In the third year of the reign of King Ding of the Ming Dynasty, on September 11th, Nanjing.

The inside and outside of Ming Xiaoling Mausoleum have been hastily cleaned up. The numerous corpses outside the Golden Gate have been moved away as much as possible. The corpses inside the Golden Gate all the way to the Ming Taizu Baoding have also been collected and wrapped in white cloth.

, sprinkled with lime, waiting to be transported away. Sugar bombs and gunpowder bombs scattered everywhere that did not explode were also collected. However, the walls of the Golden Gate were beaten like a honeycomb, and there were also some that could be seen everywhere.

The traces of smoke and fire cannot be removed immediately.

However, the Xiaoling Mausoleum of the Ming Dynasty is generally in good condition. After some tidying up and decoration, Zhu Yuanzhang should be satisfied.

The heavily armed soldiers of the Ming Dynasty came out from the Xiaoling Guard City where they were stationed early this morning, and then lined up in two rows along the road from Xiaoling Guard to Xiaoling Fangcheng, all with their chests and belly protruding.

His face is full of expressions of "I am awesome" and "I am invincible" - this is the expression of a winner!

They are indeed qualified to be awesome!

It took them less than a day to capture the Jiangnan camp that Emperor Kangxi had worked so hard to manage. They also wiped out all 10,000 defenders and beheaded the chief minister, Sun Sike!

Their own losses were less than 1,000 people, of which only more than 500 were killed or seriously injured that were difficult to treat.

How can he not be an invincible elite soldier if he achieves such a disparity in exchange ratio in a critical battle?

And the significance of this battle to annihilate the Jiangnan camp is even greater!

Because before that, Zhuge Sanhe had already broken through the fortress on the south bank of Anqing and captured all the territory of the five prefectures and one state in southern Anhui.

All the territories on the south bank of the Yangtze River among the six prefectures in southern Jiangsu have been captured by the Ming Army's Second and Seventh Towns and the Navy led by Zhu Heji.

Therefore, this Jiangnan camp was the last stronghold of the Qing army south of the Yangtze River.

The capture of the Jiangnan camp by the Ming army meant the end of the Qing rule south of the Yangtze River!

For the new Ming court led by Zhu Heji, breaking the Jiangnan camp also meant that the new Ming court had established a firm foothold in the Jiangnan region and could return the capital to Nanjing.

From now on, the new Ming Dynasty changed from a local political power that divided the south of the world to one of the three-thirds of the world, and could ask the question of the importance of the three-thirds of the world.

"Long live the saint... long live! Long live! Long live!"

The cheers of mountains and tsunamis suddenly sounded from outside the north gate of Xiaoling Acropolis.

It turned out that Zhu Heji had already finished bathing and changing clothes, and strode out of Xiaoling Acropolis surrounded by a group of civil servants, military generals and attendants.

They saw him wearing yellow clothes and a yellow scarf, hanging a long sword and hanging an empty hammer. He was dressed like a saint, holding his head high and walking step by step to the top of Xiaoling Mausoleum where Zhu Yuanzhang and Empress Ma were buried.

He was going to report to Zhu Yuanzhang the phased results of the anti-Qing and restoration of Ming Dynasties in front of Baoding of Xiaoling Mausoleum.

The work of restoring the Ming Dynasty cannot be accomplished overnight. The Ming Dynasty is too big... There are two capitals and thirteen provinces in the heart, and there are Nurgan Dusi, Uszang, Kansai Seven Guards, etc. in the surrounding parts.

Beyond that, there are a number of vassal states and the Xuanwei Division. To fully recover, it is estimated that it will take twenty years of work!

And Zhu Heji has now restored "half Beijing" plus four provinces among the two capitals and thirteen provinces... This "half Beijing" is of course not "half Nanjing", but half Nanzhili.

The two capitals in the "Two Capitals and Thirteen Provinces" of the Ming Dynasty refer to the North and South Zhili. The thirteen provinces are Shanxi, Shandong, Shaanxi, Henan, Sichuan, Huguang, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, and Fujian.

Jiangxi, Zhejiang and other thirteen provinces.

Shaanxi Province also included parts of Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other places in later generations. Huguang included Hunan and Hubei, and Shandong included part of Liaodong.

Now all of the Jiangnan part of Zhili, most of Anqing Prefecture and Luzhou Prefecture of the northern part of the Yangtze River, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian, Zhejiang, and a small part of Huguang among the thirteen provinces have all been restored. It can be said to be an achievement.

Remarkable!

Thinking of the miracles he had created in the past three to four years, Zhu Heji proudly puffed up his chest and strode forward amidst people's cheers.

The road from Xiaoling Acropolis to Xiaoling Baoding is almost ten miles away. Zhu Heji, who was in a good mood, walked as fast as flying. In less than an hour, he had completed the more than ten miles and stood alone at Xiaoling.

Next to the capstone wall behind the square city.

This is considered to be "face to face" with Zhu Yuanzhang... He has been to this place several times before traveling through time, and now he is also revisiting his old place.

However, the land is the old place, but the people are not old friends, but have become ancient people!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heji suddenly looked at the stone wall in front of him with burning eyes, and asked in a low voice: "Hey, Ming Taizu, I worked so hard to come from the 21st century, are you the trouble? You are not willing to allow the Ming Dynasty to perish.

So you just want me to come back and lead everyone to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty?"

Facing a series of questions from Zhu Heji, Zhu Yuanzhang did not reply a word and did not even show his face.

Seeing that Zhu Yuanzhang was silent, Zhu Heji could only sigh and said: "For the sake of Da Bo Ling, Shu Zhen, Jia Xin, Yu Bing, and Aoi, I won't argue with you anymore...

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To be honest, although Zhu Heji did well in his previous life and even learned foreign languages ​​​​from a Ukrainian girl, he still cannot compare with his current situation in this regard!

Zhu Heji paused, and then said to Zhu Yuanzhang who remained silent: "Now that the four provinces of Banjing have been restored... they are all good places! Although it is only one third of the world, it is the world.

The essence of it, as long as it is properly reorganized, it will be enough to use this one-third to level the two-thirds!"

He is really not bragging. The land in the four provinces of Banjing that he holds in his hands can be regarded as a world-class treasure.

If these four provinces in Beijing were cut out and calculated as GDP, they would definitely be number one in the world!

The land is not that small, it is relatively fertile, and there is a lot of rainfall, so the yield is very high.

The handicraft industry and cash crops are even more powerful. Before Zhu Heji took over, there were four important products for international trade: porcelain, silk, tea, and sugar.

And all of them have monopoly status!

In addition, due to the chaos at the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, the population in the four provinces of Beijing is now very small, with a total population of 20 to 30 million... This per capita GDP is probably one of the best in the world.

Perhaps only the Netherlands and England can compare.

Therefore, it is wrong for some people in later generations to question the prosperous age of the Kangxi Dynasty. The GDP ranked first in the world, and there were four high-end handicraft industries. Among them, porcelain and silk were the most high-end handicraft industries in the world!

Moreover, the population is small and the per capita is high...Why is this not a prosperous age?

It's just that this prosperous age was snatched away by the Qing Dynasty. It came too easily and by luck, and I didn't know how to cherish it at all.

After taking over, they tried every means to torment people. Not only did they not think of ways to upgrade the industry, they also kept imposing restrictions and sabotage, and they wanted to downgrade the industry... In the end, by the end of the Qing Dynasty, they finally got their wish.

Not to mention the loss of all four major advantageous industries, the country's customs sovereignty, financial sovereignty, and railway sovereignty have also been completely lost, and it also owes a huge foreign debt that can never be repaid...

The country has become one of the poorest countries in the world!

And this poverty lasted for more than a hundred years. Until the teenage years of Zhu Heji's previous life, China was still very poor. And the process of going from poverty to moderately well-off is really too difficult!

So when Zhu Heji found out that the territories he was now governing were probably the richest in the world, he was really filled with emotion!

This Qing Dynasty...it’s hard to describe in one word!

Thinking of this, Zhu Heji actually had a sacred sense of mission in his heart: "Taizu, you conquered Hezhou and became the master of it in the first year of Longfeng. In the first year of Hongwu, you expelled the Tartars and restored China.

It took thirteen years.

It has only been more than three years since I started the army, but I already have half the capital and four provinces. By the time I raise the army thirteen years, I will have restored the two capitals and thirteen provinces... But the restoration of the two capitals and ten provinces

Three provinces is by no means the end.
Chapter completed!