After waking up, Jiang Ming recuperated for more than half a month and felt his body gradually recovering...
Although I can't be as energetic as before, it's almost the same.
When he received the battle report from the front that Dugu Yan had wiped out the entire Northern Xiongnu army without leaving a single one alive, and that the casualties were almost zero, he was very pleased!
Actually, he's figured it out now...
When it comes to doing something, either don't do it at all, or do it properly!
Just like the nobles and landowners within this vast empire...
Initially, the plan was to adopt a policy of appeasement, hoping to subdue their martial spirit and make them obediently accept the reality of reform.
But reality slapped him in the face!
As it turns out, no conservative force will so easily withdraw from the stage of history.
There will definitely be bloodshed and repeated struggles in this process!
Starting from the Western Han Dynasty, the problem of the monopoly of aristocratic families, which had become increasingly serious and difficult to control, was not basically resolved until the Song Dynasty after the Sui, Tang and Five Dynasties.
The problem of land annexation, a chronic issue in feudal society, accompanied it throughout its entire life...
It's unrealistic to expect someone to say nice things to you and make them obediently comply.
After all, human nature is to seek advantage and avoid harm. If reasoning were effective, what would be the point of having a state apparatus?
Therefore, Jiang Ming believes that things should be viewed from two perspectives!
This rebellion, led by Han Weiqi, brought them great trouble, and even... their inside collusion nearly plunged the Great Gan Empire into an abyss of no return.
But actually, it's a good thing...
By exposing these unstable factors, I can have a reason to raise the butcher's knife and carry out a thorough purge of these conservative forces!
Dugu Yan brought back the human skin and head of Sahehan, the Chanyu of the Northern Xiongnu.
Jiang Ming immediately ordered Zhao Yong to send people to deliver these two "magical artifacts" to the southern rebel army's camp to demonstrate their power!
Tell them: those who obey me prosper, those who oppose me perish... If they continue to rebel, this will be the consequence!
Murong Lie led an army of 100,000 westward, directly attacking the old camp of the Northern Xiongnu stationed on the Qin border, and indeed carried out a fairly thorough purge...
However, he was still soft-hearted and did not strictly follow Dugu Yan's orders to kill them all!
Murong Lie kept the children who were shorter than a car wheel and took them back to Yunzhou...
Murong Lie was thinking that children who are not taller than a car wheel still have pure souls. As long as they are properly guided and educated, they will not become like those adults, wild beasts that plunder and slaughter everywhere!
Murong Lie wanted to take all these children back to the Yan Kingdom of Zhongshan so that he could raise and educate them properly and prevent them from following in their fathers' footsteps!
The news that the main force of the Northern Xiongnu had been completely annihilated, with not a single one left alive, quickly spread to the Western Regions.
Various small kingdoms in the Western Regions re-established themselves, and they killed the officials appointed by Sahehan to govern them...
They completely erased all traces left by the Northern Xiongnu...
Dugu Yan's approach also provided great inspiration to these small kingdoms in the Western Regions!
They slaughtered all the Northern Xiongnu people within their territory, leaving no one alive.
Nomadic empires like the Northern Xiongnu didn't have many cities to begin with.
They have no settlements; they migrate like locusts, following the water and grass...
After conquering a city, instead of stationing troops there, they would appoint a few officials to govern it, where they would act arrogantly and oppress the people.
If the people dare to resist, or disobey orders.
Once the main force of the Northern Xiongnu returns, all the men, women, and children in the city will be slaughtered.
Now, the same tragedy has befallen the Northern Xiongnu themselves...
Their main force was wiped out; Jiang Ming had wiped them all out.
The people in those occupied cities in the Western Regions no longer tolerated the so-called "administrative officials," and even subjected them to various forms of torture and killing!
However, these things have nothing to do with Jiang Ming!
The military threat to the northern part of the Great Gan Empire has been completely eliminated...
At least for the next few decades, it is unlikely that nomadic peoples will invade from the south again.
As for the Qiang people on the northwestern border of Qin, they were terrified after learning of the fate of the Northern Xiongnu...
They didn't even dare graze their livestock within a hundred miles of the Qin border, keeping a safe distance...
With this in mind, Jiang Ming no longer had any worries and could focus on dealing with the rebels in the south.
When Jiang Ming's army approached Hanyuan City in Han State, the King of Han was so terrified of Jiang Ming that he surrendered without a fight, kneeling down and weeping bitterly, saying that he had been completely misled by Wei Ji and that he did not want to rebel at all!
Jiang Ming didn't waste any more words with him!
He already possessed a list of ministers in Korea who supported the King's rebellion due to the issue of land inheritance.
Just like when Jiang Ming and Ji Xi were eliminating treacherous officials in the Yan Kingdom, he dragged them out one by one, exposing all these nobles and then killing them all, leaving none alive.
As for the King of Han, he was demoted to a commoner by Jiang Ming, and from then on, he was completely removed from the title of "nobleman".
Wherever the army went, everything in South Korea returned to normal as it had been six months prior.
The difference is that there will never be any nobles in Korea again, and no one will be more noble than anyone else!
The heads of the nobles were cut off, almost filling the Yi River!
After hearing about the King of Han's plight, Wei Ji of Wei became even more determined to rebel until the very end!
He understood that even if he surrendered now, he would not have a good ending.
His civil and military officials, seeing that after the King of Han surrendered, the powerful and noble class was slaughtered, were all determined to fight Jiang Ming to the end!
From a military perspective, Jiang Ming's approach seems rather unwise!
But Jiang Ming's intention was never to subdue the enemy without fighting.
His goal was to take this opportunity to eliminate all the nobles in the Great Gan Empire, cutting off their desire for easy gains and their longing for the past!
People are base, and shit is stinky; you can't leave it unattended!
At this moment, Jiang Ming had already abandoned any possibility of compromise. He wanted these rebels to resist to the end so that he could clean up the lesions more thoroughly!
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