Chapter 603: Gao Shun's ruthlessness
Everyone in the world is staring at the situation in Hanzhong County and Yizhou.
Many people gloated, as soon as Gao Shun ascended the throne, there was such a large-scale rebellion, and one of the fourteen tiger generals he canonized, Lu Yi, participated in the rebellion, which was simply a slap in the face of Gao Shun.
Gao Shun didn't care very much, he felt that it was better to fight early than later, anyway, these people are all unstable factors, and now he can completely control the rebellion, which is much stronger than leaving it to his son to deal with; Therefore, he agrees with Guo Jia's opinion.
Yan Liang, Wen Chou and others applied to lead troops into Yizhou to quell the rebellion; Guan Yu, Zhang Fei and others learned of the rebellion of the Lu family, and they were even more ashamed of it and vowed to destroy the Lu family.
Gao Shun said with a smile: "Haha, even the troops of Yongzhou and Qinzhou have not been mobilized much, so why bother to transfer troops from the Sili region?" It's not worth making a fuss about being such a clown. ”
The Koji family still has a fluke mentality, and thinks that Gao Shun will not implicate others, thinking that they will be let go after the rebellion against the Koji family, for the second, the Koji family also uses the relationship of in-law to operate outside; There are even family members who believe that as long as the koji is not broken, they are safe; Lu Yi occupied Hanzhong County and guarded the dangerous points, and it was difficult to be pacified in a few years.
However, the Lu family was disappointed, and those scholars were disappointed, and the situation immediately changed when they arrived at Wudu County, first Hu Zhen of Yangping Pass surrendered to Shun, and then Lu Sheng was killed, the officers and soldiers in Nanzheng City surrendered, and then Lu Yi was killed, and the rebellion of Hanzhong County was quelled so easily, which was beyond their imagination; They thought that Hanzhong County was in danger on all sides, and no matter how bad it was, it should not be a problem to stick to it for a few years, but they didn't expect to die in just a few months.
Along with it, the Yizhou rebellion was easily put down.
Gao Shun ordered that all the people of the Koji family and the men of the Lu family, regardless of their age, should be beheaded; All the women were sold into slavery; the old and decrepit are servants in the barracks; Confiscation of family property.
Even a woman with a foreign surname who married into a daughter-in-law of the Koji family was sold into slavery and was not pardoned.
Those people didn't dare to say it openly, so they had to spend money to redeem their own women, but they cursed in their hearts; scolded the righteous waste, but he had such a ability to rebel, which affected everyone; scolded Gao Shun viciously, not even the women, even the elderly, and even the children.
Everyone felt that Lu Yi and Lu Min and others had followed Gao Shun and made great contributions, and they should be treated differently and only deal with Lu Yi's family.
Gao Shun is unwilling to be so generous, first, the rebellion of the Koji family has emerged in an endless stream in history, and there have been many rebellions, causing greater damage. The second is that he has already been charged with usurping the Han dynasty, and he doesn't care about adding one more charge of murder.
He also has another purpose, that is, to deter everyone, don't think that he is obedient and cherishes the people, so he is unwilling to kill, leaving people with a fluke mentality.
Zhao Yun and Guo Jia asked for instructions on the handling of the rebellious family in Yizhou.
Gao Shun was very decisive and ordered them to refer to the treatment of the Koji family, all the men were beheaded, and the women were sold into slavery; Even those families who later surrendered and returned to the government could not be spared, and the men were killed, and the women were married to the soldiers, or served as servants in the barracks, a slight distinction was made, but for those families, it did not mean much.
As long as he was involved in the rebellion, even if he did not participate in the rebellion, he only provided supplies for the rebels, and he was also exterminated by Gao Shun.
Gao Shun's move is a double-edged sword, one is to deal with it ruthlessly, so that people don't have a fluke mentality, rebel when the conditions are favorable, and take refuge in the government when the conditions are unfavorable to save their lives; The second is that this will make the rebels more cautious, prepare carefully before the rebellion, and rebel to the end after the rebellion, making it more difficult to counter the rebellion.
The heads of the people killed in Yizhou were rolling and the blood was flowing like a river, and the big families of the four richest counties, Ba County, Shu County, Guanghan County, and Qianwei County, were basically wiped out, and more than 30,000 people were implicated in the killing.
This was the first time that Gao Shun had killed such a large-scale internally, which shocked the world, and the ministers could not stop persuading him.
Due to the large number of exterminations, the Yizhou government took possession of a large amount of arable land, and after the war, it kept its promise to relieve those slaves from slavery, distribute arable land, and settle them as people.
Slaves who joined the officers and soldiers and participated in the counterinsurgency were given 50 acres of arable land each, and slaves who joined the rebels first and then rebelled were given 20 acres of arable land.
For those who came to help in the war, each of them was given two thousand copper coins, cloth, salt, grain, and so on.
The government also provided a certain amount of money and grain to help the people quickly resume production and minimize the harm.
For those who followed the rebels of Luyi and had been fearful, Gao Shun also treated them separately.
All those involved in the rebellion were punished with three months' salaries.
Like Hu Zhen, he was able to rebel against Lu Yi in time, returned to the imperial court, and was named a liehou, with 500 households.
For those who kill the winner of the koji, they are named liehous, and they have a thousand households.
Those who kill the righteous are county marquis, and there are 2,000 households in the city.
Those who participate in looting and other matters are subject to different degrees of punishment; For those who have made meritorious contributions to counterinsurgency, the rewards are even more generous; Everyone calmed down, even if they were fined, they had no complaints in their hearts, and the stone finally landed.
For Guo Jia, he figured out Gao Shun's attitude, and adopted the method of leading the snake out of the hole, which not only allowed a large number of Yizhou clans to participate in the rebellion, but also took the opportunity to remove them at one time, but also attracted the big fish of Lu Yi, which made Gao Shun very happy, so the reward for Guo Jia was also very grand, and the number of households increased by 1,000 households, and his eldest son entered the court as a lang, and the second son went to the prince's mansion to serve.
This is a very grand reward, the food land reached 7,000 households, second only to the 10,000 households of Liu Xie, the Duke of Rencheng, especially the second son, who had a good relationship with the prince in advance, which was a good continuation of the family; The envy of other ministers.
However, Guo Jia's move offended all the scholars, and it was his weakness that led to more families participating in the rebellion; Some people wrote to Gao Shun, but it was Guo Jia's connivance that led to so many families involved in the rebellion in Yizhou, and Guo Jia should be punished, not rewarded.
Gao Shun did not send such letters, so that those ministers thought that Gao Shun acquiesced to their words and deeds, but in the end, Gao Shun remembered these people deeply and strictly ordered the prince that these people and their family members must not be reused.
Taking this opportunity, Gao Shun issued Danshu gold coupons to the Fourteen Protectors, which could be spared three deaths; The Thirteen Tigers will issue Danshu silver coupons, which can be spared from death twice; Twenty-eight good generals, issued Danshu iron coupons, can avoid death once; This is the so-called death-free card, which is divided into three classes and is only issued to those who have merit.
But the sin of rebellion is not forgiven, and as long as it is a sin of rebellion, no matter who it is, it will be destroyed.
Gao Shun's intention is obvious, he can give everything he can, but if he is not satisfied, then he is sorry, such a family, it is useless to stay, it is better to eradicate it.
Those generals and their families were even more loyal to Gao Shun after that, which made Gao Shun's ruling foundation more solid; They feel that as long as they are loyal to Gao Shun and do a good job, they will definitely be able to have unexpected gains.
Subsequently, Gao Shun issued an order that no family should keep domestic slaves, which was the root of the rebellion, but if the family had more than 100 slaves, it would be regarded as a rebellion.
At this juncture, no family dared to jump out to oppose it, otherwise it would be easy to be caught by Gao Shun as a negative example, so they all cooperated very much with the government's review, and the surplus slaves were transferred to their children and grandchildren who had opened a separate household registration, or sold in the market.
Due to the better living conditions, the government will provide relief in disaster years, and no people will sell themselves into slavery or are willing to sell their children as slaves, and the price of slaves in the market has skyrocketed. Gao Shun originally wanted to ban slaves, but then he still did not issue an edict, so it was better to go with the flow and rely on market adjustment.
Besides, it is difficult to prohibit this kind of thing by the government alone.