The layout of the Imperial City of Nanjing and the Imperial City of Beijing is not exactly the same, but it can also be called similar.

The offices of the six ministries are also in similar directions.

Zhao Han now lives in the west of Liubu, and walks north along the Qinhuai River, and can reach the Taiping Gate, which is Xuanwu Lake.

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, there were many lakes in Nanjing, in addition to Xuanwu Lake, there were Qianhu Lake, South Lake, Middle Lake, Mochou Lake and so on.

Before Zhao Han conquered Nanjing, Xuanwu Lake belonged to the royal forbidden land.

Now that the ban has been lifted, some fishermen have gone to the lake to fish, some farmers have farmed by the lake, and even a famous prostitute has moved the painting boat to Xuanwu Lake.

Zhao Han took a painting boat today, not to visit famous prostitutes, but to take the whole family out together. The flood receded, and they took advantage of the pleasure to swim in the lake, and by the way, they also let Fei Rulan, Pan Qimei, and Zhao Zhenfang scatter their hearts.

Several women were lying on the window of the painting boat, looking at the scenery of the Purple Mountain, chattering without knowing what they were talking about.

"The city wall over there, a sluice should be opened."

Zhao Han pointed to a section of the city wall northwest of the Taiping Gate: "Emperor Hongwu built a city and forcibly cut off the Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake, resulting in Xuanwu Lake being unable to be used for flood discharge during floods. The water of the Yangtze River cannot enter Xuanwu Lake through the Qinhuai River, and Xuanwu Lake will become smaller and smaller in the future. It must also be ordered that the area around Xuanwu Lake, within half a mile, shall not be used for farming! ”

After the death of the Ming Dynasty, the ban on Xuanwu Lake was lifted, and the gentry and magnates continued to enclose the lake to make fields, resulting in a crazy reduction in the area of the lake, and the filling of the lake made the middle lake in Nanjing disappear directly.

Xu Nianzu nodded and said: "It's really time to reconnect the Qinhuai River and Xuanwu Lake, this year, the water of the Qinhuai River has flooded the streets on both sides." ”

Gu Hengbo, a famous prostitute, was playing the piano in the cabin.

Lu Xiangsheng listened to the sound of the piano, closed his eyes and recuperated, he was waiting for Zhao Han to assign an errand.

Zhao Han got up and looked at the lake, but his mind was thinking, if the capital was Nanjing, how to stabilize Beijing.

In the Ming Dynasty, there was Shuntianfu where Beijing was located, Yingtianfu where Nanjing was located, and there was a Chengtianfu (Jiajing's hometown) in Hubei. These three are equivalent to municipalities directly under the central government, and Fengyang must be added strictly to the calculation.

If we want to stabilize Beijing and prevent it from declining, we must set up "municipalities directly under the central government."

The administrative establishment of Chengtianfu must be abolished, and Zhao Han, a municipality directly under the central government, intends to set up five-

One is Nanjing, the second is Beijing, the third is Shenyang, the fourth is Xi'an, and the fifth is Kunming.

The prefects of these five municipalities directly under the central government should be of the same rank as political envoys. Only by giving a high enough grade and being in a large city in remote exchange can it radiate the surrounding areas and play a role in stabilizing the country.

Suddenly, Zhao Han turned around: "Mr. Jiutai, you go with the army to fight Anqing." ”

"Yes." Lu Xiangsheng stood up and bowed his hand.

Zhao Han said with a smile: "First read "Datong Ji" carefully a few times, and be a military missionary for a year, so that I can turn you into a commanding general." ”

This summer, floods in several provinces are indeed not suitable for an all-out northern expedition.

But it is still possible to occupy cities along the river and serve them as strongholds for the Northern Expedition.

Fei Ruhe has already occupied Yangzhou, and there are Liuhe, Jiangpu, Hezhou, Wuwei, Wangjiang, and Anqing that can be occupied.

These cities are all by the river, or not far from the Yangtze River.

There is no need to recruit a large number of people to transport baggage, you can cross the river by boat, and it is the former station of the Northern Expedition.

End of June.

Lu Xiangsheng carried "Datong Ji" in his arms and followed Zhang Tieniu to fight Anqing together.

Anqing, Jiancheng also.

King Ning's rebellion has been blocked here, and the Jiajing Dynasty has built a city again.

"Fu Jun, Jiangxi soldiers are coming." Anqing prefect Fang Yuegong said.

Li Yukui, the governor of Anlu, asked rhetorically: "Do you want to surrender to thieves?" ”

Fang Yuegong sighed: "My home is in Gucheng, where it was stolen by the Eight Thieves (Zhang Xianzhong) for a year, and now it has been completely occupied by the Eight Thieves. My father wrote to me that the family's property was still there, but the floating wealth had been plundered, and only some silver was buried in the cellar. ”

Li Yukui smiled bitterly: "You still know the information of your hometown, but my family has no news, and I don't know if they have been robbed by the thieves (Li Zicheng)." ”

Li Zicheng is sweeping Shanxi, and Li Yukui is from Shanxi.

Fang Yuegong also said: "Zhao Han opened a port in Shanghai, and I built the seawall stone pond in Shanghai County. If you want to come, you can go there and ask for an errand. ”

Over there in Shanghai, there is also Fang Yuegong's ancestral hall...... It was built by the common people themselves.

It is also because of the construction of seawalls and stone ponds to force the wealthy in Shanghai to pay. Those who had more than 100 acres of land were given 8 cents of silver per mu, which violated the interests of the gentry and falsely accused them of embezzling 3,000 taels of silver, and Fang Yuegong was once imprisoned.

After the grievances were revealed, Fang Yuegong was sent to supervise the transportation of grain.

In the past few years, the grain has been cut off at both ends in three days, and Fang Yuegong has been demoted to be the prefect of Anqing because of his unfavorable work.

Li Yukui walked out of the governor's private residence and came to the city with Fang Yuegong.

Looking at the enemy troops that were landing outside the city, Li Yukui said to the officials and soldiers around him: "If you want to surrender, surrender over there, the Jiangxi soldiers will not kill innocents indiscriminately." ”

Anqing, you can't keep it.

Two years ago, Shi Kefa trained the Anlu New Army, and he went home to mourn. Last year, Zheng Eryang crossed the river with the new army, held on to the Taiping Mansion, and was finally forced to lead the people to surrender.

Now, Li Yukui has succeeded as the governor of Anlu, where do he still have soldiers in his hands?

There are a few thousand recruits in the whole city, and all of them are recruited vagrants!

Anqing is a very important cargo transit station in the Yangtze River Basin. In particular, a lot of grain from the middle and upper reaches of the Yangtze River is transported here for storage. As a result, transit trade flourished, people pooled rapidly, and homeless people were able to find work to earn a living.

After Zhao Han occupied Jiangnan, the grain did not dare to be transported to Anqing for transit, for fear of being detained by the imperial court officers and soldiers.

There are also many other goods that dare not come to Anqing.

Anqing's trade volume declined rapidly, and a large number of urban homeless people lost their jobs, and Li Yukui had no choice but to recruit these homeless people as soldiers.

Now that Zhao Han's army is coming, what choice will the homeless people defending the city make?

Of course, it is to surrender quickly, and resume trade and transportation in Anqing as soon as possible, so that they can find jobs to earn money to support their families, and if they continue to be soldiers, sooner or later the whole family will starve to death!

Li Yukui knew this well, and laughed miserably: "Surrender, go to Kaecheng and surrender." ”

Li Yukui looked at the north again and muttered: "The faint king is in charge, the traitor is in the Ying Dynasty, and the Ming Dynasty is no longer saved." But for 300 years, how can there be no less martyrdom? Your Majesty, the minister will go first, and it will not be too late for you to come. ”

Fang Yuegong felt that something was wrong and asked, "Fu Jun, don't think about it too much. The reincarnation of the destiny of heaven is beyond the power of man...... Fu Jun! ”

I saw Li Yukui suddenly rush forward, turn over the female wall, jump from the high city wall, and his head fell downward.

Fang Yuegong wanted to stop it, but his movements were too slow, and he only caught the corner of Li Yukui's clothes.

"Bang!"

With a muffled sound, the human body fell to the ground.

Lu Xiangsheng had already landed with the army, and when he saw the flag lowered at the head of the city, he was sighing that he had taken the giant city so lightly, and the Ming Dynasty was really completely hopeless.

There was a muffled sound, and the corpse was only a few dozen steps away from Lu Xiangsheng.

Lu Xiangsheng hurriedly ran over and flipped the body upward. The brains had burst out, and the blood had flowed half of his face, and he could vaguely make out who it was.

Lu Xiangsheng said sadly: "Li Yifu, why are you so confused! ”

The city gate gradually opened, Zhang Tieniu led the troops over, looked at the corpse and said: "I am indeed very confused, I have descended, why do you want to die?" ”

Lu Xiangsheng shook his head and said, "You don't understand, you don't understand." He was not martyred for the emperor, but for the Ming dynasty. In all dynasties, there have always been martyrs. ”

Zhang Tieniu muttered, "What festival is martyrdom? It is only right to let the people have enough to eat. ”

Playing the piano to the cow, I don't understand, Lu Xiangsheng is too lazy to talk about it.

When the officers and soldiers in the city went out of the city to surrender, Lu Xiangsheng said: "Bury the righteous soldiers, I will pay the money myself." ”

"Meet the General!" Fang Yuegong greeted him with officials.

Lu Xiangsheng recognized Fang Yuegong and reminded: "Zhang Bingyuan, this Mr. Fang is very famous, and he supervised the construction of the first seawall stone pond in the south of the Yangtze River. Countless fertile fields have been protected, food and clothing have been given to the people, and there is still his ancestral hall in Shanghai County. ”

Zhang Tieniu was originally disdainful of Fang Yue Gong, but when he heard this, he immediately smiled and said, "You are a good official, Lao Zhang will give you a salute." ”

Fang Yuegong replied: "The general doesn't have to be like this, he is an official for one term and benefits one party, this is a matter of cleanup." ”

While they were talking, all the defenders of the city had come out, and they had laid down their weapons and ran to find work.

When the army arrived in Anqing, there were naturally many baggage, and the defenders were mostly homeless coolies. These people didn't want to fight, they just wanted to make money as coolies, and take the opportunity to carry the baggage for the Datong army.

"General, let's move the military rations on the ship!"

"It's just that I've been carrying bags at the dock for several years, and I'm very strong."

"The king gives some work to do, and the salary is very low, and it is guaranteed to be less than the coolies in Nanjing."

“……”

These people, who were still Anqing defenders just now, nodded and came over to take the work in a blink of an eye.

Lu Xiangsheng couldn't cry or laugh, full of emotion, and could only turn into a sigh.

He often fights with the Rogue, which is unlikely to happen when the Rogues are attacking the city. Not to mention the homeless coolies, even the residents in the city, when they encounter the rogues killing them, they will spontaneously go to the city to defend, because the rogues will inevitably rob when they enter the city!

This is not something that can be done by being strong and powerful, and it must also be known in the name of benevolence and righteousness.

The people of Anqing know that as long as they surrender to King Zhao, they will definitely have a good life in the future.

The entire city along the Yangtze River knows this truth. Across the river, they heard numerous rumors that the peasants on the other side had divided their fields, and that the people in the city had not paid exorbitant taxes.

What a beautiful life that was, why didn't Zhao Tianwang fight Jianglai?

"The world is the same!"

"Long live King Zhao!"

The people were a little suspicious at first, but when they saw that Datong had not committed any crimes, they went out of their homes one after another, standing on both sides of the street to watch and cheer.

Lu Xiangsheng entered the city with the army and saw more and more people jubilant and celebrating.

It's absurd and intoxicating.

To maintain order in the city during the day, Lu Xiangsheng took out "Datong Ji" at night. He has read this book more than ten times, but each time he reads it, he has new feelings.

Many of the truths in the book can be verified by the farmers of Yixing and the people of Anqing.

Lu Xiangsheng is also sympathetic to the people, and the Tianxiong Army is also innocent.

But the Tianxiong Army and the Datong Army are obviously different.

One is to fight for the emperor, and the other is to fight for the people!

Lu Xiangsheng repeatedly read the three articles of "The Original Monarch", "The Original Minister", and "The Original People", and he finally thoroughly understood what Zhao Han said about the great harmony of the world.