After the recapture, Zuo Zongtang personally supervised the strong cultivation of the Hui people, taught them the law of district field and substitute field, and gave huge amount of money to the stragglers there, so that the starving people taken in by the official army and the surrendered 170,000 soldiers and soldiers all lived there. Zuo Zongtang in May of the eighth year of the Tongzhi, waved his troops into Gansu.