Whether it is the complacent Jiannu, or Li Zicheng who is trying to make a comeback in the south, or Zhang Xianzhong who seized Sichuan.

These so-called heroes in the late Ming Dynasty did not regard Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen as the current enemy.

In their eyes.

Emperor Chongzhen, who has been in office for seventeen years, can make the country fall apart so much, and he is naturally incompetent.

But this is also the reason why they have failed one after another in the future.

They all despised Zhu Youzhen.

Because they don't know that the current Emperor Chongzhen is no longer the stubborn, suspicious and timid emperor he used to be.

This is undoubtedly beneficial to the Ming Dynasty, which has just undergone tax reform and currency reform.

It is better to be despised than to be wary of others.

The same is true of political forces.

Since the outside did not put the main opponent on Zhu Youzhen.

Zhu Youzhen can also use this to accumulate strength, recruit troops, and build a strong army in the new era.

Yes.

After more than 200 years of development.

The Ming Dynasty has indeed become a rotten form of government, and it is difficult to return.

From scholars to commoners, there are many people who enjoy peace and honor, and there are few who are strategizing.

But the Ming Dynasty is still a complete national political system.

This is the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's accumulated rule for two hundred years.

Even now.

The Ming Dynasty was still able to use the state apparatus to call on hundreds of thousands or even millions of people to join the army in an instant.

It was even still the state power recognized by the majority of the gentry and commoners.

In this era of the family world, there is no concept of the nation, but there is the concept of the family and the country.

The concept of the Ming Dynasty, a symbol of the state, has taken root after two hundred years of rule.

His legitimacy is beyond doubt.

So no matter how corrupt and incorrigible it is, there are always people who take it as a justification.

There was always someone who did everything in their power to save it, even giving their lives for him.

This may be the greatest benefit given to it by the rulers after the Zhu dynasty ruled China for two hundred years.

Many people have come to believe in its existence and strength.

Without the Ming Dynasty, it is equivalent to not having your own home.

Even the Manchus did not dare to deny the Ming Dynasty.

From the central to the local, Daming still has a complete administrative system.

He is not a nascent regime and does not need to worry about recruiting talent.

Therefore, Zhu Youzhen can let his will go to the county in a short time.

Even, Zhu Youzhen also planned to send the imperial power to the towns and villages controlled by the clan.

In that way, the foundation of the Ming Dynasty's rule will undoubtedly be more solid.

Because of the legitimacy of the Ming Dynasty, his influence is still so amazing.

After Li Mingrui, the governor of Huaiyang, arrived in Yangzhou, almost all the gentry and people in the city were dispatched.

And the most asked by these people is where Your Majesty is?

When Li Mingrui said that His Majesty had arrived in Nanjing, and although the northern capital had fallen, the Ming Dynasty still existed.

The entire Yangzhou City was directly boiling and cheering, not only glad that His Majesty was safe, but also glad that the Ming Dynasty did not perish after all, and he did not have a ruined country.

Zhu Youzhen's survival seems to be a heart booster, which suddenly revives the morale that was already discouraged by Li Zicheng's breakthrough into Gyeonggi.

The people of the world have a great sense of the aftermath of the catastrophe.

It seems that Emperor Chongzhen Zhu Youzhen survived, and they also survived.

After all, if the emperor is martyred.

For a while, I don't know how many scholars had to choose to follow the martyrdom.

I don't know how many people will lose their fighting spirit because of this, and think that their family and country are destroyed, and either choose to end their lives or escape into the empty door.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen's southward relocation was like a beacon of hope, so that the confused and desperate Ming Shimin once again saw the light of hope.

Zhu Youzhen asked Jinyi Wei to send a message to the world, saying that His Majesty had moved south, and the general trend of the world was uncertain.

When the survival of this country is in ruins, the people of the world should follow His Majesty to the south, so that he may rise again one day.

For a time, there were not a few people in the entire northern region who spontaneously moved their families.

Zhu Youzhen's move south seemed to tell them where the safest place was.

And once there is a desire to move south to the Ming Dynasty, it will take the entire clan and even the entire village with it.

Therefore, although Zhu Youzhen's death in the coal mountain completed the heroism of the Son of Heaven guarding the country and the monarch dying in Sheji, it was not a wise political decision.

People can be flexible, and as a polity, they can't be flexible.

If the Ming Dynasty adheres to the ancestral teachings and continues to be stubborn, it will naturally face the fate of destruction.

And Zhu Youzhen, as a traverser, did not abide by the ideological baggage of the ancestral teachings, he only cared about what was the best choice.

As for the so-called emperor's integrity and his name before and after, he didn't care, and a group of royal literati in the Hanlin Academy naturally had the ability to clear his name.

Otherwise, wouldn't this group of idle eaters be raised in vain?

Now, the Ministry of Rites and the Hanlin Academy have begun to make a correct explanation for the Chongzhen Emperor Zhu Youzhen to move south, what to follow the instructions of Chengzu, the southern tour of the capital to wait for him to rise again, although the northern capital has fallen, but the Ming Dynasty has not died, and the society has not collapsed and so on.

As long as there is logic, as long as it is a reason, the people of the whole world are willing to continue to believe, and they will consciously win the grain and follow.

The emperor toured the south, and the people survived because of it, and the morale was still there.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen called on people with lofty ideals in the world to protect their families and defend the country, and put pen to paper.

Thus, for a time.

I don't know how many masters who have shaved their hair and are ready to become monks and escape into Buddhism choose to still dedicate the rest of their lives in the red dust.

I don't know how many people who put the rope on the beam of the house and are ready to go to the bottom of the nine springs to realize their ambitions choose to continue to study and practice martial arts.

I don't know how many people who are beginning to realize the crisis have scattered their wealth and joined the army together.

In addition, Zhu Youzhen's eradication of the warlord Liu Zeqing, and Li Banghua's eradication of the warlord Liu Liangzuo, who harmed the people, in Henan and Fengyang, and re-enforced military discipline.

The hearts of the people in Shandong, Henan, Huaiyang and other places have gradually calmed down, and they feel that the Ming Dynasty still has a chance to be saved.

So.

When Li Mingrui, the governor of Huaiyang, posted a notice to recruit the Son of Heaven at the behest of Zhu You's pro-army, there was an endless stream of people who rushed to apply.

There are even people from Beizhili, Huguang, Liangguang and Fujian and other places.

After all, in their eyes, the other Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, and even Zheng Zhilong, Zuo Liangyu, Jiannu, etc., are just thieves, and it is Da Ming who is really worthy of their service.

By the time Zhu Youzhen issued an order to inspect Huaiyang, the number of conscripts who had arrived in Huaiyang had reached 500,000, and many of them were civil and military talents, including scholars who were talented and even scholars, as well as people from the rivers and lakes who were skilled in martial arts, and people from Tian Shelang and temples.

Only at this moment, because we want to save the Ming Dynasty and defend our home and country, can we truly confirm the sentence "the land has no distinction between north and south, and people have no distinction between old and young".

People from all walks of life have thus found a common goal.

After all, the world is in turmoil so far, and everyone wants to reproduce the Ming Dynasty in the peaceful and prosperous era of the past.