Why marry someone when you are reborn?

However, Xu Yun was not so idle that he thought about Xu Sanlang's affairs every day.

As Jinzi Mountain appeared, countless people began to pour into the north.

The Southern Court began to restrict the migration of aristocratic families to the north.

But as soon as this restriction order was issued, small families, ordinary people, and wealthy businessmen who were able to move away began to move like crazy.

In just one month, the influx of people from the south pushed up the house prices in Peking several times.

Nowadays, houses in Peking are so expensive that it can be said that every inch of land is worth a lot of money.

But even so, the house is still in high demand.

All the empty houses in the hands of the court were sold.

A large sum of money came in.

This house is under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Household Affairs.

Nowadays, the Ministry of Revenue is also in charge of accounting.

Xu Yun was also assigned to take charge of this matter, together with Zhao Junfeng.

Last year she was still an apprentice under Zhao Junfeng, but now the two of them can work together.

Zhao Junfeng looked at Xu Yun and sighed for a moment, but he also admired her sincerely: "Inspector Xu is really good."

Xu Yun said modestly: "You taught me well. If I hadn't learned a lot from you in the beginning, I really wouldn't be here today."

Although I know that Xu Yun was lying, who wouldn't like to hear such compliments?

Zhao Junfeng said in a friendly manner: "We made quite a lot of money this time, and the frontline can breathe a sigh of relief."

With this money, Zhou Xin's tightly frowned brows finally relaxed a little, and he was not so prone to temper anymore.

Xu Yun smiled and said, "It's not just these houses that have been sold. With so many people moving in, the cost of food and clothing is huge, so the business of those shops is better."

Then there will be more people needed to work, and the people will be able to find more jobs to earn money.

Now that people have money, they are naturally willing to buy some things.

This allows those shops to make more money.

Now shops are taxed based on their revenue, which in turn means the government gets more money.

The Ministry of Revenue will have more financial resources.

Zhao Junfeng smiled even more: "That's right. The methods proposed by our Majesty are really good."

Xu Yun smiled: "It will get better in the future."

Not only the city of Peking, but also several livable cities near Peking were affected.

Except for those really cold places near Yanmen Pass where no one goes, other cities are really almost overcrowded.

But what is really gratifying is that such a large-scale relocation, with the roads densely packed with migrating horse-drawn carriages, ox-drawn carts, donkey-drawn carts, and even people walking, had a huge impact on the southern court.

The prestige of the Southern Court was declining day by day. The people's hearts were shaken, the army's heart was unstable, and the aristocratic families began to have their own little thoughts.

In three cities in succession, as soon as Your Majesty led the army to arrive, the soldiers defending the city took the initiative to open the city gates and surrender voluntarily.

This is also unprecedented.

You know, these generals who defended the city all left their families in Kyoto.

To put it nicely, these people are enjoying wealth and glory.

To put it bluntly, they are hostages.

Otherwise, with so many soldiers and food supplies, if we don't leave a hostage in Kyoto, wouldn't we be waiting for someone to rebel?

After taking these three cities, they were less than 500 miles away from the capital of the Southern Dynasty, Nandu.

Only Jiang'an City remained.

Gongsun Zhu, the soldier defending Jiang'an City, is from the Gongsun family, the most prominent family in the south.

After Gongsun Zhu defended the city for seven days, he still had no choice but to open the city gates and surrender - all his soldiers were dead. Even the men in the city who could carry stones and were over 12 years old were conscripted.

When Gongsun Zhu opened the city gate, he jumped down from the city wall. Before jumping down, he looked up to the sky and cried: "Heaven has destroyed my dynasty! Heaven has destroyed my dynasty!"

This scene made many soldiers who had endured the hardship until now burst into tears.

After Gongsun Zhu's death, China's morale soared, and the last of the Southern Dynasty's luck began to dissipate.

Under the leadership of His Majesty Zhou Ding, the entire Chinese army rushed into the city of Nandu like a hot knife through butter.

It is said that the Nandu City has 50,000 elite guards, but in fact it has less than 20,000 soldiers.

The one guarding the city was Gongsun Zhu's elder brother Gongsun Liang.

Gongsun Liang didn't know whether he had received the secret letter Gongsun Zhu wrote before his death, but after a day of passive resistance, he was defeated.

At this point, His Majesty Zhou Ding successfully invaded the Southern Capital and took the imperial palace directly.

The people in the palace were already in chaos. The maids and eunuchs fled in all directions, each carrying valuables in their arms.

His Majesty Zhou Ding, along with his two generals Luo Zhan and Jiang Xin, entered the palace directly and quickly found the emperor of the Southern Dynasty hiding in the secret passage.

The emperor is only fifteen years old now, and still looks like a teenager.

But his body has been hollowed out by alcohol and sex. He is pale and weak, without a trace of youthful vigor, but instead exudes a sense of decadence and corruption.

His Majesty Zhou Ding did not kill him. Instead, he asked him to write an abdication edict, and then allowed him to become a monk and practice in the Great Compassion Temple in the city of Nando.

As for other members of the royal family, they were not killed on a large scale, except for a few notorious ones. Others who were willing to practice cultivation could practice together, and those who were unwilling to practice cultivation could stay in China and become ordinary officials - after all, these people had some knowledge.

Your Majesty Zhou Ding does not want to waste talents at all.

The only thing that made their majesties very unhappy was that the Southern Court occupied the most fertile land, but there was no food or money left in the national treasury.

It is said that tens of millions of shi of grain were secretly sold by the previous emperor's favorite concubine when he was still in power, and all of them were replaced with stale and moldy grain.

If it weren't for this, China might not have been able to fight so smoothly this time.

The maternal family of the Southern Dynasty emperors was the Gongsun family.

The head of the Gongsun family, Gongsun Zan, is the young emperor's maternal grandfather.

Gongsun Zan, the Grand Marshal of the Southern Dynasty, was not executed, but he was seriously ill—he was angry. When he needed food during the war, he opened the granary and found that the food was all stale and moldy. He vomited blood and fainted.

All the food and fodder he used later were collected by him despite his sick body.

But even so, there was no way to turn the tide.

Your Majesty admired such a loyal minister very much, and even proposed to invite Gongsun Zan to stay and serve as an official in the court.

But Gongsun Zan refused, saying that he was terminally ill and just wanted to return to his hometown, so he took most of the Gongsun family with him. The remaining few were unwilling to leave.

After leaving enough people to guard the south, His Majesty Zhou Ding led his troops back to the capital.

On the way back, it was already winter.

It seems that the Chinese New Year is almost here.

This fight lasted for almost a year.

On the day when His Majesty Zhou Ding returned triumphantly, Xu Yun also went with him.

Still standing behind Zhou Xin.

When they saw the dark army from afar and heard the rumbling sound of horse hooves getting closer, almost everyone started crying.

The troubled times are finally over.

Next, there will be peace for at least a few decades.