golden scales

There are countless ways to inspire faith, such as hallucinogenic drugs that are commonly used in West Asia and Europe; for example, assuming that all people are born sinful, and only by believing in it can they be forgiven; If you do good deeds in this life, you will be reborn in the Land of Ultimate Bliss in your next life.

From this point of view, following the crown prince to fight bravely, and after death, the heroic spirit becomes a heavenly soldier and general, is really a matter of course.However, it does not rule out that some people are tired of fighting and just want to be a rich man, so the Taoist theory of burden can suit their tastes.Let them know that now that they are fighting bloody battles, they will be able to have land, a house and a wife after retiring.

Outside of religion, the main direction of attack of the trainers is unrestrained ideological indoctrination.Many slogans may seem absurd at the first hearing, but after repeating them a hundred, a thousand, or ten thousand times, the audience will complete the logic chain by themselves and become convinced.

For example: Only the Crown Prince can save Daming.

When Zhu Cihong heard it for the first time, he was having dinner with the soldiers, and a bureau drill officer blurted out, which almost made him spit.

This categorical judgment sentence has no logical basis at all.If you want to prove that this proposition is true, you must first list the conditions for the crown prince to save Daming, and then prove that it is impossible for anyone in the entire Ming Dynasty to be able to meet such conditions.Secondly, it is necessary to prove that other methods are impossible to save Daming...

In the military, this simplifies to:

The reason why only the Crown Prince was able to save Daming was because only the army under the leadership of the Crown Prince recovered Shanhe Da, and the victory was becoming more and more obvious.

To extend it one step further: saving Daming means saving the people of the world, as well as myself and my children and grandchildren, so I have to follow His Royal Highness the Crown Prince and fight bravely.

Wearing a military uniform without epaulettes, Zhu Cihong walked around Taiyuan City with his guards. In the streets and alleys, you can see the training officers of various ministries leading people to take brushes and write on the walls: Master Wang of the Ming Dynasty is really benevolent and righteous. Death and starvation do not disturb the people; one person joins the army, the whole family is honored; expels the Tartars and restores China; blood for blood... and other slogans.

If these slogans were thought up by Zhu Cihong, they are just picking up people's teeth.However, these are all original works of the trainers, which surprised Zhu Cihong.

You Shiwei didn't find Zhu Cihong when he went to Prince Jin's mansion, so he knew that the crown prince must have brought someone to the street.He could well understand that the crown prince who was kept in the deep palace would be full of interest in the outside world, but he couldn't understand, as a rational commander, what would he eat so badly that he would wander around in a city that hadn't been completely cleaned up.

If there is a cold arrow...

You Shiwei quickly dispelled this terrible thought, and led the guards to start searching in Taiyuan City.When he finally found the crown prince in front of a small shop opened by people from Ningwu, and the crown prince was eating bean noodles at this time, when he saw You Shiwei coming, he raised his hand.That meant asking him if he wanted one too.

You Shiwei really couldn't laugh or cry.Let the guards add a defensive line on the periphery first.Just now he stepped forward and said: "Your Highness, the son of a thousand gold can't sit down, how can you venture into dangerous places lightly?"

"It's okay, I think the cleanliness is quite in place." Zhu Cihong said: "You Du came to find me in such a hurry. But what's the rush?"

Now all fronts are in order, and the only ones who are really still fighting are Li Zicheng and Zhang Xianzhong who entered Sichuan, and Wu Sangui who entered Hanzhong from Xi'an.The situation in Hanzhong was more complicated. Originally, He Zhen's troops of the Shun army and Sun Shoufa's troops of the Ming army were fighting. As soon as Wu Sangui entered Hanzhong, He Zhen and Sun Shoufa fought Wu Sangui together.

As for the Eastern Palace Department of the Ming Army, it is unlikely that they will launch an offensive again in mid-February, unless Dorgon is brain-dead and insists on hitting the Zhending Cangzhou defense line again.

"Your Highness, it's about the security of Taiyuan Mansion." You Shiwei said, "There are quite a few dilemmas when investigating the matter of gangsters and captives."

Shanxi has never produced a lot of food. During the era when the Chinese Opening Law was implemented, there was still some arable land and farmland. After the opening of the Chinese Law was abolished, Shanxi could not even be self-sufficient in grain.It can only be sold in the south.

But Shanxi is not a poor place.

Because of businessmen.

Shanxi merchants extended their tentacles to the court during the Jiajing period. Wang Chonggu, who served as the governor of Shaanxi and Minister of the Ministry of War, and Zhang Siwei, Zhang Juzheng's successor and chief assistant of the cabinet, were all from Shanxi wealthy merchants.It is especially worth mentioning that Wang Chonggu and Zhang Siwei are uncles and nephews, and to put it bluntly, they are a family.

Before Gu Yanwu and Fu Shan inspired the ticket office industry, the main business of Shanxi merchants was traditional animal husbandry, salt and iron trade, and the main trading partners were Mongolians.Although the Mongols were impoverished in the eyes of the Han people, mutton, sheepskin, and horses were all livestock products needed in the Han area, which was enough for these Shanxi merchants to make a lot of money.

However, human greed is unlimited.After the Apocalypse and Chongzhen, the Little Ice Age reached its peak, sunspot activity disappeared, the Mongolian grassland suffered severe drought and severe cold, and the rise of the Manchurians. All disasters pointed to Ming Dynasty.

Some Shanxi businessmen discovered by accident that after these Tatars plundered the rich Guannei, they had to sell the plundered property and exchange it for grain.Because the goods of the Tartars were looted and worthless, the purchase price was extremely low.All the merchants have to do is to exchange grain for ten times the value of silver and goods, and the resale will be a hundred times the profit.

These people don't care about the term "national wealth" at all, and they don't mind that the money is stained with the blood of their compatriots.With huge profits, instead of worrying about building slaves and entering the bandits, they look forward to building slaves and entering the bandits, so that they can bring them goods that are close to picking up.After this expectation was magnified, these people began to actively cooperate with Jiannu and Mongolia, betraying the number and information of troops stationed in various parts of Ming Dynasty, helping to buy the generals of the defending army, and finally formed a stable internal response of Jiannu, that is, the "Eight Great Masters of Shanxi Merchants" .

The Eight Shanxi Merchants are the top eight families in this group, and they are also the "heroes" recognized by the Manchu Qing Dynasty.Below them, there are other merchant families intertwined.Some of these vassal families don't care, some are forced to, but no one is really innocent enough to know nothing.

"These merchants should of course be dealt with according to the law, but those rebels..." You Shiwei paused: "Most of them are funded by these merchants, and there are also merchants' children as the backbone."

Whether it was out of hedging their bets or because they really did not want to be ruled by the Manchu Tartars, these merchants did support the Shanxi rebels.

Although these rebels did not play the role of the frontal battlefield, it cannot be denied that they put pressure on the Manqing Road.And no matter whether they can cause harm to the Qing army, the Qing army has to divide its troops to defend, which can be regarded as support that is better than nothing.

What's more troublesome is that there are many scholars from Sanli Academy among these rebels, and they belong to the category of people who have the right to speak.If they describe the officers and soldiers as crossing rivers and demolishing bridges, unloading mills and killing donkeys, it will be troublesome to count on the help of the rebels in the occupied areas in the future.

"You Du, this shouldn't be done this way." Zhu Cihong said with a smile, "There is no dilemma, it's just that you didn't distinguish between responsibilities."

You Shiwei showed confusion, and said: "Please make it clear, Your Highness."

"Disbanding the rebels, resettling the rebels, and comforting the loyal and brave martyrs, this is the duty of the Governor's Office." Zhu Cihong took a bite of the steaming bean noodles, and said: "As for the supporters behind those people, should they be liquidated? The extent of the liquidation is a matter for the herdsmen. Wouldn’t it be better to leave it to our Shanxi governor, chief envoy, and prefect?”

You Shiwei said: "Your Highness, if this matter is left to the civil servants, how should we deal with the matter involving the merger of villages?"

"Well, this matter is indeed troublesome." Zhu Cihong said: "But it's not very troublesome. Don't we have regulations? Just follow the regulations. Anyone who dares to resist the officers and soldiers must be convicted of treason. irreparable."

You Shiwei nodded and said, "I understand."

"I hate civil servants interfering in military affairs, arbitrarily seizing military power, and treating military officials as slaves." Zhu Cihong said: "However, military officials should also take obeying orders as their bounden duty, and there is no need to worry too much."

You Shiwei understood Zhu Cihong's implication, and retreated in response.

Zhu Cihong turned to Min Ziruo and said, "Let the newspaper do several consecutive reports on Shanxi merchants betraying the country. Those Zhejiang merchants and Anhui merchants should be very happy to see it? By the way, is there a Jin Party in the court?"

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