Chapter Seventy-One: The Fall of Suzhou
The auction warmed up for two weeks, the auction is only for overseas customers, whether it is overseas official or private, you can have the opportunity to participate in the auction, of course, to participate in the auction at the same time to verify the assets of the participants, only enough qualified people can participate in the auction, the purpose of setting this step is to screen the rich and the poor, of course, the auction of other products, precious treasures, advanced tools, sharp knives and so on.
The location of the auction was set in Priango, this choice surprised people all over the country, and everyone expressed puzzlement about this choice, which was much more suitable than Priango, and even the capital Vijaya was not qualified? The most surprising should be the Priangos, 80% of the population of Priangor are Khmer, and the remaining 20% are mainly Cham people, and there are many ethnic groups living here. Now that more and more Khmers have recognized the rule of the Cham people, they feel that they are dreaming.
Until the next day, signs were posted all over Pliango, and the government recruited a large number of workers to build auction venues and embassies to receive guests from all over the world.
In fact, it is confirmed that Prianggo is the auction venue, and the Pengyu is also strong against public opinion, and the officials believe that the embassy and the auction should be built in the capital city of Vijaya, and the Pengyu River also carefully explained that the Mekong River flows through many countries, and the lowest downstream is Puliango, and its upstream has Khmer, Lancang, Yuanliang, and Tubo, and several countries can directly reach Puliango through the river, and Majapahit, Ayutaya and other countries are not far from Puliango, and convenient transportation is one of the important reasons.
Although there is money in the treasury, the number of domestic enterprises is limited after all, and scientific research is a bottomless pit.
There is only one reason for convenient transportation, naturally it cannot convince the public, and the officials have been persuading the Pengyu to change his mind, and the Pengyu naturally maintains his own opinion, and finally establishes the matter.
On May 30, the 23rd year of Zheng, the two sides of the Yuan Dynasty carried out a handover ceremony, the Yuan envoys brought back a total of 16,000 Yuan troops, many Han people chose to return to China, the system of Pengyu naturally respected their choice, handed them over to the Yuan envoys, let them return to the Yuan court with the large army, the rest of the Han people have lived in Puliango, and the Cham merchants are responsible for finding their respective families and taking them back to Puriange.
On April 3, the twenty-third year of Zheng, Zhu Yuanzhang broke through Suzhou City, Zhang Shicheng packed up the remaining soldiers to guard Wanshou Temple East Street, and Zhu Yuanzhang fought, with Zhang Shicheng's current combat strength, it was completely stubborn resistance, so the natural situation was unfavorable, Zhang Shicheng fled in panic and hid in Suzhou Mansion, since Suzhou City was broken, presumably Zhu Yuanzhang would not let himself go, so he was ready to hang himself.
"Your Highness, why is this?" The general rescued Zhang Shicheng.
Zhang Shicheng didn't say a word.
Since the city of Suzhou was breached, many of his generals surrendered to Zhu Yuanzhang, and Deng Yu sent his former subordinates to admonish him in turn, but Zhang Shicheng also closed his eyes and did not answer.
At the beginning, Zhang Shicheng defended the city for several months, refused to surrender, and personally led the elite soldiers to attack, after Zhu Yuanzhang broke through Suzhou, he was angry and wanted to slaughter the city, but he was persuaded by his subordinates. In fact, what made Zhu Yuanzhang most angry was not Zhang Shicheng's stubborn resistance. The siege and defense of the city is not a conflict between the two armies, but a battle between the army and the whole people. That is to say, Zhu Yuanzhang was not angry at the difficulty of tackling tough problems, but angry at the loyal support of the people of Suzhou City for Zhang Shicheng, and the whole city of Suzhou was united to resist Zhu Yuanzhang's attack, which really made Zhu Yuanzhang a little scared.
On April 5, the twenty-third year of Zheng, Zhang Shicheng was caught by Zhu Yuanzhang and escorted to the ship from Fengmen, and now Zhu Yuanzhang sent someone to escort Zhang Shicheng to respond to Tianfu, they also have an important task, that is, to cut the grass and eradicate the roots, Zhang Shicheng's two sons are scattered among the people, and their whereabouts are unknown.
The people refused to cooperate with Zhu Yuanzhang's search, which greatly extended the search time, which made Zhu Yuanzhang very annoyed, but he was helpless, after all, he really couldn't slaughter the city, after searching for seven days and seven nights, turned Suzhou City upside down, and did not find the two sons, Zhu Yuanzhang was helpless, I am afraid that these two people have escaped from Suzhou City, so Zhu Yuanzhang issued a wanted warrant across the country and rewarded Zhu Yuanzhang's two sons.
Zhu Yuanzhang changed all the officials in Suzhou from the prefect to the head catcher, and Suzhou was included in the management of Yingtianfu, and the prefect was set up in Suzhou. Zhu Yuanzhang won a great victory in this war, and now he has become the most powerful force in the rebel army, occupying the three major economic lands of Suzhou, Hangzhou and Yang, and the Taihu Lake Valley has also provided them with enough grain and grass.
Zhu Yuanzhang repaired a little, and stationed the army in the west and south, Fang Guozhen has not shown the attitude of fighting for power and hegemony, and he is also friendly with Zhu Yuanzhang, so there is no need to worry about it at present, it is better to wait for the strength to become stronger, and use diplomatic means to directly integrate it into the Wu State.
Zhu Yuanzhang's fleet has been sailing in the Yellow River Valley, in order to prevent the Yuan army from crossing the river to regain lost territory, and now Xuzhou, an important transportation hub, is in the hands of the Northern Yuan, Zhu Yuanzhang naturally wants to recover Xuzhou and nearby areas, presumably Shandong will welcome Zhu Yuanzhang very much, the original local rebels in Shandong have basically been wiped out by the Yuan army, but Shandong has been carrying out an internal peasant movement, wanting to regain control of Shandong.
Chen Youding has been coveting Jiangxi since he became the supreme governor of Fujian and Jiangxi provinces, and part of Jiangxi currently belongs to Zhu Yuanzhang, and the other part belongs to Chen Youliang. For Chen Youliang, he didn't have a good impression, naturally Chen Youliang became his target, it just so happened that the Northern Yuan had recently wooed He Zhen, and he was ready to fight against Chen Han with He Zhen, as long as they could attract Chen Han's main force, the Yuan army could attack from the north and south, on the contrary, they could attack the Yuan army.
However, He Zhen was naturally not interested in confronting Chen Han, they just had to lie down, and they really didn't want to interfere in too much war, so He Zhen refused to join the war on the grounds that he was preparing to unify Guangzhou and capture Shao Zongyu.
Chen Youding was helpless, his official position was almost the same as He Zhen's, so he naturally had no power to control whether He Zhenjia would join the war, so he was ready to send a messenger to let the Yuan court exert pressure to force He Zhen to join the war.