Chapter 793 The palace must be high-end and high-end
Judging from the map, Jinling can actually be regarded as the Eastern Capital, but the capital is the capital and cannot be called the Eastern Capital, so the Eastern Capital can only be left vacant without being established.
It can be said that Liu Bagou's trick was the result of painstaking efforts, because although Li Xuan had repeatedly revealed his intention to move the capital to Jinling City, many people in the court were opposed to it, and the reasons for their opposition were all mixed up.
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Some people think that the capital should be moved to Wuchang, others think that it should be moved to Changsha or Zhengzhou, and still others think that it should be delayed first and then moved directly to Xianyang or the capital. Of course, there are also those who think that Zhaoqing should be left behind.
When there was a lot of discussion, Liu Bagou naturally upheld his superior intention and unswervingly supported Li Xuan in making Jinling the capital. However, in order to take into account the opinions of the ministers, he made a companion capital.
Moreover, Fuxing Ming only has one capital, but our Tang Dynasty directly has three, which is more than Fuxing Ming, and is better than Fuxing Ming!
After Li Xuan saw this information, he said in a joking tone during the morning meeting in the royal study: "There is only one difference between the east, west, and west. If there is a chance in the future, we can also make the east capital!"
Others didn't know where the east capital Li Xuan was talking about, and thought they were talking about places like Hangzhou, Songjiang, etc. But no one knew that the east capital Li Xuan was talking about at that time was actually Fuso Edo.
On that day, China was unified, and the navy was also awesome. It was necessary to land on the Fuso Islands. It would be nice to chase the emperor to the Pacific Ocean to feed the fish, and then establish a colony and build a capital in the east. Waiting for hundreds of years, future generations would
People don’t have to daydream about food, love, Ozawa, Mary, etc. If they want, they can go directly!
How great you must be to benefit the people hundreds of years from now!
Li Xuan himself admires his greatness and selflessness!
Although there was a lot of discussion about the relocation of the capital in the early stages, when Liu Bagou's proposal was approved by Li Xuan with a big approval, it was announced that the dust had settled.
The capital was moved to Jinling, with Chang'an, Zhaoqing and the capital as the accompanying capitals. At the same time, Xi'an was renamed Chang'an, the capital was renamed Youzhou, and Jinling was renamed the capital.
As a result, it was finally decided to make Jinling the capital, and rename it the capital, with Chang'an, Youzhou and Zhaoqing as the accompanying capitals.
However, although this plan was officially confirmed at the Xiaochao meeting, moving the capital will not be possible in a short time, especially since the Jiangnan area is not yet stable.
Now the Second Army only controls parts of the south of the Yangtze River. Yu Dayou in Zhejiang is still active, and the more than 20,000 Ming troops from Anqing Prefecture still occupy areas such as Chizhou.
Even if you want to move the capital, that will have to happen later.
However, there are many things to do when moving the capital, and many of them need to be prepared in advance, so Li Xuan sent many ministers to the capital first to make a stand. Among other things, the problems in the palace always need to be solved.
Regarding the problem of the palace, the courtiers all suggested that they should directly renovate the palace, but Li Xuan directly said: "When can it be repaired? How much will it cost?"
This question was asked by many ministers at once, because none of them were fools. They all knew very well that the meaning behind Li Xuan's words was not to directly ask how long and how much, but to say that it would take
How long will it take to repair it and move the capital?
Is it difficult to build the palace with tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands of taels of silver? If it costs tens of millions, where will the money come from? With this money, they will directly use it as military expenses, so why build a palace?
Therefore, the cabinet proposed a compromise plan. The Ming Palace was still used as the palace, and a large number of main buildings in the palace were slowly repaired. If you have money, repair it faster. If you don't have money, repair it slower. It will take seven or eight years to repair it.
Even more than ten years.
In addition, the Han Palace on the west side of the palace is relatively well-preserved and is small. The scale of the project is not expected to be large. If the repairs are expedited, it is expected to be completed in one or two years. The Han Palace can be directly included in the palace and then live in it.
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Of course, even the Han Palace has been idle for many years. Although it is well preserved, urgent repairs will take time. Even though it is not as good as the Ming Palace, which took ten or twenty years to build, it still takes a year and a half.
Therefore, another suggestion was made to first use the Duke's Palace of Wei, which is intact, large in scale, and no less luxurious than the royal palace, as the royal palace.
After Li Xuan went to the capital, he first stayed in the Royal Courtyard and waited for the palace to be built before moving into the palace.
Li Xuan took a look and found that this plan was pretty good!
In fact, Li Xuan doesn't care much whether the palace is repaired or not. He actually doesn't want to live in that shabby place, but the key point is that as an emperor, there must be a large one that can match his eternal saint king.
The royal palace of status.
Therefore, this palace must be renovated, and it must be renovated to be high-end, elegant, luxurious, high-profile, and connotative!
But this cultivation is cultivation, but Li Xuan is not willing to cultivate it now. The Tang Dynasty was as pauperous as most of its money was spent on fighting, and there was no money left to repair the palace, so it was necessary to live elsewhere first.
It would be best to directly use the Duke's Palace of Wei as the royal courtyard. It would save money, and the living conditions would not be much worse than the imperial palace.
So Li Xuan also agreed to this plan, and now the ministers who are going to Jinling to set up a front station have to deal with various matters first.
And Li Xuan himself also started preparing to move the capital here in Zhaoqing!
For Li Xuan himself, the biggest problem in moving the capital is definitely not the palace, which is just a dilapidated house. The real focus is that if the capital is to be moved to Jinling, it means moving the political, economic, industrial, and military focus of the Tang Dynasty.
Moved to Jinling and nearby areas.
So there is a lot of preparation that needs to be done in advance.
According to the cabinet's estimates, if the capital is to be moved, at least one-third of the population in Zhaoqing, excluding military officers, will be moved there.
Including hundreds of officials and their families, as well as the families of soldiers.
At the same time, there are a large number of craftsmen affiliated with the arsenal and the families of these craftsmen.
Nowadays, the Tang dynasty has a great cause and the capital is no longer moved as easily as it was in previous years.
When the capital move was finalized and preparations began, the frontline troops on the Jiangnan side also launched a large-scale offensive after a short rest in order to welcome the coming of the Holy Emperor.
Although it was said to be a large-scale attack, it was actually a multi-channel attack at the same time, and the number of troops on each channel was actually not that large. The largest number of them was the 5th Infantry Division that returned to Chizhou.
The Anqing Ming Army crossed the Yangtze River and marched south, actually cutting off the Second Army's supply line. Although the Second Army captured Jinling City, defeated Wang Yiqi's 100,000-strong army, and seized a large amount of food, ammunition and other materials, this
There will be no shortage of supplies for a while, but it is naturally inappropriate for the supply line to be cut off like this all the time.
Therefore, the Second Army needs to annihilate the Anqing Ming Army or drive directly back to the north bank of the Yangtze River.
After the Anqing Ming Army learned that Wang Yiqi was defeated and killed and Jinling fell, they didn't even need the Fifth Infantry Division to attack them. They just crossed the river and ran back to Anqing.
As for Hangzhou, Zhejiang, it was also easily won because the troops attacking Hangzhou were quick and decisive. In fact, at this time, the officials and a small number of defenders in Hangzhou had just learned of Wang Yiqi's defeat.
After occupying Hangzhou, it meant that Yu Dayou's troops in southern Zhejiang were surrounded by war. In the end, Yu Dayou was bold enough to directly sacrifice 20,000 Jiangnan New Army troops to delay the attack of the Third Army.
Then he took 10,000 bandit-breaking troops and 20,000 Jiangnan new troops, a total of 30,000 people, and fled north. However, he naturally did not retreat to Hangzhou foolishly, let alone Jinling, but went west first, setting off
They showed a desperate attitude to attack Fuzhou and even Nanchang and Ganzhou.
Some of the Tang defenders in Jiangxi were shocked, but they thought of a false shot, so they found a loophole and received support from the Ming Navy in the direction of Guichi, and finally successfully crossed the river and returned to Anqing.
Of course, after running away all the way and fighting a battle with the Tang Army, the result was that thirty thousand people turned into less than ten thousand.
Of the 50,000-strong army, 20,000 were directly abandoned as sacrifices. Nearly 20,000 died on the way to escape, and less than 10,000 were left to escape back to Anqing.
What's interesting is that the less than 10,000 Ming troops who fled back to Anqing were all the bandit-breaking army. As for the Jiangnan New Army, I'm sorry, they no longer exist.
Although Yu Dayou, who fled back to Anqing, lost his troops and was in a very embarrassed state, many people also knew that the failure of this battle was not his fault, and he was also one of the only generals in the Ming Dynasty who dared to fight against the puppet Tang rebels.
Therefore, instead of punishing him, the Ming Dynasty appointed him as the Fengyang Commander-in-Chief, commanding the bandit-breaking army and the Anqing garrison, as well as the Ming armies of Luzhou, Fengyang and other prefectures.
This is a newly established post of General Soldier, the same as Jiangbei General Soldier.
Since the defeat of Wang Yiqi, the remaining Ming troops in Jinling City and other places in the south of the Yangtze River either died, were captured, or fled to the north of the Yangtze River. In the end, most of them gathered in the Yangzhou Prefecture area. At the same time, various places in the north of the Yangtze River rushed south in order to organize the puppet Tang rebel army to go north.
Most of the Ming army gathered in Yangzhou.
Because Yangzhou gathered many Ming armies that were not under each other's control, in order to unify the military leadership, the Ming Dynasty urgently established the Jiangbei General Army here to command the Ming armies in Yangzhou and other places.
Fengyang General Soldier and Jiangbei General Soldier, this is currently the only response the Ming Dynasty can make to the corrupt situation in Jiangnan.
However, although the Ming army in these two places is a bit disorganized, and the total strength is not large, Anqing only has more than 30,000 people, and Yangzhou has only more than 40,000 people, but these two places are strategically important places, and after passing through so many
After the disastrous defeat, no matter how stupid the Ming army was, they knew they couldn't hold on.
If the Tang Army wanted to move north on a large scale, this canal must be captured.
Without the canal, the Privy Council's Logistics Department would never dare to ensure the security of the logistics supplies that could sustain the army's march north.
The Datang Army is not a cold-weapon unit. It can take whatever it has to eat. The Datang Army is already a typical modern army. The ammunition consumption is very large. There is no reliable material transportation channel. In the hands of this army
The guns will turn into fire sticks in minutes.
In addition, Jiangnan has just been captured, and it is necessary to continue to conquer many cities in Jiangnan. At the same time, it is also necessary to maintain a heavy force to suppress Jiangnan, a land of wealth, to avoid any accidents. Of course, more importantly, the Second Army and the Third Army have gone through many hardships.
After more than a month of hard fighting, the troops suffered heavy losses, and the ammunition consumption was extremely huge, so they were in urgent need of replenishment.
Therefore, the offensives of the Second Army and the Third Army were considered to have stopped in early December!
By this time, the entire Jiangnan was already under the control of the Tang Dynasty!