Fang Yuan returned to Fuzhou City, Fujian Province to rest temporarily, and as soon as he arrived in Fuzhou City, he received two news, one happy and one worried.

The worrying news is that Zheng Sen and his entourage plundered all the way north from Fujian, robbed at least more than 10 county towns along the coast, and broke through eight county seats, causing considerable losses. What made Fang Yuan even more angry was that Xinghua Mansion and Quanzhou Mansion had six county towns close to the Zheng family, and they even opened the door to welcome the thieves and sent Zheng Sen money and food from the county.

Fortunately, Shi Lang led the sailors to kill later, and Zheng Sen could only continue to go north after plundering in Fujian, not daring to stop in Fujian again.

In the next half a month, Shi Lang led the sailors to chase all the way, and Zheng Sen fled all the way north, until he left the territory of Nanzhili and arrived in the sea area of Shandong. This time, Shi Lang's fleet did not return to Fujian, but sailed directly into the previous Zhoushan naval base to prevent Zheng Sen from harassing the coastal areas of Nanzhili.

After expelling Zheng Sen's main force, Fang Yuan ordered the people to be reassured in the prefectures and counties that were plundered by Zheng Sen, and exempted them from paying taxes for two years. As for those county towns that opened their doors to welcome Zheng Sen into the city, they directly ordered Qin Zhan to lead the Jinyi Guards to Xinghua Mansion to quell the riots, and several county commanders had already fled with Zheng Sen.

After entering the city and reassuring the people, Qin Zhan directly punished the family members of the magistrate who participated in the conspiracy to sacrifice the city and surrendered to Zheng Sen as slaves. The main book that did not escape, the county lieutenant cut off all the beheads and confiscated the family property.

These chief bookkeepers and county lieutenants all shouted grievances, but Qin Zhan knew that these people had a fart wronged, they didn't cooperate with these magistrates to open the door, and a single magistrate could open the door by himself? Concealing and failing to report, conniving at crimes, causing huge damage to the county town and huge losses to the people, these officials are to blame and must be punished with their accomplices.

The good news is that Princess Kunxing added a daughter to him, and sent someone to send a photo with his daughter, asking him to name his daughter.

Princess Kunxing gave birth to a daughter, at least for the time being, there is no direct conflict with Xiao Yuan, so the conflict between her and Xiao Yuan is expected to die down in a short time. But in the long run, the fear of calamity is even deeper. There is no child in the main room, how is it the way to cause trouble.

Fang Yuan gave this daughter a name, called Fang Mu, which is connected with Fang He's name, which means harmony, and once again hinted to the second daughter that they must get along in harmony.

Because Fang Yuan had to continue to conquer Guangdong, he could not return to Nanzhili, so he could only write this name after the photo and attach a word of blessing, so that Jinyiwei took it back to Nanzhili.

This time on the expedition to Taiwan, the army brought 30,000 sergeants, lost more than 10,000, and left behind 5,000 mountain special battalions to maintain law and order on the island, and only 15,000 people returned to Fuzhou City with Fang Yuan.

If such a small number of troops want to attack Guangdong, it is still a bit stretched, and it will not form a necessary psychological deterrent. Fang Yuan could only rest in Fujian on the one hand, and ordered Feng Ting to gather soldiers and horses from the twelve guards in Fujian, and on the other hand, he ordered Qin Zhan to recruit and buy horses in Fujian and prepare for the expedition.

Just as Fang Yuan was taking the opportunity to prepare for war in Fujian, news came from the Guangdong Political Department that Guangdong was willing to accept Fang Yuan's rule and hand over Qian Qianyi, the culprit of Donglin, to ask for guilt.

Obviously, they still want to maintain Guangdong's consistent independence, but they only nominally accept Fang Yuan's rule, but in fact they continue to profit from smuggling.

Fang Yuan secretly sneered when he saw it, the Guangdong Political Secretary was really wishful thinking, accepting Fang Yuan's leadership, or the leadership of the Ming Dynasty, it was just a matter of name for these people, and the key was whether the interests of this group of smuggling officials could be guaranteed.

Accepting Fang Yuan's rule is just to pay more land endowments, Guangdong's agriculture is not developed, how much land endowments can be paid? As long as they can keep their main source of income, the proceeds of smuggling, they can continue to erode the country's wealth and harm the public and private interests.

Fang Yuan did not intend to negotiate with these officials at all, and the corruption in Guangdong was not the corruption of individual officials, but the corruption of organizations and groups. In other words, as the common people often say, even if all the officials in Guangdong are cut down, none of them will be wronged.

In dealing with this kind of group corruption and punishing a certain official, the rich businessman is scratching the itch in his boots, and he will not break or stand, and Fang Yuan's plan is to prepare to follow the example of Shaoxing Mansion and carry out a large-scale purge of officialdom in Guangdong. The officials headed by Gu Yuanjing, the governor of Liangguang and Guangdong, and the wealthy businessmen who participated in the smuggling, slaughtered all of them and confiscated all their fields and family properties.

Since the Guangdong Political Secretary had given up the last chance to live before, Fang Yuan had to work hard for a thousand-mile expedition, and if he didn't get enough money and land, he would also make a personal expedition himself.

Fang Yuan ordered Qin Zhan to send Jin Yiwei to reply to the Guangdong Political Division, since the Guangdong Provincial Political Secretary was willing to accept Fang Yuan's rule, he asked the officials at all levels of the Guangdong Provincial Political Division, the state government and above, and the officials above the state and county chief books, all put down all government affairs and immediately came to Xiamen Island to pay a visit.

When he made such a request, he had already agreed that these officials in Guangdong would not dare to come, but they were just delaying and delaying time, continuing to recruit troops and horses in Fujian, and giving these officials in Guangdong a fluke, so that they would not take risks and rush to Fujian to bite a few bites first.

Half a month later, Fang Yuan received a reply from the Guangdong Political Division, which could send two Tongzhi, each prefecture could send one Tongzhi, and each prefecture and county sent a master to listen to Fang Yuan's admonition.

Fang Yuan sneered when he saw the reply, and invited Feng Ting and Qin Zhan to ask how the recruitment was going.

Qin Zhan's side recruited new soldiers and recruited 5,000 people, mainly veterans under the Zheng clan before. After the defeat of the Zheng family, these veterans had no livelihood, some of them occupied the mountains as kings and became rogues, and some of them were rampant and domineering in the countryside, which was a disaster. As soon as the news of Qin Zhan's recruitment was posted, these Zheng veterans came to join one after another.

Feng Ting assembled 15,000 soldiers in the name of the guard, but in fact there were only 7,000 people, most of whom were old, weak, sick and disabled, which once again showed the corruption of the Ming Dynasty's guard system.

All the soldiers and horses were gathered together, and there were less than 30,000 people, which was still a little cold, so Fang Yuan decided to continue to fool with the Guangdong Political Division, and agreed in principle to their request that they only send Tongzhi and the chief secretary to come to visit, but added a new request, that is, to make them pay a tribute of five million taels of silver and one million acres of land.

Fang Yuan's condition was obviously also a lion's mouth, and he never thought that the Guangdong side would agree, in order to continue to delay time.

After replying to the Guangdong Political Division, Fang Yuan called Qin Zhan, Feng Ting, and Zhang Ying again.

Qin Zhan's task is to continue to recruit Zheng veterans, and as long as they are willing to join the army to fight, all previous crimes will be pardoned, and they will be allowed to make meritorious contributions on the battlefield. After the war, those who made meritorious contributions were all incorporated into the Xuanjia Army and enjoyed the treatment of the Xuanjia Army.

Feng Ting's task is to train the existing sergeants of the Fujian Guard, as for the understaffed and indiscriminate, because this is a bad debt left over from decades and hundreds of years, all of which are counted on the current commanders and acquaintances of the Guard, and the blow is too big. The bad debts before Fang Yuan's decision were written off, and from this moment on, they began to be strictly managed.

Zhang Ying's task is to go to the township to gather clan soldiers, and the people are young and strong to join the army. The combat power and loyalty of these clan soldiers are actually more secure than those of the guards. The main force of this expedition to Guangdong is the Xuanjia Army, as well as Zhang Ying's clan soldiers, as for those guards and sergeants, they are to gather the number and increase their momentum.

As for grain and grass, Fujian's own grain was not sufficient, so Fang Yuan immediately ordered Shi Fu to lead grain ships and troop carriers north to the Zhezhi region to transport 300,000 stone of military grain by sea to Zhenhaiwei in Fujian. The sergeants who recruited Guangdong from Fujian would board ships from Zhenhaiwei and attack Guangdong by sea, and assemble in Zhenhaiwei as soon as they needed military rations and armaments.