From August to September, the army that went south to suppress the rebellion and surrounded large cities like Linzi, Xuzhou, and Jiangdu without attacking, but chose to use their troops to the surrounding counties and countries bit by bit. Little by bit, the landlords and powerful people in the southeast spent a hundred years to accumulate wealth and resource advantages.

With the opening of swords, guns, swords and halberds, the Han army confiscated their homes while establishing official villages and selecting poor scholars and serving as officials. They are so happy that they have lived a small life.

The Southeast counties and states accumulated over a hundred years and once fell into the hands of the army from Chang'an.

Everyone snatched a lot of money and made a fortune. Naturally, they were satisfied and admired and admired the Prime Minister.

Even the farmers and small and medium-sized landlords in the southeastern counties and states sang and danced, just like the New Year.

Because, the Han army heading south not only distributed land to them, so that they could have land to cultivate, but also brought them seeds, ploughing tools and oxen, and taught them their advanced farming methods.

He even helped build a water truck, repair a mill, and taught them the techniques of carpentry and compost.

Only the Southeast's powerful and famous scholars cannot express their suffering.

Especially those old famous scholars and powerful men who were besieged in Xuzhou, Jiangdu and Linzi, are now living like a year.

Every day, they get bad news.

It’s either a certain county or a certain family has been confiscated.

By September 20, the Han army's Xiangru tribe and Xin Wuling tribe converged in Lu, and then the army waved into Qufu and uprooted the Kong family's land and tenants.

Kong Anguo's descendants and relatives who stayed in Qufu were all executed on the charge of "great rebellion and injustice".

After deprived of almost all of their wealth, the remaining Kong family was driven out of Qufu by the Han army and ordered them not to regard themselves as Confucius and to no longer use the name of the Kong family.

Therefore, the Yanshenggong family in later generations was still in the embryonic stage and was strangled.

This family, which was rich and unchanging in the history of later generations, no matter how the dynasty changes, no longer has the hope of rising.

Since there are no legal descendants of Confucius, the prime minister and Yinghou of the Han Dynasty who are far away in Chang'an will naturally have no scruples.

On September 25, after receiving the report from Xin Wuling and Xu Xiangru, Zhang Yue immediately issued an edict in the name of the old emperor, posthumously named Confucius as "King Xuan of Lu", and ordered people to build a temple for Confucius in Qufu, and sent a minister of 2,000 stone to offer wine to the Confucius Temple.

At the same time, people were ordered to create a statue of Confucius in the Imperial Academy and the Wuyuan.

He swaggered and regarded himself as a "student of Confucius".

Anyway, the Kong family is gone, so he has no worries.

This made the Qi and Lu Confucian scholars surrounded by Linzi City, especially several great scholars from the ancient literature school.

During this period, these people desperately wrote articles and attacked and cursed Zhang Yue.

But Zhang Yue turned a blind eye and turned a blind eye to it, and only made people burn all the articles written by these people.

The defeated dog is wailing... I'm afraid he's a p-s!

Of course, in order to prevent these people from coming out, Zhang Yue also took great pains to increase his troops in the southeast again.

This is the determination to trap all these people in those big cities.

During the days of siege, generals such as Xin Wuling followed Zhang Yue's orders and built a railing outside the city every three days, and then called on the people in the city that those who wish to return could leave the city and share the same relationship.

As long as you are not a criminal or a traitor, you can forgive your guilt without guilt and remain the same.

Therefore, every day, the military and civilians who are surrounded by cities come out of the besieged cities through various means and channels.

At first, the powerful gentry and officials surrounded were still trying their best to stop the military and civilians from fleeing.

But by now, they have completely lost control of the city.

Even the army was no longer obedient, so the escapees went from sneaking to being open and upright.

The population of Linzi City has been reduced by half within ten days.

By the end of September, the surrounded cities could no longer hold on.

The Han army surrounded but did not attack, but their food and wealth were reduced to the naked eye.

The military and civilians in the city fled in large numbers, but the "loyal men" of the northern counties and countries who were eagerly looking forward to rescuing the king, but they could not even see the shadow.

Despair filled these people's hearts.

They were on the verge of collapse. If Zhang Yue had not given the death order, he would have killed all the ministers, nobles and famous scholars who had risen.

I'm afraid they had long been kneeling down like the gentry of Lu in the past, and licking the prime minister of the Han Dynasty.

Even so, many people secretly sent people to the Han military camp to surrender.

At the beginning, these people were still very noble and offered the conditions for the marquises, two thousand stones, and returned their land and family orders.

But he was kicked out by Xin Wuling and Xu Xiangru.

By the end of September, these people were "just begging to be the disciples of the prime minister and serve the prime minister for the rest of their lives."

But this is not allowed!

The best condition for Xu Xiangru and Xin Wuling to give them was to surrender to the city and to expel their evil deeds. I will avoid death, and I will join forces with them, and North Korea.

So many people went crazy.

They are now in a dilemma of being unable to move forward or retreat.

Finally, on the verge of their about to collapse.

A message came to their ears that the emperor abdicated.

On September 28, forty-eight years after ascending the throne to the dynasty, the Emperor of Han, Liu Che, issued an edict, the Emperor of Neichan was located in the great-grandson of the emperor, and changed the reign of Emperor Yongshi. He himself retired from the Wuzha Palace for being "criminalized in the ancestral temple and ashamed of being unable to do anything".

On the day the edict arrived, Linzi City wailed everywhere, and countless people shouted in despair, drew their swords and committed suicide.

But the rest are drowsy and confused, and no longer have the fighting spirit and spirit.

The next day, a flag was raised from the top of Linzi City.

Linzi Commander Meng Yong killed Liu Sheng and others, held official seals and exposed his upper body, and surrendered with more than 8,000 remaining Linzi defenders.

The Han army then entered Linzi City and re-introduced the great Han city.

Immediately, Zhang Yue ordered that the people of Qi rebelled as a country's trouble, and Linzi was removed and the city wall was not allowed to be built again.

As a result, Linzi became the first city in the Han Empire without city walls.

However, this did not restrict the development of Linzi City at all. Instead, it continued to prosper in the following decades, becoming the richest, most populous and most developed city in the southeast of the Han Empire.

On the first day of October, Xuzhou surrendered.

On the seventh day of the lunar month, Jiangdu surrendered.

The once powerful and seemingly arrogant southeast connection disappeared in just over two months.

Zhang Yue's throne of prime minister finally had no worries.

Now he can truly draw his grand plans on the blueprint of this country according to his own wishes.

Of course, the Han Empire also paid a heavy price for this.

Most of Chang'an's urban area was burned to white land, and hundreds of famous families in the southeastern counties and countries were erased from history.

These include the Kong family, Meng family, and Wei family, which have been passed down for hundreds of years.

This made Zhang Yue sigh and feel sad.

So, with Liu Xun, who had just ascended the throne and Liu Jin, who had just recovered from his injuries and had recovered, he drove to Wuzha Palace and came to the old emperor.
Chapter completed!