Daming: I asked you to hang yourself, but I didn’t ask you to rebuild the Ming Dynasty

Zhu Youjian continued: "Instruct Xiangyang to continue to maintain pressure on Yuan Zongdi!"

He waved his hand and let Wang Chengen go.

Zhu Youjian raised his head and looked at the beams on the roof where the bark had not been cut off, and remained silent for a long time.

As a monarch, I don’t have to worry about the carved beams and painted pillars when I’m in camp. The walls are so rough that I don’t even paint them, and the beams don’t even get repaired...

Some people really don’t know what monarchy is!

To put it bluntly, although he inherited the identity of Chongzhen, how far is he from the self-made emperor?

His situation was even worse than when Taizu raised an army!

At the time of Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng suddenly rose up when the Red Scarf Army was at its lowest point, and mobilized Tuotuo to lead all the troops to attack Gaoyou. Just when Tuotuo was jealous of Emperor Yuan, the Yuan army was unstable.

Zhang Shicheng suddenly rose up and defeated a million-dollar army!

Since then, the Yuan army has completely lost the ability to counterattack.

It can be said that Zhu Yuanzhang faced a group of warlords and did not have powerful government troops.

And he...

Li Zicheng mobilized millions of troops and unified most of Jiangbei...

Jiangnan established itself as the emperor, and the gentry became autonomous...

Sichuan was harmed by Zhang Xianzhong, but there is still no news...

The area around the three towns of Wuchang was occupied by the warlord Zuo Liangyu...

The world is so big, how can there be any gentry to support him?

What's more, there are Tatars in the north who are eyeing us!

In such a critical situation, he took all of Nanyang!

He has never relied on the gentry!

It all depends on circling around dangerous situations and dancing on a sharp knife.

Speaking of power...

When escaping from the capital, he directly followed Ling Yiqu and his group and fled from the sewers to Tianjin. Wouldn't it be safer and faster to start a business?

That’s the foundation of tens of thousands of people!

They are all strong!

With those loyal servants, wouldn't it be faster for him to start trouble?

However, for the sake of the overall situation, he can't!

Even though those ministers were all loyal ministers, they were all patriots who died for their country in history.

However, once the imperial court is established with them as the core...

In the end, it was nothing more than establishing a new group of gentry...

Not useful to his plans!

In order to avoid such an ending, he fled the capital alone.

First, he took a few hundred people to annex part of the Chuang army, then used this army as the basis to absorb the Chuang army, neutralized the remnants of the Ming army with Baoding, and then expanded the number of refugees...

The original Ming army and the original Chuang army, and the refugees who had received his great grace for survival, restrained each other.

In today's Chongzhen Dynasty, where is the situation where one faction still dominates?

He can mobilize the entire army with just one word!

In today's Ming Dynasty's army, no one can mobilize a single soldier without his approval!

How powerful is this?

Don't look at the fact that the Ming Dynasty's territory is only two and a half!

However, with the Ming Dynasty working together, the army moving like an arm, and the advanced experience in mind, the potential of the Ming Dynasty can be said to be the best in the world!

And this group of fools couldn't see the situation clearly and tried to force him to change his policy...

Zhu Youjian tightened his grip on the flintlock gun in his arms.

Do you really think that I am a good man and a faithful man who will not kill anyone?

……

Liu Tichun, wearing snow-white armor with a clatter, walked in boldly.

Wearing dozens of kilograms of heavy armor, Old Liu, with a strong back and a strong back, bowed down and said:

"Your Majesty, General Li's department has been fully prepared, and I have also prepared artillery."

Zhu Youjian stood up and raised his fingers into the shadows.

Fang Zhenghua walked out with a long sword in his hand.

Zhu Youjian looked at Wang Chengen: "Big companion, you go to the Xiangyang camp and take charge. Lao Fang, you stay with me."

Zhu Youjian raised his hand and let Fang Zhenghua hang the sword on his waist before stepping out.

……

Night has enveloped the earth, and a group of thousands of soldiers and horses, holding torches, marched northeastward throughout the night.

This official road leads to the east of Guanghua City...

At the third watch, Zhu Youjian and his party rushed to Menglou.

This place has a long history and is related to Mencius, a great scholar in the pre-Qin Dynasty.

At that time, Confucius' master and apprentice came to seek an official position from Ye Gong, one of the three nobles of Chu State.

Ye Gong asked Zilu about Confucius's character and wanted to investigate clearly.

This move made Confucius leave a famous saying through the ages: "The female Xi Bu said: 'He is a human being who forgets to eat when he is angry, forgets when he is happy, and does not know that old age is coming."

Ye Gong repaired water conservancy, improved people's livelihood, and solved the problem of people relying on the sky for food.

In the view of Confucius, who devoted his life to restoring the well-field system, this was undesirable.

(Ye Gong’s method was to open up wasteland, build canals, and turn wasteland into fertile fields; the well field system is a square tic-tac-toe grid, with the middle block belonging to the monarch and the surrounding areas belonging to the subjects and common people.)

The genealogy of the Ye family, "The Biography of Zhu Liang Gong, the First Ancestor", records such a story:

When Ye Gong killed Ye, in order to overcome the drought, he determined to build the east and west pis (water canals).

The water from Fangcheng Mountain is injected into the west Pipi, and the water from the Li River is diverted from the East Pipi to store water for irrigation of fields to benefit farmers and mulberry trees.

In order to plan the construction, Ye Gong drew huge diagrams of the canal network and water system on the wall.

One day, a visitor mistook the water system diagram on the wall for a picture of dancing dragons, and said without hesitation:

"People say Mr. Ye is fond of dragons, but I don't think Mr. Ye is really fond of dragons."

Ye Gong asked why, and the guest replied:

"The wind follows the tiger, and the clouds follow the dragon. There are only dragons in the picture but no clouds, so we know it."

Ye Gong smiled and said: "I just want to lead the dragon out of the water, not to fly into the clouds and mist."

The guest asked: "What does it mean to draw the dragon out of the water?"

Ye Gong said: "Dig a canal to attract the dragon, and the dragon will emerge from the water."

The guest asked again: "Can dragons really lead to water?"

Ye Gong said: "If you lead less, you will be better; if you lead more, you will be afraid."

The guest asked the reason again, and Ye Gong explained: "To lure a dragon requires thousands of labors and tens of thousands of dendrobium, so we must be cautious."

……

Ye Gong is the ancestor of the surname Ye. If the incident recorded in the genealogy of the surname Ye is true, then this guest is probably Confucius, who was kept secret by the Venerable.

As for Ye Gong's love for dragons, it is understandable - it is nothing more than a debate between "man will conquer nature" or "man will follow nature".

Combining Confucius's political views and Ye Gong's policy...

This incident recorded in the genealogy of the surname Ye is very likely to be true.

……

Confucius was unable to seek an official position. Xunzi described Ye Gong like this, who could travel across the mountains to build canals to divert water, fight on horseback, and rush to kill in a chariot:

"Ye Gongzi is tall, small and short, and his actions are not as good as his clothes."

At this time, Confucius' disparagement of Ye Gong focused on his body shape, saying that he was thin and short, as if he could be weighed down by his clothes.

In the Spring and Autumn Period, nobles had to ride in cars to fight. How could Mr. Ye be so thin and short?

(This - there are pre-Qin chariots unearthed. If you check the dimensions yourself, you can calculate Ye Gong's height...)

Until this time, Confucian scholars still did not discredit Ye Gong's achievements.

Xunzi said this later: "The old man does not try to take advantage of his strengths, does not seize the power, and does not underestimate his power..."

……

When Confucianism came to be the dominant sect, the great scholar Liu Xiang created an allusion about Ye Gong loving dragons.

At this point, Ye Gong has been completely defined as a ignorant and corrupt official.

From the appearance and figure of a black person, to the moral character of a black person...

The poisonous mouth of the Confucian scholar is evident!

……