzhang, and said loudly, "My lord, do you think the servants are easy to abuse?"

Lao Zhu was startled suddenly, and suddenly came to his senses, he couldn't help but said: "Sure enough, we awakened the dreamer with one word... If the people are easy to abuse, how can there be today's Red Scarf Army uprising, how can there be Huaxia Wu Kingdom? A few years ago, we, and our brothers, were not subordinates? If the subordinates were really easy to abuse, we should all shut our doors at home and be a mourner and starve to death. We must not rise up and seize the southeast half wall!"

Zhu Yuanzhang's words were so loud that people couldn't help being shocked.

Sure enough, he never forgot his original aspirations, and compared with the civil and military officials who gradually regarded themselves as masters, he was more than a few realms higher!

Zhang Ximeng had expected this a long time ago, and he smiled slightly, "My lord, the common people are easily abused. This is Zhao Guangyi's pattern. In his eyes, the common people are not worth mentioning after all, as long as they are worthy of the heavens. But in Tang Taizong's place, But water can carry a boat and overturn it. The hearts of the people are like water, and the king is like a boat. Only when the boat and water cooperate can we sail thousands of miles. Such a vision is much better than that of Zhao Guangyi! The difference between the Han and Tang Dynasties may lie in this."

Everyone kept nodding their heads. Zhang Ximeng's speech was like farting from a god, it was extraordinary!

But Zhu Sheng said: "Zhang Xiang, a virtuous monarch and famous minister in the early Tang Dynasty, took Xunzi's famous saying and concluded that the emperor and the people are like boats and waters. This is already an extremely incisive statement. I really want to know, can Zhang Xiang go to the next level? "

Zhang Ximeng cupped his hands again and again, "Mr. Fenglin put me on the fire, but I'm going to dare to show my humble opinion."

"The state of Qin swept Liuhe, how powerful it is! The death of Qin Dynasty II was as fast as a meteor... The martial arts of the Han Dynasty were the most prosperous in history, but they were finally defeated by the wrath of the people. Green forests, red eyebrows, and yellow scarves, the 400-year-old Han Dynasty , was defeated at the hands of the common people. In the prosperous Tang Dynasty, all nations came to court, but in the end they were defeated at the hands of Huang Chao. In 300 years, the world was blown away by rain and wind."

Zhang Ximeng talked eloquently, which attracted all eyes.

"Zhao Song Jiangshan thought that raising scholars would last a long time. Little did they know that since Zhao Song established the country, the people changed constantly. Fang La and Yang Yao were all ordinary people. It became a dilapidated house, kicked from the outside, and then fell down."

"Looking at today's Great Yuan Dynasty, it seems even more obvious! The Golden Family has swept the world, destroyed countless countries, and its territory is vast, far surpassing previous dynasties. The iron cavalry is invincible. Such a powerful Great Yuan Dynasty was finally defeated by the people! Peng Yingyu With the body of a monk, he travels north and south, recruits heroes, gathers people's hearts... Once he makes trouble, half of his body will be corrupted, with such power, who dares to underestimate this gentleman?"

When Zhang Ximeng mentioned Monk Peng, Ding Pulang, who was in the crowd, suddenly widened his eyes and trembled unconsciously.

Zhang Xiang, Zhang Xiang, you really are amazing!

Just affirm these few words of Master Peng to you, and I will die without regret.

Zheng Yuchun was equally astonished. One of his proposals was brought to this point by Zhang Ximeng. What else could he do except admire him!

At this moment, Zhang Ximeng called the soldiers and turned the two steles over.

It turns out that there are also words on the back, the same [-] characters...

Every grain and millet is the power of the people.When you are happy and angry, people are hard to bully!

Chapter 338 Dengwen Drum

Gathering people's hearts, condensing strength, uniting with one mind... This is the core key to Zhu's army's rapid development and victory over the enemy.

Facing the army of the Yuan court, Zhang Ximeng came up with a plan to expel the Hulu and restore China, and successfully united Zhu Sheng, Liu Ji, Song Lian and others.

Coupled with the support of the people won by relying on the idea of ​​evenly dividing the land, it constitutes the basic situation of Zhu's army.

The next step is to make Zhu's army bigger and stronger. In addition to using troops abroad, there must be propaganda and competition to win more hearts.

Jiangxi and Huguang are both areas where the Peng Party is active. Although Monk Peng died in battle, his reputation still survives.Members of Peng Dang still occupy a place in Tianwan.

What should I do in this article so that these people can be successfully incorporated into the Zhu family's system, and let them be convinced to fight to the end for Zhu's army...Granting land and giving various treatments is the material basis, and explaining the truth thoroughly is this The key to the heart.

Zhang Ximeng went to the temple, talked a lot with the old man, and watched the people offering sacrifices, the incense was endless... He suddenly understood one thing, in fact, it is difficult to blame quite a lot of people, especially historical figures.Throughout thousands of years of history, how many perfect characters are there?

It can't be that only impeccable people can become heroes, right?

It is even said that some people are not heroes, and should not even be regarded as positive figures, but when they make a certain decision, they should be recognized...

Qin had tyranny, so Chen Sheng and Wu Guang rose up.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, the officials were chaotic, the emperor was fatuous, and eunuchs were rampant, so there was the Yellow Turban Uprising.

What do you think of people like Zhang Jiao?

Of course their Taoism is fake, and their means of gathering the people may not be so appropriate... But at that juncture, they stood up and launched a struggle. After all, they did not stand still. Shouldn't they be praised?

Even from this, we can stand on a more objective standpoint and watch Wu Mourning the Heavenly King... Hu people caused chaos in the Central Plains and killed wantonly, especially the latter Zhao Shihu. , cutting tongue and disembowelment, crushing bones and raising ashes, he is indeed the king of animals.

The six barbarians inside and outside, who dare to be called soldiers, beheaded!

You can treat the people like nothing, so why can't I slaughter bloody and retaliate crazily... At the moment of life and death, between life and death, it is better to draw a knife at each other than to sit and wait for death.

All he does is beg for a living!

As for right and wrong, future generations will comment.

All in all, future generations, facing iron hoof massacres, broken mountains and rivers, life and death... in the end, they cannot surrender to the enemy and obey willingly.Pick up the long knife, hold the stick tightly, every breath, you have to fight for a point, every drop of blood, you have to fight.

No matter what, someone must rise up and fight back...Only by fighting, only by being unyielding, can one be qualified to discuss whether the methods are good or bad, and the measures are right or wrong, so as to learn from experience, regardless of success or failure, it will be a valuable asset for future generations.

But if no one dares to resist, one by one bows their knees and surrenders, obeying and accepting their fate...the country will be destroyed, history will be cut off, civilization will be cut off, and there will be no chance to reflect on history.

The article has reached this point, and Zhang Ximeng has grasped the key essence.

Fang La relied on the Manichaeism to revolt, Peng Yingyu preached that Maitreya was born, and Han Shantong preached that King Ming was reborn... The methods are not very clever, and the intentions are not very lofty. Even their actions are very different from what they said, and they are indeed not heroes. hero.

But in the face of a world where starvation is everywhere and there is no way to survive... what can we do?

Never resigned, never sit still, pick up a knife and gun, go to fight, to fight.

To bow your head is 100% despair, to fight with your head up, and there is still such a glimmer of hope... If you can leave your name in the annals of history for future generations to judge, you have already succeeded.

After all, more people have turned into bones on the side of the road, and become the belly of wild beasts, like wormwood, silently...

Zhang Ximeng felt that he seemed to understand something, why this civilization has a long history, why it can last forever... because everyone has an unyielding flame in their hearts.

No one is the child of destiny, but in the face of crisis after crisis, life and death again and again, countless people ignited their own flames and radiated their own light... Ninety-nine percent of them died on the road of resistance. Only the lucky few can make it to the end, in despair, out of a rough road.

And just such a few lucky ones are enough to bring back the declining national fortune, allowing this ancient ethnic group to continue to survive, to be reborn from Nirvana, and to be immortal...

Zhang Ximeng really wanted to wave a big brush and write all these things on paper, but he didn't do it after all. After repeated deliberation, Zhang Ximeng changed his angle.

From the perspective of the emperors of the past dynasties, he looked at the peasant uprisings of mountains and tsunamis, and faced the endless resistance... There are brilliant ones and clumsy ones. Some people destroyed a dynasty, and some people didn't even leave the village. Was sacked.

But in the final analysis, who can say that the people are easy to abuse?

Who can underestimate these grassroots people?

Your salary, your salary, the people's fat and people's ointment.The people are easy to abuse, but the heavens are hard to bully!

What is so hard to bully God?

The sky has never had eyes, does not distinguish between the good and the foolish, and does not distinguish between the loyal and the evil, what a pity!

The people's hearts that can't be bullied are the common people like ants.

Every grain and millet is the power of the people.When you are happy and angry, people are hard to bully!

Looking at the sixteen characters revised by Zhang Ximeng, it is indeed much more advanced.

The food in the mouth and the clothes on the body are all from the people.

All the people in the world are angry that the Yangtze River roars, and they are happy that the Yellow River is clear.

Responding to the sky and responding to people, respecting people's hearts, is the foundation of a country!

"Your Majesty, the old minister thinks that every yamen should put up such a stele to warn the officials and remind future generations!"

Zhu Sheng took the lead in proposing.

Soon several officials stood up and expressed their approval.

Surprisingly, Zhu Yuanzhang stood in front of the stele, looked at these words, and did not agree immediately, but frowned thoughtfully.

Doesn't Zhu Yuanzhang like these sixteen characters?

After such a long time, it was the first time that Lao Zhu rejected Zhang Ximeng's suggestion.

Could it be that the King of Wu wants to rule the world, so he can't stand these harsh words?

The big guys looked at each other, terrified, held their breath and concentrated, not daring to make any noise.

Just when the big guy was about to suffocate, Zhu Yuanzhang finally spoke.

"Mr. Zhang, we think there are two words that are not good."

Zhang Ximeng was taken aback, and hurriedly bowed and said, "Please tell me clearly, my lord."

Old Zhu paused, and said with a smile: "It's not bad, it's because you have reservations, it's not convenient to write it out...Let us change it for you!"

As he said that, Lao Zhu stretched out his hand and shouted loudly: "Take the pen and ink!"

Guo Ying agreed, and quickly delivered a large brush to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Old Zhu strode proudly, arrived in front of the stele, looked and looked, suddenly moved his pen, and wrote the word "rise and fall" instead of the word "happiness and anger"!

In an instant, the sixteen words became: every grain and every millet, all are the power of the people.Prosperity and decline, people's hearts are hard to bully!

After finishing writing, Lao Zhu laughed loudly, "The destiny is the hearts of the people, and the hearts of the people will rise and fall. The Yuan court was defeated because of losing the hearts of the people, and we thrive by gathering the hearts of the people! In this way, these sixteen characters should not only be placed in each yamen Before now, including our palace, we also need a stone tablet like this."

Zhang Ximeng was startled, and immediately said: "Master Shengming!"

Zhu Sheng and Wang Guangyang also hurriedly echoed, "Sage Master!"

Afterwards, the voice of Shengming was heard endlessly.

Even Ding Pulang and Fu Youde were convinced.

Not afraid of not knowing the goods, but afraid of comparing goods.

Zhu Yuanzhang's magnanimity and pattern are really not comparable to those of Chen Youliang.

After following him, I feel that my heart is open and my face is radiant.Be worthy of ancestors, and be worthy of future generations.Let's do the right thing, be confident, and move forward!

Facing the sound of praise, Lao Zhu remained calm.

"We've said it, but we can't say whether it can be done. The simplest one, if we live in the palace, we can't see the people, can't hear what they think... these sixteen words, we can't say it." It's just empty talk. When we were in Chuzhou, we would find time to meet the people. If there was anything, we could come to us. But in recent years, our status has become higher and higher, and the territory has become bigger and bigger. The people around us There are more and more... I don’t know how long, I haven’t heard the voices of the people, tell me, what should I do?”

Old Zhu looked at Zhang Ximeng, but found that Zhang Ximeng was also pondering... At this time, Zhu Sheng said: "Your Majesty, there is a record in the Zhou Rites: The road is built outside the door of the big bedroom, waiting for the order of the poor." "Tang Huiyao" records that in the fifth year of Xianqing, there were people who complained about their injustices and complained in the court. The emperor ordered Dengwen drums to be installed in the eastern capital. The same is true in Xijing. Even the Yuan court also has regulations: all matters go to Taiwan, and the province appeals. If the law is absolutely injustice, Xu Yi will go to the Drum Academy and beat the drums to hear it."

Zhu Shengdao: "The superior can set up the Dengwen Drum outside the palace. If the people have grievances, they can beat the drum to express their grievances, and the superior will handle it personally."

Zhu Yuanzhang nodded his head when he heard it, but after all he felt almost meaningless.

"My lord, Dengwen Drum is only dealing with grievances. I think if there are some decrees to be implemented, you can invite the relevant people to Dengwen Drum Courtyard. My lord can ask at any time and listen to their opinions on various decrees. If there are mistakes, Correct it in time so that it will not cause serious trouble.”

Hearing Zhang Ximeng's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang finally showed a satisfied smile on his face.

"That's good! Let's do it like this! We can't just inherit what we already have, we have to innovate and do better!"

Lao Zhu's words really won people's hearts.

Those Tianwan soldiers who followed Ding Pulang and Fu Youde to seek refuge, the old Peng Party, were all grateful after knowing these things.

"There are farms, clothing, fair taxation, and grievances, and you can appeal to the higher authorities... Even the bliss and great harmony that Patriarch Peng said back then may not be like this!"

Ding Pulang sighed sincerely, and Fu Youde was also filled with emotion, "I have no hesitation after seeing the superior. No wonder a sage like Zhang Xiang is willing to assist. He really looks like an emperor and has a heart for the common people! It's amazing!"

Ding Pulang thought about it carefully, and then said solemnly: "I plan to write letters to Senior Brother Zou and Senior Brother Zhao to persuade them to abandon the dark and turn to the Ming. Chen Youliang has already claimed to be the King of Han, and he will definitely become the Emperor sooner or later. He is narrow-minded. Slaughter, it is better to surrender as soon as possible!"

Fu Youde was also moved, but Liu Futong's subordinates were still in the Northern Expedition, so is it appropriate to dig into the wall like this?

Chapter 339 Give You a White Hat

After Zhu Yuanzhang stationed his army in Tongling, he immediately dispatched Chang Yuchun to lead three battalions of soldiers and horses to Chizhou.At the same time, the naval fleet was mobilized to go upstream against the current, posing a posture of advancing both land and water, and the soldiers pointed at Anqing.

But Zhu Yuanzhang did not take the initiative to launch an offensive, at best it could only be regarded as an active defense.

One of the most fundamental reasons is the fear of Chen Youliang's strength.

"Superior, we follow Patriarch Peng, preached and trained soldiers for decades, accumulated countless, powerful soldiers... Now in the hands of Chen Youliang, there are at least 40 soldiers in the navy and army."

Hearing this amount, Zhu Yuanzhang's face was very ugly.

Zhu Sheng couldn't help but said: "Is there really so many? There is no imaginary number?"