Let’s face it, Liu Chan’s decision cannot be said to be wrong.
Zhuge Liang has Zhuge Liang's plan because Zhuge Liang's ability to control the overall situation is much better than Liu Chan. Even Liu Bei may not necessarily be better than Zhuge Liang in terms of the overall situation of governance.
From Zhuge Liang's point of view, he definitely hopes to use this to see more of the connections between aristocratic families. But from Liu Chan's point of view, there is a rebellion, and there is even the possibility of attacking Chengdu. As the prince of the country, it is impossible for him to Looking indifferent.
Therefore, Liu Chan made a decision.
On the one hand, Jiang Wei was sent to lead the southern army of ten thousand people to attack the traitor Huang Yuan in Hanjia County.
On the other hand, an order was issued to Li Yan, the governor of Jiangzhou, to march to Qianwei County and block Huang Yuan's southward escape route.
This in itself can be regarded as a sign that Liu Chan is capable and responsible.
As soon as Jiang Wei led the army to the expedition, Zhuge Liang knew that the matter was about to end after receiving the news. There was no point in staying in Hanzhong. He immediately set off south and headed straight to Chengdu.
And Jiang Wei's counterinsurgency was so smooth that it was incredible.
There is a reason for Huang Yuan's misjudgment.
After all, Jiang Wei is too young, only in his early twenties. This kind of person leads an army alone. In Huang Yuan's view, it is the embodiment of the lack of people in Chengdu.
As for the Hannan Army, it is just a new army formed two years ago. It has never even been on the battlefield. What kind of combat effectiveness can it have? !
As for Huang Yuan himself, he has been in Hanjia County for a long time. He thinks that he is also a man who is familiar with military books and has experienced many battles. His troops are well-fed. How can he be afraid of 10,000 new soldiers led by a Huangkou boy? !
This was the reason why Huang Yuan misjudged and underestimated the enemy.
Another factor that led to Jiang Wei's success in countering the rebellion was the help of aristocratic families.
Yes, the aristocratic families in Shuzhong provided a lot of help to Jiang Wei in suppressing the rebellion in order to ensure that Huang Yuan's death would not continue like this.
From military ration supplies to all information inside and outside Hanjia County, whatever Jiang Wei wanted, the noble families would give him.
It was such a commotion that Jiang Wei's army hadn't left Chengdu yet, and Jiang Wei had already grasped all the internal situations in Hanjia County.
When it comes to Hanjia County, not to mention, three of the four counties in Hanjia County are all indifferent, and even the county magistrates are extremely unified.
"We had no intention of rebelling, but the rebels were so powerful that we had no choice but to follow."
In a word, we were forced to have no choice. Now that the Japanese troops arrived, we naturally did not dare to resist, so Kaicheng surrendered.
Then, Jiang Wei successfully recruited surrenders and rebels along the way. When he arrived at Hanjia County and Yangjia County, Huang Yuan discovered that he had been completely sold out by a group of Chengdu aristocratic families.
At this time, Huang Yuan finally remembered the advice that Zhang Shen's third son had given him before, and wanted to flee south into the Nanzhong area to avoid disaster. But when he turned around, he discovered that Li Yan had already led troops to set up defenses in Jianwei County, blocking the area. own way.
Now that it's better, he can't advance or retreat, he is alone in the city, and his troops are approaching the city. Huang Yuan himself has no desire to fight. Now he is just riding a tiger and can't get off, and he can't leave the city to surrender.
After all, he took the initiative to rebel. If he surrendered, the end would not be much better.
Huang Yuan was hesitant about whether to defend or flee the country privately. Then his soldiers helped him make the choice.
It's hard to say whether these soldiers were bribed or they were simply afraid of death and didn't want to die in vain. In short, on the fifth day after Jiang Wei's army came to the city, Huang Yuan's soldiers tied up Huang Yuan and arrested him. Kaesong surrendered.
In this way, Jiang Wei only used 20 days to put down the rebellion in Hanjia County and capture the rebel leader Huang Yuan alive.
Really, Jiang Wei felt that this battle was not challenging at all.
Wherever there is a war, it is simply an armed march.
After Jiang Wei put down the rebellion and returned to Chengdu, Zhuge Liang met Jiang Wei in person, expressed some words of comfort, and then began to take over the overall government affairs of Chengdu.
A battle of wits and courage between Zhuge Liang and the aristocratic families in Sichuan has officially begun.
Let’s not mention how Zhuge Liang negotiated with these shameless aristocratic families, but let’s go back to Yongzhou and Chang’an.
Zhuge Liang took the order and returned to Chengdu, but the government affairs in Chang'an still had to be arranged.
On the one hand, there are various post-war pacification efforts.
Before Cao Wei was defeated and retreated from Chang'an, it can be said that he mobilized all the people in the Sanfu area and wanted to move into the pass. Although this plan was only half successful in the end, with only more than 400,000 people migrating into the pass, the entire In the Guanzhong area, Man Chong took the Huanshou Sword and mobilized the people.
The first priority now is to allow these people to return to their hometowns.
Let's face it, it's not that simple.
Only half of the people in Guanzhong are left. According to common sense, there will inevitably be half more ownerless land. But the question is, who is going to define which is ownerless land and which is owned? !
When Man Chong left, he did not burn the city of Chang'an, but he burned all the land registers of Guanzhong counties placed in Chang'an.
Now Liu Bei does not have any proof to prove which land belongs to which person.
The Guanzhong area is not a vast and sparsely populated place like Liangzhou. The arable land in Liangzhou is very scarce. It doesn't matter whether it is burned or not. It is also more convenient to resettle. However, the Guanzhong Plain has been an area where farming has been concentrated since ancient times.
The land here is full of attractions for everyone.
Now that the land register in Chang'an's inventory has been burned, it is impossible to prove the ownership of the land. This is too disadvantageous for the people, but for the aristocratic family, this is simply a God-given opportunity to annex the ownerless land.
Anyway, there is no proof.
Instead of taking advantage of the current period of chaos to annex land, it will not be easy to annex land after the Liu Bei Group officially launches the fish scale atlas system in Guanzhong in the future.
Liu Bei thought on his heels, everyone knows what these remaining Guanzhong aristocratic families will do next, and how ugly it will be.
Liu Bei naturally would not let these aristocratic families do this.
Not to mention that Liu Bei needs a certain amount of land to reward meritorious soldiers and move the population from other places to enrich Guanzhong. Let's talk about the current situation. With the greedy desire for land of the aristocratic families in these days, if they are allowed to annex the land, they may not be able to connect Guanzhong. The survival of the remaining 500,000 people will be in question.
Therefore, in this matter, we must find a way to clarify the land ownership.
And given the size of the Guanzhong Plain, it is completely impossible to clarify the land ownership of all common people and aristocratic families without a government land register, and without enough low-level officials to carry out this task.
Now Liu Bei needs a large number of low-level officials to manage the entire Guanzhong. But where do these officials come from? !
Regarding this problem, Zhang Xi gave his own suggestion-open a subject to obtain a bachelor's degree.
Following the example of Ma Di in Yuexun County after the Nanzhong Rebellion, he started to open courses to recruit scholars.
As soon as this suggestion came out, it was immediately opposed by Huang Quan and Pang Tong.
Are you kidding? If you take a course in Yuexun County to get a scholar, is it the same concept as if you take a course in Guanzhong to get a scholar? !
One is in a remote mountainous area, and there are not enough manpower. When you open a subject and get scholars, you have to select officials, and they are not serious civil officials. Because of this, Ma Su was messing around in Yuexun County, and a group of aristocratic families thought that Ma Su was also a famous family. Because of his background, he was too lazy to pay attention to him.
But now, if you want to open a subject in the Guanzhong area to obtain scholars, the influence is completely different.
In the Guanzhong area, you are going to open courses to obtain scholars. Then will Yizhou and Jingzhou have to do the same? !
In this case, how can the aristocratic families who have always controlled the upward path control and manipulate the poor children to consolidate their status and influence in the local area? !
Huang Quan and Pang Tong were both from aristocratic families. It was impossible for them to watch such a policy be introduced to destroy the foundation of the aristocratic family's survival in this era.
Furthermore, Huang Quan and Pang Tong cannot be said to be selfish. In fact, they know the virtues of the aristocratic families. Even if Huang Quan and Pang Tong can persuade the Huang family of Bajun and the Pang family of Xiangyang to support this, what about other aristocratic families? !
Now that Guanzhong has been decided, if this causes wars to break out again, and the Han army has to go back and forth to suppress the rebellion, and is exhausted, it will be more than worth the gain.
Although Zhang Xi's idea is good, it is also unrealistic.
The objections of these two people cannot be said to be unreasonable, and Liu Bei had to think carefully about the pros and cons.
But Zhang Xi was not convinced. He asked these two talented people from aristocratic families, if they used the old method to inspect the promotion system, it would take at least one year from promotion to inspection. In this year, the people of Guanzhong were in a state of chaos. Is it under human management? !
Can these Guanzhong aristocratic families happily agree to mobilize grassroots management from Yizhou or Jingzhou to manage Guanzhong? !
Well, even if most of these Guanzhong families have moved away, the remaining people will not be able to make any waves. There are forty-six counties in Guanzhong. Each county has a county magistrate, a county magistrate, and a county captain. This is the standard configuration. Counting the lower-level officials, there are more than a hundred people in total.
This is only at the county level. If you include officials and assistants at the state and county level, can you, the Jingzhou family and the Yizhou family, really make up for these talent gaps? !
Zhang Xi's rhetorical question stunned both Pang Tong and Huang Quan.
Whether it is a Jingzhou family or a Yizhou family, their most basic interests are in this state. If there is an opportunity to serve in this state, they will definitely find ways to fight for it, but in other states, their interest will not be too great. .
After all, it cannot bring much benefit. At most, if some big families want to split up, they will consider places outside the state.
And to be honest, both Pang Tong and Huang Quan knew in their hearts that these children of aristocratic families all wanted to become high-ranking officials, at least starting as county magistrates. How could you be so happy, let alone a lower-level official?
This gap cannot be filled by the Jingzhou and Yizhou families no matter what.
And even if he could make up for it, Liu Bei couldn't agree.
Finally, with Man Chong's "help", the number and scale of the Guanzhong aristocratic families were reduced to a historical low. If those aristocratic families from Jingzhou and Yizhou were to intervene, wouldn't Liu Bei's work be in vain?
Therefore, with Zhang Xi's rebuttal, Liu Bei's personal wishes, and Huang Quan and Pang Tong's insistence, a strange thing appeared in Guanzhong's scholar selection system.
In the name of recovering the old capital of the Han Dynasty, Liu Bei invited people from all over the world to go to Chang'an and recruit people in Chang'an to govern the place.
Scholars all over the world, as long as they are recommended by local celebrities or state and county officials, can go to Chang'an in person and participate in the assessment led by Liu Bei himself. Those who pass the assessment can choose to be recruited and serve as officials.
As soon as this news came out, the world was shocked.
(End of chapter)
