Li Guodong said to the soldiers: "Tell them that if we don't let go, we will ignore it. Just throw the mines down and they will not dodge and explode together! We must ensure that the emperor goes south!"

"Li Aiqing, don't commit murder. If I kill all the civil servants and gentry, I will not frown, but why are the people? I will feel heartbroken if I kill too many times." Chongzhen said.

"Your Majesty, I know what I know and won't kill too many people. But I hope your Majesty can give me an imperial edict."

"What kind of imperial edict does Li Aiqing want?" Chongzhen asked.

Li Guodong told Chongzhen about the idea of ​​expanding the navy. Chongzhen agreed and asked Wang Chengen to take the pen and ink, draft the imperial edict, and handed it over to Li Guodong.

The Huai Army in the river ahead has begun to drive out canal boatmen blocking the river. The cavalry running back and forth on both sides shouted to the boatmen blocking the river: "Dear fellow villagers, we are ordered to escort the Shengjia Nanzhang. Please make clear the river quickly. We will use mines to clear the wrecks!"

At the same time, the navy sampan on the river was preparing to perform a blasting mission, and also shouted to the boatmen in front: "Dear fellow villagers, please make way out quickly. We will use mines to clear the waterway. If you refuse to move out of the way, you will be killed by mines, and you will be responsible for the consequences!"

In order to deter the boatmen, a navy sampan also threw a mine into the river. A sailor lit the fuse, and the navy sampan quickly retreated and retreated to a safe range. After a while, a dull explosion sounded from the bottom of the water, and a column of water soared into the sky rose from the river surface, and huge waves splashed onto the river bank with water droplets. After a while, a large number of fish and shrimps appeared on the river surface.

"Dear fellow villagers, have you seen it? If we don't let go, we will drop mines. Within a radius of dozens of feet, the ship will be crushed and there will be no living things!" Huai Jun continued to shout.

However, none of the boatmen and boats blocked the river surface retreated, and they still blocked the river channel.

The Huai Army Navy ships did not dare to move forward any further, so they could only confront the ship workers on the river.

"Why don't you blow it up?" asked Li Guodong, who rushed over after hearing the news.

Shi Lang pointed to the small boats in front and said, "Brother, look at those small boats. These boatmen are dragging their families and the boats are full of women, children, elderly and weak. What should we do?"

"Yes, Grand Marshal, you have also said, what should we do if we don't kill women, children, old and weak?" Han Dashan asked.

"You can't kill women, children, old and weak. Your Majesty's dragon boat is behind us. Let's do this, I'll go and shout to them and persuade them to leave." Li Guodong decided to go out and shout in person.

Li Guodong personally took a small boat and sailed towards the small fleet of boatmen that blocked the canal. The small sampan sailed to the small fleet of boatmen of canals, and saw an old boatman with gray hair standing on the bow of a black-topped boat. When the old man saw Li Guodong's ship coming, he stood calmly and motionless, without any fear. There was also the crying of women and children from the old man's black-topped boat.

"This uncle, you cannot threaten your family's lives. If you refuse to let go, our water will be mined and your family will be dead. You should make a move out of the way. We will not pursue your crime of blocking the waterway and blocking the Holy Driving South Hunting." Li Guodong bowed to the old man.

The old man sneered repeatedly: "If the Emperor Ming Dynasty insisted on going south, I would not want to live anymore, and my family would have no way to survive!"

"Why did the old man say this?" Li Guodong asked.

The old man sneered: "The Emperor of Ming Dynasty went south to move the capital to Nanjing. What else should we do for the grain transportation? If the grain transportation is abolished, wouldn't my family wait to starve to death? Instead of starving to death, it would be better to stop the sage hunting in the south! If the Emperor of Ming Dynasty could change his mind, we still have a way to survive; if the Emperor insisted on hunting in the south, then we would rather be bombed to death than starve to death!"

Li Guodong shouted loudly: "Dear fellows, even if the emperor hunts south, the canal transport will not stop! From Shandong to Lianghuai, they will be controlled by the Ming Dynasty! Although the canal transport has been reduced, you still have a way out! Dear fellows, don't listen to the bewitching of the traitors, you should go back quickly and leave your family's lives! When our royal army attacks the Central Plains in the north and expels the Tartars, the canal transport can be restored to navigation again!"

"But there is no longer navigation north of Shandong?" the old man asked.

"Yes, in the future, the north will either be a thief or a Jiannu. Why do you need to open air? Give Jiannu food?"

"I dare to ask Master, the canal transportation has been shortened and the court is no longer in the capital. Should we cut the canal transportation ships?" the old man continued to ask.

"Please don't worry, even if the boatmen are cut, we can recruit a group of boatmen to join our navy, and the remaining people stay on the canal as boatmen. Isn't this a solution to the problem?" Li Guodong replied loudly.

"Don't listen to his nonsense, he doesn't have such power!" a gentleman mixed in the boatman shouted anxiously.

"I have!" Li Guodong replied loudly, and then took out the imperial edict from his arms, "The imperial edict is here! The emperor's system in Chengtian said that the northern Jiannu was a wolf in his wolves, intending to swallow our Ming Dynasty. Once the slaves are established, they will go south with the south of the Yangtze River. In order to maintain the south of the Yangtze River, they must defend the Han River in the two Huai Rivers, and fight in the two Huai Rivers, and the navy needs to be expanded. The canal canal transport is reduced, and the ship workers can join our Ming Navy, with a monthly salary of three taels of silver!"

After listening to the content of the imperial edict, the boatmen were in a stir. It was obvious that they had begun to shake. If a person still had hope of living, why not live? It is better to live without dying. Since he can survive, who is willing to die?

Li Guodong continued to stir up the flames: "Dear fellow villagers! You make a living on the canal, work hard every day and night, and you can only barely support your family. But have you ever thought about how much value you can create when you travel north and south? Why can you only get a little pitiful copper coins, and where is the value you create? They are all taken away by the gentry and the tyrants who instigated you! How much profit do you create for them every year? As a result, they just pulled a hair from the nine cows and rewarded you. You are worth working for those vampires who exploited you?"

It is the most effective class struggle. After Li Guodong's words, he directly opposed the proletariats such as ship workers and the gentry behind them, and the gentry became the enemy of ship workers!

Li Guodong threw another bombshell behind: "Because the Ming Dynasty entered an extraordinary period, all the canal transportation will be directly controlled by the Ming Dynasty Royal Family, and no gentry and businessman will be allowed to operate the canal transportation to avoid transporting food and resources to the enemy! Dear fellow villagers, from now on, you will no longer work for gentry and profiteering merchants, but will directly work for the emperor of the Ming Dynasty! Your wages will increase by 30%! Your Majesty is kind and will naturally treat the people well!"

Hearing this, the gentry mixed with the boatman was shattered: "What a poisonous eunuch! Not only do we have to confiscate our property, but we also have to compete with the people for profit and monopolize the transportation of the canal! That's not all, we actually encouraged our mud legs to fight against us!"

"Friends, don't listen to his bewitchment!" a gentleman shouted anxiously.

"This emperor who gave up on the capital is no longer worthy of being the emperor of the Ming Dynasty. He is just a fool! The villagers, you cannot believe the words of the foolish emperor!"

These gentry desperately spread rumors and slandered the emperor and incited the ship workers, but the ship workers had already begun to shake. They were not fools. At least they saw that hundreds of thousands of people were following the emperor's dragon boat, which meant that the emperor was willing to give the people a way to live. Since the emperor could give the people a way to live, why did he not leave the way to live but he had to go to a dead end? To be honest, if the ship workers could survive themselves, they would not care about the life and death of the gentry.
Chapter completed!