With food, grass and soldiers, you can expand your territory.
When there is enough territory, Zhu Yuanzhang doesn't even need to do anything to get the talents around him to come and join him first.
Li Shanchang admired Zhu Yuanzhang's strict military law and non-indiscriminate killing.
After hearing Li Shanchang's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang nodded in agreement and thought to himself, "My little brother has already told me these principles, and they turn out to be so useful."
At Li Shanchang's suggestion, Zhu Yuanzhang decided to expand his staff in the Marshal's Mansion, because Li Shanchang promised to introduce all the capable and famous people from Dingyuan to him.
This decision made Zhu Yuanzhang very happy, and he immediately appointed Li Shanchang as the governor of the Marshal's Mansion, in charge of all internal affairs, and Zhu Han, the secretary-general in charge of military orders, as his right-hand man.
Li Shanchang agreed to this appointment without hesitation.
A few days later, Li Shanchang went around to persuade Zhu Yuanzhang and attracted more than a dozen capable people from Dingyuan to Zhu Yuanzhang.
The internal affairs talents that were in short supply were immediately replenished.
From the placement of military supplies to the peace and security of the people and taxes, all kinds of talents are abundant.
Inside and outside Dingyuan City, there was a bit of prosperity.
Suddenly, Zhu Yuanzhang's reputation increased a lot.
At this time, the envoy sent by Zhu Yuanzhang to Yingzhou to escort the captive Timur was also back.
Zhu Han received the messenger's reward and immediately came to tell his brother Zhu Yuanzhang happily.
"Brother, it's good news that Yingzhou is back!" Zhu Han said with a smile.
Zhu Yuanzhang and Li Shanchang were discussing the preparation of military supplies. When they heard Zhu Han's words, they both stopped what they were doing and turned around to ask.
"What good news?"
"Liu Futong was overjoyed to see the captive Timur. He immediately sent someone to bring back the order, asking you to be the marshal of the East Route Army, and to write the Provincial Pingzhang to the south of the Yangtze River in Huainan!" Zhu Han said.
For this appointment, there is actually no great benefit, it is just a false name.
After all, Zhu Yuanzhang only occupied Dingyuan at this time, and most of Huainan was controlled by the Yuan army. As for Jiangnan, don't even think about it. Zhu Yuanzhang didn't even have a boat that could cross the river.
"A false name, haha, it's a false name again, but we don't mind it either." Zhu Yuanzhang laughed.
Li Shanchang next to him found it very useful.
"Marshal, although it is a false name, we will be famous in the future. Now that we have many troops and horses, and sufficient food and grass, we should immediately send troops to Chuzhou, and then prepare the navy to cross the river. The fertile land south of the Yangtze River is not troubled by drought, so we can There is no need to worry about the shortage of food and grass." Li Shanchang said happily.
He discussed with Zhu Yuanzhang for a long time and felt that to feed so many soldiers, it was not enough to just capture Dingyuan and Chuzhou.
As long as the crop harvest is slightly worse, the entire army will be hungry. If you don't want the army to be hungry, once taxes are raised, the people will not be able to live, and the reputation of benevolence and righteousness that Zhu Yuanzhang finally accumulated will be over.
"Sir, you are right, we should attack Chuzhou as soon as possible." Zhu Yuanzhang nodded and said.
He then asked Zhu Han: "Brother, how are you preparing? Can you send troops to Chuzhou?"
Zhu Yuanzhang now feels that he cannot do without Zhu Han's acupoint attack and blasting when conquering cities and territories.
However, this requires a large amount of black powder. Zhu Han has just made a batch and is in the final process of granulating it.
"In about two days, it will be ready!" Zhu Han said.
"Okay, then when we attack Chuzhou this time, we will leave all the rear army's baggage and family members in Dingyuan!" Zhu Yuanzhang said.
The biggest advantage of having a base is that it can ensure the safety of the luggage and family members.
The defense of Dingyuan City is the best reassurance for the former army to fight abroad.
"Marshal, don't worry. When Li is in Dingyuan, he will definitely do a good job in transporting grain and grass, and there won't be any shortage of the army!" Li Shanchang immediately issued a military order.
This time when attacking Chuzhou, Tang He was still left behind, while Li Shanchang was in charge of internal affairs and food.
Later, Li Shanchang recommended several talents from Dingyuan County to Zhu Yuanzhang to serve as his staff.
Zhu Han was listening on the sidelines, and suddenly a name in particular caught his attention.
"Hu Weiyong?"
When Li Shanchang read this name, Zhu Han immediately became alert.
Hu Weiyong was the protagonist of the biggest case in the founding of the Ming Dynasty!
He dared to embezzle money, bend the law and exercise power under Zhu Yuanzhang's nose, which can be said to be very bold!
Regarding Li Shanchang's recommendations, Zhu Yuanzhang now accepted them all, and immediately awarded Hu Weiyong and others the position of assistant to the shogunate.
After Li Shanchang returned, Zhu Han asked Zhu Yuanzhang.
"Brother, did Mr. Li say what our next step will be after we capture Chuzhou?"
When Zhu Yuanzhang heard this, he said without thinking: "Of course I'm going to Jiangnan. Didn't I just say that?"
Zhu Han shook his head and said: "Brother, we don't even have a boat, how can we go to the south of the Yangtze River? I heard that the navy in Chuzhou and Yangzhou went to pacify the pirates. Now we can even conquer Chuzhou , and no boats.”
Nowadays, the world is in chaos, and shipbuilders are running away. It is too difficult to build warships now. The best way is to seize ready-made ships.
"What should we do? I'm afraid Mr. Li doesn't know about this." Zhu Yuanzhang said.
"If we were building a ship, it would take less than a year and a half, and it would be impossible to complete it. Just preparing the wood would take a year." Zhu Han continued.
"In that case, let's wait a little longer. Anyway, one year will go very quickly." Zhu Yuanzhang said.
However, Zhu Han didn't want this.
The wealth in the south of the Yangtze River is already the best in the world. In history, Zhu Yuanzhang crossed the river not too early, allowing Fang Guozhen, Zhang Shicheng and others to occupy most of the rich land. In the end, it took several battles to capture the entire south of the Yangtze River, which wasted a lot of time. .
Zhu Han didn't want his brother Zhu Yuanzhang to make this mistake again.
The sooner we capture Jiangnan, the sooner we can have the power to pacify the world.
Although Zhu Han didn't want to delay the matter of setting up a navy army, he had no good solution now.
In the end, we can only put it aside for the time being and wait until we have the opportunity to talk about it later.
Outside Dingyuan City, there is a wide open space.
This was originally a school ground for the Yuan army, but now it has been used by Zhu Han as a training ground for the rebel army, dedicated to some drills and experiments.
Boom boom!
boom!
There were roars in the heavily guarded school grounds.
A burst of white smoke spread from the school grounds, and after the roar just now, there was a strong smell of gunpowder smoke.
"Haha, it's so exciting!"
Zhou Dexing shouted with a loud smile.
The three consecutive artillery test firings just now made Zhou Dexing, who was already addicted to gunpowder tactics, very satisfied.
However, Zhu Han didn't think so.
After carefully checking the artillery and the target, he shook his head very dissatisfied.
