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"Respect the heavens and the ancestors, respect the king! 》”

With Yang Chao being crowned the king of Daming, Jiangnan Daily officially changed its name to Daming Daily, and the first issue used the entire page to publish an eloquent article.

This piece of text was written by Huang Fengfu, and he consulted many old masters who were proficient in Zhou etiquette, and at the same time asked many celebrities to help polish the organization.

In this article, the first half of this article expounds the difference between the Son of Heaven and the king, and at the same time clarifies the attitude of the Ming Dynasty (on behalf of Yang Chao) to respect the tradition and respect the Son of Heaven, but at the same time, Zhu Tianzi and the Ming Dynasty are separated between the lines.

The article pushed Zhu Tianzi to the Son of Heaven in the entire Huaxia, and the concept of Huaxia was clearly mentioned for the first time:

It is said that the king of Zun is Huaxia; It is said that the brocade clothes are gorgeous, and they are extremely Chinese; It is said that the article of Lile is extremely Chinese.

The first article proposes to respect the Son of Heaven, which is actually to establish a world system, telling everyone that respecting the Son of Heaven is the foundation for becoming a country of China; The second brocade costume refers to the composite Chinese style of clothing culture, only to make their country's clothing system compound Chinese aesthetics, is Chinese; The third liturgical article refers not only to rituals and music, not to articles and classics, but to the system, and only the same system will be recognized.

The ancients attached great importance to the system of clothing and crowns, and raised it to the level of Yixia and Xia, so it is understandable why shaving hair and changing clothes will cause national opposition, and the argument for Vietnam and other countries to claim to be Chinese is that they wear brocade clothes and gorgeous clothes, and have etiquette, music, poetry, and books.

The word Huaxia or China is still a glamorous golden sign in East Asia, and several countries have secretly called it name, and Yang Chao intends to satisfy this cultural satisfaction in the hearts of these countries and tell them how to make Huaxia. And it will be recognized by the Son of Heaven and officially become a member of Huaxia.

Obviously, this is somewhat similar to what the later American emperors did, that is, playing the cultural card (brocade clothes) and playing the values card (Lile article), and the later American emperors played these two hands to make the Celestial Dynasty want to die. It's not that their culture is really so brilliant, it's not that their values are really so universal, but because they have the right to speak, and the strength of the Western world for hundreds of years makes them whatever they say.

And now China is this kind of status, a thousand-year-old powerful civilization, which is highly respected in the West, and in East Asia, it has penetrated into the spiritual culture of several neighboring countries, if we do not make good use of this advantage. Yang Chao lived in vain.

However, in this system, the Son of Heaven has become a symbol, a link between the Chinese world, which is the so-called hypocrisy system, and some literati in the late Ming Dynasty have begun to think in this direction, such as Gu Yanwu and Huang Zongxi.

The first half of the article is devoted to this truth, and the second half of the article is devoted to how it will be destroyed.

Yang Chao said that after the autumn harvest, he would make another northern expedition to the Central Plains to regain the lost territory. At the same time, it will also ally the princes and let the princes of the Son of Heaven be respected. Xingyi soldiers welcome the Son of Heaven!

As soon as this article came out, many literati began to think about it, because many things in the article were required by the Zhou rites, and the four great words of respecting the king and Yiyi seemed to have not appeared for a long time, because the princes and Zhou Tianzi had long been history. Yang Chao brought it up again, and he couldn't help but guess his intentions.

They couldn't guess Yang Chao's true intentions, but they might as well see something in it that made them feel news, that is, Yang Chao didn't seem to intend to be emperor or usurp the throne. Even if he accepted the canonization of King Daming, he would not be the emperor, which made them feel a little incredible at the same time, but also secretly sighed.

This time, even Liu Zongzhou's goods admitted that Yang Chao still had a bit of a conscience and did not forget the kindness of Emperor Lie (Chongzhen).

But there are also people who see some information that makes them panic, that is, Yang Chao seems to be different from the emperors of previous dynasties, Yang Chao does not have the slightest intention of seclusion to the outside world, but is very active in wanting to open the country, and it seems that North Korea, Japan, and Vietnam do not intend to have conservative exchanges, but plan to get closer to the banner of the Son of Heaven.

What does Yang Chao want to do? Want to invade these countries? Want to expand your territory under the banner of the Son of Heaven?

To be honest, the gentry of the Ming Dynasty is the most conservative in all dynasties, as an agricultural civilization, China is not so conservative as imagined, before the Song Dynasty, the expansion of territory is a sign of whether an emperor is heroic or not, only an emperor can open up the territory to be qualified to become a generation of Ming Jun, to be qualified to go to Mount Tai to seal Zen.

But in the Ming Dynasty, even the founding emperor and tough figure like Zhu Yuanzhang also set up fifteen countries that would not be conquered, and after the later Celestial Dynasty possessed nuclear weapons, he immediately said that he would not take the lead in using them, which was exactly out of a conservative mentality.

But there are also young readers who are enthusiastic about reading it, young people are always more radical than the old master, this article is slowly full of domineering thoughts, and it is still very able to awaken some of the riots of the Celestial Empire's complex.

Of course, such an article will certainly cause a fierce collision of ideas, and people from all walks of life have been arguing in the newspapers for months.

However, Yang Chao has already begun to put it into practice, and the envoys are sent to various places, from Shandong to Korea, but there is no need to wait for the wind period, from Korea to Japan, and Vietnam is not needed to connect with the Ming Dynasty by land, and it is not necessary to send them to these countries in a month, in the name of welcoming the Son of Heaven, inviting these countries to send envoys to Nanjing to meet the alliance and discuss the matter of respecting the king.

Originally, Yang Chao thought that he would be welcomed, but these countries were much more cautious than Yang Chao imagined, and even North Korea did not come.

"Well, it seems that benevolence and righteousness are all fake, and fists are real!"

Yang Chao was not naïve enough to think that the signboard of Huaxia could make these countries desperate, this is just a flag, everyone wants it, but it is not worth the risk, it seems that they are willing to proclaim that they are civilized countries, and they have nothing to condemn other countries, but if they have to pay real money to help refugees for this, then they will have to fight each other.

The king was arrogant, erecting a flag and moving a knife at the same time, which was what Guan Zhong and Qi Huangong did back then.

Therefore, Yang Chao immediately asked the navy to set off from Dengju, and after arriving at Phi Island, he went all the way south to bombard the North Korean coast, and finally simply occupied Jeju Island, the most difficult island in North Korea.

But the attitude of the North Koreans is very incomprehensible, as if nothing has happened, they do nothing.

What Yang Chao didn't know was that at this time, there was already a lot of noise in North Korea, and the courtiers were divided into two factions, pro-Ming and conservative.

If there is a choice between the Ming Dynasty and the Manchu Qing Dynasty, no one chooses the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but the problem is that North Korea does not have a choice now, and there are still Manchu cavalry stationed in Pyongyang.

The pro-Ming faction was also a radical faction, and they strongly demanded that the cavalry of the Joseon king expel the Tartars and honor the Son of Heaven.

However, conservatives believe that North Korea is not an opponent of the Manchus at all, and it is better to forbear and not invite disasters.

But the people of both factions felt that they were at a loss, and the Joseon Dynasty always thought that the Ming Dynasty had a great favor to them, and without the Ming Dynasty, the DPRK would have died in Toyotomi Hideyoshi long ago.

Wanli Tianzi helped Korea to restore the country, which is the great grace of survival and extinction that is widely praised in the Confucian classics.

North Korea is the country most deeply influenced by Confucianism, so they fully accept this statement, Confucian etiquette education, maybe more pedantic than the Ming Dynasty scholars and doctors of the North Korean officials, have always been ashamed of the fact that Korea bent to the Manchu Qing Dynasty, but against the Ming Dynasty to use force, so Yang Chao sent troops to bombard their coast, they even pretended not to know, did not dare to have any dissatisfaction.

Yang Chao saw that he couldn't beat North Korea, so he gave up, but the Japanese actively came to ally with Yang Chao.

Yang Chao is already the king of the Ming Dynasty, and he can represent the alliance with the Japanese on behalf of the Ming Dynasty, and for the Japanese, the alliance with the Ming Dynasty is the elevation of this political status, but it has never been seen in history, and they do not have to worry about the threat of the Manchus.

But the two countries, the alliance is a fart, Yang Chao said that he would wait to welcome back the Son of Heaven, and after expelling the Tartars, he would be in the alliance princes.

The Japanese actively expressed their willingness to go to Burma with Yang Chao to welcome the Son of Heaven.

The Japanese sent out those few people, the hundreds of cavalry who sang a big show in Shandong.

Knowing that the Japanese wanted to gain political status, as an island country's lack of self-confidence, they always wanted to find a sense of existence, but it was also a place to support Yang Chao, so Yang Chao asked them to follow.

At this time, Siam (too much) actually sent an envoy from Guangdong by sea and then to Nanjing by land, expressing his willingness to send troops.

Yang Chao did not send an envoy to Siam, because Siam is traditionally not a country in the Chinese cultural circle, they belong to the Indian cultural circle, but he didn't expect Siam to be so active, and Yang Chao would not refuse.

The purpose of the Siamese people is probably to use the power of the Ming Dynasty to attack Burma, Burma is the sworn enemy of Siam, and every time Siam destroys the country in history, it is the Burmese who do it, and the relationship between the Central Plains Dynasty and the steppe peoples is general.

So the three countries jointly sent troops, Ming sent 30,000 troops, Siam sent 30,000 troops, and Japan sent 500 troops.

Because of the Siamese people, Yang Chao gave up the route of taking Yunnan by land, and sent Song Kun to set off from Guangdong and go to Siam by sea, and after joining the Siamese army, he first threatened Burma to release people, if Burma released people, Yang Chao also planned to teach them a lesson, and then forget it, it was not Yang Chao's purpose to destroy Burma, because destroying them would only cheapen a country like Siam.

Another advantage of letting Song Kun attack from Siam is that Yang Chao can make an appointment with Li Dingguo to attack, Yang Chao from the south, Li Dingguo from the north, and there is no reason for a small country like Siam not to perish.

While heading south, Yang Chao began to prepare for the Northern Expedition, which was the real battle.

Yang Chao dispatched 600,000 troops this time, with Li Wuliu and Wang Pu on two northern expeditions, and the two led an army of 500,000, but it was enough, because the Qing army's strength in Beizhili was less than 300,000. (To be continued......)