I really don't want to be emperor at the end of Ming Dynasty

Chapter 481: He has never seen the world

Chapter 510

When Emperor Chongzhen arrived in Beijing, he was looking at countless people and was raising his arms and shouting: "Long live your saint, long live your saint..."

The people in the capital seemed to be a little crazy and shouted: "Long live the Holy One, long live the Holy One, long live the Holy One, long live the Holy One..."

Now the people are very enthusiastic about Cheng Shijie, the regent of the Ming Dynasty, and they also hope that Cheng Shijie will become the emperor, because when Cheng Shijie was not the emperor, they had no confidence in their hearts. Just like Zhang Juzheng's reforms, with the fall of Zhang Juzheng, all policies were completely Sweeped into the trash.

Now Cheng Shijie, as the regent of the Ming Dynasty, has first abolished all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes in the pre-Ming Dynasty. Now the common people basically do not have to pay taxes or perform corvee. For example, now Cheng Shijie holds a coronation ceremony. In the past, those capitals The people served in corvée for several months.

But now they not only refuse to do corvee work, but also take advantage of the opportunity to make a lot of money. They get money from the court for cleaning streets, repairing city walls and streets, smoothing roads, cleaning up garbage in gutters, and getting paid for any work they do.

All officials implement a lifetime appointment system. If the roads, bridges, water conservancy projects, and construction projects built during their tenure have problems within thirty years, even if they have resigned, they will be taken back and thrown overseas for land reclamation!

What if the guy dies? It's easy to deal with, punish his children to make up for the project payment, punish them until they lose everything! The trick of dying with debts will not work in the new dynasty. If you have the courage to act recklessly, you will have the courage to withstand the iron fist of the empire!

After Cheng Shijie's reforms, the people were the biggest beneficiaries. Not only were their burdens lighter and they were exempted from all corvee labor, but more importantly, all people did not have to kneel when they saw officials.

Seeing Cheng Shijie on the street, the people rushed towards Cheng Shijie crazily. If it weren't for the more capable guards around him, Cheng Shijie would have been torn into pieces by the crazy people.

Emperor Chongzhen watched Cheng Shijie enjoying the enthusiastic crowds of people, but as an emperor, no one cared about him, and no one even looked at him.

Cheng Shijie waved to Yin Song Xiance of Shuntian Prefecture.

Song Xiance did not hold the Ministry of Administration. Although he entered the cabinet, he entered the cabinet as the Yin of Shuntian Prefecture, ranking relatively low.

Song Xiance squeezed through the crowded crowd and bowed to Cheng Shijie: "My lord, pay homage to your Majesty!"

"Song Xiance, what are you doing?"

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

"What your Majesty doesn't know is that these people were not organized by the minister, but they came here spontaneously, wanting to see the face of the Holy One!"

Cheng Shijie asked with some disbelief: "You really didn't organize it?"

Song Xiance shook his head and said: "I'm really not the minister. Your Majesty, please take a look. Someone stepped on my shoes and I probably can't find them!!"

Cheng Shijie wiped his sweat and murmured: "Common people, being too fanatical is not a good thing..."

Of course the people are enthusiastic. Most of the people in the capital now come from other places. Those who can come to the capital to attend Cheng Shijie's enthronement ceremony are definitely not the hard-working people who are still in the stage of starting from scratch. They all have at least a certain amount of property.

Many people are from Liaodong, and some even come from Luzon. Regardless of Luzon, a trip to the capital costs more than ten taels of silver. If you eat better, it will cost dozens of taels more. .

Even so, it still cannot stop the enthusiasm of the people. At this time, the people are simple and kind. They are extremely grateful to Cheng Shijie who gives them food and land to plant. In the past three years, they have had good harvests, and it is not necessarily possible to accumulate a year's food reserves. , and now, every household of ordinary people has surplus food, and there are countless families with vehicles and carriages.

The population of Jinzhou alone suddenly exceeds two million, but there are also more than one million mules and horses. On average, there is one horse for two people. These two people, including pre-term babies, can be said without exaggeration. In Liaodong alone, Cheng Shijie could easily raise five to six million cavalry.

The people are not stupid. They know who treats them well. Can they be unhappy when they see Cheng Shijie ascending the throne as emperor? Could they not be proud?

The common people know very well that it is basically not their turn to do whatever the emperor asks of them. Of course they hope for officials who are capable and treat the people well. They will be happy when Cheng Shijie rises to a higher level, and they hope that Cheng Shijie will be able to get higher and higher. Up, become more and more powerful, provide yourself with better protection and seek more benefits.

Facing 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 lie in sacrifice and military service." Sacrifice is even more important than military use. 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, worshiping heaven was just a performance, which was different from the sacrifices to heaven in history. However, the lively and crazy people shocked these foreign devils who came to Ming Dynasty for the first time.

Several foreign devils stared at the flat concrete road, lying on the ground and tapping the ground repeatedly with a short knife, barely licking it to taste it.

"Solid as a rock! This ground is harder than a rock. Those priests didn't lie. This kind of concrete really exists!"

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

"The thinking of the people of the Ming Dynasty is really weird. Instead of using such useful things to build fortresses, they use them to build roads. I simply can't understand their thinking!"

"With such a powerful army, do they need to build a fortress? If they want to build it, it must be built by their enemies, right?"

Before the coronation ceremony, Cheng Shijie held a grand military parade in Beijing. As the only European vassal of the Ming Dynasty, Francesco Elizzo felt very dignified. He accompanied him as a special guest and could watch the military parade up close.

Outside the Anding Gate, there was already a sea of ​​people. Ordinary people wearing blue robes and short shirts, scholars with Confucian crowns and folding fans, and distinguished merchants wearing gold and silver were all standing on both sides of the Anding Gate, waiting eagerly.

On the top of the Andingmen Gate, there were many dignitaries and dignitaries in royal robes and gold seals, chatting and laughing, as if the entire city of Beijing was here.

Among the nine gates in Beijing, seven gates outside the imperial city, and four gates in total, among the twenty city gates, Anding Gate was used by the emperor to review the triumphant troops and to boast about their achievements. However, since the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the civil servants have been the most powerful, and the generals have been twice as powerful. Due to the suppression, such grand events as Xianjie Yaowei never happened again.

In fact, the scale of Cheng Shijie's military parade was not large. The largest military parade in the history of the Ming Dynasty was undoubtedly the Yongle Military Parade during the Ming Dynasty's founding period! Founded in the Ming Dynasty, the Mongols invaded the country in the north, the Timurid Kingdom in the west was determined to win, and the Japanese invaders continued to dominate one side in the east. The international situation was not optimistic.

In view of this, the Ming Dynasty repaired and developed the economy while continuing to expand outwards, 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 neighboring regimes, in the 19th year of Yongle, that is, 1421, the Ming Dynasty officially moved its capital to Beijing and held an unprecedented scale "Yongle Military Parade". In order to open the eyes of envoys from various countries, Zhu Di carefully selected elites. The "Five Military Battalions", "Three Thousand Battalions" and "Shenji Battalion" performed projects such as cavalry outflanking, infantry assault, infantry and cavalry combined attacks. In addition, they were also transferred from Yunnan and Guizhou. "Coyote soldiers", white pole soldiers and others practiced "military subjects" such as infantry crossbow volleys and spear infantry assassination training.

According to historical records, "the troops are in order", "the steps are uniform", "the soldiers and armor are bright", and "envoys from all countries are shocked". In addition to displaying its military appearance, the Ming Dynasty also displayed a large number of new firearms, such as the "Tiger Power Cannon", "Fire Dragon Spear", Annan Gun, "Swarm of Bees", "Fire Dragon Chariot", etc., which greatly frightened the envoys of various countries. After the military parade, Zhu Di once again met with envoys from various countries at Tumubao Camp. But this time, Altusa, the prime minister of Timur, took the lead in kneeling and kowtow, "kowtowing and touching the ground", which was very respectful.

Cheng Shijie held a military parade before his enthronement ceremony. In fact, his intentions were similar to those of Zhu Di at that time. Although the Ming Dynasty had a strong military, it was currently fighting on three fronts and could not open up new battlefields in Europe. The vassal state of Venice had to be protected.

When a new battlefield cannot be opened and the Ming Dynasty's strength can be shown on the battlefield, the best way is to conduct a military parade.

Cheng Shijie did not treat the people who came to watch the ceremony badly. He also allocated a special sum of money so that people who came to attend the military parade could receive two large white steamed buns, a bowl of steaming milk tea, and a can of canned food for free.

In fact, the so-called milk tea is boiled in a big bucket. After the people eat the cans, they use cans to serve the milk tea. They serve these two steamed buns and a can of canned meat. Cheng Shijie has been victorious in every battle since he established Ning Haijun. Everyone said Everyone wants to come and support me.

Since the Dingxin Dynasty, Ming Dynasty soldiers now have the highest status. Not only do they have good welfare, but the local government is not qualified to manage any issues involving the army. Even if soldiers break the law, they will be dealt with by military courts, not local governments. government.

"Boom boom boom..."

The salute suddenly started, and amid the shouts of long live the mountain, the high-spirited Cheng Shijie, Cheng Jialong, Xiang Hui, Zhu Weiti, and Yang Yuniang hurried up to Anding Gate accompanied by a group of courtiers. Even the old giants Xu Guangqi and Sun Chengzong, who had not shown up for a long time, all On the stage, he followed suit and really let everyone know what aura is.

The soldiers and civilians above and below the city gate immediately kneeled on the ground subconsciously, shouting long live the mountain.

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

Sun Zhili said with a wry smile on his face: "If you can't persuade me, you can't persuade me at all!"

Cheng Shijie held his hands up: "Let's all get flat!"

Qin Tianjian looked at the hourglass and called in a long voice: "The auspicious time has come, the ceremony begins!"

The salute on the city gate fired a few more times. Sun Zhiman walked to the city battlements, unfolded the imperial edict, and read in a cadence: "...I use the five fortunes to move forward, and God has given me my destiny; the three spirits To change the divination, the king made a false plan. I started from the sidelines and prepared for the dangers... The Ming Dynasty accidentally took advantage of it and lost Liaodong. The millions of Han people in Liaodong were almost killed and plundered. The massacre was horrifying...

It is worth mentioning that Sun Zhiyi was not the only one reading this imperial edict. There was no amplification equipment these days, so he was the only one. Even if he shouted loudly, not many people could hear him. Dozens of loud voices were listening at regular intervals. Every time Sun Zhilan read a sentence, they would repeat it loudly and word for word, passing it on layer by layer, quite like a choir.

After the recitation, all the people and ministers began to shout long live.

Cheng Shijie said: "The military parade has officially begun!"

"Dong dong dong..."

The first to walk into the city gate were more than 2,000 heavy cavalry, a total of 2,000 Guards cavalry. The horses were tall and strong with shiny coats, and their hoofs and saddles were inlaid with gold and silver. The knights on the horses were wearing iron armor, and the armor blades were as bright as a mirror. The armor is dazzling, and the aura alone is scary enough, not to mention the defensive capabilities.

The praises poured in, and the Guards Cavalry soldiers became more and more proud, their backs straightened up, and they shouted in unison every few dozen steps, their voices rising to the sky.

Cheng Shijie saw it clearly and said with a smile: "This is my cavalry!"

More than two thousand people got off their horses at the same time and prostrated themselves on the ground: "Long live, long live, long live my emperor!"

Cheng Shijie laughed heartily: "Pingshen, Pingshen! Good job, soldiers!"

"Death for His Majesty!"

As the Guards Cavalry troop walked through the Anding Gate neatly, the Guards Artillery Troop appeared next, with tall shire horses dragging three-inch cannons.

For later generations, three-inch cannons are medium or light artillery, but for now, three-inch cannons are already considered heavy artillery, with a total of thirty-six three-inch cannons, thirty-six four-inch cannons, and thirty-six One sixteen-unit rocket launcher, thirty-six twelve-unit rocket launchers...

Facing the neat and precise artillery advance, these foreign devil envoys and representatives felt their breathing become short of breath.

The horse's hooves were lifted up neatly and then dropped down neatly.

Behind them were more than two thousand infantrymen, wearing black cloaks and black military uniforms, with bayonets like a forest, and the bayonets flashed with cold light, following the general's flag as they advanced layer by layer.

As soon as this unit appeared, the whole place was silent. Everyone looked at the black infantry phalanx in disbelief, as if they were hypnotized, and there was only one thought left in their minds: "How on earth is this done? Arrived?"

Although every army has formation training, no army has ever been able to achieve such orderliness and tacit understanding. The Royal Army and Royal Navy of the Ming Dynasty were trained completely according to the training codes of modern armies. In addition, the training time was quite long, which was already very obvious.

"This is... how did they do it?"

"Yes, once the war horses are trained, they can still be neat and uniform!"

"But the problem is Sharma..."

The appearance of so many artillery pieces at the same time really shocked the European representatives. Some of them were stunned and some were dumbfounded.

Cheng Shijie looked at this scene and was very proud. He just likes to see people like you who have never seen the market before.

(End of this chapter)