I will be the master of Xuande

Chapter 652: Siege of Beijing
When these princes and kings went to Chang'an, they did not bring many soldiers and horses, because they only came here to discuss the future direction of the court, but not to seize power. Bringing too many soldiers and horses would easily arouse the suspicion of others, and then they would It’s hard to explain even though he has a long mouth all over his body.

Therefore, each of them probably only carried a few hundred guards, and along the way, most of the routes they traveled passed through the territory controlled by Liu Jian.

In the relatively chaotic Central Plains region, the Eight Chefs Group headed by Zhang Miao also opened the way for them. Therefore, these Liu clan members and princes and princes went to Chang'an relatively quickly.

Probably in mid-December, most of the princes and kings who came to Chang'an had arrived in Yongzhou.

At this time, it was already the end of the seventh year of Xingping, and the entire vicinity of Chang'an was already in a state of weather.

The cold winter season before the end of the year has finally arrived.

During this period, although Liu Jian did not march into Chang'an, he had been dealing with the people's livelihood situation in Yongzhou.

Although Li Xiang of Sizhou was defeated by Liu Jian in the past, there were also many rebels in Yongzhou. Most of them were ordinary common people in Guizhou. Due to the petty money policy, food prices had risen and they could not afford to eat.

Therefore, the situation in Yongzhou is no better than that in Sizhou. Although there are no huge evil thieves like Li Xiang, there are medium and small groups of refugee bandits everywhere.

This also caused headaches and fear for the county guards and local county magistrates in Yongzhou counties. Many county magistrates had even been killed by the rebels.

Before they were dealt with by Liu Jian, Li Jue and Guo Si had been responsible for assessing the banditry in Yongzhou, but their counterinsurgency actions only treated the symptoms rather than the root cause. Wherever there was banditry, they went to kill people, which could not solve the key to the problem.

So after Liu Jian got rid of Li Jue and Guo Si, he found that the bandit rebellion in Yongzhou had not slowed down much.

Liu Jian came to later generations and deeply understood the truth that water can carry a boat and also capsize it.

To deal with civil strife, it is absolutely impossible to use military means alone. His [-]-strong army can defeat all the bandits, but after defeating a rebellion, if the lives of ordinary people are not guaranteed, they will still Rise up to resist and continue to form a new army to resist the imperial court.

Therefore, the top priority is to solve the problem of people's survival so that they can survive the winter.

The way we treat the Yongzhou rebels should be the same as the way we treat the Sizhou rebels, so as to fundamentally solve the problem.

First of all, we must stabilize food prices and abolish the policy of petty money. In addition, we must have enough food.

However, unlike Sizhou, Liu Jian has now captured Sizhou and occupied Luoyang. All Sizhou policies are made by him. However, Yongzhou still has a court after all, but Liu Jian does not have the highest authority. The power to govern.

Therefore, he had no way to issue the abolition of small money directly in Yongzhou for the time being. After all, Yongzhou was under the direct control of Chang'an. Chang'an did not issue an edict, nor did he order the opening of warehouses to help the people. If Liu Jian had acted without permission, he would have been able to Suspected of overstepping.

However, what comforts Liu Jian is that many prominent families and powerful people in Yongzhou have begun to rebel from Wang Yun and Yang Biao.

They secretly wrote letters and sent people to see Liu Jian, expressing their desire to join the general.

This is understandable. Liu Jian's current military strength is astounding. Since entering Sizhou, he has successively defeated Li Xiang, who had a million rebels, and also defeated Yuan Shao, who had [-] Jingzhou elites. It can be said that he is unparalleled in the limelight. , even the fierce generals Li Jue and Guo Si of the Xiliang Army were beheaded by him in public.

Yang Biao, Wang Yun and others were ruined by Li Jue's confession.

Now, the emperor is nothing in front of him.

These wealthy and powerful families are weak. If they continue to follow Wang Yun, Yang Biao and others to the dark side, their families will probably be completely destroyed.

But it is not that easy for these people to join Liu Jian!

After all, these high-ranking families used to be vassals of Wang Yun and Yang Biao. They supported Wang Yun in various ways. Yang Biao opposed the New Deal and Liu Jian. Now they want to regret it and come to Liu Jian to make a living. Liu Jian How can Jian Jian forgive them easily?
If you have done something wrong in the past, you must now pay for it with something of equal value. People need to be responsible when they live in this world.

Anyone who does something wrong must pay a price!

Now if these Yongzhou locals, including the prominent families who previously opposed Liu Jian in Sizhou, want to reintegrate into the peaceful and prosperous age that Liu Jian will establish in the future, they need to provide food, their wealth and their sincerity. Calm down and stabilize the current refugees in Yongzhou and Sizhou, so that the people's lives can return to stability.

Liu Jian sent people to pass his request back to these noble families who wanted to join him.

These noble families were unhappy after hearing Liu Jian's notice!
After all, these people are insects who have been extracting profits from ordinary people for many years. Over the past hundred years, they have gradually snowballed to this day. In their concept, they have squeezed resources from ordinary people. How can they possibly use the resources again? What about giving it to ordinary people?
More than a hundred years of customs, passed down from generation to generation, have developed their thinking patterns and bad habits, and no one can easily change them.

Therefore, when Liu Jian made this request to them, many people expressed their unwillingness.

These noble families began to communicate secretly in private, feeling that Liu Jian had gone too far!

With such noble status, they have already taken the initiative to support Liu Jian, and they have expressed that they will support Liu Jian, and will not even oppose the new policies of the imperial court as before. This is equivalent to giving Liu Jian a huge face. .

But instead of comforting them, Liu Jian tried his best to win over them. Instead, he asked them to spend money to help ordinary people. Isn't this a slap in their face?
We must not get used to Liu Deran's shortcomings.

Just when these noble families were planning like this, Liu Jian also suddenly took action.

Liu Jian had found out that the Li family in Youfufeng was connected with the "Thieves" in the capital, so he sent General Yan Liang with [-] troops to attack the Li family's Wubao, and killed all the Li family members. Everyone was killed.

It is not an exaggeration for a rebellious thief to kill his whole family.

Since someone wants to instigate a coup in Guanzhong, Liu Jian will abolish his family and confiscate his money, land, property, house, etc.

As for the disciples controlled by the Li family, they were all confiscated, while all the members of his family were killed without leaving a single one alive.

After all, this is a serious crime of treason, how could he be left alive?
Liu Jian's move made all the prominent families in Guanzhong look stupid.

Only now did they realize their position with Liu Jian.

They also understand now that now is not the time for them to bargain with Liu Jian.

Liu Jian used the Li family as an example to tell them that he was giving them opportunities now rather than negotiating terms with them.

The result of giving up face is that the whole family will die!

After everyone died, all the wealth accumulated by the entire clan over generations had to be used to provide relief to the victims.

The left and right have to use your money to relieve the victims and appease the people. It’s best if you take the initiative to take it. If you don’t want to take it, I will take it directly for you. It depends on what you choose.

The Li family in Youfufeng was directly wiped out from the territory of the Han Dynasty by Liu Jian, and all their property was confiscated. Now all the prominent families in Yongzhou knew what to do.

They did not dare to negotiate terms with Liu Jian anymore, but followed Liu Jian's request and donated the grain and grass in their hands in the required amount.

Of course, Liu Jian is not too vicious or greedy.The amount of food and grass he asked for was calculated in advance!
He would not kill these families, and it was impossible for them to donate all their food and grass, but he would definitely ask for a huge sum of money.

In terms of amount, it should be very painful for these families.

As the saying goes, cutting meat with a slow knife, in some cases, you have to boil the frog in warm water. You can't force these families too hard, otherwise it will easily have the opposite effect, and it will be counterproductive.

After obtaining enough food and grass, the rebels in Guanzhong stabilized. In addition, Liu Jian will conduct land surveying in Yongzhou in the future, and will also implement the land settlement policy and allocate land to these refugees. Therefore, the rebellion in Yongzhou will continue for a short time. Very well contained.

After all, Liu Jian's words never failed to count, especially towards the common people in Guizhou, he always treated them with the most sincere attitude and the most kind heart.

Unlike ordinary people in power, Liu Jian never regarded the people of the Han Dynasty as lambs.

He regarded the people of the Han Dynasty as the builders of the Han Dynasty.

In Liu Jian's view, the Han Dynasty could not do without these thousands of common people. Only when these people contributed their labor and strength can this dynasty and this country become more prosperous and more prosperous. Stronger and richer.

These noble families in Guanzhong provided food, coupled with the support of the Hebei Chamber of Commerce and Industry, and the power of the Hebei government, finally this winter, most of the refugees in Yongzhou were able to survive the cold winter. The number of rebels in Yongzhou dropped sharply. Of course, , not all rebels will surrender to Liu Jian.

There are some people with deceitful intentions. Even if the price of food is kept as low as possible and given to them for free, they will still continue to rebel.

For these people, Liu Jian did not hesitate to send out a group of his elite generals to give them the strongest military blow, wipe out all the rebels, cut off the heads of the thieves and hang them on Wuguan. Thought it was a shock.

After all these things were done, Liu Jian began to prepare for the invasion of Chang'an.

Because as far as he knew, most of the princes and clan members of the Liu family had entered Yongzhou.

If Liu Jian didn't enter Chang'an first, I'm afraid they might not be willing to enter Chang'an.

However, Liu Jian was not a fool. He wrote to these princes and kings, asking everyone to go to Chang'an within a unified time and enter the city as a unified force.

In this way, it would not appear that he, Liu Jian, entered Chang'an first to seize power.

All Liu Jian in the world came to Beijing together. This was a collective action of the clan members of the Han Dynasty and had nothing to do with Liu Jian.

As for the date of entering Chang'an, Liu Jian also deliberately set it to be very dramatic, that is, the New Year's Eve of [-] AD, which was New Year's Eve in the eighth year of Xingping.

Letting the clan members enter the capital during the New Year's Day is like celebrating the upcoming New Year and the new atmosphere of the Han Dynasty.

The year is a new year, and the court is also a new court from this moment on.

In fact, Liu Jian originally planned to change the yuan after the Chinese New Year, but it seems now that he does not need to change the yuan this year.

After the new emperor who is about to be deposed ascends the throne, there will be a new reign name. This change of the Han Dynasty will have nothing to do with Liu Bian.

On New Year's Eve in 197 AD, Liu Jian's army finally arrived in Chang'an City. Also arriving at the same time were more than a hundred Liu family princes and famous Liu family members of the Han Dynasty.

These more than a hundred clan members rode tall horses outside the city gate under Chang'an City. They looked up at the tall city together and couldn't help but be filled with emotion for a while.

Nearly 400 years ago, Emperor Gaozu established the foundation of the Han Dynasty here, and it has been passed down to Liu Bian today.

At this moment, the gates of Chang'an City were locked, and there were many soldiers guarding the city standing on top of the city. These soldiers were all fully armed, holding long bows and crossbows in their hands, staring closely at the dense crowd of people under the city.

Seeing this situation, these famous Liu family members and the princes and kings didn't know whether they should enter the city.

Besides, even if they wanted to enter the city, how could they do so?

Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, was relatively prestigious among the princes and the Liu clan, so at the urging and request of the Liu clan, Liu Zhong rode out of the team and headed towards the top of the city tower. A cry:
"Is the gatekeeper here? I am the King of Ganling."

"We, a group of Liu family members, have come to Chang'an from all over the Han Dynasty. We want to enter the capital to meet the emperor. Please open the city gate as soon as possible."

Liu Zhong shouted, but no one on the top of the city answered him.

On top of the city, long bows and long crossbows were still set up on the battlements, aiming at the people below, and the atmosphere was extremely serious.

It seems that if only one person dares to take a step forward, he will be shot off the horse immediately!

When Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, saw that the gatekeeper ignored him, he immediately shouted again: "I am the king of Ganling. Who is your gatekeeper? Please come out and see me quickly."

Still no sound.

At this moment, a passage suddenly opened in the military formation at the rear. General Wen Chou, wearing heavy armor and holding a knife, came to the city gate of Chang'an.

He raised the sword in his hand and said loudly:

"All the clan members of the Han Dynasty and all the princes and kings are here. King Ganling personally went out to find the city gate officials to inquire. The city gate order is only six hundred stones at most. You are hiding here. I will give you dozens of words. If they don’t show up yet, I have an army of ten thousand behind me and will attack the city gate! If the city gate order is captured then, Wen will definitely chop him and his whole family into pieces!”

"one!"

"two!"

"three!"

Before counting to ten, after only counting three times, Chang'an's city gate order hurriedly stood on top of the city, and kept bowing to Wen Chou below.

"General, forgive me. General, forgive me. I just went out to pay tribute. I went out to pay tribute..."

Wen Chou shouted angrily: "What the hell, it took so long to finish defecating? Why don't you pay homage to King Ganling!"

The city gate order did not dare to be negligent and said hurriedly: "I will pay my respects to the king!"

Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, nodded gratefully to Wen Chou, and then ordered to the city gate: "We, the princes, kings and clansmen have arrived in the capital. We have important matters to report to the emperor. You can lower the suspension bridge, open the city gate, and let me Wait until we enter the city!"

(End of this chapter)