Chapter 89: The gentry is downgraded to a household, and Jin Pei is equal to a servant
"How many people did Anlu kill?"
Li Laiheng put his pen aside. After the Battle of Suizhou, in order to secure the place, he became increasingly busy with official affairs. Now the army began to clear up old scores and deal with the wall-mounted factions who had taken advantage of others. Soldiers went to the countryside to arrest clan elders, which was inevitable.
Some bloody clashes occurred.
The laws and regulations of the new system were mainly written by Fang Yiren, but the specific implementation was mostly led by Marching Sima Gu Junen, and then completed by each army unit.
Since the Battle of Suizhou, Gu Junen almost no longer wears literati uniforms. He wears a short shirt and an arrow jacket every day, and often wears a plain armor smock when he goes out, all in the style of a martial artist.
He replied: "Fourteen counter-cases have been dealt with in Anlu, ten gentry elders have been executed, and seven or eight people have been arrested. There have been occasional resistances during this period, and the soldiers have suppressed them, so there have inevitably been casualties.
There were roughly thirty or forty casualties in the village."
"Very good. The situation in Suizhou and Anlu is relatively stable. Chen Kexin, the governor of De'an Prefecture, is really smart. He is a man with political talents and will continue to be used in the future. What about the situation in Huangzhou Prefecture?
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Chen Kexin had just been promoted to the governor of De'an Prefecture from the post of Suizhou Mu, and became the number one feudal official under Li Laiheng at this stage. In the process of governing the local area, he showed relatively outstanding talents.
But as soon as Li Laiheng mentioned Huangzhou Mansion, Gu Junen's face didn't look good, and he replied:
"Huangzhou Prefecture... Because the Chuang Army directly integrated the Shenzhuang Army, the power and influence of the Jute gentry was far greater than that of the De'an gentry. This time, the investigation of the counter-case and the arrest of the traitors were far more resistant and hindered than the De'an gentry.
It’s serious over there.”
"Just tell me the situation directly. Don't be careless."
"Huangzhou Prefecture... Huangzhou Prefecture has investigated nearly a hundred counter-cases, but only twenty of them have been dealt with. General Ai went on a killing spree in Huangma, and has already killed seventy or eighty old people from the local gentry clan.
People. Some highly respected leaders gathered together to resist, and hundreds of people were killed and injured during the repression. Now... there are people everywhere in the Juma area advocating that the Generalissimo does not kill or commit sexual misconduct in Henan, but the Generalissimo does not in Huguang.
Massacre and plunder.”
"Haha, these birdmen know that the imperial court has no hope, so they actually count on the generalissimo? When the generalissimo comes, unreasonable people like them will all be tortured alive and killed!"
Li Laiheng smiled coldly, with a cold expression. He asked Ai Zhuo to lead troops to Huangzhou Mansion to suppress the civil uprising. He originally expected that the situation in Huangzhou Mansion was far more complicated than that of De'an Mansion, and the power of the gentry was also more powerful. Although Ai Zhuo was
In the past, he was not very qualified for the job of the red team, but he is a strong man and hates evil, so he is best suited to be the broadsword that clears the way.
Gu Junen always acted like he was looking higher than his head and boasting in front of the civil and military officials of the army. But this time he knew that he did not handle the matter well, not to mention that it was Li Laiheng who promoted him.
In front of him, he somewhat restrained his arrogance and whispered:
"Yi Daosan and other famous gentry have been waiting outside the commander's residence for a long time. Does the commander want to see them?"
"Hmph." Li Laiheng snorted from his nostrils, "Are they here to ask for dividends from the public-private partnership? These birdmen were never so active when the Zuo army came to attack. Now Ai Zhuo is killing people in Huangzhou Mansion.
, they were probably panicking, and they were trying to put pressure on me in different ways."
Li Laiheng slapped the table with his hand and said harshly: "These people who don't have knives in their hands still want to put pressure on me? That's right, go and ask Yan Zhongsheng to sort out the collaboration situations investigated by the red team during this period. They
If An Anxin can collect money and interest at home, I can still leave a way for them to survive, but these people insist on jumping out to seek death themselves, what should I do? It just saves me the loss of a large chunk of dividends!"
After the Battle of Suizhou, Zuo Zhen's army was almost wiped out. Even Zuo Liangyu himself was captured and beheaded. In the siege camp, the invading army even captured a large number of letters from local gentry to Zuo's army.
If these people could stay safe, Li Laiheng wouldn't mind imitating Cao Mengde of the Three Kingdoms and burning all these letters. But they didn't have knives in their hands. They were basically nothing but fish on the military cutting board, but they still couldn't find their own.
Positioning, when Aizhuo led the troops to inspect the fields and commit crimes, protecting some clan elders who did evil things did not rule out the possibility that many of these gentry were themselves clan elders who did evil things.
How on earth can one save such a person?
Li Laiheng is also very distressed!
He was already trying to avoid past mistakes and save others. First, he retained the fixed land interest of the gentry through the camp system, and then used the public-private partnership to allow the gentry to share the interests of the army. This step-by-step compromise and concession still resulted in their resistance.
, collusion with thieves or even armed rebellion?
How on earth can we save you? For people like this, only death can really save them!
As the representative of the jute gentry, Yi Daosan has been waiting outside the handsome man's house for several hours. He stood for so long that his knees could hardly support him.
The temperature in early summer also made Yi Daosan sweat profusely. He himself did not provide any help to Zuo Jun, and he could be regarded as a relatively decent person. But even such a relatively decent Yi Daosan, wouldn't he know that he
Are there many of my friends secretly communicating with Zuo Liangyu?
He knew clearly that those people were poaching Chuang Jun, but he did not expose it. He was not playing the role of aiding the evildoers and working as a villain.
It was only today that Li Laiheng considered that there would be more killings, so he decided to temporarily let go of the gentry like Yi Daosan who had made little mistakes and could still be "saved".
Yi Daosan's old friend Geng Yingqu was an honest man. He fully thought that everyone came to the commander's house today simply to press for dividends from the public-private partnership. Geng Yingqu also cited the Chuang Army's defeat of Zuo Liangyu in Suizhou as
They talked about all kinds of anecdotes about Li Laiheng's "breaking thieves", as if he regarded the intruders as the imperial court and the imperial court as the thieves.
When Geng Yingqu was talking about Ma Bao riding into the camp alone to persuade Ma Jinzhong to surrender, Li Laiheng suddenly came out with a group of red team cadres. Everyone knew Li Laiheng, and also recognized that the man next to the young tiger commander was the marching commander Gu Junen
, but the other person made many people feel cold. The most feared thing among the Huguang gentry is the strict pay of the red team management team. What are they doing here at this time?
Yan Xin shook the roster in his hand and read out the names one after another. Although Li Laiheng and Yan Xin didn't say what they were going to do yet, the people whose names were read had ghosts in their hearts. As soon as they were read,
Just like being struck by lightning, some people immediately collapsed to the ground, while others were so frightened by the severe salary that they peed and filthy filth covered the ground.
Yi Daosan was quite familiar with the people whose names were read out. Although he was not involved in the matter, he vaguely knew that these people had some contact with Zuo Liangyu. His face turned red and white for a while. He was worried about his friends and worried about his friends.
Afraid that he would also be implicated, he finally had the courage to ask:
"Shi... Shijun, what does Li Shijun want to do?"
Li Laiheng glanced at Yi Daosan out of the corner of his eye and sneered: "These people are connected to Zuo thieves, and the evidence of their crimes is conclusive. The red team has searched a number of documents and letters from Zuo Liangyu's siege camp... Originally, if you just keep yourselves, I will
I have no intention of starting another major war. However, the intruders set up envoys, arresting envoys, and inspectors. This is my big policy! You are obstructing the great government. You are already committing a heinous crime. You actually gathered people to plot a rebellion and used force to resist the intruders' inspection of the fields.
,How can I save your lives?"
"Strict management team, please follow the roster and capture these people one by one and send them to the judge for a public trial on a day!"
Geng Yingqu didn't know why. Although he had nothing to do with those things, he was already timid. At this time, he was so frightened by the unexpected situation that he didn't dare to move. Yi Daosan knew in his heart that Li Laiheng would never let them go again.
He could only smile bitterly:
"If you do this, I'm afraid that the people's sentiments, which are already leaning towards the army, will change unnecessarily."
"People's heart? Haha, I think Mr. Yi is talking about the gentry's heart!"
Yi Daosan was not a diehard who was particularly hostile to the Chuang Army. In fact, the Chuang Army's successful governance of De'an and Huangzhou during this period had greatly changed Yi Daosan's views, making him truly feel that Li Laiheng and Huguang
The Chuang Army has the potential to stabilize the world.
It's just that as a representative of the jute gentry, his position and perspective are naturally based on the gentry class. It is precisely because Yi Daosan has gradually become psychologically inclined to the army, so he believes that it is necessary for the army to treat the gentry well. At this time, he treats Li Laiheng
The persuasion even went beyond personal gains and losses, and focused on the overall relationship between the army and the gentry class.
Yi Daosan ignored the unclear relationship between himself and Tong Zuo Ni's case, and still tried his best to "persuade" Li Laiheng, trying to lead him to the "right path" at the risk of implicating himself.
"Your Majesty, the invading army has implemented a new law for the camp, which has caused turmoil in the three states of Chu. The gentry has no clothes on their bodies, and no grain in their warehouses. They swallow their voices and endure their anger, and do not care about their orders. People who have been well-dressed for many generations, provide for the load in the morning, and carry the burden in the evening.
Rest your shoulders, do you think this is the common way that can make the world last forever? I have made great use of the poor, the disciples in the countryside, who have no time to make a living every day, recommend the disciples of the gentry, and hide in the back alleys, and the children from the countryside can actually get it.
If you scold me, if things go on like this, I'm afraid my politeness will be wiped out, and the distinction between superior and inferior will disappear."
Yi Daosan kowtowed to the ground and begged: "This gentleman was lucky enough to be born as a sensible and literate person between heaven and earth, but his wife was humiliated and his farmhouse was lost in the camp. The gentleman was reduced to a registered household, and Jin Pei was treated like a servant."
.In such a reversed situation, what I am concerned about is not for the gentry of one side, but for the long-term development of the king. Please also ask the king to keep people under his sword, and for the time being, he can save the people of this side of the country for the sake of the world."
Yi Daosan's words were not based on his own personal interests, but on his class consciousness, and his class justice can be said to be "selfless".
But this only made Li Laiheng even more angry.
"A man who has been well-dressed for many generations must be rich and noble for many generations. Does it mean that he has lost the common way that makes the world last for a while? Is it lucky to be born as a sensible and literate person between heaven and earth? Is it true that the gentry is sensible and literate from his mother's womb? Gentlemen are literate and sensible.
If you are demoted to a household, Jin Pei is equal to a servant? What nonsense is this! The foundation of the world is to unite the people by household registration. Does Mr. Yi actually think it is shameful for the gentry to be reduced to a household?"
Without saying anything more, Li Laiheng ordered the red team officers to handcuff all the gentry who were in contact with the leftist thieves. Kill those who deserved to be killed, and imprison those who deserved to be imprisoned. No one should be spared lightly.
Of course, all their property will be confiscated, let alone land interest and dividends!