There were many people involved in Wu King Liu Bi's rebellion, including some clan members in Nanyang who were trying to stand up, including relatives of the violent emperor Liu Dan. After Liu Dan was executed, these people suddenly lost power and were dissatisfied with Liu Xun. The main reason was that The group of people who lost power after Liu Dan was executed.
There are also a group of people who have always been dissatisfied with Luo Shi, such as the eunuchs in the palace. Since ancient times, not many eunuchs have liked Luo Shi. Not only the eunuchs, but also many people who are at odds with Luo Shi's ideas, hate and hate Luo Shi. people.
These people are not even just a group, but many groups unconsciously cooperate with each other to do these things together.
Some people surfaced, but some people were still hiding deep under the water, like poisonous snakes, spitting messages all the time, but unable to find the location of the poisonous snakes, which made people extremely uncomfortable.
Liu Xiang's investigation results shocked Liu Xun, and he said with some disbelief: "I really didn't expect that there were not only King Wu's thieves, but also other people.
Is there such a disaster hidden deep in my peaceful world?
I'm really ridiculous. "
Liu Xun smiled miserably, but the murderous intent in his eyes became more and more fierce. Luo Qing also frowned deeply, somewhat doubting whether he could really kill all these people, or if he killed them all this time, he would have to do it next time. How to do it?
People who hate Luo are like the water of the East China Sea, there is no shortage of it!
Liu Xun paced in the palace, and then said in a deep voice: "Zizheng, send me an edict to the world, and spread it to all the counties, so that the world will know what I mean."
"I am horrified.
With my humble body, I respect the will of God and inherit the Han Dynasty's country and ancestral temple.
Since taking the throne, he has tossed and turned every day, unable to sleep, fearing that he would let down his ancestors' kindness and become a king like the Brutal Emperor.
I used Emperor Ru as a warning and treated the people kindly, so that the people could settle down in their own homes. For several years, the world has been relatively stable.
Who can know?
The beast that chooses and devours people emerges from this tranquility.
Liu Bi.
He is the son of Emperor Xiaowu, my uncle, and a close branch of the Zong family. He should have guarded the Han family and the country, but in his heart he harbored dissatisfaction that shared the anger of both men and gods. He ignored the stability of the world for his own selfish ambitions.
I really hate him.
I issued an edict to kill him completely in the ancestral temple.
But this is not enough to eliminate my anger.
I now issue an edict to purge his accomplices in the world.
If caught by the Han Dynasty, he will be killed by the Han Dynasty. If he escapes beyond the Great Wall, he will ride on Dawan's Pegasus horse to recover him. He will be strangled to death by the Beihai Sea and beheaded at the foot of Yin Mountain.
All the way to the west, the corpses were cut up and buried under the yellow sand in the sky, and buried on the trade road. Whenever my people from Xia went to the Western Regions, and all the people from the foreign countries went to the Central Plains, they would be trampled under their feet.
I hope that these rebellious people will not be able to escape the pain of hell throughout their lives.
Again, my decree is to deal with the disobedient people who try to cause trouble severely and severely.
Those who may or may not be killed must be killed, those who may or may not be exiled must be exiled, and those who may or may not be punished must be sentenced.
Although I am merciful, I am not willing to impose mercy on them, so I inform all the executioners.
According to these ideas and rules, send me the results of the processing.
I'm thinking about what else I haven't accomplished yet.
There is also a decree that the officials handling the case must do it without any scruples. King Wu Liu Bi is my uncle. Even if I want to kill him, who else can avoid it?
Regardless of whether they are relatives of the emperor or the heroes of the Jingnan War, as long as they are implicated in my favor, they must be repaid to me. I am not willing to forgive anyone.
I'm disappointed.
Inform all the counties and states in the world to know my opinions, enact them, and use them. I want the Han Dynasty to settle down. "
An unprecedented and harshly worded decree was issued from the ban. This kind of edict issued to the whole country actually used the six words "kill everyone, exile everyone, and punish everyone"!
This is a naked political signal, which means that the emperor can even tolerate the occurrence of unjust, false and wrong cases to a certain extent, and he wants to thoroughly eliminate the rebellious people.
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In the Han Dynasty, the emperor's words were the sharpest blades. Countless imperial guards' cavalry trampled through every house in Guanzhong. The imperial army and Xiuyi rushed directly into the land of Nanyang. The governors from all over the country looked at the sudden appearance of Xiuyi. He pointed, his heart pounding, and then orders were issued one after another.
Arresting people is not just about arresting one person!
For example, King Wu Liu Bi, after he was captured, there were hundreds of officials at all levels who were attached to him. In addition to these people, there were also merchants and powerful men who were attached to the palace, plus servants at home, private soldiers, etc. No less than ten thousand people.
When one person rebels, ten thousand people are killed. This is definitely not a lie. Even thanks to the good exile tradition of the Han Dynasty, the number of people killed is usually only one in ten.
Especially after Liu Xun issued the harshly worded edict, this ratio increased again.
There are swords and swords everywhere in various counties. There may be innocent people among them, but under such a big trend, who can tell the difference?
Moreover, although Liu Xun and Luo Qing did not reveal it directly, they both tacitly agreed to use this matter to kill those powerful men again!
It is the national policy of the Han Dynasty to crack down on powerful people. We must not forget at any time that since the rebellion of Emperor Li, private land annexation has reached a very serious level.
What's even more outrageous is that because the court had strict regulations on the princes' land, most of these lands fell into the hands of local powerful people.
Liu Xun, the hero of the Jingnan War, still tolerated it. After all, he was the hero of rebuilding the Han Dynasty. Facing these powerful people who only knew how to bully the common people and take advantage of the famine years, he directly struck hard.
"Have you heard? There is a tycoon in Xiuyi who directly killed an entire county!"
"What does this mean? Thirty percent of the male members of the Nanyang clan have either died or died. Haven't you seen the people on the trade routes in the Western Regions? They are all relatives of the emperor in the past.
It is said that they will all be exiled to the Wusun Kingdom in the Western Regions. I heard that after several wars, the number of Han people in the Western Regions has decreased a lot. The chief protector of the Han Dynasty, Luo Shijia, wrote a letter asking the emperor to exile the criminals to the Western Regions. "
"What? I saw people dying on the road one after another, and they were all Han clan members?"
"Have you not seen the edict issued by His Majesty?
Anyone who is involved in the rebellion of King Wu Liu Bi will never be tolerated. This is definitely the largest rebellion case in the history of the Han Dynasty. "
"It's really strange. When the princes and kings were so powerful, there was no such big rebellion. Why is it so big this time?"
"I heard, let's agree first. I just heard that Wu King Liu Bi instigated the relationship between His Majesty the Emperor and the Luo family, and wanted to cause a conflict between His Majesty the Emperor and the Luo family. That's why His Majesty is so angry."
"I see. No wonder His Majesty the Emperor said that the country would be shaken."
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Changle Palace.
Liu Xiangzheng was reporting his achievements over this period of time to Emperor Liu Xun. His voice was dry and his hands were shaking. After all, the data above were really outrageous.
"Your Majesty, currently we are arresting and trying the rebellious list based on the interrogation of Liu Bitong, the leader of the case. There are 4,312 people sentenced to death. Among them, 1,330 people were brought to justice during the escape process. Seventeen or thirteen, the rest are being held in prisons everywhere, waiting for you to review and then execute them. This is the list of criminals."
Liu Xiang handed a thick list to Liu Xun. It was simply a death list. Some of the three thousand people on it might survive, but most of them would die.
Liu Xiang reported again, "Your Majesty, because our Han Dynasty laws are very cautious about death by death. Basically, the murderer will die, and only the mastermind will be killed for rebellion, so there are fewer people who die by death, but there are too many people in exile. Just a brief estimate showed that the number of exiles reached 60,000.
This does not include the female family members, who were mostly employed as weaver slaves in the young mansion.
These 60,000 people do not include the previous 20,000 people. Those 20,000 people have been exiled to the Western Regions according to your will. The remaining people still need your instructions. The Western Regions, Lingnan, and Liaodong are usually these three places. . "
Sixty thousand!
Including the previous 20,000 people, that’s 80,000 people. You won’t even need so many people to fight a war!
Now that so many people were being exiled, Liu Xun understood why Liu Xiang's hands were shaking. He was silent for a moment, and then asked, "How many of them are unjust?"
Liu Xiang paused after hearing this and whispered: "I can't calculate the specific number, but according to my estimate, it should be no less than five thousand people."
Liu Xun murmured: "Eighty thousand people, five thousand people, that means almost half of them. What if we screen them carefully?"
Liu Xiang calculated for a while and said in a deep voice: "Your Majesty, if we carefully screen these 80,000 people, it will probably take several years, and the number of indulgent and rebellious people may exceed thousands."
An oil lamp in the room burned out and suddenly went out. Liu Xiang looked at Liu Xun's face, and half of his face suddenly fell into shadow, half light and half dark.
A faint voice came from above, "Just follow this list. If someone comes to plead for mercy, screen them carefully. If there is no big suspicion, let them go. If no one comes to save them, just follow the list."
Liu Xiang's heart tightened, knowing that the emperor had made an expected choice, but the second half of his sentence made him feel relieved.
"Yes! Your Majesty!"
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After issuing an edict, he embroidered clothes and went to the four countries to correct those who were sitting together, causing the powerful to ruin their families and leaving no one in the county. Under the killings, innocent people were wronged. He was a great Confucian in the county. When he went out to the suburbs, his disciple Yuan Shen stopped him. The chariot said: "The elder is fifty years old, his family has fifty acres of land, eight thousand yuan and nothing else, and he has no work to do in embroidering clothes. He leads a crowd and accuses him of being a thief. How is it unjust? I beg your majesty to indulge him." "
The tigers and feathers in the forest were all frightened, and they shot at him. The arrow pierced his shoulder, but the sword was still motionless. He shouted and wept endlessly. He was moved by the superior, and the edict said: "Begging Yuan Shenshi, Wu Ni may have been cleared, and he has troubled all the countries, and the world is not peaceful. It should be taken back."
The reputation of ginseng is so great that all countries praise it and it is valued for it. ——"Biographies of Scholars in the Han Dynasty"
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