Xuande

Chapter 309 Seven Years Later
The end result of this thing is to kill some people.

All those involved in this matter were ordered to be executed, and none remained.

The Liangzhou people under Liu Bei's command were satisfied with this result, praised Liu Bei's decisiveness, and also asked to spread the word to all directions, so that all the evil Xiaoxiao could see clearly the fate of going against Liu Bei.

It seems that Liangzhou people are really ruthless when facing the existence of disobedience to Liu Bei.

When this kind of existence appeared, they were very eager to destroy it all, trying to prove that Liangzhou people would never violate Liu Bei.

There is no way, they need Liu Bei too much, and they cannot lose Liu Bei's favor.

Similarly, Liu Bei cannot lose the support of Liangzhou people for him at present.

Therefore, Liu Bei appreciates this kind of ruthlessness very much. The more ruthless they are, the more they prove that their foundation in Liangzhou has been stabilized, which is a good thing.

As for a mere Cheng Gongying and those five unlucky families, no one cared, they died as soon as they died.

After their deaths, all the properties of these six families were taken over by the state government, and four brand new collective farms were planned on the basis of their industries.

After solving this small matter, Liu Bei is going to do big things.

Liu Bei took an inventory of the wealth accumulated by the Liangzhou prefecture, and felt that it was almost time, so he announced his intention to promote the birth-encouraging policy within Liangzhou.

Because Liangzhou's population is too small, it is obviously not conducive to the government's control of Liangzhou's land and the long-term development of Liangzhou. In order to encourage births, Liu Bei referred to the methods of some countries during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States Periods, and formulated many strategies for Liangzhou to encourage births.

That is to say, families who are willing to have children report to the Liangzhou government after the birth of the first child. The government immediately donates [-] money and a sheep. After giving birth to two children, the government reports to the government.

For every additional child, there will be two thousand dollars and two sheep.

Families with two children are exempt from corvee labor for two years from the birth of the second child, and families with three or more children are exempt from corvee labor for three years from the birth of the third child.

For a family with three children, report to the government, and the government can pay for a nanny to help take care of the daily life at home, and help raise the children for free until they are seven years old.

Every county will set up a nursery hospital for pregnant women, and the state government will hire experienced doctors, stable women, etc. to sit in the town. Pregnant women themselves can receive free treatment in this nursery hospital for any diseases they have during pregnancy.

Not only that, when pregnant women give birth to their children, they can also go directly to the nursery hospital to wait for delivery, and professionals will help give birth, so as to increase the survival rate of babies and mothers.

During pregnancy, women who are unable to help their families increase their income because they are difficult to work will be subsidized by the government. From the third month of pregnancy until they give birth, the government will give a month's rations to families with pregnant women every month to ensure that pregnant women won't starve.

In the end, in order to completely eliminate the public's doubts about childbirth, Liu Bei announced in his capacity as a Liangzhou pastor that the Liangzhou government would be responsible for all the oral taxes that children born to families registered in the Liangzhou government's household registration records will pay during their growth. pay.

Families with multiple children do not need to worry about oral endowment.
All you have to do is to have children. I, Liu, will pay for the money.

This policy is equally effective for existing household registration families with multiple children, and it will take effect immediately.

Regarding the policy that Liu Bei was going to implement, although no one in the government dared to publicly oppose it, there were actually quite a few people who raised doubts in internal meetings.

The core question is actually the question of Liu Bei's tenure as Liangzhou pastor.

When Liu Bei was here, he could naturally promote this policy, but how long can he be the shepherd of Liangzhou?

The core policy to encourage childbearing is the oral tax payment policy, which is the core of promoting childbirth in Liangzhou.

However, this policy does not come into effect immediately after the child is born, but after the child is seven years old. The court also waits until the child is seven years old to collect the oral tax. Now that a child is born, after seven years, Liu Bei will definitely not be in Liangzhou The pastor is up.

Will the next governor of Liangzhou accept this policy?
Isn't it a cold tea?
When the time comes, the people in Liangzhou who respond to this policy will be dumbfounded. What about the oral tax that the government promised to pay for them after they gave birth?
They live in poverty. Even if three or four children can afford to eat, how can they afford it?
From the age of seven to 20, how can ordinary peasant families afford the 13-year oral tax?
If you can't afford it, you have to throw it away. Isn't that a sin?
Gai Xun understands all of this, although he does not want to oppose this obviously conscientious policy, but the conscience is not used in the place, or the conscience does not last long enough, it is not a conscience, and it will kill many, many people.

So he spoke to Liu Bei.

"This policy is promoted now. In the short term, it will definitely push a group of people who want to get money, sheep, and food donated by the government to have children. They will definitely have children. They will not see the hidden dangers after seven years. This is for them. It was cruel.

It is true that there are families who need help from the government to raise children, but there are more families who can afford to raise more children. This does not mean much to them. Of course, I also hope that Junhou can work in Liangzhou for a long time, but... it's out of the question. "

Gai Xun summoned up a lot of courage to speak to Liu Bei.

After finishing speaking, he took off his official hat, saluted Liu Bei and apologized, saying that he was at his disposal.

Liu Bei walked up to him in front of everyone, put the official hat on for him again, and held his hand.

"After seven years, I will no longer be a pastor in Liangzhou. I don't even know if I have the official position of pastor in Liangzhou, but I can guarantee that as long as I am still alive, this policy will still be in place in Liangzhou seven years later." Continue, and in the future, the oral tax, this extremely unreasonable and cruel tax, will disappear forever, and the burden on the government and the people will disappear."

The officials present were all shocked when they heard this.

Gai Xun also looked at Liu Bei in shock.

They have always thought that Liu Bei is a very conscientious officer, and it is outrageous for such an officer to appear in this world.

But they didn't expect that Liu Bei's conscience was a little bit bigger than they imagined.

For the high-ranking Luoyang lords, tax increases will be addictive, and tax cuts will produce a withdrawal reaction.

The obvious bad government of oral taxation is something that everyone can understand. It is too inhumane to tax children.

But who can completely eliminate this tax?
Abolishing this tax is equivalent to taking a small piece of cake from the bureaucracy. Although the amount is not large enough to affect the overall situation, it will not even affect the drinking and eating of the gentlemen, but even if only one peanut is missing, the gentlemen It is also unbearable.

So if Liu Bei really wants to do this, for the bureaucrats who count on this small piece of cake to live a luxurious life, it is no less than killing their parents.

To force this reform, if you want to eliminate this tax, you must be prepared to go to war with the Luoyang bureaucracy.

Is Liu Bei planning to go to war with the Luoyang court?

Can he succeed?
The officials of the Liangzhou state government instinctively wanted to be suspicious, but they were partially offset by the absolute authority established by Liu Bei.

They don't know whether what Liu Bei said is true, and they don't know whether what Liu Bei wants to accomplish can be successful.

No way, Liu Bei's prestige is too high.

Even if he doesn't have any more long-term ideas, but just wants to make a wave of political achievements and increase the population of Liangzhou, and he doesn't care about anything after he leaves, his subordinates can't stop Liu Bei.

Finally, the policy was successfully promulgated.

(End of this chapter)