As the Chinese army approached, Wen Zhong was very hasty when he fled Lin'an. He only took away the queen of the late emperor (Longdao), the Queen of the Empress (8 years old), his family, his other ministers (including Bao Zheng) who were willing to follow, less than 300 guards of Yulongzhi, and more than 300 armed servants of the Wen family.

The group of men, women, young and old were only one thousand. They set off from Lin'an to flee to Fujian Province in the south - there were some local imperial guards and coastal defense officers and soldiers (who were the main force in preparing for the Japanese). Wen Zhong believed that there was still a chance to regroup wherever they went.

The people who stayed in Lin'an were divided into several factions, of which the most popular one was of course the surrender faction. They advocated waiting in Lin'an for two days and waiting for the Chinese army to come and accept it.

But some people didn't know what they thought and supported two emperors in succession - some of them were old lords and sects, probably because they felt that their families had contact with the pseudo-jin at the time, and the Chinese army would definitely not have any good results when they came. Therefore, they gathered more than a thousand servants to release the Supreme Emperor Jianxing and support him to ascend the throne again.

In addition, some ambitious people who were tying dragon bones and Duozizhi gathered nearly 2,000 imperial guards to support the King of Wu ascended the throne, and even announced the "Deyou" year name in a similar way.

Therefore, five days before the Chinese army arrived in Lin'an, there were actually two reigning emperors in Lin'an City, and the supporters of the two emperors also broke out in several armed conflicts, which was like a scattering demons.

On the 2nd of August, the Chinese army arrived at the city of Lin'an. The supporters of Emperor Deyou were unceremonious and tied up their emperor and took them outside the city to surrender to the Chinese army.

The supporters of Emperor Jianxing had the intention to continue to resist, but Emperor Jianxing himself escaped from Lin'an City and took the initiative to surrender to the Chinese army outside the city!

The rebels who lost their last title of righteousness and brought a large amount of personnel and property losses to the people of Lin'an in the last few days were immediately suppressed.

It's really the beginning of chaos, the process of chaos, and the end of chaos.

...

"Look at what messy things you are loyal to." In front of Xu Shisong, Xu Shiyang cursed bluntly: "I look so embarrassed for them! Fortunately, I came this time. If it were the Tartars, it would have completely lost all the national integrity!"

"What are you going to deal with them?" Xu Shisong asked.

"The King of Wu was deceived, but he has issued some bastard orders in the past few days, so he was demoted to a commoner."

"Those guys who deceived him, the dragon-bone-bone-straight guy, created a support farce in order to get me a credit for giving the emperor's surrender!" Xu Shiyang said viciously: "I don't recognize Emperor Deyou, so they don't have this credit. On the contrary, my Military Law Department will judge their destruction and robbery in Lin'an!"

During the five-day battle between Jianxing and Deyou, in order to strengthen their troops, supporters on both sides once led the men in the city and robbed money and food as military supplies. During this period, they did a lot of atrocities in insulting women and killing people. Therefore, no matter whether they surrendered voluntarily, Xu Shiyang would not give them good fruits.

As for Emperor Jianxing, he has been a real puppet these days and has voluntarily surrendered, so the trial still needs to be tried, but Xu Shiyang will order his punishment to be reduced as appropriate - it is probably a derogatory exile in the end, right?

But at least you don’t have to be sentenced to death. You know, Xu Shiyang really wanted his life when he sent troops.

As for the last remnants of the financial backbone and faction in Lin'an City, a public trial meeting is waiting for them.

不出意外的话,他们都得死.

Ah, by the way, there are those Chinese lords and factions who are suspected of killing Emperor Longdao. Now Xu Shiyang does not plan to punish them, but when the situation in Jiangnan stabilizes, Xu Shiyang will send someone to investigate the case of Emperor Longdao falling into the water, and give an explanation to his orphan and widowed mother, as well as Xu Shisong.

More importantly, Xu Shiyang suspected that the case had something to do with some wealthy families in Jiangnan. If it could be confirmed, Xu Shiyang planned to take this opportunity to severely attack the wealthy families and various interest groups in Jiangnan.

...

On August 15, the heads of the three Chinese legions went to Lin'an for a meeting. At the meeting, Xu Shiyang announced that the main resistance forces of the Great Zhou no longer existed. Therefore, the main tasks of each legion are to disperse all the territory of the original Great Zhou, clear out sporadic resistance forces (suppression and pacification), thieves and robbers (suppression by force), clarify the economic and population conditions in various places, resume market transactions, and prepare for autumn harvest and autumn tax work.

To this end, Xu Shiyang had to disperse more than 100,000 expeditionary troops in company-level units to various parts of Jiangnan, and then deploy staff from propaganda teams, medical teams, working groups, investigation teams and other departments from local areas, as well as old government personnel retained in various places to stabilize production and life in the new controlled area.

In order to achieve this, Xu Shiyang had to ask the cabinet to conduct a general mobilization - not to mobilize soldiers, but to mobilize talents with management experience.

Including students in short-term training classes, most senior high school students, some non-engineering college students, experienced personnel who have worked in publicity, medical care, research and other departments, veterans of the army, people with good grades in night schools, etc., they are all used to fill in the work team going south.

Xu Shiyang even allowed some veterans to retire early and be transferred to work locally in order to establish a grassroots regime in Jiangnan as soon as possible.

If the local old regime retained personnel and companies scattered across the country were added, in order to actually control Jiangnan, the Chinese Empire had mobilized more than 300,000 people, which was much higher than the number of armed forces that went south by the empire.

In addition, follow-up personnel are coming, and localities are quickly setting up study classes to train temporary workers and interns.

In contrast, the armed forces responsible for continuing the attack have been reduced to 20,000 people in the Navy and Marines (responsible for landing directly from Fujian Province and blocking Wen Zhong's escape route), as well as half a legion dominated by cavalry, with less than 30,000 people.

...

In order to avoid the threat from the Chinese Navy in the coastal areas, Wen Zhong, Bao Zheng and others did not take the coastal route to retreat south, but first retreated to Jianning Prefecture, then entered Yanping Prefecture, preparing to go from here to Tingzhou Prefecture and enter Guangdong Province.

In Yong'an County, Yanping Prefecture, Wen Zhong and Bao Zheng supported King Wei ascended the throne, and the country was named Xiangxing, and the Empress Dowager (Emperor Longdao's Empress) was regent.

Wen Zhong collected troops, horses, food and grass along the way, and expanded his team to about 3,000 people. This number is far from the goal when he started his journey south.

Wen Zhong originally hoped to reorganize the dynasty with Fujian Province, Guangdong Province and Guangxi Province as the core, but now it seems that this is basically impossible.

现在剩下的路只有两条:

First, we should wait for change. After all, the Great Zhou had the experience of surviving after a migration south.

The second is to hope that China can allow the small regime of King Wei to continue to exist in a remote place due to the previous relationship.
Chapter completed!