Chapter 274 The noblest contempt!
After understanding the whole story of the matter, Wang Yue's expression calmed down.
Although Wang Yue did not fully believe Mu Cong from the bottom of his heart, Wang Yue was still willing to believe Mu Cong’s original intention for Mu Sheng’s sake.
"If this is the case, then Wang misunderstood the Duke."
"Hurry, let them go."
The camps let go of Mu Cong and his subordinates, and the originally tense atmosphere slowly dissipated.
After a small storm, Wang Yue and Mu Cong sat opposite each other and talked about what they had encountered along the way.
Wang Yue also told Mu Cong that the most puzzled thing he had during this period was those Annan who was full of hatred for the Ming army, fearless of death, and frequently launched suicide attacks on the Ming army. Lower people.
Mu Cong sighed: "I have encountered these things you said, and I think I should know what's going on."
Mu Cong looked at Wang Yue , said in a leisurely manner: "According to my grandfather, in the fourth year of Yongle, when the Ming Dynasty first conquered Annan, it was through Hu Jiqing's father and son to kill the king of the Chen family in the previous dynasty."
"And it also lists twenty major crimes such as Hu Jiqing and his son, including impolite punishment and severe laws, violent killing of innocent people, heavy troubles, and continuous exploitation. It is also called the arrival of the Ming army to save the suffering of the people and restore the ancestral sacrifices of the Chen family. "
"As a result, the people of Annan have been shaken. Many Annan people are disgusted with the harsh policies of the Hu family and have no desire to fight."
"The Ming army was unstoppable and pushed the Hu army to the ground. Heading to Qinghua, Hu's father and son were captured alive and sent to Yingtianwen to behead him In less than a year, the Hu Dynasty was destroyed by the Ming Dynasty. "
"But in the third year of Xuande, Li Li was in rebellion and the Ming army fought again in the south, the Annan people who were originally Anshun did not know how to resist , but he launched a very fierce resistance to the Ming army, and once this happened. "
"Later my grandfather realized that it was because of Li Li's rebellion that he attached great importance to the training of the people at the bottom of Annan." br>
"He sent a large number of officials to various villages in Annan Kingdom to publicize the brutality of the Ming army and the benevolence and righteousness of the Li army."
"And he also called his own struggle against Ming Dynasty a benevolence and righteous act, and he wanted to In Anmin, don’t get rid of violence first. "
"In this way, the lower-class people in Annan had a very strong resistance to the Ming army and were more intimate towards the Li Dynasty. .”
"In the past few decades, I am afraid that this propaganda by Li Dynasty has become more popular. The hostility of the people of Annan towards the Ming army has only increased but not decreased."
Wang Yue After hearing this, he nodded silently.
At this moment, he fully understood the doubts in his heart, and he was very able to understand the reasons for this change.
To put it bluntly, this is the pre-war propaganda offensive, which played an important role.
When the first expedition to Annan, the Ming army occupied Dayi and gained the support of the local Annan people in the name of benevolence and righteousness.
When it came to the second expedition to Annan, Leli promoted it one step ahead and first occupied the righteousness of benevolence and righteousness.
In fact, whether it is truly benevolent or righteous is not important at all.
What is important is who has a greater propaganda offensive force, who will be more intriguing.
The people are blindly following, and they will not stand on one side just because they are right.
They only have to do it because there are many people on which side and where they stand.
The same is true in thought. The more people with the same thoughts, the more people will attract and actively synchronize their thoughts with the collective thoughts.
There are many people who will feel more secure, both in battle and in thought.
Judging from the results, Li Chao's brainwashing tactics are still very successful.
The lower Annan people, the less money they have to receive education, the more likely they are to be brainwashed, and thus they hate the Ming army very much.
The upper class Annan people who have money to receive education are not affected by brainwashing tactics at all, and only make various decisions based on their own interests.
For these upper-class Annan people, they despise the lower-class Annan people, believing that they are ignorant and lazy, and are not worthy of being with them at all.
In their eyes, there is no difference between the Annan people at the bottom and pigs, dogs, cows and horses.
They only care about instilling their brainwashing tactics into the lower classes, making them full of hatred for the Ming army, so that after the Ming army invaded Annan, they would serve them as cannon fodder and resist the Ming army's attack.
But just now, the lower-class people who were despised by them took all their self-noble upper class to destruction together!
This kind of act of the lower class people breaking through all obstacles of rank and terror and dying with all the upper class nobles is the noblest contempt!
This contempt made the high-ranking officials, nobles, wealthy businessmen and gentry helpless and desperate, desperate but unsolvable.
This is the contempt of the people at the bottom, the highest aristocrats!
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Shenglong City.
Baoguang Palace.
The letter of help from Xuanhua Prefecture has been sent to Baoguang Palace in Shenglong, the capital of Annan.
Li Hao, the grandson of Li Li, who is currently the King of Annan, has received this letter of help.
One thing that needs to be corrected is that at this time, Li Hao had changed his name to Li Sicheng, but Li Hao's name was written in the edict requesting the enthronement of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty.
Simply put, it is called Li Hao of the Ming Dynasty and Li Sicheng in Annan. Both names are used at the same time.
To put it bluntly, Li Sicheng is Zhu Qiyu from Annan Kingdom.
I do not hold power by myself, and it is entirely up to please the two largest powerful ministers in Annan, Ruan Chi and Ding Lie, to preserve the title of King Annan.
Otherwise, history is always similar. The mutiny that occurred in Annan has the same effect as the Tumu Fort Incident.
After Lili's death, Lili's second son Li Yuanlong became the king of Annan.
Li Yuanlong was in his prime. He went on an accidental visit. When he was inspecting the military horses, he saw a maid who was still pretty, so he summoned him to serve him.
Two days later, Li Yuanlong died suddenly.
So, the most dangerous thing in the world is to check the military's accounts.
Zhu Qizhen was just because the border army had a home and could not return, while Li Yuanlong was killed directly.
Li Yuanlong has four sons, namely Li Yimin, Li Kechang, Li Bangji and Li Sicheng.
In the beginning, Li Yuanlong granted his eldest son Li Yimin the crown prince. A year later, he abolished his position as crown prince and changed his third son Li Bangji to the crown prince.
A year later, Li Yuanlong died suddenly, and Li Bangji, who was only two years old, became King Annan.
The king succeeded to the throne by fighting against the throne, and the empress dowager ruled from behind the curtain, and ministers Zheng Ke, Ruan Chi, Li Shou, Li Lie, Li Cup and others helped Li Bangji succeed to the throne.
Annan's great power is in the hands of the harem and the three ministers.
In the fourth year of Jingtai, Li Bangji took power and then began to assess all officials, formulate salary standards for all officials, and stipulate the fiefs of kings and princes, etc.
Li Bangji's move was obviously to attack the interests of ministers and nobles and to safeguard the rule of imperial power.
When you see this, do you feel that this script is very familiar and you feel like you have seen it in Emperor Yingzong?
But Li Bangji's level is much worse than Emperor Yingzong. Emperor Yingzong knew that he had differentiated step by step, so he first captured Yang Shiqi's son and threatened Yang Shiqi with his son's life, which eventually led to Yang Shiqi's death in fear, thus dismantling the cabinet power controlled by San Yang.
But Li Bangji didn't know anything and was carrying out reforms before he could purge the opposition forces in the court.
Just five years later, in the third year of Tianshun, the eldest son of the emperor Li Yimin, who had been silent for a long time, suddenly rebelled and led more than a hundred rogues to make ladders to enter the city at night, invade the palace, and kill Li Bangji.
A coup was completed with just one hundred people and a few ladders, so he was so hasty that he didn't even dare to write a novel like this.
It's so outrageous to my grandma's house. How can this be called a coup?
As sure, a high-end coup only requires a simple way of happening.
If you want to say that there is no acquiescence from the ministers and princes, no ghost will believe it.
After Li Yimin inherited the throne, he began to purge the political enemies of the former dynasty. Ministers Zheng Ke, Ruan Chi, Li Shou, Li Lie, Li Cup and others were all beheaded.
After Li Yimin took power, he was divided into six ministries and six departments, and prefectures and prefectures, so he wanted to start decentralization of power.
Because the official system of the Li Dynasty imitated the Song system, there were three dukes including Taiwei, Situ, Sikong, and the prime minister, that is, the Secretariat of the Secretariat.
The six departments and six departments were directly responsible to the king, and Li Yimin wanted to change it to an official position in the Ming system.
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The biggest difference between the official positions of the Ming system and the official positions of the Song system is that there are no three dukes and no prime ministers, and the power in the hands of ministers has been greatly reduced.
How can Annan’s ministers allow such things that violate the laws of the ancestors?
So just eight months later, Kaifu Yitong Sansi entered the internal procuratorate Taifu Pingzhang, the military and national affairs of the Yajun Hou Ruan Chi, Ding Lie and others launched a coup and killed Li Yimin.
After Li Yimin's death, the minister muttered again, where could he get a mascot and put it on it.
First, they found King Gong Li Kechang and asked him to inherit the throne of King Annan.
But Li Kechang was just like Zhu Zhanji, the King of Xiang of Ming Dynasty. He was extremely smart. He could tell at a glance that these ministers were here to find the mascot. He was unwilling to get into this muddy water and refused sternly.
Then Ruan Chi, Ding Lie and others went to the West Palace again and asked Li Sicheng to succeed the throne.
Li Sicheng, like Zhu Qiyu, was willing to be this mascot, so he successfully succeeded to the throne.
But after Li Sicheng succeeded to the throne, he was afraid of repeating the same mistakes and ordered the killing of Li Kechang first.
Then, Li Sicheng immigrated the world, donated land to officials, promoted the imperial examinations, and reformed the tax system...
He reformed the tax system, just like Zhang Juzheng's one-whip method, and used real things to originally use real things...
All the taxes paid were converted into money.
This gave the local gentry a lot of room for operation and greatly increased the burden on the people.
Zhang Juzheng's one-whip method and his silver standard system were the reforms that caused the greatest harm to the Ming Dynasty, no doubt about it!
Li Sicheng's orders are simply to say that I will give all orders that are beneficial to officials. I will not give any orders that are not conducive to officials.
Of course, it is still to be discussed whether this order was issued by him.
It is possible that Li Sicheng, like Zhu Qiyu, is just an eraser-coated seal. The officials have planned the policy, and Li Sicheng just stamps it.
Their common point is that Li Sicheng's reputation in Annan Kingdom is as good as Zhu Qiyu.
They were all praised as the great wise and benevolent monarchs who are rare in heaven and never on earth.
The monarch who listens to officials like this, and their officials don’t praise him, who will praise him?
Do you have to wait for the people at the bottom to praise them?
So, without comparison, there is no harm.
After knowing the political context of the Li Dynasty, I realized that compared with the same era, Emperor Yingzong's political methods were relatively clever.
Although he was defeated by a Tumu Fort Incident, his life was saved, and he was successfully restored and revenge.
Since ancient times, emperors who can ascend the throne for the second time have not been that simple.
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In Baoguang Palace, Li Sicheng held the letter of help in his hand and looked helplessly at the two humeral ministers in front of him, Ruan Chi and Ding Lie.
The two of them are the minister of the Central Secretariat, who is the prime minister, and the other is the Taiwei who controls the troops and horses of the world.
Everyone and one martial artists held Li Sicheng tightly, leaving him without any power to resist. "Two ministers, what should I do? The Ming army has come to Xuanhua Prefecture!"
Prime Minister Ruan Chi lowered his eyebrows and frowned: "How could this happen? I haven't seen the Ming army invaded a large number of decades before?"
Taiwei Ding Lie, with a frown: "Is this the Ming Dynasty's front On days, did we send troops to harass the Ming border and revenge? "
After hearing this, Li Sicheng felt even more frightened: "I'll just say it. I shouldn't have listened to those Ming people at that time, so I won't It's time to send troops!" "
"Now, the Ming army went south, we were burning in the heat, it's over, now it's completely over!"
When hearing Li Sicheng's words, Ruan Chi was quite impatient The earth frowned: "King, the King of Taizu was able to be independent back then thanks to the materials and weapons funded by the Ming people."
"I asked for it before, how could we not agree?"
"And now that things have happened, it is useless to regret it. Why do you think about it carefully and let the Ming army retreat! "
Ding Lie also nodded: "Yes, the king, it is of course the best to try to avoid a full-scale war with the Ming Dynasty."
"But Your Majesty doesn't have to worry too much, back then King Taizu was able to defeat the Ming army and succeed in independence. "
"Now our strength is stronger than before. Even if we start a full war, we may not be able to fight!"
Ding Lie did not deliberately exaggerate his words.
Because of the policy of "Lili" that the whole nation was established before, the Li Dynasty could quickly organize a large number of militias. Not long ago, Annan also captured Laos and Champa.
Ding Lie's words made Chen Sicheng feel relieved, but after years of surrender, his fear of the Ming Dynasty still existed.
At this time, Ruan Chi, as the prime minister, still gave two more reliable solutions.
"To start a full-scale war with the Ming Dynasty is the best strategy. If the war can be stopped, it is the best."
"Now we should immediately present an apology to His Majesty the Emperor of Ming Dynasty and request the emperor to withdraw his troops. We can compensate for a large amount of gold, silver and jewelry, as well as population specialties..."
"As long as it can calm down His Majesty the Emperor Retreat, we can agree to any conditions for him."
Chen Sicheng frowned and looked full of doubts: "Can this work?"
Ruan Chi replied in a deep voice: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty is the best Face, as long as we have a low attitude, it should not be difficult to reach an agreement. After all, war is also a huge loss for the Ming Dynasty. "
"As for the end." Ruan Chi sighed: "Contact the Ming Dynasty quickly." Zhang Peng, the Minister of War, asked them to think of ways to stop the Ming army from continuing to move south."
(This chapter ends)