Chapter 430: Pacifying Guangdong
The reason why Zhang Ying did not move and did not immediately attack Zhaoqing Mansion was to wait for news from the Washi Tusi.
Washi Tusi not only sent an envoy to send the news of the invitation to form an alliance, but in order to express his sincerity, he also escorted Zhang Yunkai, the envoy of the Guangdong Political Division, to show the sincerity of the alliance.
The two sides formed an alliance, Zhang Ying should have informed Qin Zhan, and Qin Zhan personally came to form an alliance with Washi Tusi, due to the urgency of the military situation, and Qin Zhan gave Zhang Ying the right to arbitrarily make decisions on the spot, Zhang Ying sent people to report to Qin Zhan on the one hand, and ordered the 30,000 troops to be divided into two teams, one team of 20,000 people stayed behind in case of accidents, and personally led 10,000 people to Zhaoqing Mansion and Tusi Alliance.
The two sides formed an alliance outside the Gaoyao City of Zhaoqing Prefecture, and agreed that Guangdong and Guangxi would not invade each other.
After the alliance, Zhang Ying and Washi Tusi jointly confiscated 1.3 million taels of silver brought by Gu Yuanjing and other corrupt officials to Zhaoqing Mansion. Later, the gang was severely tortured, and in the end, the officials who could not survive the torture spit out 3.9 million taels of silver hidden in the old house in the township, as well as relatives and friends.
A total of 5.2 million taels of silver was obtained from the looting of Gu Yuanjing's corrupt officials, and according to the previous promise, the two sides divided the 5.2 million taels of silver equally. But Zhang Ying only made one request, that is, the silver could be taken away, and the looted women must stay.
Wa's Tusi went to Guangdong this time without spending a single soldier, and he made nearly three million taels of silver, as well as the seven prefectures and counties belonging to the Yao and Dong peoples, which were already full and difficult to digest, and a few women did not care about Zhang Ying, and returned them all.
Zhang Ying put all these women back and left none of them.
After Washi Tusi withdrew his troops back to Guangxi, Zhang Ying sent Gu Yuanjing and other corrupt officials and 2.6 million taels of silver back to Guangzhou Mansion for trial by Qin Zhan, and on the other hand, he led his army to continue to attack Gaozhou and Lianzhou Prefectures west of Guangdong.
Within a month, the two capitals of Gaozhou and Lianzhou were conquered, and the only one that had not been conquered was the Qiongzhou Mansion on the other side of the sea.
Zhang Ying did not have the support of the sailor, and the army could not cross the sea, so he immediately sent a note to Qin Zhan and the commander of the sailor Shi Fu to support the sea crossing.
Qin Zhan, who conquered Huizhou and Chaozhou, just returned to Guangzhou Mansion and received a good news from Zhang Ying, as well as a number of first criminals and silver from Bai Huahua.
Qin Zhan examined the officials who were escorted back one by one, and there were quite a few officials in Guangdong. However, there is only one person missing, a person who has been arrested for many years, but has been absconding, and has not been arrested, is Qian Qianyi, the leader of the Donglin Party.
As soon as Fang Yuan's men arrived in Jiangnan, this Qian Qianyi got the news and threw Liu Rushi and the whole clan in Suzhou Mansion and fled to Zhejiang alone.
After Fang Yuan's forces infiltrated Zhejiang, Qian Qianyi smeared oil on the soles of his feet and fled to Fujian first, becoming Zheng Zhilong's staff. When he proposed that the Japanese invade Nanzhili, he was one of the culprits.
When Fang Yuan led his troops to capture Fujian, Qian Qianyi fled to Guangdong for refuge before the defeat of the Zheng family, first taking refuge in a wealthy Guangdong businessman, and then being taken in and sheltered by the Guangdong Political Division.
Now that even Guangdong has fallen, he still hasn't caught this Qian Qianyi.
Qian Qianyi is Fang Yuan's heart disease, a heart disease that cannot be declared. Although Fang Yuan didn't personally tell Qin Zhan that he wanted to arrest this old thief of Donglin, Qin Zhan could also guess Fang Yuan's thoughts, whether it was public or private, Qian Qianyi was definitely the person Fang Yuan wanted to capture the most, there was no one.
captured Guangdong, but couldn't catch Qian Qianyi, how to explain to Fang Yuan?
Qin Zhan immediately sent someone to interrogate Gu Yuanjing and other officials, Gu Yuanjing had taken in Qian Qianyi before, firstly to admire Qian Qianyi's reputation, and secondly, to leave a bargaining chip for trading with Fang Yuan. But when he negotiated with Fang Yuan before, Fang Yuan didn't take it at all, and Gu Yuanjing and the others put aside Qian Qianyi, who had no use value, and no one asked.
When the city of Guangzhou was broken, because everyone fled in a hurry, where would they think of Qian Qianyi, and everyone didn't know where Qian Qianyi fled.
Qin Zhan's interrogation of Guangdong officials did not reveal a name, so he posted a reward notice, and sent sergeants to look for Qian Qianyi's whereabouts. However, because he was not familiar with Guangdong, the search for several days was half the result and nothing was found.
For these corrupt officials who are unrepentant and stubbornly resist to the end, Qin Zhan has no hesitation. There was no need to ask Fang Yuan, and he directly ordered everyone to be killed on the seashore outside Guangzhou. In order to have a deterrent effect, Qin Zhan also ordered that the people of Guangzhou Mansion could watch the execution by the sea.
These corrupt officials and corrupt officials did not talk about the common people on weekdays, but they secretly fled when they were about to fight, causing the tragedy of the rebellious soldiers sacking the city of Guangzhou. The people of Guangzhou City hated these corrupt officials to the core, and when they saw these people fall to the ground one by one, they applauded in unison.
When these corrupt officials and corrupt officials were killed, the people of Guangzhou City were still unsatisfied, and began to demand that they should sit together and be punished, and the families and relatives of these corrupt officials would not let go.
The crowd was excited, Qin Zhan had received Fang Yuan's order, that is, to carry out a big purge in Guangdong, don't be afraid of big things, the bigger the better. Although Qin Zhan couldn't see through Fang Yuan's intentions to purge the officialdom in Guangdong for a while, since Fang Yuan's intention was to come first and the people's petition came later, he was happy to obey the will of the people, and directly arrested the families of these corrupt officials and relatives within the three clans to the beach and cut them down one by one.
It took Qin Zhan's Xuanjia army three months to pacify Guangdong, and after counting, this expedition to Guangdong captured 8.7 million taels of silver, and the land reached 3.5 million 8 acres.
Qin Zhan sealed all the spoils in the treasury, counted the accounts into a book, and directly sent people to Fuzhou Mansion to send a message to Fang Yuan, informing him that most of Guangdong had been pacified, and inviting him to come to Guangdong to preside over the overall situation.
Twenty days later, Fang Yuan's fleet arrived at Guangzhou Mansion and landed directly into the city of Guangzhou.
Qin Zhan had already led Feng Ting and five thousand Xuanjia soldiers to greet Fang Yuan outside the city and welcomed him into Guangzhou City. In the city, Qin Zhan organized the people to welcome them along the street.
Fang Yuan was led by Qin Zhan to take a long walk around the city of Guangzhou, and also appreciated the customs of the city. Although this Guangzhou city is not as good as Beijing, Nanjing, Suzhou City in Nanzhili, and Hangzhou City in Zhejiang, it is the most prosperous city in Guangdong and Fujian.
Qin Zhan led him to inspect the people's customs and people's conditions, and on the other hand, he reported to him on the war in Guangdong, the extermination of the corrupt officials in Guangdong, and the rich seizures.
Fang Yuan took the bound accounts and reviewed them cursoryly, his expression was both happy and surprised.
Glad that this time he was really full, after years of war, the silver in his treasury has long been exhausted. This expedition to Taiwan did not make much money, but made a loss. Fortunately, the corrupt officials in Guangdong were copied and copied out so much silver, at least it can relieve the current financial pressure.
What is surprising is that the corrupt officials and corrupt officials in Guangdong, the wealthy merchants and gentry smuggled through trade, and the amount of silver they ate from the state treasury and the annexed land reached an astonishing 4.5 million mu, each mu is just a number in statistics, but in reality, it is the blood and tears of a peasant family.
Qin Zhan exterminated these corrupt officials and corrupt officials, it was really too right, and if Fang Yuan came by himself, he would inevitably exterminate the clan.
Fang Yuan distributed the confiscated silver and land property.
8,700,000 taels of silver, of which Fang Yuan brought back 5 million taels to Nanzhili, and the remaining 2,700,000 taels of silver to build a naval base in Taiwan.
There are also two million taels of silver, which will be handed over to Qin Zhan for his own arrangement. Fang Yuan did not interfere too much with the use of these silvers, but still gave his own suggestion to build the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Guangzhou in Guangzhou Mansion. It is necessary to spend at least one million taels of silver to rebuild the city of Guangzhou, and build the city into an important economic and military town in the south that can conquer Huguang, Guangxi, and even Luzon, and retreat to defend Lingnan and the South Seas.
Qin Zhan respectfully received the teaching, and asked Fang Yuan for instructions on the arrangement of the confiscated 3.58 million mu of land.
Of these lands, Fang Yuan took out 580,000 mu and used them as military fields to reward the Xuanjia Army. The remaining 3 million mu will be used as the government's emergency reserve land, and the grain produced will be divided between the Governor's Mansion of Zhejiang and the Governor's Mansion of Fujian and Guangzhou at a rate of 80 to 20.
Fang Yuan allocated the silver and land, and suddenly remembered someone and asked Qin Zhan, "What about Qian Qianyi, that old thief from Donglin?!" ”
When Qin Zhan heard this, Fang Yuan really hadn't forgotten to arrest Qian Qianyi, and he was immediately speechless.