Ming Dynasty: Regrets about the Jingnan Rebellion? I changed it in a dream!

Chapter 38 Fighting Landlords

This statement came out.

Yao Guangxiao couldn't stop laughing.

The old monk's laughter echoed throughout the tavern.

Zhuang Mu looked at Yao Guangxiao with confusion.

"What's so funny? Am I wrong?"

In his mind, all good qualities such as noble virtues are acquired through cultivation and influence.

Selfishness is innate.

Therefore, those who can be cultivated to become people of noble character are ultimately a minority.

However, selfishness is something that almost everyone has.

This applies not only to humans, but also to animals.

Survival requires resources, and if resources are limited, you have to fight for them. Fighting for them is a manifestation of selfishness. If you don’t fight for them, you can’t survive and your bloodline will be cut off.

The gene of not competing will disappear.

Over time, fighting becomes our nature, and the purpose is to survive.

Yao Guangxiao smiled, shook his head, and then sighed.

"You're right. The probability of betting on the selfishness and evil of human hearts is much higher than betting on the goodness of human hearts."

"It's a pity that you were born too late and I didn't meet you earlier, otherwise, we could have become friends."

In Yao Guangxiao's philosophy of doing things.

What they pay most attention to is taking advantage of people's selfishness.

He is not opposed to being good or looking up to saints, it's just that he acts that way.

During the Jingnan Rebellion, the Yan army and Zhu Yunwen's imperial army were in a stalemate.

It took two years of fighting to stabilize the three counties of Peking.

At this time, Zhu Yunwen had already begun to employ some younger and more capable generals.

Sheng Yong, Tie Xuan, Ping An, and even Xu Huizu and so on.

Both sides have won and lost, but if the stalemate continues, the imperial court's strength will definitely be much stronger than that of the Prince of Yan.

If the stalemate continues, they will definitely be the losers.

It was also at this time that he put forward a strategic idea to lay the foundation for the Prince of Yan to become Emperor Yongle.

That is to bypass the city of Jinan and bypass people like Sheng Yong, Tie Xuan and Ping An.

Capture Yingtian Prefecture and ignore the rest of the places.

Many people in the Yan army disagreed with this suggestion at that time.

After all, no one has ever done this before. If they fail to take it down, they will be trapped.

Besides, even if Zhu Yunwen was really captured, could Zhu Di ascend the throne?
If Zhu Yunwen is captured, will other places give up resistance?
It turned out that he was right.

During the Jingnan Rebellion, many places actually did not want to fight because it was an internal struggle within the Zhu family.

Why should they sacrifice their lives? Although this is also an opportunity for class advancement, life is ultimately more important.

Therefore, after Zhu Di ascended the throne, other places all gave up resistance and submitted memorials to the emperor.

Welcome Zhu Di to the throne.

Rebellion? What's the point? In this world, the emperor is always the Zhu.

Rather than having the whole family executed, it is better to peacefully welcome the new emperor to the throne.

"Haha, aren't we friends now?"

"I don't know whether you consider me a friend or not, but I always consider you a friend."

Yao Guangxiao was slightly stunned.

This is true.

"But it's still a pity that I'm old."

"Time is running out. It would be great if I could meet you earlier."

I finally met friends who suit my taste, but I don’t have much time.

What a pity.

Zhuang Mu was also slightly silent.

Life and death are determined by fate. The old monk looks to be in his seventies or eighties.

I don’t know which will knock on the door first, death or tomorrow.

The topic of life and death is always a bit heavy.

At this moment, Zhuang Mu suddenly thought of something.

Looked over the counter.

I found four square pieces of wood with a few red stars carved on them.

Looking at the four square pieces of wood in front of him, Yao Guangxiao asked curiously.

"what is this?"

Zhuang Mu smiled and said, "This thing is called poker."

"I originally wanted to do Three Kingdoms first, but you know my situation." He didn't have much time to wake up, and the most important thing about Three Kingdoms was the skills of the various generals and the character portrayals.

These are all quite difficult.

Fighting the Landlord only requires numbers and patterns such as diamonds, hearts, spades and clubs, which is relatively simple.

Play this simple card game first, and you can practice at the same time.

"I don't have much time, but to give back to you, I'll make this simpler card game first."

"Once you are familiar with this, I will make you a game of Three Kingdoms Kill."

Yao Guangxiao picked up the block in front of him and looked at the numbers carved on it.

"Isn't this made of wood? Why is it called a card?"

The number 10 is engraved on it, with a number in the upper left corner and the lower right corner, and there are also some small patterns in the middle.

Diamonds, Clubs, Hearts, Spades.

Zhuang Mu explained: "Paper is easy to break, but wood is not."

The paper of this period was still relatively thin, and could not achieve the softness and hardness of the paper of the future.

The most important thing is that this is a pub and the paper will get wet easily.

It is troublesome to make, but wood is easier to make.

Yao Guangxiao smiled thoughtfully and said, "Good paper is too expensive. You can't afford it."

"Hahaha."

Zhuang Mu was exposed and coughed twice in embarrassment.

"Ahem, I didn't say that. How could that be?"

Unexpectedly, the old monk saw through it at a glance.

Good paper is relatively expensive, and cheaper paper does not meet the requirements and will be ruined if it gets slightly wet.

This is a pub, how can we not get wet?

Moreover, cheap paper is transparent and you can tell what brand it is.

So I decided to use wood instead, as long as I shaved the wood thin enough.

Yao Guangxiao didn't care about these things. He was curious about how to play with four cards.
"There are only four cards, all with the number 10. How do you play?"

Due to time constraints, Zhuang Mu only made four cards for the time being.

"I haven't finished it yet. It will probably take a few days."

"I'll tell you how to play it after I'm done."

Now that Ximei is helping with work in the pub, I can free up a lot of time.

It was originally going to take a month, but it was shortened to about half a month.

Upon hearing this, Yao Guangxiao nodded.

"Haha, I'll wait and see."

……

at the same time.

Di Ping followed Zhu Gaosui all the way.

Zhu Gaosui said nothing, his face was very gloomy, and he didn't dare to speak.

But the case of the dragon robe still needs to be investigated, and a memorial will be submitted the day after tomorrow, but there has been no news so far.

Not only was the case not investigated thoroughly.

Also poisoned.

You have to take the antidote every seven days.

When will these miserable days end?

After thinking for a long time, Di Ping finally mustered up the courage and spoke to Zhu Gaosui.

"Your Highness, are we...just leaving like this? The case hasn't been investigated yet."

"The Emperor wants more..."

Before Di Ping could finish his words, Zhu Gaosui kicked Di Ping in the abdomen.

He stumbled and fell in the snow.

Zhu Gaosui said angrily: "Investigate your mother!"

Di Ping was slightly stunned, but still said with a smile: "Your Majesty, what does my mother have to do with this matter?"

After hearing these words, Zhu Gaosui was both angry and silent.

He grabbed Di Ping, who was lying on the ground, by the collar and said angrily.

"Di Ping, are you really stupid or just pretending to be stupid?"

"If you hadn't found out what exactly happened to Zhuang Mu, would I be in such a mess?"

"Let's not talk about these things. What the hell were you thinking of feeding me poisoned wine?"

"The case was not investigated thoroughly, but my life was handed over to someone else's hands."

"I really want to chop you up."

(End of this chapter)