For ordinary citizens of the empire, their responsibility is to respond to the call.
With a military mobilization order, the entire empire, from the mainland to the overseas colonies, whether it is the imperial nobles or ordinary citizens, all have to be mobilized.
This is the biggest feature of total war. In fact, the Chinese nation was the first nation to develop total war, a military weapon.
As early as the Warring States Period, various countries had already begun comprehensive mobilization. For example, the history book describes the Qin State as "Ding men were killed, and Ding women were transferred to the enemy." This is an expression of comprehensive mobilization for general war. Perhaps the result of this mobilization is "bitter suffering."
There is no life, one walks through the Taoist tree, and the dead look at each other." However, the idea of total war became the core of the Chinese military after the Qin Dynasty. Although it was weakened to a certain extent after the Han Dynasty, "I work on farming in my spare time.
The basic mobilization idea of "serving as soldiers in wartime" still played an extremely important role until the Tang Jifu military system.
However, after the collapse of the government military system in the Tang Dynasty, the Chinese nation basically did not mobilize its citizens to participate in wars. Later, the military recruitment system that exhausted national financial resources replaced the government military system, and China's military philosophy went back to some extent.
Otherwise, with the huge population base of the Chinese nation, if we could mobilize the power of the whole country like the Seven Heroes of the Warring States Period, there would be no tragedy of two people destroying the world! Even the weak Song Dynasty was still a big country with tens of millions of citizens, with a population of 78% and 80% national strength.
Times that of the Qin State. Even if it cannot be transformed into the power of seven or eight strong Qin, even if it is to mobilize seven or eight million troops and use the vast army as a steamroller to crush them all the way, there is no Temujin, Kubi
A serious matter.
It is a pity that in the end there was no army of 7 to 8 million people. Instead, the heads of 70 to 80 million Han people were chopped off like melons and vegetables.
"What is cruelty? What is true cruelty? It is not daring to drive the people of the country to the battlefield regardless of the cost to win the final victory. In the end, the people of the country become the victims of the alien invaders!"
At the end of Shengde's twenty-sixth year, at the last cabinet meeting as the ruler of the empire, Emperor Zhu Da once again emphasized the importance of mobilization.
"Don't talk to me about "the hardships of life, meditating on the Tao tree, and the dead looking at each other." This is not important. Once the war breaks out, for the empire, what it pursues is nothing more than two words - victory.
! Let’s not talk about the weak Song Dynasty, but also the late Ming Dynasty. If the late Ming Dynasty could use the determination of total war during the war and drive the people to the battlefield regardless of the cost, even if the ants counterattack, why would hundreds of millions of people slaughter for the Manchus?
.As for the so-called kindness!”
After a pause, Emperor Zhu Da said slowly.
"In my opinion, the greatest kindness of the country is to complete mobilization at any cost during the war, and then use the vast superiority of troops to disintegrate, destroy, and fundamentally eliminate our enemies. This is the true kindness. As for what
The so-called "for the common people" is nothing but hypocrisy!"
The reason why Emperor Zhu Da expressed such emotion was because after the war broke out and faced with the mobilization of more than seven million troops, some chaos occurred in the country. Some people accused ordinary people of being just cannon fodder in this imperialist war. This view was widely used.
There may not have been a market before the war, but people... are always profit animals. After the war breaks out, it is inevitable that some people will be resistant to recruitment. This view will naturally have its market.
There was even an article in the newspaper claiming that "the imperial army should not expand indefinitely even in war." Faced with this trend, Emperor Zhu Da naturally had to strike hard. Only then did he take action now.
"Ten and thirty million people!"
Emperor Zhu Da named a number.
"This is the entire population of the empire, including the four provinces of Japan and the African colonies. How many troops have we mobilized so far?"
Emperor Zhu Da turned his attention to Sun Hu, the Minister of War. Faced with His Majesty's question, Sun Hu quickly answered.
"Back to Your Majesty, the total strength of the empire's army and navy before the war was 1.386 million. After the war broke out, according to the mobilization order, the first batch of personnel, namely retired officers and soldiers within the past five years and some people of appropriate age, were mobilized. The total number of mobilizations was 1.7 million.
In April, based on actual needs, another 2 million people were mobilized. In July, considering that the front line will be further expanded next year, the empire mobilized another 1.8 million people. The current total strength of the empire is 7.932 million."
Listening to this number, Emperor Zhu thought for a moment and then said.
"Mobilize another 2 million!"
When Qian Degong and others frowned slightly, Emperor Zhu Da said directly.
"Our country's current population is 130 million, and we are mobilizing at least 13 million people to join the army. No matter what the war situation is, the most critical thing is to implement mobilization to the greatest extent. We would rather allow the army and other fronts to expand than let the facts tell
Front and other armies, for now, why have we not implemented the South Pacific operation? The essence is that there is insufficient strength, so we must further expand our strength."
Emperor Zhu Da never thought of restoring the Qin system, but he had established a similar national mobilization system as early as the Nanhua period. Of course, Nanhua did not have a population advantage at that time. In the simulator, why Nanhua was able to persist for ten years was because
Every ounce of war potential was mobilized, and although the cost was heavy, Nanhua persisted.
What will happen if Nanhua fails?
Millions of South Chinese would be reduced to second-class citizens under foreign rule.
Emperor Zhu Da understood the importance of comprehensive mobilization better than anyone else. It is directly related to the life and death of a country-in this era, wars actually involve more people than there are people! As long as there is a modern army organization and training system, similar weapons and equipment and sophisticated
Officer, with several times more troops, we can definitely win!
The reason why historical steel can defeat Mustache is that it can drive 25 million people to the battlefield without any psychological burden. Whether it is a sea of people or a sea of tanks, the number is overwhelming. On the other hand, until 1944, there was still concern that general mobilization would affect the people.
The quality of life, and thus the three virtues that led the people to oppose the government, directly turned into the dust of history.
"General mobilization! This is the only way to seek victory. There is no other way. Don't think that the world is already a civilized world. Perhaps, the losers will not suffer massacres, and there will be no more deaths in the Song Dynasty and Ming Dynasty.
Billions of people have been killed in the world, but now the victors will use all means to squeeze the losers and extract their wealth. If they lose everything, they can only let the mermaids eat their flesh!"
Taking a deep breath, facing the cabinet members with mixed expressions, Emperor Zhu Da spoke in a cold tone without even the slightest emotion.
"From now on, anyone who talks about mobilization will be regarded as a "non-national". Men are directly recruited and sent to the battlefields with the most brutal wars, as cannon fodder! Yes, they are cannon fodder. It is better to let those talkative people become cannon fodder.
Let the loyal and brave soldiers of the empire sacrifice themselves! As for women, they are also sent to the front line. As field medical personnel, during the war, do not feel any kindness towards strange voices. Being kind to them is equivalent to preventing crimes from happening before they happen.
From now on, we must strike hard! No matter who they are or what their status is, it doesn't matter. Not to mention they are old ministers, even university professors are not inexhaustible!"
Why Emperor Zhu Da specifically emphasized "university professor" is because universities in the empire are sacred, and so are university teaching positions, but this does not mean that they have extra-legal privileges.
After saying that, Emperor Zhu looked around at everyone and asked in cold words.
"Do you have any other opinions?"
Facing His Majesty's inquiry, everyone fell into silence. What should I say at this time?
Seeing that the Prime Minister was right, Associate Minister Fang Zhanbo said.
"Your Majesty, your Majesty, your Ming Dynasty will be in an invincible position!"
Okay, at this time, you only need to say "Sheng Ming", as for the rest, it is not important.
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