On the twelfth day of September in the lunar calendar of the second year of Jianlong, the Later Zhou court issued an order to change the original land south of the Yangtze River to Jiangxi Province, with Zeng Zhilin as the envoy of the pacification system of Jiangxi Province, and the commander-in-chief of Jiangxi Province Military and Civil Affairs - his Hunan Province pacification system deputy envoy was removed at the same time. In addition, according to the resolution of the committee, the first regiment of the 3rd composite infantry division of the "Flying Dragon Army", the main force of the division's artillery regiment, and the eight regiments of the "security army" were stationed in Jiangxi Province and were under the command of Zeng Zhilin.

However, unlike the original Hunan Province, which only arranged for a fixed number of soldiers and horses to be stationed in Hunan Province and was led by pacification and control envoys, the committee also decided to establish two new military bases in Jiangxi Province in accordance with the needs of future strategic planning and operations, while arranging for the above-mentioned descendants to be stationed inside and outside Jinling City. One of the new military bases is the Southern Training Base of the Marine Corps, which is planned to be set up in the Jiangyin Army for the formation and training of the Second Regiment of the Marine Corps, which has already been put on the agenda -- in this way, after the First Regiment of the Marine Corps, which has been seconded abroad, will be reorganized with the main force of the Southern Expeditionary Force to establish the Dagu Base of the "Flying Dragon Army" Navy, there will be no need to go all the way to recruit the elite of this amphibious operation force in the next expedition to the south. Another new military base is the infantry training base in the south, which is planned to be set up in Nanchang City, Hongzhou, Jiangxi Province, to train the units of the "Flying Dragon Army" and the "Security Army" to be familiar with the mountainous and jungle terrain in the south, and to adapt to the humid, rainy, and smoky climate in the south, so as to prepare for the next conquest of the Later Shu and Southern Han and other separatist regimes -- of the more than 5,500 soldiers and generals killed and wounded by the Zhou army in this southern expedition to the south of the Yangtze River, nearly seventy percent of them were caused by non-combat losses such as not adapting to the southern climate and contracting diseases due to unaccustomed water and soil. The actual number of casualties from the fighting was just over 2,000. Therefore, it can be said that it is urgent to build a new training base south of the Yangtze River and increase the ability of the Zhou army to adapt to the climate in the south.

In addition to the above two training bases, based on the actual combat experience of this southern expedition, the committee also believes that the current number of warships and personnel of the "Flying Dragon Army" navy cannot meet the needs of providing support for the southward operation of the army, and still have sufficient strength to ensure the security of maritime trade in the waters north of the Yangtze River, so it is necessary to build a new shipbuilding base and naval base south of the Yangtze River, and form a second naval fleet to reverse this unfavorable situation. The sea lines of communication in the waters north of the Yangtze River are not under any real external threat, but for the crossing team, which has always been safe, the maritime trade, which is very important to them, cannot tolerate the slightest insecurity or instability. What's more, as the scale and scope of maritime trade in the Beiping Army and even in the entire Houzhou Dynasty became larger and wider, the waters south of the Yangtze River, especially the Nanyang routes to Southeast Asia and the Indian Ocean, accounted for an increasing proportion of its overseas trade volume, and it was imperative to deploy a maritime combat force in the relevant sea areas and maintain the safety of the sea routes.

As for the location of this new shipbuilding base and naval base, the opinions of the crossing team committee and the Ministry of Military Affairs, the Ministry of Science and Technology, the Ministry of Commerce and Trade, and the Logistics Department are basically the same, and they all tend to build near the mouth of the Songjiang Sea in the Suzhou area of Wu Yueguo, that is, where Shanghai was located in the previous life.

Although Wu Yueguo has always been respectful and tributed to the Later Zhou court, this southern expedition sent troops and food to support it. But after all, the two sides are still in the so-called vassal relationship, the envoys of the Later Zhou Dynasty can walk sideways in Wu Yueguo, and the merchants and travelers of the Later Zhou Dynasty can be unimpeded in Wu Yueguo, but they have to carve out a piece of land on other people's territory to build their own shipyards and naval bases in Hou Zhou, and moored a large number of armed ships and even marines and horses all year round, which is a bit difficult for a strong man. Even if your purpose is really only to secure your own southern sea trade and communication routes, and you have no intention of coveting the other party's land, the other party will probably only regard what you say as rhetoric and demagoguery, and will not believe it at all. Although Wu Yueguo did not have the strength to fight against Hou Zhou, he must be very resistant to this kind of behavior of cutting flesh from himself. Even if you are forced to pinch your nose and admit it, I am afraid that it will be delayed in the follow-up construction process and the things that need its help in the follow-up construction process, or take advantage of various opportunities to hinder and hinder the construction and normal operation of shipyards and naval bases. In the case that the southern expedition to Jiangnan has just ended, the army needs a certain amount of time to rest, the people need a certain time to recover, and Jiangxi Province needs a certain time to integrate and digest, and the Later Zhou court or the crossing team is obviously impossible to immediately carry out another campaign to conquer Wu Yue. What's more, for a period of time in the future, the Later Zhou court will also regard Wu Yue as a benchmark for the goodwill and harmony of the clan and vassals, so as to envelop and appease those who are in an independent state, but have not been called the emperor to establish the country, so as to concentrate on dealing with small courts like Hou Shu and Southern Han that are arrogant and uncontrollab. Therefore, the work of building a shipyard and a naval base in the territory of Wu Yue can only be carried out slowly, and it is impossible to start construction immediately after the resolution takes effect, as is the case with the Jiangyin base of the Marine Corps and the Nanchang base for infantry training in the south.

On the first day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar in the second year of Jianlong, after arranging the work of Jiangxi Province, Wang Kunjun led the main force of the southern expeditionary army to leave Jinling City, crossed the river from the quarrying rock pontoon bridge, and returned to Beijing along the route when he came. On the same day, Xu Shao'an's subordinates and their "escorted" former Jiangnan monarchs and ministers also arrived at Kaifeng City.

On the third day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar in the second year of Jianlong, Li Yu led dozens of civil servants and military generals in Jiangnan to Mingde downstairs to be punished. Upstairs, the little emperor of the Later Zhou Dynasty, Chai Zongxun, accompanied by the founding marquis, the inspector Taiwei, the privy deputy envoy, the Tongping Zhangshi, the general of the right guard, and Xu Shao'an, the envoy of the Lingzhong Zhengjiedu, as well as the founding marquis, the eunuch of the inspection school, the Tongping Zhangshi, the doctor of Jin Ziguanglu, and the right attendant of the ministry Zhang Weixin, accepted Li Yu's petition, and the eunuch read out the edict of surrender and release. However, unlike Zhao Kuangyin, who hated Li Yu, a hateful guy who was repeatedly persuaded to surrender in his previous life, the crossing team that never expected the other party to take the initiative to surrender and had always planned according to the South Crossing Expedition to solve the Southern Tang Dynasty problem, had no different perception of Li Yu from Gao Jichong and Zhou Baoquan, who had surrendered before. Therefore, Zhang Weixin, who was in charge of reviewing the edict, did not add the ridiculous and insulting title "Disobedient Hou" to Li Yu, but according to the title given to Li Yu after Zhao Guangyi ascended the throne, he was named Doctor Guanglu, Taifu of the Inspection School, General of Youqianniuwei, and Duke of Longxi County, and named his Zhenggong Niangniang Xiao Zhouhou as Mrs. Zheng Guo, and gave him a residence in the house to accommodate his accompanying family members and servants.

Although neither Doctor Guanglu nor the Duke of Longxi County could change the fact that he had changed from the king of a country to a prisoner of the ranks, such a disposition was much more generous and merciful than he might have imagined on the road. Therefore, after the surrender ceremony, Li Yu took his family and entourage back to the mansion given to him as an apartment. Neither did he drink heavily all day long because he felt that being named "disobedient marquis" was a great insult in his previous life, nor did he continue to write poems to express his dissatisfaction because of the pain and grievance in his heart - although he wrote a lot of poems about the Jiangnan style and the beautiful scenery of Jinling later, at least he did not show his dissatisfaction with the court and resentment towards the official family, so that he could live longer and more comfortably.

First take Jingnan, then go down to Hunan, and now pacify Jiangnan in one fell swoop, and the Great Zhou soldiers are invincible. In the face of such a strong Great Zhou and such a strong Zhou army, whether it was Houshu bordering Hunan Province, or the Southern Han Dynasty bordering Hunan and Jiangxi provinces, and other separatist regimes that regarded the Great Zhou as Zhengshuo but maintained an internal independent state, they all felt the cold air in their necks at this time, and they were afraid that the sword of the Great Zhou would fall on their heads in the next moment. Even Wu Yueguo, who had fought side by side with the Southern Expeditionary Army of the Great Zhou, was first expelled from Jinling City by Wang Kunjun because of Wu Yuejun's misdeeds in Jinling City, and then ordered him to return to China immediately, which made Qian Yu, who was originally slightly relieved because he helped the Zhou army to attack Jiangnan and was rewarded by the Great Zhou court, he couldn't help but feel nervous.

As a result, since the middle of October of the lunar calendar in the second year of Jianlong, Wu Yue, Hou Shu, the Southern Han Dynasty, and even the Qingquan Army, the Dingnan Army, and other local authorities who have been serving Zhou Shigong and have no entanglement with the Central Plains Imperial Court have gone to Kaifeng to pay tribute and lose their sincerity. For a time, the officials in charge of the reception of the Ministry of Rites and Honglu Temple were very busy.