Fantasy Three Kingdoms: Four knots in Taoyuan at the beginning

Chapter 164 161, Ju Shou and Tian Feng's Rejection

As soon as this remark came out, let alone Ju Shou, even Tian Feng's face changed.

Isn't this killing it?

It's no wonder that the Cai family won't serve Liu Bei anymore. If it's called them, they won't serve Liu Bei either.

This is clearly against the powerful family.

Digging their lifeblood.

Chen Yuan was very calm, so he couldn't help it. I haven't measured the land yet.

If you said it, wouldn't you beat me to death on the spot?
Measuring the land and dividing it into acres is the trick.

Of course, it is obviously inappropriate to do it now. If you do these two tricks, maybe even the Kuai family, the Ma family, and the Xiang family will stab themselves in the back.

Have to wait.

This can only be done when the power of the powerful family is transferred to the outside and transferred to business.

It is still a bit far to say these things now, the most important thing right now is to convince the two people in front of me.

Chen Yuan looked at Tian Feng and Ju Shou whose expressions became less attractive, and smiled indifferently: "Why, does Ergong think these three strategies are not good?"

In fact, the release of slaves is not new, and the emperors of the Han Dynasty have always been doing this.

Because the practice of keeping slaves in powerful families is too prevalent, a large number of self-cultivating farmers are forced to become domestic slaves of powerful landlords. This is an act that weakens the strength of the country. As the emperor, it is natural to stop this behavior.

But having said that, not only the powerful landlords are raising slaves, but the emperor and the court also have official slaves.

"Han Shu Jingdi Ji" records that there were 3 official slaves raising horses in the northwest during the time of Emperor Han Jing.

During the reign of Wang Mang, more than 10 people who minted money privately were demoted to slaves.From this point of view, there were only more than 23 official slaves recorded in Wang Mang's time.

According to statistics, during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the slave population accounted for 20.00% of the total population of the country.

This means that one-fifth of the population is slaves.

And these people are useless to count among the population controlled by the court. According to official historical records, the national population during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty was more than 5000 million. In this way, the number of slaves will be more than 6000 million.

And such a ratio, under the premise that the number of official slaves is underestimated, and officials strictly abide by the slave restriction order, shows the prevalence of slaves in Han Dynasty society.

Therefore, in fact, during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the national population was nearly 7000 million, but the official statistics were only a little over 5000 million, and almost 2000 million disappeared out of thin air.

The 2000 million people who disappeared, except for a small number of people who escaped into the mountains and forests to stay away from the tyrannical government, most of them are among the slaves of powerful landlords.

It's no wonder that some big and powerful merchants can produce tens of thousands of slaves at every turn, or directly pull out tens of thousands of troops. There are so many slaves.

Therefore, although the release of slaves is not new, it is difficult to implement. One is that the powerful family does not cooperate, and the other is that many slaves have no way of life after being released and have to sell themselves as slaves again.

If we really want to implement this policy, one is to force the powerful families to cooperate, and the other is to give these released servants a clear way of life so that they can support themselves. This is the reason why Chen Yuan engaged in farming.

After all, farming can provide the government with a large amount of food, and it can also feed the slaves released from the powerful landlords, turning them into self-reliant farmers.

A lot of success in one fell swoop.

Of course, Tian Feng and Jushou couldn't say that it was wrong to release the servants, and it was also the policy of the imperial court to set up households for Qimin, so naturally there was nothing to refute.

The key is to feed in one.

This one-body payment refers to the one-body payment of officials and gentry.

At this time, after becoming an official, not only do you not have to pay taxes, but even your relatives do not need to pay taxes.

This is also the reason why one of the local powerful landlords must be an official, exempt from tax.

If no one in the family is an official, then they have to pay a lot of taxes, which is intolerable for the powerful landlords.

This is also the reason for the marriage between powerful landlords. After the marriage, if there is no one in the family who is an official, then the tax can be exempted through the in-laws.

Ju Shou said: "Zichu, did Jingzhou get the approval of the court for this policy?"

Chen Yuan disagreed and said: "These three policies have never violated the imperial court's legal system, why did the imperial court disagree, not to mention that Liu Shijun, as a prefect of a state, naturally has the right to implement his own governance policy in Jingzhou, what do you think? "

These three policies did not violate the imperial court's policy. Emperor Han Ling might be happier if he got the news.

Because this is giving him money.

To be honest, selling officials and nobles is indeed a bit low-end. How nice it is to say that officials and gentry pay for food as a whole.

This is sympathy for the power of the people, what the Holy Son of Heaven did.

"However, these three strategies may not be tolerated by all the virtuous families, and there may be unexpected things."

Jushou's meaning is obvious. If you look at it this way, the powerful local families will definitely not do it, and they will definitely drive Liu Bei away in the end.

If Liu Bei doesn't leave, maybe those tyrants will take the risk and send assassins directly to kill Liu Bei.

In this era, assassins and rangers are still prevalent, and both Liu Bei and Sun Ce have been assassinated by assassins.

It's just that Liu Bei influenced the assassin, while Sun Ce was killed.

Chen Yuan was full of confidence: "My lord has as many as five first-rank powerhouses, and more than a dozen second-rank powerhouses. How can mere assassins do me any favors?"

Chen Yuan was showing off his muscles.

Since he dares to implement such a policy, then Jingzhou has such confidence.

Five first-rank powerhouses and a dozen second-rank powerhouses, just ask who else is there!
Ju Shou and Tian Feng couldn't help being shocked when they heard this.

Good guy, I didn't expect Liu Bei to have accumulated such a huge strength without making a sound.

With such strength, even the alliance of powerful and powerful families in Jingzhou is no match for Liu Bei.

However, Jushou and Tian Feng are still not optimistic about Liu Bei, because he is making an enemy of the powerful family in the world, and failure is inevitable.

Those who win the hearts of the people win the world.

In this era, the hearts of the people here are those of powerful families, not ordinary people.

The scale of the Yellow Turban Uprising is large enough. Without the support of powerful families, it will fail.

Liu Bei is losing people's hearts.

Therefore, Jushou and Tian Feng have made a decision that Jingzhou cannot go, and Liu Bei cannot serve.

After thinking for a while, Ju Shou said: "I don't agree with these three strategies. If Liu Shijun and Zichu are determined to do so, then forgive me for not being able to go to Jingzhou to serve Liu Shijun."

"Yuan Hao, do you still want to go to Jingzhou?"

Tian Feng shook his head: "These three strategies are unpopular. Feng does not agree, so I will not go."

Well, now the two of them are not going.

If you put it on ordinary people, you will definitely panic.

However, Chen Yuan is not an ordinary person after all, and he was already prepared when he said these three strategies.

It's time to scale up.

(End of this chapter)