Fantasy Three Kingdoms: Four knots in Taoyuan at the beginning

Chapter 259 Chapter 257, Want to owe me money to my military advisor Chen Da?

If this is the case, Deng Xilong's dissemination of messages has no other effect except to make Chen Yuan's reputation among scholars in other places worse.

However, Chen Yuan didn't care about Shilin's reputation at all.

Chen Yuan has long understood that public opinion is completely controlled by the tyrants. Civil officials say you are good, you are good, you are not good, and you are not good, good or bad.

Just a little girl, dressed up casually.

And these people who control public opinion are mostly talkers, and Chen Yuan can't use them.

Bad reputation is bad, as long as it doesn't delay my recruitment of talents.

Moreover, although Jingzhou is still thirsty for talents, it is not as thirsty as before.

The counselors and civil servants under Liu Bei's command are enough at this stage, even a little too much.

More talents can only be used as reserve talents.

The reason for this phenomenon is that Liu Bei's territory is limited, and there is only such a place as Jingzhou.

The land is not big enough, the people are not enough, and the officials needed are naturally enough.

It's just that now is not the time to expand. If you attack other counties and counties now, it will definitely be a rebellion.

Emperor Han Ling is not dead yet.

Some time ago, Chen Yuan was a little troubled by the fact that there were too many talents and no position. Nanyang Haoqiang immediately became a good person.

Directly vacate more than 100 positions.

How could Chen Yuan be polite, so more than a hundred officials from Xiangyang crossed the Han River and went to Nanyang to become officials.

More than 100 county-level official positions have solidly solved the problem of too many talents in Xiangyang but no official positions, and have also laid a solid foundation for the state pastoral government to completely control Nanyang.

As long as these more than 100 people can take root and implement the policies of the State Shepherd's Mansion, then Nanyang will be under control.

However, the biggest problem at present is that the Nanyang tycoons headed by the Deng family will definitely not give up.

Although up to now, Chen Yuan has the upper hand, the longer the time, the greater the advantage of Chen Yuan, if Deng Xilong does not take other measures, Nanyang will really be controlled by Liu Bei.

Therefore, Chen Yuan reckoned that Deng Xilong was going to make a desperate move.

Chen Yuan called Qin Jie, Guo Youzhi, and Chen Zhen over to discuss what these Nanyang tycoons would do next.

"Three, now the Deng family has completely fallen into a disadvantage. From my point of view, they will definitely have big actions in the future, but I haven't figured out exactly what they are going to do. Do you have any ideas? "

Chen Yuan wanted to ask for a strategy, gather everyone's strength to predict the next move of the Deng family, so as to take targeted precautions, and then catch them all.

Qin Jie has been in Nanyang for a year or two, and he is quite familiar with Nanyang Haoqiang, but compared to Chen Zhen and Guo Youzhi, both of whom are from Nanyang, they are naturally not as familiar with them.

Chen Zhen and Guo Youzhi glanced at each other, and Chen Zhen signaled Guo Youzhi to speak first.

Guo Youzhi did not refuse either: "Army, in my opinion, most of these people will incite the common people to attack the government."

Ok?
Before Chen Yuan said anything, Qin Jie said in surprise, "How dare they do this? How is this different from rebels?"

Qin Jie couldn't believe that Nanyang Haoqiang dared to attack the government. This is tantamount to killing officials and rebelling.

Guo Youzhi knew that Qin Jie's understanding was wrong, so he explained: "In the beginning, they didn't kill officials, they only humiliated them!"

"What do you mean by that?"

"These people also know that killing officials is tantamount to rebellion, but humiliating officials is different. As long as the reputation of these officials is ruined, they will naturally have no face to continue to be officials here. This is a way for them to protect their own interests."

To put it bluntly, we don't kill you, but we can humiliate you, tarnish your reputation, and make you unable to stay any longer.

No matter how powerful you are, what can I do if you get out?
Generally speaking, if there is enough time, they will not incite the people to attack the government, because this kind of thing is a bit taboo after all.

They either resort to means to corrupt local officials and join forces.

Money, beauty, fame.

There is always something you like, as long as you like it, we will give it to you.

Once you accept this sugar-coated bullet, then you will be at their mercy.

This is also one of the tricks that the tyrants use.

It is also the most commonly used method.

If the person who came was really a clean and honest person with strong ability.

Then they will use various means to transfer such officials away.

Either through upper-level activities, or by using various despicable means to tarnish the reputation of such officials.

In short, Nanyang does not allow people who do not listen to our words to exist.

This is the logic of Nanyang's tyranny, and it is also the root cause of their domination of Nanyang for more than 200 years.

It's just that the situation is urgent now, and they don't know the background and character of most of these more than 100 people, and they don't have enough time to corrupt them.

Therefore, the only way to do this is to tarnish the official's reputation and face.

And one of the fastest ways is to incite the people to attack the government.

Every powerful family has many servants and many hidden households.

What is a hidden household?
Some common people often fled from their hometowns in order to avoid rent and tax and corvee.

After escaping from their native place, they are not required to serve corvee, and their names are not included in the household register.

There are also some people whose land was annexed by powerful landlords and lost the basis of survival, or were forced to die by usury from powerful landlords, and finally had to sell themselves to pay off their debts.

Many of these two types of people have become powerful slaves, and these people basically have no household registration.

That is to say, it is not on the household registration book of the imperial court.

This is the hermit.

The existence of slaves and hermits made the powerful landlords control more and more people, while the court, that is, the state, controlled fewer and fewer people.

Because there are no such people on the household registration, and they do not have their own land, taxes cannot be collected.

As a result, the land and population that the country can control are getting less and less, and in the end there will be no money.

If the court has no money, it will lead to a series of consequences, which will eventually lead to a change of dynasty.

Dynastic change means redistribution of land and population, because in the early days of the dynasty, the population was small, and the land was redistributed, and the population and land directly controlled by the state actually increased.

As long as the policy of light corvee and low tax is being implemented, a so-called prosperous age will come.

So, there is really nothing to talk about in the so-called prosperity of feudal society.

This is the inner nature of the periodic law of the rise and fall of dynasties.

Redistribution of population and land.

Nothing esoteric and complicated, it's as simple as that.

Therefore, there are great men in later generations who have penetrated this fundamental, encircling the cities from the countryside, agrarian revolution, relying on the masses, etc., and finally established a new China.

The fundamental difference between our party and the Guo party lies in this place, the difference in the degree of control over the population and land.

The Guo party seems to have a very large territory, but in fact the land and population directly controlled by the government are far less than our party.

This is one of the direct reasons why the Guo Party lost.

Well, I can't say more, or the river crab beast will stretch its pincers.

If any students are interested, I can write a special episode.

The dog's head saves his life.

The tyrants can use slaves and hermits to pretend to be common people to attack the government, and they can't find anyone afterwards.

This method is not often used by the tyrants.

Because this method is a lose-lose situation.

Although one official will be squeezed out, the next official who comes will often take more severe measures against the local powerful landlords.

Because no one is a fool, they naturally know how the ex became the ex.

But any official with a grain of salt knows what to do.

However, the situation is a bit special now.

Because today's Jingzhou is actually controlled by Liu Bei, Liu Bei will deal with them no matter whether they offend them or not.

So, they have nothing to fear.

That's it.

Guo Youzhi told Chen Yuan and Qin Jie the exact relationship between them.

Chen Zhen added from the side: "This is just one of their methods. They have a more powerful method, which is to default on taxes."

As mentioned earlier, the government entrusted the local powerful landlords to collect taxes on their behalf.

The main reason is that the imperial court does not have so many officials, nor can it organize a large and efficient tax department.

Ever since, it was entrusted to the local tyrants to collect it on their behalf.

This not only improves efficiency, but also saves administrative costs, so why not do it.

However, in this way, the power of tax collection is actually controlled by local tyrants.

There are too many doorways here.

When the central government is powerful, the local tyrants dare not go too far. At worst, they just deceive the upper and lower.

Pay less at the top, and charge more at the bottom.

It's enough to set up a name ingeniously and extort money.

Of course, there is a limit to this.

However, when the central authority is no longer there, they will not be polite.

Delinquent directly, or even not paying.

This is already the case with today's big man.

Even a few years ago, the tyrants from all over the country had already shown signs of arrears of taxes.

This is also one of the reasons why Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty wanted to sell his official titles.

The court has no money.

Now it is even more excessive. The taxes of many counties and counties are basically no longer handed over to the court, and they are withheld by themselves.

The reason is very simple and ready-made, the Yellow Turban bandits are in chaos, the place is exhausted, the people are in poverty, and there is no tax to collect. I go to the court to show mercy to the people and exempt this year's tax. I am very grateful.

Well, this is a memorial written by a prefect of a county to the emperor.

Do you think the emperor will not be exempted after seeing such a memorial?

Therefore, the emperor can only be exempted.

But is it really free?
Not necessarily, maybe some officials are really sympathetic to the people, so they really exempted this year's tax.

However, there may not be one such official in a hundred.

The remaining 99 cases may not only be inevitable, but even worse.

Of course, this may not be the fault of officials, but the fault of local powerful landlords.

They don't care if you can pay your taxes or not.

It’s good if you can afford it, but even better if you can’t.

Selling the land is not enough, then sell yourself to pay off the debt.

In this way, wouldn't the powerful landlords have more people and land?

This is also one of the reasons why in troubled times, the strength of local powerful landlords can grow faster.

The court can't control them anymore.

Originally, the Nanyang tyrants saw that Liu Bei had helped Nanyang get rid of the Yellow Turbans, so the taxes were still paid in the same way as in previous years.

But now, they can completely default.

The reason is also very grand and upright, the Yellow Turban Rebellion.

In short, the Yellow Turban Rebellion has almost become a panacea excuse for local counties to default on taxes.

It is politically correct to throw all the blame on the Yellow Turban thieves.

It's time to pay this year's taxes. One of the purposes of Chen Yuan's visit to Luoyang this time is to hand over Jingzhou's taxes to the emperor.

Nanyang occupies a large proportion.

If Nanyang's taxation does not come up, then things are a bit serious.

Because Liu Bei had already expressed to the emperor how much taxes Jingzhou had to pay.

Without Nanyang, the amount would not match.

Then there will be a political crisis.

This trick is a bit vicious.

After listening to Guo Youzhi and Chen Zhen's introduction, Chen Yuan nodded: "So, they will use these two methods to deal with us next?"

Guo Youzhi and Chen Zhen nodded: "If there are no accidents, it should be like this. Of course, there may be other actions of the Deng family, so I can't wait to speculate."

The implication between the two of them is that the Deng family will not rule out the act of dying together.

However, Chen Yuan didn't think so.

These tyrannical landlords will not easily make up their minds and burn everything.

Even if Deng Xilong wanted to do this, the rest of the Deng family would not necessarily do it, and the other Nanyang tycoons might not have the courage.

At that time, there is really no turning back.

The [-] county soldiers are not for display, and the tens of thousands of troops in Jingzhou are not just for fun.

Therefore, Chen Yuan speculated that they would still fight within the rules of the game.

Of course, even if they really want to burn everything together, Chen Yuan is not afraid.

Just kidding, I brought Lu Bu and Zhang Liao, plus Zhou Tai and Wei Yan, as long as they can save their lives, there is only one end for these people, and that is death.

But if this is the case, it will cause turmoil in Nanyang.

Chen Yuan's purpose was not like this, he wanted to bring a complete Nanyang into the rule of Jingzhou.

So, we still have to fight.

But now that you know what kind of action they are going to take, it is much simpler.

Let servants and hermits pretend to be ordinary people to attack the government?
That's too simple, just kill it.

It looks cruel and ruthless, but in fact it is saving lives.

As long as the leaders are killed, the rest of the people will definitely be captured without a fight.

As for tax arrears?

Chen Yuan said hehe.

Want to owe him the money of Master Chen?

Such a person has not yet been born.

As long as they really dare to do this, Chen Yuan must show these people what it means to be thunderous, what it means to sweep the fallen leaves with the autumn wind, and what it means to steal chickens without losing money.

However, there is indeed a problem.

That is, there may not be enough manpower.

What else to say, shake people.

To be honest, Chen Yuan never expected that his trip to Nanyang would turn out like this.

The main reason is that Deng Xilong's move to resign from office is indeed a bit unexpected.

It doesn't feel like a scheming old fox at all, but a bit like a stupid young man.

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