In February 1364, the twenty-fourth year of the Yuan Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had fully rested and reorganized his personnel and troops, finally launched a hunt for Chen Youliang's second son Chen Li after killing Chen Youliang after resting for several months.

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If you want to cut the weeds, you must remove the roots!

Although Chen Li is far inferior to Chen Youliang at heart, he is Chen Youliang's son after all!

Keeping it is always a hidden danger;

He must be killed and this scourge eliminated.

Hubei, Wuchang!

This is the strategic base stationed by Chen Li and Zhang Dingbian, who took advantage of the chaos to escape last year.

It is also the current capital of the Han Dynasty!

And now Chen Li has taken over from his old man. Now he is the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, with the temple name De Shou.

At this time, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had made up his mind to clean up this hidden danger, ordered Li Shanchang, Deng Yu, Chang Yuchun, Kang Maocai, Liao Yongzhong, Hu Tingrui and others to lead a large army to conquer Chen Li.

The remaining soldiers and horses began to clear out the strongholds once occupied by Chen Youliang one by one!

Chen Li, the second son of Chen Youliang, was simply unable to compete with Zhu Yuanzhang's army.

Facing the Zhu Jiajun, who was completely a tiger and wolf army, Chen Li, who had good military ideas, completely relied on his important minister Zhang Dingbian in the military aspect.

But what Chen Li didn't expect was that Zhang Dingbian was captured bizarrely in the first round of confrontation with Zhu Yuanzhang.

This is absolutely fatal to Chen Li.

In his own imperial power, Zhang Dingbian was the only general who could compete with Zhu Yuanzhang.

His capture was equivalent to the fact that the Han Dynasty no longer had any generals available for use.

At this time, Chen Li, who was completely passive, finally made a decision.

A decision that would make him furious if he were still alive, and a decision that would make him jump over the wall even if he died.

He decided to lead his troops to surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhang Dingbian should be surprised by Chen Li's surrender.

Compared with Chen Youliang, this second master is far behind in terms of courage and courage!

The two of them are not on the same level at all!

If Chen Youliang was still alive now, he would never surrender to Zhu Yuanzhang.

Even if he died on the battlefield, he would never surrender with his troops.

In Chen Youliang's eyes, surrender would be an absolute shame for him and the greatest insult to his personality!

This is also the reason why Chen Youliang would rather escape and be killed in the end than surrender!

But his son made a shocking decision at the last moment!

He surrendered.

Surrendered to his father-killing enemy!

Surrendering to his biggest enemy is almost betraying his friends for glory!

Perhaps in Chen Li's opinion, his choice was forced and helpless.

But what he did was equally shameful!

I am a hero, my son is a bear!

That's all!

After Chen Li surrendered, Zhu Yuanzhang did not kill him, but treated him as if he had surrendered the army, gave him a military rank, and would never give him troops!

At this time, Zhang Dingbian, who had completely lost confidence and expectations for Chen Li, his second master, was well aware of his grudge against Zhu Yuanzhang. He and Chen Youliang had once sacrificed their blood to form an alliance and had never thought of surrender, so he did not accept it.

Zhu Yuanzhang gave himself official positions and political canonization.

Instead, choose to leave.

Zhang Dingbian, who no longer wanted to enter officialdom, let alone the military, seemed to have seen through all the human emotions in the world.

Understand all the emotional entanglements in the world.

Zhang Dingbian, whose mentality was dead and everything was empty, chose to escape into Buddhism.

From now on, I became associated with Buddha!

Don't care about worldly affairs.

Get out of this world!

Since then, the Han regime has completely collapsed at the end of the Yuan Dynasty.

After completely dealing with the trouble of Chen Youliang's Han regime, Zhu Yuanzhang, with the praise of generals such as Li Shanchang and Xu Da, proclaimed himself: King of Wu!

And established the Zhongshu Province on its own.

And establish political officials at various ministries and levels.

Here I would like to briefly express my views.

First of all, this King of Wu was not officially approved by Han Liner's Longfeng regime.

In other words, the title of King of Wu that Zhu Yuanzhang conferred on himself was not recognized by the Longfeng regime at all!

Because the history books say that the King of Wu was established by Zhu Yuanzhang on his own, that is, he gave himself a title.

In the ancient imperial era, the title of king could not be granted casually.

It is even more impossible for Zhu Yuanzhang, a vassal king with a completely different surname, to exist.

Anyone who is familiar with the history of the Ming Dynasty should know that there were princes and kings during the founding period of the Ming Dynasty.

But these princes and kings are all Zhu Yuanzhang's sons or his grandsons.

Real princes and kings with different surnames also appeared, but they were all posthumously named. For example, Xu Da was posthumously named the King of Zhongshan, and Chang Yuchun was posthumously named the King of Kaiping!

When they were alive, the highest title was only a duke, but never a king!

In the Western Han Dynasty where Liu Bang lived, there were princes and kings with different surnames in the Western Han Dynasty he founded, but none of these princes and kings with different surnames ended well in the end.

As a result, they were either eliminated or killed.

So I say that when Zhu Yuanzhang proclaimed himself King of Wu at this time, his motives were neither pure nor simple.

I think now he has gradually begun to break away from the control of the Longfeng regime, and he has also begun to gradually fade out of his position in the Longfeng regime, and has begun to prepare for his future independence.

To put it bluntly, the current Longfeng regime is completely a decoration for him, a puppet that he can eliminate whenever he wants.

The current Longfeng regime has completely lost its protective role for Zhu Yuanzhang.

The reason why he still respected Han Lin'er in the past was only because of the constraints of many powerful military enemies. He needed the shield of the Dragon and Phoenix regime to protect himself from wind and arrows.

But now he doesn't need it anymore.

Now that he is completely independent, he no longer needs anyone else to protect him.

Now he can completely stand alone!

Now he can be basically independent.

It’s just that it’s not the time to really fall out!

Just wait, the dawn of victory is right in front of you!

The Longfeng regime will also reach its not-so-distant end with the demise of Chen Youliang!

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After solving the problem of Chen Li, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had tolerated it for a long time, launched a challenge to another of his political opponents.

This person is: Zhang Shicheng.

His political identity is: the actual ruler of the Zhou Dynasty.

In Zhu Yuanzhang's eyes, Zhang Shicheng was always a private salt dealer, and he was a huge mountain cannon who did not understand politics and military affairs at all.

This mountain gunner doesn't know anything about military affairs, let alone strategy.

But he has money!

He has plenty of money!

If you touch the butt of this mountain cannon, oil will come out!

In this age of assholes, the rich man is the boss!

In this turbulent era, having money equals power!

If you have money, you can buy rights, and if you use rights, you can exchange them for money!

This is the way of the world!

If it weren't for the fact that his home was not close to the seaside when he was a child, Zhu Yuanzhang, who had been restless since he was a child, would have been like this mountain cannon, selling private salt to make money.
To be continued...