Chapter 452

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The work of cleaning up the battlefield is simple and tight for the Mawei Army, when the pirates were cleared everywhere on the sea, cleaning the battlefield has become commonplace, but those pirates are non-nuclear after all, and they are still far from the regular army, but cleaning the battlefield afterwards is average.

At the moment when the battle ended, whether it was the Qing army soldiers or the horsetail soldiers on the battlefield, they were all relieved. If the fight continues, the Qing army is likely to be wiped out, and the Mawei army will continue to pay a lot of casualties. One of the most powerful naval divisions of the Qing court was destroyed, and the expansion of the Jiangning naval division was only a short one-year expansion, but it began with the collection of numerous civilian merchant ships.

The successive defeats on the front line, the shortage of financial money, and Kangxi was no longer gentle on the rich businessmen in the world. He did not continuously increase various taxes like Chongzhen, but sent powerful officials to secretly exploit the wealthy and wealthy. Although the original governor of Liangjiang, Malji, was a Manchurian, but he had a good reputation, and once asked for a decree to reduce the taxes in Jiangnan by half, and withheld the tax money to build water conservancy, which was a pretty good official. However, since Wu Sangui raised an army, Maleji refused to raise taxes to the people in Jiangnan, and Kangxi was short of money, so he immediately demoted him on the pretext that he had no political achievements, and replaced him with A Xixu, who was good at collecting money, as the governor of Liangjiang.

The Governor of Liangjiang, whose full official title is "Governor of Liangjiang and other places, is the governor of military affairs, food and salary, management of the river, and the administration of Nanhe affairs", is one of the nine highest-ranking feudal ministers of the Qing court, in charge of the military and civilian affairs of Jiangsu, Anhui and Jiangxi provinces. Since the jurisdiction of Jiangsu and Anhui provinces belonged to Jiangnan Province at this time, the governor of Liangjiang was in charge of the administrative affairs of Jiangnan and Jiangxi. Hence the name Governor of Liangjiang. This shows how great Axixu's authority is! But since Axich took office. It can be said that he expropriated the local government violently, making the people of Jiangnan miserable, and many people have responded to Wu Sangui's rebellion, but the scale here is too small and was quickly suppressed. In history, A Xixu was also killed by Kangxi at the end of the Rebellion of the Three Feudatories, and the excuse was that A Xixu was greedy and was dismissed first. He was then sentenced to death in prison.

The only thing he did well was to support Wang Zhiding to strengthen the construction of the water division, which Jiangning is Jinling (Nanjing) City is close to the Yangtze River, and the construction of the water division is more important than the construction of the sea, so he has vigorously supported Wang Zhiding to collect big ships from all over the world to transform the warship, and at the same time ask the Kangxi Navy to build and expand the water division, and now many Qing army sailors were just recruited a year ago, but after training for nearly a year, the combat power is not strong. However, when he defeated the Zheng army, he officially transformed into a combatable army.

But at this moment, the nearly 30,000-strong Jiangning Naval Division of the Qing Army was almost wiped out. The tragedy of the water battle is not comparable to the land battle, a land battle, 30,000 soldiers and horses on both sides, and in the end only three or two thousand may be killed, at most nearly 10,000, and then one of the infantry troops will collapse or flee or surrender. And this water battle, for example, this time, the Qing army's warships accounted for seventy percent, the casualties of the soldiers also reached seventy percent, and the total number of Qing soldiers and soldiers was less than 10,000, and 20,000 died on the Yangtze River.

And the Mawei army is not easy to feel on this side, but according to preliminary statistics, the number of Mawei soldiers killed in the battle has reached 2,000, 1,000 seriously wounded, and more than 3,000 lightly wounded, but the lightly injured are not in serious trouble, and even if the seriously injured are rescued, they can only be discharged. Counting the Mawei Army's battle can be regarded as killing 1,000 enemies and losing 200 themselves, a big victory is certain. The Mawei Army will have such a large casualty in this battle, mainly because it suffers from the close combat with the Qing army, and most of them are grapeshits, this thing is too lethal, and most of the Mawei soldiers who died in battle were because of this.

The Mawei Army only rested for a day in the Jiangyin area, leaving the heavily damaged Fifth Fleet to guard the prisoners and warships, and the other warships under the leadership of Geng Jingzhong directly rushed to Jinling City! Since ancient times, "the wealth of the world comes from the southeast, and Jinling is its will", the name of Jinling is not inferior to the city of Beijing, Jinling City is also the city of Nanjing, Nanjing has a history of more than 6,000 years of civilization, nearly 2,300 years of history and more than 400 years of history of the capital, is one of the four ancient capitals of our country, has the "ancient capital of the six dynasties", "the capital of the ten dynasties", is an important birthplace of Chinese civilization, the history of the political center of southern China for a long time, has a heavy cultural heritage and rich historical relics.

Historically, Nanjing has benefited from both its unique geographical location and extraordinary feng shui environment, and has suffered many times from the disaster of war in the past, but it has also repeatedly regained its prosperity from the rubble and smoke. And when the Central Plains was occupied by foreign races and the Han nation was about to suffer a catastrophe, the Han people usually chose Nanjing to recuperate, determined to go on the Northern Expedition, and restore China. Zhu Hongwu, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, succeeded in this Northern Expedition, and the earlier Northern Expedition of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Xiao Liang, and Liu Song failed three times.

At the beginning of the Southern Song Dynasty, the ministers all discussed to Jiankang as the capital to show Kuang's plan to restore the Central Plains, but unfortunately Song Gaozong had no intention of going north and decided to go to Hangzhou, but he was forced by public opinion to still set Jinling as the capital. Even if the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in later generations used Nanjing as its capital, it also took the expulsion of foreign rule as one of the bases and legitimacy of mobilization. Therefore, Nanjing is regarded as the place of rejuvenation of the Han nationality and has a special status and value in Chinese history. After comparing the four ancient capitals of Chang'an, Luoyang, Jinling and Yanjing, Mr. Zhu Wei, a scholar who thought he was very famous in the later Republic of China, said: "Among these four capitals, the prosperity of literature, the handsomeness of the characters, the beauty of the mountains and rivers, the grandeur of the weather, and the close relationship with the national weal and woe, especially Jinling. ”

Dating back 2,900 years, Nanjing was the fiefdom of the Western Zhou Dynasty. In the first year of King Ling of Zhou (that is, 571 B.C.), the state of Chu had already set up Tangyi in today's Liuhe District, and placed the official position of Tangyi doctor, which was the earliest place in Nanjing with historical records, and it was also the beginning of the construction of Nanjing. At the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Wu Wangfu sent to build a smelting city in the area of the Tiangong in the present dynasty, and opened a handicraft workshop for smelting and casting bronze. In the fourth year of King Yuan of Zhou, after the Yue Kingdom destroyed Wu, Fan Li built the Yue City in Changgan outside the gate of today's China. In 333 B.C., King Xiong Shang of Chuwei built Jinling Yi in Stone City, and the name of Jinling originated from this.

In 229 A.D., Emperor Sun Quan of Wu built the capital here, and changed Moling to Jianye (and later rebuilt Ye in 282 A.D.). Wudu City takes the area of Taiping Road as the central axis, embraces Qinhuai in the south, leans on the Houhu Lake in the north, and has a circumference of 20 miles and 19 steps (this is about 9 kilometers or so). Since then, the Eastern Jin Dynasty and the Southern Dynasties of Song, Qi, Liang and Chen have successively built their capitals here, so Nanjing has the name of "the ancient capital of the Six Dynasties". During the Six Dynasties, Jiankang City was the largest city in the world at that time, with a population of one million, and was the first city in the world with a population of more than one million. The city of Nanjing and the city of Rome in the Six Dynasties are known as the "two centers of classical civilization in the world", and the culture of the Southern Dynasties, represented by Jiankang, has had an extremely far-reaching impact on human history.

Therefore, because of this, Geng Jingzhong's expectations for Jinling City are unparalleled. At that time, Zhu Yuanzhang polished the foundation here according to the nine-character policy of "building high walls, accumulating grain, and slowly becoming kings" that Li was good at, and finally achieved the world of the Ming Zhu family, and Geng Jingzhong himself also wanted to follow suit, and his next goal was to occupy Jiangnan and learn from Zhu Yuanzhang!

However, what Geng Jingzhong still wants to see is the prosperity of Jinling City, and the capital of the six dynasties in history is where Jin fans are drunk. At the time of the Six Dynasties, Jinling City was especially poor and magnificent in Buddhist temples. Du Mu of the Tang Dynasty had an aria of "four hundred and eighty temples in the Southern Dynasty, how many buildings are in the smoke and rain". In February 589, the Sui army invaded Taicheng and captured Chen Houzhu and his two concubines alive from the well under Jingyang. Emperor Wen of Sui then ordered the cities and palaces to be converted into cultivated land.

In the Sui and Tang dynasties, Jinling was in the midst of the contradiction between the deliberate suppression and depreciation of the capital built in the northern imperial court and the continuous development and strength of the economy and culture. In the Tang Dynasty, the political district system was reduced to a county under Runzhou in the first 30 years, and great poets such as Li Bai, Liu Yuxi, Du Mu, and Li Shangyin lived and visited here. In China after the Sui and Tang dynasties, the heroes fought each other and there were constant wars. The Southern Tang Dynasty built the capital of Jinling Mansion, partial to the south of the Yangtze River, since the beginning of Yang Wu, there has been no major war in the past hundred years. The bazaars on both sides of the Qinhuai River are prosperous, and merchants gather. Economic prosperity is accompanied by the development of culture, and poetry, calligraphy and painting are all in the wind of a generation.

During the Song and Yuan dynasties, Jinling still maintained the size of a city in the Southern Tang Dynasty and was famous as an important economic town in the southeast. Wang Anshi, the famous ruler of the Northern Song Dynasty, served as the prefect of Jiangning three times as the prime minister, and settled here and died here. Yue Fei, a famous general of the Southern Song Dynasty, defeated the Jin soldiers in the area of Niushou Mountain in the southern suburbs. In the Yuan Dynasty, there were East and West Weaving and Dyeing Bureaus in the city, which organized a large number of silk fabrics and more than 6,000 professional craftsmen.

It was not until 1368 that Zhu Yuanzhang, the Taizu of the Ming Dynasty, proclaimed himself emperor and founded the Ming Dynasty, and Nanjing once again became the political and cultural center of China. Nanjing City in the Ming Dynasty was the largest city in the world, and it took 21 years to build the Nanjing Ming City Wall more than 70 miles long, which is the largest city wall in the world. There are nearly 10,000 students in the country at the foot of Jilong Mountain, as well as students from Japan, North Korea and other countries studying here.

This ancient capital, Jinling City, is already about to appear in his eyes, and Geng Jingzhong is looking forward to it. Moreover, when attacking Jinling, we can't use too much artillery fire, so as not to cause great damage

(To be continued......)