When the army arrived in Runzhou, the city gate had already been opened.

When the army had just moved south, it asked the Jiangnan Bureau to carefully distribute notices to reassure the people, so the people in the city were not too panicked, and many people went out of the city to meet the army.

Chao Yong watched an official holding the war horse that was given to Zong Ze just now, shook his head and said, "Master Zong is gone?" ”

The official said tremblingly: "Master Zong said that it would be useless, and asked the villain to return the war horse to the prince, and he took Zong Ying away." ”

Chao Yong said with a hint of luck: "Do you know where he went?" ”

"The villain asked, and Master Zong said that he was looking for a place to live in seclusion, and he didn't know where to go."

Later, Xu Guanzhong said to Li Li: "Your people won't not be staring at Zong Ying, right?" ”

Li Li, the urging judge, said with a smile: "I sent a good hand to keep an eye on Zong Ying before, and they can't disappear." ”

Chao Yong heard the conversation between Xu Guanzhong and Li Li, and then he had no regrets.

Previously, he wanted to send someone to guard against Zong Ze's escape, but if he followed Zong Ze directly, he would be a little petty; If you send someone to intercept you outside the city, you will disturb the people. was in a dilemma, so he had to give up the idea of intercepting Zong Ze.

After resting in Runzhou for a day, the army continued to go south and went straight to Huzhou, along the way the prefectures and counties have surrendered, and the local squires also killed cattle and sheep to comfort the three armies.

When it was still more than 100 miles away from Huzhou, the Southern Song Dynasty sent an envoy to ask for surrender.

Chao Yong promised to pardon the sins of Zhao Ziyan and Tong Guan, and accepted the surrender of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Zhao Zisong and Jiang You stayed in Huzhou, because they were afraid that Tong Guan would kidnap Zhao Ziyan and surrender to Liang, but after the news of Zong Ze's defeat came, Zhao Ziyan first lost the courage to resist, and convened hundreds of civil and military officials to discuss surrender, and Tong Guan also supported Zhao Ziyan.

Zhao Zisong and Jiang You were powerless to change Zhao Ziyan's decision, so they could only resign and leave.

When the Great Army moves south. Zhao Ziyan led all the remaining officials of the Southern Song Dynasty out of the city for ten miles to greet them, and the people in the city also welcomed them and cheered for not having to experience the flames of war.

For the people, they are more willing to be the people of the beam, and the state capitals north of the Yangtze River have fully rolled out the Salesian Homes, Residential Nursing Homes, Anji Homes, and Leaky Gardens, so that the victims of the disaster can be relieved in their own state capitals without having to migrate. Although the Southern Song Dynasty used many well-known officials, it did not go all out to help the people, but took the opportunity to recruit young and strong soldiers from the homeless people.

In fact, the Southern Song Dynasty was also forced to do so, although Jiangnan was rich. But before Fang La swept Jiangnan, many super-rich people followed Zhu Mian to Tokyo. The Southern Song Dynasty could directly govern only more than ten state capitals, and it was difficult for Qiao women to cook without rice, and they could not afford to learn from Daliang to set up three courtyards and one garden to help the people.

The Southern Song Dynasty used Zong Ze, Jiang You and others, and it was Jiangnan scholars who were more attracted. After all, the people have to eat, especially in the year of famine, and they refer to the relief of the imperial court. If the imperial court is not effective, even if it has high popularity, it will be lost.

The army did not all enter the city, but Qin Ming's 10,000 soldiers and horses entered the city to take over the city defense.

There were 80,000 troops left outside the city, and 10,000 veterans of Luan Tingyu were stationed on Huainan Road on the north bank of the river, preparing to change the east and west roads of Huainan into Jiangsu Road and Anhui Road. Began to rectify the two-way soldiers.

When the whole city welcomed the arrival of Taiping, in the Zongfu near the Southern Song Dynasty Palace, there were three carriages parked in the backyard, and more than a dozen men, women and children were waiting in the courtyard. It looks like he's going to travel far away.

Zong Ze listened to the cheers on the street, nodded and said, "Prince Liang has entered the city, butler, you go and call the soldiers guarding the gate in." Ying'er. Be gentle and don't hurt them. ”

"Yes. Father. ”

The four guards sent by Tong Guan at the door listened to the thunderous sound on the street, and said, "I don't know if Lord Tong has returned to Daliang and can still be appointed as an official." If he can't be an official, I'm afraid our life will not be easy. ”

"If there is no support from Master Tong, the emperor of Huzhou will not be able to surrender if he wants to. It will take a lot of effort for Daliang to lay down Jiangnan, and Master Tong can be regarded as meritorious, and Daliang will not be rewarded. ”

"It's hard to say, I heard that all the chamberlains in the Daliang Palace can't be officials, and if Lord Tong doesn't have that status, he may be able to continue to be an official. It's hard to say right now. ”

"Tong only wants to save his life, and being an official is secondary. The old breed has led the Western Army to lower the Great Liang, and without the Western Army, how dare Tong dare to fight against the Great Liang. ”

"We are also all from the Western Army, I don't know if Prince Daliang will continue to use us, but all the soldiers and horses on the front line have been disarmed and returned to the field. If we don't get paid, we don't know what we can do. ”

"Hey, that's fate. We want to work hard for the girders, and the girders don't have to be us. The people of this sect were the prince who wanted them to be officials, and they ran away. ”

"If you have the ability of the sect master, you don't have to stand here."

On the same day, Manichaeism spread the news of the fall of the northwest in the city, and most of Tong Guan's 20,000 pro-army immediately dispersed, leaving only about 5,000 people left. Later, the northwest returned to Daliang, and the news that Daliang swept away the Western Xia came, and everyone knew that the news at that time was fake, but the more than 10,000 people had already returned to the northwest and returned to Daliang, the north was strong and the south was weak, so they naturally would not come back.

Even after the remaining 5,000 or so people heard that the Western Army had destroyed the Western Xia, many of them fled to the northwest again.

By the time Daliang went south, there were only more than 3,000 people left in Tong Guan's personal soldiers.

After Zong Ze's defeat and the news of the surrender of Runzhou came, Tong Guan asked people to take care of Zong Ze's family. To wait for the disposal of Prince Daliang, the people who can stand out from the thousands of eunuchs are all good at figuring out people's hearts.

After Zong Ze came out, in order to show his determination to live and die with the Southern Song Dynasty, he moved his family to Huzhou. Zong Ze led the troops to the expedition before, but he didn't bring his family.

The old wife and young grandchildren in the family are all in Huzhou, Tong Guan doesn't think that Zong Ze will ignore his family, as long as he watches Zong Ze's family, Zong Ze will show up sooner or later, and then he will be able to send Zong Ze to Prince Daliang again. As for whether the prince of Daliang will need Zong Ze in the future, whether Zong Ze is willing to be loyal or not, it is none of his business, he only needs to be courteous to the prince of Daliang.

After Zong Ze's father and son left the city from Runzhou, they went all the way south to Huzhou, wanting to move the old and young.

Huzhou is not big, and many officials and people in Huzhou know Zong Ze's father and son, so the two can only change their faces and sneak into Zongfu.

However, there are many children in the family, and it is not easy to go out of the city without attracting attention. When Zong Ze was about to let his family out of the city in batches, Tong Guan had already sent soldiers to take care of Zong's mansion and inform the people in the mansion that they could not leave the city.

It turned out that Tong Guan wanted to know the battle situation on the front line for the first time. sent some henchmen to be the eyes and ears of Beigushan and Runzhou City.

Zong Ze had just asked Zong Ying to surrender the soldiers and horses in the city, and Tong Guan's henchmen in the city quickly came to Huzhou, but Zong Ze's father and son arrived in the city with their front and back feet.

The housekeeper of the Zongfu came out and said to the four: "The old lady has prepared some things to reward the soldiers and horses of the Great Liang, and ask the four sergeants to help move it." ”

"Okay."

The four of them didn't dare to slack off, and hurriedly followed the housekeeper to the house.

As soon as I entered the house, I heard a sudden sound of wind behind me.

"Be careful."

A soldier immediately took a step forward, and at the same time loudly reminded his companion.

Zong Ze and Zong Ying rushed out from behind, their hands up and down. knocked down three people, but I didn't expect one of them to react very quickly.

The military man drew his sword and turned around and saw that the person who attacked was Zong Ze and his son, and said in a daze: "What does Master Zong mean by this?" ”

Zong Ze said: "I want to take the old and young out of the city, and I can only offend the four." The four of you are no match for our father and son, and you have been knocked out by us. When you go back, Tong Guan will not punish you. Maybe Tong Guan won't have a chance to punish you, offended. ”

After speaking, he hugged his fist, and the stick in his hand smashed into the military man again.

How could Zong Ying let his father contribute, he hurriedly attacked on the side, and after a few rounds of left and right, he was smashed to the ground by Zong Ze. Zong Ying made up for it and knocked him unconscious.

Zong Ze saw that the four of them had fainted, so he said to the housekeeper: "Let the old and young in the back get in the car, and welcome the prince in the whole city now, and we will go out of the city." ”

Just for a moment. The three carriages all drove out of the backyard, and Zong Ze's father and son didn't dare to show their heads, squeezed into the carriage, and went out of the house together.

"Master Zong, slow down."

The carriage had just left the house. A troop of horses caught up from behind.

When Zong Ze heard that he was being called, he had no choice but to get out of the carriage. Seeing that the person who came was the prince's own soldier, he hugged his fists and said, "I don't know what the general commands?" ”

Zong Ze's father and son entered the Zongfu but did not hide it from the Jiangnan Bureau, Chao Yong had just entered the city, so he asked Shi Yong to bring someone to invite Zong Ze.

Shi Yong hugged his fists and said: "The prince invited Lord Zong to the Huzhou Yamen for a banquet. ”

Zong Ze also knew that Shi Yong would not return empty-handed, so he had to say to Zong Ying, who got out of the car together: "You take your family out of the city first, and I will go to look for you later." ”

When Shi Yong heard this, he hurriedly said: "The prince wants to make great use of the Zongda, why should the Zongda let the family go back and forth." ”

Zong Ying also said: "My mother and I are waiting for my father in the mansion, if the prince is willing to enlarge people to leave, it will not be too late for us to leave." Otherwise, my father won't be able to leave, and we will have to come back. My mother is not in good health, and I am afraid that I can't stand the bumps back and forth. ”

Zong Ze hesitated for a moment, nodded and said, "Then you can take your family to wait for me in the mansion." ”

Zong Ze saw that a prince's personal soldier had brought the BMW he had left in Runzhou before, so he also turned over and came to Huzhou Yamen.

After Tong Guan built a new dynasty, he expanded the Huzhou Yamen into a palace, although the time was short, but the repair was also splendid. However, Zhao Ziyan surrendered, and this palace naturally became the Huzhou Yamen again, and before Chao Yong entered the city, Zhao Ziyan asked people to demolish all the illegal buildings.

There was already a big feast in the yamen, the prince sat high, on the right was the military generals of the Southern Expedition of the Great Liang, and on the left were Zhao Ziyan, Tong Guan and other newly descended Southern Song Dynasty monarchs and ministers.

The prince did not announce the opening of the feast, and everyone chatted in the palace.

Tong Guan looked at the empty seat above him, thinking hard about who it would be.

The first one on the left is Zhao Ziyan, according to the official position of the Southern Song Dynasty, this position was originally supposed to sit on Tong Guan, but Chao Yong moved Tong Guan back by one place.

Everyone was a little curious about who the prince was waiting for, and they looked at the door of the main hall from time to time during the chat.

"It turned out to be Master Zong."

"No wonder."

When they saw Zong Ze appear at the door of the main hall, everyone suddenly realized.

The highest position in the Southern Song Dynasty was Tong Guan, but the highest reputation was undoubtedly Zong Ze, and Jiang You was worse. Jiang You just has a reputation for being upright, and most of it comes from when he was the imperial history. However, Zong Ze is famous for not being afraid of the powerful and loving the people like a son, and his reputation is earned by serving in various places for 30 years.

After Zong Zezhong was a jinshi, he was first appointed as the county lieutenant and magistrate of the county governor of Tao County, and then the magistrate of the four counties of Quzhou Longyou, Laizhou Glue, Jinzhou Zhaocheng, and Laizhou Ye County, and later promoted to Dengzhou General Judge.

Although the official position is not high, every place he goes to, he has benefited one party and has made outstanding achievements. The official luck is not good, it is nothing more than because he does not want to attach himself to the powerful ministers of the court. In the locality, he is not afraid of the powerful, and he has offended many people.

Tong Guan had also thought about Zong Ze before, but he didn't know that Zong Ze had already infiltrated Zong's mansion, thinking that Zong Ze didn't know where to hide. Now seeing that the prince had just entered the city and invited Zong Ze, he was even more afraid of Daliang's intelligence agency.

After urging the judge Li Li to set up the Jiangnan Bureau, he sent people to infiltrate and even directly spread the newspaper of Daliang's mansion.

Tong Guan put a lot of effort into it, but he couldn't put an end to the news of the Liang Meticulous Spread of the Great Liang. Now it seems that the penetration of Liang Xizuo may be more than he imagined, otherwise he would not have found Zong Ze so quickly.

Chao Yong got up and walked off the high platform. stepped forward and said with a smile: "I haven't seen you for many days, can Master Zong be okay?" ”

When everyone in the palace saw the prince get up to greet him, they all stood up in a hurry.

Zong Zezuo said: "Thank you for the prince's concern, and the villain also congratulates the prince on pacifying Jiangnan." In the future, the villain will be the people under the rule of Da Liang. was about to take his family members into seclusion, and asked the prince to let him go. ”

Xu Guanzhong said with a smile: "Zhao Ji and Zhao Ziyan have both become my Liang courtiers, why should Master Zong be persistent." ”

Chao Yong nodded and said: "There is no shortage of elite soldiers and fierce generals in my Liang, but there is a lack of capable ministers who can govern the world." This year, there is a severe drought in the south of the Yangtze River, and the people are displaced, and they are in need of a place where they can be pacified. He also asked Master Zong to serve as the governor of Zhejiang Road for the sake of the people of Jiangnan. It is roughly Jiangnan East Road. ”

As he spoke, he made a gesture at Zong Ze.

When the Southern Song Dynasty ministers heard that the prince asked Zong Ze to be the governor of Jiangnan East Road, their eyes turned red. The governor of Daliang was in charge of political affairs all the way, and the territory of the Southern Song Dynasty was only half of Jiangnan East Road, and some state capitals were taken away by Lu Shisang. That is to say, once Zong Ze returns to the Great Liang. The state capital under its administration exceeded all the previous territories of the Southern Song Dynasty.

Now Daliang has only sealed the eight governors of Shandong (formerly Jingdong Road), Hebei Governor, Shanxi Governor (formerly Hedong Road), Henan Governor (formerly Gyeonggi Road), Shaanxi Governor, Gansu Governor, Qinghai Governor, and Ningxia Governor, plus the Huainan East and West Roads, Jiangnan East and West Roads that have just been captured. Zong Zehui became one of the twelve governors of the Great Liang.

Of course, this is the idea of the Southern Song Dynasty, in fact, Chao Yong has already given Chao Gai a map according to his memory, and the names of Shandong, Shanxi, and Henan roads in front of him are from his ideas.

Chao Yong wants to make twenty-eight roads out of the girder. In addition to the existing Shandong, Shaanxi, Hebei, Henan, Shaanxi, Gansu, Qinghai and Ningxia eight roads, Huainan East and West Road will be renamed Jiangsu and Anhui Road. Jiangnan East and West Roads will be renamed Zhejiang and Jiangxi Roads, and there will be Heilongjiang, Jilin, Liaoning, Hubei, Hunan, Fujian, Taiwan, Yunnan, Hainan, Sichuan, Guizhou, Guangdong, Guangxi, Tibet, Xinjiang, and Inner Mongolia 16 Roads in the future.

In fact, they are the provinces and autonomous regions of later generations.

While the size of each road and later provinces may vary, the approximate location does not change.

The Northern Song Dynasty was originally 23 roads, and the beam was expanded to 28 roads, but the territory would also expand, but the state capitals of each road did not make a big move.

That is to say, in the future, there will be twenty-eight governors and twenty-eight general soldiers in Daliang, there are many veterans in Liangshan, and it is not difficult to choose twenty-eight general soldiers, but twenty-eight governors make Daliang overstretched.

The governor can be said to be a feudal official, but if you put it in the whole country, he is only one of the twenty-eight governors, and there are still six official posts in the court.

The six Shangshu are the second grade, and the six squires and the governors of all walks of life are from the second grade.

The 28th Road is the territory of the Liang Empire that Chao Yong is preparing to build, and of course, after the 28th Road is laid, the soldiers of the Great Liang will not stop. However, as the distance increased, communication and troop mobilization would lag behind significantly, so Chao Yong did not plan to build any more roads, but built kingdoms of different sizes outside of China, which were attached to the Great Liang Empire and had to pay tribute to the Great Liang every year.

And the kings of these kingdoms will all be the sons of Chao Yong, and if a kingdom is in trouble, the nearby kingdoms can be rescued, without waiting for the Great Liang Empire to send troops.

Zong Ze saw that the prince bent over him, and hurriedly returned the salute: "Zong Ze is just a grass people, how dare he be a prince gift." ”

Chao Yong didn't get up, and insisted: "Please also ask Master Zong to come out and benefit the people." ”

Zong Ze saw that Chao Yong was very polite from Runzhou, and he was also moved: "The prince is so loving, Zong Ze can only repay it with his liver and brain." ”

Chao Yong heard that Zong Ze was willing to submit, straightened his waist, and said with a smile: "Okay, good, I have another virtuous minister in Daliang, and I only congratulate him today." ”

Chao Yong took Zong Ze's wrist, walked to the second place on the left, and said, "Master Zong, please take a seat, I should have let you sit first, but I'm afraid you don't want to sit." ”

When Zhao Ziyan heard this, he couldn't help but be embarrassed.

His position is the most embarrassing, saying that he is the emperor of the Southern Song Dynasty, but his name is not right, and the national strength is not strong, so he was surrendered without blocking the Liang soldiers and horses.

When they sent people to ask for surrender, they did not dare to ask for more, but only asked the prince to forgive them for their sins.

Chao Yong forgave them their sins as he wished, and only gave Zhao Ziyan a viscount and Tong Guan a baron, both of which did not have any official titles.

Zhao Ziyan's viscount can still be passed on to a generation of barons, but Tong Guan's title is the lowest and cannot be passed on, and of course Tong Guan will not have a real descendant.

Although the title is not high, Zhao Ziyan is very satisfied. In the previous Song Dynasty, he was just an idle clan, and his annual salary was not as high as that of a viscount in Daliang. Now after being emperor for a few days, and then changing to a viscount, the results are much better than most of the Zhao and Song royal families.

Zong Ze waved at Zhao Ziyan, and then sat down under Zhao Ziyan, and was also very grateful to Chao Yong for his arrangement. Although they all returned to Daliang, they should sit in the position of Daliang, but today is the first day of Daliang's entry into the city, if he sits on Zhao Ziyan's head, it will definitely not be beautiful.