Rebirth: Overthrow Song Dynasty

When they came to the city wall, their clothes were already drenched by the rain, and everyone was like a drowned chicken, but at this moment, no one wiped the rainwater on their bodies at all. They only saw countless Japanese warriors coming from the city wall in front of them. After escaping, Song Jun had already appeared on the city wall!

"Not good!" Fujiwara Izumi was taken aback. He never thought that in just a moment, the city wall that was so strong in his heart had already been climbed up by Song Jun Pan!

"Bastards, why did you back down?" Oda Guangqing grabbed a samurai by the collar and said angrily.

"My lord, the Song Army's bows and arrows are too powerful. We can only die if we stay on it," said the samurai.

"If you retreat, the Song army will rush up, and then they will occupy the entire capital, and we will only die!" Oda Guangqing said.

"Mr. Oda, what should we do now? There are more and more Song troops on the city wall!" Fujiwara Izumi said with a pale face.

"Open the city gate and rush out!" Oda Mitsuyoshi said.

"Rush out?" Fujiwara Izumi said in disbelief.

"That's right! Go out! The number of the Song army is too large, we can't take back the city wall! Now open the city gate, after we rush out, kill the general of the Song army, and the Song army will retreat! Now this is the only resistance Way!" Oda Mitsuyoshi said.

"This..." Fujiwara Izumi was stunned.

"The Song army on the city wall has rushed down. They have already entered the capital. It is impossible to stop them now. Let us rush out by surprise and kill their general! Everyone gather, follow me, and rush out!" Oda Mitsuyoshi He yelled at the warrior behind him.

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

At this moment, more and more people from the Song army have boarded the city wall, but there are still more than 30,000 Song troops outside!

Seeing Dongying warriors rushing, the more than 30,000 Song troops immediately launched an attack.

Arrow rain fell from the sky again!

The Dongying people's team was abnormally chaotic. The Dongying warriors paid attention to personal force and had no experience in such a large-scale formation.

The Song crossbow was extremely powerful, and its shooting range far exceeded that of ordinary bows and arrows. For a moment, only the screams were heard in front of it. I don't know how many Dongpu warriors fell in a pool of blood.

"The bows and crossbows of the Song army are so powerful!" Oda Guangqing was shocked when he saw an arrow piercing the chests of two warriors one after another.

It's just that he couldn't retreat at this moment, he continued to rush forward with the warriors!

The formation of the 30,000 Song Army was changing rapidly, and the Song Army on the two wings 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 through the sky.

When Oda Guangqing rushed to Song Jun, there were less than 500 warriors left beside him!

The five hundred warriors roared and rushed forward, and the Song army rushed towards them without fear!

Dongying warriors fought on their own. The samurai swords in their hands were extremely sharp, while the Song army cooperated with each other. They used pure military killing skills. Countless spears stabbed forward together in an instant. The spear stopped, and countless spears stabbed forward together in the row behind!

In less than a quarter of an hour, all the Dongying warriors fell in a pool of blood, including Oda Guangqing, who fell there like any ordinary Dongying warrior at this moment, his whole body was stiff!

At this moment, the city gate to the west was completely opened, and the Song army rushed into the city of Kyoto roaring!

On the east side, Wang Gui has already led an army into the city! To the south, Wu Lin's army has also entered the city!

Dongying in this era is simply vulnerable to the powerful army of the Central Plains! The Song army launched an attack in the morning, and in less than an hour, it broke through the capital city, which is known as the largest, most prosperous, and strongest in Japan!

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

More than 100,000 soldiers and horses of the Song Army continued to move forward in units of battalions!

The size of the capital also surprised them. It is not inferior to the city of Yanjing, but most of the capital is poor people's cellars, which is completely different from Yanjing.

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

The leading young man is Emperor Toba of Dongying, and next to him is a young woman, Empress Fujiwara Atsuko of Dongying, the biological daughter of Izumi Fujiwara! On the other side of him is an old man wearing a dragon robe, this person is the "Emperor" of Dongpu, known as the Emperor Baihe in history! The situation in Dongying is somewhat similar to that in Dali. The emperor had no real power. From the ninth century to the twelfth century, most of the emperors abdicated early and were called the emperor.

Behind them are the rest of the Japanese nobles and ministers.

"Get up!" Looking at the people in front of him, Wu Jie nodded and said calmly.

He spoke Chinese, but the Emperor Dongying, the Emperor, nobles, and ministers in front of him could all understand him! Just like Goryeo, the Japanese nobles generally learned Chinese from an early age, and Chinese was the official language of ancient Japan! Historically, it was not until the early Ming Dynasty that the Japanese shogunate adopted Japanese as its official language.

These Dongying monarchs and ministers stood up, but all of them had apprehensive expressions on their faces. They didn't know how Song Jun would treat them.

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

"Oh, how is he doing now?" Wang Gui asked in surprise.

"He's all right, this kid, he hasn't come back until now, damn it! He's still exploring the sea! Hey!" Wu Jie said.

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

"Forget it, let's not talk about this kid, General Wang, there are fifteen most powerful lords in Japan besides the emperor, and five of them are in the north of Kyoto. You lead 50,000 troops to the north to eliminate these five lords." Lord, I will lead the troops to eliminate the ten lords in the south!" Wu Jie said.

"Okay!" Wang Gui nodded.

"If anyone dares to resist our army, kill them without mercy! We have just entered Dongpu, which is a chaotic country, and we are about to use the sword in our hands to make them surrender! Before sending troops, the military department has collected information in Dongpu for many years. The Dongpu people The most important thing is to obey the power! The only way to deal with this country and this nation is to be tough, to subdue them thoroughly, and then they will give up on us! After defeating Dongpu, military control may be implemented for a long time, and then the Government Affairs Council will detain us. It will truly become a province of our Great Song Dynasty!" Wu Jie said.

"Understood." Wang Gui nodded.

Wu Jie entered the Dongying Imperial Palace. Although the palace is small in size, it is very strangely built and full of the flavor of Dongying.

Looking at the scene here, he was thinking about the way the Government Administration Council would govern Japan! In fact, in this era, the national power of the Song Dynasty far exceeds that of Dongying, and the civilization of the Song Dynasty has surpassed that of Dongying for nearly a thousand years. Many people in the upper class of Dongying have a close heart for Song, and many nobles of Dongying even desire to join the Great Song and become a member of the Great Song. There are also some Japanese nobles who wish to let Da Song directly manage Dongying, and these Japanese nobles can use them.

"East Ocean is far overseas. If you want to govern East Ocean, you must pay attention to shipping! In the future, shipping will become more and more important!" Wu Jie secretly said.

In the early morning of the second day, the Emperor Dongying, the Emperor and the rest of the royal family were escorted by more than 2,000 Song soldiers to Ruoxia Bay. They will be sent to Yanjing City soon!

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

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Throughout the eleventh year of Xuanwu, the Great Song Dynasty carried out two wars of destroying the country in Annan and Dongying in the north and south.

The Song army was strong, and the battle of destroying the country seemed very easy, but after that, a huge price was spent to stabilize the situation of the two countries, and the resources used by the Government Affairs Council were beyond imagination.

In winter, the Mongols once again invaded the south, and the Song army still focused on defense! The troops of Li Xianzhong and Liu Kai who were stationed in Shangjing and Zhongjing have repeatedly called for battle, and the troops of Han Shizhong in Xixia have also called for battle. With great power, it is really powerless to go north in a short period of time.

Hundreds of thousands of troops in the north had no choice but to continue their training after receiving the reply from the Government Administration Council and the Military Department. Many generals vented their resentment on the soldiers and drilled them ruthlessly.

The New Year's Eve of the 11th year of Xuanwu has come, and there are loud celebrations outside again. Zhao Chen is with many ministers of the Government Affairs Council, summing up the gains and losses of this year.

"Your Majesty, last year, the area of ​​arable land in the world increased from 800 million mu to one billion mu! The grain output per mu has also increased from the previous two shi to the current close to 2.5 shi." Minister of Agriculture Hu Quan stood up ,road.

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

Two stones are 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 and the production of a large number of farming tools, the yield per mu of land has increased greatly, and now it has reached 250 catties. Of course, compared with later generations, the yield per mu of land still has a lot of room for growth.

"This year, the grain stocks in various places are close to 100 million shi, which is enough for the world to use for a year!" Hu Quan said again.

"So many!" The guards next to them all showed incredible expressions on their faces.

"Next year, the Ministry of Agriculture plans to promote Li Yi's two-crop farming technique in the entire Jiangnan area. If this farming technique is widely promoted, the world's grain production will inevitably double again. By then, there will be no more famine in the world! In addition, there are other new agricultural technologies that we are planning to promote one after another. After all these are promoted, the yield per mu of land will greatly increase 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 too! After the food problem is solved, a large number of farmers can come out of the land and invest in handicrafts or commerce. At that time, Chinese civilization will make great strides forward!

"Your Majesty, in the past year, the number of various workshops in the world has increased by more than 100,000. Yanjing, Tianjin Wei, Suzhou and Hangzhou, Sichuan and Shu, and Quanzhou have extremely prosperous trade. There are a lot of tea, porcelain, dyes, silk, etc. Waiting to be shipped to various places, especially in Tianjin Wei and Quanzhou, there are many kinds of goods shipped overseas! Last year our commercial tax was only 30 million guan, and this year it reached 50 million guan!" Minister of Commerce Qin Hui stood up and said.

"Your Majesty, the business tax has been increasing year after year, and the Government Council intends to abolish the salt tax. What do you think?" Wang Shu said.

"Okay! The Government Affairs Council has a charter. After I read it, I will issue an order to implement it." Zhao Chen said.

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

Now that the salt tax is exempted, the court will of course have to collect a lot of income, but the price of salt for the common people will drop dozens of times in an instant, and the common people will get tangible benefits.

If this matter gets out, I'm afraid it will shake the world again, because this is really a benefit for the common people.

"Your Majesty, all 1,500 prefectures and counties across the country have established at least one public school. This year, among the 136 larger prefectures and counties, we have ensured the existence of two public schools! This year the imperial court will issue teaching materials. One hundred and fifty-three thousand six hundred and seventy-one volumes have been distributed to public and private schools all over the country! The imperial government’s agricultural and commercial taxes continue to increase, and we 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 the country can afford such expenses." Yu Yunwen, Minister of Education, said.

There are more voices of people celebrating outside, but in the Government Affairs Council, many ministers are still reporting the achievements of this year.

Listening to these numbers, Zhao Chen really felt that an unprecedented powerful country appeared in this era! This country has clear politics, prosperous economy, stable people's livelihood, strong national cohesion, advanced education and technology, strong military, prosperous trade, and its population accounts for one-fifth of the world's population. System, now this country is developing rapidly at a speed that Zhao Chen himself could not have expected!

It's just that the country I created with my own hands is still only active in East Asia, and it still hasn't left the traditional area of ​​China.