As soon as Xiao Jie returned to Panyu, he received two portraits from Luoyang. They were portraits of his newborn son and daughter, which were said to be the best painters in the palace.

It's a pity that the joy of becoming a father for the first time didn't last long, when Xiao Jie got some bad news.

Many ministers in the court are impeaching him for doing unrighteous things in the name of suppressing rebellion, and even summed up three major crimes for him.

The first crime was to burn a large amount of food, causing many Yue people to lose food for the winter and expanding the scope of revenge.

The second crime is to massacre the Yue people, which aggravates the conflict between the Yue people and the court.

The third crime is to implicate the innocent, seize the land of a large number of Yue people's villages, and use the counter-insurgency to expand the situation to buy people's hearts.

These three crimes cannot all be said to be groundless false accusations, after all, Xiao Jie has done all three things, but he did not expect to be caught by the court officials who are full of benevolence and morality.

But Xiao Jie also thought that these ministers jumping out to impeach him one by one was definitely not to stand out for these Yue people, but to suppress himself, because the battle for the succession itself is one after another, and his side is making a big splash in quelling the rebellion , which naturally means that the other princes are at a disadvantage, so naturally they must concentrate their firepower on themselves.

Fortunately, his father, who was far away in Luoyang, chose to protect himself, and kept all the memorials of impeachment against him, just to give an explanation to the minister, and asked the Qilin Guard Jiaozhou Department to investigate the matter strictly.

Of course Xiao Jie believed that the people in the Qilin Guard Jiaozhou Division would not dare to make things difficult for him for no reason, but he knew that he had to stabilize the situation in Jiaozhou as soon as possible, prove that everything he did in Jiaozhou was right, and give the court and his father an explanation as soon as possible .

Now that I have just suppressed the chieftain rebellion of the Yue people, beheaded a large number of Yue people who were dissatisfied with the imperial court, and removed a large number of forces opposing the imperial court, it was time to forcefully implement reforms in Jiaozhou.

But Xiao Jie's idea was opposed by Chang Shi Fu Kuang.

Fu Kuang's reason is very simple. Xiao Jie, the governor of Jiaozhou, killed too many Yue people in the process of suppressing the rebellion. There are many conflicts between the Han people and the Yue people. If we forcefully implement the reform of land and return to the local people at this time, and forcibly deprive the power of the chieftains of the Yue people, I am afraid that those chieftains who originally wanted the imperial court will also be angry and rebel against the imperial court. There will be more Yue people joining them, I am afraid that Jiaozhou will never have peace.

According to Fu Kuang's thinking, although the rebellion of the Yue people has been strongly suppressed by Xiao Jie, the Yue people must still be unconvinced and dissatisfied with Xiao Jie and the court. Pushing reforms and returning them to others is probably running in the opposite direction.

However, Xiao Jie still insisted on taking advantage of the opportunity of the great victory to forcibly push to reform the natives. His reason is also very simple. The chieftain system itself is the root cause of the endless rebellion of the Yue people in Jiaozhou. If this is the case, why not just abolish it? They will oppose the abolition of the chieftains now, and they will oppose them in the future if the chieftains are not abolished now. Since these chieftains will be opposed whether they are abolished or not, it is only a matter of time, so why not take advantage of this once and for all to pull out the cancer of the chieftain system once and for all. In exchange for the future once and for all.

Now Yue people hate themselves, but they are even more afraid of themselves. As long as they sit in Jiaozhou for a day, he believes that these Yue people and chieftains will not dare to act rashly even if they are unwilling or dissatisfied. After all, there are 10,000+ lonely souls in Qixue Gorge Wild ghosts are a lesson from the past.

Fu Kuang wanted to persuade Xiao Jie again, but Xiao Jie told him bluntly that reforming the land and returning it to the natives was also the emperor's intention. give up.

Seeing that Xiao Jie moved out even the emperor who was far away in the capital, Fu Kuang didn't dare to say any more in desperation, and could only express that he would do his best to assist Xiao Jie in carrying out the reform.

Xiao Jie smiled slightly, no wonder this Fu Kuang has worked in the position of Jiaozhou Governor Shi for more than ten years, it seems that he still has a bit of insight, and knows when to persevere and when to give in.

The first step Xiao Jie had to do was to get rid of the interference and destruction of the chieftains of the Yue people. After all, the essence of reforming the native land was to deprive those hereditary chieftains of their power and restore the imperial court's direct rule over the Yue people.

Xiao Jie also knew that these chieftains would never willingly give up the power in their hands, and would definitely do everything possible to sabotage the implementation of reforming the land and returning it to the local people.

Therefore, Xiao Jie decided to use the simplest and most brutal method to directly draw out the bottom line, and directly issued a relocation order in the entire Jiaozhou, requiring all hereditary chieftains to move to Panyu City within one month, and to give them a certain amount of salary. With the permission of the Metropolitan Governor's Mansion, they are not allowed to return to their villages.

As Xiao Jie expected, the relocation order caused an uproar in the entire Jiaozhou as soon as it was issued. Many officials came to intercede, saying that the relocation order was too unkind, and begged Xiao Jie to take it back, but Xiao Jie did not mean to compromise at all. .

Seeing that Xiao Jie was still determined to go his own way, many chieftains had no choice but to file a letter to the court, accusing Xiao Jie of persecuting the Yue people again, and asking the court to show mercy to the people of the Yue people. It seems that Xiao Jie was allowed to run amok in Jiaozhou.

The one-month period was approaching in a blink of an eye, and out of fear of Xiao Jie, most of the chieftains were forced to leave the village and move to Panyu City despite their reluctance.

But there are also some chieftains with tough heads, they rely on themselves to live in the deep mountains, and they don't believe that Xiao Jie can do anything to him.

Xiao Jie was not polite to these nail households. Once a month was up, he immediately declared all the chieftains who refused to move to Panyu as rebels, and directly sent Yingyang General Ye Qiu to lead the Yue soldiers to wipe out their villages and kill the chieftains. The owl made a public display, expelled all the clansmen from the village, and distributed their land to the Yue soldiers who had made great achievements in suppressing the rebellion.

Under Xiao Jie's iron-blooded wrist, he finally managed to put all the chieftains in Jiaozhou under house arrest in Panyu City, eliminating the biggest hidden danger of carrying out land reform.

The improvement of the soil has achieved initial results, and the next step is how to return to the land.

Xiao Jie also knew that compared to the abolition of chieftains, sending officials to station was a bigger problem.

Although the chieftains are the source of the frequent rebellion of the Yue people, it is undeniable that the chieftains have great prestige among their own villages and clansmen. They can control the rebellious Yue people for the government. The reason why we cannot really make up our minds to abolish the chieftain system.

But if a Han official was sent to manage the village, the language and customs of the two sides were very different, and the Yue people had always had deep prejudices and barriers against the Han. How could they willingly submit to the governance of a Han official.

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