After several days of continuous killing, Zhang Xin finally finished dealing with this group of people.
Over twenty thousand corpses were piled outside the city, and large areas of land were stained blackish-red with blood.
It was imaginable that the crops in these fields would grow exceptionally well next year.
After killing the last person, Zhang Xin let out a long breath.
"Hoo… it's clean."
After today, there would be no one in Qing Province who dared to betray him!
Zhang Xin was comfortable, but the officials in Pingyuan City were crying in a mess.
In the past few days, State Prefecture officials had successively come to request leave, asking Zhang Xin to allow them to take the corpses outside the city back to their hometowns for burial.
Zhang Xin waved his hand.
"Granted! "
Anyway, the State Prefecture had nothing much to do at the moment, and over twenty thousand corpses piled up outside the city was not a good thing.
Cremation was not popular in this era.
It was winter now, and the weather was cold, so it was fine to temporarily store these corpses for a few days.
If they were left for a longer period, it would likely cause a plague.
Since someone was willing to help collect the bodies, he naturally had no reason to refuse.
Zhang Xin was afraid that they couldn't carry so many corpses alone, so he thoughtfully arranged a squad of soldiers for each of them, using the carts that previously held their family property to transport their corpses home.
He then took a small portion of the money confiscated from their homes and distributed it to them as travel expenses.
It was as if the officials were on a business trip.
Apart from the State Prefecture officials, officials from the commandery and county yamen also submitted memorials requesting to collect bodies.
Zhang Xin granted all of them and thoughtfully prepared soldiers, carriages, and travel expenses for them as well.
When he killed these people, he did so by family unit.
After killing an entire family, he would neatly arrange their corpses in the same place.
This way, the officials wouldn't have to worry about missing any relatives they weren't particularly familiar with on a daily basis.
As long as they found the head of a familiar person, that whole pile of bodies belonged to them.
Collecting the bodies at this time was very convenient and quick.
As for whether these heads were in the wrong place, that was not something Zhang Xin considered.
The officials were all grateful to Zhang Xin for his thorough and thoughtful arrangements.
"Thank you! "
A few days ago, Zhang Liao and Zuo Bao returned with a large army, pulling thousands of carts of supplies.
Now, with the help of the soldiers, these officials also pulled thousands of carts of corpses home.
As the corpses outside Pingyuan City were all taken away, the rebellion of the great families finally came to an end.
But Zhang Xin did not rest.
He still had three things to do.
The first thing was about the commandery and county officials.
This time, half of the great families in Qing Province were slaughtered by Zhang Xin, leaving many official positions in various commanderies and counties vacant.
Previously, commandery and county magistrates had submitted memorials pleading for their officials, but Zhang Xin had rejected them all.
Not only that, Zhang Xin also issued a death order.
Whoever dared to delay next year's spring plowing would be beheaded.
Of course, he also understood the difficulties of the commandery and county magistrates and allowed those who lacked personnel to request them from the State Prefecture.
Some magistrates, in order to keep their official positions, accepted this fact, requested personnel from Zhang Xin for retraining, and diligently prepared for next year's spring plowing.
Zhang Xin, as he promised, sent a group of Huayin scholars.
However, some magistrates could not accept it and chose to resign their posts.
For example, the Beihai Chancellor and the Lean Chancellor.
In the original history, the Qing Province Yellow Turbans were rampant and extremely chaotic.
When Dong Zhuo wanted to depose Emperor Liu Bian, Kong Rong, who succeeded Yuan Shu as the Tiger Cavalry General of the Household, argued fiercely and offended him.
Kong Rong was highly renowned, and Dong Zhuo dared not kill him, so he could only send him to Beihai State, which was ravaged by the Yellow Turbans, as Chancellor, hoping to use the Yellow Turbans to kill him.
However, due to Zhang Xin's presence, Qing Province was now peaceful, and Dong Zhuo had no knife to borrow.
Therefore, the current Beihai Chancellor was not Kong Rong, but someone Zhang Xin had never heard of.
Beihai State was adjacent to Xu Province and was the southern gate of Qing Province, a very important strategic location.
Since the Beihai Chancellor abandoned his post and left, he naturally had to arrange a suitable successor.
"Someone, summon Cui Yan! "
Zhang Xin pondered for a moment, then had someone call Cui Yan over.
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After arranging the local officials, Zhang Xin began to work on the second matter.
Reorganizing the army.