With the end of Chongzhen's four-year spring, the unique bustle and noise created by the spring in Jingshi City gradually dissipated.

However, at the end of April of the fourth year of Chongzhen, the weather in Beijing was sunny and the spring was bright, and the prosperous scene in Beijing was also better than a day, and it did not fall silent because of the departure of a large number of fallen children.

In this season of catkins, the weather in Gyeonggi has completely warmed, and the Gyeonggi section of the Grand Canal, which connects Tianjin, Shandong and Beijing, has been reopened to navigation after another dredging at the beginning of the thaw.

A large number of commercial goods that set out from the Jiangnan region of the Ming Dynasty and went north were continuously transported to Tongzhou along the Grand Canal, which had an increasing navigation capacity.

These grains, cloths, silks, and porcelain from Jiangnan were disembarked from Tongju and either entered the warehouses of the imperial court or dispersed throughout Gyeonggi.

Among them, there are also a considerable number of commercial goods, and they will continue to go west to Juyongguan to Xuanda, Guihua and other southern areas, to the north to Gubeikou, to the east to Shanhaiguan, and export to Rehe and Ningyuan and other places.

Once transported to those places by the merchants, no matter how ordinary the Jiangnan merchant goods are, they will suddenly become more valuable.

At the same time, a convoy of horses, camels, and mules from the northwest also carried a large amount of products from the northwest and Saibei into the major markets inside and outside Beijing.

After that, they either directly entered the homes of the people in Jingshi City, or they were purchased by merchants from the south, and then hired a ship to go south and transported them to the Nanzhili area for sale.

In just the last two or three years, several large markets have sprung up outside the city of Beijing.

The East Market outside the Chaoyang Gate of Jingshi already had the appearance of a large market before Chongzhen opened the sea, and now it is even more than ever, gathering all kinds of bulk goods from the eastern part of Gyeonggi, Jiangnan and overseas.

And the most eye-catching is the newly opened mule and horse market outside the Xizhi Gate of Jingshi.

Although it is a mule and horse market, there are not many mules, but many camels of all kinds and all kinds of horses.

The largest number is, of course, the Mongolian horses from the northern Karaqin, Duolun, Kulun and other places, as well as from various parts of the river.

Since the beginning of the third year of Chongzhen, the horses of these Outer Mongolian tribes began to be sold into Beijing in large quantities, and from the newly opened mule and horse market in Beijing, they have entered Hebei, Shandong, and Jianghuai one after another.

The shortage of horses in the interior of the Ming Dynasty, especially the serious shortage of horses in the Jiangnan region, has also been alleviated to a certain extent.

In the past, the situation that horses in the Jiangnan area were worth 100 taels of silver and had no price in the market is now gone.

Although the Mongolian horses from the Mongolian tribes of Saibei are not tall and not as tall as the Hexi horses, they are strong in their limbs and adaptability, which is suitable for long-distance treks in cultivated fields.

The four-wheeled carriage and carriage dealership business of Tian Guozhang's family has also become more and more prosperous because of the increasing availability of horses and the sharp drop in horse prices.

Nanzhili is a big family, or even a pilgrimage to any big family, going out to meet guests or talk business, if there is no two-horse chariot, or three-horse or even four-horse carriage, it is not a real big family.

As for the families of the powerful and wealthy in the Daming Jingshi, riding a four-wheeled carriage with several horses to go out to run errands or have a banquet has become a daily routine unconsciously.

Now this Emperor Chongzhen has never liked the civil and military officials in the court to travel in a sedan chair.

Although there has never been an explicit prohibition for civil and military officials and relatives of the emperor to travel in a sedan chair, the emperor himself must take a four-wheeled carriage when leaving the palace, even in the palace, and never sit on a shoulder or sedan chair.

Wherever they were closer, they walked directly with their entourage guards.

A little farther away, you can ride a horse yourself.

At the same time, the current cabinet ministers and the six ministers, as well as the ministers of military aircraft and the left governors of the five military governors, all have royal chariots and horses and pass tokens that match their status.

Even if they were on duty in the palace or on the Hajj, these important ministers relied on by the emperor also had the privilege of riding horses in the Forbidden City.

In the past, the sedan chair that officials had to take when going out has now become the decoration of most court ministers' homes.

Because no matter how fast the sedan chair drivers at home go, they can't run as fast as a four-legged horse.

Moreover, no matter how luxuriously the sedan chair is decorated, it is just a dojo in a snail shell, and in any case, it is not as good as a delicate and luxurious four-wheeled carriage to show status and style.

At the same time, the continuous improvement of the four-wheeled carriage and the reconstruction of the cement road of the main road promoted by Yin Wang Yuanya of Shuncheon Prefecture in Jingshi City have also greatly improved the comfort and traffic speed of the four-wheeled carriage.

So much so that the sedan chair bearer is facing elimination in the city, and the skilled coachmen have become the most sought-after goods inside and outside the city.

Nowadays, only those ministers of the imperial court and relatives of the emperor who are really not good at doing it will use it when they are on short trips, or they will be used in the Forbidden City by special permission of the emperor.

Although only four or five years have passed, the inside and outside of the capital division of the Ming Dynasty have changed greatly compared with the period of the Apocalypse.

Although many traces of the war have not disappeared in the past two years, the panic memories of that war have long since dissipated.

For the people inside and outside the capital, it was as if the war had never happened.

As far northwest as possible, the war between the officials, the thieves, and the Musubarians had been going on for a long time, but to the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven, it seemed to have nothing to do with them.

Because of what Longxi Hehuang, what Ganzhou Suzhou, it is too far away from them.

Even Liaodong, which is only separated from the people of Gyeonggi by a mountain pass, does not seem to be as shocked as it was during the Apocalypse.

In the eyes of the people of Beijing, the wars and threats from outside Shanhaiguan seem to only exist in the memories of many years ago.

The people of Gyeonggi can live and work in peace and contentment, without having to endure the torture of continuous wars and the ravages of foreign iron hooves, which was once a situation that Emperor Chongzhen dreamed of.

It's just that when this situation came prematurely, especially when the construction was not destroyed and the northwest was not peaceful, he didn't know whether he should be happy or worried.

But no matter what, at the end of the fourth year of Chongzhen's reign, the spring was full of flowers, and the people at the feet of the Son of Heaven were not worried about the war in the distance, and everywhere was a scene of living and working in peace and enjoying a peaceful life.

Under such circumstances, Luo Rucai, one of the former anti-thief leaders, was ordered to enter Beijing and serve as the commander of the Jinyi Guard, which did not cause any waves in the court.

Most of the court officials did not know about the incident, and the small number of officials who heard the news were at best only slandering the emperor's woman's kindness in their stomachs, and no one regarded the occurrence of this incident as important.

Only the current Emperor Chongzhen himself is secretly happy in his heart.

Because of the defection of the thieves Cao Cao in northern Shaanxi, the entry of Luo Rucai and Ji Qi, the leaders of Cao Ying, into Beijing means that the strategy of blocking the thieves and making them move westward promoted by Emperor Chongzhen himself has taken the first step towards complete success.

Next, the official army of the Ming Dynasty could be attacked and defended in the northwest, and was in an unprecedented strategic advantageous position.

As long as ammunition, grain, and grass can be supplied, and as long as Li Banghua, Yuan Chonghuan, Hong Chengchou, Wang Tingchen, and others do not make any major mistakes, the living space of the thieves in the northwest region will only be reduced to a smaller and smaller size.

In the end, they will either be wiped out on the spot or will have to continue to flee westward.

However, no matter what, from now on, Emperor Chongzhen no longer had to worry about the thieves from the northwest suddenly entering the heart of the Central Plains or the Huguang region.

Originally, in history, the nightmare brought to the Ming Dynasty by the northwest thieves and to Emperor Chongzhen should never happen again.

Because right now, whether it is King Gao Yingxiang or Li Zicheng later, or Zhang Xianzhong, the arrogant King of Daxi after seizing Xining, as thieves, they have lost that opportunity in history.

Now they have fled into the remote northwest, and then think like in history, under the repeated defeats, as soon as they enter Henan and Huguang, they will be like a dragon returning to the sea in an instant, if there is divine help, once again hundreds of thousands of people are flourishing, and finally attack the capital and destroy the Ming Dynasty, it should be absolutely impossible.