At 5:00 p.m. on June 13, the gate of Youzhou opened wide, and the Hebei army entrenched in Youzhou surrendered to the Liangzhou army. This surrender was definitely not as simple as the Liangzhou army occupying a Youzhou city. According to Liu Shan, this was a great victory for the Liangzhou army in the Hebei region, marking that Hebei entered the sphere of influence of Liushan Liangzhou army.

When later generations analyzed this matter in detail, they all praised Liu Shan for leaving Dou Jiande's life during the Central Plains War. It was precisely because of Dou Jiande that peaceful occupation of Hebei became possible. Liu Shan successfully persuaded the Lord of Hebei Dou Jiande to lead the Hebei army entrenched in Youzhou under the city of Youzhou to surrender to Liu Shan, marking the beginning of the Hebei army's successful surrender to Liu Shan. From then on, Liu Shan began to truly gain foothold in Hebei.

After occupying Youzhou, Liu Shan did not rush to approach the big city occupied by other Hebei troops, but left the army outside Youzhou City and began a vigorous purging campaign in Youzhou. This time, the main treatment was the bullies in some places in Youzhou, which was done by Liu Shan in other places. Here, Liu Shan also listened to the public's opinion widely and quickly wiped out several major gangs and evil forces in Youzhou City with their army according to the public opinion. Hundreds of heads were cut by the fierce soldiers before Youzhou Prefecture. The ground was bleeding, and the onlookers cheered the earth.

But this time, this matter did not end here. After dealing with these evil forces, Liu Shan issued the Civil Service Law and began to rectify social order in Youzhou area. The most important point was to disperse the wealth obtained from those evil forces to the people and give the obtained land to some civilians without land.

However, the land division here is by no means overthrowing a class like later generations, and distributing the land occupied by this class to the people. Liu Shan did not overthrowing a class, because Liu Shan understood that under the social and economic environment of the early Tang Dynasty, it was not suitable for land reform, and economic and land reform was definitely not suitable for social environments like the early Tang Dynasty.

Maybe some people don’t think so. They think it’s not good to distribute the land to the people evenly. In this way, everyone is equal and fair. People in the world have fields to plant and have food to eat. Isn’t it great. But Liu Shan understands that doing so will only cause a lot of unnecessary trouble.

Liu Shan understands a truth even more. Time traveler is a double-edged sword and a serious threat to the development of society. Unless a time traveler has been unknown and spends his life indifferently, he will more or less change his history and society.

This change is sometimes positive and sometimes negative. When this time traveler does something wrong, his harm will be very serious.

In history, there were continuous butcher-type generals, but they also killed up to ten thousand people and one million people. In history, they also continued to produce beauty that harmed the country and the people, but at most they only lost a dynasty. In history, there were also numerous treacherous ministers, but at most they caused trouble for a while.

However, a mistake by time travelers will cause irreparable losses to society, and this loss will continue for hundreds, thousands, or even tens of thousands of years. Social reform is the most serious of this mistake.

Many people take it for granted that time travelers should bring advanced social relations to ancient and even older eras without historical records. However, there is an iron law that cannot be changed in society, that is, productivity determines production relations, and what kind of productivity there will be what kind of production relations. When production relations hinder the development of productivity, it will hinder the development of production, thereby hindering the development of society.

In the early Tang Dynasty, productivity determined that production relations must be feudal production relations, not other capital or socialism.

Those who took it for granted that modern production relations in ancient times would only make society messy and messy, even to the point where they could not be cured. This is equivalent to equiping a cannon barrel to a pistol, which looks mighty, but has no use at all, and it only has a counter-effect. The productivity of the early Tang Dynasty was equivalent to a pistol. Advanced production relations were like a cannon barrel. If the cannon barrel was attached to a pistol, it would definitely not have a good effect.

Those things that could still manage social governance in ancient times by adopting modern production relations will only appear in novels or in the imagination of some people.

Liu Shan naturally understood the constraints between production relations and productivity, so at this time, Liu Shan would not take it for granted to defeat a certain class and then share the money and land. The reason why Liu Shan attacked bullies was because these people were full of evil and were no longer suitable to live in this world. Moreover, in order to safeguard the people, their death was absolutely inevitable. When they died, society was settled and the people could live peacefully.

And the things they divide are definitely not about having a certain idea or a certain policy. Instead, Liu Shan needs the people's hearts to look to the Liangzhou army, so that the Liangzhou army can take root in Hebei and gain a firm foothold. Dividing the east and the land is the fastest way to gain the people's hearts. This is just a means, not a policy, nor is it ideology.

Some people may think that doing so will affect the production relations of society, but in fact, doing so will definitely not affect it. Liu Shan only killed those who are full of evil deeds. They are just a few of the ruling class. If they kill them, they will not affect the essence of the production relations of society at all. Instead, they will eliminate the scum in society and allow society to develop better.

Some people also believe that Liu Shan would not affect the development of society by using gunpowder, hot air balloons in Liangzhou, and crossbows in Hebei. In fact, this would never affect it. Gunpowder and hot air balloons were not invented by Liu Shan at all. As early as before the early Tang Dynasty, there were these things in the Qin and Han Dynasties. Alchemists in the Qin Dynasty made gunpowder out and exploded successfully. The firecrackers in the Sui Dynasty were continued on the basis of the invention of gunpowder. The hot air balloons had records of Kongming lanterns during the Three Kingdoms period. The essence of the hot air balloon was only an expanded version of Kongming lanterns, and the principle was exactly the same.

The continuous crossbow was not Liu Shan's invention. This was a thing that the ancients had long recorded. The Zhuge crossbow of the Three Kingdoms had the characteristics of continuous firing, but it was lost later.
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