Just when the Russians turned around and prepared to attack the 5,000 men from the right brigade of the Ming army's former army conquering Xidusi.
Emperor Zhu was taking Peng Jun, who was promoted to the cabinet as deputy prime minister, by boat to Liaodong to inspect the first batch of Northeastern collective farms.
The results of the inspection naturally made Emperor Zhu very satisfied. After all, it was a model project, and the people below did not dare to fool Emperor Zhu.
This is a descendant of Zhu Yuanzhang. Now the ministers of the Ming Dynasty are all rumoring that Lao Zhu had a good temper when he was young. It was after the death of his eldest son Zhu Biao that he became violent and murderous.
"The land in the Northeast is indeed very good. Your Majesty, I think that using land to raise soldiers can certainly produce elite soldiers, but the cost is too high. Isn't there some land left in the Northeast for future army farming?"
Zhu Daohua also frowned when he heard this.
In the final analysis, the army he has at hand cannot actually be regarded as a "modern army" in the true sense.
But well-raised mercenaries.
Jun Lutian can be said to be the foundation of the Ming army's combat effectiveness.
Ten years as a soldier means at least forty acres of land.
This can be said that for any Chinese farmer, the relationship between father and mother is not as good as the relationship between the emperor and the emperor.
With this treatment.
Emperor Zhu could also firmly grasp the military morale of the Ming army.
But this obviously has its shortcomings.
In the long run, it is obvious that there is not enough land.
Now the total number of Ming Dynasty navy and army has reached 300,000.
More than 10 million acres of military land alone will be granted.
Although the service period of military soldiers is generally very long, starting at least ten years.
But this can't stand up to the iron-clad camp and the flowing soldiers.
If every class of soldiers had to be recruited at such a high price.
I am afraid that the Ming Dynasty will soon have no land to grant.
therefore.
The military service system of the Ming Dynasty.
The current recruitment system must be changed to a conscription system!
This is a reform that cannot be done carelessly.
Because it involves the military.
But Emperor Zhu also had to change.
Because it comes with breech-loaded needle guns, bombardment cannons, and grenades.
and the emergence of automatic weapons such as machine guns that will inevitably appear in the future.
The size of the army will expand rapidly.
The scale of the war will also expand with the improvement of transportation such as railways to a point that people in this era cannot imagine. In later generations, the Battle of the Somme, a horrific war in which tens of thousands of soldiers died in one day, is almost impossible to imagine in this era. .
Because of this era.
Whether it is the Ming army or the army of other countries, they are essentially mercenaries.
Conscripts armed with country, nationalism, or other ideological ideologies have not yet appeared in this era.
For feudal monarchs.
Nationalism.
Nationalism.
This is a double-edged sword.
Because it makes the soldiers believe that their sacrifice is for the country, for the nation, so that they can go to the battlefield willingly without having to use dozens of acres of land to win over them like the current Ming army soldiers.
We must make them believe that the country, nation and themselves are closely related. They are members of the country and the nation, and fighting for the country and nation is fighting for themselves.
Thus.
It can really arouse people's enthusiasm.
Let them rush to the battlefield enthusiastically.
But it also brings another problem.
If the interests of the country and the nation are your own interests, you are fighting for the country and the nation.
So are you a subject of the emperor or the master of the country?
If you are the master of the country, this country has its own share.
So why does there need to be an emperor?
However, improvements in automatic weapons and transportation conditions greatly expanded the scale of the war, turning the war during World War I into the most brutal flesh-and-blood mill in human history.
And in order to mobilize everyone.
Almost all European countries have taken the poison of "nationalism".
This also sounded the death knell of the era of absolute monarchy in Europe.
so.
For Emperor Zhu.
This is also a double-edged sword.
This is also a cup of poison.
However.
This cup of poison.
Don't drink it yourself.
You will be forced to drink it from now on.
Drink it on your own initiative.
There is still a future for a constitutional monarchy like Britain.
If you are forced to drink it.
This ranges from Louis splitting up, to the severe bombardment of the Winter Palace.
so.
Now Emperor Zhu has to take the initiative to drink a cup of "poison" that is destined to greatly limit the power of his descendants in the future.
"Baochen, I'm not too worried about the outcome of this battle with Russia, but this battle can't just be fought, it has to be meaningful and influential, and the participants should not just be the court. and military personnel, and should also include all citizens!”
"All citizens?"
Peng Jun was stunned again and again.
He was considered a close minister of the emperor during this period, but he found that some of the emperor's words were really difficult to understand.
This has been true since ancient times.
Isn't the war a matter of the court and the soldiers?
It would be nice not to bother the common people.
Do you want ordinary people to participate?
How to participate?
With such an emperor on the stand, it would be bad luck for the common people.
I don’t know what I’m going to do this time.
"That's right!"
Zhu Daohua said.
"There are 400 million people in Ming Dynasty, but how many people think that this war with Russia is closely related to them and has a vital interest in them? Let alone ordinary people, among scholars, there are still people who are willing to hold guns Going into battle to fight for the country? Pufu is responsible for the rise and fall of this world, which is easier said than done."
"So, I hope to educate the people through this war and make everyone realize that everyone is responsible for the rise and fall of the country and the rise and fall of the world!"
Zhu Daohua said.
"If the Qing Tatars entered the customs, the people in the Central Plains, Jiangnan, and Lingnan would have realized this and taken up arms to resist. How could a mere hundred thousand Eight Banners be able to seize China?"
Peng Jun was shaking his head in his heart.
What Emperor Zhu said is correct.
Indeed, if every common person can take out weapons to resist the Eight Banners, even if the Eight Banners can fight, they will not be able to defeat these tens of millions of people.
But that's what it says.
It would be too difficult to do.
Everyone is private.
Moreover, the interests of the common people and the interests of the emperor may not be consistent.
Peng Jun pondered for a moment, nodded and said: "Having said that, even among scholars, how many people can take the rise and fall of the country as their own responsibility? It is already quite difficult to repay the king with death in the face of danger. "
Zhu Daohua smiled.
How to do it?
Of course he knew.
There are many ways for future generations.
Of course, copying it directly won’t work.
It must be combined with contemporary national conditions.
Be brainwashed.
It also requires Ming Dynasty-style brainwashing.
"I also know this, so this war is an opportunity!"
Zhu Daohua smiled.
"Chance?"
"A chance to brainwash all citizens."
"Brainwashing?!" Peng Jun couldn't understand the meaning of this word for a while.
"We just need to let everyone know. Rakshasa ghosts and Hongyi ghosts are very hateful evil people. They are always thinking about destroying our Chinese race and occupying our Chinese land. Therefore, in order to prevent our descendants from being destroyed by them, Bullying, we must defeat them all now and drive them back to their hometown in Europe. This matter is related to everyone’s survival. If we lose, every Chinese person will be a slave!!”
Emperor Zhu has sinister intentions.
This completely bound the Zhu Ming royal family to the Chinese nation.
When Zhu Ming is prosperous, China will be prosperous.
If Zhu Ming wins, China will win.
Peng Jun probably understood. He nodded and said, "This is indeed what the emperor said."
"It's not enough to just know the truth, you must have the courage to practice it. We must summarize the experience and lessons of the Ming Dynasty and the Southern Song Dynasty when they were destroyed by the Tartars, and let everyone know that if we don't rise up this time, everyone will be like Indians. Killed everyone!"
"By the way, we also need to talk about what happened to the Indians. Talk about it in a big way!"
Emperor Zhu used the experiences of the Native Americans to frighten the honest Chinese people.
Tens of millions, maybe hundreds of millions of people died.
It scares me to hear it.
These white Europeans are terrible
It's simply devilish.
So I later went to the North American continent to slay demons.
I don’t have much of a burden on my heart anymore.
Zhu Daohua thought to himself.
After all, Chinese people are not like Europeans.
I can't do things like eat other people's food, wear other people's food, and finally kill them all and then hold a Thanksgiving or something to thank God for his blessings.
Later I went to North America to film with white people.
If you don't do enough psychological construction.
Maybe the Chinese people really can't bear such a cruel death blow.
(End of chapter)
