On the first day of August 19th year of Hongwu, the Song Dynasty, outside the Jiangdong Gate east of Jinling City, on both sides of the wide official road were crowded with people.

At this moment, between the two main cities of Jinling, the west bank of the Qinhuai River to the west, there were already thousands of houses and streets.

Compared with Kaifeng Prefecture in the north, which always makes the canal bore, the biggest advantage of Jinling City is that the water transportation is really convenient!

Not only is it next to the rolling river, but it is also directly built on the well-connected Qinhuai water network. The rivers in the Jiangnan water town have never been a "line" but a "net", crossing and crossing, covering a wide range, which can not only irrigate rice fields, but also be used for transportation. Before the emergence of railways, there was no way of transportation that was lower than that of this inland water transportation. Even with railways, the transportation cost could not be lower than that of water transportation by steamboats. Even in the 21st century, the Yangtze River is still a golden waterway!

The water system of the middle and lower reaches of the Qinhuai River west of the old and new cities in Jinling is because the river channel is wide and deep, and the water network is very dense. It can not only be used for irrigation and water transportation, but also to drive water trucks. It is placed in medieval China, and it is really more precious than gold if it is used well!

However, before Zhao Huan moved south to Jinling, because the original Jiangning Prefecture City was located in the middle and upper reaches of the Qinhuai River, such a good waterway was left there and not developed. When Zhao Huan came with hundreds of thousands of northerners who had lost their homes, this good place on the edge of the Yangtze River immediately rose.

First, Dagong, Jinling New City, east of the lower reaches of the Qinhuai River, a new city that can be inhabited by hundreds of thousands of people, rose up in a very short time!

After the completion of the Jinling New City project, the Southern Song monarchs and ministers, who were deeply affected by the high housing prices in Kaifeng Prefecture, began to hoard land on the west bank of the middle and lower reaches of the Qinhuai River with great vision. Zhao Kai, who was still the "big devil" at that time, was still fighting with the Jin thieves in the north. The pseudo-Song fights against the war and Zhao Kai's refugees come in waves.

Not long after, strong embankments were built on both sides of the river, which were often flooded, and then there were docks, workshops, warehouses, shops, and wineries. The buildings attached to the golden waterways were magical. They appeared there in a short time, forming a wide urban area that covered an area no less than that of Jinling New City.

However, the Southern Song Dynasty court did not use the city wall to circle the newly developed urban area. Instead, it erected a wooden fence on the west side of the Qinhuai River, known as the West River in Qinhuai River. The wooden fence was not built with the river channel as a natural moat, but circled the entire river channel, because both sides of the river channel are emerging commercial areas and workshop areas, and the land is too valuable!

In the autumn of the ninth year of Hongwu, the two new and old cities in Jinling plus west of the Qinhuai River, the population of this Xinpicheng District, known as "Jiangdong City" (located east of the Yangtze River), was probably far exceeded one million, reaching nearly one.5 million! This number should have exceeded the population of Kaifeng Prefecture during its heyday.

What is even more exciting is that the supply of this city with a population of hundreds of thousands is extremely abundant, and the nobles in the court will never have to worry about the food, clothing, housing and transportation of hundreds of thousands or even more people gathered here because the city itself is located in the hometown of fish and rice in the south of the Yangtze River.

The food in the mouths of more than one million citizens does not need to be transported from the foreign government, and it is enough to supply directly from the rural areas of Jinling.

As for the dressing issue, after accepting many weavers from Jingdong Road and Kaifeng Prefecture, Jinling has become a weavering center that can be on par with the "Suhang Xiuming Yue" five prefectures in the Sanwu area.

However, compared with the financial industry based on Jinling New City, Jinling's shipping industry, weaving industry, even military industry and shipbuilding industry are inevitably a little sad.

At this moment, the prosperous Jinling land, which is so rich that it is coveted, is located in front of Zhao Kai, who has experienced countless bloody battles and has won back a Chinese debauchery, driving the arrogant Jin Kingdom back to his hometown outside the Great Wall, and also in front of Zhao Kai, whose soul has been through thousands of years.

This city has now become the loyal Jinling City of His Majesty the Emperor of the Song Dynasty!

One hundred thousand red scarfs formed neat marching columns based on generals, singing the military song "Manjianghong" along the wide official road outside the Jiangdong Gate, and walking the victor's pace, came in a vast way.

Zhao Kai, the official of the Song Dynasty, will also step into the Jinling, which is loyal to him, with these 100,000 red scarf athletes. No, it should be Yingtian Prefecture City, Nanjing!

Zhu Lian and Zhang Bangchang had returned to Jinling City three days early. After returning to the city, they immediately summoned all civil and military officials, honorary and relatives, all the royal family members, leaders of all industries, and Buddhist, Taoist and Confucian families to announce to them the good news that Zhao Kai was about to come, and Zhao Kai's generous and kindness Zhao Kai did not want to pardon everyone, but believed that everyone had always been loyal ministers and people loyal to the Song Dynasty!

Even Zhao Huan, who once usurped the emperor, was not a rebel, but a "Emperor Gengshi". Therefore, Zhao Kai not only did not issue an edict to attack Zhao Huan, but also officially enthroned Zhao Huan, who "guarded the southern gate for the country" as the King of Nanyue!

As for Zhao Huan's nine sons left in Jinling, they were princes one by one, and they were not completely short-selling princes, but princes who really "departed from the town" of one state and one prefecture.

It is said that Zhao Kai is planning to let these princes open royal palaces in Pingjiang Prefecture (Suzhou), Taipingzhou, Hangzhou, Mingzhou, Longxing Prefecture (Nanchang), Ezhou, Tanzhou (Changsha), Luzhou and other places after adulthood, and they will also serve as prefects of all the grain officials or prefectures and states.

In addition, the prince Zhu Lian had just been born to Zhao Huan was given the name Zhao Song by Zhao Kai, and was named King of Wu. He also served as the nominal left-behind Nanjing as a baby!

When things were done so, of course, everyone in Jinling City let down their hanging hearts and they were very convinced that the peace and prosperity of the Song Dynasty was about to come.

Therefore, today's Jinling City was disturbed by the major incident of the official Zhao Kai entering the city from top to bottom. All the leading figures in the city were Zhu Lian, Zhang Bangchang, Yuwen Xuzhong, and a large number of princes, princes, dukes and other nobles of the Song Dynasty. They were waiting inside and outside the magnificent Jiangdong Gate. Although the exterior wall of Jiangdong City was sloppy and had only one wooden fence. However, Jiangdong Gate, as the western gate of Jinling City, was well-built, not a city gate, but a urn city!

The two sides of the official road inside and outside the urn city were crowded with countless people, and because the number of people gathered too much, they all formed a market! Some people from Jinling, who were business-minded, even carried baskets and loads, and sold all kinds of food along the official road.

The Jinling Prefecture and the newly established Left-behind Office mobilized a large number of militias for today's grand event. The militia gates stood facing the streets, holding long sticks, blocking the people from both sides of the official road.

The people stretched their necks and looked west, hoping to witness the style of the Song army that had created the prosperous Song Dynasty.

People have not seen it yet, but the loud and neat military singing has already come!

"The angry hair rushes to the crown, and the rain stops when you are standing on the railing. Looking up at the sky, you will roar with great strength."

Suddenly someone shouted again, "Grandma is out of the city and see, Empress is out of the city!"

The Empress is Zhu Lian. She is now sitting in her own phoenix chariot, phoenix crown and robe, wearing a full set of queen's court uniforms. Surrounded by the ministers and royal princes, she has already left the Jiangdong Gate and faced Zhao Kai's red scarf Song army.

Zhu Lian's official identity is the Princess of Nanyue. Wearing the robe of the empress is an exorcist, but Zhao Kai issued an order when he was in Niushou Mountain, and named her the Empress Jingkang Zhao Kai, who did not recognize Zhao Huan's throne. However, following the old example of Emperor Zhuangzong of Song Dynasty enthroned two sisters-in-laws as Empress Yuanyou and Empress Yuanfu, and named Zhu Lian as Empress Jingkang, the uncle and sister-in-law, which is really famous in history.

Of course, Zhao Kai also has his reason for his elder sister-in-law being like a mother! Zhao Kai's biological mother died early, so he had to respect her "like a mother". What's wrong with being a queen?

Is this explanation very reasonable? It is like the authoritative explanation of the Confucian scholar, Confucius' spirit in heaven recognized it!

Moreover, what Zhu Lian got was not only a short title, but also the right to use the Jinling Imperial City. If she became the princess of the King of Nanyue, she would not be able to continue living in the Jinling Imperial City, but would move to the Nanyue Palace to live.

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But now that she has been awarded the title of queen, she can still live in the imperial city. But Zhu Lian has spent a lot of effort to build a home! Of course, she is very satisfied to be able to continue living in it.

However, there is also a small problem that makes her more confused. She is the queen, and her husband Zhao Huan is the queen of Nanyue. The status is higher than that of the king. So how did she and Zhao Huan meet?

Could it be that Zhao Huan salutes his wife and greets her?

I'm afraid Zhao Huan won't agree, right?

However, Zhu Lian doesn’t care about so much now, because she and Zhao Huan still have the chance to meet?

Just as she thought of this, the phoenix chariot she was riding had stopped moving forward, and at the same time she also found that the military song "Manjianghong" stopped at some point.

She quickly looked up and saw that the six black flags and two white flags that symbolized the Song Dynasty's official family had appeared in front. Below the black flags, among the white flags, there was Zhao Kai, a great Song Dynasty official who was riding on a horse, wearing iron armor and a "golden helmet" on his head.

Zhu Lian quickly got off the phoenix chariot, and walked to Zhao Kai's horse with the help of two palace servants, bowed and bowed, and then said in a delicate voice: "I welcome the official family."

Zhao Kai looked at his "good sister-in-law" with a smug smile on his face.

Nanjing City is now taken!

The entire Southeast is also a treasure!

The world of Song Dynasty is almost unified for itself

Thinking of this, Zhao Kai suddenly burst out laughing. After laughing, he said to Zhu Lian: "Sister-in-law, let's go to the city together and enter the palace together!"
Chapter completed!