Although it has been decided to move the capital, after all, the relocation of the capital is a major event, and it cannot be done in a short time, and some necessary preparations must be completed first.

Luoyang, the ancient capital, was the capital of the Liang State before this, and all kinds of palaces and houses were complete and did not need to be built separately; This time, when the Wu army captured Luoyang, there was basically no major battle, and the Luoyang city wall and palace wall did not need to be repaired.

However, moving the capital means that a lot of interests are involved, and not everyone is like Yan Keqiu, Chen Yanqian and others who focus on state affairs, and more people are still concerned about their own interests.

Not to mention anything else, those nobles of Wu State before all bought luxurious real estate and belongings in Jinling City, as well as various intertwined connections, which could not be brought to Luoyang after the capital was moved, so moving the capital was obviously a major blow to these people.

In addition, officials such as Yin of Jinling Prefecture, although they were nominally magistrates before, because of their proximity to the center of power, their status was naturally higher than that of other places; Now that the capital has been moved to Luoyang, their status will obviously decline.

In short, moving the capital often involves a variety of entanglements of interests, and it is not so easy to smooth it out.

Fortunately, Yang Wu's prestige is deep enough, and no one in Wu can challenge him at present, and there is the support of important ministers such as Chen Yanqian and Yan Keqiu, so the decision to move the capital can be implemented.

In addition, after capturing Luoyang this year, Yang Wu disposed of a large number of former ministers of the Liang State, degraded officials, exiled officials, and even many people fell to the ground, so that the original interests of Luoyang were almost cleaned up.

After making the decision to move the capital this time, Yang Wu ordered the relocation of 20,000 households and nearly 100,000 people from Jinling, Suzhou, Changzhou, Xuanzhou and other places to Luoyang.

After the war at the end of the Tang Dynasty, although Luoyang was the capital of the Liang State, its population never recovered to its peak; After more than 20 years of development, the population of Jinling and other important towns in the south of the Yangtze River has already reached an astonishing level, especially Jinling, which is the capital, with a population of more than 500,000.

Although the population of Jiangnan is not as good as that of the Ming and Qing dynasties in the later generations, it is enough to export the population to the outside world.

The relocation of such a large number of people to Luoyang is on the one hand to restore Luoyang's prosperity and reduce the pressure on the population in the south of the Yangtze River, and the other important purpose is to further promote the integration of the north and the south and establish a "mass base" for the future capital.

After all, for the people of Luoyang, Wu Guonai, who rose in Jianghuai, is an outsider, not to mention boycotted, but at least it will not be too popular; Therefore, the relocation of some "own people" is also conducive to strengthening the control of Luoyang.

In addition to the relocation of the population, another order issued by Yang Wu was to merge Luoyang, Shaanzhou, Yuzhou, Mengzhou, Huaizhou, and Weizhou into the new Luoyang Prefecture, whose administrative status was comparable to that of the provinces; The territory under the jurisdiction of Henan Province has shrunk a lot, and the administrative office has also moved to Kaifeng.

Dingjinling was Nanjing, and the original Zhili prefectures were merged to form a new province, which was Jiangsu Province, with the original Jinling Prefecture Yin as the new governor of Jiangsu, and other officials were also promoted accordingly, which was also a kind of appeasement for those local officials.

However, the status of Jiangdufu, the original capital of Huainan, was further reduced, not only losing the status of the eastern capital, but also restoring its original name, Yangzhou Mansion.

Although Yangzhou was the seat of Huainan in the Yang Xingmi era, the location conditions here are not only compared with Luoyang, but also compared with Jinling, so it is not surprising that it lost the status of the eastern capital this time.

The movement lasted from August to November, and the once somewhat dormant city of Luoyang quickly returned to its former prosperity with the arrival of immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River.

During these three months, Yang Liucheng's Jin army launched two more night attacks, but in these two night attacks, the first Jin army achieved minor results, breaking through six camps; In the second night attack, the Wu army was much more vigilant than the last one, and the night attack of the Jin army not only did not achieve any results, but suffered heavy losses, and finally fled back to the city in embarrassment.

By the end of November, the Wu army was once again rotated, and as in the previous rotation, after the withdrawn troops went back to rest and recuperate, they directly transferred troops from the south to replenish the Dong'e and Pingyin lines.

In addition to the dynamics on Yang Liu's side, another important thing happened, that is, Zhenzhou, which had been besieging the city for more than a year, was finally broken by the Jin army in early October.

As early as the end of September, Zhang Chujin sent his brother Zhang Chuqiu to lead 7,000 troops out of the city to attack the Jin army camp, and it happened that the Jin army at that time recruited Li Cunjin also sent the main force of the Jin army to Zhenzhou City to challenge, but the problem was that the two armies did not meet halfway, but missed each other; And neither the Jin army nor the Zhenzhou army knew the other party's arrangement.

In this way, when the Zhenzhou army led by Zhang Chuqiu arrived at the Jin army camp, the Jin army was unexpectedly defenseless, and the troops in the camp were empty, and the situation was extremely urgent.

On the one hand, Li Cunjin sent people to quickly transfer troops to return for reinforcements, and on the other hand, he personally led the hundreds of troops left behind in the battalion to resist bravely; With a few hundred people to resist the 7,000 Zhenzhou army, even the brave and warlike Jin army could not bear it.

Fortunately, there were many cavalry in the Jin army, and after receiving Li Cunjin's order, they quickly returned to help, and the Jin army in the camp attacked back and forth, annihilating all the 7,000 Zhenzhou troops, but Li Cunjin himself was also killed in the fierce battle.

Li Cunjin's death in battle was the second famous general of the Jin State to die under the city of Zhenzhou after Li Sizhao, if you add Yan Bao, who died in shame soon after the defeat of Zhenzhou, the Jin army lost three generals before and after Zhenzhou, and the loss of troops and money, food, and baggage was countless.

Such a heavy loss also made the Jin Kingdom hate Zhenzhou to the extreme.

Fortunately, at this time, with the 7,000 Zhenzhou army being completely annihilated, Zhenzhou has also reached the end of the mountain.

Although Zhenzhou is a fortified city, there are many defenders in the city, and the reserve of money, food and ordnance is sufficient, but no matter how sufficient, it can not withstand the consumption of more than a year of siege warfare, and at this time the city has been cut off from food and grass, and even the 7,000 troops sent by Zhang Chujin are his last fight.

Now this last resort has failed, and Zhenzhou's hope is completely gone.

At the end of September, Li Cunxuan, the king of Jin, ordered Li Cunxuan to be the new envoy to the north and take over the Zhenzhou war.

On the third day of October, Li Cunxian led the army to arrive at the city of Zhenzhou.

At midnight that day, Li Zaifeng, the general of Zhenzhou City, acted as the internal response of the Jin army, opened the city gate and let the Jin army enter the city.

At this point, Zhenzhou, a hard bone that had plagued the Jin State for more than a year, was finally broken, and the Jin army finally had a little spare strength to support other battlefields.

At the end of October, 5,000 Jin reinforcements arrived in Hezhongfu and joined forces with the defenders in the city, and the Wu army, which had besieged the city in Hezhongfu for five months, was defeated, losing more than 6,000 soldiers and forced to retreat to Guanzhong.

This victory can be regarded as adding a lot of confidence to the Jin army, which has been fighting many times recently, and makes them realize that the Wu army is not invincible, but no different from the previous Liang army, Zhenzhou army, Khitans, etc., they can all be defeated.

In November, Jin Tejin and Hedong supervised the army envoy Zhang Chengye died of illness in Jinyang, and after Li Cunqiao heard the funeral report, he was so sad that he couldn't eat for several days.

Also in November, another famous general of the Jin Kingdom, Datong Jiedu made Li Cunzhang die of illness.

This news is undoubtedly another storm for the Jin Kingdom.

In the past ten years, the reason why the Jin army has been invincible is not only because the soldiers of the Jin army are indeed brave and good at fighting, as well as the outstanding leadership of the Jin king Li Cunmiao himself, but more importantly, because the Jin army has a series of famous generals such as Zhou Dewei, Li Cunxian, Li Sizhao, Li Cunzhang, Li Cunjin, Li Siyuan, etc.

For example, during the Three Kingdoms period, whether it was Cao Cao, Liu Bei, or Sun Quan of Eastern Wu, there were too many heroes under their command, and they performed one after another starry scene.

But when the grand scene ends, what follows is often a trough of withering talent.

This is also true in this day and age.

Whether it is Zhu Wen, the king of Liang who once dominated the world, or Yang Xingmi, the king of Wu who rose in the south, or even Wang Jian, the king of Shu, and Li Maozhen, the king of Qi, who were divided in Shu, they all gathered a large number of famous generals under their commands, and the same is true for Li Keyong, the king of Jin.

It's just that when the founding generals of other forces have withered one after another, the founding generals of the Jin State have been active on the battlefield, so the Jin army can be invincible.

Of course, other forces also have their own ways to deal with the withering of the founding generals, such as Qi and Shu, they did not deal well, so these two countries can only be on one side now.

Although Liang repromoted a large number of generals among the young generals, such as Wang Yanzhang, etc., the ability of these generals was still not as good as Zhou Dewei and Li Cunxian of the Jin State, plus various other reasons, and finally the Liang State also fell.

As for the state of Wu, because Yang Wu realized the protracted nature of the war a long time ago, he paid attention to training young generals a long time ago; Up to now, although the founding veterans are basically gone, the younger generation of generals have been able to take the lead.

And now, with the passage of time, the Jin army will also face a severe test brought about by the departure of veterans.

Zhou Dewei, Li Sizhao, and Li Cunjin died in battle, Li Cunzhang died of illness, Li Siyuan was besieged by the Wu army in Yunzhou City, and it was difficult to get out, and only Li Cunxian, a famous general, was still supported.

But whether it is Li Siyuan in Yunzhou City, or Li Cunxian, who has just broken through Zhenzhou with his army, they are all veterans in their fifties and sixties now, and how many years can they fight for the Jin army?

If other young generals could not quickly grow up and take on great responsibilities, it could be expected that the Jin army would inevitably enter a downturn in the future, which would greatly affect the great cause of the conquest with Wu.