Although Zhao Zuoliang is not good at leading troops, he has been the actual leader of the Zhao family for many years, running family businesses, handling disputes, and has good internal affairs skills, so his work performance is still good.
He arrested all those who had done evil during the short period of power of the Zhao Xiang Group, questioned and examined them one by one, and found out from them many cases of money and power transactions between them and the people in power of the Zhao Xiang Group.
Su Yonglin felt a little incredible as he listened.
When he was reading history books, he read that Liu He, the deposed emperor of the Western Han Dynasty, had been emperor for twenty-seven days and was dethroned by Huo Guang.
Huo Guang listed some reasons when he dethroned him. One of the reasons was that Liu He had done 1,127 bad things in the 27 days since he took the throne.
At that time, Su Yonglin found it unbelievable how much trouble a person would have to do to do one thousand one hundred and twenty-seven bad things in twenty-seven days.
On average, Liu He will do forty-one bad things a day, twenty-four hours a day, and apart from the eight hours of rest, there are only sixteen hours for him to do bad things, which means that he will do nearly three bad things an hour. Something bad...
If you do nothing day by day, you are doing bad things.
And there’s not even an overlap?
Although this was a bit pretentious, Su Yonglin's mind changed after hearing Zhao Zuoliang's report on the bad things Zhao Xiang Group had done within a month.
He suddenly felt that although the history books were a bit exaggerated, since it could be written down, it meant that similar things really happened and were not groundless rumors.
It is true that some people are in power just to do bad things and satisfy their own selfish desires. Their existence is to vent their desires and do bad things.
After these Zhao family members pushed Zhao Xiang to the throne, they immediately began to use their power to seek personal gain for themselves, recruiting groups of local powerful people to extort money.
They will be gentler on those who are timid, and they will use various methods to bully and polish those who are tough-minded.
They often unite with the families that give them benefits to suppress the families that do not give them benefits, and help divide the property of these families, dismembering and eating them, until they are full of fat.
They also want land, they also want money, they also want beautiful women, and they even want beautiful men.
Anyway, as long as it was given to them, they would accept it all. They were like a kind of person who could only get in but not get out.
Let alone the Liberation Army, these things cannot be tolerated. Even the mixed and mixed laws of the Jin Kingdom cannot agree with them on the surface. Unless the relationship is strong, they must be dealt with.
With these things in mind, the survivors of the bullied families came to Su Yonglin crying and complained that if they didn't kill people, there would be no way to convince the public, and Su Yonglin would not be able to secure this territory.
So after Su Yonglin read the report, he felt that this situation was not too good.
Execute these bastards openly and honestly, cut off the political threats, completely eliminate the influence of the Zhao family in the Liberation Army, and let your influence last throughout.
At the same time, all the wealth collected by the Zhao family and external forces can be transferred to the public account, and it can even directly promote the widespread implementation of its new rural policy in this area.
No matter how you look at it, you can make money with blood.
The land, farmers and money owned by these guys can be considered an astronomical figure. According to current statistics, there are two to three million acres of high-quality farmland, and tens of millions of cash that can be used immediately.
Even if Su Yonglin's regiment, which has equally huge military expenditures, came to eat, they would not be able to eat all these things in one bite. They had to eat slowly, otherwise they would suffer from indigestion.
A bottomless pit like the Corps couldn't eat all this wealth in one go, so Su Yonglin could understand how Jiaqing felt when he killed Heshen.
So he looked at Zhao Zuoliang and then at Zhao Yucheng.
"Now that the matter has reached this point, if we do not deal with it seriously and cannot convince the public, the people's hearts will not be stable and the people will not agree. This is very dangerous for us. What do you think?"
What else could Zhao Zuoliang say?
Zhao Yucheng was so angry that he was going crazy with the clan members who betrayed his father, and firmly supported Su Yonglin in punishing these bastards.
"Uncle Yuting, don't worry about me, I wish I could kill these traitors with my own hands!"
Zhao Yucheng decided to kill his own people.
It is your own fault and you will not live.
So after "careful" thinking, Su Yonglin decided to replace the former former army commander Chen Zuo, the former rear army supervisor Zhao Yiyuan, the former left army commander Zhao Yi, the former right army supervisor Zhao Ruida, and the original front army supervisor Zhao Jinghuan. Kill everyone.
The reason is that these five people have committed a particularly large number of crimes, and have done too many unjust things with the power in their hands. They are not tolerated by the people, and they must be killed to comfort the people.
As for the principal criminal Zhao Xiang and the accomplice Zhao Jiashi, since they have already been executed, there will be no further punishment.
These people were beheaded, but their families were also responsible.
Zhao Yucheng simply suggested that they be expelled from the Zhao clan and from now on they would be common people who had nothing to do with the Zhao clan.
And they are no longer allowed to have the surname Zhao.
This opinion was agreed by Su Yonglin. Zhao Zuoliang thought for a while and seemed to want to say something, but he didn't say it in the end.
So the matter was settled.
The remaining people who were not executed had committed crimes, but the crimes were not serious enough to warrant execution, but they could not be tolerated to continue to dominate.
Su Yonglin announced that most of their property would be confiscated, leaving only a small amount of land and simple and dilapidated farmhouses that could make a living, and expelling the Zhao clan.
The family members of these criminals must also change their surnames. They are not allowed to have the surname Zhao anymore and are not allowed to identify themselves as members of the Zhao family.
As for those families who have taken refuge in the Zhao Xiang Group and relied on the Zhao Xiang Group to seek benefits for their crimes, in minor cases they were fined and their land confiscated, and in serious cases their property was confiscated, causing them to lose everything and not even have the chance to start over.
Because their surviving rival families will definitely make them feel a future that is more uncomfortable than death.
It is the so-called evil people who have their own trials and tribulations.
The execution of these punitive measures is backed by the army. Although some people yell and some struggle desperately, no individual can resist the force of the army.
After a wave of punishments and liquidations, only two of the dozen or so clan members of the Zhao family were left, Zhao Zuoliang and Zhao Yucheng.
The rest either died or were expelled from the family and became people with foreign surnames that had no connection with the Zhao family.
They don't deserve the surname Zhao.
Su Yonglin used this trial to basically liquidate the Zhao family's influence in the Liberation Army, and it was dealt with openly and without any objection.
The root cause is that the Zhao family is too obsessed with death.
Su Yonglin's act of liquidating the Zhao family's power only made the remaining people feel sad and relieved, without any other emotions.
Su Yonglin complied with the people and the time of the day to resolve this matter, ended this period of chaos, and brought order and security back to Shandong. How great is it?
From then on, Su Yonglin was truly the true leader of the Hebei and Shandong Liberation Army.
Although Su Yonglin nominally respected his father-in-law Zhao Zuoliang as the leader of the Liberation Army, everyone knew that Zhao Zuoliang was only a nominal leader and the real leader was Su Yonglin.
Zhao Yucheng had no objection to this.
Su Yonglin had a conversation with Zhao Yucheng before the announcement, and directly pointed out the reasons for his failure in this incident and the many mistakes he made, making Zhao Yucheng deeply aware of his shortcomings.
"Uncle Yuting, I have too many shortcomings. I feel that I must learn more. Can you teach me?"
Zhao Yucheng held Su Yonglin's hand and begged him sincerely.
Su Yonglin nodded and laughed.
"Of course, you should learn more so that you don't make mistakes in the future."
So Su Yonglin gave Zhao Yucheng a letter of introduction and asked him to immediately set off for Hejian Mansion to find Tian Guizi who was serving as the director of the guidance department in the army. He would study hard under his disciples and practice hard. I believe that when he completes his studies, he will It will be completely different from now.
He will know how naive he was before and what mistakes he made.
Zhao Yucheng nodded seriously.
After paying homage to his father Zhao Kaishan's grave, he left Linyi with his mother and younger brothers and sisters and went to Hejian Prefecture.
