Chapter 564

Finally, he turned his head and sighed to Pang De:

"Lingming, I leave this to you."

"Kill all those foolish guys without exception!"

Pang De nodded with a smile.

Afterward, he revealed a cruel smile toward Qiao Rong and the others.

How could laborers and retainers be a match for a regular army?

Furthermore.

Most of these laborers urgently rallied by the Yizhou aristocratic families were not willing to follow them to the bitter end.

Seeing that the situation was not good, many laborers simply dropped their tools and went on strike without a word.

Besides this.

Pang De also announced to these laborers that anyone who defected voluntarily could obtain the fields that originally belonged to the aristocratic families after killing them!

With this.

That group of laborers was like they had been injected with chicken blood.

The number of defectors was countless.

Even before Qiao Rong and the others could react, they had already been captured by the retainers beside them who were originally "loyal."

"Strike down the local tyrants and divide the fields"—these six words were displayed vividly here.

Of course, this was also thanks to the example Gu Yi set in Jiangdong.

When he wiped out that group of Jiangdong aristocratic families, Gu Yi also brought out the six-word mantra of "strike down the local tyrants and divide the fields."

As a result, Gu Yi hardly spent any effort.

Under the fermentation of public opinion and the leadership of the Intelligence Guard, the common people of Jiangdong worked hard and tied up the "aristocratic masters" who had originally enslaved them.

And now, the common people of Yizhou were also deeply inspired.

As long as they followed the official army led by Pang De to deal with the Yizhou aristocratic families.

After victory, those fields that originally belonged to the Yizhou aristocratic families would become the fields of the Yizhou common people from now on!

However, Gu Yi stipulated a new set of rules and regulations.

That is, in private, no one is allowed to trade land.

If an emergency is encountered, one can apply to the imperial court for help.

In this way, the phenomenon of land annexation will be suppressed to a great extent.

It only took less than an hour.

Qiao Rong and the others of the Yizhou aristocratic families were dragged to Pang De's side like dead dogs.

Immediately after, Pang De escorted all these people to Chang'an.

Success makes a king, failure makes a bandit.

The value of these Yizhou aristocratic families who had lost their land and population resources had been greatly discounted.

But Gu Yi is a super black-hearted boss.

What he wants to do is to eat and wipe clean the final value of this group of aristocratic families!

Looking at these captured former acquaintances.

Wu Yi also had an indescribable feeling in his heart.

But did he dare to resist Gu Yi?

Naturally, he did not dare.

Besides, Wu Yi did not have a reason to resist Gu Yi.

His sister, Wu Mi, was one of Gu Yi's favorite concubines.

In other words, Wu Yi's status was no longer that of an aristocratic family, but could be considered half an imperial relative.

Damn it, he's already Gu Yi's brother-in-law; who would be bored enough to oppose Gu Yi?

Well, there was indeed such a person, named Sun Ce.

But... not everyone is Sun Ce.

Among Gu Yi's cheap brothers-in-law, only Sun Ce had a hot head and opposed Gu Yi so far.

And his end was being stabbed to death by Gu Yi himself.

Wu Yi and the others had seen this clearly.

Therefore.

Even if they were given ten more guts, they wouldn't dare to go against Gu Yi.

What happened in Yizhou was not an isolated case.

Several other major provinces under Gu Yi's rule, except for the Jiangdong and Lingnan regions, also experienced rebellions of varying scales.

But the final outcome, without exception, was the annihilation of the rebelling aristocratic families and the common people obtaining land.

Of course.

The common people were not the biggest winners.

The real winner was Gu Yi.

Through this move, his control over all the territories under his rule had risen several levels again.

The harm of aristocratic families could be said to have been directly eradicated by nearly 70% by him!

And the remaining aristocratic forces under Gu Yi's rule were all those who had voluntarily surrendered to Gu Yi and were "sensible" at the time.

Gu Yi did not intend to deal with this part of the people.

After the education level of the commoner class is improved, the so-called "privileges" of the aristocratic class will naturally lose a lot because of this.

Of course.

Just because the old aristocratic families were wiped out does not mean that new ones will not appear.

If Gu Yi wants to completely eliminate the class of aristocratic families.

The road he has to take is still long and arduous.

Xuzhou

In a certain residence in Peng Cheng

Xun You looked pale as he watched countless Xiliang iron cavalry galloping on the streets.

"Thump!"

Suddenly.

The gate of the residence was kicked open with force.

The two people who walked into the residence, one was five feet two inches tall, equivalent to 1.6 meters in later generations.

The other was over eight feet tall, wearing silver-white dragon-scale armor, and holding a Dragon-Gall Bright Silver Spear.

Yes, these two were none other than Zhang Song and Zhao Yun.

As the Governor of Xuzhou appointed by Gu Yi, Zhang Song's rank was actually very high.

Xuzhou is now the undisputed front line.

To his north are Qingzhou and Jizhou.

And besides this, Zhao Yun had also been stationed in Xuzhou with the Xiliang iron cavalry.

The cooperation between this civil and military official could be described as seamless.

Don't look at Zhang Song's short stature; he possessed the unique skill of "photographic memory."

Furthermore.

As a trusted strategist who joined Gu Yi's command long ago, his friendship with Gu Yi was naturally quite good.

At this moment.

Looking at the extremely decadent Xun You, a trace of pity suddenly appeared on Zhang Song's face.

But the smile at the corner of his mouth had betrayed his true thoughts completely.

He saw him smiling as he said to Xun You:

"Xun Gongda, don't be discouraged."

"My Lord Qin Wang actually had his eyes on you a long time ago."