After Yan Baihu escaped, Liu Zheng sent people to search the coastline for several days, but there was no trace of Yan Baihu.

He even asked people to go along the coastline to Jiaozhou to ask about Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's naval forces, but they told Liu Zheng that they had been training in the waters of Zhuyazhou and had not seen a large fleet passing by.

This surprised Liu Zheng. I don’t know where Yan Baihu and others went.

I thought Yan Baihu did not go south, but led his fleet north.

However, since Yan Baihu's men have left, Liu Zheng doesn't need to put his attention on him.

After Yan Baihu escaped, Liu Zheng took only a few days to unify Wujun.

October 187.

Basically, all Yangzhou counties south of the Yangtze River belong to Liu Zheng.

The six counties in Jiangdong are now Lujiang County, which is no longer in Liu Zheng's hands. However, for Liu Zheng, Lujiang is his sooner or later.

After occupying Yangzhou, Liu Zheng did not leave and returned to Jiaozhou. After all, for Liu Zheng, Yangzhou is more important than Jiaozhou and requires him to defend and defend.

There are no obvious enemies everywhere in Jiaozhou, only one Jingzhou can be fought.

But Yangzhou is different. There are more enemies from Yangzhou. There are Yanzhou and Xuzhou in the north and Jingzhou in the west, both of which can easily enter Yangzhou.

In addition to the Yangzhou clan neighbors and powerful people gathered. Although Liu Zheng conquered the town, it was not as easy as he wanted to truly rule the entire Yangzhou.

Even the Sun family in Dongwu in history could not be completely unified by force. The entire Jiangdong still had to rely on the support of the wealthy families in various parts of Jiangdong to have enough voice in Dongwu.

Moreover, later, the Eastern Wu was also in power, and the wealthy families in various places had a relatively strong voice.

After Liu Zheng took over Jiangdong, he immediately implemented the policy of caring for softness. He did not directly oppose the wealthy families and suppress their forces, but ignored them and distributed the land he had taken to a unified manner, and implemented a policy similar to that of Jiaozhou.

There are the foundations laid by Liu Zheng in Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County before. Some policies that benefit the people have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if many people have never heard of Liu Zheng, some people also know the policies that benefit the people implemented by Liu Zheng in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, after unifying the counties in Jiangdong, Liu Zheng immediately began to implement policies similar to those in Jiaozhou, reducing taxes and exempting various taxes, increasing work stations, recruiting people to pay wages, and improving local people's livelihood, so that the people in these places could accept Liu Zheng, the later ruler.

After pleasing these ordinary people, Liu Zheng turned around and dealt with the wealthy families.

The existence of these wealthy families is very unfavorable to Liu Zheng's unification, because these people are vested interests. If Liu Zheng wants to please ordinary people, he will inevitably have an opposition to them. Therefore, if he wants to suppress them, it cannot be said directly, or even not raised in person. Instead, he needs to use policies to gradually reduce their power.

The first step is to abolish the land transactions and take them over to the county and county, and all land belongs to the county and the county and individuals are not allowed to buy and sell. This restricts the powerful from becoming bigger, using the land, and oppressing the people.

But at the same time, taxes must be exempted. Not only ordinary people do not have to pay taxes, but even those powerful people can be reduced and exempted. The land is taken over to the county and the county, and there is no need to pay taxes to prevent them from completely angering those powerful people.

This avoids too radical policies and forces these wealthy families to rebel.

Of course, when Liu Zheng implemented this plan, he did not announce it directly, but sent people to gather all the famous leaders of the wealthy clans in Jiangdong.

The few larger wealthy families here are the large families with strong control in Jiangdong.

These families were not nouveau riche in Jiangdong, but were emerging aristocrats that emerged again after the old northern tribes moved south when they settled in various parts of Jiangdong.

Some of them were met by Liu Zheng before, such as Gu Yong, who had met in Moling County. The Gu family was the leading wealthy family, the Lu family in Lujiang, etc. These people were summoned by Liu Zheng to solve the largest wealthy family first.

When they were captured by Liu Zheng, the remaining small families would be easier to deal with, and even Liu Zheng did not need to take into account the ideas of those small families.

As long as the strongest and the weakest ones are dealt with by Liu Zheng, no one will follow the rest of the people, and no one will even take the lead, and no one will be able to complete the rebellion.

The four more famous families are Gu Luquan and Zhang.

The Gu family in Danyang, without introducing it, Liu Zheng understood the power of the Gu family. When he was in Moling, the Gu family was a famous big family in Moling County and even around. The Gu family was the prefect of Yingchuan, and later moved south to Jiangdong. After three generations of efforts, the Gu family was quite famous here.

This time, the person sent by the Gu family was Gu Yong.

The Lu family in Wujun, and the Lu family are naturally Lu Kang, but Lu Kang cannot fully represent the Lu family. Lu Kang is only a member of the Lu family. The real origin of the Lu family is Wu Jun.

The Lu family in Wujun is the foundation of the Lu family. To be honest, it was also developed by Lu Kang's grandfathers in Wujun. At that time, they were famous scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty. Later, Lu Kang's fathers all served as officials in the court. It was not until Lu Kang's generation that the Lu family grew stronger. Although it was not the most powerful family in Wujun, it was only a handful of them.

The status of the whole family in Wujun may not be in a hurry to see the Lu family and Gu family, but it is also a big family in Wujun. The head of the family Quanrou is also an official of the current dynasty. He has a considerable reputation in Jiangdong.

The Zhang family in Wujun, this Zhang family was not the family of the second Zhang of Jiangdong in later generations, but Zhang Yun, who was a famous scholar in Jiangdong. He was a show of his importance to wealth and property. He was quite famous in Wujun and even in Jiangdong.

These people represent the strongest tyrants in Wujun. As long as they are convinced by Liu Zheng, some other small families will naturally have to follow the trend and there will be no problems.

Liu Zheng looked at the four major families in front of him, Gu Yong, Lu Jun, Quan Rou and Zhang Yun.

These people, standing in front of Liu Zheng, represent the family behind them.

"Everyone, I invite you all today, but there is something important to discuss."

Liu Zheng walked in from outside the lobby, greeted several famous scholars first, and then sat directly in the main seat. When he saw Liu Zheng coming in, Gu Yong seemed stunned. He never expected that the famous Liu Zheng was the passerby he had met a few years ago.
Chapter completed!