May was a bloody month, and Zhuge Hui's death was just the beginning.

For the rest of the month, a new head was added to the south side of the Suzaku truss almost every day. These heads are displayed in the public according to their crimes, their status during their lifetime, and their posthumous appearances, which have formed a landscape in the capital.

Jiankang City, which is gradually regaining prosperity, is where people occasionally or in groups come here, pointing at the hanging heads, and talking poorly, with a cruelty that is not very harmful to the spectators.

The conviction of rebellion this time was very severe, and the number of people who were sentenced to be the head of the gang alone, including Zhuge Hui and his immediate family members and a group of party members, amounted to as many as 50 people, and Wang Huzhi and Wang Qizhi of the Langya Wang clan were naturally not spared. Although they finally echoed Wang Tian's framing of Zhuge Hui and the Qingxu Township Party, even if they gained anything, it was destined not to fall on themselves.

More than 30 people were sentenced to death but did not have to be beheaded, including Cai Mo's son-in-law who died in the township turmoil and several generals who took the lead in the rebellion and killed the protector Zhou Mo, as well as some of the leaders of the Liyang rebellion, Liu Sui, Yuyi's father-in-law, was also not spared.

It is also worth mentioning that Yu Yi once collaborated with Wang Yunzhi to loot the villagers in the suburbs of Gyeonggi, but he did not directly collude with Zhuge Hui to correct it, and he led Liyang into the capital, and he was under the edict of the Empress Dowager, which is conclusively verifiable, so Yingchuan Yu did not end up guilty of rebellion.

But the two brothers Yu Bing and Yu Yi also had a lot of crimes in this turmoil, the biggest one was that they were incompetent, causing the queen mother to be scared to death, and they were incapable of controlling the public, because they caused chaos in Liyang and chaos in Gyeonggi.

Now that both brothers are dead, they have been robbed of all their ministerial titles and their heirs have been abolished. The sons-in-law involved in the incident were executed together, and the remaining sons were made up of criminals and imprisoned forever.

Then it was the handling of the officials of Taiwan, Situ Chu was in charge, but he could not detect the trouble, and he was unable to control the chaos afterwards, and he even went out to prepare for the establishment of Taiwan.

Zhongshu Ling He Chong's responsibility is slightly lighter, but it is also an unshirkable responsibility, exempted from the post of the book, released the history of Sizhou Thorn, and used a bicycle to supervise the construction and restoration of the mausoleum palace.

The rest of the incumbent Taiwan ministers also made a certain degree of derogation according to their official positions and whether they were confidential or not, and almost no one was exempt. Although the scope of this accountability is extremely extensive, compared with the Qingxu Qiaomen, who was almost killed, the punishment of a mere fine and demotion is already a very light punishment.

Moreover, these ministers also understand that the most important purge has been completed, and even if there is any punishment for those implicated, it is only a formality. After this round of purging, there is a shortage of nearly half of the officials in Taiwan Province, and in addition to the state and county selection, these people in Taiwan will definitely follow the trend in an orderly manner afterwards.

Therefore, despite the great momentum of the whole liquidation, after the bottom line was drawn, people's hearts gradually stabilized.

Similar to this large-scale purge, the reaction of insiders is a hidden danger, and the voices of the countryside and the prefectures outside the prefecture are equally fatal.

In terms of sentencing and punishment for the entire reverse case, Shen Zhezi seems to be menacing and killing, but he also follows a principle, that is, to kill the head and the tail, and grasp the big and let go of the small. The main punishment is concentrated on these conclusive and traceable people in Kinai, and as long as there is a little crime involving the upper body, it will definitely not be spared.

But in dealing with the unrest, the means are much gentler. Danyang, Wuzhong, Langya and other villagers who participated in the township riots, there are not many who are directly convicted, and the more conspicuous one is Danyang Renqiu.

When the Langya Township Rebellion was characterized as part of the rebellion, Ren Qiu's biggest crime of inciting the people of the Southern Wu people to kill Langya was no longer there, and it could even be named as a rebel. But Shen Zhezi himself does not recognize the meaning of the so-called "righteous army", and he cannot simply exonerate Ren Qiu from this kind of behavior, or even commend him.

Therefore, Ren Qiu was finally convicted of the crime of destroying the loss of the household and destroying the glory of the famous ministers of Zhongxingyuan, seized his post and imprisoned, and was sentenced to Heluo Town.

From the perspective of a discerning person, this is actually a kind of care and preservation for Ren Qiu, after all, he is too conspicuous in the process of rural turmoil, and it is inevitable that there will be people who have been implicated afterwards who will hold a grudge. If he continues to stay in Jiangdong, even with the protection of the Shen family, it will be difficult to take care of everything.

And Jiangbei is the basic plate of Liang Gong, how to decide the merits and crimes, no matter what the name is to go north, the future of returning to the hometown is vaguely visible.

At the level of the lower and rural people, 30,000 people were convicted, but there was basically no substantive punishment, and some of them were relocated and sent to Jiangbei to choose a place for resettlement, and the others were resettled in the vicinity of Gyeonggi to compensate for their crimes.

This treatment is not so much a punishment as a protection. Hometown feud is a topic that is even more difficult to deal with than political feuds, as long as one party comes to power and defeats the other, it is considered to be over, but if the feud does not drive the other party away, it will always exist.

Xiangdou participated in these parties, among which the Langya villagers were the most miserable, suffering heavy losses one after another, if they were allowed to stay in Jiangdong, it could be said that they were enemies on all sides, and their miserable lives could be imagined.

The Qingxu Overseas Chinese Gate was a major obstacle to Shen Zhezi, but the Qingxu Overseas Chinese had no conflict with him. These people are also poor people who are wrapped up in the general trend, and even if Shen Zhezi wants to be majestic, he will not be able to fall on their heads.

Therefore, these emotional expatriate survivors were all gathered and transferred to Jiangbei for resettlement. The living environment has been greatly damaged, and it is inevitable that they will have grievances against the Shen Wu people, but even if they have any grievances, they will not turn into any substantive revenge.

Speaking of hatred, the Qianghu brought them more harm, and they were forced to leave the rural Hakka Jiangbiao who lived in peace in the times, and they didn't see them going north with red eyes one by one to fight with the Qianghu. As long as they are properly placed and do not deliberately persecute and suppress, with the passage of time, they will naturally become obedient people.

There is another layer of significance in strictly investigating the township turmoil, that is, to break the various attachments of the original township clan people, especially in terms of land and shade households.

Along with the punishment of rural unrest, Shen Zhezi also resolutely implemented the policy of organizing households and returning to his hometown in several counties and counties of Gyeonggi. Even their Shen family, including them, would never allow a large number of living laborers to be raised and sheltered around Gyeonggi, and to create an area centered on Jiankang where the people had to work as cultivators and weavers.

And when implementing these decrees, Shen Zhezi also repeatedly stated that this is only a special case where Gyeonggi is located and only has the needs of chaos, and it will never spread to the counties outside the country as a custom.

Regarding this point, Shen Zhezi is not lying, at present, his energy is not completely focused on handling internal affairs, and he wants to let go of the four seas to fight local tyrants and divide the land, and at present, both the environmental foundation, the public opinion foundation, and the ruling structure are not yet mature.

The most important thing is that without a sufficient pool of talents related to this, the decree can only be superficial and cannot be implemented. On the contrary, it may provoke the opposition of those local sects, and then give birth to endless popular uprisings.

Only do what you can do within your ability, whether you are cautious or conservative, Shen Zhezi, as a decision-maker, must be responsible for your own actions.

His strategy was to create a large regional center like Jiankang City, to ensure that his rule and decrees could be fully implemented in these central areas, and that the mobilization of resources would be carried out favorably. As for other remote counties, the status quo will remain unchanged for the time being, and trade exchanges will continue to be strengthened to ensure the circulation of private resources.

In Shen Zhezi's conception, such a regional center must not only be Jiankang and Jingfu in Jiangdong, but also in today's Huainan Shouchun, the future Heluo, Xubei Pengcheng, Jiangzhou Yuzhang, Jingzhou Jiangling, Xiangyang and other places, all of which must develop in this direction. Establish a ruling base point first, then connect the lines with points, and lead the surfaces with the lines.

Only when this kind of point, line, and surface structure is completed can we continue to carry out the next step of promotion, covering the suburbs and border governance. As for the so-called encirclement of the city by the countryside, it is absolutely impossible for the current world to happen.

The construction of these orders is destined to be a long process. After the situation in Gyeonggi is finalized, it will be possible to achieve a pattern that echoes Huainan across the river, coupled with Daddy Shen Chong's previous plan to overhaul the road, this kind of central echo can basically maintain the stability of the situation in Jiangdong, and Shen Zhezi can also sit in Luoyang with more peace of mind in the future.

As for the attitude of the prefectures and counties towards the current purge of the center, there are only two places worth paying attention to at present, Jing and Jiang, and the mutual influence between Jiaoguang and other places and the center is still weak.

Jiangzhou Assassin Shi Zhongya has remained silent most of the time in this process, which is also because since Wang Shu's death in Jiangzhou, Jiangzhou has always been in a state of being suppressed by Jing Yang, and even has been attached to Jingzhou for a long time, and even its significance as a buffer has gradually weakened.

Zhong Ya was one of Shen Zhezi's candidates to reconstruct the order of Taiwan Province, so as soon as the cleanup in Jiankang City was completed, he immediately issued an edict to summon Zhong Ya to enter the capital, replace He Chong as the Zhongshu Order, and be responsible for the reconstruction of various structural matters in Taiwan City together with Guozhang Wei Chong.

As for the person who succeeded Zhong Ya, Shen Zhezi arranged for his uncle Shen Ke. Both of these people have had the experience of being in the chaos and guarding the front of the palace, which has to be said to be a kind of fate. In fact, including Chu Yu and Liu Chao, they also have this experience.

I have to say that the effect of this experience on political prestige is huge, without this qualification, even if the Shen family monopolizes power, it is inconvenient for Shen Zhezi to directly arrange his family to serve as the uncle of Dazhou.

However, in Jingzhou, the situation is much more delicate. Not to mention the importance of Jingzhou and the embarrassing situation of Yu Yi during this period, Jingzhou itself is a loophole in Shen Zhezi's influence, so on the issue of Jingzhou, he also has to be cautious and make full considerations.