boom!
Qian Duo punched Yong Kai in the face. The punch was so powerful that his face quickly turned to the side and immediately became red and swollen.
"Well!"
Liu Chan threw away the reply letter written by Sun Quan to Yong Kai, and ran his hand over the pile of lin toes, which were horseshoe gold, piled up like a hill.
Finally, he picked up a dragon-shaped gold vessel with exquisite workmanship. On the bean-sized dragon head, tiny gold particles and gold wires were used to form the eyes, nose, teeth, horns, beards and other organs. The features were distinct and clearly identifiable.
"Your Yong family has been favored by the Emperor of the Han Dynasty, and he has never treated you harshly since his father came to Shu. The Yong family is as rich as many powerful families in the Central Plains, so why do you want to surrender to Soochow?" Liu Chan said in a calm tone. , and there is not much anger in it.
The reason is actually not that important, and he doesn't know it. Rather than asking questions, it is actually just to vent his emotions and relieve himself while busy with the restructuring of Nanjing Middle School.
But Qian Duo obviously thought that the prince really wanted to know.
"Are you going to tell me?" Qian Duo punched Yong Kai in the abdomen again, causing the opponent's body to bend into a crotch.
"Well!!"
Qian Duo sneered: "Don't tell me, right? There is no war to fight now, so I can use you to stretch your muscles. Humph!"
"Well!!!"
"Didn't you see that you were a fast runner during the battle, but now you have become a tough guy! Why didn't you say anything?"
Liu Chan couldn't stand it anymore, so he rubbed his temples and said to Qian Duo: "I said, is there a possibility that if you don't take off the rag from his mouth first, he won't be able to speak at all?"
Qian Duo: "..."
Yong Kai's mouth was tightly wrapped in rags, his nose was bruised and his face was swollen, and he looked at Liu Chan with tears in his eyes.
Damn, finally someone understands!
Qian Duo pulled off the rag from Yong Kai's mouth and said angrily: "Say it quickly!"
"I was confused for a moment, Prince Edward! It was all Sun Quan who ordered Bu Zhi, Shi Xie and others to deceive and confuse me. I am so stupid that I just fell into their treacherous scheme!
"As long as the prince can spare my life, the Yong family will be willing to be a vassal of the Liu family from now on! What do you want the Yong family to do? Just tell me!"
Liu Chan sneered and shook his head, staring at Yong Kai playfully: "Are you serious? You don't really think that your Yong family can survive, do you? No? For your crime, the Yi and Ru tribes are not unjust. "
Yong Kai was desperate again. Intellectually, he knew that he had no way out, but at this time, beating him was frightening, let alone death.
Liu Chan stepped over the mountains of gold and silver, picked up a jade handle and played with it. This object originated in the Warring States Period, also known as a scratching stick, but it was actually used to scratch the itch of dignitaries.
It's actually not very popular nowadays. It seems that it only became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. I didn't expect that the Yong family even had this thing. I really don't know what to do with so much money.
"My father's personal servant came back on his own this time because of the important matter... So is there anyone who contacts him in Chengdu on weekdays? How do you contact Jiaozhou on your own initiative?
"If you reveal everything you know about Soochow, I may be able to spare the lives of other members of your clan."
"...Okay, I'll say it." Yong Kai was silent for a long time and said in a deep voice.
Living in this era where the interests of the clan come first, Yong Kai is not so bad that he doesn't even care about his clan members after all. What's more, at this point, the life and death of Soochow Xizuo has nothing to do with Yong Kai. He can exchange the lives of his clan members, which is a great deal.
But he didn't know that Liu Chan had no intention of attacking other tribes...
After ordering someone to write down the details of Soochow that Yong Kai said one by one, Liu Chan said: "Okay, Gu has always practiced what he preaches, and the rest of the Yong family will be exempted from death penalty."
After that, Liu Chan turned and left.
As for Yong Kai himself, there is naturally no possibility of pardon. Not to mention that he should bear the biggest blame for initiating the Nanzhong War. Just because he allowed the soldiers to plunder and cause chaos in Dianchi Lake when he attacked Zhengang is already an unforgivable crime.
Not killing is not enough to make people angry and gain their support.
Not only must he be killed, but he must be paraded in various places to declare his guilt. This is not only to try to draw the resentment of the families of the Nanzhong soldiers onto Yong Kai and reduce his resistance to the Han army, but also to frighten other people with illusions.
"Close the door and let him regret it slowly while he waits to die alone."
Qian Duo was stunned for a moment, but still said: "Yes!"
Bang!
The extremely loud sound made Liu Chan turn around.
Then he stared blankly at Qian Duo - he was holding the door in his hand and walking towards him.
"What are you doing?"
"Uh... didn't the prince ask me to close the door?"
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In the following time, Liu Chan and Zhuge Liang began to implement "poverty alleviation projects" for the barbarians of all ethnic groups in South China.
Zhuge Liang even put his own practice into practice. He personally braved the scorching sun, endured the harassment of various mosquitoes, and personally traveled through mountains and rivers to go deep into the grassroots.
He personally taught all ethnic groups how to plow their fields with cattle and how to use various advanced agricultural tools, popularizing advanced farming concepts and ending the history of slash-and-burn farming among local Yi people.
He also brought high-quality rice seeds to the Yi people. In some places that were not suitable for rice cultivation, in addition to planting mulberry, raising silkworms, and silk weaving techniques, Zhuge Liang also brought them tea seeds and taught them how to grow and pick tea.
Liu Chan, on the other hand, was busy arranging manpower, popularizing the New Deal to the people in Nanzhong, and re-measure the land.
Regarding the valuable land that has not yet been reclaimed in Nanzhong counties, Liu Chan encourages land reclamation. No matter what your original status is, as long as you are willing to reclaim land, you can receive tools for free.
Whoever reclaims the land belongs to him, and for newly reclaimed land, in addition to receiving grain seeds from the government for free, there is no need to pay grain in the first year.
In order to curb land annexation, Liu Chan plans to trial a "stepped grain payment" in Nanzhong. The more land he owns, the higher the government's tax rate will be.
The less land there is, the less taxes there are.
Liu Chan also ordered the prefects of each county to pay attention to supervision to ensure that the implementation of the new policy did not go out of style and to ensure fairness as much as possible. Anyone who deliberately concealed the status of land possession or interfered with land measurement would be dealt with strictly.
Nanzhong had just been "ploughed" by Liu Chan's three-pronged army. Coupled with rumors and the gift of paintings and alliances, there was almost no resistance to the implementation of the New Deal at this time.
The difficult thing is how to ensure fairness in execution in the long years to come.
But this is the responsibility of the officials under his command, and it is impossible for Liu Chan to do every detail personally.
And as long as it is implemented by people, any system has hidden dangers and problems. It can only be improved day by day, but it is impossible to achieve perfection. Liu Chan also has a clear understanding of this.
As long as it can promote the development of productivity in South China and Central China under the current situation, it will be enough to increase the people's labor enthusiasm at this stage.
If problems arise in the future with development, we can just improve them.
At the same time, Wang Meng and his subordinates were also commanding the "nail pulling" operation to remove Soochow's detailed manufacturing strongholds here one by one and carry out counterinsurgency activities.
Access management has been strengthened in important locations such as county offices. Public reports of suspicious persons from Jiangdong or the north will be rewarded by the government after verification that they are indeed spies, further reducing the scope of activities of spies.
All matters are progressing hand in hand, and Yong Kai's tour of various places has also begun. The work of publicity and hatred has been very effective. Everywhere Yong Kai goes, he will be "enthusiastically" welcomed by the masses.
It's just that rotten vegetable leaves and rotten eggs are now very valuable and cannot be thrown away, so the master of the Yong family basically accepts only stones and dirt...
Liu Chan was taking advantage of the gap period to pacify Nanzhong, while Wu Laoer was still using secret tricks behind his back, but this time he still failed.
Yong Kai was completely defeated, and the armor and equipment he provided were all cheaper than Liu Chan in the end. He also took the opportunity to remove many of the informants placed in Nanzhong.
Cao Pi has naturally not been idle since he succeeded to the throne. Not only has he not been idle, he has been extremely busy.
Of course, it is impossible to just be busy "taking care" of the concubine left by his father. Although Cao Wei is huge, the complexity of the factions within it is far beyond what Lao Liu can compare with.
Not only the aristocratic families who had previously supported his rise to power began to demand rewards, but even the Qingzhou soldiers who were good at fighting during Boss Cao's lifetime actually started a small rebellion...
Fortunately, there were many capable ministers in Cao Wei. Although Cao Pi was slightly inferior to Cao Cao, he did not make the wrong choices in everything. In the end, the rebellion was calmed down without making much waves.
During such a busy period, the loss of a concubine from Xiahou Shang's residence in Yecheng naturally did not attract anyone's attention except Xiahou Shang's first wife...
(End of chapter)
