Chapter 416: Yanjing
Because of the Jurchen invasion, Kaifeng has been broken and does not look good.
In later generations, any dynasty never regarded Kaifeng as the capital, of course, because of the important geographical location, Kaifeng gradually became prosperous later. Now that the Central Plains has just been laid, Zhao Chen has no intention of returning to Kaifeng.
He doesn't have much memory of Kaifeng, the only memory is in the palace, but now the Kaifeng palace is almost in ruins, and he can only remember a little when he gets there! All his relatives had been taken to the north by the Jurchens, and there were no of his relatives in Kaifeng.
Everyone has been running around for many days, and now they are all very tired, and the same is true for Zhao Chen and Yu Yunwen.
They are not iron men either, Zhao Chen and Yu Yunwen talked for a while, and then the two went to rest first.
It wasn't until the next morning that Zhao Chen regained his spirits.
He first came to the city wall of Zhongshan Mansion and looked into the distance.
The snow had finally stopped, and the sun had risen, red and shining on the earth.
There are so many delicate rivers and mountains, Zhao Chen is in a very good mood.
In the morning, Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen, Qu Duan, Wu Jue and the staff officers of the General Staff Headquarters were busy together.
Now they have just annihilated 200,000 Jurchens in the Central Plains, but there are still bandits in various parts of the Central Plains, and they are still very chaotic.
On this morning, Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen and others were discussing the details of military management.
First of all, the scope of military administration includes the entire Central Plains, Yanyun and other places, as well as parts of Henan and Lianghuai. In the Song Dynasty, there was no administrative division of "provinces", but was divided into "roads", "state capitals", and "counties". Shanxi is Hedong Road, where they are located is Hebei Road, and Shandong Road and other places. In the Song Dynasty, on the one hand, the imperial court was directly in charge of the "road", but on the other hand, the governors of each state capital were also under the direct management of the imperial court, and the administrative system of the Song Dynasty was between the second and third levels! In many places, there are no "roads", only state capitals! In addition to roads, state capitals, and counties, there were many local administrative institutions named after "army" in the Song Dynasty! "Army" is generally in the border areas, such as the Jingyuan Army in the northwest, the Huanqing Army, etc., it is not only the code name of the army, but also the geographical name, these places are sparsely populated, and the commander of the army also manages the place at the same time, so it can be said that this is also military management, but the scale of military management is much smaller.
From morning till night, the crowd discussed endlessly.
In the middle of the night, a "military control order" had been placed in front of Zhao Chen, which was the result of their discussion today, and they would continue to discuss it tomorrow.
"Your Majesty, every state capital must have an army of 10,000 people entering! Each state capital has several counties under its jurisdiction, and each county must have one battalion or battalions to enter. Yu Yunwen said.
Zhao Chen nodded.
"General Qu Duan mainly manages the two roads of Hebei and Shandong! After General Li Xianzhong eliminated Liu Yu, he went north into the Yanyun area and stationed in Juyong Pass, and was responsible for the military management of the entire Yanyun at the same time! General Yue Fei was originally in Juyong Pass, but now the most dangerous is Datong, Yanmen Pass and other places, he will go to Datong, check and balance Datong, Yanmen Pass, Ningwu Pass and Xiazhou, Yinzhou and other places in Western Xia, now Datong, Yanmen Pass around the Huanqing Army infantry is also under his command, the original Jiangnan army Han Shizhong, Zhang Jun and others went north, now in Xiazhou, Yinzhou and other places, also under the command of General Yue Fei, he presided over the Datong war. Yu Yunwen said.
"I am most relieved to hand over Datong, Yanmen, Yinzhou, Xiazhou and other places to him! With him, there are nearly 200,000 troops in that area, and it is impossible for the Jurchens to go south! Juyong Pass is under the protection of Li Xianzhong, and Shanhaiguan is under the protection of Liu Qi, so I can rest assured. Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"General Zhang Xian is going north to join General Yue Fei, but the General Staff Headquarters is worried that Yanyun's situation is complicated, so he asked him to follow His Majesty to Yanyun's Sixteen Prefectures for the time being. Even if there is a war in the Datong area, we are mainly defending, and we will not go north until the Central Plains is completely pacified, and the 200,000 soldiers and horses there are enough. Yu Yunwen said.
"Well, let him follow me to Yanjing City! Yanjing City is the center of the sixteen states of Yanyun, and there must be a large army stationed there! Zhao Chen said.
"General Zhao Zhe led the Jingyuan Army south into Henan, eliminated the Henan bandits, and pacified the situation in Henan! There is Qin Hui in Henan, and General Zhao Zhe is only responsible for the stability of Henan, and the rest of the things are still handed over to Lord Qin Hui. Yu Yunwen said.
Zhao Chen nodded again.
"The Lianghuai region is responsible for General Wu Lan and Lord Zhao Ding, including the safety of Jiangnan, and General Wu Lan is also responsible. Of course, deep in the south of the Yangtze River, there is no foreign invasion, at most there are some civil unrest, with Lord Li Gang here, it is impossible for Jiangnan to have a civil unrest similar to Dongting Lake! There is also Lord Wang De, supervising officials from all over Jiangnan, and officials from all over Jiangnan dare not slack off! As for Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan, they are already stable! In this way, by next year, the situation in the world will be completely stable! After the stability of various localities, we will talk about the restoration of the population and economy of the Central Plains. Yu Yunwen said.
"Yes, that's right." Zhao Chen said with a smile.
"Regarding the military management in various places, the first thing is to eliminate bandits in various places, and then the army is stationed in important state capitals and cities! But if there is a rebel, there will be no forgiveness, and there will be no forgiveness for those who gather to make trouble! Some civil disputes are handled by military judges in the army, acting in accordance with the previous civil law! However, the previous civil law was too complicated, so we made it simple! For half a day today, we are all streamlining the civil law. Yu Yunwen said.
"Also, the Jurchen invasion, countless officials and gentry in Yanyun and the Central Plains were killed, and countless houses, properties, and lands were occupied by the Jurchens, all of which had to be confiscated from the government! If someone takes the opportunity to seize these places, they must also be dealt with seriously, and even killed if necessary! After the government confiscates these places into its own hands, it can be distributed to meritorious officers and soldiers or to the poor people in accordance with certain rules in the future! In particular, land cannot be occupied casually, it must first be collected from the government, and then the government will be distributed to the people, all of which need to be carried out by the army! Yu Yunwen said again.
"How is the harvest in Guanshan, Hanzhong, and Sichuan and Shu this year?" Zhao Chen said.
"This year's harvest is good, especially in Guanshan and Western Xia, because there are countless young people settled in, and a lot of land has been developed! However, the army has fought in various places, and the consumption is huge, and this year's harvest can only meet the needs of our army! Your Majesty, do you want to provide disaster relief in various parts of the Central Plains? I'm afraid it won't work now! Yu Yunwen said.
"Originally, I wanted to expand the army, but now it seems that it can't be done?" Zhao Chen said.
Yu Yunwen shook his head.
"Looks like we're going to take a year off! There are still many granaries in the state capitals of the Central Plains, and the Jurchens did not burn all these granaries, and now the granaries in these places can at least meet the needs of the people for the seeds they will sow next year, right? Zhao Chen said.
"This should be no problem!" Yu Yunwen said.
"That's good! If there are not enough seeds, the army can only shrink and diet. Zhao Chen smiled bitterly.
The next day, Zhao Chen and others continued to discuss military management matters in various places, including distributing grain from various state capitals in the Central Plains to the people, barely allowing the people to survive the winter, and leaving the seeds of spring ploughing, which will be handed over to the people in the spring! Then there is the question of how to distribute the land in various places! The population of this era is less than one-tenth of that of later generations, and the per capita land area is huge. In the past, most of the land was in the hands of the landlords, and the ordinary people generally did not have land, but now the land is distributed to them.
Everyone discussed in Zhongshan Mansion for several days, and it was not until the seventh day of the first month of October that Zhao Chen, Yu Yunwen and others left Zhongshan Mansion and headed towards Yanjing.
Qu Duan was preparing to go to the Daimyo's Mansion and use the Daimyo's Mansion as a base to deal with the military management of Hebei and Shandong, while the rest of the armies also went to the Central Plains and Yanyun in accordance with the orders of the General Staff Headquarters.
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It wasn't until October 15 that Zhao Chen finally came to the range of Yanjing.
Zhang Xian, Kang An and others led more than 20,000 soldiers and horses to come here with him.
Yanjing, here is one of the Kyushu in ancient times, called Youzhou! Therefore, Yanjing is also known as the "Land of Hidden Swallows".
In the Xia Shang era, it was inhabited here, and it was where the former Ji country was located! After the establishment of the Zhou Dynasty, the strength of the Yan State increased, and the Ji State was destroyed, and Yanjing was the capital of the Yan Kingdom!
During the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms, the Khitan people occupied the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which was the most prosperous place in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, so the Khitans listed this place as the capital and called it "Nanjing"! For 200 years, the inhabitants have become accustomed to the saying "Nanjing"! In the last ten years of the Liao State, because of the Jurchen invasion, the Liao people did not dare to stay in the northern grasslands, so they came to the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun, which was nominally the capital of the company, but in fact it was already the official capital of the Liao State.
Historically, the Jin country was established, and it was called the "middle capital" by the Jin people, and a few decades later, the Jin people moved the capital here, and it became the capital of the Jin people.
When the Mongols rose, it was occupied by the Mongols, who called it the "Grand Capital" and was the capital of the Mongols.
After that, until Zhu Yuanzhang rebelled and defeated the Mongols, Xu Da came to Dadu! At that time, Xu Da destroyed most of them, including the countless Yuan Dynasty palaces inside! It wasn't until Zhu Di was named the king of Yan that Yanjing City was rebuilt! In the Ming and Qing dynasties, it was also the capital.
Zhao Chen and others have come to Yanjing City at this moment, and the city wall of Yanjing gives people an unusually mottled and vicissitudes of life!
I don't know how many wars have been fought here in the past 200 years!
When the Song Dynasty was just established, Song Taizu tried to recapture the sixteen states of Yanyun, but unfortunately he did not succeed. After Song Taizong raised the country's troops to recruit Yanyun, under Yanjing City, the Song army was defeated, Song Taizong was almost captured alive by the Khitans, and then it was a small soldier in the cart who saved Song Taizong's life, and the cart soldier was the famous golden knife Yang Invincible in the early years of the Song Dynasty! When the Jurchens rose, the Northern Song Dynasty Lianjin destroyed the Liao, and the first person of the Western Army, Shi Dao, led the army to Yanjing City, but although the Liao State was already declining, the strength of the army was still far greater than that of the Western Army, which was the strongest in the Song Army at that time, and the Dao of the Seed Master was vulnerable! After Liu Yanqing, Liu Guangshi and his son came to Yanjing City, their army of more than 100,000 was defeated by a mere 10,000 Khitans, and the father and son of the Liu family fled in a hurry! After that, Tong Guan arrived and was defeated by thousands of Khitans! Although it is also the end of the dynasty, the weakness of the Northern Song Dynasty military strength is the penultimate in the history of the Central Plains, and it is still too far behind the Khitans! After that, Guo Yaoshi rebelled and sent Yanjing to the hands of the Northern Song court, but unfortunately within a few years, the Jin soldiers went south, and this Yanjing City belonged to the Jurchens.
"It's been two hundred years, and this time Yanjing City has really returned to the hands of our Han people! Yanyun Sixteen Prefectures, this is the northern barrier of our Han people, it should have been part of the Central Plains, but it was unfortunately stolen by foreigners! From now on, this place will never be taken away by a foreigner again! Let's go, let's go into town! Zhao Chen sighed for a while and said suddenly.