Chapter 589: Suppressing the riots
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"Lord Servant, King Yong's edict!"
"The Central Plains has gone through hardships, and it is easy to see no more blood."
"The vast majority of the chaotic people are ordinary believers who do not know the truth, and they need to be understood and moved by reason."
"Don't kill unless you have to."
After listening to Kang Long's instructions from King Yong, Cui Hao shook his head slightly.
Although he understands King Yong's painstaking efforts, he has no hope for ordinary believers to return if they are lost.
In his opinion, the people are ignorant, impulsive, and uninformed, and usually seem to be docile.
But once someone secretly instigates, the people are easily deceived, especially these ordinary Buddhist believers in front of them.
Unless a thunderbolt is given to him in the face to awaken the lost believers, all means will be in vain.
And today's riot seems to be accidental, but it was actually expected by Cui Hao.
However, these passive people do not necessarily want to overthrow Hexi's rule, because it is unrealistic.
Cui Hao predicted that the purpose of everyone was likely to make him retreat and give up the Juntian system.
But from the beginning of being in charge of Qingzhang land, Cui Hao has been prepared to meet all kinds of impacts, how can he give in easily?
The rebellion in the White Horse Temple in front of him seemed to be quite powerful, but it was not enough to make him mess up.
In fact, behind him, 3,000 guards were ready to go to the White Horse Temple at any time to suppress the riots.
But King Yong has already passed down his will, and as a vassal, he can only try his best to appease.
But I have to say that Wei Shuo and Cui Hao both underestimated this riot.
Wei Shuo underestimated the ability of Buddhism to deceive people, but Cui Hao didn't expect that Buddhism also had a hidden hand.
It turned out that when Cui Hao was trying to persuade ordinary believers, suddenly hundreds of chaotic people went to attack Miyagi.
Fortunately, these rebels are just a rabble, not the elite opponents of the guards.
In less than a cup of tea, hundreds of rioters were killed and surrendered.
But when Wei Shuo received the report from the guards, he was not happy that the rebels were defeated, but frowned.
Because he knew that when Cui Hao learned that Miyagi was also impacted, he would inevitably change his appeasement strategy and adopt a tougher attitude towards the chaotic people.
As a result, a bloody conflict is inevitable, and this also means that Hexi will have a feud with the local people.
Wei Shuo ordered Cui Hao to appease the refugees, although he seemed soft-hearted, but more because he didn't want to conflict with the people of the Central Plains.
After all, the day will come when the riots will end, and Hexi will still have to appease the people and organize their production and construction.
If there is a mortal enmity with the local people, it may be greatly detrimental to the post-war reconstruction of the Central Plains.
Wei Shuo rubbed his temples, felt quite a headache, and finally turned into a sigh of helplessness.
"It's come to this, we can only take one step at a time."
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"Your Excellency, the matter has been preliminarily investigated, and the chaotic people who raided and besieged the city were instigated by the White Horse Temple."
"As expected, those monks were unwilling to hand over the land after all." Cui Hao sneered.
"Phew! What bullshit monks, how many of them are clean?! All well-dressed beasts. ”
"They are all arrogant and lascivious, and they regard the good Buddha Gate as a place to hide filth and dirt, which really disgraces the Buddha."
"Now it's even more openly inciting the people to storm the government, it's really impatient, it seems that it can't be ruthless."
"Someone! Pass on the official's order, and if anyone does not listen to the advice, they will all be killed! ”
"Obey!"
As soon as the four words came out, the surrounding officials suddenly felt cold.
Everyone secretly looked at Cui Hao, only to see this personable child of the family, with a strong murderous intent in his eyes at this moment.
Only then did everyone suddenly remember that Cui Haozhen Fushuo Fang was facing a more complicated situation than in front of him.
As a result, a few years have passed, and Shuofang has become a wealthy place, all thanks to Cui Hao's effective governance.
Now that King Yong is pacifying the Central Plains, he didn't bring anyone, but he let Cui Hao accompany him, I'm afraid he also took a fancy to his experience in dealing with complex situations.
As Cui Hao expected, killing is the simplest and most effective way to deal with the chaotic people who have lost their minds.
Soon after receiving the order, the guards immediately set off for the White Horse Temple.
And the noisy people realized that the catastrophe was coming, but it was too late to get out.
Three thousand guards rode by, leaving broken arms and stumps all over the ground, and bright red blood stains covered the streets on both sides of the White Horse Temple.
By the time Cui Hao and his people arrived at the White Horse Temple, the three thousand guards had surrounded the temple and could not pass through.
At this time, the monks in the temple had nothing to escape, committed suicide, and surrendered.
After the riots were calmed down, Cui Hao ignored the repeated objections and pleadings of Fa Xian and other surviving monks, and then ordered the demolition of the White Horse Temple.
As a result, in full view of everyone, this ancient temple with a history of more than 100 years was completely destroyed.
Later, Cui Hao carefully interrogated several captured monks, and hurriedly went back to report the incident to King Yong.
"Your Highness, there are a total of fifteen senior monks in the White Horse Temple, except for three people such as Fa Xian, the remaining twelve people are involved in the riot."
"Nine of them were captured, and the remaining three were found guilty and committed suicide."
"In addition, after interrogating the scum of Buddhism, the minister also found that there were several Central Plains families behind the riot."
"Your Highness, do you want to send someone to arrest the family involved?"
"Don't be busy arresting people, do a good job of reassuring people after the fact."
"By the way, what about the casualties in this rebellion?"
Cui Hao said gloomily: "There are no casualties among the guards, but the officials who were sent out to Qingzhang Land before were all beaten to death. ”
"Hmmm! Lonely knows, all according to the death of the line of duty, the aftermath of the bereavement must be done well, and the pension must be preferential. ”
The bereavement is compensatory, but Cui Hao thinks that it was his mistake that caused the death of several people, so he knelt down and pleaded guilty to King Yong.
"The dereliction of duty of all the ministers led to the tragic death of everyone, and I beg His Highness to punish him."
Wei Shuo waved his hand and said: "This matter is not to blame Bo Yuan, we all underestimate those who have evil intentions. ”
"But there are good and bad things, and although the riots have caused certain losses, they have also provided us with excuses and opportunities."
"Lone didn't let you take people immediately, but wanted to lead but not provoke, forcing the other party to mess up."
"Your Highness is far-sighted, and the ministers can't do it."
Soon the ins and outs of the matter were found out, and in addition to the monks of the White Horse Temple, there were also a few Central Plains families.
In this land clearance operation, the temple and the family suffered the most losses.
Because of their common interests, the two forces secretly colluded together to prevent the implementation of the Junda system
It's a pity that they chose the wrong opponent, and under the strong suppression of the guards, all conspiracies and tricks are nonsense.
Even before the family could cooperate with the action, Cui Hao had already commanded the guards to suppress the huge White Horse Temple riot.
As Wei Shuo expected, when the news of the destruction of the White Horse Temple came, those families were suddenly mourned.
Several heads of the family were in a panic all day long, and every day when they opened their eyes, they had to touch their heads first and were still there, and everyone in the house was desperate.
A few days later, several heads of the family were overwhelmed and committed suicide by hanging themselves after hastily explaining what had happened.
At this moment, Cui Hao drove into each house with a large number of guards.
Without the leader, several great families had no way to resist in the face of Hexi's armed force, so they could only tie their hands.
Cui Hao immediately ordered the raid of several major families, and so far the families that have lasted for hundreds of years have been wiped out.
A large amount of goods and land were taken over by the government and returned to the government treasury, and the uniform field system, which had been stagnant due to riots, was finally implemented in Henan and Xingyang counties.
And tens of thousands of Jin troops stranded in Luoyang and Tiger Prison also got their own land as soon as possible.
Except for a very small number of people who still insisted on returning to Jiangdong, the vast majority of people were willing to stay in the Central Plains.
The stay of these people has greatly enriched the population of the counties in the Central Plains and provided manpower guarantee for future reconstruction.
With the White Horse Temple, some families as a lesson from the past, and Xingyang Zheng as an example, some families chose to give in.
For example, Hongnong Yang directly handed over 500 hectares of cultivated land to the government, and all of them were the most fertile fields.
Hongnong Yang's move attracted many families to follow suit, and they were forced to donate land to the government, for fear that they would be punished by Cui Hao if they moved slowly.
In just a few days, on Wei Shuo's desk, the government's statistics on the booklet of donated land were piled up as high as a hill.
Obviously, the family's ability to survive in troubled times is not unrelated to its ability to see the wind and steer the rudder.
They seldom carry it to the end, and usually choose to compromise when they see something unavoidable.
Now that they have seen King Yong's determination to implement the Juntian system, they will naturally not go all the way to the dark.
What's more, the families in Guanlong, Hedong and other places have already proved that the handing over of land by the family is not the end of the world.
Next, the government implemented the uniform land system and cleared the land began to become more smooth than ever.
Now Cui Hao took Luoyang as the center and began to clear the land and implement the uniform land system in the whole territory of Sizhou, northern Henan and Yanxi. ”
Only remote counties such as southern Henan and Yandong remained deaf to Luoyang's decree and were almost semi-independent.
Eryou Yilu County, Qian County, Peiguo and other counties close to Xuzhou are the most stubborn, and they have always refused to listen to Luoyang's decrees.
During this period, the Confucian family of Lujun sent a representative to Luoyang, wanting King Yong to open up to the Confucian family, but was rejected by Wei Shuo.