Yangzhou.

"The deputy marshal of the Great Song Dynasty, the minister of the Governor Gongtian Law Implementation, Jiangnan, Jinghu, Liangzhejiang, Fujian, Liangguang and Chuanxia four road patrol envoys, give Shang Fang the sword, Zhongshan County Wang Yue, ordered to do errands, civil and military officials from all over the country are in accordance with their dispatch, there are violators, from the second grade below the first cut and then play, allow it to undertake the system to worship ......"

Liu Qi held the holy decree and gave Wang Yue his stinky and long string of titles and powers.

Wang Yue sat in the back chair.

Then the twelve Shenwei Invincible General Cannons were lined up, the muzzles of the guns pointed to Yangzhou City, and the huge cannonballs were stacked next to these cannons, and the gunners stood solemnly on both sides one by one.

Behind them were the soldiers in formation.

The light infantry of the whole infantry army is ready to fight, the spears are like forests, the flags are like clouds, and the cavalry on both wings is also fully armed, because the next thing is in the south of the Yangtze River, especially the south of the Yangtze River, there are many passes in the mountains along the way, so the chariot infantry is definitely not good, that thing can't march on ancient roads such as Meiling, not to mention the possibility of entering Fujian and even eastern Sichuan, so it can only be light infantry and cavalry.

That's enough.

In fact, Wang Yue did not think that there would be large-scale battles along the way.

There may be some local officials who choose to resist to the death irrationally, but real large-scale resistance is impossible, so this trip is likely to be in the nature of some small-scale law and order warfare, and a light infantry army is enough. Besides, this is just following him, in fact, on the entire front from east to west, hundreds of thousands of troops are moving south, at this time it is estimated that the Western Route Army is already forcing the defenders of Xiangyang to surrender, and Yang Zaixing of Zhenzhou should have been preparing to cross the river. He was here as a symbolic armed parade, the purpose of which was only to force the localities to express their positions, and if the defenders of Yangzhou refused to surrender, it would take less than two days for 100,000 troops to surround the city.

"Where is Yangzhou Mansion? Don't come out to meet the King of Zhongshan! ”

Liu Qi finally shouted.

There was silence on the other side.

This is the core fortress of the Zhenjiang Imperial Court in Jiangbei.

Last time, Yang Zaixing and other troops stopped at the city of Yangzhou.

Therefore, there are also 50,000 elites of the Zhenjiang Imperial Court here, all of whom are well-equipped, and the three-eyed guns are even said to have enlarged the big guns, which have reached the real artillery level, and under the persecution of Wang Yue, the already developed industry and commerce in Jiangsu and Zhejiang have also really shown their strength.

However, this is of little use.

Because there are still many poor people in the city waiting for the exciting moment.

"One!"

Wang Yue raised a finger.

Behind him, a powerful invincible general cannon on the high ground suddenly roared, and then a huge cannonball whistled past, instantly hitting the city wall of Yangzhou, although the bricks protected it to the greatest extent, but the result of the impact of the fifty pounds of granite at a speed of nearly three hundred meters per second still made the city bricks collapse in large pieces.

In the end, it's just a layer of hard shell pasted on the outside, but this hard shell is not indestructible after all.

"Two!"

Wang Yue raised a second finger.

The next moment another cannon fired, the cannonball was slightly higher, and it hit the city tower, although the Yangzhou city tower was also made of bricks, but it still collapsed half of it in an instant under this huge power.

"Three!"

Wang Yue raised his third finger.

The third cannon fired, but at the moment of firing, the gate opened, and the shell hit significantly low, and landed right on the slowly lowered suspension bridge, and the entire suspension bridge was immediately shattered. The cannonballs that crossed the drawbridge hit the gate hole, and a group of people wearing official uniforms walked out of it, almost hit by the broken bricks and shell fragments that fell overhead, and stood in the door hole one by one petrified, as if they were stupid to see everything that had fallen in front of them.

"Don't open fire, the lower official knows the Yangzhou Mansion Xu Fen, and welcomes the King of Zhongshan!"

Then one of them screamed.

Xu Fen was originally the governor of Yangzhou Mansion, and his fellow Privy Council was sealed by a great painter, and he did not recognize it in the Kaifeng Imperial Court, and Zhao Huan's will was to temporarily restore their old positions if they surrendered.

So now he can only be the prefect of Yangzhou.

The shelling stopped.

Xu Fen and his entourage hurriedly walked over and saluted Wang Yue helplessly.

"Governor Xu, you are such a great official!"

Wang Yue said with a classic face on his teacup.

"The king forgives the sin, the lower official is old and has weak legs and feet, walks slowly, and fails to go out of the city in time to meet the king."

Xu Fen wiped his sweat and said.

"What kind of official are you still doing if you don't have good legs, go home and retire, I will play for you to tell the old, Governor Xu is from Fujian, and I happened to go back by the way to tell the officials in Fuzhou, when I arrive in Fuzhou, they don't have to go slowly, then I will be very dissatisfied."

Wang Yue looked at Xu Fen, who was actually not yet fifty, and said.

"Uh, the official order."

Xu Fen said sadly.

Of course, this is not a bad thing for him, which means that Wang Yue will not liquidate him, it is said that he is one of the cores of the court of great painters, and he has been worried about this problem before.

"As for this Yangzhou ......"

Wang Yue looked behind him.

A group of officials behind Xu Fen all kept their mouths shut and stood there honestly.

"Who is this?"

Wang Yue looked at one of them and said with a little familiar.

"The next lawsuit, the honorable man, Wailang Li Guang."

The latter said.

"I said that it is a little familiar, this Yangzhou prefect will be represented by you first, and I will let the officials reappoint it when I go back."

Wang Yue said.

He is a contractor, not to mention an agent, or a direct appointment, but the prefect of the Song Dynasty was originally just a dispatch, and the nature of the agent or direct appointment is the same, all of them are based on palace scholars, waiting to be controlled by these officials of the nature of the secretary around the emperor. Although Li Guang is also a resistant, and even the main assistant of Chen Yu at the beginning, his ability should be regarded as relatively strong among these civil servants in the south, and this time Wang Yue's southward journey is mainly for peaceful settlement, so it is still necessary to try to show leniency.

The core figures of the court of the great painters tried their best to go home to retire.

These people are not a big traitor, in the final analysis, they were all forced by him, if he hadn't persecuted, people would not be interested in caring about the infighting between the father and son of the great painter.

In this way, it would be too much to raid the house and destroy the door.

Similarly, local officials in various localities still try to maintain their original positions first.

In order to maintain order to the greatest extent, besides, there is no one he wants to change, even if his subordinates are still very nervous only in the area under their control, how can there be any extra to send to the south, and the most important thing in the south next is to divide the land, as long as the land is divided, new talents can be cultivated on the spot. Then we will use these new-style talents who are familiar with the situation in the south to gradually replace these old ones, and finally complete the elimination of these old-style Confucian officials, so that the Great Song Dynasty will enter a new era in an all-round way.

But that's not the case right now.

Li Guang did not refuse, he was the one who presided over the city, and before that he was Quan Bangyan, who assisted in presiding over military affairs in Yangzhou.

But the latter itself is a pacification envoy of Jingdong East Road.

According to the emperor's holy decree, the surrender of each of them to keep their original duties, of course Quan Bangyan can not be in Yangzhou, and Jingdong East Road is impossible to go, so at this time, he has been angry with the whole family and does not know where to go, it is said that he is preparing to go to Sichuan to find a secluded place and never ask about the world.

Anyway, he refused to go back to his hometown in the river.

The land of his hometown has been divided, and all the militia, and he can only be a militia when he goes back, but there is no problem with wealth and wealth in the second half of his life, in short, he disappeared in the vast sea of people, in fact, there are many people like him, in the end, there are still many people who maintain their arrogance, ashamed to accept the humiliating surrender, and would rather hide in the mountains and forests from now on, pursuing their poetry and distance.

"All the armies in the city came out to disarm, those who were willing to go home were paid a year's salary, those who were willing to continue to serve as soldiers went to Chuzhou to accept the reorganization, and other officials from all over the country kept their duties, and cooperated with the Qingzhang team to carry out an inventory of the land in Yangzhou and prepare for the implementation of the public land law.

Wang Yue then said.

In fact, Yangzhou does not need the imperial court to pay extra money, because in order to maintain defense, all parts of the southern part of the Yangtze River have long hoarded countless money and grain in this city, which are all from the imperial court, or sealed by him, but if he continues to go south, then the imperial court will really need to bear the short-term local needs. Coupled with the consumption of the Northern Expedition before, the financial gap of the Great Song Dynasty this year was huge, and it all relied on bank loans, which was also an important reason why Wang Yue was unscrupulous and even engaged in a stock market crash to loot the rich people.

But that's still not enough.

You can be more generous in Yangzhou, and even in Zhenjiang, but after the overall situation has been decided, you have to properly raid your home when you go south.

In this way, Wang Yue successfully took Yangzhou, and then he entered the city amid cheers.

And on the same day, Liu Yanqing and his son in Chuzhou surrendered to Yang Zaixing's department, and then sacrificed two million guan under Yang Zaixing's hint in exchange for Wang Yue's leniency, but all the official positions of their father and son were gone, and from then on, they loved to go wherever they wanted to go as ordinary people. However, they will definitely not return to northern Shaanxi, the Liu family father and son have also had a lot of industries in Jiangnan in recent years, in fact, most of the clans have gone to the south, and they will live in the south in the future.

There was no need for their father and son to die.

Although he was a fleeing general, he was originally in Kaifeng until the city was broken after all, and he did not surrender to the Jurchens in the end, even if he was killed in the escape, he was killed in battle.

Compared with those who directly surrendered to the Jurchens and then became the leading party, their father and son finally kept the bottom line, even if Liu Guangshi was the same, after Fan Zhixu's army defeated Qianqiu Town, he would rather take his subordinates to risk through the war zone than take the opportunity to surrender to the Jurchens. The running general is indeed very despicable, but the running general is not a traitor after all, since he has reached this point, there is no need to kill them all, of course, this is definitely not because they handed over two million pieces of property.

Also on this day, Nie Chang surrendered to Yang Weizhong's troops in Xiangyang.

The Jiangbei defense line of the Zhenjiang Imperial Court completely collapsed.