These princes and kings went to Chang'an, and they didn't bring many soldiers and horses, because they only came here to discuss the future direction of the court, but they didn't come to seize power.

Therefore, each of them probably only carried a few hundred guards, and along the way, most of the routes they traveled also passed through the territory controlled by Liu Jian.

In the more chaotic Central Plains region, there are also eight kitchen groups headed by Zhang Miao to open roads for them, so the speed of these Liu clan relatives and princes and kings to Chang'an is relatively fast.

It was about the middle of December that most of the princes and kings who came to Chang'an had already arrived in Yongzhou.

At this time, it was already the end of the seventh year of Xingping, and the entire vicinity of Chang'an was already a storm.

The winter season before the end of the year is complete.

During this time, although Liu Jian did not enter Chang'an, he has been dealing with the people's livelihood situation in Yongzhou.

Although Li Xiang of Sizhou was defeated by Liu Jian in the past, there were also many rebels on the Yongzhou side, and most of them were also ordinary Qianshou Li Shu, who could not afford to eat because of the policy of small money.

Therefore, the situation in Yongzhou is not better than that in Sizhou, although there are no huge thieves like Li Xiang here, but there are middle-sized and small-share homeless bandits everywhere.

This also made the county guards and local county magistrates of Yongzhou counties quite headache and fear, and even many county magistrates have been killed by the rebels.

Before Li Dao and Guo Jian were dealt with by Liu Jian, they had been in charge of assessing the bandits in Yongzhou, but their counterinsurgency behavior was only a symptom but not a cure, and where there were bandits, they would kill people wherever they could, and the key to the problem could not be solved at all.

Therefore, after Liu Jian got rid of Li Dao and Guo Yan, he found that the banditry in Yongzhou had not slowed down much.

Liu Jian came to later generations and deeply understood the truth that water can carry a boat and can also capsize a boat.

In the face of civil rebellion, it is absolutely impossible to use military means alone, his 80,000-strong army can break all the bandits, but if a rebellion is broken, if the lives of ordinary people are not guaranteed, they will still rise up and continue to form a new army to resist the imperial court.

Therefore, the top priority is to solve the survival of the people so that they can survive the winter.

The way of dealing with the rebels in Yongzhou should be imitated in the same way as the way of dealing with the rebels in Sizhou, so as to solve the problem fundamentally.

First of all, it is necessary to stabilize food prices, abolish the policy of small money, and in addition, there must be enough food.

However, unlike Sizhou, Liu Jian has now captured Sizhou and occupied Luoyang, and all the policies of Sizhou are his own, but now Yongzhou still has a court after all, and Liu Jian does not have the highest ruling power.

Therefore, to abolish Xiaoqian, he has no way to issue it directly in Yongzhou for the time being, after all, Yongzhou is under the direct management of Chang'an, Chang'an did not issue an edict, nor did he order to open a warehouse to help the people, if Liu Jian acted without authorization, he would be somewhat suspected of trespassing.

However, what comforted Liu Jian was that many Yongzhou wang clans and Haoqiang had begun to rebel from Wang Yun and Yang Biao.

They secretly wrote letters and sent people to Liu Jian, expressing their desire to take refuge in the general's command.

This is also understandable, the current Liu Jian's military strength is shocking, since he entered Sizhou, he has successively defeated Li Xiang, who has a million rebels, and also defeated Yuan Shao, who has 80,000 Jingzhou elites, can be said to be in the limelight, and even the fierce generals of the Xiliang Army, Li Dao and Guo Yan, were beheaded by him to show the public.

And Yang Biao, Wang Yun and others were ruined under Li Wei's confession.

Now, the emperor is not even a fart in front of him.

These wealthy families are weak, if they still have to follow Wang Yun, Yang Biao and others all the way to the dark, their family is afraid that it will be completely finished.

But it is not so easy for these people to take refuge under Liu Jian!

After all, these high-ranking families were all vassals of Wang Yun and Yang Biao in the past, they changed the law to support Wang Yun, Yang Biao was against the new policy, against Liu Jian, and now they want to regret coming to Liu Jian's side to work for a living, how can Liu Jian easily forgive them?

If you have done something wrong in the past, you must now come up with something of equivalent value to compensate, and people need to be responsible for living in the world.

Anyone who does something wrong has a price!

Now these Yongzhou locals, including the Wang clan who opposed Liu Jian in Sizhou before, if they want to reintegrate into the peaceful and prosperous era established by Liu Jian in the future, they need to take out food, their wealth and their sincerity to calm and stabilize the displaced people in Yongzhou and Sizhou, so that the people's lives can return to stability.

Liu Jian sent people to pass his request back to these noble families who wanted to take refuge in him.

After hearing Liu Jian's notice, these prominent families were all angry!

After all, these people are all insects who have been absorbing benefits from ordinary people for many years, and they have gradually snowballed to this day in the past hundred years.

More than 100 years of customs, passed down from generation to generation, have developed their thinking patterns and vices, and no one can easily change them.

Therefore, when Liu Jian made this request to them, many people expressed their reluctance.

These prominent families began to secretly connect in private, and felt that Liu Jian was a little too much!

They have taken the initiative to fall to Liu Jian's side with such a noble status, and everyone said that they would support Liu Jian, and even for the new policies of the imperial court in the future, they will no longer oppose it as before, which is equivalent to giving Liu Jian a big face.

But Liu Jian not only did not comfort them, but tried his best to win them over, but asked them to take out money to help those ordinary people now, isn't this a slap in the face?

Resolutely can't get used to this Liu Deran's problem.

Just when these noble families were planning like this, Liu Jian's side also suddenly took action.

Liu Jian had already verified that the Li family of Youfufeng was colluded with the "Judgment Thief Family" in the capital, so he sent the general Yan Liang to lead 5,000 troops to attack the Li family's Wu Fort, and killed all the people in the Li family.

It is not an exaggeration to kill the whole family of a rebel thief.

Since someone wanted to instigate a coup d'état in Guanzhong, Liu Jian abolished his family and confiscated his money, grain, land, property, mansion, and so on.

As for the apprentices in charge of the Li family, they were all confiscated, and the people of his family were all exterminated, and none were left.

After all, this is a great crime of rebellion, how can it be left alive?

Liu Jian's move can make all the prominent families in Guanzhong look stupid.

They are only now reflecting their positional position with Liu Jian.

They also understand now that now is not the time for them to bargain with Liu Jian at all.

Liu Jian used the Li family as an example to tell them that he was now giving them a chance, not negotiating terms with them.

The result of not giving the face is that the whole family is dead!

After the death, the whole clan has to take out all the goods accumulated for generations to help the victims.

Left and right have to use your money to help the victims, to appease the people, you have to take the initiative to be willing to take out the best, whether you want to take it or not, I will take it directly for you, it depends on how you choose.

The Li family of the right Fufeng was directly erased from the territory of the Han Dynasty by Liu Jian, and all the property was confiscated.

They didn't dare to negotiate terms with Liu Jian anymore, but donated the grain and grass in their hands according to Liu Jian's request according to the required amount.

Of course, Liu Jian is not too fierce and greedy.

The amount of grain and grass he asked for was calculated in advance!

He will not ask for the lives of these families, and it is impossible for them to donate all the food and grass, but he will definitely ask for a huge amount.

In terms of amount, it should make these families feel very painful.

is the so-called slow knife cutting meat, this has to boil frogs in warm water for some things, and you can't force these families too hard, otherwise it will be easy to have the opposite effect when you turn back, and it will be counterproductive at that time.

After obtaining enough grain and grass, the rebellious people in Guanzhong stabilized, and Liu Jian would carry out land measurement in Yongzhou in the future, and at the same time would implement the policy of Tuntian and allocate land to these displaced people, so the rebellion in Yongzhou was well contained in a short period of time.

After all, what Liu Jian said never counted, especially for the ordinary Qianshou Li Shu, he has always treated it with the most sincere attitude and the most benevolent heart.

Unlike ordinary people in power, Liu Jian never regarded the people of the Han Dynasty as lambs.

He regarded the people of the Han Dynasty as the builders of the Han Dynasty.

In Liu Jian's view, the Han Dynasty is inseparable from these thousands of Li Shu people, and only by contributing their labor force and their strength can this dynasty and the country be more prosperous, more powerful, and more prosperous.

These noble families in Guanzhong took out food, coupled with the support of the Hebei Business Association, as well as the strength of Hebei officials, finally in this winter, most of the displaced people in Yongzhou were able to survive this cold winter, and the number of rebels in Yongzhou decreased sharply, of course, not all rebels would surrender to Liu Jian.

There are some people with deceit in their hearts, even if they keep the price of food to the lowest and give it to them for free, they should continue to rebel.

For these people, Liu Jian did not hesitate to send a group of elite generals under his command to give them the strongest military blow, wipe out all those rebels, and cut off the head of the thieves and hang them on the Wuguan to deter.

After these things were done, Liu Jian began to prepare for the march to Chang'an.

Because as far as he knew, most of the princes and kings and the Liu clan had already entered the territory of Yongzhou.

If Liu Jian didn't enter Chang'an first, I was afraid that they might not be willing to enter Chang'an.

However, Liu Jian was not a fool, he wrote a letter to these princes and kings, asking everyone to go to Chang'an within a unified time and enter the city in a unified manner.

In this way, it will not seem that it is he Liu Jian who entered Chang'an first to seize power.

All the Lius in the world entered Beijing together, this is the collective action of the Han clan relatives, and it has nothing to do with him Liu Jian.

As for the day of entering Chang'an, Liu Jian also deliberately set it very dramatically, that is, the New Year's Festival in 197 AD, that is, the Chinese New Year's Eve of the eighth year of Xingping.

Letting the clans enter the capital on the New Year's festival is like celebrating the upcoming New Year and the new atmosphere of the Han Dynasty.

The year is the new year, and the imperial court is also a new imperial court from this moment on.

In fact, Liu Jian originally planned to change the yuan after the New Year, but according to the current situation, he doesn't need to change the yuan this year.

After the new emperor who is about to be deposed ascends the throne, there will be a new era name, and the change of the Han Dynasty has nothing to do with Liu Bi.

On Chinese New Year's Eve in 197 AD, Liu Jian's army finally arrived in Chang'an City, along with a number of Liu princes and kings, as well as the famous Liu clan relatives of the Han Dynasty, as many as more than 100 people.

These more than 100 clan relatives came to the city gate on a tall horse under Chang'an City, and looked up at the tall city together, and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion for a while.

Nearly 400 years ago, Emperor Gaozu single-handedly established the foundation of the Great Han Dynasty here, which has now passed into the hands of Liu Wei.

At this moment, the gate of Chang'an City was locked, and there were many soldiers defending the city at the head of the city, all of whom were fully armed, holding longbows and crossbow arrows in their hands, staring closely at the dense people under the city.

These famous Liu clan relatives, as well as these princes and kings, saw this situation, and they didn't know whether they should enter the city or not.

Besides, even if they were to enter the city, how would they get in?

Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, was relatively prestigious among the princes and the Liu clan, so under the urging and request of the Liu clan, Liu Zhong rode out of the team and shouted loudly at the city tower:

"Is the gatekeeper warrant available? The widow is the king of Ganling. ”

"Our Liu clan relatives came to Chang'an from all over the Han Dynasty, and if they want to enter Beijing to meet the Son of Heaven, please open the city gate quickly."

Liu Zhong shouted, but no one in the city paid attention to him.

Above the city, longbows and crossbows were still erected on the battlements, aiming at the people below, and the atmosphere was extremely serious.

It's as if only one person dares to take a step forward and immediately shoot him under the horse!

Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, saw that the city gate order ignored him, and then shouted again: "The widow is the king of Ganling, who is your gate order, please come out and see it quickly." ”

There was still no sound.

At this time, he saw that a passage suddenly opened in the rear military array, and the general Wen Chou was wearing heavy armor and came to the city gate of Chang'an with a knife.

He raised the war knife in his hand and said loudly:

"The clan relatives of the Han family, all the princes and kings are here, the king of Ganling personally went out to find the city gate officials to inquire, a city gate order is no more than 600 stones, hiding a fart here, I dozens of sounds, if it does not appear, there are 10,000 troops behind me, and the city gate will be stormed! When the time comes, the city gate order is arrested, and Wen will definitely cut him and his whole family with a thousand knives! ”

"One!"

"Two!"

"Three!"

Before he counted to ten, he just counted three times, and when he saw the city gate order of Chang'an, he stood on top of the city in a panic, and he vigorously rushed at the Wen Chou below.

"The general forgives the sin, the general forgives the sin, I went out in time, and I went out to ......"

Wen Chou shouted angrily: "What kind of and urine, it took Lasa so long to finish?" Don't meet King Ganling yet! ”

The city gate commander did not dare to slack off, and hurriedly said: "The last official greets the king!" ”

Liu Zhong, the king of Ganling, nodded gratefully at Wen Chou, and then ordered to the city gate: "I and the princes and clansmen have arrived in the capital, and there is something important to play the Son of Heaven, you can put down the drawbridge, open the city gate, and let us enter the city!" ”

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