At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Wang Bo turned pale with shock.

"What? You!"

"My Wei is unpopular? The emperor is unpopular? Open your eyes and see! Who are these village militiamen fighting for? How can you be a traitor like you if you raise your arms and respond to everyone!"

"how so!!!"

Wang Bo went a little crazy, staring at He Yuan.

"That's the case, you are the same, your friends are the same, the whole county must be the same...Maybe there are one or two fish that slipped through the net? The rest are the same."

He Yuan raised his head and looked in the direction of Luoyang: "I know, you have never looked down on me, and you feel dissatisfied that I can be a county magistrate because of my humble background, but do you think that a person with such a humble background like me can be a county magistrate?" What does Ling Zhi rely on?"

He Yuan slowly pulled out his saber.

"It depends on the utter loyalty to the emperor, and the head of the rebels like you."

He Yuan approached Wang Bo with a knife, stopped near him, and raised the knife in his hand: "Anyone who disobeyed the Holy Son of Heaven, rebelled and caused unforgivable crimes, everyone will be punished!"

The members of the Wang Clan shouted in panic, while Wang Bo looked at He Yuan who was leaning against the setting sun and raised his knife at him.

Then he chopped off with a knife, and Wang Bo's head fell to the ground and rolled a few times before rolling in front of his family.

His family screamed uncontrollably.

Then, the neck of his headless corpse spurted a lot of blood like a fountain.

Sikong wiped his saber as usual, and He Yuan put away his saber.

He turned his eyes to other directions, looking at the traces of wolf smoke rising into the sky in the setting sun.

As long as the plan goes well, none of the rebels will be killed.

In fact, this is also the case. On this day, when the rebels in Zhangwu County rebelled in groups, they were defeated by the militiamen in the nearby Tuntian farms who had been prepared for a long time, and then took advantage of the situation to counterattack.

In the end, not only won the battle, but also destroyed their manor, rescued the tenants in the manor, and realized He Yuan's long-cherished dream.

To eradicate all the manors, so that the group of fat manor owners can no longer arrogantly show off their power in front of him.

In this way, the rebel uprising in Zhangwu County was suppressed by the county magistrate and militiamen.

There are not a few counties with such rebellion in Bohai County, almost every county has them, but every county has responded to these rebellious incidents.

Among them, there are those who have done better and braver than He Yuan.

For example, Zhou Qu, the county magistrate of Nanpi, who was born in a training camp, is even better.

After learning that several tyrants in the county were planning to rebel, they directly rectified the county's armed forces, and together with the county lieutenant, broke into the manor of the leader and the largest tyrant.

He cut off his head single-handedly, directly left this powerful family without a leader, and directly collapsed. Only by relying on more than 100 county guards, this largest powerful manor was pacified.

Then he played a show operation and directly recruited the elite private soldiers in the manor.

These private soldiers originally wanted to resist, but Zhou Qu told them how powerful they are, telling them that if they follow him, they can survive and get the land, and forget the past, but if they don't follow him and choose to resist stubbornly, they will definitely be killed.

Then he showed the Patriarch's head.

The private soldiers who lost their leaders look at me and I look at you, and bowed directly, expressing their willingness to obey the command of the county magistrate, hoping to survive, so Zhou Qu asked the county lieutenant to lead these private soldiers and the armed forces of the county to Attack other powerful manors.

Hit right away, without any warning at all.

These private soldiers really used their lives, so he spent a few days to pacify all the powerful manors in the county, killed all the powerful, and incorporated all their private soldiers.

In total, there are nearly two thousand slightly elite armed forces with strong bodies and military skills.

Without using the strength of the militias in the surrounding villages and villages, they directly used the enemy's spears to attack the enemy's shields, and put down the rebellion in Nanpi County, Bohai County, with minimal losses.

The decisive evidence of the strong rebellion was also found - batches of ordnance and supplies.

The unscaled rebellion in Nanpi County was quelled by Zhou Qu in this way, and Nanpi County remained stable. During the subsequent rebellion, militia were sent out to support and assist other counties to quell the rebellion.

chapter 1279 one thousand one hundred eighty nine the last remnants of the previous era

Undoubtedly, almost all the powerful manors kept a hand in the operation of the Yantie official camp that year.

They secretly retained the ability to resist and trained private soldiers.

And they also kept iron smelting equipment and blacksmith artisans.

The Yantie official camp operation was successful on the surface, but no one knew how many iron objects, iron smelting equipment and blacksmith households were hidden in private.

The population of the manor was not within the scope of the imperial court's statistics, and they had no way of knowing if they hid it from the imperial court.

So this time, it gave them the confidence to resist and made them feel that they had the strength to fight.

This kind of thing made He Yuan feel unhappy, and it also made Zhou Qu feel unhappy, feeling that their past efforts had been turned into ashes, as if they didn't exist.

How can this work?

But no matter how you say it, the resistance in Zhangwu County and Nanpi County was successfully extinguished. All the tyrants in the county were wiped out, and none of them survived. The results were quite fruitful.

Then expand the situation to the entire Bohai County.

There is no doubt that Bohai County's resistance is very strong.

But on the other hand, Bohai County's counterinsurgency is also unprecedentedly strong.

When Guo Peng made the Northern Expedition to Xianbei, he carried out a large-scale cleansing and upgrading of the officialdom in Jizhou, and a large group of county magistrates from the training camp and from Li Shu took office.

Their taking office has consolidated the grassroots regime in Jizhou unprecedentedly.

A large number of militiamen participated in counter-insurgency operations and became the main force in counter-insurgency. Without the army joining in, they successfully suppressed the rebellion in Bohai County.

This means that the grassroots line that Guo has been cultivating for many years has given him enough returns.

Even without the participation of the regular army, a rebellion of this magnitude was suppressed by the village system and the militia system.

Although the supervisory system has encountered great troubles, at least the village system and the militia system have not betrayed him.

The favored people did not betray him, and brought him enough help to give the army time to maneuver before they had time to respond.

What's more, the rebellion has been suppressed.

It can be said that the sinking of the rural system and the militia system greatly reduced the cost of countering rebellion for the Wei Empire.

Therefore, the initiators and participants of this rebellion were shocked to find that their biggest enemy did not seem to be the invincible and powerful Wei army in the legend, but the group of people who rushed to fight them to the death Mudleg militiamen.

Under the leadership of professional veterans, they formed a relatively rigorous military formation. The kind of military formation that the regular army saw as flimsy was powerful in the eyes of the rebels.

After the two sides fought, the rebels were all defeated and crushed by the militia.

It is really that the rebels have no will to fight, and they don't know why they are fighting.

The militiamen knew why they were fighting, and they fought very bravely and confidently.

The main force of the rebel army is cannon fodder, and they are not willing to die for the manor owners.

It is okay for the guys who have formed a temporary army to fight against the wind, and it is not a problem to follow the wind to burn, kill and loot, but if they encounter a slight setback, they will collapse immediately.

In this regard, the militiamen are much better than them.

The guardian is the homeland, and the relatives are behind them. They fight without hesitation and go forward bravely.

Under the training of more systematic army military technology, although they are far inferior to the regular army, they are not afraid of that level of rebels.

The rebels did not have special ordnance for the Wei army, but some of the militiamen had weapons that the Wei army could not use.

The ordnance manufactured by a specialized ordnance factory is far from being comparable to the ordnance used by the rebels.

After Guo Peng became emperor, he carried out large-scale reforms in the steel industry such as ordnance forging, changing the production mode of small workshops to large-scale workshop production.

In terms of ordnance manufacturing, the Qin-style assembly line operation method was restored, and the steel production model was reformed.

The steelmaking method currently used by the Wei State Ordnance Factory is a steel filling method that is more advanced than the steel frying method, and the collective production model has also increased the efficiency of steelmaking.

On the whole, the official steel output and steel quality of the Wei Empire are by no means comparable to that of ordinary small workshops.

For the same military ring sword, the Wei Army standard ring sword is better than the non-standard ring sword, sharper and tougher.

The two weapons collided with each other. After a few fights, the Huan Shou Dao in the hands of the rebels broke, while the Huan Shou Dao in the hands of the militiamen was still intact. This is where the huge gap lies.

In this way, under the confrontation between the two armies, there is no reason for the rebels to retreat undefeated.

It has to be said that the scale of this wave of riots in Jizhou is not small.

Guo Yang's tragic experience and Han Hao's sacking, coupled with the strictness of Jizhou Qingzhang's land, made the Haoqiang Manor, which owns about 40.00% of Jizhou's production land, frightened.

The manor owners who have survived since Yuan Shao's time because they stood in the correct line up to the present are stunned to find that the emperor doesn't seem to intend to give them a way out.

So when Haoqiang in Bohai County decided to raise troops to fight against in order to force the emperor to compromise, riots broke out in each of the ten counties of Jizhou.

They were either spontaneous, or they heard the news, or they were contacted by the powerful Bohai County, and they gathered the last unofficial armed forces belonging to them in the manor, and staged a final resistance.

Since the mid-to-late Eastern Han Dynasty, when the gentry and tyrannical powers flooded, and then around the Yellow Turban Rebellion, local armed forces surged. In the past 20 years, Guo Peng has pacified most of the unofficial armed forces in the world.

But what has not been wiped out is the genetic disease left by the Han Empire, and Guo had nothing to do with them at first.

The tenants in the Haoqiang Manor, the [Hidden Households] indicated in the official accounts of the Wei Empire, are the last unofficial armed forces within the borders of the Wei Empire.

They are numerous in number, have great potential, and possess weapons and equipment from the pre-Han era that have survived or been hidden from the Yantie official camp era. Once they form an army, they will indeed have the power to threaten the rule of the Wei Empire.

However, the difference between the Wei Empire and other empires is that it has a different emperor.

This different emperor realized very early on the dangers of powerful manor owners to his local regime, so he set up village and village grassroots regimes and armed them very early, divided and surrounded the powerful manors, and guarded against them from the very beginning. damn.

Retired soldiers went down from the army to serve as militia instructors in local villages. Every household in the village had at least one strong male. They practiced military skills during the slack season and went to the fields together to plow the land during the busy season. Military training and plowing were the same.

This policy has been implemented for many years, and most states and counties in the Central Plains, Hebei, and Jiangnan are operating this system, which has cultivated a large and excellent reserve force for the Wei Empire.

And when there is no need to mobilize these reserve soldiers during the national war, they stay in their hometown to cultivate the fields, practice military skills, and prevent local bandits and small-scale rebellions.

The imaginary enemies that Guo Peng set up when he implemented this policy were these powerful manors that still occupy a large amount of arable land and a large number of labor forces at this moment.

These manors are the last remnants of the previous era, pustules born on the body of the Wei Empire.

Not a single day passed without Guo Peng thinking about how to crush them, and then apply medicine to restore them.

The purpose of implementing the Qingzhang land policy so harshly and swiftly this time is to force them to rebel and revolt, so that they can have an excuse to kill the powerful manor.

The Jizhou tyrants did not live up to Guo's expectations, and they exploded.

Not only did they explode, but their explosions would have a chain reaction that was bound to create a massive rebellion of unprecedented scope.

chapter 1280 one thousand 190 people's war

In fact, it is hard to say that after the share is divided into acres, the tax share paid by the tyrants is not too much, and the bulk is still theirs.

But people are like this. When a tax that has never been collected is suddenly collected, they are unhappy. The more powerful and status people are, the more unhappy they are and the less willing they are to pay.

They must try to escape.

After all, no one thinks too much money. For things like money, the more the better, the best should never be less.

They feel that they are different from ordinary people. They have different social status and different occupations. They are not the same kind of people at all, so they should enjoy different privileges.

If not, it would be a crime to pay taxes normally.

Although the tax rate after clearing the land is not high, even though they have a lot, they will only want more, endlessly, until they support themselves to death.

They are like wild cats whose tails have been stepped on. Facing the menacing Qingzhang team of the Wei Empire, in desperation, anger rose from their hearts, and evil grew from their guts. Finally, they decided to rebel.

Let the emperor know their strength, know their resistance and demands, and know that they are definitely not lambs to be slaughtered, and they are definitely not those mud legs and tamed scholars who are unable to resist the imperial power.

The vast and powerful landlords who were called poor families awakened their will to resist, followed in the footsteps of the scholars, and decided to fight against the imperial power.

Of course, if the scholars were able to keep up when they launched a confrontation, maybe the result would be better.

It's a pity that when the scholars were fighting against the imperial power, they were still eating melons and watching the show, and even waiting to carve up the political interests of the scholars after they fell.

Now the political interests have been obtained, but the economic interests are facing serious threats.

The emperor took action against their lifeblood. If they didn't work hard, it would mean that their balls were pinched by the emperor, and they would lose their resistance immediately.

Shouldn't the emperor be flattened and rounded in the future?

Can this be tolerated?