The Warriors of the Three Kingdoms

After having a plan, Yan Baihu stopped getting angry here, but immediately ordered his subordinates to start to do it.

On the same day, he directly led his remaining [-] people, called dozens of warships, and headed south along the coast to Funan Kingdom.

But what was unexpected was that after Yan Baihu's dozens of ships went out to sea, a gust of evil wind blew them away from the coastal line and directly floated to the sea.

Because there was no compass and they couldn't tell the direction, they didn't sail along the south, but floated along the east.

Two days later, Liu Zheng led his soldiers and horses to Wucheng County slowly, but found that the place was empty, and that guy Yan Baihu had already escaped.

This made Liu Zheng, who had originally planned to fight a fierce battle, kill Yan Baihu, and avenge the soldiers who died, feel empty.

"This Yan Baihu, what a fucking coward, just run away!"

"Hahaha, my lord, that Yan Baihu who was threatened by our army had no choice but to run away."

"You can't let him run away like this. Send me someone to chase after him. You must destroy him and leave him behind. There will be endless troubles."

"Yes, my lord."

Liu Zheng still sent someone to look for it, but after he heard that Yan Baihu's people had gone to sea by boat, he fell into deep thought.

Chapter 482

After Yan Baihu escaped, Liu Zheng sent people to search the coastline for several days, but there was no trace of Yan Baihu.

They even asked people to go to Jiaozhou along the coastline to inquire about Jiang Qin and Zhou Tai's navy, but they told Liu Zheng that they had been training in the waters of Zhuyazhou and had not seen a large fleet passing by.

This surprised Liu Zheng. He didn't know where Yan Baihu and the others had gone.

I thought that Yan Baihu did not go south, but went north with the fleet.

But now that Yan Baihu's people have left, Liu Zheng doesn't need to focus on him anymore.

After Yan Baihu escaped, Liu Zheng unified Wu County in just a few days.

October 187.

Basically, Yangzhou County south of the Yangtze River is all owned by Liu Zheng.

The six counties in Jiangdong, now Lujiang County, are no longer in Liu Zheng's hands.However, for Liu Zheng, Lujiang will belong to him sooner or later.

After occupying Yangzhou, Liu Zheng did not leave and returned to Jiaozhou. After all, to Liu Zheng, Yangzhou is more important than Jiaozhou, and he needs to be stationed and defended more.

There are no obvious enemies around Jiaozhou, there is only one Jingzhou, which is worthy of a battle.

But Yangzhou is different. There are more enemies from Yangzhou. There are Yanzhou and Xuzhou in the north, and Jingzhou in the west. They can easily enter Yangzhou.

Coupled with the fact that Yangzhou's clan and neighbors gathered together powerful forces, although Liu Zheng conquered the town, it was not as easy as it was in Jiaozhou to truly rule the entire Yangzhou.

Even the Sun family of Soochow in history could not be completely unified by force. The entire Jiangdong still had to rely on the support of the wealthy families in all parts of Jiangdong to have enough voice in Soochow.

And later, Soochow was also a powerful minister, and the wealthy families from all over the country had a relatively large right to speak.

After Liu Zheng took over Jiangdong, he immediately implemented a soft policy.Instead of directly confronting those wealthy families and suppressing their power, instead of ignoring them, they uniformly distribute the land they won and implement policies similar to those of Jiaozhou.

There is the foundation laid by Liu Zheng in Kuaiji County and Yuzhang County before.Some policies that benefit the people have long been deeply rooted in the hearts of the people. Even if many people have never heard of Liu Zheng, some people still know the policies that benefit the people that Liu Zheng implemented in Jiaozhou.

Therefore, after Liu Zheng unified the Jiangdong counties, he immediately began to implement policies similar to those of Jiaozhou, various tax reductions and exemptions, a large increase in work positions, recruitment of manpower to pay wages, and improvement of local people's livelihood, so that the people in these places can be more acceptable to Liu Zheng. the ruler.

After pleasing these ordinary people, Liu Zheng turned around and dealt with those wealthy families.

The existence of these powerful families is not conducive to the unification of Liu Zheng, because these people are all vested interests. If Liu Zheng wants to please the ordinary people, he will definitely confront them. Instead, they need to use policies to gradually reduce their power.

The first step is to abolish land transactions.It is owned by the counties and counties, and all land belongs to the counties and counties. Individuals are not allowed to buy and sell. This restricts the tyrants from becoming bigger, using the land, and oppressing the people.

But at the same time, taxes must be exempted. Not only ordinary people do not have to pay taxes, but even those powerful people can be exempted.

This avoids too radical policies and forces these powerful families to rebel.

Of course, when Liu Zheng implemented this plan, he didn't directly announce it. Instead, he sent people to summon all the well-known leaders of the wealthy families in Jiangdong.

The few relatively large wealthy families here are the big families with strong control in Jiangdong at present.

These families are not upstarts in Jiangdong, but large families formed when the old northern families moved south and settled down in various parts of Jiangdong.The emerging nobles that reproduced again.

Liu Zheng had met some of them before, for example, Gu Yong who he had met in Moling County, the Gu family was a leading wealthy family, the Lu family from Lujiang, and so on.These people were summoned by Liu Zheng, with the purpose of getting rid of the biggest wealthy families first.

When they were broken by Liu Zheng, it would be easier to deal with the remaining small families, and even Liu Zheng didn't need to take into account the ideas of those small families.

As long as the strongest group of people and the weakest group of people are dealt with by Liu Zheng, even if the remaining people want to rebel, no one will follow them, and even if no one takes the lead, they will not be able to complete the rebellion.

The more famous four big families are the four big families of Gu Luquan and Zhang.

The Gu family in Danyang, without much introduction, Liu Zheng understands that the Gu family is powerful. When they were in Moling, the Gu family was a well-known big family in Moling County, and even the surrounding areas. The ancestor of the Gu family was the prefect of Yingchuan, and later moved south to Jiangdong After three generations of hard work, the Gu family is quite famous here.

This time, the person sent by the Gu family was Gu Yong.

The Lu family in Wu County, the Lu family is naturally people like Lu Kang, but Lu Kang does not fully represent the Lu family, Lu Kang is just a member of the Lu family, and the real origin of the Lu family is Wu County.

The Lu family in Wu County is the root of the Lu family. Speaking of which, it was Lu Kang's grandfather who developed in Wu County. They were famous scholars in the Eastern Han Dynasty at that time. It takes one generation to grow the Lu family.Although it is not the most powerful family in Wu County, it is one of the few.

The status of the whole family in Wu County may not be as urgent as that of the Lu family and the Gu family, but it is also a big family in Wu County. The head of the family, Quan Rou, is also an official of the dynasty, and has a lot of fame in Jiangdong.

The Zhang family in Wujun, this Zhang family is not the family of Jiangdong Erzhang, but Zhang Yun. Zhang Yun is a famous person in Jiangdong.

These people represent the most powerful families in Wu County. As long as they are persuaded by Liu Zheng, other small families will naturally have to follow suit and there will be no problem.

Liu Zheng looked at the four big families in front of him, Gu Yong, Lu Jun, Quan Rou, and Zhang Yun.

These few people, standing in front of Liu Zheng, represent the family behind them.

"Everyone, I invite everyone here today because I actually have something important to discuss."

Liu Zheng came in from outside the lobby, greeted a few celebrities first, and then sat directly on the main seat. Seeing Liu Zheng coming in, Gu Yong was taken aback. The passerby I met years ago.

Lu Jun, on the other hand, had seen Liu Zheng a long time ago, so he was not surprised. Quan Rou and Zhang Yun stared at Liu Zheng, with no expression on their faces, wondering what they were thinking about.

Chapter 483 Encouragement

"My lord, why did you call us here?"

Zhang Yun was the oldest and the most prestigious person among the crowd, so no one spoke, and he was the only one who asked Liu Zheng first.

Liu Zheng looked at everyone.

"you are?"

Although Liu Zheng sent people to invite some powerful families, Liu Zheng didn't know them. Liu Zheng only knew Gu Yong and Lu Jun who were present. The other two, Zhang Yun and Quan Rou, didn't have much impression.

Even if Liu Zheng is a time traveler, he doesn't have much impression of these two, so he can only ask first, who is the person who spoke.

"My next Zhang Yun is now the head of the Zhang family in Wu County."

"Zhang Yun, you are Zhang Yun. You have admired your name for a long time. When I met you today, you finally know each other."

This is Zhang Yun, and the other one is Quan Rou.

Liu Zheng stopped asking, and immediately told the four people present why he invited them.

"Everyone, your family is a well-known wealthy family in the land of Jiangdong. It is a powerful family. Do you want to go one step further and become a powerful family that will be passed on for thousands of years and generations?"

When Liu Zheng opened his mouth, he just drew a big cake, which made the four people in front of him startled for a moment, as if they didn't understand why, the four of them glanced at each other.

It was Zhang Yun who spoke first.

"I don't know what Master Liu Zheng said?"

"You also know that I just occupied Yangzhou, and I don't want to leave in the future. So I need to do something in Yangzhou."

"The four of you are representatives of Jiangdong. I want you to assist me and occupy Jiangdong. You can recommend your descendants to serve in my government. At the same time, you will also enjoy the protection of my Liu Zheng. Basically, As long as you agree to fully support any of my decisions, any one of you will accompany the foundation I created for a long time."

Liu Zheng didn't say much about his plan. His purpose was to recruit these Jiangdong wealthy families. He only needed the support of these people, whether it was financial support or talent support.

Anyway, Liu Zheng is short of money and people. He has just conquered the huge Yangzhou, and many places need to spend money. Just to pay for the soldiers who died in this battle, Liu Zheng needs a lot of money. money.

After Liu Zheng finished speaking, the few people present did not speak, but silently thought about the consequences of Liu Zheng's words.

Everyone is smart, otherwise they wouldn't have prospered for generations and become a wealthy family.

It is impossible for them to kneel and lick because of Liu Zheng's words. Although Liu Zheng's strength is strong enough to make them feel afraid, they are still aristocratic families after all, and they have the face of aristocratic families.

Unless Liu Zheng can really come up with conditions that move them, they still have to weigh whether they can continue to exist in the era of the Han Dynasty by defecting to a rebel like Liu Zheng.

Once Liu Zheng is defeated, they will bet on the safety of the whole family for the choice they made.

"Master Liu Zheng, you just want to send us away with just a few verbal promises. There is no way to convince us with such empty-handed white wolf words."

Zhang Yun opened his mouth and answered Liu Zheng, wanting Liu Zheng to come up with something practical.

"Well, I know, if I don't offer some benefits, you won't follow me wholeheartedly, so let's put it this way, do you think it is possible for the Han Dynasty to return to its former glory?"

Liu Zheng didn't open his mouth to promise, because he also knew that what he promised with empty words could not directly convince these people.

He must first let the few people in front of him understand what kind of era it is now.

After listening to Liu Zheng's words, everyone changed their faces slightly. At this time, it is taboo to talk about whether the Han Dynasty will decline. It is not something ordinary people dare to say, but now this is Liu Zheng's territory. They said It doesn't matter anymore.

So after a moment of silence, several of them still spoke, and Quan Rou was the one who spoke first.

He is the Minister of the imperial court, an official position of a big man, but since He Miao came to power, he has resigned and stayed at home, because he knows that the big man is going to end, and a relative like He Miao is in power. The little emperor is young and ignorant, at least ten years It is an extremely terrible thing for the Han Dynasty to be unable to govern in person, and the power is in the hands of foreign relatives.

When the imperial power declines, the local tyrants will become stronger. When the strength of the locality becomes stronger and stronger, it will be reduced to the appearance of the emperor of the Great Zhou Dynasty hundreds of years ago.

"Today's royal family is just like the King of Zhou, who is only the Son of Heaven but has no strength. Its decline is inevitable. Unless there is a powerful person who can once again rule the world, it will be difficult to reproduce the strength of the great ancestor, Emperor Wu."

After Quan Rou finished speaking, the others nodded.

She acquiesced to Quan Rou's statement.

After all, what they think in their hearts is the same. They don't think that the current Han Dynasty can reproduce the glory of hundreds of years ago. can be suppressed.

The strength of Liu Zheng, the rebel, in front of them has already made the court very passive and unable to take care of it.

"In my opinion, it's the same as what you think. Since the Han Dynasty will fall sooner or later, there will always be someone who will unite the world again. The world will unite after a long time. Why can't this person be me?"

Liu Zheng said confidently to the people present.

"You may say that I am ambitious, or that I am overconfident, but Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu 200 years ago, no one was optimistic about him, and no one was optimistic about me a few years ago. A small yellow scarf rebel can take down Jiaozhou and Yangzhou , but now what?"

Liu Zheng briefly described his current strength.

"What I want to say is that in the future, if I can once again unify the world like Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu, you will have the merit of being a dragon. Not to mention the 28 generals of Yuntai, you will be able to become marquises and worship ministers no matter what, and shelter your descendants Bar."

"Now it's up to you to make your own choices, choose to join me, or leave here."

"Join me. Some of you must be at least a prefect, or even become a staff officer in our army. If you don't want to follow me, you can leave here. I won't embarrass everyone."

Liu Zheng quickly finished his words, but when the last few words were spoken, everyone's faces obviously darkened, because they all felt something was wrong from Liu Zheng's tone.

A few words to embarrass everyone, and the tone is obviously more serious. They are not fools, so they naturally understand that if they leave, they will not end well.

Chapter 484 Redeployment

The four present were not fools, and they all understood that Liu Zheng had already told them about his ambition.

From the few words Liu Zheng got just now, it can be known that although Liu Zheng has not yet claimed the title of king and emperor, he has this idea in his heart.

Where did the dragon's merit come from? It's nothing more than following Liu Zheng now, and when Liu Zheng becomes the emperor in the future, he will reward his original followers.

If Liu Zheng's solicitation is rejected, I'm afraid that he won't be able to walk out of this door alive.

Those who know current affairs are Junjie, and among the four, Lu Jun is the first to express his opinion.

"Master Liu Zheng, you and I already know each other. If you invite my Lu family over, you think highly of my Lu family. My Lu family is willing to support you."

After all, Lu Kang can now be regarded as the head of the Lu family. The Lu family in Wu County is headed by Lu Kang, the prefect. Lu Jun's words represent Lu Kang.

When Liu Zheng heard Lu Jun speak, a smile immediately appeared on his face. It was still the Lu family who knew current affairs and knew to express their position at this time.

After Lu Jun spoke, the other three didn't dare to keep silent. The second one was Quan Rou, who also agreed to Liu Zheng very tactfully.

"Quan Rou is willing to follow the adults."

However, Quan Rou is smarter. He did not say that he represents the whole clan, but that he is willing to pursue Liu Zheng.

If Liu Zhan is defeated in the future, he will not implicate the whole clan if he is completely soft, and he can just apologize by dying alone.

With Quan Rou's opening, the remaining two, Zhang Yun and Gu Yong, answered with interest.

"I am willing to pursue the adults, and everything will be subject to the arrangements of the adults."

This group of people dare not stand up and be the first bird, no matter whether they are sincere or not, at this time, they must always behave in obedience to Liu Zheng, otherwise, if Liu Zheng is really angered, there will be no good end.