It was precisely because of Du You's persuasion that Guo Song's mentality towards more than 60 Guanzhong officials changed, from vigilance to co-optation, and Guo Song also released a lot of goodwill for this reason, and won over these officials who were regarded as traitors by the imperial court.

In addition to receiving these officials in batches, Guo Song also generally promoted them, and almost every one of them was promoted by one level, from the chief secretary to the county lieutenant or county commander, from the county commander to the county commander, and if it was already a county commander, then it was one level higher in the official rank.

Among them, several officials have also been specially promoted, such as Xinfeng County Ling Lu Yiming was promoted to Wannian County Commander, and Wannian County Commander Cui Ju was promoted to Jingzhao Mansion Shaoyin, but the most eye-catching thing is Yang Wanhua, the chief secretary of Purun County, who was promoted to the governor of the same state history, and was suddenly promoted from a nine-grade lowly official to a five-grade high-ranking official, directly crossing the two thresholds of seven and five grades, which really shocked many people.

But the officials of Fengxiang Mansion are not so strange, this Yang Tianhua has always been praised by the government Yin Li Shuguang, and this time he was received by Guo Song alone, many people guessed that he was going to be promoted again, but they didn't expect him to be promoted to the governor of the same state, from county officials to state officials, this is not a step away, and they generally have to go back to the imperial court to take a turn, and they need to stay up for at least another five to ten years of qualifications.

As more than 60 officials happily returned to the counties, the Jin army's action to recover stolen goods also kicked off, and a total of 75 county officials were faced with the recovery of stolen goods, some of them were officials directly appointed by Zhu Jun, and some of them were appointed by spending money to buy officials.

Under the coercion and torture of the internal guards, many officials could not endure it and explained the whereabouts of the stolen money one after another, and many officials chose to commit suicide knowing that they would not escape death, leaving the stolen money to their families.

Yixian Fuli Cabinet Workshop, this is the industry of the horse Xiao Sheng, Xiao Sheng is dead, but this cabinet is still the industry of the Xiao family, and it can be ranked in the top ten in Chang'an.

At noon that day, dozens of soldiers followed an official into the gate of the cabinet, and the shopkeeper hurriedly greeted him and said, "May I ask what business you have to do?" ”

The official held up the inspection envoy token and said: "I am Zhou Ya, the inspector of the Suzheng Observatory, we are tracking down the stolen wealth of the former county commander Jiang Wei, according to the clues we have obtained, the county order will deposit part of the money in your cabinet, I hope you will cooperate with the government to investigate the case and hand over all the money deposited by the county order." ”

Jiang Wei, the county magistrate of Yixian County, had already confessed that he had deposited a large amount of money in the Fuli Cabinet Workshop, but the voucher for withdrawing the money was in his son's hand, and his son had already run away, so Su Zhengtai could only forcibly withdraw the money.

The shopkeeper was very embarrassed, he didn't have the money voucher, and gave the guest's money to the government, what if his family came with the voucher?

But to confront the government, the shopkeeper didn't have the courage, he hesitated for a while and said: "This..... Can you give me three days, and I'll ask the proprietor. ”

Zhou Ya shook his head and had a very tough attitude, "At most, you will be given half an hour, after half an hour, if you can't take it out, we will move it ourselves, how much will it be moved?" ”

The shopkeeper was suddenly anxious, how much to move, and it didn't empty the money in the cabinet, he hurriedly ran to the back of the counter to find the account book, and soon found that the entire No. 7 warehouse was Jiang County's deposit.

The shopkeeper sighed, and now he had to take power.

"I found it, the money in the No. 7 treasury is all ordered by Jiang County, and there are account books here, please take a look!"

Zhou Ya stepped forward to look at the account book, turned back to the captain and said, "Go and move the No. 7 warehouse, move it all!" ”

The shopkeeper led the soldiers into the back storeroom, and he opened an iron door and said, "It's all inside." ”

The warehouse inside covers an area of about fifty square meters, and there are dozens of large boxes piled up inside, and when the box is opened, it is full of ingots of silver and gold, according to the records of the account books, there should be 100,000 taels of silver and 10,000 taels of gold stored here, which is only half of the county order Jiang Wei has collected tea and wine taxes and other embezzlements in the past few years, and half of them have been transported back to his hometown, also in Yixian, another army of 100 people has rushed to Jiang Wei's hometown.

Zhou Ya quickly counted two thousand taels of silver, a total of fifty boxes of silver and ten boxes of gold, which was consistent with the account books.

Zhou Ya shouted: "All the boxes in the room are removed!" ”

.........

There is a small village near the foot of Huashan Mountain in Changhe Township, Huayin County, called Zhou Village, in which there are only a few dozen families, and half of them are surnamed Zhou.

Before dawn, Zhang Wen, the new county commander of Huayin County, came to the small village with a large group of soldiers, and nearly 100 soldiers surrounded a large house in the east of the village.

Two strong soldiers kicked open the courtyard gate, and a large group of soldiers rushed in.......

This mansion is the old residence of Cheng Zhou Wei in Xinfeng County, Zhou Wei refused to confess the stolen money during the interrogation, he committed a great crime, he knew that he could not escape death, so he committed suicide in prison, and his family has absconded, and only a few thousand yuan of money was found in his official residence, which is obviously unreasonable.

The inspector quickly found Zhou Wei's old house, Zhou Village, Huayin County, where the money he collected was likely hidden.

Soon after, the soldiers arrested Zhou Wei's wife and three sons, and the soldiers began to search the entire mansion thoroughly.

However, after a search, only some jewelry and broken silver were found, and a large amount of stolen goods was nowhere to be found.

Inspector Zhao He walked up to Zhou Wei's wife and said: "His Royal Highness the King of Jin has an order, truthfully confess the stolen money, and the crime is not as good as the family, but if you conceal the stolen goods, it will be the whole family to be beheaded, you honestly confess, spare your and your three sons' lives, otherwise you will be beheaded on the spot!" ”

Several big men pressed their three sons in front of Zhou Wei's wife like catching chickens, and raised their machetes high, Zhou Wei's wife was so frightened that she almost fainted, crying: "I said! I say! Everything is in the dry well in the backyard. ”

Zhao He shouted: "Take her to search the dry well in the backyard!" ”

Under the guidance of Zhou Wei's wife, the soldiers finally found this extremely secret dry well, the mouth of the well was level with the ground, sealed by a large stone slab, and a rockery was pressed on it, and the surrounding area was covered with dead grass.

If no one had pointed me out, I wouldn't have thought that there was a dry well here.

The soldiers moved away from the rockery and used a crowbar to pry open a large stone slab weighing hundreds of pounds, and a gloomy wellhead appeared in front of them.

Inside are a mouth of iron boxes, very heavy, the soldiers until noon, only to pull up all the iron boxes, no one could have imagined, a small well, but the bottom is so big, actually fished out hundreds of iron boxes, most of which are copper coins, but there are a lot of gold, silver, jewelry and jade, estimated, about 300,000 yuan.

The search of Jiang Xianling in Yixian County and Zhou Xiancheng in Xinfeng County was only a microcosm, and seventy-five search teams were busy in various counties in Guanzhong, searching for the stolen wealth of corrupt officials and corrupt officials, and the amount of this money was huge, enough to be millions, except for a small number of clear sufferers, most of them were wealth exploited through various clever tax purposes, which Guo Song decided to use to dredge the Tianbao Canal, build wharves, and build bridges and roads.

Entering December, the second heavy snow fell in Guanzhong, and Guanzhong once again became a snowy world.

On this morning, Guo Song, accompanied by Du You, came to Hanxiu Manor, twenty miles away from Xicheng, which was the manor of the anti-thief An Lushan, after pacifying the Anshi Rebellion, this manor became the imperial village, and became the private manor of the Tang Dynasty, Hanxiu Villa covers an area of about 1,000 hectares, it is an extremely vast manor, and there is not even a wall, but a ditch trench was dug along the sideline.

During this time, Du You was fully responsible for the inventory of the farmhouse industry in Guanzhong, including the major granges, houses in the city, etc., Du You led dozens of officials to be busy for almost a month before completing this tedious and complicated matter and compiling a thick booklet.

The main purpose of the inventory of the fields and houses is not to recover the fields that have been divided by Zhu Jun, but to find out the situation, how many fields and ginseng properties have been distributed, whose fields and properties originally belonged to, who has been distributed, and so on, so as not to make a confused account.

In addition, for the division of some ministers' Yongye land, Guo Song was ready to use compensation to compensate the original owner with a part of the confiscated money.

At the same time, Guo Song also had the idea that some of the land could be given to the existing farmers as private land, but it should be restricted from being sold, and then the ownership of some of the land must belong to the government and be leased by the government to the people for cultivation.

Today, Guo Song mainly wants to go deep into the peasant households and understand the thoughts of the peasants at the bottom.

A small village covered with snow appeared in front of them, and everyone turned over and dismounted, and the group walked along the ridge path towards the village.