Weapons of criticism cannot replace the criticism of weapons. The most powerful thing in the world is the army and the weapons in its hands.
When Cao Ren led Ying Yang's army to Shu County with murderous intent, the power of those originally arrogant and powerful families came to an end.
When Gao Yu was at his most dangerous, the city of Chengdu was completely surrounded, traffic inside and outside Chengdu was cut off, food could not enter, and a small food shortage broke out in the city.
Fortunately, there were still a lot of grain reserves in the city. Gao Yu opened a warehouse to store grain, which stabilized the defenders in the city and did not cause chaos in Chengdu. He persisted until Cao Ren arrived with his army.
After Cao Ren arrived with his army, he observed that the city of Chengdu was under threat, so he personally led a thousand cavalry to attack the local tyrant coalition outside Chengdu.
With just a thousand cavalry, they defeated the more than 20,000 local tyrant coalition forces threatening Chengdu outside the city. It took less than half an hour for the battle to be decided.
An army composed of slaves had no combat effectiveness at all.
There is still some hope for this group of slaves to burn, kill and loot together. After all, everyone is doing it for themselves and to make their lives more comfortable. Even slaves have the desire to rob.
But letting the slaves fight against the regular army is really too much thinking.
In the end, more than a thousand people chased more than 20,000 people and beat them. They chased them out of Chengdu for seven or eight miles. They killed more than a thousand people and captured more than 10,000 people. They achieved a complete victory.
In the next three days, Cao Ren defeated the resistance forces in the surrounding areas of Chengdu City and relieved the danger in Chengdu City.
From early April to mid-to-late April, Cao Ren ordered the army to launch a fierce and cruel liquidation of the rebel forces in Shu County, using the power of blood and fire to promote the execution of the slave restriction order. As a result, countless openly rebellious families were shattered.
Cao Ren has a fiery nature and likes to move forward on the battlefield, advocating Zhang Fei's fierce attack. His favorite general in the army is Zhang Fei, so he is also quite strong and domineering in his behavior.
There were many families in Shu County who resisted, including some medium-sized families that controlled some salt wells. They also had a certain influence on the politics of Shu County. Gao Yu tried to persuade Cao Ren not to kill him, but Cao Ren did not agree with such a decision.
"If you dare to resist the slave restriction order today, you will dare to rebel tomorrow. If you can't kill those who blatantly rebel and threaten the imperial court, and make the world think that the imperial court is weak and can be bullied, we don't know what will happen in the future!
Mr. Gaofu, you are so kind! The best way to deal with these rebellious and rebellious people is to kill them all and let the remaining people know the consequences of resisting the court! This is something that cannot be backed down no matter what. If you take a step back, the authority of the imperial court in Shu will be lost! "
Cao Ren had some political awareness and was very dissatisfied with Gao Yu's conservative style. He announced an indiscriminate attack on the rebels and extermination of their clans, and wanted to use their heads to tell the Shu people - don't go against the imperial court.
Under Cao Ren's fierce attack, more than a hundred large, medium and small families in Shu County were wiped out, including two families engaged in the salt-making industry.
They were very powerful, with more than a thousand salt workers and slaves in their family. Despite this, in front of Cao Ren, they were just like paper.
The Yingyang Army is a newly established army with few battlefields and insufficient military experience. However, it is still a regular army after careful training. Its weapons and equipment are not comparable to those of the Caotai team in Shu.
They basically kill indiscriminately.
Gao Yu was shocked by Cao Ren's ruthless methods, and was also shocked by Liu Bei's strong military style, but Gao Yu also understood that if the Chenliu Gao family wanted to survive well, they must stand on Liu Bei's position and serve He does things.
The failure to maintain the stability of Shu County was a loss of points, which made Gao Yu a little worried. He wondered whether Liu Bei would have any bad opinion of him.
But in any case, the resistance in Shu County did not last long and was put down. The situation in the remaining Hanzhong County, Guanghan County, Qianwei County and other places was also very different.
Some people gave in and were willing to abide by the slave restriction order in exchange for peace of mind. Some people did not give in and resisted forcefully. In the end, Liu Bei's army was forcefully suppressed.
By mid-to-early May, these northern counties of Yizhou had released a total of about 230,000 slaves. These slaves did not go to other places, but were registered by the government on the spot.
The soil in Shu is fertile and there is a lot of good land. However, due to intense land annexation, field taxes have become less and less.
After several civil strife, a lot of abandoned land was left uncultivated. Liu Bei asked the Shu government to organize these slaves, restore their citizenship, and then join collective farms to restore agricultural production in Shu.
Politically, it's pretty much what Gao Yu guessed.
Based on this incident, Liu Bei discovered that some Shu officials were cowardly and unreliable. Although they did not go against Liu Bei, they were willing to carry out his orders, but their abilities were limited.
So Liu Bei decided to transfer a group of officials, including Gao Yu, to Luoyang City as Yilang, and replaced them with capable people around him to take up the positions in Yizhou.
Liang Hu was so ill that he failed to play a big role in the entire slave restriction incident. Seeing this, Liu Bei simply spoke to Zhang Rang and sent his own people to take over Liang Hu's position and let Liang Hu return. Luoyang cures diseases.
He appointed his important assistant Xun You as the new governor of Yizhou, and entrusted the position of governor of Shu County to Cao Ren, allowing them to work together to stabilize the situation in the Chengdu Plain and launch a new round of collective farm reform in Yizhou. construction.
Moreover, the government began to extend its hands to the well salt in Yizhou.
For Yizhou, it is not just as simple as cultivating the fields. Controlling Yizhou's salt industry is also a very important link. It is Liu Bei's established plan to control the main part of Yizhou's salt industry in the hands of the government, and the first step is to pass The slave restriction order has been successful in attacking local powerful forces, and the next step is the second step.
In order to carry out the task of fully controlling the economic lifeline of Yizhou, Liu Bei sent Xun You to Yizhou and handed over this task to Xun You. He believed that Xun You would be able to handle this matter for him.
"Controlling the lifeline of Yizhou is not an easy task. There will be many people who oppose you, and you will also face some dangers, but I trust you. You will definitely succeed. If you handle this matter well, I will entrust you with more tasks. Lots of things.”
Xun You did not doubt Liu Bei's words. He was very clear about Liu Bei's persistence in this matter. Of course, he knew that controlling Yizhou's salt affairs and controlling Yizhou's Shu brocade were not the same thing. It would be very difficult, but he knew better that this It is an important test.
If successful, it will have a very significant boosting effect on his future career.
Throughout the first half of the third year of Jian'an, Liu Bei launched a new round of slave-restriction operations that tormented the four states and the people in the court. The newly released population of over one million people needed to be coordinated and resettled by the court. , it requires money, manpower and material resources, and the investment of a lot of resources.
The court led by Liu Bei is willing to spend money and has enough money to spend. If the money is really not enough, Liu Bei will use his own small treasury to subsidize the state. Anyway, the main principle is that as long as you are willing to do things, you will not be short of money.
Currently, Liu Bei has actually become the master of the imperial court.
Since the second year of Jian'an, Liu Bei has become the de facto ruler of the Han Empire. All government orders are basically based on his wishes, and Manchu officials are basically following Liu Bei's footsteps.
After decades of absurdity, the Luoyang court began to transform into a down-to-earth government under the control of Liu Bei.
(End of chapter)
