Today's Zhending County Office, in the name of the Zhending County Order, invited the three largest local Haoyou Wang, Guo and Cheng families in Zhending County to come to the county office for a banquet and meet the Mu Shou, the Minister of State and the King of Changshan.

The county order summoned each other, and there were three nobles sitting here, and the lords of the three noble families naturally could not refuse, so they each brought three heavy gifts and went to the county office to attend the banquet in person.

After everyone met, the lord of the three households praised the three nobles headed by Liu Jian, and then offered a heavy gift, showing his obedience.

After taking a seat, Zhending County ordered people to arrange a banquet and cheer people with singing and dancing.

Wine to three rounds, dishes over five flavors.

Liu Jian suddenly raised his hand, signaling that he had something to say.

The county magistrate of Zhending hurriedly clapped his hands and ordered the singers and dancers in the field to temporarily retreat.

Subsequently, in the hall, only a group of nobles led by Liu Jian, the state minister, remained.

In the hall, Liu Jian looked at everyone present, smiled on his face, and said:

"Today, the county gentleman set up a banquet, and the three family hosts congratulated each other, Liu was thankful, and prepared a return gift, I want to invite the public to take it for yourself, and please don't dislike it."

Cheng's father-in-law smiled and said: "Uncle Fang is polite, we must pay attention to it." ”

Liu Jian clapped his hands, and saw the two servants carrying ten wooden boxes into the hall.

When I opened the wooden box, it was full of simple scrolls, but I didn't know what the contents were.

Looking at the puzzled eyes of the three wealthy fathers and the county monarch of Zhending, he heard Liu Jian say lightly: "Here, there is a handwritten letter from Zhao Jun who admits his guilt, Zhao Jun said that two thousand righteous soldiers died heroically when they fought against the Yellow Turban a few months ago,"

"Only 300 people remain, and the army that was drilled in front of me and the king and the prime minister of the country was all to defraud the state and county grain, armor, ordnance and other things.

"Now among the ten wooden boxes, the widows of thousands of families in Zhending County have written the number of materials received."

"It is true that many of them can't write, so the officials in Sun Xiangguo's mansion will write the records, and after verification, they will be signed by the three schools."

When Liu Jian said this, he saw the head of the Zhending Wang family, got up angrily, and said angrily: "Uncle Fang, this is wrong! This is clearly Zhao Jun teamed up with a group of people to frame the county monarch and us, and asked Fang Boming to make a decision, and I will wait for a clean house! ”

Liu Jian slowly stood up, came to the side of the ten wooden boxes, took out a scroll of slips from them at random, and sighed: "Until now, you still don't admit your guilt, do you have to wait for the knife to stand on your neck before you are willing to bow to the law?" ”

When the words fell, Liu Jian shook his hand and threw the scroll directly on the table in front of the Wang family.

The bamboo slip fell on the desk and made a crisp sound of "pop".

The crisp sound was terrifying.

Subsequently, Liu Jian picked up the slips one by one, and threw them in front of the Zhending County Order and the three fathers-in-law.

"Take a good look, look at the widows and families of these rebels, and see how they live,"

"The Yellow Turban Rebellion, they lost their husbands, fathers and children, and the men in the family sacrificed their lives on the battlefield, look at you again, there is no shortage of people or food, but they are all hiding in the Wu Fort, watching from the wall, but in the end they shamelessly pick up ready-made?"

"I'm embarrassed to be aggrieved now! If I were you, I would cut out my heart, liver, spleen, and lungs one by one, and see what color it was! Let's see how rotten it is!! ”

In the end, the louder Liu Jian's voice became, the sharper his words became.

Zhending County Jun sat there, trembling all over.

However, the three heroes are quite calm.

They don't feel that there is anything wrong with them, and in their opinion, the rebels are untouchables, deserving of death, deserving of their exploitation, a concept that has been fixed in their minds for many years.

The father-in-law of the Guo family didn't even glance at the Jian Mu on the ground, he flicked his sleeves and got up, and said to Liu Jian: "Uncle Fang, there are still some trivial matters in the Guo clan, and it is inconvenient to accompany you here, so I will retire, and I will have leisure the next day, and then I will cheekily invite Uncle Fang to talk to my home." ”

The Wang family and the Cheng family also got up and said goodbye to Liu Jian with an indifferent face.

Liu Jian's face showed a somewhat mocking smile: "What's the hurry?" You might as well tell a few sages that my subordinate Sima Xu Rong has transferred the soldiers of Julu and Anping to search for evidence in the three of them. ”

When the three fathers-in-law heard this, they couldn't help but be shocked.

Liu Jian asked Changshan County to invite them to a banquet, but he secretly sent troops to steal their lair?

The mighty Wubao manor in these places was as strong and difficult to attack as a city when it was closed and locked during the war, but on weekdays, it was like an ordinary farm, without the order of the father-in-law, and there was no defense at all.

Most of the private slave farmers in Wubao are also busy in the fields at this moment, and at this time, Wubao is one of them is slack, and the other is unmanned, so it is naturally impossible to prevent Liu Jian's sudden attack.

"Thou, thou! Thou hast made this despicable method to take away the door of my house. ”

Guo's father-in-law stretched out his hand and pointed at Liu Jian, his voice trembled, as if he couldn't control his emotions.

Liu Jian smiled faintly: "Each other, Liu's move is just to fight poison with poison...... By the way, there is one more thing I forgot to tell you, the seventy percent of the baggage that you took away before, all the ordnance built in it, whether it was a spear or a ring-headed sword, was branded with a small "deficit" at the end, which was engraved for the official ordnance of my Han family,"

"If Liu can't find it in your home, if it is really found, please explain to me why the weapons branded with the official seal of the Han Dynasty will appear in large numbers in the Wu Fort of the monarchs."

"Poof!"

When the Wang family heard this, he fell directly on the spot, trembling all over, and he was already a little wet when he stepped down.

The father-in-law of the Guo family was still dying at the moment, and he yelled at Liu Jian: "Don't you know that Uncle Fang doesn't know that the land of Jizhou is not comparable to ordinary states and counties, you treat us like this, and it spreads, how can the wealthy families in various counties sit idly by!?" ”

"Hehe, death is coming, and it's still a bluff."

Liu Jian waved his hand and instructed Cheng Pu outside the hall: "Suppress it and take it to prison!" When I have all the evidence, I will ask for the guilt! ”

Cheng Pu immediately led the people into the hall and took the heads of the three wealthy families down.

Zhending County Ling looked at Liu Jian with a desperate face, and said, "Uncle Fang, I, I? The last officer is guilty! The last official was confused for a while, and was deceived by the villains......"

"Smack!"

There was a crisp sound, but it was Liu Jian who pulled out the saber on his waist and threw it in front of the county commander of Zhending.

Liu Jian said lightly: "You are also an official of Qianshi, and you are filial piety and honesty, once the matter here is spread, it is not you who will be ruined, but also your descendants." ”

"Although your sins are unforgivable, but we are colleagues, my crimes, I will not announce them to the public, and it can be regarded as leaving dignity for you and your descendants, you take your sword and go to the backyard of the county office to judge yourself."

The face of the Zhending County Commander showed despair.

"Uncle Fang!! Ask Uncle Fang to spare the last official this time! ”

Liu Jian shook his head and said coldly: "The matter has come to this, the sin is unforgivable, this is the best choice I can give you, at least your descendants will not be affected by your events today." ”

The county magistrate of Zhending looked at Liu Jian in a daze, then picked up his sword and stumbled towards the backyard of the county office.

Liu Jian gave a look, and Cheng Pu immediately followed.

Not long after, Cheng Pu returned to Liu Jian, and said that the county order had been killed by the sword.

Sun Jin and Liu Wei, the king of Changshan, who had been watching Liu Jian deal with the Zhending County Order, were both pale and did not say a word.

They never thought that Liu Jian would understand the case with just a banquet, and he did it so badly!

Even if he knew the truth before, Liu Jian had been secretive, and still ordered people to purchase ordnance and materials with the Zhen family, until the materials entered the Wubao of the three Haoyou and the private residence of the Zhending County Order, Liu Jian suddenly preemptively attacked, and one blow was sure to hit! So that the other party has no room to turn around.

Liu Jian looked at Liu Wei and said, "The king, hiding the ordnance of the Han army, the disaster can reach the clan, and the goods in the Wu Fort of the three wealthy families can be compensated to the king in sufficient amount, so as not to let the king have any losses." ”

Liu Wei heard this, but he didn't have the slightest excitement.

On the contrary, both he and Sun Jin had worried looks on their faces.

"Deran, there is one thing you have considered?"

"What did the king say?"

Liu Wei sighed: "Jizhou is different from other states, there are a lot of Wang clan Hao right, intertwined with each other, when the three mutual laws were established, the governor of You, Ji and Ji Prefecture had 'long been missing', although you have obtained the stolen goods today, you can immediately punish the three Hao right, but the widow is afraid that the Wang clan in Changshan and the neighboring Julu will be unwilling, and they will have to make a gap from it, and they will make trouble because of this matter. ”

Liu Jian smiled when he heard this.

"I've also thought about this, if it's really time for me to lead Jizhou, I'm not afraid, but now, I'm still young in Jizhou, and I need to be cautious.

"Therefore, I think about it, the three clans of Zhendingcheng, Guo, and Wang, this time the crime must be serious, at least it is necessary to convict the crime of privately possessing the ordnance of the official office, imprisoning the three clans, and confiscating the entire production, which can be described as a deterrent."

"Second, if all the property of these three clans is confiscated, it will naturally cause the vigilance and dissatisfaction of Changshan and the other wealthy families of the neighboring Julu two counties, so I think about it, the three private properties are divided into one part of the king, and the official office has not copied one, and the rest of the fertile land and mansions can be sold at a low price to the two counties, so that there will be no change in Changshan and Julu."

"Divide and eat?" Sun Jin on the side suddenly realized when he heard this, and his admiration for Liu Jian rose in his heart.

Liu Jian nodded.

Dividing the three industries with the Zhuhao of Changshan Country and Julu County, in fact, Liu Jian is unwilling, but before he has enough strength to settle the local Haoyou, this is also a way to not only do it to Haoyou, but also not to provoke other Haoyou.

Therefore, he can only use a major tactic that has been continuously improved and tried and tested by the world for more than 2,000 years.

Win over a group, divide a group, suppress a group, and gradually eliminate factionalism.

He tried it out today, in order to use this method more skillfully in the future after he became the overlord of a party.

Sun Jin on the side touched his chin and said, "Uncle Fang's method is indeed feasible, but it still needs a well-known figure in Jizhou and trusted by all ethnic groups to guide Uncle Fang and the tycoons from all over the world." ”

Liu Jian asked, "Is there a suitable person for Sun Xiangke to recommend to me?" ”

Sun Jin said: "Yes! ”

"Who?"

"Julu Tian clan, there is a person who is valued by the county scholars, in the past years was conscripted by the Taiwei Mansion, promoted to Maocai, the official to the imperial history, and then abandoned the official and returned home, it is rumored that his person is upright, and it is easy to offend people when he speaks upright, his surname is Tian Mingfeng, if there is this person to pull the strings, this matter will be done."