After going ashore, Lin Anfei led people directly into the city, and happened to meet Xu Yanqing, who also rushed back from northern Zhejiang, on the way.

"Brother Xu, but I haven't seen you for a while!" After seeing Xu Yanqing, Lin Anfei took the initiative to say hello.

Unlike Lin Anfei, who could comfortably ride a naval ship, Xu Yanqing could only ride a fast horse all the way back from northern Zhejiang, and his tired expression could be seen in his expression.

However, he was tired, but the spirit of the whole person was very good, and he immediately replied: "Congratulations to Brother Lin, this battle exploit in breaking Nanjing makes my brother envious, and I heard that Brother Lin's troops have already fought to Tongling, and this credit book has to be added to the book!" ”

Lin Anfei smiled: "There, there, I just caught up with Nanjing, and the main force of the thief army has retreated, as for the southern part of Anhui, it is just a few mansions, compared with Brother Xu, you won the entire Zhejiang at the beginning of the year, what am I worth!" ”

The two praised each other for a while, and then they joined forces to enter the city.

When you enter the city, you can see that the whole city of Nanjing has been completely renewed, the whole city does not seem to have suffered much from the destruction of the war, although there are not many people on the street, but there is also some popularity, occasionally you can see the shops that have opened the door, and you can also see a lot of relief points are giving porridge.

"It seems that Bi Yutong still has some ability, and after taking over Nanjing for more than ten days, he has already put Nanjing in order!" Xu Yanqing looked at the neat and clean streets, and let out a sigh, and still admired Bi Yutong, the prime minister, you must know that when he took Hangzhou, because Hangzhou was devastated by the war of Yan Zhan, Yan Zhan Ng lacked living materials in the city, prices soared, and the people were not able to make a living, but after Bi Yutong was promoted to the governor of Zhejiang at that time.

Many effective measures were adopted, including free relief for the people in the city, the organization of the government structure, the resumption of production of the people, and the vigorous transportation of food and other daily necessities from other places, so that Hangzhou quickly recovered its vitality.

I didn't expect Bi Yutong to do a good job in Zhejiang, and after arriving in Nanjing, he would be able to quickly restore a huge Nanjing city.

However, Xu Yanqing naturally didn't know that in order to restore the order of life and production in Nanjing City, the imperial officials led by Bi Yutong had been working hard for many days and nights, and they didn't know how much effort it took to restore the lifeless Nanjing City.

Nanjing City ruled the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for several years, especially the implementation of the sacred treasury system and the male and female separate camp system, which almost disrupted the normal production and life order of the entire Nanjing City.

Before Shi Da left, he took tens of thousands of young people and almost all the food in the city, leaving only the city full of old and weak women and children to the Chinese Empire.

Just to transport food from other places to help the people in the city, I don't know how much effort it took the officials of the Chinese Empire.

At the same time, because the city was ruled by the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom for several years, a considerable number of people were brainwashed by the religious policies of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, so the Chinese army in the city spent a lot of energy to eliminate the remnants of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom in the city.

In the past, the shaving order of the Chinese Empire was limited to military and political personnel, and a relatively loose voluntary policy was adopted for ordinary people, so at present, except for Shanghai, Shaoxing and other places where the Chinese Empire has deep roots, people in other places actually still have a braid or bundle of hair.

However, in the city of Nanjing, Lin Zhe personally ordered that all men in the city shave their hair, otherwise they would be executed on the spot as the remnants of the Taiping thief army, although it would cause a considerable civil backlash, but this was a necessary measure for the Chinese Empire to completely control the city.

This Nanjing is the capital of the Chinese Empire, and he will never allow the people in the city to still have the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom or the Manchu Dynasty in their hearts, so the big killer of shaving hair must be carried out.

As for the parents who said that the body was affected by the skin, those who were unwilling to shave their hair were directly killed.

However, the recalcitrant people are still relatively small, most of the people don't even have food to eat now, and they don't care about shaving their heads, plus the population of Nanjing City is not much at this time, and the people in the city are less than 150,000.

Before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom entered Nanjing, there were more than 900,000 people, but after Shi Dakai evacuated Nanjing, after the Chinese army invaded Nanjing, there were only about 100,000 people in the city.

The reason for the sharp decline in population was that some people fled before the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom occupied Nanjing, and then because the Qing army established a camp in the south of the Yangtze River to besiege the city for a long time, a large number of people in the city starved to death due to lack of food, and some were inevitably slaughtered by the Taiping army.

As for whether the Taiping army slaughtered more people or the Qing army, or whether there were many people who fled or starved to death, how did the common people die? The problem is that there are different opinions, and there is no result in the debate.

But there is one thing that cannot be denied: that is, wherever the Taiping army goes, the population must be greatly reduced!

During the period of controlling Nanjing City, the Taiping army also plundered the population from other places to supplement the Tianjing City, but the total number was not much, and before Shi Dakai withdrew, tens of thousands of young people were enveloped by a force.

These reasons led to the fact that after the Chinese army captured the city of Nanjing, the total population of the city was less than 150,000, and the majority of them were old, weak, women and children.

This only remaining population is not large, especially the shortage of young and strong men, so the resistance to the shaving order is quite limited, which also indirectly reduces the difficulty of the Chinese army to completely control the city of Nanjing.

If this is replaced by a large city with no damage and a population of hundreds of thousands or even millions, if the Chinese army implements a shaving order, it is estimated that it will have to set off a large-scale massacre, otherwise it will be difficult to completely control it.

Therefore, now the population in Nanjing is small, and the advantage of a small population!

After Lin Anfei and Xu Yanqing entered the city, they soon arrived at Lin Zhe's temporary palace. It is said to be a palace, but it is actually a mansion located near the original Heavenly King's Mansion.

Looking at the nearby Heavenly King's Mansion in ruins, Lin Anfei couldn't help but curse: "These thieves who killed heaven, why did you burn down the good palace, and now the emperor can only deign to stay in the private house!" ”

Xu Yanqing also looked at the huge ruins and sighed: "I heard that the thief army spent countless craftsmen in order to build many palaces, but I thought that I could also occupy one in the city of Nanjing, but I didn't expect them to burn it all down, it's really hateful!" ”

Before Shi Dakai withdrew from Tianjing, he set fire to all parts of the city, not only burned down the Tianwang Mansion, but even his own Yiwang Mansion was burned, as for the palaces of the other kings, there was no one left, all of them were burned down, and now that the Chinese army is stationed in Nanjing City, it is difficult to find a suitable place to serve as Lin Zhe's temporary palace.

As a last resort, the Chinese army could only requisition a well-preserved courtyard that was built by an official or businessman, and then used it as Lin Zhe's temporary palace.

After entering the temporary palace, Lin Anfei and Xu Yanqing saw many people wearing military uniforms or civilian robes coming and going, a lively scene.

This temporary palace is next to the temporary offices of the Supreme High Command and the Cabinet, so you can often see many people coming and going.

Interestingly, among the military and political officials who came and went, there was a great difference in the costumes of the two, and in terms of officers, almost all of them were double-breasted military uniforms, and all kinds of accessories were complete, and Lin Anfei and Xu Yanqing were no exception.

But those civil officials were more chaotic, some wore Hanfu, some wore Western-style dresses, some wore horse coats and robes, and some wore Chinese costumes that had only recently appeared among the officials of the Chinese Empire.

Due to the new establishment of the Chinese Empire, the things that were paid attention to in the early stage were more military strategic issues, and some small details had not yet had time to be perfected, such as this dress.

So far, the Chinese Empire has only clearly stipulated the dress code of the military, including formal dresses and regular dresses, and only one type of formal dress has been prescribed for civilian officials.

This kind of Han-style dress based on the official robe of the Ming Dynasty is actually only used for important ceremonial activities, not daily dress, but the Chinese Empire currently does not stipulate the daily dress of officials, so there are several kinds of daily dress for officials now.

Those early officials who followed Lin Zhe very early, especially those who were businessmen and compradors, chose to wear Western-style dresses as their daily clothes.

Some officials from traditional backgrounds, such as former Qing officials, continue to wear horse coats and robes, while others choose Hanfu.

Therefore, this leads to the fact that the current dress in the civil service system is relatively chaotic, and now many ministers have very opinions on this, and they have continuously written to Lin Zhe, asking for the formulation of official official dress.

It's just that there are those who support the use of Hanfu as an official robe, those who support the use of Western-style dresses, and those who support the robe of the horse coat.

In order to draw a clear line with the Qing court in the north, the horse coat and long robe, which have a strong Manchu color, can no longer be worn.

But the times are advancing, even if the Chinese Empire wants to be retro and advocate Han clothes, but it is enough to have a big dress, this thing is elegant but not cool enough, a flowing Hanfu and then a big bald head or inch head, how to look awkward!

But if you want to keep pace with the times, this dress is not good, and it is easy for people to say that they worship foreign countries!

So the easiest way is for Lin Zhe to get out the tunic in his memory, which is completely different from contemporary Western-style clothes, and now it is absolutely original after it is made, and it has absolutely nothing to do with the West or Japan.

After wearing this tunic suit, the whole person also looks much more energetic, and the key point is that it matches the large number of bald heads and inch heads in the civil service system in the Chinese Empire.

After the shaving order was implemented, the civil and military officials of the Chinese Empire all shaved their heads or inch heads, and if this soldier shaved his head and then put on a military uniform, it would definitely be handsome.

But if you shave your head or inch head as a civil official, and then wear a hanfu or a horse coat and robe, it will definitely not look beautiful.

The hairstyle also needs to be matched by clothes!

After this tunic came out, Lin Zhe only wore it as his daily attire at first, but Lin Zhe also let his entourage officials wear it, so many officials quickly followed suit, and now there are many people in the court wearing tunics.

Well, of course, this tunic is not called a tunic but a 'formal suit', Lin Zhe called it a 'Chinese suit', which means simply and clearly, it is the clothing of the Chinese Empire.

Later, Lin Zhe was also preparing to issue a formal edict to promote this Chinese costume throughout the imperial officialdom and use it as the daily attire of officials.

Led by an official in Chinese attire from the palace affairs department, Lin Anfei and Xu Yanqing bypassed the front half of the temporary palace office area and then arrived in the courtyard at the rear.

As soon as he entered, Lin Anfei saw that under a pavilion between the grass and trees, Lin Zhe and several people were talking, because the distance was a little far, except for Lin Zhe, who could be seen at a glance wearing a dragon-patterned military dress, several other people in Chinese costumes did not know each other.

At this time, the officials of the palace affairs department in front of him stopped their steps, and then whispered to Lin Anfei and Xu Yanqing: "The two marquis wait!" ”

After stopping, Lin Anfei turned his head and asked Xu Yanqing: "Do you know those people?" ”

Xu Yanqing said: "I only know one, the middle one I remember is Li Ganzhou, the co-organizer of the Organization Department, but the other few don't recognize it, but they can be received by the emperor, and they are dressed similarly to the group of people in the cabinet, and they should also be from the cabinet!" (To be continued.) )