The propaganda plan submitted by the Ministry of Rites and Newspapers mainly focused on two points: first, to make the vast number of imperial subjects think that the empire's war against Portugal was just, and that the imperial military would fight for the interests of the imperial people.

Second, it is necessary to make the vast number of imperial subjects think that the empire's war against the Portuguese will cause certain economic losses in a short period of time, but these losses are caused by the shameless Portuguese, not because of the empire's war behavior, and at the same time emphasize that after the subsequent war victory, the empire can get back these losses with interest, so that the vast number of imperial people can enjoy the dividends of the war.

In short, the core goal of the second round of public opinion propaganda is to get the people to agree with and support this war!

After all, the war with Portugal envisioned by Li Xuan is not just as simple as capturing Malacca, the real strategic goal is not just Malacca, but completely opening up the European route!

The capture of Malacca and the control of the Strait of Malacca is only the first step, and then the empire will completely expel the Portuguese from the South Seas and pull out all the Portuguese strongholds in the South Seas.

The second step was to compete with the Portuguese for the Indian Ocean, eliminate the Portuguese maritime power in the region through a series of naval battles, and at the same time pull out and capture the Portuguese strongholds in Burma, India, Ceylon, West Asia and other places one by one, as a replacement, in order to achieve complete control of India and the Indian coastal routes.

The third step was to enter the east coast of Africa, and in the process try to bring the Portuguese to their knees and lift the blockade of the west coast of Africa.

If the Portuguese do not give in, then the war will continue, and the empire will completely pull out all the Portuguese strongholds on the east coast of Africa, and then enter the Atlantic, burn the war to the west coast of Africa, and then fight until the Portuguese give in and open European routes.

The most fundamental purpose of the war against the Portuguese was to open up European routes, and the rest was actually just incidental.

However, the Asia-Europe route, which was almost the lifeline of the Portuguese, was of great importance.

Even if the Portuguese suffered a military defeat in Malacca and even India for a while, it is impossible to make them easily succumb and then give up the European routes, which the Portuguese regard as a lifeline.

Therefore, the war against the Portuguese must be mentally prepared for a protracted war!

And this kind of war may be a protracted war, if there is no broad support within the empire, it will become very troublesome, so, if possible, Li Xuan still hopes to be able to get broad support in the country, even if it can't get support, but at least the people must not object!

The first wave of public opinion propaganda was simply to reveal some information, and then to test the reaction of the domestic community, especially the reaction of the industrial and commercial circles, but now it seems that the reaction of the first wave of testing is still relatively positive and positive.

At this time, the second wave of public opinion propaganda was just carried out, and the focus of the propaganda at this time was naturally to say how bad and bad the Portuguese were, and at the same time focused on the fact that the Portuguese had earned countless money by monopolizing European trade in the past ten years.

And these money originally belonged to the Tang Empire, to the industrial and commercial circles of the Tang Empire, to the workers of the Tang Dynasty, and to the farmers of the Tang Dynasty, so all the people of the Tang Dynasty.

However, the Portuguese obstructed the merchant ships of the Tang Empire from trading in Europe on their own through the shameless monopoly of shipping routes, and swallowed up countless wealth that originally belonged to the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Why do our silkworm farmers in the Tang Empire work hard all year round to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms, but in the end they can only barely eat?

Why do our silk workers in the Tang Empire work hard all year long in the high temperature and humid silk reeling workshop, but in the end it is only the salary of Weibo!

Why did our sailors of the Tang Empire, risking their lives to transport silk to Malacca, but they couldn't even support their families?

Why is all this?

Because of the Portuguese, they shamelessly lowered the price of our silk by monopolizing the trade routes, and then after shipping it to Europe, it was sold for dozens of times or even more!

In Europe, the price of silk is 100 yuan, the Portuguese just took 90 yuan or more, and our Datang can only get less than 10 yuan, and this less than 10 yuan, the production cost accounts for at least half, and in the end only a meager profit of one or two yuan is left!

Of course, when such propaganda is carried out, the court newspaper will never say anything, how much the Portuguese need to pay for transporting silk from the Tang Dynasty to Europe, how big the risk is, not to mention that countless Portuguese merchant ships are ships that sink to the bottom of the sea on the way, depart from Europe, and then return to Europe smoothly with full loads of goods, which is not much.

Even if they only needed 10 yuan when they bought raw silk in Datang, but after all the hardships, they shipped it to Europe to buy 100 yuan, although it was very profitable, but it was definitely not so expensive.

Because there will be losses on merchant ships, supply ports along the way will also need funds to maintain operations, and there will be wars with pirates and many natives, which are all costs.

Just like the Tang Western Trading Company, their merchant ships trade and are very profitable, but their costs are definitely not only the cost of acquiring goods, in fact, you have to count the huge expenses of the company's fleet, the expenses of maintaining the operation and security of the colony, these are all costs.

However, there is no need for ordinary people to know about this kind of thing!

The people just need to know that the Portuguese made a lot of money on the route from East Asia to Europe, and the money originally belonged to Datang.

Sure enough, after such a public opinion propaganda, the trend of public opinion among the people has changed rapidly, if people just know that there is a conflict with the Portuguese, and when the war is about to break out, they will still worry about the negative impact, and then start to worry, and have a kind of thought, even if there is a conflict, but the war can still be avoided and avoided.

Otherwise, if it starts, both sides will suffer heavy losses.

But now, when the second wave of public opinion propaganda came out, the trend of the people has changed.

The young students of many universities in China, full of enthusiasm, instantly found a cathartic point and began to scold the Portuguese.

In the industrial and commercial circles, many people have also begun to think about how many benefits it will bring if the empire completely occupies India and completely monopolizes the trade between India and the Safavid Dynasty and the Ottoman region, and how many benefits it can bring if it can open up European routes.

And the result of this prediction is naturally only one, that is, the benefits are great!

As a result, the industrial and commercial circles began to hope that the empire would soon destroy the Portuguese and monopolize the trade markets of India, West Asia, and the Ottoman regions, and then enter the European market.

Even ordinary people, they have seen the report that India is extremely rich, and the climate is pleasant for agricultural development and survival, not like the Nanyang region, which is full of tropical jungles, with the current technical conditions, it is more difficult to reclaim farmland by immigrants and development.

And at this time, just independent from the Ministry of Industry, the Ministry of Communications under the Ministry of Railways, is also timely announced a new round of railway construction program, the new railway construction program named Southwest Railway, this railway is expected to start from Changsha, Hunan, through Guiyang, Guizhou, and then into Yunnan, and continue south to Myanmar.

This southwest railway plan, in fact, is just a virtual head, because the terrain in the southwest is complex, the railway construction is very difficult, with the current technical conditions and construction capacity, even if it is filled with the lives of road construction workers, it is estimated that it will take at least several decades to fill in such a southwest railway, as for the railway to connect Myanmar, or even into India, it is even more far away.

However, people have seen from this railway plan that it will be convenient to travel to and from India in the future, and they can reach India directly by train, and it seems that it is a very good thing to immigrate to India at that time.

Not to mention, the Korean newspaper also said that if it can completely monopolize the markets in India and West Asia, it will play a huge role in promoting domestic industry and commerce, and will provide more jobs in the country and more income for the people of the empire.

In short, it is said that it is good to fight the Portuguese!

After the second round of public opinion propaganda was completed, the Tang Dynasty newspaper began the third round of publicity, but this time the propaganda has already begun to carry out propaganda for war mobilization, and let people feel the huge military power of the Tang Empire, and believe that this war is bound to win, completely dispelling people's last concerns!

The Tang Dynasty newspaper used the second page to report on the Tang Empire, which is also the first steel steam battleship Jiangnan in human history!

Although it is very reluctant to say that the Jiangnan is a steel battleship, because the internal structure of this battleship is mostly wooden, the main part of the structure is a steel structure, and the hull is also mainly wooden, but the outer layer is wrapped with a layer of wrought iron, this shell is not even the kind of armor belt that later generations think, nor is it a mixture of oak and wrought iron, it is just a very simple layer of wrought iron.

And it's not comprehensive either, in fact only a few core areas are covered!

However, no matter what happens inside, at least from the outside, this Jiangnan is like a steel battleship.