Wang Ze, the head of the Wang family, and he served as a Xiongnu lieutenant general, and Wang Rou, the brother of Yanmen Taishou, led 5,000 soldiers to garrison the Wang fortress.

This fortress city is more than three feet high, and it has once resisted the attacks of Zhang Yan's tens of thousands of Yellow Turban troops.

Therefore, in the eyes of Wang Ze and Wang Rou, even the 2,000-strong regular army of Gao Yuan, even if 20,000 ordinary people are added, they will not be able to break through their own fortress.

Wang Rou looked at Gao Yuan outside and said disdainfully: "In less than half a month, Yuan Gong's army will come." Gao Mengyan is difficult to take care of, and he will definitely be defeated. These stupid and ignorant people want our land, but there is no door! ”

Wang Ze nodded for a while.

Just when the two of them boosted their morale and stood on guard, waiting for a possible attack. I saw more than a dozen old men walking out of the Gao Yuan array, each older than the other. Not to mention the siege, it is also laborious to take a crutch.

After Wang Rou was taken aback, he laughed and said, "Could it be that Gao Mengyan relied on these dozen old men to attack the city." ”

Wang Zedun was incredulous, and he didn't know how Gao Yuan planned it.

I saw more than a dozen old men, all of them walking slowly, like snails. Although they faced 5,000 enemy troops at the head of the city, they did not change their faces and their hearts did not beat, and they were not afraid, because they believed in what Gao Yuan said.

Wang Ze looked down in the city and found that these old men all knew each other, and they were the elders of each village, "Hey, old guy, what are you doing?" Hurry up and get out of the way, if not, don't blame the bow and arrow without eyes. ”

The old men looked at each other and said in their hearts, although the bow and arrow have no eyes, but the one who holds the bow and arrow has eyes.

At this time, Zhao Taigong of Zhaojiazhuang suddenly found his grandson in the city, the old man was not light, and he raised his crutches, although there was no edge, but he was rugged and should not be underestimated. The old man exhaled and exhaled: "Little rabbit cub, hurry up, take the people from our Zhaojiazhuang out in a slippery way." ”

"What?" Zhao Cheng, who was holding a spear at the head of the city, was stunned, "Taigong? ”

Zhao Taigong was furious and shouted: "Little rabbit cub, General Gao divides the fields among the Shi clan, what do you want?" If you don't want your father and fellow villagers to divide the land, do you want to kill your grandfather? ”

"Ahh Zhao Cheng exclaimed, a little abruptly. When he first came here to defend the city, he was also used to listening to the words of the lord of the Shi clan, so he came. Listening to the old lady's words here, I suddenly understood.

Zhao Taigong under the city saw that there was no movement, and he was completely angry, and smashed the ground with a crutch, shouting: "The descendants of Zhaojiazhuang, get out of here!" ”

The honest people and their descendants are all filial, and when they saw the old lady of their ancestors angry, they only heard that the clink was a weapon and fell to the ground, and hundreds of people turned around and ran to the city.

"Wow!" Wang Ze and Wang Rou's mouths were open enough to stuff a goose egg, so they opened their mouths and looked at each other with twitching faces.

Then, like a cat whose tail had been stepped on, Wang Ze shouted: "Catch the deserters and shoot these old immortals." ”

He danced and shouted for a while, but he felt that someone was dragging him behind him, and when he looked back, he saw that it was Wang Rou and shouted: "What are you pulling me for, quickly command the soldiers to shoot these people!" ”

Wang Rou had lost the arrogance just now at the moment, and she scolded Wang Ze with a frightened face. Wang Ze looked along and saw that his family soldiers were all unkind, and they wanted to eat their own appearance.

Immediately after that, an old but heroic voice came from the city, "If anyone helps the abuse, it is not from my Li family village." ”

"Who dares to help the Wang family in Zhang Zhuang, the whole family will eliminate the family tree ......."

"If you die, you can't go to the ancestral grave!"

Originally, the people did not dare to rebel against the scholars, but with a leader, it was different. With the shouting of the old ladies in each village, the soldiers from each village threw their weapons down to the city.

Only then did Wang Ze and Wang Rou remember that their soldiers were all strong men drawn from tenants' homes. As soon as the old lady shouted here, they all fell apart.

In the blink of an eye, the tens of thousands of square meters of the Wang family's fortress was empty, the soldiers ran away, even the slaves and maids also ran away, and only more than 100 people of the Wang family remained.

After these soldiers ran out of the fortress, under the leadership of the old ladies, Hulala knelt in front of the high horse, and under the accusation of many fathers and villagers, they burst into tears one by one and reviewed themselves.

Sima Yi and the others were shocked, and they really knew what the power of the people was. Only then did I really know why Gao Yuan said that the powerful scholar class was actually a paper tiger. Everything of these warriors is based on the people, and now that the people have another backbone, these people naturally have no strength.

Of course, this phenomenon only appears in the lofty territories at present, and the people in other places have been enslaved by the nobles for generations, and it is difficult to resist without a leader.

Without bloodshed, without spending a single soldier, Gao Yuan captured the royal fortress protected by a three-zhang high wall. As Zhang Liao, Zhao Yun and others led troops in, more than 100 members of the Wang family were escorted out.

Wang Ze burst into tears and cried sadly: "General Gao, the villain is guilty, the villain is willing to donate the land, and only asks General Gao for forgiveness." ”

Gao Yuanxin said, "The Governor doesn't need you to give up the land anymore." Like the Wang family, if you can fight, you will fight, and if you can't fight, you will surrender, all of them are like this, how will Gao Yuan mix up in the future, and how much effort will it take to clean up these capricious people.

So, Gao Yuan waved his hand, "Convene a public trial and public judgment conference." ”

Sima Yi asked in surprise: "My lord, what is the public trial and judgment conference?" ”

Gao Yuan Zhengse said: "Even if it is this governor, he can't deal with anyone without reason. Use the law of the Han Dynasty to publicly judge the people of the royal family. Then he said to the people, "The prince is guilty of the same crime as the common people, and if any of you has been persecuted by the king, speak out, and the governor will rule for you." From this day forward, no one will be able to oppress you for no reason. ”

Gao Yuan nodded at Sima Yi and the others, "Even these people under the Governor, if they break the law, they will be dealt with impartially, even if they are the Governor." ”

"Long live General Gao!" The people cheered from the bottom of their hearts.

In this regard, Gao Yuan completely won the hearts and minds of the people.

After the news spread, the warriors from all over the country who were ready to rise up together to support the Wang family were all broken, and they knew that the Wang family was a lesson for them. Not to mention that it is not yet time to unite together, even if it is really united, it will not be a lofty opponent.

As soon as they shouted, their own private soldiers collapsed.

So what to do?

The solution is simple, run.

As a result, strange scenes appeared in the counties and villages under Gao Yuan's rule.

At that time, the situation was like this, and the various families and clans packed up, and hundreds of carts of all sizes fled. Encouraged by the Wangjia incident, the people everywhere spontaneously organized themselves and caught up with the fleeing scholars.

And the soldiers of the Shi clan are, to put it bluntly, tenants. Now that there are tenants with lofty backbones and serfs to sit in the house, the scholars have no power to resist at all.

The running scholars saw that the people were chasing and intercepting them, and the scholars had no choice but to abandon most of the furniture, ride their horses and run away.

The scholars are all gone, which is a good thing for Gao Yuan.

His land reform was thus successfully implemented, but he was soon faced with an extreme problem.

"My lord, all the families have run away, and there are no officials in various places to manage them." Sima Yi is very worried about this, everyone has their own strengths, and the people are good at planting land, but it is impossible to manage the place without learning the scriptures. And without the management of the scholars and officials who have "learned from the ages", the local area will not be disorderly and chaotic