Reborn Ming Dynasty as Emperor

Chapter 398 Confrontation
The current official media of Ming Dynasty has always maintained such a propaganda caliber:
That is to say, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao, the current Emperor of Ming Dynasty, is a king who loves the people the most difficult thing in the past and this year!
Today, His Majesty would rather be sorry to the ancestors than to the common people. The reason is that he rejected the memorial of Wen Tiren, Minister of the Ministry of Rites, to repair the Taimiao, and agreed to the tax exemption proposal of Zhending and Hejian in the drought-affected areas.

In addition, His Majesty would rather live through hardships by himself than suffer the people of the world.

The example is naturally that Li Jiantai, the Zhengqing of Guanglu Temple who advised himself to renovate the Qianqing and Kunning Palaces, was directly sent to prison.

Moreover, it also funded private storytellers to go to the countryside for publicity, and even compared it with the current chief minister Qian Qianyi, saying that the current chief minister Qian Qianyi has 36 dishes per meal, which must be one of the top ten famous dishes in the world every ten days One round at a time, and the daily meals of His Majesty are only five dishes and one soup, and the important festivals that require banquets such as his birthday are only doubled.

Ordinary people are not sensitive to numbers, but they can best understand this comparison of eating and drinking.

All of a sudden, although Qian Qianyi was blamed, he once again became a typical example of being reviled by the people for not having a good thing. Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, was once again raised in status because of this.

Countless people began to choose to believe that the current emperor of Ming Dynasty is indeed a good emperor who loves the people like a son.

Today, His Majesty visited a certain street with a micro-service and was discovered by a peddler selling steamed buns, and then he personally pretended to be ordinary people to help the old lady cross the road, and was discovered by soldiers patrolling the city, etc. Such news appeared one after another in newspapers or storytellers mouth.

In short, Zhu Youxiao's showmanship and deliberate propaganda made the country gentry, who have controlled the guidance of public opinion, lament that they have no way to control the right to speak on behalf of the common people at the bottom.

In the previous late Ming society, decisions made by the top would be opposed by the bottom, but now, as long as the emperor's will is clearly published in the newspapers, the people of the world will not listen to it, and they don't think it is good. .

And all the officials and scholars can only follow suit and sing about His Majesty's wise decision-making, otherwise they will be branded disloyal by the people of the world.

Even in the Southern Zhili Suzhou Mansion, there was an incident in which a person was directly beaten to death by the waiter in the hotel because he slipped his words after drinking and said that His Majesty was trying to gain fame. They all felt that Xiao Er was right, because that Juren had read the sage's book for nothing, and dared to slander the current sage.

It can be said that under the deliberate propaganda and guidance, Zhu Youxiao began to be gradually deified, and the people at the bottom have completely worshiped Zhu Youxiao.

As for the landlord class and the emerging citizen class, they have not yet felt that they have been severely exploited by the emperor Zhu Youxiao, not to mention Zhu Youxiao's few pictures that are beneficial to their interest class, so that they can still bear it now He did not completely lose confidence in the imperial court due to the deepening of natural disasters.

In this way, that is to say, in the Ming Dynasty at this time, even if the climate of the small glacier continues to worsen, the phenomenon of drought becomes more and more serious and expands, and the frequency and scale of the imperial court's foreign wars become larger and larger, but the common people's enthusiasm The pressure of survival has not increased, the popular support has not been lost but has been further strengthened, and internal stability will continue.

The southeast coastal trade began to proceed smoothly, and the domestic situation tended to be stable, so Zhu Youxiao could completely free up his hands to deal with the changes in the military situation in the north.

Jian Nu and Lin Dan Khan, who was too big to lose his tail, were still eyeing outside the pass, and the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom were still aggressive in occupying the territories in the northern Asia of the Ming Dynasty.

But now the most important thing is the latter. Once the vast territory around Temple Street and Waixing Anling Longshanwei is occupied by the Cossack cavalry, then the Ming Dynasty will not only lose 60 million square kilometers of territory, but will even directly lead to Rakshasa. The result of the alliance between the Kingdom and the Jiannu, posing a greater threat to the north of the Ming Dynasty.

Even worse, with the addition of Lin Dan Khan, Daming would have to deal with three enemies at the same time.

Therefore, the line between Temple Street and Longshanwei cannot be lost!

For this reason, as soon as the war to eradicate Zheng Zhilong's pirates was over, Zhu Youxiao immediately asked the Ministry of War to transfer the southern Imperial Guards back to the north one after another, and even transported most of them directly to the north through the Beihai Fleet.

A series of material transfers were also transferred outside the customs.

Seeing this, Jiannu and Mongolian Lin Dan Khan had no choice but to strengthen their vigilance, and gradually dispelled the idea of ​​trying to make trouble behind Daming's back when there was a war in the south.

In fact, they didn't expect that the war in the south of Ming Dynasty would end so quickly, and the imperial guards of Ming Dynasty would be transferred back to the north so quickly.

This is naturally related to the large-scale construction of traffic roads that had already been carried out by Minister Huo Weihua of the Ministry of Industry, and Zhu Youxiao was willing to spend a lot of money on it at the beginning. In order to give the people a job, it is more conducive to the deployment of troops during wartime.

The Liangjing Road from Nanjing to Beijing, as well as water transportation and sea transportation, the three transportation methods can simultaneously cut in half the time it would have taken months to transport large armies.

This gave Mao Wenlong, Zhu Zhengguo and others who were defending Temple Street and Longshanwei an extra point of time for reinforcements to arrive early.

At this time, the weather in Temple Street and Longshanwei area was still abnormally cold, and the cold wind pierced directly into people's spines. The Cossack cavalry tried to attack the city several times, but the effect was not good. Temple Street City and Longshan Acropolis became more and more indestructible.

Somewhat similar to the occupation of Yaksa that took place in the Kangxi period in history, the situation formed by the army of the Ming Empire and the Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom at this time is also that the attacking side will surround the defending side all the time. And it is also a deadlocked situation.

It's just that, unlike the Qing army at that time who was afraid of the power of its firearms and couldn't do anything to defend Yaksa's army, it was the army of Ming that was defending Temple Street at this time, while it was the army of Raksha that besieged the city. .

What's more, on the contrary, the Raksha Kingdom is afraid of the powerful artillery of the Ming army. Even in such a severe cold weather, there is no major failure of the artillery due to thermal expansion and contraction, and even the explosive power and The range is still much longer than the traditional front-mounted smoothbore artillery of the Raksha Kingdom.

Not only cannons, but also muskets. The Cossack cavalry of the Raksha Kingdom had to camp a few miles away from Temple Street City and Longshan Weicheng, because they discovered that there was a musket with an extremely long range in the Ming army, and they would always snipe them. .

However, although the reason for the confrontation was that the weapons and equipment of the Cossack cavalry in the Raksha Kingdom were backward, the result was the same as that of Yaksa, that is, the side that stood firm began to be overwhelmed after a long time.

This is the situation of Mao Wenlong and Zhu Guozheng now. The food and grass in the city have begun to run low, and many people and the army are beginning to face the challenge of hunger. Starve to death first.

(End of this chapter)