And after November, the offensive of the Xingtian Army on Zhejiang was also launched, and sure enough, as Li Xin and Xiao Tianjian and others expected, although Zhejiang is a very rich place, but precisely because this area is too rich, on the contrary, the combat effectiveness of the officers and troops in this area is very weak, and the generals are rich one by one, but the soldiers are poor.

Therefore, after the Xingtian Army took Suzhou Mansion, Liu Yaoben and Luo Li joined forces and began to attack and kill the past in Zhejiang, and there was almost no effective resistance in the county along the way, and the officials and officers and soldiers fled one after another, as for Jiaxing Mansion, it resisted for four days, but under the heavy artillery bombardment of the Xingtian Army, the defenders in the city still collapsed, and the Jiaxing prefect committed suicide by throwing himself into the water in the city when the city was broken.

As soon as the Jiaxing Mansion was broken, Liu Yaoben and Luo immediately rushed to Huzhou Mansion without stopping, and the Huzhou prefect did not wait for the arrival of the Xingtian Army, so he personally held the big seal in his hand, and took the officials in the city out of the city for ten miles to welcome the arrival of the Xingtian Army, and without saying a word, he surrendered to the Xingtian Army.

As soon as Huzhou Mansion fell, the next target was Hangzhou Mansion, and the siege of Hangzhou Mansion actually did not last long, Liu Yaoben and Luo Li's 40,000 troops approached Hangzhou, and the Hangzhou prefect actually knew that once Jiaxing Mansion and Huzhou Mansion were lost, the next target was his Hangzhou, so he found Han and Guangmei who fled to Hangzhou, and asked Han and Guangmei to find a way to help him defend Hangzhou City no matter what.

And Han and Guangmei, this pus, has long been the defeated general of the Xingtian Army, and at this time it has already become a frightened bird, on the surface, it is to slap the chest when the sound, full of promises, and take the opportunity to raise food and salary as the reason, from the Hangzhou Mansion to knock a bamboo pole, as a result, as soon as Liu Yaoben and Luo Li's army arrived in Hangzhou City, this Han and Guangmei immediately repeated the old tricks, came to the soles of their feet to smear oil, the first to abandon Hangzhou City, with the remaining less than 3,000 generals, fled to the south in a smoke, this time he can be said to have accepted the lesson, How far he ran, he didn't even dare to stay in Wenzhou Mansion, and simply fled to the Quanzhou area of Fujian.

As a result, the officials, soldiers and officials in the Hangzhou Mansion who had planned to resist stubbornly saw that Han and Guangmei had slipped away first when they saw Han and Guangmei's treachery, and their morale plummeted, and finally on the day when the Xingtian Army began to attack the city, they pulled out the white flag on the city tower and announced the surrender of Hangzhou, making Liu Yaoben and Luo Li, the two evil gods, very boring, and easily took Hangzhou Mansion.

In just one month, less than the middle of December, Luo Li and Liu Yaoben captured most of the entire northern part of Zhejiang, this speed is a bit too much to call a war, but it is a bit like a rapid march, such a large place, their soldiers and horses run down in a circle, a month is about the same, and the officers and troops in this area are like dominoes, one after another defected and surrendered to the Xingtian Army, almost no let the soldiers of the Xingtian Army fight a slightly more tragic battle, so at this timeAs soon as the banner of the Xingtian Army appeared, hundreds of officers and soldiers immediately began to flee, and as a result, more than a dozen scouts were simply chased behind, and finally they were caught in the back and rushed back to the station, even if the battle was over, the main force behind often scolded the mother, complaining that the scouts did not leave them some food, in this case, Most of the local governments were waiting for the Xingtian Army to come to the door in a panic, and the more loyal officials made up their minds to commit suicide and pull them down, and those who were more active had already begun to send people to take the initiative to contact the people of the Xingtian Army.

However, after mid-December, both Luo Li and Liu Yaoben stopped continuing their southward attacks, and the newly formed soldiers and horses sent by Shi Ran began to take over their defense area, and then Luo Li and Liu Yao's troops began to return to Nanjing.

At the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the entire Nanjing city has entered a busy situation, a large number of people are busy in the city, although Xiao Tianjian has repeatedly asked for frugality, but after all, Nanjing City has just gone through a major war, and now it is going to establish a country, so at least the war relics inside and outside the city must be cleaned up, and the ruins of the houses destroyed by artillery fire always have to be cleaned up, so a large number of manpower has been mobilized, and they are busy doing these things inside and outside the city.

The bricks and tiles of all kinds of ruins were transported out of the city by a truckload, and new houses were built on the ruins, and the houses in some places were too late to be built, so they simply cleaned up and formed a flat land, in short, as much as possible to clean up the things left over from the war, and as long as every household has the conditions, they will put up lights, one is to welcome the arrival of the New Year, and the other is to welcome the founding ceremony of the Xingtian Army, including the destroyed Dinghuai Gate, at this time there are also a large number of craftsmen who are rushing to repair, The urn city has been completely blown up, if it is rebuilt, it is estimated that the time is too late, so simply Xiao Tianjian changed people to temporarily demolish the urn city, leaving only the inner city gate and the city gate tower to be repaired, so that it saves a lot of labor and time, by this time, the Dinghuai gate has been basically close to completion, the newly replaced iron-clad gate has been painted, and a lot of the past weather has been restored.

But after all, the battle here was extremely fierce at that time, although the craftsmen focused on repairing the city gate and the city gate tower, and cleaned up the ruins of the urn city, but the city wall in this area was still full of dense craters, and some people originally proposed to repair these craters, but Xiao Tianjian took the time to look at the field and ordered that these craters do not need to be repaired, as long as they do not affect the main structure of the city wall, these craters will be retained to the greatest extent, just repair the pheasant moat on the city wall, These craters will remain for future generations to pay homage to, as a surreal monument to the Heavenly Army's conquest of Nanjing.

Although the price paid by the Xingtian Army to conquer Nanjing City is not too great, but in order to attack the inner city of Nanjing, the Xingtian Army still suffered more than 1,000 casualties in Dinghuai Gate, especially when Sun Yingyuan led his troops to block the gate, many soldiers died in the city gate, so Xiao Tianjian felt that it was necessary to leave this ruin, so that future generations would know that how many soldiers of the Xingtian Army would pay the price of blood for this.

The remains of these craters were finally preserved, and the walls of the city showed the world the tragedy of the battle that took place here with its mottled body.

Although after the Xingtian Army entered the city, it confiscated many nobles, gentry and officials in the city and some big businessmen who hooked up with the government to monopolize the market to obtain huge profits, and also made many businessmen in Nanjing City close Zhang Daji, and a large number of assets were confiscated by the Xingtian Army, but everyone in the world also saw that Nanjing City is likely to become the official capital of the Xingtian Army in the future, whether it is to live here, or to do business here, There are great benefits to being in politics and business.

Even if Xiao Tianjian does not officially set the capital of Nanjing City in the future, Nanjing City will still be the largest city in this era, and it is located in the most economically prosperous Jiangnan, so it will still be a feng shui treasure here, so when it was learned that the Xingtianjun controlled Nanjing, many merchants began to run towards Nanjing, hoping to take this opportunity to get a shop or a house in Nanjing City.

After the Xingtian Army entered the city, a large number of private property was confiscated, but for the middle and lower class people in the city, they basically did not commit any crimes, just according to the list, according to the map, they confiscated the homes of those who were seriously hostile to the Xingtian Army, and at the same time there were great evils, so the high-level and some nobles in Nanjing were completely uprooted, but the civilians and small and medium-sized rich families and businessmen who were the basis were able to be safely retained.

Among these confiscated assets, there are a large number of real estate and land properties, and the land properties will be redistributed in the future, but in terms of real estate, Xiao Tianjian's opinion is to leave those official offices in Nanjing City for the use of various departments as official offices after the establishment of the country, and leave some real estate as a reward for meritorious officials, and the rest of the real estate that cannot be used at all. Therefore, since it is useless, it is better to sell these properties to the outside world, and take this opportunity to use the money from the house to fill the treasury and raise military funds for the next Northern Expedition.

For Xiao Tianjian's idea, the ministers naturally nodded yes, after all, the Great Middle Dynasty is going to build a new one, just relying on the money they copied before and relying on the conquest to capture, it is obviously not enough to cope with all kinds of expenses after the founding of the country, these copies of the excess houses and shops, it is not much use to keep them, it is naturally a good thing to exchange them for money, which can meet the demand for military expenditures, and can also be used to restore local prosperity, in short, it is a good thing.

However, in terms of how to sell these houses and shops, Xiao Tianjian proposed a new method, that is, to publicly use the form of auction and sell them to the public, and whoever pays the highest price can get it.

So at the beginning of December, Xiao Tianjian's old subordinate Jin Tong, the old housekeeper, presided over a unique auction in Nanjing.

Auctions are definitely still a new thing in this era, and few people have heard of them, but before the auction, under the instruction of Xiao Tianjian, Xingtianjun released the news extensively, so that people have a general understanding of what the so-called auction means, and the auction is to put it bluntly, that is, the one with the highest bid, there is no humanity in it, and it also prevents some officials within the Xingtianjun from taking advantage of this opportunity to enrich their own pockets, so it is beneficial to others and themselves, and it is fair.

After combing through this auction, Xing Tianjun took out nearly 1,000 real estate shops in the city for auction, all over Nanjing, and carried out the stock price in advance, evaluated each real estate shop, and prepared for the auction in advance.

In terms of making money, Xiao Tianjian, a person from later generations, can be said to be more experienced than people in this era, and the entire auction can be said to be presided over by Xiao Tianjian secretly, although some officials who want to take advantage of the opportunity are not very satisfied, but no one dares to say anything at all, and Xiao Tianjian is talking about a high-sounding sound, the money obtained from these auctions will be used for military expenses, and prepare for the future Xingtian Army to dominate the world, so no one dares to say that it is not good, otherwise it will be immediately dismissed as ill-intentioned, There is a suspicion of wanting to take advantage of the opportunity to fill his pockets.

When a large number of merchants or gentry heard the news, they immediately poured into Nanjing City from all directions with money, and for a time the inns in Nanjing City were crowded with people who came to participate in the auction.

Since they dare to come here to participate in the auction, then these people are basically rich people, so many rich people poured into Nanjing City at the same time, so that Nanjing City, which became depressed because of the war, suddenly changed and resumed its prosperity, some people have money and consumption, for a time all walks of life in Nanjing City have opened here, and become very lively, even those Goolan brothels on the banks of the Qinhuai River, at this time also immediately resumed prosperity, began to sing and dance.

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