The matter of pressing the Southern Front Corps to forcibly ascend to Thanh Hoa is not listed.

Let's talk about Mo Dengyong's surrender at this time.

As in the original history, Mo Dengyong had indeed learned that the Ruan clan had sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to ask for troops, and after learning that the Ming had gathered a large number of troops in Guangxi, he also knew that he could not be the opponent of the Ming Dynasty, especially if the Ruan clan and the Ming Dynasty were united.

Thereupon.

Mo Dengyong made the most correct choice he made now, that is, he also sent a minister to the Ming Dynasty, and directly asked for surrender, and even knelt in front of the Ming minister to ask for guilt, and presented the land registration book.

Zhu Houzhao admits that Mo Dengyong does dare to make a big move, and he is really not worried about being ordered to be cut by his own emperor.

But Zhu Houzhao did not choose to get rid of Mo Dengyong at this time, and even he planned to agree to Mo Dengyong's surrender first, and even, Zhu Houzhao specially appointed Gui Cao, the secretary of the Ministry of War, as the surrender envoy to accept Mo Dengyong's surrender on behalf of the Ming court, and went to Wuzhou, Guangxi to discuss with Mo Dengyong about the specific matters concerning the annexation of the Ming Dynasty in Jiaozhi, and asked Mo Dengyong to also send a representative to Wuzhou to negotiate.

"You are also an official of the military system, and you are also the secretary of the military department, you should know what the imperial court really wants, now, I let you deal with Mo Dengyong's surrender, there is only one purpose, if Mo Dengyong and others are willing to give up their power to be an idle minister of the Ming Dynasty, it is naturally better, if Mo Dengyong is not willing to give up the power to rule the northern part of Jiaozhi, then you have to drag him, it is best to drag him to the southern front to completely destroy the Ruan family!"

Zhu Houzhao instructed Gui Cao.

Gui Cao nodded: "The minister understands, this time the minister will come to the mountains and rivers to play in the mountains and rivers and then talk about business, and he will not let the talker leave after talking about business." ”

Zhu Houzhao also nodded: "That's exactly what I said." ”

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Gui Cao didn't expect that His Majesty the Emperor would expect it so accurately, and Mo Dengyong would really ask for the Ming Dynasty.

This made Gui Cao can't help but admire the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao even more.

What Gui Cao didn't expect was that Zhu Houzhao also took this opportunity to make other public opinion preparations, in order to make the domestic people more emotionally supportive of the Ming Dynasty's expedition to Jiaozhi.

Zhu Houzhao ordered the literati in the chamber in charge of propaganda to directly leak Mo Dengyong's desire to invite Daming to surrender.

Even, Zhu Houzhao asked the chamberlain to specially invite some literati to give speeches in newspapers and university forums on Mo Dengyong's surrender to the Ming Dynasty and the possibility that the Ming Dynasty might peacefully recover Jiaozhi, and it was even better to make an optimistic estimate.

And Gui Cao also deliberately stated to the public as the secretary of the military department that if he could peacefully recover Jiaozhi and rest the army, it would be a so-called blessing for the country.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had let the attendant room publicize it like this, and it was propaganda that the Ming Dynasty seemed to hope that he could peacefully recover Jiaozhi and would be slapped in the face, but Zhu Houzhao wanted to let the Ming court and the people of the Ming Dynasty be slapped in the face.

Because only when everyone in the Ming Dynasty is looking forward to Mo Dengyong's surrender to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty can peacefully recover Jiaozhi, the people of the Ming Dynasty will be extremely disappointed and extremely angry, and the imperial court can also have sufficient reasons and make full use of public opinion to conquer Jiaozhi.

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Of course, when Zhu Houzhao and the Ming court ruled by him were still contributing to the current reconquest of Jiaozhi, gunfire had already sounded in Qinghua in the south of Jiaozhi at this time.

At this time, the country of Jiaozhi was still an agricultural country, even an agricultural country with weak national strength, and naturally had no preparations for coastal defense, even if Ruan guessed that the Ming Dynasty might have the intention of annexing its subordinates, but the only thing he could do now was to ban the sea, move the coastal residents of Thanh Hoa inward, and turn coastal defense into land defense.

Because of this, the so-called forced landing of the Ming Dynasty did not have a fierce landing battle, so at this time, the Ming Dynasty would let the army land directly first.

Yu Dayou and his officers and soldiers followed the First Division of the Third Army of the Guards Army to the shore, and after a long time, he saw a group of monkey soldiers rushing towards Yu Dayou.

Obviously, although the monkey soldiers are not good at coastal defense, they also know that when the enemy forces are small, they should annihilate them.

And Yu Dayou's department was just in front of this group of monkey soldiers.

Yu Dayou could see that this group of monkey soldiers was relatively morale, they were all wearing cotton armor, their physical fitness was not bad, and the distribution of spearmen, shield soldiers and archers was also reasonable.

"Reload the machine gun, there is a ditch next to it, and immediately fill the water storage tank with water!"

Yu Dayou ordered at this time, and ordered the officers and soldiers of his company to immediately use the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun to attack the monkey soldiers first, in order to disrupt the formation of the monkey soldiers first, after all, these monkey soldiers are too densely arranged, in order to create a dense killing effect, and seeing that the Ming army on his side did not have bows and arrows, he wanted to rush over quickly, and first caused a lot of casualties to his Ming army, but in fact, it just gave Yu Dayou and his company the opportunity to use the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun to fire intensively.

These monkey soldiers croaked or howled, and although they wore cotton armor on their bodies, they had hats on their heads, and they looked a little strange, but they were also relatively short, and they did look like a group of monkeys when they rushed over.

At this time, the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun had already begun to turn, and the magazine was loaded, and when Yu Dayou waved his hand, the multiple barrels of the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun immediately turned and made a crackling sound.

The swarthy steel barrel spun and spewed fire, and the bullets were fired out in a steady stream, sending up puffs of sparks and thick white smoke.

On the monkey soldiers' side, a large group of them were swept to the ground on the spot, and some were beaten up and down and jumped up, as if they had stepped on a hot stone for a while, more like monkeys.

It didn't take long for these monkey soldiers to run away in fright, running one by one with their feet scattered, and even running to the tree, holding the trunk and not daring to move, when the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun accidentally swept to the tree trunk and hit the monkey soldier's buttocks, these monkey soldiers hurriedly climbed up again.

Yu Dayou knew that it was easy to fight, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to fight, after these monkey soldiers had retreated and the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun was already hot and could not be used anymore because the cooling system was not very good, he had to take his officers and soldiers to clear the remnants of the enemy, and waited for the order of the peak.

Syllable!

Yu Dayou and the officers and soldiers under his command were holding the latest rifled rifles of the Ming Dynasty at the moment, and even the shooting accuracy of the guns had surpassed the bolt-loading rifles of the Minne, but they could only use them to hit the monkeys on the trees.

Of course, these monkey soldiers all fell from the trees and were captured by the Guards as soon as they fell, and then prepared to be encircled for service to build fortifications for the Guards.

On the side of the Guards, Yu Dayou has begun to prepare to erect barbed wire at this time, which is the standard arrangement of the Ming Army when it is stationed now, in addition, mines will be placed in the corresponding area, and even searchlights will be erected, and the searchlights are arc lights.

The arc lamp composed of a large battery pack power supply, although it can not be directly popularized to the civilian population, but it can still be used as a temporary night patrol in the military, and the high-intensity arc light line at night can also cause some damage to the enemy who may sneak attack, of course, with the night military lighting such as the searchlight, it is also extremely convenient for the imperial army to land at night.

Because of the coincidence of time, many troops of the Ming Dynasty had to land at night at this time, so the searchlight also made the landing ships of the Ming Dynasty land smoothly at night.

Gradually, after the gauze-like lights were pasted on the undulating waves, more and more Ming officers and soldiers began to assemble near Thanh Hoa, and as a result, professional engineers began to assemble to build the military base after the landing more quickly and completely.

In fact, the Jiaozhi Nguyen side did think of a sneak attack at night, after all, these monkey soldiers are local natives, and they can move forward even at night, so at this time, after the middle of the night, these monkey soldiers do run from the jungle like snakes on the grass, but because most of them are barefoot, therefore, there is no obvious sound, only the rustling sound of their calves rubbing the blades of grass.

But what these monkey soldiers didn't expect was that Daming had a searchlight, so when the arc light shone on these monkey soldiers who attacked at night, these monkey soldiers who were illuminated instantly seemed to be blind, and they couldn't help but use their hands to block it, and some monkey soldiers fled directly into the wilderness, shouting that the Ming army had ghosts that would shine, and even some monkeys thought that the Celestial Empire really had heavenly soldiers and generals, and maybe they invited the true god to emit this kind of light, so these monkey soldiers knelt down directly and began to kowtow.

Of course, there were also monkey soldiers who were not illuminated by the searchlight, but because they rushed under the barbed wire and directly touched the barbed wire, for a while, the entire barbed wire sounded one bell after another.

Of course, what was more exciting than the sound of the bell was that many monkey soldiers stepped directly on the mine, and all of a sudden there was a booming rumbling sound and the screams of the monkey soldiers.

It was easy for the Ming army to spot these monkey soldiers attacking at night.

Although many monkey soldiers had fled because of the searchlights and the sudden loud sound of bells and mines, the Ming army still made preparations for the enemy's night attack, and in a short period of time, the Ming army immediately resumed its combat state from the resting state, rushed out with rifled rifles, and began to shoot these monkey soldiers.

As a result, these monkey soldiers jumped up and down again, and there were countless casualties for a while.

Seeing that the field defense was unsuccessful and the night attack failed to stop these Ming troops, the Jiaozhi Nguyen clan had no choice but to retreat to the area of Thanh Hoa City and prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming army in the area of Thanh Hoa City.

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"Your Majesty, the front line has brought back news that the corps of the southern front has successfully landed! It seems that the coastal defense of Cochin is indeed very bad," Lin Tingxuan said to Zhu Houzhao.

Zhu Houzhao nodded, Daming was able to land smoothly, he was not surprised, but said: "If Daming did not change the water division to the navy, and rebuild it, Daming's coastal defense will be as bad as Jiaozhi, you imagine, if Daming did not open the sea, has been forbidden to lock the sea, the people along the coast do not know the strong ships and artillery, how do the people of the mainland know, once there are outsiders who attack my Ming with the same strong ships and cannons today, how should I deal with it." ”

Lin Tingxuan thought about it, and he had to admit that if this kind of thing really happened, it would really be a terrible thing.

Perhaps because of the influence of the global vision brought about by the great geographical discoveries, the current Lin Tingxuan also realizes that the Ming Dynasty is not the center of the world, and on the earth, there is not only the Ming Dynasty, so now he has to say to Zhu Houzhao:

"Since Your Majesty now says so, the minister will risk death to say bluntly that the concept of the Ming Dynasty must be changed, and Cheng Zhu's learning is no longer appropriate, because Cheng Zhu must pay attention to the old ways, follow the ancient rites, tend to be conservative, and tend to keep the inside and close to the outside;

And now, the world has long known that the Ming Dynasty is not the center of the universe, nor is it the only Celestial Empire, even if my Ming Dynasty should be the Celestial Empire, but there are many powerful countries in the four seas that do not take the Ming Dynasty as the suzerain, and the Ming Dynasty has been unable to sever the connection with the outside world;

Therefore, the minister believes that His Majesty should change the imperial examination, abandon Cheng Zhu's learning as the way to govern the country, take sacred learning as the body, change the law to change the disadvantages of the old law, and accept the benefits of the world with an open heart. ”

Zhu Houzhao knew that Lin Tingxuan was once the governor of Liangguang and an official who advocated the opening of the sea for the first time, and he had always been more enlightened and far-sighted, but what Zhu Houzhao didn't expect was that now Lin Tingxuan also took the initiative to propose to abandon Cheng Zhu Lixue, which made Zhu Houzhao both surprised and surprised.

But Zhu Houzhao knew that it was not possible for Lin Ting to choose one person to put it forward, after all, there are actually many officials in the world, and even some reformist officials still insist on rational and holy use.

"What Aiqing said is very true, but this matter should be considered in the long run, the Ming Dynasty used to be conservative, and he did not dare to make big strides, but now, he must also pay attention to the fact that the steps are too big and cause chaos to arise because of this, and he has to obey the will of the people, not that I don't want to abandon Cheng Zhu Lixue, but Cheng Zhu Lixue is deeply rooted in the people, whether it is scholars or ordinary people, they all take this as a positive learning, so if Cheng Zhu Lixue is abandoned, the people at the bottom must abandon Cheng Zhu Lixue first, and all the court can do is to follow the good temptation."

As soon as Zhu Houzhao said this, Lin Tingxuan naturally admired his Emperor Majesty even more in his heart, and thought that His Majesty the Emperor was more thoughtful and comprehensive.

It is precisely because of this that in addition to the beginning of the battle to recover Cochin in the south, the entire Ming Dynasty entered a period of calm at this time.

Zhu Houzhao did not make major changes in the political system.

After all, at present, because of the reform of the Jiangnan tax administration, the Ming Dynasty no longer has to worry about the imbalance of interests between the imperial court and the people after the development of the commodity economy in Jiangnan, and the reform of the mining tax system has enabled the Ming Dynasty to complete the purpose of transferring the mining industry to the outside of the customs, so the Ming court basically has no major political and economic hidden dangers that need to be dealt with immediately under the current situation.

Moreover, both officials, gentlemen, doctors, and low-level people must have a period of adaptation to the new system before they can carry out new reforms.

Zhu Houzhao is now only working hard in science and technology and education, and he wants to further change the living habits of this society, and at the same time emancipate the minds of more people, and he hopes that more Chinese people will awaken and become high-ranking people with real significance in ideology and personality.

Zhu Houzhao is now most concerned about steam locomotives, and he believes that this kind of mechanical transportation that completely replaces human and animal power will open the minds of the people even more, after all, for most people, they are not very sympathetic to the changes and significance brought by rifled guns compared with flintlock pistols and arquebuses.

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