Six Hundred and Seventieth Chapters Split Family

Zhang Yu planned to attack the aristocratic families in Luoyang City.

He held a banquet in the palace and invited all the big and small families on the list.

They didn't dare not come, and if they didn't come, Zhang Yu sent troops to invite them.

Zhang Yu's purpose in inviting these aristocratic families is very simple, that is, to ask for money.

Scrape Luoyang again, and keep it for Cao Cao.

Of course, Zhang Yu can also bring soldiers and horses to the door to rob, but it will make Luoyang go crazy, Zhang Yu doesn't like to use this method.

Inviting people, Zhang Yu was polite.

"Everyone, I am reasonable. You support Cao Cao and you are my enemy. I am easy to talk and don't want to kill people, but I am greedy for money and lust. You must spend money to buy peace." After calling everyone over, Zhang Yu said .

"We have no money."

"Yes, without money, why don't you kill us all?"

"This Luoyang was built on top of ruins. How can we have money?"

Hearing that Zhang Yu wanted their money, they all fought back.

In fact, they also knew that they had to spend money today, and they just wanted to bargain with Zhang Yu through this method.

Zhang Yu didn't pay attention to them, but waited quietly until they calmed down, and then said: "You may not know that when the Yuan family in Luoyang was on fire, I personally led people to set the fire."

Everyone was taken aback, the fire was set by Zhang Yu, and everyone knew it long ago.

But everyone immediately understood Zhang Yu's insidiousness, and told them clearly that if they didn't pay the money, they would be impolite.

What a helpless choice to meet Zhang Yu.

"Zhang Yu, you can't do this, everything is reasonable." Someone said.

Now the number of people who agree with him is much less. Everyone knows that Zhang Yu really dared to kill and set fire.

"Reasonable? I'm already very reasonable. I didn't send troops directly to the door, but invited you here politely." Zhang Yu said.

Everyone was silent, now Luoyang City is in Zhang Yu's hands.

"Don't talk nonsense, everyone hand over 60% of their property, if you don't have enough money, you can find a way. You only have five days. If you want to hide your property, you can try it." Zhang Yu said.

Everyone is speechless, 60% of the family property is simply terrible.

If you don't give it, then Zhang Yu will kill someone.

If you want to be lucky, it depends on luck.

For Zhang Yu to ask for 60% is considered very polite.

In fact, Zhang Yu can't help it. Many of their family properties are real estate, land, and goods in the hands of merchants. Zhang Yu can't take these with him.

Therefore, Zhang Yu gave them five days to raise money, so maybe they can make more points.

If the money handed over is too much less than what he expected, then Zhang Yu will naturally send someone to investigate. If it is not enough, then I'm sorry, and I will use a knife.

Luoyang City is so big, it is difficult to hide it if you want to. The main reason is that there are Zhang Yu's soldiers on the streets, so it is difficult to hide.

Zhang Yu has another purpose in doing this, which is to suppress the family in Luoyang.

Suppress these aristocratic families and make them feel less comfortable, so that their influence in Cao Cao will decrease, and Cao Cao will be able to better develop Taixue.

Suppressing the aristocratic family is what Zhang Yu has been doing, let alone the aristocratic family of the enemy's family, so he has to step on it hard.

After Zhang Yu blackmailed them, he asked them to go back. At the same time, he asked them about Dong Zhao. If he knew anything, he could tell him in secret. It would be beneficial at that time.

Zhang Yu offered a reward of three million yuan to buy Dong Zhao's news.

In the end, Zhang Yu had no choice but to see if there was any effect.

When these people went back, they all had bad expressions on their faces.

Everyone has a bad face when 60% of the family property is extorted. Fortunately, Zhang Yu only extorts their family property in Luoyang. These aristocratic families generally have more businesses and have properties in many places.

Everyone went back to raise money. Some people wanted to make a fool of themselves, but they were discouraged when they saw soldiers patrolling everywhere on the street.

It is obviously impossible to transfer assets, and it is estimated that they will be targeted as soon as they go out.

Every family is in mourning.

Many people sent posts asking to see Zhang Yu, but Zhang Yu didn't see any of them.

"How can we completely suppress these aristocratic families and let them divide?" Zhang Yu thought.

Divided families must be treated differently.

Zhang Yu intends to focus on those big families, and then let the small families take the opportunity to rise to power.

After thinking of a countermeasure, Zhang Yu acted quickly.

After five days, most people handed over their property.

After that, Zhang Yu sent soldiers to search, and the big family searched very carefully.

"Take it away, take it all away."

After the soldiers rushed into the study room, they took all the books in it away.

Many are printed on paper, and many are made of bamboo slips.

No matter what it is, everything will be searched away, not a book or a piece of paper will be left behind.

Those families were dumbfounded.

"No, you can't take it away."

"We've already paid."

"Without books, what shall we do?"

After paying the money, Zhang Yu even had people rob them of their books, as long as it was a big family, they would search them out.

Nowadays, books are easy to buy, but they are also very expensive.

There is no pressure to buy three or five books, and it doesn't matter if you buy a dozen or twenty books, but it is not so easy to rebuild a study.

Books are still very expensive in this era. Although there are printed materials, the price is still high.

Although most of them are only hundreds of dollars a book, it also costs a lot of money to get a study room.

It was nothing before, but now 60% of the family property has been handed over, and most of the aristocratic families only have some real estate.

In this way, it is not so easy for them.

But Zhang Yu showed mercy to those small families and did not search their books.

In this way, under the differential treatment, changes will gradually and naturally occur.

Without books, these people want to study, then go to Taixue, or not, then you can slowly accumulate books again, or sell some of your property.

When the family property is sold, the size of the aristocratic family becomes smaller.

Zhang Yu tried his best to shorten the gap between them and the Xiao family, and let them restrain each other.

When Zhang Yu cultivated a group of ordinary scholars, the real crisis of these aristocratic families would come.

In fact, Zhang Yu has already cultivated a group of ordinary scholars, and there are still a lot of them, but these people are all working for him, and their influence is not great.

It is very difficult for a large number of civilians to rise in other places, because Zhang Yu did not provide them with a large number of opportunities to study.

Zhang Yu's efforts to suppress the aristocratic family in Luoyang is only the first step. The second step is to establish a talent selection system throughout the Han Dynasty.

Of course, Zhang Yu will definitely not be able to do it in other places. As long as he does it in Jiangdong, he will be admitted through the examination, and people from other places can also participate.

In this way, if the princes do not give those civilian scholars a chance, then they will come to Jiangdong themselves.

As long as the princes slowly open their mouths, the common people will slowly rise up and impact the entire family system.

The aristocratic family was still very serious in the Tang Dynasty. The Tang Dynasty could even affect the direction of the empire. Only after the Song and Ming Dynasties did the aristocratic family be suppressed by the imperial power.