In the twelfth year of Chongzhen of the Ming Dynasty, April 16, early in the morning, the area of Yongfang and Yongfang was already crowded, and the people in both places could not care about doing business and running their livelihoods, so they crowded to both sides of Chang'an Street, stretched their necks and looked at the street.

Because today, the troops of the First World War in Shandong have to enter the inner city from Xuanwu Gate, and then along West Chang'an Avenue to Chengtianmen, which is Tiananmen in later generations, to be reviewed by the Son of Heaven. Then, the armies went to Lumicang to receive the rewards of the Son of Heaven and the imperial court.

Today's Beijing City has been the capital of the Ming Empire for two hundred years, and the entire city has been nearly two or three times wider on the basis of the Yuan capital

。 As the political center of the entire empire, according to the statistics of the household department, there were 350,000 people in the city, plus more than 400,000 agricultural people in the surrounding area, totaling more than 800,000. And that's not even counting the porters and boatmen who come and go in and out of the city every day. If these people are included, it is estimated that there are already millions.

With a population of one million, in the modern society of the industrial age, there is a scale of a third-tier city, but this is the Ming Dynasty. I have to admit that this is already one of the largest cities in the world.

Since Jiannu left the customs from Qingshankou and returned to Liaodong in the north, the Grand Canal was cut off for half a year, and the transportation was finally smooth. The officials and civilians in Beijing all relied on the transportation of materials to survive, and as soon as the transportation was cut off, the city suddenly became embarrassed. Coupled with the fact that the Qing army had turned the whole of Hebei into a blank field, it was extremely difficult for the dealers and merchants who ate logistics and rice. Prices in the city are rising three times a day, and they are already unbearably high. Many people are poor and malnourished because of their families. It seems that the commercial activities of the whole capital have come to a standstill, and in addition to the drought for several months, it is April, and there is not a trace of green in the city. It's like a huge desert, devouring everyone's spirit.

Fortunately, Jiannu finally left, and it was April, and the new grain, silk, and porcelain in the south of the Yangtze River were transported like flowing water. It seems that it is nourished by Jinan's materials, and the prices in the capital have dropped rapidly within half a month. The branches of the trees flourished overnight, and the city was full of green clouds.

During these days, the city is full of wedding feasts and smiling faces.

This has to make people sigh that in Hebei, which is also like a ruin, the prosperity of the capital is too conspicuous. But this prosperity is built on the luck of Cao, and once the luck goes wrong, this prosperity will immediately wither.

In other words, if the government of the Ming Dynasty in Beijing wanted to run smoothly, it was based on the wealth of Jiangnan.

Since the development of Jiangnan in the Tang Dynasty, to the present, seventy percent of the world's wealth comes from Jiangnan, and seventy percent of the wealth in Jiangnan comes from Ning, Suzhou and Hangzhou. Without the wealth of Jiangnan, the north cannot exist alone.

This is the economic foundation for the great unification of the Chinese nation.

The connection between the south and the north, through the Grand Canal, has become an inseparable whole.

At this moment, outside the Xuanwu Gate, the main soldiers of the Six Towns, the Qin Army and the Ningxiang Army participating in the Battle of Shandong have all gathered together and stood outside the city gate, ready to wait until an order is given, and the armies will march into the inner city to accept the cheers of the people in the city, and accept the review of the hundred officials and the Son of Heaven.

In this review, according to Hong Chengchou's arrangement, each army had a battalion of main soldiers, that is, 4,500 men and horses

。 The Six Towns and the Qin army together had a total of 30,000 horses, and the Ningxiang army was all dispatched, about nearly a thousand people. However, in everyone's opinion, Sun Yuanbu is at the end and is already in a supporting role, even if there are many people, it doesn't matter.

There are not many men and horses in each town, but the ratio of the main soldiers and auxiliaries of the border army of the Ming Dynasty is very large, and it is normal to be one to five or even one to ten. A big battle with tens of thousands of horses, it is estimated that there are more than 1,000 people in the Ming army who can really fight.

After half a year of fighting, the Ming Dynasty army suffered heavy losses, all towns were guest troops, this time the people and horses who came to the capital were consumed, and many troops even had a battalion of soldiers who were insufficient, such as the Qin army, more than 2,000 main soldiers, were killed half by Jiannu in Baoqiushui, and only about 1,000 people remained. There is no way, the general soldiers of each town can only temporarily pull some auxiliary soldiers who are in decent shape to make up the number, and if the auxiliary soldiers are not enough, the people will also become a man, anyway, now the Gyeonggi area is full of hungry homeless people with green eyes, and thirty wen a day is filmed, who can't recruit them?

After making up enough for a battalion, he simply trained for a few days, put a set of armor on his body, raised the flag, and shouted a few times neatly "Long live, long live", which also looked mighty.

Thirty or forty thousand horses drove into the capital, the armor was shining, the red flag was waving, and the gongs and drums were noisy, it was really a rare event, and the whole capital was a sensation. Almost all the people in the capital flocked to the inner city before dawn, standing on both sides of West Chang'an Street, waiting to watch this unprecedented bustle.

At this Shandong station, the Ming army beheaded more than 1,000 Jiannu before and after, and even the head of the slave chief Yuetuo, the military master of the Dongyi Right Wing Army, was also removed. This is an unprecedented victory in foreign wars since Taizu founded the country, General Xu Da and Grandpa Cheng crisscrossed the desert north.

The last time Zhu Jie had to go back to the three major expeditions in the Wanli Ye period, however, although the three major expeditions of Wanli were victorious, the battle was fought with different opinions. Moreover, in those three battles, it was inevitable that the big bullied the small. The Mongols have weakened, and the Japanese are nothing. As for the Battle of Banshu, it is a corner of the national battle.

However, even so, the Ming Dynasty paid a great price, spending a lot of military spending, which caused a great burden on the state finances. It can be said that Zhang Juzhenglong's great reform has accumulated a little family foundation for the Ming Dynasty.

When the Manchu Qing Dynasty rose in Liaodong, everyone was stunned to find that the war had changed from adults bullying children to a contest between adults. Perhaps, in a sense, it can be regarded as bullying the small, but this time, the Ming Dynasty has become a weak child.

From the year of the Apocalypse to the present, the imperial court has repeatedly defeated the Liaodong military, and the spirit of the entire Ming Dynasty has been completely defeated.

Up to now, the entire Ming Dynasty seems to have suffered from Qingphobia, and they dare not compete with it on the battlefield at all

。

There are also cases where one or two Tartar soldiers occupy a county town, and it is not uncommon for a few hundred Jiannu cavalry to dare to attack the Ming army's large array of tens of thousands of horses, and to be able to win in battle.

It can be said that the ambition and backbone of the entire nation have been interrupted by one defeat after another.

Therefore, once Jiannu invaded, the first thing that everyone thought of was to flee to a safe place and hide. As for resistance, even if you win the battle, I am afraid that you will not even dare to think about it.

But in the first battle of Shandong, the Ming army beheaded a Baylor-level Qing general and routed the enemy's right-wing army. At this time, everyone suddenly discovered that Jiannu was not invincible.

The significance of defeating Jiannu is even greater than that of the three major expeditions of Wanli back then.

How can it not stir people's hearts, how can it not make people proud from the bottom of their hearts?

This is an unprecedented victory, and everyone wants to see for themselves what these heroes who dare to fight Jiannu on the battlefield are like.

Today, it is said that the shops on both sides of West Chang'an Avenue are full. For example, the excellent viewing location on the second floor of the wine shop and tea shop has been fried to a seat for a penny of silver, but in this way, it is still in short supply. Many residents facing the street directly demolished the wrench wall of their own building, put up three or five seats, set up tea and pastries, and attracted customers. It only takes one day to spend two or three months at home.

However, most of the people in the capital are idle people who have no money, and this kind of money and silver is not something they can afford. Therefore, many people simply ignored the white eyes and scolding of Xiao Er in the shop on the street, and stood under the eaves with a dead face, stretching their necks long, and constantly looking to the west.

Almost all the people in the entire capital flocked to the edge of West Chang'an Street, and there was a bustling crowd of people in front of them, which made the Shuntian Mansion and the Jinyi pro-army yamen feel like a great enemy. Today, the Son of Heaven is personally sitting at Chengtianmen to watch the ceremony, if there is a riot among the people, or if someone is trampled to death, disrupting this grand event, the top will be investigated, and I don't know how many people will throw away the black veil on their heads.

Therefore, early in the morning, the officials and soldiers of the two yamen drove out, first clearing the street with clear water, and then waving the whips and sticks in their hands, driving the people to both sides of the street without stopping: "Stay back, stay back!" ”

"Go out of here, you can't kill you who don't open your eyes."

"Straight lady thief, still squeezed, the guts are fat enough, wait for thousands of troops and horses to pass, can't you be trampled to death?"

Sticks and whips crackled against people

。

But the person who was pumped didn't scream, but asked with a smile on his face: "Official, wait a minute, can you see Sun Taichu and see Ningxiang Army." ”

"Nonsense, the first battle in Shandong was fought by Sun Taichu alone, if he doesn't come, others will be embarrassed to come and read?"

"I heard that the heroes in the Ningxiang army are all eight feet long, with faces like blue indigo, and a bloody mouth, is it true?"

"You are, is this the iron army of my Ming Dynasty, this is the evil ghost who escaped from the Yama Palace." Someone spat on it.

The man who spoke was not convinced: "I am afraid that there is only such an evil ghost who can win the Jiannu victory." Jiannu is fierce, but I am afraid that the Ningxiang army will be more fierce. As long as it's my army of the Ming Dynasty, it's good to be a little fierce! ”

"It's extreme, it's extreme!" The crowd nodded their heads.

The officials and soldiers who were maintaining order were all crying and laughing, and one of them, a military man who looked like an official shouted: "What nonsense, the Ningxiang army is only about 2,000 people, how many people are Jiannu, and his grandson Taichu can beat it alone." If you can repel Jiannu this time, is it possible that other border troops are all decorations? "This person is a general banner in the Jinyi Guard, originally from the border army, seeing that the people praised the Ningxiang army, faintly slandered the border army, and his heart was immediately dissatisfied.

"Nonsense, of course it's an ornament, the first few times Jiannu entered the Kou, there was no Ningxiang Army, and the border army was like a bird, when we didn't see it. Hmph, we pay so much imperial grain and national taxes every year, and we can feed this group of pigs. ”

"Yes, the border army is a herd of pigs! The city of Beijing is at the foot of the Son of Heaven, you see, what has been the scourge of Jiannu now, do they still mean? And the people rebuked.

From the seventh year of Chongzhen to the present, Jiannu has entered the Koujing Division twice. Every time the imperial court did not issue a strict order, ordering the border army to enter the capital to defend the capital, but the result was that the soldiers and horses in each town were all defeated at the touch of a touch when they encountered Jiannu. The enemy was allowed to burn the outside of the city into a pile of ruins, and the people in the city did not have few relatives outside the city, and some of them were directly refugees who fled into the city. The invasion of foreign invaders was painful for the people of the capital, and they were even more angry at the incompetence of the border army.

For a while, the crowd was surging, and the general flag suddenly felt a little unbearable, so he had to lower his head and flee in disgrace.

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