When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang were fighting at Poyang Lake, Zhang Shicheng, the king of Cheng, had received a letter of appeal from Chen Youliang before the war started.

Chen Youliang's attitude was very sincere and clear. He hoped that he could send troops to help him encircle Zhu Yuanzhang, the weakling, and then divide the world together.

But Zhang Shicheng, who was born a landlord and a plutocrat, is obviously not a vegetarian.

He seemed to see Chen Youliang’s true intention!

He knows that Chen Youliang, a bastard who pretends to be pure and sweet on the surface, is not a good guy at all. To put it bluntly, he is a scumbag who pretends to be a good guy on the surface but is actually a scumbag who eats people without spitting out their bones. Sharing the world with him is such a beautiful thing.

It's simply impossible to achieve.

It's impossible to achieve in this life.

This kind of trick is okay to coax a child, but if you want to deceive me, you will be blinded.

Perhaps this was Zhang Shicheng's true thoughts at that time.

So he decisively rejected Chen Youliang's request.

While refusing, he adopted the same strategy as in the Longwan battle: no participation, no compromise, and letting you two fight to the death, which has nothing to do with me.

It would be best for the two of us to go up to heaven together and finish playing, so as to save me and my trouble.

When Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang were fighting fiercely, Zhang Shicheng, who was watching the game, was not idle either.

At this time, he was busy making money.

Get money from these wolf cubs in the Yuan Dynasty.

Since he established the Zhou Dynasty, he began to expand territory. Under the double blow of huge funds and military force, areas such as Pingjiang (today's Suzhou City), Huzhou, Jiaxing, Songjiang (today's Shanghai) and Changzhou were quickly conquered.

When Zhang Shicheng captured Pingjiang, he realized that there was such a wealthy place in the world, having never been to Pingjiang before.

You can make money by just grabbing a handful of dirt here.

Compared with Hepingjiang, Gaoyou, a poor place, is simply too poor. The poor will lose their status even more.

Compared with his current status as King Cheng, the poor place of Gaoyou cannot reflect his superior status.

Pingjiang is worthy of him, at least the people here are rich.

And he is their landlord and rich man, the boss of them all!

So he decided to move from Gaoyou.

Moved the capital to Pingjiang.

Still calling himself: King Cheng!

Everything seems to be going well.

But when he established his capital in Pingjiang, a group of people were unhappy. When they saw Zhang Shicheng, who was born in a chaebol, come to Pingjiang, they had long been envious of his billions of dollars and decided to rip him off!

Get some oil and water.

This group of people were the Yuan Dynasty garrison who had just been dispatched to Pingjiang by the Yuan army. The leader's name was Yang Tongguan.

He is a Miao ethnic minority.

And Yang Tongguan has 200,000 troops under his command!

The Yuan Dynasty was obviously unwilling to be defeated by Zhang Shicheng, so after Zhang Shicheng captured Pingjiang, it sent Yang Tongguan to deal with the mess in Pingjiang.

Yang Tongguan also seemed to give Zhang Shicheng a lot of face. Since he came to Pingjiang, he has been taking care of his business and complimenting him every day since he arrived in Pingjiang.

It was a headache for Yang Wanzhe and Zhang Shicheng.

Because this guy is not only good at literature and martial arts, he has been organizing the Miao family to resist the invasion of the Red Scarf Army since he was a teenager. He was a famous handsome man in the late Yuan Dynasty who could serve as a general and a prime minister. In order to commend his achievements, the Yuan Dynasty specially

He was given the title "Yang Wanzhe", which means to praise him: a perfect man who is both loyal and righteous.

It was obvious that the Yuan Dynasty sent Yang Tongguan here deliberately to target Zhang Shicheng, and while looking for trouble, he tried to regain Pingjiang.

It was impossible to defeat Yang Guantong, because this Yakuza not only had 200,000 soldiers and horses in his hands, but he was also proficient in the art of war. It was obviously impossible to conquer him through force.

Since Yang Tongguan came to Pingjiang, Zhang Shicheng had several fights with him, but they always ended in his defeat.

After many failures, Zhang Shicheng began to try to bribe him with money, but this bastard didn't seem to be very interested in money.

My strategy of spending a lot of money to try to buy him failed in the end.

Zhang Shicheng was helpless to Yang Guantong, a bastard who couldn't get through the purchase and refused to accept either soft or hard advice.

Yang Tongguan, you bastard, I didn’t look for you or provoke you, why are you staring at me so hard?

Do you have to kill me to death to be happy?

Later, after Zhang Shide, Zhang Shicheng's biological brother and the most talented brother, was caught and killed by Zhu Yuanzhang, his relationship with Zhu Yuanzhang was forged. In order to avenge his brother, Zhang Shicheng began a crazy act of revenge, and Zhu Yuanzhang also began a violent

Fighting back, the final result is mostly Zhu Yuanzhang's side winning.

Faced with this situation, Yang Tongguan, who was never a good bird, took the opportunity to launch a fierce attack.

A war on two fronts would be absolutely fatal for Zhang Shicheng.

Zhang Shicheng, who was originally unable to defeat Yang Tongguan but could carry him, could not even carry him now because of Zhu Yuanzhang's blending.

In order to avoid being ruined by Yang Tongguan who captured the city and confiscated his hometown, and to better revenge Zhu Yuanzhang, Zhang Shicheng, who had just proclaimed himself king, finally made a decision.

He decided to surrender to the Yuan Dynasty again.

Returning to mother's embrace.

The Yuan Dynasty naturally welcomed Zhang Shicheng's surrender.

The emperor of the Yuan Dynasty, who had always dealt with him before, did not treat Zhang Shicheng badly. He was given the official position of Taiwei, making him responsible for the important task of transporting grain from the south to Beijing, and required Zhang Shicheng, who had voluntarily surrendered, to pay tribute to the court every year.

110,000 shi of food.

Zhang Shicheng, who took the initiative to surrender and was obviously inferior to others, complied with the court's requirements in the first year and handed over the grain on time. After handing over the grain, Zhang Shicheng hoped that the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty would make him king!

He was the king before he surrendered, and now he is a king under the skin of your Yuan Dynasty. It is not a disadvantage.

Zhang Shicheng's ideals are very good.

But the emperor of the Yuan Dynasty directly rejected his request!

Maybe in the eyes of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, this bastard who surrendered was just a mountain cannon who allowed himself to be bullied. If you want to be the king under my nose, you don't even have to look at what you look like!

Zhang Shicheng was not happy to be rejected. He did not expect that he would get nothing in the end after spending money and efforts, and also lost 110,000 shi of food in vain.

Losing money is a small matter, but saving face is a big deal!

There was a back-and-forth, but in the end the effort was not appreciated.

Zhang Shicheng was unhappy with this result.

He is not happy.

He was very unhappy.

Even a request as big as a throne can't satisfy me. Why am I hanging around with you bastards?

Zhang Shicheng, who was estranged from the Yuan Dynasty, was resentful. He was very dissatisfied and decided to find an opportunity to regain his independence.

You bunch of bastards who look like short Japanese melons, wait and see how I deal with you idiots when you get the chance!

It happened that at this time, Yang Wanzhe had a conflict with the Yuan Dynasty general Da Shitiemu'er in Hangzhou. Both of them tried to win over Zhang Shicheng, who had just surrendered to the Yuan Dynasty, to kill the other party.

Zhang Shicheng, who seemed to see an opportunity at this time, was not hesitant. In view of the fact that Yang Wanzhe had been bullied into a bad shape just a few days ago, Yang Wanwan, who had neither paid nor bribed him, became his first target.

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He first accepted Da Shi Tie Mu'er's request, and the two of them joined forces to kill Yang Wan Zhe.

When Da Shi Tie Mu'er was extremely happy about killing his political enemy, Zhang Shicheng, who had been prepared for a long time, also smiled at the smug idiot in front of him, and with a smile on his face, he once again played the game he once enjoyed so much.

Killing Trick.

In the midst of laughter, he raised the scimitar in his hand, and in the midst of laughter, he chopped Da Shi Tie Mu'er alive.

After completely killing two people, Zhang Shicheng, a businessman, was not idle. Zhang Shicheng, who had lost 110,000 shi of grain in business a few days ago, always adhered to the four principles: We don't do loss-making business, so after killing two people, he

First, all the soldiers, horses, money and money of the two people should be attributed to themselves.

Then he ordered the soldiers to occupy Hangzhou, Huzhou and other areas in one fell swoop.

After doing all this, Zhang Shicheng, who had completely occupied large areas such as Zhejiang, Jiangsu, and Shanghai, and was absolutely rich, decided to become king again when he was satisfied.

But this time he did not continue to use the previous title of King Cheng.

Maybe in his opinion, the title of King Cheng is no longer auspicious for him, because since he called himself King Cheng, his bad things have not stopped.

Either he was bullied by those bastards from the Yuan Dynasty or he kept fighting with his neighbor, Monk Zhu.

Therefore, Zhang Shicheng, who felt that the conditions were completely mature, decided to abandon the title of King Cheng and change his name to: King of Wu.

He respected his mother Cao as the royal concubine, set up subordinate officials in Pingjiang according to the king's status, and spent money to build a palace in the city.

I have never found any record in the history books about the merits of the title King of Wu.

I really can’t think of anything good about the name of the King of Wu, and it doesn’t seem to have any special meaning in the name of Wu. However, not long after Zhang Shicheng claimed to be the Queen of Wu, Zhu Yuanzhang also called himself the King of Wu.

The two of them were already at war over the name King Wu alone.
To be continued...