At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

"Wouldn't it be the case that the great foundation of the Wei State will fall to the enemy again in the future if it is not governed and protected by a virtuous king? How can the State of Wei guarantee that it will not go down the old path?"

Chapter 1293 One thousand two hundred and three

Guo Peng is very happy that Guo Jin has started to think about these issues under his guidance.

But he also felt very helpless, because even he didn't know how far the Wei Empire could go in the future.

Now that he is still alive and powerful, he is still in darkness.

The waste brother's family has tossed tens of thousands of acres of land under his nose, but he doesn't know it.

The spy system that is proud of monitoring the world is as silent as if it is blind. He was so angry that he almost didn't order the entire system of Linzi Camp to be cleaned up.

Problems really popped up a lot.

Solve one, and another, solve one, and another, and the only thing that has not betrayed and failed his trust so far is the village system and the militia system.

The excellent grassroots greatly reduced the cost of countering the rebellion for the Wei Empire, allowing Guo Peng to take advantage of the great rebellion.

However, when he was still alive, there were already incidents of encroaching on the land of villages in villages. Who knows if it will become more common in the future, so that the rural system will be completely scrapped?

Whether the time is long or short, or 50 years, or 100 years, after all, it is a place that you can't see, a future you can't see.

That is the future that cannot be changed.

He couldn't do it, and Guo Jin couldn't do it either.

So he rubbed Guo Jin's head.

"Don't think too much. Since there are problems, there will definitely be answers. Maybe not now, maybe in the more distant future, but these problems can be solved after all."

"really?"

Guo Jin expressed doubts.

"Yes, it will."

Guo Peng didn't doubt it at all.

Although that day may have changed the world, the Wei Empire has long since dissipated in the dust of history, and has become a joke for future generations.

But it will, it will be resolved, he firmly believes.

A few days after this, Guo Peng received a good news from Wuguan to Zhao Yun's troops.

The 6 powerful rebels in Nanyang County have been completely defeated, the siege of Wancheng has been untied, and the guards have begun to carry out a comprehensive liquidation in Nanyang County in accordance with Guo Peng's order.

In short, it was murder.

Nanyang County is the former Han Emperor Township. When the population was the most prosperous, there were 50 households and 250 million people.

Counting the population hidden by powerful families, the estimated population of 350 million to 400 million will not be a problem.

Such a large population was invaded by the Yellow Turban Army at the end of the Han Dynasty, and later by Yuan Shu, and the population and economy were hit.

Later, Liu Biao went north to occupy Nanyang, restoring the vitality of Nanyang, and the population of Nanyang County slowly recovered. When the Wei army went south and quickly occupied Nanyang County, the total population of Nanyang County was about 200 million.

According to statistics afterwards, the registered population of Nanyang County is about 100 million, and the remaining population is estimated to be taken by powerful families as their own. The number will only increase or decrease.

It was not uncommon at the end of the Han Dynasty that powerful families controlled more people than the government.

And in this Nanyang County, which has almost completely preserved the rules of the late Han Dynasty, this is not surprising at all, and it is very easy to understand.

Therefore, the registered population of Nanyang County has shrunk slightly, and it is understandable that the tax revenue has been continuously reduced.

In this way, it is slightly possible to guess how many people have been plundered and hidden.

After Zhao Yun wiped out the Haoqiang rebels, he quickly sent people to raid the Haoqiang manors in various places, slaughtered them wantonly, flattened the manors on a large scale and killed Haoqiang, and mobilized the militias from Yingchuan County and Runan County in Yuzhou to assist in fighting together.

The two counties mobilized more than 2 militiamen to follow Zhao Yun's order, and together with Zhao Yun launched a fierce liquidation operation in Nanyang County.

They flattened and cleaned up the huge number of powerful households in Nanyang County one by one.

Some wealthy and powerful families who participated in the rebellion were punished, and all their property was confiscated. The powerful and powerful families who did not participate in the rebellion were also liquidated indiscriminately, and all their property was seized.

Anyway, the excuses are the same, rebellion, killing without mercy.

The righteous name of the emperor is so easy to use.

While this indiscriminate liquidation operation was being carried out vigorously, the liquidation operation in Nanjun was also vigorously carried out.

On the way to attack Jiangling, the Nanjun rebels were completely wiped out by the main force of Zhu Ling and Guo Lie in Dangyang County.

There are a lot of them, but the people are mixed, and the equipment is not bad, but it is also relatively mixed, so overall it is a motley army.

The Wei army in the Jiangling camp is an elite who has experienced many battles. It is not that difficult to deal with these miscellaneous fish troops. After a wave of charge and confrontation, their army formation was destroyed, and then there was pursuit, massacre, and overwhelming .

Zhu Ling pressed the formation, and Guo Lie led the cavalry directly to the central formation of the rebel army, smashing their formation in one go, rounding up the core of the opponent's leader, and swallowing them all in one go.

So soon, the rebel army was wiped out. Zhu Ling and Guo Lie cooperated tacitly and won a complete victory.

The opponent seems to be powerful, that is to say, there are a lot of people. With the same number of people, it is enough to deal with the militia.

The rebels who attacked Jiangxia County and Runan County were terribly punished by the local militia. They couldn't get out of the circle at all, that is, their voices were loud, which was actually useless.

Seeing such a scene, Cai Hao felt that it was a crime for him to suspect that Zhu Ling's entire army would be annihilated for a moment.

how can that be possible?

How could Wei Jun, who has fought invincible hands all over the world, suffer in front of such a motley rebel army?

Perhaps Wei Jun has been the ceiling of the world's force for quite a long time, and it cannot be surpassed. If there is anything that can surpass Wei Jun's force, compared to that time, the Wei Empire is already in a precarious time.

So the rebellion in Jingzhou subsided in this way, and the powerful rebel forces in Jingzhou were defeated. Zhu Ling immediately decided to start liquidating.

Cai Mao was a little surprised to learn that Zhu Ling was going to liquidate Nanjun Haoqiang.

"General, should we report this matter to His Majesty before making a decision?"

"The rebels rebelled and rebelled. Isn't it a matter of course to punish the rebels after they subside? What is there to doubt? Ben will have the final say."

Zhu Ling replied firmly.

Guo Lie also expressed his absolute support.

This made Cai Mao speechless.

Once it enters the state of war, the top local military commander can exercise his highest authority, and the chief administrative officer needs to fully cooperate, and cannot compete with him for power and profit, or hold back.

Not to mention Zhu Ling, Guo Lie is still Guo Peng's confidant.

Guo Lie was born as a domestic servant, and he grew up with him since he was a child. Guo Peng put him in Jingzhou to be a domineering man. If he was against him, he might not die fast enough.

Originally, Cai Mao was responsible for the rebellion, but now he dare not say anything.

It's just because of his class attributes that he is a little bit afraid of things like liquidation, a little scared.

He was very worried that the liquidation would be counted on his head.

Zhu Ling knew what Cai Mao was worried about, and after being tough, he was relieved that Cai was firmly on the side of the court, so he would never be implicated, but would be taken care of.

As long as you accept the Qingzhang land, there are no other requirements.

Cai Mao didn't say anything more.

Cai Mao didn't speak, and those Jingzhou officials who had barely escaped the entanglement naturally didn't dare to say anything.

Many local officials from Nanyang County and Nanjun County also participated in this rebellion, and they helped the rebels a lot in the open and in the dark. Obviously, these people cannot escape the liquidation.

After this wave of liquidation, it seems to be a foregone conclusion as to whose Jingzhou belongs to Jingzhou.

So the liquidation of Zhu Ling and Guo Lie started vigorously.

Chapter 1294 One thousand two hundred and four

The liquidation in Jingzhou was very intense. In just three days, 38 powerful rebels had been killed.

Of the 38 households killed, none remained, regardless of gender, age or age.

After the rebellion, the Wei government's revenge was cruel, bloody and merciless.

On the one hand, it is to punish the rebels, and on the other hand, it is also a severe deterrent to potential latecomers.

Let them deeply understand who is the one who keeps his word.

A few days later, Zhao Yunan went to South County, and met with Zhu Ling and Guo Lie. The two had fought side by side in the early days of Guo Peng Group's development, and had a good personal relationship. After some discussion, they both expressed their appreciation and approval for the other party's liquidation behavior .

Zhao Yun, the commander-in-chief of the Central Guard Army, is also here. This is the most obvious representative of the emperor. Now, no one can escape.

Jingzhou's liquidation operations began to accelerate super-accelerated, more and more wealthy and powerful families were killed, and the flames of burning corpses in some cities continued day and night.

Such a cruel liquidation action triggered a desperate counterattack. Some big households who had not raised troops and were not liquidated for the time being looked at the miserable end of the other big households, as if they also saw their own future, so they tried to continue to raise troops in despair Make chaos.

The great rebellion is over, and this kind of desperate struggle is meaningless, and the result is that it is suppressed even more severely.

The remnants of the Eastern Han Dynasty in Nanjun and Nanyang County, powerful landlords, and manor owners were brutally suppressed by the central government of the Wei Empire, cruelly liquidated, and almost killed.

Many of the officials of the two counties are also inextricably linked to the tyrants, or they are from the poor family of the tyrants, they are members of the tyrants, they are officials in the government, and they speak for the interests of the tyrants.

Naturally, they were also brutally liquidated, and they were bloody cleaned after the Wei army broke into the city.

Naturally, there will be a group of officials from other places to replace them.

With the unfolding of the liquidation operation, more and more powerful family properties were exposed, and the liquidation income after the suppression of the rebellion was continuously increased, and the three views of some people who had never seen the world were constantly refreshed.

The entire Nanyang County, based on preliminary statistics, has counted 120 million people and 24 hidden households.

There are not so many in Nanjun, but there are also hidden populations of more than 50 people and more than [-] households. The number is astonishingly large.

When Zhao Yun and Zhu Ling sent the preliminary statistical data to Luoyang, they were also strongly shocked in their hearts.

They are the kind of people who don't have a lot of land, and they take it as a reward from Guo Peng, and then they don't buy additional land. Naturally, they can't imagine what it is like to have so many land and hermits.

But it is clear what will happen.

Except for a few pretty women who were kept for sale, the rest of the people were all killed.

The Wei Empire and Guo have never shown mercy to their enemies, and they have always dealt with them severely.

Everyone knows that after this wave of liquidation is over, not many powerful manors can continue to exist.

The ones that continue to exist either have a particularly deep relationship or have made great contributions. Apart from this, there will be no other manors surviving.

After the whole operation is over, Jingzhou will be a brand new Jingzhou, Jizhou will be a brand new Jizhou, Qingzhou will also be a brand new Qingzhou, and all remnants of the old era will be swept away.

In the past, it was too late or impossible to liquidate, and this wave is considered to be liquidated to the end.

The Wei Empire threw off the burden and continued to set off. As for the psychological shadow it would leave on the officials, it was not something that Guo had considered.

The year of Yande has been in operation for less than nine years, but there is no one year that is completely stable and normal, and Guo Peng always has to toss something out.

In some years, things are big, and in other years, things are small. For him, it is a toss.

As for the officials, they were tormented by him to the point of death.

From the founding of the country to the present, more and more people have been tossed to death, and a new generation replaces the old.

The number of meritorious veterans who are still alive cannot be said to be small, but there are not many who hold power.

Wave after wave of purges, the emperor has absolute power, and they are all victims of the power struggle.

No one knows what the emperor will do next.

But their private land property is indeed subject to tax.

Except for the land rewarded for meritorious service-the land rewarded by the emperor himself for his contribution is not taxed.

This can be regarded as the emperor's special consolation to the courtiers who have made contributions. In addition, taxes must be paid.

High-ranking officials and dignitaries also pay taxes.

Cao Cao has to pay taxes, Guo Jia has to pay taxes, Cheng Yu has to pay taxes, Tian Feng has to pay taxes, and everyone has to pay taxes.

The rebellion launched by the tyrants has almost been quelled, and Jizhou, Youzhou, Qingzhou and Jingzhou, where the rebellion is the most intense, are almost the same.

The last one, Xuzhou, which was slightly more violent, has also reached the end of its battle.