There are two days left, the already crazy Luo Luo is calling for monthly tickets!

After hearing Hao Jing's words, Zhen Jin was immediately frightened and sweated in a cold sweat, saying tremblingly: "If the Demon Sect had joined Chen Dexing, wouldn't he have a population of 100,000 immediately? Can this Lin'an Imperial City still be defended?"

Hao Jing looked at Zhen Jin with a fixed glance and smiled reluctantly: "...Your Highness, don't worry, the Demon Sect is a mob after all. Even if he joined Chen Dexing, it would be difficult to form an army without a few months of training. Even if he drove the ant to attack the city, it would be useless... I don't know how much of this kind of thing our Great Mongolia has done. It is impossible to attack a strong city like Lin'an Imperial City."

"Yes, it's not OK to rely on people to pile up." Zhen Jin breathed out. He was both civil and military. Confucian scholars from the northern region taught him the Confucian principles, and the warriors in Mongolia who were the best at fighting were taught how to conquer cities. Naturally, he knew how strong Lin'an's city was.

It is impossible to attack such a city without specially made equipment and several times the strength of the defenders. It is impossible to succeed in just a few months!

Hao Jing smiled coldly: "Actually, the situation is not bad now... Although Your Highness has not been able to marry the Princess Shengguo of the Southern Barbarians, he has forced Chen Dexing to rebel after all. It seems that the Southern Barbarians' official family cannot take away the disaster of Chen De7xing for a while. Some of the Southern Barbarians are in chaos! Maybe it's the same as the Hou Jing Rebellion during the Southern and Northern Dynasties... After this chaos, the Southern Barbarians are no longer able to confront our Great Mongols, and the world will inevitably be unified! Moreover, the Southern Barbarians' rebellion started because of Your Highness. Your Highness is the number one hero in the Great Mongols' unification of the world, and will be the heir of the Khan in the future!"

Zhen Jin was shocked and said, "If this is true, I will open a sect and recruit scholars in the north and govern the Central Plains with scholars and officials!"

Hao Jing shook his head: "It's not the northern part, but the whole world... As long as the Great Mongolia can practice the Han law and hold imperial examinations, the scholars in the world will return to their hearts. If the scholars return to their hearts, what's the point of Chen Dexing and others?"

Zhen Jin couldn't figure it out: "Why is Chen Dexing inferior to the literati with strong soldiers?"

Hao Jing snorted: "The Southern Dynasty is ultimately the world of scholars and officials. Although Chen Dexing was brave and resourceful, he was still an ordinary man after all, relying on only 20,000 to 30,000 elite troops. His current behavior is already a thorn in the eyes of scholars and officials in the Southern Dynasty. Therefore, with his army, it is easy to win invincible, and to truly control Jiangnan is just a dream..." As he spoke, he suddenly sneered a few times, "I want to see, how Chen Dexing was defeated in the end!"

Zhen Jin was stunned when he heard this and said, "Is this kind of thing really possible?"

Hao Jing focused on the key points. Although he was a Northern Scholar, he had a clear understanding of the situation in the Southern Dynasties. The Southern Dynasties shared the world with the literati and officials. The literati and officials were the foundation of a country. Since the Han Dynasty, China has implemented a system of governments not going to the countryside - the country is too large, the population is too large, and the matter is too complicated. How many emperors and court officials can manage? If the government only goes to the county, the emperor and the prime minister can only focus on tens of thousands of officials. If they go to the township... the number of officials will immediately increase dozens of times! How can they pay salaries? How can these township officials not do anything wrong?

This is an unsolvable problem. Therefore, all dynasties have adopted the method of combining lower-level autonomy and upper-level centralization. The upper-level centralization is the county system, and county officials are appointed by the court. They are ministers of the emperor and herdsmen on behalf of the heavens. However, several officials cannot directly govern countless people - for example, the officials in the Song Dynasty only had 40,000 to 50,000. Excluding military generals who did not have the responsibility of herders, it was impossible for civil officials to be more than 20,000, and it was impossible to use more than 20,000 officials to govern nearly 100 million people.

The solution to this problem is "autonomousness" at the bottom. Under the officials, there are two types of figures: clerks and gentry. The so-called officials are not feudal, and officials have hereditary - powerful figures among clerks are usually extremely powerful and are inherited by local extravagant figures for generations. The officials sent by the court all have term of office and have to leave in a few years. However, many officials who actually manage the people can inherit from generation to generation, and it is easy to develop power in the local area and become powerful.

Therefore, the officials of the Song Dynasty were not so much governing the people in the local area, but relying solely on a few officials sent from outside could not deal with the clerks who had developed in the local area for many years. Fortunately, in addition to clerks, there is another huge class in the local area - gentry. As the name suggests, this is a combination of literati and gentry. This is not a two-person, but a large family of officials who have had officials. Since some of the family are officials, they can be protected by power, gradually grow and grow, and become local forces that can compete with clerks. The officials sent by the court use these two local forces with certain conflicts of interest to manage local grassroots.

The national policy of "raising scholars" in the Song Dynasty for 300 years, especially after the transition to the south, the court's attention to the imperial examination families in Jiangnan had made the Five Roads of Jiangnan the world of scholars and officials. The Song Dynasty court also existed with the support of these Jiangnan scholars and officials to this day. After the transition to the south, the Song Dynasty was in a way, the regime of these Jiangnan scholars and officials. Whether it was the high-ranking officials in the court, local clerks, or native tyrants, they had become one, jointly controlled the Lin'an court, and then used the Lin'an court to command the world.

Chen Dexing's current actions are to destroy the basis for the Jiangnan scholar-official regime to command the world and suppress the military officials. His identity as a rebel general is difficult to gain the support of Jiangnan scholar-officials. His military and political group is not large enough, and his military and political weaker, and he has no experience in governing the local area. Even if he started a large-scale killing in Jiangnan and completely suppressed the scholar-official class, he would not be able to establish an effective rule in a short period of time, which would only cause Jiangnan to fall into complete chaos!

If he wants to fight with a group of people, outsiders, and especially wealthy literati and officials who are good at fooling people, then he will be waiting to be killed by these guys who eat people and don’t spit bones!

On the contrary, as foreign conquerors, the Mongols themselves had their own military and political groups, had rich ruling experience, and were assisted by the Han marquis and scholars in the north. Even if they killed individuals in Jiangnan, they had their own ways to rule with their own groups. Therefore, it was easier than Chen Dexing to conquer the Jiangnan scholar-official group...

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Contrary to Hao Jing's expectations, Chen Dexing did not want to take Jiangnan at this moment, nor did he have any idea to wield the emperor to command the princes. He just wanted to scrape some money in this glorious and rich Lin'an City, and then swagger to Haidong, Liaodong and Hainan - of course not Hainan Province in later generations, but to the south of the sea - to create his own foundation. When his military and political group grows to a certain level, he will come back to seize Jiangnan.

Moreover, before this, Chen Dexing only planned to cut the wool from Jiangnan, and did not think about slaughtering the entire fat sheep. Because the Chen family army developed in the east of the sea (east of the sea to the Atlantic), Liaodong and Nanfan (south of the sea to Antarctica), and blood transfusions of the developed Southern Song economic and trade system. If the industry and commerce in Lin'an were stewed in one pot, it would be killing the chicken to get eggs.

Therefore, the first two things his 3,000 army entered Lin'an City were not to attack Chaotianmen, but to organize firefighting and implement curfews. A temporary tutoring yamen was established in the Lin'an Imperial College, which was the original Yue Fei mansion. Cavalry also sent to patrol the city with torches, and at the same time ordered the village chiefs of Lin'an's wings and escorts to immediately organize the strong men to help put out the burning fire.

As for the high-ranking families outside Yongkin Gate in the west of Lin'an City, they are all locked in heavy doors at this moment. They are as quiet as if they are dead houses. Chen Dexing doesn't have his soldiers under his command to kill them. These people will not follow Chen Dexing, and there is no force to resist the Chen family army at the moment. Just throw them aside for the time being.

However, several official workshops in the north of Lin'an City were occupied by the Chen family army. All the craftsmen in the workshop were called up in the middle of the night. All the young craftsmen who were young and strong and had no family burden were gathered together, whether they were old men or apprentices, were prepared to take away the Haidong. All the equipment, raw materials, and valuable ones in the workshop were brought out to pack.

The newly established tributary department ranch outside Lin'an City also sent people to occupy it. There were 5,000 good horses brought by real gold, and some grooms drawn from various military towns. Naturally, they were the targets of Chen Dexing's robbery. According to the plan of the Chen Family Army's General Staff Office, it is necessary to select strong stallions and about 2,000 mares from these horses and take them to the ranch on Jeju Island as the basis for the Chen Family Army's cavalry. The remaining horses were treated as war horses or pack horses depending on the situation.

All the merchants of all sizes on Yu Street also had the instructor of Chen's family army knocking on the door with his soldiers! Of course, they went to ask for property, but they didn't ask for much. According to the size of the store, they asked for 100 to 1,000 guan of copper or related goods. For those merchants who can trade on Yu Street, this amount of money is really nothing! But after accumulating a little, millions of guan can always be obtained.

The temples and Taoist temples in Lin'an City also arranged people to ask for money and goods - Chen Dexing, Ren Taoist priests and Huang Baiwan, they all knew the market. In the Song Dynasty, except for high-ranking officials, wealthy merchants were the temples that had money. Larger temples were actually financial institutions, with copper in their hands, specializing in lending money to generate interest. Most of the wealthy merchants on the street would borrow money from Lin'an temples to turn over. And which temple has money, how can they hide it from Ren Daoxing, Ren Yijiang and Liu Yang?

However, Chen Dexing did not intend to empty these temples and Taoist temples at once - the financial crisis of the Southern Song Dynasty was not the result of Chen Dexing's desire. Therefore, the amount of money he asked for was proportional, which accounted for one percent of the wealth of the temples and Taoist temples, but it accumulated less than one million yuan. (To be continued, please search for astronomy, novels are better, updated and faster!
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