Chapter 510

When Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Beijing, he was looking at hundreds of people and shouting: "Long live the saint, long live the saint......

The people of the capital seemed to be a little crazy and shouted: "Long live the saint, long live, long live......

Now the people are very fanatical about Cheng Shijie, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, and the people also hope that Cheng Shijie will become the emperor, because when Cheng Shijie is not the emperor, they have no bottom in their hearts, just like Zhang Juzheng's reform, with the fall of Zhang Juzheng, all policies were swept into the garbage heap.

Now Cheng Shijie, as the regent of the Ming Dynasty, first abolished all kinds of harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the pre-Ming Dynasty, and now the common people basically don't have to pay taxes, nor do they have to serve conscription, like now Cheng Shijie holds an enthronement ceremony, in the past, those people in the capital served for several months in a row.

But now they not only did not accept the forced labor, but also took the opportunity to make a lot of money, cleaning the streets with the imperial court's appropriation, repairing the city walls, streets, leveling the road, cleaning the garbage in the gutters, and doing any work, they could get paid.

All officials are appointed for life, and if the roads, bridges, water conservancy projects, and construction projects built during their term of office go wrong within 30 years, even if they have resigned, they will be arrested and thrown overseas to open up wasteland!

What if that guy hangs? It's easy to do, punish his children to make up the project money, and punish them until their family goes bankrupt! People die and debts are rotten, this trick will not work in the new dynasty, and if you have the courage to come here, you will have the courage to bear the iron fist of the empire!

After the process of Shijie's reform, the people are the biggest beneficiaries, not only are their burdens lighter and they are completely exempted from forced labor, but more importantly, all the people do not have to kneel when they see officials.

Seeing Cheng Shijie on the street, the people frantically flocked to Cheng Shijie, if it weren't for the more effective guards around him, I'm afraid Cheng Shijie would have been torn to pieces by the crazy people.

Emperor Chongzhen watched Cheng Shijie enjoy the fanatical crowd of the people, but no one cared about him, the emperor, and there was not even a person looking at him.

Cheng Shijie beckoned to Yin Song of Shuntian Mansion.

Song Xiance did not concurrently manage the ministry, although he entered the cabinet, he entered the cabinet as the Yin of Shuntian Mansion, ranking relatively low.

Song Xiance squeezed through the crowd and bowed to Cheng Shijie: "Minister, meet Your Majesty!" ”

"Song Xiance, what the hell are you doing?"

Cheng Shijie pointed to the people around him and said, "Aren't you afraid that they will squeeze me flat?" ”

"Your Majesty doesn't know, these people are not organized by ministers, they came here spontaneously to see the face of the saint!"

Cheng Shijie asked with some disbelief: "Really didn't you organize it?" ”

Song Xiance shook his head and said: "It's really not a minister, Your Majesty, please look, the minister's shoes have been stepped on, and it is estimated that he can't find it!" ”

Cheng Shijie wiped his sweat and muttered: "Ordinary people, it's not a good thing to be too fanatical......

Of course, the common people are fanatical, and most of the people in the capital now come from other places, and the people who can come to the capital to participate in Cheng Shijie's enthronement ceremony are certainly not a hard-working family who are still in the stage of self-made, they at least have a certain amount of property.

Many people are from Liaodong, and some even come from Luzon, don't look at Luzon to come to the capital, the cost on the road needs more than a dozen taels of silver, if you eat well, you need dozens of taels of silver.

Even so, it still can't stop the enthusiasm of the people, at this time, the people, simple and kind, are very grateful to Cheng Shijie who gave them food to eat and planted their land, and the past three years of harvest may not be able to accumulate a year's reserve of grain, and now, any one person, every household has surplus grain, and there are vehicles and carriages There are also many people.

Just one Golden State has a population of more than 2 million, but there are more than 1 million mules and horses, and an average of two people have one horse, these two people, including pre-term babies, it is no exaggeration to say that in Liaodong alone, Cheng Shijie can easily pull up 500,000 or 600,000 cavalry.

The common people are not stupid, who is good to them, they know, can they not be happy when they see that Cheng Shijie is about to ascend the throne as emperor? Can they not be proud?

The common people know very well that who the emperor asks them to do, basically it is not their turn to do it, of course they hope that those officials who are capable and kind to the people, when Cheng Shijie is promoted, they will be happy, and hope that Cheng Shijie can rise step by step, become stronger and stronger, provide better protection for themselves, and seek more benefits.

In the face of the warm cheers and applause of the people, at this moment, everyone's hearts were filled with pride.

Of course, only Emperor Chongzhen was sour in his heart.

As the saying goes, "the major affairs of the country are in the worship and the army", and the sacrifice is even more important than the use of soldiers. The emperor relied on it to set an example for the world, educate the people, and restrain officials.

In fact, in Cheng Shijie's view, the sacrifice to the sky is just a performance, which is not the same as the worship of the sky in history, but the lively and crazy people frightened these foreign devils who came to Daming for the first time.

Several foreign devils stared at the smooth cement pavement, lying on the ground crisply, and repeatedly knocked the ground with a short knife, almost licking what the smell was.

"Rock solid! The ground was harder than the rocks, and the priests didn't say much, this concrete really existed! ”

"Not only does it exist, people have already used it to pave a wide and long road!"

"The thinking of the people of the Ming Kingdom is really weird, such a useful thing is not used to build fortresses, but to build roads, I can't understand their thinking!"

"With such a strong army, do they need to build a fortress? If you want to repair, it's also their enemy to repair, right? ”

Before the enthronement ceremony, Cheng Shijie held a grand military parade in Beijing. As the only European vassal state of the Ming Dynasty, Francesco Erizzo felt very embarrassed, and he accompanied him as a special guest to watch the parade up close.

Outside the Anding Gate, there were already a sea of people, ordinary people wearing green clothes and short shirts, scholars with Confucian crowns and folding fans, and dignitaries and businessmen wearing gold and silver all stood on both sides of the Anding Gate, waiting eagerly.

On the upper floor of Andingmen City, high-ranking officials and nobles dressed in purple and gold seals gathered together, talking and laughing, as if the people of the entire Beijing city had arrived here.

Nine gates outside the city of Beijing, seven gates, four gates of the imperial city, a total of 20 city gates, Andingmen is used as the Son of Heaven to review the triumphant division, boasting of the use of prestige, but since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the civil ministers are dominant, the military generals have been suppressed, and such grand events as offering Jiejie Yaowei have never happened again.

In fact, the scale of Cheng Shijie's military parade is not large, the largest military parade in the history of the Ming Dynasty is the Yongle military parade in the Ming Dynasty stage! The Ming Dynasty was founded, with Mongol invasion in the north, Timurid Kingdom in the west, and Japanese invaders in the east who continued to dominate one side, and the international situation was not cheerful.

In view of this, the Ming Dynasty continued to expand outward while repairing and developing its economy, especially increasing the severity of its crackdown on the Mongols. After Zhu Di usurped the throne, he further began to expand and achieved good results. In order to completely deter the surrounding regimes, in the 19th year of Yongle, that is, in 1421, the Ming Dynasty officially moved its capital to Beijing, and at the same time held an unprecedented scale of "Yongle Military Parade".

In order to open the eyes of the envoys of various countries, Zhu Di carefully selected 100,000 elites, and the "Five Army Battalions", "Three Thousand Battalions", and "Shenji Battalions" performed cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, infantry and cavalry combined attacks, and other projects.

The history records that "the army is neat", "the pace is the same", "the armor is bright", and "the envoys of all countries are shocked". In addition to displaying military appearance, the Ming Dynasty also displayed a large number of new firearms, such as "Tiger Cannon", "Fire Dragon Gun", "Annan Gun", "Swarm of Bees", "Fire Dragon Car", etc., which greatly deterred the envoys of various countries. After the parade, Zhu Di met with the envoys of various countries again at the Tumu Fort camp. And this time, Aldushah, the prime minister of Timur, took the lead in kneeling and kowtowing, "kowtowing and touching the ground", which was very deferential.

Cheng Shijie held a military parade ceremony before the enthronement ceremony, in fact, the intention was similar to Zhu Di at that time, although the Ming Dynasty had a strong army, but it was currently a three-front battle, and it was impossible to open up a new battlefield in Europe, and Venice, a vassal country, could not but protect it.

If you can't open up a new battlefield and use the battlefield to show the strength of the Ming Dynasty, the best way is to parade.

Cheng Shijie did not treat the people who came to watch the ceremony, and he also allocated a special amount of money, as long as the people who came to participate in the military parade and watch the ceremony, they could receive two big white steamed buns, a bowl of steaming milk tea, and a canned food for free.

In fact, the so-called milk tea is boiled in a vat, and after the people eat the canned food, they use the canned box to hold the milk tea, and they rush to these two steamed buns, and when they hear the canned meat, they rush to Cheng Shijie Since the establishment of the Ning Navy, he has won all battles, and everyone has to come to cheer for everything.

With the Dingxin Dynasty, the status of the Ming military is also the highest, not only the welfare is good, any problems involving the army, the local government is not qualified to manage, it is the soldier who has broken the law, and it is also handled by the military court, not the local government.

"Boom, boom, boom......"

The salute suddenly fired, and in the long live of the mountain, the high-spirited Cheng Shijie, Cheng Jialong, Xiang Hui, Zhu Weiyuan, and Yang Yunniang walked quickly to Andingmen accompanied by a group of courtiers, and even Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong, who had not appeared for a long time, all appeared on the stage, and they followed suit, which really let everyone know what aura is.

The soldiers and civilians above and below the city gate suddenly knelt on the ground subconsciously, and the mountain shouted long live.

Cheng Shijie frowned slightly and said, "Didn't you say that you wouldn't let them kneel?" ”

Sun Zhilan said with a wry smile on his face: "I can't persuade you, I can't persuade you at all!" ”

Cheng Shijie held his hands weakly: "Let's be flat!" ”

Qin Tianjian looked at the hourglass and shouted in a long voice: "The auspicious time has arrived, and the ceremony has begun!" ”

The salute on the city gate fired a few more shots, and Sun Zhili walked to the city wall, unfolded the holy decree, and read it in a low voice: "...... I have five fortunes, and God has given my life; The three spirits changed the divination, and the king was so lucky. I started from the side, and I was prepared for hardships and dangers...... The Ming Dynasty accidentally took advantage of it, and lost Liaodong, and millions of Han people in Liaodong were killed and plundered, and the slaughter was terrible, and it was appalling.........

It is worth mentioning that this holy decree is not being read by Sun Zhili alone, there is no amplification equipment in these years, just him, even if he roars to the point that the sound is broken, few people can hear it. At intervals, dozens of loud voices were pricking up their ears to listen, and every time Sun Zhili read a sentence, they repeated it aloud without changing a word, passing it on layer by layer, which was quite a bit of a choir.

As the recitation was finished, the people and ministers began to shout long live.

Cheng Shijie said: "The parade ceremony has officially begun!" ”

"Knock Knock Knock ......"

The first to enter the city gate is more than 2,000 heavy cavalry, a total of 2,000 cavalry, the horse coat color is shiny, tall and strong, the horse's hoof saddle is inlaid with gold and silver, the knight is wearing iron armor, the armor blades are as bright as a mirror, the armor is dazzling, not to mention the defensive ability or anything, this momentum alone is scary enough.

The praise was like a tide, and the guards cavalry soldiers became more and more proud, their waists were straight, and they shouted in unison every dozens of steps, and their voices went straight to the sky.

Cheng Shijie saw it clearly, and said with a smile: "This is my guard iron horse!" ”

More than 2,000 people turned over and dismounted at the same time and fell to the ground: "Long live my emperor, long live, long live!" ”

Cheng Shijie laughed heartily: "Flat, flat!" Soldiers have worked hard! ”

"Die for Your Majesty!"

As the Guards cavalry marched neatly through Andingmen, the next step was the Guards artillery unit, tall shire horses, dragging three-inch guns.

For later generations, the three-inch gun belonged to medium or light artillery, but for now, the three-inch gun is already considered a heavy artillery, with 36 3-inch guns, 36 4-inch guns, 36 16-mounted rocket launchers, and 36 12-mounted rocket launchers......

In the face of the neat and well-organized artillery advance phalanx, these foreign devil envoys and deputies felt short of breath.

The horse's hooves were neatly raised and fell neatly.

Behind were more than 2,000 infantrymen, black cloaks, black uniforms, bayonets like a forest, bayonets flashing with cold light, following the generals to advance layer by layer.

As soon as this unit appeared, the whole audience fell silent, and everyone looked at the phalanx of black infantry in disbelief, as if they were hypnotized, and only one thought remained in their minds: "How the hell did this happen?" ”

Although every army will have marching training, no army can be so neat and so tacit. The Ming Royal Army and the Royal Navy are completely trained according to the drills of the modern army, and the training time is not short, which is already very significant.

"It's ...... How do they do it? ”

"That's right, the war horse is trained, and it can be uniform!"

"But the problem is Sharma......"

The appearance of so many artillery pieces at the same time really shocked the European delegates, some of them were dumbfounded, some were dumbfounded.

Cheng Shijie looked at this scene and was very proud, he just liked to see the appearance of the people who had never seen the market.

(End of chapter)