Han emperor system

Chapter 135 Anmin

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In the Han Dynasty, the transmission of news was very slow. Generally, it took four or five days for an official document to be transmitted to the counties and townships below. Often, by the time the news was transmitted, something had already happened.

But Liu Bian was well aware of the timely effect of the news, so he had people convey the news of last night to the 37 counties in Runan County overnight, so that the people's hearts could be quickly stabilized and the remnants of the Yellow Turbans could be deterred.

At the same time, Liu Bian also sent a messenger to Yingchuan County, asking the county governor Han Baiqu to immediately arrest a group of officials in the county without giving them any time to react, because it would take seven or eight days for the news of Runan to reach Yingchuan Time, and the envoy sent by Liu Bian can reach Yingchuan County in only two or three days.

That night, the guards of the Eastern Palace interrogated the officials of Runan County, and some letters and evidence were found from their homes. Soon someone confessed that they had colluded with the Yellow Turban Bandit and deliberately put the Yellow Turban Bandit into the county. This caused the fact that Runan County was captured by thieves.

Even if there is a few hard-spoken guys, when they see that their companions have confessed, they can only sigh, lamenting that they made a wrong choice for a while and brought disaster to the family.

Afterwards, Liu Bian commanded the Donggong guards and Yingchuan County soldiers to search the homes of all the officials involved in the case, took away all their belongings, and arrested all the clansmen involved in the Yellow Turban Bandits.

When it dawned the next day, the common people who hid at home during the chaos last night slowly walked onto the street, and found that the atmosphere on the street today was very chilling, and the first intersection was guarded by imperial imperial guards, very defensive. strict.

However, everyone didn't know what happened. They just heard the shouts and fighting sounds in and out of the city last night, and they knew that the imperial army led by His Highness the Crown Prince was fighting with the Yellow Turban Bandit. Don't know the result.

However, some common people saw that the streets in the city were guarded by the imperial army, so they guessed that the imperial army led by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince should have won the victory. Otherwise, how could they have entered the city.

At noon, as the main officials from various counties arrived one after another, everyone knew that something big would happen in Runan County, so many people ran to the streets to watch, and the imperial army did not stop their actions.

Later, everyone discovered that a huge platform was being built outside the vegetable market, and they knew that someone might be beheaded.Because at that time, the execution of prisoners by the local governments basically chose outside the vegetable market, so that the common people could watch and watch, so as to serve as an example to others.

In the afternoon, a large notice was posted in the city, and the officials from all the streets knocked on the doors of all the common people one after another, asking everyone to go to the notice to understand the situation. There were special people responsible for guarding and helping Everyone read it, because many of the common people are illiterate.

"Fathers and folks, today I want to tell you a piece of great news, that is, the yellow scarf bandits who have been entrenched in Runan for many years and committed crimes have been completely wiped out by the imperial army led by His Royal Highness the Crown Prince.

Just last night, the Yellow Turban Bandit originally wanted to collude with some officials from Runan County to kidnap His Highness the Crown Prince, but His Highness the Crown Prince saw through their plot, and then His Highness the Crown Prince took the initiative to lead the Eastern Palace guards around him into the tiger's den, approaching several of the Yellow Turban Bandits. big boss.

Later, with the cooperation of the Imperial Guards, with the assistance of the Gebei militia led by the righteous man Xu Chu, and with the support of the righteous people in Shangcai and other counties, they finally surrounded and annihilated the large army of Yellow Turbans and killed three Yellow Turbans. Shou He Yi, He Man and Huang Shao killed more than 500 Yellow Turban thieves, and more than 600 Yellow Turban thieves surrendered.

His Royal Highness decided that a group of leaders of the Yellow Turban rebels and a group of officials who colluded with the Yellow Turban rebels to betray the court and the people would be tried and executed in public outside Caishikou three days later.After you go back, tell your neighbors the news, and at the same time, tell your relatives and friends in the countryside, so that they will come to the city in three days to participate in the execution of the Yellow Turban thieves and officials. "

With the appearance of these announcements, the entire city of Runan County suddenly boiled up. Countless people who had been harmed by the Yellow Turbans applauded and set off firecrackers to show their congratulations. All the surrounding towns and villages have heard the news.

Similarly, Liu Bian also sent a fast horse to send the announcement to every county in the county, and ordered the meritorious officials of each county to organize officials to publicize the matter, so that the people in every township and every mile must know about it .

Three days later, Liu Bian did a few more things, that is, asked Xu Chu to send the family members of the Yellow Turbans and the ordinary people who were forced to go up the mountain to the county town, so that they could meet their relatives, Or find the dead bodies of their loved ones.

In the end, he asked people to find a good location outside the city, and gathered all the sacrificed imperial guards, Donggong guards, Gebei martyrs, and Yingchuan county soldiers to bury them together, and built a martyr's mausoleum. The local government is required to organize the people to sacrifice to them every year during the festival.

As for the corpses of those yellow scarf thieves, except for some treacherous and wicked people who had their heads cut off, Liu Bian set aside a piece of land for their families to bury themselves, and this place is located opposite the martyr's cemetery. , the terrain is located under the tomb of the martyrs, and has since become a negative teaching material for people to educate future generations.

In addition, for those yellow scarves who surrendered, Liu Bian also asked them to identify each other to see if there were some treacherous and evil people who tried to get away with it. In the end, they found more than ten, all of them were yellow scarves. The leader of the army, who usually fishes and meats the common people, commits all kinds of crimes by raping and looting, was arrested by the imperial army.

For other innocent people, Liu Bian punished them as coolies for building the tombs of martyrs, and asked them to promise that they would never join the Yellow Turbans to rebel against the court in the future, otherwise they would be punished with death.

In addition, among the people who were rescued from the mountains, many of them had suffered from the yellow scarf thieves. Some of their family members were killed, some were humiliated, and some were oppressed. Let them tell the people what happened to them in public at the assembly.

Just after the high platform at Caishikou was set up, the heads of the three leaders of the Yellow Turban Bandit, He Yi, He Man, and Huang Shao, were hung out, and the heads of more than a dozen other Yellow Turban leaders were also hung on the high pole. On the stage, it attracted countless people to watch.

If there were no guards from the Imperial Army, and the common people were only allowed to watch from a distance, I am afraid that the angry common people would smash their heads with stones, because when the Yellow Turbans invaded Runan County, they did a lot of evil. .

(End of this chapter)