Qiming 1158

Chapter 963 Seamless switching of radical war-fighting government

After a series of actions by the Southern Song Dynasty court, Zhao Tan suddenly discovered that the situation that could only occur in his own dreams before actually happened.

Because of Su Yonglin's confession and statement, the elites of the entire Southern Song Dynasty seemed to be twisted into a rope. Everyone worked together to make a concerted effort, and the Southern Song Dynasty actually had a wave of resurgence.

Politically, Zhao Tan felt unprecedented power. Whatever he wanted to do, as long as it was to enhance national strength, the court headed by Ye Yiwen no longer opposed it, no longer quarreled, passed at the speed of light, and executed it quickly.

Especially in the military, it has directly become the consensus of all people, we must strengthen the army, recruit more soldiers, arm them, train them, and make them more good at fighting.

Ye Yiwen also encouraged the holding of special martial arts competitions to select military talents in the whole Song Dynasty.

They will build a new army with unprecedented efficiency and attitude, strengthen the new army, and strengthen the national defense force of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Not only that, they also asked the military weapons research department to fully study new weapons and firearms, because the Ming army was good at using firearms, and they also wanted to study more firearms to deal with the Ming army's offensive.

The deficiencies in ordnance should also be vigorously supplemented. All the weapons that were made indiscriminately before must be destroyed. Afterwards, the manufacture and use of weapons should be supervised and inspected by special personnel, and any quality problems should be seriously held accountable.

What Zhao Tan wanted to do was done by them, and what Zhao Tan didn't expect was also thought and done by them.

Zhao Tan stared at the efficient actions of the courtiers.

In terms of thought, Zhao Tan received the help of the Southern Song cultural circle headed by Kong.

They dedicated the crystallization of their thoughts—the Dafa of Induction of Heaven and Man to Zhao Tan, and told Zhao Tan how to stigmatize Su Yonglin and distort Su Yonglin’s thoughts, so as to achieve the effect of disintegrating Su Yonglin’s political and ideological offensive.

I have to say, they did a great job.

Zhao Tan was overjoyed when he saw their list.

He found that this group of people was fiddling around, successfully using preconceived methods and using the beliefs of ghosts and gods that everyone believed in, misinterpreting Su Yonglin's original intentions.

Su Yonglin said that the problem lies with their rulers and the system, so they must overthrow the rulers and change the system.

But they said that this was Su Yonglin [the villain, Yuan Xianchen], so the gods punished him, causing the Ming kingdom to suffer from constant disasters. Su Yonglin had no choice but to write a book to divert his attention and defend himself.

Su Yonglin is known as a human emperor and does not believe in God, but after all, he was condemned by God, and he had to write this book in an attempt to prolong his life, how ignorant and pitiful.

The fall of the Ming kingdom must be imminent.

Zhao Tan didn't know whether the Ming Kingdom was suffering from constant disasters, or whether Su Yonglin was punished by the gods because of his relatives, Yuan Xianchen, but he knew that this wave of counterattacks was very powerful and could be regarded as a model of spiritual victory.

Anyway, it is impossible for most people to know the real situation of Ming Kingdom, and it is impossible for them to go to Ming Kingdom to see it with their own eyes.

As for why a strong and terribly strong country is about to collapse...

unimportant.

Zhao Tan was overjoyed, and immediately summoned Ye Yiwen and Shen Gai, asked them to study this set of words, then advertise it widely, spread it widely, and fully activated the court's propaganda machine to severely crack down on Su Yonglin's thoughts.

The imperial court will use the idea of ​​​​human induction to counterattack Su Yonglin, and try its best to convince everyone that Su Yonglin and Ming Guo are being punished by God, and make everyone believe that the fall of Ming Guo is imminent.

Ye Yiwen and Shen Gai were also overjoyed, and immediately followed suit, and began to use the propaganda power of the state apparatus to launch actions to "set things right" and "clear the source" against this wave of political and ideological crises.

The effect is still there.

For example, this success allowed the terrified officials of the Southern Song Dynasty and the landlord gentry class to find their spiritual support and won a spiritual victory.

They are willing to believe in the foreign powers of the Ming Kingdom, and they are willing to believe that the Ming Kingdom will fall sooner or later, so it is impossible for them to truly threaten their lives and interests.

Su Yonglin was just a dead duck with a tough mouth.

Can an emperor who is pro-villain and far-reaching minister succeed?

If I really want to succeed, God has no eyes, and God wants to kill me. It is not a crime of war.

With such a spiritual victory, Zhao Tan and the officials of the Southern Song Dynasty began to focus on real coping strategies.

Facing Su Yonglin's undisguised malice, they can no longer hypnotize themselves to explain that the country wants to coexist peacefully with them. The spiritual victory method can keep them from collapsing internally, but the threat of 50 Ming troops is still real.

How strong the Ming army is, they have really experienced it.

Therefore, it is necessary to strengthen the armament and use real military power to counter the threat posed by Su Yonglin.

Now that the situation has reached this point, the conservatives cannot exert themselves, so naturally, the Southern Song government has once again seamlessly switched to a state dominated by the radical war-fighting faction.

Chen Kangbo was recalled to serve as a political advisor.

Wang Dabao was recalled and resumed his post as Minister of Rites.

Hu Quan was recalled to serve as a privy deputy.

Chen Junqing was recalled to serve as Minister of War.

Wang Shipeng was recalled to serve as the Minister of Works.

The state transition of the Southern Song government was always so fast and smooth, as if everything was taken for granted.

Zhao Tan also began to search for officials who were good at military in the DPRK, hoping to supplement his military talent pool and enhance the military decision-making ability of the Southern Song Dynasty.

So Yang Wanli, who suggested him, and Yu Yunwen, who Shi Hao had recommended before his death, entered Zhao Kan's field of vision.

But this time Zhao Tan was much more cautious. He read some military books and learned some military common sense, and then personally summoned Yu Yunwen and Yang Wanli to ask some military questions.

The two talked eloquently in the face of Zhao Tan's inquiries. Compared with Yang Wanli's military attitude, Yu Yunwen's military attitude was even the main attack.

He believes that offense is the best defense, and the military goal of the Southern Song Dynasty should not be just defense, but should be offense instead of defense.

While ensuring the defensive strength, one should take the initiative to launch an attack. For example, the most important thing to do is to launch an attack to retake the Huainan land that was ceded to the Ming Kingdom.

Guarding the river must guard the Huaihe River, but if the Huaihe River is not guarded, Jiangfang will inevitably face great difficulties.

The Ming Kingdom occupied Huainan land for the purpose of invalidating the Jianghuai line of defense in the Southern Song Dynasty, so it was necessary to retake Huainan land.

Zhao Tan was very satisfied with the answers of both of them, so he decided to adopt Yang Wanli's suggestion on the economic blockade of Jiangnan West Road. Before the formation and training of the imperial army was completed, a severe material embargo was first imposed on Jiangnan West Road.

For more military issues, Zhao Tan is more inclined to Yu Yunwen's ideas.

He began to think that offense was the best defense, and instead of waiting for Su Yonglin to lead the Ming army to fight, it was better to fight directly.

The first is to retake Huainan.

Yu Yunwen suggested that Zhao Tan should take advantage of the fact that the Ming Kingdom was still building the Yellow River and was temporarily unable to go south on a large scale to dispatch the army to capture Huainan. .

If we want to prolong the life of the Southern Song Dynasty and buy time, we should focus on destroying the Yellow River Project of the Ming Dynasty, so that the Ming Dynasty cannot successfully complete the Yellow River Project.

In this way, you can gain more training time.

Zhao Tan agreed with this very much and decided to let the Privy Council plan the tactics of retaking Huainan and the tactics of destroying the Yellow River Project of the Ming Dynasty.

Yang Wanli has a different view on this point. He believes that he should stay on the defensive for the time being. First, the rebels on Jiangnan West Road should be dealt with, and then they will seek Huainan, so as to avoid being dragged down by the Ming Kingdom, so that the bandit army on Jiangnan West Road will be the main force. big.

Yang Wanli and Yu Yunwen had a dispute over whether to defend or attack. The two argued for a while, and there was no winner.

But Zhao Tan was really happy and felt that he had found two pieces of beautiful jade.

So Zhao Tan ordered Yu Yunwen's position in the Privy Council to be promoted, and Yang Wanli was transferred to the Privy Council to serve together with Yu Yunwen, making them colleagues.

Yu Yunwen and Yang Wanli didn't know each other before, but after some debate, they felt a sense of sympathy for each other. After working together, they had a lot of contacts and gradually became friends. They began to talk about things outside of official business.

(End of this chapter)