These sect leaders only need to provide a certain number of soldiers and a small amount of food and grass to gain complete autonomy. The sect leaders do not even have to pay any other taxes.
Although Liu Yu's sect leader supervision system has many benefits for powerful families, it still requires real swords and guns to fight on the battlefield.
In this kind of business involving fighting for one's life, the powerful families cannot all use their own children. Otherwise, if they lose too many children, the family will be in danger.
Therefore, in addition to the men who led the troops from various powerful families who were members of the clan, most of the soldiers were originally private soldiers.
According to the laws of the Western Jin Dynasty, these private military tribes attached to the powerful are all slaves without registered households, while the state and county soldiers only recruit soldiers and sons of good families.
So after the various powerful families gathered their troops, Liu Yu was immediately exempted from the status of slaves of these private soldiers, and became the son of a good family. At the same time, he automatically had the qualifications to occupy land. Of course, the land in Beihai County had long been After being divided up by powerful households, if these newly promoted soldiers want to own land and property, they can only follow the army to rob it.
Each and every one of these Qingzhou powerful soldiers is like a loser in the wind. Even if the private soldiers of each family help out, they are just pretending or doing some logistics and transportation work. But this time, the powerful soldiers in Beihai County are no longer what they were before. They are completely different from each other, with quite a fierce and fearless aura.
Although the wealthy family suddenly played such a trick on Liu Yu and legally cut off the personal attachment of the private army to them, they had already boarded Liu Yu's pirate ship, and it was already too late to regret it.
Gou Xi was shocked when she learned that Liu Yu actually used such a sect master supervision system.
Of course, it was not because of how smart and talented Liu Yu was, but because he felt that this was simply drinking poison to quench his thirst. This was simply a fight to the death with me.
We must know that these powerful powers that have been entrenched in the local area for hundreds of years are deeply rooted. If they have legal administrative and military power, it will be like letting a pack of wolves out of the cage, although the pack of wolves may bite a tiger like Gou Xi. Death will definitely come back later.
It is easy to delegate power to these powerful families, but it will be difficult to take back the power when the time comes.
The Zhou Dynasty, which was founded by a powerful family, broke out several rebellions after the death of its hero King Wu. What's more, Liu Yu, who is from a poor family and a weak family, will probably be eaten to his bones and dregs by a powerful family with fangs before long. Leftover.
Of course Gou Xi can also use this simple and crude method, but in this case, it is very likely that he will end up making wedding clothes for others.
At that time, he was as powerful as Emperor Wu of Wei, but three generations later, the powerful Sima family usurped the ancestral temple. Gou Xi estimated that because of his reputation as a "butcher", it would only take a few years for the powerful people to counterattack and liquidate him.
However, in response to Liu Yu's move, Gou Xi restrained the implementation of severe torture laws in Linzi, stopped the investigation of Yin households and occupied land, and promoted more than a dozen descendants of Qi Guo and Le'an County's aristocratic families in one fell swoop He served as a counselor for prefectures and counties and as an official for various Cao officials, and created a new policy atmosphere.
However, before this move could make any real progress, Gou Xi's backyard caught fire again.
Wang Mi led the rogue army into Yanzhou. The refugees who had fled in all directions all joined Wang Mi. Within a few days, this army of tens of thousands of people broke through several cities.
Gou Xi's backyard is of course Yanzhou. The soldiers and horses under his command are basically county soldiers and recruits from Yanzhou. Although they follow him to guard Qingzhou, most of the sergeants' clan and family members are still in Yanzhou.
Therefore, Gou Xi had to lead the main force south to rescue Yanzhou, leaving his younger brother Gou Chun to guard Linzi. Before leaving, Gou Xi warned Gou Chun several times that if Liu Yu from Beihai County came to invade, he must stick to Linzi and not leave the city easily. , be careful of the powerful rebellion in the city.
April of the second year of Yongjia.
After receiving intelligence from Linzi's powerful forces, Gou Xi led the main force south to rescue Yanzhou.
General Zhendong, the commander-in-chief of all military forces in Qingzhou, and Liu Yu, the governor of Qingzhou, led Beihai County officials and governors to swear an oath at Pingshou Li Pavilion to attack Gou Xi.
In this crusade, the governors and guardians of various clans in Beihai County sent a total of 30,000 troops, plus more than 10,000 people led by Liu Yu, for a total of more than 40,000 people.
Of course, according to the practice of this era, of course, we cannot honestly say that the number of troops is more than 40,000, but it is called an army of 200,000.
As a result, Youzhou and Liangzhou were the last remaining quiet and peaceful states in the entire northern land.
Same month.
The Xiongnu soldiers and horses on the east route of the Han Dynasty, led by the general Shi Le who assisted the Han Dynasty, invaded Zhao and Wei counties. Ding Shao, the governor of Jin and Jizhou, had weak troops. For a while, there was nothing they could do against Shi Le's Jiehu bandit army. The Jin court He had no choice but to once again ask Wang Jun, the governor of Youzhou, to send Xianbei mercenaries south to help suppress the rebellion.
The Xiongnu soldiers and horses on the South Road crossed the Yellow River and attacked the towns around Luoyang. Luoyang was shocked three times a day. Emperor Sima Chi issued an order for the surrounding state armies to send troops to support. In addition to the Taifu Sima Yue who was stationed in Juancheng, Yanzhou, he sent 5,000 soldiers and horses to support Luoyang. , only Zhang Gui, the governor of Liangzhou, sent Liangzhou governor Beigong Chun to lead his army to assist. The name of "Liangzhou horses, rampant in the world" once again inspired the hearts of Luoyang.
Other than that, other states and counties are either too busy taking care of themselves or indifferent.
Taifu Sima Yue, leading the last field army directly under the central court of the Western Jin Dynasty, was being tricked by Wang Mi. He kept running back and forth between Juancheng and Xuchang. He was attacked by Wang Mi many times, but he was never able to catch Wang Mi. Opportunity.
Finally, in April, Sima Yue, who was tired of running for his life, was transferred away from the mountain, abandoning Xuchang, which he had worked hard for several years. After Wang Mi broke through the city, he looted the city with overwhelming force, and distributed the grain, money and cloth in the treasury to the surrounding refugees. In an instant, During this period, the number of troops directly under Wang Mi expanded to one hundred thousand.
At this time, Wang Mi was no longer someone who could be defeated by Sima Yue, who was a mediocre talent and only knew how to play politics.
Faced with Wang Mi who was aggressive and wanted to fight back to Yanzhou, Grand Tutor Sima Yue was completely panicked. He originally wanted to lead the Chinese army to destroy Wang Mi with the attitude of a tiger fighting a rabbit, and establish a higher prestige to suppress strongmen everywhere, especially They are like Gou Xi, the governor of Qingzhou.
However, Sima Yue overestimated his military strength and was helpless against the cunning and ruthless Wang Mi. At this time, he once again had to count on Gou Xi to clean up the mess.
Sima Yue, the Taifu of Jin Dynasty, personally compiled a letter and sent it to Qingzhou together with the imperial edict.
In the edict, Gou Xi was not only granted the title of governor of the county, but also promoted Gou Xi to the position of governor of the military affairs of Qingyan and the two states. There is a higher position of three princes waiting for Gou Xi.
Gou Xi met Sima Yue's envoy on the way from Qingzhou to Yanzhou. After accepting the edict, he simply dismissed it.
Gou Xi thought: When he defeated Wang Mi, he would directly march westward and directly enter Luoyang. There was a secret order from the emperor before, and now with the merits of King Qin, why would you, Sima Yue, a capricious old man, be used to seal the title? What is the position of the Three Lords?
A man should take fame, fortune and fortune for himself!
