The news of the fall of Nanjing was like wings, and soon spread all over the country, and the whole world was shaken.

As Su Yan expected, the influence of recovering Nanjing was too great, and the Ming army that was fighting with the Qing army was greatly boosted after receiving the news, and the people who had the Ming Dynasty in their hearts cheered, thinking that this was the precursor of the prosperity of the Ming Dynasty.

The people who had surrendered to the Qing court were panicked, like mourning and worried, they were afraid that one day the Ming army would kill them at their doorstep and liquidate them.

Wu Sangui and other Ming generals also had other thoughts in their hearts, and they began to slow down the offensive against the Ming army, and instead entered a stalemate with the Ming army, and consolidated the existing territory, secretly accumulated strength, and waited and saw the Qing court's response attitude.

The Qing court is probably going to be finished.

If the Qing court could not recover Nanjing, but let the Ming army occupy it for a long time, then the former Ming generals led by Wu Sangui would definitely betray the Qing court again, or surrender to the Ming Dynasty, or simply stand on their own.

For example, Wu Sangui, now Wu Sangui is stationed in Hanzhong, according to the order of the imperial court, he has begun to pack his bags and prepare to go south into Sichuan to pacify the rest of Zhang Xianzhong, but after getting the news of the fall of Nanjing, he is not in a hurry to implement the will of the Qing court, ready to wait and see, if the Qing court is too crotch-pulling, he will kill the Dingxi general Li Guohan, swallow his department, and divide Hanzhong.

At present, the Qing court does not have the energy to care about the thoughts of those former Ming generals, Nanjing fell, Cao Yun was cut off again, and the entire Qing court fell into chaos, although the young Shunzhi Emperor was precocious, but in the face of such a situation, he was also at a loss, but fortunately, the Empress Dowager Xiaozhuang came forward in time to stabilize the hearts of the people.

Immediately, after some pacification by Xiaozhuang, Shunzhi, who had calmed down, finally realized the terrible thing about the Ming army in the southeast, and he knew that he could not continue to fight, and if he sent more troops to the southeast, he would only lose consecutive battles and lose his troops.

Therefore, under the instruction of Shunzhi, someone in the court immediately put forward a proposal to appease Su Yan, although this proposal was immediately scolded and reprimanded by many Manchu ministers, but Shunzhi still adopted it, he promulgated an edict, appeased Su Yan, and expressed his willingness to crown Su Yan as the king of Zhennan, the feudal screen of Fujian, hereditary replacement, and there is a military and political self-esteem, like a country within a country, and the treatment is not not rich.

The most important thing in the pacification and negotiation of peace was to persuade the Ming army to open up the Cao Yun so that the grain ships departing from Huguang could be sent to the north and alleviate the increasingly serious food shortage crisis in the north.

At the same time as sending envoys to Nanjing to appease Su Yan and negotiate peace, the Qing court did not forget to dispatch troops and generals, urging Dingyuan General Nikan and Dingnan General Shuosai to lead the army south, and then rushed to Ningxia with fast horses, and ordered Ningxia General Liu Fangming to march into the interior to prepare for war.

Unlike the panicked Qing court, Emperor Yongli in Anlong heard the news of Nanjing's recovery, and immediately happily ate several bowls of rice, and praised Su Yan for being the pillar of the country, and was very optimistic about the prospects of the Ming Dynasty.

In addition to being happy, Yongli immediately convened a court meeting, ready to reward Su Yan for his merits - in Yongli's opinion, only making Su Yan a duke is not enough to reward him for his merits, he is ready to skip the duke directly and crown Su Yan as the king of the county!

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At the same time, Su Yan did not react in the accident world because of his reaction after the capture of Nanjing, and after he ordered the cavalry to escort Zhang Huangyan to Nanjing, he invited Zhang Huangyan to temporarily serve as the governor of Jiangning, and Zhang Huangyan naturally accepted it gladly.

After Zhang Huangyan arrived in Nanjing, Su Yan told the other party that he was ready to persuade the mulberry to change the farming, Zhang Huangyan also knew the importance of grain to the army, he listed the sweet potatoes and potatoes that had been cultivated in Fujian and Zhejiang regions during this time, and suggested that rice should be cultivated in the plain areas, and sweet potatoes and potatoes should be cultivated in the mountains and hills, so as to increase grain production.

Zhang Huangyan's proposal is in the heart of Su Yan, although sweet potatoes and potatoes are known as grain production artifacts, but can not rely on only these two to solve the people's food problems, rice is the staple food of the Chinese after all, the first two are best eaten together.

Therefore, Su Yan's new official after entering Nanjing quickly burned three fires.

His first fire: he asked the people of Jiangsu and Zhejiang to keep half of the existing arable land to grow cash crops, and the other half to plant rice

Encourage the people to cultivate new fields in the mountains and hills, plant sweet potatoes and potatoes, and give monetary rewards to the people who have cultivated the largest amount.

The second fire: In the newly recovered Jiangsu and Zhejiang, the land was re-measured, the population was counted, and the policy of apportionment into mu was implemented.

The third fire is related to the first two in a sense, that is, the crimes of collecting a generation of country gentry in Jiangsu and Zhejiang, including but not limited to privately occupying land, bullying men and women, forcibly buying and selling, collaborating with the enemy, betraying the country, etc., some of which perform well on weekdays can also be opened, but most of the landlords in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have criminal blood on their hands, so they ......

Experience for yourself.

Su Yan did not deliberately conceal the act of collecting crimes, this is also to give some people who are active in their minds a chance, after all, they can't kill all the people at once, how can they kill the sheep at one time? Now that they have all been killed at once, it will be a little difficult to make money and food in the future.

Of course, considering that the clan power of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations was strong, and it was also to prevent some people from jumping off the wall in a hurry, Su Yan ordered Wang Yi to lead 4,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Suzhou Mansion, and Yang Chengzu to lead 2,000 soldiers and horses to garrison Huizhou Mansion to monitor the local gentry clan at all times.

With the mobilization of the Ming army and the more widespread rumors, the gentry who had just come out of the tension of the war began to get nervous again, and they sent people to the local yamen to talk to familiar officials, but the latter had been influenced by the system to be loyal to Su Yan after becoming Su Yan's subordinate, where would they be in the same stream with them.

Oh no, to be precise, their greedy nature has not changed, and they still accept bribes from each other under the drive of their nature, but they only give advice to those who have committed lesser crimes, and let them prepare the "forgiveness silver" in advance, and for those who have committed heinous crimes, they accept the money but do nothing.

Although the latter was angry, he was helpless.

However, some of them sensed the danger in advance, and began to sell their property, preparing to move out of the place before the crisis came, and some of them immediately counted the silver and silver bills in their homes, and prepared to go to the capital city to go to the higher officials to check the situation.

There are also some people, who rely on their ancestors to be big officials in the imperial court, and they are quite famous in the local area, they don't pay attention to Su Yan's movements at all, they are still fantasizing in their hearts, maybe Su Yan, a native bun from the poor countryside of Fujian, will not dare to do anything.

They were wrong.

They couldn't be more wrong.

After nearly half a month of searching and collecting evidence, during this period of time, there were also active village gentlemen who took the initiative to find the government and expressed their willingness to donate money and food to support the Ming army to fight the Qing army.

Among them, Qian Qianyi, who had surrendered to the Qing court, was the leader, and after hearing the rumors, he immediately understood that Su Yan was preparing to liquidate them, so he hurriedly donated more than 200,000 taels of silver and 500 stone of grain to Su Yan under the persuasion of Liu Ruye.

After receiving these money and food, Su Yan also ordered someone to remove Qian Qianyi from the expedited list and reveal it through certain channels.

It is worth mentioning that because of the rumors that Su Yan wanted to do it, the nerves of the gentry clan were very tense, and most of them did not dare to embarrass the officials who came to clear the land.

This is also in Su Yan's calculations, one of the reasons why he is letting out the wind at this juncture is to scare and scare the group of gentry clans, so that they can keep to themselves and dare not make any small moves.

On May 30, under the instruction of Su Yan, the Ming army finally began to act against the gentry of Jiangsu and Zhejiang.

Suzhou Mansion, at night.

"Run! Run!"

On the streets of Suzhou Mansion, heavily armed Ming soldiers ran in the streets and alleys, the sound of their footsteps and the sound of their armor colliding echoed in the silent streets, and soon woke up the sleeping people on both sides of the street.

Those people walked to the door and window in a drowsy mood, looked out suspiciously, and saw groups of soldiers running, seeing this scene, their sleepiness was instantly dispelled, their pupils shook suddenly, and they quickly covered their mouths, turned around and fled back to the bedroom.

The Ming army of the city of Suzhou was in the king

After Yi's order, all of them were mobilized, and the 4,000 soldiers and horses brought by Wang Yi from Nanjing were not all stationed in Suzhou Prefecture, but were divided into Songjiang, Jiaxing and various prefectures and counties.

After the Ming army took action, both inside and outside the city, the manors and mansions where the gentry lived on the list were surrounded by heavily armed soldiers, and the brightness of the superimposed torches made it seem like daylight outside, and the movement of the march also alarmed the family in charge of the night vigil.

"Who, Niang Xipi, is out at night......

A housekeeper opened the door and rubbed his sleepy eyes, swearing and swearing, but when he saw the row of soldiers with steel knives outside, the scolding came to an abrupt end.

He stared at the soldiers dumbfounded, and the two sides looked at each other for a few seconds, and then one of the officers on the opposite side raised his saber and shouted, "Rush in, control everyone up and down the house, and don't let one go!"

"Whoa!"

The soldiers behind him shouted in unison, and then quickly ran up the steps, and the leader kicked the family members who were blocking him to the ground with one kick, and broke in, and it didn't take long for the shouts of chickens and dogs to jump in the house.

A similar scene occurred in the mansions of several hometown gentlemen inside and outside Suzhou Prefecture, but there is one more special, that is a family surnamed Shen outside the city, it is said that their ancestors once appeared a cabinet minister, thanks to the power of that auxiliary minister, their family in Suzhou Mansion to show off their might, forcibly occupy land, and quickly become one of the most famous families in Suzhou Prefecture.

The head of the Shen family sensed that something was wrong when the wind came up, and sold the title deed and some things that could not be taken away before the Ming army was liquidated, and prepared to flee to the Qing court's occupied area, but because the family assets were too much, it was not until yesterday that they were finally all sold.

Then, they wanted to flee to the north with their families tonight, but they had just finished assembling in the courtyard of the manor, when they suddenly saw a fire outside the manor, and there were noisy footsteps and talking, as if a large group of people surrounded the place.

Seeing this, the head of the Shen family couldn't help but feel bitter in his heart, he turned his head to look at the other clansmen in the manor, their faces were almost bloodless against the firelight, and everyone's eyes showed a trace of despair.

"Master, the officers and soldiers are coming, what should we do?"

The housekeeper looked at the head of the Shen family as if asking for help, and asked him, as soon as the housekeeper's voice came out, as if to remind others, the people around also focused their eyes on the head of the Shen family, who felt prickly in his eyes for the first time, and he was suddenly looked at like a pinprick, and he was uncomfortable.

At this moment, he wanted to scold "How does Lao Tzu know what to do", but after all, he still cared about his image, was silent for a long time, looked at the smashed gate, and said, "Open the gate and let them in."

Rebelling against the official army, he didn't even dare to think about this idea, if he tied his hands and captured him, the Shen family might still leave a flame, but if they picked up arms and resisted stubbornly, their Shen family would be wiped out by blood tonight.

After listening to the words of the head of the Shen family, the family members opened the door of the mansion as if they had been amnestied, and the next second the door of the mansion opened, the Ming army rushed in and controlled all of them, and the salutes and belongings they had packed were also confiscated by the Ming army.

Starting from the 30th, in the next few days, the gentry of the Jiangsu and Zhejiang generations were shocked by the merciless thunderous action of the Ming army, and even the businessmen who had close ties with the local clans were cautious.

The Ming army was obviously not playing with them, and the large army of the gentry clan in the eleven provinces north of Hangzhou were all checked by the Ming army at the door to check the water meter, and several of them were not sober and wanted to resist, and they were wiped out by the Ming army on the spot, just like killing chickens and monkeys, and the others suddenly became honest like quails.

Su Yan's "crazy" behavior also caused Zhang Huangyan's uneasiness, and he also ran over halfway to ask Su Yan what he wanted to do, Su Yan said with a heartfelt expression:

"These squires have been favored by the country for generations, but they grovel and lick *** when they go south, and even more so they betray the intelligence of our army and betray the enemy.

Zhang Huang

Yan said: "Anguo, I'm not against your approach, it's just that you are so fanfare, I am afraid that it will cause a joint opposition from the gentry clan all over the world, which will have an adverse impact on your Northern Expedition to regain the lost territory."

Hearing Zhang Huangyan say this, Su Yan was wrong to blame him, he showed a polite but embarrassed smile, and said, "Xuanzhu, you don't have to worry about this, I know it in my heart."

Then, he changed his words, and said in a somewhat angry tone: "In addition, our army is facing the problem of lack of grain, although we have purchased grain from the grain merchants in Jiangnan, but the quantity is still limited, and those squires have stored a large amount of grain in their homes. This is not all, the rest is still being counted, Xuan, you see how rich these moths are, if Emperor Yizong has so much money and food, how can my Ming country end up in such a situation?"

"What?!"

Although Zhang Huangyan knew that those squires had a lot of money and grain reserves in their hands, he was also taken aback when he really heard the copied figures.

After being surprised, he was also full of anger like Su Yan.

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