Simultaneous travel: I am proving the great way in the heavens.

Chapter 382 Nanjing surrenders! Divide the river and rule, the north and the south confront each other!
After the result of the battle in Yangzhou came.

Many people could see that Luofu used a small force to deal with the imperial army, but the main force under his command gathered in Jiangbei. His purpose was obvious, which was to attack Nanjing.

Although Jinling is the ancient capital of several dynasties, it is no exaggeration to say that it is as solid as a rock after going through successive dynasties, especially after the construction by Taizu of this dynasty.

But unfortunately, the place of Jinling has almost never been defended.

And this time, facing Luofu, it was even more so.

In Jinling City.

After learning the result of the Battle of Yangzhou, Zhen Yingjia, the president of Tirenyuan, immediately summoned the leaders of all parties in Jinling.

Discuss how to deal with the Luofu army.

Unfortunately, the president of Tirenyuan, Zhen Yingjia, is very good at corruption and forming cliques for personal gain, but he is completely clueless when it comes to actually deploying troops and winning people's hearts.

After several discussions, no feasible solution was found. Of course, it’s not that so many people gathered together can’t think of a solution, but even if someone came up with one, there would be others who would oppose it.

In the end, after repeated quarrels, the matter ended in nothing.

Jinling finally welcomed the Luofu army.

After successfully crossing the river, the three thousand vanguards headed straight for Jinling City.

While Luofu, who was leading a main force of 9,000 people, was crossing the river, the 3,000 vanguards had already entered the city of Jinling.

The dignified Daqing temporary capital could not even last a few days, let alone a few days, after 3,000 vanguards completed the crossing of the river and easily wiped out the little bit of resistance from Jinling.

In just a few hours, Jinling opened the city gates and chose to surrender.

Even the vanguard sent by Luofu did not expect that the opening of Jinling City would be so sudden.

However, while the three thousand vanguards were discussing the issue of surrender with the people from Jinling, they did not choose to enter the city directly.

When in Yangzhou, there were already rumors among Luo Tian's army that once Nanjing was captured, Emperor Luo Tian would officially become king and oversee the production.

Now that Jinling is almost in our hands, the opportunity to enter the city first must of course be completed by Luofu, the leader of the Luotian Army.

After all, there is no shortage of smart people under Luofu's command.

Wait until the main forces of Luofu and Luotian armies cross the river.

He was amused and sad to find that Jinling, which he had thought would be a tough battle, actually fell into his hands in this way of surrender without a fight.

When the Luotian army began to purge the various forces in Jinling City and prepare for Luofu's official move in.

Jinling City, Xue Family.

"It's a disaster. This is a disaster of the utmost magnitude." Xue Pan no longer looked like a fool. He was trembling with fear and said to his mother and sister, "That thief Luo Tian from Yangzhou actually... actually entered the city."

As one of the four major families, if Xue Pan's father were still alive, he would naturally be able to sense the possibility that someone wanted to surrender through the previous ineffective communications.

But unfortunately, Xue Pan simply does not have this wisdom, and he is also a local tyrant in Jinling.

Although Xue Pan was invited to attend more than one gathering, he never dreamed that when everyone wanted to continue the discussion, how come Jinling suddenly fell into the hands of the thief Luo Tian?
Xue Baochai was immediately shocked by her brother's words and said, "Brother, what are you talking about? Jinling is the birthplace of our dynasty, how could it fall into the hands of thieves so quickly?"

"It's true, those bastards." Xue Pan said with a sad face, "No one of them said they wanted to surrender before, how could they be so shameless."

Xue Pan was greatly shocked and felt cheated. Those guys who had spoken so righteously during the discussion with the president of Tirenyuan before turned out to be such a shameless bunch.

He had heard that those who had shouted louder before became the main force to open the door and surrender this time.

Instead, it was the Xue family that fell behind.

After Xue Baochai realized what was going on, she immediately made the right decision.

"Brother, we are already one step behind others. The most urgent task right now is for you to go and welcome the enemy army... No, it should be Emperor Luotian. Go and welcome Emperor Luotian immediately." Xue Baochai was obviously very smart.

Xue Pan said hesitantly: "Then... is that really possible? I said before that I would live and die with Jinling."

Looking at Xue Pan helplessly, Xue Baochai said, "Brother stood out from the crowd before, but now... now we can only hope that the Luotian Emperor will not choose our Xue family to be the target of killing the chicken to scare the monkey."

Xue Pan was frightened and shook his head repeatedly, saying, "Sister, I don't want to be that chicken. How about...how about we run away quickly with mom? We have a few loyal servants in our Xue family. Maybe..."

"No!" Xue Baochai stopped Xue Pan's stupid idea immediately.

"Brother, Jinling and Jiangnan are the foundation of our Xue family. We must not lose them. Moreover, although you said something inappropriate at the previous gathering, others are no less capable than you." Xue Baochai analyzed, "If you surrender in time, the Luotian Emperor might be willing to pay a huge sum of money for your horse bones. This might be an opportunity for our Xue family."

"Really?" Xue Pan was panic-stricken.

With a bitter smile, Xue Baochai dared not make such a guarantee.

What's more, the Xue family has no choice now.

Under Xue Baochai's earnest persuasion, Xue Pan finally decided to bite the bullet and join in the ceremony of welcoming Luofu into the city.

On the second day, the gates of Jinling City opened.

Jia Yucun, the prefect, took off his official hat, held it in one hand, and knelt on the side of the road.

All the leaders in Jinling City gathered here at this moment, kneeling in neat rows on both sides of the road.

Luofu took the lead, riding a horse with excellent appearance, and officially entered Jinling City amidst the welcome of countless people.

Xue Pan, the head of the Xue family, was so terrified that he didn't even dare to raise his head. He held the burning incense burner high in his hand and kept his head down.

The sound of horse hooves clattering beside his ears made him break out in a cold sweat.

Apart from taking a glance at Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling, Luo Fu had no idea that among the crowd welcoming him was Xue Pan, the dull bully.

Jinling was the birthplace of Emperor Taizu and one of the two capitals of the Daqing Dynasty. Naturally, there were complete imperial palaces and other buildings in the city.

As the leader of the Luotian Army, Luo Fu moved directly into the Jinling Palace without any hesitation.

Although Nanjing's surrender was unexpected, it was also reasonable.

Let’s not talk about this world for now.

As far as Luofu knew, no matter how much Jinling was reinforced, it had never been defended.

Zhu Yuanzhang attacked Nanjing, and Nanjing fell into his hands easily. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the Qing army marched south, and Nanjing fell into the hands of the Qing army again easily.

When the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom attacked Nanjing, Nanjing changed hands again. When Zeng Guofan attacked Nanjing, the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom could not hold it.

Even during the War of Resistance Against Japanese Aggression, Nanjing fell into the hands of the Japanese invaders without putting up much resistance. When it came to the battle of crossing the river, the Baldy Army didn't even think about defending the city and easily abandoned the capital.

In Luofu's opinion, the city of Jinling seems to be poisonous.

In almost any situation, whoever attacks Jinling can easily take the city.

However, for Luofu, taking over Jinling is not the end, but the beginning.

You know, theoretically speaking, Luofu has no base now.

This basic base does not refer to his military strength. After all, more than 16,000 hundred enemies are enough to make Luofu invincible in the world. The so-called basic base refers to the truly stable territory and rear.

Luofu's rise was too short. It easily captured Yangzhou and used Yangzhou's wealth to make up for its own shortcomings. Then, its 3,000-strong army defeated the imperial court's 50,000-strong army. Now it turned around and captured Nanjing.

But the bottom line is that Luofu's foundation is not solid, that is, he is too good at fighting.

Otherwise, just one failure would completely destroy Luofu.

This is why many people regard Luofu as a bandit.

After taking Nanjing, Luofu will next prepare to pacify Jiangnan and divide the river with Daqing in a short period of time.

Of course, the time for dividing the river and governing it separately will not be long.

At best, after Luofu completely occupies the south of the Yangtze River and stabilizes its own base, it will immediately launch the Northern Expedition.

What Luofu wants is not just the world. Don't forget, he also has the dream of collecting three volumes of the Twelve Beauties.

If we delay too long, the Twelve Beauties might fall into the hands of others.

Although given the hatred between Luofu and the four major families, he could even openly punish the four major families and forcibly confine the Twelve Golden Hairpins to his own backyard as playthings.

But if it is delayed for too long, the Twelve Golden Hairpins will no longer be clean!

After moving into the Jinling Palace, Luo Fu and Lin Ruhai discussed plans to purify Jinling and conquer the surrounding areas, while beginning to prepare for the subsequent coronation and establishment of a system.

Of course, this also includes his wedding with Lin Daiyu.

The focus is still on expanding the military.

Luofu's direct line of more than 16,000 enemies were indeed powerful, but their numbers were still too small.

Among these 16,000 people, Luo Fu selected the 5,000 strongest ones to serve as the Royal Guards, and the rest began to expand the army like a snowball, with the old bringing in the new.

With the fall of Jinling, the entire Jiangnan region was greatly shocked.

In a short period of time, with Jinling as the core, Jiangnan began to fall rapidly into Luofu's hands.

In many places, even before the Luo Tian army arrived, they were already defeated by edicts, and some people took the initiative to submit surrender letters. The situation of the Luo Tian army was very good, and the local snakes in Jinling, who were originally unwilling and unwilling, quickly changed their minds.

They have already vaguely realized that Luo Tianjun has the potential to truly compete with the orthodox court of Daqing.

It is no exaggeration to say that when Luo Tian's army was wreaking havoc in the south of the Yangtze River and issuing edicts to conquer many places, the situation of dividing the river and governing separately, and the confrontation between the north and the south had become irreversible.

As for Luo Tianjun, they actually have a huge advantage, that is, Yangzhou is still in Luofu's hands.

Daqing has seen its problems become apparent over the past century. Although the current emperor and the supreme emperor in the court are so anxious that their mouths are covered with blisters, they have yet to reorganize the army for the next round of war with Luofu.

As the situation changed rapidly, Luofu, in preparation for his next coronation, also began to purge Jinling.

What is unexpected yet reasonable is that the person who played a huge role in Luofu's cleansing of Jinling was actually Jia Yucun, the prefect of Jinling.

Jia Yucun is a smart man. Although he is indeed insidious and cunning, even treacherous, to some extent, he has become a benchmark for Jinling.

Surrendering early was one thing, but what was more important was that Jia Yucun had spared no effort in serving Luo Tianjun.

Of course, Jia Yuncun was so decisive because, on the one hand, he saw that Luofu had great potential. Even if he could not quickly complete the change of dynasty, at least he could divide Luofu into north and south with Daqing.

On the other hand, it was because Lin Ruhai was the head of the civil servants around Luofu and his top adviser.

We must never forget that Jia Yucun was once an official who was dismissed from office and investigated. After losing his official position, he was Lin Daiyu's teacher, the teacher hired by Lin Ruhai.

Now Lin Ruhai is the first counselor and the head of civil officials under Luofu. After the upcoming wedding, Lin Daiyu will become the mistress of Luotian Army.

Even considering the benefits, Jia Yucun would choose to join Luofu without hesitation.

Compared with Daqing, he had almost no backing except that he was devoted to personal advancement, and after becoming a relative of the Jia family, he relied on the Jia family's network of connections to get the position of prefect of Jinling.

Although Jia Yucun was a successful Jinshi, he was dismissed from office and investigated, so many of his connections gradually became alienated; and it had not been long since he became the prefect of Jinling.

After all, the Xue family had just prepared to go north to Beijing when they were blocked by Luofu and had to turn back before reaching Yangzhou.

After Jia Yucun took office as the prefect of Jinling, the first case he investigated was the case in which Xue Pan beat Feng Yuan to death.

It can be said that Jia Yucun had not even warmed up to the position of prefect of Jinling, let alone had much of a network of connections.

Luo Fu really disdained Jia Yucun's character, but he was very clear that Luo Tianjun also needed someone to play the villain, or simply to be put out as a target.

And Jia Yucun is just the right person.

For Luofu, Jia Yucun is like a black glove. It can not only quickly complete the integration of Jinling, but also ruthlessly kill him when necessary in the future. On the one hand, it shows his impartiality, and on the other hand, it can also play a role in winning people's hearts.

Jia Yucun is a cruel official, like a toilet paper.

Unfortunately, Jia Yuncun was unaware of this. After successfully meeting Luo Fu through Lin Ruhai, he soon claimed to have become Luo Fu's confidant.

Using harsh means, he began to help Luofu clean up Jinling and Jiangnan.

Many things are obviously offensive, but Jia Yucun enjoys doing them and even regards them as his own achievements.

Jia Yucun is not stupid. He knows very well that what he is doing is offensive.

But he also knew that after he chose to join Luofu, he would no longer have the opportunity to please both sides.

On one side is Luofu, which suddenly emerged and in a short period of time had the capital to divide the river and govern separately from Daqing, and it would not take long for it to complete the change of dynasty. On the other side are the students and former officials of Daqing.

Jia Yucun knew very well how to choose.

After all, he was a successful Jinshi, and although he was a little superficial, Jia Yucun had read history books. At the beginning of every founding of a dynasty, it would launch a devastating attack on the old system and interest groups of the previous dynasty.

After all, there are only so many benefits in the world. The old dynasty takes more. The powerful people in the new dynasty can't be treated like beggars, right?

Of course, it is to clean up the previous dynasty, seize the benefits from the interest groups of the old dynasty, and redistribute them.

This kind of work will certainly make the powerful people of the old dynasty hate it to the core, but it will also receive the unremitting support of the powerful people of the new dynasty.

This is what Jia Yucun is doing now.

According to Luo Fu's instructions, after completing the purge of those people in Jinling City, such as Zhen Yingjia, the president of Ti'renyuan, who had close ties with the Daqing court and even married into the royal family, he used various pretexts to complete the purge of the diehards of the old dynasty.

Just as Jia Yucun was about to begin a large-scale cleanup in the area occupied by Luo Tianjun.

However, he was in a dilemma in his own mansion.

"Master, you have obviously been valued by Emperor Luotian. Even Lord Lin, the head of the civil officials and the first counselor of the Luotian Army, is your former employer. Why do you seem to be in such a difficult situation now?" Jiao Xing, who was wearing a ruched skirt and had been pampered for many years, had long lost the petty attitude she had as a maid. She asked Jia Yucun in confusion.

As Jia Yucun gradually gained importance in Luofu during the new dynasty.

Jiao Xing, Jia Yucun's wife, also gradually rose in status.

Jia Yucun frowned, shook his head and said, "Madam, you don't know that I am now a minister of the head of state, but I have no foundation of my own except for the owner and the future queen of the young lady."

"Isn't that enough?" Jiao Xing looked puzzled. In her opinion, her master had a strong foundation and a powerful background in the new dynasty.

"It's not that simple." Jia Yucun said with a wry smile, "My current position is very dangerous."

There were some things that Jia Yucun had no way of communicating with his wife.

After all, as someone who had read history books thoroughly, he knew very well that in every dynasty, after the change of dynasties and the consolidation of political power, the founding heroes would become very dangerous.

This is the case with Lin Ruhai. In Jia Yucun's view, Lin Ruhai is always at the point of decline after reaching his peak.

Not only is he the top counselor and chief civil official in Luotian's army, his daughter will be the future mistress of the world. Too much is as bad as too little!

Once the change of dynasty is completed, if Lin Ruhai is sensible, he can rely on his daughter to have a good end. Otherwise, he may even be implicated.

It has to be admitted that after being dismissed from his post and investigated in Daqing, Jia Yucun has indeed become much smarter.

In his opinion, simply relying on Lin Ruhai and his daughter as a backer is not only unsafe, but may even be dangerous. If he takes a step forward, he will leave his name in history and enjoy wealth and glory. If he takes a step back, he will be infamous for eternity and will be doomed to eternal damnation.

He must not pin everything on Lin Ruhai and his daughter.

Otherwise, the relationship between him and Lin Ruhai would inevitably be hit by Luo Fu in the future.

Jia Yucun could not communicate these words directly with his wife. After pondering for a moment, he said in a roundabout way: "The head of state is still young. Soon, he will be crowned king and establish a system. However, he is only accompanied by a young lady from the host family. The harem is very poor."

Jiao Xing understood instantly. Her eyes lit up and she said, "Master, you want to find someone who is close to the leader, right?"

"That's right." Jia Yucun nodded, his eyes flickered slightly, and he said to Jiao Xing without hiding anything: "Simply entertaining people with beauty will not last long. What I need is a woman who is smart, but whose family members are not too smart, and who can be controlled. Madam, you followed me to Jinling, I wonder if you know any of the noble ladies in Jinling?"

"Master, you are confused because you are involved in this matter." Jiao Xing suddenly smiled and said, "Have you forgotten the eldest daughter of the Xue family?"

In an instant, Jia Yucun suddenly realized.

If we were to say what was the biggest shock Jia Yucun received after taking office as the prefect of Jinling, it would definitely be the official protection talisman.

Among the four major families, the Jia family is real, with white jade for halls and gold for horses; the Shi family, whose Afang Palace is three hundred miles long but cannot accommodate even one historian from Jinling; the Wang family, whose Dragon King came to invite the King of Jinling because there was no white jade bed in the East China Sea; and the Xue family, whose family has heavy snow in good years and pearls are common as dirt and gold is as hard as iron.

Perhaps it was because the official protection talisman brought such a great shock to Jia Yucun that for a moment, he actually ignored the eldest daughter of the Xue family.

Now, with Jiao Xing's reminder, he suddenly realized.

Nowadays, Jiangnan is experiencing a change of dynasty.

What was once a talisman to protect one's official position has now become a death warrant.

If the Xue family doesn't want to end up in a miserable situation, this seems to be their best choice.

"I am so lucky to have a wife." Jia Yucun laughed and asked his servant to deliver a letter to the Xue family.

Xue family.

Although Xue Pan, the dull bully, can indeed be regarded as a bully of men and women in Jinling, but as a wealthy merchant, the Xue family plays a very important role in stabilizing the economy of Jinling. At the very least, the Xue family cannot be touched rashly in the short term.

This is almost a consensus among Luofu's civil and military officials.

But he didn't take any action, he just didn't wipe out the Xue family all at once.

As Luo Tianjun moved into Jinling City, the Xue family's situation went from bad to worse.

And Xue Pan is a complete waste. He can't even maintain the family business, let alone revive it.

The Xue family was in a state of gloom and sorrow at this moment.

When Jia Yucun's post arrived.

The Xue family, mother and son, gathered together immediately.

"Pan'er, this...what should we do?" Aunt Xue turned pale with fright.

During this period of time, she heard a lot from the maids and old women that Jia Yucun was appreciated by the new dynasty, but became a cruel official of the new dynasty, and countless old relatives in Jinling suffered a devastating disaster.

Now that Jia Yucun has sent a letter to the Xue family, Aunt Xue can't help but start to get scared. Is Jia Yucun targeting the Xue family?

Xue Pan's face was uncertain for a while, and then he slammed the table and said angrily: "At worst, I will rebel against him. If this damn Jia Yucun really wants to target my Xue family, I will fight him to the death."

(End of this chapter)