Chapter 786: Turmoil

I have to say that Liu Bei was well prepared. With a few members of the family in charge and a lot of information about the family, Liu Bei's attack on the family at the first time was extremely smooth. With the assistance of Yang Chen and others, the family was severely damaged in just one day, and many families were even directly wiped out.

However, a family is a family after all. Especially in Yanzhou, a place that has changed hands several times after war, Liu Bei was unable to control it when he first arrived, and the new Yanzhou family group composed of the Yanzhou family, which was the head snake of the land, and some families who invested from Yuzhou, were mostly insatiable speculators. Their development in Yanzhou is really unscrupulous, and they don't take Liu Bei in their eyes at all.

Because in their opinion, Liu Bei, a prince, is cowardly and incompetent, and his power is weak, and he has no ability to fight for hegemony at all, or it won't be long before Yanzhou changes hands again. In this case, they frantically grabbed the territory and population, so that they could get greater benefits after Yuan Shao or Yuan Shu occupied this place in the future, and Liu Bei's attitude was not in their consideration at all.

These people thought it was beautiful, but they were wrong about Liu Bei. Honest people can also get angry, and if they don't get angry easily, it's really out of control. Liu Bei's monstrous anger finally slammed into their heads.

But also thanks to their unscrupulous development, the strength of these families is terrifying and abnormal, and it is really hard to say whether Liu Bei can be defeated if they are really twisted into a rope. If you look at the merger, it is clear that Yuan Shao is difficult to take and control the merger, and after giving a promise, all of them were taken down by the family in a few months, and they were well managed. The power of the families is so terrifying, it's just that it's not easy to guide.

Even now Liu Bei intends to wipe out all the families, and these families have not been able to unite sincerely, and most of them are fighting on their own. Even so, Liu Bei was deeply surprised by the terrifying strength of the family, and he couldn't help but break out in a cold sweat when he realized it later.

The number of methods of the profound family is really eye-popping, and there are countless secret passages in the mansion, and dozens or hundreds of elite guards are guarding them. These means made Liu Bei directly turn the delusion of the family's destruction into nothing. Except for a few unlucky eggs, the other families more or less have remnants of their descendants who have fled.

With no way out, they were naturally unwilling and did not dare to remain incognito, and they all used their own means to contact all the forces they could control. Almost overnight, a peaceful Yanzhou rioted instantly.

Why was the family at the end of the Han Dynasty called the master of the world? How could a great family like the Yuan family be able to scold Fang Xuan and easily cultivate the two largest princes? In this riot, the power of the family was completely revealed in the eyes of the world.

More than 70 percent of the merchants rebelled directly, countless shops immediately declared their closure, and all employees were dismissed. Grain shops, butcher shops, hotels, cloth shops, etc., countless storefronts have all disappeared, people's daily procurement has become a problem, firewood, rice, oil, salt, sauce, vinegar and tea are all in short supply, and the markets and streets of Yanzhou are extremely depressed. What is even more terrifying is that more than sixty percent of the tenants of cultivated land in Yanzhou have all been dismissed, nearly half of the population has lost their livelihoods, more than eighty percent of the officials and petty officials have either gone into the field or made rebellion, half of the soldiers have plotted rebellion, and at the same time countless thieves have appeared in the territory.

The desperate Shijia Fish burst out with amazing energy, and the entire Yanzhou changed its appearance overnight, and Yanzhou, which was not prosperous but peaceful, became lifeless.

Even Liu Bei, who had been mentally prepared for this for a long time, was directly stunned when he really encountered this situation.

"Kenwa, is this true?" Looking at the report obtained after the preliminary statistics in his hand, Liu Bei asked in disbelief.

Jian Yong's face was bitter, and he sighed slightly: "Lord, although I don't want to admit it, I have to say that this is indeed the case!" ”

"The family really has such terrifying energy! How can this make us princes embarrassed? Liu Bei gasped. You know, there are still five rebellions, and there are several cases where they are extinguished at the first time, if these families are allowed to go all out, I am afraid that Yanzhou's strength will be lost in an instant, and these strengths will be turned against themselves.

"The lord doesn't need to panic too much, although the power of the families is terrifying, but under normal circumstances, they are just a mess of sand, and there are many internal contradictions, although they are powerful, but they will not be so terrifying. The reason why this situation has occurred is entirely because the lord has pressed you too hard and left no room for anything, so they all have stubborn resistance with a will to die, resulting in today's situation. Jian Yong comforted softly.

That being said, it's a shocking situation right now! Fortunately, when he first entered Yuzhou, he did not have the hostility to the family, otherwise the consequences would be really unimaginable! Liu Bei said with some fear.

"The lord might as well think about it the other way around, the power of the family is like this, how terrifying is the Yuan Shu that can play the family in the palm of his hand and is almost completely controlled." Jian Yongdao.

"Yes! Now I finally understand why Yuan Highway abandoned the rich Yuzhou and chose the backward Yangzhou. If he made a fortune in Yuzhou, where families gathered, I am afraid that he would be helpless even if he gave Yuan Shu ten years! Although Yangzhou is backward, but backwardness also has the benefits of backwardness, and the gap between Yangzhou family and Yuzhou family is simply incalculable. But that's the case, Yuan Highway has also experienced a lot of hardships to completely control Yangzhou! Liu Bei sighed.

How difficult it is to control the family, after experiencing this, Liu Bei can be regarded as having a deeper understanding, and at the same time, he can't help but feel a trace of admiration for Yuan Shu who has done this kind of thing. In other words, even if it is such a means, I am afraid that he will not dare to do it like Yuan Shu, and the difficulties and disadvantages are unimaginable.

Not to mention the internal turmoil, Yuan Shu, who only occupied Yangzhou at that time, was besieged by several surrounding states several times, but fortunately, Yuan Shu himself had a deep foundation and strong strength to survive, and when he was replaced, I am afraid that he would have been annihilated long ago.

"But fortunately, the lord doesn't need to care about the mess in Yanzhou now, he just needs to send troops to suppress it strongly, and then the problem will be handed over to Yuan Highway to have a headache!" Jian Yong smiled slightly.

"Hehe, it's not easy to take advantage of the cheapness, Yuan Highway wants to take Yanzhou without blood, then don't blame me for leaving him a mess." The corners of Liu Bei's mouth also flashed a wicked smile.

Now what he is doing is almost the same as Cao Cao at the beginning, Cao Cao almost emptied Xuzhou, and almost exhausted the young and strong people in Qingzhou. And his Liu Bei's approach is not much different, it is not difficult to send troops to suppress the rebellion, but it is difficult to restore the development of Yanzhou. After experiencing a turmoil, Yanzhou's economy will drop by at least three grades, and if it develops step by step, it will not recover at all in ten or twenty years.

He is now comfortable with an iron rod, and he doesn't have to be responsible for the mess left behind, so naturally Yuan Shu will take over, and he has to be willing. Thinking about the uncomfortable expression on his face when he met Yuan Shu in the future, Liu Bei felt secretly refreshed.