The surrender of Shiyi in Changping City undoubtedly announced the end of the rule of the Shijia family in the entire southern part of Jiaozhou. In fact www.biquge.info the overture to this kind of end began to play as early as after Huang Zhong attacked Liandao City. At this moment, although Nanhai, Jiaozhi, Nanri and other places are still in the hands of the Shijia and have not been captured by Li Sheng, because Shixie and Shiyi took away all the troops of the Shijia in the south of Jiaozhou to attack Huai'an, so that now with the defeat of Shixie and Shiyi after being besieged, Jiaonan has no more soldiers to fight, and it is naturally impossible to continue to set off an upsurge of resistance after Shiyi surrenders.

Jiaozhou's small number of people is its advantage and its disadvantage: its small number of people makes its land enough to be distributed to more displaced people, which is very beneficial to the future development of Jiaozhou, but also because of its small number of people, it is difficult for it to recruit enough troops at the moment, even if Shi Yi does not surrender at this moment, after Li Sheng's army breaks through the city, he quickly escapes and returns to his territory, and it is difficult for him to have a large army to resist Li Sheng's continued southern invasion. That is to say, no matter whether Shi Yi surrenders to Li Sheng or not, the result that Jiaozhou will fall into the hands of Li Sheng will never change, unless there is some miracle - Shi Yi understands this very well, so he will surrender to Li Sheng for the sake of his own future, so that he can ensure the continuation of his family in the future.

This is also a good idea, and it is very likely to succeed. However, after Li Shengjun entered the city in a big way, completely collected the arms of Shi Yi's remnant army, and ordered the generals, including Shi Yi, to stay in their respective residences and not go out, he cooled them for a few days, which made Shi Yi's heart sink uncontrollably. He finally tasted the taste of "man is a sword, I am a fish". Unlike his courageous brother, he considered himself a calm but lacked strength, and in the face of such an uncertain future, he was prone to neuroticism and the like. He surrendered naturally in order to be able to live, but Li Sheng's ignorance made him always wonder if the other party was planning to punish him, whether he was thinking about killing himself and his subordinates. As sick as the idea of killing captives in this society is, there are some people who don't care about it at all. Shi Yi was afraid that Li Sheng just didn't care about this person, and he was suddenly a little scared in his heart.

After five days of such anxiety and suspicion, Shi Yi finally heard the news that Li Sheng wanted to see him. This couldn't help but make him overjoyed. During the five days of being left cold, he was certainly in uneasiness, but as a person who still had some brains, he was still thinking. He already has some opinions about how Li Sheng will treat himself. As for the uneasiness, that's just in case. Although it seems unnecessary to be so worried about this eventuality, Shi Yi is still unavoidable. Maybe that's the flaw in his character.

remembered a story in the historical records, Shi Yi went to Li Sheng shirtless with Jing Tiao. As a loser, in order to avoid that eventuality, he naturally has his own calculations. In his opinion, to a person like himself who has completely failed, he should take a sincere and respectful attitude towards Li Sheng and other victors, and this "guilty plea" is undoubtedly the best manifestation of that attitude. Of course, this is not to say that he really thinks that his side is wrong. In his opinion, except for his brother's slaughter of the people when he attacked, which was a little excessive, the rest was just a struggle for his own master. There is no right or wrong in this way, and at the moment it is just an effort made by himself for the continuation of the family after becoming a king and defeating the king.

With such a thought, when he appeared in front of Li Sheng, his expression was a little strange, and he looked a little contrived. No one else can see this, but Li Sheng and Kong Ming know all this. However, they did not plan to do anything to the scholars, except for the punishment that should be done.

"Okay, don't kneel there. Get dressed. The Shi family is a member of Jiaonan, and we originally planned to let you reconcile with the north to make this Jiaozhou prosperous. Why fight and kill, wouldn't it be better for everyone to work together to get what they need? If it hadn't happened to such a misfortune, I'm afraid that I would have gone to your Jiaozhi County Guard's Mansion to drink a long time ago. Li Sheng smiled and helped the soldier who was kneeling on the ground to get up, and gently said that he had brought this series of things over: "The stability of Jiaozhou still needs you to make a big effort." Although it is not impossible to deal with Jiaozhou exactly according to my vision, there will undoubtedly be a lot of blood shed in that case. There is enough blood in this world, so let's save a little bit of it. Is that right? ”

"The general's benevolence and virtue and the four seas cannot be seen by short-sighted people like us." Shi Yi is a smart person, so he naturally knows what to say when and when. Although he didn't quite believe the meaning of Li Sheng's words that he still wanted to reuse his family, he understood that at the moment, Li Sheng must not be allowed to go down the stairs.

"Huh!" Li Sheng couldn't help but laugh helplessly when he heard Shi Yi being so cautious. He could see that Shi Yi's heart was not on his side at the moment. Although he surrendered to himself at the moment, this surrender was just forced by the power of his side, and he did not return his heart to his side. If you can always maintain your strength, then it's naturally fine, if not, I'm afraid that the first people to rebel against themselves in this Jiaozhou land are these people.

"They must be tied to their chariots, so that they have no possibility of rebelling against themselves." Li Sheng thought so. This is what he has been studying with Zhuge Liang these days. Although there was a general opinion on everything at the beginning, it was just a framework of its own. Now that Shi Yi has landed in a forced landing, the question of how to appease the Jiaonan clan has been clearly placed in front of him, and Li Sheng feels that some details should be considered.

"How can this be done?" Zhuge Liang raised his eyebrows and asked. Li Sheng made a request, but he didn't have a practical solution for a long time about how to realize this request, so he had to kick the problem back to Li Sheng with a lot of face.

"You can't figure it out?" Li Sheng looked at Kong Ming in surprise, and shouted in his heart: "No." Kong Ming, you are Mr. Wolong. Although this question is a bit difficult to solve, with your wisdom, you should be able to come up with some signs, how can you push things back to my side like this? ”

"There are solutions, but they don't fit into the current time-critical situation." Kong Ming shook the white feather fan he was carrying, and said with a little bitterness: "If you have time, it is not very difficult to get them to be with us, but right now, ......" Kong Ming paused slightly: "The lord is about to return to the north, how to make them return to indoctrination in the nearly a month before returning to the north, this is a troublesome matter." To put it mildly, it is simply impossible to win their loyalty and make them completely return to us in this short month. ”

"Huh? It's really hard to get them to come back to us in a month. But, Kong Ming, when did I say that I would make them all surrender in this short period of one month? Li Sheng's eyes widened, full of disbelief: "I will definitely go, but my army is still there." For this Jiaozhou, I already plan to leave 10,000 horses to watch first, let General Gan Ning be in charge of the military affairs of the Jiaozhou Navy and Army, and let Shamoke lead the mountain battalion in Jiaozhou. This is still a status quo, the trade of the first-class Jiaozhou has flourished, and the army of Jiaozhou should also have a full development: Ganning's navy should be developed to at least 30,000, and Shamoke's mountain battalion should also be expanded to 50,000 scale, which is something that has been slowly realized in the past few years. It can be said that in the past five or six years, I will have a lot of troops stationed in Jiaozhou. With so many forces at our disposal, we have time to reclaim them. ”

"Huh? So you're not in a hurry. Zhuge Liang's eyes widened, and there was a rare look of embarrassment on his face: "Since you are not in a hurry, then I naturally have a way." To put it bluntly, it is very simple: send some officials and literati here to comfort them with their hearts; Promote their natives as much as possible to be officials here; reduce local tax revenues; Send the youngest children of their family to Changsha to study. ”

"That's basically what I used to deal with the northern barbarians. Do you think it's feasible? Li Sheng listened to Kong Ming's uninnovative method, and couldn't help frowning slightly, and asked with some doubts: "Although I don't care much about time, I really can't drag it out too long." After all, we're here to grow. If we are bothered by these trivial things all day long, our development plans will be in trouble. ”

"Why not? There is nothing wrong with using this system against those who surrender to us. As for the lord's concern, this method has proved to be a problem with little effect in the north, and it is actually easy to understand. In fact, the real problem with the ineffectiveness of this method in the north is not the method itself, but the fact that our dynasty has never been able to station a large number of troops with those barbarians in the north. Huairou is not wrong, but that requires the protection of the army, if there is no toughness of the army, Huairou just let others see our weakness. "Zhuge Liang had his own views on the policies of the Han Dynasty, those implemented in the north.

"But that's going to be a very long-term thing. Maybe it will take more than ten years, maybe it will take decades. While this is the surest way to acquire land and people, it is not suitable for us. It requires a very stable environment. In fact, I'm worried about whether I can get such an environment. The battle between the three families in Huainan will not last too long, maybe it will end in this year, and then Liu Beizhi will be able to say in Jingzhou, I am afraid that this Sun Quan will set his eyes on the land of Jiaozhou, maybe there will be some means to deal with us. In this kind of external situation, if we don't quickly get the hearts of the people in Jiaozhou, I'm afraid that Jiaozhou will become our mud pit. Li Sheng said worriedly.

"The lord seems to hate the general?" From Li Sheng's words, Zhuge Liang heard such a meaning. The capture of the general was an official position given by Cao Cao to his successor Sun Quan after the death of Sun Quan's brother Sun Ce. Originally, he gave Sun Quan official titles such as Yangzhou Mu and Wu Hou, but because Sun Jian and Sun Ce were both well-known military generals, and Sun Quan himself was also very warlike, most people called Sun Quan "General of Capture".

"It's not annoying, it's just that there's a worry that one mountain can't tolerate two tigers. You also know that the situation of Jingyang and westward marching to Yizhou, and then opposing the north and south, seeking the northern expedition, this is the strategy that Lu Su set for Sun Quan at the beginning. Of course, this kind of strategy is unlikely to be realized now when we already have most of Jingzhou, and even Lu Su thinks that Jingzhou must be put in our hands and seek an alliance with us, but I am afraid that Sun Quan's arrogant personality is not easy to admit this. He seems to think that it is far better to attack us and take land from us than to go toe-to-toe with Cao Cao in the north. However, as far as the current reality is concerned, it seems that it is not easy to go directly to Jingzhou, and if Jingzhou is threatened from the south, it may be a different way. If something is good, the next will follow. The people of Jiangdong may be like their lord to offer such a plan. At that time, I am afraid that our Jiaozhou troubles will come. Li Sheng was still frowning.

"It's quite possible." Zhuge Liang thought about it and nodded in agreement with Li Sheng's opinion. He and Sun Quan met, although they didn't talk much, but even those meetings made him understand what kind of person Sun Quan was: "Proud, arrogant from the bones." Although on the surface, he tried his best to show a kind of amiability of a corporal of courtesy and a very physical style, but judging from some of his words and deeds that he revealed without opinions, it seems that arrogance and toughness are his own personality. "Kong Ming thinks that his observation is very keen, because he thinks Sun Quan is that kind of personality." The lord is not wrong at all. But how did he tell? He and Sun Quan don't seem to have met once. He felt strange about this, but at the same time he was a little glad in his heart: "Fortunately, my lord is not Sun Quan." He intuitively thought that Sun Quan was the kind of person who was likely to get carried away after becoming a big thing.

"That means we have to stabilize Jiaozhou as soon as possible within a year, right?" Kong Ming once again turned the conversation back to business.

"That's true." Li Sheng fixed his eyes and looked at Kong Ming expectantly: "Do you have a way to do this?" ”

"I think that's the only way to solve this problem quickly." Kong Ming pondered for a moment and said, "First of all, we must divide their forces and make the big clan a small clan; secondly, they should take stock of their acres of land and confiscate their excess duties, so that they cannot raise the displaced people; and again, they will collect their armor and make their families powerless, so that they will not be able to fight us by force; Fourth, we must accept them, or let the generals of our army marry them, or accept their children into our army as officials, or lead their young people to study in the north; In the end, it is to use your methods, use interests, and use them to live a better future to trap them, so that their interests can be combined with our interests. ”

"It's doable." Li Sheng pondered for a moment, and added a little more to Kong Ming: "Finally, I am adding a point to them, 'If it is from me, I will use all my strength to ensure their legal property.'" If not, I will use my sword in my hand to reap their lives. Whether to live or to die is up to them. ”

"I see." Kong Ming nodded: "I will tell them the news, of course I won't say it so seriously." However, there is also one problem that is more difficult to solve. ”

"What's the problem?" Li Sheng asked.

"Their private soldiers. It has become a common practice for the Shi clan to raise private soldiers, and if they are forcibly deprived of it, I am afraid that they will be ...... again" Kong Ming stuck here but did not continue, what did it mean, he knew that his own lord's guild could hear it.

"Huh. Don't worry, I'll let them hand over their private soldiers willingly. Li Sheng smiled faintly, looking confident.

"Then this matter will be handed over to you, and as for the rest, I will give you a note in the next few days." Since someone had taken over the most troublesome thing, Kong Ming naturally breathed a sigh of relief.

"To be more detailed, if we establish a country in the future, these things must be passed down as laws." Li Sheng told Kong Ming.

"Hmm." Kong Ming nodded heavily and agreed.

Kong Ming's actions were very fast, but in just three days, this document containing twenty laws appeared in Li Sheng's hand, which made Li Sheng smile with satisfaction. After spending another two days discussing with Kong Ming and correcting some of the details, Li Sheng finally decided to hand over the terms of the decree to those who had surrendered. So he asked people to invite Shiyi, who had been lying cold, over.

"As for how to deal with you enemies, I have already discussed with Kong Ming and made these terms. See for yourself first. If there is no problem, we will do it in full accordance with this clause. After soothing Shi Yi, Li Sheng opened the door and threw out his own conditions.

"Why do you have to show me? Now that you are the victor, even if it is said that we are going to kill us all, we have no chance of resisting. Is it life or death, it's up to you to decide? Why do you need such a pretense? Shi Yi muttered stiffly, lowered his head, handed Li Sheng to the direct terms, picked it up and looked at it carefully. After all, this is a matter related to the fate of his family anyway, and he doesn't dare to ignore this matter because of his inner dissatisfaction.

Time passed in Shi Yi's careful look. The clauses on the document do not have too many words, but they are only more than 3,000 words. Originally, this was something that could be read in less than a quarter of an hour, but the attentive taxi Yi watched it for nearly an hour, and finally put down the paperwork in his hand uncertainly. He had read all the things in the terms, the things that were real, and there was no pretension in them, and he had thought about the provisions for a long time.

"My family is fine." This is the existence that he was finally able to breathe a sigh of relief after reading this. However, his anger could be relaxed, but his heart still couldn't let go: "If it is really written according to this clause, my family will undoubtedly lose a lot, which I am afraid will make those old people in the family crazy." He couldn't say yes to it quickly. Although he himself admitted that the terms of this document were not very harsh on the defeated of the war, although they deprived themselves of a lot of rights and interests, but at the same time gave themselves a certain amount of compensation in other aspects, and this compensation was not a small amount of charity, but a large piece.

But...... Shi Yi frowned, looked at Li Sheng, who was looking at him with a smile, and finally spoke: "Isn't this clause too harsh?" A family like this is only allowed to recruit a maximum of 300 homeless people and 200 family members, isn't it ......?" he cheekily. Although he fully understood what Li Sheng was stuck, he still had to fight for it, otherwise he would be dethroned by the elders of the clan as soon as he returned—in these families, the patriarch certainly had the right to decide on ordinary daily affairs, but this right was not unlimited. In fact, every move of these so-called patriarchs is carried out under the supervision of those elders who are "old and immortal". These elders are powerful, they can mobilize the people in the family to support the patriarch's actions to the greatest extent, but at the same time, these elders are stubborn, they always cling to the old rules and refuse to change, so that the family lacks the motivation to move forward. As far as the patriarch himself is concerned, they both love and hate these elders.

"How can it be too little?" Li Sheng's eyes widened, and he seemed to be a little confused by Shi Yi's words.

"You don't know. Our family has a large number of people, and the place is also large, and these 300 homeless people, 200 families, a total population of 500. It's easy to talk about it in normal times, but if you encounter any urgent situation, such a person can't cope with it. When Shi Yi saw Li Sheng talking to him, he understood that there was room for maneuver between himself and him, and he immediately had the courage to bargain with Li Sheng like this.

"What can you be anxious about? The government is responsible for preventing thieves and thieves, persuading farmers to do good, and so on; The army is responsible for things like sweeping away thieves and rectifying thieves. What else can you do other than hire someone to take care of the house repairs and do the usual celebrations? Li Sheng vetoed Shi Yi's reason.

"These are troubled times. Do we need some manpower to protect Sangzi? If there is any special situation, where can we find the soldiers and horses of the adults, even if they are found, when the adults bring the troops over, we are afraid that the houses and property will have already turned into ashes. Shi Yi talked about his own difficulties.

"Protect Sangzi?" The corners of Li Sheng's mouth raised slightly, and a hint of mockery appeared on his face: "In the future, the task of protecting Sangzi will mainly be undertaken by the army I have arranged in the local area. I intend to station a soldier in every place within a radius of 100 miles, called 'private', with about 1,000 people, responsible for suppressing bandits and other affairs, and his soldiers are all filled with local people from Jiaozhou, and they are trained day and night to ensure specialization. If the number of bandits is less than 1,000, they can all win the battle, and if the number of bandits is more than 1,000, then there are more heavily armed counties to call on. Nowadays, there are too few troops stationed in the county town of Jiaozhou, and I think that it is necessary to raise its strength to more than 2,000. In this way, there are 2,000 soldiers in the county seat, and there are thousands of soldiers and horses in the local area, so how can Jiaozhou be defended like an iron bucket, and how can there be a place for thieves to survive. In fact, the things of bandits are said to be chaotic people in the world. However, the world does not know about these troublemakers, so that they are all good citizens in the first place. If it is not true or it will not go on, who wants to change the people to become thieves? Therefore, in the affairs of the local government, the tax should not be high, the service should not be full, and the rent should not be severe, so that these people can survive, so that the rule can be expected, and the bandits will naturally be extinct. ”

"Isn't that going to take a lot of troops?" Shi Yi couldn't help but be a little surprised when he heard this: "In this way, the soldiers and horses in Jiaozhou need at least fifty or sixty thousand to be enough." With so many people, can you afford to raise them? ”

"How can you not afford it?" Li Sheng smiled, "As long as I am given a few years, I can guarantee that the prosperity of Jiaozhou will far exceed that of any other place in the world." ”

"Oh? How? Shi Yi's eyes suddenly lit up when he heard this. He was originally a big clan in Jiaozhou, his foundation was here, and his interests were here, so he naturally understood how much the prosperity of this place itself could bring to himself and his family. Everyone seeks advantages and avoids disadvantages. If Li Sheng can bring enough benefits to himself when he is in Jiaozhou, then it is not impossible to hand over his family to him. As for the brother's hatred, in some cases, it can't be mentioned anymore. After all, personal grudges are greater, and they are not greater than the interests of the family.

"As a person who has made friends with the South, you should understand what the benefits of the South China Sea are." Li Sheng narrowed his eyes and said lightly with a smile. He didn't say much, because he believed that no one in the world would understand the profits of this sea trade better than these local clans of Jiaozhou.

"Your Excellency plans to use the benefits of the South China Sea to raise the army of Jiaozhou?" Shi Yi soon came to his senses, but there was not much joy on his face: "The benefits of the South China Sea are certainly great benefits for the widows and widows, but they are especially not enough for the great cause of the adults. If not, how can you easily defeat us with military horses, and is it possible that the troops that you have accumulated over the years are more powerful than the soldiers and horses that I can support with the benefits of the South China Sea? You must know that most of those people are my family's own private soldiers, and they have never been stingy with money and food. ”

"The benefits of the South China Sea are insufficient?" Li Sheng's eyes widened, as if he had seen something funny: "How can the South China Sea be high and the sea wide and the interests insufficient?" The so-called lack of benefits is just that you and others do not develop enough. Li Sheng said and raised his hand to pick up a document from the desk on the side, and spread it out in front of Shi Yi: "This is the land of the South China Sea and the distribution of my coastal islands and coasts, I just want to ask you, have you all walked through these places above?" Do you know all the property of the land above? With the strength of your clan and family, how many ships can you make, and how much profit can you make from them? Li Sheng stared at Shi Yi tightly, and the questions in his mouth were said one after another.

"This ......" Shi Yi was asked suddenly, and his eyes widened like a fish in his throat and he was stuck there. After a long time, he came back to his senses a little, and asked Li Sheng with low eyebrows: "What does the unknown adult do about this?" ”

"I think you already feel this as to whether the merchant profits more or the land profits, and there should be no doubt. As for the problems I mentioned above, it is very easy to solve. I think you should know the fact that a branch can be easily broken, but if you tie up one branch after another and let him do it, even Hercules has nothing he can do. I think that since you big families in Jiaozhou have experience in maritime trade, why do you want to go your own way and chase some small interests in each other's fighting? Why can't you get together and use the common strength of everyone to achieve greater benefits? Li Sheng looked at Shi Yi with a smile.

"Use everyone's strength to obtain more benefits?" Shi Yi is a person who understands, so he naturally knows what kind of benefits Li Sheng said can bring to these big clans in Jiaozhou. "It's just ......," he wondered, "why did you tell us this?" When our forces are combined, they become even stronger, and aren't adults afraid of our strength? ”

"Huh. Why should I be afraid? Your strength is also good for me, and more importantly, I want to join you as a branch. Li Sheng said with a smile. The smile on his face, as far as Shi Yi himself looked like, was no different from the smile on the face of those legendary profiteers.