Nan Ming Sun Never Sets

Chapter 553 Desire to Join the Army

Sometimes Bai Mingxiu had to admit that Yang Buzheng looked extremely annoying, but his overall view and insight were terrible, and he was not worthy of the evaluation of the S-class strategist.

The point raised by Yang Buzheng is actually something that Bai Mingxiu has observed over the years, and gradually began to worry about it. He didn't tell anyone about it, but he kept it in his heart.

Relying on technology and weapons that surpassed the times, as well as organizational capabilities and systems that surpassed the times, the Ming Dynasty finally made a comeback and regained China, also known as the huge empire on which the sun never sets.However, since the prestige and strength of the Ming Dynasty that sailed around the world reached its peak 20 years ago, Ming people began to enjoy all the benefits of the Ming Dynasty that they deserved.

The country is so powerful, shouldn't the common people have a peaceful life, make money and make a fortune, and the wives and children are hot on the kang.

From the second year of Guangfu to the eighth year of Guangfu, he joined the army and became a glorious Ming soldier.However, after that, the Ministry of War and the Ministry of Human Armed Forces discovered a significant decline in enlisted personnel, and there were even some phenomenon of evading military service.Mainstream media such as Daming Daily have severely criticized this behavior, and the society has also conducted extensive discussions, but the general public, especially young people, are no longer so enthusiastic about joining the army to serve the country.

The reasons are very complicated. First of all, the Ming army actually has a relatively small recruitment volume.Bai Mingxiu has maintained a certain number of systematic mercenaries in the regular army all year round, not because he is worried about any conspiracy to mutiny, but simply to consume his gold finger coins and experiment with new arms and units.Many young people fail to pass the first level and join the army with enthusiasm. The army tells you that you are not good enough and come back later.This dampened the enthusiasm of many people, and the Ming Dynasty could not completely break away from a society of relationships, so ordinary children had fewer opportunities to enter the army.

At the same time, due to the popularization of compulsory education and the explosion of industries, joining the army became less attractive.Although the social status of soldiers was considered high in Ming Dynasty, for a long time in China there has been a phenomenon of emphasizing civil affairs over military affairs. No matter how one obtains fame, it is better to be a civil servant than a soldier.In the society, there are already many companies offering high salaries to hire talents. The income of these people is far better than that of civil servants and soldiers, so it is inevitable that soldiers are not so popular.

The Ming people only briefly praised and worshiped Li Dingguo during the Restoration War and later foreign wars.

Military heroes like Zheng Chenggong and Su Shuhuan, but Ming people discovered later, it seems that because of Daming's technological strength and military equipment, a cat or a dog can beat the shit out of those barbarian people, and soldiers have nothing to admire.Once the entire social atmosphere is reversed, it will make the work of the Ministry of War difficult.

In the social report of the Ministry of War, it is said that in the Xuanwei Department of Dongying, Bangladesh, Nanyang, etc., ordinary children are more interested in joining the military than those in the mainland.Some ethnic minorities are proud to serve in the army, and even all the children of the whole family have to enlist in the army.Although the regular army of the Ming Dynasty is definitely stronger than the fan army, and its morale is not worse than that of the fan army, but no matter how you say it, it is a bit embarrassing.

Yang Buzheng said to Bai Mingxiu: "Your Majesty, although the country is large, those who are warlike will perish and those who forget the war will be in danger. It is time to awaken Da Ming's will and determination to fight. Da Ming should always maintain a certain amount of external pressure, which is conducive to maintaining our internal pressure. Unity, and promote our continuous development.

Bai Mingxiu put down the teacup he had already drunk, looked at him with burning eyes, and said: "The idea is very good, but now domestic isolationism is on the rise, and our Ming Dynasty has never really established an international perspective or a global perspective. Although the citizens have come out and lived in our colonies, the things that everyone pays attention to are still the one-third of an acre of land. And to be honest, our Chinese nation is a peace-loving nation. Wars, such as India, if they intervene on a large scale, there will be criticisms in the country, and I will have to be called a militarist. The same is true in Europe. Europeans fight their own, they will feel that It has nothing to do with me."

Yang Buzheng nodded, "Because although our Ming Dynasty experienced the Jiashen Change and was almost subjugated by foreign races, His Majesty led Daming to make a comeback very quickly, and we have long regarded ourselves as a kingdom of heaven, and there is no great external threat to speak of. As for what India and Europe are even far away. If Ming Dynasty experienced a period of humiliation, decades or even a hundred years, dignity was violated, the country was in disarray, and the people suffered, then the people of the future will take this humiliation and pay close attention to the world , work hard."

Bai Mingxiu could understand what Yang Buzheng said, the plane before he traveled was actually like this.But now Nanming is still the arrogant country whose eyes are higher than the top, thinking that everything in the world revolves around him, and everything Bai Mingxiu does seems to strengthen this impression of Ming people.

Yang Buzheng finally said: "Fortunately, Xiqing will definitely end the chaos in Europe. At that time, we will manipulate a wave of public opinion. His Majesty declares that he will complete the unfinished business and completely wipe out the Tartars. The people will still support it."

"You can see through people's hearts." Bai Mingxiu sighed.

Yang Buzheng's words were not startling, but he said endlessly: "There is no human heart, there are only your heart and my heart and others' heart."

Bai Mingxiu asked, "What do you think Europe will look like?"

"A world war, at least a war of a scale that the world has never seen. Most of Europe may be turned into ruins, and millions of people will be killed or injured."

Bai Mingxiu sighed: "Personally, I don't want such a war to happen. This is a disaster for mankind. Human beings have always been stupid and cannot learn to live in harmony."

But Yang Buzheng immediately snapped back: "No, things like race and country are a major progress for mankind. Their role is not to plunder and exploit the outside, but to unite the inside and mobilize more power. And Competition between different groups is in line with a process of natural selection, where inferior groups and genes are eliminated, and the best ones remain."

Bai Mingxiu curled his lips. What Yang Buzheng said was actually Social Darwinism, which was very politically incorrect in the time he was traveling, but it was taken for granted by almost all Chinese people.Because Chinese people have verified this set of things with blood and tears.

Yang Buzheng continued: "Anyway, no matter what, there are few problems in the core ruling areas of the Ming mainland and Nanyang, but the necessary wartime system still has to play a role."

(End of this chapter)