Chapter 401: Confrontation
The current official media of the Ming Dynasty has always maintained such a propaganda caliber:
That is, the current Emperor of the Ming Dynasty, His Majesty Zhu Youxiao is the most difficult monarch of the people in ancient times!
Today, His Majesty would rather be sorry for his ancestors than for the people, because he rejected Wen Tiren, the attendant of the Ministry of Rites, to repair the Taimiao and agreed to the proposal of tax exemption for the two prefectures in the drought-stricken areas of Zhending and Hejian. Pen, fun, and www.biquge.info
In addition, His Majesty would rather live a hardship by himself than suffer the people of the world.
The example is naturally that Li Jiantai, the Zhengqing of Guanglu Temple, who advised him to renovate the two palaces of Qianqing and Kunning, was directly imprisoned.
Moreover, he also funded folk storytellers to go to the countryside to carry out publicity, and even compared it with today's Shoufu Qian Qianyi, saying that today's Shoufu Qian Qianyi has 36 dishes per meal, and it must be one of the top ten famous dishes in the world every ten years, and His Majesty's daily meal today is only five dishes and one soup, and important festivals such as his birthday that need to be feasted are only doubled.
Ordinary people are not sensitive to numbers, but they can understand this contrast of eating, drinking, and lazing best.
All of a sudden, although Qian Qianyi took the blame and once again became a typical example of being scolded by the people for not having a good thing among officials in the world, Zhu Youxiao, as the emperor, was once again elevated in status.
Countless people began to choose to believe that the current Ming Emperor is indeed a good emperor who loves the people like a son.
Your Majesty today has a private visit to a certain street and was discovered by a vendor selling steamed buns, and then personally pretended to be a flat-headed person to help the old lady cross the road, and was discovered by the soldiers patrolling the city, and so on such news appeared one after another in the newspaper or in the mouth of the scholar.
In short, Zhu Youxiao's show and deliberate propaganda made the squires who had controlled the guidance of public opinion have to sigh that there is no way to control the right to speak on behalf of the low-level common people.
In the previous late Ming society, the decisions made above were bound to be opposed, but now, as long as the will of the Ming Emperor is clearly published in the newspapers and periodicals, there is nothing that the people of the world do not listen to and do not think it is good.
And a group of officials and scholars can only follow along and sing the praises of His Majesty's wise decision-making, otherwise they will be called disloyal by the people of the world.
Even in Nanzhili Suzhou Mansion, there was an incident in which a person was killed directly by the hotel's Xiao Er because of a drunken gaffe saying that His Majesty was a bit of a fame and reputation, and even in the end, the shopkeeper was not guilty, and most of the people knew that the shopkeeper was right, because the man had read the sage book in vain, and dared to slander the saint today.
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 thoroughly worshiped Zhu Youxiao.
As for the landlord class and the emerging citizen class, they have not yet been seriously exploited by Zhu Youxiao, the emperor, not to mention Zhu Youxiao's several paintings that are beneficial to their interest class, so that they can still endure it now, and they have not completely lost confidence in the imperial court because of the deepening of natural disasters.
In this way, that is to say, in Daming at this time, even if the climate of Xiaoice continues to worsen, the phenomenon of drought is becoming more and more serious and expanding, and the frequency and scale of foreign wars of the imperial court are increasing, the survival pressure of the people has not increased, the people's will has not been lost but has been further strengthened, and the internal stability will continue to continue.
Trade along the southeast coast began to proceed smoothly, and the domestic situation tended to be stable, and Zhu Youxiao was able to completely free up his hands to deal with changes in the military situation in the north.
Jiannu and Lin Dan Khan, who had a big tail, were still eyeing the pass, and the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa country was still aggressive in occupying the territory in North Asia of the Ming Dynasty.
But now the most important thing is the latter, once the vast territory around Temple Street and Waixing'an Ling Longshanwei is occupied by Cossack cavalry, then the Ming Dynasty will not only lose five or six hundred thousand square kilometers of territory, but will even directly lead to the Rakshasa Kingdom and Jiannu together, which will pose a greater threat to the north of their own Ming Dynasty.
Even worse, with the addition of Lin Dan Khan, Da Ming would have to deal with three enemies at the same time.
Therefore, the first line of Temple Street and Longshanwei cannot be lost!
For this reason, as soon as the war to exterminate Zheng Zhilong's pirates ended, Zhu Youxiao immediately asked the military department to transfer the Praetorian Guards in the south back to the north one after another, and even most of them were directly transported to the north by sea through the North Sea Fleet.
A series of material operations have also been transferred to the outside of the customs.
Seeing this, Jiannu and the Mongol Lin Dan Khan also had to strengthen their vigilance, and gradually dispelled the idea of taking advantage of the war in the south to take the opportunity to make trouble behind the back of the Ming Dynasty.
In fact, they didn't expect that the war in the south of the Ming Dynasty would end so quickly, and the speed at which the Ming Praetorian Guards would be transferred back to the north would be so fast.
This is naturally related to the fact that Huo Weihua, the secretary of the Ministry of Industry, had already begun to carry out large-scale construction of traffic roads, and Zhu Youxiao was willing to spend a lot of money on it, so naturally there were also considerations in this regard, that is, the construction of the avenue was not only to give the people a job, but to be more conducive to the deployment of the army in wartime.
The Liangjing Avenue from Nanjing to Beijing, as well as the Cao and sea transportation, can simultaneously cut the transportation time of the army that would otherwise take months in half.
This gave Mao Wenlong, Zhu Zhengguo and others, who were sticking to Temple Street and Longshanwei, an extra time for reinforcements to arrive as soon as possible.
At this time, the area of Temple Street and Longshanwei, the weather was still cold and abnormal, and the cold wind drilled directly into the backbone of the people, and the Cossack cavalry tried to attack the city several times, but the effect of the scoundrels was not good, and the Temple Street City and the Longshan Acropolis wrapped in a layer of severe ice became more and more indestructible.
Somewhat similar to the occupation of Yaksa that originally occurred in the Kangxi period in history, the situation formed by the army of the Ming Empire and the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa State at this time was also that the attacking side surrounded the defending side all the time, and it was also a stalemate.
It's just that, unlike the Qing army at that time, which was afraid of the benefits of its firearms and had no choice but to stick to the army of the Rakshasa country, it was the army of the Ming Dynasty that was guarding the temple street at this time, and it was the army of the Rakshasa country that besieged the city.
Moreover, on the contrary, it is the Rakshasa country that is afraid of the power of the artillery of the Ming army, even in such a cold weather, there is no large cannon failure phenomenon due to thermal expansion and cold contraction, and even the explosion power and range are still much longer than the traditional front-loading smoothbore artillery of the Rakshasa country.
Not only artillery, but also muskets, the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa country now had to camp several miles away from Temple Street City and Longshan Acropolis, because they found a kind of musket in the Ming army with an extremely long range and would always snipe them.
However, although the confrontation occurred because the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa was outdated in weaponry, the result was the same as that of the Yaksa, that is, the entrenched side began to be overwhelmed after a long time.
Now this is the case with Mao Wenlong and Zhu Guozheng, the food and grass in the city have begun to run out, and many people and troops have begun to face the challenge of hunger, that is, they are now competing with the Cossack cavalry of the Rakshasa country who can survive to the end and who will starve to death first.