In the face of the menacing public opinion war in the Yanwang Mansion, the imperial court was obviously a little caught off guard, so it reacted a few beats slower. A few days later, in addition to the defense, the edict drafted by Fang Xiaoru severely criticized King Yan for the crime of rebellion, but in the end, it was impossible to avoid the various faults of why the prince was not allowed to enter Beijing for the funeral, which made Emperor Jianwen, who advocated filial piety, very wolf for a while.

In addition, the military strength of the Yan army inevitably caused panic to the imperial court, fearing that the king of Yan would take advantage of the victory to pursue and move south.

Therefore, the court was forced to announce the dismissal of the military department Shangshu Qi Tai and the official position of Huang Zicheng, the secretary of the Taichang Temple, in order to make the king of Yan lose the target of the Qing monarch, and sent it to Beiping together with the edict.

Xu Hao immediately seized another mistake of the imperial court, and published the full text of the edict in the Yanjing Times word for word, with various half-written comments attached to it, and forwarded it to the world.

Unexpectedly, this move scratched the itch of the literati, and many famous people in the north wrote articles specifically for this purpose and sent them to send them, some of them scolded the king of Yan without scruples, and some persuaded the two sides to value peace, and basically no one said good things for the palace of the king of Yan, which can be said to be the literati who are not afraid of death.

And Xu Hao, no matter what he spoke for, published it all in the name of not being guilty, which made many literati who were dissatisfied with King Yan nod secretly, and the reputation of King Yan for attaching importance to Wenzhi and treating Shilin well gradually spread.

The Yanjing Times also became famous all over the world, everyone scrambled to collect Luoyang paper, academies around the country actively helped to transfer printing, not to mention, and the literati book club, which was itchy for a while, also began to try to publish newspapers.

In the palace of King Yan, Yao Guangxiao sighed: "Xu Hao is right, the imperial court dismissed Qi and Huang, which is equivalent to admitting that there were traitors who had disrupted the government and misled the country, which would demoralize the officials and soldiers, and our army would be relieved." However, it was obviously to delay time, seize the time to raise food and grass soldiers, and prepare for another northern expedition. ”

Zhu Di smiled: "The imperial court has indeed made a mistake. Even if the king is calculating behind it, the gains outweigh the losses. But this move did make this king lose the name of taking the initiative, and he could only wait for him Li Jinglong to reorganize the army to come, but unfortunately this king will not be led by the nose, and if Li Jinglong can't move, I will go to the northwest.

Speaking of which, the effect of Xu Hao's newspaper is extraordinary, but it is a pity that there are still generals like Zhang Lun, the commander of Hebei, who raised troops and went south to join the imperial court. ”

Yao Guangxiao said: "It's okay to go, the province is nominally loyal to Chitose, and at the critical moment, he will fight back." By the way, the imperial court sent Gao Wei to persuade the soldiers to stop, I don't know who the prince is going to send to greet him? ”

Zhu Di said without thinking: "What about Xu Hao." He is the most suitable, but this king is too lazy to see that sour Confucian. ”

Yao Guangxiao smiled bitterly and said: "I'm afraid the prince has to change someone, Xu Hao is now busy preparing for the military factory, and he has said several times that he has no time to clone recently." ”

Zhu Di couldn't help but say with emotion: "A Xu Hao is better than thousands of troops, this king is afraid that he will have a mistake on the battlefield, so he deliberately left him in Beiping, originally worried that he would not be able to figure it out and complain about it, and did not want him to complain without a word, as always, he made every effort to plan for this king." ”

Yao Guangxiao said with a smile: "As the saying goes, a good bird chooses a tree to perch on. It is the greatest blessing that we can meet the Lord. ”

It is said that Gao Wei first sent a 10,000-word letter of persuasion, but Xu Hao threw it directly in the garbage heap without even looking at it. Seeing that there was no response, Gao Wei came to Beiping in person. In fact, the battle has reached this step, it is purely a superfluous move, how dare King Yan not fight if he wants to truce? didn't even enter the Yan Wang's Mansion, so naturally he was disappointed in the end.

Li Jinglong also personally repaired the book King Yan. In addition to Xiaoyi's righteousness, he sincerely hoped that Zhu Di would stop fighting, and faintly pointed out that Yan Wangfu would not play with his pen and tongue again.

Influenced by the Yenching Times. Hundreds of civil and military officials and officials from various places expressed their opinions one after another, and even Yang Di, the left senator of Hu Guangbu's political secretary, and others openly wrote a letter asking the imperial court to strike the army, and within a few days, they were transferred to remote areas to serve as officials.

Just as King Yan said, the court that showed weakness on the surface had no idea of a truce at all, and Qitai Huang Zicheng was still Emperor Jianwen's right-hand man.

At this time, Xu Hao was busy in the craftsman's prison in Dongcheng, personally drafting grand drawings to build a satellite city as the permanent location of the Beiping Arsenal.

Xu Hao's reputation for treating and respecting craftsmen has long been well known in the craftsman circle, so craftsmen are unwilling to do their best. According to the drawings, sufficient land has been reserved for various factories, including ironmaking and steelmaking, and necessary facilities such as living quarters, schools, hospitals, shopping malls, bathhouses, public toilets, and sewer pipes will be built in the city in preparation for future technological innovations.

There were as many as 5,000 craftsmen on the construction site, and nearly 30,000 apprentices, nephews, and hired workers, including 10,000 children of military families, whose fathers or brothers had served in the army to kill the enemy, and who came to work in their spare time to earn money and food or to learn a skill, because the youngest son and the only child would not go to war.

Dozens of brick kilns are working day and night to supply bricks and tiles, hundreds of earthen blast furnaces are billowing black smoke, and large blacksmith shops are busy casting special iron frames to be used as skeletons and wooden beams for buildings.

Xu Hao squatted in front of a kiln that emitted hot air, observed it intently, and said to the craftsmen around him: "Can you really burn out cement?" ”

The craftsman said with confidence: "According to the description of the adults, I found a pure white limestone, ground it into powder, added clay and sand and mixed it together, and the wall was not strong when it was practical. The villain thought that it would be better to burn it together, but he didn't expect that the wall built this time would be much stronger, and it would be okay for a strong man to push it with all his might. ”

Xu Hao said with a solemn expression: "This is the key thing to build a house, we must not act sloppily, we must accurately grasp the whole process and control the fire time, otherwise the quality is different, and the house will automatically collapse and hurt people." ”

Standing up, Xu Hao was not sure if this was real cement, and there was probably no need to build high-rise buildings at the moment.

Located in the heart of the construction site, the small inner city is a fortified fortress made of large stones poured with glutinous rice juice and other traditional techniques, and hundreds of sergeants stand guard and do not allow anyone to approach.

This is the core area of the Yan Army, after three years of continuous research and development by Xu Hao's team, helping Yan Wangfu to initially master the artillery casting process, and now hundreds of firearms craftsmen are using the principle of wooden lathes to polish the rifling in the barrel according to Xu Hao's requirements and began to try to develop a new type of artillery with breech charges.

There were also a large number of craftsmen making muskets and flintlock pistols, and the factories that produced gunpowder were far from the area. Feeling that there was no electricity, in line with the scientific attitude of starting everything from scratch, Xu Hao simply set up a team to try to invent electricity and steam engines, and other similar rubber refining had special personnel in charge. In short, it's time to cuddle the grass and beat the rabbit, even if it is to accumulate experience for the future.

In addition to the factories and personnel belonging to the Yanwang Mansion, Xu Hao secretly also has hundreds of craftsmen of his own, because he has a priceless smokeless gunpowder in his hand, and some people are secretly developing something.

After looking around and talking to the masters for a long time, Xu Hao rode a horse to the martyr's mausoleum, which had begun to break ground, and the outermost tall archway was half repaired.

There is no need for him to urge this matter, so many soldiers have died in successive battles, and the soldiers and civilians will inevitably have a grudge against King Yan, and then even if they openly claim to be Fengtianjing. Blame it all on the imperial court. In fact, whether it is Zhu Di or Xu Hao, who can not be afraid? Xu Hao is just right, can Zhu Di, who is bent on usurping the throne, not afraid of the wrath of heaven and earth, ghosts and gods?

There is a way that people in the world can be deceived, but the gods of heaven and earth cannot be deceived! In order to win the hearts of the people, Zhu Di specially sent Zhu Gaoxu and his third son Zhu Gaosui to be responsible for collecting the bones of the war dead, paying tribute to the fallen soldiers on various battlefields, and compensating their relatives, without daring to be careless.

In addition to the 100,000 heroic souls who moved to the Beishan Cemetery, local governments also began to build cemeteries, and Zhu Di personally wrote memorial texts. More than 100,000 people who died in the battle of Zhengcunba presided over the sacrifice, and the government stipulated that it was strictly forbidden to herd around the cemetery.

Xu Hao walked slowly into the cemetery with a solemn expression. Standing alone in front of a tombstone in the cold wind, surrounded by the Xu family.

Looking at the graves from afar, they are like fish scales for door nails, and the style and scale are very simple, Xu Hao reminded himself not to forget to repair them when he has the conditions in the future.

There are still many unfinished tombs. It is about to be filled with flesh and blood, and what a man once was, but now he has to sleep forever under this cold loess.

Hundreds of monks chant melodious verses. Hundreds of people wept and buried their relatives with their hands, wondering if white hair and red makeup could cut off their thoughts about their sons and husbands? Can the scriptures surpass the souls of hundreds of thousands of dead?

The spring breeze blew away the fireworks everywhere, the flying paper money fluttered all over the sky, and in the heart-rending cry, Xu Hao silently knelt on his knees and solemnly kowtowed to the endless grave to apologize.

Mu Hui walked over with a sigh, and knelt down on one knee, and said in a low voice: "The prince ordered the gathering of soldiers and horses to hold a big parade, and then he will lead his troops out of Juyong Pass to attack 150,000 officers and troops in the northwest, and may capture Datong." ”

After Xu Hao meticulously kowtowed three heads, he said, "Does the ghost power have a reply?" ”

Mu Hui said: "Yes, he accepted the title of Great Khan, and promised to kill Emperor Yuan immediately when he had a foothold, and from then on he would abandon the title of Northern Yuan State." ”

Xu Hao got up and said: "Sue him to kill Emperor Yuan's younger brother Benjamin, completely cut off the bloodline of the Golden Family, and then he will be the undisputed Tatar Khan, and he can trade with my Ming Dynasty." ”

Mu Hui said: "The prince has recognized the suzerainty of the ghost power of the Mongolian tribes, and now the Oirat department is invading everywhere, and its power is expanding sharply, will it become a big problem for his henchmen?" ”

"Not yet." Xu Hao turned around and walked outside, explaining as he walked: "The ghost power is not right and unpopular, it should not live for a few years, whoever kills him will really win the allegiance of the Mongolian tribes, so it will inevitably be divided internally."

Did you know that the Devil was actually a Mongolized Persian? Ancestors originated in the Caucasus, migrated and settled in the Baikal area, and entered the Central Plains after being conquered by the Mongols, Genghis Khan called them forest Mongols, and the race was the Semu people, which was essentially different from most Mongols, so the Oirats were brave and good at war, but the population was always weak. ”

Mu Hui nodded and said: "No wonder Ghost Lichi refuses to lead the whole clan into the customs to take refuge, I have always strictly forbidden the marriage between the Semu and the Han people." ”

Xu Hao said: "Yes! As long as they are black-haired and black-eyed, it is not difficult to be assimilated by our Han people, only the characteristics of the Semu people are too obvious, and they believe in Islam, even among the Mongols, they are unique, it is difficult to get along with other ethnic groups, and in the future they will either be completely exterminated or move back to their hometowns. (To be continued......)