Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 84
"Your Majesty will surely be able to compete with Taizu and Taizong in the future, defeating the bandits, expelling the Tartars, and restoring China." Looking at Zhu Cihong who was full of ambition, Liu Bao said sincerely.

He accompanied Zhu Cihong to fight out from the capital, broke through the obstruction of the warlords, and eliminated people like Fu Wang and Ma Shiying. He had witnessed too many miracles in Zhu Cihong in the past few months.

Liu Bao believes, and can only believe, that Zhu Cihong will definitely become a great monarch, who can rival the greatness of Taizu and Emperor Taizong.

"No, I want to be a greater emperor than them. They can't solve the problem of the Tartars, but I can solve it. I can solve the Miao chaos in Jiaozhi, Dongying, and Southwest."

It's a pity that Zhang Zhong ran up to Liu Bao before Zhu Cihong told Liu Bao about his grand blueprint.

"Your Majesty, there are more than [-] Chinese and military officials, including Qian Qianyi, a senior scholar, who have arrived at the pier. They are ready to board the ship somewhere."

"Okay, let's go then."

"I think the soldiers and civilians in Yangzhou must have been waiting for their emperor for a long time." Zhu Cihong said rather narcissistically.

It's a pity that Zhang Zhong didn't answer his words, but came to the bottom of the stands, and said to the soldiers resting and guarding around, "The imperial guards are assembled, and the emperor will move to Jinling Wharf."

The Imperial Guard's Pro-Army, this name seems to be a bit of a mouthful, and it sounds like a sense of tallness that makes people feel unclear.

But in fact, it is an army compiled and trained by Zhu Cihong with system soldiers, and the number is not large, because Zhu Cihong does not have so many system soldiers.

Although this army is also called the pro-army, it is completely different from the Shangzhiwei pro-army such as Jinyiwei and Banner Guard.

The main members are nearly 100 heavy infantry from the Fifth Army Battalion, [-] armored knights, [-] gunmen from the Shenji Camp, and more than [-] Mongolian heavy cavalry and guards. people.

Zhu Cihong positioned them as his imperial bodyguards, personal bodyguards, and apart from extremely loyal people like them, no one was more suitable for these jobs.

For the emperor and the superiors, most of the time, they don't need any capable and meritorious people at all. They only need a loyal person, and the ability is not very important.

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Zhu Cihong's team to the north used thousands of ships, large and small, and the perimeter of the team was in charge of protection, and the front and back were in charge of sentry and inspection.

Further inside are the troop carriers of the Jinling Shenji Camp and the Jingying Camp, and the deepest and most central area is the ships of the Banner Guard and Jin Yiwei.

As for the imperial guards who personally protected Zhu Cihong, they were on Zhu Cihong's Yuzhou and several ships around Yuzhou.

And sandwiched between the standard-bearer guards, Jin Yiwei, and the imperial guards were the civil and military officials who accompanied Zhu Cihong.

Zhu Cihong's team is like a huge concentric circle, a big circle wraps a small circle, and the small circle wraps smaller circles, layer upon layer.

Yangzhou is a city located by the canal. When the north-south traffic was not cut off, it was prosperous and prosperous, just like a paradise on earth.

But fortunately, with the entry of the military families of the four towns and the Shi Kefa shogunate, Yangzhou City is not too withered.

"Father, when will Grandpa Emperor come over?" said a little boy on a man's neck.

The man's name was Shi Yigong, and he was originally a coolie on the pier of Yangzhou City, carrying things for others. He heard that the emperor's royal boat would come to Yangzhou City today, so he rushed to the embankment with his children to watch the excitement.

It's a pity that there are too many people who have the same idea as him, and in addition to the recent influx of a large number of people in Yangzhou City, the military families of the four towns, the refugees from the Central Plains, and the gentry who fled south.

"Come on, come on." The man said to the child on his neck.

In fact, he was even more stupid and couldn't see what it looked like in the canal, because the human wall formed by soldiers and the onlookers in front of him blocked his eyes completely.

Although everyone's living conditions are not good now, and Jiangbei's economy is much more depressed than in the past, people's nature of watching people's excitement will never disappear.

When Zhu Cihong beheaded in Jinling before, many people spontaneously came to watch. Even if they couldn't enter the imperial city, they still had to move a small bench to listen to the screams outside.

It's not that the Chinese people's hearts are like iron stones, just like Lu Xun's novels, the people are numb most of the time, and they know that beheading will never cut off their own body, so they all watch the fun with a monkey mentality.

Now that Zhu Cihong is on a grand trip, and when he comes to Yangzhou, the scene is prosperous, beautiful, and safe, because there are Yangzhou militiamen, regiment trainers, and soldiers standing guard on both sides of the embankment, which is not a hundred times better than watching the beheading.

Besides, it is not always possible to see the emperor's face. To be able to see the emperor's frame, for ordinary people, it is good luck.

"Your Majesty, there are many common people who join in the fun on the embankments on both banks, should we expel them?" Zhang Zhong came to the cabin from the bow and said to Zhu Cihong.

He felt that there were too many people on both sides of the strait, and if there were any gangsters inside, they would throw gunpowder cans onto the ship. Although it was impossible to cause damage to the ship, if the emperor was frightened, they would be able to kill all their imperial guards. That doesn't make up for it either.

"Let me go out and have a look." Zhu Cihong happened to be bored and flustered, so he wanted to go to the bow of the boat to see what the embankments on both banks looked like.

When he came to the bow of the boat, he saw two rows of dense human walls standing on the embankment, all of them were militiamen, regiment trainers, and soldiers. They were like a city wall, tightly blocking the common people who joined in the fun behind them.

"No need, there are soldiers forming a human wall, and the river is very safe. Besides, let them feel the presence of their emperor." Zhu Cihong said.

At the same time, Shi Yigong asked his son on his neck, "Shitouer, have you seen the emperor?"

"I see, I see, the emperor's brother is so young." Shi Yigong's son Shitouer saw the young man standing on the bow, dressed in bright yellow and embroidered with golden dragons, and knew that this must be the legendary emperor. So I said excitedly.

When Shi Yigong heard his son say this, he hurriedly taught him, "Don't call him Brother Emperor, that's the master of the lords, you have to call him the emperor, the emperor's grandfather."

Shi Yigong came from a farming family, so he didn't know what to call such an honorable person, but he thought to himself, those county magistrates and Juren lords all listen to the emperor, so the emperor must be the lord's lord.

If he was called the emperor's elder brother, wouldn't he be making him the same as himself, and let others be wronged for nothing, so he wanted to call him the emperor.

　I just got home from vacation for the past two days, and I'm a little tired. (_)
　　
　
(End of this chapter)