Xuande

Chapter 781 I am for everyone, everyone is for me

Liu Bei's first goal, because it sounds abstract, so no one has much reaction.

But for Liu Bei's second goal, because it was very specific, more people responded.

But everyone was mostly silent, ready to listen to Liu Bei's further explanation on the matter.

Because at the moment, Liu Bei is no longer a general, but a serious emperor recognized by the world, and also a super powerful emperor with 30 troops and 20 county soldiers.

When working with him, the first thing to consider is what should he do if he overturns the table?
Not every emperor has the ability to turn the table.

In the Eastern Han Dynasty, an emperor with the ability to lift tables has been dead for almost 100 years. Over the years, everyone has worked with emperors who did not have the ability to lift tables, and they have almost no experience in dealing with other types of emperors. This is very bad.

If an emperor with real power like Liu Bei wants to engage in land, he must first have a righteous name. If he resists, no matter what the reason is, he is a rebel, and he must participate in the tri-clan game.

It is possible for such an emperor to use rebellion as a reason to kill opponents, and it is justified. He does not even need the support of his officials and the court, and can do it by ordering the army himself.

This is the prerogative of the emperor who flipped the table.

And their hardcore group must be consistent with Liu Bei politically, so as to avoid being the first group of people to be hit by the table after he flipped the table.

Although this matter will more or less harm their interests.

For example, the super landlords Cao and Xiahou.

If it is handled according to the stepped tax system with more land and higher taxes, then big families like the Cao family and the Xiahou family will probably pay a considerable amount of taxes for this.

The land owned by their entire family is at least 50 million mu, and the output tax of the land after [-] mu is basically the top, that is, [-]%.

It's a ghost that the Cao family can accept this kind of top tax that is almost split in half.

But, for this matter, Liu Bei also has his own logic.

Being the emperor was not for himself. He sacrificed his reputation to be the emperor in a certain sense, leaving an indelible stain on himself, making himself a stained person, no longer the one who doesn't break gold. saint.

And he did this to make his subordinates feel at ease, so that they can hold power and have status safely and for a long time.

What Liu Bei declared is that I am the emperor, I am the emperor for everyone, I am the emperor for the welfare of your subordinates, and I am the emperor to make you and your family feel at ease.

This is the spirit of selflessness, this is the spirit of self-sacrifice, this is the spirit of abandoning one's fame for their sake.

This spirit should be rewarded.

It's a one-me-for-all situation.

So naturally, the latter is everyone for me.

I have paid so much for you, don't you plan to give something for me?

Aren't you going to let me get something?

Is it only me who pays, and you give nothing?

That won't work!

The feedback Liu Bei needs is their unconditional support in Dutian.

They not only need to transfer power on the issue of land property, but also let the family support Liu Bei in this matter to ensure the cleanliness of the entire family, so as to cooperate with Liu Bei's policy, start from themselves, and set an example.

They must pay taxes, and their families must pay taxes together, set an example, and must not be wet!

His entire core ruling group must remain absolutely clean during Dutian operations, including the families they belong to, and they must also obey the will of the whole in this matter and cannot separate.

If you leave, you will not talk about politics, and the consequence of not talking about politics will be that Liu Bei will be very angry, and the emperor will be very angry.

The emperor is angry, does your family have a future?

For the future, think about the 30 strong Han army.

Shouldn't you think about what you should do?

As for this matter, people in the core group have their own ideas.

First of all, there is a group of people headed by Jian Yong and Guan Yu who don't own much land and pay special attention to personal career progress and credit.

They themselves don't have a great need for land property, and there are not many family members. They are not obsessed with land property, and they don't care much about it. How to support.

So these people quickly made a decision, and they will definitely put this matter into place, never let themselves and their family become a stumbling block for Liu Bei, and collect taxes as they please. On tax issues, they must abide by court regulations, Never tax evasion.

To say that Yuan Cong is Yuan Cong, the political awareness is quite high.

Besides, most of them don't actually own that much land. Not to mention that they have no feelings about the Dutian incident, at least they don't feel that paying some taxes for so much land will affect them.

Then there are people from local small and medium-sized families represented by Han Rong, Qianzhao, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, etc.

Their family members are not too many, and the family property is not too much, but according to the land tax payment system stipulated by Liu Bei, I am afraid that they will pay more taxes for this.

Some families actually control more than [-] mu of land, close to [-] mu, so the taxes that need to be paid are quite a lot.

They themselves may not feel anything, but the tribe may not be so, and may be a little sensitive about this matter.

But the good thing about these families is that they are more dependent on one person's official position and power. They are not the kind of large-scale families. Individuals with high power and prestige can dominate the will of the entire family. If an individual speaks, the family dare not disobey.

They also tend to support Liu Bei's opinion, and they don't want to be in a confrontational situation with Liu Bei on this issue.

Even if you pay more taxes, you won't lose too much, and comparing the family's tax expenditure with the career prospects of important core figures, there is actually nothing to compare with.

They will lose a little, but they won't mind very much. The attitude of support will overwhelm the attitude of opposition, and the overall situation will be support.

Not so for another group.

Their family has a big business, and it was a well-known big family before following Liu Bei. After three or five generations of development, the family has blossomed and focused on development. Each branch has its own tasks, and there is no too core point to grasp.

Therefore, this kind of family is very difficult to deal with, and it is difficult for them to determine the will of the entire family. Even if someone is willing to support it, the opponents within the family will still have relatively large forces, and the core figures cannot be arbitrary.

Such as Cao Cao, such as Xia Houyuan and Xiahou Dun, and Xun You.

Especially the Cao family. Among the three typical families, the Cao Cao family has the largest number of properties. When Liu Bei started his business, Cao Cao was the first to support the real estate. There were still several real estates. Let Liu Bei choose.

Compared with real estate, the Cao family must have the most real estate.

Cao Cao probably said that the members of his family combined together, in Henan, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places, 50 million mu of land cannot be occupied. On average, the wealthiest clansmen hold more than [-] mu of land per capita .

This is far beyond Liu Bei's acceptance of the scale of land that a normal family can own, and because of the special situation of the Cao family, most of these lands are not taxed.

The Xiahou family is slightly inferior to the Cao family, but not too much.

The Xun's family didn't particularly care about this, but obviously the more the land, the better. It's not as good as the Cao's livestock, and it's not much better.

All in all, these three families belong to the perennial problem.

As for the Gai family, Yan family and other families in Liangzhou, although the scale of land is not small, it is insignificant compared with the Cao family. In Liu Bei's plan to pay land taxes in stages, the taxes they need to pay are not large. will reach an unacceptable level.

The situation of the Zhen family is similar to that of the Cao family. They are also super powerful in Jizhou who own a large amount of land, and although Zhen Yan has a great reputation in the family, he cannot decide anything about the family with one word.

In addition to these core families, there are also some situations about the families of the old officials of Liu Bei's original General's Mansion, which are generally of these three categories.

If you really want to distinguish, there are quite a few people, almost a quarter of the subordinates and their families, because the amount of land is too large, once a comprehensive census is required and taxes are paid, it will be very painful to cut the flesh.

It is not a one-off, but it will last forever. For this group of wild people, it is still quite difficult to get them to pay taxes.

Moreover, Liu Bei's real intention is not only to collect these land taxes, but more importantly, he wants to force some families to sell part of the land.

If you don't want to pay so much land taxes, then give up some land, and the imperial court will buy these lands at a more appropriate price, and don't let these big families suffer too much.

This is all the court can do, but if this is the case, and some people still refuse to accept it, and still go against the court, then it is pure courting of death.

Liu Bei is reasonable, but he will not always be reasonable. He is also an emperor after all.

After understanding this truth, Cao Cao and Xiahou brothers were somewhat depressed.

However, Xun You had an expression that had nothing to do with him, saying that he absolutely supported Liu Bei's request. Liu Bei had done a lot for them, and they must not be indifferent to Liu Bei's efforts.

Everyone looked at Xun You in amazement, and immediately remembered Xun You's falling out with Xun Shuang back then.

Then they turned their gazes to Xun Yu who was looking distressed.

Well, the grievances and grievances within the Xun family are also very interesting.

It seems that Xun You really wants to draw a line with the Xun family.

However, will all this be so easy?
(End of this chapter)