Follow Zhu Yuanzhang to conquer the country

Chapter 39 Establishing a Pro-Military Inspection School

Li Shanchang solemnly raised his hands and said again: "Yes, come on!"

"As Mr. Zhang said, the people in the world are not enlightened and have insufficient moral education. There are very few people who pursue saints and sages! Therefore, not every family head can discipline his family members well, and not all family members are sensible and understand the family head."

"And Mr. Zhang is taking the initiative to propose this now, not because of his own selfish desires, but because he wants to let the superiors understand that since he is the head of a hundred officials, he needs to follow the trend of the world and ask for superior positions."

"So, even if Mr. Zhang does not take the initiative to ask for more salary, he can still control his family, but he still needs to consider the world's conditions, and he can be the starting point to make all new systems more in line with the world's people."

After Li Shanchang said this, Zhang Cheng looked at him in surprise.

Zhang Cheng couldn't help but sigh to himself: "Did the future Prime Minister of the Ming Dynasty understand me?"

"Shan Chang is absolutely right!"

"Mr. Zhang has good intentions."

Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded at this time, and then said to Zhang Cheng: "Then please invite Mr. Zhang to come inside and talk."

Zhu Yuanzhang planned to talk to Zhang Cheng alone behind his back about improving his salary.

"Tell me, how much do you want to add?"

After Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng came to the back room, he asked Zhang Cheng in a deep voice.

When Zhu Yuanzhang asked this, Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong both widened their eyes.

Zhang Cheng replied here: "It depends on how the superiors arrange it. If I am asked to support my own staff, bodyguards, and government servants, then I should naturally add more. After all, I have to pay these people, and in order to prevent them from taking the opportunity to take advantage of If you want a card, you have to pay enough salary and travel expenses, so you have to increase your annual salary to two thousand taels of silver."

"If I don't need to support myself, but the General Manager's Office will support these people and their families for me, and directly allocate these people to me, and I don't care about their expenses for eating, drinking, sleeping, marrying and having children, then I can add less. Only add one thousand taels of silver."

After Zhang Cheng said this, Zhu Yuanzhang laughed: "My Mr. Zhang, you really think comprehensively!"

"The superior praises you."

Zhu Yuanzhang then said: "I will only increase it to one thousand taels for you. If you want to use it, I will arrange it for you."

"Row!"

Zhang Cheng nodded.

Zhu Yuanzhang said here again: "But we also have a condition."

Zhang Cheng said: "You say it, you say it."

"You can't tell anyone about the annual salary we give you! Otherwise, we would rather not use you!"

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Zhang Cheng knew that this was Zhu Yuanzhang's last insistence. In order not to let others compare with him, he nodded and agreed: "Okay!"

"Then let's draft the deed again."

Zhu Yuanzhang replied.

After a while, Zhu Yuanzhang and Zhang Cheng came out.

Zhu Yuanzhang looked at Zhang Cheng and smiled: "Mr. Zhang, can you take the seal now?"

"Thanks to the trust of my superiors, I am willing to do my best to serve as the governor and secretary of the state."

Zhang Cheng bowed his hands and took the seal.

At this point, Zhang Cheng has gained both power and money.

As a folk saying goes, a child who cries gets milk.

If Zhang Cheng had not asked for it, Zhu Yuanzhang, who was happy to save an expense, would have been happy not to give it. After all, for Zhu Yuanzhang, he wished that everyone in the world would contribute selflessly.

Because Zhu Yuanzhang was born as a commoner, it is true that he cares a lot for the people of the world. He is willing to work hard so that people in the world will not starve to death. But if we say his care is not high, it can indeed be said that it is not high, because he actually hopes that the world In addition to not starving to death, it is better not to do anything if there are no other requirements.

Back to the topic.

After Zhang Cheng received the seal, Zhu Yuanzhang also nodded and smiled, and looked at Li Shanchang: "Shan Chang, you are a sensible person. Please take up the post of Tongzhi, assist Mr. Zhang in handling redundant affairs, and still be our counselor. How much salary do you want? You can come see us in private and explain to us."

Li Shanchang raised his hand and said yes.

Seeing this, Feng Guoyong was extremely disappointed. He wanted to ask Zhu Yuanzhang why he made Li Shanchang a fellow advisor without even thinking about it.

But Feng Guoyong did not ask in the end.

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Feng Guoyong at this time: "Guoyong, you will be appointed as the general judge, and you will still be our counselor."

Feng Guoyong also said yes.

As for the military positions, Zhu Yuanzhang did not have the power to appoint them, because it was a troubled time and military officials were related to military power, so Guo Zixing would personally control the promotion of military attaches, while civilian positions were not that important.

Therefore, Zhu Yuanzhang could only temporarily decide on civilian posts.

After Zhu Yuanzhang had determined the personnel arrangements in Chuzhou City, Feng Guoyong found Li Shanchang during the lunch break and asked, "Why did I allow Zhang Cheng to ask for a higher salary from his superiors?"

Li Shanchang said: "Didn't I say that we should tolerate Mr. Zhang and let him understand the importance of being a minister and treating the king as heaven?"

"Are we going to condone his crime like this?!" Feng Guoyong asked in a deep voice.

Li Shanchang said: "As long as the superiors are willing to condone it, we must also condone it!"

Feng Guoyong argued: "The superior is from a commoner background and does not know the importance of ethical order. He needs to be reminded more, rather than allowing him to be deceived by Zhang Cheng."

"But don't forget, your Majesty, let Mr. Zhang be our superior officer now, it means superiority."

"Moreover, Mr. Zhang is now our superior. If we disrespect Mr. Zhang, it would be against the superior and inferior!"

"We can't hope for order above and below us at the same time, but at the same time we don't look down upon those above us. It's impossible to successfully bring order to the world!"

"The restlessness in Hu Yuan's court is caused by the chaos at the top and bottom. I don't think you don't know it!"

"You can't just ask others to be in order, but if you don't ask yourself the same, how can you keep etiquette in order?!"

Li Shanchang said sharply.

Feng Guoyong was speechless after hearing this.

After a while, Feng Guoyong sat back on his chair with a frustrated look on his face: "Are we really going to sit back and watch Zhang Cheng persuade him to rise to power, and we still have to respect him because he is a superior?"

"It's Mr. Zhang!"

"You can't act like a vulgar warrior and don't understand etiquette!"

Li Shanchang reminded Feng Guoyong very seriously.

"understood!"

Li Shanchang then comforted Feng Guoyong and said: "You have to believe in the superior and our lord. He must be a sage. If Mr. Zhang is not suitable to be our superior, the superior will replace him, and now the superior will give way to Zhang." Sir, being our superior officer must have deep meaning, you and I must think so!"

"But I can't figure it out!"

Feng Guoyong took a deep breath and said.

“If you can’t figure it out, think slowly!”

Li Shanchang replied with gritted teeth.

"At the same time, we must let our superiors see our sincerity!"

Li Shanchang then added another sentence, and then left Feng Guoyong.

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"Now it seems that Mr. Zhang is the only one who treats us sincerely."

When Li Shanchang was persuading Feng Guoyong, Zhu Yuanzhang was also here with Xu Da and expressed his thoughts to Xu Da alone.

Xu Da then asked: "Why did the superior say that?"

"Because Mr. Zhang seems to care so much about treatment, in fact, we understand that he is deliberately letting us know people's hearts, deliberately making himself appear to care about treatment and dignity, not about personal reputation, and only for the world!"

"Otherwise, there is no need for him to be so frank, and he actively admits that he is not a gentleman. He even always reminds me in his words that some people who appear to be gentlemen may actually be hypocrites."

"How can we not understand that there are few people who truly believe that the world is for the common good?"

"It's just hypocrites who make up the majority. As Mr. Ta Zhang himself said, we cannot be enemies of the majority!"

"So, as a superior, we can only pretend to be confused on the surface, and even have to act as if we are really willing to believe everyone, as if we are really from a humble background and feel ashamed when we see a Confucian scholar. We only think that the other person is a gentleman, and we Be polite, and you will only show utmost trust in Confucian scholars.”

Zhu Yuanzhang said to Xu Da while walking with his hands behind his back.

Xu Da nodded after hearing this: "So, Mr. Zhang is a true gentleman?"

"At least he has nothing to hide from us, and he is sincerely trying to teach us some truth."

"If he has selfish motives, we don't understand what his selfish motives are for?"

"Is it really because of the money?"

"But what we can be sure of is that unlike Li Shanchang and Feng Guoyong, he chose to be loyal to us because he was loyal to etiquette. He sincerely wanted us to work hard so that no one would starve to death in China."

"In short, we know that he has the same ambition as us and wants us to work with him to rebuild the Huayi rites so that the Han people in the world will not be hungry or cold, so he is trying so hard to influence us."

After Zhu Yuanzhang said this, he looked at the white clouds outside the eaves and smiled slightly.

Xu Da nodded and asked, "Why did the superior tell us this?"

"Because we are in a superior position, we have to pretend to be confused, but it is inevitable that some brothers really think that we are confused. We only believe in Confucian scholars and do not understand Mr. Zhang's words at all."

"So, we want you to understand, and then we want you to secretly select a few shrewd and reliable brothers for us, let them serve as our pro-military inspectors, and secretly investigate which brothers have unstable moods, have been bribed by Confucian scholars, or have taken the initiative Hang out with Confucian scholars, and let us know when something happens."

Zhu Yuanzhang said.

Xu Da was greatly surprised after hearing this: "The superior wants to spy on our own brothers?"

(End of this chapter)