The process of receiving territory by troops is often as follows: the proclamator is first dispatched to persuade the magistrate to surrender. Although these people are not as powerful as Zhang Yi and Su Qin, they are all selected people who can speak well, and their eloquence is quite good. If the magistrates are willing to surrender, then everyone will be happy, the city gates will be opened, the magistrates will welcome them out of the city, the troops will enter the city to control the city defense, and the civil affairs officials who will accompany them will receive the account books, seal the ribbons, and count the treasury.

If the magistrate refuses to surrender, then give them some color. These colors are usually black and red. Black is the black smoke ignited by the muzzle of the black hole ~ hole and the fire ~ medicine. Red is blood and fire. If a regiment with firearms could not capture a city with only three or two kittens, the commander could also die headlong under the city wall. So there is basically no suspense in such a battle.

Of course, some magistrates who "know the times" don't have to wait for the arrival of the army at all, and take the initiative to come and surrender, which is more convenient, just send a civil affairs official with two or three guards to accept it.

Liu Hou felt more and more like a certain god in the Middle East who held a scripture in one hand and a sword in the other. However, the two artifacts in his hands are embodied, the scriptures are the holy decrees, and the swords are the army. The result is the same, submit to me, or the moon will destroy you.

Most of the castles were "peacefully liberated", and as a result, most of the treasury was taken over intact. Although these treasury reserves are not much, they are better than the large number, half of China's counties are now in Liu Hou's hands, and the huge amount of money and grain in the treasury is also controlled by him.

For a period of time, Liu Hou received reports from various units almost every day, and he smiled from ear to ear. This time, I really counted the money and counted the cramps in my hands, and I almost laughed so much that my face cramped.

As for the magistrates of various counties and counties, Liu Hou's original disposition opinion was to hold a public trial meeting and let the people complain, and if there was usually bullying and exploiting the people, and the fish and meat in the township, they would be dealt with according to the law. Those officials who usually have a good official reputation, love the people like children, and sincerely do things for the people can naturally continue to be appointed.

But several great strategists have always opposed this opinion. They believe that now is the time to unite all forces and unify the world as soon as possible, and it is not appropriate to attack too broadly. If this kind of policy is really implemented now, those local officials with bad deeds will be forced to have only two ways to go, one is to pull the flag and rebel, and fight to the death with the imperial army.

Because this is related to their net worth and life, if they don't do a dying struggle, there is only a dead end, it is better to fight before dying, even if they die in the end, at least they can survive for a few more days, and it is good to die a few days later.

Second, they fled with the property of the government treasury, and even burned the property that they could not take with them before leaving. If they take the first route, although the imperial army will definitely win the battle in the end, it will definitely have to take a lot of effort, the key is to waste time, and it will hinder the plan of quickly unifying the world.

If there are more officials who resist, or if they join forces, it will even become a very tricky thing. There is a saying that in three years, there are 100,000 snowflakes of silver in the Qing Governor's Mansion, and how many officials are not greedy? It is estimated that most of the magistrates have some bad deeds, and it can be expected that this opinion will force most of the officials to put up a dying resistance. In this way, it is very likely that the plan to control the vast territory abandoned by Wei in half a year will not be realized.

If those corrupt officials choose the second way, it will also bring great losses to the imperial court, of course, this kind of loss is lighter than the first one, mainly in terms of financial losses. Although money is a foreign thing, for a large empire, financial issues are a very important issue.

Accepting these counties in their entirety is the most important thing at the moment, and other minor matters can be put aside for the time being. Hearing this, Liu Hou remembered the main contradiction and the secondary contradiction that the political teacher in his previous life talked about. We must grasp ~ the main contradiction in everything, solve the main contradiction first, and then solve the secondary contradiction, which is the correct way to do things.

Well, in fact, there is another reason, politics is compromise. In order to unify the world as soon as possible, Liu Hou compromised and finally agreed with the opinions of several strategists, which made him feel more and more like a politician rather than the original angry youth.

Later, however, Sima Yi proposed an "insidious" plan. In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the set of settling accounts after the autumn. He thought that it was okay to "forgive" their past sins regardless of whether the magistrates were "good people" or not, and still arrange official positions of the same rank as they were in the original place, but they should be appointed officials in another place.

In this way, no matter whether they are good or bad, after seeing that their interests have not been harmed in any way after returning to the imperial court, they will no longer make useless resistance, and most of them will actively surrender. Wait until the world is stable in the future, and then slowly liquidate the officials with bad deeds.

Sima Yi's move can be described as killing two birds with one stone, of course, this is not a very new method, this is an old trick used by many rulers in history, but this trick is indeed very useful, it can be described as tried and tested.

It can be said that almost every founding emperor in history has used similar means, when fighting the world, in order to use all the forces that can be used, in order to unite all the forces that can be united, they can promise many benefits to each other, many of which are empty promises.

When he sat down in the world, and those people or forces no longer had any use value, he kicked them away, and even raised his butcher's knife to sharpen his knives against those friends who used to fight side by side together. Well, let's take an example, there are too many such examples, Liu Bang will not talk about it as Liu Hou's ancestor, just give an example of a villain.

Wu Sangui, known as the biggest traitor in the late Ming Dynasty, led the Qing soldiers into the customs, and made great efforts to help the Qing court exterminate the forces of Li Zicheng and the remnants of the Ming Dynasty, which can be described as a great achievement against the Manchu Qing Dynasty. The Qing court also promised him many benefits, making him the king of Pingxi and making Yunnan his fief.

In the twelfth year of Kangxi (1673), the Manchu Qing Dynasty had already sat firmly in the world, and Emperor Kangxi began to sharpen his sword and began to withdraw. The fiefs that the Qing court had given to Wu Sangui, Shang Kexi, and Geng Jimao (Geng Jingzhong's father) were now all about to be recovered, and those who refused to return these rights would be exterminated.

In the end, Wu Sangui's father and son were killed, Geng Jingzhong, Shang Zhixin (Shang Kexi's son) and others successively surrendered to the Qing Dynasty, and they were successfully withdrawn three times, and Kangxi completed the great cause of reunification.

When he was helped by the three traitors, all the oaths promised by the Qing court such as "sharing the world with Qingqing" and "hereditary replacement" were thrown to Java by Kangxi, anyway, it was the promise of the previous emperor, what does it have to do with himself? Kangxi was not embarrassed by this at all.

There are many such things in history, and there are many four-character idioms that can be used to describe such things, such as: settling accounts after the autumn, unloading the mill and killing the donkey, the rabbit and the dead dog, the bird is hidden in the bow, and so on.

Liu Hou, who has read the 5,000-year-old history storybook, agrees with Sima Yi's proposal, and Sima Yi also sighs that this little emperor really has a wise root, which can be said to be clear at all. Next, Liu Hou and several ministers discussed a detailed implementation plan.

ps, it turns out that black ~ hole is also a sensitive word, I don't know what this celestial body has done to anger people.