The public trial of Yuan Kui and others did not begin until July of the fourth year of Guangxi.

During the two months between the suppression of the rebellion in May and the public trial in July, the imperial court arrested Yuan's followers on a large scale. A few days after the rebellion was quelled, the remnants of the southern army such as Chongji and Yuan Yi broke through the Dongzhi Gate, although the reason why they were able to break through the Dongzhi Gate was completely deliberate by Lu Zhi, who was afraid that these routs would cause trouble to the people of Luoyang, so they were lured out of Luoyang and set up an ambush outside the city to annihilate them. It was only this incident that Liu Wei used as an excuse to say that there were a large number of remnants of anti-imperial elements and Yuan's traitors within the empire, and launched a political campaign to suppress the anti-imperial rebellion.

The Great Purge of the Four Years of Guangxi, which was written about in later historical documents and repeatedly studied by scholars, began.

The impact of this purge was so far-reaching in history that even its original initiator, Liu Wei, did not anticipate. In the years to come, political movements became the political norm in the Han Empire. It also became a means for the future Han emperor to attack political opponents. Almost all the emperors after Liu Wei launched one or two political campaigns during their reigns, some of which were even more intense than the current Liu Wei. Of course, not everyone can control political movements as easily as Liu Wei, and some of the political movements they initiated also caused deep disasters to the Han Empire.

Many ministers, especially the emperor, were very disgusted by the political campaign. (In the future, most of the targets of political movements in history were powerful ministers such as prime ministers, and the emperor could not deal with them, so he launched political movements, especially those in which the common people participated, and attacked them on the grounds that public opinion was raging.) However, it was not until 640 AD, in the tenth year of Ningde of the Great Han Dynasty, that Li Shimin, the prime minister from Longxi, wrote to Liu Jin, the son of Ningde at that time, directly stating the harmfulness of the political movement, and after gaining the support of the emperor, this ended the political movement that had been affected by the Guangxi Emperor Liu Wei for hundreds of years.

For now, though, the political movement is still in its infancy. This purge was led by the Unified Investigation Society, which initially targeted the Yuan clan members who participated in the rebellion, and finally expanded to the entire wealthy landlord class in the Sili area.

Regarding the trial of Yuan Kui and others who betrayed the party, in line with the idea that family ugliness should not be publicized, Lu Zhixunyu and others did not agree to Liu Wei's public trial. However, on this point, Liu Wei won Ying Shao's support and insisted on a public trial of Yuan Kui and others.

In Ying Shao's view, this open mode of trial, with the participation of the masses, is also a shock to themselves while watching the trial meeting, which helps to proclaim the majesty of the law.

The official landlords and commoners who suffered losses in the rebellion naturally gritted their teeth and hated the Yuan party, and their enthusiasm for participating in the public trial meeting was also very high. It's just that this hatred, under the impetus of Liu Wei, gradually expanded into hatred for the entire landlord class.

Xin Ping, Zhou Yu and other Yuan members who launched the rebellion were sentenced to beheading or imprisonment according to the size of the crime. In order to vent their hatred for the people of Luoyang, Xin Ping and Zhou Yu were completely open to the people at the scene of the execution.

Although Jia Xu thought that this seemed unsafe, Liu Wei was not worried that the Three Kingdoms would stage the robbery scene in the Water Margin.

Before the execution, Liu Wei also sent special people to count the crimes of Xin Ping and others, and the more he talked about it, the more angry the citizens of Luoyang who suffered from the military disaster, and finally the angry people of Luoyang finally swarmed up and beat Xin Ping and other traitors to death with one punch and one kick. The corpses were beaten beyond recognition, and the corpses were exposed to the streets.

As for Yuan Kui's fate, the death-free gold medal that was originally used to paralyze Yuan Kui really came in handy at this time. Although many ministers wrote that Yuan Kui's crime was extremely heinous, and persuaded Liu Biao to withdraw the gold medal and give Yuan Kui the death penalty, Liu Biao kept his promise to exempt Yuan Kui from the death penalty and imprisoned him for life.

Liu Wei did this not because he was a man of faith, but because he felt that the power of the Yuan party in the court had been swept away, and Yuan Kui and the reputation of the Yuan family were also notorious for launching a rebellion. It is pointless to kill him again, but it will cause a bad reputation for not being trustworthy. Liu Wei rarely does things that have no political interests.

Just like in dealing with Yuan Kui's wife Ma Lun, this kind of rebellion and rebellion was naturally the result of the whole family sitting together and exterminating the nine clans according to the existing Han criminal law. However, as Ma Rong's disciples, Lu Zhi, Zheng Tai and others wrote to intercede for Ma Lun, and some scholars who revered Ma Rong's knowledge also echoed the book.

In fact, after Hua Tuo's diagnosis, Ma Lun's illness has returned to heaven, and the illness is a matter of the past few days, and there is no need for Liu Wei to interrogate her to punishment, buy a favor for Lu Zhi and other scholars, and just like to rein in their loyalty to him.

As for the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu, now they have completely torn off the last veil with the imperial court, and Liu Wei sent an edict to the general Ding Yuan to send troops to Ai for the general of Zhengdong; Youzhou Mu Liu Yu was a rebellious general, and Gongsun Zan was a general of Dangkou to send troops to Tang County and Gaoyang; Yanzhou Mu Liu Dai conquered the northern general and the Zhendong general Cao Cao sent troops to Puyang. In addition, he ordered Beihai Xiang Kong Rong to send troops to refuse Yuan Shao's eldest son Yuan Tan to enter Qingzhou.

Liu Wei's edict was intended to compress Yuan Shao's living space, although not everyone in this area obeyed the orders of the imperial court, and there were also people like Liu Dai who disobeyed the imperial court. However, Liu Wei did not expect Liu Dai and others to make any moves, their obedience to the imperial court's edict was to drive the tiger and devour the wolf, and if they did not obey, it would become an excuse for the imperial court to crusade against them later.

As for Yuan Shu, although Liu Wei also ordered Zhu Jun to gather troops in Yingchuan Wuyang, he did not make a move against Yuan Shu for the time being, but instead crowned Yuan Shu as the rear general, saying that he had nothing to do with Yuan's rebellion, and everything was a conspiracy between Yuan Kui and Yuan Shao.

Liu Wei also did this in order to provoke the already incompatible relationship between Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu's brothers. Yuan Shu is a man with great ambition and talent, arrogant and arrogant, compared to him, Yuan Shao is the first person to be pulled out.

After arranging measures to deal with the Yuan brothers, Liu Wei began to reward those who had made meritorious contributions to the counterinsurgency. The credit is the greatest, from which Jia Xu, who has been arranging and planning, was knighted, and Zhao Yun, who had made meritorious contributions to saving the driver, was also knighted at the same time, Guan Yu replaced Wu Kuang as the lieutenant general of the Northern Army, Wu Kuang was not effective in dealing with the rebellion of the Yuan Party, but because he was also an old man in the imperial court, Liu Wei did not punish him too much, but transferred him to the lieutenant general of the Sili Army, and ordered him to recruit recruits in Hongnong County.

Although Jia Xu admired Pan Feng very much, Liu Wei still transferred Pan Feng from the Unified Investigation Agency to the Northern Army as a lieutenant of the Tun Cavalry. The remaining Zhang Fei, Zhang Xiu, Li Fei and others also received rewards for their counterinsurgency contributions.

After dealing with the remaining affairs of the Yuan rebellion, the trial of Yuan's rebellion was completed in July, and the suppression of the anti-imperial rebellion launched by Liu Wei was finally pushed to the climax.

At this time, Yuan's henchmen had basically been purged, and the Great Purge began to expand to the wealthy families in Luoyang and the surrounding areas of Sili.

Those wealthy landlords who had a revenge and a lively mentality in the public trial of Yuan's henchmen finally tasted the bitter fruits, and this purge led by the Unified Investigation Agency began to arrest and examine the wealthy families in the Sili area in a lightning-fast manner.

Although these wealthy families are not necessarily in collusion with the Yuan family's rebellion, they will always have some unclean hands and feet. There will always be a little bit of land annexation and grabbing. Even if there is really a clean one, the purpose of the unified investigation agency is to crack down on these wealthy landlords, and even if they make something out of nothing, they will find out a crime and press it.

The convicted landlords were either beheaded or punished with hard labor, and the land and property under their names were naturally confiscated and returned to the public and distributed by the imperial court to the landless peasants, which carried out the redistribution of land in the subordinate areas through violent means, and at the same time curbed the momentum of land annexation.

From July to October, nearly 10,000 people were purged in just three months, and the imperial court took this opportunity to confiscate a large amount of property and land.

Compared with the huge storm caused by Liu Wei's future political reforms, this purge was actually more bloody and brutal, but no wealthy family stood up to strongly retaliate, and even those who were ruined showed a submissive attitude. This has to become a mystery that many scholars who study the Great Purge struggle to understand.

Some scholars believe that the purge was confined to the Sili region, and that the opposition to the purge was much smaller than that of the nationwide reforms that followed. Some scholars believe that Liu Bian's suppression of Yuan's rebellion against the party has left many people with no reason to oppose it. After all, the damage caused by the Yuan rebellion was indeed real, and Liu Wei only seized on this reason to expand it. Coupled with the propaganda of the Propaganda Bureau and Hongdu Menxue in the early stage, Liu Wei's repression was more righteous on the surface, and there was strong support from those with vested interests above all, the landless peasants.

Even those princes of the world who were about to make a fuss about this matter did not think of raising troops against Liu Wei. The whole purge was going on in an extremely smooth form.

It wasn't until after October that the situation in Jizhou suddenly began to deteriorate. The ministers of the central government, Lu Zhi and Ying Shao, also felt that Liu Wei should no longer be very serious, and jointly signed a letter, so that Liu Wei stopped this purge campaign in the name of suppressing Yuan's rebellious party. It's just that at this time, the entire Sili area can no longer find a big landlord who can influence the rule of the Han Dynasty, and more of a group of small and medium-sized landlords have been bred.

After the Great Purge, Liu began to confront the situation in Jizhou, which had deteriorated to the point of anxiety.

(To be continued, stay tuned for the next chapter.) ）