In the third year of the reign of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty, Nanjing was held on September 11th.
The interior and exterior of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum had been hastily cleaned up, and the dense mass of corpses outside the Golden Gate had been moved away as much as possible. The corpses from the Golden Gate to Baoding of Ming Taizu were also collected, wrapped in white cloth, sprinkled with lime, and waited to be transported away. There were also sugar bombs and gunpowder bombs scattered everywhere that did not explode, and they were also collected. It was just that the walls of the Golden Gate were beaten like a honeycomb, and there were traces of smoke and fire everywhere, but there was no way to remove them immediately.
However, the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty is generally in good condition. After some tidying up and decoration, Zhu Yuanzhang should be satisfied.
The heavily armed soldiers of the Ming Dynasty came out from the Xiaoling Guard City where they were stationed early this morning, and then lined up in two rows along the road from Xiaoling Guard to Xiaoling Fangcheng, all with their chests and belly protruding. His face is full of expressions of "I am awesome" and "I am invincible" - this is the expression of a winner!
They are indeed qualified to be awesome!
It took them less than a day to capture the Jiangnan camp that Emperor Kangxi had worked so hard to manage. They also wiped out all 10,000 defenders and beheaded the chief minister, Sun Sike!
Their own losses were less than a thousand people, of which only more than 500 were killed or seriously injured that were difficult to treat.
How can he not be an invincible elite soldier if he achieves such a disparity in exchange ratio in a critical battle?
And the significance of this battle to annihilate the Jiangnan camp is even greater!
Because before this, Zhuge Sanhe had already broken through the fortress on the south bank of Anqing and seized all the territory of the five prefectures and one state in southern Anhui.
All the territories on the south bank of the Yangtze River among the six prefectures in southern Jiangsu have been captured by the Ming Army's No. 2 and No. 7 towns and the navy led by Zhu Heji.
Therefore, this Jiangnan camp was the last stronghold of the Qing army south of the Yangtze River.
The capture of the Jiangnan camp by the Ming army meant the end of the Qing rule south of the Yangtze River!
For the new Ming court led by Zhu Heji, breaking the Jiangnan camp also meant that the new Ming court had established a firm foothold in the Jiangnan region and could return the capital to Nanjing.
From now on, the new Ming Dynasty changed from a local political power that divided the south of the world to one of the three-thirds of the world, and could ask the question of the importance of the three-thirds of the world.
"Long live the saint... long live! Long live! Long live!"
The cheers of mountains and tsunamis suddenly sounded from outside the north gate of Xiaoling Acropolis.
It turned out that Zhu Heji had already finished bathing and changing clothes, and strode out of Xiaoling Acropolis surrounded by a group of civil servants, military generals and attendants.
They saw him wearing yellow clothes and a yellow scarf, hanging a long sword and hanging an empty hammer, dressed like a saint, holding his head high, and walking step by step to the top of the Xiaoling Mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang and Queen Ma were buried amid cheers.
He was going to report to Zhu Yuanzhang the phased results of the anti-Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasties in front of Baoding of Xiaoling Mausoleum.
The work of restoring the Ming Dynasty cannot be accomplished overnight. The Ming Dynasty is too big... There are two capitals and thirteen provinces in the heart, and there are Nurgan Dusi, Uszang, Kansai Seven Guards, etc. in the surrounding parts. Further outside there are a number of vassal states and the Xuanwei Division. It is estimated that it will take twenty years to fully recover!
And Zhu Heji has now restored "half Beijing" plus four provinces among the two capitals and thirteen provinces... This "half Beijing" is of course not "half Nanjing", but half Nanzhili. The two capitals in the "Two Capitals and Thirteen Provinces" of the Ming Dynasty refer to the North and South Zhili. The thirteen provinces are Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Huguang, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, Fujian, Jiangxi, and Zhejiang.
Shaanxi Province also included parts of Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places in later generations. Huguang includes Hunan and Hubei, and Shandong includes part of Liaodong.
Now all of the Jiangnan part of Nanzhili, most of Anqing Prefecture and Luzhou Prefecture of the Jiangbei part, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang among the thirteen provinces, and a small part of Huguang have all been restored. What a great achievement!
Thinking of the miracles he had created in less than three years, Zhu Heji proudly puffed up his chest and strode forward amidst people's cheers.
The road from Xiaoling Acropolis to Xiaoling Baoding is almost ten miles away. Zhu Heji was in a good mood and walked quickly. In less than an hour, he had covered the more than ten miles and stood alone by the top stone wall behind the square city of Xiaoling.
This is considered to be "face to face" with Zhu Yuanzhang... He has been to this place several times before traveling through time, and now he is also revisiting his old place.
However, the land is the old place, but the people are not old friends, but have become ancient people!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji suddenly looked at the stone wall in front of him with burning eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Hey, Ming Taizu, I have worked so hard to come from the 21st century, are you the trouble? You are not willing to allow the Ming Dynasty to perish. So you just want me to come back and lead everyone to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"
Facing a series of questions from Zhu Heji, Zhu Yuanzhang did not reply a word and did not even show his face.
Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, Zhu Heji could only sigh and said: "For the sake of Da Bo Ling, Shu Zhen, Jia Xin, Yu Bing, and Aoi, I won't argue with you anymore... ..”
To be honest, although Zhu Heji did well in his previous life and even learned foreign languages from a Ukrainian girl, he still can't compare with what he does now!
Zhu Heji paused, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang who remained silent: "Now that the four provinces of Banjing have been restored... they are all good places! Although it is only one third of the world, it is the world's The essence of it, as long as it is properly reorganized, it will be enough to use this one-third to level the two-thirds!"
He is really not bragging. The land in the four provinces of Banjing that he holds in his hands can be called a world-class treasure.
If these four provinces in Beijing were cut out and calculated as GDP, they would definitely be number one in the world!
The land is not small, it is relatively fertile, and there is a lot of rainfall, so the yield is very high.
The handicraft industry and cash crops are even more powerful. Before Zhu Heji took over, it had four important products for international trade: porcelain, silk, tea, and sugar.
And all of them have monopoly status!
In addition, due to the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the population in the four provinces of Beijing is now very small, with a total population of 20 to 30 million... This per capita GDP is probably one of the best in the world. Perhaps only the Netherlands and England can compare.
Therefore, it is wrong for some people in later generations to question the prosperous age of the Kangxi Dynasty. The GDP ranked first in the world, and there were four high-end handicraft industries. Among them, porcelain and silk were the most high-end handicraft industries in the world!
Moreover, the population is small and the per capita is high...Why is this not a prosperous age?
It's just that this prosperous age was snatched away by the Qing Dynasty. It came too easily and by luck, and I didn't know how to cherish it at all.
After taking over, they tried every means to torment people. Not only did they not think of ways to upgrade the industry, they also kept imposing restrictions and sabotage, hoping to downgrade the industry... In the end, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, they finally got their wish.
Not to mention the loss of all four major advantageous industries, the country has also lost its customs sovereignty, financial sovereignty, and railway sovereignty, and it also owes a huge foreign debt that can never be repaid... The country has become one of the poorest countries in the world!
And this poverty lasted for more than a hundred years. Until Zhu Heji's teenage years in his previous life, China was still very poor. And this process from poverty to moderately well-off is really difficult!
So when Zhu Heji found out that the territories he was now governing were probably the richest in the world, he was really filled with emotion!
This Qing Dynasty...it’s hard to describe in one word!
Thinking of this, Zhu Heji actually had a sacred sense of mission in his heart: "Taizu, you conquered Hezhou and became the master of it in the first year of Longfeng. In the first year of Hongwu, you expelled the Tartars and restored China. It took thirteen years.
It has only been more than three years since I started the army, but I already have half of the capital and four provinces. By the time I start the army for thirteen years, I will have restored the territory of two capitals and thirteen provinces... But the restoration of the two capitals and ten provinces will definitely have restored the territory. The three provinces are by no means the end.
I want to make Ming Dynasty great again and make China number one forever! "
