Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty - Chapter 622

When they came to the city wall, their clothes would have been wet from the rain. Everyone was like a chicken. But at this moment, no one was cleaning the rain on their bodies. They only saw countless Eastern warriors from the city wall. Fleeing, Song Jun has already appeared on the wall!

“Not good!” Fujiwara Izumi was taken aback. He never thought that in just a moment, the extremely strong city wall in his heart would have been mounted by Song Junpan!

“Asshole, why did you retreat?” Oda Mitsuyori grabbed a samurai by the collar and said angrily.

“My lord, Song Jun’s bows and arrows are too powerful. We only have a dead end here.” This Bushido.

“If you retreat, the Song Army will rush forward. Then they will occupy the entire Kyoto. We only have a dead end!” Oda Guangkei said.

“Oda-kun, what do you do now? There are more and more Song troops on the wall!” Fujiwara Izumi said with a pale face.

“Open the gate and rush out!” Oda Mitsukei said.

“Rush out?” Fujiwara Izumi said in disbelief.

“Yes! Go out! The number of the Song army is too much, we can’t retake the city wall at all! Now open the city gate, after we rush out, the Song army will be killed before the Song army will retreat! Now this is the only resistance. That’s it!” Oda Mitsukei said.

“This…” Fujiwara Izumi was stunned.

“The Song army on the wall has rushed down, they have entered Kyoto, and it is impossible to stop them now. We rushed out by surprise and killed their chief general! Everyone gathered, followed me, and rushed out!” Oda Mitsuyuki Yelled at the samurai behind him.

Finally, the gate of the city opened, and Oda Mitsuyue rushed out of it with thousands of people!

At this moment, Song Jun has more and more people on the wall, but there are still more than 30,000 Song Jun outside!

Seeing the Dongying warrior rushing forward, these thirty thousand Song troops immediately launched an attack.

Arrow rain fell from the sky again!

The team of Dongying people is extremely chaotic, and the Dongying warriors pay attention to personal strength, and they have no experience in such a large-scale formation of troops.

Song Nu is extremely powerful and has a range far beyond that of ordinary bows and arrows. For a moment, he only heard the screams in front of him. I don’t know how many Dongying warriors fell in a pool of blood.

“Song Jun’s crossbow is so powerful!” When an arrow penetrated the chests of two samurai one after another, Mitsuyuki Oda was taken aback.

It’s just that he can’t retreat at this moment, he continues to rush forward with the samurai!

The formation of the thirty thousand Song army was rapidly changing, and the two-winged Song army had already pressed up. The Song army completely surrounded the thousands of warriors in Dongying from the front, and the roar of bows and crossbows resounded across the sky.

When Oda Mitsuyuki rushed to Song Jun, there were only less than 500 samurai left beside him!

The five hundred warriors roared and rushed forward, and Song Jun rushed toward them without fear!

The Eastern warriors fought individually. The katana in their hands was unusually sharp, while the Song army cooperated with each other. They used pure military killing techniques. Numerous spears pierced forward together in an instant. His spears stopped, and there were countless spears in the back row stabbing forward together!

In less than a quarter of an hour, all the Toyo warriors fell in a pool of blood, including Oda Mitsuyuki who fell there like any ordinary Toyo warrior at this moment, stiff!

At this moment, the gate to the west was completely opened, and the Song Army rushed into the city of Kyoto with howling!

In the east, Wang Gui had already led an army into the city at this moment! To the south, Wu Lin’s army has also entered the city!

Dongying of this era is simply vulnerable to a strong army in the Central Plains! The Song army launched an offensive in the morning, and in less than an hour they broke through the largest, most prosperous and strongest Kyoto city in East Asia!

The heavy rain is still going on, and the chaos in Dongying City is even more chaotic. The screams of Dongying women and children can be heard constantly in the city. Most Dongying civilians are rushing to find a safe place to hide at this moment!

The more than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Song Army continued to advance in units of battalions!

The size of Kyoto also surprised them. It is no worse than Yanjing City, but most of Kyoto is poor people’s cellars, which is completely different from Yanjing.

Wu Yan and Wang Gui each led 10,000 elite soldiers towards the Dongying Palace. When they surrounded the Dongying Palace, hundreds of Dongying people walked out of the palace and they knelt down in the rain!

The leading young man is Emperor Toba of Toba, and next to him is a young woman who is Empress Fujiwara Tsukoko of Toyo, the biological daughter of Izumi Fujiwara! On the other side of him is an old man wearing a dragon robe, this person is the “French Emperor” of Dongying, known as the White River Emperor in history! The situation in Dongying is somewhat similar to that of Dali. The emperor has no real power. From the 9th century to the 12th century, most of the emperors abdicated early and were called the French emperor.

Behind them are the rest of the Eastern aristocracy and ministers.

“Get up all!” Looking at these people in front of him, Wu Jie nodded and said lightly.

He speaks Chinese, but the emperor of Japan, the French emperor, nobles, and ministers can understand him! Like Goryeo, Dongying nobles generally learned Chinese from an early age, and Chinese was the official script of ancient Japan! Historically, it was not until the early years of the Ming Dynasty that the Dongying Shogunate adopted Japanese as its official language.

These Dongying emperors stood up, but everyone had a worried expression on their faces. They didn’t know how Song Jun would treat them.

“Come here, take good care of them, and send them to Yanjing tomorrow! General Wang, I got news from Wu Gong before I came here!” Wu Jie said.

“Oh, how is he now?” Wang Gui said in surprise.

“Everything is okay for him, this kid, it’s **** it that he hasn’t come back now! He’s still exploring at sea! Hey!” Wu Jie said.

“Exploring the territory of the North Sea is also the responsibility of our navy, and he can also be regarded as carrying out military orders.” Wang Gui smiled.

“Forget it, let’s not talk about this kid, General Wang, apart from the emperor, there are 15 lords with the greatest power in Dongying. Five of them are north of Kyoto. You lead 50,000 soldiers and horses to clear these five. Lord, I will lead my troops to clear the ten lords in the south!” Wu Jie said.

“Good!” Wang Gui nodded.

“If anyone dared to resist our army, kill them without mercy! We have just entered Dongying. This is a chaotic country. We are about to make them surrender with the sword in our hand! Before the launch of troops, the military department has collected intelligence in Dongying for many years, Dongying people The most important thing is to obey the power! The only way for this country and this nation is to be tough, to convince them thoroughly, and then they will be devastated to us! After the defeat of Dongying, it may take a long time to implement military control, and then the Council of Government will take this place. It has truly become a province of my Da Song!” Wu Jie said.

“Understand.” Wang Gui nodded.

Wu Jie entered the Dongying Palace. Although this palace is not large in size, it was built very peculiarly and full of Dongying flavor.

Looking at the scene here, he was thinking about the government administration’s way to govern Dongying! In fact, in this era, the power of the Song Dynasty far exceeds that of Dongying, and the civilization of Song Dynasty has surpassed that of Dongying for nearly a thousand years. Many people in the upper class of Dongying are close to the Song. There were also some Eastern Ying nobles who wished that Song Dynasty could directly manage Eastern Ying, and these Eastern Ying nobles could use it.

“Dongying is far abroad. If we want to manage Dongying, we must pay attention to shipping! This shipping will become more and more important in the future!” Wu Jie said secretly.

In the morning of the second day, Emperor Dongying, Emperor Fa and other members of the royal family were escorted by more than two thousand Song troops to Ruoxia Bay. They will be sent to Yanjing City soon!

Although the Emperor Dongying did not have much power, he was an important symbol of the existence of the country of Dongying! In the chaotic Dongying, the reason why many people regard this as a complete country is precisely because there is an emperor who has existed since ancient times! Now this country has lost the emperor, and countless nobles and warriors no longer have spiritual support. This is also of great benefit to the Song Dynasty’s rule of Dongying.

Throughout the 11th year of Xuanwu, the Song Dynasty fought two wars to destroy the country in the south and north directions, namely Annan and Dongying.

The Song army was strong, and the battle to destroy the country seemed very easy, but afterwards, it cost a huge price to stabilize the two countries, and the resources used by the Council of State were beyond imagination.

In winter, the Mongols once again invaded south, and the Song army still focused on defense! Li Xianzhong and Liu Qi who were stationed in Shangjing and Zhongjing repeatedly asked for battles, and the Han Shizhong of Xixia also kept asking for battles. Even Yue Yun, Liang Hao, and others of Liaodong Yuefei’s subordinates also secretly petitioned for war, but the imperial court had already consumed too much in order to stabilize Annan and Dongying. With great power, it is really powerless to go north in a short time.

After the hundreds of thousands of troops in the north received the reply from the Government Administration and the Military Department, they had no choice but to continue their training. Many generals vented their grievances on the soldiers and practiced them fiercely.

New Year’s Eve of the 11th year of Xuanwu has arrived, and there is a tumultuous celebration outside. Zhao Chen is with many ministers of the Council of State Administration to sum up the gains and losses of the year.

“Your Majesty, last year, the area of ​​arable land in the world increased from 800 million mu to 1 billion mu! The grain output per mu has also increased from two shi in the past to nearly 2.5 shi now.” Hu Quan, Minister of Agriculture, stood up. , Tao.

In the later modern society, China’s arable land area reached 1.8 billion mu, but that was the area of ​​arable land when the population reached 1.4 billion. Now the population of the country is only about 80 million, and the arable land area has reached more than half of the later generations. There is enough arable land like this! It’s just that the current per mu of grain yield is much lower than that of later generations!

Two stones is about two hundred catties, which is the average level of grain in the Song Dynasty! However, in just a few years, due to the overhaul of water conservancy projects and the production of a large number of farming tools, the yield per mu of land has greatly increased, and it has now reached 250 kilograms. Of course, compared to later generations, there is still a lot of room for growth in land yield per mu.

“This year, the grain stocks in various places are close to 100 million shi, which is enough for the whole world in one year!” Hu Quan said again.

“So much!” The faces of the guards beside them all showed incredible expressions.

“Next year, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to promote Li Yi’s double-cropping farming techniques throughout the Jiangnan area. If such farming techniques are widely promoted, the world’s grain output will inevitably double again. At that time, there will be no more famine in the world! In addition, there are some other new agricultural technologies that we are planning to promote one after another. After all these are promoted, the land yield per mu will increase greatly in both the north and the south!” Hu Quan said with a hint of excitement on his face.

“Very good!” Zhao Chen nodded.

There was a smile on his face! After the problem of eating is resolved, a large number of farmers can step out of the land and invest in handicrafts or commerce. At that time, the Chinese civilization will move forward again!

“Your Majesty, in the past year, the number of workshops in the world has increased by more than 100,000, including Yanjing, Tianjin Weiyi, Suzhou-Hangzhou, Sichuan-Shu, Quanzhou, the trade is unusually prosperous, a large number of tea, porcelain, dyes, silk, etc. When it is shipped to various places, especially in Tianjin, Wei and Quanzhou, many kinds of goods are shipped overseas! Last year, our commercial tax was only 30 million yuan, and this year it has reached 50 million yuan!” Qin Hui, the minister of commerce, stood up and said.

“Your Majesty, the commercial tax has almost been increasing year after year. The State Council intends to abolish the salt tax. What do you think?” Wang Shu said.

“Yes! The Government Council has a charter, and after I read it, I will decreed to implement it.” Zhao Chen said.

In ancient China, salt tax was the most important income in all dynasties! In the Song Dynasty, the income from salt tax accounted for one-fifth of the national treasury, and even reached one-fourth at most! For a catty of salt, the salt tax is dozens of times more than the cost of salt production. This is a naked looting of property from the people! Because the salt tax is extremely high, there are many people who sell illegal salt. Many famous Chinese figures such as Wu Sheng Guan Yu were selling illegal salt. In the Song Dynasty, selling illegal salt over 20 catties was the crime of beheading! In ancient China, there are many people who cannot eat salt in poor houses!

Now that the salt tax is exempted, the imperial court will certainly receive a lot less income, but the price of salt for the people will be reduced by several tens of times, and the people will get tangible benefits.

If this matter spreads out, I’m afraid it will shake the world again, because it really benefits the welfare of the people.

“Your Majesty, at least one public school has been established in 1,500 states and counties across the country. This year, among the 136 larger states and counties, we have ensured that there are two public schools! This year the imperial court will issue teaching materials. Fifteen thousand six hundred and seventy-one volumes have been distributed to public and private schools in various places! The imperial farm tax and commercial tax are increasing, and we also have enough money to do this! Next year, the school plans to let The number of public schools has doubled, and several ministers of the Ministry of Finance have calculated that they believe that the country can afford such expenses.” Minister of the Ministry of Education Yu Yunwen said.

The people outside celebrated more, and in the Council of State, many ministers were still reporting on their achievements this year.

Listening to these numbers, Zhao Chen really felt that an unprecedented power appeared in this era! This country has clear politics, prosperous economy, stable people’s livelihood, strong national cohesion, advanced education and technology, strong military, and prosperous trade. Its population accounts for one-fifth of the world’s population. What’s more important is that this country possesses all kinds of advanced technologies that only appeared in later generations System, now this country is developing rapidly at a speed that Zhao Chen himself could not predict!

It’s just that the country I created by myself is still only active in East Asia, and it still hasn’t left the traditional region of China.