At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

Not only do they have land and food, but there are also people with guns, which can be pulled out to form an army.

The guys from the former Yantie official battalion also saved their hands and did not hand over all the prohibited ordnance. Guo Peng actually guessed this point, and this group of people will not hide these things unless necessary. The ordnance was exposed.

And now, is the time of necessity.

The Hebei rebels, the Central Plains rebels, and the Jiangnan rebels did not have a unified command. Most of them were spontaneous, first in Hebei, then in the Central Plains, and finally in Jiangnan. Those who were not liquidated enough and left the mark of the old era, They are all rebellious.

However, those who liquidated more thoroughly, or those who attacked more ruthlessly, had very weak rebellions, and there were even no rebels.

For example, Sili, Yongzhou, Liangzhou, as well as Yuzhou, Bingzhou, Yangzhou, and Yizhou, the liquidation was very thorough, and the murders were very ruthless. In some places, people were all killed, of course it was not the work of someone like Guo , but the Xiliang Military Group did it.

The people in these places have almost been killed, so naturally there are no historical issues. For things like clearing up the land, the clearing is also clear, it's no big deal.

If the liquidation is not thorough enough, then they will rise up and rebel.

But it doesn't matter, this wave is to clear them up.

Instead of letting Guo Jin complete these historical issues, someone Guo is responsible for dealing with these historical issues.

The time has entered June of the ninth year of Yande.

In the hot summer, the rebellion within the empire has come to an end.

Local tyrants were wiped out on a large scale, powerful manors were bulldozed on a large scale, hermits were released on a large scale, and officials who were colluding with evil intentions were generally dismissed and killed.

At the same time, in March of the ninth year of Yande, the Wei Empire held the second imperial examination as usual, and in April, the newly selected young officials stepped onto the stage of history.

From April to June, after a three-month observation period, they were arranged to take up positions in a large number of places.

Officials who performed poorly in the counter-insurgency war, or were in cahoots with powerful rebels, were dismissed or killed.

The local officials who performed well were promoted on a large scale. Three county magistrates who were born in Lishu who performed extremely well were promoted to county guards like a rocket.

The resulting large-scale lack of grassroots officials was just filled by this group of officials selected from the imperial examination.

At the same time, anticipating that the [-] new civil servants selected would not be enough, Guo Peng held a special [Enke] literary examination in April and again selected [-] civil servants.

He gave these [-] lucky ones the birthplace of the top three soldiers.

After the surprise tutoring in the Guanzheng and Taixue training classes, all the 800 people were sent to the localities to take over the grassroots officials, and took up positions in the rural grassroots that lacked officials on a large scale, so as to restore local administration and stabilize local order in the shortest possible time.

Youzhou, Jizhou, Qingzhou, Yanzhou and Jingzhou especially need this group of newly promoted officials to take over.

After all, in a big rebellion, in addition to the rebels who were exposed in one breath, there were also many township heads, village heads, and even county magistrates who died in the line of duty.

In the battle with the rebels, the militia team was not without losses. On the contrary, the militia team suffered not small losses.

A lot of militiamen died in battle, and more than a hundred military instructors died in the line of duty.

After a large-scale loss, there is naturally a large-scale filling.

In many places, officials from top to bottom have been replaced. The chief executives have been replaced, and the minor officials have also been replaced.

In some counties, the officials of the entire county government have changed, because the officials of the original county government either died or were promoted to the county, and no one remained in the original place.

The large-scale promotion, transfer, and tenure of officials reflected the unprecedented violent political and economic liquidation of the Wei Empire in the nine years of Yande.

This unprecedented large-scale liquidation liquidated the powerful landlord class that had taken root in the local area since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty.

Because these tyrants did not have family classics or made their fortunes relatively late, they failed to be promoted to noble families and entered the central government in time.

They have no political power, or their political power is limited to the local area, where they enjoy special status and power. Officials sent by the central government often need to cooperate with them in order to exercise their ruling power.

In this way, they continue to grow bigger and strengthen their local power, making it more and more difficult for the central government to uproot their local foundations, and the tail is too big to lose.

The 20 years of troubled times at the end of the Han Dynasty destroyed most of these tyrants, but there were always some who survived and developed to this day, so that Guo Peng had to use the last resort to eradicate them.

This large-scale liquidation operation successfully completely destroyed the divisive manor economy that had gradually formed since the middle and late Eastern Han Dynasty. No fewer than 12 powerful landlords and their families died because of this large-scale liquidation operation.

Through this large-scale liquidation operation, the Guo Wei regime successfully wiped out the foundation and future of the manor economy, and uprooted the manor economy together with the class of powerful manor owners.

They carried out a violent and powerful national rebellion, which indeed brought huge economic losses and political turmoil to the Wei Empire.

The rebellion that started at the end of March, even with the current statistics at the end of June, in the past three months, Qingzhou, Jizhou, and Youzhou have caused 17 county magistrates, 45 township chiefs, 89 village chiefs, and one military instructor to die. One hundred and three people.

The loss of the militia is around 2000 people, and there is no complete statistical result yet.

This is the current statistical data of the three states, and the situation of other states that have not yet been counted is unclear.

The economic loss is probably a staggering number, and Guo has not gotten it yet.

However, this great rebellion was finally suppressed by the rock-solid rural system and militia system of the Wei Empire, and the central counter-insurgency army even only took on the final finishing work and liquidation work.

Many central officials were shocked and speechless when they got the specific news.

It never occurred to them that the village system and the militia system that the emperor resolutely implemented in spite of dissuasion actually played a decisive role at this necessary moment.

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Because of the existence of these militias, the rebels in most areas did not form a confluence, and were divided, surrounded and annihilated.

The regular army did not take action, and they were all suppressed by the local rural militia.

It means that this great rebellion did not shake the foundation of the Wei Empire at all, but in a sense strengthened the foundation of the Wei Empire.

Because almost all the people participated and carried out, the emperor's will and the mud legs united together to put down the rebellion.

The Wei Empire did not need to pay much military expenditure for this.

Moreover, the amount of booty liquidated by the liquidation work after the rebellion subsided is so large that it can fully make up for the economic losses directly caused by the rebellion.

With this in mind, Wei Tianzi Guo Peng firmly implemented a thorough liquidation policy without hesitation, and mercilessly killed the rebellious powerful landlords.

After the end of June, although there were sporadic rebellions that had not yet ended, basically, the peak period of this major rebellion has passed.

The rebels in Hebei and the Central Plains were killed, and the rebellious manor owners were killed, and the manors were flattened one by one, and disappeared one by one.

The historical problems left by the Eastern Han Empire to the Wei Empire were completely resolved at this moment.

When the overall situation was settled, when the officials once again turned their attention to the emperor who lived in the inner palace of the Luoyang Palace, apart from admiration, they were more likely to be afraid.

The kind of utter fear that came after truly realizing the suffocating power of the emperor.

They finally understood that some resistances should not have existed from the beginning, and some objections should not have been raised from the beginning.

An unprecedented powerful autocratic monarchy was established in the Wei Empire in the ninth year of Yande.

This is an absolute monarchy that is not mixed with water, an autocratic monarchy that is not praised by literati, and an autocratic monarchy full of blood and killing.

The consciousness of the officials has increased with the opening of the Great Reckoning.

Also at the end of June, Guo Jin returned to Luoyang from the hometown of Dawan with all her glory, and was warmly welcomed by Guo Peng.

Then, as soon as he came back, before he had time to celebrate the victory in the Western Regions War, he learned that an internal rebellion had broken out in Wei.

Many tyrants who opposed Qingzhang's land rebelled, and the scope of the rebellion spread to more than half of Wei State.

Guo Jin turned pale with shock, and reflexively requested to take command again to put down the rebellion——

It seemed that a victory achieved with the help of Cao Ren brought him inexplicable confidence.

Guo Peng laughed angrily, and slapped Guo Jin on the head.

"You don't know how many catties and taels you have? Without your uncle Xiaoxiao to hold you in line and give you command in front of the battle, how can you command thousands of troops? This time all the people who should be sent out have been sent out, and no one will help you Commander, stay in Luoyang honestly!"

Guo Jin was a little swollen at first, so she slapped Guo Peng on the head, which was a bit embarrassing.

"Son Meng Lang is dead."

"It's good to know about Meng Lang. Military and state affairs still depend on the generals who can recruit good fighters, not what you think. If you win a battle, you will feel that you are great?"

Guo Peng scolded him with a straight face, and he calmed down his somewhat swollen mood.

Then, Guo Jin asked about the rebellion that broke out within the Wei Empire, and then learned how far the Qingzhang Land Operation initiated by Guo Peng had progressed and how many people had been killed.

Guo Jin understood what was going on in this wave.

Guo Peng's move was really fierce. He cleared up the land and cleared up all the problems from before the founding of the Wei State to the present. The Qingzhang team cleared up a large number of occupations of government land and private land, causing a large number of officials to suffer for it.

The most typical representative is Guo Yang, Guo Jin's second uncle.

Like Guo Peng, Guo Jin didn't have the slightest affection for this second uncle, and Guo Jin didn't care about his fall from the horse and his miserable experience.

The local tyrants who have been severely stimulated by Guo Peng's handling of Guo Yang cannot take it lightly.

After a large number of officials were sacked one after another, their fear reached the limit and they were forced to rebel, so they set off a big rebellion that was not weaker than the first Yellow Turban Uprising in terms of momentum and scope.

"Father already expected that they would rebel?"

"It's not so much that I expected it, it's better to say that I took the initiative to force them to rebel. The emperor must have a legitimate reason to kill people. You can't kill people casually. If someone rebels on his own initiative, it will save me time and energy to frame them with crimes." .”

Guo Peng smiled.

"But their rebellion will cause casualties and losses in the end. Father has been building for many years, so it just turned into ashes?"

Guo Jin was very worried.

"If many years of construction were destroyed by them, they would really be worthy of my high regard, but the fact is, there is none at all. Most of the rebel tyrants couldn't even get out of their own county, so they were suppressed. Not a big storm at all.”

Guo Peng waved his hand: "It's just a bunch of mobs, it's nothing at all."

"Could it be those rural militiamen..."

Guo Jin guessed the key point.

"Yes, it is the rural militia. Because of their existence, I have the confidence to force the powerful to rebel."

Guo Peng patted Guo Jin on the shoulder with emotion: "Years of construction, years of investment, a lot of money spent, extravagant arrangements, and countless pressures and doubts are just for today.

For the sake of those tyrants who rebelled on this side, they will be suppressed on the other side, and the rebellion can be suppressed without dispatching regular troops. There are too many things that can be destroyed in a big war. If the militia can be effective, the money spent will be less many. "

"I see."

Guo Jin nodded with emotion: "Times have changed, those tyrants should have never paid attention to the rural militia system set up by their father, and looked down on the common people at all."

"They thought it would be like the Yellow Turban uprising in the former Han Dynasty. The court was in a hurry and had to lift the party in exchange for the cooperation of the scholars. Then they sent a large number of troops from Luoyang to counter the rebellion. The local area has already fallen on a large scale..."

Guo Peng shook his head: "Have these idiots forgotten that Weifu's success in the former Han Dynasty was due to the war and merits of suppressing the Yellow Turbans? No one knows rebellion better than Weifu, and they actually want to make Weifu The opposite, ridiculous, ridiculous."

Guo Peng laughed at those tyrants who didn't know the heights of the sky and the depths of the earth, laughed at them for not knowing how powerful they were, and laughed at them for not knowing what rebellion was at all.

"Rebellion is a technical job. It must have a solid foundation, strong military force, years of preparation, internal support, internal cooperation and external cooperation. It is best to have a good time, such as who died.

There is nothing, but if you bite the bullet and want to rebel, is this rebellion or courting death?They didn't even understand this kind of reasoning and rebelled. They just didn't take fatherhood seriously. How could they win? "

Guo Jin was noncommittal about this.

"How did father think of clearing the land at this time?"

He was very interested in it.

"Because in order to develop and embark on a new path, we cannot allow the existence of such an army in the country that can raise its arms with a single call."

Guo Peng frowned: "Although I am not afraid of being a father, I can handle it, but A Jin, you have to know that a manor is a small country, and the owner of the country is the owner of the manor. All the people in it are not the emperor's order, but the manor owner The command.

This kind of existence can only be tolerated by the former Han Dynasty. How can a father tolerate them having land, food, weapons, soldiers and horses?What's more, it's better to eradicate them sooner rather than later, and their power will become bigger and bigger.

They used to be able to study, but they couldn't make progress, and their influence could only be limited to the local area, but now they have eradicated the gentry for their father, and their academics have moved downwards. These local tyrants have already advanced.

They can already rely on the imperial examinations to become officials and ascend to high positions. They have money and can train more scholars to enter the imperial court.

Compared with them, it is much more difficult for the Li Shu family to cultivate scholars, both in quantity and quality, it is difficult to compare with them. If things go on like this, there will be no scholars in the court, and there will be no Li Shu.

At that time, if you want to attack these manor owners who occupy a lot of land, isn't it just to use the spear of the son to attack the shield of the son?In order to avoid such a future, even if it hurts a little now, we must do it. "

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Guo Peng's words aroused Guo Jin's concern.

He realized that he would also face such a crisis.

"Father, the powerful landlords are rich and able to train scholars, while the common people are poor and difficult to cultivate scholars. Although my father eradicated the gentry and set up schools, it seems that these powerful landlords are the ones who benefit the most."

Guo Peng nodded.

"Yeah, they are the ones who benefit the most. They set up schools and enroll more recruiters. This is indeed a downward transfer of academics. However, so far, they can only be transferred to the powerful landlords, because being a father is really useless. Qian, Jin, do you still remember Mengxue Primary School and Middle School that Weifu told you about?"