Chapter 55: Take Control of Jiangdong
A war that was destined to end ended without any waves.
Fei Zhan died, none of the 20,000 Shanyue soldiers escaped, more than 4,000 died, more than 6,000 were slightly injured, and the rest were disarmed and surrendered.
The reason why he only died more than 4,000 was due to the fact that the first dead soldier left his hand, and he did not use cloud qi to strengthen the lethality of the arrows, but only strengthened the penetrating power.
Therefore, these lightly injured Shanyue soldiers all left small holes the size of thumbs on their bodies, and there was no great trauma.
And those who were seriously injured and died can only be said to be unlucky, and the location of the penetration is just the vital place.
In any case, after this nightmarish battle, the remaining 20,000 or so Shanyue people are completely honest.
Especially in the end, Ju Yi used the cloud qi of the legion to perform the arrow, which directly extinguished everyone's desire to escape.
Now this group of Shanyue people has become very well-behaved, let them do whatever they want, and have no desire to escape.
Subsequently, under the custody of Sun Ce's troops, these Shanyue people were escorted to Lujiang.
These crowds were leaderless and had no fighting spirit, and the five hundred cavalry under Sun Ce's command were enough to deal with it, not to mention the assistance of the guards of various counties along the way.
And in Danyang City, there was another massacre going on at this time.
The slaughtering side was still the first to ascend to the dead and the trapping camp, while the slaughtered side was replaced by the escorts and young men who planned to cause rebellion among the wealthy gentry.
This battle was even smoother than the previous one, the Zhang family directly dug pits, gathered these people in the courtyards one by one, and found an excuse to ask the leaders of each family to be together alone, but they were all shot to death by the first dead soldiers.
Most of the rest, except for some of the dead, surrendered without a leader.
After all, most of them are just people who put down their hoes and are forcibly pulled, and their desire to fight is not high.
These people were divided into a small part by the army led by Huang Zhong, who came later, and directly pressed them to Jinling for labor reform.
As for the remaining main force brought by Huang Zhong, they were all used to assist the trapping camp and the first to ascend the dead to clean up the remaining remnants of other Shanyue hidden in the mountains in the entire Danyang County.
If Lujiang and Jiujiang are the bridgeheads of the entire Yangzhou, then Danyang and Wujun are the core of the entire Yangzhou.
Yuan Shu planned to set the capital of Jinling in the future is located in Danyang, and Yuan Shu naturally wants to clean up these two counties.
In fact, the most essential part of the whole Jiangdong is located in this area of the lower reaches of the Yangtze River, that is, near the Yangtze River Delta in later generations, including Lujiang, Jiujiang, Danyang and Wujun.
The six prefectures of Yangzhou are like a microcosm of the entire Han Dynasty, the four counties in the north occupy about half of the territory, but occupy more than three-quarters of Yangzhou's population and resources, while the remaining two counties in the south are large in territory, but most of them are barren land that has not been transformed.
Yuan Shu naturally knew that the two counties in the south would be the land of fish and rice if they were slightly transformed, but now he couldn't spare time and energy to transform the two counties in the south, so he could only focus his main energy on the four counties in the north.
Huang Zhong assisted Gao Shun and Ju Yi in the four northern counties according to Yuan Shu's arrangement, and according to the guidance of the nearby people, they went to capture the Shanyue people one by one, and then sent them to Lujiang.
Yuan Shu, these Shanyue people, didn't have time to care about them for the time being, and let them go to work as coolies first, build water conservancy or roads.
After all, these people are in good health, not to mention working fast, and they don't need to be paid, as long as they have enough food, it's not too convenient, which causes Gu Yong and Fu Yu to often quarrel over the distribution of these people.
Yuan Shu didn't have the time to care about this, he was busy with something more important.
This time, the war between the family and the Shanyue people against the rebellion is over, but the matter is not over at all.
Yuan Shu was busy raiding the homes of these families, as well as stabilizing the situation and pacifying the other families, as well as the new distribution of benefits.
Under the command of Yuan Shu, the assistance of Guo Jia, and the secret help of Zhang Xun, the entire Yangzhou was suddenly shrouded in a bloody storm.
Yuan Shu has no mercy for these families who can't see the situation clearly, don't know how to converge, and have no bottom line.
Kill what should be killed, slave what should be enslaved, and raid the house that should be raided.
Countless children of the family were beheaded on the street after being told the crime, and the rolling heads fell to the ground, which was enough to pile up into a mountain.
These families dared to connect with Shanyue, all of them were naturally not a good thing, and after the charges were clarified, all the people concerned were beheaded in public, which not only caused panic among the people, but also made the people secretly proclaim to be happy.
The reaction of the people did not surprise Yuan Shu, after all, what Yuan Shu did was justified and beneficial to the people.
Although the people are simple, they are not stupid, and they know who is good to them.
Yuan Shu has done so many tangible things, and he has already won the hearts of the people. This time, some of the Shanyue rebels and the families who colluded with Shanyue were eradicated, and the people applauded.
But unlike the common people, the families are now silent.
Although they have long known that Yuan Shu has become a general trend, some families still have illusions, believing that the rule and management of Jiangdong are still inseparable from the family. Even though Yuan Shu was not interested in himself, he did not dare to really go against the Jiangdong family.
But now, the rolling heads and endless killings all prove the horror and strength of Yuan Shu and his own innocence.
It's not that the other party doesn't dare to move himself, it's just that he doesn't have a good reason and is too lazy to move himself.
Countless wealthy gentry were destroyed, but as a result, the entire Jiangdong was still very stable, and there was no sign of chaos.
What frightened the families the most was that Yuan Shu completely eradicated the Zhang family, one of the four great families, so easily, that he didn't encounter any obstacles and difficulties!
The other three major families didn't react to this at all, and the most terrifying thing was that the Lu family was still secretly helping Yuan Shu.
No matter how much you say, it is not as clear as reality, and the results of Yuan Shu's wave of killings directly made the families in Jiangdong recognize the reality.
Yuan Shu, the general trend has been achieved!
The remaining three families have all recognized the situation and made a choice. If you don't take refuge, you will slowly fall behind other families and even die.
And Yuan Shu is not the kind of cruel tyrant who can't tolerate a little sand in his eyes, and he is still very tolerant of the family.
As long as he doesn't offend his bottom line, Yuan Shu is also happy to let the family drink some soup with him.
After all, in this era, if you want to manage the world, you must be inseparable from the family.
The vacant official positions left by the Zhang family and other rebel families were divided into two parts by Yuan Shu, one was left to the Hanmen, and the other was directly given to the family.
And in the latter portion, most of the heads were eaten by the three major families, and the other families also drank some soup.
Yuan Shu knows the truth of taking advantage of the situation and equalizing interests.
It's useless to keep these vacant ones, so it's better to give them away as a favor.
This is also the reason why the other three families just ignored the collapse of the Zhang family and did not react at all, but instead helped Yuan Shu stabilize the situation.
Yuan Shu did not harm their interests, on the contrary, he also let them make a small profit.
As for the increase in the potential threat of Yuan Shu and the weakening of the power of the Jiangdong family group, it is not that they are not clear, but they have no choice.
After all, they all know that Yuan Shu's threat has always existed, and they obviously have no ability to resist in the first place, so there is no other way but to compromise.
Now that the Zhang family has fallen, it only makes the situation more obvious.
Now opposing Yuan Shu is tantamount to a moth to a fire and hitting a stone with an egg, and moving closer to Yuan Shu is their best choice now.
Sometimes things are like this, it seems difficult, but as long as you rely on it, take advantage of the situation, unite the interests of the majority to suppress a small number of people, and then learn to equalize the interests, you can grasp the situation little by little, strengthen yourself, and stabilize the situation.
After this wave of massacres, Jiangdong was completely in the hands of Yuan Shu!