Attacking the Jin Kingdom and realizing the unification of the world, such a major event, how can there be less Wang people.

Now the situation in Nanjing is very stable, and there are no ministers in the cabinet who can obviously threaten Wang's status, so Wang does not need to be as careful as before.

In the battle to destroy gold, he must participate in it, and he will personally command it.

From the beginning of the crisis in Jinguo Guanzhong, Wang Yan planned to tour Luoyang north, not only he went alone, but even the cabinet and the governor of the five armies also followed him on the northern tour.

Nanjing City only left Wu Jinxi, a cabinet scholar, to sit in charge, and important recitals and affairs had to be sent to Luoyang for approval.

At the end of September, Wang Yan took a big boat, escorted by an army of 30,000, and led hundreds of civil and military officials north along the Grand Canal. For a time, the ships on the canal avoided it, and the armies on both sides of the strait followed, with flags like clouds and spears like forests, and the momentum was mighty.

Although Wang Yan did not deliberately build ships and tried to be frugal as much as possible, it was inevitable that he would lose money and labor along the way.

However, Wang Yan was quite conscious, refusing officials and local gifts along the way, and not allowing him to prepare for the trip, and paying for the expenses of the team, he did not cause much trouble.

At the beginning of October, when the fleet arrived in Huai'an, Wang Yan disembarked and traveled along the old canal waterway to Henan by land, but it didn't take long to reach Shangqiu in Guide Province when a snowstorm fell in the sky.

The heavy snow raged for three days and three nights before it stopped, and the whole northern country had become a world of ice and snow, with fields, trees, cities, and mountains covered with a thick layer of snow.

Wang Yan rested in Shangqiu for a few days, and the weather was a little better, so he rode forward in a huge mahogany carriage pulled by five white horses, and the brocade-clothed wrestlers behind him continued to march west under the escort of the army under the umbrella cover of Huangluo and various flags, and the procession stretched for twenty or thirty miles.

In this battle, since the unlucky Yingzong, the emperor of the Ming Dynasty has never been so beautiful. From Shangqiu to Kaifeng, it attracted the attention of hundreds of people along the way.

After more than two years of recovering the north, after the initial liquidation and enclosure, the people who lost their land were relocated, and the rest quickly settled down.

As long as the local stability is restored and the government is not too bastard, the economy and people's livelihood of the local government will quickly recover and develop.

The same is true of Zhongzhou Henan, there has been no war in the past two years, the place is peaceful, production is quickly restored, the grain price in Henan has dropped to one silver dollar per stone, two small copper dollars per catty of pork, three small copper dollars per catty of mutton, and five catties of fresh fish as long as one big copper yuan (one hundred Wen), the production recovery brings sufficient products, and the life of the people in Henan is gradually stable, as if they are in a prosperous era.

Of course, this is mainly due to the fact that after a large number of people are moved, the competition decreases, and the population of the north is far less dense than that of the south, resulting in a kind of short-lived prosperity, just as at the beginning of each dynasty, because a large number of people are lost at the end of the previous dynasty, and when a new dynasty is established, it will always usher in a prosperous era quickly.

The people don't care about this, and they don't know these deep reasons, they only know that the past two years have been better, so they don't know when, they began to be grateful to Wang Yan.

For the first time, the people of Zhongzhou saw the frame of the King of Chu Jianguo, although the cold wind was cold, but there were many people watching.

Just as the scholars regarded Wang Yangming as an idol a few decades ago, they now also regard Wang Yan as a role model.

If people want to get the respect and love of others, they must first start their hearts to be right, if their hearts are not right, they can still get the respect of people, even if there is a problem in the whole society.

Confucianism says that "speech, meritorious service, and virtue" are the three immortals, and Wang Yangming is a generation of idols, because he has basically achieved these three points. Wang Yan didn't have to say anything about his meritorious service, and he was reluctant to speak, but now it depends on whether he can keep it in terms of morality.

A few days later, Wang Yan arrived in Kaifeng, perhaps the officials knew Wang Yan's preferences, when the team entered the city, both sides of the street were full of people, Wang Yan looked out of the car window, densely packed with human figures, and in the distance you could see someone climbing on the trees, on the roof, and even more like the Western scenery, so that the guards were very nervous.

Kaifeng is the capital of the Northern Song Dynasty and is the focus of Wang Yan's investigation, but after reading it, he was disappointed and continued to travel west not long after. On the way, he paid homage to the Song Mausoleum, and instructed the household department to allocate a sum of silver for the restoration of the cemetery and send special personnel to take care of it.

At the beginning of November, Wang Yan, who had been away from Nanjing for nearly two months, finally came to Luoyang, the central capital. It should be said that the middle of the dynasty is Fengyang, but compared with Luoyang, that place is undoubtedly a little unworthy of the name.

In addition to historical reasons, Nanjing is located in the prosperous south of the Yangtze River and was the economic and cultural center of the Ming Dynasty.

If the economic center and the political center are put together, the collusion between officials and businessmen will only intensify, and the development of the entire Ming Dynasty will be seriously unbalanced.

However, although Wang Yan had this idea, he could not find an alternative to Nanjing.

After all, after the Ming Dynasty's influence expanded to Nanyang, the world in the traditional sense has changed. At this time, the world was bigger than before, and the center of the world also changed with the expansion of the territory.

Wang Yan could feel this, and with the expansion of the Ming Dynasty overseas, he could feel that the center of the whole world was moving towards the coast.

In the past, China was in a relatively closed environment, and the world was within the scope of the eighteen provinces of the Han Dynasty, but with the development of the times and the rise of maritime trade, after the expansion of the scope of the world, Nanjing was undoubtedly very suitable for building a capital.

However, with the war against the Jin State, it was difficult for Nanjing to take into account the disadvantages of the northwest and presented it again, which made Wang Yan very entangled, so he inspected Kaifeng along the way, and now Luoyang, preparing to choose another place to set up one more capital.

When Wang Yan arrived in Luoyang, Henan political envoy You Youlun and other officials of the three divisions went out of the city for 30 miles to greet him.

After meeting and greeting the officials in Henan, Wang Yan invited Li Guo and Jiang Xiang, who were presiding over the war, to meet him. The two of them had been ordered in advance and knew that Wang Yan was coming to Luoyang, so they arrived in Luoyang first.

Before the two arrived, Wang Yan was in the study watching a book that was sent to Nanjing by a fast horse from Guangzhou, and then from Nanjing to Luoyang.

It took two years for the Ming Dynasty fleet to depart from Ningbo, followed by Portuguese merchant ships, and finally circled the world and arrived in Macao.

At the time of departure, there were three ships and nearly 1,000 people, except for one that sank in the wind and waves, and the remaining two ships arrived in Macao safely.

Song Yingxing, who went to sea with the fleet, and some gentlemen, drew a large number of charts and maps along the way, describing the customs and customs of the Americas, Africa and Europa, and his Chinese materials amounted to more than 1 million words, more than 400 paintings, and as soon as he arrived in Macao, there were merchants from Guangzhou who expressed their willingness to sort out and publish and print.

This incident has set off a monstrous wave in Guangdong, and Jiangnan has also been greatly affected.

Wang Yan looked at the folding, let out a turbid breath, and said to himself, "The world is really a ball!" ”

At this time, the guards at the door reported, "Qi Yu Jian Guo, Governor Li and Governor Jiang have arrived!" ”

"Let them in!" Wang Yan put away the fold and straightened his body.

The furniture of the Ming Dynasty is very beautiful, but it is not comfortable to sit up, this is not because the ancients did not know how to enjoy, but the ancients had requirements for themselves, paid great attention to grooming, sat on the front and sat on the front, if you make a sofa to lie down and lean on, it is very rude.

Not long after, Li Guo and Jiang Xiang walked into the warm pavilion and saluted: "See the prison country." ”

"Sit down first." Wang Yan waved his hand, pointed to the seat, and after the two of them sat down, he asked, "What is the situation in Tongguan and northern Shaanxi?" ”

Li Guo replied: "Back to the prison country, the artillery bombardment of Tongguan for more than a month has yielded initial results, but the recent cold weather has had some impact on the shelling, and the Jin army took the opportunity to repair some of them. ”

"Have you started to assault?" Wang Yan asked.

No matter how powerful the cannon is, it can only destroy the city wall, and if you want to enter the pass, you have to attack hard.

"I tried to attack twice, but I didn't succeed, but I have figured out the means of defending the Jin Army."

Wang Yan nodded slowly, looked at Jiang Xiang, and asked, "Governor Jiang, how is the situation in northern Shaanxi?" ”

"Back to the prison country, the Jin country has gathered 50,000 troops, led by Meng Qiaofang, and is storming northern Shaanxi!" Jiang Xiang replied.

"How many people did Liu Shun send across the river, can they hold it?"

"Governor Liu sent 20,000 people across the river, and there should be no problem in defending the city!"

With 20,000 men and the army in northern Shaanxi anyway, it should be possible to hold out for a while. Wang Yan asked again: "Now that the snow is covering the mountains, can the materials in northern Shaanxi be guaranteed?" ”

The condition that restricted the Ming army from showing its strength in northern Shaanxi was the transportation problem.

"Rest assured, before the heavy snow closed the mountain, we have transported a large number of materials over Luliang Mountain, which is enough for northern Shaanxi to hold on until spring."

Hearing that the supplies had been transported through Luliang Mountain in advance, Wang Yan nodded, and said to Li Ai: "The shelling of Tongguan, Wuguan, and Luling Pass should be strengthened as much as possible, and enough pressure should be exerted on Guanzhong, so as not to let the Jin army transfer people and horses to northern Shaanxi again!" ”

Li Guoqian led the order, this is Lu Shikui suddenly came to the outside of the study, and reported: "Qi Jian Guo, Jinguo University scholar Han Chaoxuan has arrived in Luoyang!" ”

Han Chaoxuan? Wang Yan was slightly stunned, why did this old acquaintance come again? "What is he here for?"

Lu Shikui hugged his fists, "It is said that it is to save the prison country, and I hope to be able to negotiate peace!" ”

Wang Yan frowned, he was going to destroy the Jin Kingdom, cutting the grass and eradicating the roots without leaving hidden dangers, and it was difficult for him to be tempted by any conditions offered by the Jin Kingdom, "The conditions that the Jin Kingdom wants, the Jin Kingdom can't give them, what is there to talk about." ”

"The minister told him to go back?"

Wang Yan nodded, then waved his hand again: "Forget it, let Chen Gebu meet him and listen to what he has to say......"

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