Sure enough, the people sent by the Ming officials and gentry in the city for the second time were much smarter, and although their attitude was neither humble nor arrogant, they would not be able to fake Tang and thief army in one mouth, and then play tricks and so on.

So the two sides are still able to negotiate practically!

However, the negotiations were unsuccessful, because the terms of the negotiations between the two sides were too different.

The city demanded that the Tang Army protect the lives of the officials and gentry in the city, and let them come and go freely, and then said that they should not send troops into the city to disturb the people.

Li Chunjing's condition was that they surrender unconditionally, and they were not allowed to destroy the buildings in the city, burn the granaries and armory, and so on.

The differences between the two sides are too great, so naturally they can't get along, so naturally they continue to fight!

In the evening of the same day, after the assault battalion of the Second Army landed at the head of the city, the officials and gentry in the city once again sent people to negotiate, but Li Chunjing directly refused, and only replied: Surrender or die!

The people who came were still very angry at Li Chunjing's simple and rude attitude, saying that what kind of soldiers can be killed but not humiliated, and Ning Yu is not broken.

However, half an hour later, the officials and gentry of Jinling City led the whole city to surrender and welcome the king into the city!

Wang Yiqi's hope before his death was that they would defend Jinling for several months and buy time for Jiangbei to deploy defense were shattered in just one day!

In fact, the defenders in the city also carried out stubborn resistance, but now the Ming army defending the city is even less than a few days ago, at the beginning the defenders in the city and Wang Yiqi left more than 10,000 soldiers and horses, and then seven or eight thousand routs fled back to Jinling City.

But in the next few days, these troops were successively led across the river by their main generals, including the core of the defenders in the city, the 3,000 Jiangnan New Army.

By the time the Tang army blockaded Jinling City and attacked it, the defenders in the city were less than 10,000 people, and they were all weak in battle.

Even if you want to defend the city, you can't defend it, you can't hold the city, and you don't want to die, so you naturally want to negotiate, and if the negotiation fails, you can only surrender completely and unconditionally.

And the grade of the officials who led the surrender is not low, there are two of the six Shangshu in Nanjing, and the other high-ranking officials have grabbed a lot of them, what are the six Shangshu, the squire, the imperial history of the Inspectorate, the General Political Department, the princes and magnates in the Governor's Mansion and so on.

Its high grade, rich variety, created a precedent since the Tang Dynasty and the Ming Dynasty fought for hegemony, even if it was placed in the past dynasties, unless the enemy capital was conquered and the victory of the country was destroyed, otherwise this situation was not much.

Why, because who let the Ming Dynasty adopt the Shuangjing system, this Jinling is also the capital, the six ministries in the city, the Inspectorate, the General Administration, the Governor's Office, the Hanlin Academy, the Guozijian and other central institutions are readily available.

This broke through Jinling City, and there will naturally be a lot of high-ranking officials who surrendered.

Of course, not all the officials surrendered, in fact, many ran away beforehand, some went into hiding, and some committed suicide.

But in any case, this time the officials in Jinling City who surrendered to Cheng were of high rank and number, which was still very rare, and this was also the reason why Li Chunjing was willing to accept their surrender and even negotiate with them, otherwise, according to his temperament, he would just break through the city directly, and then these people would not have to be prisoners obediently.

But in this way, the political influence is not so great.

After all, the difference between their voluntary surrender and being captured is still very big, and the political influence attached to it is also very great, and this kind of political influence is also urgently needed by the Tang Dynasty at present.

Li Chunjing looked at the large number of Ming army officers in red robes in front of him, and even could imagine how excited the editors and chief writers of the Ministry of Rites and Newspapers would be after knowing about this, and it was estimated that one propaganda article after another would immediately be widely distributed all over the world, publicizing the victory of the Tang Dynasty and His Majesty's merits.

And when preaching the victory of the Tang Dynasty and the greatness of His Majesty, he, Li Chunjing, as the commander of the Second Army, took Jinling City and the generals of Jiangnan, and inevitably occupied a small page in the court newspaper, and the other pages naturally belonged to Li Xuan, the wise and great ancient saint who was greater than the sun.

At this time, Li Chunjing was in a very good mood, quite good!

After entering the city, he walked around the city with great interest, not to see the scenery, to be honest, although he was born as a literati, but he has been in the army for several years, and he is not interested in the scenery or anything, he mainly checks the destruction of the city.

When he saw that the city gate tower and many buildings behind the city wall were collapsed and burned, he couldn't help but complain about the artillery generals under his hands, this cannon was too hard, too ruthless!

This city is damaged, but it needs to be repaired!

Then he went to the Ming Palace in the city to take a look, but found that the palace was a little dilapidated, and this scene made him frown a little.

You must know that during the negotiations between entering the city and the Ming army, let them keep the Ming Palace intact in the city, which was listed by Li Chunjing as the main condition, but what he didn't expect was that the Ming army did not deliberately destroy the Ming Palace, but the Ming Palace has been empty for more than 100 years, and it has long been dilapidated, and even many building materials have been demolished and diverted for other purposes.

And this makes him a little worried, if this Ming Palace is not of great use, I am afraid that there will be some trouble in moving the capital!

Moving the capital, this is something that no one has said in the high-level of the Tang Dynasty in the past year, but everyone has paid attention to it, and even secretly discussed it.

Although Zhaoqing is good, but after all, it is located in a remote place in the south, not to mention the distance from the north, even if it is too far away from Jiangnan, even if it is a five-hundred-mile emergency report, the news of Jiangnan will reach Zhaoqing, and it will take many days.

Because of the geographical location of Zhaoqing, Li Xuan himself has revealed on several private occasions that he will definitely move the capital in the future.

But where to move the capital?

Some people suggested that it was in Changsha, some people suggested Nanchang, some people suggested simply going to Wuchang, and no more people suggested moving the capital to Jinling City, and as the person in charge of the Jiangnan Raiders, Li Chunjing was naturally a firm Jinling faction!

If the capital is moved to Jinling, then the strategic core of the follow-up Tang Dynasty will definitely be in the Jiangnan and Jiangbei regions, which will be of great benefit to him personally and many soldiers of the Second Army.

However, if the capital is moved to Nanchang, Wuchang, Changsha and other places, then the future strategy may be Hubei, Sichuan and other places, so that the first army will naturally benefit.

However, although this Jinling City has been taken, but the Ming Palace in the city is damaged, if it is to be repaired, I am afraid that it will not be possible in a short time, not only the problem of time and manpower, but also the problem of cost.

Li Chunjing also knows his majesty's temperament to some extent, and he is very stingy on some issues, if you dare to ask Li Xuan to take out millions of tens of millions of taels of silver to repair the palace, he will dare to cut off your head!

With so much silver, Your Majesty must be the reason to expand the army by another 100,000!

But if you don't build this palace, Your Majesty will come to Jinling in the future, where will you move? You can't let him live in the dilapidated Ming Palace!

In this regard, Li Chunjing is extremely sad, although there are many other large-scale mansions in Jinling City, such as the Han Palace, the Wei State Mansion, etc., all of which are large-scale, exquisite and gorgeous mansions, but the reason why these mansions are called mansions is that they have already represented, and this cannot be used as a palace!

The huge Jinling City, only the Ming Imperial Palace can match the noble status of Li Xuan, the ancient saint monarch!

But the damage to this Ming Palace is really serious, and it is not a small project to repair!

But Li Chunjing just shook his head and didn't think about it, these are all things in the future, the important thing is that Jinling City has been taken by himself now, and Jinling City, as the largest and most prosperous city in the south, is of great significance.

So Li Chunjing couldn't wait to write a good news to Zhaoqing!

He guessed, it is estimated that Zhaoqing has almost received the news of Jianping's victory, and the good news of his victory over Jinling City may be sent to Zhaoqing many days later.

He expected it to be right, the news of Jianping's victory passed through the military's fast horse, which was galloping all the way, and continued to be transmitted rapidly through the military post station system after entering Jiangxi.

In a post station in Zhaoqing City, several knights were still drinking tea and chatting, but suddenly, a sharp whistle came from a distance, accompanied by the whistle and the sound of hurried horses' hooves.

Because the rapid sound of horses' hooves and sharp whistles already let them know that there was an urgent report, and it was the highest level of five hundred miles expedited!

In this five-hundred-mile express delivery, no delay was allowed, and if the knight was unable to deliver the letter to the next post within the allotted time, he would be heavily fined.

And anyone who obstructs the road and delays the delivery of military reports will be severely punished, and the beheading will be light.

The sound of horses' hooves drew nearer, and soon they saw two knights in the distance hurrying towards them, both of whom they recognized as messengers from the previous station.

When the two approached, one of them shouted, "Five hundred miles to hurry!" ”

Then, after the two messengers in the post station took the letter, they didn't say a word, they just galloped on horseback, and what they carried, officially passed all the way back from Jianping, the good news of Li Chunjing's handwritten letter!

The military messenger galloped all the way, and soon approached the city gate, and they blew a sharp whistle all the way, and suddenly the originally crowded city gate was quickly cleared out of a passage, and the patrol guard guarding the city was the first time to open the road with knives and sticks, and after a burst of chickens and dogs jumped, it was to open a passage before the arrival of the war horse of the military messenger.

The war horse continued to gallop through the streets of the city, and the passers-by on the street all avoided it when they saw it, and this sharp whistle and the galloping war horse all marked the identities of these two knights: the military messengers, and when they met these military messengers, they had to hide as far as they could, otherwise they didn't know how to die.

If you dare to stop the military messenger, you can kill him on the spot!

The horses of the two military messengers galloped all the way to the outside of the Privy Council, and then wrapped several layers of wrapped and sealed letters in bamboo tubes on their backs to the officials of the Privy Council, which made them breathe a sigh of relief, and finally did not delay time.

The letter had been delivered, and they could walk back slowly.

But just as they were about to go back, they heard bursts of cheers from the Privy Council, and then they saw a large group of officers rushing out of it, all with laughter, and from time to time they could hear someone talking about a great victory or something like that!