Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 26 Tang He Strict Military Discipline
  "General, can you take me to see this supervisor?"

Yang Yuangao asked proactively after hearing this.

Tang He nodded: "Of course!"

So, Tang He took Yang Yuangao to Zhang Cheng.

When Tang He took Yang Yuangao to see Zhang Cheng, Jin Shen Ren Qiande also gritted his teeth because the rebels refused to accept his gifts and only wanted to deal fairly with him: "Hateful! These thieves are so cunning. , this is to say that our friendship must return to friendship, and the king's law must return to the king's law. If you know this, we might as well not take out the food, but wait to speculate on the price of food during the famine!"

The rebels were unwilling to accept gifts from the gentry, which indeed disappointed many gentry.

But it also made some gentry think more highly of the rebels.

It was because of this that Yang Yuangao chose to take the initiative to ask to see Zhang Cheng.

After Zhang Cheng learned about Yang Yuangao's intention through Tang He, he agreed to meet Yang Yuangao and asked, "I am the supervisor Zhang Cheng. Why do you want to see me?"

Yang Yuangao first bowed his hands to Zhang Cheng and said: "The Book of Songs says that if you sing, please listen to your friends. The common people have always hoped that the world will not disrupt the law due to etiquette, and advocate that etiquette should return to etiquette, and law should return to law. , but the supervisor army actually directly practiced the idea of ​​returning to etiquette and returning the law to the law, so the common people dared to come and ask to see the supervisor army. The supervisor army can be said to be the confidant of the common people, and the common people also invited him to be friends of the supervisor army. .”

After Yang Yuangao said that, he asked: "I wonder if the supervisory army thinks that the hostage is stupid?"

"Since we are close friends, how can we not allow close friends to enter our house? From now on, we can be friends, no matter how rich or poor we are."

Zhang Cheng was overjoyed when he heard this, so he just replied.

He knew that ancient literati paid special attention to ethical relationships, and they also paid special attention to friendships. Either they must be of equal status to be friends, or they must have similar interests. Once they identify someone as a friend, they must bear a part of their responsibility. Such as running for him when he was suffering, taking care of his family, or even killing for him, this would also be highly praised by the people of the time and gain a great reputation.

For example, in the Han Dynasty, anyone who killed someone in revenge for a friend could be forgiven without having to plead guilty.

Yang Yuangao was also very happy here and bowed to Zhang Cheng.

Then, Zhang Cheng returned the gesture.

And that time.

Since Zhang Cheng had accepted him as a friend, Yang Yuangao took the initiative and asked frankly, "I would like to ask, do you think this can really succeed?"

"Because no matter what, there are many people in the world who only want to rule the world with propriety! Therefore, if you take the initiative to return etiquette to etiquette and law to law, I am afraid that you will not be able to achieve your great cause because you cannot get the support of the majority of Confucian scholars in the world."

After hearing this, Tang He looked at Zhang Cheng with surprise and confusion.

Zhang Cheng then smiled and said, "A single spark can start a prairie fire."

Yang Yuangao nodded and bowed to Zhang Cheng again.

Tang He scratched his head and became even more confused.

"Mr. Zhang!"

At this time, Hua Yun came to Zhang Cheng with his rebel army and saluted Zhang Cheng with fists in his hands.

Zhang Cheng responded with a fist-cup salute and asked, "Have all the government offices been captured?"

"They have all been captured. Those who surrendered and those who were captured alive have been temporarily imprisoned. The money and food in the treasury have also been sealed. Brother Tang Shengzong is watching."

Hua Yun replied.

Zhang Cheng nodded: "Are many people killed?"

"Not many, mother, there are not many who are willing to risk their lives. Most of them surrendered directly because we wanted to surrender. Some actually captured the officials and offered them as sacrifices. Some even wanted to join the rebel army even if they killed their own masters. , in the end, even the Zhizhou who worked for the Tatars wanted to commit suicide but was not able to commit suicide."

Hua Yun said.

Zhang Cheng nodded and said: "I have asked brother Tang He to send people to inform the superiors. Now let's take care of the affairs in the city, restore order as soon as possible, allow business to resume, and appease the people."

Zhang Cheng looked at Tang He as he spoke: "Brother Tang He will tell Brother Hua Yun the strategy we just discussed to deal with the situation in the city, especially the three major requirements and eight points of attention I mentioned."

"Okay!" So Tang He called Hua Yun aside and talked in detail.

Zhang Cheng looked at the whole street covered with blood and gold and silver, and once again fell into the pain after the war, and clenched his fists.

He had to admit that this murder really caused a lot of ups and downs in people's emotional state, especially after having had the experience of killing, and when he saw the evil again, he would feel the desire to eliminate the evil through killing. , and after eliminating evil, I feel painful that I am destroying everything in order, and I want to build quickly.

Zhang Cheng glanced at the rebel soldiers around him.

He found that these soldiers, like him, suddenly became confused after all the killings were really over at this moment. They stood on the steamer-like street one by one, smelling the smell of blood, licking their lips and staring, not knowing what to do.

Some rebels became impatient and once again awakened their desire to destroy. They directly knocked up the door of a private house, and it was really pushed open at once. After seeing a rather young woman inside, , just drag it out.

Seeing this, Tang He was so angry that he gritted his teeth, and suddenly became energetic. He walked over quickly, dragged the rebel soldier to the ground with one kick, saved the woman, and said, "Have you never seen a woman?"

Tang He then personally killed the rebel with a knife and said: "Anyone who is like him is not our brother!"

After Tang He said this, he irritably walked to Zhang Cheng with the knife in hand, stood in the shade, sat on the ground, and angrily tugged on his armor and said, "Mr. Zhang, let's see the joke."

Seeing that he was about to take off his armor, Zhang Cheng quickly reminded him: "Don't take off your armor at this time! It's easy to get wind from taking off your armor. Wait until your body is completely cool before taking off your armor!"

After hearing this, Tang He didn't take off his armor anymore. He just stabbed the knife in his hand on the ground, and then kicked the stone wall angrily.

Zhang Cheng knew that Tang He and the others were just like him, fighting in their hearts the desire to destroy everything and build everything, so they were irritated. However, Tang He chose to kill the soldier because he didn't really hate the soldier for his misbehavior, he just wanted to At that moment, I subconsciously tried to suppress my inner desire to destroy by restoring order.

"We can't let the brothers stay like this with nothing to do. After a war, it is indeed easy to have a manic feeling that needs to be vented. Either massacre the city or go to the next war. Another way is to transfer immediately and wait until the next war happens. At present, their attention has shifted to other aspects, such as land reclamation and disaster relief."

Zhang Cheng started talking at this time.

He knew that in the history of Chinese and foreign wars, many times, as long as the commander was willing to channelize the situation, he could avoid disorder among the officers and soldiers below, and thus avoid large-scale massacres.

Only the coach's inaction or intentional connivance or inability to restrain will lead to large-scale massacres.

Hua Yun also asked at this time: "Then what should we do now?"

Zhang Cheng said: "Go and organize those surrendered soldiers, let the brothers drive them away and supervise their work, dig holes and fill the corpses, sprinkle water to wash the streets, and then buy lime from a big business and sprinkle it everywhere!"

Hua Yun said yes and left.

Then, Zhang Cheng said to Tang He: "While maintaining order in the city, you arrange for the brothers to collect statistics on the epidemic situation in the city. If there is an epidemic, the patients should be gathered together and no one should be allowed to get close."

"If order has been restored and there is no epidemic, then don't let them idle, even if you let them work for the fellow villagers, especially the old, weak, women and children, fetching water and building walls, etc., you must keep them busy. , and keep yourself busy.”

Tang He also said yes and left.

At this time, Yang Yuangao said to Zhang Cheng: "I am also willing to lead the whole clan to serve, and I also ask the supervisor to give me orders."

"Then please ask me to buy food for the rebels. We will organize the rebels to set up a porridge factory to provide relief to the victims."

Zhang Cheng said.

Yang Yuangao raised his hand and said yes.

Zhang Cheng arrived at Tang Shengzong's place. While letting some of the rebels from Tang Shengzong, who had rested for a while because they were guarding the captured Yuan Ting officials in the prison, to replace the city guards and return, he asked a group of people from Tang Shengzong to return. Go with yourself to give porridge to the hungry.

But at this moment, Jia Zhili, the magistrate of the prison, saw Zhang Cheng appearing behind the prison and shouted: "You bandits, when are you going to kill me!"

"Shut up!"

"I have no time to talk to you now!"

Zhang Cheng suddenly pointed at Jia Zhili and bared his teeth and roared.

Jia Zhili looked at him confused.

(End of this chapter)