After Yan Baihu fled, Liu Zheng also sent people to search the coastline for several days, but there was no trace of Yan Baihu.

They even went to Jiaozhou along the coastline to ask Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's sailors, but they told Liu Zheng that they had been training in the waters of Zhuyazhou and had not seen a large fleet pass by.

This surprised Liu Zheng, and he didn't know where Yan Baihu and the others went.

thought that Yan Baihu did not go south, but went north with the fleet.

However, since Yan Baihu's people have left, Liu Zheng does not need to put his mind on him.

After Yan Baihu fled, Liu Zheng only took a few days to unify Wu County.

October 187.

Basically, Yangzhou County south of the Yangtze River is all owned by Liu Zheng.

The six counties of Jiangdong are now Lujiang County, and they are no longer in Liu Zheng's hands. However, for Liu Zheng, Lujiang will be his sooner or later.

After occupying Yangzhou, Liu Zheng did not leave and returned to Jiaozhou, after all, for Liu Zheng, Yangzhou is more important than Jiaozhou, and he needs to be stationed and defended.

There are no obvious enemies in Jiaozhou, there is only one Jingzhou, which can be a battle.

But Yangzhou is different, there are many enemies from Yangzhou, Yanzhou and Xuzhou in the north, and Jingzhou in the west, all of which can easily enter Yangzhou.

Coupled with the Yangzhou clan neighbors and the gathering of powerful and powerful, although Liu Zheng conquered the town, it was not as easy as it was in Jiaozhou to really rule the entire Yangzhou.

Even the Sun family of Eastern Wu in history could not be completely unified by force, and the entire Jiangdong still had to rely on the support of wealthy families from all over Jiangdong to have enough say in Eastern Wu.

And later, Soochow was also a powerful minister, and the wealthy families in various places had a relatively large right to speak.

After Liu Zheng took over Jiangdong, he immediately implemented the policy of Huairou. did not directly oppose those wealthy clans and suppress their forces, but ignored them first, uniformly distributed the land they had taken, and implemented a policy similar to that of Jiaozhou.

There is the foundation laid by Liu Zheng in Huiji County and Yuzhang County before. Some policies that benefit the people have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people, even if many people have not heard of Liu Zheng, in the hearts of some people also know that Liu Zheng implemented the policy of benefiting the people in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, after Liu Zheng unified the Jiangdong counties, he immediately began to implement a policy similar to that of Jiaozhou, reducing taxes and reducing taxes, increasing workplaces, recruiting people to pay wages, and improving the local people's livelihood, so that the people in these places could more accept Liu Zheng as the later ruler.

After currying favor with these ordinary people, Liu Zheng turned around and dealt with those wealthy families.

The existence of these wealthy clans is very detrimental to Liu Zheng's unification, because these people are all vested interests, and if Liu Zheng wants to curry favor with the ordinary people, he will inevitably have antagonism with them, so if he wants to suppress them, he cannot say it directly, or even bring it up in person, but he needs to use policies to gradually reduce their power.

The first step was to abolish land deals. It is owned by the county, and all land belongs to the county and is not allowed to be bought or sold, which restricts the powerful from becoming bigger, using the land, and oppressing the people.

But at the same time, taxes must be exempted, not only ordinary people do not have to pay taxes, but even those powerful can also be exempted, and the land is owned by the county and county, and there is no need to pay taxes, so as not to completely anger those powerful people.

This avoided overly radical policies that forced these wealthy families to rebel.

Of course, when Liu Zheng implemented this plan, he did not directly announce it, but first sent people to gather all the leaders of several well-known wealthy clans in Jiangdong.

Several of the larger wealthy families in this group are the big families with strong control in Jiangdong at present.

These families were not nouveau riche in Koto, but after the big families formed when the old northern clans moved south, they took root in various parts of Koto. A new aristocracy that has bred again.

There are some people who Liu Zheng has seen before, for example, Gu Yong who has been seen in Moling County, the Gu family is second to none, the Lu family in Lujiang and so on. These people were summoned by Liu Zheng for the purpose of trying to solve these biggest wealthy families first.

When they are defeated by Liu Zheng, it will be easier to deal with the remaining small families, and even Liu Zheng doesn't need to take into account the thoughts of those small families.

As long as the strongest group and the weakest group of people are dealt with by Liu Zheng, the rest of the people will not follow even if they want to rebel, and even if there is no one to take the lead, they will not be able to complete the rebellion.

The more famous four families are the four families of Gu Lu, Quanzhang.

Danyang Gu family, no need to introduce, Liu Zheng understands, the Gu family is powerful, when they were in Moling, the Gu family was the county seat of Moling, and even the surrounding area are more famous big families, the ancestor of the Gu family was Yingchuan Taishou, and later moved south to Jiangdong, after three generations of efforts, the Gu family was quite famous here.

This time, the person sent by the Gu family was Gu Yong.

The Lu family of Wu County, the Lu family is naturally Lu Kang, but Lu Kang does not fully represent the Lu family, Lu Kang is just a member of the Lu family, and the real origin of the Lu family is Wu County.

The Lu family of Wu County is the foundation of the Lu family, to speak, it is also Lu Kang's grandparents who developed in Wu County, at that time it was a famous person in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and later Lu Kang's fathers were all officials in the court, until Lu Kang's generation, the Lu family was strengthened. Although it is not said to be the most powerful family in Wu County, it is also one of the few.

The whole family of Wu County, the status of the whole family, may not be in a hurry for the Lu family and the Gu family, but it is also a big family in Wu County, and the head of the family, Quan Rou, is also an official of the dynasty, and he has a lot of fame in Jiangdong.

The Zhang family of Wu County, this Zhang family, is not the family of the second Zhang of Jiangdong in later generations, but Zhang Yun, Zhang Yun is a famous person in Jiangdong, who is light on property and heavy display, and is quite famous in Wu County and even the entire Jiangdong.

These people represent the strongest wealthy families in Wu County, as long as they are persuaded by Liu Zheng, some other small families can naturally only follow suit, and there will be no problems.

Liu Zheng looked at the people from the four major families in front of him, Gu Yong, Lu Jun, Quan Rou, and Zhang Yun.

These people, standing in front of Liu Zheng, represent the family behind them.

"Ladies and gentlemen, I invite you here today because I have something important to discuss."

Liu Zheng walked in from outside the lobby, first greeted a few celebrities, and then sat directly on the main seat, seeing Liu Zheng come in, Gu Yong was stunned, he didn't expect that the famous Liu Zheng was actually the passerby he had seen a few years ago.

And Lu Jun had already seen Liu Zheng, and he was not surprised, Quan Rou and Zhang Yun stared at Liu Zheng, without showing any look on their faces, and they didn't know what they were thinking.