In a side hall of Xicheng County Mansion, Shen Yi and Shen Dan, who were tied up with five flowers, were kneeling in the hall.
There was no one else in the side hall. Apart from Mi Yang, there were only some Mi Yang's personal guards guarding the Shen brothers.
After Shen Dan was captured by Mi Yang in the valley camp, Mi Yang did not rush to kill Shen Dan. After he led the army from Shangyong, he took Shen Dan with the army.
Just after capturing Shen Yi, Mi Yang ordered people to bring Shen Dan to the west city to meet the Shen Yi brothers.
After Shen Dan saw that Shen Yi had also become Mi Yang's prisoner, although he had expected it, when he actually saw this scene, there was still a look of death on his face that was difficult to conceal.
Compared to Shen Dan, who was completely resigned to his fate and looked ashen, Shen Yi's face looked better.
Shen Yi knelt on the ground, knowing that he was now Mi Yang's victim.
He didn't expect Mi Yang to stop slashing at him, he only hoped that Mi Yang would let his people go.
Shen Yi knelt on the ground and begged Mi Yang: "Master Fu, my brother and I have been defeated now, and no one in Hanxing County can restrain Master Fu.
I don’t ask Fujun to spare my life, I just hope that Fujun can spare my descendants.”
After finishing speaking, Shen Yi bowed deeply to Mi Yang.
Although Shen Yi's character is more radical than Shen Dan, he is also more aware of current affairs than Shen Dan.
Looking at Shen Yi's performance in history, we can see that the "Han" and "Wei" flags on the West City changed around under Shen Yi's instruction, almost like magic.
For such a person, when it's time to stay down and be a kid, he will never hesitate at all.
Facing Shen Yi's plea, Mi Yang did not respond directly.
Mi Yang looked at Ding Feng who was standing aside. Under Mi Yang's eyes, Ding Feng walked towards Shen Yi.
At this time, Ding Feng was holding a wooden box in his hand. As Ding Feng walked towards Shen Yi, Shen Yi could see the whole picture of the wooden box in Ding Feng's hand.
When she saw the wooden box, a look of evasion flashed across Shen Yi's face.
When Ding Feng walked up to Shen Yi, he opened the wooden box in his hand, then stood in front of Shen Yi and poured all the contents of the wooden box in front of Shen Yi and Shen Dan.
Following Ding Feng's movements, pieces of official seals fell from the overturned wooden box in front of Shen Yi and Shen Dan.
When more than ten official seals all fell in front of Shen Yi and Shen Dan, Shen Dan looked at Shen Yi. When Shen Dan saw the evasive look on Shen Yi's face, he still didn't know the origin of these official seals.
A strong look of disbelief appeared on Shen Dan's face.
Is his brother crazy?
After Ding Feng poured all his official seals in front of Shen Yi and Shen Dan, Mi Yang looked at Shen Yi and said:
"You wield power in Hanxing County, and you dare to engrave the official seal privately in the name of the Emperor. You have the ambition of rebellion among the princes. For this crime alone, the Shen family will punish you!"
These official seals were found from Shen Yi's dormitory just after Zhang Yi took control of the county government.
Since the world was in chaos, the emperor's authority and edicts no longer extended to counties.
The power to appoint chiefs of counties and counties was in the hands of the princes who actually occupied the counties.
However, the Han Dynasty still existed, so when princes from various places appointed county officials, they could only use the name of the emperor to engrave official seals and grant them to ministers.
But even if the emperor lost the power to appoint officials in various counties and counties, this power would still be divided among the princes of the world, which was not what Shen Yi, a minister of the Hanzhong king, should do.
Now Shen Yi dared to engrave the official seal privately. Such a crime can certainly be punished by the clan.
After listening to Mi Yang's words, the look on Shen Yi's face became as gray as his brother's.
Judging from Mi Yang's words, he had no intention of letting go of the Shen family.
Most of the old, young, women and children of the Shen family were moved to Chengdu by Shen Dan last year, and Mi Yang was beyond reach.
But once Mi Yang reports the official seal he found today to Liu Bei, his Shen clan will still be unable to escape the fate of annihilation.
Execution is the most serious punishment in the world, the harshest way to cut off a family name, and the most feared consequence in many people's hearts.
After seeing Shen Yi's expression of death like Shen Dan's, Mi Yang spoke again: "Although your Shen clan cannot escape the destruction, I can leave some of your blood."
After hearing what Mi Yang said, some color appeared on the faces of Shen Dan and Shen Yi.
They looked at Mi Yang with hopeful eyes. Under their hopeful gazes, Mi Yang slowly said:
"As long as you can help me sort out the population and acres of land in Hanxing County, although you two will inevitably die in the future, I will write to the king to plead for your blood in Chengdu."
After capturing Hanxing County, the most important thing for Mi Yang now is to quickly find out the true total number of people and acres of Hanxing County.
Only after accomplishing this, Mi Yang could gradually build Hanxing County into a base for his Northern Expedition in the future.
Even without the help of the Shen brothers, Mi Yang could finally figure this out after taking over Hanxing County.
It's just that the Shen brothers have been in Hanxing County for many years. They know Hanxing County very well. With their help, they will get twice the result with half the effort.
And although most of the population and land in Hanxing County were originally hidden by the Shen brothers, the Shen family was not the only powerful family in Hanxing County.
Therefore, if Mi Yang can get the assistance of the Shen brothers, then he can use the Shen brothers' knowledge of other powerful people to launch a comprehensive "land transfer" operation in Hanxing County.
Graining the fields is not just about measuring the acres, but also includes checking the hidden population.
Nearly two hundred years ago, Emperor Guangwu of Han Dynasty Liu Xiu carried out a nationwide campaign to save farmland.
The main content of the field transfer operation is to inventory the number of fields, household registration, age, and strengthen the government's control over land and labor.
In addition, Operation Land Transfer directly targets the key points of local powerful landowners - verifying the land and population of powerful landlords, and limiting the number of powerful landlords who can annex land and enslave people.
Because the land transfer movement violated the interests of powerful families in various places, powerful people in various places resisted this policy by colluding with local officials.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! In order to resolutely implement this policy, Liu Xiu killed more than ten local officials who had colluded with the powerful and perfunctory Du Tian. In this case, the surname of the county
They rebelled one after another.
At that time, among the central government, there was the great Confucian scholar Ouyang She, who acted as the mouthpiece of powerful people from all over the world. He desperately criticized Emperor Guangwu's land transfer policy in public opinion.
Under Ouyang She's instigation, the world's scholarly public opinion at that time was full of malice towards the Tiantian policy.
But in the face of the combined efforts of local and central opposition forces, Emperor Guangwu, who had always been considered a "good old man", showed his courage.
Emperor Guangwu disregarded the status of the great Situ Ouyang She as a Confucian sect in the world, and decisively executed Ouyang She in the face of more than a thousand people from all living beings guarding the palace to plead for mercy.
This incident caused great shock in the government and the public, but at the same time it revealed Emperor Guangwu's determination to conquer the fields.
After shocking all the central courtiers with Ouyang She's death, Liu Xiu began to take action against local rebellions.
On the one hand, Liu Xiu sent people to declare, "Listen to a group of thieves fighting among themselves, and if five of them kill one person, his crime will be eliminated." This was used to divide and alienate powerful people from all over the country.
On the other hand, he pardoned the crimes of local officials such as lingering, avoiding, and committing crimes, so as to mobilize their enthusiasm to put down the chaos.
The most important thing is that Liu Xiu used a killer move, "move his leader to another county, give him land and receive endowments, so that he can make a living."
Under Liu Xiu's move, local wealthy families could no longer rely on clan power to continue to do evil and raise armies to cause chaos.
Liu Xiu's move was the most unacceptable punishment for the powerful men of today, apart from family execution.
The reason why local tycoons are tyrannical is that they have lived in their hometown for a long time, have great influence in the hometown, and have huge wealth.
These two advantages allowed them to raise private soldiers and launch rebellions.
But when they were forcibly relocated to their homeland, all ties with their hometown were severed, which was undoubtedly a drain on the pot.
The people who caused the rebellion were all wealthy and powerful families. If they had not been deprived of everything they had in their homeland and then moved to other places, such a wealthy person would not have had the trouble to ask Liu Xiu to "endow them with land and be endowed with them, so that they could make a living".
For example, Wang Fu pointed out the cruelty of Liu Xiu's move in "Qianfu Lun·Shi Bian".
"Moreover, the husbands and wives move again and yearn for their graves, which is the same as the virtuous and the unfaithful. People are more interested in moving than in obeying the law. If you fail to obey the law, one person will die at home.
Those who lost their property and goods, seized their land and moved it far away, did not adapt to customs, and were inconvenient to the water and soil, many of them destroyed their families, and few of them were able to return it."
Liu Xiu's move dealt a heavy blow to the rebellious landlords.
After the rebellions in various places were quelled, the Dutian regulations during Liu Xiu's period were strictly implemented.
After the implementation of Du Tian, a good situation was formed in which "cattle and horses were grazing, and the gates of the towns were not closed", which laid a solid economic foundation for the rule of Ming Zhang.
Later generations mostly remember the identity of Grand Magister Liu Xiu, but his behavior in this field training movement was also truly outstanding.
Without this land transfer movement, the Eastern Han Dynasty would have perished long ago given the political ecology of the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty.
Whether Emperor Guangwu's action was a success or a failure has always had different views among later historians.
Looking at the two-hundred-year history of the Eastern Han Dynasty, the land transfer movement was a failure, because the chaos in the world at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty was inextricably linked to the growing strength of local tyrants.
But just looking at the period of Emperor Guangwu of the Han Dynasty, the land transfer operation at that time achieved certain results.
The fundamental reason why Operation Land Transfer failed to save the fate of the Eastern Han Dynasty is that in feudal society, it was impossible to completely eradicate the cancer of local tyrants.
The direct reason is that, except for the good continuation during the reigns of Emperor Ming and Emperor Zhang of the Han Dynasty, the "Conquering the Fields" operation was simply a piece of paper in other periods.
But the greatest benefit to Mi Yang from the current campaign to seize farmland during the reign of Emperor Guangwu was that it became justifiable for him to carry out the campaign to seize farmland in Hanxing County.
As the prefect of Xing County in Han Dynasty, Mi Yang continued the policy of His Majesty Shizu, which was completely reasonable and the right thing to do.
Then Mi Yang, in the name of Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, actually made some reforms under the guise of a move to save Tian, but no one could criticize him.
Even if some corrupt scholars want to use this to criticize Mi Yang and smear his reputation, they must first smear Liu Xiu's reputation.
Do they dare? Liu Bei is still alive.
In today's world, only when one's name is correct can one's words be correct, and only if one's words are correct can one's actions be swift.
When Shen Yi and Shen Dan heard that Mi Yang was planning to develop farmland in Hanxing County, although they were local powerful people, they naturally opposed this policy.
But let's not say that they don't have the capital to resist now. Even if they have the capital to resist, they can't blatantly stop Mi Yang's move.
In order to preserve some blood, Shen Dan and Shen Yi finally agreed to Mi Yang's request.
After Shen Dan and Shen Yi chose to cooperate, Mi Yang ordered people to suppress the two and imprison them.
After Shen Dan and Shen Yi were taken away, Lu Yi came to the side hall and reported to Mi Yang: "Your Majesty, most of the Shen family members have been detained. I would like to ask your Majesty to tell you how to deal with them next."
After Xicheng was fully recovered, except for some Shen's party members who were hiding in the dark and luckily escaped from the city, most of the remaining Shen's party members were gradually captured by the Mi Army.
The Shen family members are divided into two categories, one is the Shen family members, and the other is the subordinate officials who used to be attached to the Shen brothers to help them feed the common people.
After listening to Lu Yi's report, Mi Yang said to Lu Yi: "Interrogate the captured members of the Shen family one by one. After learning their crimes, they will be dealt with according to their respective crimes according to the "Shu Ke"."
After knowing what Mi Yang meant, Lu Yi couldn't help but admonish: "The Shen brothers have tied them up with a tight net, so they are unpopular. It is better for the ruler to be lenient, and then the people will naturally be happy."
Although Mi Yang revealed that he wanted to act in accordance with the law, Lu Yi knew that those Shen clan members had been working for many years, and their crimes were basically capital crimes if they were dealt with according to the strict "Shu Ke".
In this way, most of the hundreds of Shen family members will not survive.
In Lu Yi's view, this was not conducive to stabilizing the hearts of Han Xing County.
As the prefect of Hanxing County, Mi Yang controlled the judicial power of the county, so as long as Mi Yang was tolerant, those hundreds of people could survive.
After Mi Yang listened to Lu Yi's advice, he said to Lu Yi: "The Shen family is unruly, the government is harsh, and the people are resentful. The people cry out and are displaced.
Moreover, the Shen clan employed people only by relatives. Since the early Ping Dynasty, for decades, the people of the Han Dynasty were depressed, and the scholars were loyal to each other. They did not promote virtue and government, and did not enforce punishment and punishment.
The members of the Shen family were monopolistic and self-indulgent, and the way of superiority and inferiority was gradually replaced by mausoleums. They committed numerous crimes and the people have been suffering from them for a long time.
I have decided that the rise of the Han Dynasty must be enforced by law. If any party members are guilty of capital crimes, they must be beheaded. First punish the evil and then promote the good.
The death of today and the sin of the past need no forgiveness.
Only in this way can the people's hearts be happy and the county administration be clear and clear."
After hearing what Mi Yang said, Lu Yi knew that Mi Yang had made up his mind, so he stopped trying to persuade him.
But just when Lu Yi was about to take the order and leave, Mi Yang ordered again:
“After beheading the members of the Shen family who committed capital crimes, their heads were hung on the city gate.
I want the people inside and outside the city to see that I have eliminated all their enemies for them."
Mi Yang's order made Lu Yi's heart tremble, and then he took the order and left.