Chapter 85 Good News and Bad News
Since Zhang Xianzhong heard that the evil bandits of the "Yao Huang Thirteen Family" have arrived in Taiwan, and the Ming Pao publicly reported that Wu Dading led his troops to set off, it turned out that it was just rumored that they were going to Luzon. This time, Wang Yingxiong's letter confirmed that Wu Dading was really going to lead troops to Luzon. Zhang Xianzhong was planning on the left and right, and found that it might be a good idea to abandon Sichuan and Luzon.
Zhang Xianzhong was still very confident in his war moves, but the key was that he could fight and could not hold it for a long time. The reason was that the problem was still in the hearts of the people. The Ming Dynasty was so corrupt and incompetent, but the people just didn't buy their own accounts and still held the creed that the Ming Dynasty was orthodox. When he was in Wuchang, he had been exempted from taxes for three years, and the people's approval ratings did not improve. After arriving in Sichuan, he turned to a high-pressure policy, and the facts proved that it was very effective. Be good to the people, he was worried that you would collapse! It was not good to the people, he wished you would collapse immediately!
Well, although I am unwilling to admit it, I have to admit that my force is still not strong enough and I do not have the strength to destroy it. If I can ravage the Southern Song Dynasty like the Mongolian Iron Cavalry, then I don’t have to worry.
Zhang Xianzhong is a person who can stretch and bend, otherwise he would have been destroyed by the Ming army like a meteor, and Gao Yingxiang is a good example. Zhang Xianzhong did not be vague at all when he did fake surrender. If he could not defeat him, he would surrender and rebel. He did so much. So this time Chongzhen thought of a trick, and he would not talk to you about pleading, but directly offered conditions, and was about to send you to Nanyang like a plague god.
Just go! I'm afraid that thousands of Spanish red-haired ghosts will not be able to do it! As for the natives, it's even less difficult.
The 800-mile rush in Sichuan has not arrived yet, and the pigeon system has already sent the news to Nanjing. When he heard that Zhang Xianzhong was preparing to accept the plan of "Sichuan to Luzon", Chongzhen felt relaxed. It seems that he had to dare to think about anything. It is really "the farther the thought is, we can go!" Well! Zhang Xianzhong is better to pass the farther away, the better. I don't know if he is willing to go to Australia. If he goes to Australia, fight with the sky, the earth, the kangaroos, and the natives, such a king may be even better. Well, he thinks too far, so I wish Zhang Xianzhong happily to be the King of Luzon.
Chongzhen was intoxicated by this good news and was so happy that the pigeon system brought the news from Japan, and the Japanese were preparing to attack Luzon. There was no wireless communication in this era, otherwise he would just call Zhang Xianzhong, just like the later Chinese and US dollar leaders talking across the ocean. He asked on the phone: Lao Zhang, how about going to Luzon? Otherwise, he would go to Australia?
Alas! Don’t mention that people who came from the information society are used to mastering what happens every moment in the world at the first time, but the Ming Dynasty only had 800 miles of rushing, and they kept changing horses and not changing people. The fast horses were only 800 miles away. That was the limit, which was generally only 5 or 600 miles of speed transmission. Chongzhen had no choice but to set up a pigeon system. After half a year of training, there was finally a pigeon system covering key areas. The pigeon flight speed could reach more than 75 kilometers per hour and could fly more than 600 kilometers a day. Because it was a straight line, it was more than twice as fast as the 800 miles of fast horses. This pigeon system was both cost-effective and fast, and had a very high cost-effectiveness.
Regarding why pigeons have the ability to return home thousands of miles, scientists from later generations have verified that pigeons have a magnetic cell that senses magnetic field, which contains magnetic substance - iron tetroxide, so they can detect magnetic fields. What's amazing is that it can identify targets based on the detected magnetic field strength. The more exaggerated argument is that pigeons can remember the detected magnetic map. To put it this way, its brain's ability to process magnetic field data is comparable to remote sensing satellites. However, everything in the world is full of wonders. If you want to say it, Gu Wan
Listen to it. No matter how it recognizes the way, as long as the pigeon is a natural messenger, fast and accurate, regardless of wind and rain. The only disadvantage is that the letters it carries can only be abbreviated version, but the teaching system of the Ming Dynasty is very reliable in this regard. The cultural people of the Ming Dynasty not only know how to write eight-legged essays, but also proficient in abbreviation. For example, the information from Japan, after being translated according to the code, there are only a dozen words: the Japanese army has 3,000 ships and 30th, and the fifth day of the day will attack Luzon. Sichuan is: Sichuan-Lu plans to enter negotiations, which is a chance.
The messaging in Sichuan and Japan are both passwords, especially the intelligence in Japan, which is a super password compiled by Wang Chengen. The Jinyiwei has a special communications agency, with pigeon training personnel and password personnel. Whether it is Shenyang, Beijing, North Korea, Japan, and Luzon, they can receive information within three days through the pigeon carrier system.
With this pigeon system, although it is not as good as the Japanese radio system, it is more than one level higher than Yima Transmission. In the new army, the pigeon system intelligence sharing has also been realized, and the new army also has its own pigeon system. Besides, the Japanese wireless communication systems are just the super-era products brought by later generations, and there is no possibility of copying, so Chongzhen was very proud. The pigeon system he built was less than the top and the bottom.
The pigeon system brought good news and bad news. Zhang Xianzhong seemed to be really planning to go to Luzon to be the King of Luzon, but unfortunately, the Japanese have now started. Why is Zhang Xianzhong's fate so bad? In history, he was shot and killed by Haoge from the Qing Dynasty, and finally he was infamous for slaughtering Sichuan. The thirty ships of gold, silver and jewelry he stolen did not have time to spend, which provoked many people from later generations to search for treasures all over Sichuan.
What is the biggest tragedy in life? It is that people die and the money has not been spent.
Zhang Xianzhong's tragedy is that when a person dies, the money is not spent at all! In addition, the people killed by the Qing army, the people killed by the "dominant tyrants", and those who starved to death in war are all counted on him. Therefore, Zhang Xianzhong died very unjustly. Compared with Zhang Xianzhong, Chongzhen died in history, and the money was spent all of them before he died. The people who died in Sichuan are strictly related to Chongzhen's incompetence, at least they were dereliction of duty. However, with Zhang Xianzhong's head of the jar, Chongzhen got sympathy.
The tragic character Zhang Xianzhong is destined to be doomed. However, as the saying goes, evil people still need to be beaten by evil people, and it is a good idea to let Zhang Xianzhong and the Japanese waste. In future history books, it can be imagined that one big book would inevitably be written: Zhang Xianzhong opened up the battlefield of anti-Japanese war overseas and was a well-known anti-Japanese hero. Compared to killing people in history, he only won an eternal infamy, such an ending is undoubtedly much better.
Chapter completed!