Xuande

Chapter 386 Liu Bei has many ways to control Yizhou
The powerful clan in Liangzhou is weak and has been tamed by Liu Bei. They have become the promoters of the community of interests and are no longer troublesome.

Because of the cooperation between Meng Tuo and Ma Rizun in the Sansuke Land, now the local obstruction forces have also been tamed, and it is no longer a problem.

The Land of Three Rivers isn't too much trouble either.

First of all, the land of Sanhe is equivalent to the land of Gyeonggi of the Eastern Han Empire. It was greatly influenced by the imperial power, and the tendency of local independence and separation was relatively weak, so it was more likely to be influenced by the imperial power.

Moreover, there are a considerable number of people from the Land of Three Rivers in Liu Bei's basic team. Using their relationship, the problem of the Land of Three Rivers can be settled relatively easily.

Therefore, the current process of selling salt in the land of three rivers is also going relatively fast. From about February of the fifth year of Zhongping to the present, except for the impact of the war, the salt selling business in Hedong County has not yet spread, and the salt selling in Hanoi County and Henan Yin The business has already started rolling out.

In Liu Bei's view, Yizhou is the same as Hongnong County, which is a hard bone and more difficult to chew.

Not to mention the Hongnong Army, the Hongnong Yang family is a behemoth standing here, and the interest groups surrounding the Hongnong Yang family control almost every aspect of Hongnong County.

The Hongnong Yang family is definitely not a family of good men and women. Their fortune is mainly due to the achievements of the Han and Qiang Wars.

The Han-Qiang War lasted for a hundred years, and all the strategic materials had to be transported from Luoyang. On the way, they must pass through Hongnong County. No one can say how much the Yang family did with the military materials and how much meat they ate. clear.

But there is no doubt that Hongnong Yang, the third generation and third father, really developed and grew from that time on. If there is no connection, no fool will believe it.

Today, it may be a bit exaggerated to directly say that Hongnong County is the Yang family's fiefdom, but it is still quite difficult to open the resource gap in Hongnong County without Yang's nod.

As for destroying the Yang family for the sake of selling salt, this goal is still a bit ambitious, and Liu Hong is not very willing, because they still want to keep the Yang family to compete with the ancient literature school.

Therefore, the first phase of the salt sales plan directly avoided Hongnong County.

The situation in Yizhou is actually similar, and because of the inconvenient transportation, the Luoyang court’s dominance over Yizhou is not too strong, so the powerful families in Yizhou are often larger in scale, stronger in power, and more influential. Larger, stronger countermeasures against the central government.

For this situation, in addition to strengthening transportation and increasing Luoyang's influence on Yizhou, it is more effective to control key economic resources.

Economic resources did not have much impact on the common people in ancient times, because the key economic resources themselves did not belong to them, and they only needed a piece of land and a relatively stable situation to survive.

Only powerful families and officials will be affected by this aspect. Without these local economic resources, the meals on their tables will not be so luxurious, and the manpower and material resources that can be mobilized will not be so strong.

Therefore, the competition for economic resources is a blow to powerful forces.

The more Luoyang controls, the less capital Yizhou has to fight against Luoyang, and the less successful it will be.

The most beneficial economic resource in Yizhou is salt. Because of the existence of well salt, Yizhou has great interests in the salt industry.

What's more interesting is that there are still many "fire wells" in Yizhou, that is, natural gas wells. Smart people in Yizhou have long used natural gas wells to ignite and boil salt, which is low in cost and very effective.

There are thousands or tens of thousands of salt wells in Yizhou, and some well-known salt-producing areas are controlled by local big families, such as the famous Linjiang Gan family.

When they control the local salt wells, they control the production of salt, and they control thousands or even tens of thousands of salt workers. They are rich, talented, and powerful, and the government has nothing to do with them.

Liu Hong and Zhang Rang want to sell Liangzhou fine salt here, of course it is possible. Liangzhou fine salt also has a quality that cannot be matched by local salt in Yizhou, and it will definitely open the gap in the interests of Yizhou salt.

However, after superimposing freight charges, it is hard to say whether it is still possible to lower the price by normal means and obtain enough revenue to seize market share.

Moreover, the big and small families in Yizhou who control the interests of salt are definitely not just talking about business, and there will definitely be various outsiders to fight against Liangzhou salt.

There are also many people in Yizhou who rely on boiled salt for food. It is also possible for a bad person to be incited to attack. When there is a bloody incident, it will be difficult to calm down.

Therefore, it is very difficult for Liu Hong to rely on the foreign Liangzhou salt to conquer the world in Yizhou. Liu Bei is not very optimistic about Liu Hong's plan in his heart.

However, it is not that difficult to gain control of Yizhou. Each era has its own rules, and each era has its own game style. Since you are in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is better to use some simple and crude methods to solve the problem.

For example, power, the power brought about by the ideological environment of the divine right of the king.

Instead of sending Liangzhou salt all the way to Yizhou after all the hardships, it is better to just capture the salt wells and salt workers in Yizhou.

Yizhou Inspector has such a legitimate official position, so many legitimate positions and powers, it is really stupid not to use them.

If Liu Bei is the shepherd of Yizhou, or even the governor of Yizhou, he has a good way to deal with the local tyrants in Yizhou.

Although the Eastern Han Dynasty does not play salt and iron monopoly now, it also has the right to collect taxes and a certain number of government-run salt and iron offices. If there is no place to work hard, it will work hard on taxation.

Liu Bei doesn't believe that all the big clans in Yizhou are clean in terms of taxation. As long as they are willing to investigate, there must be a lot of problems, and then force them to pay taxes.

I have made up for the lack of taxes over the years, and I have to pay a fine, and then report to me the size of the property controlled by the family so that I can check your taxes, and how many salt workers, servants, and servants you have in your family. You have to explain the poll tax to me clearly.

As long as there is a problem, you can justifiably ask the crime.

Those who confessed, those who paid taxes and fines, and those who have a long-term vision, then allow them to continue to exist.

Those who refuse to accept the crime, those who do not want to pay the fine, and those who do not want to hand over the actual size of the family property, the road left for them is very narrow, and almost only the road of armed confrontation is left to go.

That's even better, I'll just wait for you to fight with arms. If you don't fight with arms, I can't deal with you!

Once they entered the stage of armed confrontation, it was exactly what they wanted.

Armed confrontation is rebellion, and there is no room for it. Send troops to attack, fight over and destroy them. As long as you win, everything belongs to the winner, and there is nothing else to say.

You say I killed people, I did, but I didn't violate the rules of the game. Han Law clearly stated these regulations, and I followed them. What can you do?
Or do you want to play with me, the inheritor of "Zuo's Spring and Autumn", about Spring and Autumn Judgment?
Are you sure you want to play with me?

I can't kill you!
Taking such legitimate means, Liu Bei felt that he could get a lot of things smoothly, and the channels he went through were all aboveboard and in line with laws and regulations.

I'm chasing taxes for the country, what's wrong?I was wrong?
If you don't go the right way, you will go the wrong way. This is also a prominent feature of the last days of the dynasty, and when the top of the dynasty starts to do this, it means that even they don't believe it and are unwilling to follow the rules.

If the rules no longer exist, then the dynasty is not far from being completely destroyed.

Thinking about it this way, Liu Bei felt somewhat touched.

Does Liu Hong know this?

Does Liu Hong realize this?

My Majesty...

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PS: I had a very strange dream last night. I dreamed that Jayden was doing sabotage, and then I held the magic light stick in my hand and transformed into Tiga... I became Tiga and beat Jayton, how could I Will have such a dream?

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