Time passed slowly, and the people in the Hangzhou court were inquiring about the Ming Dynasty's Yellow River project in the north while intensively preparing their escape plan.
On the other hand, at the end of April and beginning of May in the eighth year of Hongwu, Zhang Shi expelled the Ming Army instructor team, which became the biggest news in Hangzhou that month.
Beforehand, no one believed that Zhang Shi could succeed, because the Ming Kingdom was too strong and the Jiangnan Kingdom was too weak. They could only let them flatten and round them up. Even if they forcibly occupied the army, they would not dare to say anything.
However, things did not develop like this.
Zhang Shi took out the contract he had signed with Ming Guo and argued that after two years, Ming Guo should withdraw all the instructors instead of staying here.
Jiangnan Kingdom is sufficiently obedient to the Upper Kingdom, but the Upper Kingdom cannot completely regard Jiangnan Kingdom as an existence that can come and go quickly. Basic respect must be given, right?
Otherwise, how will the people of the world view the national reputation of the Ming Dynasty?
For the Ming Dynasty, they pushed this matter away as much as they could. If they really couldn't push it away and couldn't avoid it, they said they would do it next time. However, they decided to do it next time several times. In the end, they didn't find out which time it happened. It's next time.
So Zhang Shi went directly to the Ming Dynasty garrison headquarters to find Zhou Zhi. He blocked the door and refused to let Zhou Zhi leave. He slapped the table and the bench in front of Zhou Zhi, and dealt a blow.
Then a miracle happened.
The Ming Dynasty asked Jiang Nanguo to pay the last payment for the hard work of the instructor team, and then promised to evacuate the instructor team.
Good guy, did you really succeed?
Is this really a success?
It really worked.
Zhang Shi obtained a sum of money from Shen Gai and gave it to Zhou Zhi. Zhou Zhi actually ordered the Ming Dynasty instructors to evacuate and returned to the Ming army station, never to be seen again.
He spent a fortune to drive away a group of great masters. Good guy, Zhang Shi is really brave enough!
For a time, not to mention the army, the imperial examination bureaucrats who had always been fearless also expressed their sincere admiration for Zhang Shi, believing that Zhang Shi had won a precious diplomatic victory and military victory, which was extremely worrying for the Hangzhou court. Said, this is tantamount to a shot in the arm.
No one was optimistic about Zhang Shi beforehand, but Zhang Shi really succeeded.
Although it still cost a fortune.
Shen Gai personally hosted a banquet to invite Zhang Shi to the banquet, and praised Zhang Shi's bravery and tenacity at the banquet.
He believed that Zhang Shi's actions directly broke through the tough outer skin of the Ming people and exposed their fierce and ruthless insides. It showed that Jiangnan Kingdom was far from the end, and there was still a possibility of continuing to exist. There was no need for everyone to be so... pessimistic.
The concessions made by the Ming people showed that they still wanted to coexist peacefully with the Hangzhou court and had no plans to go south for the time being.
So, time is on our side! The advantage is on our side!
Zhang Shi has made great contributions to us! Need to be commended!
To be honest, Shen Gai is actually not willing to abandon Hangzhou and run away to Korea. He still has a lot of power in the court in Hangzhou and can experience the pleasure of exercising power. But if he leaves Hangzhou, he can only become a helpless person. Refugees.
An asylum seeker who lives in hiding in another country will not dare to show his face for the rest of his life.
Whenever there is a little bit more possibility to stay in Hangzhou and serve as the chief executive of Jiangnan Kingdom, he wants to seize it and make a super double with his backhand.
If Hangzhou is captured, they will have no choice but to run away to other countries and become refugees incognito!
The Song Dynasty was completely destroyed and I became a subjugated slave or something, no!
I still want to continue to be Prime Minister, I still want to continue to hold the power and do whatever I want!
Even if only half of the mountains and rivers are broken, at least let this situation continue for another ten years!
This is Shen Gai's biggest wish.
Unfortunately, this wish is destined to not be realized.
Because just when he was playing Zhang Shi to great effect, in the middle of the banquet, a shocking news came.
On the fourth day of May in the eighth year of Hongwu, the Ming Dynasty's Yellow River diversion project, which had taken five years, was officially successful.
The rushing Yellow River water follows the renovated old Yellow River route all the way eastward, enters Shandong Province in the northeast direction, and finally enters the sea from Binzhou in Shandong Province.
After renovation, the old Eastern Han Dynasty road perfectly met the huge flow demand of the Yellow River and provided sufficient river channels for the Yellow River. This ended the history of frequent diversions and frequent breaches since the late Tang Dynasty, which made people on both sides of the river insecure.
Su Yonglin witnessed the beginning of the Yellow River's diversion and was nervously waiting for the final news.
When the news finally came that the Yellow River water flowed eastward to the sea smoothly through the predetermined channel, even though he had a calm personality, he couldn't help but shed tears of excitement among the cheering crowd.
This mother river of the Chinese nation, after five years of hard work by tens of millions of people in the Central Plains of the Ming Dynasty, after countless people worked hard for it, and after massive material and financial resources were poured into it, it finally returned to its original position as the mother river. This is the forced arrival of [menopause].
On the fourth day of May, Kaifeng City caroused all night long. Everyone from Su Yonglin to ordinary people were so excited that they couldn't sleep because of the news. So that night, Kaifeng City became a city that never sleeps in the true sense.
People who have not experienced the pain of the Yellow River bursting and changing its course would have a hard time imagining the real carnival that people in the Yellow River flood area experienced after the news of the successful Yellow River management came out.
After hundreds of years of fear, decades of wandering, and years of hard work, once it was successful, the feeling of ecstasy really burst out from the inside out, and it was impossible to control it.
Tian Qizi, who had always been calm, was like Su Yonglin and did not dare to go directly to Shandong. He could only wait for news in Kaifeng.
After receiving the definite news of success, Tian Guizi slumped on the chair and gasped, wiping sweat constantly, her heart beating rapidly, her head went blank, and after that she knew nothing but giggles.
It wasn't until Su Yonglin rushed to him and hugged him tightly that he regained his consciousness, howling loudly and hugging Su Yonglin tightly.
That night, Tian Qizi, like Su Yonglin, didn't sleep either.
Surrounded by his subordinate officials, Su Yonglin drank a lot of wine for the first time, felt a little drunk for the first time, and delivered a very passionate speech.
"Since the Yellow River gradually collapsed three hundred years ago, the people in the Yellow River area of the Central Plains have suffered a lot and have never had peace of mind. The old dynasty only cared about themselves and never cared about the people of the world. They watched the Yellow River wreak havoc and the people wailed, but they were indifferent!
But our Ming Dynasty cannot! The Ming Dynasty regards everyone's life as extremely important. Whether it is an emperor, an official, a soldier, or an ordinary citizen, it is all equally important. Everyone's life is life, and it is the same. There is no distinction between high and low! Therefore, the Yellow River must be repaired!
When I first decided to build the Yellow River, I remember that many people opposed it, saying that it was too difficult and impossible. Building the Yellow River would destroy the Ming Dynasty, so it couldn’t be built. I said, I don’t believe it! I must fix it! If building the Yellow River can destroy the Ming Dynasty, then the Ming Dynasty deserves to be destroyed!
But facts have proven that the Ming Dynasty did not die, the Yellow River was repaired, and the Ming Dynasty became stronger and stronger! What does this mean? This means we are right! We did the right thing! We repaired the Yellow River, and we made Ming Dynasty extremely powerful! We have made countless impossibles possible!
Not only is the Ming Dynasty invincible, but you! You heroic people who can restore the Yellow River that has been raging for three hundred years back on track in five years are also invincible!
I, the Emperor of Ming Dynasty, Chairman of the Renaissance Association, Su Yonglin, declare here! The days when the Yellow River ravaged both sides of the river and brought endless suffering are gone forever! Three hundred years of suffering are over here! ! ! "
