Waves at the end of Han Dynasty

Chapter 65
Zhao Hong regrets it very much now.

Thief God, aren't you kidding me, how can the orders given by these old dogs be changed again and again! ?

At that time, according to the eunuch's instructions, he collected evidence of the crimes of the local gentry and planned to suppress the place. It was already in dire straits, but the superior came to ask for a change of strategy and find the gentry to ease the relationship...

Zhao Hong took off his trousers, and he was naked, how could he stop!

So, he decided not to do anything, to get back the robbed property and run away.

After all, a lot has already been made, as long as the results can be kept, those bright futures in the future... don't matter!
Afterwards, Zhao Hong assembled the county soldiers and led a group of men to investigate the person who robbed him of his property.

But before reaching the location of the incident, they got new news.

Gaodu, Yang'a, Guyuan and other counties rebelled, the county magistrate died, and the county soldiers followed the bandits!

After Zhao Hong was shocked, he quickly changed his strategy.

He ordered the county soldiers to continue to advance until they reached the city of Gaodu County in the south of Zhangzi County.

After the county soldiers set up camp to besiege the city, Zhao Hong sent his deputy to lead people to cut down trees to make siege equipment, and made a posture of preparing to smash the rebels in Gaodu County.

But at night, he hurriedly took the rest of his confidants and personal guards, quietly left the camp, and fled!

At dawn the next day, after the deputy waited outside Zhao Hong's tent for a long time, he entered the tent and found that the coach was gone...!
That day, there was a commotion in the camp of Shangdang County soldiers, and there were countless deserters. The captain led more than a hundred people to flee back to the eldest son of the county governor, and the rest were defeated!
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By the time the news reached the imperial court, Zhao Hong and others had already escaped from Bingzhou and went straight to their own Qinling Fortress.

But when he was rejoicing for the rest of his life after the catastrophe, Zhao Hong got another piece of news.

The damn dogs changed their faces again, suddenly launched an attack in the court, ordered Wang Yun and other Bingzhou prominent families to be arrested on the spot, and changed the order again, asking the eunuchs in Bingzhou to continue to clean up the Bingzhou gentry.

And this time it's not just as simple as suppressing, but also dispatching the northern army, with the intention of completely eradicating the Bingzhou gentry!

When Zhao Hong heard the news, he couldn't believe his ears...!
And this operation! ?
I said earlier that I still have this hand, so I don't have to run away...

But after thinking about it carefully, he found something strange about it.

Zhao Hongneng was able to stand out from the numerous dog legs of the eunuchs, so he had some brains. Based on his understanding of his adoptive father Zhao Zhong and other regular servants, the actions against the Bingzhou gentry this time were not at all like the usual methods of the eunuchs.

Even if it is a new strategy, it is impossible to make such temporary changes several times. Even if it is to paralyze the gentry, it cannot even paralyze their own people. This kind of complicated operation must be well planned in advance.

But now, Zhao Hong feels that all this is like child's play...

But all of this has nothing to do with him. Since he chose to abandon his official position and run away, other possibilities for the follow-up will be blocked, and it will be impossible to mix into the officialdom in the future, so these strange things have nothing to do with him.

Fortunately, there is still a way to do business. Now that he has made a fortune and has the start-up capital, Zhao Hong is also gearing up.

The efficiency of law enforcement in the Han Dynasty was extremely low, and there were many people who escaped from breaking the law, such as Guan Erye, such as Xu Shu...

There are quite a few people who kill people and flee to seek refuge with relatives and friends, or even cling to strangers, change their names and surnames to avoid the limelight, and then come out again.

It is also common for relatives to shield each other, and they are even praised for their loyalty!
So Zhao Hong has no pressure on this behavior. Didn't I already give up the bright future of Chang Shiyizi? Isn't this punishment enough...! ?

But what Zhao Hong didn't know was that the impact of his sudden escape was extremely bad. It directly led to the fall of the eldest son county of the county, and chaos among officials in various places in the Shangdang. Quite a few, just lack of people who stick to their posts...

However, what was unexpected was that after occupying the eldest son, these "rebels", who could not bear the tyranny, did not continue to attack the city and expand their momentum. Instead, they collectively ran to the nearby Fajiu Mountain to shed grass, repaired the cottage, and prepared to occupy the mountain as king!

Fajiu Mountain belongs to the branch of the Taihang Mountains. The complex terrain is easy to defend and difficult to attack. It is not bad for the rebels to choose this place, but what is abnormal is that the rebels know how to advance and retreat, which also makes all the spectators admire...

What?With so many people dead, do you still have the heart to watch the show?

Someday no one will die these days!Besides, it's not my clansmen who died, what's wrong with eating melons, isn't it a proper thing to pass the boring time...

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More than ten days after the Shangdang Rebellion broke out, General Zhang Wen arrived with more than [-] soldiers from the Northern Army and a group of eunuchs.

The situation in Taiyuan County is the same. Zhou Shen, the general of the gangsters, has also arrived with [-] northern troops.

The common people were also very happy to see the arrival of the imperial army, thinking that the chaos would soon subside and life would soon return to normal.

The rebel army was indeed quickly put down. Under the offensive of the forbidden army, these thieves who temporarily took up simple weapons were almost powerless to resist, and they were wiped out in a few days!
But the absence of the traitors does not mean the cessation of chaos in Bingzhou, and the eunuch disciples then began to arrest people in various counties and counties of Bingzhou according to the requirements of the ten permanent servants...

Although the Shangdang County where Zhao Hong was located, because of Zhao Hong's absconding and the loss of the eldest son, many of the gentry's criminal evidence collected earlier were lost, and the gentry also quickly cut off the relationship with the rebellion, thinking that they could escape disaster.

Unexpectedly, these did not affect the layout of the eunuch party, because the crimes of the gentry in other places would implicate the gentry of the upper party, and the whole party quickly found a breakthrough...

As a result, the homes of Wang, Wen, Li, Lin, Linghu and many other Bingzhou clans were confiscated one after another, and all the clansmen were imprisoned and interrogated one by one by the eunuchs!

Where did the children of these aristocratic families ever engage in such battles? Under torture, in order to protect themselves, they began to cooperate with the guidance of the eunuchs to crazily bite, and then the small nobles from all over Bingzhou were also recruited...

The gentry clans were originally married to each other, and they were very closely connected in secret. As long as one of the clan's children broke through the bottom line, it would be the Domino effect, and no one would be immune!

For a time, there was a bloody storm in Bingzhou, and everyone was in danger, and many centuries-old accumulations of the gentry were destroyed!
There is no room for such a large number of prisoners in the official prison, and many new cells have been specially opened up...

In addition to the gentry, the middle and low-level officials under the counties of Bingzhou have also been purged. These people can be regarded as the minions of the gentry, and they are inextricably linked with the gentry. Many people do evil at ordinary times. It is commonplace to do something with money.

However, after this group of people were arrested, not all the positions they left behind were filled, but some important vacancies or higher-ranking positions were taken over by eunuch disciples, and most of the rest of the lower levels were in a vacuum.

The administration of Bingzhou was completely paralyzed immediately, and bandits were rampant!
But the eunuchs have no time to pay attention to these issues. They have been busy clearing up the property and land of the gentry, and transporting them back to the imperial court after counting. In addition, they also brought back the criminal evidence involving other gentry in other states, and then waited for the next order from the master...

Compared with the numerous government affairs piled up, they are of course extremely active in doing this kind of work.No one else, because many of them can use their hands to reap personal benefits when they check the property!
Now the only ones who are a little more stable are the low-level people in Bingzhou. They have not been implicated, and they hide at home in fear, silently waiting for the end of this tragedy...

(End of this chapter)