The next day is the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, and this year is more celebrated than any other year. The stock of the firecracker shop was almost sold out. The sound of firecrackers in Beijing has almost never stopped. From time to time, mixed with the joy and laughter of the people, a strong taste of happiness, this Chinese New Year's Eve meal has not been eaten, you can already feel it!

However, some people rejoice, and some people must be unhappy. In the capital city, those salt merchants and the people behind the salt merchants felt like a thunderbolt hitting them on the head for the emperor's gift.

However, they are only a minority in the capital, although they are rich and powerful, they may be greater than the imperial court? The people who live in the capital can feel the prestige of the emperor the most. On Fengtianmen Square, they haven't been there. These people are self-aware, if they dare to make trouble, even if they are not drowned by the spit of the people of Beijing, there are naturally soldiers of the Five Cities Soldiers and Horses, Jinyi Wei and Dongchang Fan Soldiers waiting.

Now in such a situation, even if these people are a leopard guts, they dare not do things at the feet of the Son of Heaven. If they still knew that the underground forces of the Jingshi were actually controlled by Jinyiwei through Wu Ergou, they would not dare to think about it.

However, their interests are naturally unwilling. They just closed the door and comforted each other: "Don't be afraid, don't be afraid, when the sky falls, there will be tall people on top." When this news spreads to the south, the two Huai salt merchants will definitely make trouble, right? Let's see how it goes! ”

They were thinking that it would be a few days before the news reached the south. However, Emperor Chongzhen was already working on this problem.

In the thirtieth year of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the civil and military officials have all rested, and the Chongzhen Emperor is also idle. At this moment, he was lying quietly on a Taishi chair.

In this hall, there is a fire dragon burning, although it is still snowing heavily, but the hall is warm like spring, and Emperor Chongzhen does not need to wear thick clothes, and he seems to be thinking about things with his eyes closed.

In fact, he is idle now, and he feels that his achievements are too much, so he is adding people vigorously. The number of people in the chat group increased, and when one was finally added, the number of group members reached 1,000.

At this time, Emperor Chongzhen got a prompt from the system: "Ding, the number of group members has reached 1,000, and the buyout function has been opened." The host can choose whether or not to buy out the consumption achievement points of the temporary group? “

Since the chat group was revamped according to his wishes, the system has been almost invisible, and he has never spoken again. Speaking suddenly at this time, it was obvious that the set conditions at the 1,000-member mark had been met.

Emperor Chongzhen was a little curious, and after understanding it, he understood. In the past, in addition to the main group, if you want to open a temporary chat group, you have to consume achievement points according to the number of members, but now, the system gives a choice. That is, you can choose to consume 100,000 achievements at one time, so you don't need to consume temporary groups to create temporary chat groups in the future, no matter how many temporary groups there are, no matter how many members of the temporary group are.

Emperor Chongzhen understood this, looked at the long list of numbers in the lower left corner of the chat group, and smiled in his heart, it means nothing, it's just 100,000 achievement points, it's okay to buy out.

and the system confirmed, and the transaction was completed. Then, the system fell silent again and did not speak again. Emperor Chongzhen began to work according to this new function.

He first opened a temporary group, named the Inner Palace Group, and added several concubines in the group, Queen Zhou, Hai Lanzhu, and Tian Guifei.

Then a temporary group was opened, named the Northeast Theater Group, and the civilian and military generals of Liaodong and Korea were pulled into the group.

The Northern Theater Group brought in Hong Chengchou, Yang Sichang, Li Zicheng and others, and the scope was the civilian and military generals in the area north of the Great Wall.

The Southwest Theater Group, this group originally existed, but it was just changed its name, and it was used for the Yunnan and Annan wars led by Governor Zhu Xieyuan.

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Of course, the East Factory Group and the Jinyi Wei Group are also indispensable.

Anyway, Emperor Chongzhen created a lot of groups in one go, and all the groups he could think of were created. There are even science and technology discussion groups.

There are many groups, but many temporary groups still have a little few members. After all, there are still a lot of people to be added to the group.

For these, Emperor Chongzhen is not worried, his reputation is in full swing, and the achievement value of the millions of people in Beijing has been given wave after wave, and after several years of contribution, it is almost over. The entry of the Liao army into Beijing gave a large wave of achievement points. Now his achievement value is still tens of millions. It's time to add some people in a targeted direction.

Starting from next year, whether it is for the achievement value or for other reasons, Emperor Chongzhen plans to stop staying in Beijing and go out more. The next goal has already been set, but it has not yet been announced.

Looking at the so many chat groups that had been created, Emperor Chongzhen thought for a while, and suddenly he remembered that he wanted to create a group, which was a communication group. In this group, they are selected from the existing members, and they must be found all over the country, at least in the provincial capitals and state capitals, and absorb the post station system of the military department, and then be responsible for conveying the news of the Beijing division. Wait until there are enough people to join the people at the county level. In this way, the news from Jingshi's side can spread all over the country as soon as possible.

Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but think of running a newspaper again, and the news conveyed through the chat group should be new enough!

However, at present, the literacy rate of Daming is still too low, and if this newspaper is opened, there are still many blind people. Thinking of this, Emperor Chongzhen suddenly felt that it didn't matter, the newspaper had to be run after all, and the people were illiterate, so they could let the storyteller of the post station system read the newspaper. In addition, there must be readers who are reluctant to go to restaurants and teahouses to listen, and there is also a need to buy newspapers. Moreover, the emergence of newspapers can also promote the motivation of the people to be literate. So be it, this thing will start to be done in the next year, and there must be something that should be there.

There is another advantage of doing this, that is, public opinion will no longer be swayed by a very small number as before. The policies of the imperial court can be conveyed to the literate and illiterate people at the first time, and can effectively prevent the people from being fooled.

This chat group is really good! With this chat group, Da Ming will be firmly in my hands! No, it's not the Ming Dynasty, but the earth will be firmly in my hands!

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen couldn't help but smile on his face, quit the chat group, and opened his eyes.

He didn't expect that when he opened his eyes, he found that Queen Zhou was leading a group of concubines to stand in front of him, silently, obviously not wanting to disturb him.

Thinking so, Emperor Chongzhen stood up and asked Empress Zhou with a smile: "But is it time for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner?" ”

Queen Zhou is also a person in the chat group, so she can naturally know what the emperor is doing in the chat group, because she was pulled into the two groups. Hearing this, he smiled and nodded.

Emperor Chongzhen was confirmed, raised his legs and left. But when he remembered something, he stopped his steps again, let Cao Huachun, who was serving beside him, put on a coat for himself, and explained to Queen Zhou: "Daming is getting better and better year by year, and the big guys should be happy, and the rewards in the palace this year will all be doubled, no, tripled!" ”

The equity dividends of the six ministries are collected into the treasury, but the equity dividends of the inner palace are still retained. No one has an opinion on this either. After all, those things were all done by the emperor. In addition, the War Bureau also belongs to the palace, and the profits from the arms trade are also attributed to the palace, and the profits from the steam engine are also attributed to the palace. Therefore, he has the confidence to change his mind and double the reward.

As soon as the emperor's golden mouth opened, everyone was overjoyed. Because this reward for the New Year belongs to everyone, the queen concubine has it, and the palace maids and maids also have it. Suddenly, the atmosphere in the palace was extraordinarily harmonious compared to previous years. Gong Dou or something, I can't see it at all, whether it's male or female, male or female, as long as they meet, they all smile and nod to each other. Familiarly, if you have a good relationship, you will say "Happy New Year"!

At the same time, the Wa Kingdom is also celebrating the New Year.

In the original history, it was only after the Meiji Restoration that the Wa Kingdom was changed to the Gregorian New Year, and no longer learned Chinese customs to celebrate the New Year.

But at this time, it is natural to be proud of Chinese customs, and it is the lunar year.

The daimyo mansion of the Satsuma Domain on the island of Kyushu has been changed to the residence of the Toyotomi shogunate, and the owner is Toyotomi Kunimatsu, the grandson of Toyotomi Hideyoshi. They are also eating Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, but not alone, but a bunch of people, and there are several of them just by money rat tails.

The women of the Wa Kingdom danced in the middle, and Toyotomi Kunimatsu and Dolgon sat side by side. On the underside of Dolgon's side, Haug was the first, followed by Dordort and Azig, with Ingordai at the end. On the other side, it was naturally Toyotomi Kunimatsu's subordinates.

Don't look at the fact that Dolgon and Hauge seem to be in harmony now, but before that, when Dolgon first arrived in the Wa Kingdom, if it weren't for the fact that everyone including Toyotomi Kunimatsu, Ingordai, the leaders of the Catholics, and the samurai Masuda Yoshiji and Xiyi Allen were all fighting, both of them would have almost fought.

In the end, Dolgon was still the rightful emperor of the Qing Dynasty, and Hauge was named the nephew of the crown prince by Dolgon, in fact, the crown prince, so that this contradiction was temporarily resolved. Of course, what outsiders don't know is that Qian Fugui actually contributed a lot in this matter. It's even an exaggeration to say that it was Emperor Chongzhen, Lu Xiangsheng and others who were all helping them with advice, and finally got such a solution. Otherwise, when the Tokugawa shogunate still has an advantage, Jianyu is so desperate, and the Ming Dynasty will not be able to profit!

However, in this way, Toyotomi Kunimatsu and others also knew that the Qing army, which was so powerful, was actually driven into the sea by the Ming Kingdom. Doesn't that mean that the Ming army is far more powerful than the Qing army?

At that time, when this conclusion was reached, Toyotomi Kunimatsu did not sleep well for a few days and nights, or Dolgon first discovered that something was wrong, and hurriedly did his ideological work, saying that the main reason why the Qing Dynasty failed to win the Ming Kingdom was that there was no food. Otherwise, how could the Qing army be defeated by the Ming army if it was so elite? In order to be convincing, he also mentioned why the Qing Dynasty was invincible in the northern war in southeast Liao, in fact, there was no shortage of food.

After helping Toyotomi Guosong defeat the Wa State and regain the lost power, the Qing Dynasty has enough food and materials, and the Qing warriors will definitely be able to counterattack the mainland and recapture Liaodong without starvation, and even join forces with Toyotomi Guomatsu to defeat the Ming Dynasty and divide the world equally.

In his words, he also reminded Toyotomi Kunimatsu many times not to think of compromising with Mingguo. In the past, your grandfather Toyotomi Hideyoshi sent troops to fight directly with the Ming army. How many people died in the Ming army, this feud has long been settled, and it is impossible to unravel it. There is a evidence, that is, the Ming army is now paying attention to it, and those who commit Ming offenses will be punished even if they are far away, which shows that he Dolgon did not tell lies.

Toyotomi Kunimatsu's ability is far less powerful than his grandfather's, and after being "enlightened" by Dolgon, he suddenly became enlightened and no longer worried about the affairs of the Manchu Dynasty.

However, in Dorgon's heart, he was very disappointed. It's not that Toyotomi Kunimatsu's ability is a problem, on the contrary, it's that Toyotomi Kunimatsu doesn't have the ability, so it meets the plan in his heart. Counterattacking the mainland, it was just him fooling others, but he couldn't deceive himself, with the strength of the Ming army now, even if the Qing Dynasty had enough food and grass, it could not be its opponent.

The hope in his heart at this time was the disappointment of Xiyi in hope. The Catholic army, in fact, is basically still a Japanese national. There are few Xiyi, and after some conversation, I feel that I think that as long as I am Xiyi, I can make guns, guns and ships, but in fact, it is just wishful thinking!

These Xiyi can deceive others and fool others, but they can't fool Dolgon. He even doubted that if he let these Xiyi build guns and guns and build ships, this level could catch up with the level of Ming craftsmen!

At this time, Dolgon also hated Tokugawa Iemitsu, and it was this guy who drove away all the Xiyi of the Wa Kingdom, leaving only a very small number of red-haired ghosts. These Xiyi were still secretly left behind under the cover of the cultists. Otherwise, there will be more Xiyi, and there will always be people who can really know how to make guns, guns, and ships.

Of course, Dolgon was not without gains. After talking with these Xiyi, he also learned that on the other side of the sea, there was actually a continent, which was larger than the Ming Kingdom. And the most important thing is that there are no people over there, they are all some natives, drinking Maoru's blood, primitive people. Hearing this, he was really eye-opening.

Eating Chinese New Year's Eve, Dolgon and Toyotomi Kunimatsu were discussing the war with the Tokugawa shogunate next year.

Speaking of which, after years of war, Kyushu Island is also very short of supplies. These people are all thinking about how to collect supplies. In this regard, Dolgon, the Manchu leaders, had experience, and taught Toyotomi Kunimatsu what they had done in Liaodong and how to deal with the Ming army before, or in other words, instructed Toyotomi Kunimatsu to fight with the Tokugawa shogunate according to their methods.

Only one thing is very important, before the war has begun, it is necessary to plant spies over there first.

They were chatting about it, but they were heard word by word by Qian Fugui, who was standing behind Hauge.