Bai Jing howled in despair: "Master Taishou, this is all Liu Ping and he coerced me, I really didn't want to participate, Master Taishou spared his life, spared his life!" ”

The two able-bodied soldiers ignored Bai Jing's cries and howls, and dragged Bai Jing out like a pile of mud.

After a while, two bloody human heads were brought up, and the smell of blood filled the air, and more than a dozen people including Squire Qian were already trembling in both strands, and the timid ones were even scared to pee, and their crotches were dripping wet.

"Hang these two heads at the gate of Wubao for three days, and publish their crimes as a tribute."

The two heads were taken down, but the terrifying atmosphere lingered on the spot for a long time.

Liu Ze swept his gaze to Squire Qian and more than ten other people again, except for Liu Ping and Bai Jing, the ten largest clans in the plain are all here, how to deal with them Liu Ze weighed in his heart. All of these people participated in Liu Pingmai's murderous assassination case, the evidence is conclusive, even if they are all punished on the spot, it is within the scope of the law, but Liu Ze is not prepared to do so, even if he has embarked on the road of confrontation with the Shi family, but the use of bloody massacres to eliminate the Shi clan is not Liu Ze's only choice.

Squire Qian and the others all knelt on the ground and snorted desperately: "Too guarded and spared!" Too spare! ”

Liu Ze said in a deep voice: "Buying a murderer and plotting wrong, can you wait to be convicted?" ”

"Knowing the guilt, we are guilty, please be too gracious." Squire Qian and the others were like pounding garlic, and they were busy responding, and if they still wanted to deny it until now, they could only bring about their own destruction.

"Get up. This official knows that all of you are involved, but the mastermind is Liu Ping, the first evil will be punished, and he will never ask, but he can consider sparing your lives-"

Squire Qian and others were like a life-saving straw in the ocean, they were pleasantly surprised, and kowtowed to thank them.

"Thank you Liu Taishou for not killing!"

Liu Ze's face sank like water, and he snorted coldly: "Although this capital crime is forgiven, the living crime is unforgivable, if it is not punished." What is the prestige of this official? ”

Squire Qian and the others looked at each other. After looking at each other a few times, Squire Qian stood up and spoke: "We are willing to sacrifice all our family assets to atone for our sins." ”

Liu Ze sneered: "Your few money-breaking officials haven't seen it yet. "Joke, if you can atone for your sins with money, what is the difference between that and the mediocre Emperor Han Ling.

Squire Qian and the others were stunned. Since they are not killed. and does not ask for money. What is Liu Taishou's intention?

Liu Ze said in a deep voice: "Each of your families has a lot of soldiers, some are thousands, and some are hundreds. Gathering people with weapons and running rampant in the township, today Liu Ping dared to rely on the strength of Wu Bao to openly resist arrest and confront the government. In view of this, this official today promulgated the "Prohibition of Weapons" order, which prohibits any organization or individual not authorized by the government from possessing weapons without permission, and violators will be punished as treason. If you are willing to accept the "Prohibition of Weapons", you can go back to your duty as good citizens, and if you refuse, the two sins will be one, and you will not be forgiven! ”

All the squires were stunned, "Prohibition"? But something unheard of, to be honest, that Shijia wealthy family did not have any private soldiers in their hands, which was also the capital for their lives in troubled times, and handing over these private soldiers was more painful for them than confiscating their family property. But from Liu Ze's categorical attitude, I can't see anything; Room for manoeuvre. Liu Ze has already put his words here, either accept it and go home to be obedient, or refuse, and the end will be like Liu Ping's white respect.

Squire Sun said cautiously: "Liu Taishou, although we are not rich and giants, but our families are also thin assets, now the world is difficult, and the people are everywhere, if there is no family soldier to take care of the family, I am afraid that I will be attacked by the people, and the life of the whole family is worried." ”

Liu Ze smiled slightly, and said: "This problem has long been thought out for you, each county under the rule of Pingyuan County, led by each county office, set up a township guard, arrest and detect thieves, patrol the township, your family needs to take care of the home, you can also apply to the township guard for armed personnel to be stationed in the guard, regular rotation, you need to pay a certain fee." But don't worry, this fee can be saved a lot compared to your own private placement. ”

This township guard, to put it bluntly, is no different from the security companies of later generations. After disarming the private armies of the Shi clan, how to ensure the safety of the township was a problem that Liu Ze needed to consider, and he quickly thought of a security company. Under the command of the county office, the township guard was set up in a unified manner, armed with weapons handed over from the hands of the various families, and the personnel could be recruited from each village and village, and they did not have to work full-time. As for the salaries of the Township Guard, part of it is paid by the county office, and the other part can be provided by taxis who need to provide caretakers. The regular rotation system can also ensure that the personnel of the township guard will not be bought by the scholars, so as to avoid the death of the private soldiers of the scholars.

All the squires were dumbfounded, these private soldiers are their flaunting power and rampant in the township, without these thugs, how can their interests be guaranteed? Besides, the caretaker is assigned by the government, called protection, but in fact it is monitored, and the scholar family is a little bit troubled, isn't it clear to the government? In the future, don't say that you don't have the ability to confront the government, even if you have some ideas, you have to hide them, and you don't even dare to speak loudly behind your back.

But now they are all fish on the chopping board, and if they don't agree, they will be a dead end, and there is no choice at all. The collapse of the Liu family, the first scholar family in Pingyuan County, made them see the fate of opposing Liu Ze, and if they didn't want to die, they had to obediently obey their orders. But just handing over the private soldiers, everyone is so unwilling, so all the squires, you look at me, I look at you, and none of them are willing to stand up.

Liu Ze sank his face and said, "Since this official statement is related to this, you can decide where to go." There is a limit to the patience of this official, and if you are given a quarter of an hour, if you refuse to agree, this official will not mind hanging a few more heads at the gate of this Wu Fort! ”

In the face of Liu Ze's ultimatum, all the squires sweated together, and when the cold wind blew, they were all shivering. Squire Qian stomped his foot fiercely and said, "I am willing to obey Liu Taishou's order, wash the new face, and change the past." ”

A smile appeared on Liu Ze's face, and he said, "Very good, just go over there and sign and draw." Someone immediately led Squire Qian to a table next to him, there were two pieces of paper on the table, Squire Qian looked at it, the first was a confession, confessing to participating in the assassination of Liu Parallel, and the second was a letter of guarantee, agreeing to the "Prohibition of Weapons", voluntarily handing over all ordnance and weapons and promising not to organize any form of private arming.

Squire Qian's hands were trembling constantly, he knew very well that once they signed today, the prestige of their clan would come to an end, and from then on they had no soldiers and no power in their hands, and they no longer had the capital to confront Liu Ze, and they were completely reduced to fish belly. But at least to be alive, thinking about the heads of Liu Ping and Bai Jing at the gate of Wubao, Squire Qian gritted his teeth, and almost closed his eyes and wrote his name crookedly.

Since someone has taken the lead, the hesitant squires will also give up the idea of resistance, and everything else can be given up compared to life, and there is really no stupidity to the point where they would rather lose their heads than hand over power. In a short time, the dozen or so squires had already signed all of them one after another.

The signed document was put in front of Liu Ze, Liu Ze glanced at it a few times, and said with a cold face: "Since you are very cooperative with the official's ban, today's matter, the official will not be responsible for the past, if you abide by the law and be a good citizen of Anshun in the future, your property, your family, and the official will protect it to the end, but if someone is evil, plotting against him, and daring to challenge the bottom line of the official, you will blame the official for turning his face and being ruthless!" Step aside! “

The squires agreed and retreated.

Liu Ze finally breathed a long sigh of relief, and the Liu parallel assassination case was finally over. Originally, Liu Ze could have used more violent means to execute all the scholars who participated in the assassination, and even raze the three clans, but he understood that it was impossible to win in the contest with the scholars only by relying on bloody massacres. So Liu Ze adopted a more sensible method to make an example of the assassination, and executed Liu Ping and Bai Jing, the masterminds of the assassination case, which frightened many of the squires involved in the case, and then proposed a "Prohibition Order" to force them to sign and accept it.

Liu Ze has always been looking for a way to solve the problem of the scholars once and for all, the reason why the scholars are powerful is that they have always controlled the political power of the central and local governments, and have private armed forces, and the large scholars are fully capable of confronting the central court, such as the Yuan family, and the small scholars also control the politics of the local counties and counties, like Liu Ping, who served as the governor of the plains, they are like tumors, which breed wantonly everywhere in the veins of the Han Dynasty, and cut off these tumors. It is not something that can be done simply by killing a few people.

Liu Ze has always believed that a certain great man in later generations said that power comes out of the barrel of a gun, if the scholars are compared to a tiger, the private armed forces in their hands are sharp teeth and claws, and if their minions are removed, no matter how fierce the tiger is, it is just a big cat. The release of the "Prohibition of Weapons" is undoubtedly a sharp weapon to remove their minions.

But the "Forbidden Weapons Order" is undoubtedly a tiger skin, and if it is launched rashly, it will inevitably be unanimously opposed by all the scholars, and even stimulate turmoil, and the strength of the scholars is not blown out in the late Han Dynasty, so Liu Ze has been waiting for an opportunity.

The time came inadvertently, and Liu Ping finally couldn't hold it back, and hired assassins from the Bloody Hand Hall to assassinate Liu Ze in Qinghe. In fact, he can endure it all the time and wait for a better opportunity, such as when Liu Ze and other princes start a large-scale war, he will come to the bottom of the kettle to draw salary. (To be continued......)