On October 30th of the first year of Wuding, the remnants of the bandits who had been entrenched in Jinan Fucheng for half a year were surrounded by 120,000 Qi soldiers and civilians. They were troubled internally and externally, and were forced to surrender to the Qi army in desperation.
The main force of the 14th Guards Army entered Jinan Fucheng, Tai'an, Laiwu, Dezhou, and Binzhou were recovered at the same time, and all of Shandong entered Daqi.
At that time, the population of Jinan City was still 400,000. Despite the war, the city walls were still intact.
In the fourth year of Hongwu, Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, the government carried out large-scale renovations to Jinan City. The original native walls were changed into brick walls. Jinan City has a circumference of 12 miles and 48 feet, a height of 3 feet and 2 feet, 3350 crenellations, and several turrets, enemy towers, and gun towers. seat. It was impregnable and could have fought, but the rebels had lost all their hearts. The people in the city not only did not help defend the city, but continued to attack the rebels. In addition, the Qi army destroyed everything along the way and occupied the entire territory of Shandong. They also said that if they did not surrender, they would The whole city was massacred, and the people became even more frightened and unwilling to help defend the city. The remaining thieves in the city completely lost their fighting spirit and had to surrender.
After the surrender, a large number of bandits were sent to Zhaoyuan and Qixia to mine, and they would spend the rest of their lives in the dark mines. Among the bandits, a total of 76 bandit leaders above the head of the family were taken to the North and South Streets of Fucheng for execution.
There were a total of 1,200 wealthy merchants in Chengzhou County. Regardless of whether they were good or evil, their property and fields were confiscated.
Also confiscated were more than 3,650 large and small merchants in the city, and all private property was transferred to the Daqi treasury.
On November 1, the emperor issued an edict that during the siege of Linqingzhou City, anyone who helped the Ming army or bandits, whether green skinned, merchants, or officials, would be killed for treason.
On the second day of November, the lotuses and willows of Jinan's Daming Lake were left in ruins. In the miserable wind and rain, a violent butcher knife was swung down. More than 3,000 rebellious heads rolled down, and Daming Lake flowed into a river of blood.
Hundreds of thousands of people in Jinan cheered loudly, because according to the "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System", all people in Da Qi will be allocated land and grain.
The civil affairs officials of Daqi in Shandong began to prepare for the capital in advance. In early October, there was an endless stream of carriages and horses on the official road from the Qilu Five Prefectures to Jinan Prefecture. A large amount of grain, grass, wood, and stone were transported to Jinan for the construction and expansion of new cities. All prepared.
Craftsmen from various states and counties were under the direct jurisdiction of the Daqi Ministry of Industry. More than 3,000 craftsmen were recruited to Jinan and began to expand the city wall of Jinan despite the severe cold.
On November 8, Emperor Wuding's palace was moved from Linqing Zhoucheng to the main palace of Prince De's Mansion in Jinan after repairs.
This place was originally a royal palace granted to his great-grandson Zhu Shouqian by Emperor Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang of the Ming Dynasty. It is a miniature version of the Forbidden City. The palace wall and the outer city form a "hui" shape. There are Chengyun Hall, Wan Hall, and Cunxin Hall in the palace; there are main palace, east palace, The West Palace has all the specifications and shapes. It's just small in scale, with an area of only about one-third of the Forbidden City. It's obviously not large enough for the Daqi Imperial Palace.
In an emergency, everything was kept simple, and the emperor was not prepared to establish his capital in Jinan for a long time.
The Eastern Capital was only a transition in the early stages of the empire. When the Qi army occupied Huguang, Da Qi would launch large-scale capital construction activities in the Nanyang Gucheng area of Junzhou, Xiangfan, and must recruit at least 300,000 people.
On November 12, Emperor Wu Ding reviewed the three armies at Qichuan Gate (East Gate) in Jinan.
The whole city was boiling, soldiers and civilians roared, and a total of 35,000 troops from various branches of the Guards lined up to pass in front of the Qichuan Gate. The scene was spectacular.
After four months of crazy rampage, the number of troops under Liu Zhaosun's command had soared from 13 during the "Southern Hunting" to 35,000.
Including the farmers' associations, chambers of commerce, workshops, and trading companies in the six prefectures and counties of Qi and Shandong, the total number of young men and women who can be mobilized to join the army under Da Qi's rule is close to one million.
Thanks to the implementation of the "Qi Dynasty Land Acquisition System", millions of farmers, military households, and trackers in Qilu were fully mobilized, and the emperor fully tapped the war potential of these groups.
With Emperor Wu Ding's current control over the prefectures, counties, and villages, Shandong Province alone could provide the emperor with a high-quality army of 50,000 people. It was a full deal and only took four months.
This war machine that feeds war with war, kills the rich and helps the poor, and controls everything with force will continue to sweep through Henan, Hebei, and Gyeongsang Province.
Emperor Wu Ding had little expectations for the coming battle, because he believed that the scene of people eating pots of pulp to welcome the king's troops would only happen again and again in various prefectures and counties.
It is hard to imagine how far this war machine will grow in three years. Perhaps in just three years, the time traveler can truly unify the north and the south and make things return to the way they should be.
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On November 15, Emperor Wuding issued an edict to change Jinan to the Eastern Capital and set up the capital here.
On November 18, the emperor went against the norm and issued an edict to punish oneself.
The full text of the edict is as follows:
I have inherited the great power with my cool virtues. I have thought that since I was emperor, I want to bring peace to the sea and the people to enjoy their work. I work hard, be careful and respectful, work day and night, never slack off, work hard, and work hard. Isn’t this hard work? 'Can it be summed up in two words? The sixth line of Dun Gua in "Yi" does not mention the affairs of the master. It can be seen that the master has no place to enjoy and retreat to hide, and he devotes himself to the whole life. This is true. However, the anger of the sky brings disasters, the resentment of the people is accumulated, disasters occur frequently, wars occur, north and south fight, east and west stalemate, merchants stop traveling, scholars are exposed in the wilderness, innocent people become thieves, fertile fields turn into haze, mausoleums are shocked, and ministers are slaughtered. There is no greater disaster to the country than this. In the last year of Guiwei, bandits besieged the city. There was a great epidemic in the capital. Every house was infected, and the whole family was dead. There were countless people. Death was everywhere, ten rooms were empty, and people and ghosts were mixed together. People dared not walk in the evening!
Hunting southward in a hurry, the soldiers are scattered, the monarch and his ministers are looking after each other, and they don't know where they are going. I am the parents of the people, and I cannot protect them. The people are my children, and they cannot protect them. I sit in the Qinyu ruins, and the rivers and rivers are filthy, which brings shame to the clan and makes Guizhou and Li feel guilty. The crime is not mine. Who can let it happen? responsibility!
If the crops in the year are abundant and the world is at peace, I can remove disasters and save all nations. This is my wish, and I am willing to do so without stinginess!
November 18th, the first year of Wuding
The content of the edict is roughly as follows: Since the emperor came to the throne, he has worked hard to serve the people of the world. However, disasters have occurred frequently, plagues have spread, and the land has been thousands of miles away. , now that the north and south are divided, the slaves are rebelling, and Korea and Japan are provoking, the emperor believes that all disasters are caused by his own immorality. In the last paragraph of the Sinji Edict, the emperor stated that in order for the people to live and work in peace and contentment, he hoped that God would bring all disasters to him alone and not involve others.
This edict of sin was the first time that Emperor Wu Ding deeply reflected on himself to his ministers in the world during his long career as emperor.
For the very arrogant and conceited Emperor Wu Ding, it was a last resort to issue such a self-blaming "Edict".
Only by recalling Liu Zhaosun's grand ambition to open up the original path, convert the barbarians with Xia, and aspire to become an eternal saint can we understand the pain and sorrow when the emperor personally wrote the edict.
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On November 19, at the beginning of the Yin hour, the lanterns were first lit in the West Palace of Prince De's Mansion.
Today, Emperor Wu Ding rarely found time to spare and went to the bedroom of Queen West and Concubine Chen. Shortly after dinner, he was about to go to bed with the two beauties. Zhang Dong hurriedly sent a few memorials, which seemed to be about the situation in Liaodong. Liu Zhaosun did not dare to hesitate. , so he sat back in front of the desk piled up on a hill and continued to write and review memorials.
After coming out of the capital, like a phoenix reborn from the ashes, the body occupied by the time traveler is completely different from before, a completely different person.
The emperor was now full of energy and never tired.
According to the emperor's daily life record written by the personal eunuch Dongfang Gonggong (Dongfang Zhu can only peek now).
The emperor often reviewed memorials from early morning (six o'clock) to midnight (twenty-four o'clock). After a tiring day, he threw down his brush and immediately jumped on the dragon bed to empress Enze and his concubine. Sometimes he also needed to add two beautiful maids to have the best time. ·····
It was not until late in the night (three o'clock) that the emperor fell asleep. He only slept for two hours, and when he woke up he was full of energy and vigor.
Lao Songtou later went to the palace twice to see the emperor. Each time he felt the emperor's pulse, the chaotic pulse felt between his fingers was like the weeds in Liaodong growing in spring.
The miraculous pulse displayed by our emperor made this doctor who had been practicing medicine for many years and claimed to be the best doctor in Liaodong insane, and even gave Old Song the urge to abandon medicine and pursue literature for the first time.
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Chen Yuanyuan came over to urge her to go to bed. Liu Zhaosun hesitated and asked the beauty to go back to bed first. He opened a memorial sent by Chen Xin, the magistrate of Wendeng County, read two lines hastily, and suddenly frowned.
