Chapter 9 9. Jiangzhou is the capital, and Chen Youliang is called the King of Han

Chen Youliang, who was rewarded for killing Ni Wenjun, was not satisfied.Ni Wenjun's failure and fate did not frighten him, but inspired him.Chen Youliang is a fisherman. When he was young, he was discriminated against because of poverty and low status. After studying hard, he worked as a clerical officer in the state government, and he had a decent job.And this job is not easy to do, not satisfactory.Soon, Chen Youliang, who had a strong sense of self-esteem, resigned. After resigning, he went home and became a fisherman.Being a fisherman was not his ideal. He was observing the situation. His experience in the government made him understand the decline and decay of the Yuan Dynasty, and the prestige of the rebel army attracted him.To change his destiny, Chen Youliang knows that for a person of humble origin like him, only by relying on his own hard work and hard work, means and wisdom can he win the bargaining chip to be respected and obtain the power and status he wants.After some thinking, Chen Youliang led a group of fishermen to defect to Xu Shouhui's rebel army in Qishui.Chen Youliang used all his strategies to climb up, performed well in the battle, and improved quickly.

At this time, not long after Ni Wenjun's plan was defeated and died, Chen Youliang, who was an official of Pingzhang, was still Marshal Madu of Tianwan Kingdom.He has about 400,000 troops. The other two are Ming Yuzhen and Xu Shouhui's cousin Xu Shouwu. Their respective strength is only about 100,000. Chen Youliang has become the most powerful marshal of Tianwan Kingdom.At this time, Chen Youliang can be regarded as one man under one man and more than ten thousand men. He has such a powerful military force and has an important political status.However, human desires are often unsatisfactory and will continue to expand. Chen Youliang's desire for power becomes stronger with the increase of power.

In Chen Youliang's mind, the large tracts of land in Tianwan Kingdom were conquered by himself. Thinking about the achievements in the past two years, it is really amazing: Anqing, Chizhou, Longxing (now Nanchang, Jiangxi), Ruizhou (now Gao'an, Jiangxi) ), Shaowu, Ji'an, Fuzhou, Ganzhou, Xinzhou (now Shangrao, Jiangxi), and Xiangyang, etc., floated in Chen Youliang's mind.Such a great achievement has already allowed him to conquer many courtiers in the Tianwan Kingdom, and even the emperor Xu Shouhui gradually gave him three points.And Chen Youliang's cleverness in the battle is that although he understood that the rebels were relying on poor peasants, he did not attack or even search for landlords and wealthy businessmen like many generals did. Instead, he asked these people to cooperate with him in an arrogant manner. Those who are rich are naturally willing to condescend to beg for mercy when they see that they can save their lives and some of their property.

This is because Chen Youliang was bullied by others when he was a child. On the other hand, Chen Youliang has long-term plans.Having been in the army for so long, Chen Youliang is good at observation and sophisticated. He understands the psychology of the peasant army and the weaknesses of peasant generals.It is good to rely on peasants to achieve a great cause, but peasants are illiterate, do not know how to think, and are often reckless, so we still have to unite with those people of insight.At the same time, Chen Youliang also paid great attention to attracting Yuan Dynasty officials to join the rebel army.Chen Youliang tried his best to win over people like Huang Zhao, Shangshu of the Ministry of War of the Yuan Dynasty, and Xie Guan, a Jinshi, and they played a very important role in his development.

After the Ni Wenjun incident, Chen Youliang planned more carefully how to replace Xu Shouhui.The reason for the replacement was that Chen Youliang knew that he had to use facts to convince everyone, not just get rid of Xu Shouhui.Therefore, Chen Youliang's plan has a long front and a wide scope.The first thing he needs to do is to expand his prestige. Now all the generals are convinced by him, and the civil servants are a bit lofty, and they are not willing to associate with him. His first goal is to win the hearts of the civil servants and let him Those people obediently serve themselves.Chen Youliang's second plan was to get rid of Xu Shouhui's confidantes, and bring the 200,000 troops in Xu Shouhui's hands to his own banner, so that Xu Shouhui was just a nominal emperor, and it would not be difficult to replace him as emperor.

Chen Youliang began to implement the first step of the plan.From Chen Youliang's point of view, literati don't really have much talent, they just like to write and comment, and it's easy to win them over by giving them some benefits.To subdue these people, you must first create troubles, make these people dissatisfied with Xu Shouhui, and then take the opportunity to create a split, to win over those who can be won over, and to drive out ideas that cannot be won over from the power center. On this day, Xu Shouhui announced that he would move the capital to Longxing. In fact, there had been rumors that the emperor would move the capital, but no substantive discussions had been made.Hearing this news, some people were very surprised, some people were very calm. It seems that there was a discussion long ago. Chen Youliang was neither surprised nor calm. He had his own plan. Redistribution of military power.Chen Youliang understood that the move of the capital had to be prevented no matter what. This was not only a measure to preserve his strength, but also an opportunity to prove his prestige.Chen Youliang did not oppose Xu Shouhui's proposal face to face. After retiring from the court, Chen Youliang began to take action.He united a large number of military generals to oppose the move of the capital, and at the same time wooed several civil servants who had objections to the move of the capital.In this way, Chen Youliang has succeeded in this matter, and he has more confidence in himself.

After proving his reputation and strength, Chen Youliang began to plan how to get rid of Zhao Pusheng.Because Zhao Pusheng is Xu Shouhui's confidant and holds important military power in Tianwan Kingdom, it is impossible to win over this person. If you want to become emperor smoothly, getting rid of this person is the safest way.Although Chen Youliang could find an excuse to kill Zhao Pusheng directly, but for future development considerations, Chen Youliang decided to frame him. In the rebel army, the most hated thing is mutiny.Chen Youliang used this trick.He asked his confidant to write to Zhu Yuanzhang under the name of Zhao Pusheng, sincerely stating how the Tianwan Kingdom was in chaos and had no place to stand, and asked Zhu Yuanzhang to take him in, implying that he wanted to take refuge in Zhu Yuanzhang.Zhu Yuanzhang received this letter, regardless of whether it was true or false, he had already heard that Tianwan's domestic division was serious.At this time, he couldn't control so much. For him, the more dispersed and weaker the surrounding forces were, the better, so he immediately sent people to Hanyang, preparing to make the forces of Tianwan Kingdom more dispersed.And Chen Youliang was secretly investigating and observing, and even sent someone to secretly contact the person sent by Zhu Yuanzhang.It turned out that Zhu Yuanzhang had people come to bribe Zhao Pusheng's followers, and spread the news that Zhao Pusheng was going to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang in the city. This news was spread more fiercely by Chen Youliang's people than Zhu Yuanzhang's spies.

On this day, Chen Youliang saw that there were all witnesses and material evidence, and decided to take action. However, Chen Youliang did not personally expose Zhao Pusheng's "rebellion" to Xu Shouhui, but colluded with other officials to let others expose it, and he came to end it. In the early court, only one official reported to Xu Shouhui that some soldiers in the city had rebelled, while another official insinuated that the rebellious person was Zhao Pusheng.When Xu Shouhui didn't know how to judge for a while, Chen Youliang said solemnly: "Your Majesty, I guarantee your personality. General Zhao is loyal to the Emperor, and he has lived and died for the Tianwan Kingdom. He has absolutely no intention of rebellion."

Hearing this, Xu Shouhui felt a little better. He couldn't believe that the loyal Zhao Pusheng who had followed him for many years would betray him. As soon as Chen Youliang finished speaking, another official stood up and glanced at Chen Youliang, as if disdainful: "Of course Marshal Chen has a heart for General Zhao, and you all know that you have a good relationship in private. But now the witnesses and physical evidence They're all here, everyone can't believe it, take someone with you." Several soldiers came in escorting a man, who was one of Zhao Pusheng's retainers, and many officials knew it.In fact, this person didn't want to expose Zhao Pusheng. He knew that Zhao Pusheng was wronged, but he did accept money from Zhu Yuanzhang. When Chen Youliang found out, Chen Youliang threatened him that either he died or Zhao Pusheng died, and he asked him to be a criminal. choose.People are selfish. At the most critical moment, they always have to think of saving their own lives.This little official chose to testify against Zhao Pusheng in desperation.

This person also brought a letter to the emperor: "Damn the villain. It was General Zhao who asked me to write this letter to Zhu Yuanzhang. Zhu Yuanzhang may have promised to reward General Zhao..." Before he could finish speaking, Xu Shouhui was furious: "Enough! Why didn't you report it earlier? You also have ulterior motives, right?" The little official looked at Chen Youliang tremblingly, the corners of Chen Youliang's mouth twitched slightly, which could be regarded as a smile, he calmed down and said: "It's not that the villain didn't report it, it's that Mr. Chen didn't believe it, and he almost killed the villain."

Chen Youliang hurriedly knelt down and said: "I deserve death for my crimes. Now that there are all the witnesses and material evidences, I have nothing to say. I should be punished. I have always admired General Zhao's behavior. I can't believe this. Now... now I invite you to The emperor killed his relatives righteously, get rid of... get rid of..." He said with a painful expression, which was extremely touching. In this way, Chen Youliang killed Zhao Pusheng with fair reasons, and Zhao Pusheng's troops were gradually taken over by Chen Youliang.Faced with the killing of Zhao Pusheng, some people felt the tragic power struggle in Tianwan and panicked in their hearts. Like Ding Pulang and Fu Youde, they knew that they were not on the same side as Chen Youliang, so they went directly to Zhu Yuanzhang.And Chen Youliang didn't care. In the current situation, the more dispersed the better for him. After killing Zhao Pusheng, Xu Shouhui also panicked, because someone really went to seek refuge with Zhu Yuanzhang, and he also saw that Chen Youliang was getting stronger and stronger.To move the capital, the capital must be moved. Only in this way can the government be reorganized.Xu Shouhui ordered that the capital be moved to Longxing forcibly.Xu Shouhui's decision affected Chen Youliang's plan.All he had to do was to speed up and get rid of Xu Shouhui before the successful move of the capital. Anyway, the capital was moved, so he would build a new capital. This was Chen Youliang's idea. And Xu Shouhui was not a stupid person, he knew that Chen Youliang would have an idea if he forcibly moved the capital, so he decided to find an excuse to send Chen Youliang to lead the army, and then lead the people in the city to move to Longxing.In the twelfth lunar month of the nineteenth year of Yuan Zhizheng (1359), the air was condensed with a cold breath, and also condensed with heavy thoughts. Xu Shouhui led a water army of 100,000 to go east along the river to Jiangxi.Unexpectedly, when Xu Shouhui and his party arrived at Jiangzhou Wharf, they saw the person they least wanted to see——Chen Youliang.Chen Youliang greeted him respectfully and sincerely like a loyal minister, but Xu Shouhui and others felt embarrassed for a while. When Xu Shouhui arrived in Jiangzhou, it can be said that he fell into Chen Youliang's hands.Jiangzhou is Chen Youliang's territory, and Chen Youliang has full confidence in getting rid of Xu Shouhui here.Chen Youliang was secretly happy in his heart: "Emperor Xu really came to the door this time, just wait for Chen Youliang to do something big." Xu Shouhui was almost imprisoned in Jiangzhou for several months, until June of the following year, Chen Youliang Taking the opportunity to invite Xu Shouhui to cruise, they sent someone to kill Xu Shouhui quietly.Chen Youliang announced to the world that Jiangzhou is the capital, the country is named Dahan, and he calls himself the King of Han. He also takes Zou Pusheng as the grand master and Zhang Bixian as the prime minister. Chen Youliang proclaimed the king in Jiangzhou, making the world at this time quite a confrontation of several countries: the Yuan Dynasty, King Cheng, King Han, and King Ming were the protagonists at this time.The rise of these rebel forces accelerated the demise of the Yuan Dynasty, and at the same time, the disputes among the rebels became more and more intense.