In this era, whether the agricultural civilization is stronger than the commercial civilization, or the commercial civilization is stronger than the agricultural civilization, Zhu Youzhen really doesn't know the answer.

If it was in the middle of the 19th century, Zhu Youzhen could quickly give the answer, the industrial civilization born of commercial civilization was completely explosive in terms of production technology and production output value, and its advantages could have been directly reflected in the form of war.

But in this era, the commercial civilization of the southern group represented by Zhu Youzhen was fragile, except for Jiangnan, the other areas ruled by the Ming Dynasty were still agricultural civilizations, and most of the officials in the DPRK and China were still from the traditional gentry class, although they opposed Zhu Youzhen because there was no conflict of interests, but Zhu Youzhen did not think that they could behave very actively when the northern group representing the agricultural civilization went south, at most it was only neutral, whether it was the Ming Dynasty or the Qing Dynasty, it was still just a matter of changing the dynasty for them.

The vested interests in the initial commercial civilization society were mostly narrow-minded or selfish, and these new gentry who ran commercial activities were unwilling to fulfill their obligations for the country, and only hoped that they could enjoy commercial interests alone, so they were even reactionary in the early days of Zhu Youzhen's control of commercial civilization, and they preferred to be ruled by the northern bloc, so that they could still enjoy the privileges of not paying a large amount of commercial taxes and continuing to enjoy commerce.

Zhu Youzhen didn't know if there were any gentry living in the Ming Dynasty who were happy to yearn for the Qing Dynasty, and he thought that there should be, just as the privileged classes of later generations hated their motherland in order to enjoy greater freedom.

The most innocent are the common people, they do not have any choice, whether the Qing Dynasty occupies the world or the Ming Dynasty revitalizes the rivers and mountains, they are the most basic producers, in the agricultural civilization society they are farmers, in the commercial and industrial civilization society, they are workers, many times they are both farmers and workers, collectively called migrant workers.

The common people are the largest class and the class that controls the productive forces, but precisely because they are not selective, many people in the privileged class will ignore their intentions, although many officials in this era often talk about the idea of "the people are the sky", but what they really care about is whether they can grab more benefits in this troubled world.

Zhu Youzhen knew that although the common people did not have the right to choose, they also had their own political demands, and they did not have the right to distribute and compete for social interests, but they did not want war, and they did not want the order of production and life to be broken, and the emperor Zhu Youzhen, who occupied the most interests of the society and stood at the top of the society, was also like the common people, and hoped more for social stability than for their own gains and losses.

One doesn't have it, the other already has everything, and naturally doesn't care about gains and losses.

That is to say, although there are reactionary and selfish commercial gentry and neutral traditional gentry within the Southern Bloc, the southward movement of the Manchu Northern Clique is contrary to the original intention of the broad masses of the common people, not only the common people of the Ming Dynasty, but also the northern people under the rule of the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The people in the north will definitely not agree in their hearts, and there will be a lot of resentment.

Therefore, the second north-south decisive battle that the Manchu Qing is about to release, the Ming Dynasty still occupies justice.

Although Zhu Youzhen could not make the gentry class completely with him, especially some reactionary gentry in Jiangnan who hoped to get more commercial benefits, Zhu Youzhen knew that he could take advantage of the needs of the common people to get the common people to support his rule.

For this reason, Zhu Youzhen has ordered the governors of all theaters to actively mobilize grassroots forces to give more propaganda to the common people, especially the Ming people in Henan, Huaiyang, Huguang, and other areas between the north and the south, so that they can know that their current peaceful life is because of who is the emperor, and who is going to destroy their peaceful life, and who will shave their hair and make them slaves to be slaughtered.

In short, as early as the seventeenth year of Chongzhen, Zhu Youzhen had asked the government of the Guards system to consciously describe the tragic situation of the people in the north to the common people, and let the people from the north tell their tragic experiences in the north in front of all the people.

Especially after the nineteenth year of Chongzhen, a large number of disabled officers and soldiers of the Guards were added to the grassroots officials to manage rural affairs, and the propaganda of these ordinary people to instill the evil government of the Qing court and the ambition of the Hu people to go south to destroy their homes was further strengthened.

Last time, Liu Xiyao, the infantry battalion of the Third Army of the Guards, was able to quickly and lightly march to Huguang to block the retreat of Azig and the success of the local people's support, although the current Ming officers and soldiers and the grassroots government mobilized the masses are not as good as those of later generations, but at least when calling, the people will not object, there will be no complaints, and there will be no resistance to the expansion of the Guards. And after learning about the treatment of the Guards, he was very positive.

It can be said that now the common people are on the side of Zhu Youzhen, the emperor, and the traditional gentry remain neutral or support Zhu Youzhen because of Taoism, then the only thing left is to deal with the reactionary gentry, and if this force is not controlled, it may become the main reason for its own defeat.

Zhu Youzhen is not worried that these reactionary gentry are coming openly, he controls 600,000 elite soldiers through royal interests, and he has the support of the Zheng clique, and he is not afraid of the forces of the reactionary gentry, but Zhu Youzhen is worried that these reactionary gentry will go to extremes and act behind his back.

At one time, the female official Chen Yuanyuan came to report that Wang Chengen, the governor of Dongchang, had arrived, Zhu Youzhen returned to the palace, took off his outer robe, only wore a layer of tulle, and lay on the bamboo and rattan chair, my life and the stability of the whole world are related to you alone. ”

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