Gao Shun's remarks about suppressing Confucianism and supporting other schools of thought before the Chinese New Year quickly spread and shook the world.

Scripture is the foundation of the survival of many large families, and if the status of Confucianism is shaken, then they will have no chance to rise again.

As for those craftsmen and people of other schools, although they are happy in their hearts, they do not have the right to speak, and their strength cannot compete with the big clans.

In addition, Gao Shun suppressed grain prices and implemented progressive taxation, which seriously affected their interests.

These big clans are naturally not willing to be captured, they have endured it for a long time, forced by Gao Shun's force to suppress, no one dares to rebel, but this does not prevent them from using public opinion to fight back.

In particular, among the Taishou-level officials appointed by Gao Shun, there are more than 100 counties in the world, but there are no more than five Taishou from the big families, and the big families are suppressed too hard, so they will naturally fight back.

In the beginning, these clans went their separate ways, and for their own safety, they all did it secretly.

First of all, it was rumored in Hanoi County that Gao Shun was the mastermind and mastermind of the Yellow Turban Uprising, and all those who participated in the Yellow Turban Army were used by Gao Shunli.

There are a lot of examples attached to this rumor, such as Gao Shun has incorporated many Yellow Turban forces, and many of Gao Shun's generals are from the Yellow Turban Army, are they not as good as the Yellow Turban Army?

Also, Li Qiang became one of the targets of the family's attacks, because it is no secret that Li Qiang married Zhang Jiao's daughter, which is also one of the evidence of Gao Shun's planning of the Yellow Turban Uprising.

Also, Qin Guan is also the Yellow Turban Army supported by Gao Shun.

Under their propaganda, Gao Shun is simply a treacherous and cunning rebel thief, who has planned to replace the Han court decades ago, and is the source of social turmoil, and everyone is punished for it.

What came out of Yanzhou was that Gao Shun did not save the court and the emperor, but he had the idea of being the emperor.

It was rumored in Xuzhou that Gao Shun and Dong Zhuo were actually in a gang, otherwise, why didn't they crusade against Dong Zhuo in the first place? Why did you fund Dong Zhuo with so much food and other materials? Why did Dong Zhuo give Luoyang to Gao Shun? It is even rumored that Gao Shun deceived Xuzhou from Tao Tingshi through deception; Gao Shun is a typical rebel thief, careerist, and hypocrite.

The Eastern Han Dynasty was popular for study tours, and Gao Shun did not deliberately restrict the flow of population, which further aggravated the spread of rumors.

So much so that in the summer of the fifteenth year of Xingping, Gao Shun's evil deeds were circulating in all states in the world, which made Gao Shun have to pay attention to it; He thought to himself that maybe he was too kind, and everyone thought that he would not kill.

In this era, public opinion is still in the hands of big families, and ordinary people just passively accept this information, and they are simply unable to distinguish between right and wrong; Especially the people whose family members died in the Yellow Turban Rebellion, their attitude towards Gao Shun has gradually changed.

Those big clans who were expelled from Jiangnan by Qin Guan to the north, and did not get preferential treatment from Gao Shun, now, they found an outlet in their hearts, because they were dissatisfied with the status quo, they became the main spreaders of rumors, which was exactly the heart of the northern clans.

Li Qiang and Qin Guan also became the main targets of their attacks.

Li Qiang was aggrieved in his heart, and other generals of the Yellow Turban Army were also resentful.

Gao Shun convened everyone to discuss the solution.

Xi Zhicai said: "Lord, the rumors stop at the wise, don't care about them, they are boring to themselves, and there is no money and food to support them, so the rumors will naturally stop." ”

Gao Shun feels that Xi Zhicai is really smart and nonsense, how can he make such a suggestion? So he turned to Jia Xu and said, "What does Mr. Jia suggest?" ”

"Either you don't make a move, or you will use the hand of thunder and wipe them out."

Gao Shun said: "It's difficult, all that can be caught is the clown jumping beam in front of the stage, the real big fish are good at self-preservation, and they will definitely not show flaws." ”

Jia Xu smiled: "Haha, lord, this is like cutting leeks, how can you cut the grass and eradicate the roots at one time?" ”

Gao Shun said: "Arrest once, and then they will be more weird and secretive, and it will be more difficult to deal with them." ”

Jia Xu said disapprerovingly: "Haha, lord, according to the current policy, in more than ten years, will there still be a big clan that will compete with the lord?" At that time, they were already dry bones in the grave, and they could not take care of themselves, so what was there to fear? ”

Gao Shun felt that it made sense, it was that he was in a hurry, he just needed to dispel the current rumors and continue to carry out the crackdown on them, and then the big clan would quickly disappear.

Ma Gui asked, "Lord, are they all beheaded after arresting these people?" ”

Gao Shun decided: "No, all the men will be treated as official slaves and sent to Hongnong County for cultivation until they die of old age; Let the women be slaves to the people. ”

The current situation is that there are no people in Hongnong County, and the cultivated land is barren, so sending these people to Hongnong County to cultivate is easy to manage, and there is no need to worry about them escaping.

Jia Xu stopped: "Lord, this is not possible, it is better to send all of them to Hongnong County as slaves, so that it is convenient to keep secrets, just put shackles on them all and prohibit them from marrying." ”

Gao Shun nodded and agreed to Jia Xu's suggestion, which was indeed convenient for secrecy, and did not allow them to leave offspring and weaken their social influence.

As a result, the military divisions and state pastors of all states received Gao Shun's secret order to arrest these rumor-mongers at the same time, along with their families.

Such a big movement can't be concealed if you want to.

Some of the great clans remained silent.

However, some families took the opportunity to attack Gao Shun more unscrupulously, and the military divisions and state pastors and assassins from all over the country did not show mercy on these families who took the initiative to jump out, and arrested them together, and they were all secretly delivered to Hongnong County in accordance with Gao Shun's instructions.

There has been no war for so long, and these soldiers are also bored, and suddenly there is a military operation, and they are all proactive; But all those who resisted were killed.

Gao Shun arranged a cavalry division in Hongnong County, an infantry division division and a taishou to closely supervise these slaves.

With heavy shackles, long journeys, and poor diet, a large number of people died on the road.

At this point, these people knew that Gao Shun really didn't kill people, but it made their life worse than death, their family was about to be destroyed, and they were full of remorse, and they shouldn't have waded into this troubled water in the first place.

Gao Shun was quite satisfied with the results reported from various places.

The big families who went north from Yangzhou were basically wiped out.

The Cao family and the Chen family in Xuzhou were arrested, and none of them escaped the net, originally they thought that they should profit after the death of Shi Taoqian, but they didn't expect to be cut off by Gao Shun, and they were naturally unwilling in their hearts.

Yanzhou's Bian family was arrested, and the Bian family was too high to look down on Gao Shun's background at all.

The Song family in Bingzhou was arrested, but because of Song Xian's affairs, he was not on good terms with Gao Shun and took the opportunity to make trouble.

The Pei family in Hedong County was arrested, purely because they were jealous of the Wei family, their hearts were uneven, and their jealousy was too heavy.

The Sima family in Hanoi, which made Gao Shun regret, was not affected; Many families in Yingchuan County have not been affected, Gao Shun will not believe that they will be so honest, but the means are more clever.

To Gao Shun's relief, none of the Liu royal family who had been abolished were involved in the matter, allowing them to escape the catastrophe.

Relatively speaking, Pingzhou, Anzhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou, Jizhou, Liangzhou and Yongzhou were relatively stable places, and the people there were less affected by rumors, and the people were grateful for Gaoshun's achievements in stabilizing the border counties, which saved them from foreign slaughter and lived a stable life.

Gao Shun is ready to let the prince preside over the affairs of Yecheng, he will go to Yizhou, if these big clans are still unstable, when he returns, he will cut the leeks again.