Chapter 503
After attacking the city, except for a few dead soldiers trained by the Shi family, most of the soldiers put down their weapons and kneeled down to surrender. The dead soldiers also gave up their resistance after Shi Daozhi, Shi Zhenzhi and others were captured, and almost no manpower was lost. Yongzhou City was occupied by Li You's army.
"Your Majesty has made a great move to subdue Shi Hongzhi. Otherwise, it would have to take some extra effort to capture Yongzhou City." Jiang Suiyun, who followed Li You into the city, looked at the towering city wall in front of him, the indestructible urn city and the mountain-stacked wooden stones on the top of the city. If it is a strong attack, it will take last month to capture Yongzhou City and the lives of thousands of soldiers. At this time, other families in Lingnan Road may also take the opportunity to cause trouble.
"It has been like this since ancient times. The Shi family has been too oppressed in Yongzhou City, and the people have long been disloyal to him. If they really attacked the city, it would not be a problem." Looking at the people in Yongzhou City, although they were still a little panicked, there was a happier look in their eyes. I think they were happy that Shi Daozhi and others were arrested.
"What the adults say is very much." Jiang Suiyun nodded gently, "I just don't know what adults want to deal with the Shi family? Although Lingnan Road is not as good as the Central Plains, there are several aristocratic families that have lasted for hundreds of years, and they are probably looking at Yongzhou City."
"Mr. Jiang came to Lingnan Road to try to deal with them, so now we will do it as we can." The strength of these aristocratic families lies in their huge network of relationships and rich family background. If they were peaceful, these people would cause a lot of trouble for Li You, but now it is a chaotic world. These things cannot play a big role. Only the soldiers and horses in their hands are real, so Li You are not afraid of them. He plans to use the historian to kill the chicken to warn the monkey.
If the other families knew that they had done everything, and they handed over the land completely according to Jiang Suiyun's orders and those children who had caused countless troubles in the past, and surrendered to the court peacefully, then perhaps their family could continue. Otherwise, the Shi family would be their good example, and Li You would not mind taking the opportunity to eliminate more borers.
Yongzhou City was destroyed too quickly. Before Shi Daozhi and others had time to destroy the evidence of their collusion with the Southern Barbarians, under the leadership of Shi Hongzhi, all of these things fell into Jiang Suiyun's hands. Of course, there was also evidence that he was involved in it. However, those were forced by Shi Daozhi, and they would naturally not be taken out when they came to court.
A few days later, all the relevant personnel involved in this matter in Yongzhou City were arrested and brought to justice. Jiang Suiyun interrogated them directly in the Yongzhou lobby, and Li You were also present to supervise. In the face of the full set of personal and physical evidence, Shi Daozhi, Shi Zhenzhi and other core members of the Shi family had to bow their heads and confess their guilt. Even though there were two hardest ones, they cried and called their parents to cover up after being hit by a few strokes. They usually punished others without any mercy, but they couldn't stand it for a quarter of an hour when it was their turn.
In addition, Li You issued an edict that anyone who had wronged before could come to the lobby for justice. So almost all the people of Yongzhou flocked to the city and handed over paper as high as a mountain, occupied other people's land, robbed women, and beat up and injured people's lives. Li You was stunned.
"I'm afraid there is nothing clean in this Shi family mansion except the two stone lions at the door." When he came to the door of the Shi family mansion, looking at the gorgeous building with carved beams and painted buildings, and floating eaves, Li You remembered the line in "Dream of Red Mansions".
"Master Taiwei said this a little earlier." Shi Hongzhi walked up and patted the stone lion's head and said, "As far as Xiaguan knows, the craftsmen who built these two stone lions have long been missing. In order to find a suitable stone, they forced to destroy the three houses. After the completion, they hit and died on the stone lion, far more than one or two people in Yongzhou were killed."
Haha, this is the style of aristocratic family and aristocratic temperament that the young and fresh people in later generations have been obsessed with. I wonder how the people who made them travel through time to become Yongzhou would feel? Li You shook his head and smiled bitterly. If the wealthy families in the world all looked like the historical families of Yongzhou, even if there was no Tang Kuo's troops invading the border, the Wei Dynasty would not be far from being overthrown by the unbearable people.
Of course, there are not no kind landlords who treat the people well, but these people will not have a good ending. You should know that farming is still a risky thing in this era. They are lenient to the people and their own gains are correspondingly less than those local tyrants and evil gentry who have been exploited. Whenever they encounter drought, floods and floods and need to consume their savings, they will always last longer than those local tyrants and evil gentry. If the disaster has not receded before the savings are completely consumed, then they will have to face bankruptcy, and the land under their name will be controlled by local tyrants and evil gentry.
This is just like the industrial age. Only those enterprises that are more cruel to exploit workers can survive the economic crisis longer, and the fact that bad money drives out good money is the naked truth. If Li You's army did not maintain the stability of Lingnan Road, when chaos arose in various places, families like the Shi family who have accumulated a large sum of food and grass, and have high walls to defend against them might be able to withstand the attacks of the chasing people. Those little landlords scattered in the countryside and have no money to build a fort because of their kindness to the people would probably not have passed so easily.
Efforts to the people, accumulate strength to resist various disasters are the key to the inheritance of these wealthy families for thousands of years. However, this kind of exploitation process is also threatening stability. Those who are a little smarter can find a balance between the two, just like Wang Ji and his family, while those who are not smart enough are like Shi's.
Just as the economic crisis was a stubborn disease in the industrial age, this was also a problem that every dynasty could not solve in the feudal era. Even if the historians were completely extinguished, it would only allow the people of Yongzhou to live a few good years. It would probably take a new family to replace the historians in no time. If Li You wanted to completely change this situation, there would still be a long way to go.
Fortunately, the drawings of Zheng He's treasure ship have been obtained. The sea trade and colonization will bring more choices to the people of the Great Wei, allowing them to get out of this reciprocity cycle. At that time, the indigenous people in the colonies will replace the people of the Great Wei and become the bottom of the exploitation. This process is equally cruel and bloody, but for Li You, it is always better to make those aliens suffer than to make the people under his rule suffer.
As the saying goes, if you die, if you die, I will let others die. (To be continued.)
Chapter completed!