During the verbal exchange, Chen Qun seemed indifferent and chatted quietly with Zhang Liao beside him. However, the family patriarchs sitting there were not so elegant. Recommendation could not solve the current problem at all. When the issue could not be reached, quarreling

Naturally, he gained the upper hand.

The big families were aggressive, but the small and medium-sized families refused to give in. Later, it developed into a moral dispute that exposed the other party's background. Everyone claimed to be a virtuous person. After all, this was a public recommendation, and reputation was extremely important. As a result, this public recommendation

It becomes a show-off game.

Among them, the Zhang family in Guangling was exposed the most. They seized water sources, land, and their children ran rampant in the countryside. These things were attacked by the crowd. It was not that everyone had the leisure time to talk about benevolence, justice and morality, but the Zhang family was too powerful, and now they took advantage of the situation.

Its disqualification in the salt pond is exactly what everyone wants.

Several other major families have also been attacked. For small and medium-sized aristocratic families, it is naturally the wisest way to eliminate strong competitors first.

Zhang Shao's face was livid, and he wanted to attack several times, but he could only endure it. Not to mention Chen Qun above, Zhang Liao had not yet expressed his stance. There were too many people attacking this time, making him somewhat powerless.

Later, the quarrel became more and more fierce. One of the patriarchs of a big family actually got into a fight with someone in front of them, completely without regard for dignity. This patriarch was a well-educated person, and he was really angered by the popularity, so he had no idea for a while.

Hold it in, the hall was even more chaotic at this time, with some trying to stop the fight, some cold-eyed bystanders, and some showing partiality, but Chen Qun still sat motionless, as if the matter in front of them had nothing to do with them.

In the end, Chen Qun had to cancel the banquet and send everyone away. The family patriarchs left with resentment and red eyes one by one. Chen Qun stretched himself and smiled at Zhang Liao: "The big thing is about to happen. Now we just need to

We can take action when the report of my lord's campaign against Liu Bei comes, and we will need to rely on the general's power."

Zhang Liao also stood up and said: "This is not a problem. As long as Master Chen gives the order, I and the state army will be on standby at any time. But if there are those who are dissatisfied, I will convince them to do so."

Chen Qun laughed, stroking his beard and said: "This really doesn't suit my wishes. This is not a way to govern the place, but in extraordinary times, you can only use extraordinary methods."

Zhang Liao smiled. At this time, someone came from the battle report. They all said that Liu Bei was defeated and had surrendered to Gao Jin. Gao Jin took over the two counties of Pei and Xiangcheng, gathered more than 10,000 surrendered soldiers, and returned to Xiapi. Chen Qun took the case and

He stood up and said with great joy: "In this way, I can use my lord's victory to overwhelm these little ones."

The two discussed for a while, and then Chen Qun returned to the camp to rest.

After a few days, a lot of news suddenly spread throughout Donghai County. First of all, the Zhang family of Donghai County suddenly had a conflict with the Wang family of Licheng in this county. It was said that it was a fight for the upstream water source. In fact, anyone with a discerning eye knew that this was actually just the Zhang family's excuse.

He just wanted to take revenge on the Wang family for exposing his background at the banquet, and he was just waiting for an excuse to take revenge.

More than 600 men from the Zhang family broke into the Wang family's residence and beat six people to death in total. This incident was just the beginning. The reason for the beginning was that the government did not intervene in this matter.

In fact, by the end of the Han Dynasty, after the rise of the powerful, the government no longer dared to pay attention to such family disputes. Behind any family, there was no fuel-saving lamp, so most of the time they turned a blind eye.

, especially after the rise of warlords, the powerful forces began to enter their peak period. Many warlords were mostly funded by powerful people. Without powerful people, where would the military supplies of warlords come from? Without powerful people, it would be difficult for warlords to secure their military resources. Without powerful people, warlords would

The foundation of governance will also be weak.

Therefore, no one paid attention to this kind of thing.

This was just the beginning. In less than a few days, many family disputes broke out throughout Xuzhou. The big families were severely criticized and naturally took the opportunity to retaliate. Otherwise, how could they raise their heads if they lost face? Urgent reports from local officials

When it was passed to Chen Qun, in less than five days, more than two hundred people were killed and injured. Not to mention, the situation has begun to get worse, and the time has come for several major families to liquidate...

The small families complained endlessly, and even the larger families were having a hard time. A few days ago, they went to Chen Qun's residence to ask Chen Qun to intervene, but Chen Qun just ignored him and completely stayed out of the matter.

The wishful thinking of the big family is very simple, which is to force the small and medium-sized families to voluntarily withdraw from the dispute over the salt pond, thereby consolidating their own interests in the salt pond. The salt pond is a piece of fat for each family. How can they let it go easily? The contradictions have already gathered.

At the top, within a few days, news came out from Guangling County that seven or eight Guangling families united to engage in a large-scale armed fight with the Guangling Zhang family. The scale of this armed fight was no smaller than the battle between two battalions of soldiers and horses.

More than 2,000 people joined in, and the fight lasted until midnight. According to reports from the local government, the number of dead alone exceeded 300, and there were countless injured. As a result, no one on either side took advantage.

Small families began to have the desire to unite to resist. With Guangling's lessons learned, families in various counties also began to form alliances to resist those big families.

At this time, Chen Qun found Zhang Liao and said to Zhang Liao: "General, the place is not peaceful. It's time to uproot those lawless powerful people."

Zhang Liao didn't understand Chen Qun's intention, so he immediately started to take action. More than 10,000 Bingzhou troops were on standby, ready to quell the chaos at any time.

Three days later, the Bingzhou army was divided into several groups. One group suppressed Donghai, one group entered Guangling, and the rest entered various counties, searching for Suona everywhere. Most of the heads of the families who participated in the armed fighting were brought to justice by Suona. In two days, Suona was arrested.

There are more than seventy family heads.

At this point, each family began to be in danger. Only then did they realize that the government was not just a decoration, so each family sent people to express their grievances, and for a while there was a lot of excitement.

It was another banquet, but this banquet was different from the last one. The atmosphere seemed more gloomy. More than ninety family heads sat down and looked at Chen Qun, waiting for disposal.

Chen Qun pressed the sword on his waist. Around the banquet, two hundred swordsmen and axemen surrounded the place. It was time to get straight to the point.

The heads of each family are quite uneasy. After all, this is Gao Jin's territory. Unlike other warlords, who have some collusion with local powerful people, this warlord's relationship with each family is not deep. The generals of Gao Jin's army are engaged in

There are only two sources of origin. On the one hand, they are outsiders, mostly from Bingzhou. On the other hand, although they are from Xuzhou, they are not from the family. There are too many of them, and they all have a desire to go against the aristocratic family. At this time, seeing that Chen Qun came with bad intentions,

They knew that today's matter might not be settled so easily.

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Chapter completed!