The military reform has been almost done, so let’s take a look at the fate of another group of people.

Compared with the military officials, this group of people poses much weaker threat to Zhu Yuanzhang.

In order to attack future military power, Boss Zhu can be said to have conducted an extremely meaningful experiment with the ** department.

From the surface, the existence of these people will not directly threaten Zhu Yuanzhang's power.

Their group is called: literati.

These people have no soldiers in their hands, and their daily lives are nothing more than swaying around with their pens, and they will make fun of them in the unique way of literati.

Write a few couplets and compile a few poems.

The text on the surface is gorgeous and magnificent, and it is completely like praise.

People who don’t understand think they are praising him, and they thank others happily, saying, “You are polite, I am not as good as you said!

But the actual situation is that people have cursed your ancestors for 18 generations, but you still don’t know.

This is a bit like someone selling you, but you are still stupid enough to give them some money.

Zhu Yuanzhang also understood this truth.

He studied hard since he was a child. Although he tried to learn by himself after becoming emperor, compared with those literati who have been proficient in literature since childhood, he has been weak since childhood and has a poor foundation, and no matter how hard he learns, he will never be unable to catch up with them.

He knew that these guys who had nothing to do with food looked down on him.

Compared to them, I was just a warrior who was less than half a bottle of swaying.

It is not much different from Zhang Shicheng who was killed by himself, and they are both the same mountain cannon.

These people didn't even have dirty words when they scolded others.

A typical smile hides a knife.

Sword with sweet mouth and belly.

It was this group of soft literati, and Zhu Yuanzhang was also worried about them.

Although these literati did not directly threaten their imperial power, they were also difficult to discipline. In order to manage them, Zhu Yuanzhang arranged another boss for them.

He was the first hero of the founding country: Li Shanchang.

He was not only the leader of civil officials, but also Zhu Yuanzhang's fellow villager.

In order to demonstrate Li Shanchang's status, Zhu Yuanzhang also equiped him with an official position, which was above tens of thousands of people.

It is the Left Prime Minister of the Secretariat.

The left prime minister is completely equivalent to the emperor's secretary. His daily job is to manage the memorials handed over by these civil officials, and then classify them one by one, and hand them over to the emperor's hands. The prime minister has the full authority to deal with the matter.

As for whether this matter is big or small, the Prime Minister alone has the final say! (You should be able to see the problem from this point.)

Zhu Yuanzhang thought that everything would be fine if he made arrangements like this.

But reality told him that he thought about these things too simply and he would soon suffer because of this arrangement.

When arranging Li Shanchang's work, he seemed to have ignored the existence of another person.

This person is Liu Ji.

I personally think that Liu Ji was not very satisfied with the position arrangements and titles given to him by Zhu Yuanzhang, but he did not dare to say it verbally, so he used another way to vent his dissatisfaction.

Political weapons.

His first choice offensive opponent was Li Shanchang, the leader of civil officials.

Liu Ji looked down on Li Shanchang in his heart, and even despised him a little.

Because this guy can do nothing except writing documents and doing internal work.

As a civil servant, you can do these things, even better than what he does.

Apart from these, does Li Shanchang have any other specialties?

there is none left!

He is not as good as himself in war, he is weaker than himself in dispatching troops, and he is even less of an opponent in terms of military tactics, strategies, conspiracies and tricks.

But why can such a person who can't do anything and eat anything left, but can ride on his head and shit, piss and show off his power,

Why?

Is it because he is Zhu Yuanzhang’s fellow villager?

If that's the case, it's too cheap for him!

Boss Zhu also compared him to Xiao He. Is he worthy of Xiao He?

Not worthy, he is far worse than Xiao He.

It is ridiculous that he also named him the world's number one hero.

He is not worthy of the title of the world's number one hero, so he should give this title to me.

I have to find a way to drive it away.

If you can't drive it away, you can only...

In the extreme imbalance in his heart, Liu Ji began to look for Li Shanchang's weaknesses.

-After Zhu Yuanzhang left Yingtian, he handed over the affairs of the court to Liu Ji to manage.

This left Liu Ji the opportunity to attack.

This handle originated from a person, his name is Li Bin. Li Bin committed a crime of corruption and bribery. In our current words, the source of the huge assets is unknown. After discovering this situation, Liu Ji decided to kill him.

But Li Shanchang disagreed.

Li Bin is Li Shanchang's confidant, and he never agrees with his confidant being slashed for this matter. However, he also knew that Liu Ji and he were not both of them, which could be said to be absolute political enemies, and both the enemy and us could not even pee, so he asked others to plead with Liu Ji.

But Liu Ji didn't accept Li Shanchang's trick, so he decided to steal the matter to Zhu Yuanzhang.

So he wrote a letter to Zhu Yuanzhang.

He believed that as long as Zhu Yuanzhang saw this letter, Li Bin would be dead.

Liu Ji guessed correctly, and Zhu Yuanzhang indeed approved his request.

But what I can't understand is that Zhu Yuanzhang did not send the approved letter directly to Liu Ji, but to Li Shanchang (it's interesting here.)

I believe that relying on Zhu Yuanzhang's network of relationships, he would not be able to make mistakes in even the most basic messaging.

If this is the case, there may be two other situations.

One is that it was intercepted by Li Shanchang, but this situation is basically impossible to exist according to Zhu Yuanzhang's style of doing things.

Of course, I do not deny that many emperors' letters in history were intercepted by a minister, but those emperors were basically foolish monarchs and were a group of lustful and incompetent people, but Zhu Yuanzhang was different. Although he was lustful, he was definitely not incompetent, otherwise he would not have been able to make a fortune alone.

If the above assumption is not valid, then there is only one explanation left.

Zhu Yuanzhang wrote this letter on purpose to Li Shanchang.

If that's the case, there will be a good show.

Liu Ji pushed this matter to Zhu Yuanzhang. After Zhu Yuanzhang gave him a handling opinion, he directly pushed Li Bin's matter to Li Shanchang and asked him to solve it himself.

Anyway, the solution I gave you is to directly cut him down, it depends on whether you, Li Shanchang, will execute it.

If you follow my command, then we can say anything.

If you dare not execute, hum, then your head will be waiting for the move!

I personally think these are all superficial articles, and there is still a deep meaning in it.

This is more like a game made by Zhu Yuanzhang.

Zhu Yuanzhang is the referee.

Liu Ji and Li Shanchang are two hostile thugs.

The two of them fought to the death on the court, while Zhu Yuanzhang was watching the show.

In this party struggle, Zhu Yuanzhang was like a behind-the-scenes driver and was not afraid of big things at all.

The reason why Zhu Yuanzhang sent the letter to Li Shanchang was that the two of them fought each other.

In our simple terms, it means letting them bite the dog, which then evolves into a fight between two parties.

When the two parties are almost in battle, he will come out to clean up the mess.

Then all the members of both parties were uprooted.

According to the subsequent development, this explanation is in line with Zhu Yuanzhang's usual style.

And when the letter was passed to Li Shanchang, he was busy with something.

Ask for rain.

Because of the severe drought and it didn't rain for a long time, Li Shanchang was busy organizing people to ask for rain from the sky, and among these people were Liu Ji.

Before the rain could come, the decree for killing people came first.

At this time, Li Shanchang, who was so angry that he was itchy, thought of a way to delay the beheading or attack Liu Ji.
To be continued...