For them, as a woman who has been Liu Bei for so long, they understand everything they should know.
They all know that Liu Bei is a relatively easy-going person who treats them very kindly, gently and softly, but the foundation established from this is compliance with the rules.
What can and cannot be done is particularly clear.
Except for Gong Qin and Gong Ling, everyone comes from a well-established family. They are somewhat sensitive to politics and are by no means political novices who don't understand anything.
Even Gong Qin and Gong Ling, after so many years of getting along, have understood what things can be unruly and willful, and what things should not be unruly and willful.
The family affairs are almost in order, and Liu Bei will start to prepare for the future governance.
Now that he is an emperor and no longer a general, he can now proceed in a serious manner in the name of the emperor, even if he did not dare to do inconvenient things before.
Of course, the first step in all this is to let the world know about his existence, to let the world know about the establishment of the Third Empire of the Han Dynasty, and to surrender.
Liu Bei sent out the messengers as quickly as possible and rushed to various places to tell all the local officials, generals and local governors that Liu Xie had abdicated the throne and that he had officially ascended the throne and proclaimed himself emperor.
Surrender.
Then, an order was given to the generals, asking them to cooperate with the liquidation team sent by the imperial court to conduct a thorough liquidation of the criminals and accomplices of the Ancient Literature School, the eunuchs and the relatives' group.
Just like the liquidation initiated against the Jinwen School back then.
If someone resists with force, it will be regarded as rebellion, and it will be more justifiable to suppress it.
He believes that this time the liquidation will be simpler than the last time, and that this time the liquidation can also create a better situation for the comprehensive land conservation policy.
This is also true. Compared with the previous liquidation of the Jinwen School, the executors of this liquidation are familiar with the business, have experience, and know what to do. In addition, they have the garrison and help of the local army.
, which is easier to implement.
The liquidation of Northeast China, Hebei, Central Plains, Guanxi, and Shu was quite smooth and successful. Some who tried to resist were nothing more than chickens and dogs in front of the regular army.
This operation is not the first time Liu Bei has shown his power to dominate the world, but it is the first time Liu Bei has shown his uncompromising execution and deterrence as an emperor. This first time is quite valuable.
Along with the news of Liu Bei's proclaimed emperor came Liu Bei's army.
Therefore, although many people in the local area were shocked, confused, and even a little dissatisfied, as the fate of the army and the liquidation unfolded, no matter what dissatisfaction they had, they had to be swallowed.
Is the person who accepted the Zen position and ascended the throne, or is a Han clan member, a Han Dynasty or a Han Dynasty? There is nothing to say about changing the reign name. If you really want to talk about it, some people will ask whether you have evil intentions. Why do you care so much about someone from the Han Dynasty?
Things between clan members?
The only areas that are a bit difficult are the Jiangnan, Jingzhou, Yangzhou and Jiaozhi areas.
Fortunately, these places do not have a deep foundation of the Ancient Literature School, and Jiangnan and Central Plains scholars cannot hang out together. Whether it is the Modern Literature School or the Ancient Literature School, branches in Jiangnan are very rare.
However, there are some officials, and two county prefects and a dozen county magistrates are listed on the list. It is quite easy to solve them, just send people to arrest them.
Of course, Cheng Yu, the governor of Yangzhou, fully supported this. Wang Rui, the governor of Jingzhou, immediately expressed his congratulations and surrender to Liu Bei, and then fully supported Liu Bei in liquidating the territory of Jingzhou, mainly a series of areas south of Nanyang County.
Nanyang County has a special status, and there is no need for Wang Rui to interfere. Zhang Ji, who serves as the prefect of the county, can handle it himself.
Zhang, who was born as a general, was Liu Bei's thorn in Nanyang. He had vigorously implemented many policies here before and was very unhappy with the local wealthy families. There were many conflicts between the two sides.
Nanyang's wealthy families have lived in Nanyang for several generations. Those who have survived to this day are deeply rooted and have great power in the local area. Even if Zhang is both the prefect of the county and Liu Bei's former official, with Liu Bei's backing, he is still powerless against them.
place.
For example, when the slave restriction order was promoted, many Nanyang wealthy families initiated relations between the DPRK and China and asked people to find connections to put pressure on Zhang Ji, so that Zhang Ji would not do anything. Otherwise, even if Liu Bei was his backer, they would still have a way to make Zhang Ji very successful.
Difficult.
After all, Zhang Ji is not alone. He also has a family and people he cares about. They can't do anything to Zhang Ji himself, but if Zhang Ji is determined to embarrass them, they can still make the people Zhang Ji cares about pay a small price.
of.
Zhang Fujun, what do you think of this matter?
Of course, as long as everyone can live in harmony, everyone is willing to cooperate with Zhang Ji, so that Zhang Ji has enough authority here to complete many beautiful and honorable projects, accumulate enough political achievements, and promote Zhang Ji to a high position.
Wouldn’t it be nice for everyone to earn benefits together in a harmonious manner?
It can be said that he has a carrot in one hand and a stick in the other. It seems to be quite effective, which makes Zhang Ji quite troubled.
If Liu Bei wants to play this trick with me, then I can't help it. He is the master of my palace, and it is natural for me to play with him. There are benefits, and I am willing to do so.
But who do you think you are, you dare to play this trick with me?
Could it be that my blade is at a disadvantage?
Zhang Ji wrote to Liu Bei about these things, and Liu Bei told him that it was not the time to take action yet, so he should be patient and wait for the opportunity. When the time comes, he can do what he wants to do.
From that moment on, Zhang Ji held a grudge against them and planned to retaliate against them. When the time came, he would definitely make these bastards pay the price with their blood.
Then, the opportunity came.
Liu Bei proclaimed himself emperor and launched a liquidation in the court. At the same time, he also broke the chains of interests of many Nanyang wealthy families in the central government. A large number of members of the Ancient Literature School were implicated and were all wiped out by Liu Bei.
Among them, there are many connections between Nanyang's wealthy families, and many of the people who put pressure on Zhang Ji before are dead.
Taking this opportunity, Zhang Ji could finally free his hands and carry out a thorough purge of the Nanyang wealthy family.
When Liu Xiu established the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Nanyang wealthy families contributed a lot. Together with the Hebei wealthy families, they accounted for half of the Eastern Han Dynasty. Today, although their power is much less than that of the previous era, they still have great influence in the local area.
However, when Liu Bei became emperor, this group of people and their families who had influenced the political direction of the Eastern Han Dynasty for more than a hundred years did come to an end.
Again, although the Han Empire is still the Han Empire, the Second Empire is dead and the Third Empire is born. The establishment of the new empire does not have the help of the Nanyang wealthy family, and there is no ecological niche for the Nanyang wealthy family, so it is sooner or later that they will be liquidated.
matter.
Of course, the Nanyang wealthy family was unwilling to perish at this stall. They tried to extend an olive branch to Luoyang, but to no avail, and there was no response from Luoyang.
More importantly, Zhang Ji, who was offended by them, had no intention of giving them any chance.
According to Liu Bei's request, Zhang Ji used the slave restriction order as the starting point to investigate and liquidate them.
This is serious trouble. According to the requirements of the slave restriction order, 99% of the wealthy families in Nanyang County have problems and can be found guilty and held accountable. Zhang Ji also threatened to thoroughly implement the restriction.
Nu Ling, doesn’t this act mean that everyone is completely at odds with each other?
With no other choice, the desperate and fearful Nanyang wealthy family had no choice but to respond.
In more than a month, more than 20 powerful wealthy families in Nanyang County were forced to rebel, but they were put down by Zhang Ji and Gao Shun, the lieutenant general of the 24th Army.
There are many private soldiers of the wealthy family, their equipment is quite good, and their combat effectiveness is acceptable. However, they still feel like they are fighting against a rock when compared to the regular army under Gao Shun.
Gao Shun didn't take much effort to push them to the ground and rub them, but anyone who raised an army was killed.
After that, Zhang Ji launched a series of investigations into the relatives and friendly families of these families who raised the army. Seven or eight wealthy families were unlucky at this stage of the operation and died miserably.
After the military confrontation, Zhang realized the decline of Nanyang's wealthy families and the usefulness of the slave restriction order, so he continued to use the slave restriction order as an entry point. He used the reason that "he discovered that there were hidden slaves in the homes of major wealthy families but did not inform the government."
He also forcibly destroyed a group of wealthy families with illusions.
The excuses he used were all fair and square. None of these wealthy families were clean. In other words, no one was clean at all. It just depends on who offended whom and who influenced whom.
However, Zhang Ji's actions were quite violent and caused great harm to the wealthy families. Many wealthy families in Nanyang that had been passed down for four or five generations were destroyed by Zhang Ji for various reasons.
The power of the wealthy families in Nanyang County was exhausted in a very short period of time. More than 90% of them were destroyed, and they fell into overall decline. The families that were not destroyed were also curbed and attacked, and their political power was greatly reduced. Since then,
Devastated.
Two months after the Nanyang Operation, the Nanyang people who hated and feared Zhang Ji gave Zhang Ji the title "Goshawk".
The last person to receive this title was the famous ruthless official Zhidu in the Western Han Dynasty. This was a fierce existence that even the princes and nobles looked at.
It's hard to say how many princes, nobles and their forces fell into Zhidu's hands. At least, he must be a little more ruthless than Zhang Ji.
However, the people of Nanyang believe that Zhang Ji's behavior in Nanyang is not much worse than that of Zhidu, or even worse. The entire wealthy family in Nanyang County is about to be liquidated by Zhang Ji, except for the Deng family, the Zhu family and a few others.
The family was able to escape from Zhang Ji's "devil's claws".
Nanyang County was almost completely wiped out by Zhang Ji. Facing strong political and military pressure, the Nanyang wealthy family was as fragile as a piece of paper.
And this is just a less obvious microcosm of the entire liquidation operation. Similar things also happened in other states and counties. Suddenly, more than a dozen [Goshawks] appeared in the territory of the Han Dynasty.
Knowledgeable people exclaimed "Emperor Wu is back".
It is conceivable that these people's fear of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty was deep in their bones. How could Liu Bei have done this? He actually called out the name of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty.
What Liu Bei is doing now is not even one-tenth of what Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty did. How did these guys have the nerve to shout out?
Of course, this doesn't matter. As long as they get the lining, these guys can yell as much as they want. The mouth is on them, and Liu Bei has no interest in taking care of it.
Outside of Nanyang County, Jingzhou and Yangzhou generally had no changes under Guan Yu's suppression, while Jiaozhi had some problems.
Because of its remote location, it would be difficult to liquidate the Chen family in accordance with regulations, and Jiaozhi had too little influence on the Han Empire.
The Chen family has long passed its glory days in the Xinmang period and the early Eastern Han Dynasty. Now it is stuck in Jiaozhi and lacks strength in the Central Plains. It has not caught up with the golden development period of the ancient literature school for several years. This time, it was swept away by Liu Bei.
Hunting rabbits can be considered as tidying up along with it.
Since the income from cleaning up may not be enough to keep up with the cost of cleaning up them, some people suggested that we should not go to any trouble to liquidate the Chen family, but just imprison them in Cangwu County and prevent them from serving as officials.
After comprehensive consideration, Liu Bei adopted this suggestion, and in his official capacity ordered the Chen family to be revoked from the family qualifications, dismissed all the clan members who were officials, and asked them to return to their hometowns and reflect behind closed doors for ten years.
Zhu Fu, the governor of Jiaozhi, must closely monitor the Chen family during this period and not allow the Chen family to do anything rashly.
So the entire liquidation operation was laid out in this way and a comprehensive operation was launched. From Liu Bei's official accession to the throne on May 20, the fifth year of Jian'an, to September of the fifth year of Jian'an, in more than three months, this liquidation operation also
It's finally come to an end.
It's not that no one resisted. After learning that Liu Bei had proclaimed himself emperor and wanted to liquidate the conservatives, the disciples and former officials of the conservatives did not just surrender. There were also people who organized private soldiers to resist, but still the same sentence.
How can private soldiers compete with the elite regular army?
Everyone's weapons are not of the same level.
Liu Bei had already iterated on the iron smelting technology of the Han Empire in Liangzhou. Over the years, the iron smelting craftsmen have been constantly summarizing their experience and developing more efficient iron smelting technology. They have also made detailed improvements to some of the methods originally guided by Liu Bei.
optimization.
The Huanshou Dao made with the currently developed iron smelting process is even tougher than the early Liangzhou version of the Huanshou Dao. When the two swords fight against each other, the first one to be broken is the early one.
Liangzhou version of Huanshou Dao.
And even the early Liangzhou version of the Huanshou Sword was overwhelmed by the weapons currently produced by the iron smelting craftsmanship scattered among the people.
The iron smelting process controlled by Liu Bei Group is an absolute taboo, and the confidentiality law was prepared for this. Over the years, a large number of outstanding craftsmen have invested in Liu Bei's arms, producing more and more high-quality iron products for him, among which
Of course, including weapons.
According to the intelligence coming back from the front line, whether it was Qian Zhao, Liu Sheng or Xu Huang, they all said that suppressing the rebellion of the remnants of the conservatives was a relatively easy task.
In terms of armor and protective gear, they were far inferior, in terms of Huanshou swords, they were far inferior, and in terms of bows and arrows, they were also far inferior. The Han army could often crush them when dealing with them.
Even when they reached the rear, the Han army officers and soldiers said that it was quite boring and they wondered if there was a stronger enemy that could make them enjoy themselves.
Especially the veterans of the main force who were assigned to local garrison, they all said that even the new recruits of the newly formed army could defeat those rebels according to the simple and old-fashioned knowledge of military formations and queues learned in the training camp.
The army peeed.
Those rebels are basically street fighting gangsters. Occasionally, they can encounter one or two hundred private soldiers from large families who are relatively capable of fighting and have certain formation skills. However, the number of such private soldiers will basically not exceed two hundred, and the maximum is only four hundred.
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The veterans were eager to fight, but within a quarter of an hour they were defeated by each other.
It's not enough to bulldoze the other party's estate.
Even new recruits can defeat opponents, so the skills honed by us veterans on the battlefield have no use at all!