At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Yan Rou was called back from Liangzhou by Guo Peng, and she was scolded severely. The grassroots organizations in Linziying also began to face a new round of cleansing, and the tentacles of imperial power faced the emperor's new blood.

Necrotic, rotting tentacles are sure to be chopped off.

It is also a matter of course for newcomers to replace old people.

To deal with the local government, the central government should be dealt with first. With Guo Peng's order, the entire Luoyang central court began an extremely intense self-picketing operation.

Chapter 1275 One Thousand 180 Five Panic quickly spread from the officialdom to the private sector

This wave of self-picketing started together with the Qingzhang land in Jizhou and Qingzhou.

The speed is very fast and the intensity is very high. From the end of February in the ninth year of Yande to the middle of March, many problems have been found in the field and tax account books over the years.

As a result, the dereliction of duty of nearly [-] officials originally belonging to the Ministry of Civil Affairs, the Ministry of Finance, and the Audit Department of the Cabinet was uncovered.

At present, only a dozen or so of these dereliction of duty officials are still serving in the court, and the rest were scooped up by Guo Peng because of the Luoyang Incident, and they either went to Liangzhou or went to Pingzhou and Mozhou.

But Guo Peng will not let them go.

Twenty-five officials in the court were arrested, beheaded for crimes, their family properties were confiscated, and the whole family was exiled in Yunzhou.

Those who had already been exiled were dispatched by Guo Peng to form a joint team of eunuchs from the inner court and officials from the Xiaowei Department of Sili.

As long as you don't die, kill me on the spot.

Don't think that you can escape the death penalty if you have been sentenced to death with a reprieve, don't even think about it!

Sili Xiaowei Guoyuan felt that such an act of pursuing officials and even exterminating them was too cruel and feared losing popular support. Therefore, the above table advised Guo Peng not to exterminate those who had already been exiled.

Guo Peng was furious, and angrily reprimanded Guoyuan for "unknown right and wrong, confusing black and white", dismissed him, drove him back to his hometown, and would never be hired.

High officials and dignitaries were dismissed and executed by the emperor one by one.

The emperor's anger was burning furiously, and the scorching temperature made all the officials tremble with fear.

The ministers were frightened, how could Guo Peng not be shocked.

Nine years after proclaiming emperor, local land annexation has already begun.

Guo Yang, a vain prince with no status but no power, has united with his wife and family to seize more than 8 mu of land within a few years.

However, there was not a single official in the local mountain to report, and the bureaucratic system, the Linziying system and even the Dengwengu system have all failed.

In just over eight years, under the premise of constant movement, the supervision and auditing system from the central to local governments has shown signs of collapse.

Guo Yang is such a whiteboard waste that all these systems fail.

Grassroots officials had no way to report it, and were even surrounded. Local officials used the empire's anti-corruption system to use a knife to kill people, and even murdered people.

This is tantamount to telling those who want to fight that it is meaningless to fight, and the emperor can't see your struggle at all.

Yeah.

If Guo Yang is not in power, what about those who are in power?

Just over eight years, just over eight years!

This is equivalent to giving someone Guo a slap in the face.

It is meaningless to sneer at Guo's policy and foreign guidance to secure the land issue.

Guo Peng sat in the deep palace of Luoyang, mocking himself fiercely.

It seems that there are still not enough kills.

Some people still think that they can survive under the emperor's butcher's knife, so they take the risk.

Good, good, good, very good!

He gritted his teeth, full of murderous aura.

In the next half month, thunderstorms exploded in Qingzhou and Jizhou one after another, and the central court also exploded countless thunderstorms. Some problems that occurred in the first and second years of Yande have finally surfaced until now.

A considerable number of responsible officials either died or were purged under Guo Peng's years of political turmoil. They are no longer in Luoyang, but in various places of exile.

The inner court and the Sili Xiaowei Department directly controlled by Guo Peng sent joint action teams to various places to pursue responsibility and kill people.

As for those who are still in Luoyang...

The tallest one has already achieved Zuo Shilang.

It was useless, they were all arrested and handed over to the third division for interrogation, and then they were all sentenced to death without exception, they were killed, and the whole family was exiled.

Those with high official positions or those involved in a wide range of areas were slaughtered and exiled by the whole family.

Just the first wave of Qingzhang land spread to the Sili area, Qingzhou and Jizhou, and more than 200 officials have died. Many officials have been held accountable and hunted down. They are not even qualified to live as coolies. .

Officials plus implicated family members, clansmen, friends, etc., have exceeded 500 people.

And this is just the beginning, following the investigation of Guo Yang's case, pulling out the mud brought out by the radish, and reaching this point, looking at it comprehensively, how many people will be affected by the Qingzhang land this time.

But with the previous example of the emperor dealing with 4 or [-] people in one go, everyone knows that the emperor is not worried that there are not enough people to be officials. What the emperor likes most is to say no to those who think they are important.

No one knows how many people the emperor will kill in his rage before it will stop.

Guo Yang, the emperor's younger brother, was deposed as a commoner, and his surname Guo was deprived of the qualifications, so he could only be surnamed Li.

Mi Zhu, a relative of the emperor and a veteran official of Yuan Cong, was thrown into the prison and handed over to the third division for strict interrogation.

If the emperor is so fierce to his relatives, let alone other people.

After these things spread, from the central government to the local government, everyone who has something to do with these things will be in danger.

Either they are worried that their land will be taxed, or they are worried that their behavior of encroaching on the land will be exposed and then killed.

Under the awe of the emperor, the officials trembled, fearful and uneasy all day long.

Knowing that they have tricky jumping up and down looking for a way to survive, the few people who know that they have no problems look at such a terrifying situation, and they also feel compassion and take it as a warning.

But people who panic still account for the majority, because most people have problems, and most people don't have a good consciousness. They never thought that they would be held accountable for doing such a thing.

So they panic.

While they panicked, the relatives who helped them annex the land and actually manage the land were even more panicked.

So panic quickly spread from the officialdom to the people.

When officials cannot save their lives, of course the relatives of officials cannot save their own lives.

Relatives of officials cannot save their own lives, and those local tyrants who have no official background and backing are of course even more unable to save their lives.

If you are a little careless, you will lose everything, and you will not even think about saving the lives of your family members.

The news of people being killed and the whole family being exiled kept coming. These terrible news kept stimulating the nerves of those who had ghosts in their hearts, making them fearful and restless.

Under such extreme fear, there finally appeared in Jizhou and Qingzhou who organized servants and tenants into an army, and then tried to defend themselves.

They made up their minds that if an imperial official came to clear the land and take the opportunity to extort or something, they would definitely use force to protect their property.

Subsequently, the land clearing team stationed in Jizhou by the central government started the work first. The initial clearing operation started in Ye County. After clearing the land of Guantian and Tuntian villages, they were ready to enter Haoqiang Manor to clear the land.

Then there was no doubt that it was resisted.

The leading Qingzhang official showed the emperor's edict and talisman, saying that he entered the manor on behalf of the emperor, and asked them to make way and cooperate.

Unexpectedly, the owner of this manor actually pulled up a self-defense force, everyone guarded the manor with weapons, and would never let the Qing officials of the court enter.

"My five generations of family business have been passed down from generation to generation. It has been more than 100 years. Before today's birth, my family's business has already stood here. Does it have something to do with today's son? How can today's son measure my land?"

Such rebellious and disrespectful words made Qingzhang officials very angry.

So they returned to Ye County, and according to the emperor's order, with the help of five hundred guards, they decided to use force to enter the manor to measure the land.

Before entering, they issued a final warning to the manor, warning them that if they did not cooperate, they would launch an attack.

"The imperial court has clearly ordered that those who refuse to implement the Qingzhang policy will be severely punished! Up to the death penalty, there will be no tolerance! Please don't do things that will make you regret it!"

What greeted them was a shower of arrows.

"Secretizing ordnance, attacking the imperial army, this is rebellion! Destroy this place!"

Qingzhang officials were very annoyed and immediately asked the army to attack.

Chapter 1276

In fact, it is not necessary for Qingzhang officials to ask the army to attack.

The moment an army is attacked, they are already in attack mode.

Opposite is not the people of Wei State, but the enemy.

Therefore, five hundred guards formed an army formation to attack the manor, and quickly conquered the manor, beheading the owner of the manor and all the resisting private soldiers.

They tried to resist, and thought that their resistance was effective, and thought that the government would not dare to kill them openly, but such a guess was wrong.

Guo Peng untied the shackles of the Wei army and told them that those who resist with weapons will be killed without mercy.

So Wei Jun will not be tied up, and it is of course very easy to kill people.

It is easy to deal with the professional army of the enemy country, but of course it is easier to deal with these private soldiers of the manor owners of the previous era who have little combat effectiveness, no problem.

This kind of manor owner's private soldiers is the kind of army that first attacked Dong Zhuo's era. At that time, officials from all over the country responded to Yuan's call to attack Dong Zhuo together. This is the kind of army that gathered.

The army formed by the people in the manor of the powerful manor owner has no combat effectiveness and organization, but it has weapons and equipment, and it also has food and fodder. It can barely be regarded as an army. If it encounters a real army, such as Dong Zhuo's army, it will be over.

So many years have passed, and the Wei army, which was stronger than Dong Zhuo's army by an era, has unified the empire, but the private soldiers of the manor owners are still the same and have not improved at all.

Is there any reason not to fail?

The soldiers of the guards chopped off the heads of the whole family and spread the word to all the manor owners to let all the manor owners know what the result of resisting the imperial court was.

Then Qing Zhang's team measured the land of several manors.

Only one manor was frightened and cooperated honestly with Qingzhang. The rest of the manors still adopted the mode of resistance and resolutely resisted Qingzhang of the court, so they were quickly labeled as rebellious, and the guards launched an attack to kill them.

The whole family was slaughtered, male, female, old and young were killed, and it was spread around the world to serve as a warning to others.

This is the way Qingzhang officials punish families who resist the Qingzhang.

The cooler the better, this is Guo Peng's highest instruction.

Not cool, how to force them to rebel?

If you don't rebel, how can you openly destroy this entire class as an institution?

If you don't deal with this large-scale rebellion when you still have energy, should you leave this kind of thing to Guo Jin later?

No, right now!

The imperial court's methods were cruel, without any sympathy or discussion, which frightened many people, and at the same time aroused the extreme anger of quite a few manor owners.

The entire clan who resisted the measurement was exterminated, and after accepting the measurement, they did not know what kind of blackmail they would be blackmailed by the court.

Anyway, it's a disaster, it's a disaster, not a blessing, it's better to be a mother than to sit and wait for death.

The rebels in Jizhou first appeared in Bohai County, the powerful Wang family in Zhangwu County, Bohai County.

Because I heard that the emperor killed those who disobeyed him, several manor owners were killed, even the emperor's younger brother was killed.

So they worried that their property would be threatened, and they were even more worried that people who cleared the land would find out that they had hidden weapons and trained private soldiers to protect themselves.

Under extreme fear, after discussions among members of the Wang clan, they felt that there was no way out, so they decided to rebel.

Not only himself, he also united with thirteen tyrants including the Zhao family, Tu family, Wang family, and Liu family, who were also powerful, and agreed to rebel together.

Regarding whether they want to rebel, many of them have doubts inside, and they all feel that the emperor is too strong and the army is too strong, and they have no chance of winning if they rebel rashly.

But the opinions of proponents are more convincing.

"The emperor doesn't even let his own brothers go. The majestic king was abolished by the emperor and became a commoner. Several manors were killed for just a little resistance. The emperor's indifference can be seen. If we privately expand the fields and hide them The matter of the ordnance has been discovered, can we still live?"

"The emperor's methods are cruel. Han Shijun and Zhaojun Zhoufu Lord were arrested and killed. Countless officials died. We are not even officials. We have land, tenants and other properties. If the emperor sees money, he will persecute us with crimes." , Shall I sit and wait to die?"

"Even if the military strength is not as good as the emperor's, we can't sit still and wait for death. We must let the emperor know that we are not easy to bully. Even if we can't win, we have to fight to the death. Tell the emperor to see that our anger is not waiting for nothing!"

They put forward such views and chanted slogans, so they gathered a lot of people's hearts and gathered a considerable number of powerful manor owners.