Wang Fuqian sits in Taizhou, looking at Ningbo and Shaoxing, sitting and looking at two, in fact, his heart is bigger than this, he even looks at the south of the Yangtze River, and even looks at the Central Plains.

Chen Zhouquan's area of activity in Zhejiang has never broken through the three prefectures, but has moved between Wenzhou, Taizhou, and Ningbo, and although Hangzhou, Huzhou, and Jiaxing, which are rich in northern Zhejiang, are close at hand, there has never been a war. However, because of their proximity to the front line, the landlord forces here had a strong support for the Manchus, and their own strength was also very strong, and they could provide a lot of resources.

For example, most of the militia groups that captured 20,000 people were young and strong in the three prefectures, and the officers among them were all scholars from the three prefectures.

Compared with those Heaven and Earth Society members under Chen Zhouquan, Wang Fuqian was more friendly to these scholars in northern Zhejiang, and when he saw the scholars who were depressed and even went on a hunger strike, he actually had a feeling of empathy.

He asked these scholars to talk with him, and he told them about the general trend of the world, the decline of the Manchu Qing Dynasty, and that Zhou Lang was a hero of the Han family who descended from the sky, and that he wanted to help the Central Plains, and that he was the lord of the Ming Dynasty and the benevolent monarch. He told them that these scholars in Jiangnan said that after the Manchu Qing Dynasty entered the customs, they had the heaviest killings in Jiangnan, and their ancestors did the hardest struggle against these Hulu in order not to shave their hair and change clothes, and for the sake of the Han family's clothes, hoping that these scholars would not continue to recognize thieves as their fathers and vote for the Ming Lord. He also said some secular truths that good birds choose trees to perch on, and good ministers choose their masters to do things.

But most of these scholars were unmoved, they said that the Eight Banners slaughtered Jiangnan, it was more than a hundred years ago, the emperor raised them for more than 100 years, and they were kind to China. These scholars taught and selected by Ruan Yuan were indeed a group of scholars who conformed to Confucian morality, not only did they not serve Wang Fuqian, but instead made Wang Fuqian sarcastic, making Wang Fuqian red-faced.

He finally sighed, it turned out that he was no longer the same as these readers.

Most of the scholars did not surrender, and only three chose to pledge allegiance to him. As for the rest of the scholars, Wang Fuqian generously let them go, sent someone to escort them to the border pass, and released them. But if they bring those militia groups, they can't let them go, Wang Fuqian is not pedantic, put these people back, let them pick up arms and fight again?

Without the leader, it would be much easier for these peasants, who were usually farming in their hometowns to make a living, and a group of officers were sent to train them, and these people would be auxiliary soldiers in the future.

At the same time as releasing those scholars, Wang Fuqian also asked them to bring Ruan Yuan a letter, of course, it was a letter of persuasion, and the reason was similar to what he told those scholars, but the possibility of getting the effect was lower, Wang Fuqian himself did not think that the other party would surrender, but this was a political offensive, a psychological war launched against the squire class in Zhejiang, telling them that Zhou Lang was not Chen Zhouquan, the army of the Generalissimo of the Restoration of the Kingdom, not the army of the Emperor of Great Fortune, but would be like Zhu Yuanzhang to treat the landlord's regime and calm their hearts.

Although it was impossible to directly win the support of the local forces, it greatly reduced their support for Ruan Yuan, making it much more difficult for Ruan Yuan to recover his strength, while the main force of the Northern Expedition had already entered Ningbo Prefecture.

Ningbo Mansion has been repeatedly tugged at twice, but in fact, such a war, their social structure is better than Wenzhou and Taizhou, because Chen Zhouquan has not been entrenched here for a long time, the local ruling class or the squire class, just two tug-of-war, so that the landlord's family has no surplus grain, and after the tug-of-war, their mentality is not the same as those in the rear, Wang Fuqian found that the scholars in Ningbo Mansion are more willing to surrender, because they are more eager to be stable, this is the mentality that has experienced the war, and they would rather be a peace dog.

Moreover, because of the geographical characteristics of Ningbo Mansion near the sea, Ruan Yuan did not fight the hope of holding the Ningbo Mansion Newspaper, and transferred troops here to assist in the defense of Shaoxing, trying to use the favorable terrain of Shaoxing Huiji Mountain to block the firearms troops of the rebels.

Therefore, Chen Xiaoshou was able to easily occupy Ningbo Mansion, and Wang Fuqian immediately rushed to Fumin with auxiliary troops, and the people in Ningbo Mansion behaved more stable than Wenzhou and Taizhou.

On the other side, Ruan Yuan retreated to Huiji Mountain at the cost of abandoning Ningbo Mansion, but did not meet with a frontal attack from his serious traitor, because the attack came from the rear.

After capturing Wusongkou, they did not stop, but occupied Shanghai and other places, and the entire Songjiang Mansion was taken at no cost.

The historical concept of Jiangnan people's weakness is not without reason, weakness is because of wealth, the cotton textile industry in Songjiang Prefecture is very developed, and the purple cloth produced here is still as a high-end textile, sought after by European upper-class consumers, and is called Nanjing cloth.

The more developed handicraft industry has made the landlords and squires in this area more active than other places, and they are very involved in the operation of the textile industry, and the local gentry who have given up this hierarchical concept have not had much faith in serving the country, so there is very little resistance, and with tax exemption and other policies, no one is willing to resist.

Of course, if Zhou Lang wants to cut off their braids, maybe they will fight like their ancestors, one to shave their hair, and the other to grow their hair.

After stabilizing Songjiang Prefecture, Suzhou Prefecture surrendered en masse once again under the condition of being overwhelmed by the army. If you can get the official shortage of Suzhou Mansion, you can't rely on ability alone, you must have silver to honor Heshen, and officials who are willing to spend money to buy customs generally don't have much of a loyal monarch mentality, and they either run away, such as the Songjiang prefect, or surrender, such as the Suzhou prefect.

The surrender of Suzhou immediately exposed Huzhou and Jiaxing, the two richest state capitals in Zhejiang, to the front of Zhou Lang's army. It also caught Ruan Yuan a little off guard, whether to concentrate troops to defend Hangzhou and Shaoxing, or to transfer troops to help defend Huzhou and Jiaxing.

But at this time, Ruan Yuan suddenly found that the other party was not in a hurry to attack him, but adopted a defensive posture.

It turned out that at this time, the naval division had achieved great results along the Yangtze River, from the Jiujiang River, captured Anqing Mansion (Fuzhi Huaiqing County), Chizhou Mansion (Fuzhi Guichi County), Tongling County, Wuhu County, Taiping Mansion (Fuzhi Dangtu) captured Zhenjiang, important cities along the river were basically captured, and most importantly, Zhenjiang was captured.

The capture of Zhenjiang cut off the connection between the Qing army in the north and Jiangnan, which is why in the Opium War, after the British army captured Zhenjiang, the Manchus would succumb, and the cut off of grain was just a consideration, after all, it was a long-term consideration, and in the short term, it was worried that the British would capture the entire Jiangnan.

Zhou Lang was interested in the whole of Jiangnan, so Jiangning Mansion, the political center of Jiangnan, that is, Nanjing, became a more valuable target than Hangzhou.