The Maojin knife from the late Jin Dynasty

Chapter 164

Although Zhao An was doubtful about Gao Zhan's judgment, he still believed in Gao Zhan's performance in Bohai County.

In fact, the aristocratic families in these small counties saw that Zhao An's army was strong and came to help him and others destroy the evidence of corruption, so they were very cooperative with Zhao An.

Especially when it comes to giving away food for the common people for the winter. Without these aristocratic families taking the lead, it would be unrealistic to distribute it to the local people in a short time.

After all, the local people don’t know you, so why should you say you are giving out food and the people will come to collect it?

But when the eldest men of these aristocratic families expressed their opinions, the common people suddenly realized that Liu Tai's army was crossing the border, and there were such benefits. They came to collect food from the eldest men of the aristocratic families and thanked Liu Tai's army.

For the local aristocratic families, this reputation is definitely not something they want. All they want is profit.

After all, the blame for this matter must fall on Liu Tai's army, and he can't take any part of it.

Otherwise, in the future Wang Jun will be furious and come down to investigate. When he hears that your reputation is so good, he will even distribute winter rations to the people and ask, "Are you with Liu Tai's army?"

Then they lent the heads of your whole family, especially your family's food reserves, and the imperial court reluctantly confiscated them.

Therefore, when Wang Jun's people are sent over to investigate, these aristocratic families must kneel down in front of the visitors and say:

"Liu Tai's army was unscrupulous. They burned the autumn grain and killed people. They targeted my family's food reserves and distributed them to the untouchables for the winter. Now that the adults are finally here, please let the good people make the decision."

Probably all the aristocratic families are considering this idea.

After all, they are local snakes and have their own set of survival rules. They don't care who the boss is above them, but if they want to take back the benefits that have entered their pockets, then they have to fight hard.

If Wang Jun is forced to impose taxes again, they will either pass it on to the people at the bottom, who will let these people take Liu Tai's benefits.

Or you can say that you are powerless. After all, the officers and soldiers have lost. It is too unrealistic for you to win and defend the granary by yourself.

All in all, as long as you don't talk about interests, the local aristocratic families are easy to talk to.

Therefore, after the local aristocratic family knew that Zhao An's army wanted names, they moved as many grains as possible from the autumn harvest that night.

Then the next day, I saw Zhao An's army set a large fire and burned the granary clean.

Whether it is corruption or theft, you must have evidence when you say this. Be careful that we accuse you of "counterfeiting"!

As for giving out a little bit of winter food to the local people, then treat it as life money, no loss at all!
All in all, with Gao Zhan's familiarity with the rules of the family, Zhao An soon discovered that things were basically handled by the next day. He gave full play to the enthusiasm of the local family, not only dealt with the food, but also won the support of the people. .

With this first village as a model, Zhao An immediately divided his army.

Teams one after another, following the operation of this village, first took the initiative to contact the local aristocratic families, and made a generous gesture of taking the reputation and taking advantage of you, so that the local aristocratic families could either lead the way or watch with cold eyes.

To be honest, the moral integrity of the local aristocratic families was beyond Zhao An's expectation. Basically, few people were willing to be loyal to Wang Jun.

When they heard that it would benefit their own families, even if these wealthy families did not enthusiastically lead the way, they shyly acquiesced in cooperating with Zhao An's actions and helped distribute winter food to the people along the way.

At first, Zhao An thought that this should be his mission of narrow escape, but in fact, after the deeds of Zhao An's army spread, the neighboring counties would take the initiative to report the news.

It means that Wang Jun's army has come to capture you. Hurry up and hide in our county.

You haven't visited our county yet. What if you come too late and Wang Jun's army comes?
Even on the fifth day, not only did the local aristocratic family acquiesce in cooperating with Zhao An, but even when a small team arrived at the gate of this small county, the granary in this small county was on fire after just one look.

Zhao An was stunned for a moment after seeing a series of operations. He didn't expect these people to be so unrestrained? !

"No wonder, the prince always said that the aristocratic family is the number one pest in the country. What I saw today makes me understand a little bit!"

Zhao An couldn't help but sigh at this moment. For the first time, he felt that he had too little experience.

Gao Zhan heard Zhao An's words and said quickly:
"It's not that the aristocratic family is unpatriotic, but that the Jin Dynasty was in power improperly and promoted filial piety to govern the world. Therefore, the aristocratic family can only pay attention to family filial piety and ignore the loyalty of the country. This is not the fault of the aristocratic family, but the fault of the world!"

"Is that so?" Zhao An was thoughtful when he heard Gao Zhan's words, but nodded in agreement.

Gao Zhan looked at Zhao An's appearance, feeling slightly relieved in his heart.

No matter how you say that you want to directly influence Liu Tai, it is unrealistic, but if you can influence the views of people around Liu Tai on the family.

I don't ask Zhao An to resist Liu Tai. As long as Zhao An treats the Gao family somewhat kindly during the execution of the mission, it is enough.

To be honest, Gao Zhan was so willing to help Zhao An this time, so he wanted to use these Youzhou aristocratic families to ask questions, so as to determine Liu Tai's attitude towards the aristocratic families, and then determine his future positioning and development in Liu Tai's system.

After all, it doesn't matter if a family takes refuge in a tycoon who conquers the world, but if it takes refuge in a tycoon who can compete in the world without relying on the family, then you can't be too careful.

No matter how you put it, regardless of the original intention of the Youzhou family, they all helped Liu Tai in the process. After Wang Jun was defeated, Gao Zhan wanted to see Liu Tai's attitude towards these families.

Gao Zhan believes that in the fight between Liu Tai and Wang Jun, Liu Tai will definitely win.

Because Liu Tai could completely control Qingzhou and even reach out to the rural people to confirm the amount of taxes they collected, it was simply incredible.

But in Wang Jun's words, looking at the performance of these aristocratic families, we know that Wang Jun may not even be able to fully control tax collection.

Such a regime, even if they have cavalry and the initiative in force, Gao Zhan doesn't think they will win!
This is where Gao Zhan fears Liu Tai, because if Liu Tai is allowed to sweep away place after place according to the Qingzhou model, then there will be no place in the world for a family like his own!

Just as the turmoil brought about by Zhao An started from Fanyang County and began to spread around Youzhou,

At first, local bureaucrats almost instinctively wanted to suppress it, hoping that matters in their own counties would be handled by themselves.

But the news could not be suppressed immediately, because in just a few days, it spread to Fanyang and Yan counties, and even the surrounding counties seemed to have Zhao An's troops setting fire to warehouses.

The situation was urgent for a moment, as if Liu Tai's troops were everywhere!
"You mean, Liu Tai sent a hundred thousand troops to attack cities and territories in Youzhou, and set fire to food. As a result, there was no news at all from my border troops!"

Wang Jun looked at Fan Yangling who reported the report, slammed down the bamboo slips in his hand, and said angrily,

"Do you think Liu Tai has the ability to spread the beans to form an army, or do you think the troops under my general's command are all idiots?"

When Fan Yangling heard this, he said repeatedly, "All the counties and counties around Fan Yang are in panic. Liu Tai's army appears and sets fire to the grain. Now that the autumn grain has just been harvested, the general please send troops to stop the attack. Otherwise, if it is late, it will be too late." Ah!" Wang Jun was extremely angry, but he knew that Fan Yangling was right, it was time, and there was no point in continuing to pursue the matter.

He immediately ordered his troops to march towards several key counties to expel Liu Tai's troops.

As for the [-]-strong army, Wang Jun definitely didn't believe it. If there were such a force, Youzhou would have been crushed long ago!
And just when the general of the army received the order, Zaosong jumped out and said:
"I'm reporting this to my father-in-law. My son-in-law thinks there's something fishy about this. It's impossible for Liu Tai in Qingzhou to have so many soldiers crossing the border. There's no news from the frontline soldiers!"

When Wang Jun heard this, he couldn't help but glance at his son-in-law, nodded and said, "So, what do you want to say!"

"My son-in-law feels that we are afraid that many people in Youzhou will be deprived of food and collude with Liu Tai's army. With the help of Liu Tai's troops to burn the autumn grain, this will cause serious problems in our grain reserves and delay our army's original winter operations. plan of!"

Zaosong said, "I think besides sending soldiers to encircle and suppress Liu Tai's army, it is more important to clean up these borers!"

Wang Jun narrowed his eyes slightly when he heard Zao Song's words. To be honest, Wang Jun never expected that Liu Tai would send a lone army directly into Youzhou to destroy Qiu Liang.

After all, Wang Jun never expected that there would be an army in the world that could scatter it like pepper noodles into a pot, causing a war to break out all over Youzhou.

Originally, even if Liu Tai sent troops to rob autumn grain, Fanyang County might be affected at most, but now his core counties such as Fanyang, Yanguo, Shanggu and other counties are full of reports of granary fires. This is really It was hard for Wang Jun to believe it.

Liu Tai's troops were so capable that they could directly incite several of his most core counties to turn against him.

If that were the case, if Liu Tai came over at this time, wouldn't his entire army be wiped out?
Therefore, Wang Jun also recognized Zao Song's judgment and said, "Follow the army and check it out. I want Liu Tai's food and grass for my crusade this year not to be affected in any way!"

Wang Jun knew very well that if Liu Tai could use a trick like this once, he could naturally use it a second time.

Therefore, what he needs to do is to prevent Liu Tai from using a second chance, otherwise his situation will become even more passive.

At the same time, Wang Jun also wanted to use this method to consciously eliminate those who opposed his claim to be emperor.

So much news has been released that he has proclaimed himself emperor, yet there are still people talking to him about loyalty and filial piety for the ruined Jin court.

Pooh!Sima is also worthy of talking about loyalty and filial piety.

Since these people don't know how to praise, let them be the steps for you to ascend to the throne!
When Wang Ti saw this scene, he wanted to dissuade him but he didn't know how.

After all, the aristocratic families in Qingzhou were a little too open this time. There were so many local granaries on fire. It would be strange if Wang Jun couldn't see that there was something fishy inside.

But Wang Ti knew better that a large number of aristocratic families would turn to Liu Tai's side. The important reason was that Wang Jun wanted to become emperor and made trouble.

Wang Jun asked Huo Yuan about his title, but Huo Yuan chose not to answer, which directly led Wang Jun to kill the "Confucius of Northern Hebei" who had a high reputation in Youzhou, which naturally led to a comprehensive fight among Youzhou aristocratic families. of resistance.

After all, Professor Huo Yuan has too many students from Youzhou, and he has some connection with the Youzhou family.

Of course, it would be impossible for the aristocratic families to come forward to directly oppose Wang Jun and the others, but let them use Liu Tai's army to express their dissatisfaction. These aristocratic families still have the courage.

And Wang Ti even suffered a loss when it came to Wang Jun's proclaiming himself emperor. If Liu Tai hadn't defeated Qi Hong and made Wang Jun realize that he was still needed, Wang Ti couldn't guarantee how long he would have been in prison, or even Will he be killed? But I didn't expect Wang Jun to be so persistent in becoming emperor.

Most of the problems within Youzhou now were caused by Wang Jun's desire to proclaim himself emperor after knowing that the Jin Dynasty was destroyed.

If it weren't for the threat of Liu Tai, Wang Jun would still have some restraint on major issues, but now this restraint is getting weaker and weaker.

Because this desire for power is eroding Wang Jun crazily.

In the past, Wang Jun still felt a bit like a hero in troubled times, but now Wang Jun has become more and more like Dong Zhuo who entered Luoyang City, and his whole person is degenerating at an incredible speed.

The obsession of defeating Liu Tai and then proclaiming himself emperor still kept Wang Jun's head to a certain extent, but his execution methods became increasingly unscrupulous.

Wang Ti could naturally see that Wang Jun asked Zao Song to handle this matter not to investigate the truth at all.

And he just wants to use this incident that swept through Youzhou to help him clear out the families who prevent him from becoming emperor.

After all, others don’t know who Zaosong is, so doesn’t Wang Jun himself know it?

Wang Jun naturally knew that his son-in-law was ruthless and greedy, but he knew his position clearly.

Zaosong clearly knew that he wanted to be emperor, and he was willing to clear the obstacles on the road for himself step by step!
Therefore, at this moment, Zhao An's troops set fire to Youzhou granaries of all sizes, which had a great impact on Youzhou.

But the most important thing was that Wang Jun found an opportunity to wipe out the forces that opposed him in Youzhou.

Don’t worry about whether you have anything to do with Liu Tai or not, if I say yes, then it means yes!
As this group of people finished cleaning up, Wang Jun felt more or less as if he was sitting on the crater of a volcano.

After all, pure killing can only destroy the problem, but it does not solve the problem. Especially after the suppressed family, the rebound will be even more terrifying.

But Wang Jun didn't show the slightest panic, and decisively came up with a plan, that is, "beat Liu Tai!"

No matter how much hatred you have against me, as long as Jizhou is captured, if you want to plunder the counties, then plunder the counties. If you want to be the prefect, then be the prefect.

As long as you let me be the emperor, then you are afraid that you will not have a bright future!
A big stick and a big pie. For most aristocratic families, they decisively chose to accept reality.

As long as Wang Jun diverted the conflict, Zhao An suddenly felt a little inexplicably muddy while galloping in Youzhou, and several troops lost contact.

Gao Zhan was familiar with the rules of the aristocratic family and said of course: "Let's leave quickly. The local aristocratic family will not help us anymore, and they may even reveal our information to Wang Jun in turn."

"Why?" Zhao An said with a bit of confusion, "Don't we cooperate well?"

“Our kind of cooperation cannot be put on the table, and obviously the owner of Youzhou has already reflected on it.

Obviously, the benefits he brings to Youzhou's family must be much greater than burning down the granary like us! "Gao Zhan said calmly.

"I'm going to join you now. Is the family so unscrupulous?" Zhao An felt a little unbelievable.

"This is the aristocratic family!" Gao Zhan couldn't help but sigh.

　I'll start paying off my debt tomorrow, Chapter [-], time goes so fast...

　　
　
(End of this chapter)