And just after Gao Yuan led the army to leave Linshui Village, in the trees and forests on both sides of the avenue, several people came out, and the two people led by them were the fish that slipped through the net in Linshui Village, Zhao Xin and Zhao Ping brothers.

It turns out that the Zhao family has a tunnel, which can lead to the outside of the village, which is a tunnel dug by the ancestors of the Zhao family when they settled in Linhe Village, which was originally to prevent the Huns, and after the village was broken by the Huns, the clansmen of the Zhao family could escape from the tunnel. However, in the Zhao family, only the head of the family knows this secret. Therefore, Zhao Gancheng let the other children break through separately, in fact, it was just to cover people's eyes, and let Zhao Xin and Zhao Ping each take four reliable family members, a total of ten people, and also brought two hundred Yi gold and one hundred pairs of jade walls to escape from the village from the tunnel.

Although Zhao Gancheng has a total of three sons, except for Zhao Xin, the other two sons are not successful, and Zhao Ping is the best person in the Zhao family's generation, and Zhao Xin is the best talent in this generation, so let the two of them escape, which will have a greater chance of avenging the Zhao family in the future. If you really let your other children escape, it will not only be difficult to avenge the Zhao family, but it will also affect Zhao Xin.

I have to say that Zhao Gancheng is indeed a qualified head of the family, and when it comes to the survival of the family, he still puts the interests of the family first, rather than considering his own selfishness. In addition, in order to prevent the secret of the tunnel from leaking and giving the two of them enough time to escape, Zhao Gancheng filled the tunnel after the ten of them left, so that the secret was buried in the ground forever. As a result, the other disciples of the Zhao family who escaped were either arrested or killed by Wu Anjun, and only the two brothers Zhao Xin and Zhao Ping, as well as these eight family members, fled from Linhe Village.

After leaving the tunnel, the two brothers led eight families to hide in the dense forest in the wild for the night, just as Gao Yuan led the captives back to Daijun, and the two brothers were in the depths of the dense forest, watching their relatives being escorted away.

Waiting for the army on the plateau to go away, a few people came out of the dense forest, Zhao Xin gritted his teeth in the direction of the army's departure, gritted his teeth and said: "Gao Yuan, you wait for me, I must avenge this revenge." ”

Zhao Ping also knelt on the ground and said, "The Zhao family's ancestors are above, I will definitely cut off your head and pay tribute to the Zhao family's dead." ”

At this time, Zhao Bing said: "Two young masters, what should we do now?" ”

Zhao Ping said: "Since the plateau has returned to Dai County, then the village must be empty, let's go back and take Linhe Village back." ”

Zhao Xin hurriedly said: "No, although Gao Yuan has left, but he will definitely leave some troops to garrison in Linhe Village, we only have a total of ten people now, it is impossible to recapture Linhe Village, and even if we recapture Linhe Village, Gao Yuan can also send troops to attack Linhe Village, we can't hold it at all, so at this time, we must not act rashly." ”

In fact, Zhao Ping just said this, although he has always liked to fight and kill, but he is not a brainless person, so after hearing Zhao Xin's words, he was also deflated and said: "Then you say, what should we do now?" ”

Zhao Xindao: "I thought about it yesterday, the new decree issued by the plateau this time is not only aimed at our Zhao family, but at the powerful forces of the entire Dai County, although our Zhao family is dead, but other powerful forces, such as the Qiu family in Dayuwan, the Yao family in Bajiaotai, and the Ma family in Majiazhuang, I am afraid that they will not be willing to respect the new laws of the plateau, so we can lobby these powerful forces, and everyone will work together to unite and confront the plateau." If we can connect all the powerful forces in Daijun, we can drive Gao Yuan away from Daijun, and we can retake Linhe Village.

When Zhao Ping heard this, he also nodded again and again, and said, "Yes, you are right, then which village should we go to first." ”

Zhao Xindao: "Ma Yu, the eldest young master of the Ma family in Majiazhuang, and I have a friendship with me, and Majiazhuang is only more than forty miles away from here, so we will go to Majiazhuang first. ”

Zhao Ping said: "Okay, then don't hesitate, let's go." ”

―――――――― the dividing line ――――――――― dividing line―――――――― Gao Yuan certainly didn't expect that these few fish in Linhe Village actually wanted to make a small vertical and horizontal connection in Daijun. However, after Gao Yuan returned to Dai County, he immediately issued an order to announce this action to exterminate the Zhao family in Linhe Village to the counties and villages under Dai County, and at the same time announced the time of beheading the Zhao family, and emphasized to the counties and villages again that the personnel of the counties and villages must respect the new decree issued by the plateau, and if they dare to disobey, then the Zhao family is an example.

However, after this battle, the powerful forces of the entire Dai County were also shocked, and after the new decree was issued on the plateau, many of the local powerful people of the Dai County did not take it too seriously, after all, in the past ten years, the government power of the Dai County was very weak, and they could not suppress the powerful forces in these places. Even after Zhao Jia and Gao Yuan successively became the masters of Daijun, these powerful forces did not think that the current Daijun was any different from the past. Therefore, there are many local Haoqiang's plans, just like the Zhao family, as long as the officials who verify the land and count the household registration come, they will be sent back. also let Gao Yuan know that the ground snake is not easy to mess with.

But after the demise of the Zhao family, it sounded a wake-up call to these powerful forces, no one thought that Gao Yuan really dared to make a move against the local powerful forces, and as soon as he got started, he found the Zhao family, because among the powerful forces in Dai County, Ji was a member of the first group. Moreover, in the face of the military attack on the plateau, the Zhao family had almost no power to fight back, and was easily wiped out by the plateau, becoming a history of Daijun.

The powerful forces finally understood that the current Daijun is indeed different from the past, and the strong dragon of the plateau is not something that these local snakes can suppress, so the powerful forces of all parties have to seriously consider how to deal with the new decree of the plateau. However, Gao Yuan did not give them time to discuss and consider, and within the time of exterminating the Zhao family, he also sent officials to other counties and villages to check the land and count household registration.

Although the powerful forces have also thought about uniting to deal with the plateau, it is not an easy thing to unite all the powerful forces in Daijun and confront the plateau, who will lead this person, who will organize, and how to confront the plateau, are all problems. After all, in their hearts, the vast majority of powerful forces hope to let others come out and confront the plateau, while they hide behind and act according to their plans, so as not to make a mistake and lose everything. After all, if you respect the laws of the plateau, you can still protect your whole family, and it is good to succeed in the confrontation against the plateau, but what if it fails? The Zhao family is the case in front of you.

Therefore, when dispatching officials in Daijun like other counties and villages, the local tycoons did not dare to have a confrontational situation, at least on the surface, they did not dare to disobey the laws of the plateau, and they were also respectful to the officials stationed in the counties and villages. Anyway, deal with the inventory in front of you first, and then slowly figure out a way later.

But the inventory of land is still secondary, although the tax is charged according to the property, but after all, it is not until the autumn harvest will be paid, and now it is just the beginning of the year, and the time to pay the tax is still far away? However, the statistics of household registration, since it is a system of separate household registration, the damage to the powerful is just around the corner.

Because according to the decree of the plateau, only one adult son can be left in a household, and the other children must be separated and independent after they reach adulthood, and in this way, a strong family will be divided into dozens of households, and some will be divided into hundreds of households. Each household has to pay a separate household registration tax and bear hard labor.

Of course, household registration tax and labor are secondary, and the powerful are not short of that little money, mainly because the demolition of the household will inevitably divide the wealth and the land wealth, once the property and land are divided, then the power of the Haoqiang family will no longer exist. After all, in addition to blood relations, there is also a very important reason for the maintenance of a family, that is, the unity of property. In the vast majority of powerful families, the family's property is owned by the entire family, and it is not decided by the head of the family alone.

If a family is compared to a company, then each family member is a shareholder, and although the shares are very scattered, as long as the company exists as a whole, all shareholders can be united and cohesive. And once everyone dives, or the company splits, the family falls apart.

Although some heads of the family put forward a plan, that is, a false division of the family, most of the money and land are kept in the name of the head of the family, and the rest of the people who are divided into households are a little less, and everyone will come back later to form a big family again. But none of the other family members are stupid, what if the head of the family takes the opportunity to take a large amount of family wealth for himself? Inside every strong family, it is not a monolith, usually everyone can work together to the outside world, but if it is really time to divide the wealth, the time to divide the wealth, no one will give in, but they are all fighting for every minute. And once the property and land are divided, it is not easy to reintegrate them.

Of course, this is exactly what Gao Yuan hopes to achieve, which is to disintegrate the local clan power.

However, the local heroes will not be willing to accept the decree of the plateau, and if the hard one is not successful, it will be soft, so they will be warmly entertained by the officials sent to their villages, not only arranging a grand banquet, but also arranging young and beautiful maids to accompany them to sleep, and also giving the officials a large amount of gold and copper coins, hoping that they can be a master when they check the land and divide the household registration.

Gao Yuan quickly noticed these new methods of local heroes, and had to admire that the wisdom of the Chinese is really infinite, and it seems that sugar-coated shells are stored at any time. In this respect, the ancients were no worse than the modern ones. Therefore, Gao Yuan also immediately ordered that all the results of the investigation should be re-examined, and once it was found that there was an error in the investigation, the officials of the investigation would be held accountable, and if there was any act of offering or accepting bribes, then both the bribe-givers and bribe-takers would be severely punished.