Xuande

Chapter 798
Ma Zhong, the governor of Guanghan County, is a student of the second class of Liu Bei's Liangzhou Prefecture School.

After learning about this, Ma Zhong frowned and realized something, so he sent a message to Tang Li, the captain of the county soldier in the county, and sent someone to send a message to Liu Sheng, the head of the Xishu Military Region, asking him to pay more attention. .

Liu Sheng has been paying close attention to the reactions from various places since the promulgation of the Dutian decree. For more than a month, Guanghan County was the first to send him a message, letting him know that someone could no longer sit still and tried to start a rebellion in the local area.

And action has already begun.

Liu Sheng took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, held a military district meeting, and reported the situation to the officers under his command, so that they could be more or less prepared.

Ever since you entered Xishu, you have been clamoring that there is no war, and that training every day is boring. Now that the war is coming, you have to fight for me. If the battle is not well fought, it is not beautiful. Yes, you wait for me too!

In mid-May of the first year of Zhenguan, the Western Shu Front Army entered a state of combat readiness.

At the same time, the newly established county military system in each county has also entered a state of combat readiness.

Although most of the county military organizations are not yet full, and some even have only about 1000 people, these people who are born veterans will not be timid to fight. Ready to go to war.

While the guys who don't want to pay taxes are still recruiting and coaxing people everywhere, the Han army and local county soldiers are already ready, just waiting for them to fall into the trap.

Xie Chong's actions are still somewhat effective.

People in collective farms are not easily deceived, because their channels for obtaining information are relatively stable and efficient, which to a certain extent smoothed out the information gap between them and the landlords and rich people, making it impossible for the landlords and old money to use the information gap to deceive them.

The individual farmers in other villages are easier to be deceived. They still lack information channels as in the past, and because they have less contact with the government, they have little trust in the government. .

So as long as you thank your family for giving money and food, and a little bit of fooling around, or even half persuasion and half coercion, it doesn't take much effort, and a group of farmers who don't know why will follow them because of their horrible memories of taxation and some small favors.

The county government wanted to send someone to intervene, but it was too late.

The Xie family gathered more than 300 people, and the other 20 powerful landlord families also gathered a team of dozens or hundreds of people. A group of people got together and gathered a team of more than 4000 people. In the first year of Zhenguan On the third day of June, it was officially announced that they would resist the Dutian Order and attack the county seat.

But when they started to move towards the county seat, the Han army was actually ready.

While they were acting, the Han army was also preparing, and they also sent people to follow up on their movements.

When the rebels gathered together and announced their march to the county seat, threatening the court to stop farming, more than [-] people from a battalion of the Han army and Guanghan County national soldiers appeared.

The number of the Han army is larger than that of the rebel army, their equipment is better than that of the rebel army, and their combat quality is higher than that of the rebel army. After two confrontations, this rebel army was wiped out by the Han army without any accident.

Xie Chong, as the commander, thought that he could successfully sneak attack when he was fighting. He felt that he was more or less powerful enough to break through the county and take advantage of it. The army was surrounded, and immediately felt cold, and didn't want to command, so they ran away.

He led a frenzied attack with his powerful family soldiers, trying to fight a bloody road to escape, but he didn't rush out. He was pushed back by the Han army. Finally, the front army collapsed and the whole army was wiped out.

Xie Chong himself and the members of the major families who participated in this battle were captured one after another, and a few people were killed on the battlefield.

It took less than half an hour for this battle to end. Too many rebels surrendered, and many peasants didn't know it at all. The sticks and bamboo spears surrendered without any effort at all, and the Han army won the victory without much effort.

The frontal battlefield is over, and the Han army wiped out the organizers of these rebels, and wiped out all the more than 20 large and small families involved in this matter. The families that have some relationship with them are also monitored by the Han army. As long as there is any problem, Dispose of immediately.

The remaining culprits, Xie Chong and others, were escorted to the county mansion to be beheaded for public display, and passed on to the first county as a deterrent.

At the same time, during this battle, the Han army also discovered that these rebels had iron weapons, and some even had armor. The appearance of these absolutely contraband items here can only mean that the major families in the county still have these prohibited items in their possession. product.

Although the rebellion has been resolved now, the hidden risks are still there, so they requested a new round of searches to strictly prevent contraband such as armor from being privately stored in the private sector. If found, they will be punished as treason.

However, the loss of core interests obviously cannot be deterred by one or two battles. Just after the battle in Guanghan County ended, rebellions broke out in three places in Berkshire.

These three rebellions took place in Linjiang County, Dianjiang County, and Anhan County respectively. Out of dissatisfaction, officials in each of the three places gathered the powerful local landlord forces and organized a joint effort to rebel against the imperial court’s order to save land. The appeal is often for the court to give up Dutian.

But in the eyes of the court, in the eyes of Liu Bei, isn't this a rebellion?
He didn't discuss it!
After the three rebellions broke out, Liu Sheng also quickly got news that the three rebellions were of different scales. Anhan County was the smallest with just over 2000 people, and Linjiang County was the largest with tens of thousands of rebels. .

There are different reasons for this situation, but the biggest reason must be the incomplete implementation of the slave restriction order, which both Liu Sheng and Liu Bei can think of.

The last round of slave restrictions can be said to have cut the slave population of the Han Empire in half, but after all, the slave population of the Han Empire is still several million, and the high-ranking clans must have accounted for a lot, but let’s talk about those locals. Officials who are not considered high-ranking and powerful households are all clean, but that is not always the case.

There must be water everywhere, and a considerable part of the slave population has been preserved in various ways, explicitly or covertly, to continue to serve them, but all families with official connections do this.

Therefore, some counties and counties implemented relatively cleanly, so the resistance this time was much smaller. For example, in Guanghan County, there was only one rebellion as a whole, and it was easily put down.

But Berkshire is not the case. The execution is not clean enough, and there must be a lot of water in the execution, so this wave has exploded for them.

The rebellion of tens of thousands of people in Linjiang County was very large and powerful. The leader of the rebel army was Xu Huai, the former county magistrate of Linjiang County. Dahu, let's rise up together to resist Dutian Order.

Ma Qiang, the magistrate of Linjiang County, is also a second-term student from Liangzhou Prefecture School. He has served in office for two and a half years and has made many achievements in local construction. In order to give orders.

This time the rebels rebelled, and it was the Gan family who first sent an early warning to Ma Qiang. Later, the Gan family organized more than 2000 troops to rush to the county town before the rebels. Ma Qiang was supported by the Gan family and was lucky to survive In the county seat, there was a confrontation with the rebels.

After that, the rebels attacked the city for six consecutive days. Ma Qiang put on his armor and went to the city to direct the soldiers to resist.

And the Han army in the Xishu Military Region did not stand still, and did not have the "excellent tradition" of "Friendly troops are in trouble like a mountain". After learning the news of the huge rebel forces in Linjiang County, Liu Sheng sent his lieutenant general Zhang Ren to lead two The troops of the battalion rushed to the aid of Linjiang County.

After Zhang Ren served Liu Bei as a subordinate of the general for a period of time, he was soon sent to the army by Liu Bei to practice. Over the years, he made a lot of contributions and his position was continuously promoted. Finally, after Liu Bei ascended the throne, he was appointed Promoted to Liu Sheng's deputy.

Liu Sheng still needs to be in the base camp of the Han army, so let Zhang Ren go out instead of him, and Zhang Ren is not a simple person. Before the army, the Dianjiang County rebels passing through the waterway were wiped out.

The rebel army in Dianjiang County was also not strong enough. The thousands of mobs looked powerful, but in fact, even the thousand Berkshire national soldiers who rushed to help earlier could not do anything to them.

When Zhang Ren arrived near Dianjiang County with the elite of the Han army, a battalion wiped them out in one attack, and Zhang Ren started the liquidation here by the way. Uprooted.

A group of people were beheaded by Zhang Ren holding their heads by the river, and then pushed the corpses into the water to feed the fish. They made a deterrent and tough posture, and all the families in the county were asked to watch. Everyone was sweating profusely, obviously shocked.

After the rebels in Dianjiang County were eliminated, the army of the county went north to Anhan County. Zhang Ren continued to lead the troops eastward along the waterway. It took more than ten days to arrive in Linjiang County. Long-eyed gangsters who took advantage of the situation.

During the time when Zhang Ren was on his way, the rebels in Linjiang County did not move forward, and failed to pose a substantial threat to Linjiang County. Facing less than 1 defenders, more than [-] of them were stunned. Can't make any achievements.

In fact, this is not normal, because the defenders of Linjiang County are not very elite, they are similar in nature to the rebels, the rebels are a mob, and the defenders of Linjiang County are not much better, mainly because the rebels have too many internal divisions .

Some people think that the county should be taken down, some people think that they should take advantage of the situation to expand the sphere of influence, and go to more counties to fight the autumn wind to obtain more benefits. Make peace.

Anyway, a group of people couldn't unify their opinions after talking about it. In the end, despite the large number of people, they couldn't use all their strength to attack the county, so that the defenders didn't do their best at all, which delayed them for more than half a month.

Forcibly dragging their own golden time away.

So when Zhang Ren arrived in Linjiang County with two battalions of Han troops in mid-to-late June, the rebels were finally dumbfounded.

The Han army was smaller than them, but Zhang Ren, who was very confident, directly used the tactic of making dumplings.

And the Han army did not disappoint Zhang Ren's self-confidence, and successfully implemented the dumpling-making tactic, blocking all the rebels' retreats in all directions, and slapped a pocket on the combat site where the rebels besieged the city.

Then there is the simple and rude frontal attack.

The Han army formed a common standard army formation and launched a frontal attack on the rebels. They slashed with swords around their heads and stabbed with spears. The rebels were beaten helplessly, and soon collapsed completely. The Han army was surrounded to death, and then the whole army was wiped out, and was eaten by the Han army.

After the war, Zhang Ren counted the results of the battle and found that the number of prisoners exceeded 1000, and the number of rebels killed on the battlefield was actually more than [-]. Beheaded after the battle.

More than 30 large and small families that jointly launched the riot were wiped out by the Han army, and everything was confiscated. The Linjiang County rebellion ended here.

While Zhang Ren easily wiped out the rebels in Linjiang County, the rebels in Anhan County were also dealt with by [-] county soldiers led by Yan Lu, the captain of the Berjun County National Army.

So Berkshire's internal resistance to the Dutian Order has almost come to an end, and no further waves have been caused.

The same rebellion happened in Shu County, and also in Qianwei County.

However, the scale of Qianwei County is very small, and the location of the Han army's garrison is here, so it was settled by the Han army in only eight days.

The scale of the rebellion in Shu County was not small. Several counties launched the rebellion at the same time as premeditated, under the banner of going to Luoyang to talk to the emperor about Du Tian Ling.

Because the behavior was too arrogant and completely disrespected Liu Bei, Liu Sheng was very annoyed.

He couldn't allow someone to disrespect Liu Bei, so he personally led the most elite Shence Army to Shu County to quell the rebellion.

Because he was too angry when Liu Sheng quelled the rebellion in Shu County, he was more vicious and merciless. The "talking action" jointly initiated by sixteen officials from Shu County County Government, Chengdu County Government, Jiangyuan County Government, etc. Moon was pushed down by him.

Killing heads rolling.

Then, because it was wartime, Liu Sheng possessed all the powers of restraint, so he pursued the rebellion in Shu County fiercely, not only launching the tri-clan elimination campaign against the rebellious officials, but also launching accountability for dereliction of duty and incompetent officials And investigation, one-third of the officials in Shu County participated in the list in one breath.

The results speak for themselves.

Shu County experienced a major earthquake in the officialdom, and the last bit of old forces that survived many political purges were also physically wiped out by Liu Sheng.

The operation of saving the land went smoothly. The living officials and powerful landlords did not dare to take a breath for Liu Sheng. He sent people to save the land. No one dared to stop them, and they all cooperated honestly.

Then Liu Sheng figured out how much land each household had, how many servants they had concealed and how many clan members they had, and so on. In the middle and late July, Liu Sheng notified Liu Bei of the relevant information. Ask Liu Bei to make a decision on a series of events.

How to reward and how to punish, you decide, but I will make some suggestions, I hope you old man will not have any benevolent thoughts towards them.

Liu Bei is very busy. After the Dutian Order was issued in early May, rebellions began in June. The rebellion in northern Yizhou was not considered large-scale, and the largest rebellion was concentrated in southern Jizhou.

Ganling State, Zhao State, Anping State, and Wei County, because the slavery restriction was not implemented thoroughly in these areas, the resistance force in this area is the highest in the whole country.

What's more, the rebellion in these places seems to have some traces of the local Han clan.

I probably also knew that Liu Bei was unwilling to let it go this time, so the remnants of the old forces in these places did not continue to make false claims with Liu Bei, and they stopped pretending and had a showdown.

Thousands of slaves pulled out their own slaves to form a rebel army, distributed weapons that had been hidden for a long time, and prepared to talk to Liu Bei about the matter of saving land and paying taxes.

If you want to save our fields, let us pay taxes like those mud legs, that's fine.

However, you old man has to ask whether the steel knife in our hand will agree or not!

(End of this chapter)