Chapter 503: Killing Chickens and Monkeys

After attacking the city, except for a few dead soldiers trained by historians, most of the soldiers put down their weapons and surrendered on their knees, and those dead soldiers also gave up resistance after Shi Daozhi, Shi Zhenzhi and others were captured, and almost lost many manpower, and Yongzhou City was occupied by Li You's army. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info

"The master subdued Shi Hongzhi's chess move very well, if you don't want to capture Yongzhou City, I'm afraid it will take a lot of effort." Jiang Suiyun, who followed Li You into the city, looked at the towering city wall, the impregnable urn city, and the mountains of rolling wood and stones piled up on the top of the city and said, if it is a strong attack, even if it can finally take Yongzhou City, it will take more than a month, and the lives of thousands of soldiers will be lost, and during this time, other families in Lingnan Dao may also take the opportunity to make trouble.

"The righteous have many helps, and the unrighteous have little help, and this has been the case since ancient times; The historian has oppressed Yongzhou City too much, and the people have long since turned away from it, and it is not a trouble to really attack the city. Looking at the people in Yongzhou City, although their faces were still a little panicked, their eyes showed a little joy, thinking that they were happy that Shi Daozhi and others were arrested.

"What your lord said is very true." Jiang Suiyun stroked his long beard and nodded constantly, "I just don't know what the adults want to do with these people from the Shi family?" Although Lingnan Road is not as good as the Central Plains, there are also several families that have lasted for hundreds of years, and most of them are looking at Yongzhou City. ”

"Master Jiang came to Lingnan Dao to think about how to deal with them, and now he has done it." The strength of these families lies in the huge network of relationships and rich family background, if these people use various relationships in times of peace, they will create a lot of trouble for Li You, but now it is a troubled time, these things do not play a big role, only the soldiers and horses in their hands are real, so Li You is not afraid of them, he plans to use the historian to kill chickens and monkeys.

If those other families knew what was going on, and handed over the land and those children who had caused countless troubles in the past in full accordance with Jiang Suiyun's orders, and returned to the imperial court in An'an, then maybe their family could continue, otherwise the Shi family was a good example for them, and Li You didn't mind taking the opportunity to eliminate some more moths.

Yongzhou City was broken too quickly, Shi Daozhi and others had not had time to destroy the evidence of their collusion with the Nanban, under the leadership of Shi Hongzhi, all these things fell into the hands of Jiang Suiyun, of course, there was inevitably evidence of his involvement, but those were all forced by Shi Daozhi, and naturally they would not be taken out when they went to court.

A few days later, all the relevant personnel involved in this incident in Yongzhou City were arrested and brought to justice, Jiang Suiyun directly interrogated them above the Yongzhou lobby, Li You was also present to supervise, in front of a full set of human and physical evidence, Shi Daozhi, Shi Zhenzhi and other core personnel of the historian had to bow their heads and confess, even if there were two of the hardest, after a few strokes of the board, they cried and shouted for their mother's paintings, they usually punished others without mercy, but when it was their turn, they couldn't stay up for a quarter of an hour.

In addition, Li You issued an edict that anyone who had grievances before could come to the lobby to avenge their grievances, so almost the entire people of Yongzhou poured into the city, handing over mountain-high papers, encroaching on other people's fields, robbing people's daughters, beating people's lives and other illegal things made Li You feel dumbfounded.

"I'm afraid that this Shi family's mansion has nothing clean except for the two stone lions at the door." When he came to the door of the Shi family's mansion and looked at this gorgeous building with carved beams and painted buildings and cornices, Li You remembered the line in "Dream of Red Mansions".

"I'm afraid Lord Taiwei said this earlier." Shi Hongzhi stepped forward and patted the stone lion's head lightly and said, "As far as Xiaguan knows, the craftsmen who built these two stone lions have long since disappeared, and in order to find a suitable stone, they smashed three houses, and after the completion of the construction, there are far more than one or two Yongzhou people who died on this stone lion." ”

Hehe, this is the family style and aristocratic temperament that the little freshmen of later generations will never forget, I don't know how the people who let them cross into Yongzhou will feel? Li You shook his head and smiled bitterly, if all the wealthy families in the world are like Yongzhou historians, even if there is no Tang Kuo to commit crimes, it is not far before Dawei is overthrown by the unbearable people.

Of course, there are not no good landlords who treat the people well and build bridges and pave roads, but these people will not end well; You must know that farming is still a risky thing in this era, and their own harvest is correspondingly less than that of those local tyrants and gentry who oppress excessively, but whenever they encounter drought and floods, and need to consume their savings, they will always hold on for a shorter time than those local tyrants and gentry, in case the disaster has not receded before the savings are consumed, then they can only face bankruptcy, and the land under their names will also be controlled by the local tyrants and inferior gentry.

This is the same as in the industrial age, those companies that can squeeze workers more ruthlessly can survive the economic crisis longer, and the bad money drives out the good money is the naked truth. If Li You's army had not maintained the stability of Lingnan Road, when chaos broke out in various places, a family like the Shi family, who had accumulated a large amount of grain and grass and had high walls and thick walls for defense, might be able to resist the attacks of the rebellious people, and those small landlords scattered in the countryside who had no money to build dock forts because of their kindness to the people may not be so easy to pass.

Squeezing the people and accumulating strength to resist all kinds of disasters is the key to the inheritance of these wealthy families for thousands of years, but this process of squeezing is also threatening stability, and the slightly smarter can find a balance between the two, just like the king and their family, and those who are not smart enough are like the historians.

Just as the economic crisis is a stubborn disease in the industrial age, in the feudal era this is also a problem that every dynasty is difficult to solve, even if the historian is completely extinguished, it can only let the people of Yongzhou live a few years of good life, it is estimated that it will not be long before a new family replaces the historian, Li You still has a long way to go if he wants to completely change this situation.

Fortunately, now that the drawings of Zheng He's treasure ship have been obtained, maritime trade and colonization will bring more choices to the people of the Great Wei, so that they can get out of this reciprocating cycle, and at that time, the natives of the colony will replace the people of the Great Wei to become the bottom of the oppression, this process is equally cruel and bloody, but for Li You, it is better to let those aliens suffer than to let the people under his rule suffer.

As the saying goes, friends who die don't die in poverty, if you have to die, let others die. (To be continued.) )