Even now that Liu Bei has left Liangzhou for a long time, there are still many Yizhou students receiving education at Liangzhou Prefectural School, and some Yizhou students have become officials and work under Liu Bei.
For example, Qin Mi, Wang Shang, Zhao Wei, Gan Ning, Zhang Ren and others are already Liu Bei's senior subordinates.
They either stayed in Luoyang to work with Liu Bei, or were arranged by Liu Bei to serve as county magistrates in Youzhou and Bingzhou to train. Gan Ning, Zhang Ren and others had already achieved the rank of captain in the army, which was regarded as A group of highly regarded representatives of local forces.
They were so highly regarded, so when the slave restriction order was promulgated, for the sake of their own future, they strongly demanded that their families cooperate with Liu Bei in executing the slave restriction order.
Not to mention strictly complying with the requirements, at least a considerable number must be handed over to Liu Bei, and we must not mix with those who are dissatisfied to avoid accidental injury and delay the future.
No matter how their families view it, at least for them personally, political interests are greater than economic interests.
Again, when does money stop being earned? But can promotion be achieved at any time?
There are only so many official positions, one carrot and one pitfall. How many people's heads will you step on every time you get a level?
In addition to Liu Bei's subordinates, those who studied in Liangzhou Prefecture School had unlimited enthusiasm and expectations for the future, and they were determined not to let some people in their family affect their future because of their selfish desires.
They have followed Liu Bei for a long time and know that what Liu Bei cares about most is loyalty. Once Liu Bei thinks you are loyal, he will not hesitate to reward you. But once Liu Bei thinks you are not absolutely loyal, your future will be questionable.
Therefore, they believe that the future is the most important, and slaves are not. The losses caused by losing slaves can be compensated from the political level, and the gains will far exceed the losses.
If you don't follow Liu Bei's wishes and lose your political future, the family will lose everything, and then others will get it.
They can't make a mistake with this choice.
Therefore, the implementation of Yizhou's slave restriction order was relatively smooth at the beginning. Under the leadership of officials arranged by Liu Bei, batches of slaves were released one after another, returning from the status of slaves to the status of free citizens, and in Re-registered with household registration under the arrangement of the local government.
However, there are only a few people who can make amends politically.
There are only a few who can be officials, and only a few can get compensation. Most people still cannot get compensation politically. Therefore, except for those who have political connections with Liu Bei, most local tycoons who have no political connections with Liu Bei are still dissatisfied. .
Because of the traffic congestion, Yizhou people were more wary of the outside world, and there were fewer people holding positions in the Luoyang court. Therefore, their willingness to cooperate was lower and their willingness to confront was stronger.
The confrontation between the local tyrants in Yizhou was fierce even in Shu County and Ba County, where Liu Bei had been running for a long time, not to mention other counties.
However, because this time the slave restriction order was limited to several counties in the northern part of Yizhou, there was no unrest in the southern counties.
This is of course not because Liu Bei was merciful and did not cause trouble in the southern counties, but that the proportion of foreigners in the southern counties and vassal states of Yizhou is actually relatively large. The local area itself is not very stable, and the local people are not very obedient to the government. It is completely meaningless to issue slave liberation orders to those foreigners.
Directly using military means to declare dominance is truly meaningful.
Therefore, Liu Bei's strategy for Yizhou is to first use three points of military and seven points of politics to conquer Hanzhong County, Guanghan County, Shu County, Ba County and Qianwei County in the north of Yizhou, and then use three points of politics and seven points of military to conquer the southern part of Yizhou.
At the moment, we still focus on northern Yizhou. First, we must completely take northern Yizhou into our hands, and also control the fertile land of the Chengdu Plain.
For this reason, Liu Bei knew that Liu Sheng's Shence Army stationed in Ba County was not enough, so he dispatched Cao Ren to lead the Ying Yang Army into Shu in advance and stationed it in Shu County. With the cooperation of Gao Yu, the prefect of Shu County Control the basic situation in Shu County.
At least, Liu Bei could not accept that Shu County could not produce more paper due to unrest.
To be precise, Yizhou experienced a small wave of turmoil when it liquidated the Jinwen School and its servants, but it was not greatly affected.
The biggest turmoil during the Jian'an period was the previous liquidation of the Zhang family in Chengdu, Shu County.
But this time, what the government needs to face is the resistance of ordinary powerful families, large and small.
They were unwilling to hand over the slaves, believing that their interests had been seriously damaged. The Shu people, who had not felt Liu Bei's power for a long time, even mobilized slaves on a large scale to form an army to fight against the power of the government.
Facing these people, Gao Yu, a typical scholar with average military ability, was once in a hurry and was overwhelmed. It was quite difficult to deal with these situations.
Different from Bajun, Bajun implemented a very strong rule due to the existence of the Shence Army and the special relationship between the people and Liu Bei. The local wealthy families in Bajun, led by the Gan family, were willing to cooperate with Liu Bei's actions, so Although the scale and intensity of the rebels are not small, the Ba County official has enough power to suppress them.
As Liu Bei's clan general, Liu Sheng was regarded as Liu Bei's spokesperson in the eyes of the Bajun people. With his order, the Jin people immediately organized thousands of troops to fight the rebellion in various places in Bajun together with Liu Sheng's headquarters. Destroy the clan.
According to the terrain of Bajun, many families can defend some relatively dangerous terrain, which is slightly different from the situation in the plains, and it is also more difficult for the army to attack.
However, with the help of the Taoist armed forces who were good at mountain warfare, the rebellion in Bajun was quickly suppressed. More than 70 local families who organized the rebellion were wiped out as a whole, and the slave restriction order in Bajun was successfully suppressed. Good implementation continued.
In mid-to-early April, the situation in Ba County stabilized. By the beginning of May, more than 80,000 slaves in Ba County had been freed, and basically all those who needed to be dealt with had been disposed of.
In Shu County, more people resisted, which even affected the security of Chengdu city for a time.
The team sent by Gao Yu to enforce the slave restriction order was defeated by the local tyrants in Shu County. Although they did not raise the banner of rebellion, they still aggressively dragged the coalition forces outside Chengdu to seek an explanation from Gao Yu.
Just attack the city directly.
In addition, Gao Yu's papermaking workshops in the northwest of Chengdu were besieged by opponents. More than ten houses were destroyed, and more than 20 papermaking craftsmen were killed as a deterrent to Gao Yu.
Gao Yu was more focused on cultural undertakings, but politically and militarily, Gao Yu was not strong and was used to solving problems through negotiation. Therefore, facing the strong counterattacks from the major wealthy families, Gao Yu was at a loss.
At that time, Liang Hu, the governor of Yizhou who was the spokesperson of the imperial court, happened to be ill. Gao Yu had no political helpers, so Gao Yu failed to control the situation well.
Before Cao Ren arrived with Ying Yang's army, the situation in Shu County had been bad. The resisters were very arrogant and threatened to let those who implemented the slave restriction order know what stupid things they had done.
That is to say, they have not yet made up their minds to really break up with the imperial court, but more importantly, they have to show their muscles to the imperial court, make the imperial court compromise, and return to the past ecological environment.
They arrogantly surrounded the city of Chengdu and sent news to the city, asking Gao Yu to come out to see them in person and talk to them about the matter. Otherwise, they would break through the city and make Gao Yu pay the price.
These tycoons seemed completely unaware of what they were doing.
Gao Yu also spent more than ten days in worry and was very tormented.
However, when Cao Ren led Ying Yang's army into Shu in April of the third year of Jian'an, the situation changed.
(End of chapter)
