Three Kingdoms: I Am Not an Ant Thief Chapter 687: Breaking up and dividing the family
Zhuge Liang and Pang Tong also understood what Zhuge Liang meant, but none of them were happy. Youzhou and Xiliang were both frontiers. Even though the local gentry had to fight with the barbarians to defend their families, they were in the heart of the Han Dynasty.
, there is no chance to make achievements by fighting with the barbarians.
The traditions of the Han Dynasty also despised warriors, and Jingzhou's noble families also discriminated against warriors. Few of their children chose the career of general. In this way, they could not meet the condition of Lei Gong to contribute to the world!
There are not many officials in their family like Fu Bian and Liu Yu who serve the country and the people. If there are officials who do such things, Jingzhou Nanjun will not be a swampland. You must know that this is the place closest to the Central Plains.
The difficulty of reclamation is also the lowest.
But the wealthy nobles in Jingzhou have never thought about improving the environment of their hometown. The development of Nanjun did not start until Liu Bei came to Jingzhou, but the entire development of Jingzhou waited for Lei Gong to drive the wealthy nobles from the Central Plains to the south of the Yangtze River!
These people thought about what their families had done over the years, but found that none of their families met Lei Gong's conditions for preferential treatment!
However, Pang Tong's eyes lit up and he said: "Although we don't have barbarians in Jingzhou, we do have quite a few southern barbarians!"
Xu Shu smiled bitterly and said: "Can the fighting power of the Southern Barbarians compare with that of the Barbarians?"
The barbarians on the frontier were constantly breaking up the Han's counties and were the biggest enemies of the Han. Although the Southern Barbarians in Jingzhou often rebelled, they were not even worthy of Jingzhou's nobles. Instead, they often captured them and used them as slaves! They did not think of suppressing some of them.
What kind of credit does Nanman deserve?
Pang Tong said: "But the stability of the south depends on our family, otherwise the entire south will now become the territory of the Southern Barbarians! And the most important thing is that our family has been developing Jingzhou since the general came.
The land in Jingzhou has turned every swamp into fields, the wilderness into civilization, and allowed millions of barbarians to be educated and become Han people. This is all due to us!"
Zhuge Liang nodded and said: "Shi Yuan is right. The biggest contribution of our family in Jingzhou is to develop the entire Jiangnan land. If it weren't for our family, the entire Jiangnan would still be worse than Xiliang, but now Jiangnan has already
We have become a land of plenty, and this is all due to us! I think it was precisely because Lei Gong saw our contributions that he did not kill them all like the nobles in Yizhou!"
Pang Tong and others broke out in cold sweat when they thought about the fate of Yizhou's nobles! You must know that the Yizhou nobles betrayed the emperor of the Han Dynasty, but Lei Gong showed no mercy to them and directly moved all Yizhou's nobles out of Yizhou.
It is said that millions of people have been forced to move out of Yizhou. This is no longer considered uprooting, but even the soil has been shaved off. Now no one in Yizhou can be called a family.
If such an incident happened in Jingzhou, Pang Tong would shudder to think that all tens of thousands of people in his family would be forced to relocate, or even be demoted to Xiliang and even the Western Regions!
Soon Zhuge Liang said again: "But this little credit is not enough to preserve the family, especially splitting up large families has always been the core policy of Daqian. No big family has escaped this fate. Our best now Destiny is to take the initiative to split up the family. In addition to our family's contribution to the development of Jingzhou and the achievements of educating millions of southern barbarians, maybe we can be integrated into the Daqian court! As long as we gain a firm foothold in the new dynasty, it won't be long before our family can be reunited. Revive!”
After listening to Zhuge Liang's analysis, these descendants of the powerful noble families felt that it was very reasonable. Unfortunately, they were not in power yet, so they could only act anxiously.
Xu Shu picked up the book and said: "These matters are decided by the elders of the family. All I can do now is to find a way to get into the University of Mechanical Engineering. This is the only way we can help the family!"
After hearing this, everyone studied more seriously, but Zhuge Liang said that the method of actively dividing the family was also passed back to the family.
At the same time, the news that Yang Feng was going to entertain the Jingzhou nobles and nobles also spread throughout the Jingzhou area, and the nobles from all over the country were trying to discuss with each other how to deal with this Hongmen Banquet.
Now that Liu Bei has given up Jiaozhou and Dagan is at the height of his power, how can they resist Dagan's attack on their family?
It's a pity that even if there are wise men among these people, facing Yang Feng who has mastered absolute power, they clearly know what Yang Feng wants to do but can't think of a good way to deal with Yang Feng's blow to their family!
Daqian 6 years, late March, Jiangling City!
At this time, Jiangling City was very lively, and the heads of the entire Jingzhou family came here.
When these clan leaders were about to arrive, Yang Feng invited them all to go to the government office in Jiangling City!
Yang Feng sat at the top of the table, looked at the head of the Jingzhou clan and said with a smile: "It has been two years since I came to Jingzhou, and this is the first time I meet you all!"
The eldest Pang Degong laughed and said: "We should be the ones here to meet Governor Yang, but after all, I'm the one waiting for him!"
But Yang Feng waved his hand and said: "We were enemies in the past. You were afraid of me, so naturally you rarely came to my place. I understand this very well, and I am also very busy with work and have no time to entertain you. If it weren't for the universal celebration today, Even if the news is to be announced, I won’t summon you all!”
Pang Degong and others looked at each other with mournful faces. Yang Feng had been in Jingzhou for two years, but he did not attack their family because he had to deal with Liu Bei and was afraid of the situation in Jingzhou.
But it didn't mean they didn't do anything. In the first year after Yang Feng came to Jingzhou, he began to replace their disciples and old officials with his own men. What made them feel most cruel was that Lei Gong actually sent 10,000 officials. Jingzhou, which is almost half of the number of bureaucrats in the Han Dynasty, but now they are all used in Jingzhou and Yangzhou.
From this moment on, Jingzhou's elite nobles knew that Lei Gong was not going to give them any way to survive, and the officials' arrangements even reached the village level, which simply cut off their influence on the local area.
It was not that they had not thought about resisting, but Yang Feng entered Jingzhou with an army of 200,000. Although after Liu Bei fled to Jiaozhou, the army in Yang Feng's hands continued to decrease, but in the second year, Dagan came up with another Thanks to the compulsory soldier system and the settlement troops, the army in Yang Feng's hands soon expanded to 300,000, which was more than when he dealt with Liu Bei.
There are 600,000 troops stationed in the entire Jiangnan, and each county in Jiangnan has to face an army of about 50,000. Such strength makes the nobles in any county dare not cause trouble, for fear that they will be uprooted like the nobles in Yizhou. In addition, tens of thousands of people in the family were exiled to the desert!
Then Yang Feng said loudly: "Liu Bei, the former general of the Han Dynasty, has agreed to our peace negotiation with Dagan. He will give up Jiaozhou within one year. That means that from now on, the world will be officially unified under my banner of Dagan. There will be chaos." More than ten years of chaos are finally over! Everyone applauds!"
After saying this, Yang Feng was the first to applaud. Unfortunately, not many people followed Yang Feng in applauding. Many people even turned pale when they heard the news. Although they had expected this for a long time, they still had mixed feelings when they actually got the news. Chen felt both sadness at the demise of the Han Dynasty and panic and fear at not being able to see the way forward.
These people did not applaud and Yang Feng did not care, but continued: "Jingzhou was originally under military control, and there were many southern barbarians in the area, so Jingzhou was still managed according to the laws of the Han Dynasty, but now that the world has been unified, Jingzhou will also begin to gradually Adapt to the laws of my Dagan, and the most important law of my Dagan is the Land Equalization Order. You should also take the initiative to separate your families and adapt to the laws of my Dagan!"
The head of the Xi clan said: "Chief Yang, our family has equalized the land as early as Liu Bei's reign, but now there is no land left to divide!"
Yang Feng's face changed, and she said coldly: "You guys really have nothing to separate us from. We have been enemies for more than ten years. I know you just as you know me. Do you think you can change your household registration a little bit?" , by consigning the land to your tenants, you can make me think that your land is really divided, which is really the biggest fallacy in the world!"
"How many soldiers and swords do you have in your hands now! Are you stronger than the noble families in the Central Plains? All the noble families in the Central Plains have been killed by us. Do you think you can hide?"
"Stop daydreaming here. If it weren't for the millions of Southern Barbarians here in Jingzhou, you would have been wiped out by my Dagan two years ago. Now I have no enemies in my Dagan. It can be said that you are the last of my Dagan." An enemy, and I will treat the enemy as ruthlessly as the autumn wind sweeps away the fallen leaves.
Do you want to taste the sharpness of my Daqianjun's swords? You want to take credit for my military exploits. You must know that it has always been my regret not to completely defeat Liu Bei. It's okay if you take my credit for it. The official has many subordinates, but he has never achieved enough military exploits."
Yang Feng's unceremonious declaration frightened several noble families to death on the spot. Many people suspected that there were 800 swordsmen and axemen lying in wait outside the government office, and now Yang Feng was going to kill him. The wine glass in their hands was smashed by 800 swords and axes, and they were chopped into minced meat.
Yuan Xu, the head of the Yuan family, asked calmly: "You have to be reasonable. In the past, you divided our land in the Central Plains and said that we were the annexed people's land. I don't deny this. But the land in the south of the Yangtze River is Our families worked hard to cultivate it little by little. Back then, the swamps in the south of the Yangtze River were full of wild beasts and dragons eating people everywhere. This kind of environment was not suitable for people to live at all."
"It was members of our family who came to these barbaric lands and reclaimed them. Every acre of land here contains the flesh and blood of our family's children. In order to open up wasteland, hundreds of disciples of our Yuan family died in Jiangnan. On the land.”
"And now you are taking away our land for nothing. How can there be such a thing in the world? Even Lei Gong has no such reason. Today you can take away our land in this way, and then you will Can Da Qian also use this method to take away the land of the people of the world?"
Yang Feng said solemnly: "I work for the imperial court and serve the country and the people. How can I annex land like your noble family? What's the use of us taking the land!"
Yuan Xu sneered and said: "That's not necessarily the case. You Da Gan don't have any farms in that state. Just say that every county in Jingzhou doesn't have your Da Gan military reclamation farms. Each area is not small. If these farms continue to expand, Go down, what is the difference between this and what we did in the Central Plains!"
Yang Feng said firmly: "Of course there is a difference. We established these farms to develop Jiangnan. The farms were built on desert islands and swamps, and they did not occupy an inch of the people's land."
At this time, Sima Jing said: "President Yang, the imperial court used land equalization to solve the problem of displacement of people all over the world. We admire and agree with it very much, but you have to be reasonable. The land in Jingzhou is now cultivated by us through hard work." , it is also our foundation, and now you are violating the imperial policy by forcibly seizing our land like this!"
But Yang Feng laughed sarcastically and said: "I really can't refute what the Yuan clan chief said. The Yuan family really cultivated their own land, but your Sima family is worthy of saying such a thing! Your Sima family has taken root in Jingzhou." In 200 years, the land has grown from scratch to occupy 300,000 acres. Nanyang County and Nan County are full of your Sima family's land, and it is the most fertile land. These are also cultivated by your Sima family's hard work? I have no idea. I saw your Sima family reclaiming several acres of land with a hoe!"
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! Many people are afraid to say anything after this. The noble families such as the Yuan family, the Cui family, etc. who were defeated by Da Gan and fled to the south of the Yangtze River have already declined in strength. Naturally, It is impossible to seize the land of the local powerful, and the common people's land is protected by Liu Bei. They, the powerful nobles of the Central Plains, can only develop the swamps in the south of the Yangtze River, while local snakes like Sima Jing and Pang Degong rely on their own family's ancestral business and do not use it at all. Like these troubled nobles, they paid the price with their lives to open up wasteland!
At this time, Pang Degong said helplessly: "The governor asked us to come to Jiangling City to settle old scores with me, right? The governor thinks that we have not done a good job in equalizing the land. The governor can re-equalize the land, and we will never dare to stand in the way. The governor’s order to balance the land! I just ask the governor to leave a way for our family to survive.”
Yang Feng did not continue to beat around the bush with them, and said straightforwardly: "In order to ensure that the Land Equalization Order can be implemented smoothly, the core children of your big families must move away from Jingzhou, like your Pang family, the Duke of Xi in Nanjun, and the Ma family in Yicheng , the Yin family, the Nanjun Huang family, the Cai family, and other families must all move out of Jingzhou!"
"Although the Yuan family, Cui family, Wang family, Yang family, Linghu family, Zhang family, Liu family, etc. from Jingzhou do not need to leave Jingzhou, they have to break up their families and re-disperse their lives in Jiangnan! It is not allowed to gather together as a big family like this."
"If you take the initiative to separate your family, I, the Dagan, can arrange you to a better place, but if you imitate the Yizhou clan, the entire family will be uprooted by the Dagan, and the family members will be demoted to the Western Regions and the Desert. Guard the border! You must think carefully about which path you want to choose!"
Yang Feng's words made the clan leaders who came here panic. Almost the entire Jiangnan clan would be dispersed. Although they knew that this day would come sooner or later, many people still couldn't bear such a result.
Pang Degong said sadly: "We are also Daqian people now, can't the government give us a way to survive?"
Yang Feng said seriously: "If I give you a way to survive, ordinary people will have no way to survive! Moving and dividing your family is your only way out."