Chapter 133 Flyers are scattered all over the four-nine cities
The next seven or eight days.
For the first time, Rokov experienced what despair is.
The fake airships fly twice a day without interruption.
Although the damage is very limited, it is really annoying.
Especially when pouring feces and urine from top to bottom, it almost caused these Russians who came from afar to collapse.
On the other side, in the city of Beiping, the same scene was happening.
Lan Yu and Mu Ying also take a detour to Peking City every day.
But this time what was thrown down was no longer feces, but countless leaflets.
There is only one content above.
Emperor Hongwu of the Ming Dynasty was resurrected and had overthrown the Qing Dynasty's rule over China. Now 300,000 troops are approaching the walls of Peiping.
To deliver the final blow.
The Ming army will begin to attack the city on the first day of the next month.
The Han people who are still hot-blooded or unwilling to be enslaved by the Manchus can take action in the early morning of the next month, cooperate with the siege troops outside the city, and attack Beiping City in one fell swoop.
When Zhu Yuanzhang distributed leaflets, he also took into account the special situation that most people did not know how to read. Sixty percent of the leaflets were presented in the form of pictures.
Such blatant instigation of rebellion can be said to have opened the eyes of Cixi and other Manchu nobles.
They have dominated China for more than two hundred years, and what they fear most is that the people will turn against them.
To this end, they resorted to all possible means, not to mention shaving their hair and changing clothes. The most thorough implementation was the policy of obscuring the people.
Unlike the Ming Dynasty, in the early years of the founding of the People's Republic of China, a large number of social schools were established to provide free education, allowing children from poor families to have the opportunity to study.
The Manchus had been deliberately obstructing the spread of knowledge.
Literary inquisition targeted the gentry class in order to undermine the waist of these Chinese intellectuals.
To block the education of the grassroots, discredit the previous dynasty, and even deliberately annihilate the existence of the Ming Dynasty is to fool the people in order to achieve the purpose of effective rule.
To be honest, this policy is very effective. After two hundred years of implementation, except for the gentry who chose to kneel down and become slaves, all the people have become numb and ignorant.
The reason why the entire mid-to-late 19th century could not keep up with the times during the explosion of Western science and technology has a lot to do with this.
Didn’t Zeng Guofan, Li Hongzhang and even Cixi realize that Western technology has greatly improved productivity?
Of course not, they realized it a long time ago.
They even took the initiative to send students to study in the West.
In terms of exposure to Western technology and ideas, the Qing Dynasty was even earlier than Japan in history.
And to be honest, in that era, were Western technologies really difficult to learn?
Of course not, there were many smart people in the Manchu and Qing dynasties. During Cixi’s reign, the Manchu and Qing dynasty already had the ability to mass-manufacture both cannons and firearms.
And the things they produce are no worse than those in the West.
But is it useful?
The Manchu Qing Dynasty took great precautions against the common people. The common people at the bottom were like pigs and dogs. So what if they learned advanced technologies? Industrialization not only represents technology, but also represents the liberation of the whole people and the awakening of self-awareness.
Do they dare to make the Han people at the bottom really awaken to their self-awareness?
If we really relaxed the restrictions on knowledge and allowed the common people to be exposed to new Western ideas and the true history of China, it is estimated that those in power in the Manchu Qing Dynasty would not even be able to sleep well at night.
"Master Li!"
"Isn't this the way to go?"
"The Ai family has been dreaming of shouts of murder these past few nights!"
"If this continues, the Ai family will be scared to death if they are not killed by Xu Ming!"
"Do you think if we catch some rioters and kill them, it will serve as a warning?" Empress Dowager Cixi frowned and looked at Li Hongzhang and asked.
"Absolutely not!"
"Empress Dowager, that will only make the situation worse!"
"This is Zhu Hongwu's conspiracy. We must not kill people casually now!"
Li Hongzhang waved his hands repeatedly.
He was also feeling pain in his heart at this moment.
He felt that despite all his strength, he was unable to exert even half of his strength when facing Zhu Hongwu.
Just like now, people use upright conspiracy.
Moreover, Li Hongzhang was convinced that on the first day of the next month, the Puppet Ming army would definitely attack the city.
If he really goes deep into the people who hid the leaflets, he will only get deeper hatred.
If a few more hypocritical spies incite the situation, the civil unrest will be unstoppable.
He knew that the Pseudo-Ming did have a special force with extremely powerful means. Major cities such as Xuzhou and Luoyang were attacked from within by spies.
He understands very well that in the current situation where the opponent's troops are pressing down on the situation, the more killing, the more counterproductive it will be.
But doing nothing doesn't work either.
No one can guarantee whether the people in the city will rebel when the enemy attacks the city next month.
"This won't work, and that won't work either. Then give me a feasible plan!" Empress Dowager Cixi said solemnly.
"Queen Mother!"
“For the current plan, we can only place our hope in Tsarist Russia!”
"As long as Tsarist Russia can defeat the false Ming Dynasty and prevent them from attacking the city on the first day of next month, the rumors will naturally be dispelled without an attack."
"If it doesn't work, I think we still have to prepare for hunting in the north!" Li Hongzhang said.
When the Empress Dowager Cixi heard this, she was almost angered by Li Hongzhang.
If the country's capital was lost less than a month after she was promoted to the position of the Queen Mother behind the curtain, the pressure of public opinion would crush her to death.
I'm afraid that when the time comes, she will have no choice but to die as apology.
"It's impossible to hunt in the north!"
"Your Majesty and I swear to live and die together with the capital!"
"Li Hongzhang, you go to Tsarist Russia's camp again and ask them to take action as soon as possible. As long as they can defeat the Puppet Ming, they can still add to the conditions that the late emperor promised them before!" Empress Dowager Cixi said through gritted teeth.
"If we want to besiege Beiping City, we can only attack Tsarist Russia who is currently camping outside the city!"
"But those Tsarist Russians are indeed not good people!"
"We have organized two or three attacks in the past few days, but all failed!"
"Not only are the opponents veterans, they are also extremely proficient in field warfare."
"Our firearms have no advantage over them."
"Although they have the advantage of airships, the bombs alone cannot play a decisive role. If you want to capture their position, the only way is to attack them hard."
At this moment, in the Ming Dynasty military camp, Zhu Yuanzhang once again gathered these generals for a pre-war closed-door meeting.
This has been an old tradition for a long time.
It started when Zhu Yuanzhang only had a few hundred people in his hands and has continued until now.
Listening to everyone's discussion, Zhu Yuanzhang also fell into deep thought.
"If you attack hard, attack hard!"
"When has our Ming Dynasty ever been afraid of fighting a tough battle!"
"Your Majesty, let me lead the charge for you!"
"I will definitely cut off the head of that tsarist Russian dog marshal and present it to His Majesty!" Lan Yu stood up suddenly and shouted.