Empire's Summoning Generals System

Chapter 458 Conquering the Aristocratic Family Soldiers (Two in One)

"See your lord!"

With Beiping Jianyong as the head of the officials, he led the ministers and all the families in Beiping to bow down to Liu De.

Four days had passed since Liu De's arrival in Peiping, and the reinforcements led by Huang Gai also arrived in Peiping the day before Liu De's arrival.

Liu De got off his horse and helped Jian Yong and the others up one by one. Seeing Jian Yong's thin face, Liu De couldn't help saying: "Beiping is intact today, it's all thanks to the merits of the generals!"

"The ministers are ashamed and dare not be ashamed, all thanks to the lord Hong Fu..." All the ministers kowtowed to Liu De.

Liu De had no choice but to help his officials up one by one. These people are considered his humerus ministers. The ability to keep Beiping is all due to the hard work of the people. Of course, Liu De can't forget the contributions of the generals and help them personally. At the same time, it is also an expression of respect for them.

The ruler chooses the minister, and the minister also chooses the ruler, that's all.

After chatting with Jian Yong and Yannan, Liu De looked around at the generals: "I heard that it was a warrior who hung his seal and left, galloping thousands of miles to call the police for Beiping, so that Beiping was prepared in advance to protect it from the enemy. Sneak attack, where is this strong man?"

Chen Tang's body was trembling with excitement, and he hurriedly came out and said, "The last general Chen Tang pays his respects to the lord!"

Liu De looked at the burly Chen Tang, and couldn't help but praise: "Great kindness, you really are a warrior!"

The man who knelt in front of him roared out the sentence that Liu De was always excited to read: Anyone who commits crimes against a strong man will be punished no matter how far away he is!

Liu De checked Chen Tang's attributes with special effects:
Character: Chen Tang

Sex: Male
Age: 30/60
Injuries: Health

Power: Liu De

Status: Soldier

Official position: Lieutenant

Title: none
Reputation: 3680
Merit: 3500
Loyalty: 92
Command: 83
Force: 76
Intelligence: 86
Politics: 62
Charisma: 33
Suitability: Infantry A Cavalry A Archers S Weapons S Water Army C
Treasure: none
Stunt: Zhuhu [increases the mobility of the cavalry; when facing barbarians, the combat effectiveness increases, and the command randomly increases by 1~5 points] (three-level combat stunt)
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Chen Tang's leadership and martial prowess were average, but Chen Tang's intelligence made Liu De's eyes shine. Indeed, Chen Tang's great achievements in the Western Regions were mainly due to his extraordinary strategy, followed by his outstanding leadership ability.

However, Chen Tang is usually greedy, so he should pay attention to this, and beat him often to prevent this national general from being punished for committing crimes.

After Liu De praised Chen Tang, he walked up to Huang Gai and said to Huang Gai, "Thank you, General Huang!"

Huang Gai hurriedly said: "This is the duty of the last general! Don't dare to claim credit!"

Then Liu De looked behind Huang Gai and asked, "Who are these?"

Without waiting for Huang Gai's introduction, Liu Zhi hurriedly led his cousin Liu Xin and younger brother Liu Xi to kowtow, "The last general Liu Zhi (Liu Xin, Liu Xi) of Chang County pays homage to the lord!"

Huang Gai said to Liu De: "Liu Zhi is the magistrate of Chang County. A certain leader led his headquarters to attack the remnants of the Bodhisattva Sect. They were unable to attack for a long time. It was Liu Zhi who led the army to help and put down the chaos."

It turns out that Liu Zhi is here!
It is still a powerful state in Chang County. Jizhou deserves to be the most prosperous state capital in the Great Zhou Dynasty. Too many powerful families gather here. They are rich and powerful, but they are not so easy to govern. For example, the Beiping Rebellion...

Liu De was also very courteous, and the corporal helped Liu Zhi up, and said to Liu Zhi: "I never thought that County Magistrate Liu would not only manage Xiachang County in an orderly manner, but also lead troops to fight. He is really versatile in both civil and military affairs!"

Liu Zhi hurriedly said: "My lord can't be praised so much. This time the Bodhisattva Rebellion was quelled, mainly thanks to General Huang who took the lead and fought to the death! I am just assisting General Huang and dare not take credit for it."

"good!"

Liu De nodded. Liu Zhi is worthy of being one of the 28 generals in Yuntai. He is humble and polite, and does not take credit for himself. Liu De has learned that without Liu Zhi's help, Huang Gai's plan to defeat the Bodhisattva Sect's military camp may not be resolved in a few days. of.

Liu De used special skills to check Liu Zhi's attributes:
Character: Liu Zhi

Sex: Male
Age: 29/53
Injuries: Health

Power: Liu De

Identity: Haoqiang

Official position: Magistrate of Chang County

Title: none
Reputation: 8880
Merit: 12550
Loyalty: 85
Command: 73
Force: 77
Intelligence: 75
Politics: 71
Charisma: 76
Suitability: Infantry A Cavalry B Archers A Weapons B Water Army C
Treasure: none
Stunt: Lunke [When performing missions as a diplomatic envoy, increase the probability of success] (Level [-] internal affairs stunt)
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Liu Xin: 35 years old Command: 68 Force: 70 Intelligence: 74 Politics: 70 Charm: 72 Aptitude: ABBCC
Special Skills: None—
Liu Xi: 23 years old Command: 71 Force: 67 Intelligence: *****: 66 Charm: 67 Aptitude: ABACC
Stunt: Encourage [our morale rises] (secondary auxiliary skill)
His abilities are not much different from Liu Kun's, both of them are capable of both literary and military skills, but they are still far behind in terms of being outstanding, but it is more than enough for the governor of a county.

The special skill is [Lun Ke], which is the same as Jian Yong's special skill. It should have persuaded Liu Xiu to surrender Liu Yang in history, so there is this special skill.

Liu De then went to the government office accompanied by all the ministers. During Liu De's expedition, Jian Yong actually did another thing, which was to choose an office location for Liu De. Beiping was the capital of Yang Tianlong when he established the Zhao Kingdom. Therefore, the government offices of all officials are complete, but Liu De's office is missing.

Yang Tianlong does have a palace where Liu De can handle government affairs, but Liu De thinks that he is a duke, living in the palace is obviously overstepping, although this palace was built by a false emperor, not the real emperor of Zhou royal palace.

So Jian Yong directly chose a mansion next to the imperial palace as Liu De's office. That mansion was also where Yang Tianlong's clan once lived, but it was left vacant because of Yang Tianlong's defeat.

And now Liu De is going to his own office - Hangong Mansion.

When he arrived at the Han government office, one of the first things Liu De dealt with was how to deal with the rebellious family in Beiping.

Jian Yong said forward: "My lord, the enemy general Yang Ping died in the battle, and all the soldiers under his command were also taken prisoner, as well as the 37 direct descendants of the aristocratic families who colluded with the enemy were all imprisoned. There is not enough space in the prison, and the rest of them can only be temporarily imprisoned in their mansion, and their clan soldiers are also being detained in the barracks..."

"Can those clan soldiers resist?"

Liu De had also learned about Yannan's strategy on the way, and thanks to Yannan's strategy, he unloaded those evil-minded clan soldiers, otherwise they would be a time bomb at the top of the city, which would explode at any time.

Chen Tang came out and said: "My lord, some soldiers did attack the gate, but most of them were shot to death by random arrows from the archers guarding the gate."

Liu De knew that the aristocratic families controlled most of the knowledge, land, population and power, and only a small part was donated to the soldiers and children from poor families in the border counties.

That's right, in the eyes of the family, this is charity.

No matter how you attack the family, subject to the current level of productivity and the level of education of the people, it is inevitable for the gentry class to become the ruling class. The most important thing is the decay in the late Zhou Dynasty, which gave the family a chance to develop powerfully. This is even more so now, the central government has completely collapsed, and the local areas are basically all private territories of powerful families.

Therefore, my goal in the future is to take a multi-pronged approach. On the one hand, the imperial examinations should be launched. Before the opening of the imperial examinations, the first thing to solve is to make paper. Without paper, the so-called imperial examinations will not be possible with the current bamboo slips alone.The ones who passed the exam were still the children of those aristocratic families.

The bulkiness and inconvenience of bamboo slips are always the most important factors to check and balance the spread of culture.

On the other hand, support the new aristocrats more and compete with the aristocratic families, but this may cause the new aristocrats to slowly degenerate and decay into those old aristocratic families.

There is also the army, the army must be in the hands of the monarch, Liu De does not want his descendants to die in the water like those emperors of the Ming Dynasty.

Back to the topic, although Liu De wanted to execute all the 37 family members, but doing so would do more harm than good, and would plunge the entire Jizhou into turmoil and unrest.

The fact is that it's so frustrating, someone rebelled against Liu De, but Liu De still wants to appease this group of aristocratic families and show his broad mind to calm the hearts of the people.

However, apart from killing fewer people, Liu De is ready to repair and repair this family, at least to confiscate most of the privileges of these families.

So Liu De said to all the officials angrily: "Conspiracy is a heinous crime, not to mention that the enemy is the false emperor Yang Tianlong. When the Beiping family followed Yang Tianlong to become emperor, I have already let the past go. Goulian and the puppet emperor want to rebel, how can I tolerate them! Come, send an order to execute all the 37 noble families, show their heads to the public, and hang their heads on the top of the city to shock the little ones!"

"My lord, no!"

Xu Shu, Gao Yan, and Gao Lin all came out and retorted to Liu De.

Liu Zhi and other tyrants who joined later, as well as the families who had not rebelled before, were also a little pale and frightened. Speaking of which, these families said they were wronged, but they were not wronged. information.

But if it is not wronged, it is quite wronged. After all, except for some of the clan soldiers, all of them did not take any action. If they did not take any action, what is it?Attempted rebellion?

There is no definite evidence such as letters for the so-called treason, all of which are confessions.

So to say that all executions will definitely make people feel dissatisfied, and it will even make people feel fearful, especially in ancient times. Communication is not smooth. When the news spreads to other state capitals, maybe what Liu De will be described as!

Executioner?
Therefore, it is very detrimental to Liu De, and even more detrimental to the Dukedom of Han that he finally established.

But Liu De has his own intentions
Gao Yan said to Liu De: "My lord, the execution of 37 gentry families will inevitably cause turmoil in Jizhou, and it will also be detrimental to the reputation of the lord. Please also learn from the lord."

Gao Yan didn't mention any lack of evidence. He didn't have to guess that these aristocratic families definitely had rebellious intentions, but they were resolved by Yan Nan's ingenious plan and didn't have time to implement it. Therefore, Gao Bin could only persuade Liu De from other aspects.

Liu De looked at Gao Lin. This was Gao Lin's first conversation with Liu De in the political hall since he became an official.

Gao Lin said in a deep voice: "My lord establishes the world with benevolence and slaughters the family. It will definitely make the world centrifugal and hinder the lord's future hegemony. If the lord spares everyone with benevolence, they will be grateful and die in return!"

Let the family be grateful to Dade?It's a bit of a nonsense!But Gao Lin dared to say this because he was thinking of Liu De.

Liu De looked at Xu Shu again.

Xu Shu cupped his hands and said: "I have the same opinion as the two Gao lords, and I hope that the lord will be punished a little, and all of them will be executed. Beiping will flow blood into rivers, and the world will change color, which is not conducive to the return of scholars."

After Liu De listened, he nodded and said to everyone: "The three lords are all right, but after all, it is treason. If I acquit them, wouldn't it destroy my prestige? People in the world laugh at me? "

"Where is Dai Zong?" Liu De shouted.

"The end is here!"

Dai Zong came out.

"Have you found out who the aristocratic families who are trying to break out of the tent are?"

"Reporting to my lord, I have already found out! There are six families in total."

"Okay, don't tell me which six families they are. All the patriarchs of these aristocratic families will show their heads to the public. There is a shortage of people in Beizhou to build the Great Wall, and all the remaining clansmen will be distributed to the frontier. The remaining aristocratic families can use money to redeem their lives, which is regarded as giving them A lesson, after all, life is more important than money, isn't it?"

Of the 37 gentry families, only six heads were beheaded, and the lives of the rest were saved. Although the northern border is dangerous, there is still a way to survive, isn't it?

And money is really nothing to the family, and all the officials can see that Liu De didn't really want to execute the whole family, but just wanted to teach these families a lesson, which also made many people look confused. relax.

But the following sentence let some aristocratic families know Liu De's ultimate goal.

"From now on, no family is allowed to have more than a hundred soldiers, but if they find out, they will be severely punished!" Liu De sternly said.

Liu De's ultimate goal is to use this excuse to eliminate the family's right to own soldiers. After all, the family alone can gather nearly ten thousand soldiers that do not belong to them, which makes no ruler feel at ease.

"I will obey."

Liu De came back with a great victory. Fifty thousand Huren were wiped out in one battle, and the Huren King Otto was captured. The false emperor Yang Tianlong's ten thousand soldiers were also wiped out. Who can stop Liu De's soldiers? Knowing that Liu De's power is now established, how can he compete with it?

I can only bow my head and obey orders.

The aristocratic family is just a bunch of scumbags, if they don't repair it, they really don't know what their last name is.

After dealing with the aristocratic family, basically there are some miscellaneous trivial matters left, and Liu De pushed all these matters to Xu Shu and others.

"Where is the convoy from Liaocheng?"

The convoy in Liaocheng refers to the family members of all the generals heading to Beiping.

"My lord, the outpost came to report in a few days. By then, we had already arrived at Jinyang Pass, and it would take at least a month to arrive." Yannan replied.

"It's a bit slow, but it's better to slow down, as they are all family members!"

Liu De nodded, and then ordered: "Order Zhao Yun to lead a team of soldiers and horses to meet him. Jizhou is not too safe now. Thank you for the escort, at least it will make you worry-free."

"The last general takes orders!"

Yan Nan responded.

At this time, Cheng Yu and Yu Chigong of Beiyuan received news from Changge County.

"Changge prefect Yang Xiang wants to sacrifice the city and surrender? Do you want to marry the woman to the lord?"

Yu Chigong looked at the letter in his hand and said loudly, still having some doubts: "Mr. Cheng, do you think that Prime Minister Yang really surrendered?"

Cheng Yu stroked his goatee and sneered: "The [-] Hu people were wiped out by the lord's wave. If he doesn't surrender, he will die when the army arrives."

"General Yuchi, quickly report this matter to the lord, and ask the lord to make a decision!" Cheng Yu said.

"Okay!"

Yuchi Gong nodded and went down to give orders.

(End of this chapter)