I Build an Aircraft Carrier in the Ming Dynasty

The Dutch fleet arrived in Songjiang under the escort of Wu Jun's navy.

After that, Wu Jun ignored them.

Their purpose is to stop Hurd and Zhu Yihai from doing business, not to rob Hurd's goods. Although you can save a lot of money by directly grabbing it, in the long run, it is not cost-effective.

If they lose their credibility, other businessmen will not dare to come to Songjiang to do business in the future.

After Hurd and Albert went ashore, leaving the crew to look after the cargo, they set off for Nanking. They were going to find Wu Changqing and have a good renegotiation of the trade rules.

The previously agreed rules were too simple. As business activities between the two parties became more frequent and more problems and frictions were encountered, those agreements were no longer applicable.

When they came to Nanjing, they were ignored and could not wait for Wu Changqing's reception.

At present, Wu Changqing and other important officials are busy preparing for the proclamation of the emperor, and they really have no time to pay attention to their nonsense.

Ascension to the throne as emperor, Wu Changqing's current hard power is naturally no problem, and no one can stop it.

However, when he ascended the throne, he wanted to gain the support of the people and all classes, rather than relying on suppressing others to secure the throne.

The throne obtained by repression will certainly not last long.

People's hearts are sometimes useless, and sometimes they are essential.

Daming, after all, has lasted for more than two hundred years and is deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. It is not an easy task to change their minds and make them accept a new dynasty.

If you don't do anything and directly ascend to the throne, some people will definitely take advantage of this and encourage the people to rebel.

Wu Changqing has always been committed to common prosperity, but this is just a good wish and cannot be realized.

In the implementation of various policies, many people have benefited, but some people have inevitably been offended.

For example, some scholars who firmly supported the imperial examination, some businessmen whose business was affected and went bankrupt, and some old-fashioned bureaucrats who were unhappy.

In short, there are more than 20 million people in his jurisdiction, and it is quite normal to have people who hate him.

Once these people find an opportunity, there will definitely be people who are not afraid of death to give it a shot and encourage the ignorant people to do things.

This kind of thing may not shake Wu Changqing's foundation, but it is very disgusting.

In order to solve this problem, a long time ago, Wu Changqing used the people's newspaper to carry illicit goods, constantly guiding public opinion, subtly changing the people's thinking, and seeking the support of the people.

For example, constantly promoting the strength of the Wu army and exposing the corruption of the Ming army.

Comparing the Wu army and the Ming army in an all-round way, the Ming army is naturally incomparable to the Wu army. This made the people extremely disappointed with the army of the court, and pinned all their hopes on Wu Jun.

Unconsciously, the people did not confuse the Wu army and the Ming army very much in their hearts, and subconsciously felt that they were two armies, thus ignoring that the Wu army was actually one of the many Ming armies.

In addition to this, the People's Daily exposed the corruption in the Ming Dynasty.

In short, it is to make the people hate the court of the Ming Dynasty.

In the past, these propaganda were still relatively subtle and obscure, not too explicit. And now, after deciding to officially rebel and declare themselves emperor, they have accelerated the guidance of this kind of public opinion.

The content of the people's newspaper is also becoming more and more exciting.

Some people have directly and openly criticized several emperors of the Ming Dynasty, such as criticizing Chongzhen's inaction, accusing Zhu Yihai and Zhu Yujian of the filth, exposing that the two of them ignored the Qing army to go south in order to compete for the throne.

It also exposed the struggle between Emperor Hongguang and the Donglin Party during the period of Emperor Hongguang.

One by one these black materials, the general public understands why the incomparably powerful Ming Dynasty was killed by the Manchu Tatars without leaving behind, and the co-authors were all because of internal fighting.

Naturally, no one likes such a court.

A certain washer, the storyteller is reading the newspaper again.

Most of the people who came to listen were illiterate people, or poor people who couldn't afford newspapers.

Now living conditions are better, people have more spare time, and they also have spiritual needs.

They must not be able to go to brothels or brothels.

Listening to the free reading newspaper is their greatest pleasure.

"It is said that this King Fu is going to be enthroned and become emperor, but the people of Donglin Party disagree. Why is this? It has to start from the time of Emperor Wanli.

Emperor Wanli originally wanted the second prince, Prince Fu, to take over the throne, but the people from the Donglin Party refused and insisted on supporting the prince.

When King Xiaofu was about to ascend the throne, the Donglin party members were afraid that when King Xiaofu became the emperor, they would ask them to settle old accounts, and naturally they blocked it in every possible way. But later, with the support of others, Xiao Fu Wang became emperor.

This time, the Donglin party members suffered, and they were constantly retaliated, so they came up with a rumor of a fake prince, and asked Zuo Liangyu's 200,000 army to give up resisting the Tatars and come to attack Nanjing.

These absurd things caused the Qing army to go south all the way without encountering any resistance. If Wu Guogong did not stand up at the time of crisis and rescue the people from water and fire, we would all become slaves under the Tartars..."

This storyteller is just a storyteller on the surface, but secretly he also works for the government and receives the government's salary.

And what he said was naturally processed by the government.

Hearing the storytellers talk about these secret histories, the other people suddenly realized and listened with great interest.

It turns out that the previous Daming was not invincible

Tartar, but the whole motherfucker is busy fighting infighting.

These articles are for ordinary people.

There is also an article that counts the number of descendants of Zhu Yuanzhang, and rigorously uses data to discuss how the Zhu family brought down the Ming Dynasty.

This article is for those officials.

According to statistics, before Li Zicheng started his army, the number of registered royal family members was as high as 200,000, and the number of unregistered ones was nearly one million.

Those who register do not need to work and receive a large amount of offerings for free every year.

This offering was a huge financial burden to the Ming Dynasty.

Moreover, these clans were also sealed off a lot of land.

Among them, some important kings such as King Fu, King Rui, King Gui, etc., each have hundreds of thousands of acres of fertile land. The other kings, who were a little bit distant, also had 10,000 mu of fertile land.

All the fertile fields in Shanxi belonged to the clan, and half of the land in Henan was annexed by the clan.

And these, all do not have to pay taxes, resulting in extremely low taxes in the Ming Dynasty.

These rice borers are a heavy burden on the Ming Dynasty, and any official and minister will be dissatisfied when they see it.

However, as long as the old Zhu family continues to be the emperor, this system cannot be changed.

And now, if someone else becomes the emperor, those fields and properties will definitely be confiscated and redistributed.

Who is assigned to?

Those officials believe that with their own means, they will definitely be able to get the biggest piece of the pie in this distribution.

Based on this alone, they have no reason not to support Wu Changqing.

It's too bad to not support Wu Changqing and continue to watch the old Zhu family's rice borers enjoy preferential treatment. To support Wu Changqing, those land also have a share, which is cool.

As for whether Wu Changqing will repeat the same mistakes in the future, like Zhu Yuanzhang, they will not worry about it at all.

Wu Changqing now has too few relatives, just one younger brother. Two uncles, several cousins, and the rest are distant relatives.

If they want to expand to 200,000, it will take at least three or four hundred years.

For those in the official class, it is much better for Wu Changqing to be the emperor than for the Zhu family to be the emperor, and there is an opportunity to redistribute wealth, so why not do it.

These officials are all smart people. It is useless to talk to them about ideals. Only with naked interests can they be tempted.