Chapter 111 The choice of the Bingzhou gentry ([-]) The starry sky on an autumn night has a unique tranquility and beauty. The gentle breeze brings with it the fragrance of flowers and fruits, making people feel extremely comfortable.
But under this extremely beautiful night sky, there is another bloody beauty.
Autumn is both a bumper harvest and a time of mourning.
The people in the border areas are already fierce, and it is impossible for this incident not to cause conflicts.
Shang County.
On this beautiful night, after receiving the news from Jinyang, the powerful nobles headed by the Yin family of Dingyang did not choose to sit back and wait for death. Instead, they got entangled, gathered their slaves, and brutally killed the Dingyang County Magistrate and a group of people. Class tolerance.
Not only that, the powerful powerful men in other counties also responded. They gathered six thousand domestic slaves at once and went to kill Fushi, the governor of Shangjun, in an open rebellion.
This news has spread, and the state is in an uproar, and the whole country is in an uproar.
"You really dare to rebel? You are looking down on them."
Liu Han received the information from Xu Rong and smiled.
"My lord, there is General Xu Rong and nearly [-] troops in Shangjun. I believe that good news about the suppression of the rebellion will come soon."
Xi Zhicai is very confident. How can someone like Shangjun be Xu Rong's opponent?
Liu Han nodded, "Send orders to Xu Rong. Only the culprits and accomplices will be killed. The people who were kidnapped are asked to build roads and no mass killings are allowed. What I will do after Shangjun has been said before. After Shangjun is pacified, I will start to do it." Immigrated.”
"Here."
Even though Liu Han looked calm, he actually couldn't afford to be scared. Although Shangjun was close to Sili, it had a small population. The main reason was that there was not much available arable land. Shangjun's estimated population was almost 6000, but these powerful nobles could actually gather [-] people. People, you can imagine how many people it hides.
If the same is true for Taiyuan and Shangdang counties, then it is very likely that they will get away with it this time.
"Another order is passed. After the rebellion is suppressed by Shangjun, 5000 people will be transferred to Taiyuan, and another 5000 people will be transferred from Xihe County."
"My lord, this."
"Don't be afraid of [-], but be afraid of just in case."
"As ordered."
# Shangjun, Fushi.
Yin Guan, the head of the Yin family in Dingyang, did not want this because he knew that the person guarding Shangjun was Xu Rong, a general under King Hejian, a ruthless man who burned down the Xianbei royal court in Danhan Mountain in winter.
However, his son was too stupid and was praised by the wealthy people below, so he killed the Dingyang County Magistrate. This was good. Not only did he offend the King of Hejian, he also offended the Yangqu Guo family, because the newly appointed Dingyang County magistrate The order is Guo Lie of the Guo family in Yangqu.
Now, it's too late to say anything. We can only bite the bullet with the slogan "The King of Hejian is cruel and unkind. If you don't rebel, there will be no way to survive." I originally wanted to fight independently in each county, but considering the superiority of the Han army here, It would be dangerous if Xu Rong gathered an army and defeated them one by one.
Therefore, everyone discussed that Fushi only had Xu Rong's 5000 men and had not yet had time to assemble. With the numerical advantage of 6000 men in his own hands, he could use his troops to quickly attack and take advantage.
Only in this way can there be a glimmer of hope.
"I just hope that the King of Hejian will be willing to sit down and talk after seeing the power of the nobles."
However, God did not wish.
It was a makeshift army without a unified command, and it was not as powerful as Xu Rong's troops. The two sides fought outside Fushi City. The people who made up the makeshift army were like chickens and tile dogs, and collapsed at the first never expected that all 5000 people under Xu Rong would become cavalry!
Although the powerful nobles also had a thousand cavalry, they were far behind Xu Rong's 5000 men. After Xu Rong shouted the slogan "Those who surrender will not be killed," the battle ended in half an hour. Less than a hundred people were killed and less than a hundred people were injured, but nearly a thousand people were killed in less than half an hour.
The one-sided battle made Xu Rong completely uninterested, so he immediately started the next step of his master's plan, which included the Yi tribe, beheading accomplices, confiscating family property, selling wives and daughters into slavery, men building roads, and then following them. Build roads.
For a moment, Shangjun was filled with blood again, but this time the blood shed was the blood of these rebels.
According to statistics, Xu Rong, the governor of Shangjun, killed 2000 people from the Yin clan in Dingyang and local powerful people. The Yin clan in Dingyang was wiped out, and the homes of other powerful people were also confiscated. In just half a month, nine out of ten noble people and powerful people in Shangjun were wiped out, leaving only the remaining powerful people. They are basically small families with hundreds of acres of fertile land and dozens of tenant farmers.
But these people, even though their lives were not in danger, were forced to hand over their family fields.
In this half month, Shangjun completed the bloodbath, the land was returned to the public, and a series of reforms were subsequently launched.
# Xu Rong's cruel methods naturally aroused the fear of the remaining gentry in Bingzhou. For the first time, the gentry gathered privately on such a large scale to discuss a way out, and eventually divided into two factions.
One group believes that since the King of Hejian obviously does not give the nobles a way out, they should simply raise troops to seek trouble like Shangjun; the other group wants to seek help from the central nobles, provide benefits, and let the central government send people to mediate.
The two sides quarreled fiercely, and in the end everyone had their own little calculations in mind, and they broke up unhappy.
However, their opinions were not unified, and Liu Han had no temper to wait for their results. As soon as the Shangjun and Xihe armies arrived, Gao Shun began to eliminate small families at targeted locations. If they encountered resistance, they would kill them without mercy.
Taiyuan County, as the place with the largest concentration of gentry in Bingzhou, the Ju family, Jing family, Song family, Ji family, Chang family, etc. suffered disasters one after another. The offending families were taken down one by one, and all the resisters were exterminated, leaving no survivors.
The same thing happened in Shangdang County. The Cui family in Tunliu, the Chen family in Luxian County, and the Feng Er family in Luxian County also began to suffer the first round of bloodbath. In front of the elite Bingzhou army, the domestic slaves of the powerful noble families were unexpectedly killed. The sudden blow shattered it into pieces.
# Jinyang, today several guests from Luoyang came to the governor's office, including the great scholars Ma Rixi, Yang Biao and Liu Kuan.
"I wonder why the three of you came here this time? We made an agreement at the beginning."
Liu Han took the seat, accompanied by Xi Zhong and Ju Shou.
"Ugh!"
To be honest, the Luoyang nobles regretted the agreement they made with Liu Han. Who would have thought that this butcher would really dare to stab someone with a knife!
But what can they say now? The Han prince has an army of [-] and is fully fledged. The nobles can only try their best to curb his development, but they have no ability to kill him.
Moreover, this time Liu Han has great righteousness. Anyone who speaks for these offending families will most likely be labeled as treasonous by Liu Han as the Yin family in Dingyang.
Yang Biao: "Your Majesty, this official is here just to ask Your Majesty to give them a chance of survival."
Liu Han did not pay attention to Yang Biao, but turned to look at Liu Kuan, "Is this what the emperor meant?"
Liu Kuan looked at Liu Han and nodded helplessly.
Liu Han knew in his heart that he seemed to have done too much in Bingzhou, which made the old guys in Luoyang feel sad. Therefore, they put pressure in the court, and the emperor ordered someone to stop him.
Liu Han sighed secretly: "Oh! It's not the time yet. It's still a little early to take action now."
(End of this chapter)