Become the emperor of the Qing Dynasty, Chongzhen!

Chapter 692

Two similar articles have received a lot of support from both the north and the south.

As a result, there was a fierce debate between the two choices of whether to step up the Northern Expedition or the Southern Expedition, or to rest for a few years and then try to unify the world.

Jianzheng is not new, it's just a new term.

Newspapers provided a channel for some literati to speak out, so there were articles anti-war and taxation issues on the front foot, and articles on righteousness on the back foot, which stated that there could only be one heavenly kingdom in the entire land of China in legal terms.

The newspapers were published, and the articles each found an audience.

It is hard to say whether there will be a truce, but tax cuts must be on the agenda.

Well known.

Tax cuts are impossible.

The feudal dynasty reformed the tax system in any form, and its essence was to increase taxes, to collect taxes more effectively, and to collect taxes from landholders.

The most important thing is to reduce the part collected from the people at the bottom.

The court of the Central Plains Dynasty will basically try to make up for it from the middle and upper levels, and then the middle and upper levels will continue to pass this burden on to the bottom.

The reduction may make Xiao Minsong a few years faster, but it will only be a few years.

Fortunately, everyone has only been fighting for these few years.

The unification of the world is inevitable.

War is also inevitable.

If you can live a peaceful life for a few days in the troubled times, you have to ask for it if you risk your life.

Heiqi Xungui was thinking about having a peaceful life.

The savage chief who used to yell that he wanted to rob the whole world, go south to destroy the Ming, and go north to rob the Raksha country didn't want to fight anymore.

When you are poor, you want to give it a try.

Therefore, after making a small profit and getting rich, I want to struggle even more.

When they are really rich, they finally have a little ambition. They don't talk about robbery anymore, they want to rule the world, open up territories, increase officials and ranks, and confer their wives and sons.

But what about the rich?

No amount of ambition is there anymore.

Mingming must be destroyed, but after a while, it will be the same after a few years.

Furthermore, the territory of our Black Banner Qing Dynasty is already several times larger than that of the Ming Dynasty, so we are not in a hurry, and we are not striving for that bit of profit!

"Will this battle be fought or not?"

"I don't think there is any need to fight. The old head Liu made it clear yesterday that if we pay our salary, it means we will fight. If the Liao pay is lowered, the court will have even less money.

If you don’t have money, it’s not easy to distribute silver. If you go to Luzon, you’re going to earn money. You have to earn enough money to distribute silver and fight the war in the north. "

"What does old Liu know! He's just a fool! Look at us!"

In Jining Prefecture, Shandong Province, in the newly built Weisuo Fort, many Ming soldiers in dirty war jackets hugged their own guys and chatted together on the city wall.

Just as he was talking, a soldier pulled out a carefully folded but somewhat worn newspaper from his arms.

They also read newspapers.

It's just that the things written in the newspaper are too complicated, and it also involves many things that ordinary soldiers don't need to know and shouldn't know.

Therefore, it is considered a forbidden item in the army and can only be seen secretly.

Otherwise, the daily newspapers would publish reports of natural disasters somewhere after a while, and the soldiers from the local area would definitely feel anxious and return home.

"new?"

"new!"

New papers, new articles, new claims.

new situation.

When public opinion has spread to the bottom soldiers of the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the effect of the ineffective upper-level decisions will be compromised again.

The soldiers of the two countries stationed on their respective defense lines in the Shandong area are mainly Han Chinese, and most of them are natives of Shandong.

People in the Central Plains have a strong sense of clan.

The degree of war exhaustion is even higher.

Is that really a rest?

This matter certainly cannot be said that the people below are willing, and the two countries are willing.

The two countries have to talk.

In the Ming Dynasty, because the newspapers inspired the people and literati to parade through the streets to demand that the court reduce taxes, the people in the Xiaodonglin Restoration Society were the most joyous, and at the same time they were arguing endlessly about the two choices of rest and the Northern Expedition.

And the Ming court still has to lose face, even if it actually wants to continue to levy more money, then the court has to respond to public opinion.

Not only have to reduce the tax, but also the interest of the people's livelihood must be considered.

What troubled Emperor Longwu the most was the same.

One is that he has no money, and the other is that he has a bad reputation.

As for the money, the cash that Lu Song snatched from him finally allowed him to do more practical things.

Regarding his reputation, he also wanted to see if he could make up for it by being sympathetic to the common people.

The Northern Expedition can take its time.

In the past few years, Jin Yiwei has grown bigger and also done some practical things. Emperor Longwu has all the new gadgets made by the barbarians in the north.

There are railways.

You Shoulong began to supervise the construction of the first short-distance railway from outside Nanjing to Nanjing Industrial Zone in the name of a subsidiary of Nanyang Company.

The business of Nanjing Tiger Lord has expanded.

On the first day of construction of the railway, many people from inside and outside the city of Nanjing were attracted to watch the excitement, and newspapers also mentioned it.

But most of them came to watch the show and laugh at it.

Is it not easy to pull goods on this big road?

Get the best steel to pave the way?

There are also many literati and even officials and gentry among the crowd watching the opera.

When You Shoulong personally picked up the hammer and knocked the first rail on the ground, many literati were enraged and shouted on the spot.

The country is in danger!People's livelihood is suffering!The imperial court is still debating whether to reduce the Liao pay or not!
At this time, someone wasted this precious steel!
"The dog eunuch party! The dog eunuch party is so rampant! If the first emperor hadn't fallen into the capital! Daming Anneng has fallen to this point!"

Speaking of which, a group of people were about to step forward and tear down the railroad tracks that had just been laid down.

Seeing this, You Shoulong grinned grimly. With one hand, he swung the sledgehammer for hammering rail nails around his body twice, and then hammered it on the ground.

"Whoever dares to move the railway, Lord Tiger will break the leg of anyone. If Lord Tiger keeps beating, there will always be someone in the city of Nanjing who can break it!"

After finishing speaking, You Shoulong's sinister smile turned into a polite smile, and he waved his hands to several Taoist priests in gorgeous Taoist robes who had been waiting by the side: "The Taoist priest can start praying, and we must ensure that our railway still has road repair workers All in peace!"

This is not over yet.

Behind the Taoists are monks, and behind the monks are foreign monks.

Not only did the railway have to be opened, but the carriages and the horses that pulled the carts were all blessed with the power of the Three Religions' artifacts. A touch of water on the forehead, the monk stroked its head, and the foreign monk made a sign of the cross.

Needless to say, the horse looked a lot more energetic immediately, and the originally docile horse's hind hooves made a commotion, and he gnawed the missionary who made the sign of the cross in front of him with a big mouth.

It didn't hurt, it was just a little farce, and the crowd laughed for a while before it passed.

But at this time, someone shouted hello, and someone even shouted: "Retribution! The barbarians have no virtue! How dare you try to steal the artifact! This horse hates him!"

An uninformed person wondered: "What is this?"

"A tabloid newspaper was published. They asked a red-haired barbarian, that is, the Spaniard, what kind of country their country is in. Guess what the man said!?"

"what?"

(End of this chapter)