There was a glimmer of light from the sky.

Then, the dawn of dawn bloomed.

The darkness is over, and the day is dawning.

Hundreds of people spent the night in fear and struggle, and when it was dawn, they couldn't believe that they and others were not harmed!

It's incredible!

Zhao Xuanqi slowly appeared.

A smile appeared on his face.

"It's dawn, it's time for me to come out and wash the floor."

"I'm sorry, although I defeated the rebel army and successfully killed the general of the sky, but there are hundreds of thousands of rebels, and I can't kill them all."

"There were a lot of chaotic defeats last night, who would have thought that they would take advantage of the chaos to kill so many ministers to vent their anger?"

"After all, it was these big clans who said that they surrendered, and it was also the big clans who opened the city gate, but the rebel army was defeated and ambushed, so it's normal for them to kill so many big clans in anger, right?"

"I have so few manpower, I can't catch all the rebels in an instant, it's normal!"

"It wasn't until dawn that I organized the manpower to drive all the rebel troops out of the capital, I made a lot of effort, I was tired, and the soldiers in my hands were almost tired to death, we are heroes, great heroes!"

"Well, Chang'an City has been preserved, hundreds of thousands of troops have been defeated by me, and the chaotic army is no longer enough to trouble, except for the death of some princesses, Chang'an City has not been damaged, and the people have not been harmed, this is a happy thing, Emperor Jingming should reward me, right? How could you blame me! ”

Zhao Xuanqi slowly stretched and sat up from the bed.

He's still wearing last night's armor.

Slowly walking out of the room, facing the first rays of dawn, he called the army generals and began to give orders to clean up the mess.

Count the losses of this war, how many soldiers were lost on your side, and the number of wounded and disabled.

Well, by the way, I also have to pack up the treasures of these wealthy families and collect them all.

After all, they have all been wiped out, and the remaining gold, silver and jewels are left there and no one uses them, they belong to the ownerless, and sooner or later they will be snatched away by other residents.

Rather than being snatched away by others, it is better for the court to use it itself.

As soon as possible, Zhao Xuanqi naturally sent someone to clean up these loot, oh no, clean up the relics of these victims.

Then he sent an army out of Chang'an City and went outside the city to occupy the camp of the Wandering Army, which contained a lot of food and supplies.

These materials, which are enough for 500,000 troops to camp here for a few months, are so abundant that even Zhao Xuanqi can't imagine!

As long as these materials are controlled, it can be said that the imperial court will not have to worry about running out of resources in the next few years!

Leave the affairs outside the city to the trusted generals, let them find a way to move all the supplies of the Wanderer Army into the city warehouse, and finally make a list and hand it to themselves!

The affairs of the city must be left to himself, the great general.

I like to deal with the affairs of these families the most.

In the past ten years of local official career, Zhao Xuanqi is not interested in these families at all, and can even be said to be hateful.

If he is not excluded, with his reputation as a champion, where can he be used as a local official? If it weren't for Emperor Jingming's constant attention to protection, maybe he would have died a long time ago!

It's just that Zhao Xuanqi has never been able to find a chance, and now that he has successfully found an opportunity to kill people, he naturally has to clean up their family wealth in person!

"Come with me!"

Zhao Xuanqi took the manpower to the wealthy family and personally collected materials from door to door.

First, they sent people to pull down the corpses of these wealthy families, and finally piled them up with other corpses and burned them to prevent plague infection in the city.

Then look for treasure in their homes.

The first one was a big family named the Zhu family.

This is said to be a third-grade official of the imperial court, specializing in the textile treasury and other aspects.

The house doesn't look very big, and there are no luxurious and beautiful items, it's simple, it looks like a clean official.

Zhao Xuanqi sneered.

"Give me a look at the bottom, even if I dig three layers of dirt into the ground, I want to see if he is a corrupt official or a clean official!"

Accompanied by this order.

The soldiers succeeded in turning the Zhu family upside down.

Finally, I managed to find several huge warehouses in the underground treasury, and when I opened them, I saw countless pieces of cloth piled up inside!

All of them are precious brocade cloth, Shu cloth, etc.

All kinds of luxurious cloths were piled up, and some of them had even begun to rot because they were old, and they were full of dust.

In this era, cloth could be used for money, and many poor families could not even wear clothes, not even sackcloth!

It is hard to imagine that this official has so much cloth in his house, and he would rather rot and pile up ashes in the clothing storehouse, while other ordinary people have no clothes to wear......

However, compared with the next family, the Zhu family is nothing more than a small thing.

In the next few families, Zhao Xuanqi witnessed the greed of these wealthy families.

There was a family that dug up the ground in the yard and dug up a lot of white flowers and silver buried in the deep earth, and they couldn't count them.

The silver was as much as the sand on the ground, and it looked so white that it dazzled the eyes.

Zhao Xuanqi thought that this was the limit of this family.

As a result, under the guidance of the surviving housekeeper, he led Zhao Xuanqi and others to the acres outside the city, and successfully dug up more silver and copper coins in the acres of wasteland.

There are so many that the soldiers can't move!

Zhao Xuanqi even had to send horse-drawn carriages, one carriage after another, into the city, and several carriages were transported before he brought all the money back!

More wealthy families like antique calligraphy and painting, all kinds of precious antique calligraphy and painting, usually hard-to-find antiques, placed everywhere in their homes, just like ordinary tea sets, not a rare thing.

If you find an ordinary tea set in the home of a wealthy family, this is a needle in a haystack!

The acres of land under their names are not counted as tens or hundreds of acres, nor thousands of acres, but hundreds of thousands of acres.

What's more, the amount of land of a top family is even more than the land of all the ordinary people in a county town combined!

Many ordinary people have no land, so they can only hoe and farm on their land, become cultivators, and kill at will, without the right to freedom, let alone personal rights!

There are all kinds of restaurants and casinos under the name, and the title deeds are too many to count, all of which are piled up like waste paper!

Zhao Xuanqi has lived for so long, and has been an official everywhere for so long, it is the first time he has seen so much wealth!

This is no longer enough to describe.

There were so many of them that he was already creepy.

There were so many that he was dizzy.

But if so much property is given to the people, and all is given to the people, how many people can be raised?

The taxes paid by the entire imperial court for several years were not as much as one-tenth of their property, and less than one percent of their family wealth.

This is the real plundering of the world's property to support one's own family!

It's almost madness.

Zhao Xuanqi was full of emotion, holding his heart and beating wildly, he thought that greed always has a limit, and now looking at it, greed has no limit!

How can the world not be chaotic with such behavior? How is it possible not to make a mess? I'm afraid that countless people have already lost their families!

These properties are flesh-and-blood properties, all of which are wealth born from the flesh and blood of hundreds of people.

Zhao Xuanqi had mixed feelings in his heart, and muttered to himself: "They deserve to end up like this in the end!" ”

For most of the next day, he took a lot of people with superb algorithms to calculate this account together.

After most of the day's summary.

He counted out the number of dead and wounded in this war, and the pensions that should be received afterwards will definitely not be left without those who should have received meritorious services, and the rewards and punishments will be orderly.

At the same time, the number of barracks assets of the prodigal army was also clear, all of them were put into warehouses and piled up into mountains, and all the data were compiled into a book.

Including the property left by these families, the various assets left behind, all are calculated.

In the end, it was all written in the booklet and prepared to be handed over to Emperor Jingming.

Turn in fifty percent.

The remaining fifty percent are inexplicably missing.

No, it's not that it's inexplicably gone, but when the rebels retreated, they all looted it!

Only handing over fifty percent of the property is already a very conscientious act!

Even the wealth contained in this fifty percent is definitely enough for the emperor to be frightened, and he will definitely shout too much!

The remaining fifty percent Zhao Xuanqi kept it for him, and it cost a lot of money to reward the soldiers.

After all, there are so many supplies, so much wealth, and if you want your soldiers to keep their mouths shut, you have to satisfy their appetites.

Even if these soldiers were all Zhao Xuanqi's cronies, it was hard to say what would happen if there was no money to satisfy.

A penny is hard to beat a hero!

In addition, no matter what Zhao Xuanqi wants to do next, whether it is used to help the victims, or to develop the national industry, or to do other things, to develop gunpowder and explosives, so many resources and money can be of great use!

After counting all this, Zhao Xuanqi was tired, but he couldn't help but show a comfortable expression on his face, and slowly took out a piece of paper and made a list on it.

These lists are all wealthy families who were accidentally wiped out when the rebel army retreated!

He slowly wrote his name.

Densely packed with names written all over the page.

Each name represents the dead family, the family that was destroyed, and the children of the minister.

In the end, the whole paper couldn't even be written, Zhao Xuanqi took out the other papers and filled the two lists again.

There are countless wealthy families in Chang'an City, and the number of high-ranking officials and nobles is unknown, but under this list, it can be found that nearly seven or eight out of ten major families have suffered disasters!

In one sentence:

The civil and military officials of the imperial court will definitely be less than half after today, and two-thirds less is considered good!

The damage of the wealthy families in the capital can be described in one sentence: there is no half of the Jiadi Zhu Sect!

The so-called natural aristocracy was reduced to dust in this disaster.

Not even half of the previous amount!

The rest of the clans do not mean that they are good clans, it is entirely because of lack of time, it is dawn, and dawn saves their lives.

Fortunately, their crimes are not so serious, Zhao Xuanqi can tolerate these guys escaping their lives, and it is a big deal to deal with them later.

Now we still need these people to help sort out the government, and it is impossible to leave no one in the court!

He looked at the densely written list.

"The family clan will basically not have an impact on the Northern Wei Kingdom in the future, because they have already been physically overpowered."

"General Chongtian, you did all this, you really damn it."

"It's none of my business, I don't know anything, all I can do is to mourn for the big families on these lists."

As he spoke, Zhao Xuanqi tried his best to squeeze out a sad expression, but the smile on the corner of his mouth couldn't hide it.

However, he remembered the Ziyun Army who died in this war, these were all fathers and villagers, so his face fell, and the whole person was in a gloomy mood.

With this emotion, after cleaning up, he took his men to the palace to meet Emperor Jingming.

(End of chapter)