Shouchun.
Wen Qin strode into the mansion and walked towards Guanqiu Jian's study. Along the way, the officials in the mansion bowed to each other one after another. Wen Qin just nodded in return and walked all the way to the door of the study and knocked on the door. .
"General."
"come in."
Wen Qin immediately walked into the study, closed the door, and then sat in front of Guanqiu Jian with a smile.
Guanqiu Jian was not alone, there was someone beside him, it was Guanqiu Dian.
"Those important targets have been killed, and I have recalled them. Is it time to send someone to rectify them?"
If there are outsiders here, they will definitely jump up in fear when they hear these words, combined with the turmoil happening in various places.
Local unrest has been going on for a long time and is not a recent phenomenon.
After Wang Yuan's uprising, Hebei was the first to follow suit. There were killings of officials and rebellions in various places. This led to Sima Shi hurriedly sending He Zeng to Hebei to suppress the rebellious local farmers, rangers, merchants and other groups.
Such contradictions exist not only in Hebei, but also in various parts of the Central Plains, but the scale is not as large as in Hebei, nor is it as widespread.
After hearing Wen Qin's words, Guanqiu Jian nodded.
"Huainan is facing Soochow after all. We can't let things get out of hand, and we can't let the people suffer too much harm and suppress it. However, we must keep it secret and guard traffic in various places. We can't say that there is chaos in the county. put down."
Wen Qin nodded and then grinned.
"Hahaha, those people usually take advantage of the presence of people in the temple, but they are quite arrogant. We asked them to hoard food before, but they said they had no food available, and they just used some cattle and sheep to fool us."
"There are many evil deeds, colluding with officials, and protecting each other. It is so troublesome to conduct a thorough investigation."
"This is good, even the officials and these thieves were eliminated together."
"General, does he know how much food he got from them? You won't believe these traitors."
"alright."
Guanqiu Jian interrupted Wen Qin in front of him and said seriously: "This is because the temple has been delayed in distributing spring plowing supplies, which has led to the rebellion of the people. Some of the soldiers among them are because the food needed by the border army has not been distributed. The meritorious soldiers He was not promoted, and because of Soochow's instigation, he participated in the rebellion. This is entirely the fault of the temple and the dereliction of duty of the Shangshutai!"
"The Shangshutai caused a civil uprising, causing so many casualties! It also made our troops confused and disobeyed the edict!"
"The food in the homes of the wealthy families has been robbed by the traitors. I don't care how much food they have in their homes. I just need the chancellor to give me an answer! What do they want to do?!"
Guanqiu Jian frowned, his expression extremely serious.
Wen Qin heard this and quickly put away the smile on his face.
"The general is right. This rebellion caused Huainan to suffer great losses. The most sage officials were killed, the virtuous and famous families were defeated, and our army suffered turmoil and could not be calmed in time. How does Master Sima manage the Secretariat?!"
"It will definitely be played!!"
Guanqiu Jian did not open his mouth to refute.
Wen Qin left here "angrily", no longer looking like before.
Wuqiudian sighed helplessly.
Guanqiudian had just returned. It was not until he returned here that Guanqiu Jian believed what happened in Luoyang. Then he met with Hu Fen again, and Hu Fen informed him of Sima Shi's order.
Then, not long after, civil uprisings broke out in several counties in Huainan.
This kind of popular uprising was not forced, it already existed.
All they did was catalyze it.
Just like clan politics, Cao Mao brought clan politics in front of Sima Shi in advance and let Sima Shi take care of it. Sima Shi also brought the civil unrest caused by clan politics in front of the ministers in advance and let the ministers take care of it. It depends.
Wuqiudian looked very sad.
"My father's land in Henan is not bad. There are only a few counties involved. But in Hebei, it is probably different."
"In this kind of turmoil, I don't know how many innocent people will be killed, I don't know how many houses will be burned down, and the farmland will be destroyed. Alas, these are all the people of the Wei Dynasty."
Wuqiudian was obviously a little distressed.
What he feels sorry for is not the aristocratic families, but the common people who were implicated and the destroyed buildings.
Guanqiu Jian, however, had a straight face and said seriously: "This will happen sooner or later."
"Since Emperor Wen, local bad governance has become more and more serious. Children of wealthy families have served as officials. These people go to temples and try their best to benefit their own clans. Their clansmen do all kinds of evil in the local area, shielding the powerful and dominating. On the one hand, they took away everything, leaving no way for the people to survive."
"Yangzhou is still a good place among many states and counties, but it has become corrupted to this point."
"The local officials are all powerful people, and the officials are from aristocratic families. They have countless lands, not to mention food. More and more people are forced to become refugees. Even if we do nothing, this civil uprising will Sooner or later it will break out and more people will die."
"But now, things are still under our control."
"Isn't it because these wealthy families are so arrogant on a daily basis because they have powerful crossbows in their hands?"
"The crossbow allows them to kill others and kill them. No matter how noble or pretentious they are, the crossbow can be fired one at a time! Kill these blood-sucking moths, and within thirty years at least, they will There’s no getting over it, it could save more people.”
Wuqiudian did not refute him again.
"The ministers are not stupid, can they not see that someone is pushing this?"
"So what if I see it?"
"Do they dare to come and kill me?"
"As for those people in Master Sima, what are you worried about them for? Even if they were wiped out by the ministers, they deserved it!"
"Besides, apart from me and Zhuge Dan, most of the four local towns and expeditions are close to Sima Shi. The most important thing is that they have no one in the temple. Sima Shi is cunning and the officials can't threaten him at all. .”
Guanqiu Jian said no more about this matter. He looked at his son and said, "You don't have to worry about these things and rest peacefully. You are such a fast-moving horse and you haven't rested since you arrived."
"My child is not tired."
"Father also needs someone to help here, so I'd better stay."
Guanqiu Jian was even more pleased. He was quite satisfied with his son.
"Can."
Xuzhou, Xiapi.
In the palace of General Zhengdong.
Hu Zun looked at the many memorials in front of him, and then looked at Hu Fen aside.
"You mean, there is no movement at all in Qingzhou?"
Hu Fen hurriedly said: "Father, it's not that there was no trouble at all. There was some turmoil, but it was quickly suppressed. No big family members have ever had trouble."
Hu Zun sneered, "Shi Bao was just a villain in the past. If he hadn't been promoted by Duke Xuanwen, how could he be where he is today?"
"How dare you disobey today?"
Hu Fen was stunned for a moment, and then explained: "Father, it's not that he didn't obey, but that he didn't get the general's order at all."
Hu Zun looked at his son suspiciously, "He and I are both former ministers of Duke Xuanwen, why didn't the general give him orders?"
Hu Fen scratched his head, "Anyway, the general asked me to come to you directly after meeting Guanqiu Jian. I asked Shi Bao, but the general asked me to ignore it."
"The general has never trusted Shi Bao very much. He thinks that he has bad conduct and is lustful but has good talents."
Hu Zun was thoughtful, stroking his beard gently, "Maybe so."
They are also aristocratic families, and aristocratic families are also divided into regions. For example, aristocratic families from the Central Plains region do not look down upon the wealthy families who come from the surrounding areas. Among them, the most discriminated against are the wealthy families in Kansai, and it is difficult for them to gain a certain status in temples.
Hu Zun was born in the Hu family in Anding, and he belonged to the type of person who was not favored by the big families in the Central Plains.
He followed Sima Yi for many years and made many military exploits, and then he became the general who conquered the east, commanding the governors of Xu and Qing states.
But among the ministers, it is not enough for you to just know how to fight. You have to study classics. You ride horses and fight all day long. You are proficient in literary affairs. How dare you say that you are a rich family with a heritage of classics?
Hu Fen also asked: "Father, since the wealthy families nominated by the general are gone and the remaining ones have suffered heavy losses, is it time to take action?"
"Action? What action?"
Hu Zun frowned and asked displeasedly: "Did I cause the civil unrest? Why do you need me to quell it?!"
"The ministers in the temple are so wise. They should be holding the Sutra of Filial Piety to pacify these people!"
Hu Fen pursed his lips and did not dare to say anything more.
Hu Zun narrowed his eyes, "Next, the officials in the temple will determine the grades of many clans and recruit talents according to the clan's grades."
"If these high-quality people don't die, how can we have a place?"
"Don't stop, keep going, the more they die the better."
Hu Fen was a little hesitant, he couldn't help but said: "Father, the general said"
"Huh, I'm out here, and I won't accept my orders. The general can't punish me for this."
"But those ministers in the temple?"
When he heard his son talking about the ministers, Hu Zun's eyes became even more disdainful, "When I followed Duke Xuanwen to behead the barbarians, they were still running around naked. People like them, what if I offend them?" ?What else do they do besides talk and curse?”
"Do they have the guts to come in front of me and ask for trouble?"
"The general has killed more people than me. Did they dare to insult him? Taking advantage of the general's serious illness to harm him, hehe, I have never paid any attention to such villains."
"Fen, you have to remember that any false reputation or classics are all fake. Only military power is real. When I asked you to join the army as a civilian, I just wanted you to understand this."
"As long as you know how to fight, as long as you have an army, and as long as you are healthy, no one can be your opponent. Those celebrities will come to praise you and argue for you!"
"Ignore these villains!"
