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Chapter 512: Moving the Capital

Huangji Palace.

The first of the three main halls of the outer court of the Forbidden City, which is commonly known as the Golden Palace. It was originally named Fengtian Hall when it was first built, but was renamed Huangji Hall during the Jiajing period.

This hall was destroyed by a major fire three times in Yongle, Zhengtong and Jiajing, and was restored.

However, this Golden Palace is equivalent to a large auditorium in the court, and it is only used in extremely important etiquette ceremonies. After Liu Jun became emperor, the layout of the palace was basically used in the previous dynasty. Liu Jun went to court for a young age, and usually went to court mainly in Taihe Gate and Ganqing Gate, which was called the Imperial Gate and the Imperial Gate.

Or when there are important things, you can summon ministers directly in the Ganqing Palace.

When summoning the cabinet ministers and nine ministers, they are mostly in the upper study rooms or the southern study rooms on both sides of the Ganqing Gate, and occasionally there is a temple of Yangxin.

Except for Liu Jun ascending the throne at the Huangji Hall, enthroning the empress, and ordering the three governors to command troops to fight last time, this hall has always been idle. Only when Liu Jun’s birthday, New Year’s Day and Winter Solstice will this golden hall be restarted and the congratulations from civil and military officials will be accepted here.

But today, Liu Jun arrived at the Golden Palace again.

Just today, the Han Dynasty officially agreed to the Qing Dynasty's request for surrender and signed a peace agreement. The Qing Emperor Fulin removed the title of emperor and demoted to the Qing Dynasty. At the same time, he surrendered to the Han Dynasty and became a vassal state of the Han Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty also named Makata the eldest princess of Gulun and married the emperor of the Han Dynasty.

The border between the two countries has also been established, with the Liao River as the boundary to the west, and the Yalu River as the boundary to the east. In addition, Jinzhou, Fuzhou, and Zhenjiang and Kuanxun on the Liaodong Peninsula are all assigned to the Han Dynasty.

The agreement also stipulated that Mongolia and North Korea were both subordinates of the Han vassals, and the Qing soldiers were not allowed to interfere in the affairs of the two vassals, nor could one soldier and one soldier enter the territory of the two vassals.

The Qing Dynasty must send missions to Beijing to attend New Year's Day celebrations every year, and pay tribute to Liaodong goods, allowing tribute trade between the Han and Qing dynasties.

At this time, the Qing Dynasty had no longer the capital to clamor with the Han Dynasty.

After the peace agreement was signed, Liu Jun gave a banquet to all officials and Qing envoys in Huangji Hall.

Liu Jun just took a few drinks and left.

Ganqingmen goes to the study room.

The nine-gate admiral, Anlu Boluo, said to the emperor. "Your Majesty, it seems that the Qing Dynasty really admits its conscience."

Feng Sheng, the commander of the Jinyiwei, said with a smile, "Dorgon is preparing to move east with Daishan."

"Move eastward? Where to move?" Zhili Governor Liu Yunsheng said in surprise.

Now the former Zhili Province has been renamed Hebei Province. In addition to the two provinces of Shanxi and Hebei, the Zhili Governor also has the newly established Suiyuan Province. The Zhili Governor's Office has also moved from the capital to Baoding Prefecture.

Just yesterday, the emperor just issued an edict to sanction the prefectures and counties in the Central Plains provinces, except for Beijing in Hebei Province, Nanjing in Jiangnan Province, and Luoyang in Henan Province. In addition to Zhili Prefecture, which is under the central jurisdiction of the Zhili Court, the other prefectures in the world will be abolished, either merged with the rank county into a prefecture, or directly divided into surrounding counties, or changed to counties.

The Han Dynasty abolished the provincial level, and whether it was the imperial court or the provincial level, it was all abolished. Later, it was a major administrative division system at the provincial, prefecture and county levels.

In addition, in each province, there will be road level, two provinces or three or four provinces as one road, and the road will be commanded by the governor. And in the province, there will be road level, with Taoists responsible.

However, the two levels of road and road are different from the three levels of provincial prefecture and county. There are complete teams at the three levels of provincial prefecture and county, but the road and road are only the governor, the governor's yamen and the Daotai yamen headed by Taoists, and there are no other yamen at the same level.

Outside the pass and in the southwest, prefectures and counties were established, and alliances were changed to prefectures and banners were changed to counties. The Xuanfu Division and other chieftains in the southwest were also changed to prefectures and counties. Although these Mongolian tribes outside the pass and the chieftains in the southwest were still hereditary. However, the imperial court also set up other prefectures, one place and two teams in these places.

In the future, no matter where the court attacks, it will definitely be established according to this standard.

Feng Sheng told Liu Jun that although this news had just arrived, it was absolutely reliable.

"After the Qing army in northern Yan was defeated, Duoduo, Ajige died in battle, Haoge surrendered, Jirgalang retreated across the Liaohe River, and the Qing Dynasty was also pessimistic. They were all worried that we would immediately expedition the east. Although we agreed to peace talks later, Dorgon and others were still uneasy. Especially now that the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert abandoned the Qing Dynasty and attached themselves to the Han Dynasty, the Jurchens were even more frightened."

"The Eight Banners nobles all demanded to move eastward. The current capital Shengjing is too close to the border of the Han Dynasty. After His Majesty only led tens of thousands of troops to the city of Shengjing last time, they all demanded to move the capital."

Liu Jun smiled, "Where do they want to move?"

In its realization stage, Liu Jun would not be able to fight the Qing Dynasty. Liu Jun is now busy quelling the Central Plains Rebellion and deploying his troops to Shaanxi, Gansu, Yunnan, Guizhou and Sichuan, while also taking down the Mongolian tribes in the south of the desert in Hetao, Yanbei and other places.

If the Mongolians in the south of the desert were first conquered, the Han Dynasty would have no worries. At that time, the Qing army was isolated and helpless, and it would be easy to pacify him.

So, it doesn't matter whether they move the capital or not. Anyway, Liu Jun will not beat him for the time being. But when Liu Jun makes a move, even if the Qing people move the capital, it will not make any sense. No matter how far they go, Liu Jun can find them.

"It's not that I moved to Jianzhou Guard, right?" Fu Shan also chuckled. The Qing Dynasty, which once threatened the Emperor and the officials of the Ming Dynasty, could sleep day and night, is now just a lonely wolf with scars in the eyes of the Han monarchs and ministers.

What Fu Shan said was also based on the basis of the Jurchens. Although Jianzhou Wei, the old nest of the Jurchens, was far away from the border of the Liaohe River, don’t forget that the Han army had already controlled the Yalu River line, from the initial Zhenjiang, Pi Island, Yizhou City, and later swept the Kuandian Forts.

In fact, the Yalu River line is controlled by the Han army. Not only is the south bank of the Yalu River directly under the jurisdiction of the Han Han, but the north bank line is also the actual control area of ​​the Han army.

Especially now the Han army has re-entered the Kuandian District, where it built cities and forts and stationed troops and farmed.

The Kuandian area is very close to Jianzhou Wei. Kuandian Liubao was to support the expansion of Jianzhou Jurchens from the southwest.

If the Jurchens dare to return to Jianzhou now, it is actually better to stay in Shenyang.

"The Jurchens are going to move the capital to Harwen on the banks of the Songhua River." Feng Shengdao.

"Songhua River? Harwin?"

Several ministers were unfamiliar with these two names.

Feng Sheng walked to the map and pointed at a distance from the northeast of Shenyang.

"The Songhua River was called Yazi River during the Liao and Jin Dynasties, and was called Songhua River during the Yuan Dynasty, and was called Songhua River during the Xuande period of the Ming Dynasty. Harwen, the Manchu word for swan, was established here in the early years of the Ming Dynasty. It was 1,200 miles from Harwen to Shenyang. It was more than 2,500 miles away from Beijing. Even if Harwen to Lushun, it was 2,000 miles away."

"And the weather in Halwen is extremely cold in winter, and at least five months a year is the extremely cold season."

Liu Jun looked at the map and thought about it. Isn’t this Harwen Harbin?

Dorgon and Dai Shan were actually going to move so far, and he frowned. He immediately thought of a possibility, Dorgon and Dai Shan were an old fox and a small fox, both of them were very cunning. It was impossible for them to move the capital to Harwen to be afraid. Instead, it should be a strategic choice.

Today, the Qing Dynasty no longer had the advantage of Huang Taiji over the Ming Dynasty. The Qing Dynasty and Han Dynasty were at a complete disadvantage, and they had lost their troops and despised their relatives. If they continued like this, they would definitely be destroyed by the Han army.

With the current strength of the Qing army, when the Han army attacked, they would definitely not be able to defend Liao Chen. Once an offensive and defensive war was launched, they would probably really destroy the country.

However, the Qing people to the north and east were completely vast territory. Although many tribes lived in it, they had already surrendered to the horse hoofs of the Qing Dynasty in recent years.

In the past, the Jurchens did not take these places with a special interest. They have always focused on the development direction in Liaodong and western Liaoning, hoping to invade the Central Plains.

But now, when the situation is extremely bad, the Qing people were looking for peace from Han, but they were preparing to move the capital.

"These two old foxes are cunning." Liu Jun sneered. He saw through the plans of the Qing people in an instant.

This is to exchange space for time.

In this era, due to technology, transportation and other reasons, distance is the best defense and distance is also the biggest enemy.

The farther the distance, the higher the cost of attack, the greater the supply pressure. When an army travels thousands of miles, the logistical pressure on supply will be extremely huge, and the number of civilians far exceeds the army itself, not to mention the huge increase in food and other consumption.

Moreover, Feng Sheng said just now. Harwen is an extremely cold place. There is a long winter every year, and it is a place where water turns into ice. If the war cannot end in summer and autumn, then for the attackers, Harwen's winter will be a fatal killer.

If one is not good, it will be like Gustav, Napoleon, Khatler and others who have attacked Russia in history. Even if their army swept through Europe, it will eventually be defeated by the unimaginable cold winter.

In history, Yang Guang attacked Goguryeo, and the attack distance was not as far as Harwen, and the climate was not that difficult, but it still caused the soldiers of the Great Sui Dynasty who once swept across the Central Plains and unified the world to return in defeat several times, even causing Yang Guang to lose the world.

"The hero abandoned his wrists, and Dorgon and Daishan were very courageous."

Liu Jun shook his head, and couldn't help but admire their decisiveness.

When Fu Shan and the others heard the emperor say this, they also understood.

Seeing everyone's solemn appearance, Liu Jun burst into laughter.

"Actually, it's not as powerful as you think. He has a plan from Zhang Liang. I have a wall ladder. After the Jurchens moved north, although it will indeed cause some trouble for our conquest, it will be more trouble at most. We don't need to fight. We can advance slowly, recover Liaodong bit by bit, and then advance to Liaobei."

"As long as we gain a foothold in Liaodong and control Liaodong, we can accumulate food and grass, build castles, step by step, build our fortresses, build our roads to the north, and transport our reserves to the north. When everything is ready, even if the Jurchens move to the Beihai, we can still swallow them up little by little."

"Forget it, let them move. They will take the initiative to move north. When we free up our hands to fight the north, we will be able to take Liaodong more easily. Besides, the Songhua River and Heilongjiang River basins are not good places. Life will be very difficult to move there. I want to see if the Jurchens can still gain a foothold there."

Liu Yunsheng suggested, "Why should we send troops to the northern expedition to destroy them immediately before the Tartars escaped?"

"There is no need." Liu Jun waved, "We have our pace and rhythm, so we don't have to worry about the Tartars. It's not the time to send all our troops to the northern expedition, so don't worry. Let them move north first, just let them help the Han Dynasty open the way and let them help the empire conquer the north of the Mobei. We will accept it together at that time."

"Your Majesty is wise!" Fu Shan and others couldn't help but praise him. (To be continued.)
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