Volume 5 Whose Great Cause Chapter 86 Aftermath

Li Hun still didn't have the courage to resist in the end, and obediently ordered his subordinates to open the gate, allowing the Praetorian Guards to pour in. This made the wheat iron rod that had been prepared for a long time, Liu Hu and the others a little depressed. However, they did not hesitate to issue various orders, and soon, the seemingly impregnable Li Mansion was completely relieved of the power of resistance, which fully shows that no matter how powerful the family is, it is vulnerable to the imperial power.

The arrest of Li Shanheng did not take much effort, within one day, the Shenguo Mansion, which has always been known as the first family of the Great Sui, fell, in addition to the servants, hundreds of people in the entire Li family were imprisoned, and many servants saw that the head of the family was arrested, and they were like a tree falling and scattered, and they walked cleanly.

The arrest of Li Hun's uncle and nephew caused a shock in the capital can be imagined, and the first reaction of many officials when they heard the news was not to believe it. Many cautious officials immediately made up their minds to keep a low profile during this period of time, not seeking merit, but seeking no fault.

The emperor's reasons for arresting Li Hun, Li Min, and Li Shanheng were very clear, they sold the examiners, deliberately leaked the exam questions, conspired to set fire to the palace, created rumors, and caused the scholars to besiege the Gongyuan.

If it is a future generation, a random crime is enough to rob the family and exterminate the clan, but now because the imperial examination has just begun, the hundred officials may not be too serious about the leakage of the examination questions, but the two crimes of creating rumors and causing scholars to besiege the tribute courtyard and conspiracy to set fire to the palace cannot be light, and the rumors have been extremely serious since ancient times, and arson in the palace is no different from rebellion.

For a long time, the dark guards couldn't find out how the exam questions were leaked, and they didn't know the reason until they put Li Hun's uncle and nephew in prison. It turned out that as early as before the officials who produced the test papers entered the palace, Li Hun's uncle and nephew sold several officials who had written the questions, and after the questions were determined, several officials wrote the test questions on small wooden boards. Put it in the water, flow out of the palace down the sewer in the palace, and then pick it up by people outside the palace.

This method is easy to use and easy to ignore, and the underground waterways in the palace are equipped with several iron fences to prevent people from sneaking in, but they do not prevent the thin planks from flowing away, otherwise the debris will often block the sewers. When Yang Yong received the news, he could only smile bitterly. There is no way to make up for this loophole, only to learn a lesson, and to keep it secret in the future, people must be placed in places where there are no sewers.

Although Li Hun committed such a big crime, there are many people who plead for Li Hun. After all, Li Hun finally reined in the precipice and did not raise troops to resist, including some old ministers like Gao Ying, Su Wei, and Li Delin, Yang Yong can not buy other people's face, and these old ministers always have to save face, and in the end, the Li family beheaded Li Hun, Li Min, and Li Shanheng, and the rest were all sentenced to exile in Luzon.

For Li Hun's uncle and nephew, Yang Yong could not pardon their capital crimes under any circumstances, and Yang Yong wanted to use their blood to warn those families who secretly resisted the imperial examination. The imperial examination has become the trend of the times, and no matter who dares to stop it, the emperor will be determined to eradicate it.

Luzon is currently the farthest island that the Great Sui Navy can reach, the island is densely forested, only some indigenous activities are active, at this time did not form a state, only as a tribal activity.

The navy was in the second year of the great cause. That is, six years ago, he landed on the island. Because the island was so large, it took the navy more than half a year to survey the island. Now, after six years of development, Luzon has a population of more than 10,000, and these people, in addition to the personnel belonging to the navy, seventy percent are criminals in the court penal colonies, and only thirty percent are ordinary people who have voluntarily emigrated.

This time, in addition to the exile of hundreds of people in the Shenguo Mansion in the capital, plus the removal and exile of officials of the Li family in other places and on the front line, a total of thousands of people were sent to Luzon, until half a year later, the turmoil was over.

The emperor's disposition frightened many officials, many people thought that if there was no intercession of Gao Ying and others, the Li family would definitely be beheaded, even if someone pleaded, Li Hun's uncle and nephew were still beheaded, and the whole family was assigned to the field, although it was not placed in the broken incense, but it was a question whether it could have the opportunity to re-enter the Central Plains when it was distributed to the island of Luzon.

In order to encourage the people to emigrate, Yang Yong also ordered the government to provide free cattle and seeds, and to reclaim the fields that came to them for ten years without collecting taxes, and because of the frequent stops of the sailors, it also became a base for the navy, and voluntarily relocated the residents of the past. Once every five years, there is an opportunity to return to the Central Plains free of charge on a navy ship.

In spite of so many preferential treatments, there are still very few ordinary people who are willing to go to Luzon, and in the past six years, the people who have voluntarily moved every year are only a few hundred, after all, it is difficult to leave their homeland, and now the Great Sui is in the period of thriving national strength, many places in the south are still barren land, and there is a lot of land available for reclamation in the country, and it is not that they can't survive, who wants to go overseas.

However, the situation has improved with the return of the first group of residents who had passed the five-year period, who were among the first to emigrate, almost all of whom had made a fortune and who had returned to their homeland with a feeling of returning to their homeland, and many of them were also impressed, and by this year more than 1,000 people had voluntarily moved to Luzon.

It is very simple for those who have gone before to make a fortune, the land here is almost infinite, and there is a naval base, which requires a lot of land materials, and the excess materials can be transported back by sea ships, only if you can reclaim the farmland, no matter what you plant, you don't have to worry about buying it.

And security is not a problem, although there are many native tribes on the island, these native tribes are almost still in a primitive state, the tools are very simple, many people use bone and wood weapons, all rely on hunting and picking wild fruits to cross the day, at first these people are extremely unfriendly to the arrival of the Sui people, however, when they see the Sui army in the hands of the sharp weapons and the body wearing majestic iron armor, the unfriendliness of the native people suddenly turned into fear, they almost subconsciously knew that these people were not easy to mess with, The weapons in their hands are far sharper than the weapons made of their stones and bones, and the iron armor on their bodies makes their weapons helpless.

In the first year, apart from a few limited engagements, there was little interaction between the Sui army and the common people and the natives, but as time went on, some bold natives began to trade with the Sui people, and they were curious about everything about these newcomers, from the clothes they wore, the tools they used, the weapons in their hands, the strange food, and the cultivated farmland......

The things that the natives can take out are nothing more than some animal skins, antlers and other things, while the things that the Sui people can take out are colorful, which leads to a very unfair transaction between the two sides, an axe, an iron pot, a small piece of cotton cloth, silk usually have to be exchanged for more than a dozen animal skins and antlers in the hands of the natives, and a good animal skin is transported back to the Central Plains, at least it is worth more than ten iron pots.

However, the natives are scrambling for the opportunity to exchange for such iron tools, cloth, which leads to some natives who can't exchange things for simply exchanging labor, and many natives have become semi-slaves of the Sui people, and in the fifth year, those who first came to Luzon's Sui family did not have more than a dozen native slaves, and it was not easy to greet people when they went out.

With the help of the natives in farming, and there is an unlimited purchase by the navy, which leads to the ordinary Sui people also quickly become rich, can make up their minds to come overseas for the first time, most of the family conditions will not be good, and when they return to their hometown, the commotion caused can be imagined, although the government propaganda is how good, but there is no example, everyone is always skeptical, this time to see those who were far less developed than themselves, many people are also moved, and the people who migrated are almost double than in previous years.

However, in the past, whether it was the people who voluntarily moved to the past, or the people who were sent by the court, almost all of them were illiterate people and had no culture, even if they were more advanced than the natives now, in the end, I am afraid that it would really become a wild land, and once the natives united, this big island may not belong to the Great Sui.

This time, the court distributed thousands of people in half a year, of which more than 50 people were originally officials from the Longyou Li family, and hundreds of people were literate and literate, the quality of these people can be said to be far better than before, and when they arrived on the island, they could spread the culture of the Great Sui and assimilate the natives on the island, and finally make this big island firmly become the territory of the Great Sui.

In fact, without Gao Ying, Su Wei's plea of the old ministers, Yang Yong could not eradicate the Li family, it is easy to kill people, but now the population of the Great Sui is insufficient, not to mention that since Yang Yong ascended the throne, although he has vigorously developed education, but the truly literate people are still one in a hundred, and a big family like the Li family, there are many literate people, it is a pity to kill it like this.