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The propaganda plan submitted by the Ministry of Rites and Newspapers mainly focused on two points. First, it was necessary to make the majority of the people of the empire believe that it was just for the empire to go to war against Portugal, and that the imperial military would fight for the interests of the people of the empire.

The second is to make the majority of the people of the empire believe that even if the empire goes to war against the Portuguese, there will be some economic losses in a short period of time, but these losses are caused by the shameless Portuguese, not because of the war of the empire. At the same time, it should be emphasized that after the victory of the follow-up war, the empire can take back these losses with profit, so that the vast number of the citizens of the empire can enjoy the dividends of the war.

In short, the core goal of the second round of publicity is to get the people to agree with and support this war!

After all, the war with Portugal envisioned by Li Xuan is not just as simple as capturing Malacca. The real strategic goal is not only Malacca, but a complete opening of the European route!

Taking Malacca and controlling the Strait of Malacca is only the first step, and then the empire will completely expel the Portuguese from the South Seas and pull out all the Portuguese strongholds in the South Seas.

The second step is to compete with the Portuguese for the Indian Ocean, eliminate the Portuguese maritime power in this area through a series of naval battles, and at the same time pull out and capture the Portuguese strongholds in Burma, India, Ceylon, West Asia and other places. Instead, to achieve complete control of India and India's coastal routes.

The third step is to reach the east coast of Africa, and in the process try to bring the Portuguese to their knees and let go of the blockade on the west coast of Africa.

If the Portuguese don't give in, then the war will continue, the empire will completely pull out all Portuguese strongholds on the east coast of Africa, and then go into the Atlantic Ocean to burn the war to the west coast of Africa, and then all the way to Portugal People gave in and opened European routes.

The most fundamental purpose of the war against the Portuguese was to open up European routes, and the rest were just incidental.

However, the route from Asia to Europe is almost the lifeline of the Portuguese, and its importance is self-evident.

This kind of thing is to grab food from the Portuguese people's rice bowls, and they also smashed their rice bowls. Even if the Portuguese people suffered military defeats in Malacca and even India for a while, they wanted to let them It is also unlikely that they would easily succumb to this and then surrender the European route that the Portuguese regard as a lifeline.

Therefore, the war against the Portuguese must be prepared for a protracted war!

And this kind of war that may be protracted will become very troublesome if there is no broad support within the empire. Therefore, if possible, Li Xuan still hopes to obtain broad support in the country, even if he can't get it. Support, but at least make sure that the people do not object!

The first wave of publicity propaganda was simply to reveal some news, and then to test the domestic reaction, especially the reaction of the business community. Now it seems that the first wave of the test received a relatively positive and positive response.

At this time, the second wave of public opinion propaganda happened. At this time, the focus of the propaganda was naturally how bad the Portuguese were and how bad they were. At the same time, the focus of the propaganda was on the Portuguese in the past ten years, through the monopoly of Europe. Trade, lying on the body of the Datang Empire, earned countless money.

And these money originally belonged to the Datang Empire, the business community of the Datang Empire, the workers of the Datang Dynasty, the farmers of the Datang Dynasty, and therefore all the people of the Datang Dynasty.

However, by means of shameless monopoly of shipping routes, the Portuguese obstructed the merchant ships of the Datang Empire from going to Europe to trade on their own, and abruptly swallowed up countless wealth that originally belonged to the people of the Tang Dynasty.

Why did the silkworm farmers of our Datang Empire work hard all year round to plant mulberry trees and raise silkworms, but in the end they could barely make ends meet?

Why do the raw silk workers of our Datang Empire spend the whole year working hard in the hot and humid silk reeling workshop, but in the end they can only get their salary on Weibo!

Why did the sailors of the Tang Empire risk their lives to transport silk to Malacca, but the reward they could get was that they could not support their families?

What is all this for?

Because of the Portuguese, they have shamelessly lowered the price of our silk through monopolizing trade routes, and then when it is shipped to Europe, it is sold for dozens of times or even higher prices!

For silk that sells for 100 yuan in Europe, the Portuguese took 90 yuan or more of it. We Datang can only get less than 10 yuan, and within this less than 10 yuan, the production cost is occupied At least half of it, and in the end there was only a meager profit of one or two yuan!

Of course, when such propaganda is carried out, the Korean newspaper will never say anything about the price and risk that the Portuguese have to pay to transport silk from the Tang Dynasty to Europe, not to mention the countless Portuguese merchant ships. There are not many ships that sank to the bottom of the sea on the way, set off from Europe, and then returned to Europe with a full load of goods.

Even when they bought raw silk in Datang, they only needed ten yuan, but after going through a lot of hardships, they shipped it to Europe to buy one hundred yuan. Although the profits were lucrative, it was definitely not so high.

Because of the loss of merchant ships, the supply ports along the way also need funds to maintain operation, and more need to fight pirates and many indigenous people, these are all costs.

Just like the Datang Western Trading Company, their merchant ships are very profitable for trade, but their cost is definitely more than the cost of purchasing goods. In fact, you have to count the huge expenditure of the company's fleet to maintain the operation and safety of the colony. Expenses, these are all costs.

But let this kind of thing, ordinary people do not need to know!

The people only need to know that the Portuguese made a lot of money on the route from East Asia to Europe, and the money originally belonged to Datang.

Sure enough, after such publicity propaganda, the trend of public opinion changed quickly. If people just knew that there was a conflict with the Portuguese and the war was about to break out, they would still worry about the negative impact, and then start to worry about it. , and generate an idea that even if there is conflict, it is better to avoid war if it can be avoided.

Otherwise, it would be a huge loss for both sides.

But now, when the second wave of public opinion has been publicized, the trend among the people has changed.

Young students from many universities in China, full of enthusiasm, instantly found a catharsis and began to scold the Portuguese.

In the industrial and commercial world, many people are also beginning to think about how much benefits it will bring if the empire completely occupies India and completely monopolizes the trade between India and the Safi dynasty and the Ottoman region. How many benefits come.

And the result of this kind of prediction is naturally only one, that is, the benefits are great!

As a result, people in the business community also began to hope that the empire would kill the Portuguese as soon as possible, monopolize the trade markets in India, West Asia and the Ottoman region, and then enter the European market.

Even ordinary people have seen reports that India is extremely rich and has a pleasant climate suitable for agricultural development and survival. It is not like the Southeast Asia region, where tropical jungles are everywhere. With the current technical conditions, immigrants developed and reclaimed farmland. tougher.

And at this time, the Railway Division under the Ministry of Communications, which had just become independent from the Ministry of Industry, also announced a new round of railway construction plans in due course. The new railway construction plan was named Southwest Railway. This railway is expected to be It will start in Changsha, Hunan, pass through Guiyang, Guizhou, then enter Yunnan, and continue south all the way to Myanmar.

This Southwest Railway plan is actually a vain idea. Because the terrain of the southwest region is complex, railway construction is very difficult. In terms of current technical conditions and construction capabilities, even if the life of road construction workers is used to fill it, it is estimated that it will take at least a few It will take ten years to fill in such a southwest railway. As for the railway connecting to Myanmar and even entering India, it is even more distant.

But people see the convenience of traveling to and from India from this railway plan. You can reach India directly by train. Immigrating to India seems to be a very good thing at that time.

Not to mention, the Korean newspaper also said that if the market in India and West Asia can be completely monopolized, it will play a huge role in promoting domestic industry and commerce, and will provide more jobs for the country at that time. Provide more income to the people of the empire.

All in all, UU reading www.uukanshu.com says it's good to hit the Portuguese!

After the second round of public opinion propaganda was completed, the Datang Chaobao started the third round of propaganda, but this time the propaganda started to mobilize for the war, and it made people feel the huge military power of the Tang Empire, and decided that this A war is bound to be won, and people's last worries will be completely dispelled!

The Datang Chaobao used the second full page to report on the Tang Empire and the service of the first steel steam battleship Jiangnan in human history!

Although it is still very reluctant to say that Jiangnan is a steel battleship, because most of the internal structure of this battleship is still wood, the main part of the structure is steel structure, and the hull is mainly wood, but the outer layer is wrapped with a layer of wrought iron. , this shell is not even the kind of armor belt that later generations think, nor is it some kind of armor made of oak and wrought iron, it is just a layer of very simple wrought iron.

And it's not comprehensive coverage, actually only a few core areas are covered!

However, no matter what the inside is, at least from the outside, this Jiangnan looks like a steel battleship.