Chapter 470: A retainer riot

The next morning,

before Tang Ji dressed Gu Yi, the two of them engaged in another round of communication.

As the first stunner Gu Yi obtained in these six commanderies of Jiangdong, Tang Ji naturally received Gu Yi's exclusive favor.

After Gu Yi returns to the capital in triumph, Tang Ji's original identity as a deposed Empress will completely turn into dust.

Replacing it will be her role as Gu Yi's concubine.

Time quickly passed another five days.

Gu Yi left two thousand troops to guard Niuzhu.

As for the remaining troops, they all followed him south, heading straight for Yuzhang.

At the same time,

the Jiangdong aristocratic families of Wu Jun had also completed their mass-production of soldiers.

The entire military strength of Wu Jun reached nearly one hundred thousand people!

This quantity was very terrifying.

But among the one hundred thousand soldiers, only a few thousand were not new recruits.

The rest, rather than calling them soldiers, it would be better to call them hidden households and retainers attached to the Jiangdong aristocratic families.

These people, at best, had combat effectiveness only a tiny bit stronger than ordinary commoners.

However,

just when the Jiangdong aristocratic families were feeling smug about their successful mass-production of soldiers, a rebellion suddenly broke out within Wu Jun!

In a county town located on the border of Wu Jun,

several local aristocratic masters were captured by their own retainers and were about to be paraded through the streets and executed.

Although those few aristocratic masters cried and begged for mercy, the retainers' faces did not show the slightest movement.

On the contrary,

the gaze they directed at their own masters was full of resentment and murderous intent.

It was these things that "ate people without spitting out the skin" that caused their descendants to be reduced to servants for generations.

But not long ago,

before this group of retainers, there suddenly appeared a broad and smooth road!

As long as they killed the aristocratic masters they served,

they could obtain a portion of the land that originally belonged to the aristocratic masters from the hands of the Prime Minister!

This...

the retainers were directly boiling with excitement!

On one side, their descendants could only be reduced to servants for generations.

On the other side, they could possess their own land and possess their own household registration.

As long as they were not people whose slave nature had been domesticated to the extreme, I fear everyone would make the correct choice, right?

Just like that,

over ninety percent of the retainers, upon learning the news that "killing your own aristocratic master allows you to receive land from the Prime Minister,"

all spontaneously went on strike.

And they began to actively plot to rebel against their own masters!

Of course, in this, naturally, there needed to be people to take the lead.

After all,

this group of retainers had been domesticated by their aristocratic masters for so long.

For a time, they could not harden their hearts to kill people.

Only when leaders appeared would everyone's bloodthirst be completely ignited!

And these leaders,

Gu Yi had already arranged them in advance.

They were precisely disguised by some elite intelligence spies under his command.

These elite intelligence spies sent out by Gu Yi disguised themselves as retainers under the aristocratic masters and led the remaining retainers to collectively rebel!

With people leading the rebellion, the difficulty naturally became much smaller.

A single spark can start a prairie fire.

What happened in this county of Wu Jun was not an isolated case.

This kind of ruthless punishment for these few military generals was painful! It was truly too painful!

And immediately following,

the one hundred thousand-strong army that the Jiangdong aristocratic families had worked so hard to mass-produce saw over a quarter defect in the blink of an eye!

Regarding this, how could the Jiangdong aristocratic families endure it?

They had been high and mighty for too long and had long since considered themselves the "Celestial Dragons" on this land of Jiangdong.

How could Celestial Dragons allow their slaves to run away?

The Jiangdong aristocratic families, in a fit of shame and anger, dispatched the remaining portion of their military strength to suppress them.

However,

the remaining three-quarters of the army also gradually encountered problems.

Among them, more and more people chose to join the side of the "rebels," helping the rebels turn around to attack the Jiangdong aristocratic families.

At this, the Jiangdong aristocratic families completely fell into a state of bewilderment.

They had thought their suppression of the rebellion would be smooth sailing.

But now, what exactly was going on?

Some Jiangdong aristocratic families with relatively sharp minds hurriedly thought of the option of seeking aid from their lord Liu Bei.

However,

after Guan Yu and Zhang Fei received the letter sent by Liu Bei's people,

they had already left Wu Jun with thirty thousand troops.

Saying they were going to defend Chaisang.