Just as the cavalry were playing with horses and outings, the square in front of Chaotian Palace was already crowded with people, and all the members of Yingtian Commune gathered...

More than two thousand people!

The five cities of Nanjing in the Ming Dynasty were under the jurisdiction of the entire Nanjing city.

That is, the area encircled by the outer city more than 100 miles long outside is not only this area, but also expanded to the outside of the city, and they all expanded across the Yangtze River. For example, Puzikou on the other side is under the jurisdiction of the North City.

When electing members, the total population was also checked. Whether it was originally military or civilian, the total number of households with local household registration was 200,000, including those who had local household registration, which were split after the abolition of slavery, and those who were originally divided. Other refugees in the local area were also included in household registration, including those merchants who sent household registration. In fact, in history, Nanjing City conducted a similar inspection in the 38th year of Wanli, and at that time the number found was less than 70,000 households.

And the more than 100,000 additional households are actually the result of Yang Feng’s forced split.

Not too compulsory.

After all, household registration is the most important thing. After understanding this, those big families also took the initiative to split themselves. After all, one household is a voting right, and they continue to hold the whole family with dozens or hundreds of people, which is just a vote, but it is obviously much more beneficial to split it apart.

Since you can't resist, you have to slowly learn to adapt to the new system. These big families are not fools.

There is also a family composed of slaves after the liberation of slaves. This number is particularly huge. The Wei Duke alone had more than 1,000 households. His family used to have more than 3,000 slaves who had various identities but did not register.

Now all registered.

Anyway, his family can't afford it now.

In order to keep the favor, His Majesty the Emperor personally took charge of the resettlement of slaves. Not only did he allocate houses to them from the confiscated industries, but he also personally took money from the inner treasury to help them get married. There was no job arrangement, and there were other positions in the palace. The entire ruins were still being cleaned up. The renovation of the palace belonged to the emperor's own affairs and the people did not need to be managed by the people, so he used the inner treasury to hire people. These slaves who were driven out by the original owner happened to be hired by him.

As for the internal warehouse...

There were tens of millions of taels of silver piled up in the palace, and he just used it.

As for the final verification, the total population of Nanjing is indeed less than two million, but it has exceeded one.5 million. This is an accurate verification figure, which shows how crooked the official demographic statistics of the Ming Dynasty were.

You should know that the official Jiangning County registered only has 3,000 households within the five cities.

Originally, half of Nanjing City was responsible for the service of civil servants, but these three thousand households were born. Looking at the crowded streets of this city, I had no idea how big the number was to get the number of three thousand households. However, the officials of the Ming Dynasty were still using this number until now. The final election was to elect one member per 100 households, and then form a committee in each workshop, so the number of members finally elected exceeded two thousand.

Because the household registration distinction between military, civilian, craftsmen and merchants has been abolished, it is no longer based on the four civilians.

Now everyone belongs to the commune the same.

So they are all citizens.

However, there are also different ones. A large part of them are wearing red scarves. They are also citizens, but they call each other as comrades, so they form a group alone, and they are a group that occupies the overwhelming advantage among the committee members, that is, the people who deviate from the people.

However, the common name now is the Red Turban Army.

At this moment, more than 2,000 committee members were crowded in front of the Chaotian Palace hall, with dense heads, and occasionally a few people wearing square scarves...

Scholars are also human beings.

What's wrong with Confucian scholars? We cannot discriminate against Confucian scholars.

"Everything is for the commune!"

Yang Feng roared.

"Everything is for the commune!"

All the committee members raised their arms and shouted together.

"Each yard gathers the registered militias, led by militia committee members, and all go to the nearby outer city walls to cooperate with the battle of the Beijing camp guarding the city. All the elderly, weak, women and children within the outer city walls and outside the inner city walls retreat to the inner city. If there are no relatives and friends, go directly to those gardens. If there are not enough gardens, arrange accommodation in the imperial city, and bring all the food and livestock into the inner city.

No grain of rice or sheep left outside the inner city.

The food of the soldiers guarding the city is prepared in the city and then sent there.

As for those non-registered militiamen, the original military, businessmen, and young farmers were led by the presidents of the various offices to go to Zhongshan, Mufushan and other mountains to build forts and fortresses in case of accidents.

All the craftsmen were originally young and strong, and they built weapons in various factories and factories, so that all militias would have weapons."

Marshal Yang shouted at the huge Nanjing city defense map behind him.

This city is too big, even if it is a population of 1.5 million, it cannot be filled. In fact, more than half of the area is even farmland. Zhongshan and even Mufushan are all in the city.

This problem is easily overlooked.

One hundred and twenty miles in circumference, it is so big that it is crazy.

"Master, it's just that there is a lack of copper and iron!"

The president of the iron workshop shouted.

Nanjing’s workshops are set up according to their functions, including iron workshops, copper workshops, and silver workshops. This is the metal processing base in Nanjing.

But it's not just them.

There are also special weapons manufacturing bases such as the Blacksmith Camp in the outer city.

"Go to the imperial city, and the government offices everywhere, and dismantled all the copper and iron tools that can be dismantled. Take out all the copper coins that were confiscated last time, and smelted them in the temples. All the big bells, bronze statues, and incense burners are left, and they are all melted to cast cannons. Don't worry about any blame from the Buddha. If there is really a Buddha, we won't blame us. If there is no Buddha, we don't have to worry, especially those bronze statues, which can be used as cannons."

Yang Feng shouted.

He likes doing this.

Speaking of which, what he likes most in Nanjing City is that it has enough copper pipes.

There are 480 temples in the Southern Dynasties, and so many towers in the mist and rain.

The most common ones in this city are temples, and they are all of them of high-level grades. Low-end goods like clay tires are almost invisible. Any bronze statues are even a large number of gold foils, not to mention the huge bronze bells, which are all excellent bronze. Although there is no level of Yongle Bell, it is not rare to have copper bells weighing more than ten tons in top-level temples. It is enough to make a random refinement of such a bit of slight, even a field artillery battalion.

It is estimated that after this wave of artillery casting movement, the Beijing Camp will truly realize the transformation of field artillery. Now the Beijing Camp is mainly based on Fran aircraft.

This thing is not suitable for the times after all.

Next, I have to go to the field gun.

"I still lack gunpowder. Charcoal is easy to deal with, and sulfur is enough. This was used less, but there is some lack of nitrate. Nowadays, gunpowder is refined, and the formula is made of more nitrate. All of them are muskets and cannons. If they really fight, they will probably have to be hit tens of thousands of kilograms a day. Nanjing is not as good as the capital, and there are not so many reserves."

The original craftsman member of the Ministry of Works' Gunpowder Bureau shouted.

This is indeed incomparable.

There is enough gunpowder in the large cellars in the capital, which is enough to cause natural disasters.

But Nanjing really can't do it.

"Yes, this is really not enough!"

...

Several other committee members agreed.

"All the houses asked those women to take their children to the toilets to dig soil from the old toilets and scrape the soil and salt from the old walls. You women from the gunpowder family went to the houses to find the president to lead them."

Yang Feng shouted.

"That's all!"

The committee member nodded and said.

It was obvious that he had already planned to do this.

"It seems that the shells are still missing."

Yang Feng suddenly remembered that this shell was also a problem. The bullets were lead bullets, and the shells were all cast iron. However, there was no iron ore in Nanjing. The search for iron tools in the city could only make weapons. You can't smash the pot and cast shells, right?

"This is easy, so it's the same with changing stone bullets. There are people in Dou Village who don't have it!"

A committee member shouted.

"have!"

A man behind raised his hand and shouted.

"Hurry up and go into the city, find a place to see which stone is suitable?"

The committee member shouted with a smile.

Then the other committee members laughed.

Well, the stonemasons actually live outside the city, but they are also in the Wucheng Bingmas and Masjid, which are close to the city wall. They are fangs in the city, close to the city, and villages in the countryside. This is the standard local system of the Ming Dynasty, and the Nanjing Bingmasjid is under the jurisdiction of the Wucheng Bingmasjid. As for the stonemasons outside the city, it is normal for them to be outside the Cangbo Gate to the east to collect stones near the mountain. There is no place to collect stones in the Nanjing city wall. Mufu Mountain is mainly limestone, which is actually commonly known as the Lime Mountain, and it is impossible to use it as a stone tool. Wherever you pick stones, is it the ancestral tomb of the Emperor of Ming Dynasty? In theory, let alone digging mountains, you can't cut trees.

"Let's go to the north of Zhongshan to find it. If there is a suitable one, pick it. If there is not enough charcoal, you can cut trees and burn charcoal in the north. Emperor Taizu Gao will not blame it."

Yang Feng shouted.

Since that's the case, then go dig!

The issue of charcoal is indeed necessary to be considered. There are no coal mines in Nanjing, so it is nothing more than the coal and charcoal stored in the city. After burning it, charcoal will be burned.

"Yes, Emperor Taizu Gao will not blame everything for the commune."

A shout suddenly sounded at the gate.

All the committee members looked back at the yellow robe that appeared in sight in shock.

His Majesty the Emperor finally made his debut.

He will not miss any opportunity to show his existence now, and this is a good time to win the hearts of the people.

The members quickly stood up and saluted their emperor, who even brought the imperial concubine with them. The imperial concubine was dressed in a jewelry manner. It was obvious that they had found a lot of good things from the pile of gold, silver and jewelry.

Then His Majesty the Emperor quickly took a step forward and personally helped up the oldest committee member.

"Everyone is calm!"

He said.

Then he looked at the committee members in front of him with relief, and at the same time automatically filtered the red scarf inside.

"To protect Nanjing, all the ministers are working together. Yijun is incompetent and affects the people of the world. They are really frightened. Now they can only fight side by side with the ministers. Today, Yijun is not an emperor, but also a member of Yingtian Commune. They come to join the ministers and follow the commune's orders!"

He said.

"Everything is for the commune!"
Chapter completed!