The specific action will be officially launched on May 20th. There are only three days left before then. During these three days, nothing will happen and everything will be business as usual.
It's just that some armies will enter the first level of combat readiness due to "war drills", fully armed, and always ready to carry out "war drills."
Of course, this kind of "war drill" often occurs, and the first-level combat readiness state also appears from time to time. Everyone is not surprised, and no one will feel that anything is wrong because of this incident.
The past few days have been as calm as ever, except for Zheng Tai, Jia Xi and others who continued to send people everywhere to find out the news, jumping up and down anxiously.
Naturally, they would not know that their hometowns in Youfufeng and Kaifeng had been secretly surrounded by Liu Bei's troops. They only waited until May 20th to take action to catch them all and kill them all.
This corresponds to that sentence.
Liu would not inform the three clans before he executed them.
If anything happened in these three days, it would be that on May 19, the day before the incident officially started, Xun Shuang died.
After dragging his sick body and persisting for two or three years, Xun Shuang still couldn't get through it, and he died as a result.
This news did not cause any waves in Luoyang City, because the Xun family only had the name of the Wenyue family, and the entire family only had three officials, Xun Yu, Xun You and Xun Shuang.
Xun Shuang is just an official in name only.
Xun You and his family were very unhappy and almost broke up.
Xun Yuyuan was in Qingzhou as the governor of Qingzhou and could not help his family.
It was known to everyone in Luoyang City that Xun Shuang and Liu Bei were having a bad fight. Liu Bei was very unhappy with the Xun family, so he didn't pay much attention to the Xun family. No more members of the Xun family had successfully become officials in more than two years.
It's like a state of being hit.
Even so, under Xun Shuang's strong request, the Xun family did not choose to reconcile with Liu Bei, or in other words, there was no way to reconcile with Liu Bei.
Xun You didn't care about this and didn't care at all about the situation of the Xun family.
Xun Yu mentioned it vaguely several times, but Liu Bei didn't respond. He first sent him to Runan as the governor, and later to Qingzhou as the governor. He was getting farther and farther away from Luoyang. Xun Yu knew what Liu Bei meant.
I can only keep silent about Xunshi.
The Xun family was so embarrassed staying in Luoyang City.
Because they knew Liu Bei didn't like them, in order to please Liu Bei, no one had any contact with the Xun family. The Xun family was declining day by day, and the family was neglected. Even several marriages that the family had originally negotiated were canceled with excuses.
It can be said that they have experienced the warmth and coldness of human relationships.
When Xun Shuang was alive, they could still put on a stubborn and persistent look, but when Xun Shuang rolled his eyes and kicked his legs, what would they do?
Liu Bei had no interest in this.
After Xun Shuang died, he did not intend to appoint anyone from the Xun family to serve in the imperial court. This family had been abandoned by him. If it were not for the sake of Xun Yu and Xun You, he would not be so cold and violent towards this family.
Simple thing.
But Liu Bei still felt a little regretful about this.
Because as long as Xun Shuang dies even one day late, he can see this real change coming to the world.
The end of the Eastern Han Dynasty will come to an end on this day, and the Third Han Empire will shine brightly on this day.
Regarding Xun Shuang's death, the relevant departments of the imperial court sent a small courtesy officer to bring some comfort based on Xun Shuang's position during his lifetime, and then nothing more happened.
Liu Bei didn't react at all.
He really had no intention, because he was going to be emperor the next day, May 20th.
At dawn on May 20th, according to Liu Bei's order, the operation began.
The troops stationed around Luoyang City took the lead in taking action.
According to Liu Bei's order, Pang De and Xia Houyuan arranged for their Xiaoqi and Leopard Cavalry to disperse to the Eight Passes of Luoyang, assisting the captain of the Eight Passes of Luoyang to close the gates and isolate the traffic in the Luoyang area until Liu Bei ascended the throne and successfully promulgated the
Until the order is given, all eight passes in Luoyang will be closed, and no one will be allowed to go out or come in.
Liu Yong, Dong Huang, Cheng Pu, and Cao Ren led the four main armies to complete the military deployment before dawn. The four main armies completely cut off all traffic inside and outside Luoyang City, completing the complete blockade of Luoyang City.
Whether it is land transportation or water transportation, they are completely blocked by the four main forces. People inside are not allowed to leave, and people outside are not allowed to enter.
Regardless of the reason, until Liu Bei's order to lift the blockade comes, anyone who dares to disobey the blockade, no matter who it is, will be killed without mercy.
According to Liu Bei's order, the three armies of Tianxing Army and Cao Chun led by Han Dang, the 23rd Army and the 25th Army led by Ma Teng directly entered Luoyang City, together with the city gate captain and the palace who had promised to cooperate.
The guards go through the handover procedures and give up the defense.
Then, under the orders of the captains, they surrendered their weapons and gave up their weapons. Then, under the leadership of the captains, they all left Luoyang City and entered the guarding military camp prepared for them in advance to be guarded until Liu Bei's successful ascension to the throne.
The Xiyuan Army does not need to leave the city for supervision, because the Xiyuan Army began to be managed and trained by officers under Liu Bei two years ago. It basically belongs to Liu Bei's army, and the only ones who need to be managed are the Shangjun under Jian Shuo.
Under Jian Shuo's arrangement, more than 3,900 soldiers of the upper army surrendered their weapons and honestly left Luoyang City and entered the custody barracks. Jian Shuo himself also entered the custody barracks with them.
The troops led by the other seven captains took advantage of the geographical advantages to assist Liu Bei's troops in occupying the palace, guarding the palace residents, and preventing anyone from rising up in the palace.
At the same time, Zhang Rang and Guo Hong also started taking action.
Before daybreak, when people in Luoyang City had barely woken up, Dongyuan Fanzi under Zhang Rang and Zhongdu officials and apprentices under Guo Hong launched specific actions.
According to the list submitted to them by Liu Bei, they must arrest the people on the list to complete the annihilation of the enemy.
This was a sudden operation. Before the operation was launched, even the mid-level and junior officers and soldiers participating in the operation did not know what they were going to do. They thought it was a special military exercise.
For example, special military exercises after Luoyang was threatened.
Including Dongyuan fans and Zhongdu officials and disciples, except for Zhang Rang and Guo Hong, everyone else did not know what was going on. It was not until the operation officially started that Zhang Rang and Guo Hong personally
Announce the true purpose of the operation to those participating in the operation.
Liu Bei is going to be the emperor, and the Han Dynasty is going to change the emperor. The time is today!
Great wealth is waiting for everyone. As long as everyone obeys the order and kills all the damn opponents in accordance with Liu Bei's requirements, then great wealth will truly belong to you!
So, what are you waiting for?
Come on!
The fans in Dongyuan and the officials and disciples in Zhongdu are still in a daze, and have not woken up from the shock caused by the news that the big man is going to change the emperor. However, the action has already begun, and what needs to be done has already been done.
Came to the front.
They couldn't help but move along with the whole group.
Zhang Rang's action was relatively simple. He wanted to deal with the part of the entire eunuch group that did not cooperate with Liu Bei.
He had been warned by Liu Bei before, so he quickly drew up a list and wrote down all the people he thought could be kept, saying that these people were more honest and sought Liu Bei's advice.
Liu Bei took a look at that time and found that out of the nine standing servants who were still alive, four of them were considered by Zhang Rang to be honest and worthy of staying. They also had certain professional skills and might be able to contribute some strength to Liu Bei.
Liu Bei did not doubt Zhang Rang's professionalism in this matter, but he felt that there were too many honest people, so he personally crossed out three names, leaving only Zhao Zhong.
"No matter how honest an insect is, it is still an insect. Zhao Zhong once cooperated with me to do some things, so he stayed here. Don't keep the others. The big man still has to do a lot of things, which requires a lot of money and manpower. One or two of these insects occupy so much space."
With so much money and manpower, what can we do with it?"
Liu Bei threw the piece of paper to Zhang Rang again, and Zhang Rang quickly got down on the ground and picked it up, while apologizing to Liu Bei.
"You didn't make any mistakes, but Lao Zhang, didn't I say that? You are the only one I can accept, which means that everyone else is useless. Since they are useless, why do you keep them?
They all have so much land, real estate, and slaves in Luoyang and other places. A group of useless people also occupy so much manpower and money. Isn’t that causing trouble for me? It’s good for you to cause trouble for me.
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Zhang Rang was so frightened that he broke into cold sweat.
So he said nothing and crossed out most of the names on the list. In the end, the number of people left was only one-third of the number originally reserved.
The final result was that only 10% of the entire Shichangshi Group, or the Pan-eunuch Group, including himself, could be left during Liu Hong's period, and the remaining 90% was all in Liu Bei's mouth.
It is "a necessary expenditure for the elegant administration of the new dynasty".
Apart from him, Zhao Zhong is the only one of the old Shi Changshi who can survive, and Liu Bei's standard for Zhao Zhong to survive is that of an ordinary wealthy family. All party members must be eliminated, and all excess property must be destroyed.
Confiscated.
Zhao Zhong could only keep one mansion in his hometown, leaving behind five servants and a fortune. Everything else was confiscated.
This is the exchange for his survival.
Others don't even have this.
Their property will become a reserve fund for the further development of Dahan, and their property will be used to build roads, bridges, and water conservancy projects.
It will never be meaningless.
Zhang Rang could only feel the cold air whizzing around his body, but he didn't dare to stop or have any dissatisfaction with Liu Bei's decision. He could only lead the Dongyuan fans to rush towards the eunuch's house bravely.
Di.
The first step is to deal with all the big eunuchs.
The second step is to conduct a round of purges of the eunuchs scattered in other places.
The third step is to "report the good news" to Liu Bei with all the results.
Liu Bei only gave him one and a half hours for the entire operation.
The time for everyone involved in the operation is one and a half hours.
Because on this morning, Liu Bei was going to complete his ascension to the throne. He had to use fast, accurate and precise actions to quickly realize the established facts, eliminate all resistance, and let everything be completed smoothly and smoothly.
The essence of this lies in the word "quick".
Zhang Rang did not dare to neglect, and after assigning tasks to his men, he personally rushed to Zhao Zhong's house.
It was still dark at that time, and the gangsters kicked open the door of Zhao Zhong's house, hacked the stunned guard to death, and then rushed into the courtyard of Zhao Zhong's house. They went on a rampage and knocked many people off their feet.
The house was in a state of chaos and chaos.
Zhao Zhong and his family were woken up quickly. They were trembling with fear and wanted to escape, but they didn't know where to escape. In just a stick of incense, the rest of the people in Zhao Zhong's mansion were eliminated.
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Those who resisted with weapons were killed, and the rest were captured. Zhao Zhong himself, his adopted son and other family members were also tied up and taken to the main hall.
When he arrived at the main hall, he took a closer look and saw that Zhang Rang was sitting and drinking water in the main hall of his house.
"Zhang Rang? What are you doing? Are you going to kill me?"
"If I want to kill you, can I still let you see me?"
Zhang Rang shook his head: "You should thank me. It was me who saved your life. Everyone else would die except you, but you did it because of my efforts. At least you and your family can live, but the others
Just stop thinking about it and just go back to your hometown."
"What's the meaning?"
Zhao Zhong looked at Zhang Rang stupidly.
Zhang Rang sighed, looked at the clock, and briefly talked about what was going to happen today and some of the previous things, making Zhao Zhong become an understanding person.
Then Zhao Zhong was shocked.
What Liu Bei wanted to do as emperor was actually concealed so well?
When the incident came to an end, he realized that he was already a piece of meat on the chopping board, waiting to be slaughtered. It was only because of good luck that he escaped from others, otherwise, he would have died on the bed long ago.
Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor. As a witness of the historical process, how could he be so ignorant about such a big matter?
all of these……
Isn't it a little too crazy?
"If you want to say so, others..."
"They should all be dead."
Zhang Rang squinted his eyes and sighed: "Dongyuan Fanzi are all specially trained. They kill without batting an eyelid, leaving no room for others. They are clean and neat. However, you can't blame others, you can't blame me, and you can't blame Liu...
Your Majesty, who told them to be shameless?
Now that we have no support, we should live our lives honestly and with our tail between our legs. One or two of them still think that Your Majesty is the late emperor? Can everything go according to their wishes? They all deserve to die!"
Zhao Zhong was speechless.
And the thing is exactly as Zhang Rang said. The specially trained Dongyuan fans, each one of them with crisp and clear killing skills, broke into the other Zhongchangshi's homes and hacked them to pieces.
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In addition to the three people whose heads were beheaded by Liu Bei before and Zhang Rang and Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Bi Lan, Li Song, Duan Gui, Gao Wang, Zhang Gong, and Han Kui all died in this hour and a half.
He was killed by Dongyuan Fanzi one after another and his head was chopped off.
Of course, they were not without resistance.
Duan Gui was a bit violent and wanted to resist. He swung his knife and fought Dongyuan Fanzi, but was finally hacked to death by the three Dongyuan Fanzi.
Bi Lan ran faster and tried to escape over the wall, but was hit in the thigh by Dongyuan Fanzi with a crossbow. He fell to the ground and was hacked to death with random knives.
The guards at Gao Wang's home were somewhat powerful and caused some obstacles to Dongyuan fans. They also killed several Dongyuan fans and angered other fans, so Gao Wang himself was cut into pieces.
Others also made some insignificant resistance, but of course there was no result, and they were all killed in the end.
The notorious group of Shi Changshi was basically destroyed, leaving only Zhang Rang who was tamed by Liu Bei, and Zhao Zhong who lost everything.
The history of the Shi Changshi has come to an end. They will not continue to exist now or in the future.
As a group with many evil deeds that entered the historical stage through historical process in the late Eastern Han Dynasty, they actually existed in opposition to the two schools of modern and ancient Chinese literature. Now, these two schools no longer exist. So, as Liu Hong's support, they
The opposing groups that rise up completely lose their existence value.
Getting rid of them and squeezing everything out of them is what the new emperor needs to do.
Of course, the killing of these guys themselves is just an appetizer, and their henchmen are the top priority to eradicate.
They relied on their respective tribesmen, and their gang members gathered property and committed evil in the local area. Their actions were more naked and more hateful than those of the scholars. It was also one of the most obvious stains on Liu Bei's body.
Liu Bei couldn't wash away all the stains on his body, but at least he had to wash away all the stains caused by the eunuchs.