Chapter 99: Releasing Military Power with a Cup of Wine
Bao Xin was escorted to Luoyang.
Qin Mo adopted a cold approach and only ordered Bao Xin to be imprisoned without bringing him to trial. His meaning was clear: Bao Xin's life or death depended on the subsequent attitude of the Guandong family.
If they send troops to resist, Qin Mo doesn't mind beheading Bao Xin as a sacrifice.
If Yuan Shao and other princes had been sensible and voluntarily handed over their troops, Qin Mo would have shown leniency and treated them leniently, and would not have really taken Bao Xin's life.
Because if Bao Xin was convicted of "treason", then Yuan Shao, Yuan Shu and others would also be implicated and would have to be charged with the same crime.
Otherwise it would be unfair.
If that really happened, Qin Mo would have a mortal feud with the Kanto family, one that would be irreconcilable.
It's really not worth it.
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The whole world is watching the Kanto family's next reaction.
The first one who couldn't bear it was Chenliu Prefect Zhang Miao. He had less than a thousand soldiers under his command, so he naturally didn't want to be charged with treason, so he obediently submitted a letter of apology.
Zhang Miao was also tactful. He defended himself in the memorial by saying that those soldiers were originally recruited by imperial decree to suppress the rebellion and that he dared not deal with them arbitrarily without the imperial court's order.
He was only responsible for temporarily guarding the city for the imperial court and had no intention of commanding an army of his own.
Regardless of whether others believed it or not, Qin Mo believed it anyway, and at the same time he ordered the Yuzhou governor Zhu Jun to collect the soldiers under Zhang Miao and reorganize them into local garrison troops.
At the same time, he praised Zhang Miao for his "understanding of the general situation".
undoubtedly,
This is a statement of attitude.
The local lords were all shrewd people. After receiving the signal from Qin Mo, they submitted petitions one by one, begging for forgiveness...
Under the general trend, the brothers Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu finally could not bear it anymore and could only submit a petition with tears in their eyes, handing over the army they had worked so hard to build to the court for disposal.
I feel so cold in my heart.
According to Qin Mo's order, the two armies will be handed over to the Jizhou Governor Huangfu Song and Yuzhou Governor Zhu Jun respectively, and will be reduced and reorganized into local garrisons in the two states to further consolidate the court's prestige in the local areas.
However, Hejian prefect Du Shihao seemed very reluctant and was slow to express his opinion.
Qin Mo didn't tolerate it.
After Zhang Liao handed over the captured former subordinates of Bao Xin to Han Sui, the governor of Yanzhou, for disposal, he immediately led his troops north all the way to Hejian County.
Qin Mo really didn't mind trampling this representative player into the mud.
After Wei Tianli, Li Feng and other wealthy people joined "Honghuang", the so-called rich second generation like Du Shihao who are only active in the gaming circle are really not enough.
Li Feng once talked to Qin Mo and said that Du Shihao was not even worthy of being his younger brother.
It can be seen that the circle of the rich is also divided into levels.
Du Shihao was a cunning man. Seeing that the situation was not right, he could not do anything against the will of the enemy, so he had to submit and disbanded his troops.
But it did not give the imperial court a chance to reorganize.
How could Qin Mo not see the trick? Du Shihao was probably still planning something, thinking that once there was a change in the world, he would be able to reassemble a team as quickly as possible.
But it is too naive.
Qin Mo immediately announced a new official appointment and dismissal through the Secretariat.
Du Shihao, the governor of Hejian, was transferred to be the prime minister of Jibei to replace the vacancy left by Bao Xin, and in one fell swoop Du Shihao was transferred away from the base he had painstakingly built for more than a year.
It's like drawing water with a bamboo basket.
As for the position of Hejian prefect vacated by Du Shihao, Qin Mo planned to leave it to one of his big clients.
As Yuan Shao bowed his head in admission of defeat, Qin Mo no longer needed Du Shihao to check and balance Yuan Shao in Jizhou. Du Shihao, who had lost his usefulness, could be manipulated at will.
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Hejian County, Taishou Mansion.
After receiving the transfer order from the imperial court, Du Shihao's face turned purple.
"This is too much!"
In Du Shihao's view, such a transfer order was a humiliation to him. Leaving Hejian would not only make him leave the place where he had worked so hard, but also make him lose the protection of Huangfu Song.
It can be imagined that life in Yanzhou will not be easy in the future.
"Well, Qin Mo, I can't beat you in the Three Kingdoms subcontinent, so let's see who's the winner in the prehistoric continent." Du Shihao had no choice but to admit defeat and prepared to open up another battlefield.
As a player who entered the Qi Refining Stage early, Du Shihao has also obtained the position of the tribe leader of his tribe and started a new round of tribal promotion tasks.
Although he did not have the same convenience as Qin Mo, he could not easily lead the natives of the Three Kingdoms back to the tribe.
But Du Shihao is rich!
As "Honghuang" continues to be popular, a large number of new people join every day. Du Shihao is ready to use his influence in the gaming circle to consciously guide new people into his tribe.
By using players to increase the population, tasks can also be completed quickly.
"Just wait, the competition has just begun." Du Shihao regained his fighting spirit.
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Qin Mo naturally had no intention of paying attention to Du Shihao.
He still has a lot of things waiting to be dealt with. The Guandong family suffered a great loss this time. They seemed to be obedient, but they were not convinced in their hearts. They might be planning something bad.
How dare I slack off!
It is not Qin Mo's style to underestimate his opponents.
This is not.
Trouble is coming!
On this day, Jia Xu walked into Qin Mo's study with a memorial and said , "Sir, this is already the seventh letter of resignation this month."
After failing to defeat Qin Mo on the frontal battlefield, the Kanto family used a tactic of "retreat to advance".
Resign!
The selection of officials in the Eastern Han Dynasty relied on selecting filial and honest people, and most of them were controlled by aristocratic families. There were indeed some unqualified people among them, but there were also many with real talents and knowledge, who became the mainstays of government offices at all levels.
The root cause is that there are too few educated people in this era.
Because of this, the Guandong families had the confidence to confront the imperial court. In their view, if too many people resigned from their posts, there would be no one to work in the government offices, and the world would be in chaos.
At that time, the court will have to ask them to go back.
Little did they know that this was exactly what Qin Mo wanted. He had deliberately not dealt with it before because he hoped that more people would jump out and he could just tie them up and deal with them .
"Who are the people who resigned?" Qin Mo asked.
"Most of them are people who have been impeached before. I speculate that these people resigned not only to threaten the court, but also because they are worried about the court's revenge in the future ." Jia Xu said.
Through these incidents, Qin Mo's image of "revengeful" has been established.
Unfortunately, they all have bad reputations.
If the imperial court really wanted to make a fuss about it, accusing them of "making irresponsible remarks about the imperial court" would be enough to make them pay.
"You're quite sensible." Qin Mo didn't care. He took out a list and handed it to Jia Xu, "The vacant positions should be assigned to these people first."
Needless to say, these were all clients that Qin Mo had negotiated with through Wei Tianli's introduction over the past few months, and it was just time to fulfill his promise and arrange them one by one.
This item alone earned Qin Mo 200 million yuan, which was more profitable than cooperating with merchants.
Jia Xu took it and looked at it, but he didn't recognize anyone. He asked, "Are these all strangers?"
"Not bad!" Qin Mo nodded.
Jia Xu understood and said with a smile: "My Lord, do you want to cultivate the power of strangers to fight against the Guandong family?"
"Do you think it's feasible?" Qin Mo asked.
"It should be possible." Even if there is a disturbance, it can be suppressed slowly.
"Then let's do it." Qin Mo said.
"promise!"
Jia Xu bowed, said goodbye and left.
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People,
If you cowardly once, you will subconsciously cowardly the second time.
It is not difficult to imagine that when the court demoted the most troublesome county magistrates and prefects for various reasons, no one dared to stand up and say a word.
They all became cowards.
Those young men from Kanto noble families who had voluntarily resigned from their official positions in order to protest the "tyranny" of the imperial court and to gain a reputation as "clean" among the literati were all dumbfounded.
As soon as these people left, the court announced the appointment of a new chief official.
They are all strangers.
I was so angry that I was jumping up and down!
With the arrival of four prefects and more than a dozen county magistrates, the situation in which the aristocratic families dominated the Kanto region was broken, and gradually it became a two-way balance of power.
Many young men from aristocratic families shouted, "The wolf is coming!"
From then on, the curtain was raised on the struggle between the Guandong noble families and foreigners for local dominance, but they no longer had the energy to fight with the imperial court, and all their energy was drawn into the foreigners.
And what about Qin Mo?
Sitting in Luoyang, with the Guandong aristocratic family on one side and the extraordinary people on the other, he only needs to grasp the balance between them and play with the two forces in his hands.
When there are checks and balances at the local level, the imperial court will have prestige.
Because of this move, Qin Mo not only successfully resolved the resentment and counterattack from the Guandong families, but also his position in the court became more and more stable.
It's really shocking!
After stabilizing the situation in the world, Qin Mo was not a person who was greedy for power. He handed over the affairs of state to Cao Cao and Jia Xu, and began to focus more on the construction of Blackwater City.
There, the foundation of his future lies.
If it weren't for his unfulfilled ambitions, Qin Mo would have been ready to leave the Three Kingdoms subcontinent.
There is nothing to miss here anymore.
