In June of the ninth year of the Qingli period of the Song Dynasty, many aristocratic families accepted the conditions offered by the court.
People tend to follow the crowd, and originally no one was willing to leave. But when the Changping Liu family took the lead, some small and medium-sized families also chose to follow.
The imperial court naturally welcomed these people and gave them some preferential policies.
Although it is not as comfortable as staying in Yanyun, at least the family can use the land in Yanyun to retain part of the property, and there will be compensation in the future.
Basically, as long as there is an outstanding young man in the family, the family can be guaranteed to rise in the future.
Soon within the fifteen-day deadline, many families chose to surrender to the court.
Some of them agreed to move south, while others were local Yanyun families and did not want to move south, but the court could buy their land and tenants from them.
This is also one of the conditions given by the court.
Although some local noble families were unwilling to migrate south, the imperial court could naturally understand that, and Zhao Jun did not expect to eliminate all the noble families in Yanyun at once.
Eat one bite at a time, and take one step at a time. This time, we have significantly weakened the Youyan family, but next time, we will be able to wipe them out.
But those aristocratic families who refuse to cooperate, remain silent, and act like ostriches must be dealt with severely.
Considering that sending troops directly would be no different from a bandit act of killing people, Zhao Jun planned to use a more civilized approach.
Just as he had said to Wang Anshi and others before, if the aristocratic families in Youyan Road cooperated, then it would be easy.
But if you don't cooperate, we will have to use some means.
The simplest way is to punish evil and promote good.
In ancient times, many aristocratic families had strict family traditions and governed their families with Confucianism, requiring their children to be kind, trustworthy, and moral.
But it is unrealistic for everyone to be a moral role model.
There are all kinds of birds in the forest. Even in the strictest family traditions, it is common to have a few bad guys in the family.
Zhang Zhidong’s family rules are quite strict.
However, his son Zhang Renli was a well-known traitor.
Therefore, it is impossible for a noble family to not have a few bad people.
If we really look into it, among the many aristocratic families in the Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun that were dependent on the Liao Kingdom, a conservative estimate is that more than 95% of them were not clean.
The Song Dynasty defeated the Liao Dynasty and regained the lost Sixteen Prefectures of Yanyun. These Yanyun aristocratic families took advantage of the situation and chose to surrender.
After they surrendered, the Song Dynasty forgave them for what they had done during the Liao Dynasty and did not conduct any reckoning.
But sometimes, letting bygones be bygones does not mean that the matter is over.
It's like a sword hanging over your head.
The court can choose to hold back the sword when it needs your help in maintaining order.
But once people like you become an obstacle to the court's rule, this sword will immediately become the guillotine that will take the lives of these aristocratic families.
On June 15th, Zhao Jun left Youyan Road as planned and headed west towards Yunzhou on Yunshuo Road.
The next morning, in Yutian County, located more than 200 miles east of Peking City, the mountains and forests to the north of the county seat were green, the remaining ranges of Yanshan Mountain were layered, covered with trees, and the grass and trees were lush and full of vitality.
There is a stretch of villages at the foot of the mountain.
It would be better to say that it is a luxurious manor than a village. The manor covers an area of unknown acres, stretching as far as the eye can see, with pavilions and towers standing tall, and walls winding for miles.
The manor is lined with houses and clustered with gardens and pavilions. The houses are exquisitely designed, with carved buildings and painted rafters, and are magnificent.
There are fertile fields for hundreds of miles outside the manor. A tributary of the Gushui River flows down from the north, first circling the manor, and then flowing into the manor through ditches, like small bridges, flowing water and houses, and finally flowing south to irrigate so many farmlands.
The owner of this manor is the famous Yutian Han family, who is not only the head of the Yanyun family, but also a royal relative of the Liao Dynasty.
Because the Yutian Han family had deep marriage ties with the imperial and royal families of the Liao Dynasty, in addition to the Han family children marrying princesses and princes of the Liao Dynasty, the most important thing was that some members of the Liao Dynasty royal family were even adopted by the Han family.
Yes.
The Liao royal family had descendants of the Yelu family who were adopted by the Han family.
Throughout the world, we have only heard of royal family members being adopted by the royal family, but have never heard of royal family members being adopted by ministers from other families.
The Yutian Han family pioneered this feat.
Their leader Han Derang had no children in his life. Emperor Shengzong of Liao, grateful for Han Derang's contributions, adopted his nephew Yelu Hudugu as his son.
But unfortunately, Yelu Hudugu died early and had no children, so another nephew, Yelu Helu, was adopted by him.
Therefore, Han Derang can be said to be the only minister from another family in history who was adopted by the royal family and had royal descendants adopted to him twice.
If we add in the number of marriages between the Han family and the Yelu and Xiao families, and how many people in the Han family were given the surname Yelu, we can see how deep the relationship between the Han family and the Yelu family is.
The Yan Sijia is said to be the four major families.
In fact, at least before Emperor Dao Zong of Liao, the status of the Yutian Han family was far superior to that of the later Liu, Zhao, and Ma families.
At this time, the Han family's house was already deserted, and most of the densely packed buildings were empty and uninhabited.
Only the central clan ancestral hall and a huge mansion near the ancestral hall were filled with various kinds of smoke and incense during meal times.
After noon, the Han family finished their ancestor worship and Han Suiyi returned to his own house.
This ancestor worship ceremony is not just about worshipping ancestors, but also about gathering all the Han family members to have a meal together, showing the cohesion and unity of the clan.
More than ten elders of the Han family came with him, including Han Suiyi's three sons.
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