However, any family that raises troops to resist the slave restriction order will not accept any survivors but dead ones, and will not accept surrender.
Anyone who dares to resist openly will be killed and the whole clan will be exterminated, thus demonstrating the powerful force that Liu Bei and the Luoyang court cannot defy.
As some people have guessed, the slave restriction order was not just a simple policy, nor just a military counterinsurgency operation, but also a political action to restore the declining authority of the Luoyang court since Emperor He of the Han Dynasty.
In the past hundred years, as the sanctity of Emperor Luoyang continued to decline, the dominance and deterrence of the Luoyang court continued to decline, which brought a very obvious tendency of separation to the entire Han Empire.
The independent trend of local counties became more and more obvious, and the separatist trend and xenophobia of local scholars became more serious. The farther away from Luoyang, the stronger this tendency.
This is unacceptable to Liu Bei, who strives to ensure that the unified situation does not break up.
Therefore, he not only wants to solve the problem of slaves, but also takes this opportunity to let these guys who are thinking about the territory and their own interests come forward and reap the harvest.
The fewer such people there are, the more stable the unified peace situation will be.
As a result, the iron cavalry was everywhere, the family was ruined, and under the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, all the forces in the Sili area were frightened by Liu Bei's powerful and arrogant force.
Powerful cavalry, as fast as the wind, all the family forces in the entire Sili area who disobeyed the slave restriction order had a good end. They were all wiped out by the government. Moreover, the government troops moved extremely fast and had extremely strong combat effectiveness.
Rebellion often only takes a day.
In just one day, the officers and soldiers can kill all those who resist, as well as those related to them, without leaving any mercy or compromise.
After all, those generals who specialize in dealing with the powerful prairie cavalry and the elite soldiers who are trained to face the rabble-like opponents are also completely dimensionally reduced.
By late June, the last family boycott in Hebei County, Hedong County, was eliminated by Liu Bei's troops and Zhang He was eliminated.
Zhang He, who was eager for military success, kept pleading in front of Liu Bei and acted shamelessly, finally annoying Liu Bei unbearably, and thus got the opportunity to attack.
He couldn't wait to lead a thousand cavalry to attack Hebei County, and snatched what originally belonged to Han Dang. He destroyed twenty-two families, killed more than two thousand people, and obtained a total of eleven thousand slaves from these family camps, which was a huge gain.
Complete victory.
It is said that Han Dang was very dissatisfied after the incident and wrote a letter to Liu Bei to complain about Zhang He, saying that Zhang He's behavior was a clear attempt to grab credit for his own work.
But what can be done?
There are too many monks and too few soldiers. There are too many generals and soldiers capable of fighting, and the current enemies are obviously not enough to allocate them.
This is truly a gorgeous affliction.
Liu Bei's resolute actions and blood and fire methods shocked all those who were ready to make a move, and let them know what it means to obey me and prosper, and to disobey me and perish.
I can follow the rules, but you have to pay attention, the rules are the rules I made!
Why?
Because I am strong!
The era when the Eastern Han Empire had no political and military strongmen has passed! The era has passed when there was no authority that could speak for itself! The era has passed when the need for joint consultation has passed!
Next, is the era of my leadership!
If you can't keep your word, what kind of military strongman is he?
The military operation lasted for one and a half months. More than 400 families, large and small, in the Sili area were wiped out by Liu Bei and his generals. A total of more than 254,000 slaves were captured.
The number of slaves in the entire Sili region definitely far exceeds this number.
The shadow of the famous tree, with Liu Bei's powerful military exploits, there are always only a few people who dare to stand up and resist Liu Bei. But now, in front of the mountains of corpses and seas of blood, more potential people who want to resist have been defeated by his invincible record.
Scared.
In other words, I was scared out of my wits.
Liu Bei's record is unparalleled. His policies are backed by strong military power. If political methods cannot be used to promote them, then military means can be used to promote them physically. In short, his policies must be promoted, no matter what the cost.
So everyone understood that they had made a choice. They would rather lose profits than lose their lives.
If you keep your life, you still have a future; if you lose your life, you have nothing.
Moreover, these powerful landlords also realized that this was an authoritative attack from the Luoyang court, a premeditated and organized attack by the upper class on them, the local tycoons. If they did not obey, they would definitely die.
No one will speak for them, and few people in the Luoyang court can represent their interests.
As the war progressed, more and more families chose to take the initiative to tell the local government the scale of their family's industry, the number of slaves in their family, and hand over these slaves to the government.
Facts have proved that their choice was correct. More than four hundred stupid families lost their lives for their greed, and the whole family was destroyed. It also made most of the families who chose to cooperate know that they made the right choice.
Those who resisted were wiped out, no one survived, their bodies were burned, and their bones were crushed and ashes were thrown away. The family residence was completely razed, as if it had never existed.
The general's methods are really too hard for people to resist.
Therefore, there was no problem in promoting the slave restriction order in the Sili area.
From mid-May to mid-June, a total of 230,000 male and female slaves were freed, and from mid-June to early July, more than 400,000 slaves were freed.
By mid-July of the second year of Jian'an, the number of slaves released in the entire Sili area exceeded 900,000, most of whom were young and middle-aged men and women, with the elderly and children in the minority.
The release of a large number of slaves showed the power of Liu Bei's slave restriction order, and also brought great population pressure to the Luoyang area.
So Liu Bei began to arrange for the slaves to go to Bingzhou.
The logistics channel from Luoyang to Bingzhou that had been repaired for the Bingzhou Campaign became the best channel for transporting people. Liu Bei gave this task to the subordinates of the General's Mansion and asked them to preside over this population migration.
And it is also a coincidence that Yan Zhong, the bieji of Liangzhou, and Xiahou Dun, the governor of Youzhou, sent messages at the same time. They heard that many slaves were released in Luoyang, and both Liangzhou and Youzhou are in great need of population now. If possible, can you
What about adding some population to Liangzhou and Youzhou?
It is very difficult to move people with registered permanent residence to other places. There are too many things that need to be done and a lot of food rations to be prepared. A little carelessness will cause a large number of deaths among the moving people.
In addition, the thoughts of officials in the place where the population is being relocated must also be considered, as well as some of the impacts on the local area.
But slaves don't have so many worries.
You can go wherever you want, and you can restore your citizenship, so why not?
Especially in Youzhou, Xiahou Dun complained about the difficulty of the lack of agricultural population. He said that a lot of land was uncultivated and weeds were about to grow, but he couldn't even find people to weed the land.
Those captured foreign official slaves could do hard work in repairing the city, and they could also get used to technical work, but the precision agricultural technical work of tending crops was really not as easy as imagined.
There is a generational difference in agricultural technology between foreigners and the Han people in the agriculturally developed areas of the Central Plains. The agricultural technology between them is too different, and those official slaves really cannot do it.
All in all, the recovery of agricultural production in Youzhou is now very problematic, and there is an urgent need for a large number of farmers with farming experience to help.
When Liu Bei learned about this, he was very happy.
It happened that he was worried that Bingzhou would not be able to support so many slaves at one go, so Liangzhou and Youzhou came to help.
There is no shortage of food in these two places, only people, and now Luoyang has more people.
So Liu Bei immediately arranged to contact Liangzhou and Youzhou, asking them to arrange official manpower to negotiate with Luoyang as soon as possible to see how many people would be selected to take back for resettlement.
So these slaves who were released from the Sili area had three places to go.
Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou.
The three areas, which have suffered from years of war and have been sparsely populated and economically backward, urgently need a large number of people to restore production and promote economic development. It is very suitable for these freed slaves to go there.
The slave restriction order in the Sili area was successfully implemented, and everything that should be completed was completed. However, compared with the situation in the Sili area, the situation in Bingzhou was much more complicated.