Xiao Jian glared angrily and snorted, "Phew! Treacherous husband, something inferior to pigs and dogs, just when I Xiao Jian was blind, I mistook you for a traitor! Loyal ministers will never do anything to the two masters, even if they die in Jiuquan to serve Tao Gong, they will never surrender to Liu Ze Xiao'er! Cao Bao dog thief, see what kind of face you will have to see Tao Gong under the Nine Shadows in the future? ”

Cao Bao laughed and said: "What a high-sounding hat, Xiao Jian, others don't know your mind, is it possible that Cao doesn't know?" Loyal ministers don't matter to the two masters, bah, you are a loyal minister of that door, Cao Mou, Tao Ying, but you are just a chess piece for you to dominate Xuzhou, if you use it, if you don't use it, you will abandon it, you claim to be loyal to the martyrs, what about the second son of Tao who was regarded as the young master? Isn't the catastrophe just thrown away by you like a rag? Don't talk nonsense, let's die! Cao Bao waved his army and covered it up.

Xiao Jian couldn't resist the enemy and walked away. The steward of the Xiao Mansion said urgently: "Master, the matter is urgent, go to the West Gate to meet Master Lu, if you can get out of Xuzhou, there is still a glimmer of life." Xiao Jian's army was defeated like a mountain, and he expected that the overall situation was irretrievable, so he led the remnants of the army to look at the west gate.

As soon as he walked to the west gate, he suddenly saw a group of people killed, but it was Xu Rong, the captain of Pengcheng. After Xu Rong received the order, he led 3,000 men and horses to the road, and arrived outside the west gate of Xuzhou in less than three watches. At this time, the officers and soldiers guarding the west gate were fighting fiercely with the rebels led by Lu Yang, and it was difficult to distinguish the victory or defeat, Xu Rong immediately entered the city, and the shape turned sharply, Xu Rongsheng captured Lu Yang, and surrendered the rebels. As soon as he finished cleaning up the mess, he bumped into Xiao Jian's defeated soldiers.

Xu Rong immediately led the army to cover up the killing, and Xiao Jian couldn't resist it, so he wanted to go to the south gate again. But he saw Cao Bao coming from the north road, Guan Yu and Tai Shici attacking from the south, Guan Hai from the east, and the four roads besieged Xiao Jian's remnants. Guan Hai led his troops from Shuyang Town, originally prepared to contain Cao Bao's army, just halfway to receive a new order, Cao Bao's army has been anyway, so Guan Hai led the troops to solve the danger of the East Gate, Guan Hai entered from the East Gate to kill countless rebels, and the rest surrendered.

Xiao Jian is embattled. I know that there is no way to escape today. Falling into the hands of Liu Ze is also a dead end, so he simply pulled his sword and prepared to kill himself. Tai Shi Ci saw it clearly, where he could die a hundred times, and he took a bow and arrows. Whoosh. Impartial. It was in the middle of Xiao Jian's wrist. The army rushed up and captured Xiao Jiansheng alive, but none of his men and horses ran away and were all captured.

Liu Ze stood quietly at the gate of the State Pastoral Mansion. The good news came one after another.

"Report! The danger of the North Gate has been resolved, and General Cao captures Wang Jun. ”

"Report! The danger of the West Gate has been resolved, and General Xu captures Lü Yang. ”

"Report! General Taishi captured Tao Ying. ”

"Report! General Guan solves the danger of the East Gate! ”

"Report! The rebels at the South Gate broke and fled, and the danger at the South Gate was resolved. ”

"Report! Xiao Jian has been captured! ”

With the news coming one after another, the city of Xuzhou, which shook the sky, gradually returned to calm, and the smell of blood diffused in the air also faded with the wind.

Liu Ze's face was calm without a trace of waves, and the joy of victory did not show between his eyebrows, and he gave a brief order: Xiao Jian and the other main criminals were all handed over to Jinyingwei for interrogation, and the rest of the wounded rebels were all imprisoned outside the city! The armies immediately swept the streets, and before dawn, not a single corpse or a pool of blood was allowed to remain in the streets and alleys of Xuzhou!

The early morning sun and the Xidi sprinkled the earth, but also shone on the streets and alleys of Xuzhou City, the sound of earth-shattering fighting all night was worrying, and the people in the entire Xuzhou City spent a sleepless night. At dawn, the shouting and killing stopped, and there was only the sound of hurried footsteps on the streets, but none of the people dared to go out to see.

After dawn, Xuzhou City was silent, and some bold people stretched out half their heads to spy on the movement outside, but found that the quiet street was empty, and the entire street was swept clean, and the people blinked their eyes, as if they couldn't believe the qiē in front of them, could it be that last night's Jinge Iron Horse was just a dream?

An earth-shattering rebellion turned into an invisible in this way, and the city of Xuzhou was restored to its former tranquility and prosperity, but for Liu Ze, the aftermath was like a mess, cutting constantly, and sorting out the mess, he really wanted to take a knife and cut the mess quickly. But with so many clues, it really can't be solved with a knife.

The meritorious generals who put down the rebellion were rewarded, Cao Bao captured Wang Jun for meritorious service and rewarded 500 gold, Guan Yu, Xu Rong, Guan Hai, Wu Anguo and other generals were rewarded, Tai Shi Ci captured the thief leader Tao Ying and Xiao Jian, Liu Ze rewarded him with 1,000 taels of gold, and Tai Shi Ci did not accept it.

As for how to punish Xiao Jian and other rebel leaders, everyone had different opinions. Some people proposed that Xiao Jian and others committed the major crime of conspiracy and rebellion, and should be punished according to the law with the punishment of car splitting and razing the three clans. There are also people who oppose that Xiao Wanglu and other scholars have a huge branch in Xuzhou, and if they are calculated according to the three tribes, they will have to kill at least thousands or even tens of thousands of people, and killing so many people at once will definitely make the people of Xuzhou feel uneasy. Xiao Jian and others are not guilty of punishment, but at least they have to control the scope of punishment.

Liu Ze was very dissatisfied with the provisions of the Han law that the three tribes of the people were destroyed at every turn, Xiao Jianmou rebelled, he himself committed a crime, but what did his parents have to do with his crime? What to do with his sons and nephews? It is even more incompatible with his maternal family and his wife's family, and these people lost their heads because of their relationship with Xiao Jian, aren't they more wronged than Dou E? The punishment of the Yi people is undoubtedly the most brutal punishment, it implicates many innocent people, and runs counter to the rule of law that Liu Ze has always pursued, so Liu Ze vetoed the Yi people's proposal without thinking about it.

Chen Deng said with some concern: "The crime of rebellion is incurable unless it is a heavy canon, and it is intended to cut down the grass and eradicate the roots to warn future generations, if the lord only punishes Xiao Jian and others and does not destroy his clan, it is inevitable that his clansmen will hold a grudge and take revenge in the future." ”

Liu Ze said calmly: "Xiao Jian's crime is punished by his own law, and the clansmen have not conspired with him, what is the crime?" I think the people of the Xiao clan should also be able to understand this, even if they want to take revenge for violating the law, they will still be punished by the law. After this incident, I understand the importance of the law, I plan to promulgate and implement the "Civil Code" and "Criminal Code" within the scope of Xuzhou, and implement it at the same time as the "Prohibition of Weapons". ”

The "Prohibition of Weapons" has been implemented in Pingyuan, which has a significant effect on suppressing the Haoqiangshi family, and after taking over Xuzhou, Liu Ze has been preparing to find an opportunity to implement this decree. But he knew very well that for the scholars and heroes, the ban on weapons was basically equivalent to seeking the skin of the tiger, and if it was implemented rashly, it would only meet with the crazy opposition of the scholars, and even fall into a sword crisis. So he has been waiting for an opportunity, the same opportunity as destroying Liu Ping of the Plains.

The rebellion of Xiao Jian and others is undoubtedly the best time, when the three major scholars are defeated, they are unable to protect themselves, and they have no ability to oppose at all, and the Mi family has also accepted the ban on weapons, and took the initiative to sacrifice eight thousand armed family members in the name of marriage. After the four wealthy families were completed, it undoubtedly paved the way for Liu Ze to implement the "Prohibition of Weapons", although there were not thousands of large and small scholars in Xuzhou, but most of them were small and medium-sized scholars, if the four major families of Mi Xiao Wang Lu accepted the prohibition of weapons, none of these small scholars dared to stand up and openly oppose it, and the promotion and implementation of the prohibition of weapons were promising.

In line with the principle of striking while the iron is hot, Liu Ze pushed out the "Civil Code" and the "Criminal Code" at once this time, which is something he has planned for a long time but has never had the opportunity to implement, the core meaning of the "Civil Code" is that the people's right to life is no longer ignored, no one can deprive others of their lives at will outside the framework of the law, and private property is sacrosanct; The core significance of the Criminal Code is that everyone is equal before the law, so that the prince can be guilty of the same crime as the common people, and completely break the age-old bad habit of not punishing the doctor and not being courteous to the common people.

Although these two codes do not deny the supremacy of monarchy, it is undoubtedly a challenge to the supreme monarchy concept that Confucianism has pursued for thousands of years, that the whole world is not the king's land and the shore of the land, and that the monarch's ministers have to die. The rule of law is greater than the rule of man, which is the core meaning of these two legal codes, and no one, including the monarch, can go beyond the scope of the legal system.

If it was still a peaceful year, Liu Ze would not dare to take out this kind of thing, but now it is a troubled time, the imperial power has been weakened to the point of dispensability, and in the territory of many princes, the people only know that there are princes and do not know that there is an emperor, and it can also be understood that in Xuzhou, Liu Ze is the king here, especially after quelling the rebellion of several major scholars, Liu Ze's power has expanded unprecedentedly, and he can do nothing in Xuzhou.

But Liu Ze did not have the will to become the emperor of Xuzhou, he preferred to share this right and put all people, including himself, under the shackles of the law. No one can be equal, rich or poor, rich or low, but no one is equal before the law, and no one has the right to be above the law.

The attitude of the Xuzhou scholars to the two codes is love and hate, love is that the law stipulates that private property is sacrosanct, and the property of the poor, this article is simply tailor-made for the rich, with this law, their property can be protected, and no one has the right to illegally occupy it. It is the hatred that the privileges of the wealthy families have been further lost, and the lives of the poor have become valuable, and they can no longer do whatever they want, and their actions must be governed by the law. (To be continued......)