Chapter 157: The Bitter Fruit of the Four Families
The meeting discussed the results, and Liu Yu immediately followed the arrangements of Chen Gong and others. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info
With military divisions like Chen Gong, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhi, Liu Yu felt that everything had become very simple.
Liu Yu wrote two letters, instructing Li Gui to send the "dark department" personnel to Li Fu in Luoyang, and let Li Fu send it to Yuan Shao and Cao Cao. Let Chen Gong, Tian Feng, and Fu Zhu be responsible for command and scheduling. At the same time, he ordered Huang Zhong, Lu Bu, and Dian Wei to secretly dispatch troops and horses, so that the four families could not be informed, and prepared to attack the officials of the four major families.
The intelligence officers of the "dark department" rushed to Luoyang day and night and handed over Liu Yu's letter to Li Fu. Li Fu is now married, and he loves Cao Huaen and envies others. Liu Yu was unable to attend his wedding, but gave a lot of gifts as a wedding gift. After dealing with Li Fu's marriage, Steward Li returned to Bingzhou and assumed the duties of the chief butler of the Assassin's Mansion. Li Fu was grateful to Liu Yu in his heart, and now knew that his father-in-law was actually in trouble, so he hurriedly put down the work in his hand and ran to his brother-in-law Cao Cao to report Liu Yu's situation. Cao Cao has done a good job in this position in the court, and the old man Cao Song has a lot of connections in the court, and they take great care of Cao Cao, a new servant. Cao Cao is also a person with a super personality charm, and he has made friends with many young Zhuang officials in the court, and has invisibly formed a small circle of power. His outstanding ability was even more favored by Emperor Ling, and he became one of the eight captains of the West Park founded by Emperor Ling in order to restrain the general He Zhi.
Cao Cao saw that his brother-in-law Li Fu came to him with a letter from his good brother Liu Yu, so he naturally couldn't refuse.
After reading Liu Yu's letter, Cao Cao, who had the attribute of being an angry youth, scolded the four families of the state for being extremely shameless, and actually didn't care about the lives of the people, and then took Li Fu to Yuan Shao's mansion.
After Yuan Shao took up the post of lieutenant of Sili, he became a little estranged from Cao Cao. Cao Cao brought Li Fu to visit today, and Yuan Shao was also very curious, so he received Cao Cao and the others with a smile. After Cao Cao showed Liu Yu's letter to Yuan Shao, he couldn't laugh anymore. Yuan Shao knew that if Liu Yu wanted to dominate the state, he would definitely clean up the local forces of the state, but he didn't expect the local forces of the state to react so much, and even used the means of raising prices, and there was also a branch of his own Yuan family in it. Yuan Shao immediately said goodbye to Cao Cao and Li Fu and went to discuss with his uncle Yuan Kui. Yuan Kui also saw Yuan Fei's messenger, just when Yuan Shao came, the scheming Yuan Kui asked Yuan Shao to repair a letter to Yuan Fei of the Yuan family in Bingzhou, so that he could be less involved. Yuan Shao was even more ruthless and called the messenger directly
Yuan Shao soon found Cao Cao again, patted his chest and assured that Yuan Fei's gang would never make trouble. As for the impeachment of Liu Yu by the four families, Yuan Shao will handle it properly because he has a good relationship with Liu Yu, and let Li Fu tell Liu Yu.
Cao Cao and Li Fu were also relieved to receive Yuan Shao's assurance.
The messenger of the Wang family handed over Wang Qi's impeachment report to Wang Yun. Wang Yun didn't look at it, and said that he was old and frail and was ready to ask the court for a scholar, and he didn't care about this matter.
The Messenger was dumbfounded. Before the messenger could react, Wang Yun closed the door and thanked the guests.
Wang Qi's messenger had no choice but to return to the state.
There are also some people in the Li family and the Zhao family, but they all received hints from Sikong Yuan Kui, and they didn't dare to get involved in this matter.
In this way, the impeachment of Liu Yu by the four families came to an end.
And the heads of the four families who are far away in Bingzhou don't know this, and now they are still complacent about the actions of themselves and others.
A day later, the messengers from the four families returned, bringing them a report that the senior officials of the DPRK did not want to deal with Liu Yu.
Yuan Fei even whispered to his own messenger. Yuan Fei's face changed greatly after hearing this.
When Wang Qi heard the news that Wang Yun didn't even read his letter, his face suddenly turned like earth. Thinking that Wang Yun said that he would no longer pay attention to the Wang family's affairs, Wang Qi didn't take it seriously at first, but he didn't expect Wang Yun to really care at all.
Not to mention the Zhao family and the Li family, they are all petty goods, and it is normal for the senior members of the DPRK and the Central Committee to ignore them. It's just that I didn't expect Wang Qi's brother Wang Yun to care about this matter.
All three of them looked at Yuan Fei with their last hope.
After listening to the messenger's report, Yuan Fei walked back and said to the three of them with an expressionless face: "Three, my Yuan family will no longer participate in this matter in the future, so I will leave." ”
Li Guan was shocked, grabbed Yuan Fei and said, "Brother Yuan, the four of us are working together, how can you, as the head of the Yuan family, retreat halfway?" ”
"Yuan is no longer the head of the Yuan family in Bingzhou, Brother Li, please understand the difficulties below." After speaking, Yuan Fei ignored the three of them and left directly.
Wang Qi knew that because of this incident, Yuan Fei had lost the trust of the Yuan family, and was relieved of the position of head of the branch by the boss of the Yuan family.
This incident gave Wang Qi a bad signal to them.
Sure enough, after Liu Yu received Li Fu's report, he ordered Lu Bu, Dian Wei, and Huang Zhong to lead the army to arrest all the officials and merchants who violated the law and committed crimes, and confiscated their property.
Among the four, only the Yuan family was spared losses. Yuan Shao personally wrote a letter to Liu Yu, expressing his apology for the incident of the Yuan family in Bingzhou against Liu Yu, hoping that Liu Yu would let them go in the past, and promised that the Yuan family would never block Liu Yu in the future. As for Luoyang, Yuan Shao assured that the matter of impeachment was not worth mentioning, and let Liu Yu put one hundred and twenty hearts.
Of course, Liu Yu wanted to give Yuan Shao face, and specially ordered the Yuan family's property to be spared, and at the same time, officials related to the Yuan family were released from the prison. After these officials were released, they quickly returned to their posts, and they never wanted to go back to that cold and damp prison again, and Liu Yu's assassination mansion was soon back in operation.
The other three were not so lucky. The whole state was full of chickens and dogs, and the people were so scared that they hid in their homes and did not come out.
Lu Bu and the three of them rushed murderously with the soldiers to the shops, restaurants, and mansions of Wang, Li, and Zhao. All the people involved were arrested, the property was sealed, and those who resisted, Liu Yu gave them instructions that they could be killed on the spot.
The evidence is conclusive, no one will use flesh and blood against a cold steel knife.
Afterwards, when Liu Yu sorted out the confiscated property, he was shocked by this astronomical amount, and he had two years of income from the state. Sure enough, raiding the house is the way to get rich.
Wang Qi, Li Guan, and Zhao Wu are all in the circle, and Liu Yu's revenge came so quickly.
Fortunately, the three arrested people were more loyal, and they all admitted that they did it themselves, and did not say that they were ordered by their own head to do it, so that Liu Yu could not do anything to Wang Qi, Li Guan, and Zhao Wu.
However, Liu Yu didn't care anymore, the forces of the three families were basically abolished, and the remaining people basically didn't pose any threat.
Liu Yu punished these officials and merchants who violated the law and discipline one by one.
Officials with less serious criminal responsibility are to be dismissed from office or taken into custody.
All the property of the merchants was confiscated, and some of the cases that had been ordered to sue before were dealt with strictly in accordance with the law.
Zhao Wu and other officials who committed heinous crimes were directly beheaded by Liu Yu, and their family property was confiscated by Liu Yu.
Zhao Hai was old, couldn't stand the stimulation of his son's killing, was sick in bed, and died within a few days. The Zhao family, which has no backbone, also became scattered under Liu Yu's blow.
Li Guan is better, at least young, but he doesn't have the same spirit as before. Li Guan's father was originally sick in bed, and the family affairs were handed over to Li Guan early, and after such a blow, he also followed Zhao Hai. Li Guan became the new head of the Li family. It's just that Li Guan, the head of the family, is not welcomed in the Li family, because it was he who brought the Li family to today's situation, and the members of the Li family were not convinced, but they all knew that the Li family needed unity to get through the difficulties, so there was no chaos in the Li family.
As the largest clan in the state, the Wang family has a huge power, and although the losses are large, it has not led to a collapse.
The wealthy families who used to be in the city have become crowded. The three families swallowed the bitter fruit they had planted.
this day.
Wang Qi sat listlessly in his own courtyard, basking in the sun boredly. The failure of the Wang family hit Wang Qi hard, and after a long time, he couldn't recover from it, and he was in a daze in the courtyard every day.
Wang Qi's son Wang Tao walked over and said to Wang Qi: "Father, I went to report to Lord Assassin Shi." ”
Wang Qi didn't open his eyes and said, "Go ahead, work hard." ”
Wang Tao nodded, said goodbye to Wang Qi, and went to the Assassin's Mansion.
Liu Yu didn't do it, because the power of the Wang family was too great, if the Wang family was really uprooted, Wang Yun would definitely interfere, and there would be constant trouble at that time. So Liu Yu left a way back for the Wang family, and let the people of the Yuan family say to Wang Qi that Liu Yu admires Wang Tao very much and hopes that Wang Tao can take up the post of Zhonglang.
Wang Qi refused, Liu Yu had already made a feud with the Wang family, how could he let his son go to him to do things, but Wang Tao insisted on going. Wang Tao's reason is very sufficient, now that there is no force in the state that can threaten Liu Yu, the best choice for the Wang family now is to bow to Liu Yu, and Wang Tao's joining the Assassin Mansion is the best vote. If he refuses, as long as Liu Yu is in Bingzhou for one day, the development of the Wang family in Bingzhou will be difficult in the future. Wang Tao said something that impressed Wang Qi deeply, that is, for the sake of interests, sometimes even the revenge of killing his father can be put down.
Wang Qi didn't expect that he had lived such a long time, and he was actually taught a lesson by his son, and finally agreed.
Wang Qi looked at Wang Tao's upright figure, and couldn't help but feel relieved, and sighed that there were successors to the Wang family. If it weren't for himself, the Wang family would not have come to this point, and Wang Tao would not have to work under the enemy. I hope that Wang Tao can lead the Wang family to a new era.
Wang Qi, who closed his eyes again, recalled the conversation with Wang Yun at that time, and suddenly felt that he was really inferior to Wang Yun. Wang Yun's helplessness at that time and his own pride, the prosperity of the Wang family and the decline of today, all emerged in Wang Qi's mind.
"Big brother, I was wrong. I'm really inferior to you. Will you forgive me? Wang Qi left tears of remorse.