Wei Yan did not succeed in deceiving after all, he successfully defeated the main force of the rebels, and under the city of Jiangling, the army joined forces, divided and surrounded the rebels with inferior forces, and beat them severely.

The soldiers of the county who had been defending in the city for a long time also opened the city gate to fight with the Han army, and even Du Ji, the county guard of Nanjun, couldn't hold back his excitement, put on his armor and rode on a war horse, and went out of the city to fight together.

Du Ji is not a weak scholar, he is also combative, and good at riding and archery, before the city was besieged by the rebels, he also joined the battle in full gear, risking arrows to transport supplies to the soldiers on the city wall, and killing two rebel soldiers who climbed the city wall.

Not only that, but he also personally trained the strong men in the city to urgently join the battle, and sent all the guards in his palace who could fight to the city wall to assist in the battle.

His two sons, Du Li and Du Kuan, came to Jingzhou to visit relatives because of the Sili Academy's holiday, and they happened to bump into Jiangling and were surrounded, Du Ji was not entangled, and directly asked his two sons to put on armor and go to the city with crossbow arrows to participate in the battle instead of himself.

It can be said that he made great contributions to the defense of Gangneung City.

This time, Wei Yan came with reinforcements, ending his twenty-one days of crisis, and he was very excited, and after joining the battle, he killed three rebel soldiers, and won a complete victory with the army.

The main force of the rebels in Nanjun was also wiped out by the Han army, and all that remained were some small fish and shrimp entrenched in various counties, and with the absolute superiority of the Han army, it was easy to eliminate them.

After the war, Wei Yan met Du Ji and Li Zheng, the captain of the national soldiers of Nanjun County, Wei Yan praised Li Zheng and recognized Du Ji's bravery, and then asked about the specific situation and worked with them to rectify the things after the Battle of Nanjun.

Du Ji told Wei Yan everything he knew, and suggested that Wei Yan immediately take action against the rebellion in the counties of Nanjun, capture them all, and control them all.

Those who have had contact with the government before can be spared, and no one else should let go of all the killings, and confiscate all their property as a punishment for them.

In addition, Du Yi also strongly suggested that Wei Yan must search the homes and warehouses of these local families, and he must be able to find a lot of weapons, even armor and bows and crossbows, once they find out, they can confirm their rebellion.

If you find a bow and crossbow and armor, then needless to say, you must rebel and kill the rebels, but it is a matter of course.

Du Yi has been fighting wits and courage with these clan forces for so many years, and he has been tossed very hard by him, and now that he finally has the opportunity to raise his eyebrows, how can he let go of those bastards who offended him and offended him to the ends of the earth?

Once he has the opportunity, of course, he must take revenge and vent fiercely, so as not to let these bastards destroy their families and the three clans explode, he is not the Taishou of Nanjun!

Of course, Wei Yan also wanted more credit, so he immediately ordered his subordinates to divide their troops and set off to the counties of Nanjun, and personally led the troops to Xiangyang to personally deal with the affairs of Xiangyang.

Wei Yan started the second wave of operations, and Du Yi also officially reported to Liu Bei, reporting to Liu Bei what happened in Nanjun, and strongly suggesting that Liu Bei launch a wave of purges against Nanjun, and no one suspected of committing a crime should be let go, and all the old social relations network in Nanjun will be torn apart, which will contribute to the long-term peace and stability of Nanjun.

As for those guys who have secretly surrendered to the imperial court, of course they don't have to die, but don't be so tolerant of them, this group of people is just grass on the wall, and after losing the foundation of the family, they are ordinary people, and there is no need to pay attention to them at all.

Therefore, it is better to scatter them and settle in various places, so as not to let their families prosper again, so that they can become independent individuals and never oppose the court again.

For this group of people, avoiding death is the greatest forgiveness, and in addition to avoiding death, the court must punish them as much as it wants, and must not make them too comfortable.

Du Ji's watch was sent to Luoyang by a fast horse, and after only eight days, it was sent to Liu Bei, and almost at the same time, he also got the news from Jiangxia County.

When Liu Bei got the news of Nanjun and Jiangxia County, it was also the time when Liu Bei personally tried Liu Zhong, the former king of Ganling.

Liu Yu was beheaded before Liu Zhong arrived, and the two couldn't meet, but there is nothing to regret about this, they are all insects, and they should also soak in the same dung pit to drink tea in hell, Liu Bei only needs to be responsible for sending them on the road.

As for other things, Liu Bei was not interested, and interrogating Liu Zhong in person was like going through the motions, the only thing he was interested in was why Liu Zhong did not want to let go of the honor of the king of the sect, but to participate in this kind of thing that was destined to lose his head.

Isn't paying taxes as much as the glory of a king?

He was amazed.

And Liu Zhong's reply made Liu Bei deeply understand what it means to "spend the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain".

This guy actually thinks that he and Liu Bei do not belong to the same clan, so after Liu Bei's small sect enters the big sect, he will definitely find ways to find an excuse to clean up their group of Liu Xiu's clan kings, and then replace them with his own people as the sect kings.

After Liu Zhong knew that he was going to die, he had no scruples, and he was going to die anyway, so he didn't have any fear of Liu Bei, he just sneered at him.

"I know that you are talented, I know that you are good at using soldiers and can fight, and I also know that I may not be able to beat you, but it doesn't matter, as long as I dare to go against you, I can't say that there is no possibility of victory, but if I sit still, I will definitely die, Liu Bei, you win, you can do what you want!"

Liu Bei looked at Liu Zhong with an indifferent expression, just sighed and shook his head.

"If I said that I didn't have the idea of deposing the prince of your clan, would you believe it or not?"

Liu Zhong listened and looked at Liu Bei with the eyes of a fool.

"Do you think I'm a fool? Or do you think I'm a good liar and would believe your nonsense? Leave your own people and don't seal outsiders? What did you Liu Bei rely on to ascend to the throne, are all people in the world stupid? ”

Liu Bei smiled helplessly, took a sip of tea, and shook his head.

"Before, my thoughts were actually quite simple, I didn't think that you clan kings were an eyesore, and it didn't matter if I wasn't in the same clan, anyway, I didn't think that anyone in my clan deserved to be crowned king or any other title.

My sons are still young and not yet that age, so my idea was to use the taxes collected from you, and then I would make up some of them personally, and raise a little money to help the poor Han clan relatives who had problems with eating.

You also know that there has been a lot of differentiation between the rich and the poor in the Han clan group since the Grace Decree was introduced, and over the years, many Han clan relatives are also normal people, and even the common people, the poor, live in poverty, have no status and power, and eating is a problem.

Of course, I don't think it's the right thing to raise some rice worms, so I won't use the imperial court funds to help these people, but if you really want them to starve to death, it's not a good thing, it will make the outside world think that the royal family is ruthless, and it will be a blow to the prestige of the royal family.

So I thought that I would use the money collected by you, the rich and noble Han clan sects, as well as some of my personal money, to give a little subsidy to a group of poor Han clan relatives who can't eat, so that they can maintain food and clothing and not starve to death.

I don't intend to target you, as long as you don't go against the imperial court, abide by the slave restriction order and the field order, and help the clan group that is about to starve to death, then I don't care if you are your sect king. ”

Liu Zhong was stunned when he heard this, his mouth opened wide, and he looked incredulous.

Less leaning, he returned to normal.

"What's the point of you saying such things to lie to me? Do you think I'm going to believe you? You Liu Bei has done so many things that are shocking to the world, how many people have died at your hands, and how many families have been destroyed by you? You can't remember how many people you've killed, can you? Say something like that now, you think I'm going to believe you?! ”

"Believe it or not is your business, whether you do it or not is my business."

Liu Bei sneered: "Liu Xuande acts, his life is bright and fair, he has a clear conscience, for innocent people, he can help them, he can help them, and for the guilty people, he can kill them, and he will never let them go."

Now it seems that there is no problem in me catching you and killing you, if you have a clear conscience and have not done anything harmful, how can you think that I will definitely target you and succeed in asking for the guilt? ”

"I ......"

Liu Zhong was speechless, embarrassed for a while, before he snorted and lowered his head.

"If you want to kill or scrape, whatever you want!"

"Of course it's up to me!"

Liu Bei sneered: "But then again, I don't want to treat you in a cruel way, but you live in the belly of a gentleman with the heart of a villain, thinking that I will do something to you sooner or later, so you have to oppose me."

You and Liu Yu think like this, after that, the other sect kings will not rest assured, instead of letting you speculate about me and secretly oppose me, it is better for me to directly conform to the will of the people, depose all of you, and save money. ”

Liu Zhong was stunned, and was immediately annoyed.

"You're lying to me, aren't you? What I just said is sanctimonious, but in fact, it hides evil intentions! You are plotting to seize the throne and murder the emperor's relatives, and your ancestors have spirits in the sky, and they will never let you go! ”

"You villain, you really deserve to be a villain, not only do you not know the heart of a gentleman, but you also imagine that the gentleman is as dirty as yourself, it is really dirty, and it is extremely dirty."

Liu Bei shook his head and sighed: "But it's no wonder, our Han clan relatives are all descendants of Emperor Gaozu, Emperor Gaozu, say that he is a hero, he is indeed a hero, say that he is a scoundrel, he also has the style of a scoundrel, to say that he is a bit of a villain, in some aspects, it is true."

It can only be said that each of us is a little similar to Gaozu, some are heroes, some are scoundrels, some are pure villains, and some are more of a big collective, don't you say? ”

Liu Zhong snorted coldly and kept silent.

Liu Bei also stopped talking nonsense with him and issued the result of Liu Zhong's trial.

Liu Zhong, the former king of Ganling, conspired to rebel, was disloyal and unjust, had no father and no king, harmed the locality, harmed the people, committed a heinous crime, and was sentenced to death.

The inheritance of the Ganling Kingdom abolished the Ganling Kingdom clan and went to prison, and the Ganling Kingdom was removed, and the Ganling Kingdom was restored to Qinghe County to comfort the ancestors.

After the trial order was issued, Liu Bei hesitated for a while, but still made up his mind to officially attack the Eastern Han Dynasty group of kings, depose all the existing groups of kings, and abolish their titles, so that they would not continue to threaten the inheritance of the throne.

As Liu Zhong said, he and they are not from the same clan, according to the practice of being crowned kings since the Eastern Han Dynasty, these guys are actually no longer qualified to continue to serve as the king of the sect.

So there were actually some rumors inside and outside the court that Liu Bei would depose the original king, but Liu Bei really didn't think about it at that time, he just wanted to collect taxes from them, and then make a Han clan to help charity funds, so that some Han clan relatives who couldn't eat could eat could have a bite of food.

That's all.

He didn't plan to do more for these Han clansmen, just to keep them from starving to death on the streets, so that the subjects of the world would think that the royal family was ruthless.

But since these Eastern Han Dynasty kings have such a negative view of themselves, and they still have some persecution paranoia, Liu Bei feels that he is just using this as an excuse to do what everyone thought he would do before, which can be regarded as "living up to expectations".

So Liu Bei decided to set up an investigation team, using Liu Zhong's rebellion incident as a breakthrough to do some investigations on the local kings who received the text after Liu Zhong issued a crusade against him.

Previously, through the intelligence network, Liu Bei learned that Liu Zhong had sent a letter questioning his throne before the defeat to the location of various sect kings, and wanted to encourage these sect kings to rebel against him, so as to regain the throne, and many sect kings actually received this message.

Liu Zhong even wanted to go north to find Liu Xie, re-establish Liu Xie as emperor, and oust himself from the throne.

Now that the chain of suspicion has been formed, if you don't do the corresponding things, won't you become a bad person?

When has he ever been a bad person?

This group of bastards is looking for their own death, can they still not satisfy them?

However, for the selection of this investigation team and the subsequent series of operations against the Eastern Han Dynasty kings, Liu Bei felt that some political preparation was needed.

And it is indeed a bit too much to depose all the feudal kings and even some feudal relatives of the Han family in one go, which will make people wonder whether the emperor will maintain the Han family.

Some Han clan relatives did not make any mistakes, and honestly, it is not appropriate to solve it in one go.

So Liu Bei thought about it and thought of some good ways.

In the past, when the Han clan relatives were sealed, they were all sealed in the direction of anointed places or critical places, either because they wanted to honor them, or they were counting on their own people to help take care of the critical places and make some efforts for the Han family.

When it was Liu Bei's turn to be here, of course, the Han family also needed the strength of the Han clan relatives, so Liu Bei thought about it, so he sealed these Han clan relatives to the south.

If you go to these risky places in the south, you can still comply with the imperial court's policy of developing Lingnan and drive a large number of people to Lingnan.

The ancestors of the Han family and the descendants of the ancestors, in order to consolidate the Han Dynasty, should go to the most dangerous and most needed places, and should dedicate their youth, blood, and even their lives to the development of the Han Dynasty's territory.

What is the point of staying in the anointed land to eat and drink?

A real man has to face the harsh natural environment!

In this way, it is also conducive to promoting the transfer of more people to Jiaozhou.

After all, all the relatives of the Han family have gone, and the surname Liu has taken the lead, so it's okay for the big guys to go with them, right?

(End of chapter)