Qi Jin didn't take Ruan Huang seriously at all. Although it was a bit difficult to perform a hundred cavalry breaking ten thousand, Qi Jin felt that it was not difficult at all for thousands of people to break ten thousand, even if Ruan Huang had a city.
He waved his hand to the people behind him, "Pull up the cannons, fire a round of cannons, and then attack the city."
For the Daming General, this kind of siege battle was not difficult at all, and there was no strategy to speak of.
The cannons broke through the city, broke into the city, and then destroyed it in a battle. The Daming General had long been used to this kind of scene.
This time was no exception. Ruan Huang, who was determined, couldn't reach the Daming at all. The top of the city was blown up by the Daming's cannons. Before they could fight with the Daming army, they lost a lot of people. When the city wall was blown up, the Daming army rushed in like a tide, and Ruan Huang was even more desperate.
In the face of the Daming army armed to the teeth, his men were basically defeated at the first touch, and they had no fighting power at all.
Nanjing.
Zhu Yijun looked at the memorial in front of him, and the expression on his face was very indifferent. The Daming was now on the track of rapid development. There were no major problems, but there were many small problems, and he needed to put in a lot of effort and thought to sort them out.
He had been in Nanjing for half a year, and Zhu Yijun had been dealing with these things.
Starting from the Qinhuai River incident, Zhu Yijun cracked down on the Jiangnan officialdom and gentry. More than half a year had passed, and it was still very effective.
"Your Majesty, good news from Sichuan!" Wei Dynasty walked in with the memorial, and respectfully came to Zhu Yijun's side and said.
Zhu Yijun reached out and took the memorial. After looking through it, Zhu Yijun's face suddenly showed a smile. Liu Wei had completely destroyed Yang Yinglong, and this was indeed good news.
Zhu Yijun thought for a moment and then said, "Send an edict to the Duke of Qian in Yunnan and Deng Zilong, have them deploy the army to join forces with Liu Wei."
"After the army has assembled, prepare to attack Mang Yingli. At the same time, send an edict to the Governors of Yunnan, Sichuan, and Guizhou. Abolish the Chieftains in these places and establish counties."
After Wei Dynasty left, Zhu Yijun stretched himself, and the expression on his face relaxed. Now, Daming himself made him feel very comfortable.
Walking to the entrance of the hall, Zhu Yijun looked at Nanjing City not far away and sighed, "It seems that I can go back to Beijing this time."
A few days later, Zhu Yijun received another memorial. This time, it was from Jiaozhi.
After Qi Jin destroyed Ruan Huang, he met up with Zhang Weixian in Rising Dragon Mansion and the two of them killed their way into Rising Dragon Mansion.
After the army entered Rising Dragon Mansion, it could be said that they won consecutive battles. In half a month, they broke through the eastern capital of Jiaozhi, which was later known as Hanoi. At the same time, they captured Li Weitan of the Li Dynasty and killed Jeong Jian.
After the army went south and completely destroyed the Li Dynasty, the whole of Jiaozhi was handed over to Zhang Weixian, and Qi Jin took people to Zhan Po.
After receiving this report, Zhu Yijun also issued an imperial edict to re-establish the Proclamation Department in Jiaozhi.
At the same time, Daming Jiaozhi Admiral's Office was established, and the first Admiral was Wu Weiying. At the same time, the Chieftain system was officially implemented in Jiaozhi.
After arranging all this, Zhu Yijun did not wait for the two armies to attack Mang Yingli. He directly chose to return to the capital because if he did not leave now, it would be winter. Once the river was sealed, Zhu Yijun could only travel by land.
Because of the Little Ice Age, the winter in Daming was very cold, and winter came very early.
Once again returning to the capital, Zhu Yijun was ready to enjoy himself. There was nothing to do for the time being, and there was no need to do anything.
When Zhu Yijun returned to the capital and enjoyed himself in peace, the war in the southern border of Daming had already started. The army of Daming had begun to fight against Mang Yingli. However, not many people paid attention to this battle. It was better in Jiangnan, where merchants followed to do business, but in Jiangbei, no one was interested at all.
Now, the attention of merchants in Jiangbei was focused on the grasslands and the Japanese Empire in Korea, where they could make a fortune.
In addition, there was also the northeast, which was also targeted by the merchants of Daming. All of them were places to make a fortune, and countless people flocked there.
Zhu Yijun was happy to see this. Go, all of you go!
The people were willing to go, and the court supported them. There was a great enthusiasm in Daming to go to the border to make a fortune, but in the end, no one knew how many people could make a fortune.
Zhu Yijun originally thought that it would be quiet before the New Year, but what Zhu Yijun did not expect was that someone would not let him be quiet.
At first, Zhu Yijun did not feel that it was obvious, but as the number of memorials to Ningxia increased, Zhu Yijun found that something was wrong. Basically, all of them were impeaching Ningxia for illegal activities.
Some of the people who did these illegal things were local officials in Ningxia, and some were surrendered generals in Ningxia.
Zhu Yijun originally thought that Ningxia should have calmed down, but he did not expect that there would still be trouble in Ningxia.
However, Zhu Yijun was not stupid. As an emperor for 20 years, Zhu Yijun knew very well that many things could not be seen on the surface. This matter was obviously driven by someone.
Glancing at the Wei Dynasty beside him, Zhu Yijun ordered, "Go to the Grand Council and the Cabinet and bring me all the memorials to Ningxia recently."
Although Zhu Yijun's action was not big, it was not a small matter to transfer the memorials, because it meant that the emperor paid extraordinary attention to a certain place or a certain matter.
The ministers fell into a strange silence, all waiting for Zhu Yijun to make the final decision.
When all the memorials were brought back, Zhu Yijun ordered again, "Organize these memorials, and then write down the birthplace of the people who submitted the memorials to me."
The eunuchs naturally did not dare to be negligent, and quickly compiled the memorials. Zhu Yijun took the list and looked at it. His guess was right, 70% of the people who submitted the memorials were from Shanxi, Shaanxi, Gansu, and Ningxia. It could only be attributed to one place, and that was the land of Ancient Qin, which was the territory of the Jin merchants.
Obviously, this matter was pushed by the Jin merchants, and they wanted to stretch their hands out.
As the northeast and the whole Mongolian grasslands were pacified, Wala would definitely be affected, and the Jin merchants would naturally be affected.
Under such circumstances, the Jin merchants naturally had to look for a new direction.
As people who had endured hardships, the Jin merchants were not afraid of hardship or fatigue. They even dared to go to the west, let alone the Jin merchants who were now powerful and influential.
They directly targeted the west of Ningxia. As it was too far from the sea, it was a very good choice to expand the trade route to the west.
Not to mention the prosperity of the Silk Road, just by selling the Daming goods as far as they could to the west, the Jin merchants would definitely be rolling in money.
Under such circumstances, the Jin merchants naturally had to stretch their hands to the west, and the Mongolian tribes that were blocking their way to wealth naturally became the biggest stumbling block. Among them, the powerful Tatar tribes naturally became the targets that needed to be eliminated.