From Li Xian leading his troops from Guangzhou, to sweeping Dongguan, Chun'an and other surrounding counties, and then defeating the Qing court's only remaining main force in Guangdong in Bao'an County, and finally pursuing Chaoshan Erzhou, emptying the mountains of materials inside, it sounds like a long time, but in fact, it only took two months.

Through this crusade, the Chinese Liberation Army in Guangzhou obtained a large amount of military and civilian supplies, which deterred the forces inclined to the Qing court inside and outside Guangzhou, and boosted their own morale.

In addition to the prosperity around Guangzhou, Guangdong at this time was still very remote and very unsuitable for the movement of large-scale troops.

The Qing court had only three ways to march into Guangzhou: one was to mobilize the troops of Guangxi and go down the river from Wuzhou City to Guangzhou; the second was to start from Shaoguan and go south; and the third was to reach Chaoshan Prefecture from Fujian and then to the west.

If you don't take these three routes, the road is rugged, and it is difficult to get food supplies along the way, and even if you barely reach Guangzhou, you can only be easily defeated by the army in Guangzhou.

Of course, considering that the troops of Guangxi and Jiangxi are still less than Yang Fang's, and their training level and combat capability are only worse, even if they march from Wuzhou and Shaoguan, they will not pose any threat to Guangzhou, and they will only have to send their heads when they come.

After Yang Fang's troops were easily defeated, people of insight in the world already understood that at least for three or five years, the Qing court would not be able to recover Guangzhou.

When Li Xian returned to Guangzhou with most of the soldiers and horses, only 5,000 soldiers and horses were left in Bao'an County to guard against Yang Fang's department, and the officials of several prefectures and counties that still belonged to the Qing court in the surrounding areas sent people to secretly contact the high-level of the Huaxia Guangfu Army, hoping that the Huaxia Army would not invade their own prefectures and counties, or even if they invaded, they would not easily open the killing ring and kill the officials to the head.

The Huaxia Army was not particularly strict with the captured officials or officials, and only confiscated all the property of the magistrates and placed them under house arrest, and would not directly kill them like other rebels in history.

As for the officials from the locals, most of them continue to be retained to help maintain law and order.

According to Li Xian's meaning, he originally wanted to expel these officials or let the Qing court spend money to ransom them, but this idea was fiercely resisted by these captured officials.

The Qing court has always been strict with officials who have lost their cities, and when these people return to the Qing court's ruled areas, they are likely to be beheaded as an example, so it is better to continue to stay under the rule of the Huaxia army.

In this way, at least the lives can be saved, and the court will not be embarrassed by the families or relatives of these captured officials.

Most of the families of these officials are in the area under the jurisdiction of the Qing court, so they are neither willing to do things for the Huaxia army, nor are they willing to return to the jurisdiction of the Qing court, waste food in Guangzhou, and ask the Huaxia army to devote their energy to residential surveillance, so that Li Xian jumped to his feet and scolded his mother many times.

In any case, after the end of the Eastern Crusade, the officials and local gentry of most of the prefectures and counties in Guangdong secretly communicated with the Huaxia army in Guangzhou, and they also turned a blind eye to the flow of goods and merchants to Guangzhou, which made the collection of materials in Guangzhou much easier than before.

In this context, Li Xian led the army back to Guangzhou, and was warmly welcomed by the army, gentry, and common people, which was much more lively than when he set off.

It's just that there are still a lot of troublesome things to deal with after returning to Guangzhou, and the most troublesome one is to help Wang Jiuxuan try the case.

It turned out that since Guangzhou was occupied by the Huaxia Army, the food supply has been very tight, and the city has been in a state of war for the past few years, and there are many homeless, idlers, and disaster victims, and there are many people in Guangzhou who cannot eat.

Wang Jiuxuan cared very much about the official voice and public opinion, and felt that such things had to be managed by himself, so he learned the common method used by Qing Dynasty officials to set up large pots of porridge at various important street entrances, so as not to have too many people starving to death.

After the Chinese Guangfu Army conquered Guangzhou, it actually made a fortune, and the treasury of Guangdong was located in Guangzhou, which means that most of the taxes collected and grain paid in the whole of Guangdong were in Guangzhou, piled up, and the confiscation of the property of Guangzhou officials obtained a total of more than 10 million taels of silver in materials and cash assets.

Wang Jiuxuan was rich at that time, so he allocated 50,000 stone of grain as the basis for giving porridge to the poor people.

This was supposed to be a good thing, but after a while it turned a little sour, and the officer in charge of the matter began to embezzle the grain, secretly replacing the good grain with old grain, not to mention that it was mixed with stones and grass, and in short, the quality was getting worse and worse.

The people who ate this free porridge were originally really poor people, but later some locals who were not too poor also saw that it was cheap, and secretly came over to receive the porridge together, and then saw that the quality of the porridge was getting worse and worse, so they didn't think that it was something given for free, but jumped to their feet and cursed, saying that the Huaxia Guangfu Army was unkind and unjust, and the things given to the poor were also fake.

Then, as it should have happened, there was an officer in charge of soup soup in one place who stole grain more ruthlessly, and the porridge was thin, unpalatable and a little rancid.

The real beggars and people who were starved of food barely drank, thinking that the government was powerful and did not dare to make trouble, so a local man complained after eating a few meals, and even quarreled with the soldiers who were cooking porridge because it was the locals.

In the end, I don't know what was going on, the matter got bigger and bigger, and the two sides began to fight, but the officer was so angry that he killed someone.

When Wang Jiuxuan knew about this, he was naturally furious, put the officer in prison, and compensated the family of the person who was killed, hoping to pay some money and expose the matter.

If it was normal, this matter would have passed, but I didn't expect that the deceased was a local, and there were many relatives and friends, including a cousin who came out of Wufu was a child, and when the scholars gathered, he told him about it, and scolded the Huaxia Guangfu Army a few words, saying that if the court was still there, such a thing would never happen.

Then, under the secret impetus of well-intentioned people, the young scholars were provoked and went to Wang Jiuxuan in groups to petition, demanding that the officers who committed crimes be severely punished and that they should pay for their lives.

Wang Jiuxuan wanted to be a good official during this time, and he didn't think it was a big deal, so he comforted people and went back.

As a result, when these people saw that Wang Jiuxuan treated each other politely and did not appear suppressed by the soldiers, they became emboldened, gathered dozens of scholars, coerced many people, and even a large number of gang tasks were mixed in, and went to Wang Jiuxuan's official office every day to protest and demonstrate, demanding that the murderer be punished.

Later, things gradually changed for the better, and began to criticize Wang Jiuxuan's policies since he entered Guangzhou, feeling that everyone's life had become difficult since the Huaxia Guangfu Army entered Guangzhou, and even had the intention of asking the Huaxia Guangfu Army to withdraw from Guangzhou and return Guangzhou to the imperial court.

Wang Jiuxuan himself also wanted to severely punish the officer who committed the crime, but now he became vigilant and did not dare to judge the case easily, and the officers in the army also began to make trouble, wanting to protect the murderous officer together, feeling that he followed the three-yuan concept to fight for life and death, and if he killed a person casually, he would have to pay for his life, which was too ruthless.

At this time, there were people demonstrating and protesting outside, and some officers inside expressed dissatisfaction, and the matter became more and more intense, making Wang Jiuxuan more and more afraid to judge the case easily, but this matter was bound to not be delayed, and in the end he could only find Li Xian and ask him to help solve the matter.