Xuande

Chapter 648 Iron Fist Liu Xuande

This is the first time that the School of Ancient Literature felt the negative effects of Liu Bei's dominance.

It used to be a positive effect, but now that the Jinwen School is gone, Liu Bei's strength directly affects them, which makes them uncomfortable.

The military strongman is all-encompassing and targets everyone, not a specific group. Before, it was because everyone had a common enemy, but now the situation is different.

Now that everyone has no common enemy, who to target is of course determined by Liu Bei's own interests.

The interest demands of the ancient literature school and Liu Bei's own interest demands are not the same thing. Liu Bei needs to let the ancient literature school understand this truth, and don't go too far.

If they think that Liu Bei will be very scruples about the interests of the school and will be infinitely tolerant to them, then they are very wrong.

Liu Bei can never tolerate their excessive behavior.

During the same period of time, Zhang Rang also convened an internal meeting of the ten permanent servants. At the meeting, everyone slammed tables and smashed benches, arguing endlessly, and there was a fierce battle over the distribution of benefits, and Zhang Rang also found out that his subordinates had taken action against him. The person who bought.

Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Song Dian.

Zhang Rang was very dissatisfied with the three of them, and gave them an ultimatum. If something similar happened again, if Liu Bei didn't do it, he would clean up the house.

Guo Sheng and the other three were also very dissatisfied with Zhang Rang's dominance, thinking that Zhang Rang was cheating.

"My generation is your ally, and Liu Xuande is the great general! He wants to be domineering, without me, how would Liu Xuande treat you? Don't be confused about the reality!"

"You guys are the ones who don't understand the reality! Liu Xuande has power all over the world, and it's all because of him that we can live and continue to hold positions in the imperial court and hold power. Without him, we will die without a place to die! You idiots!"

Zhang Rang was very angry about this, and strongly demanded that the ten permanent attendants hand over some of the things that Jizhou had swallowed to Liu Bei in exchange for his forgiveness, otherwise, he could not guarantee the integrity of the ten permanent attendants.

In this regard, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Duan Gui, and Gao Wang, who were familiar with Liu Bei's methods, admitted their cowardice, while Bi Lan, Li Song, Zhang Gong, and Han Kui had an ambiguous attitude.

But Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang and Song Dian still maintained a tough attitude.

Everything has been done, the money has been swallowed, can you still spit it out?
If they spit it out, what face do they have to continue messing around in Luoyang City?Aren't the guys who are waiting for food under his hands will leave them soon?

Seeing that the ultimatum was invalid, Zhang Rang told Liu Bei about it, and gave up saving other people's lives.

Liu Bei sneered, informed Guo Hong of the news, and ordered Guo Hong to take down the three eunuchs.

After Guo Hong learned of Liu Bei's order, he immediately mobilized the officials of Zhongdu under his command to rush into the mansions of Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang and Song Dian in broad daylight, captured the three of them, and escorted them to the street market to be beheaded in public. .

The three were killed in an instant, and all relatives in the family were arrested and thrown into prison. The students of Hongdu School and court officials who were related to the three were arrested and liquidated at the same time. It only took half a day for the power of the three to disappear. was cleaned up.

Contrary to everyone's expectations, Liu Bei killed the three great eunuchs on charges of corruption and fornication with the Yuan family, and liquidated all their forces in half a day, and all those related to them were arrested. The effect was very good , action and its decisiveness.

This news shocked the Luoyang officialdom, shocked the eunuch group and the ancient literature school.

They only thought that Liu Bei's attack on outsiders was extremely cruel, but they didn't expect Liu Bei to be equally decisive in his attack on the inside.

This time it was three notorious eunuchs who died. It was impossible for the scholars and officials to say anything for these three people. They could only applaud against their will. reaction.

He is telling everyone.

I will kill.

I can kill.

The heads of the three great eunuchs frightened the power of the ten permanent servants at first, so Bi Lan, Li Song, Zhang Gong and Han Kui quickly admitted their cowardice, and immediately ran to Liu Bei's general's mansion to make amends and apologize, saying that they would soon Clear up the Jizhou issue and explain all misunderstandings.

Zhao Zhong and the others acted even more swiftly. They sent the cart after cart of gifts directly to the General's Mansion with super high efficiency, apologized to Liu Bei, and told Liu Bei that everything that happened was a misunderstanding and there would be no more trouble. once.

Liu Bei was very satisfied with the eunuchs' conscientious attitude and praised them.

And this decisive attack also frightened many people of the ancient literature school, and they quickly realized the extent to which Liu Bei's power had expanded.

As long as he is willing, he can kill eunuchs today, and tomorrow, maybe he can kill people from the ancient literature school for the same reason.

As long as you live in Luoyang, you may not be able to escape this threat.

Even in Luoyang City, where his army is not stationed, he can pass through unimpeded—anyway, Dong Zhong has been a turtle for a long time, and Luoyang City is actually undefended for Liu Bei.

At least Guo Hong's 200 Zhongdu officials and apprentices can come in and out at will, and Guo Hong is Liu Bei's hardcore, and he will do what Liu Bei says.

Zheng Tai and the others insisted on their identities, because they couldn't bear to admit that they were cowardly, but after thinking about it, they didn't dare to really break the face with Liu Bei, so they could only confess in private to their respective high-student disciples to go to Liu Bei's mansion to make amends on their behalf. Apologize, and tell Liu Bei by the way that they have already decided to accept that [-]% request.

With Liu Bei's super high credit, why not get [-]%?
Therefore, starting from April of the third year of Jian'an, the number of slaves and the number of property confiscated by the Jizhou government have also greatly increased.

This number was collected by Qiao Mao, the governor of Jizhou, and then collected to Luoyang. Then, according to Liu Bei's instructions, the slaves were sent to Zhongshan, Changshan, and Hejian, and part of the property was also sent to the three places. The rest, All were escorted to Luoyang.

This is the first time Liu Bei has gone mad, and the first time he has gone mad at his "own people". Such fierce and fast actions have stunned many people, and it is also the first time for some of them to successfully understand what a military strongman is.

The problem in Jizhou was quickly straightened out, and the slavery restriction order and slave resettlement work soon became regular.

Therefore, among the four states involved in this wave of slavery restrictions, only Yizhou remained.

Yizhou is a relatively complete and peaceful state. It is different from Guanzhong and Hebei. Guanzhong and Hebei have been repeatedly affected by wars in the past five or six years. No.

After the unique terrain conditions made Ma and others rebel, there was no more war in Yizhou. Except for the major changes in Berkshire, the forces in various places were basically in a relatively complete state.

But Yizhou is very important to Liu Bei.

In particular, half of Liu Bei's paper production capacity is in Yizhou. Nowadays, the entire Guanzhong, including the Luoyang court, can use paper in large quantities for official business processing, mostly relying on the vigorous development of Yizhou's paper industry.

The efforts of Gao Xuan, the prefect of Shu County, were indispensable. He made a lot of contributions to the popularization of paper in the Han Empire, making the paper industry almost a pillar industry in Shu County.

It can be said that under the protection of Liu Bei, Yizhou's economic development is very good, and the local people think that Yizhou will always be prosperous and comfortable like this.

But the issuance of the slavery restriction cast a shadow over this peace and ease.

Needless to say, Liu Bei's influence in Yizhou is still great.

After all, as early as the fifth year of Zhongping, he started to manage Yizhou, and he placed his power in Yizhou early, and recruited subordinates and students in Yizhou, which influenced a group of Yizhou people.

There are still people in Yizhou who are willing to respond to the announcement of the slavery restriction policy.

(End of this chapter)