Qin Zhan carried out a purge of officialdom in the city of Guangzhou, and the military purpose was to deter other state capitals that still wanted to resist. As long as the officials of these state capitals do not surrender in time, even if they resign and leave, and those who flee in battle, they will all be arrested and continue to be tortured until they vomit all the proceeds of corruption, and then they will be tried according to the law.

According to the strictness of the Ming law, embezzlement of 60 taels is the death penalty, and if we really compare this standard, it is estimated that there is not a single official in the entire territory of Guangdong who can live. Of course, the law is only a reason to kill, and the specific implementation is still controlled by man.

In the fourth step, Qin Zhan, in the name of the governor of Fujian and Guangzhou, sent an order to all the state capitals and counties in Guangdong to surrender.

But where the Xuanjia army did not surrender everywhere, the officials above the state and county captains, and the officials above the state capital Tongzhi were all slaughtered

If they surrender, the principle of surrendering to avoid death and confiscating half of their family wealth shall be implemented. All the officials of the yamen and the officers of the guard house had to be tortured and interrogated to see if they had any bad deeds in the past. Those who have no bad deeds and those who have bad deeds when they are promoted to the next level will be dismissed from their posts and will be considered to have passed the test by handing over half of their family wealth. All the other soldiers and the people were pardoned and acquitted.

If there is an escort to the boss who comes to surrender, according to the size of the official position of the prisoner, the reward ranges from 100 taels to 1,000 taels, and he is promoted as appropriate.

As for the 20,000 or 30,000 surrendered soldiers in the city of Guangzhou, Qin Zhan directly selected 5,000 of them with strong physique, and placed them in the 50,000 Xuanjia army at the ratio of eleven, and the rest were all sent back to the township, so as to prevent these people from getting together and making trouble.

A month later, the situation in Guangzhou City had stabilized, and Qin Zhan followed the original military battle plan, with Shi Fu leading an artillery carrier formation, 8,000 naval divisions, and 3,000 Xuanjia sergeants stationed in Guangzhou City. The others marched into other state capitals in Guangdong in three ways.

Qin Zhan had 10,000 men all the way to the east to attack Huizhou and Chaozhou.

As expected before the expedition, after receiving Qin Zhan's letter of persuasion, the Huizhou government learned the news of the purge of the officialdom of the Guangzhou Prefecture, and even the officials who resigned and fled were arrested and tortured. The prefect of Huizhou Prefecture and the magistrates of various counties also died of the desire to flee, and directly opened the door to surrender, lest he be imprisoned by his subordinates and sent to the Xuanjia Army to ask for merit.

The prefect of Huizhou and the prefect of the county all respectfully lined up at the gate of the city to welcome the entry of the Xuanjia army, and Qin Zhan's 10,000 soldiers took over the Huizhou Mansion without blood.

Because the Huizhou Mansion surrendered on its own initiative, although this purge was inevitable, the smell of blood was much less than that of the Guangzhou Mansion. All officials who have surrendered, who have good official reputation, and those who remain in the promoted official position and have poor political performance, will be exempted from death, exempted from official duties and returned to their hometowns, and half of their family wealth and land property will be confiscated.

In Huizhou Prefecture, the Xuanjia Army confiscated a total of 1.2 million taels of silver, and the land output was 870,000 mu. Although those corrupt officials lost their official positions and half of their family property, they fortunately surrendered early, and finally saved their lives and enjoyed the rest of their lives, so they resigned and returned to their hometowns in disgrace.

When the officials in Huizhou Mansion breathed a sigh of relief, the officials in Chaozhou Mansion were not so lucky. The prefect of Chaozhou Prefecture, several prefects, and the commander of the guard post saw that Huizhou Mansion had fallen, and the next target must be Chaozhou Mansion.

A group of officials made an appointment to discuss collectively in the Chaozhou Mansion whether to surrender directly and hand over half of their family wealth to buy peace.

These officials don't know that time is money, and they have already become a channel for promotion in the eyes of others at this moment, that is, silver for nothing.

When they were still arguing and hesitating, the three thousand guards of the Chaozhou Guard, under the leadership of Zhao Tongzhi of the guard, directly attacked the official office of the Chaozhou Prefecture, and took down all the misers who were arguing about whether to surrender and lose half or continue to resist.

When Qin Zhan was resting in Huizhou Mansion, Chaozhou Wei Zhao Tongzhi had escorted the Chaozhou Governor, seven magistrates, and a commander envoy to Huizhou Mansion to invite him to come.

Qin Zhan saw that the Chaozhou Mansion surrendered too quickly, and even those soldiers couldn't wait for the leaders to surrender, so they directly arrested people to invite merit, and was very satisfied, and immediately promoted Zhao Tongzhi, who had made great contributions, to the commander of the Chaozhou Guard.

He ordered 2,000 people to stay in Huizhou Mansion, and 8,000 people went to Chaozhou Mansion to take over military and political affairs.

In Chaozhou Mansion, Qin Zhan also imitated the old rules of Guangzhou Mansion, killing those who should be killed, and copying those who should be confiscated. A total of 58 corrupt officials and corrupt officials were killed, 12 smuggling wealthy businessmen were killed, 2.7 million taels of silver and 1.1 million mu of land were confiscated.

At this point, less than a month after Qin Zhan's expedition from Guangzhou City, the two prefectures of Huizhou and Chaozhou east of Guangdong were all pacified.

Feng Ting on the North Road encountered strong resistance from the Shaozhou Mansion all the way.

Because the Shaozhou Mansion guarded Shaoguan, the first dangerous pass into Guangdong, there was also a mountain army of 8,000 people with strong combat effectiveness in Shaoguan.

Judging from the past experience of Cai Xing, the governor of Shaozhou Prefecture, with this 8,000-strong mountain army, it should be able to keep the family wealth and land they obtained from corruption. At least you can negotiate with the Xuanjia Army on a decent surrender condition, such as retaining your official position, family wealth, and so on.

The Shaozhou Mansion was unwilling to surrender, and sent people to surrender the conditions, which really played into Feng Ting's hands. Since landing on the outskirts of Guangzhou, the Xuanjia Army has not fought a single battle. The defenders of Guangdong either fought among themselves, surrendered, or kidnapped their superiors to ask for credit, so that the war knives of the Xuanjia army had not drunk blood for many days, and they had long been hungry and thirsty.

Now that he finally met someone who was willing to resist, Feng Ting's face was smiling, using this kind of old soldier with low combat effectiveness to brush up his combat exploits, there was no risk, and he could make money, it was a good deal to kill two birds with one stone.

Feng Ting didn't think about it, and immediately rejected the conditions of the Shaozhou Mansion for negotiation, and directly drove the army to the Shaoguan City, the seat of the Shaozhou Mansion. He even waived the letter of persuasion, and directly sent a war letter to the city, about a field battle on the plains.

Cai Xing, the prefect of Shaozhou, is also a person who knows soldiers, of course, this is what he thinks. According to Cai Xing's judgment, it is necessary to take advantage of the unstable foothold of the Xuanjia Army to send all the 8,000 soldiers of the mountain battalion to directly give the Xuanjia Army a head-on attack.

Since Feng Ting had sent someone to issue a war letter, and Cai Xing had full confidence in the combat strength of his army, there were not too many mothers-in-law and mother-in-law to defend the city, so he directly agreed to Feng Ting's request for a decisive battle, and made an appointment to start a frontal battle outside Shaoguan City in the early morning of the next day.

A decisive battle on the plains unfolds outside Shaoguan City!

The whole decisive battle lasted only one hour, and the mountain battalion in Shaoguan was defeated like a mountain, and was hacked to death by the Xuanjia army and wounded two or three thousand people.

Cai Xing saw that the mountain battalion was simply vulnerable, and he was defeated as soon as the battle began, and only knew that the so-called strong combat effectiveness of the mountain battalion was only relative. This army is the only lifeline for him, and if it is gathered and annihilated outside the city, Shaozhou Mansion will be completely finished.

Cai Xing also completely forgot about the art of war at this time, and even ordered the city gate to be opened, wanting to let the defeated soldiers enter the city.

Feng Ting saw that there was an opportunity to take advantage of it, and did not give the Shaoguan defenders any respite at all, and the Xuanjia army directly attacked Shaoguan City along the defeated troops of the mountain battalion.

Cai Xing saw the Xuanjia Army entering the city in a big way, and he knew that the general trend had gone, according to the previous rules of the Xuanjia Army, he dared to send troops to resist in battle, and he would definitely die. He returned to the mansion in a hurry, killed his wife and children, and committed suicide in the lobby of the mansion.

Cai Xing committed suicide, and the remaining officers and soldiers no longer had the heart to fight, so they knelt down to ask Feng Ting to surrender, and Feng Ting easily captured Shaoguan City.

The military regulations of the Xuanjia Army are to surrender to avoid death, resist severe punishment, and those sergeants who surrendered, Feng Ting did not slaughter, but all disarmed and confiscated into the army as slaves. As for the other officials, according to the rules set by Qin Zhan, those who should be retained are retained, those who are tortured are tortured, and those who should be killed are killed.

Within a month, the armies of the eastern and northern routes had successfully completed their set strategic objectives and had captured all the Huizhou, Chaozhou, and Shaozhou prefectures in the eastern and northern parts of Guangdong.

Next, only Zhang Ying's Western Route Army remained.