Due to the proximity of the Chinese army, Wen Zhong fled from Lin'an in a hurry, and he only took with him the empress of the first emperor (Longdao), the empress's son King Wei (who was 8 years old at this time), his own family, several other ministers who were willing to follow (including Bao Zheng), less than 300 guards of the imperial dragon straight, and more than 300 armed members of the Wen family.

The group, numbering no more than 1,000 men, women, and children, had fled from Lin'an to the southern province of Fujian, where there were still some local forbidden army and coastal defense officers and soldiers (who had been the main force of the garrison), and Wen Zhong believed that there was still a chance to regroup.

The people who remained in Lin'an were divided into several factions, among which the most vocal was of course the surrender faction, and they advocated waiting for two days in Lin'an, waiting for the Chinese army to come and receive them.

But there are also people who don't know what to think, and they have set up two emperors in a row - some of them are the old lord and faction families, probably because they felt that they had contact with the pseudo-gold at the beginning, and there must be no good fruit to eat when the Chinese army came, so they gathered more than 1,000 people to release Emperor Taishang Jianxing and support him to re-ascend the throne.

In addition, it is some careerists of the royal dragon bone Duozizhi, who gathered nearly 2,000 forbidden soldiers and horses, supported King Wu to ascend the throne, and even announced the name of "Deyou" in a similar manner.

Therefore, in the five days before the Chinese army arrived in Lin'an, there were actually two reigning emperors in Lin'an City, and several armed conflicts broke out between the supporters of the two emperors.

On the 2nd of August, the Chinese army arrived at the city of Lin'an, and the supporters of Emperor Deyou unceremoniously tied up their emperor and took him outside the city to surrender to the Chinese army.

The supporters of Emperor Jianxing had the intention of continuing to resist, but Emperor Jianxing himself escaped from Lin'an City and took the initiative to surrender to the Chinese army outside the city!

The rebels, who had lost their last righteous name and inflicted massive losses in life and property on the people of Lin'an in the last few days, were immediately suppressed.

It's really the beginning of the chaos, the chaotic process, and the end of the chaos.

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"Look at the mess you're allegiance to." In front of Xu Shisong, Xu Shiyang scolded very unceremoniously: "I look ashamed of them!" Fortunately, it was me who came this time, if it was a Tartar, this would be to throw away the national integrity! ”

"What are you going to do with them?" Xu Shisong asked.

"King Wu was deceived, but he has also given some bastard orders in the past few days, so he was demoted to a commoner."

"Those guys who lied to him about the dragon bones were just to get a credit for the emperor's surrender in my place, so they made a farce of supporting the throne!" Xu Shiyang said viciously: "Lao Tzu does not recognize Emperor Deyou, so they do not have this merit, on the contrary, my military justice department will judge them for sabotage and robbery in Lin'an!" ”

During the five-day battle between Jianxing and Deyou, in order to increase their troops, the supporters of both sides used to force strong men in the city, and robbed money and food as military supplies, during which they did a lot of atrocities of insulting women and killing people, so whether they surrendered voluntarily or not, Xu Shiyang would not give them good fruits to eat.

As for Jianxing Tianzi, he is a real puppet these days, and he surrendered on his own initiative, so the trial is still tried, but Xu Shiyang will order that his punishment be reduced as appropriate - it is estimated that he will be degraded to a common exile in the end, right?

But at least you don't have to be sentenced to death, you know, Xu Shiyang really wanted his life when he sent out the army.

As for the last remnants of the rival gold lords and factions in Lin'an City, a public trial awaited them.

If nothing else, they all have to die.

Ah, by the way, there are also those Chinese lords and factions who are suspected of killing Emperor Longdao, and now Xu Shiyang doesn't plan to punish them, but when the situation in Jiangnan is stable, Xu Shiyang will send someone to investigate the case of Emperor Longdao's overboard, and give an explanation to his family's orphans and widows, as well as Xu Shisong.

More importantly, Xu Shiyang suspects that this case has something to do with some wealthy families in Jiangnan, and if it can be confirmed, Xu Shiyang intends to take this opportunity to crack down on the wealthy families and various interest groups in Jiangnan.

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On August 15, the commanders of the three corps of the Chinese army went to Lin'an for a meeting, at which Xu Shiyang announced that the main resistance force of the Great Zhou no longer existed, so the main task of the legions at present was to disperse and occupy all the territory of the former Great Zhou, eliminate the scattered resistance forces (with equal emphasis on suppression and appeasement), thieves and robbers (suppression by force), sort out the economic and demographic conditions of various places, resume market transactions, and prepare for the autumn harvest and autumn tax work.

For this reason, Xu Shiyang had to disperse more than 100,000 expeditionary troops to various parts of Jiangnan at the company level, and then deploy the staff of propaganda teams, medical teams, working groups, investigation teams, and other departments from the mainland, plus the old government personnel retained in various places, to stabilize production and life in the newly controlled areas.

In order to achieve this, Xu Shiyang had to ask the cabinet to conduct a general mobilization – but not soldiers, but people with management experience.

Including students in short-term training courses, most of them are senior high school students, some non-engineering college students, experienced personnel who have worked in propaganda, medical, research and other departments, veterans of the army, personnel with good grades in night schools, and so on, all of which are used to fill the work team going south.

Xu Shiyang even allowed some veterans to retire early and transfer to local jobs, in order to establish grassroots political power in Jiangnan as soon as possible.

If we add the personnel retained by the old local regime and the companies scattered to various places, in order to actually control Jiangnan, the Chinese Empire has mobilized more than 300,000 people, which is not much more than the number of armed forces in the south of the empire.

In addition, follow-up personnel continue to arrive, and study classes are being quickly set up in various places to train temporary workers and interns.

In contrast, the armed forces of the empire responsible for continuing the offensive have been reduced to 20,000 men in the navy and marines (responsible for landing directly from Min Province and blocking Wen Zhong's escape route), and half of the army, which is mainly cavalry, less than 30,000.

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In order to avoid the threat of the Huaxia Navy in the coastal area, Wen Zhong, Bao Zheng and others did not take the coastal route to retreat south, but first retreated to Jianning Mansion, and then entered Yanping Mansion, preparing to take Tingzhou Mansion from here into Guangdong Province.

In Yong'an County, Yanping Prefecture, Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng supported the enthronement of King Liwei, the country name Xiangxing, and the Empress Dowager (the empress of Emperor Longdao) was regent.

Wen Zhong collected soldiers and horses along the way, and expanded his army to almost 3,000 men, a number far from the goal at the beginning of the southward journey.

Wen Zhong originally hoped to reorganize the dynasty with Fujian, Guangdong, and Gui provinces as the core, but now it seems that this is basically impossible.

Now there are only two paths left:

The first is to wait for change, after all, Da Zhou had the experience of surviving after a southward migration.

The second is to make Huaxia look at the previous situation and allow the small regime of Weiwang to continue to exist in a remote place.

In order to achieve the latter point with a greater success rate, Wen Zhong obtained the consent of the Empress Dowager and Emperor Xiangxing, and wrote a letter to Xu Shiyang as the prime minister of the Great Zhou Dynasty, hoping to negotiate peace.