Chapter 574: Sima Family’s Show of Good Will

When Ma Su summoned Sima Wang, the great families in Henei were actually discussing countermeasures.

As a large county in Hebei under Sizhou, Henei County has a complex and powerful family. Among them, the Wei family, Zhang family, Sima family and many other Henei families have extremely great power in the court of Cao Wei.

However, no matter how great their influence is, when the Han army comes to them, they have no way to deal with it. In addition to resisting with the whole family and overdrawing the family's authority to pull the entire Henei County to resist, they have no other power.

Only Ma Su does not want to massacre the city. If Cao Cao comes, they will most likely have to bow their heads and be obedient.

At present, tens of thousands of Han troops are close at hand, and the reinforcements sent by Cao Wei are indeed few, and the great families themselves are also panicking. Especially this time it is Ma Su who goes to war, this notorious butcher, who puts great pressure on the Henei families.

So several families also discuss with each other every day to discuss how to overcome the difficulties next.

Among them, the most pessimistic discussion was actually that the Han army refused to surrender and massacred the counties in Henei. In that case, they could only give up all their industries and flee with only a small number of legitimate sons and daughters.

When Sima Wang came to Henei in the name of the general of the Han Dynasty and expressed the Han Dynasty's intention to surrender to these fellow villagers, several major families in Henei were overjoyed.

Finally, someone was sent to surrender. If they didn't come again, they would really run away.

However, after Sima Wang came, he did not bring good news. He made it clear that Ji Han Huqi General was unwilling to massacre the city, so he asked him to come to surrender.

And even if they surrendered, the requirements would be extremely harsh, and the Henei families would make their own judgments before talking. If you can't accept it, then don't come, just stay at home and wait for death.

When Sima Wang said this, several major families couldn't help but take a breath. They didn't expect the Han army to be so determined, and even ready to massacre all of Henei!

"What are the conditions of this Han general? It can't be that we have to hand over all our property ourselves, right?" The head of the Wei family couldn't help but ask.

"I don't know, but according to General Ma's character, it is likely to be very harsh." Sima Wang shook his head and said directly.

"I suggest you prepare for the worst."

As soon as Sima Wang said this, several heads of families fell silent. In each other's eyes, they all saw deep fear.

Ma Su did not put forward his own conditions, causing these wealthy families to have to guess for themselves.

Among them, the Wei family was the most pessimistic about the prospects. After all, they started with Confucianism, and the action of unifying Confucian annotations that Ma Su is currently promoting is undoubtedly digging their roots!

Here we need to specifically mention the issue of unified annotations of classics. In fact, the Hanoi nobles did not agree on this issue before.

The unification of classics annotations indicates that all assessments have begun to have a basis, which is a good thing for the country. However, when it comes to the actual implementation, it is the most unpleasant thing for all the scholars.

After all, the unification of the annotations of the classics means that most of the knowledge they have studied hard before is invalid. They need to abandon the family learning that they have learned for half a lifetime, and then study the official annotations again. The impact is no less than the unified writing system during the Qin Dynasty.

Especially for a big family like the Wei family that started with Confucianism, this is almost to dig up their roots.

But at this time, Sima Wang began to persuade them from the perspective of a fellow countryman.

"I suggest that you accept it, otherwise Ma Su really dares to massacre the city!" Sima Wang said seriously.

"Besides, the Han court is short of people now, and surrendering now can still gain some benefits to make up for the losses. If the Han army is forced to take action, I am afraid there will be nothing left!"

"Don't think that the Han army can't do it. Hasn't this cavalry general done less?"

Under Sima Wang's alarmist words, all the prominent families were extremely desperate. Under coercion and inducement, they finally had to choose to accept their fate.

However, when several big families went from despair to resignation, they did not notice that Sima Wang had a barely perceptible smile on his lips.

In fact, he knew very well where Ma Su's bottom line was this time, which was actually quite lenient. However, he did not tell these fellow villagers, and even hinted that his own clansmen were the first to express their willingness to accept it.

You should know that the influence of these prominent families in Hanoi is very large, and their statements will even indirectly affect the psychological bottom line of the entire Guandong samurai when they surrender.

This is a great achievement. If they really don't sell these fellow villagers for a good price, their Sima family will not be able to make progress in the future.

As for the loss of their Sima family for this. This is not a big deal under the temptation of progress. Anyway, their Sima family has always lived a long life, and the worst thing is to start over.

It can be said that Sima Wang's calculation was very successful. In the end, under some intimidation, all the big Henei prominent families made concessions helplessly and accepted the most demanding conditions under the threat of life and death.

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Under Sima Wang’s promotion, the progress of the negotiation far exceeded Ma Su’s imagination. The entire Henei County surrendered unconditionally, and took the initiative to hand over a rich and large county to Ma Su.

Originally, Ma Su had made certain concessions, but the Henei nobles did not put forward any conditions. Not only that, but they all became good citizens, and even the Wei family threw away their family studies and took the initiative to express their willingness to endorse Ji Han’s Confucian classics.

And Ma Su was not a fool, so he knew the key to all this. Obviously, this was a gesture of goodwill from the Sima family in Hanoi by selling their fellow townsmen.

"I understand how good the Sima family is at scheming, and this gesture of goodwill is so sophisticated." Ma Su shook his head speechlessly, and couldn't help but sigh.

Originally, Ma Su was thinking that he would have a chance to clean up the internal affairs in the future and find a reason to clean up Sima Fu who surrendered. As a result, after such a generous gift and gesture of goodwill, Ma Su hesitated whether he should take action.

It can be said that Sima Wang gave a generous gift this time. In the future, all the Guandong nobles will probably have to refer to the surrender conditions of the Hanoi nobles when they surrender.

But who would have known that all this was actually made up by Guandong's own people...

"General, now all the counties in Hanoi have opened their cities and surrendered." At this time, Jiang Wei from the front line also rushed back and reported with surprise.

"These people in Guandong are so rich that the county coffers are full of food and fodder. Their weapons, armor and arrows are all of high quality. This is the first time our army has been so wealthy since I took charge of the six garrisons!"