What is Gongsun Wan'er's intention?

It's very simple. Gongsun Wan'er wants to use the attitudes of Li Jiangshan and others to test Zhou Yiran.

Li Jiangshan planned how to plant puppets in the Gongsun family.

There are many large households who have moved to Zhoucheng. Although the migration and development of large households have stimulated the expansion of Zhoucheng, another atmosphere has spread in Zhoucheng.

A high posture of a high-ranking person and a sense of presence of a high-ranking person.

The rich family members are arrogant when walking on the street.

Zhou Yiran went to Li Laohu's blacksmith shop to check the situation of S-level weapons forging.

A carriage is speeding up, a luxurious carriage, an arrogant slave who drives the carriage.

Zhou Yiran asked the carriage to pass, and the general whipped the carriage and left quickly.

The pedestrians dodged one after another, but the carriage had no intention of slowing down.

The arrogant generals did not take pedestrians seriously at all.

Zhou Yiran's face turned ashen.

There were only a dozen god-given guards beside Zhou Yiran. Because Zhou Yiran was low-key, few people knew that he was the city lord, and Zhou Yiran's mansion was just a simple courtyard without a servant.

Li Laohu welcomed him: "When did the lord come? I'll come, our weapons are making great progress!"

Zhou Yiran pointed to the speeding carriage lane: "Whose carriage is this?"

Li Laohu looked and said, "It's from Gongsun's family."

Zhou Yiran nodded, and the topic began to turn to the forging of the Seven-Star Sword: "How far has the weapon progressed?"

"My lord, the basic shape is already there, and he is in the stage of refining a hundred times." Li Laohu said.

"Very good! What do you think of these big players?" Zhou Yiran asked.

Li Laohu said: "Big family? Have power, have money. Have a high horizon!"

Scholars, peasants, industry and commerce are the first, and they always regard themselves as geniuses. The mentality of the superiors can be imagined.

These are the second. These gentry seem to be eroding the rights of Zhoucheng. If they continue at will, will this still belong to their own Zhoucheng?

"Okay, you can continue to forge weapons." Zhou Yiran finished speaking and turned around and left. Li Laohu looked at Zhou Yiran's face, guessing that his lord might not be able to stand these gentry anymore.

Zhou Yiran found Zhu Chongba.

Zhu Chongba is supervising the construction of the construction site.

When Zhu Chongba saw Zhou Yiran coming, he hurriedly said, "What's the matter with lord?"

Zhou Yiran pulled Zhu Chongba away, came to his mansion, handed the household registration book to Zhu Chongba and said, "Please help me see."

"Lord, how did this make it happen? This household registration book is kept by you." Zhu Chongba saw that Zhou Yiran actually gave him the extremely expensive household registration book. What does this mean?

Seeing that Zhu Chongba refused to open his account book, Zhou Yiran opened his own words: "Now the people's hearts are 89%. Ten days ago, the people's hearts were still above 95. Why has it been reduced so much in such a short time?"

After Zhou Yiran finished speaking, Zhu Chongba pondered: "I don't know."

Zhou Yiran read according to the household registration book: "The total population is more than 210,000, with 100% loyalty of farmers 25,000; 90% loyalty of farmers 54,000; 80% loyalty of farmers 50,000; 70% loyalty of farmers 20,000; 60% loyalty of farmers 20,000; 60,000 farmers 50,000; 50,000 farmers 50,000, and more than 3,000, with zero loyalty of loyalty."

Zhu Chongba fell into deep thought.

Zhou Yiran said again: "Ten days ago, the population was still more than 210,000. However, the loyalty of 100% farmers was more than 30,000; the loyalty of 90% farmers was 60,000; the loyalty of 80% farmers was 70,000; the loyalty of 80% farmers was 70,000; the loyalty of 70% was only 40,000; the loyalty of 60% was only 10,000; the loyalty of less than 50% was less than 3,000 people."

After Zhou Yiran finished speaking, Zhu Chongba stood on the spot in shock. In just ten days, the people's hearts dropped to this point?

Famine?

War?

All this has never happened in Zhoucheng, Youzhou.

Zhou Yiran said: "A thorough investigation of the population. People with a public heart below 30 were deported to me!"

Zhou Yiran finished speaking. Zhu Chongba said: "Lord, why is this? The people's hearts will gradually grow. The sharp decline in the people's hearts may be caused by the excessive migration of the population. The lord's thorough investigation of the population may affect the gentry."

After Zhu Chongba finished speaking, Zhou Yiran nodded and said, "It makes sense."

"Announce the people of Zhoucheng that Zhoucheng will clean up the idle people and others. If there is any resistance, behead them!"

"Lord!" Zhu Chongba also wanted to plead for the gentry.

"Go quickly!" Zhou Yiran said, and Zhu Chongba walked out of the mansion helplessly.

Zhou Yiran looked at Zhu Chongbadi's back and said to himself: "The gentry is strong? Why is he afraid of offending the gentry because of it? But if he doesn't clean up these people who are low on the people, the future development of Zhoucheng will be difficult! The gentry? Your intention to divide the people in Zhoucheng will not succeed."

Zhou Yiran came to the military field.

"Zhou Cang!"

"exist!"

"Teach 50,000 people who have thoroughly investigated the people on the list and expelled from Zhoucheng! If you are dissatisfied, you will be killed immediately!" Zhou Yiran threw the sorted list to Zhou Cang.

"Yes!" Zhou Cang led his army out of the military field.

"Li Yi!"

"At! Block the intersection and strictly control all the gentry in Zhou City!" Zhou Yiran ordered!

"Yes!" Li Yi took the order and led 10,000 troops out of the military field to blockade all intersections in Zhoucheng.

Zhou Yiran

Most of Zhou Yiran's list is filled with the names of the gentry.

The people's hearts in the gentry were zero, and the family generals of the gentry were also very low. Due to the influence of the gentry, the people's hearts in Zhoucheng were greatly reduced.

On the list, there was a shocking Yuan family, which was the third prince of the four generations.

There is the Gongsun family, and even the Gongsun master, Gongsun Wan'er, is on the list.

Zhou Cang's actions were quick, and all the people on the list were driven away. Several of the heads of the family were killed directly by Zhou Cang, and the gentry family members were slaughtered.

Among them is Yuan Cheng, a parent of the Yuan clan family. Yuan Cheng relied on his fourth generation and three masters and did not take it seriously. Zhou Cang executed Zhou Yiran's order and directly killed Yuan Shao's younger brother and killed more than 500 rebel generals.

Those who did not resist were expelled from Zhoucheng.

These gentry depended on their family power and did not really take Zhou Yiran, the newly rising governor, into consideration.

If this were the case, the Gongsun family would not have sent only two maids to welcome Li Jiangshan and Zhao Bao.

Overnight, all the gentry in Zhoucheng were expelled from Zhoucheng and more than 2,000 children of the gentry were killed.

Gongsun Wan'er was also the target of expelled land. Some family generals believed that Gongsun was backing. The soldiers strictly implemented Zhou Cang's orders and directly killed these family generals in front of Gongsun Wan'er.

Gongsun Wan'er was shocked to see it. She had never seen anyone like this who dared to offend the big clan in person.

After establishing his authority, all the gentry in Zhou City were expelled, and Zhou's merits were greatly reduced by 30,000.

However, Zhou still did not regret his actions, because if these gentry continued to stay in Zhou City, the people's hearts would probably drop to below eighty within a year.

After thoroughly investigating the gentry, there was no power in Zhou City that could affect Zhou Yiran.

Zhou, the mainland power in Youzhou, can still ignore it for the time being, but Zhou Cheng, his own base, must not have a force that shares rights.

Zhou Yiran's decisive and decisive policy of driving away shocked the gentry. The gentry in Youzhou all resented Zhou Yiran, and Zhou Yiran's move made enemies with all the gentry in Youzhou.

The gentry jointly reported it to Emperor Ling of Han, but...

No news.

No one dared to touch Zhou Yiran's eyebrows. Even Emperor Ling of Han did not dare, nor did General He Jin dared, all the cavalry in the world came out of Youzhou. Who dared to say that Zhou Yiran was not?

Everyone was afraid that Bocai, Guan Hai, Zhang Bao and Zhang Liang would follow suit.

Zhou Yiran's move set an example for other princes.

In Jingzhou, Liu Biao led the governor of Jingzhou to weaken the gentry's power, and Shangyong Cao Cao reduced the gentry's power.

The princes compete for hegemony. Start by reducing the strength of the gentry.

Zhou Yiran's move also shocked all the people in Zhou City who were unfamiliar with great will.

More than ten days ago, the aristocrats had just arrived in Zhoucheng and were extremely arrogant. They regarded Zhoucheng as their own family. Some wealthy families gradually believed that the city lord, who had never appeared in Zhoucheng, was a person with only military talents but no governance talents.

But the changes in the storm over the night made their arrogance diminish.

The master of Zhoucheng is still the master of Zhoucheng, and the gentry is only attached to the supporting roles of the master.

The people's hearts of Zhoucheng grew again. Zhu Chongba was good at building the city walls, but was not good at ruling.

Zhou still began to look for talents who can govern the people.

Zhu Chongba's characteristics are stability and kindness.

These are suitable for becoming saints, but not for becoming leaders. Although Li Jiangshan is more suitable, Li Jiangshan is good at strategy, and the role of strategy belongs to the battlefield. In terms of governance, strategy has no place to be used.

Zhou Yiran invited the gentry out of Zhoucheng, and Li Jiangshan's plan to support the puppet was failed.

However, compared with the people of the Gongsun family and the people of Zhoucheng, anyone with a discerning eye can see which one is more important than that.

Zhou Yiran began to look for talents under his own hands to govern the people.
To be continued...