Qiming 1158

Chapter 1643 A Country Without Emperors and Nobles

Ping Chongsheng's suggestion gave Ping Qingsheng a new idea.

He liked this strategy very much, and was overjoyed. He adopted Ping Shigesheng's suggestion and started such propaganda in the ninth year of Hongwu.

He activated the public opinion machine and created public opinion momentum. While attacking Su Yonglin's Ming regime and "Hongwu Political Review", he promoted his identity as the protector of Chinese orthodox culture.

In order to obtain a more relaxed political environment and superior economic treatment, those fleeing from the Southern Song Dynasty and Goryeo were also willing to build momentum for Ping Qingsheng, use their cultural knowledge as capital, and mutually benefit the Ping Qingsheng regime.

In accordance with the wishes of Ping Qingsheng, they communicated with the admirers of Chinese culture in the Japanese royal family and aristocratic groups with the aura of glory brought by their jinshi status, established friendship, endorsed the Ping Qingsheng regime, and created a favorable public opinion environment for Ping Qingsheng. .

The title of Jinshi is an unimpeded golden sign in the Confucian cultural circle. It is Jinshi, that is, the uncrowned king and special aristocrat in the cultural field, and is respected by people.

The Japanese dignitaries also respect the Jinshi of the Southern Song Dynasty and Korea, especially the Jinshi of the Southern Song Dynasty. That is the top of the Jinshi Pyramid. The Jinshi among the Jinshi are more likely to be sought after.

After such a tossing, coupled with the help of the Ping Qingsheng regime, the forces of the royal family and the nobles were pulled by Ping Qingsheng to one faction.

They hated Ping Qingsheng, but they also felt very embarrassed about Ping Qingsheng, who was supported by a large number of Southern Song scholars.

Hei Qingsheng successfully consolidated his power with his political attack on the Ming Kingdom and the use of the South Song Dynasty Goryeo escapees, and gained an absolute advantage in the center of Japan in the name of the protector of Chinese orthodox culture.

After the opponents at the central level were suppressed by Qing Sheng, the opponents at the local level lost their support and became difficult.

After this wave of cultural offensive, relying on the endorsement of a strong culture, Ping Qingsheng's position of power has been further consolidated.

Seeing that the Ping regime is about to take root.

At this moment, the only powerful threat to the Ping regime is no longer at home, only abroad, only in Daming.

The personal attack on Daming and Su Yonglin is an important reason for Ping Qingsheng to establish a stable rule. Once all this is known to Daming, Ping Qingsheng will not dare to guarantee his own safety.

Who knows if Su Yonglin would be very annoyed after knowing this and send someone to attack Japan?
Therefore, he kept sending people to conduct activities and trade in Quanzhou Port and Guangzhou Port, which were opened to the outside world in Daming.

Since the tenth year of Hongwu, Ping Qingsheng always knew the political and military trends of the Ming Kingdom at the first time.

He sighed at the mighty force of the Ming Kingdom, at the way Su Yonglin showed his power, and at his idealism. He admired such a peerless powerhouse very much in his heart, but he still kept full fear of him.

Until the end of the 12th year and the beginning of the 13th year of Hongwu, the news of Su Yonglin's promotion of the democratic republic reform and the abolition of the emperor system was transmitted back to Japan through Quanzhou business travel, and reached the ears of Ping Qingsheng, which shocked him greatly.

He didn't know why Su Yonglin did this, why he gave up his status as an emperor, abandoned the emperor's system, and used a brand new system called a democratic republic.

Su Yonglin also abandoned the old name and adopted the method of republican year as the year of Daming, expressing that he would inherit the long-standing cultural tradition of Daming.

He found that even if he knew everything, he couldn't understand Su Yonglin, he began to feel inexplicable panic, and always felt that something was wrong.

He didn't know much about Su Yonglin's status after giving up the throne, and the political trends after the Ming Kingdom became very strange, beyond his understanding.

He blocked these matters to the outside world, did not allow news to spread, and only communicated internally with his trusted relatives, retainers and former Southern Song officials Fan Li and Zhang Zeli.

Their reactions were the same as shock.

A group of people communicated and communicated, but they could not know what Su Yonglin did.

But soon after, new news came from Guangzhou.

There was a revolution in Champaign, the previous ruler was overthrown, died, and a new regime was established.

Champaign Democratic Republic.

This is the name of the new Champaign country.

The official country name of Daming is the Daming Democratic Republic, and Champaign has now become a democratic republic, and there is no emperor and no nobles.

At the same time, Guangzhou and Quanzhou have a large number of official ships of the Ming Dynasty going to sea, carrying a large number of people who are said to be official personnel. It is vaguely heard that their destination is a country on the sea in the south, but they do not know what they are going to do.

Kiyomori Hirai's keen political sense made him immediately aware of the impending crisis, and perhaps others were also aware of it.

A country without emperors and nobility is not the country they need, nor the country they can survive.

Ping Qingsheng began to ask the merchants in Quanzhou and Guangzhou to more actively collect news related to the Ming Dynasty and report it to him as soon as possible, so that he could have time to prepare.

However, since the 13th year of Hongwu, that is, the [-] Republic of China, there have been problems with the spread of news in Guangzhou and Quanzhou.

Several Japanese businessmen who often collected intelligence and disseminated news for the Hei regime were arrested by the Ming Dynasty.

The reason for the arrest is that they violated the law and discipline, violated the Fair Trade Act, and harmed the merchants of the food country with inferior goods, and were sued by the merchants of the food country to the Shibo Division.

The Shibo Division sent people to verify that the Japanese businessmen had violated the law, so they notified the Quanzhou Bureau of Justice. Quanzhou law enforcement officers came to the door, arrested the Japanese businessmen, put them in prison, sentenced them to five years in prison, and confiscated all their property.

After these businessmen were arrested, the rest of the Japanese businessmen were very frightened, and began to act cautiously, not daring to make any big moves to investigate the information, so it was even more difficult for Ping Qingsheng to know the information of the Ming Kingdom in a more timely manner.

In fact, Su Yonglin knew about Japan's collection of intelligence from the Ming Kingdom early on. The Skynet Army spies he dispatched to Japan had already established a firm foothold in Japan and built an intelligence organization.

This intelligence organization mainly used members of the Southern Song Dynasty fugitives who fled to Japan to develop members, established an intelligence network, and extended the tentacles of intelligence detection to the Japanese ruling class, even close to Kiyomori himself.

This is not what the Southern Song fugitives themselves hoped for.

For example, Fan Li and Zhang Zeli, the former Southern Song officials who were deeply trusted and relied on by Ping Qingsheng, did not want such a thing to happen, but their own will could not affect all family members.

The Skynet Army organization went to Japan with the three large-scale waves of escapees from the Southern Song Dynasty to Japan, or took advantage of the opportunity of business and trade to enter Japan, first established a firm foothold in Japan, and then gradually developed spies to the group of escapees in the Southern Song Dynasty.

This process is actually not difficult.

(End of this chapter)