Qin Zhan received information from Zhang Ying that the defenders in the city had been wiped out, and immediately led a large army into the city.

Where the Xuanjia army passed, the people in the city who had just been devastated by the soldiers defending the city saw that there was a new wave of soldiers, or the Xuanjia army who wanted to kill people and dig out their hearts in the official propaganda of Guangdong, so frightened that they hid in the house one by one, closed the door, hid all the silver and young women in the cellar, and prayed to God and Buddha, and the Xuanjia army must not come to the door.

Qin Zhan didn't pay attention to these frightened people, and directly led the army to the Guangdong Provincial Government Office. At this moment, the official office was empty, it was a mess, the officials fled, and the officials all hid home.

Qin Zhan immediately arranged for the Xuanjia Army to take over the government affairs of Guangzhou City, and ordered that from today onwards, Guangzhou City temporarily implemented a military management policy.

His first step was to clean up the bandits who had committed crimes, as well as to count the women and belongings he had taken.

After two days and two nights of counting, Zhang Ying snatched back 2.07 million taels of silver from the group of bandits, and 6,000 women.

After Qin Zhan discussed with Feng Ting, Shi Fu, and Zhang Ying, 70,000 taels of silver were divided equally among the four of them; 500,000 taels were allocated to reward the officers and soldiers of Xuanjia who had made meritorious contributions; 500,000 taels were reserved for the reconstruction of the destroyed houses in Guangzhou City; The remaining 1 million taels were sealed in the treasury, and when the torture of the Guangdong officials was over, Fang Yuan was asked for instructions on how to distribute it.

As for the 6,000 women who were robbed, all of them were young women. It is impossible for those rebels to rob young women with good looks, and it is impossible for them to rob old women, and almost all of these women are the families of the people in Guangzhou.

According to Qin Zhan's original intention, these women were to be assigned to the sergeants to have a good time. But he knew that if Fang Yuan knew that the Xuanjia Army had committed adultery with women from good families, he, the governor of Minguang, would be the end.

Qin Zhan could only honestly order the sergeant to verify these women one by one, whether they were married or not, and whether they had family members. If there is any family remaining, let him return home; If the family members have died in the catastrophe and have nowhere to go, they will stay in the barracks and wait for distribution.

After such an inventory, there were only 1,500 women left, and there were more monks and less porridge, so Qin Zhan could only use the method of drawing lots to distribute these women to the Xuanjia sergeants who won the lottery.

As for the other Xuanjia sergeants who were not assigned women and had nowhere to vent, the official took out 100,000 taels of silver, and each of them divided two taels of silver, and went to the Qinglou, brothel, and earthen kiln in Guangzhou to find women to vent.

The second step is to release the list and restore the normal order of life in Guangzhou. Qin Zhan sent 20 teams of sergeants around the small port of the streets of Guangzhou City, shouting to the people in the city the rules of the Xuanjia Army: never disturb the people, and will not take a stitch from the people. If a sergeant of Xuanjia violates discipline, he can immediately report it to the Yamen of the Political Secretary, and Qin Zhan is personally responsible for receiving complaints from the people and setting up a picket team to deal with soldiers who violate the law and discipline.

If there is damage to the house, the people can find the Xuanjia army to report, and the Xuanjia army can allocate ten taels of silver for each household to rebuild, and send those captured soldiers as miscellaneous servants to help repair the houses.

The city of Guangzhou was full of corpses, and Qin Zhan ordered the surrendered 20,000 soldiers to drag all the corpses in the city to a mass grave in the field, dig a big pit and bury them, and then clean up the bloodstains on the streets.

After tossing like this for five whole days, the corpses in Guangzhou City were finally cleaned up, and the blood stains were also gone. The people who were still praying to God and worshiping Buddha before have seen it for so many days, and there is no sign of the Xuanjia Army breaking in, which seems to be not quite the same as the official propaganda before. Coupled with the propaganda of the Xuanjia Army back and forth, some of them also had the courage to go out tentatively to go out to the Xuanjia Army to declare that they wanted to repair the house.

Qin Zhan immediately ordered to fulfill his previous promise, and ordered five soldiers to be surrendered to one household to repair the houses for these people, and the standard of ten taels of silver per person per household was the standard of ten taels of silver, and the Xuanjia Army would purchase wood and other related materials in a unified manner, and allocate the amount.

This practice of eating in a big pot is actually killing the rich and helping the poor. Many wealthy families obviously lost more than ten taels of silver in their houses, which was only enough to repair a hall. And some poor people's houses are not worth ten taels of silver when they are sold, and they can take the opportunity to renovate and decorate their houses.

In the past, the Guangdong Political Department only cared about squeezing, and this kind of move to benefit the people was unheard of. In less than 10 days, the people who came to the government office lined up to declare formed a long queue and lined up outside the city gate.

Qin Zhan had been engaged in intelligence work, and immediately ordered the sergeants to start registering one by one against the household registers in the government office, and then ordered the people to go home and wait for the soldiers to come to the door to repair it.

The work of Anmin was carried out in an orderly manner, and Qin Zhan took the third step of measures. That is to liquidate the wealth and land of those smuggling officials and wealthy merchants.

He ordered Feng Ting to take 5,000 soldiers, and under the leadership of insiders, they went separately to arrest the officials of the Guangdong Buzheng Division, the Guangzhou Prefecture Ya, and the county towns of Guangzhou Prefecture. As long as it is in the official register, if the person escapes, the property in the city will be confiscated, and then someone will be sent to the former residence in the township to get the person.

Within a month, the Xuanjia army swept away all the middle- and low-level officials and wealthy businessmen who had not had time to flee to Zhaoqing Mansion, a total of 187 people, all of whom were escorted to the Yamen of the Political Department of Guangdong.

At present, the entire city of Guangzhou is under military control, and Qin Zhan does not interrogate according to the law, but adopts unconventional methods. Qin Zhan naturally did not beat all these officials to death with a single stroke, but when the people applied for housing subsidies, he sent an additional team of people to ask the people if there were any honest officials with good official reputations among the imprisoned officials.

Qin Zhan was born in the work of brocade clothes and guards, and he is clear about the doorway of officialdom. He did not ask about corrupt officials, but about honest officials. If corrupt officials are tortured, first, most of these people do not know the government's activities and cannot identify them; Second, it is prone to hearsay false accusations.

If you ask the honest officials, it is completely different. Because those people didn't know what to do in advance to ask the clean officials and honest officials, they naturally wouldn't talk nonsense, and even arrange for confessions.

The people's requirements for these officials are already very low, but if they have done a little good deed for the people before, have a meal, and even go to the yamen to do business, their faces are a little better, and the people will remember it. If an official, the people of the whole city do not remember that there is such a clean and honest official, then there is no doubt that it is either a corrupt official or a mixed official, and it is useless to keep it.

After half a month of screening, out of 187 people, 23 clean and honest officials were screened out, and even if they passed the test, the officials were reinstated, and a few of them with good official reputations were even promoted to the first or second ranks. As for the vacancies in other official positions, they gained a reputation for promoting people and showing off their talents in Guangzhou City, and more than 100 people were selected from among the alternate officials to enter the official offices and yamen at all levels, so that they began to resume the normal operation of the official offices.

As for the remaining 164 officials and wealthy merchants, they began to torture them severely, first, by copying silver and property, and second, by interrogating the whereabouts of the embezzled money.

After being tortured for half a month, a total of 3,500 people involved in the case were arrested, 5.6 million taels of silver were tortured, 1.7 million mu of land was produced, and 15,600 properties were found in various state capitals.

The treatment of these people involved in the case is divided into categories.

Corrupt officials and corrupt officials were the first offenders, and all the embezzlements of more than 10,000 taels were dragged to the forts of Guangzhou City to be beheaded, and the corpses were thrown directly into the sea to feed the fish; those who are five hundred to ten thousand taels shall be exiled from one thousand to three thousand li; Those who are less than 500 taels will be punished with a cane, deprived of their meritorious fame, and will never be hired.

The immediate family members of corrupt officials must have enjoyed the silver embezzled by corrupt officials, and they are accomplices, ranging from 50 canes to 3,000 li of exile, depending on the amount of the corrupt officials;

Other relatives of corrupt officials are secondary accomplices, and depending on the amount of money involved, they can range from 20 canes to 500 li of exile.

After such a military purge, the officialdom of the entire city of Guangzhou was almost empty, and it was a veritable purge. Of course, this purge of officialdom is far from over, and it is only the beginning. Even the city of Guangzhou is so corrupt, and the number of corrupt officials who have been purged in the remaining state capitals will definitely double.

After a month of care, after tragic infighting, the city of Guangzhou finally returned to its previous calm.