After Fang Yuan pacified all the officials, gentry, wealthy merchants, and common people, he stayed in Yingtianfu Mansion.

In the past five days, Qin Zhan's Jinyi Guard was very efficient, and there was solid evidence for reviewing the case of Lu Daqi's collusion with Qian Qianyi, and a large number of correspondence with Qian Qianyi were found from Lu Daqi's mansion. In the three letters, there is indeed news that the city of Nanjing contacted the Dutch people to purchase artillery and firearms. There is also a letter with more popular content, just before Matsudaira Nobutsuna led the Japanese invasion, Qian Qianyi had submitted a letter to Lu Daqi, asking Nanjing City to cooperate with the Japanese invasion and send troops to attack Changzhou and Zhenjiang.

As soon as these private letters came out, the evidence was conclusive that Lu Daqi, who originally regarded himself as a clear stream, was guilty of being a red hairman and a widow, and there was no need to let Lu Daqi be detained again to be convicted.

Qin Zhan ordered Jin Yiwei to write the guilty charges and presented them directly in front of Fang Yuan. Because Lü Daqi only had a letter from the Emperor, he did not put it into practice, and this person had no great evil, and there was no bad record of surrendering to the Manchus in history.

Fang Yuan also spared his life as appropriate, and sentenced all 300 members of Lu Daqi's clan to be exiled to Fujian. Since Lu Daqi and Qian Qianyi are good friends, let's take my family to Fujian to reunite with Qian Qianyi!

After punishing Lu Daqi, who colluded with Qian Qianyi, and correcting the official style of the Nanjing Yamen, Fang Yuan introduced the petition system into Nanjing City, and the first important town in the south of the Yangtze River with a population of more than one million people like Nanjing City was directly dispatched to monitor the progress of the 300 Jinyi Guards.

After half a month of comprehensive takeover, the people's livelihood in Nanjing, whether it is military and political affairs or commercial activities, has completely returned to normal, and there is no trace of post-war traces on the streets.

After Fang Yuan successfully took over the city of Nanjing, he set his sights on the only military threat to the city of Nanjing-the 60,000 or 70,000 horses and Liu troops stationed in Quarshiji, a hundred miles south of Nanjing. This coalition army is quite numerous, and it is too close to the city of Nanjing, and it only takes two days to kill the city of Nanjing.

Previously, Fang Yuan ordered Zhao Quanzhong to ambush 5,000 cavalry on the main road from Nanjing City to Quarry Rock, waiting for Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo to take the opportunity to attack Nanjing City. But he overestimated the courage of Ma and Liu, and Zhao Quanzhong's five thousand Xuanjia iron cavalry waited for three days and three nights, and did not see a single Ming army heading north, so he could only reluctantly retreat to Nanjing City to resume his life.

To deal with this coalition army of different affiliations, Fang Yuan decided to adopt a strategy of focusing on division, supplemented by military pressure. Ma Shiying is a typical diehard, and he is not expected to change his mind, and the main target of public relations is on Liu Liangzuo, a warlord who has wavered in both previous and historical times.

Fang Yuan sent Zhao Quanzhong's 5,000 Xuanjia iron cavalry, as well as Feng Ting's 5,000-foot battalion sergeants, and marched to camp twenty miles away from Quarry Rock, and the garrison did not advance.

Then he sent someone to send a letter of persuasion to Liu Liangzuo, who was stationed in Quarshiji, ordering Liu Liangzuo's army to accept the reorganization within ten days, otherwise he would be guilty of the same crime as Ma Shiying.

After the news of the fall of Nanjing City and Fang Yuan's letter of surrender reached Quarshiji, a fierce quarrel broke out between the two allies, Ma Shiying and Liu Liangzuo.

Ma Shiying strictly ordered Liu Liangzuo to send troops together, taking advantage of the unstable foothold of the Xuanjia Army in Nanjing, and also to divide troops to garrison Longjiang Wharf and Longjiang Shipyard, and take the opportunity to recover Nanjing.

But Liu Liangzuo has his own little abacus. He was obedient to Ma Shiying's words before, that was because Ma Shiying controlled the Ming army in the three prefectures, and was also appointed as the governor of Nanjing City, and with Ma Shiying, he could maintain his independent status in Chizhou and Huizhou.

But Ma Shiying is now a lost dog, the Ming army in Quarry Rock is only 20,000, only half of Liu Liangzuo's troops, to fight against Fang Yuan, and even recover Nanjing City, Liu Jun must be the main force, Ma Shiying is using his army as a gunman.

For a warlord like Liu Liangzuo, who is semi-divided, because his basic plate is too small, it is impossible to have too lofty and unrealistic ideals. The only idea is to be able to be a soil overlord for a few days, and if you can't be an earth overlord, you will choose the lord as soon as possible to surrender in exchange for a decent ending.

The 40,000 troops under Liu Liangzuo are his lifeblood, and they are also the bargaining chips he relies on to survive and negotiate. If he fought against Fang Yuan again, Liu Liangzuo would not even have a chance to surrender with dignity.

In the face of Fang Yuan and Zuo Mengeng's two-way attack, Liu Liangzuo also knew that Nanzhili could not be kept at all, and if he stayed in Quarshiji, he might be hit by the Xuanjia Army at any time, so it was better to return to Chizhou as soon as possible, preserve his strength, and then negotiate with the side to surrender.

On the pretext that Ma Shiying had poisoned the people in Nanjing City and had been deceived by Ma Shiying, he immediately led 40,000 troops back to Chizhou Mansion on the pretext that he had poisoned the people in Nanjing City and was deceived by Ma Shiying, and immediately led 40,000 troops back to Chizhou Mansion, and even sent troops to close the border between Chizhou and Yingtianfu to show that he would draw a clear line with Ma Shiying and would never be an enemy of Fang Yuan.

As for negotiating surrender with Fang Yuan, Liu Liangzuo first proposed that he could surrender by luck, and even promised to truthfully pay Fang Yuan land taxes according to the amount of land in Chizhou and Huizhou. The only requirement is to retain the military establishment and not accept any adaptation of Fang Yuan.

Where Fang Yuan passed, there were two hard conditions before surrender would be granted.

First, the army must be selected by the Xuanjia Army and then reorganized into the guard; Second, it is necessary to introduce a system of letters and visits and accept the supervision of Jinyiwei.

Liu Liangzuo's surrender condition was to be a local overlord in Chizhou and Huizhou, but Fang Yuan refused without thinking about it, and once again ordered the Shanshan Merchant Gang to bring news, promising that Liu Liangzuo could continue to serve as the commander-in-chief of Chizhou and Huizhou, but he must hand over government affairs and the army accept the reorganization.

Liu Liangzuo was unwilling to hand over the military power easily for a while, and wanted to wait and see, at least wait for the imperial court to express its attitude towards the fall of Nanjing, and then decide whether to accept Fang Yuan's adaptation.

He also played the trick of being seriously ill in bed with Fang Yuan, and directly asked his wife to reply to Fang Yuan's messenger, but suddenly suffered a stroke and fell unconscious to delay time.

Fang Yuan didn't expose or urge him, as long as he could remain neutral and stay in Chizhou and Huizhou honestly, it was also a situation that Fang Yuan could accept at the moment.

After Liu Liangzuo's army retreated, Ma Shiying was independent in Quarry Rock.

The north bank of the Yangtze River is Hezhou and Chuzhou, where 100,000 left troops are stationed; In front of the quarry, 10,000 Xuanjia troops closed the road, and the field battle out of the city was to deliver food;

There is nowhere to retreat, Nanjing City is lost, Chizhou and Huizhou are blocked by Liu Liangzuo, there is really no way to retreat;

There was no supply of military rations stationed in Quarshiji, and the military rations of the 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops were at least 300 stones.

The current Ma Shiying can be said to be called the heavens and the earth. Jiangnan couldn't stay any longer, and the only place he could think of was to lead the Ming army north from the Yangtze River to Fengyang Mansion to join Huang Degong's Ming army, and then try to advance backwards.

Ma Shiying spent three days requisitioning 500 fishing boats along the coast, preparing to take the Ming army of Quarry Rock north at night and march to Fengyang Mansion.

Shi Fu, the commander of Fang Yuan's sailors who stayed at the Longjiang wharf, had already sent a sentinel ship, and when he got the news of the Ming army in Quarry Rock, he immediately reported to Fang Yuan whether he wanted to snipe along the river and annihilate the 20,000 or 30,000 Ming troops who were preparing to go north.

Fang Yuan pondered for a while, then ordered Shi Fu not to send a battleship to snipe, and let Ma Shiying's Ming army return to Fengyang Mansion. As long as Fengyang Mansion was still there, Zuo Liangyu would not dare to covet Jiangnan, and Fang Yuan would be able to free up his hands to go south to conquer the Zheng family. If Zuo Liangyu captures Fengyang Mansion, the next step is to use troops to the south of the Yangtze River, and then he will have to fight on two fronts.

It was still up to Ma Shiying and Huang Degong to bite each other with Zuo Liangyu, and finally it was Fang Yuan's turn to sit on the mountain and watch the tiger fight.