After losing their clan leader, Wubao with the Seven Surnames faced the sieges of Chu Fang and Ma Zhou. They only withstood the siege for more than ten days before falling one after another, following in the footsteps of the Gong, Wang, Pan and Zheng families.
The big names in Pingyang and Zhongshui townships are all frightening.
If Liu Jing just wanted Pingyang and Zhongshui townships to serve as county magistrates, he could have stopped after killing the Gong family, Wang family, Pan family, and Zheng family.
Everyone in the second township has been frightened out of their courage by Liu Jing's series of cruel killing methods, and they will never dare to defy the county's orders again.
But just like this, Pingyang and Zhongshui Township are still only "poor" townships on the county and temple books, so why would he go south in person? This is not the result he wants.
Now, after Liu Jing destroyed the four surnames of Gong, Wang, Pan and Zheng, he also destroyed seven surnames, a total of eleven surnames. Not counting supplies and land, only the hidden households where these big surnames hid were collected.
There are more than 1,600 households and a population of nearly 10,000.
Seeing so many hidden households, which was more than Liu Jing expected, he couldn't help but laugh angrily for a moment, wishing he could kill all the remaining prominent people in Erxiang and integrate their people.
Of course, he just thinks about it in his mind and doesn't actually take action.
Since going south, he has killed too many people, and his benevolent character has been destroyed.
The Gong family was rebellious and brought the disaster of overthrowing the clan on themselves. The Wang family, the Pan family, and the Zheng family rebelled against the Gong family and were exterminated.
It’s just that the seven surnames will be killed later...
Although Liu Jing claimed that after breaking through the Gong family's Wubao, he uncovered a secret letter secretly colluding with the Gong family, classifying them with the Wang family, Pan family, and Zheng family, and criminalizing them as treason.
Got a valid excuse.
However, the real reason was known to both Pingyang and Zhongshui townships. While they felt sad that the rabbit had died and the fox had died, they were also secretly thankful. Fortunately, they rushed to see Liu Jing as soon as possible after his arrival. If they had arrived late, Liu Jing would have considered it wrong.
If you are disrespectful, you might as well be like the Seven Surnames, who will be killed and exterminated based on any crime.
In fact, genocide is just an exaggerated statement. It does not mean killing all the nine clans, including the "culprit" Gong. Even the children of the five Gong brothers will spare their lives if they are under twelve years old.
This has nothing to do with the benevolence of women, but the "hidden rules" of the world. What Wang Mang could do in the past, there is no reason why Liu Jing, a person with modern ideas, cannot do it.
There were eleven surnames in the two townships of Pingyang and Zhongshui. Liu Jing killed more than a hundred people before and after him and captured more than a thousand people. Now they are all tied to the township.
A large part of these people belong to the distant branch of the family and have little connection with the manifest branch. Liu Jing is ready to let them go, but the matter needs to be carefully investigated to avoid "omissions" that may cause harm to himself.
If he were to do such a big thing, he would definitely notify the county government, ask Zhang Xian for instructions, explain the whole story to him, and ask him to make a decision.
It is not difficult to guess the fate of these captives with big surnames. The men were probably either moved to Baqiu or sent to Leiyang Iron Officials, while the women were sent to official temples and worked as slaves. If nothing unexpected happens, they will never have a chance to come back in this life.
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The 11th surname had accumulated many years of savings, and all of them were taken advantage of by Liu Jing. After generously rewarding the soldiers, more than 60 million yuan was still recorded in his account. This was his property alone.
In addition, even after a whole winter's consumption of rice grains, there were still more than 20,000 dendrobiums left, enough for more than 800 soldiers under Liu Jing's command to feed them for more than a year.
In the past few days, Zhongshui Township Ferry has become extremely busy, with a steady stream of money and grain supplies arriving here, and then transported to Lingxian County by boat.
The money and grain reserves could be transported away, but the land could not. Liu Jing immediately decided to use the land to restore his reputation for excessive killing.
He reorganized more than 1,600 households and more than 9,000 "hidden households" into households and unified the people. Men were classified as prime men between 16 and 60, men between 61 and 65, and men between 15 and 12.
Each able-bodied man is given fifty acres of land, and the second-youngest man is given half, and each man is given twenty-five acres of land.
"Hanshu" has recorded that although these hermits who cultivate the land of wealthy people no longer have to face various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes from the state, they do have to face more cruel and greedy masters.
"See the tax is ten six", so life is extremely difficult, they can only wear the clothes of cattle and horses, and eat the food of dogs and pigs. In times of famine, they are even more hungry, and their masters will not help them at all.
Now that Liu Jing had rescued them from the clutches of the big family and given them fields, their gratitude to Liu Jing could not be greater.
At this time, anyone who dares to say anything wrong about Liu Jing will definitely be attacked by a group of people.
By granting land to Liu Jing, his image in the eyes of the villagers in Pingyang and Zhongshui townships has undergone earth-shaking changes.
However, after the land granting was completed, Liu Jing still had a lot of land left in his hands. From this, we can see that the wealthy surnames in these places were very rich, and the local land was almost monopolized by the surnames.
Soon, he no longer had to worry about this. I heard that his move to grant land was no different from a major earthquake in Zhongshui and Pingyang Townships.
Many hermit households controlled by the big surnames saw that all the people who were slaves and maids like them in the past were given land. They were so envious that they couldn't eat all day long and couldn't sleep at night.
Gradually, some brave people came to Liu Jing quietly. After the households were organized and the people were organized, they were also granted land.
At this time, many hermits in Pingyang and Zhongshui townships were almost crazy about it, and they came with their families and families to seek refuge.
The blood of the eleventh surname has not yet dried, and the elders of the second township are afraid of Liu Jingzhi's power and dare not stop him. They can only watch the guests escape.
Liu Jing, on the other hand, refused to accept anyone who came, until all the land in his hand was granted.
However, hermit households continued to come from all directions. Liu Jing had already expected this. His advice was that those who were willing to establish households and integrate the people would be given cattle, farm tools, seeds, and even food rations so that they could cultivate the land.
wasteland.
After careful consideration, most of the hermit households agreed to create households and bring together the people. After all, if they stay, they can still have a career, but if they go back, they will have to barely survive. Maybe they will be resented by their masters for leaving rashly.
revenge.
After Liu Jing registered all the hidden households, Zhongshui and Pingyang townships suddenly increased by more than 3,500 households and more than 22,300 people. The original number of households in Erxiang was just over 2,000.
, this shows how much growth there is.
At this time, it was already the end of February, and before he knew it, Liu Jing had already stayed in Pingyang and Zhongshui Townships for a month. During this period, he corresponded with Zheng Duo, and Lingxian County was still a good place after he left.
Stability, this is why he can stay here safely.
However, he expects to stay for a while, because spring plowing is around the corner, and he must not become a hands-off shopkeeper at this time.