Ma Zhong, the governor of Guanghan County, is a student of Liu Bei's second class at Liangzhou Prefectural School. He comes from a humble background. He served as county magistrate twice before, but he has not yet served as the governor of Guanghan for a full year.
After learning about this, Ma Zhong frowned and realized something, so he sent a message to Tang Li, the commander of the county army, and sent someone to send a message to Liu Sheng, the head of the Xishu Military Region, asking him to pay more attention. .
Liu Sheng has been paying close attention to the reactions in various places since the promulgation of the land transfer law. For more than a month, Guanghan County was the first to send him news, letting him know that someone could no longer sit still and tried to start a rebellion in the local area.
And action has already begun.
Liu Sheng took a deep breath, suppressed the excitement in his heart, and held a military district meeting to inform his officers of the situation so that they could be more or less prepared.
Since you entered Xishu, you have been clamoring that there is no battle to fight, and that training every day is boring. Now that the battle is coming, you have to give me some encouragement. If the battle is not fought well and the battle is not beautiful, it will be considered a win. Come on, wait for me too!
In mid-May of the first year of Zhenguan, the Western Shu Front Army entered a state of combat readiness.
At the same time, the newly established county and national military systems in each county have also entered a state of combat readiness.
Although most county military organizations are not yet full, and some even only have about a thousand people, these veterans are not timid. They are only excited when there is a war and have the opportunity to perform meritorious service. They are also gearing up and sharpening their swords. Ready to go to the battlefield at any time.
While the guys who don't want to pay taxes are still recruiting and coaxing people everywhere, the Han army and local county soldiers are already ready, waiting for them to fall into the trap.
Xie Chong's actions were somewhat effective.
People in collective farms are difficult to deceive, because their channels for obtaining information are relatively stable and efficient, which to a certain extent smooths the information gap with the landlords and wealthy landlords, making it impossible for the landlords and wealthy landlords to take advantage of the information gap to deceive them.
The individual farmers in other villages are easier to deceive. They still lack information channels as in the past, and because they have less contact with the government, they have little trust in the government. Most of them still look at the current government with the human-like eyes of the past. .
So as long as the Xie family gave them money and food, and a little more fooling, or even half persuasion and half coercion, it didn't take much effort for a group of uninformed farmers to follow them because of the horrific memories of taxation and some small favors.
The county government wanted to send someone to intervene, but it was not in time.
Three times, five times and two times, the Xie family gathered more than 300 people, and more than 20 other powerful landlord families also gathered dozens or hundreds of people. A group of people gathered together to form a team of more than 4,000 people. On the third day of June in the first year of Zhenguan, he officially announced that he would rebel against the land transfer order and attack the county seat.
But when they launched an operation to attack the county town, the Han army was actually ready.
While they were acting, the Han army was also preparing, and people were sent to follow their movements.
When the rebels gathered together and announced their march to the county town to intimidate the court to stop farming, a battalion of Han troops and more than 1,200 soldiers from Guanghan County appeared.
The Han army was more numerous than the rebels, had better equipment than the rebels, and had higher combat literacy than the rebels. As soon as the two clashed, the rebel army was defeated by the Han army without any surprise.
As the commander-in-chief, Xie Chong thought he could successfully attack in a sneak attack during the battle. He felt that he was somewhat capable of fighting and could break through the county seat to gain an advantage. He gathered more troops to fight against the Han army. However, when he saw that his army was so useless, he was actually defeated by the Han army. The army was surrounded by rebels, and his heart suddenly became cold. He didn't want to command and ran away quickly.
He led a frenzied attack with his highly capable retainers, trying to carve out a bloody path to escape, but failed to rush out. He was pushed back by a wave of counterattacks by the Han army. In the end, the front army collapsed and the entire army was annihilated.
Xie Chong himself and members of the major families who participated in the battle were captured one after another, and a few of them were killed on the battlefield.
This battle took less than half an hour to end. Too many rebels surrendered. Many farmers were unaware of this and did not think they had any need to fight. When they saw that the situation was not good, they immediately abandoned them. Sticks, bamboo and spears surrendered without any effort, and the Han army won the victory without any effort.
The frontal battlefield is over, and the Han army has wiped out all the organizers of these rebels, and wiped out more than 20 large and small families who participated in this matter. Families that have some relationship with them are also monitored by the Han army. As long as any problems are found, , deal with it immediately.
The other chief culprits, Xie Chong and others, were taken to the county government and beheaded in public display. The news was spread throughout the county as a deterrent.
At the same time, during this battle, the Han army also discovered that these rebels had iron weapons, and some even had armors. The presence of these absolute contraband items here can only mean that the major families in the county still have these contraband items in their possession. Of quality.
Although the rebellion is now resolved, the hidden risks are still there, so they require a new round of searches to strictly prevent contraband items such as armor from being hidden among the people. If found, they will be punished for treason.
However, the loss of core interests cannot be deterred by one or two battles. Just as the battle in Guanghan County ended, rebellions broke out in three other places in Ba County.
These three rebellions occurred in Linjiang County, Dianjiang County and Anhan County respectively. Officials in each of the three places were dissatisfied and gathered powerful local landowners to unite and organize people to resist the imperial court's land transfer order. This was not necessarily a rebellion, but the core The appeal was often for the court to give up the land.
But in the eyes of the court and Liu Bei, isn't this a rebellion?
Fuck him without negotiation!
After the three rebellions broke out, Liu Sheng also quickly received news. He learned that the three rebellions were of different sizes. Anhan County was the smallest, with only more than 2,000 people, and Linjiang County was the largest, with tens of thousands of rebels. people.
There are different reasons for this situation, but the biggest reason must be the incomplete implementation of the slave restriction order, which both Liu Sheng and Liu Bei can think of.
The last round of slave restriction orders can be said to have cut the slave population of the Han Empire in half. However, after calculation, the slave population of the Han Empire is still several million. The high-ranking families must account for a lot, but when it comes to the local slave population Not all officials and powerful people with high-profile households have clean accounts, but that's not necessarily the case.
There must be moisture everywhere, and privately, a considerable part of the slave population has been preserved in various ways, overtly or covertly, to continue to serve them. This is what any family with some official relationship does.
Therefore, some counties were relatively clean in their execution, so the resistance this time was much smaller. For example, in Guanghan County, there was only one rebellion overall and it was easily put down.
On the other hand, Berkshire's execution was not clean enough. There must be a lot of water in the execution, so this wave gave them real strength.
The rebellion of tens of thousands of people in Linjiang County was very large and powerful. The leader of the rebels was Xu Huai, a former Linjiang County official. He gathered many Linjiang County officials and some local powerful people who were terrified of the Dutian Order. Big households, everyone rose up to resist the order of Dutian.
Linjiang County Magistrate Ma Qiang is also a second-term student from Liangzhou Prefectural School. He has been in office for two and a half years and has made many contributions to local construction. However, Linjiang County has huge local power. On weekdays, thanks to the support of the Linjiang Gan family, he Only then can you give orders.
This time the rebels started an uprising, it was Gan who first sent an early warning to Ma Qiang. Later, Gan organized more than 2,000 troops to rush to the county seat before the rebels. Ma Qiang received support from Gan and was lucky enough to save his life. He arrived at the county seat and started a confrontation with the rebels.
Afterwards, the rebels attacked the city for six consecutive days. Ma Qiang wore his armor and personally went to the city to command the soldiers to resist.
The Han army in the Xishu Military Region did not stand still. They did not have the "excellent tradition" that "friendly troops cannot move like mountains when in trouble". After learning the news about the huge rebel forces in Linjiang County, Liu Sheng sent his deputy general Zhang Ren to lead two troops. The troops of the battalion rushed to Linjiang County.
After Zhang Ren worked as a general's vassal for Liu Bei for a period of time, he was soon transferred to the army for training. Over the years, he worked hard and made a lot of achievements. His position continued to improve, and he was finally promoted after Liu Bei ascended the throne. Promoted to Liu Sheng's deputy.
Liu Sheng still had to stay at the base camp of the Han army, so he asked Zhang Ren to go on the expedition in his place. Zhang Ren was not a simple person. After receiving the mission, he took his time and followed the waterway eastward to attack the rebels in Linjiang County. Before the attack, the rebels in Dianjiang County who were passing through the waterway were wiped out.
The Dianjiang County rebels were also weak. The thousands of ragtag troops seemed to be huge, but in fact, even the thousand Bajun County soldiers who rushed to rescue them in advance were unable to do anything. The thousand soldiers from Bajun County held them back, making it difficult for them to move.
When Zhang Ren led the elite Han army to the vicinity of Dianjiang County, a battalion destroyed them in one attack. Zhang Ren also launched a liquidation here. Within a day and a half, the rebel forces in Dianjiang County were wiped out. Uprooted.
Zhang Ren held down the heads of a group of people and beheaded them by the river, and then pushed the bodies into the water to feed the fish. This was a very intimidating and tough gesture. All the families in the county, big and small, were asked to watch. Everyone was sweating like rain, obviously shocked.
After the rebels in Dianjiang County were eliminated, the county soldiers went north to Anhan County. Zhang Ren continued to lead the troops eastward along the waterway. It took more than ten days to reach Linjiang County, and he killed some unruly soldiers along the way. Long-eyed gangsters who take advantage of the situation to cause trouble.
While Zhang Ren was on his way, the Linjiang County rebels made no progress and failed to pose a substantial threat to Linjiang County. Facing less than 3,000 defenders, more than 10,000 of them were stunned. Couldn't achieve anything.
In fact, this is not normal, because the Linjiang County defenders are not elite. They are similar in nature to the rebels. The rebels are a mob. The Linjiang County defenders are not much better. The main reason is that there are too many differences within the rebels. .
Some people think that the county seat should be captured, some people think that we should take advantage of the situation to expand our sphere of influence and go to more counties to fight the autumn wind and obtain more benefits. Some people think that we should attack the county seat to give the court a greater shock. Some people think that we should fight with the court as soon as possible. Make peace.
Anyway, a group of people couldn't agree on the same opinion. In the end, although there were many people, they couldn't use all their strength to attack the county town. As a result, the defenders did not try their best and delayed them for more than half a month.
They abruptly delayed their own golden time.
So when Zhang Ren arrived in Linjiang County with two battalions of Han troops in mid-to-late June, the rebels were finally dumbfounded.
The Han army was smaller in number than them, but Zhang Ren, who was very confident, directly used the tactic of making dumplings.
The Han army did not disappoint Zhang Ren's self-confidence, and successfully implemented the dumpling-making tactic, blocking all the rebels' retreat routes from all directions, and even pricked a pocket at the rebel siege site.
Then there is a simple and crude frontal attack.
The Han army formed a common military formation and launched a frontal attack on the rebels. They slashed with swords and thrust with spears. The rebels were beaten to the point where they were unable to fight back. They soon completely collapsed and fled desperately to the central position. The Han army surrounded them tightly, and then the whole army was wiped out and was eaten by the Han army.
After the war, Zhang Ren counted the results of the battle and found that more than 10,000 people had been captured, and the number of rebels killed on the battlefield was actually only more than 1,000. All the leaders of the rebels were captured or killed by the Han army. Or beheaded after the war.
More than 30 large and small families that jointly initiated the rebellion were destroyed by the Han army, completely eradicated, and everything was confiscated. The rebellion in Linjiang County ended.
While Zhang Ren easily eliminated the Linjiang County rebels, the Anhan County rebels were also eliminated by 1,300 county soldiers led by Bajun Commander Yan Lu.
As a result, the internal resistance to the Dutian Order in Bajun almost ended here, and no more waves were caused.
The same rebellion also occurred in Shu County and Qianwei County.
However, the scale of Jianwei County was very small, and the Han army was stationed here, so it was solved by the Han army in only eight days.
The scale of the rebellion in Shu County was not small. Several counties launched rebellions at the same time as if they were premeditated, and they set out to go to Luoyang to talk to the emperor about the Tian Ling.
Because his behavior was too arrogant and he completely disrespected Liu Bei, Liu Sheng was very angry.
He could not allow anyone to disrespect Liu Bei, so he personally led the most elite Shence Army to Shu County to quell the rebellion.
Because he was too angry, Liu Sheng was more ruthless and merciless when he put down the rebellion in Shu County. Sixteen officials from Shu County, Chengdu County, Jiangyuan County and other governments jointly launched the "Talk Action". Yue was pushed down by him.
Killing heads rolling in.
Then because it was wartime, Liu Sheng had all the power to control, so he pursued the rebellion in Shu County fiercely. Not only did he launch a three-ethnic elimination campaign against the rebellious officials, he also launched an accountability campaign against derelict and incompetent officials. and investigation, and one-third of the officials in Shu County were involved in the investigation.
The results speak for themselves.
Shu County experienced a major earthquake in the officialdom, and the last bit of old forces that survived many political purges were wiped out by Liu Sheng.
The operation to transfer farmland was carried out smoothly. The surviving officials and powerful landowners were too proud of Liu Sheng to take a breath. He sent people to the door to transfer farmland. No one dared to stop them, and they all cooperated honestly.
Then Liu Sheng found out how much land each family owned, how many servants they had concealed, how many clansmen they had, etc. In mid-to-late July, Liu Sheng informed Liu Bei of the relevant news. Ask Liu Bei to make a decision on a series of events.
You decide how to reward and punish them, but I will make some suggestions. I hope that you, the old man, will not have any kind thoughts towards them. These guys are afraid of power but not evil. The harder they are punished, the more well-behaved they become.
Liu Bei was very busy. After the land transfer order was issued in early May, rebellions began in June. The rebellion in northern Yizhou was not large-scale, and the largest rebellion was concentrated in southern Jizhou.
In areas such as Ganling Kingdom, Zhao Kingdom, Anping Kingdom, and Wei County, because the slave restriction order was not fully implemented in these areas, the resistance in this area was the highest in the country.
What's more, the rebellions in these places seem to have some traces of local Han clan clans.
They probably also knew that Liu Bei was not willing to give up this time, so the remnants of the old forces in these places did not continue to compromise with Liu Bei, and they stopped pretending and had a showdown.
Thousands of their own slaves were pulled out to form a rebel army, and weapons that had been hidden for a long time were distributed, and they were ready to have a good talk with Liu Bei about the matter of farmland and tax payment.
If you want to save our fields and make us pay taxes like those mud-legged people, that's fine.
However, you, old man, must first ask us if the steel knife in our hands is okay!
(End of chapter)
