Ruan Yuan attached great importance to Jiangning's news in Hangzhou, and he knew that if Jiangning could not hold it, Hangzhou would definitely not be able to hold it either. Jiangning's gains and losses are related to the gains and losses of the entire Jiangnan.

The news is finally here, Jiangning has fallen!

This news is actually not unexpected, but Ruan Yuan doesn't want to see it. He fought with the thief army and found that the thief army was much stronger than the officers and soldiers in terms of organization and fighting spirit. He had already felt the most terrifying aura from those people, and that was justice. Those thieves no longer regard themselves as thieves, but also as officers and soldiers from the bottom of their hearts, and they are psychologically equal to the officers and soldiers. In the past, Chen Zhouquan's army, no matter how vicious, the smell of being a thief on his body was very strong, and those soldiers knew very well in their hearts that they were anti-thieves, but Zhou Lang's army actually thought that they were officers and soldiers in their hearts.

This kind of psychological level thing is not something that can be cultivated in a moment, Ruan Yuan knows that Zhou Lang, the anti-thief, is more evil than any anti-thief, he is not Li Zicheng, he is Zhu Yuanzhang!

How Jiangning fell, Ruan Yuan is not very clear, but one news confirmed by many parties is that Su Ling'a, the governor of Liangjiang who defended the city, saw that there was no hope of rescue after the thieves besieged Jiangning, so he chose to break through, led tens of thousands of Eight Banners and Green Battalions, broke out of the encirclement, and after seizing the boats of the thief soldiers' water camp, he crossed the river and went north, and now he is in Yangzhou.

From the point of view of time, this almost happened in about ten days when the thieves surrounded Jiangning, and Ruan Yuan still believed in this result, because the thieves had an unstable foothold, and there was hope for a breakthrough, and in the case of hopeless rescue, a breakthrough was also the most correct choice, but this breakthrough was not a Jiangning, but the entire Jiangnan, not even the entire Jiangnan, but the hearts of the people in the world!

Because just after the news of the fall of Jiangning spread, the news that Ruan Yuan received intermittently after that was basically the news of the surrender of civil and military officials from a certain prefecture and a certain county.

Zhou Lang sat in the Jiangning Governor's Mansion and was very satisfied, he was very satisfied with the purchase of the city.

He bought a Jiangning, and what he got was the entire Jiangnan, or even half of the country.

From this point of view, Su Ling'a's price at that time was really not expensive, and after that, Zhou Lang's bargaining price seemed a little too unauthentic.

The two of them were finally sold for three million taels of silver, during which they went through complex psychological temptations. Zhou Lang counteroffered one million taels, but the other party disagreed, Zhou Lang opened a bombardment of the city, and a bombardment was a whole day; The other party lowered the price to eight million taels, but Zhou Lang still disagreed, so Su Ling'a sent someone to block the city gate and make a posture of stubborn defense.

One side tries to show that it has what it takes to take the city, and the other tries to show that it has what it takes to hold it. In fact, both sides are inclined to reach an agreement, which is nothing more than a bargaining trick.

In the end, after Zhou Lang shelled continuously for a week, and sent troops to occupy Purple Mountain, Yuhuatai and other important places in Waiguocheng, the two sides reached an agreement and sold the deal at a price of 300 taels.

After that, Su Ling'a announced to his subordinates that there was no hope of rescue, and decided to break through the siege and join the imperial army to fight back. Some people took responsibility, and the officers and soldiers under them could not commit the crime of sending them to death, so no one objected. Several civil officials had opinions, but in the end, they were all left in the city by Su Ling'a and committed suicide before Zhou Lang entered the city.

After that, it was a performance that was deeper than the director of He Shen, Su Ling'a sent people to requisition all the large and small boats in the city, including the flower boats of the Qinglou girls in the Qinhuai River, Nanjing was still a water city at this time, and there were many boats in the city, so he looted hundreds of large and small boats.

Then Su Ling'a sent his henchmen to attack from Shuiximen at night to control the area around the mouth of the old river, and the soldiers quietly crossed the Yangtze River in an orderly manner called boats. During the whole process, Su Ling'a arranged his henchmen on both sides, and after half of the people crossed the river, they faintly heard the earth-shattering shouts and guns, and the people and horses who stayed at the ferry and waited to cross the river were frightened, Su Ling'a told them that the enemy was attacking, urging the remaining men and horses to cross the river as soon as possible, and after everyone had passed, Su Ling'a's henchmen "escaped".

In short, it was a smuggling trip, and there were not a few deaths in the whole process. Su Ling'a miraculously not only brought nearly 100,000 troops across the Yangtze River in Nanjing, but also did not leave tens of thousands of families of the Eight Banners, creating a miracle in military history and leaving a huge mystery for future generations.

Zhou Lang did not break his promise, and the silver prepared for Su Ling'a was placed in several ships one by one, and even the boats were given to Su Ling'a's cronies.

Spending money to buy the city, Zhou Lang didn't find it difficult to accept, if it was possible, Jiaqing wanted to sell the whole country, and Zhou Lang was willing to agree to it no matter how much it was charged.

Not to mention the additional gains after taking Jiangning, just the city of Jiangning itself is priceless. It is impossible to keep the silver in the city treasury, but the grain is left, so Zhou Lang had to give Su Ling'a an additional 300,000 taels of silver, which is considered to be the military rations bought from him, so Su Ling'a did not order these grains to be burned; The dwellings in the city have not been damaged, especially the Jiangning weaving that Zhou Lang attaches great importance to has been completely preserved. This institution, which represents the highest level of China's silk weaving industry, cannot be measured by money.

Nanjing's handicraft industry, represented by Jiangning manufacturing, also represents the pinnacle of China in this era. Later experts estimated that in the Qing Dynasty, there were more than 30,000 looms in the urban area of Nanjing, about 50,000 male and female workers, more than 200,000 residents who relied on the silk weaving industry for their livelihood, and an annual output value of 12 million taels of silver. The pearl of this is Jiangning Weaving, which is a government institution, and the silk products produced by the governor's government-run workshop are only for the use of the emperor and princes. If ordinary civil officials want to get it, they can only go through special channels or wait for the emperor's reward, and it is rare for ordinary people to see it.

Now these belong to Zhou Lang.

As for Su Ling'a earning Zhou Lang three million taels of silver, whether he has a life flower or not, Zhou Lang is not clear, if Jiaqing really moved his mind to kill him, He Shen would not be able to keep it. Because He Shen did not have the determination to resist the emperor for the sake of superficial brothers, the governor of Fujian and Zhejiang is an example.

And Heshen's power is now in a crisis.

That is, Qianlong finally died at the age of eighty-nine.

The news of Qianlong's death began to spread outward almost at the same time as the fall of Jiangning.

The impact is extremely huge, especially in the south of the Yangtze River, the magistrates saw that Zhou Lang's offensive was unstoppable, and on the other hand, the news of the death of the Manchu Emperor came, and the psychological blow to them was huge.

In less than three months, the entire lower reaches of the Yangtze River, except for Hangzhou, had fallen into the hands of Zhou Lang.

According to Wang Fuqian, now there is one of the three parts of the world, and the other two parts of the world, one is in the hands of the Qing court, and the other may fall into the hands of the White Lotus Sect.