After hearing Xin Ping's suggestion, Yuan Shao felt enlightened and immediately praised Xin Ping as a talented person in the world and a person worthy of entrusting him with important tasks.
Now, Yuan Shao loves this Jizhou governor's office to death.
He has many talents and good words, and everyone is the king of ideas. With a few suggestions, he actually compiled a complete set of public opinion offensive and propaganda techniques for him, which directly hit Liu Bei's life.
Hum, Liu Bei, you are an anti-eunuch when you succeed, and you are an anti-eunuch when you fail. You started your career by being an anti-eunuch. Unless you carry out your anti-eunuch campaign to the end, I will see how you respond to my offensive!
Yuan Benchu is full of confidence!
After this discussion, Han Fu's original group, including the locals represented by Tian Feng and Shen Pei, and the outsiders represented by Xin Wei, were willing to respect Yuan Shao as the Lord of Jizhou and take over Han Fu's position. , speak for the interests of Jizhou——
At least on the surface.
Yuan Shao has no other choice, and he doesn't want any other choice. This situation is the best ending he can think of.
So in the next few days, Tian Feng, Shen Pei, Xin Ping and others ran around for Yuan Shao's "great cause". Yuan Shao also used his ability as a little prince to run around to win over families related to the Yuan family.
Then Yuan Shao also asked them to hold a meeting, combining the two goals of anti-eunuch and revenge for the Yuan family, and deliberately put the anti-eunuch above the Yuan family's revenge plan, using anti-eunuch as the main program, and sorted out a set of The new Yuan Shao Group's action plan will be publicized throughout Jizhou first based on this.
All in all, Yuan Shao gave up the previous rhetoric.
He opened up another track, and the Yuan family transformed into a vanguard against the eunuchs, while Liu Bei became a "traitor among the scholars" who united the eunuchs to suppress the scholars.
On this new track, Yuan Shao spoke wildly and described Liu Bei as an insect who conspired to unite the eunuchs to suppress the scholars and even to eliminate them. The reason why the Yuan family was eliminated by Liu Bei was because of Yuan's unswerving defense of his family. Interests.
If you continue to support Liu Bei, the interests of the scholars will be completely taken away by the eunuchs.
Only by supporting Yuan Shao can the interests of the scholars be preserved.
Yuan Shao swore that whenever possible, he would go to Luoyang and kill all the eunuchs. Every eunuch, whether he was in power or not, would be killed completely, and there would never be any more eunuchs in the future.
This is his "solemn promise" to the people of Jizhou.
In this set of rhetoric, Liu Bei became the spokesperson of the eunuchs, and Yuan Shao was the spokesperson of the scholars. Yuan Shao bound his interests to those of the scholars, intending to make all the scholars believe that if Yuan Shao failed, the scholars would Will become a second-class citizen of the Han Empire.
However, this kind of propaganda rhetoric was not so effective at the beginning.
Words are words, and political correctness is political correctness, but interests and lives are one's own. When it comes to these two issues, political correctness must also stand aside.
So after Yuan Shao released the control of Yecheng, in just five days, more than 20 officials and staff, including the old and the young, left, and they didn't know where they went.
Yuan Shao didn't care at first, but as more and more people ran away, Yuan Shao panicked.
Doesn’t this rhetoric work?
"Many people don't want to follow me, so what can I do?"
Yuan Shao asked Feng Ji, Xin Ping, Tian Feng, Shen Pei and others for advice. They all gave their own opinions. Promotion of officials and nobles, generous rewards and so on were all common methods. Yuan Shao responded to this. Feel dissatisfied.
Later, in private, Feng Ji and Xin Ping made some suggestions to Yuan Shao as outsiders.
Judging from the current situation, it is useless to talk and talk. The people of Jizhou no longer accept this trick. If you want them to take the bait, you must offer real money so that they cannot refuse.
Feng Ji suggested that Yuan Shao promulgate a policy to carry out the anti-eunuch campaign to the end, launch a comprehensive explosion on the interests of eunuchs in Jizhou, and conduct a purge of eunuchs in Jizhou.
At the very beginning, Yuan Shao was hesitant about whether to use this strategy.
"Although I hate Liu Bei, is it too serious to completely liquidate the eunuch industries in Jizhou? Once initiated, will the people of Jizhou panic? This is a big matter, should we treat it with caution?"
Fengji shook his head repeatedly.
"Panic is the beginning, but people are greedy and want to get more benefits. The eunuchs have seized too many things that belong to the people of Jizhou. The people of Jizhou are eunuchs to the core. If there is a chance for the people of Jizhou to vent, then They will definitely support you.”
Xin Ping agreed with Feng Ji's opinion and further gave his own opinion.
"From the current point of view, some people in Jizhou are willing to obey your orders on the surface, but in fact they do not want to confront the Luoyang court. As long as the imperial army arrives, they will not resist. Therefore, it is necessary to liquidate the eunuch forces. .
As long as someone takes the lead, others will follow, and if someone follows, more people will follow. As long as they kill the eunuch's clansmen and plunder the eunuch's property, then they will be fighting the Luoyang court to the death. At that point, they can only follow you.
If they don't do this, there is still room for reconciliation between Jizhou and the imperial court. They can claim that they are only anti-eunuchs, not anti-imperial court, let alone rebellion, and do not take any action. But once people are killed and blood is seen, the situation will change. It's completely different. Those villains who think about not offending both sides will also be in a dilemma. "
Yuan Shao's eyes lit up when he heard this, and he agreed with this matter very much, so he decided to do this.
However, Feng Ji still felt that this was not enough, and suggested that what Yuan Shao had done should be widely disseminated, so that more people would know, and people in all states and counties should know about it, and strive to lead a wave of killing eunuchs and dividing property all over the world. of craze.
Anyone who does this will become Liu Bei's enemy and Yuan Shao's friend. The more such people, the greater the possibility of Yuan Shao winning!
So, what are you waiting for?
Do it quickly!
Yuan Shao was overjoyed and couldn't wait any longer, so he immediately studied and promulgated this policy.
Within a few days, he announced to the outside world that he would launch a large-scale purge of the eunuchs in Jizhou.
All eunuchs' properties were confiscated.
All the eunuch's family members were all heinous bastards, and they were all captured and beheaded.
Anyone who declares that he is against the eunuchs can rise up to clean up the eunuch properties in Jizhou. Anti-eunuchs are a major event in the world. People with lofty ideals should rise up against the eunuchs, uproot them and eliminate them completely!
Although Yuan Shao's official announcement was to "confiscate" the eunuch's property, in terms of actual implementation, Yuan Shao did not intend to be so rigid.
Everyone symbolically exchanges a little, and the rest belongs to themselves, and Yuan Shao himself will send a large number of his own troops to plunder the eunuchs' properties.
He will lead the charge and set an example to inspire all those who oppose the eunuchs to rise up together.
Eradicate the eunuchs completely!
Let the eunuchs disappear from the land of the Han Empire!
Just go ahead and do it. On May 17, Yuan Shao officially sent troops to start the operation. With Yecheng as the center, he launched a comprehensive blast on the eunuch's industries in the entire Wei County.
The eunuchs' houses, shops, gold, silver and jewelry, land, slaves and other properties were all seized, looted and taken for themselves by Yuan Shao's troops.
Not only did Yuan Shao take action, but all the dozens of Yuan Shu's disciples and former officials' families who had reached agreements with him also took action, mobilizing their family's strength to launch violent actions against the eunuch industry.
Everything that originally belonged to the eunuchs became theirs.
As long as they dare to take action, everything belongs to them.
I have to say that this move was done very well. Not to mention those families who had connections with Liu Bei or had reservations about Yuan Shao, those families whose interests were violated by eunuchs and those who decided to follow Yuan Shao were quite excited about this policy. .
Seeing Yuan Shao and his followers enjoying the hot food and making a lot of money, some short-sighted guys became jealous.
When their eyes are red, their IQ loses its high ground. When their IQ loses its high ground, they can only see the luxury in front of them and cannot see the future.
Therefore, throughout late May and early June of the sixth year of Zhongping, Yuan Shao and his followers launched a vigorous eunuch hunting operation in Jizhou. It was just like the witch hunts in the European Middle Ages. A diode was highlighted. A black and white one.
As long as they are members of the eunuch family, or those who are related by marriage to the eunuch family, no one will be spared. All men, women, and children are bastards. They are all the culprits of the decline of the Han Dynasty. They will all be arrested, killed, burned, and robbed. .
Officials and staff who had a good relationship with the eunuchs or were simply members of the eunuch group were also besieged. Some were killed, some were killed after rising up to resist, some fled, and some escaped into the mountains and forests. .
In just one month, 551 eunuch properties in Jizhou were plundered, and more than 1,600 eunuchs living in Jizhou were killed. One county prefect, 28 county magistrates, More than 200 low-level officials and officials were also brutally killed and expelled.
Of course, it is impossible not to expand this kind of thing.
Originally, Yuan Shao stipulated that only eunuchs and their relatives should be purged, and other people should not be involved. But after the order is passed on, who will care about this?
Yuan Shao has never actually governed a county, let alone a state. He has no idea about the so-called policies from above and countermeasures from below. Once power is decentralized, many things will not be decided by Yuan Shao himself.
Power does not have a mind of its own; those who control power do.
All the local scholar families and powerful families who expressed their attitude to Yuan Shao took advantage of them and robbed them. At first, they only attacked the eunuch's property, but soon, they couldn't bear it after tasting the sweetness.
Who doesn’t have one or two enemies these days that they don’t like?
Wouldn't it be nice to take advantage of this great opportunity to avenge private hatred and seize the other party's property and make it your own?
So in June, the eunuch purge in Jizhou escalated.
(End of chapter)
