This was the first time that the ancient literature school felt the negative effects of Liu Bei's strength on them.
It used to be a positive effect, but now that the Jinwen School is gone, Liu Bei's strength has been directly used on them, which makes them uncomfortable.
Military strongmen are all-round and target everyone, rather than targeting a particular group alone. In the past, it was because everyone had a common enemy, but now the situation is different.
Since everyone no longer has a common enemy, who to target is of course decided based on Liu Bei's own interests.
The interests of the ancient literature school and Liu Bei's own interests are not the same thing. Liu Bei needs to let the ancient literature school understand this truth and not go too far.
If they thought that Liu Bei would be very concerned about the interests of the school and would be infinitely tolerant of them, then they were totally wrong.
Liu Bei would never tolerate their excessive behavior.
During the same period of time, Zhang Rang also convened an internal meeting of the ten permanent servants. At the meeting, everyone banged the table and smashed the benches, quarreled endlessly, and had a fierce dispute over the distribution of interests. Zhang Rang also found out who had taken action against his subordinates. Someone who buys off.
Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang, Song Dian.
Zhang Rang was very dissatisfied with these three people and gave them an ultimatum. If something similar happened again and Liu Bei didn't take action, he would clean up the family.
Guo Sheng and three others were also very dissatisfied with Zhang Rang's strength, thinking that Zhang Rang was cheating.
"I am your ally, and Liu Xuande is the general! He wants to dominate. Without me, how would Liu Xuande treat you? Don't be confused about the reality!"
"You are the ones who don't understand the reality! Liu Xuande is the most powerful person in the world. It is only because of him that we are alive and can continue to hold positions in the court and hold power. Without him, we will die without a burial place! You idiots!"
Zhang Rang was very angry about this and forcefully demanded that the Shi Changshi forces hand over part of what Jizhou had swallowed to Liu Bei in exchange for his forgiveness. Otherwise, he could not guarantee the integrity of the Shi Changshi.
In this regard, Zhao Zhong, Xia Yun, Duan Gui and Gao Wang, who were familiar with Liu Bei's methods, gave in, while Bi Lan, Li Song, Zhang Gong and Han Kui had ambiguous attitudes.
Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang and Song Dian still maintained a tough attitude.
After everything has been done and the money has been swallowed, can you still spit it out?
If they spit this out, what dignity would they have to continue hanging around in Luoyang City? Won't those guys who are waiting for food under their hands soon leave them?
Seeing that the ultimatum was ineffective, Zhang Rang told Liu Bei about the incident and gave up the act of saving other people's lives.
Liu Bei sneered, informed Guo Hong of the news, and gave Guo Hong an order to capture the three eunuchs.
After Guo Hong learned of Liu Bei's order, he immediately mobilized his Zhongdu officials and disciples to rush into the residences of Guo Sheng, Sun Zhang and Song Dian in broad daylight, captured the three people, and then escorted them to the market entrance to behead them in public. .
Three people were killed in an instant, and all their family members were arrested and thrown into prison. The Hongdu School students and court officials who were related to the three were arrested and liquidated at the same time. It only took half a day for the three people's power to conquer. Got cleaned up.
Contrary to everyone's expectations, Liu Bei killed three eunuchs on charges of corruption and liaison with the Yuan family. In half a day, all their forces were liquidated, and everyone related to them was arrested. The effect was very high. , action and decisiveness.
This news shocked the Luoyang officialdom, the eunuch group and the ancient literature school.
They had only thought that Liu Bei was ruthless in his attacks on outsiders, but they did not expect that Liu Bei would be equally decisive in his attacks on internal people.
This time it was three notorious eunuchs who died. Scholars and officials could not say anything for these three people and could only applaud them against their will. But they all knew that this was Liu Bei's response to the Jizhou incident. reaction.
He was telling everyone.
I will kill people.
I can kill people.
The heads of the three eunuchs first frightened the forces of the Ten Changshi, so Bi Lan, Li Song, Zhang Gong and Han Kui quickly gave in and immediately ran to Liu Bei's general's house to apologize, saying that they would soon Clean up the Jizhou issue and explain all misunderstandings.
Zhao Zhong and others acted even faster, delivering truckload after truckload of gifts directly to the General's Mansion with super high efficiency. They apologized to Liu Bei and told Liu Bei that everything that happened was a misunderstanding and there would be no more. Once.
Liu Bei was very satisfied with the eunuchs' obedient attitude and praised them.
This decisive move also frightened many people from the ancient literature school, and they quickly realized to what extent Liu Bei's power had expanded.
As long as he is willing, he can kill eunuchs today, and tomorrow, he might be able to kill people from the Ancient Literature School for the same reason.
As long as you live in Luoyang, you may not be able to escape this threat.
Even in Luoyang City where his army was not garrisoned, he could still pass unimpeded - Dong Zhong had been a coward for a long time anyway, and Luoyang City was actually undefended for Liu Bei.
At least the 1,200 officials and disciples of Zhongdu under Guo Hong could come and go as they pleased, and Guo Hong was Liu Bei's loyal supporter. He would do whatever Liu Bei said.
Zheng Tai and others maintained their identities because they could not lose face and gave in, but after much thought, they did not dare to really break up with Liu Bei, so they could only privately tell their respective disciples to go to Liu Bei's house to apologize on their behalf. Apologize, and tell Liu Bei that they have already decided to accept the 60% request.
With Liu Bei's extraordinary achievements, why not get 60%?
So starting from April of the third year of Jian'an, the number of slaves counted by Jizhou officials and the number of property confiscated from guilty persons also increased greatly.
This number was compiled by Qiao Mao, the governor of Jizhou, and brought to Luoyang. Then according to Liu Bei's instructions, the slaves were sent to Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom and Hejian Kingdom. Some of the property was also sent to the three places, and the rest. They were all escorted to Luoyang.
This was the first time Liu Bei had gone berserk, the first time he had gone berserk against "one of his own". Such ferocious and fast actions stunned many people, and it was also the first time that some people successfully understood what a military strongman meant.
The problems in Jizhou were quickly sorted out, and the slave restriction order and slave resettlement work quickly entered the formal process.
Therefore, among the four states involved in this wave of slave restriction orders, only Yizhou remained.
Yizhou is a relatively complete and peaceful state. Unlike Guanzhong and Hebei, Guanzhong and Hebei have been repeatedly affected by wars in the past five or six years. The internal forces have been purged by the army and wars in turn, causing great losses. Yizhou has not No.
After the unique terrain conditions caused Ma Xiang and others to rebel, there were no more wars in Yizhou. The forces in various places were basically in a relatively intact state, except for the major changes in Bajun.
But Yizhou is particularly important to Liu Bei.
In particular, half of Liu Bei's paper production capacity is in Yizhou. Nowadays, the entire Guanzhong, including the Luoyang court, can use large quantities of paper for official business, mostly relying on the vigorous development of Yizhou's papermaking industry.
Among them, the efforts of Gao Yu, the governor of Shu County, were indispensable. He made a lot of contributions to the popularization of paper in the Han Empire, making the papermaking industry almost a pillar industry of Shu County.
It can be said that under the protection of Liu Bei, Yizhou's economic development is very good. The locals think that Yizhou will continue to be prosperous and comfortable.
However, the issuance of the slave restriction order cast a shadow on this peace and tranquility.
Needless to say, Liu Bei still has great influence in Yizhou.
After all, he started running Yizhou as early as the fifth year of Zhongping. He also deployed his power in Yizhou early. He also recruited subordinates and students in Yizhou and influenced a group of Yizhou people.
Now that the slave restriction policy is issued, there are still people in Yizhou who are willing to respond.
(End of chapter)
