Chapter 190 Return to Beijing

At the beginning of March, Xiao Tianjian left Nanjing again and embarked on the road to Beijing. Although he went north this time, even he wanted to go on a personal expedition again. Not to mention that the cabinet ministers disagreed, even the generals in the army would never do it, so Xiao Tianjian was regretful that he could only choose to compromise, no He still decided to get as close to the battlefield as possible.

So he went to Beijing to sit in the town on the grounds of visiting the capital of Beijing, where he came to pay direct attention to the battle of the Northern Expedition.

After the enlarged meeting of the imperial cabinet in January was held to confirm the Northern Expedition, the huge war machine of the Great China and the dynasties once again started to operate at a high speed. This Northern Expedition is different from the Northern Expedition three years ago. After nearly three years of development, the Great China and the DPRK has far exceeded the economic base of that of that year.

The most important thing is that China and North Korea now have no worries about the south and northwest, and can concentrate more domestic resources to fight this decisive battle.

Therefore, only this time can the Great China and North Korea mobilized nearly twice as many troops and a large amount of materials than the first Northern Expedition to carry out this Northern Expedition.

It is impossible to hide such a large military preparation operation from the Jiannu in Liaodong, so the Great Zhong Dynasty did not deliberately hide it this time. It was widely publicized through the government as a mouthpiece all over the country to publicize the brutality of Jiannu and their threat to the Han people, and announced that they would punish Jiannu. The action calls on rich families across the country to donate money and materials or buy war debts to support this war operation against Jiannu.

Of course, such propaganda will have a certain effect, so many people in China still support the action of the imperial court, and what reassures people everywhere is that the use of slaves in this time did not increase taxes in various places because of the army's food and salaries, but through the sale of high-interest war debts. The collection of grain is also a means of taking money from the private sector, rather than imitating the Ming Dynasty to increase the training, suppressing and Liaoning salaries to the people to pass on the burden on the people.

In this way, the burden on the common people has not increased. The court took money to buy grain. The people and some rich gentry are impressed by the generousness of the Dazhong court, and are also willing to sell the surplus grain on hand to the government. Some rich people have no idea of starting industry and commerce for a while. In addition, the Dazhong Dynasty is currently promoting The policy also restricts rich people from land annexation. The spare money on hand can only be stored in the cellar, which is useless. It happens that the Great Central and North Korea have launched high-interest war debts. For these rich people, buying debts can not only appreciate their wealth, but also allow them to earn a loyal and patriotic reputation, so war debts. The effect of this sale is quite good. Rich people from all over the world paid for it one after another, which soon allowed the Dazhong court to raise a large amount of war funds, which solved the problem of the lack of money from the Ministry of Household to support the Northern Expedition.

With the money, it is much easier to buy grain. A large number of grain stockpiled and private grain were purchased centrally, and then began to transship to the north through various channels.

In order to reduce the problem of excessive consumption of land transportation, China and North Korea still decided to focus on waterway transportation for the northern transportation of materials from various parts of the south. This time, the main transportation force supporting the Northern Expedition was no longer mainly relying on canal transportation in the first year of Tianyuan. Now, with the surrender of the Zhengjia Group, China and North Korea also did their best to build maritime power, and encouraged private individuals to build sea boats. They also lifted the Ming Dynasty's restriction that the construction of sea ships could not exceed four hundred materials, so that the rich and shipbuilders of the people could let go of their hands and feet to build as many ships as they wanted.

So in just two years, the shipbuilding industry, which has long been declining in coastal areas and major rivers, has begun to revive again. Civil shipyards have begun to be built one by one. Once the folk forces break out, it is quite terrible, so in the past two years, There are more and more ships in the water. On the originally relatively calm sea, at this time, a little sail shadow began to appear again.

Although the canal ship on the canal can provide a relatively strong transportation capacity, it is far worse than sea transportation. Therefore, this time, the main force of the transfer of combat materials from the south to the north was replaced by sea ship. After a large number of materials were loaded in various places, they took the sea road and went north along the coastline to undertake the transporter of the Northern Expedition. Force.

In order to prepare for this large-scale military operation, the Ministry of War designated Tongzhou, which is located at the canal terminal, as the material assembly point for canal transportation. Because sea transportation is the main, Xiao Tianjian simply ordered Shanhaiguan as a cargo assembly point for shipping materials. Anyway, Qinhuangdao Port in later generations was originally famous in the north. In this era, due to the small glacier era, although the sea surface of the Bohai Sea will freeze in winter, after February, the sea ice has begun to melt, which will no longer affect the operation and entry and exit of ships.

Therefore, Xiao Tianjian issued a decree to order the Dazhong army stationed in Shanhaiguan to take the lead. Yongpingfu recruited the local people to quickly establish wharfs and a large number of trestles at selected locations in Shanhaiguan for a large number of subsequent sea ships to dock and unload cargo, and establish a huge material reserve point in Shanhaiguan to accept the hoarding of Beiyun. A kind of combat materials.

At the same time, Weihaiwei and Dengzhou in Jiaodong have also become two important reserves for receiving materials and gathering places for the army.

For the ships that undertake these transportations, China and the DPRK did not leave the navy responsible for them, but opened them to civilian ships to help the court carry out transportation, rather than the means of forced requisition. All civil ships that undertake the transportation of these goods can obtain the freight issued by the court to ensure that their interests will not be This damage, the civilian shipowner naturally clapped their hands and actively participated in this transportation.

Therefore, after February, a large number of materials began to travel to the north through the canal's canal and a large number of sea ships, and the guards stationed in Nanjing were also ordered to board the ship in Zhenjiang, Yangzhou, Nanjing and other places, and directly take the boat north. In this way, it not only reduced the consumption of long-distance marches along the way. It consumes, and saves the army from the pain of long-distance marching on foot.

Xiao Tianjian also embarked on the road to the north in March. This time, Lu Xiangsheng, as the prime minister, had to be responsible for presiding over government affairs in the rear. Therefore, it was a pity that he could not follow Xiao Tianjian to the north, so this time he followed Xiao Tianjian to the north mainly Li Xin and the staff of the military department. The group took more than a dozen. The boat went along the canal in the direction of Beijing.

There was nothing to say all the way. Xiao Tianjian and his party finally arrived in Beijing after a 20-day trip, and the military and civil servants in the north got the news. Luo Li, Wang Chengping, Diao Zheng and Zhang Erzhong, the current governor of Shuntian Prefecture, had already waited in Tongzhou in advance.

As soon as Xiao Tianjian's boat arrived at Tongzhou wharf, the drums rang together. The guards and Yu Linwei of Liu Yao's headquarters, who arrived early, had already controlled the area of the wharf and arranged a tight warning line to ensure the safety of Xiao Tianjian and his party.

After Xiao Tianjian landed on the shore, he met with the ministers, greeted a little, and did not stay in Tongzhou. After simply asking about the hoarding of materials in Tongzhou, he immediately took these people to Beijing.

Entering Beijing again made Xiao Tianjian feel a lot of emotion. It has been more than two years since he left here last time in the blink of an eye. When he stepped into this majestic capital again, the relics of the war in this place had disappeared, and the walls and mouths that were damaged by the war had been completely repaired, although According to Xiao Tianjian's oracle, everywhere, including Beijing, can't build a large-scale construction or build city walls or government buildings. It can only be repaired on the original basis, and there is no need to pursue luxury and minimize financial expenditure. However, after all, Beijing has been identified as the capital of the future of the Greater China and North Korea, which was sent by various ministries in the early stage. For those who prepare, it's better to restore here as much as possible.

Therefore, when Beijing City and Xiao Tianjian left here last time, the change was still quite large. The city wall became much cleaner, and the cracks on the city wall were also repaired, becoming more solemn and majestic than before.

After entering the city, Xiao Tianjian also noticed a situation, that is, Beijing has become much cleaner in the past two years. The reason is very simple. Xiao Tianjian knows that in the second half of this year, there is likely to be a large-scale plague in the north, which caused Li Zicheng to easily take down Beijing. Later, Li Zicheng The Dashun army may also have been infected with the plague on a large scale, so its combat effectiveness has become very low, which eventually led to the defeat in front of the Qing army.

Whether this happened in history or not, Xiao Tianjian attaches great importance to this possibility, which also led to his decision to postpone the relocation of the capital to Beijing.

In order to avoid the occurrence of this large-scale plague, Xiao Tianjian has sent medical officers from the imperial medical bureau to the north first since the beginning of last year. It is not only in Beijing, but also in all cities and towns in the north. They require local officials to pay attention to health issues, kill rats as much as possible, and at the same time raise more stones. The dust is constantly spreading in the town. In addition, the garbage in the town is required to be cleaned out of the city in time, and the excrement of people and animals should also find a way to deal with it.

As a result, the health situation in many towns has changed greatly in the past year in the north. Beijing, as the future capital, has received more attention. The situation of garbage in the city has been improved and has become much cleaner.

After Xiao Tianjian looked at this situation, he was much relieved. Now the situation in the north has stabilized a few years in advance, the number of exiles has decreased, and the people's livelihood is much more stable. In this way, the possible plague situation has been largely avoided. Therefore, Xiao Tianjian expressed satisfaction with the work of the Tai Medical Bureau in the north in the early stage.

The Forbidden City is still the same as before. Xiao Tianjian did not make people repair here. The main repair is only the government office to be used by various departments in the city in the future, but it has not been expanded. It is only cleaned, repaired and reinforced on the original basis, so the cost is not very large.

Most of the palaces in the Forbidden City are still closed, leaving only more than 200 eunuchs and old maids of the previous dynasty who have nowhere to go to go to carry out daily maintenance in the Forbidden City. In addition, a company of Yulinwei stationed here is responsible for the safety of the Forbidden City at ordinary times, and let the thief sneak into the city to steal the value. The treasure of Liancheng.

Xiao Tianjian entered the Forbidden City and still only used the Wuying Hall. As soon as he arrived here, he summoned the generals to inquire about the pre-war preparations.