The matter of pressing the Southern Front Corps to enter Qinghua will not be expressed.

Let’s talk about Mo Dengyong’s request for surrender at this time.

Like in the original history, Mo Dengyong had indeed learned that the Ruan clan sent envoys to the Ming Dynasty to invite troops, and after he learned that the Ming Dynasty had gathered a large number of troops in Guangxi, he also knew that he could not be an opponent of the Ming Dynasty, especially when the Ruan clan and the Ming Dynasty were united.

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Mo Dengyong made his most correct choice now, which was to send ministers to the Ming Dynasty to envoy the Ming Dynasty and directly request surrender. He even knelt himself in front of the Ming ministers to apologize and offer his land household registration book.

Zhu Houzhao admitted that Mo Dengyong did dare to make big moves, and he was really not worried that he would be ordered by his emperor.

But Zhu Houzhao did not choose to get rid of Mo Dengyong at this time, and he even planned to agree to Mo Dengyong's surrender first. Zhu Houzhao even appointed Gui E, the Minister of War, as the envoy of surrender, to accept Mo Dengyong's surrender on behalf of the Ming Dynasty court, and went to Wuzhou, Guangxi to discuss specific matters about the attachment of the Ming Dynasty with Mo Dengyong, and asked Mo Dengyong to send representatives to Wuzhou for negotiations.

"You are also an official of the military system and the Minister of War. You should know what the court really wants. Now, I have asked you to deal with Mo Dengyong's surrender, with only one purpose. If Mo Dengyong and others are willing to give up their power to be a free minister of the Ming Dynasty, it will be better. If Mo Dengyong is unwilling to give up his power to rule the northern part of Jiaozhi, then you have to drag him, it is best to drag him to the southern line to completely destroy the Ruan clan!"

Zhu Houzhao instructed Gui E.

Gui E nodded: "I understand. This time I will come here to travel around and then talk about the important matters. After the important matters, I will not let the talkers leave."

Zhu Houzhao also nodded: "That's exactly what he said."

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Gui E didn't expect that His Majesty, his emperor, would have expected so accurately that Mo Dengyong would really ask for surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

This made Gui E even more admire the Ming Emperor Zhu Houzhao.

What Gui E would not have thought was that Zhu Houzhao also made other public opinion preparations in order to make the scholars and people in the country more emotionally support the Ming Dynasty's conquest of Jiaozhi.

Zhu Houzhao ordered the literati in charge of propaganda to directly reveal the fact that Mo Dengyong wanted to surrender to the Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Houzhao even asked the attendant's room to specially invite some literati to give speeches in newspapers and university forums about Mo Dengyong's surrender to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty might peacefully recover Jiaozhi, and it is even better to make an optimistic estimate.

Gui E also deliberately expressed his opinion to the public as the Minister of War. If Jiaozhi can be peacefully recovered and the war will be a so-called blessing for the country.

Zhu Houzhao knew that he had asked the attendant room to promote it like this, and it was announced that the Ming Dynasty seemed to hope that Jiaozhi would be slapped in the face if it could be peacefully recovered. However, Zhu Houzhao wanted to make the Ming court and the people of the Ming Dynasty slapped in the face.

Because only when everyone in the Ming Dynasty was expecting Mo Dengyong to surrender to the Ming Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty could peacefully recover Jiaozhi, the people of the Ming Dynasty would be extremely disappointed and extremely angry, and the court could have sufficient reasons and make full use of public opinion to conquer Jiaozhi.

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Of course, while Zhu Houzhao and the Ming court he ruled were still fueling the current recovery of Jiaozhi, gunfire sounded at Qinghua in the southern part of Jiaozhi at this time.

At this time, Jiaozhi was still an agricultural country, or even an agricultural country with weak national strength. Naturally, he had no preparation for coastal defense. Even the Ruan family guessed that the Ming Dynasty might have the intention to annex its troops, but the only thing he could do now was sea ban, moving the residents of Qinghua coastal areas inwards and turning coastal defense into land defense.

Because of this, the so-called forced login in the Ming Dynasty did not have much fierce login battles, so the Ming Dynasty would let the army log in first at this time.

Yu Dayou took his officers and soldiers to the 1st Division of the Third Army of the Guards and landed on the shore for a long time after he saw a group of monkey soldiers rushing towards Yu Dayou.

It is obvious that although the Monkey Soldiers are not good at sea defense, they also know that when the enemy's small forces attack, they should be annihilated.

However, Yu Dayou's troops happened to be in front of these monkey soldiers.

Yu Dayou could see that these monkey soldiers were quite morale, all wearing cotton armor and had good physical fitness. The distribution of spear soldiers, shield soldiers and archers was reasonable.

"Fill the machine gun, and there is a ditch next to it, and immediately fill the water storage tank with water!"

Yu Dayou ordered at this time and ordered the officers and soldiers of his company to use the Ming version of Gatling machine gun to attack the monkey soldiers first, so as to disrupt the formation of the monkey soldiers first. After all, these monkey soldiers were arranged too densely. In order to create a intensive killing effect, he saw that the Ming army on his side had no bows and arrows, so he wanted to rush over quickly and cause a large amount of damage to his Ming troops first. But in fact, it just gave Yu Dayou and his company the opportunity to use the Ming version of Gatling machine gun to intensively shoot.

These monkey soldiers were chattering or screaming. Although they were wearing cotton armor, they were wearing hats on their heads. They looked a bit weird, but they were relatively short. When they rushed over, they looked like a group of monkeys.

At this time, the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun had already started to rotate and had magazines installed. After Yu Dayou waved his hand, the multiple barrels of the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun immediately turned and made crackling sounds.

The dark steel barrel kept spinning and spraying fire, and the bullets were shot out continuously, bringing waves of Mars and thick white smoke.

A large group of monkey soldiers were swept to the ground on the spot, and some were beaten up and down, as if they were stepping on the high-temperature stone for a moment, and they looked even more like monkeys.

Not long after, these monkey soldiers were so scared that they ran away, running around one by one, and even running towards the tree, holding the trunk, and daring to move. When the Ming Dynasty Gatling machine gun accidentally swept the trunk and hit the monkey soldiers under the butt, these monkey soldiers hurriedly climbed up another piece.

Yu Dayou knew that it was easy to fight with the slap, but he didn't expect it to be so easy to fight. After these monkey soldiers retreated and the Ming version of the Gatling machine gun was not very cool because the cooling system was not very good, he had to take his officers and soldiers to eliminate the remaining enemies and wait for the order to go up the peak.

Bang!

Yu Dayou and his officers and soldiers were holding the latest rifle of the Ming Dynasty. Even the firearms had a bolt-pull-type rear-mounted rifle with a gun that had exceeded the Minnie rifle, but they could only use it to hit monkeys on the tree. When they saw a monkey soldier's butt, they shot it, which made the monkey soldier's chrysanthemums bloom in an instant.

Of course, these monkey soldiers fell from the trees and were captured by the Guards as soon as they fell. They were then prepared to be encircled to serve and build fortifications for the Guards.

On the side of the Guards, Yu Dayou had already begun to prepare to build a barbed wire mesh at this time. This was the standard arrangement when the Ming Army was stationed now. In addition, landmines will be placed in the corresponding areas, and even searchlights will be set up, which are arc lights.

Although arc lights composed of large battery packs cannot be directly popular among the people, they are still possible for military use as temporary night patrols. Moreover, high-intensity arc lights at night can also cause certain damage to enemies that may attack. Of course, with night military lighting objects such as searchlights, it is also extremely convenient for the Imperial Army to land at night.

Due to time coincidence, many troops in the Ming Dynasty had to land at night at this time, so the searchlight also allowed the landing ships of the Ming Dynasty to land successfully at night.

Gradually, as the yarn-like lights stuck to the ever-storing sea waves, more and more Ming officers and soldiers began to gather near Qinghua, and therefore, professional engineers began to gather to build the military base after landing more quickly and complete.

In fact, the Ruan tribe in Jiaozhi did think of sneak attacks at night. After all, these monkey soldiers were local natives and could move forward even at night. Therefore, at this time, after late at night, these monkey soldiers did rush from the jungle like snakes walking in the grass, but because most of them were barefoot, they did not make too obvious sounds, only the rustling sounds made when their calf rubbed the grass leaves.

But what these monkey soldiers did not expect was that there were searchlights in the Ming Dynasty. Therefore, when the arc lights shone on these monkey soldiers attacking at night, the monkey soldiers who were illuminated in an instant seemed to be blind and could not help but block them with their hands. Some monkey soldiers fled directly, shouting that there were ghosts that could shine in the Ming army. Some monkeys even thought that there were really heavenly soldiers and generals in the Celestial Empire, and they might have invited the true god to emit this light. Therefore, these monkey soldiers knelt down and began to kowtow and worship.

Of course, there were also monkey soldiers who were not illuminated by searchlights, but because they rushed under the wire mesh, they rang out and rang, causing the entire wire mesh to ring one after another.

Of course, what is more exciting than the sound of bells is that many monkey soldiers stepped on landmines directly, and suddenly there was a rumbling sound and the screams of monkey soldiers.

The Ming army easily discovered these monkey soldiers attacking at night.

Although many monkey soldiers fled in panic because of searchlights, sudden sounds of bells and landmines, the Ming army still prepared for the enemy's night attack. They followed the courses of their usual training. In a short period of time, the Ming army immediately resumed their combat state from rest, rushed out with rifled rifles, and all set up their formations and began to shoot these monkey soldiers.

These monkey soldiers jumped up and down again, and countless casualties were killed or injured in the first place.

Seeing that the field defense was unsuccessful and the night attack failed to stop these Ming troops, the Ruan tribe of Jiaozhi had to retreat to the Qinghua City area and prepare for a decisive battle with the Ming army in the Qinghua City area.

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"Your Majesty, the front line brings back the news, the Southern Corps has landed successfully! It seems that Jiaozhi's coastal defense is indeed very bad," Lin Tingxuan said to Zhu Hou.

Zhu Houzhao nodded. He was not surprised that the Ming Dynasty could land successfully, but said: "If the Ming Dynasty did not change the navy into a navy and rebuilt it, the Ming Dynasty's coastal defense would be as bad as Jiaozhi. You imagine that if the Ming Dynasty did not open the sea and kept locking the sea, the people along the coast still did not know how to know the strong ships and powerful guns. Once outsiders attacked the Ming Dynasty with the same strong ships and powerful guns as our Ming Dynasty today, how should our Ming Dynasty deal with it?"

Lin Tingxuan thought about it and had to admit that if such a thing really happened, it would be a terrible thing.

Perhaps because of the global vision brought by the great geographical discovery, Lin Tingxuan now realized that the Ming Dynasty was not the center of the world, and on earth, there was not only the Ming Dynasty, so now he had to say to Zhu Houzhao:

"Since Your Majesty said this now, I risked my life to say that the concept of governing the country of Ming Dynasty must be changed. Cheng and Zhu's learning is no longer appropriate. Cheng and Zhu must pay attention to following the old and following the ancient etiquette, tend to be conservative, and tend to be conservative, and tend to be seclusion and not to be external;

Now, everyone in the world has long known that the Ming Dynasty is not the center of the universe, nor is it the only celestial dynasty. Even though our Ming Dynasty should have been the celestial dynasty, there are many powerful countries in the four seas that do not regard the Ming Dynasty as the sect leader, and the Ming Dynasty can no longer cut off its ties with the outside world;

Therefore, I believe that Your Majesty should change the imperial examinations and abandon Cheng and Zhu's learning as the way to govern the country. He should take the sages as the body, change the disadvantages of the old laws with the actions of reform, and adopt the benefits of the world with an open mind."

Zhu Houzhao knew that Lin Tingxuan was once the governor of Guangdong and Guangxi, and was also an official who advocated opening the sea for the first time. He had always been relatively open-minded and visionary, but what Zhu Houzhao did not expect was that Lin Tingxuan now also took the initiative to propose abandoning Cheng and Zhu Neo-Confucianism, which surprised Zhu Houzhao both at the same time.

But Zhu Houzhao knew that Lin Ting could not choose someone, after all, many officials in the world even have many reformists who insist on using the principles and sages.

"What I said is very true, but this matter should be discussed for a long time. In the past, the Ming Dynasty was conservative and followed step by step, and did not dare to do big steps. But now, we must also pay attention to the fact that the steps were too big, which led to chaos. We must obey the public's opinion. It is not that I do not want to abandon the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, but that the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism is deeply rooted in the people. Both scholars and officials and common people regard this as a regular study. Therefore, if we abandon the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism, we must let the people at the bottom abandon the Cheng-Zhu Neo-Confucianism first, and all the court can do is to induce it carefully."

After Zhu Houzhao said this, Lin Tingxuan naturally admired his Emperor's Majesty even more, thinking that His Majesty the Emperor was more thoughtful and comprehensive.

It is precisely because of this that in addition to the battle to recover Jiaozhi in the south, the entire Ming Dynasty entered a period of calm at this time.

Zhu Houzhao no longer made major changes in the political system.

After all, because of the reform of Jiangnan tax affairs, the Ming Dynasty no longer has to worry about the development of Jiangnan commodity economy, the unbalanced interests of the court and the people. The reform of the mining tax system allowed the Ming Dynasty to achieve the purpose of transferring mining to the outside world. Therefore, the Ming Dynasty's court now basically does not have major political and economic risks that need to be dealt with immediately under the current circumstances.

Moreover, both officials, gentry, sir and officials and the people at the bottom must have a period of adaptation to the new system before they can carry out new reforms.

Zhu Houzhao is now only working on science and technology and education. He wants to further change the living habits of this society and liberate more people's thoughts. He hopes to awaken more Chinese people and become higher people with real meaning in their thoughts and personality.

Zhu Houzhao is most concerned about steam locomotives now. He believes that this mechanical means of transportation that completely replaces human and animal power will further open up the people's minds. After all, for most people, they do not empathize with the changes and significance brought by rifled guns compared to flintlock guns and flintlock guns.
Chapter completed!