Xuande

Chapter 809 A real man must confront the harsh natural environment head-on

After all, Wei Yan did not succeed in cheating. He successfully defeated the main force of the rebel army. Right under the city of Jiangling, the army encircled the rebel army.

The county soldiers who had been guarding the city for a long time also opened the city gates to fight with the Han army. Even Du Ji, the governor of Nanjun County, couldn't bear his excitement.

Du Ji is not a weak scholar, he is also capable of fighting, and he is good at riding and shooting. Before the city was besieged by the rebels, he also joined the battle fully armed, braved arrows to deliver supplies to the soldiers on the wall, and killed two soldiers who boarded the city. Rebel soldiers at the city walls.

Not only that, he also personally trained the strong men in the city to join the battle urgently, and sent all the guards in his house who could fight to the city wall to assist in the battle.

His two sons, Du Li and Du Kuan, came to Jingzhou to visit relatives because of the holiday of the Sili Academy. They happened to be surrounded by Jiangling. Take part in the fight instead of yourself.

It can be said that he made great contributions to defending Jiangling City.

This time Wei Yan led the reinforcements to end his 21-day crisis. He felt very excited. After joining the battle, he killed three rebel soldiers and won a complete victory with the army.

The main force of the Nanjun rebel army was wiped out by the Han army, and the rest were just small fish and shrimp entrenched in various counties. With the absolute advantage of the Han army, it was easy to wipe them out.

After the war, Wei Yan met Du Ji and Li Zheng, the captain of the national army of Nanjun County. Wei Yan praised Li Zheng and recognized Du Ji's bravery. matter.

Du Ji told Wei Yan everything he knew, and suggested that Wei Yan immediately take action against the rebellion in the counties of Nanjun, catch them all, and control them all.

Those who have been in contact with the government before can be let go, and none of the others should be let go. Kill all and confiscate all property as punishment for them.

In addition, Du Ji also strongly suggested that Wei Yan must search the warehouses of the families in these places carefully. He will definitely find a lot of weapons, even armor and crossbows. Once found, they can confirm their rebellion.

If bows, crossbows and armor are found, then needless to say, they must rebel and kill the rebels, but it is a matter of course.

Du Ji has been battling wits and courage with these clan forces for so many years, and being tormented by him is also very uncomfortable. Now that he finally has a chance to feel proud, how can he let go of those bastards who offended him to the ends of the earth?
Once there is a chance, of course, he must retaliate fiercely, vent fiercely, and prevent these bastards from destroying their families and breaking up the three clans. He is not the prefect of Nanjun!

Of course, Wei Yan also wanted more credit, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to divide their troops and go to the counties of Nanjun. He personally led the troops to Xiangyang to handle the affairs of Xiangyang.

Wei Yan started the second wave of action, and Du Ji also officially reported to Liu Bei what happened in Nanjun. He strongly suggested that Liu Bei launch a wave of cleansing in Nanjun. Anyone suspected of crimes should not be let go. Some social networks are completely torn apart, which is conducive to the long-term stability of Nanjun.

As for those guys who have secretly surrendered to the court, of course they don’t need to die, but don’t be too tolerant to them. This group of people is nothing more than grass, and after losing their family roots, they are ordinary people, and there is no need to pay attention to them at all. .

Therefore, it is better to disperse them and settle in various places, and try not to let their families prosper again, let them become independent individuals, and can no longer oppose the court.

For this group of people, avoiding death is the greatest forgiveness. Apart from avoiding death, the imperial court must punish them as they want, and must not make them too comfortable.

Du Ji's performance table was sent to Luoyang by a fast horse, and it was sent to Liu Bei after only eight days, and he also got the news from Jiangxia County at the same time .

When Liu Bei got the news from Nanjun and Jiangxia Commanderies, it happened to be the time when Liu Bei personally tried Liu Zhong, the former king of Ganling.

Liu She was beheaded before Liu Zhong arrived, and the two were unable to meet, but there was nothing to regret about it, they were all insects, and they would drink tea in the same cesspit when they went to hell, Liu Bei only had to be responsible for delivering They just hit the road.

As for other things, Liu Bei is not interested. Interrogating Liu Zhong himself is like a formality. The only thing he is interested in is why Liu Zhong is willing to participate in this kind of doomed to lose his head. things.

Isn't paying taxes less than the glory of a Zongwang?
He was surprised by this.

And Liu Zhong's reply made Liu Bei deeply understand what it means to measure the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain.

This guy actually thinks that he and Liu Bei don't belong to the same clan, so after Liu Bei's Xiaozong joins the Dazong, he will definitely find an excuse to deal with them, the clan kings of the Liu Xiu clan, and then replace them with his own people as the clan king, instead of just sitting there and waiting to die, It is better to stand up and resist now, maybe there is still a chance of regaining the throne.

After Liu Zhong knew that he was bound to die, he had no more scruples. He was going to die anyway, so he had no fear of Liu Bei, but just sneered at him uncontrollably.

"I know you are a genius, I know you are good at using soldiers and know how to fight, and I also know that I may not be able to beat you, but it doesn't matter, as long as I dare to fight against you, I can't say that there is no possibility of victory, but if I sit still , I will definitely die, Liu Bei, you win, do whatever you want!"

Liu Bei looked at Liu Zhong's indifferent expression, just sighed and shook his head.

"If I said that I didn't intend to depose your prince before, do you believe it or not?"

Liu Zhong listened, and looked at Liu Bei with the eyes of a fool.

"Do you think I'm a fool? Or do you think I'm easy to deceive and will believe your nonsense? Let your own people not block outsiders? What did you Liu Bei rely on to ascend to the throne? Are all people in the world fools?"

Liu Bei smiled helplessly, took a sip of tea, and shook his head.

"Before, my thoughts were quite simple. I didn't think you clan kings were an eyesore, and it didn't matter if you were not in the same clan as me. Anyway, I didn't think anyone in my clan was worthy of being crowned king or other titles. .

My sons are still young and not at that age, so my idea at the time was to use the taxes collected from you, and then I would make up for it myself, and raise a small sum of money to help those who can't afford to eat. The problem of the impoverished Han clan.

You also know that there has been a lot of polarization between the rich and the poor in the clan group of the Han Dynasty since the Tweeting Order. After so many years, many clan clan members in the Han Dynasty are also normal people, and even ordinary people, poor people, living in poverty, and having no status and power , Eating is a problem.

Of course I don't think it's right to raise some rice worms, so I won't use the court money to help these people, but it's not a good thing if they really starve to death, it will make the outside world feel that the royal family is ruthless Prestige is a hit.

So I thought, use the money collected from you rich and powerful Han clansmen, as well as some of my own money, to give a little subsidy to a group of poor Han clansmen who can’t afford food, so that they can maintain food and clothing , so as not to starve to death.

I don't intend to target you, as long as you don't fight against the court, abide by the slavery restriction order, the land saving order, and help the clan group that is about to starve to death a little, then I don't care if you are your clan king. "

Liu Zhong was stunned for a while, and opened his mouth wide, with an expression of disbelief.

After a while, he returned to normal.

"What's the point of you lying to me by saying this? Do you think I will believe you? You Liu Bei have done so many things that shocked the world, how many people died at your hands, and how many families were destroyed by you? You You can’t even remember how many people you killed? Do you think I’ll believe you when you say something like this now?!”

"Believe it or not is your business, whether to do it or not is my business."

Liu Bei sneered and said: "Liu Xuande has acted in an upright manner all his life, with a clear conscience, he will help the innocent if he can, and he will never let the guilty be killed if he can.

Now it seems that there is nothing wrong with me catching you and killing you. If you have a clear conscience and haven't done anything harmful, why do you think that I will definitely target you and successfully question you? "

"I……"

Liu Zhong was speechless, and after being embarrassed for a while, he snorted and lowered his head.

"If you want to kill or scratch, it's up to you!"

"Of course follow me!"

Liu Bei sneered and said: "But then again, I don't want to treat you in a cruel way, but you think that I will do something to you sooner or later, so you have to oppose me.

If you and Liu She think this way, the other kings will not be at ease in the future. Instead of letting you speculate on me and secretly oppose me, it is better for me to follow the people's hearts and depose you all, which can save money. "

Liu Zhong was stunned for a moment, and suddenly became very annoyed.

"You're really lying to me, right? What you said just now is a dignified appearance, but you're actually hiding evil intentions! You're plotting to seize the throne and murder a large number of royal relatives. Your ancestors have spirits in heaven, and they will never let you go!"

"You villain, you really deserve to be a villain. Not only do you not know the heart of a gentleman, but you also imagine that a gentleman is as filthy as yourself. You are really filthy and down to the extreme."

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "But it's no wonder. Our Han clan are all descendants of Emperor Gaozu. Emperor Gaozu, if you say he is a hero, he is indeed a hero, and if you say he is a rascal, he also has Rogue Wind, if you say that he is a bit of a villain, in some respects, it is true.

It can only be said that each of us is a bit like Gao Zu, some are heroes, some are villains, some are pure villains, and some are a big group, don't you think? "

Liu Zhong snorted coldly and kept silent.

Liu Bei stopped talking nonsense with him, and issued the result of Liu Zhong's trial.

Liu Zhong, the former king of Ganling, conspired to rebel, was unfaithful and unrighteous, had no father and no king, harmed the place, harmed the people, and committed a heinous crime beyond the tolerance of heaven. He was sentenced to death.

The inheritance rights of the Ganling Kingdom were abolished. The clans of the Ganling Kingdom were fully questioned and imprisoned.

After the trial order was issued, Liu Bei hesitated for a while, but still made up his mind to formally attack the Eastern Han Zongwang group, depose all the existing Zongwang groups, and abolish their titles, so that they will not continue to threaten the succession to the throne.

As Liu Zhong said, he and they are not from the same clan. According to the practice of conferring kings since the Eastern Han Dynasty, these guys are actually not qualified to continue to be the kings of the clan.

So there were actually some rumors inside and outside the court that Liu Bei would depose the original clan king, but Liu Bei really didn't think about it at the time, he just wanted to collect taxes from them, and then set up a Han family clan to support charity funds, so that Some down-and-out Han family clansmen who couldn't eat could have a bite of food.

That's it.

He doesn't intend to do more for these Han clansmen, just to keep them from starving to death on the streets, thus making the subjects of the world think that the royal family is ruthless.

But since these Eastern Han Zongwangs have such a negative view of themselves, and they are somewhat paranoid about being persecuted, then Liu Bei feels that he just used this as an excuse to do what everyone thought he would do before, which can be regarded as "living up to everyone's expectations." .

So Liu Bei decided to set up an investigation team, using Liu Zhong's rebellion incident as a breakthrough, to conduct some investigations on the local kings who received the call after Liu Zhong issued the call to crusade against him.

Previously, through the intelligence network, Liu Bei learned that Liu Zhong had issued a call to question his throne to the locations of various clan kings before he was defeated. He wanted to encourage these clan kings to rebel against him and regain the throne. This call for action.

Liu Zhong even wanted to go north to find Liu Xie, re-establish Liu Xie as emperor, and drive himself off the throne.

Now that the chain of suspicion has been formed, if you don't do the corresponding things, wouldn't you be a bad person?
When had he, Liu, been a bad guy?

These bastards are courting their own death, how can they not be satisfied?

However, Liu Bei felt that some political preparations were needed for the selection of the investigation team and the subsequent series of operations against the Zongwang group of the Eastern Han Dynasty.

Moreover, it is indeed a bit too much to depose all the kings and even some Han family clans who were named princes in one breath. It will make people wonder whether the emperor wants to maintain the Han family.

Some clansmen of the Han Dynasty did not make any mistakes. To be honest, it is not appropriate to solve them in one go.

So Liu Bei thought about it and thought of some good ways.

In the past, when the clans of the Han family were granted the state, they were always granted to the rich land or the vital area. Either they wanted to support them, or they expected their own people to help guard the vital area and contribute some strength to the Han family.

It's Liu Bei's turn, and of course the Han family needs the efforts of the Han family clansmen, so Liu Bei thought, and sealed these Han clansmen to the south.

Don't worry about the north, the rich land will be managed by the imperial court. Even if you go to the south where the risk is relatively high, you can just follow the imperial court's policy of developing Lingnan and drive a large number of people to the land of Lingnan.

The clan members of the Han Dynasty and the descendants of the great ancestors should go to the most dangerous places where they are most needed for the consolidation of the Han Dynasty. They should dedicate their youth, blood, and even their own lives. On the road to developing the territory of the Han Dynasty, they should work hard Forward.

What's the point of staying in the rich land to eat and drink?
A real man must face the harsh natural environment head-on!
In this way, it is also conducive to promoting the transfer of more population to Jiaozhou.

After all, all the clan members of the Han family have gone, and those surnamed Liu have taken the lead, so there is nothing wrong with the big guys going with them, right?

(End of this chapter)