Xuande

Chapter 649 They Don't Make Mistakes

Even now that Liu Bei has left Liangzhou for a long time, there are still many Yizhou students receiving education in Liangzhou Zhouxue, and some Yizhou students have become officials and work under Liu Bei's command.

For example, Qin Mi, Wang Shang, Zhao Wei, Gan Ning and Zhang Ren are all veteran subordinates of Liu Bei.

They either stayed in Luoyang to work with Liu Bei, or were arranged by Liu Bei to take up positions as county magistrates in Youzhou and Bingzhou to train. Gan Ning, Zhang Ren and others have already achieved the positions of school lieutenants in the army, which can be regarded as Representatives of a group of local forces that are very popular.

They are so highly valued, so when the slavery restriction order was promulgated, for the sake of their own future, they strongly demanded that their families cooperate with Liu Bei to implement the slavery restriction order.

Not to mention strictly following the requirements, at least you must hand over a considerable amount to Liu Bei, and you must not mix with those who are dissatisfied, so as not to accidentally hurt you and delay your future.

No matter what their family thinks, at least for them personally, political interests are greater than economic interests.

Still the same sentence, when can't money be earned?But can you be promoted at any time?

There are only so many official positions, one radish and one hole, how many people's heads do you have to step on for every level up?
Except for Liu Bei's subordinates, those who study in Liangzhou state school have infinite enthusiasm and expectations for the future, and they are determined not to let some members of their own family affect their future because of their selfish desires.

They have followed Liu Bei for a long time and know that what Liu Bei cares most about is loyalty. Once Liu Bei thinks that you are loyal, he will not hesitate to reward you, but once he thinks that you are not absolutely loyal, then your future is open to question.

Therefore, they believe that the future is the most important thing, and the slaves are not the most important. The losses caused by the loss of slaves can be fully compensated from the political level, and the gains will far exceed the losses.

If you do not follow Liu Bei's wishes and lose your political future, the family will lose everything, and then be acquired by others.

With this choice, they don't make a mistake.

Therefore, the implementation of the slave restriction order in Yizhou was relatively smooth at the beginning. Under the leadership of the officials arranged by Liu Bei, batch after batch of slaves were released, returning from the status of slaves to the status of free citizens. Under the arrangement of the local government, I re-registered with my household registration.

However, those who can make up for it politically are a minority after all.

Those who can be officials are a minority, and those who can be compensated are a minority. Most people still cannot be compensated politically. Therefore, except for those who have political connections with Liu Bei, most local tyrants who have no political connections with Liu Bei are still dissatisfied .

Because of traffic congestion, Yizhou people have a stronger sense of alertness to the outside world, and fewer people hold positions in the Luoyang court. Therefore, their willingness to cooperate is lower and their willingness to confront is stronger.

The confrontation between local tyrants in Yizhou is relatively fierce even in Shu County and Ba County, where Liu Bei has been running for a long time, let alone other counties.

But because the slavery restriction this time was limited to a few counties in the north of Yizhou, there was no turmoil in the southern counties.

Of course, this is not because Liu Bei was merciful and did not engage in troubles in the southern counties, but the proportion of foreign nationals in the southern counties of Yizhou is relatively large, and the local area itself is not very stable. It is meaningless to make any emancipation order for those foreigners.

It is really meaningful to swear the right to rule directly by military means.

Therefore, Liu Bei's strategy for Yizhou is to first use three points of military and seven points of politics to settle the Hanzhong County, Guanghan County, Shu County, Ba County and Qianwei County in the north of Yizhou, and then use three points of politics and seven points of military to handle the south of Yizhou.

At the moment, we still focus on the northern part of Yizhou, first take the northern part of Yizhou into our hands, and take control of the fertile land of the Chengdu Plain.

For this reason, Liu Bei knew that Liu Sheng's Shence Army stationed in Ba County was not enough, so he dispatched Cao Ren to lead the Yingyang Army into Shu in advance, and ordered them to station in Shu County. Control the basic situation of Shu County.

At least, Liu Bei could not accept the situation that Shu County could not produce more paper due to the turmoil.

To be precise, Yizhou experienced a wave of minor turmoil when it liquidated the Jinwen School and its servants before, but it was not greatly affected.

The biggest turmoil during the Jian'an period was the previous liquidation of the Zhang family in Chengdu, Shu County.

But this time, what the government needs to face is the resistance of ordinary powerful families, large and small.

They were unwilling to hand over their slaves, thinking that their interests had been seriously damaged. The Shu people, who had never felt Liu Bei's power for a long time, even mobilized slaves on a large scale to form an army against the government's forces.

In the face of these people, Gao Xuan, a typical scholar with average military ability, was in a hurry for a while, and it was quite difficult to deal with these situations.

Different from Berkshire, because of the existence of the Shence Army and the special relationship between the Jian people and Liu Bei, Berkshire has implemented a very strong rule in Berkshire, and the local nobles in Berkshire, headed by the Gan family, are willing to cooperate with Liu Bei's actions, so Although the scale and strength of the rebels are not small, the Berkshire officials have enough power to suppress them.

Liu Sheng, as the general of Liu Bei's clan, is equivalent to Liu Bei's spokesperson in the eyes of the Bajun people. When he gave an order, the people immediately organized thousands of troops to fight the rebellion in Berkshire with Liu Sheng's headquarters. Destroy the clan.

According to the terrain of Berkshire, many families can defend some more dangerous terrain, which is slightly different from the situation in the plain area, and it is more difficult for the army to attack.

However, with the help of the armed people who are good at fighting in the mountains, Berkshire's rebellion was quickly suppressed, and more than 70 local families that organized rebellion were wiped out as a whole, and Berkshire's slave restriction order was very good. carried on.

In mid-to-early April, the situation in Berkshire stabilized. By the beginning of May, more than [-] slaves in Berkshire had been released, and basically all those who should be dealt with had been dealt with.

In Shu County, there were more people who resisted, and even once affected the safety of Chengdu.

The team sent by Gao Xuan to enforce the slavery restriction order was defeated by the local tyrants of Shu County. Although they did not fly the banner of rebellion, they still aggressively brought the coalition army to the outside of Chengdu to ask Gao Xuan for an explanation.

It was almost a direct attack on the city.

In addition, Gao Xuan's papermaking workshops in the northwest of Chengdu were besieged by opponents, more than a dozen houses were destroyed, and more than 20 papermaking craftsmen were killed, as a deterrent to Gao Xuan.

Gao Xuan is more concerned about cultural undertakings, but in politics and military affairs, Gao Xuan is not strong, and is used to negotiating to solve problems, so Gao Xuan is a bit at a loss in the face of strong countermeasures from major local tyrant families.

At that time, it happened that Liang Hu, the governor of Yizhou, who was the spokesperson of the imperial court, was ill, and Gao Xuan had no political helpers, so Gao Xuan could not control the situation well.

Before Cao Ren arrived with the Yingyang army, the situation in Shu County was not good. The rebels were very arrogant and threatened to let those who enforced the slavery restriction know what stupid things they had done.

That is to say, they haven't made up their minds to really tear their skins at the court, and more they want to show their muscles to the court, let the court compromise, and return to the past ecological environment.

They arrogantly surrounded the city of Chengdu and sent news to the city, asking Gao Xuan to come out to meet them in person and discuss this matter with them, otherwise they would break the city and make Gao Xuan pay the price.

These local tyrants don't seem to realize what they're doing.

Gao Xuan also spent more than ten days in worry, which was very tormenting.

However, when Cao Ren led the Yingyang army into Shu in April of the third year of Jian'an, the situation changed.

(End of this chapter)