Under Gao Pragmatic's personal supervision, as the political program was implemented step by step, Annan's "anti-rebellion" campaign gradually came to an end, and two types of people became the main targets of the purge.
The first category of people does not need to be explained. They are the various "rebels" of the later Li Dynasty, from the "royal family" of the Li family to Zheng Ni, plus various rebellions. Except for the Ruan Huang family who "voluntarily surrendered", they were not attacked.
In addition to the liquidation, almost 70% of the big families in the Southern Dynasty could not escape, and they all became the targets of the purge.
Occasionally, a few people were quick to see the opportunity and voluntarily handed over most of their property. Gao pragmatically ordered "amnesty" with the power of "making decisions on small matters". They barely managed to save their lives. As for their wealth... it's better not to think about that.
However, the south is easy to clean, but the north is relatively troublesome. After all, the Mo family is nominally on the side of the Ming Dynasty and is a "loyal minister for generations."
In this case, you have to pay attention to your food and fortune. After all, Gao is pragmatic and does not intend to become the King of Annan himself, so the relationship on display must be maintained.
Gao Pragmatic tried his best, but had no choice but to start with "cleaning up the official style". First he launched a wave of corruption, and then he carried out a wave of eradication of evil. In the end, he found that the required land was still not enough, so he actually created another "Suppression of Yong".
Come.
Basically, apart from not grabbing it openly, all I have to do is write on my face and say "I want the land".
However, his "Longmen Trilogy" was really not in vain. Not only did it greatly improve the administrative efficiency of Mo Chao officials, but most of the remaining ones were timid and did not dare to follow him, Annan.
Your Majesty is a coward who is against the bullshit.
Obviously, the highly pragmatic approach of eradicating corruption, eliminating evil and even eradicating mediocrity cannot be so upright and upright in name. It must take the opportunity to get rid of a group of relatively unruly people.
After getting rid of this group of die-hard elements, although there will definitely still be some lurking conspirators, Gao Pragmatic is not worried, because after the general situation has been established, the conspirators will have no room to operate, and they may be lurking by then.
It's just a lifetime - I've been lurking for a lifetime, so it doesn't matter what else I say, even if I give you a good posthumous title.
If a hypocrite can be a hypocrite for a lifetime, then he is not a hypocrite, but a true gentleman. After all, the key to defining a person is to look at actual actions. No matter how fiercely you yell in your heart, but do nothing with your hands, if you still convict others,
Doesn’t it become “unnecessary”?
However, this operation was not completely peaceful. For example, when Gao Pangshi gathered his troops in Thang Long for reorganization, Zheng Song's missing brother Zheng Du appeared from Thanh Hoa for some unknown reason and promoted Zheng Song as "
"Hero of the Dai Viet people" and gathered more than 2,000 people to rebel.
In fact, only about four to five hundred people were taken away when Zheng Du "disappeared". The rest were caused by some old officials who were unwilling to accept Gao Pragmatic's purge. The family properties of these people have been confiscated.
But there may still be some wealth that has slipped through the net and has not been cleaned up properly. They used it to recruit a group of people and raised troops to rebel in Thanh Hoa.
At that time, Gao Pangshi was preparing to order the Thang Long garrison to go south to quell the rebellion. Unexpectedly, Ruan Juan, who was "seconded to garrison" in the south, heard the news and personally led an army of 10,000 to Thanh Hoa overnight, killing Zheng Du who was not yet stable.
, even he himself died in the rebel army, and when a head was found, he was almost unrecognizable - this guy saw the opportunity at that time and was about to make up and abscond, but was killed by a group of Ruan Juan's troops.
He was intercepted, and because he changed his clothes as a soldier, he was not found for several days after his death.
Ruan Juan's performance was very good. Although it was hard for even Gao Pragmatic to judge whether he was sincere or fake, he did it and did it so neatly. It would be impossible not to reward him.
Gao pragmatic hesitated for a while, and then gave him an official rank in the name of Annan Dutongsi, and gave him two hundred Longqing II muskets - theoretically speaking, the proportion of firearms of Mo Yulin's and Ruan Juan's tribes was the same.
Being strictly controlled, this reward is truly an exception.
However, Jinghua’s weapons are all ammunition specially produced by Jinghua. After Gao Pragmatic took control of Annan, saltpeter, sulfur and other items were classified as strategic materials and were not allowed to be held in large quantities by the private sector. The limited manufacturers of firecrackers and fireworks were also strictly controlled, so
If Ruan Juan wants to use these two hundred muskets as fire sticks, he still has to look at his face.
Besides, two hundred muskets can't handle any major events. At most, they can only be equipped with personal guards. If Gao Pragmatic doesn't trust even this, he might as well stay in Annan and don't leave.
There was a rebellion by Zheng Du in the south, and the Mo family in the north also had some trouble. Wu Gongji, the son of the old Xuanguang guard general Wu Wenmi, rebelled against the Cen family's wolf soldiers who were ordered by Gao Pragmatic to "eliminate evil" in the area.
However, this brother Wu Gongji was ambitious but not talented, and had no clear understanding of his own strength. Although he relied on his father's prestige in Xuanguang for decades, he quickly raised more than 8,000 people, known as
The 30,000-strong army was defeated in one fell swoop by Cen Ling, who thought his face had been undermined, and brought 5,000 Sicheng Prefecture's direct wolf soldiers.
Cen Ling was very angry at the time - it was clear that his Cen family had a slight advantage over the Huang family when he was in Guangxi, but who knew that in Annan, there was no rebellion in the Huang family's territory, and someone dared to cause trouble in his territory.
If this is not settled immediately, where will his reputation as the governor of western Jingxi go?
Even though Cen Ling looks a bit more handsome than Gao Jingshi, he is not a civil servant like Gao Jingshi. When fighting a war, he will not always think about quitting when the situation is good, so as to avoid unnecessary losses and waste.
Strength, try to use political means such as "coercion and inducement" to solve problems.
Cen Ling's solution was extremely decisive, and could even be said to be extremely cruel - the eight thousand rebels did not take any prisoners, and all were beheaded. Among them, only more than two thousand were beheaded in the formation, but more than three thousand surrendered.
, he ordered it to be beheaded on the spot without saying a word.
Originally, more than 3,000 people escaped, but who knew that Cen Ling was really aggressive this time, relying on the physical strength of the wolf soldiers to pursue them all the way to the northernmost point of Xuanguang, close to the Yunnan border area. He was stunned.
The remaining rebels were completely killed, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
When the news came back to Shenglong, Gao Pangshi was stunned for a long time, and thought to himself: This guy Cen Ling is so cruel, how can he be like that perverted murderer Liu Wei? This is thousands of labor, why can't you catch him and mine it?
Huh? There are mines in Tuyuan Quang. What a waste!
However, Cen Ling's behavior frightened the Mo family's small court. Originally, the Mo family's court was more afraid of Huang Zhiting - after all, they were severely beaten by Huang Zhiting in the battle of Lang Son - but now it's better.
It turns out that Cen Zhengshou, who didn't get the chance to beat him, was even more damn cruel. If he didn't do it, he would kill him if he did!
Who the hell can afford to mess with this kind of King of Hell?
As a result, the name "Cen Hell King" spread like wildfire. For a while, Cen Ling inexplicably had the effect of "stopping children's cries" in Annan, and even Gao Pragmatic was a little envious.
It's a pity that he can also be envious in his heart. This kind of "good reputation" can be enjoyed by any general under his command, but he himself can never have it.
To be Huang Fu or to be Ma Qi, this is a question that requires you to make the right choice with your toes.
The general is cruel and cold, and the big boss above him can be counted on. But if he, the big boss, has a bad reputation of being cruel and cold, the Annan people will have no hope. If anything happens, they will have no choice but to rebel.
So after receiving the battle report, Gao pragmatically slapped the table and scolded Cen Ling in front of a bunch of Mo's ministers, and then ordered: "Strictly warn this officer, reprimand him, and order him to return to the division as soon as possible!"
Then he turned his back and ordered someone to quietly send a message to Cen Ling: Well done, you will be rewarded when you come back!
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