Xuande

Chapter 646 That's All My Money

After this wave of public opinion broke out, the situation of those small and medium-sized families who didn't understand the inside story was quite bad.

Facing the absolute power difference, they wanted to resist, but they thought of Liu Bei's iron-fisted style, and the brutal military operations in the Sili area and Bingzhou area before.

If they don't want the same thing to happen to Jeju, there is only one option - they have to give up resistance and hand over the slaves.

Therefore, in Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom and Hejian Kingdom, the slavery restriction was implemented very simply and thoroughly.

Even the palaces of the three kings of Zhongshan, Changshan, and Hejian were enforced by Liu Bei. People sent by the local government entered the palace to find out all the slaves in the palace and count them one by one. In the end, only the palace was allowed to keep two slaves. Hundreds of servants, the rest were dismissed and naturalized.

It is said that the three kings were quite critical of this and were very dissatisfied with Liu Bei's behavior, but in the end they didn't say anything, but chose to swallow their anger.

Because they also knew that Liu Xu, the former King of Anping, had offended Liu Bei, so after Liu Bei became powerful, they took revenge on him.

Now, Liu Xu and his main line have been abolished as ordinary people, and his family is homeless and impoverished. Liu Xu died of cold and starvation a year ago, and many of his family died of starvation and illness. The court also turned a blind eye to this.

And the one who inherited the title of King Anping was a distant relative of Liu Xu. They also heard that the king of Zong would prepare a gift for Liu Bei every festive season, and his attitude was extremely respectful.

Liu Bei's ferocity, means, and strong sense of revenge spread among the clan circles. Everyone knows that Liu Bei is the one who is in charge of Luoyang now. He ordered that if he wanted to find trouble with the Zong King, the Zong King himself would not be able to resist. .

Therefore, instead of finding an excuse to target him, it is better to accept his tossing honestly, at least, you can keep the throne.

Zongwang is like this, let alone other people?

Except for the Three Kingdoms, the effect of the implementation of the slave restriction laws in the other seven counties and countries was different.

It is not Liu Bei's own people who serve as county guards and county magistrates in these areas. The eunuch group and the upper-level figures of the ancient literature school spent more verbal support than action support on this matter, and more people had their own ideas.

They thought they knew Liu Bei's true intentions, and believed that Liu Bei's promotion of the slavery restriction was to benefit everyone, to benefit the bureaucrats and the big landlord class, suppress the bumpkins at the bottom, and prevent them from violating the interests of the upper class. So they are willing to support Liu Bei's slavery restriction.

But in terms of the specific method of doing things, they are going all out to attack those wealthy families who have no status, and then take their land, property and slaves into their own hands, and then give a small part to the court to show their support for Liu Bei .

Objectively speaking, they are indeed beating local tyrants and enforcing the slavery restriction, but in the end, the local tyrants are gone and they are getting fatter.

Highlight the truth that He Geng fell and Jiaqing was full.

They took most of the benefits and gave Liu Bei a fraction. The level of profit sharing did not even reach [-] cents, at most [-] cents.

Eight of them, Liu Bei two.

For example, in the Wei County led by Chen Qiao, an official of the ancient literature school, this is the way of doing things when enforcing the slave restriction order. Pass.

Certain families knew Liu Bei’s abilities well, and they dared not go against the imperial court, so they decided to give up their slaves, so they took the initiative to hand over their slaves, keeping only three slaves, in an attempt to avoid the disaster, but after a while, officials still came to arrest them .

The reason is that the privately kept slaves refused to hand them over.

The conscience of heaven and earth, they really handed over the slaves, leaving only the number allowed in the slave restriction order, but no matter how they explained, they just couldn't do it, and the government wanted to punish them.

Kill people and behead them, and then take their property into their own, or share this part of the profit with some collaborators, and finally after the overall statistics, take out [-]%, at most two transactions, to the court to deal with errands, and the rest , All points were given in private.

Leading officials, subordinate officials, official servants, big families and relatives who assist in handling affairs, etc., one counts as one, and everyone shares the benefits together.

This group of people took advantage of the deterrence of Liu Bei's murder, which made these family forces who dare not resist suffer bad luck.

And this kind of news was passed to Luoyang through the intelligence agency arranged by Liu Bei in Jizhou, and after being summarized to Liu Hui, it was reported to Liu Bei, letting Liu Bei know about some chaos in Jizhou.

To be honest, before this, Liu Bei did not think that the slavery restriction would have such side effects, but when such side effects clearly appeared, Liu Bei realized that the creativity of bureaucrats is unlimited, and there is no lower limit .

Or more precisely, they are the lower bounds themselves.

People who have been trained by themselves and have a higher pursuit of official career will pay more attention to results when executing orders, and their work style will be slightly better. States, such cases are relatively rare.

But in Jizhou, the situation is more complicated. There are many areas where there are many additional casualties. It is essentially a big bully annexing a small bully, and there is nothing special about it.

After Liu Bei learned about it, he was naturally angry, but he was also helpless after being angry.

"It is my personal extravagant hope to expect all my subordinates to be saints and to carry out my orders to the letter. In fact, it is impossible for them not to make profits for themselves, so I mainly depend on the extent and whether they exceed out of bounds.

For one thing, they take [-]% and give me [-]%, I will be very happy, they take [-]% and give me [-]%, I am also very satisfied, they take [-]% and give me [-]%, I can accept it, but if they If you take [-]% and want to split with me, then I will be a little unhappy.

Going any further, that's a situation that I can't bear, not to mention the fact that I've mobilized troops to fight the current situation. They're just giving me [-]% to [-]% of what's ready-made, and they're taking [-]% to [-]% for themselves. , This is a bit too little to take me seriously.

The situation I created, the thoughts I spent on the money, my intrigue to earn some money for the court, and some benefits for the common people below, in the end, it all became their business without capital, and they took much more than me, and then Give me a little to deal with the errands, do you want me to thank them? "

Liu Bei took a deep breath, shook his head, and said in a low voice, "It's all my money. I have worked so hard to earn this situation. I have worked very hard!"

Liu Hui said in a low voice: "But right now, this is the situation. The insects don't care who made it. As long as they can get the benefits, that's enough. The reason why insects are insects is nothing more than this, so, What are you going to do?"

"What? What else can I do?"

Liu Bei sneered and said: "I have to let some people know that it is not so easy to get benefits from me. At least, they can't be so blatant. They must be honest and behave. I am not unacceptable to them. Divide the profit, but, they are too much."

"Do you need your subordinates to take action?"

"Not for the time being. I'll talk to them first to see if there is any result. If there is, then it's easy to say. If there is no result, then don't blame me for asking for a result by myself."

Liu Bei thought for a while, and planned to open the gap from the more greedy eunuch group first, they are the most vicious.

So Liu Bei found Zhang Rang and planned to have a good talk with him.

(End of this chapter)