One hundred and forty-two families, big and small, and more than 5,000 prisoners, including men and women, direct family members, branch children, servants in the palace, retainers, retainers, and private soldiers. The composition is very complicated, and we cannot kill them all.
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Cui Yi had a different opinion: "Lord, let them waste food and just kill them all, just to scare those dishonest guys."
Liu Xiang shook his head. He believed that there must be some who were wrongly accused and some who were not caught.
The problem is somewhat complicated and cannot be solved rudely.
"Killing people doesn't solve the problem."
"But my lord also said that killing people cannot solve the problem, but it can solve the people with problems. If we kill all the people with problems, then there will be no problems."
Liu Xiang laughed. He did say this, but it was just an angry word.
"There are too many to kill, and we can't afford to offend them."
Cui Yi's ideas cannot be listened to, and the nobles can only divide themselves. If they are forced to unite to deal with him, they will be in trouble. They will be besieged internally and externally and cannot be defeated.
Let’s categorize it first.
It can not only help clarify ideas, but also divide the large gentry families in Jizhou. If so many people are arrested at one time, it will definitely cause panic. If someone incites it, it will become a rebellion forced by the government and the people, and things will become more complicated.
He only received Guo Tu, but did not recruit anyone. He suggested that he choose a few mansions and put him under house arrest first. He also expressed to the outside world that he would not wrongly accuse a good person and did not want to implicate him too much.
Calm down the mood of the nobles outside.
In this section, there are probably not many people who want to rebel, and some may not be able to recruit the manpower, so there is no threat and can be dealt with later.
Those who had not seen Guo Tu and had only gathered troops were also selected and detained in the military camp.
This part has the intention and strength to rebel. Even if there are those who are wronged, they cannot be let go. It is just an excuse to cut down the tribe of nobles again.
These people should not be tortured or their homes confiscated.
For the rest, torture them to extract confessions and find their accomplices.
There is no need to rush to trial, let alone kill people to see who else will pop out.
The scholars in Qingzhou and Xuzhou haven't moved yet, so you might as well wait.
Since he wanted to cut off the flesh and gouge out the sores, he was not afraid of making the matter bigger. The military power was firmly in his hands, and the people at the bottom were obviously unwilling to follow the scholars in rebellion. Otherwise, more than a hundred families could mobilize tens of thousands of people.
The large gentry under their control can no longer mobilize large-scale manpower for their use, and the threat has been greatly reduced. Can they beat people to death with gold or silver?
A tree without roots and water without a source.
This time we not only need to clean up, but also let the scholars know their positions.
Those low-income people who have been given land but still follow the original owners to rebel will have their property taken back and be registered as low-income people as they wish.
If they want to be slaves, let them be slaves for the rest of their lives.
As for Guo Tu, hang him up and beat him for three days and three nights. Don't beat him to death, and don't let him sleep. There is no need to interrogate him during this period, and it doesn't matter whether he wants to confess or not. Ask him again after three days of beating.
There are limits to a person's patience, so I don't believe that his inner defenses can't be broken.
I wrote a lot in the palindrome and thought a lot. There were many remaining nobles in Jizhou and Qingzhou, so there were many hidden dangers. Youzhou and Bingzhou were border areas, and the efforts to clean them up at the beginning were relatively strong, so the troubles caused by the scholars were relatively small.
For a moment, he really wanted to kill all the nobles, but it was unrealistic and he was seeking death.
The power of the vested interest group is too great. If the dynasty had not been divided and wars continued, he would have been crushed to death by these people long ago.
Even if you want to weaken the power of the scholar group, you have to find a justifiable reason. To deal with a small group of them, you can only do it bit by bit.
Even if the current gentry are suppressed, their subordinate officials will become a new gentry group that cannot be eliminated.
Not to mention that feudal society cannot be eliminated, the same is true in modern times, it just has a different name. As long as private ownership still exists, class will never disappear. There is no solution to this problem.
This system and that doctrine are not that grand. In essence, the system is a set of rules established by a small number of people relying on violence to resolve internal conflicts.
Private ownership creates selfishness; together with selfishness, there is exploitation; exploitation divides classes. All dynasty changes are just the result of irreconcilable class conflicts.
Liu Xiang is just a modern person who has been polluted by the information explosion. He is not a saint and cannot solve class conflicts. The only thing he can do is alleviate them.
Thinking like this, he suddenly felt very powerless. He shook his head with a wry smile and put this issue and the rebellion of the nobles behind him. Now he had to think about how to deal with the Yellow Turbans in the East China Sea.
They can definitely defeat them. Yuan Shao does not have the troops to interfere with this battlefield. Even if he adds the Yellow Turbans from Xiapi, he is confident that he can defeat them.
With nearly 30,000 infantry and 8,000 cavalry, he did not think there would be any problem in defeating the hundreds of thousands of Yellow Turbans without unified command.
But these yellow scarves are still useful and cannot be annihilated here.
Drive the Yellow Turbans southward, driving them to Xiapi, Guangling, and Yangzhou to prevent Yuan Shao from expanding his territory, clean up the powerful local families, destroy the social foundation, make the south unstable, and reduce the potential for war.
Doesn’t it smell good?
Why fight with them?
Originally, they were afraid of the Anping Army's front, so they fled from Qingzhou to Xuzhou. Isn't it unacceptable to flee further south?
"Send the order to turn north and march to Xiangben County tomorrow."
Cui Yi was a little confused. Wasn't he just talking about the rebellion of the Jizhou scholars? Why did he suddenly adjust the marching route?
"Lord, are we not going to Yishui?"
"No, just scare the Yellow Turbans coming north from Xiapi so that they don't dare to go to Tan County to join the Donghai Yellow Turbans. There is no need to rush into enemy-occupied territory."
After Liu Xiang reunited with Guan Yu, he returned to Fuyang with 10,000 infantry and cavalry. After receiving reports that the Yellow Turbans were advancing northward from Xiapi, they marched eastward with the entire army in a gesture of intimidation to Xiapi.
Before they entered Xia Pi State, the Yellow Turbans who had advanced northward hurriedly retreated.
To achieve the goal, there is no need to go head-to-head with the Yellow Turbans.
He was planning to turn around and go north to Xiangben County.
Xiangben was in the west of Tan County. He marched eastward here and cooperated with Zhang Liao's troops. They pressed the East China Sea Yellow Turbans around Tan County from the west and north and drove them along the Yishui River into the Xiapi Kingdom.
The plan was good, the march went smoothly, and the Yellow Turbans of Xiapi were also very cooperative. They just stopped at Liangcheng County at the junction of Donghai County and Xiapi State, and did not go north to Tan County.
But the Donghai Yellow Turbans did not cooperate and all of them shrank into Tan County City, looking like they were determined to defend the city.
That's a lot of oppression from both sides. We can just lay siege to the city.
"Does Wenyuan know how many people there are in Tan County?"
Zhang Liao was very distressed. There were fights in the East China Sea, and Tan County changed hands several times. Who knows how many people there were?
"Lord, these 70,000 to 80,000 people have retreated into the city. There should still be more than 100,000 people inside."
Tan County was once the seat of Xuzhou and had a large population, but the city was not large, with a circumference of only six miles. The original residents mainly lived in Fuguo outside the city wall.
Although it has gone through several wars, the population base is large and there are not many left.
Nowadays, people are crowded into the city. Given the sanitary conditions of the Yellow Turbans, a plague may break out over time.
Wouldn't it be better to just go south?
Don't cause trouble for both parties.
Hiding in the city, you are just hanging on for a breath.
Liu Xiang was very angry. These yellow scarves were not eye-catching.
Zhang Liao hesitated for a moment, but decided to tell the truth: "Lord, maybe the arrival of a large group of cavalry scared them into the city. There are so many cavalry, they feel that they can't escape."