Xuande

Chapter 641 The rules are made by me
This time, Liu Bei gave the order to die.

However, any family that raises troops against the slavery restriction will not be allowed to live, as long as the dead are dead, surrender will not be accepted.

Anyone who dares to resist openly will be killed, and the whole family will be exterminated, so as to declare the irresistible and powerful force of Liu Bei and the Luoyang court.

As some people have guessed, the slavery restriction was not just a simple policy, nor was it just a military counter-insurgency operation, but a political action to restore the authority of the Luoyang court, which had deteriorated since the Han Dynasty.

In the past hundred years, with the continuous decline of the sanctity of the Luoyang emperor, the dominance and deterrent power from the Luoyang court has been declining, which has brought a very obvious separation tendency to the entire Han Empire.

The independent trend of local counties and states became more and more obvious, and the separation and xenophobia of local scholars became more and more serious. The farther away from Luoyang, the stronger this tendency was.

This is unacceptable to Liu Bei, who strives to ensure that the unification situation is not divided.

Therefore, not only did he want to solve the problem of slaves, but he just took this opportunity to let these guys who are full of regions and their own interests take the lead and reap a lot of crops.

The fewer such people, the more stable the peaceful situation of the great unification.

As a result, the iron cavalry was rampant, the family was ruined, and under the mountain of corpses and blood, all the forces in the Sili area were shocked by Liu Bei's powerful and brutal force.

Powerful cavalry, with the speed of the wind, in the entire Sili area, none of the family forces that violated the slavery restriction had a good end, and they were all wiped out by the government. Moreover, the government army moved extremely fast and had a strong combat effectiveness. Rebellions often only take a day.

It only takes one day for the officers and soldiers to kill all those who resisted, including those related to them, without leaving any sympathy or compromise.

After all, those generals who specialize in dealing with the powerful prairie cavalry and the elite soldiers who trained them faced the mob-like opponents, and they were also a complete blow to dimensionality reduction.

By the end of June, the last family boycott in Hebei County, Hedong County was wiped out by Liu Bei's troops.

Zhang Xi, who was looking forward to the military exploits and hoped to see through, finally annoyed Liu Bei so much that he couldn't stand it by constantly begging and begging in front of Liu Bei, thus gaining the opportunity to attack.

He couldn't wait to lead a thousand cavalry to attack Hebei County, snatched the things that belonged to Han Dang, destroyed the family 22, beheaded more than [-] people, and obtained a total of [-] slaves from these family residences, winning a big victory .

It is said that Han Dang was very dissatisfied afterwards, and wrote to Liu Bei to complain about Zhang Yun, saying that Zhang Yun's behavior was a clear and obvious grab for credit that belonged to him.

But what can be done then?

There are too many monks, too many generals and soldiers who can fight, and the current enemies are obviously not enough to allocate.

It's a gorgeous distress.

Liu Bei's resolute actions and means of blood and fire frightened all the guys who were about to make a move, and let them know what it means to obey me to prosper and oppose me to perish.

I can follow the rules, but you have to pay attention, the rules are the rules I made!
why?
Because I am strong!

The era when there were no political and military strongmen in the Eastern Han Empire has passed!Gone are the days when there was no one-size-fits-all authority!Gone are the days of mutual negotiation!
Next, it is the era that I lead!
If you can't say what you say, what kind of military strongman is it?
During the military operation that lasted for one and a half months, more than 400 families, large and small, in the Sili area were wiped out by Liu Bei and his subordinate generals, and a total of more than 25 slaves were captured.

Seeing the big from the small, the number of slaves in the entire Sili area definitely far exceeds this number.

The shadow of a famous tree, with Liu Bei's powerful military achievements, there are always a few people who dare to stand up against Liu Bei, but now, in front of the mountain of corpses and sea of ​​blood, more potential people who want to resist have been given away by his invincible record. Scared.

In other words, his guts were scared out of his wits.

Liu Bei's record is unparalleled. His policies are backed by a strong military force. If political methods cannot be used to promote them, then military means must be used to promote them physically. In short, his policies must be promoted, no matter what the price.

So everyone understood that they had made a choice, and they would rather lose their interests than lose their lives.

If you keep your life, you still have a future. If you lose your life, you have nothing.

Moreover, these powerful landlords also realized that this was an authoritative attack from the Luoyang court, a premeditated and organized attack by the upper echelons on these local tyrants. If they did not obey, they would definitely die.

No one would speak for them, and few people in the Luoyang court could represent their interests.

As the war progressed, more and more families chose to follow their hearts, and took the initiative to explain to the local government the scale of the family's industry, the number of slaves in the family, and hand over these slaves to the government.

But the facts proved that their choice was correct. More than 400 stupid families lost their lives because of their greed, and the whole family was destroyed. It also let most of the families who chose to cooperate know that they had made the right choice.

The whole family of those who resisted was wiped out, no one survived, their bodies were burned, and then their bones were turned into ashes, and the family residence was completely razed, as if it had never existed.

The general's method is really too much for people to resist.

So there is no problem in promoting the slavery restriction in the Sili area.

From mid-May to mid-June, a total of 23 male and female slaves were released, and from mid-June to early July, more than 40 slaves were released.

By mid-July of the second year of Jian'an, the number of slaves released in the entire Sili area exceeded 90, most of whom were young and middle-aged men and women, and the young and old were a minority.

The release of a large number of slaves showed the power of Liu Bei's slave restriction order, and it also brought great population pressure to the Luoyang area.

So Liu Bei set about arranging for the slaves to go to Bingzhou.

The logistics channel from Luoyang to Bingzhou, which was repaired for the Battle of Bingzhou, became the best channel for transporting the population. Liu Bei entrusted this task to the subordinates of the General's Mansion and asked them to preside over the migration of the population.

And it’s also a coincidence that Liangzhou Biejia Yan Zhong and Youzhou Inspector Xia Houdun sent news at the same time. I heard that many slaves in Luoyang have been released, and Liangzhou and Youzhou are in great need of population now. If possible, can you What about adding some population to Liangzhou and Youzhou?

It is very difficult to move the registered population to other places. There are too many things to be done and a lot of rations to prepare. A little carelessness will cause a large number of deaths of the mobile population.

In addition, it is necessary to consider the thoughts of officials in the place where the population is moving out, and consider some local influences on the route.

But slaves don't have so many worries.

If you can go wherever you want, and you can restore your citizenship, why not do it?

Especially in Youzhou, Xiahou Dun complained about the difficulty of lack of agricultural population. He said that many lands were uncultivated, and weeds were about to grow, but they couldn't even find someone to weed.

Those captured foreign official slaves can do hard work in Xiuxiu city, and they can also get started in technical work, but the fine agricultural technical work of serving crops is really not as easy as imagined.

There is a generational difference in agricultural technology between the foreign race and the Han people in the agriculturally developed areas of the Central Plains, and the agricultural technology difference between them is too great, and those official slaves really can't do it.

All in all, the recovery of agricultural production in Youzhou is very problematic now, and there is an urgent need for a large number of farmers with farming experience to come to help.

Liu Bei was overjoyed when he heard about this.

It just so happened that he was worried that Bingzhou would not be able to feed so many slaves at one go, so Liangzhou and Youzhou extended a helping hand.

There is no shortage of food in these two places, only people, and now Luoyang is full of people.

So Liu Bei immediately arranged to contact Liangzhou and Youzhou, and asked them to arrange official personnel to negotiate with Luoyang as soon as possible to see how many people they would choose to bring back for resettlement.

So this group of slaves released from the Sili area had three destinations.

Liangzhou, Youzhou, and Bingzhou.

Three years of wars have resulted in sparsely populated and economically backward areas. They urgently need a large number of people to restore production and promote economic development. It is very suitable for these released slaves to go there.

The slave restriction order in the Sili area has been implemented smoothly, and everything that needs to be completed has been completed. Compared with the situation in the Sili area, the situation in Bingzhou is much more complicated.

(End of this chapter)