Xuande

Chapter 757 The Operation Begins on May [-]th

The specific action will be officially launched on May [-]th, and there are only three days left before that. During these three days, nothing will happen, and everything will be as usual.

It's just that some troops will enter a state of first-level combat readiness due to "war drills", fully armed, and always ready to launch "war drills."

Of course, this kind of "war drill" often occurs, and the state of first-level combat readiness also appears from time to time. Everyone is not surprised, and no one will feel that there is something wrong because of this incident.

The past few days have been as calm as ever, except that Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others continued to send people around to inquire about the news, jumping up and down anxiously.

Naturally, they would not know that their hometowns in Youfufeng and Kaifeng had been secretly surrounded by troops arranged by Liu Bei, and they would act only on May [-]th to catch them all and kill them all.

This is exactly what that sentence said.

Before Liu Xuande executed the three clans, he would not notify.

If one had to say something happened in these three days, it would be May [-]th, the day before the incident officially started, and Xun Shuang died.

After dragging his sick body and persisting for two or three years, Xun Shuang still couldn't make it through. He ran out of oil and died.

This news did not cause any waves in Luoyang City, because the Xun family only had the name of the Fanyue family in vain, and only Xun Yu, Xun You, and Xun Shuang were officials in the entire family.

Xun Shuang is just a false official in name only.

Xun You and his family had a very unhappy quarrel, almost breaking up.

Xun Yu was far away in Qingzhou as the governor of Qingzhou, so he couldn't help his family.

It is well known in Luoyang City that Xun Shuang and Liu Bei had a quarrel, and Liu Bei was very displeased with the Xun family, so he did not take much care of the Xun family, and no more members of the Xun family have successfully become officials in more than two years. It's like a state of being hit.

Even so, under Xun Shuang's strong request, the Xun family did not choose to reconcile with Liu Bei, or in other words, there was no way to reconcile with Liu Bei.

Xun You didn't care about this, and didn't care about the situation of the Xun family at all.

Xun Yu mentioned it cryptically a few times, but Liu Bei didn't respond. At first he was sent to Runan as the prefect, and later he was sent to Qingzhou as the governor. The distance from Luoyang was getting farther and farther. Xun Yu knew what Liu Bei meant. I can only keep silent about the Xun family.

The Xun family just stayed in Luoyang City in such an embarrassing manner.

Knowing that Liu Bei didn't like them, in order to please Liu Bei, few people interacted with the Xun family. The Xun family gradually declined, and the family was neglected.

They can be said to have experienced the warmth and coldness of human feelings.

When Xun Shuang was alive, they could still put on a stubborn and persistent appearance, but when Xun Shuang rolled his eyes and kicked his legs, what would happen to them?

Liu Bei has no interest in this.

Xun Shuang is dead, and he does not intend to appoint anyone from the Xun family to be an official in the court. This family has been abandoned by him. If it is not for the sake of Xun Yu and Xun You, he will not be cold and violent towards this family. Simple matter now.

However, Liu Bei still felt a little regretful about this.

Because as long as Xun Shuang dies even one day later, he can see this real change come to the world.

The last years of the Eastern Han Dynasty will come to an end on this day, and the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty will shine on this day.

Xun Shuang's death was just a result of the relevant department of the imperial court sending a little ceremony official to send some comfort based on Xun Shuang's position before his death, and then there was no more.

Liu Bei didn't respond at all.

He was really not in the mood, because the next day, May [-]th, he was going to be emperor.

At dawn on May [-], according to Liu Bei's order, the operation began.

The troops stationed around Luoyang City took the lead in taking action.

According to Liu Bei's order, Pang De and Xia Houyuan arranged for the Xiaocai Army and Leopard Cavalry Army to disperse and go to Luoyang Baguan, and assisted the Luoyang Baguan school captain to close the gate and separate the traffic in Luoyang area until Liu Bei's enthronement. As soon as the command is switched on, the eight gates of Luoyang will be blocked, and no one is allowed to go out or come in.

Liu Yong, Dong Huang, Cheng Pu, and Cao Ren led the four main forces to complete the military deployment before dawn. The four main forces respectively completely cut off the four directions of traffic inside and outside Luoyang City, and completed a complete blockade of Luoyang City.

Whether it is land transportation or water transportation, it is completely blocked by the four main forces. Similarly, people inside are not allowed to leave, and people outside are not allowed to enter.

No matter what the reason is, until Liu Bei's order to lift the blockade comes, anyone who dares to disobey the blockade order, no matter who it is, will be killed without mercy.

The Tianxing Army led by Han Dang, the 23rd Army and the 25th Army led by Cao Chun and Ma Teng directly entered Luoyang City according to Liu Bei's order, and went through the handover procedures with the city gate captain and palace guards who had promised to cooperate. , give up the defense.

Afterwards, under the orders of the school lieutenants, they handed over their armed forces and gave up their weapons. Then, under the leadership of the school lieutenants, they all left Luoyang City and entered the guard barracks prepared for them in advance to be guarded until Liu Bei's enthronement was successfully completed.

The Xiyuan Army does not need to go out of the city to be guarded, because the Xiyuan Army began to accept the management and training of Liu Bei's officers two years ago. Basically it belongs to Liu Bei's army, and only the Shangjun under Jian Shuo needs to be managed.

Under Jian Shuo's arrangement, more than [-] soldiers of the upper army handed over their weapons and left Luoyang City honestly to enter the guard barracks. Jian Shuo himself entered the guard barracks with them.

The army led by the other seven school lieutenants took advantage of the geographical advantage to assist Liu Bei's troops to occupy the palace, guard the palace people, and prevent people from rioting in the palace.

At the same time, Zhang Rang and Guo Hong also started to act.

Before dawn, when the people in Luoyang City had barely woken up, Zhang Rang's Dongyuan Fanzi and Guo Hong's Zhongdu officials started specific actions.

According to the list submitted to them by Liu Bei, they must arrest people according to the list and complete the sweep of the enemy.

This was a sudden operation. Before the operation was launched, even the mid-level and low-level officers and soldiers who participated in the operation did not know what they were going to do, and thought it was a special military exercise.

For example, when Luoyang was threatened, the special military exercise.

Including the Dongyuan Fanzi and Zhongdu officials and apprentices, except for Zhang Rang and Guo Hong, everyone else didn't know what was going on. It was not until the operation officially started that Zhang Rang and Guo Hong personally Announce the true purpose of the operation to those involved in the operation.

Liu Bei is going to be the emperor, and the big man is going to change the emperor, and the time is today!
Great wealth is waiting for everyone, as long as everyone obeys the order and wipes out all the damned opponents according to Liu Bei's request, then the great wealth will truly belong to the big guys!
So, what are you waiting for?
Go!

The fans of Dongyuan and the officials of Zhongdu are still in a daze, and have not woken up from the shock brought by the news that the big man is going to change the emperor, but the action has already begun, and the things to be done have already begun. came to the front.

They involuntarily moved with the whole group.

Zhang Rang's actions were relatively simple, and he was going to deal with the part of the entire eunuch group that did not cooperate with Liu Bei.

He had been warned by Liu Bei before, so he quickly drew up a list of those who he thought could be kept, saying that these people were more honest and sought Liu Bei's advice.

Liu Bei looked at it at the time and found that among the nine Zhongchang servants who were still alive, four were considered by Zhang Rang to be honest and able to stay, and possessed certain professional skills, and might be able to contribute some strength to Liu Bei.

Liu Bei didn't doubt Zhang Rang's professionalism in this matter, but he felt that there were too many honest people, so he crossed out three names by himself, leaving only Zhao Zhong.

"No matter how honest an insect is, it is also an insect. Zhao Zhong once cooperated with me to do some things, so I stayed here, and don't keep the others. The big man has to do a lot of things, which require a lot of money and manpower. These insects occupy so much space one by two. So much money and manpower, what are you saving for?”

Liu Bei threw the paper back to Zhang Rang, Zhang Rang quickly picked it up on the ground, and apologized to Liu Bei by the way.

"You didn't make any mistakes, but Lao Zhang, didn't I say that? You are the only one I can accept, which means that everyone else is useless. Since they are useless people, why keep them?
They all have so much land, real estate, and servants in Luoyang and other places, and a group of useless people occupy so much manpower and money. Isn't that adding to my troubles?Is it good for you to block me? "

Zhang Rang was so frightened that he broke out in a cold sweat.

So he didn't say anything, and crossed out most of the names on that list. In the end, the number of people left was only one-third of the number originally reserved.

The final result is that only ten percent of the ten permanent servants group, or pan-eunuch group, including himself, can be left in the entire Liu Hong period, and the remaining 90.00%, in Liu Bei's mouth, are "new Necessary expenditures for court and elegance".

Apart from him, Zhao Zhong is the only one among the old ten servants who can survive, and Liu Bei's standard for Zhao Zhong's survival is the standard of an ordinary wealthy household. confiscated.

Zhao Zhong can only keep a mansion in his hometown, leaving five servants and a fortune, and confiscate everything else.

This is an exchange for his survival.

Others, not even that.

Their property will become a reserve fund for Dahan's further development, and their property will be used to build roads, bridges, and water conservancy projects.

Never meaningless.

Zhang Rang only felt that the air was blowing from his body, but he didn't dare to stop, he didn't dare to have any dissatisfaction with Liu Bei's decision, so he could only lead the Dongyuan fanzi to the houses of the great eunuchs bravely. Mansion.

The first step is to solve all the big eunuchs.

The second step is to conduct a round of cleaning of the eunuchs scattered in other places.

The third step is to "report the good news" to Liu Bei with all the achievements.

For the entire operation time, Liu Bei only gave him one and a half hours.

The time of all those involved in the action is an hour and a half.

Because just this morning, Liu Bei is going to complete his ascension to the throne, and he will use fast, accurate and precise actions to quickly realize the established facts, eliminate all resistance, and let everything be completed logically.

The essence of this lies in the word "fast".

Zhang Rang didn't dare to be negligent, and after assigning tasks to his subordinates, he rushed to Zhao Zhong's house himself.

It was not yet daylight at that time, and the fans kicked open the gate of Zhao Zhong's house, hacked the stunned guards to death, and then rushed into Zhao Zhong's yard, rampaging, turning many people who had been hit on their backs, and the whole The mansion was in complete chaos.

Zhao Zhong and his family were awakened quickly, trembling with fright, wanting to run away, but they didn't know where to run away, and within the time of a stick of incense, the idlers in Zhao Zhong's mansion were dealt with. .

Those who resisted with weapons were killed, and all the rest were captured. Zhao Zhong himself, his adopted son and other family members were also tied up and taken to the main hall.

When he arrived at the main hall, he took a closer look, good guy, Zhang Rang was sitting and drinking water in the main hall of his house.

"Zhang Rang? You... What are you doing? Are you going to kill me?"

"I want to kill you, but can you still see me?"

Zhang Rang shook his head: "You should thank me, I saved your life, everyone else would die except you, but you kept at least you and your family alive because of me, but the others Don’t even think about it, just go back to your hometown.”

"What do you mean?"

Zhao Zhong looked at Zhang Rang in a daze.

Zhang Rang sighed, looked at the time, and briefly talked about what will happen today and some previous things, making Zhao Zhong a sensible person.

Then Zhao Zhong was shocked.

Liu Bei was going to be the emperor, but he was so well concealed?

When the incident came to an end, he realized that he was already a fish on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered. It was because of good luck that he escaped with his life. Otherwise, he would have died on the bed long ago.

Liu Bei proclaiming himself emperor is such a big thing, as a witness of the historical process, he is so ignorant to this point?

all of these……

Is it a little too crazy?
"If you want to say that, others..."

"They should all be dead."

Zhang Rang squinted his eyes and sighed: "Dongyuan fans are specially trained. They kill people without blinking an eye. They don't leave room for others. They are straightforward. But you can't blame others, you can't blame me, and you can't blame Liu... Your Majesty, who made them shameless?

Now that there is no support, you should behave honestly with your tail between your legs. One or two think that His Majesty is the late emperor?Can everything go their way?They deserve to die! "

Zhao Zhong was speechless.

And things are indeed as Zhang Rang said, one or two of the specially trained Dongyuan Fanzi have a neat and sharp killing technique, they broke into the homes of the rest of the Zhongchang servants, and hacked indiscriminately, making a mess .

In addition to the three people whose heads were beheaded by Liu Bei before, Zhang Rang, and Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Gui, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, and Han Kui were all present during this hour and a half. He was successively killed and beheaded by Dongyuan Fanzi.

Of course, they are not without resistance.

Duan Gui had a bit of force and wanted to resist. He swung a knife and fought against the Dongyuan Fanzi, but was hacked to death by the three Dongyuan Fanzi together.

Bi Lan ran faster and wanted to escape over the wall, but was hit on the thigh by Fanzi Dongyuan with a hand crossbow, fell to the ground and was hacked to death with knives.

The guards of Gao Wang's family were a bit strong, which caused some obstacles to the Dongyuan fans, and killed several Dongyuan fans, which angered the other fans, so Gao Wang himself was chopped into pieces.

Others also had some insignificant resistance, but of course there was no result, and they were all killed in the end.

The notorious group of ten permanent servants was basically destroyed, leaving only Zhang Rang, who was tamed by Liu Bei, and Zhao Zhong, who lost everything.

The history of the ten permanent servants has come to an end, and they will not continue to exist now and in the future.

As an evil group that stepped onto the stage of history through the historical process in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they were actually in opposition to the two schools of modern and ancient prose. Now, these two schools no longer exist, so they are supported by Liu Hong The opposing groups that rise up will completely lose their existence value.

Getting rid of them and squeezing everything out of them is what the new emperor needs to do.

Of course, the killing of these guys is just an appetizer, and their henchmen are the most important thing to eradicate.

They relied on their own clansmen and party members to collect property and commit crimes in the local area. What they did was more naked and more hated than the scholars, and it was once one of Liu Bei's obvious stains.

Liu Bei can't wash off all the stains on his body, but at least he must wash off all the stains brought to him by the eunuch.

(End of this chapter)