In a side hall in the Xicheng County Government, Shen Yi and Shen Tan, who were tied up by five flowers, knelt in the hall together.

There was no one else in the side hall, except for Mi Yang, there were only some Mi Yang's personal guards who guarded the Shen brothers.

After Shen Tan was captured by Mi Yang in the camp of the river valley, Mi Yang did not kill Shen Tan in a hurry, and after he led the army to set off from Shangyong, he took Shen Tan with him.

After capturing Shen Yi just now, Mi Yang ordered someone to bring Shen Tan to Xicheng to meet Shen Yi's brothers.

And Shen Tan saw that Shen Yi had also become Mi Yang's prisoner, although he had expected it, but when he really saw this scene, there was still a dead gray color on his face that was difficult to hide.

Compared with Shen Tan, who completely accepted his fate and had a dead face, Shen Yi's face was a little better.

Shen Yi knelt on the ground, he knew that he was now the meat of Mi Yang's eucalyptus.

He didn't have the luxury of expecting Mi Yang not to swing the slash at himself, he only hoped that Mi Yang would let his people go.

Shen Yi knelt on the ground and pleaded to Mi Yang, "Fu Jun, my brother and I have been defeated now, and no one in Hanxing County can restrain Fu Jun.

I don't ask the prince to spare my life, I only hope that the prince will spare my heirs."

After finishing speaking, Shen Yi bowed deeply to Mi Yang.

Although Shen Yi's personality is more radical than Shen Tan, he is also more aware of current affairs than Shen Tan.

Looking at Shen Yi's performance in history, you can see that the "Han" and "Wei" banners on Xicheng changed almost like magic under Shen Yi's instructions.

For such a person, when it is time to bow low and be small, he will definitely not hesitate at all.

Faced with Shen Yi's plea, Mi Yang did not respond positively.

Mi Yang looked at Ding Feng on the side, and under Mi Yang's eyes, Ding Feng walked towards Shen Yi.

At this time, Ding Feng was holding a wooden box in his hand, and as Ding Feng walked towards Shen Yi, Shen Yi saw the whole picture of the wooden box in Ding Feng's hand.

When she saw the wooden box, Shen Yi's face flashed with dodge.

When Ding Feng walked in front of Shen Yi, he opened the wooden box in his hand, and then stood in front of Shen Yi and poured all the contents of the wooden box in front of Shen Yi and Shen Tan.

With Ding Feng's movements, pieces of official seals fell from the overturned wooden box in front of Shen Yi and Shen Tan's eyes.

When more than a dozen official seals all fell in front of Shen Yi and Shen Tan's eyes, Shen Tan looked at Shen Yi, and when Shen Tan saw the dodging look on Shen Yi's face, he didn't know the origin of these official seals.

Shen Tan's face showed a strong and incredible color.

Is this brother of his crazy!

After Ding Feng poured all the official seals in front of Shen Yi and Shen Tan, Mi Yang looked at Shen Yi and said:

"You are tyrannical in Hanxing County, and you dare to privately engrave the official seal in the name of the Son of Heaven, and you have the will of the princes to rebel, just for this crime, the Shen clan will be punished!"

These official seals were found from Shen Yi's bedroom after Zhang Wei took control of the county government.

Since the mourning of the world, the authority and edict of the Son of Heaven have long been out of the county.

The power to appoint the governors of each county is in the hands of the princes who actually occupy the county.

It's just that the Han family is still there, so when the princes in various places appoint county officials, they can only use the name of the Son of Heaven to engrave official seals and grant them to their subordinates.

But even if the Son of Heaven loses the power to appoint county officials in various places, this power is divided among the princes of the world, and it is not what Shen Yi, a courtier of the king of Hanzhong, should do.

Now that Shen Yi dares to engrave the official seal privately, of course such a crime can be punished.

After listening to Mi Yang's words, the expression on Shen Yi's face also became as dead as his brother.

Listening to the meaning of Mi Yang's words, he didn't plan to let go of his Shen clan.

Most of the old and young women and children of the Shen clan were moved to Chengdu by Shen Tan last year, and Mi Yang was beyond the reach of the whip.

But once Mi Yang reported the official seal he found today to Liu Bei, then his Shen clan would still be unable to escape the fate of extermination.

Clan punishment is the most serious punishment in the world, and it is the most ruthless to cut off a surname

is the most feared consequence in the hearts of many people.

After seeing Shen Yi's face look as dead as Shen Tan, Mi Yang spoke again, "Although your Shen clan will inevitably be wiped out, I can leave you with some blood."

After hearing Mi Yang say this, some blood appeared on the faces of Shen Tan and Shen Yi.

They looked at Mi Yang with hopeful eyes, and under the gaze of their hopeful eyes, Mi Yang slowly spoke:

"As long as you can help me sort out the population and acres of land in Hanxing County, although the two of you will inevitably die in the future, I will write to the king and plead for your bloodline in Chengdu."

After taking Hanxing County, the most important thing for Mi Yang at present is to speed up the figuration of the real total number of people and acres of land in Hanxing County.

Only after this was achieved, Mi Yang could gradually build Hanxing County into a base for his Northern Expedition in the future.

Even without the assistance of the Shen brothers, after taking Hanxing County in an all-round way, Mi Yang would be able to figure it out in the end.

It's just that the Shen brothers have been entrenched in Hanxing County for many years, and they know Hanxing County very well, and with their assistance, they are bound to get twice the result with half the effort.

And although most of the population and acres of land in Hanxing County were originally hidden by the Shen brothers, the Shen family is not the only one in Hanxing County.

Therefore, if Mi Yang can get the assistance of the Shen brothers, then he can use the Shen brothers' knowledge of other powerful people to carry out a full-scale "Dutian" operation in Hanxing County.

Dutian is not only to measure the acres of land, but also to check the hidden population.

Nearly two hundred years ago, Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, Liu Xiu, carried out a nationwide operation to complete the fields.

The main content of the operation is to check the number of fields, household registration, and age, and strengthen the government's control over land and labor.

In addition, the Dutian operation directly aimed at the key point of the local powerful - verifying the land population of the powerful landlords, and limiting the number of people who annexed land and enslaved the powerful people.

Because the Dutian movement infringed on the interests of the powerful clans in various places, the powerful people in various places resisted this policy by colluding with local officials.

In order to resolutely implement this policy, Liu Xiu successively killed more than a dozen local officials who colluded with Haoqiang and were perfunctory to Dutian.

At that time, among the central government, there was the world's great Confucian Situ Ouyang She, who was the mouthpiece of the powerful in various places, and desperately criticized Emperor Guangwu's Tiantian policy in public opinion.

Under the instigation of Ouyang She, the public opinion of Shilin in the world at that time was full of malice towards the Dutian policy.

However, in the face of the combined forces of the local and central opposition forces, Emperor Guangwu, who had always been regarded as a "good man", showed his courage.

Emperor Guangwu disregarded the identity of the great Situ Ouyang She, a Confucian sect in the world, and decisively executed Ouyang She in the face of more than 1,000 people guarding the court and pleading for mercy.

This incident caused a great shock to the government and the opposition, but at the same time, it revealed the determination of Emperor Guangwu of Han.

After using Ouyang She's death to intimidate a group of central courtiers, Liu Xiu began to attack the local rebellion.

On the one hand, Liu Xiu sent people to summon the accusation, "Listen to the group of thieves entangled with each other, and if the five people kill one person together, they will be punished", so as to divide and divide the powerful people from all over the world.

On the other hand, he pardoned the local governors for their crimes of staying, recusal, and connivance, and aroused their enthusiasm for quelling the rebellion.

The most important thing is that Liu Xiu made a killing move, "Migrate his boss to other counties, endow the land with endowments, and make peace and well-being".

Under Liu Xiu's move, the local wealthy families can no longer use the clan power to continue to do evil and raise troops to stir up rebellion.

Liu Xiu's move is the most unacceptable punishment for contemporary Haoqiang in addition to ethnic punishment.

The reason why the local tyrants are strong is that they live in their homeland, and they have great influence and great wealth in the countryside.

These two advantages allowed them to raise private soldiers and start a rebellion.

But when they were forcibly relocated to their homeland, all ties with their homeland were severed, which was undoubtedly a drain.

The rebels are

If the powerful clan hadn't deprived them of everything in their homeland and then migrated them elsewhere, such a wealthy person would not have been guilty of asking Liu Xiu to give them "land and endowments, so that they can live in peace".

For example, Wang Fu pointed out the ruthlessness of Liu Xiu's move in "The Theory of the Hidden Husband: The Real Side".

"And the husband and wife are relocated, and they are in love with the grave, and the virtuous are the same. The people are more to migrate than to the law. Fu Fa is not a family member who dies.

Those who have lost their wealth and goods, who have seized the land and moved far away, who are not accustomed to customs, who are inconvenient to the water and soil, who have many kinds of goods, and who can return the land and those who are few."

Liu Xiu's move dealt a heavy blow to the rebellious landlord Haoqiang.

After the rebellions in various places were quelled, the Dutian of the Liu Xiu period was strictly enforced.

After the implementation of Dutian, a good situation of "cattle and horses grazing, and the gate of the city is not closed" was formed, which laid a solid economic foundation for the rule of Mingzhang.

Later generations will remember Liu Xiu's identity as the Great Magister, but his behavior in this Dutian movement is also a real show.

If it weren't for this Dutian movement, the political ecology of the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty would have perished long ago.

Whether Emperor Guangwu's action was a success or a failure has always been a different opinion among later historians.

Throughout the 200-year history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dutian Movement was a failure, because the chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was inextricably linked to the growing local power.

But just from the period of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, the Dutian operation at that time achieved certain results.

The fundamental reason why the Dutian operation did not save the fate of the Eastern Han Dynasty was that in feudal society, there was no way to completely eradicate the cancer of local heroes.

The direct reason is that in addition to being well continued during the reigns of Emperor Ming of the Han Dynasty and Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the "Dutian" operation was simply a dead letter in other periods.

But at present, the Dutian operation during the Guangwu Emperor period has the biggest benefit to Mi Yang is that it has become justified for him to carry out the Dutian operation in Hanxing County.

Mi Yang, as the Taishou of Hanxing County, is completely reasonable and reasonable to continue the policy of His Majesty Shizu, which is a very correct thing.

Then Mi Yang, in the name of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, actually made some reforms under the actions of Dutian on the surface, and no one could blame anything.

Even if some corrupt Confucians want to use this to attack Mi Yang and smear his reputation, they must first discredit Liu Xiu's reputation.

Do they dare? Liu Bei is still alive.

In contemporary times, only by being right can we be smooth, and only by being honest can we act quickly.

When Shen Yi and Shen Tan heard that Mi Yang wanted to carry out Dutian in Hanxing County, although they were local tyrants, they naturally opposed this policy.

But let's not say that they don't have the capital to resist now, even if there is capital to resist, it is impossible for them to openly stop Mi Yang's move.

In order to preserve some bloodline, Shen Tan and Shen Yi could only agree to Mi Yang's request in the end.

After Shen Tan and Shen Yi chose to cooperate, Mi Yang ordered the two to be pressed down and imprisoned.

After Shen Tan and Shen Yi were escorted away, Lu Yi came to the side hall and reported to Mi Yangyu: "Fu Jun, most of the Shen clan's henchmen have been taken into custody, and I ask Fu Jun to show them what to do next."

In the case of the full recovery of Xicheng, except for some Shen henchmen who hid in the shadows and escaped from the city by luck, most of the remaining Shen henchmen were captured by the Mi army one after another.

The Shen clan is divided into two categories, one is the Shen clan's clansmen, and the other is the subordinate officials who were attached to the Shen brothers and helped them to eat the people.

After listening to Lu Yi's report, Mi Yang said to Lu Yi: "The captured Shen henchmen will be interrogated one by one, and after receiving their crimes, they will be dealt with according to their respective crimes according to the "Shu Branch"."

After knowing Mi Yang's meaning, Lu Yi couldn't help but admonish: "The Shen brothers are bound by a secret net, so they are unpopular. If the ruler of the government is generous, the people will naturally be happy."

Although Mi Yang revealed that he wanted to act in accordance with the law, Lu Yi knew that those Shen henchmen had been working for the tiger for many years, and their crimes were basically capital crimes if they were dealt with according to the harsh "Shu Family".

So that hundreds

Most of the clan's henchmen will struggle to survive.

In Lu Yi's view, this point is not conducive to stabilizing the hearts of the people in Hanxing County.

And Mi Yang, as the Taishou of Hanxing County, holds the judicial power of a county, so as long as Mi Yang is tolerant, then those hundreds of people can save a life.

After listening to Lu Yi's advice, Mi Yang said to Lu Yi: "The Shen family has no way, the government is harsh and the people are resentful, and the common people are sad and displaced.

And the Shen family employs nepotism, since the beginning of peace, there are decades of frustration, the people of Han Xing are depressed, the scholars worship each other, the morality and politics are not raised, and the punishment is not suppressed.

The Shen clan's henchmen are autocratic and self-indulgent, and the way up and down is gradually replaced by tombs, and the crimes are numerous, and the people have suffered for a long time.

If the party has a capital crime, it should be beheaded, and the evil will be punished first and then the good will be promoted.

Today's death, the sins of the past, need no forgiveness.

Only in this way can the people's hearts be happy and the county government be clear."

After hearing Mi Yang say this, Lu Yi knew that Mi Yang had made up his mind, so he stopped persuading.

But just when Lu Yi was about to receive the order to leave, Mi Yang ordered again:

"After the decapitation of the Shin henchmen who had committed capital crimes, their heads were hung above the city gates.

I will make it visible to the people inside and outside the city that we have removed their enemies for them."

Mi Yang's order made Lu Yi's heart froze, and then he was ordered to leave.