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Chapter 271 Tang Bohu and Wang Shouren return to Jinling! Liu Jianxie moves to Jinling! The changes in Jinling are shocking!

Jinling Pier.

One ship after another docked in an orderly manner.

"came back!"

"We're finally back!"

"Lao Wang! It feels so good to be home!"

After stepping on the land of Jinling, Tang Bohu could no longer hold back and shouted loudly, and even knelt down to embrace the land.

"Yes! I'm finally home! This trip was not easy..."

Wang Shouren was also slightly excited. He looked back at their fleet. The Japanese warriors were like prisoners and were pushed off the warships.

This trip and this experience are enough to make them unforgettable.

He and Tang Bohu almost died.

But fortunately, they finally turned the tide.

"Let's go! Bo Hu, Shou Ren, report to His Majesty!"

The Minister of War Chen Qing also came over. In addition to some people from the Muromachi shogunate, he also had people move down boxes of silver and gold.

"Okay! My lord!"

After a short rest, Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu followed the main force and slowly headed towards Nanjing.

But Jinling at this moment has changed a lot from when they left.

The excitement of getting off the boat and going home made them not notice these things. When they stepped onto the official road, they found that Jinling had changed a lot.

"Wait a minute... President Huang, is this still the Jin Ling we know?"

"Have we come to the wrong place..."

"Jinling has become bigger...Also, is the city ahead Jinling?"

The biggest change was the astonishing discovery by Tang Bohu and Wang Shouren that the city of Jinling in front of them had almost doubled in size.

Do not!
Another new city of Jinling, which is twice as large as the original city of Jinling, extends from the old city of Jinling. Although the new city of Jinling has not been completed yet, countless workers are busy on the outline of the huge city like ants, which makes people realize at a glance that Jinling has undergone earth-shaking changes.

"This...yeah...is this Jinling?"

"Wait, what happened in Jinling? Why is it different from when we went there?"

"so many people!"

"and……"

"No one welcomes us?"

"No one is looking at us?"

The Minister of War Chen Qing was even more surprised to find that the pedestrians passing by were very busy and no pedestrians or people along the road were paying attention to their triumphant team.

Moreover, when they looked towards the city of Jinling from where they were, they could see densely packed low-rise huts... Countless people were busy in these huts.

All the open space outside Jinling City was occupied by this new type of town.

The residents who came to play looked unfamiliar, but each of their faces was filled with smiles, joy and hope.

Chen Qing had never seen this kind of mental state before.

"Yeah...what happened..."

"Changed to a different world?"

Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu were both dazzled, and the returning soldiers were all bewildered.

As for the captured generals of the Muromachi shogunate... they all had faces full of astonishment.

"Haha, Minister Chen, you are right... and Bohu, your word is very accurate! It is indeed a different world..."

"Let me think, how many months ago did you leave... Oh, right! Was it before the ancestor worship? Yes... Three months, almost four months! You probably don't know how big a move His Majesty has made..."

"I won't say more..."

"Tell me about the current situation in Jinling City!"

"Have you seen the new city of Jinling? It is the new city of Jinling that His Majesty is planning to expand. His Majesty has demolished the city wall. From now on... Jinling will no longer have a city wall and will not be defended from the outside!"

Huang Bao has lost a lot of weight compared to a few months ago, but not in a morbid way. Instead, he is healthy and skinny. He looks more energetic and speaks faster. His face is flushed. When he talks about Zhu Houzhao, he can't help but bow towards the imperial tomb.

"Well... tear down the city walls and leave them undefended..."

"This...hiss!Yes!"

"The new city has no walls! No wonder I felt something was different at first glance!"

Tang Bohu and others took a deep breath and realized that the city layout before them was different from what they had seen before.

"President, is it okay if there is no city wall? I heard that the Ming Dynasty is not peaceful right now... What if..."

Chen Qing knew more information than Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu. Hearing this, he looked at the small houses in the town in front of Jinling with some worry: "And these civilians, they live outside... If the army breaks out, they will be the first to..."

"This... there are still too many questions!"

"Go home and ask your family!"

"Let me talk about Jinling New City..."

"Do you know why Your Majesty wants to build the new city of Jinling?"

Huang Bao naturally knew what the problem was with these people, but he had explained it many times and didn't want to explain it anymore, so he led the topic back to what he wanted to say.

Chen Qing, Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu naturally shook their heads.

How would they know?

"Of course there are too many people!"

"There is chaos all over the country right now...but it's different in Nanzhili!"

Huang Bao gave the answer: "Too many people have poured in! The original Jinling City is definitely not enough... Of course we have to build a new city!"

"Do you know how many people there are in Jinling now?"

"Guess..."

"I can't guess..." Chen Qing shook his head and looked around. Everywhere he looked, there were busy and orderly crowds. He couldn't count them at first glance, but he estimated that at least there were about 200,000 people in front of him.

“Almost three million people!”

"Moreover, it is still growing!"

"What you see is only the situation in Dongcheng District..."

"It's even more exaggerated in Xicheng District..."

"And the North City..."

"Anyway, now... the housing prices in Jinling's old city have skyrocketed! Bo Hu, the house I gave you... has already increased tenfold!"

The number Huang Bao spit out directly confused Wang Shouren and Tang Bohu, and they didn't even listen to his complaints. "How much?"

"A population of three million..."

"What is the current population of Jinling?"

"Three million... and still growing?"

Chen Qing's surprised voice broke the thoughts of Tang Bohu and Wang Shouren.

They came to their senses and looked at the scenes before them again, somewhat incredulous.

Jinling, a population of three million... No wonder, no wonder they want to build a new city in Jinling.

The population has skyrocketed four times compared to before they left!
"Yes! Three million people..."

"We are still intentionally controlling this. If we were to completely open up to everyone... I'm afraid the population would have already exceeded five million!"

"But that would put too much pressure on us!"

"We have diverted some of them to Yangzhou, Suzhou, Huai'an..."

"In short, the population of these small places has at least doubled since you left..."

"The thirteen cities surrounding Jinling are now in full swing in building new cities..."

"Now... our entire Yingtian Prefecture and Nanzhili probably have a population of at least 10 to 20 million. Those who have fled from the north and the south have all come here directly..."

Under Huang Bao's guidance, Chen Qing, Wang Shouren, Tang Bohu and others didn't know how they entered the city. Because there were obviously many things to do, Huang Bao had not finished introducing them before they arrived at the New Palace to meet Zhu Houzhao.

And just as they were entering the city from the east.

North city area.

A prison van and a long team also entered Jinling.

"This...is this Jinling?!"

"impossible……"

“Is this still my home?”

Xu Pengju was so surprised as he looked at the Jinling New City, which was different from his memory, that he felt numb.

"This... is this Jinling of my Ming Dynasty?"

Yan Song, Cui Xin and other accompanying officials were also extremely stunned as they looked at Jinling in front of them.

"This is Jinling... isn't it?"

Liu Jian and Xie Qian in the prison car had already numb eyes, but when they saw the current situation outside Jinling City, they were already filled with shock.

"This is naturally the New Nanjing! The New Ming Dynasty..."

"How about it? You two...are you still going to call His Majesty Yang Guang, the tyrant of the Ming Dynasty?"

The Minister of Justice Wu Hong looked at the shocked expressions of the two former cabinet ministers and finally felt proud.

He didn't explain like Huang Bao did, he just led the way and let these people see for themselves.

because.

These two men traveled all the way south from the capital in a prison van.

As they traveled south, they naturally saw the warlords’ separatist rule in the Ming Dynasty and the chaotic scene of the last years of the dynasty.

From that time on, they all started to curse Zhu Houzhao and cry to the ancestors of the Ming Dynasty.

Unfortunately, after arriving in Nanzhili and entering Yingtian Prefecture, they could no longer curse.

When they arrived in the prosperous, busy and huge Jinling today, their mouths were welded shut.

The changes in Jinling naturally once again impacted their collapsed perspectives.

The two were speechless under Wu Hong's ridicule.

I can only watch it all silently.

Until we arrived at one place.

"Master Wu, thank you for your hard work..."

"Let me see my former colleagues..."

Their prison van stopped at the gate of the old city of Jinling, and Li Dongyang had been waiting there for a long time.

Six eyes facing each other.

All turned red instantly.

The colleagues who were once high and mighty are now one in a prison van and the other outside it.

Seeing Li Dongyang like this, Liu Jian and Xie Qian lowered their heads in shame, not daring to look at Li Dongyang.

Liu Jian and Xie Qian even had a thought: if they had come to Jinling for that court meeting, their fate might have been different now.

"Mr. Liu..."

"Thank you, Mr...."

"Ugh……"

Looking at the two people who became prisoners, Li Dongyang had thousands of words to say for a moment, but when they came to his lips, they could only turn into sighs. The dead are the greatest, so it is better not to provoke them.

"Binzhi..."

"I heard... my son was also arrested."

"Are they okay now?"

Xie Qian finally mustered up the courage and looked up to ask Li Dongyang.

Their nine clans are in the south... Those in the capital have been executed on the spot, but they still have sons in the south.

"They... are fine. They are all waiting for you..."

Li Dongyang sighed again and didn't want to say anything more. Some of Xie Qian's family members were in the south, waiting for Xie Qian to arrive and set off together.

He really didn't know how to comfort her.

"Can we still see His Majesty?" Liu Jian also spoke. Now he just wanted to see Zhu Houzhao for the last time and had completely given up.

"I think so. His Majesty should meet you on the day of Taizu's birthday..."

Li Dongyang naturally pleaded for mercy, but Zhu Houzhao rejected him.

In Zhu Houzhao's own words, the new Ming Dynasty needed to use a significant number of heads to make a break with the old Ming Dynasty.

The heads of Liu Jian and Xie Qian are just about the right weight.

"Being able to see His Majesty for the last time... I can die with my eyes closed..."

Liu Jian closed his eyes and sighed deeply.

(End of this chapter)