After hearing what Liu Bowen said, Zhang Wuji quickly said, "It counts, of course it counts."
"To expel the barbarians and restore China is the responsibility of every Han Chinese and every descendant of the Yellow Emperor."
"I, Zhang Wuji, can joke about anything in my life, but this sentence is not a joke at all."
After hearing this, Liu Bowen quickly said "good".
"Okay, Your Majesty, since that's the case, I'll tell you clearly."
"My emperor also wants to get rid of Zhao Min as soon as possible."
"The Mongols have oppressed us for too many years. It's time to give Zhao Min the final blow."
Zhang Wuji thought to himself, "As expected, it seems that Zhu Yuanzhang of Jiangnan really wants to use me as a pawn."
Zhang Wuji looked at Liu Bowen thoughtfully and said, "Mr. Liu, please continue. I would like to hear your opinion."
Liu Bowen said: "Now most of Zhao Min's troops are still resting in Longcheng."
"If you could send a large army to attack Longcheng at this moment, you would not have to defeat Zhao Min, but only need to tie up most of her troops. Then, your majesty could take advantage of the emptiness of Dadu and march north."
"After you destroy Zhao Min and overthrow the Yuan court, the Yellow River will be the boundary. The area north of the Yellow River will be your territory, and the area south of the Yellow River will be the territory of my Majesty..."
…
Liu Bowen talked with Zhang Wuji for more than two hours, from military deployment to state governance strategies.
Zhang Wuji benefited a lot from these two hours.
…
During this meeting, Liu Bowen and Zhang Wuji talked from morning till sunset.
Finally, Liu Bowen asked Zhang Wuji: "Your Majesty, this time I am representing my Majesty to form an alliance with you. This is a matter that concerns the rise and fall and survival of the Han people in the world."
"Do you have anything to add?"
Liu Bowen looked at Zhang Wuji with anticipation.
After a long time, Zhang Wuji smiled at him and said, "Mr. Liu, actually, I can do whatever I want. I'm just a little worried."
"That means after eliminating Zhao Min, how many days can I live?"
Liu Bowen was stunned for a moment.
Their eyes met, and after a moment, Zhang Wuji burst into laughter first.
Afterwards, even Liu Bowen couldn't help laughing out loud.
However, Liu Bowen smiled and explained to Zhang Wuji: "Your Majesty, I'm afraid you have misunderstood."
"When the time comes, our two families will use the Yellow River as a boundary and keep to themselves. Anyone who breaks our oath will be struck by lightning."
Zhang Wuji said: "Mr. Liu, please come on. You are a smart man, smarter than me, but I am not stupid enough to believe your nonsense."
"Zhu Yuanzhang has the ambition to unify the world. After the fall of Zhao Min's Yuan Dynasty, he will probably immediately turn his attention to my newly established Ming Dynasty."
"My territory is all in the west of the Yellow River."
"The land west of the Yellow River is vast and sparsely populated. In terms of finance, Zhu Yuanzhang is at least five times as powerful as me."
"As for population, it is no less than five times."
"I just don't believe that Zhu Yuanzhang will let me go after Zhao Min's Yuan Dynasty was destroyed."
Liu Bowen could never have imagined that Zhang Wuji would speak so bluntly.
Such words made Liu Bowen at a loss for words.
Zhang Wuji smiled and patted Liu Bowen on the shoulder: "Mr. Liu, your wisdom is unparalleled in the world. Tell me the truth, after I kill Zhao Min, will Zhu Yuanzhang let me go?"
After calming down for a while, Liu Bowen replied to Zhang Wuji: "Your Majesty, I admire your foresight very much."
"People say that if you don't plan for the future, you will have immediate worries."
"But aren't you thinking too far ahead?"
"Who can predict what will happen in the future?"
"Just now you compared the population and finances between Jiangnan and Hexi, but have you ever thought about how many times more Han people there are than Mongols?"
"Even though the Han population was a hundred times that of the Mongols, the Song Dynasty was still submerged under the Mongol butcher knife in an instant."
"The factors that determine victory in war are not necessarily population size and financial wealth."
"So, you don't have to worry too much about the future."
Zhang Wuji laughed and said, "Mr. Liu, you are right. The factors that determine the outcome of a war are not necessarily population and wealth."
"But the metaphor you just used is not very appropriate."
"Except for the founding emperor Zhao Kuangyin, the rest of the emperors of the Song Dynasty had almost nothing to show for themselves."
"A corrupt dynasty, no matter how large its population and wealth, is still making wedding dresses for others."
"If a Zhu Yuanzhang had appeared in the Song Dynasty a hundred years ago, it would be hard to say who would have ruled the world."
"Zhu Yuanzhang is a dragon among men. In my eyes, the threat he poses is far greater than that of Zhao Min."
Liu Bowen looked at Zhang Wuji in surprise. He could never have imagined that Zhang Wuji would directly give Zhu Yuanzhang the evaluation of a dragon among men.
Zhang Wuji smiled and patted Liu Bowen on the shoulder: "Mr. Liu, you have taken the trouble to come to Jinyang from thousands of miles away."
"Let's eat and drink. We'll discuss the alliance you mentioned tomorrow."
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At night, Zhang Wuji arranged an extremely sumptuous dinner for Liu Bowen.
At the dinner, Zhang Wuji also asked Zhang Dingbian to sit in a prominent corner.
In fact, Zhu Yuanzhang and Liu Bowen had already known about Zhang Dingbian's surrender to Zhang Wuji.
Zhu Yuanzhang was annoyed about this for a long time.
Because Zhu Yuanzhang understood Zhang Wuji's background.
Zhang Wuji's background is nothing more than that of a former member of the Ming Cult.
Most of the people in the Ming Cult are just warriors.
And now, with the addition of Zhang Dingbian to Zhang Wuji's camp, it is like adding wings to a tiger.
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After the dinner had been going on for a while, Zhang Dingbian picked up his wine glass and walked up to Liu Bowen.
With a smirk on his face, he said to Liu Bowen: "Mr. Liu, you also contributed to the annihilation of the Prince of Han's army in the Battle of Poyang Lake."
"A total of 600,000 people. Today, I offer this glass of wine to you on behalf of the 600,000 innocent souls in Poyang Lake."
Liu Bowen sighed helplessly, and said to Zhang Dingbian earnestly: "General Zhang, you have been fighting on the battlefield for many years, how can you say such childish words."
"The 600,000 people who died in the Battle of Poyang Lake were Chen Youliang's soldiers, not Chen Youliang's civilians."
"As a soldier, as long as he died on the battlefield, it is not considered an unjust death. If it is not unjust, how can there be a wronged soul?"
Zhang Dingbian originally wanted to give Liu Bowen a warning, but he didn't expect that in the end he would be choked by Liu Bowen's words.
Looking at Zhang Dingbian's helpless look, Liu Bowen drank a glass of wine and burst into laughter.
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