On the second day of October in the second year of Jingkang of the Great Song Dynasty, there was a bustling scene inside and outside Nanxunmen in the south of Kaifeng Fucheng.
At this moment, Kaifeng Fucheng, which had become a bit depressed because of the gold thieves going south, has returned to its former prosperity. That most beautiful city in the world, with a population of one million, a mixture of residential markets, palaces, hotels, pavilions and pavilions in the city, and a life of lavish entertainment day and night, the medieval city on a hill, is back now!
Of course, after the baptism of a war that almost destroyed the high housing prices in Kaifeng, this Kaifeng city is still very different from what it was in Jingkang seven years ago.
Well, just by standing outside Nanxunmen and looking in the direction of Nanxunmen, you can see the difference - the doorway of Nanxunmen can no longer be seen, only a triangular pyramid-shaped gate barrier can be seen. It was originally a wall protecting the door, but after the explosive pot appeared, Chen Gui, who had the power to know the affairs of Kaifeng Mansion at the time, felt that the wall protecting the door was too thin and might be blown down. So at Zhao Kai's suggestion, the gate wall was changed into a triangular platform-shaped fortress covered with rammed earth and bricks. On the top platform of the fortress, there were several three-bow bed crossbows and hundreds of divine arm archers. !
On the outside of the city wall of Kaifeng Fucheng, more than a hundred triangular platform-shaped horse-faced forts are being built.
In addition to these triangular platform forts, there is also a circle of new and intermittent trenches being excavated outside the moat of Kaifeng City.
In addition, on the city wall of Kaifeng Mansion, a fort was built every 100 steps to place counterweighted cannons.
When this circle of trenches and all the triangular platform-shaped horse-faced forts are completed, and all the forts are equipped with counterweighted cannons, the level of Kaifeng Mansion's city defense will be qualitatively improved!
At that time, as long as more than ten thousand elite soldiers carrying divine arm bows board these triangular platform forts or triangular platform horse-faced forts, they will be enough to withstand the siege of an army of one or two million gold thieves!
In addition to the above-mentioned newly built city defense facilities, the messy residential houses, palaces, villas, and grass markets that were scattered outside Kaifeng Prefecture before the War of Song and Jin Dynasties have now disappeared. However, the number of refugees gathered from Hebei, Hedong and other places, as well as the family members of the armies who came from various places to camp, were too large to be accommodated in Kaifeng City. Therefore, Quan knew that Kaifeng Prefectural Affairs Chen Gui had to build six branch cities outside Kaifeng Prefecture, relying on the "golden waterways" such as Wuzhang River, Bian River, Huimin River, Cai River, and Jinshui River, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people.
If we include Jinming City, which is connected to the southwest corner of the Kaifeng City Wall, there are now a total of seven more branch cities around Kaifeng City that can be used to absorb excess population and improve defense levels.
Zhao Kai, an official of the Song Dynasty who returned to Kaifeng Mansion the day before, and the tens of thousands of victorious troops who followed him, did not enter the main city of Kaifeng Mansion, nor did they go to the "military city" Jinmingchi. We settled down in Yujin City for the night. So that on the second day of October, with the attitude of a victorious army, under the eyes of everyone, he might enter Kaifeng City.
Today is the second day of October. Almost two years ago, in October of the seventh year of Xuanhe, a total of two to three hundred thousand Jin soldiers (including Ali Xi and various servants) brazenly tore up the alliance with the Song Dynasty and With lightning speed, they launched a surprise attack on the Song Dynasty!
But now, under the leadership of the official Zhao Kai, after two years of bloody fighting, the Song Dynasty finally drove all the invading enemies out of the Song Dynasty's territory... In addition to the two years of fighting, the Kingdom of Jin There were heavy casualties and nothing could be gained!
What a huge loss!
Unless Wanyan Proudhu, who was well versed in election bribery, was a secretly "super awesome" (super awesome person), he would never have the idea of invading Song Dynasty again in his life.
On the other hand, in the Song Dynasty... although the property and population lost far exceeded that of the Jin Kingdom!
In the northern, eastern and northeastern areas of Hebei that were ravaged by the Jin soldiers, there is now desolation everywhere. As for Yanshanfu Road, which was first occupied by the Jin soldiers, it was simply empty of ten houses. The population loss was shocking! Compared with when it was under the rule of the Liao Kingdom before Xuanhe's Northern Expedition, at least 90% of the population was lost!
But the Song Dynasty had a population of 100 million!
One or two million less is nothing at all... Moreover, the population of the Song Dynasty, especially the population in the northern part of the Central Plains, was actually surplus relative to land resources. Now one or two million have been lost, and perhaps another one or two million have migrated to the south of the Yangtze River. This may seem like a "loss", but in fact it has freed up land resources that are enough to support three to four million people!
According to preliminary statistics from the Xuanfu Department of Hebei and Hedong, there are more than 30 million acres of cultivated land abandoned in Hebei (including Fu Road, Yanshan Town) and Hedong!
According to the Western Army's standards for land granting to archers along the border, these 30 million acres are enough to accommodate 150,000 land granting archers... According to the experience of the Western Army, these archers who have been assigned land (actually do not only know how to shoot arrows, but They are field soldiers called archers) and their combat effectiveness is very reliable when guarding their homes.
Therefore, once these 150,000 Shitian archers formed an army, and once the construction of the cities and fortresses along the Zhenfu Road in Hebei and Hedong were completed, the Song Dynasty's defense on the borders of Hebei and Hedong would be stable.
At that time, Zhao Kai will be able to personally conquer Xixia...
The "997 soldiers" of the marching army, who had been baptized by the two-year anti-Jin war, were simply not something Xixia's "lying soldiers" could deal with.
As long as the Jin Kingdom does not send out large-scale troops to intervene, it is only a matter of time before Xixia is driven away or wiped out.
Once the Xixia is over, the Song Dynasty will have a supply of Hequ horses and Qinghai long-legged horses. They can even open up the Western Region trade routes and buy authentic Persian long-legged horses, Dashi short-legged horses and Kievan Rus’ horses. Young horse......
You have strong soldiers and good horses, but are you afraid that you won't be able to defeat the golden thief?
Even if the golden thief cannot be eliminated, there should be no problem in preserving the peaceful and prosperous age of the Song Dynasty.
At least Zhao Kai has nothing to worry about in his life!
This official of the Great Song Dynasty is now among tens of thousands of victorious troops. He had already put on a sturdy cold-forged green Tang armor, a bronze helmet on his head, and a long-legged Qinghai Cong on his crotch.
The six-sided black banner symbolizing the emperor's personal expedition was fluttering in the wind behind him. Yue Fei and Li Shifu, who had returned from Liaodong, and Huang Wubing, who commanded the squadrons in front of the palace, each led 1,000 lancers to protect him in groups. .
There were also a group of civil and military officials who were leading dispatches in the personal expedition camp but did not directly lead troops. They were all dressed up and followed behind Zhao Kai.
As the triumphant army led by the emperor began to move towards Nanxunmen, the people gathered on both sides of the road inside and outside Nanxunmen began to cheer loudly.
"The emperor has triumphed! The world is at peace! Long live, long live, long live..."
The cheers first rang out from outside Nanxunmen, and then reached inside Nanxunmen in a blink of an eye. The people of Kaifeng who heard the cheers along the street, regardless of whether they had household registration or were Chinese, all cheered. The sound suddenly became louder and louder. There were even some particularly excited family members of the troops in the camp who pushed forward hard, as if they wanted to find their relatives among the victorious troops. However, they were blocked by the officers and soldiers on duty as well as the Yamen and Xiang soldiers from Kaifeng Mansion, making it impossible for any of them to move forward even half a step.
Zhao Kai himself had already bypassed the triangular fortress outside Nanxunmen, entered Nanxunmen, and began to appear on the street leading directly to Xuandemen.
However, he had already changed places with Huang Wubing at this time, and did not walk in front of the six banners that symbolized the emperor... He was afraid of being assassinated by the gold thieves!
Looking at the crowds of people on both sides of the road and the heads sticking out of the second-floor windows of the shops on both sides of Nanxunmen Street, you know that this road is a bit dangerous.
However, no matter how dangerous it is, Zhao Kai still has to show his illustrious military power to the people of Kaifeng Mansion and the officials of the court.
Amidst the cheers, Zhao Kai followed his army and slowly moved forward, looking at the prosperous scene on both sides of the road.
This is really a dreamlike scene!
At this time in history, the housing prices in Kaifeng Mansion have collapsed... That King Yun, Zhao Kai, should also become the Cuckold King.
But now... Zhao Kai looked at the majestic Suzaku Gate and the magnificent city walls of the inner city of Kaifeng Mansion, feeling indescribably proud in his heart.
He has now successfully brought back the Song Dynasty, which collapsed due to lack of seeds!
The Song Dynasty has a seed and a future!
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