Chapter 231 Auction

After November, Xing Tianjun's offensive against Zhejiang was also launched. As expected by Li Xin, Xiao Tianjian and others, although Zhejiang is a very rich place, it is precisely because this area is too rich. On the contrary, the combat effectiveness of the officers and soldiers in this area is very weak. The military generals are rich one by one. The soldiers are poor. It would be really strange if such an army could fight to the end with Xing Tianjun.

So after Xing Tianjun took Suzhou Mansion, Liu Yaoben and Luo Li joined forces and began to attack and kill Zhejiang. There was almost no effective resistance in the county along the way. The officials and officers and soldiers fled one after another. As for Jiaxing Mansion, they resisted for four days, but they bombarded heavily in the Xingtian Army. Under the way, the defenders in the city still collapsed. When the governor of Jiaxing was broken, they threw themselves into the city.

As soon as Jiaxing Mansion was broken, Liu Yaoben and Luo Li immediately went to Huzhou Prefecture. Without waiting for Xing Tianjun to arrive, the magistrate of Huzhou personally held the big seal and took the officials in the city out of the city ten miles to welcome the arrival of the Xing Tianjun. Without saying a word, he surrendered to the Xing Tianjun.

As soon as Huzhou Prefecture fell, the next target was Hangzhou Prefecture, and the siege of Hangzhou Prefecture did not last long. Liu Yaoben and Luo Li's 40,000 troops approached Hangzhou. The Hangzhou magistrate actually knew that once Jiaxing Prefecture and Huzhou Prefecture were lost, the next target was his Hangzhou, so he found Han who fled to Hangzhou. Guangmei, please ask Han and Guangmei to find a way to help him defend Hangzhou City no matter what.

And Han and Guangmei, the abscess, have long been defeated by Xing Tianjun's men. At this time, they have already become a frightening bird. On the surface, they patted their chests loudly and promised. They took the opportunity to make a lot of money from the Hangzhou government on the grounds of raising food and salaries. As a result, Liu Yaoben and Luo Li's army arrived at the city of Hangzhou. Han and Guangmei immediately repeated their old skills and put oil on the soles of his feet. The first one abandoned Hangzhou City. With less than 3,000 soldiers left, he fled to the south. This time, he can be said to have learned a lesson. How far he ran, even Wenzhou Mansion did not dare to stay. He simply fled to Quanzhou, Fujian Province. It can be said that The dust went away, **, Xing Tianjun didn't have time to chase him even if he wanted to.

As a result, the officers, soldiers and officials in Hangzhou, who had planned to resist stubbornly, saw that Han and Guangmei were treacherous and slipped away first, and their morale plummeted. Finally, on the day the Xing Tianjun began to attack the city, they pulled out the white flag on the tower and announced the surrender of Hangzhou, which made Liu Yaoben and Luo Li. God was so boring that he easily took the Hangzhou Mansion.

It's only a month. In less than mid-December, Luo Li and Liu Yao have captured most of the northern area of Zhejiang. This speed is a little too much to call it a war, but it's a bit like an urgent march. In such a large place, their soldiers and horses run around, and it's only a month worse. Not much, but the officers and soldiers in this area are like dominoes. They surrendered to Xing Tianjun one after another, and almost did not let the soldiers of Xing Tianjun fight a slightly more tragic battle. Therefore, at this time, the court had no power to fight back at all, and it was completely lying down and beaten. There were even more than a dozen scouts on the so-called battlefield. As soon as they appeared under the banner of the Xing Tianjun, hundreds of officers and soldiers immediately began to flee. As a result, more than a dozen scouts simply chased after them, and finally circled them and rushed back to the station like sheep. Even if the battle was over, the main forces behind them often scolded. Complaining that the scouts did not leave them a few dishes. Under such circumstances, most of the officials in various places were waiting for Xing Tianjun to come to the door in panic. Some loyal officials made up their minds to commit suicide, and those who were more lively had begun to send people to take the initiative to contact Xing Tianjun.

But after mid-December, Luo Li and Liu Yaoben stopped continuing the southward attack. The new soldiers and horses sent by Shi Ran began to take over their defense area, and then Luo Li and Liu Yaoben's troops began to return to Nanjing.

At the end of the thirteenth year of Chongzhen, the whole Nanjing city entered a busy period, and a large number of people were busy in the city. Although Xiao Tianjian repeatedly asked for thrift, after all, Nanjing City has just passed a war and is now going to establish a country, so at least the war relics inside and outside the city should be cleaned up. At first, the ruins of houses destroyed by gunfire always had to be cleaned up, so a large amount of manpower was mobilized to do these things inside and outside the city.

The bricks and tiles of all kinds of ruins were shipped out of the city by a truck, and new houses were built on the ruins. The houses in some places had no time to be built, so they simply cleaned up and formed a flat land. In short, the things left over from the war should be cleaned up as much as possible, and as long as every family had the conditions, Zhang Deng Jiecai, one is to welcome the arrival of the New Year, and the other is to welcome the founding ceremony of the Xingtian Army, including the destroyed Dinghuai Gate. At this time, there are also a large number of craftsmen who are rushing to repair there, and the urn city has been completely blown up. If it is rebuilt, it is estimated that it will be too late, so Xiao Tianjian simply turns people to make the urn city. Temporarily dismantled, only the inner gate and gate tower are left to be repaired, which saves a lot of time. By this time, Dinghuaimen is basically close to completion, and the newly replaced iron gate has been painted, restoring a lot of the weather in the past.

But after all, the war situation here was extremely fierce at that time. Although the craftsmen focused on repairing the gates and gate towers and cleaning up the ruins of the barbican, the walls in this area were still full of dense craters. Originally, someone proposed to repair these craters, but Xiao Tianjian took time to take a look at the field. After that, these craters do not need to be repaired. As long as they do not affect the main structure of the city wall, these craters will be retained to the greatest extent, and only the pheasants on the wall can be repaired, and these craters will be left for future generations to admire as a surreal monument for the Xingtian army to conquer Nanjing City.

Although the price paid by Xing Tianjun to conquer Nanjing City was not too high, in order to attack the inner city of Nanjing, Xing Tianjun still suffered more than 1,000 casualties in Dinghuaimen. Especially when Sun Yingyuan blocked the gate with his troops, many soldiers died in the gate, so Xiao Tianjian felt that it was necessary to leave this relic and let Later generations know that how many soldiers of the Xingtian Army will pay the price of blood for this.

So the remains of these craters were finally preserved, and the city wall used its mottled body to show the world the tragedy of the battle that had happened here.

With the longer and longer control time of Xing Tianjun, all kinds of economy have also begun to recover. Although after Xing Tianjun entered the city, he lost many nobles, gentry and officials in the city, as well as some homes of big merchants who hooked up with the government to monopolize the market to obtain huge profits, it also made many merchants in Nanjing. Daji, a large number of assets were confiscated by Xing Tianjun, but people all over the world can see that Nanjing is likely to become the official capital of Xing Tianjun in the future. Whether you live here or do business here, it has great benefits from politics and business.

Even if Xiao Tianjian will not officially set the capital of Nanjing in the future, Nanjing will still be the largest city of this era, and it is located in the south of the most prosperous economy. It will still be a feng shui treasure. Therefore, after learning that Xing Tianjun controlled Nanjing, many businessmen and scholars He began to run towards Nanjing, hoping to take this opportunity to make a shop or a house in Nanjing.

After Xing Tianjun entered the city, he confiscated a large number of private property, but for the middle and lower classes in the city, he basically did nothing. Just according to the list, he confiscated those who were seriously hostile to Xing Tianjun and at the same time had the homes of great evil people, so the high-level officials and some nobles in Nanjing were thoroughly The bottom was uprooted, but the basic civilians, small and medium-sized rich households and merchants were kept safely.

Among these confiscated assets, there are a large number of real estate and land property, which will be redistributed in the future. However, in terms of real estate, Xiao Tianjian's opinion is to leave those government offices in Nanjing for all departments after the establishment of the country as official offices, and leave part of the real estate as a reward for meritorious officials. The rest of the properties that can't be used at all are now newly built in the Dazhong Dynasty. There are places where money is spent everywhere. Taxes in many places cannot be collected normally. It is definitely not good to maintain such a large plate without money. Therefore, since it is useless, it is better to sell these properties to the public. Take this opportunity to buy a house. Money, fill the treasury and raise military funds for the next Northern Expedition.

For Xiao Tianjian's idea, the ministers naturally nodded and said yes. After all, the Dazhong Dynasty is going to build a new one. With the money they used to confiscated and the capture by the war, it is obviously not enough to deal with all kinds of expenses after the establishment of the country. These extra houses and shops that have been copied out are not much. It is naturally a good thing to exchange money for money, which can meet the demand for military expenditure, and can also be used to restore local prosperity. In short, it is a good thing.

But in terms of how to sell these houses and pavements, Xiao Tianjian proposed a new method, that is, to publicly sell them in the form of auctions, and whoever pays a high price can get it.

So in early December, Jin Tong, Xiao Tianjian's old housekeeper, hosted a unique auction in Nanjing.

Auctions are absolutely new in this era. Few people have heard of it, but before the auction, at the behest of Xiao Tianjian, Xing Tianjun released the news widely, so that people have a general understanding of what the so-called auction means, and to put it bluntly, it is for those who bid with high bids. There is no mercy to speak of, and some officials within the Xing Tianjun have also been eliminated from taking advantage of this opportunity to enrich their own pockets, so it is beneficial to others and fairness.

After sorting out this auction, Xing Tianjun took out nearly a thousand real estate shops in the city for auction, all over Nanjing, and carried out the stock price in advance, evaluated each real estate shop, and prepared for the auction in advance.

In making money, Xiao Tianjian, a later generation, can be said to be more experienced than people in this era. The whole auction can be said to be secretly hosted by Xiao Tianjian. Although some officials who want to take the opportunity to be cheap are not satisfied, no one dares to say anything at all, and Xiao Tianjian said is high-sounding. The auctioned money will be used for military expenses to prepare for the future unification of the world by the Xing Tianjun army, so no one dares to say no good at all. Otherwise, it will be immediately reprimanded as an scheming, and there is a suspicion of wanting to take the opportunity to enrich their own pockets.

A large number of merchants or gentry heard the news, so they immediately poured money into Nanjing City from all directions. For a moment, the inns in Nanjing City were full of people who came to participate in the auction.

Since they dare to come here to participate in the auction, these people are basically rich people. So many rich people poured into Nanjing City at the same time, which made Nanjing City, which became depressed because of the war, suddenly become prosperous again. Some people have money and have consumption. For a while, all walks of life in Nanjing City opened here one after another, and changed It was very lively. Even the Goulan brothels on the banks of the Qinhuai River immediately regained their prosperity at this time and began to sing and dance.

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