"The people of Yanjing, welcome the son of tomorrow, welcome the king of the Han family, long live the Ming Dynasty, long live my king, long live it!"

Dozens of guys wearing Confucian clothes without hats and combing Han-style buns on their heads danced in front of Chen Dexing, who was dressed in military uniform and steel armor and sitting on horseback, outside the Shiren Gate in Yanjing. called Chen Dexing "the son of the great tomorrow", and also called the Northern Ming army "the king of the Han family". Long live while shouting from the mountains, while the eyes are warm!

At the beginning, a bearded Confucian was the most excited, knelt on the ground and kept kowtowing, kowtowing while shouting: "We northerners, looking south every year, today the sky is as people wish, and finally the king is here!" How many years, how many generations, finally let someone wait for Wang Shi......"

As soon as his voice fell, those Confucians in the north raised their heads one after another and shouted in a gossipy. It is nothing more than that they are "in Mengying, their hearts are in Han, and they look south to the king every year", all of them are "aspiring straw bales" that have the ambition to restore the Han family, but are unable to implement them.

"What's your name?" Chen Dexing raised his horsewhip and pointed to the bearded man who was the most excited and had the most tears.

The bearded man wiped his tears and bowed his head respectfully: "Sinner Yao Sui." ”

Sinners? A vassal of the Mongol Great Khan? Didn't you just say "looking south every year", why are you an official of Mongolia again?

Guo Kan came up, smiled and pointed at Yao Sui and said: "King, this member is the nephew of Yao Shu, the prime minister of the Reverse Yuan, the son-in-law of Yang Huan, the master of Guanxi, and the new branch of the Reverse Yuan, and he is also a famous talent on the side of the Reverse Yuan. ”

"Is it Yao Shu's nephew?" Chen Dexing asked lightly, "Yao Shu is the prime minister in the Yuan Kingdom, why did you turn your back on the Yuan Dynasty?" ”

Yao Sui smiled bitterly. Said: "The uncle of the criminal minister was confused, thinking that Kublai Khan was really sinicized. As everyone knows, this fang is the best at hypocrisy. Once the Han law and the policy of opening the imperial examination cannot be accepted and used, it will inevitably abandon the Han and use Hu. At that time, my Yao family will have no future in Mongolia. The minister was not willing to sink. wants to attach to the master of the Han family and revitalize the world of the Han family, so he does not leave Yanjing and is in love with the king. ”

This is true. The solution that Yao Shu and Liu Bingzhong came up with for Kublai Khan was to pretend to be sinicized to win the support of the Han people in the north, or at least neutrality. If this trick works, the Yao family will naturally be the hero of Mongolia's unification of the four seas, and Yao Sui will also be a great minister in the future. If this trick didn't work, Kublai Khan was driven out of the Central Plains by Chen Dexing and Li Pu. So what else can the Yao family do?

And looking at the current form, it seems that it is not very beneficial to Kublai Khan......

Chen Dexing sneered, this traitor can speak well! But I don't know if I have the real ability. If there are really two hits. What if you have been a traitor? Didn't Guo Kan, Guo Shoujing, and Liu Xiaoyuan all be traitors?

"Since you are like-minded, do you have any suggestions?" Chen Dexing asked.

Yao Sui said: "The criminal minister is a scholar, and he doesn't dare to hear about military affairs, but the minister has been with his uncle since he was a child, and in addition to learning scriptures and righteousness, he is to assist his uncle in handling government affairs. Consciously good at civil affairs, he can govern hundreds of thousands of people in Yanjing for the king. ”

"Hundreds of thousands of people?" Chen Dexing looked back at Zhao Fu who was following him, and Chen Dexing had always relied on Huang Zhishen, Zhao Fu, Deng Mingchao and others to deal with trivial matters in government affairs. Planned. Zhao Fuhui served as the governor of Yanjing after the recovery of Yanjing.

Zhao Fu immediately asked: "Yao Duanfu, do you know how many accounts there are in Yanjing City?" ”

"Yanjing originally had 25,120 households and 151,280 mouths. Among them, there were 3,212 households and 18,155 mouths. The Mongols each had a thousand households. It is not registered in Yanjing, so I don't know how many people there are. Since Wang Shi came to the west, Tatars moved into more than 55,000 households from Kaiping, Tongzhou, Zhuozhou, Jizhou, Yizhou, Xiongzhou and other places and the four townships of Yanjing. Mouth three hundred seventy thousand six hundred. Among them, there are 8,300 households and more than 36,000 mouths. In addition, about 20,000 or 30,000 merchants from all over the country entered the city on their own. The day before yesterday, about 30,000 people were evacuated with Mongolia. Most of them are color-eyed people. No less than 3,000 people died in the riots in the city, and many of them were also Semu merchants...... Today, there are more than 80,000 Han people and people in Yanjing City. There are more than 480,000 mouths, of which about 10,000 are Semu. ”

This Yao Sui is an official in charge of household registration, and he is a person who does things carefully, so when it comes to Yanjing household registration, it is really the first thing - the civil officials in the north are different from the Southern Song Dynasty, they are all able to do things and know how to do things. Because they have to compete with the Semu for posts, the kind of scribes who have first-class moral articles and know nothing about things will not have an errand even if they have an official.

More than 80,000 households, 480,000 people!

This figure was the population of a cheap small county in later generations, and it was nothing in the Southern Song Dynasty, which had a population of 70 or 80 million. But when Chen Dexing heard it, he had a feeling of winning the jackpot.

Before entering the customs, the population of the Northern Ming Dynasty was 800,000, of which the authentic Han people were more than 400,000 at most. It's doubled all at once! Oh, if you want to count the harvest in Pingluanzhou, there are one and a half times!

It seems that by the time the battle of Yanyun is over, Daming will be a "big country" with a population of more than two million!

Yao Sui saw Chen Dexing's joy, but his expression became solemn: "King, although the population of Yanjing is large, there is very little food. The 480,000 people consume an astonishing amount of money every day, and they must do their best to sort out their household registrations, collect and store grain, and implement household rationing. In this way, food consumption can be reduced to a minimum......"

It's late autumn, the season of slaughter, Yanjing is surrounded by battlefields, and it's too late to plant anything. If he were more comfortable, Chen Dexing would have to provide at least 10 months' worth of food rations for 480,000 people! According to one catty of rice and noodles a day, it takes 144 million catties, or 1.2 million stones!

In addition, including the Tanggu garrison, the Pingluan garrison, and the accompanying soldiers and civilians, Chen Dexing also brought nearly 120,000 people. They consume at least one and a half catties of rice and flour every day, and there are more than 200,000 livestock to feed. If the battle of Yanyun is fought until next spring, at least 300,000 stone rice noodles and concentrate will be consumed, and even if the people brought by Liaodong are replaced by the local people of Yanyun, they will be able to save 20,000 or 30,000 stones at most.

In other words, Chen Dexing needs to prepare about 1.5 million stone grains in order to swallow the heavy victory fruit of Yanjing!

"Okay!" Chen Dexing raised his horsewhip and pointed at Yao Sui, "It seems that you are also proficient in government affairs, there is a county in Yanjing City, and the county will do it for you." He turned back to Zhao Fu and said, "Zhao Qing, no matter what, this Yanjing City is our Han world again, and no one should think about taking it again!" I, the first prefect of the Ming Yanjing Mansion, will give it to you. Let's go into the city to see what this Yanjing City, which has been in the south for more than 300 years, looks like! ”

……

"Long live the Great Khan! Long live the Great Khan! ”

Just when Chen Dexing entered the Yanjing City built by the Jin Dynasty. On the steppe of Jining Road, more than 600 miles away, Kublai Khan, the Great Khan of Mongolia and the Great Yuan Emperor, who stood on a high platform, showed a satisfied smile.

Around him, it is as if the boundless is the yurt. His 100,000 Mongol soldiers, as well as hundreds of thousands of people and nearly 100,000 soldiers of the four kings of the host province, were crowded on the steppe of Jining Road.

The four kings of the Mongol host are now united around the fifth generation of the Great Mongol leadership group with Kublai Khan at its core. There is no way to do this, and now Yanjing has fallen into the hands of Chen Dexing. Even Brother Mo opened the gate of Juyong Pass, and the four kings did not dare to go south to die-their army had no firearms, no steel swords, and no strong armor. The combat effectiveness is far worse than that of Kublai Khan's lineage, and the result of going south to compete with the Northern Ming Dynasty's Shijue soldiers and Eight Banners is only a dead end.

As for fighting with Kublai Khan, there is also no chance of winning. Moreover, Kublai Khan only wanted to dismiss the four Ulus, and did not want to deprive the chiefs of a thousand households and a hundred households below. Except for the four Khans and their heirs of the Urus, no one else suffered losses in this reform, so naturally they would not accompany the four Khans to their deaths.

Of course, Kublai Khan is only reluctantly merging the four Ulus of the host province into the central Ulus, and this kind of blatant violation of Genghis Khan's law of partition is bound to be disgusted by the princes and kings of the western and eastern provinces. Even the thousand households under the command of the former host sect king will definitely have a grudge in their hearts - although this reform has not touched them, but who knows if there will be a next time?

Kublai Khan could abolish the four Ulus of the host province, but couldn't he abolish the thousand-household system pioneered by Genghis Khan?

If he can't defeat Chen Dexing and Li Pu in the next war, he will regain the majesty of Great Mongolia. I am afraid that sooner or later, the thousands of households of the original host will abandon him and flee to the west to attach to the four Ulus of the west road.

At that time, his position as the Great Khan of Mongolia will most likely be challenged by a certain Western Dao Sect King who rose to prominence by absorbing the Thousand Households of the Host Dao!

But the current Kublai Khan can't manage so much. A big war is coming, and it will be a great battle with heavy losses! Even if Chen Dexing was dragged down by hundreds of thousands of people in Yanjing, the firepower and combat power of the Northern Ming army were still very strong, enough to cause heavy casualties to the Mongols.

According to Kublai Khan's own calculations, in order to defeat Chen Dexing's army of about 60,000, the Mongols must be prepared to suffer more than 60,000 casualties!

If he did not break up the four Ulus, he would put hundreds of thousand households directly under his control, and mix them with the thousand households of the central Ulus to form 200,000 households. At that time, how could the Mongolian cavalry of the host country be allowed to charge into battle under the artillery fire of the Northern Ming army?

Kublai Khan slammed his fist, and the cheers below gradually stopped. Kublai Khan shouted: "Warriors of the Great Mongols! Genghis Khan's proud sons! Now is the time for us to prove to the whole world with scimitars, bows and arrows, and iron hooves that the Mongols are the masters of the world!

I, Bauer's only catty. Kublai Khan, the grandson of the great Genghis Khan, will lead you across the Yan Mountain, cross the Yellow River, and trample the entire rich land of China under your feet! Let all the Han people in the world become slaves of the Great Mongolia! Turn all the wealth of the Han people into the Great Mongolian warriors! (To be continued......)