Under Gao Pragmatic's personal supervision, as the political program was implemented step by step, Annan's "anti-rebellion" campaign gradually came to an end. Two types of people became the main targets of this purge.
The first type of people does not need to be explained. They are the various "rebels" of the later Li Dynasty, from the "royal family" of the Li family to Zheng Ni, plus various rebellions. Except for the Ruan Huang family who "voluntarily surrendered", they were not attacked. In addition to the liquidation, almost 70% of the big families in the Southern Dynasty could not escape, and they all became the targets of the purge.
Occasionally, a few were quick to see the opportunity and voluntarily handed over most of their property. Gao pragmatically ordered "amnesty" with the power of "making decisions on small matters". They barely managed to save their lives. As for their wealth... it's better not to think about that.
However, the south is easy to clean, but the north is relatively troublesome. After all, the Mo family is nominally on the side of the Ming Dynasty and is a "loyal minister for generations."
In this case, you have to pay attention to your food and fortune. After all, Gao is pragmatic and does not intend to become the King of Annan himself, so the relationship on display must be maintained.
Gao Pragmatic tried his best and had no choice but to start with "cleaning up the official style". First he launched a wave of corruption eradication, and then he carried out a wave of eradication of evil. In the end, he found that the required land was still not enough, so he came up with another "Suppression of Yong". Come.
Basically, apart from not grabbing it openly, all I had to do was write on my face and say "I want the land".
However, his "Longmen Trilogy" was really not in vain. Not only did it greatly improve the administrative efficiency of Mo Chao officials, but most of the remaining ones were timid and did not dare to talk to him, Annan. The emperor is a coward who is against the bull.
Obviously, the highly pragmatic approach of eradicating corruption, eradicating evil, and even eradicating mediocrity cannot be so righteous in name. It must take the opportunity to get rid of a group of relatively unruly people.
After getting rid of this group of die-hards, although there will definitely still be some lurking conspirators, Gao Pragmatic is not worried, because after the general trend is established, the conspirators will have no room to operate, and they may be lurking by then. It's just a lifetime - I've been lurking for a lifetime, so what else can I say? It doesn't matter if I give you a good posthumous title.
If a hypocrite can be a hypocrite for a lifetime, then he is not a hypocrite, but a true gentleman. After all, the key to defining a person is to look at actual actions. No matter how loud you are in your heart, but you have done nothing with your hands, if you still convict others, Doesn’t it become “unnecessary”?
However, this operation was not completely peaceful. For example, when Gao Pangshi gathered the army in Thang Long for reorganization, Zheng Song's missing brother Zheng Du appeared from Thanh Hoa for some reason and promoted Zheng Song as " "Hero of the Dai Viet people" and gathered more than 2,000 people in the army.
In fact, only about four to five hundred people were taken away when Zheng Du "disappeared". The rest were caused by some old powerful officials who were unwilling to accept Gao Pragmatic's purge. The family property of this group of people has been confiscated, but there may still be some wealth that has slipped through the net and has not been cleared up. They used it to recruit a group of people and raise troops in Qinghua.
At that time, Gao Pangshi was preparing to order the Thang Long garrison to go south to quell the rebellion. Unexpectedly, Ruan Juan, who was "seconded to garrison" in the south, heard the news and personally led an army of 10,000 people to go north to Thanh Hoa overnight, killing Zheng Du who was not stable. , even he himself died in the rebel army, and when a head was found, he was almost unrecognizable - this guy saw that the opportunity was not good at that time, and was about to make up and abscond, but was killed by a group of Ruan Juan's troops. He was intercepted, and because he changed his clothes as a soldier, his death was not discovered for several days.
Ruan Juan's performance was very good. Although it was hard for even Gao Pragmatic to judge whether he was sincere or fake, he did it and did it so neatly. It would be impossible not to reward him.
Gao pragmatic hesitated for a while, and then gave him a one-level promotion in the name of Annan Dutongsi, and gave him two hundred Longqing second-type firearms - theoretically speaking, the proportion of firearms of Mo Yulin's and Ruan Juan's tribes was the same. It is strictly controlled, and this reward is really an exception.
However, Jinghua’s weapons are all specially produced by Jinghua. After Gao Pragmatic took control of Annan, saltpeter, sulfur and other items were classified as strategic materials and were not allowed to be held in large quantities by the private sector. The limited manufacturers of firecrackers and fireworks were also strictly controlled, so If Ruan Juan wants to use these two hundred fire sticks instead of using them as fire sticks, he still has to look at his face.
Besides, two hundred fire guns can't handle any major events. At most, they can only equip some personal guards. If Gao Pragmatic doesn't trust even this, then he might as well stay in Annan and don't leave.
There was Zheng Du zàofǎn in the south, and the Mo family in the north also had a little trouble. Wu Gongji, the son of the old Xuanguang guard general Wu Wenmi, rebelled against the Cen family's wolf soldiers who were ordered by Gao Pragmatic to "eliminate evil" in the local area.
However, this brother Wu Gongji had great ambitions but little talent, and had no clear understanding of his own strength. Although he relied on his father's prestige of guarding Xuanguang for decades, he quickly pulled up more than 8,000 people, known as The 30,000-strong army was defeated in one fell swoop by Cen Ling, who thought his face had been undermined, and his 5,000 Sicheng Prefecture direct wolf soldiers.
Cen Ling was very angry at the time - it was clear that his Cen family was still slightly ahead of the Huang family when he was in Guangxi, but who knew that in Annan, there was no one on the Huang family's territory yet, and someone would dare to cause trouble on his territory.
If this is not settled immediately, where will his reputation as the governor of western Jingxi go?
Even though Cen Ling looks a bit more handsome than Gao Jingshi, he is not a civil servant like Gao Jingshi. When fighting a war, he will not always think about quitting when the situation is good, so as not to cause unnecessary losses and waste. Strength, try to use political means such as "coercion and inducement" to solve problems.
Cen Ling's solution was extremely decisive, and could even be said to be extremely cold and harsh - not a single prisoner was taken from the eight thousand rebels, and all of them were beheaded. Among them, there were only more than 2,000 people killed in formation, but more than 3,000 people surrendered. He ordered them to be killed on the spot without saying a word.
Originally, more than 3,000 people escaped, but who knew that Cen Ling was really fierce this time, relying on the physical strength of the wolf soldiers to pursue them all the way to the northernmost point of Xuanguang, close to the Yunnan border area. He was stunned. The remaining rebels were killed, leaving no chickens or dogs behind.
When the news came back to Shenglong, Gao Pingshi was stunned for a long time and thought to himself: Cen Ling is so cruel, how can he be like that perverted murderer Liu Wei? This is thousands of labor, why don’t you just capture it and start mining? There is a mine right here in Tuyen Quang, what a waste!
However, Cen Ling's behavior scared the Mo family's small court. Originally, the Mo family's court was more afraid of Huang Zhiting - after all, they were beaten violently by Huang Zhiting in the Lang Son battle - but now it's better. It turns out that Cen Zhengshou, who didn't get the chance to beat him, was even more damn cruel. If he didn't do it, he would kill him if he did!
Who the hell can afford to mess with this kind of King of Hell?
As a result, the name "Cen Hell King" spread like wildfire. For a while, Cen Ling inexplicably had the effect of "stopping children's cries" in Annan, and even Gao Pragmatic was a little envious.
It's a pity that he can also be envious in his heart. This kind of "good reputation" can be enjoyed by any general under his command, but he himself can never have it.
To be Huang Fu or to be Ma Qi, this is a question that requires you to make the right choice with your toes.
The general is cruel and cold, and the big boss above him can be counted on. But if he, the big boss, has a bad reputation of being cruel and cold, the Annan people will have no hope. If anything happens, they will have no choice but to fight.
So after receiving the battle report, Gao Jingshi slapped the table in front of a bunch of Mo's ministers and scolded Cen Ling, and then ordered: "Strictly warn and rebuke this officer, and order him to return to the division as soon as possible!"
Then he turned his back and ordered someone to quietly send a message to Cen Ling: Well done, you will be rewarded when you come back!
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