The end of the Ming Dynasty swept the world

Chapter 785

World Affairs is divided into four pages. One page is about the domestic affairs of the Ming Dynasty. For example, in September, the officers and soldiers wiped out Zhang Xianzhong, and in October, the first issue of the newspaper showed it. The battle is victorious, the thieves are vulnerable, and the performance is incisive and vivid. The battle scenes are written like novels, and the common people watch it with relish.

At the end, a battle hero was written, who was the first to climb the city wall and faced more than a dozen bandit soldiers. He fought to the death and was seriously injured.

At the end of the article, it is written that the soldier Liu Fenjin fought bloody battles without fear of death, and made great contributions. Although he was seriously injured and retired, the court decided to appoint him as the head of Gu'an County in his hometown. one head.

At that time, many readers in the capital were in an uproar after watching it.

A ten-year cold window is not as good as a soldier?Then what is the use of our reading?

As a result, there is an article written by the current prince under this article.

"On the Role of Scholars and Soldiers in the Ming Dynasty"

The prince is very talented in writing, and his words are pearls. In the article, he demeaned the scholars as worthless, and even used what the former emperor Chongzhen said before Bintian, that the ministers misled the country, and the literati misjudged the country.

When the rebel soldiers entered Beijing, scholars surrendered one after another, and only soldiers dared to fight decisively, and contributed to defending the country of Daming and protecting the people in the capital.

In the end, he said: "Every time there are more dogs slaughtered in righteousness, most of them are scholars who are ungrateful."

These words aroused the indignation of scholars all over the world, and everyone was extremely dissatisfied with the prince.

But in the world, the most people are not scholars.

In the city wells of the capital, there were also a large number of street people who praised the prince for his wisdom.

This article by the prince also made another person popular, because this sentence was said by Cao Xuequan.

Cao Xuequan was also a loyal minister of the Ming Dynasty. In history, after Li Zicheng entered Beijing, when he heard that Chongzhen was dead, he committed suicide by throwing himself into a well and was rescued by his family.

Later, after the Qing soldiers invaded Fujian, Cao Xuequan bathed in fragrant soup, straightened his clothes, hanged himself in his home in Xifengli and died for the country.

After Ding Yi entered Beijing, he promoted Cao Xuequan to be the governor of Guizhou. Cao Xuequan stayed in Fujian for a long time and waited for Ding Yi to enter Guizhou before taking office.

Not many people knew of his two sentences at first, because an article by the prince, followed by "World Affairs", quickly became popular all over the country.

Originally a high-ranking scholar in Ming Dynasty, because of this article, he was despised by the people all over the world and severely suppressed.

But Ding Yi is not trying to suppress scholars, the army depends on conquering the world, and the governing of the world depends on scholars, he just gives a warning to scholars, don't think that the world is useless without you, don't think that everyone is superior and can be exempted from taxes endowed.

"World Affairs" covers the direction, military affairs, politics, people's livelihood, and anecdotes.

The imperial court's policies and reforms are among them, and the world situation is even more novel to many people.

Many people heard for the first time that there are Europe, America, and Africa besides Ming Dynasty.

In October, [-] copies of the second issue of "World Affairs" were issued, of which [-] copies were distributed by Kuaima or Shuiyi Road to all provinces in the world, and after each province received it, it was reprinted.

After November, "World Affairs" is available in all the country except Yunnan. It may be more than a month away in remote areas. What I read in that month is the newspaper of last month, or even last month, but the people still flock to it and like it very much.

At that time, Ding Yi's plan was to first make "World Affairs" popular all over the country, and everyone would love to watch it. After a certain period of time, he would suddenly inject heavy medicine and start reforming the whole country.

The biggest problem in ancient times was the lack of news, but once the combination of newspapers and local propaganda was used to open up the situation and everyone knew about it, it would be useless for those gentry and landlords to object, because no one supported them.

The second day of March.

Several generals appeared in the Hall of Valor.

"Meet the prince, the prince is a thousand years old."

"Hahaha, Zhao Dashan, motherfucker, my stomach is getting bigger." Ding Yi ran forward with a smile.

Zhao Dashan, who came from the official, had red eyes and his voice was choked up: "My lord, I miss you to death."

The two hugged each other tightly.

Wu Sangui, Li Dingguo, Liu Wenxiu, Ai Nengqi and others looked strangely at the side.

The four of them were all generals. Wu Sangui had been arranged by Ding Yi in the capital all along. He thought he was going to be imprisoned for the rest of his life, but he didn't expect to be called to the palace suddenly.

After Li Dingguo and his three were arrested, they were taken to Dengzhou to live for several months. Seeing the changes in Dengzhou and the lives of ordinary people, the three of them gradually changed their minds.

Especially Li Dingguo, who went to Dengzhou to buy horses back then, knew that it was different from other places in Ming Dynasty.

He now knows that this is the place where Zhenbei Wang Ding Yi grew up, and it is also the best place in all of Daming.

"Criminal Li Dingguo."

"Liu Wenxiu"

"Ainengqi"

"My lord, please forgive me."

Ding Yi laughed and motioned for them to sit down.

Everyone was a little embarrassed, but sat down obediently.

"Wu Sangui." Ding Yi looked at Wu Sangui first.

"My lord." Wu Sangui lowered his head and laughed along with him.

"I heard that when you were young, in order to save your father Wu Xiang, you led a group of twenty or so family members and dared to rush into the Houjin army. It can be seen that you are actually very courageous and dare to fight."

I don't know if Wu Sangui's matter is unofficial history or what, anyway, Ding Yi will help him to blow it up first.

Wu Sangui blushed: "I'm ashamed, I'm ashamed--" That is, neither denying nor admitting.

Ding Yi immediately changed his tone: "But in the battle of Daling River, your father took you and ran away many times without fighting."

"..." Wu Sangui blushed even more, he lowered his head and dared not speak.

"In the battle of Songjin, Wang Pu ran first, and you are not far behind."

"The death penalty of the last general." Wu Sangui cried loudly, knelt down, his body trembling unceasingly.

He thought Ding Yi was liquidating.

"Actually, you are all capable of fighting, so why run?" Ding Yi sighed, "I understand that you don't trust the friendly army."

"I'm afraid that if I don't run away, the friendly army will run first. This is the case in all towns of Daming. No wonder when I meet Jiannu, I lose again and again."

Li Dingguo and the others looked at Wu Sangui with contempt.

Wu Sangui trembled and dared not speak.

"Get up, this king doesn't want to settle accounts after the autumn, and the accounts will not wait until today."

"You contributed meritorious service to Shanhaiguan, how could this king do such a thing as crossing the river and demolishing the bridge."

The three of Li Dingguo listened thoughtfully.

"Thank you, my lord, thank you, my lord." Wu Sangui cried and got up.

He cried: "Sangui is willing to lead the army to fight Jiannu decisively. If you win, you will never return."

He thought that Ding Yi called them here because he was going to fight Jian slaves.

And recently, many people in the court and among the people have been talking about the fight against the slaves and the Manchu Qing Dynasty.

Ding Yi said before that the inside should be settled before fighting against the outside world. Now the two giant bandits inside, Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong, have been wiped out, and there are scattered soldiers and bandits behind them.

Zhao Dashan and others also thought that Ding Yi was going to recruit them to be slaves, and they looked at Ding Yi at the same time.

"Jiannu will definitely fight, but not now." Ding Yi shook his head: "This king is preparing food and mobilizing troops."

Ding Yi originally had only about 20 soldiers and horses. After the war, he defeated Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong successively, and captured tens of 10 people. Excluding the disbanded part, there are [-] surrendered troops in the vicinity of Tianjin for training.

There are tens of thousands in Nanjing for training and reorganization.

Then he sent general soldiers to all parts of the country and dispatched a large number of soldiers and horses.

Now in Sichuan, there are 10,000+ Ding Yi soldiers and horses. They have just finished fighting Zhang Xianzhong, and they are still training the descendants of the Great Western Army.

"I don't have many soldiers and horses in my hands now. Everything has to wait for the training and adjustment of the soldiers and horses. The key is the lack of food and grass."

If Ding Yi wants to build slaves now, he needs to bring over 10,000+ soldiers from the southwest. This is too far away. Many places in the southwest have not yet been completely pacified, and the local area is also recruiting soldiers and officials, plus 10,000+ soldiers. Not to mention the food and grass consumed along the way, it will take several months to come here. Ding Yi has another role for the soldiers and horses in the Southwest.

So Ding Yi's plan is to stockpile food and grass, prepare soldiers and horses, and send troops to Liaodong after the summer harvest.

"The king has recruited 10,000+ soldiers and horses, tens of thousands of officials, and 10,000+ soldiers are in training camps. They consume a lot of food every day." Ding Yi thought, you are not in charge of the family, you don't know that firewood, rice, oil and salt are expensive, Ding Yi The money is endless, but the food is not enough.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the whole country was short of food, and Ding Yi was good at hoarding fields and had a good foundation, and hoarded a large amount of grain before the chaos of the end of the Ming Dynasty came.

But he launched successively, the war against Li Zicheng, Zhang Xianzhong, etc., from the capital to Sichuan, and the food and drink of tens of thousands of people has almost consumed his reserves.

And now it is a huge amount of consumption every day.

Among other things, just looking at the general soldiers he assigned, there are dozens of them, each with tens of thousands of soldiers and horses, and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses across the country every day are raised by Ding Yi.

It also added tens of thousands of officials at one time, all of which must be supported by Ding Yi.

The salaries of officials across the country are now being distributed by Ding Yi. He has not yet become emperor, so of course he can’t be in arrears like Chongzhen, or pay less.

You let the Manchus raise so many soldiers and officials now, there is no other way but to rob the common people.

The courtiers and the common people thought it was easy to fight. The king of Zhenbei has a strong army and hundreds of thousands of soldiers and horses in the whole country. He can destroy the Qing Dynasty by casual fighting, but the three armies have not moved.

Especially in Ding Yi's current situation where almost everyone has cavalry, he even needs a lot of fodder.

Ding Yi's food and grass are almost gone, so he can only act after the summer harvest.

"The king has already issued an edict that this year, the summer grain in the south of the Yangtze River will be transported to Tianjin first, in preparation for the eradication of Jiannu."

"Jeju is also waiting for a wave of forage to be harvested in spring and shipped to Tianjin."

Several people were overjoyed, but Ding Yi immediately said: "But beating Jian slaves is none of your business."

Everyone was speechless.

At this time, Ding Yi said to Li Dingguo and the others: "You rebelled at the time because you couldn't survive, the people's lives were difficult, and disasters were everywhere in your hometown."

"The imperial court has no way to govern the country. You are extremely disappointed in the imperial court and the officials, so you took risks."

The three knelt down quickly.

"Now you have also seen that under the rule of this king, the people live and work in peace and contentment, and the world will soon be peaceful."

"If you rebel again, it will be the people of the world who will suffer."

"The prince is wise, the world will be ruled, and the criminals will never rebel." Li Dingguo kowtowed heavily and swore on the spot.

"On behalf of the people in the world, thank you, my lord." Liu Wenxiu and Ainengqi also said.

Shandong under Ding Yi's rule has already made them completely admire, and they can understand better that Ding Yi is a person who truly cares for the people of the world.

At the beginning of their formation, they were all for the people and to survive.

Zhang Xianzhong beheaded [-] officers and soldiers in Chongqing. Historically, Chengdu was about to massacre the city again. They all stood up to stop it, proving that they all had a bottom line in their hearts.

After the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, these three people were all patriots who fought bloody battles and fought against the Qing Dynasty together.

This is why Ding Yi wants to keep them and reuse them.

Ding Yi quickly called the five people aside, and there was a map on the table, which was the map near the southwest.

(End of this chapter)