Regardless of whether it is a eunuch family or a family family, as long as there are enemies or people who are disliked, many families will take the opportunity to take revenge.
The people who took revenge on them were either from the government or from families that had a competitive relationship with them. They all carried weapons and torches, and took the opportunity to burn, kill, and loot, and committed all kinds of evil.
The reason is also very simple. Just declare that the other party has cooperated with the eunuch and has an ambiguous relationship with the eunuch, and then rush forward to do it.
Under the circumstances at that time, would the government send people to investigate whether such accusations were true or false?
All I can do is lament.
Originally, it was only an action launched against the eunuch families and their industries. By June, the eunuch purge policy implemented in the ten counties of Jizhou had completely deviated from Yuan Shao's original vision.
Some areas in Bohai County, Zhongshan Kingdom, and Hejian Kingdom have even entered a state of battle royale.
Some people want to take the opportunity to avenge themselves publicly, saying that the other party has a relationship with the eunuch, so they need to be purged.
The target of the purge was unwilling to be outdone and would not sit still and wait for death, so he fought back.
Fierce armed fights broke out between some families with serious conflicts. Both sides brought their own servants and tenants to the battle. The scale was not small at all, and there were corpses everywhere and rivers of blood.
In this process, after some large families annexed the eunuch's properties, they also took the opportunity to annex some hostile families or some small families that they did not deal with. The family properties became broader and more powerful.
Some small and medium-sized families lost part or all of their property, their families were destroyed, and their clansmen were killed.
Officials in some places were more conscientious and more capable of action. Seeing this situation, they quickly intervened forcefully to try to prevent the situation from turning in an uncontrollable direction, and ordered that vendettas should not be carried out at will.
Some officials have no conscience and even make a lot of money from it themselves. They wish they could let this turmoil disrupt the entire Jizhou so that they can obtain more benefits.
It is worth mentioning that the Tian family of Tian Feng and the Shen family of Shenpei are both beneficiaries and winners in this process.
Although Tian Feng and Shen Pei did not agree with this matter and felt that it was ill-considered, their family had already taken action before they contacted their families.
For this reason, Tian Feng was quite worried.
When he discussed this matter with his judge in private, his attitude was quite pessimistic.
"I think someone around General Yuan should have seen my intentions, so he did such a thing. It's my fault that I didn't warn the people in advance, alas!"
Shen Pei is also quite worried about this.
"This way, there is no room for relaxation between the Luoyang court and Jizhou. Yuan Hao, where should we go?"
"What else can we do? It's because we underestimated General Yuan too much and underestimated the people around him. Our cleverness was misled by our cleverness. Alas..."
Tian Feng spread his hands and said with a wry smile: "I only know that General Liu is a hero in the world. I never thought that a noble man like General Yuan also has quick wits that we didn't expect. The result of looking down on the people in the world is to be held on fire."
bake."
The judge frowned.
"What's next?"
"It doesn't matter to me, but my family and clan members... can't help themselves!"
Tian Feng shook his head: "At this point, we have no way out. Let's do what we should do. If God bless us, we will naturally survive. If this is what fate is, we don't need to struggle. Let everything be left to fate."
Shen Pei looked at Tian Feng for a long time, sighed, and stopped talking.
The purge against the eunuchs was still going on, and the plundering of the eunuchs' industries was still going on, and the whole of Jizhou seemed a little fanatical.
Yuan Shao didn't know much about these things. He was in Yecheng and didn't go anywhere. He naturally thought that all places were just like Yecheng, where the eunuchs' power was being purged in an orderly manner.
It is enough to kill only the eunuchs and not other people. It is enough for everyone to seize the eunuchs' property. In this way, they can gain the absolute support of a group of powerful local families in Jizhou. Using their support as the foundation, they can raise an army to fight against Liu Bei.
But how could the situation be so simple?
At the end of June of the sixth year of Zhongping, when Yuan Shao received reports from some local officials that the situation was out of control, he was very shocked and thought that this could not be true. How could Jizhou enter a battle royale state?
How could everyone be so shameless and ignorant of right and wrong, killing people everywhere?
As a result, when Tian Feng brought the investigation report from the neighboring Qinghe Kingdom and asked Yuan Shao to immediately terminate this operation, Yuan Shao woke up as if from a dream.
"Many people use this as an excuse to kill people or families who have conflicts, or collude with the government, slander the other party as an accomplice of the eunuch, conspire with the government to destroy their family, and obtain a 50-50 share of property with the government, or a 40-50 share.
60%, and even 30% to 70%.
The government generally gets the lion's share, and those who do it will not suffer any loss, and they will get less property, but the land, houses, and slaves all belong to them. Their appetite is huge, and the eunuchs' things are not enough to satisfy them, so they kill the eunuchs.
They started killing each other.
Some are initiated by local families, and some are instigated by the government, and some even take action by the government. The situation is extremely bad. In many places, chaos has reached a certain level, and there are situations where two families or multiple families lead troops to fight against each other.
If this continues, there will be civil strife in Jizhou without Liu Bei sending troops!"
Yuan Shao looked at Tian Feng's report and frowned, feeling that there was a big problem.
"Why didn't they obey my order? Why did they kill innocent people? My order was to punish the eunuch family! I didn't let them kill each other!"
"They all obeyed the orders. The people who were killed and the families that were destroyed were all the eunuch's accomplices."
Tian Feng looked ugly and said: "As for whether he is really an accomplice of the eunuch, there is no proof. The government and the beneficiary's family cannot find any problems and cannot pursue them. Because of this, they have nothing to fear. General, stop it.
If this continues, Jizhou will really be in chaos!"
Yuan Shao was speechless.
Finally, facing this unexpected situation, Yuan Shao had no choice but to feel that he could not bear the consequences, so he could only find Feng Ji and Xin Ping to discuss it.
When they learned that Tian Feng suggested that Yuan Shao stop, Feng Ji and Xin Ping were very dissatisfied.
"The more families that kill people, the more families that see blood, the more families that follow the general to the death, the deeper and deeper Jizhou will be, unable to extricate itself, cut off from the world, and can only follow you! Your current situation is inherently dangerous.
, if we can’t get the effectiveness of the entire Jizhou, how can we still have hope?”
Feng Ji said earnestly: "Let them chaos, let them kill. In this way, Jizhou can change from the imperial Jizhou to your Jizhou! If you want to resist Liu Bei and avenge the Yuan family, this is the only way you can go! Qian
Don’t be fooled by Tian Feng and his ilk!”
Yuan Shao was greatly amazed by this. After thinking about it, he felt that what Feng Ji said made sense, so he ignored Tian Feng's advice for the time being. Instead, he intensified his efforts and sent people to the neighboring country of Qinghe to participate in the purge and massacre of eunuch industries.
Plunder, add fuel to the flames.
As a result, the situation became increasingly unpredictable.
By early July, the number of victims related to the eunuch family had exceeded 3,000, but the number of casualties unrelated to the eunuch family was conservatively estimated to be 10,000.
The entire Jizhou has indeed fallen into a considerable degree of chaos. The major families are forming cliques and hostile attacks. The few rational ones who have not participated can only defend themselves and are unable to intervene in the situation.
Finally, the rational Jizhou natives represented by Tian Feng and Shen Pei could not bear it any longer and collectively spoke to Yuan Shao, strongly recommending that Yuan Shao stop this policy.
They believe that the operation has been going on for almost two months and has caused great damage to Jizhou. This policy must be stopped immediately, otherwise Jizhou will self-destruct before Liu Bei comes!
If Yuan Shao does not order a stop, they will act independently and do what is necessary to prevent Jizhou from being completely destroyed.
It was at this time that Xin Ping, Feng Ji, Tian Feng, Shen Pei and others had their first quarrel.
Both sides have their own opinions. One side believes that the expansion of the operation has caused panic among the people of Jizhou and is not conducive to Yuan Shao's establishment in the local area.
One side believes that the action is not extensive enough and should be expanded and continued to completely liquidate the eunuchs who are domineering in Jizhou. Anyone who is working for the tiger will not be spared and all will be killed. Only in this way can the majesty of Yuan Shao be established.
In fact, at this time, Yuan Shao's attitude had begun to waver.
Because in addition to some pinkeye families who participated, this battle royale prompted some local powerful forces who had never paid attention to him to unite and help each other, forming a state of self-defense and autonomy in the local area, and even the government
You can't order them.
There are families like this in every county. They leave their houses in the city, return to the land, organize their tenants into armed groups, and stay behind closed doors. If anyone invades them, they will fight back. If no one invades them, they will not go out.
Since the eunuch's industry has been basically uprooted in Jizhou during this period, some relatively weak families have also been torn apart. The rest are medium and large family forces that have the ability to intimidate each other and want to destroy them.
It's going to break your muscles and bones.
So at this stage, everyone was actually a little unable to kill, and they were gradually coming back to their senses, wondering whether the previous killing was a bit too much.
After making enough money, the pink eye syndrome subsided, and my smart IQ was on the high ground again, I began to reflect on whether there was something wrong with what I had done before.
The patience of Jizhou people has reached its limit.
As the saying goes, it's better to say it before, and Yuan Shao had already realized the meaning of this sentence at this time.
Therefore, in the face of unanimous opposition from local officials in Jizhou, although foreign officials such as Feng Ji and Xin Ping strongly protested and wanted to continue, they could not change Yuan Shao's determination to issue an order to abolish the policy.
The two-month purge of eunuchs in Jizhou may be over, but the impact of this incident is far from over.