Ming Taizi's Total War

Chapter 249

"Well, I see, you stand back." Zhu Cihong said.

Hearing Kong Youde's answer, Zhu Cilang knew it was enough.

As the emperor, he must maintain his majesty and keep a distance from his courtiers.

This is a good way for the superiors to maintain their sense of mystery and make the subordinates fear themselves.

As the saying goes, distance produces beauty, and similarly, distance can also produce a sense of mystery and unknown, which makes people frightened.

Although Zhu Cixiang, the horse-riding emperor with hundreds of thousands of troops, already had enough authority, he kept a distance in front of his courtiers and maintained his image.

This is never a wrong choice.

Of course, it is necessary to put on a show, except when pretending to be close to the people.

"Yes." Kong Youde responded.

Then he retreated cautiously into the crowd, for fear of losing his appearance in front of the king, and someone would find a clue and give him a copy.

By that time, he might not even have the title of Duke now.

"Since you have surrendered to Daming, you must obey my orders wholeheartedly and serve by my side."

"If you make great achievements in battle, I will definitely reward you, whether it is title or wealth, I will satisfy you."

These are the best things to use whenever you want these warriors to fight.

Except for a strange flower in the history of Blue Star, the army of flower growers.

As long as you have ideals and beliefs, you can fight even if you are hungry or naked.

Zhu Cihong didn't dare to extravagantly ask for this. If he dared to let the Ming army fight like this, the officers and soldiers of the Ming army would have to strip him naked and throw him off the dragon chair tomorrow morning.

"The world is about to usher in reunification again. My appearance proves that the destiny of the Great Ming is undecided. My Great Ming will surely last forever."

"When the world is unified, you will all contribute to the revival of the country. Even if you want land, people, and kings, I will satisfy you."

Mite Qing was able to win over so many Han warlords to fight for them. The very important point is that he offered a generous price, cracked the earth to seal the king, and was willing to give it to hereditary replacements.

However, the land given must be newly conquered land, which is beyond the effective control of the imperial court.

As for Zhu Cihong, it was the same idea.

Anyway, the imperial court can't control that much land, so it's better to confiscate some of it to them.

In this way, he can also get support, the army will fight hard, and his nominal territory can be much larger.

No matter how bad it was, even if they were all independent from the imperial court, they would be much closer than the tributary states around Daming, and it would be much easier to take back their territories in the future.

Kong Youde and the others didn't know, they thought that Zhu Cihong, who had suddenly become generous, was actually plotting against them, not only the present, but even a hundred years later.

"But!" Zhu Cihong changed the subject, and the most important topic came.

"You must be loyal."

In a unified dynasty, or even in some companies that have been established for a long time.

Loyalty is often put first. Loyalty to the leader can cover up other shortcomings in you in many cases.

Such as incompetence, greed, irritability, stupidity and so on.

Of course, Zhu Cihong is no exception. It is not difficult for the Ming Dynasty to return to unity.

But what is difficult is what to do after reunification. How to govern millions of square kilometers or even tens of millions of square kilometers of land. This is very embarrassing.

Zhu Cihong is not a management genius. He thinks that the best way to rule the country is to make most of the courtiers loyal to him.

At the very least, you can't always think about going against yourself. As long as you can do this, it will be easy to rule the country.

"Only by being loyal, let me see your loyalty, you will have a bright future." Zhu Cihong was about to start painting big cakes.

He never imagined that in his previous life, he watched the boss draw big cakes all day long, and his stomach ached from watching. One day, he would also draw big cakes for the people below.

It's really Fengshui turning, Zhu Cihong sighed, but it's best to stop here, and never turn again.

"The ministers must be loyal to His Majesty, loyal to my Ming Dynasty, the sky and the earth are the mirrors, the sun and the moon are the witnesses, and they will never have two hearts. If they betray Daming, the ministers are willing to be bombarded by the sky, and the seven orifices will bleed to death."

Kong Youde and his gang were very straightforward. When they heard Zhu Cixiang say this, they immediately took the oath without saying a word.

Although he didn't know how sincere they were, Zhu Cihong felt that their attitude was okay, at least they could be superficially loyal.

After all, they only surrendered to themselves today, so it is not easy to make too harsh demands.

Next, Zhu Cihong let them see the benefits of being loyal to themselves.

"Order the peasants to bring in all the food and slaughter pigs and sheep on the spot. I want to feast on the three armies."

Seeing Zhu Cihong's order, countless civilian husbands walked into the barracks carrying steamed buns and cooking cakes, and drove countless pigs and sheep into the barracks.

At the same time, some folks who came early are already cooking.

Of course, their cooking skills are not very good. After all, they are to reward tens of thousands of people in the armed forces. It is impossible for Zhu Cihong to find hundreds or even thousands of cooks all at once to cook.

Besides, there is no need for that. Anyway, these big-headed soldiers will be happy as long as they can eat enough and eat meat.

As for the cooking skills and the taste, this is not something they can care about.

Kong Youde and others never expected that Zhu Cihong would reward the army with a lot of food after finishing the call.

At this moment, they all felt that Zhu Cihong was really a good emperor who cared about his soldiers, knowing that most of their soldiers were still hungry.

Just when Kong Youde and the others were fascinated by the scene in front of them, Zhu Cihong suddenly said to them, "All the generals enter the camp and enjoy dinner with me."

It's all here, if you don't have a meal with the leading generals like Kong Youde, and make contact with each other, Zhu Cihong will come in vain.

Besides, they have to stay for a while to let the soldiers in the barracks know who they are able to eat meat.

In this way, Zhu Cihong's work was not in vain tonight, and he successfully won the hearts of the people.

The reason why Zhu Cixiang did this was to lower these people's defenses against him.

At the same time, if it wins the hearts and minds of the vast number of middle and lower-level soldiers, if the effect is good, the independence of warlords such as Kong Youde will be greatly reduced before long.

Maybe even after a period of time, they will have a sense of belonging and identification with Daming, and they will regard themselves as the Ming army from then on.

Instead of being the private soldiers of these people, obey their orders in everything.

If this could really be done, Zhu Cixiang felt that it would be a good idea for him to try Zhao Kuangyin's act of releasing military power over a cup of wine in the future.

(End of this chapter)