Chapter 485: It’s the people’s hearts that are being attacked
White terror spreads in Seoul.
The orthodoxy of the Li family's royal family for more than a hundred years, Queen Wen Ding's stable hold on the harem for more than twenty years, and Yin Yuanheng's authority for several years all exerted their final effect.
Even after killing so many of his own people, there was still no chaos in Seoul.
This vaguely makes some people feel that the Shilin sect has been bullied repeatedly for many years. It turns out that these scholars really do not have many eggs.
There was a lot of space left, and Yin Yuanheng just used it to give generous rewards to others: Lao Xunjiu, the Yin family, relatives and friends of the important general... After being scolded by his sister, Yin Yuanheng also knew that he had been impulsive.
But the deal is done, and now he can only say: "With the internal worries eliminated, there will only be external troubles! Now that everyone has occupied the throne and is united, why worry that the foreign enemies will not retreat and the wealth will not survive in the future?"
The left and right government affairs, the left and right approval, the left and right counselors, the six cao's judgments, the new chief minister, the chief admonishment, the Seoul prefecture's judge, and the newly appointed five guards after returning to Seoul were all promoted, promoted
, imperial camp general, imperial guard general, guard general, robber catching general...
Looking around, basically from the second rank and above, "the palace is full of pillars and talents gather together."
"The rebels in Xianjing Road have stopped now, and they have sent news about the truth!" Yin Yuanheng took out a piece of silk, "You guys spread it around!"
He excitedly said: "The prefectures and prefectures in Jiangyuan Province are rushing to recruit new grains. If we hold on for more than a month, it will snow heavily, and it is time to counterattack! Bao Ming sent the King of Liao of the Zhu family to Ping'an Road, and the ambition of the wolf is obvious at a glance! Li wagged his tail and begged for mercy.
, trying to betray the country and seize the throne, the Eight Paths have long been known to everyone!"
On the silk was the latest news jointly written by the Grand Protector of Xianjing Dao, Dao Mu and other civil and military officials.
A large number of Ming officials came to Ping'an Road and Huanghaidao to clear land and property, solve cases and confiscate homes with Li. In fact, they all reported their work to the King of Liao who also went to the DPRK and Gong Yongqing, who had served as North Korea's envoy.
Hamgyeong Province was originally a rebel who had no longer been ordered by Yin Yuanheng. At first, they used the name of helping the prince to attack Ping'an Province and Gangwon Province. However, after the Ming army entered the court, they retreated.
Yin Yuanheng felt that life was getting closer and closer, and said with bright eyes: "As long as winter comes and the Xianjingdao army intercepts the Ming army's retreat, it will be different! The Ming army has been surrounding Seoul for so long, why not attack?
It really can’t be done! If an attack is thwarted, the dead and wounded generals will not be able to be replenished, and they will not be able to retreat! Now that we expect ourselves to mess up the morale of the army, we are really looking down on us!"
After a pause, his voice became somewhat suppressed, and he continued: "Those intellectuals who think they can do anything by begging for mercy from Baoming, let's see! There are so many wealthy officials, gentry, and wealthy families on Ping'an Road and Huanghai Road. What will happen to them?"
What is it? Spread what happened there to the east and south, and the big families everywhere will know that the only way to defeat the enemy is through King Qin!"
At this moment, today's "gun salute" was fired again.
The content of those shoutings could not reach here, and then it became noisy again.
"Lord Lingyi Zheng... he changed his words again today..."
Soon after, someone naturally came to record it.
Yin Yuanheng looked at it, his face was a little gloomy, and he looked up at the defending generals.
"The truth is that the situation is difficult, and not everyone can be loyal and brave!" Yin Yuanheng sneered, "It turns out that the calculation was wrong, which made some cowards jump over the wall, but it created a good opportunity for the truth to clear up the stubborn disease.
The defenders are loyal and brave. Although they have read little, they understand the truth more clearly!"
He passed the piece of paper along. Anyway, they would eventually know what was shouted outside the city.
Today we are targeting the soldiers.
Yin Yuanheng still made his words clear: "Exposing the Ming Dynasty will destroy our country, destroy our country, and enslave our people. The desire to enslave our people is undoubtedly obvious. If the Ming Dynasty really succeeds, some scholars may still beg for mercy and become scribes, but there are many righteous people.
How can we reuse North Korean generals and soldiers when it is revealed that they will be brutally suppressed? Only now that there are more than 100,000 troops, everyone must be stripped of their armor and become slaves, as young coolies!"
Whether these words are correct or not is difficult to say.
But at least now facing these senior generals of the garrison, everyone knew that they could not have a future in front of the Ming army.
What Ming Dynasty can give them cannot be as much as what Yin Yuanheng is giving now.
Yin Yuanheng's words can also be used by them to remind the people below.
The truth does make sense: once the Ming Dynasty takes the King of Liao as the King of Korea, it will be dominated by the civil and military forces of the Ming Dynasty. How can native Koreans climb to the position of high-ranking officials and rich salaries? And when governing foreign races, there is a lot of suspicion, and in the end
How dare you use North Koreans as an important military force to prevent riots?
Song Liangchen paid attention to the Ming army commander's tent in the north of the city for a day.
"...There's not much movement today."
"How can there be movement every day? There is no rush..." Zhang Jing said.
"The weather is getting colder and colder. Do we really want to wait for them to cause chaos and win without a fight?"
"It's okay, can we still lose?" Zhang Jing shook his head, "It's still the same as usual. The defenders can't stand a defeat, and they don't dare to leave the city gate. For a long-term plan, the Marquis and Yangwu Marquis asked their subordinates to attack Incheon together.
It is serious to build the future Liaonan Camp and military port over there."
Song Liangchen could only be speechless, but he did not express any objection.
The North Korean defenders could not withstand a defeat, so they never left the city to rob the stronghold or anything. As long as the Ming army did not take the initiative to attack, there seemed to be no danger.
But who knows, will they suddenly go all-out and seek a decisive battle?
That's not the way to surround Sanque Yi. It only puts psychological pressure on the opponent, right?
Their east side was clear, and although the scouts did not see many additional troops coming, if there was no shortage of supplies, they could continue to consume them like this.
When the heavy snow fell, the Ming army camped outside the city naturally had a harder time.
Due to this special offensive and defensive situation, the Incheon area on the seaside to the west of Seoul, which the North Korean defenders could not detect, was really busy at the moment.
Incheon used to be called Inju, but now it is called Incheon County.
The warships of the Beiyang Navy are now anchored here. Xue Han uses his ships and marines to control the passage from the south of Gyeonggi Province to Seoul, and also firmly controls Incheon.
Today, the small port on the coast of Incheon is in full swing.
On the pier, a shopkeeper from the Maritime Bureau was looking at the new batch of people being brought here.
He looked at the group of panicked people and then looked at the interpreter: "You tell them: work here, the wages will be paid once a day, and you will have a meal. After the port is built, there will be many more workers to use in the future. If
If you have any fellow countrymen, you can call them over when you go back, don’t be afraid. The Ming Dynasty sent troops to Korea to protect the Korean people from war disasters. In the future, more cargo ships will come, and there will be more work here!"
The long-term strategy of the Ming Dynasty has already been assigned to the Shipping Bureau: the commercial port and military port here will also be the shipping hub of the Shipping Bureau in the direction of North Korea in the future.
Although the war has not yet ended, Ming Dynasty has already begun to operate this place as its own territory.
Over on Ping'an Road, Gong Yongqing has been busy all this time.
Li had been watching what he did, and his mood became more and more complicated.
"Starting today, I will rush to each government to supervise the food supply! We must remember that this first time is very important. Do one thing well, and all the people will return to their hearts. There is no need to increase taxes, use new steelyards and buckets instead, and reduce the number after the war.
Half tax, and don’t make things difficult for them. Tell them that after the Qing Dynasty is completed, the tax system will be restructured next year, and it will not be heavier than this year! Those new grains will not be harvested this year, and they will be kept as seeds. Some people in the countryside are oppressed.
Subordinate officials, take care of everyone you see! Don’t be afraid that no one will help you with the work, just hire them with money!"
Li watched him lecture the young officials who had entered the court, thinking that there was indeed no shortage of money now.
During this period of time, Gong Yongqing has solved too many cases here and raided many large government and gentry households that committed evil.
For as many years as North Korea has fought for power in the court, formed cliques for selfish interests, and practiced nepotism, so many years have the local governments been subjected to extortionate expropriation and expropriation, causing unspeakable suffering.
Now that they are using their dirty money to do things and win over the hearts and minds of North Korean people, all Ming Dynasty needs to do is to prevent these officials sent to them from taking the opportunity to amass excessive wealth.
He heard that these young officials "study" in front of the Ming Emperor for several months before setting off.