Xuande

Chapter 784 He Wants It All
This time, Cao Cao's above form not only expressed his willingness to obey, but also fully explained the size of the Cao family's land property, distribution area and holders, and then explained the interpersonal relationship of the family branch where the holders belonged.

Under various circumstances, almost all the requirements of the Dutian Order have been fulfilled internally, and the family status has been described in detail to the point where Liu Bei can understand it at a glance.

He is also willing to accept Dutian officials from the court to review.

For Liu Bei, Cao's statement made him very satisfied.

The size of the Cao family is not small. At present, except for the Cao Cao branch and the Cao Ren branch, no other members of the Cao family are still holding positions. Moreover, the current talker of the Cao Cao branch is not Cao Cao, but Cao Cao who is still in charge. Surviving father Cao Song.

Cao Cao was able to deal with the opposition of the entire Cao family in such a short period of time. It is conceivable how determined he was.

Liu Bei called Cao Cao to his study and asked Cao Cao about the inside information. Cao Cao did not hide anything, but explained a little bit about what he had experienced.

Only then did Liu Bei learn that in order to push the family to carry out Liu Bei's orders, Cao Cao had brought his spirit of persistence and compromise to the extreme.

The so-called persistence means that he will never compromise on the matter of promoting Cao to follow Liu Bei in an all-round way.

The so-called compromise refers to making more concessions in economic aspects other than this matter.

He first did the work of his father Cao Song, let Cao Song know that this matter is not easy to handle, let him know that the importance of this matter is related to the future of the entire family, so Cao Song must support, otherwise he is the most attractive I thought Hao's son was going to be marginalized.

Cao Song thought that this matter was not that serious.

"The relationship between you and Xuande is so good. After so many years of friendship, Xuande wouldn't treat you and the Cao family so well?"

Cao Cao shook his head again and again.

"Father, Xuande can't, but Your Majesty can. Are you going to make a huge gamble with the future of the Cao family?"

Cao Song was stunned and remained silent for a while, his face gradually became serious.

Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and gave chase.

"Father, you don't want your son to be suspected by His Majesty, do you? You don't want Mrs. Cao to be suspected by His Majesty either? The future of Mrs. Cao,"

Cao Cao looked at Cao Song sincerely.

Cao Song thought about it and asked Cao Cao a question.

"For my father, the Taiwei who once served as the imperial court, although he is old and returning to his hometown, can... can the imperial court give the old man more tax exemptions in view of his former official position? With so much land, every mu is worth more. If you pay taxes, that's...too much..."

Cao Cao is not ashamed to say that your behavior of beheading the current official with the sword of the previous dynasty is somewhat inappropriate. This resigned Taiwei is somewhat different from the serious Taiwei.

He can only say that he tried his best to fight for Cao Song, but Cao Song also needs to play some role in the matters of his brothers, such as helping Cao Cao's brothers who have separated, as well as Cao Song's own brothers and relatives them.

With Cao Song's status within the family, Cao Cao felt that it was at least easier than running over alone to give orders.

The same is true.

Cao Song's appearance is more convincing than Cao Cao's appearance. First of all, Cao Cao's younger brothers have no way to seriously contradict their father on this matter. To be honest, their property is still passed down by their father. Those who have come down are now singing the opposite tune, and are suspected of being unfilial.

If the rest of Cao Song's younger brothers openly disagreed with Cao Song on this matter, they might not take the truth of "elder brother is like father" seriously.

However, if some branch families really engage in land work according to Liu Bei's requirements, the amount of payment will indeed be very large.

For example, Uncle Cao Cao's family owns more than [-] mu of land.

According to Liu Bei's regulations, [-]% of the annual harvest is required to be paid as a tax on the portion of land exceeding [-] mu, and [-]% of the annual harvest is required to be paid on the portion of more than [-] mu as tax.

This is the kind of situation where you can't swallow your teeth and get stuck in your throat. Cao Cao's uncle and his family ran to Cao Cao crying and shouting, saying that their family's life can't go on, and they will starve to death. Category.

He even threatened Cao Cao that if he didn't help them, they would really starve to death in front of Cao Cao, making Cao Cao hated by all the people.

Cao Cao didn't have the nerve to say that everyone in the world starved to death and they wouldn't starve to death. This is really not a good thing to say, and Cao Cao couldn't say it.

So Cao Cao can only say that when his uncle's family sells excess land, he will give some subsidies from it. The government will give a sum of money, and he will give another sum of money in his personal capacity, which is equivalent to allowing the uncle and his family to get two sums of money.

"This is already the most favorable treatment, and no one else has it. Uncle, I have done it to the extreme, and there is no more."

The uncle's family made the calculations in private, and felt that it would not be too much loss, at most not as much as before, so they reluctantly accepted it cursing.

Regarding the "crying and begging" of other tribesmen, Cao Cao also expressed his willingness to use his property to give some financial compensation to the families who are willing to obey the command, and he is willing to give some political help to their descendants.

You are doing this for the overall interests of the Cao family.

Of course, I am the biggest beneficiary, so in this matter, I am willing to pay some price.

As long as you help me, I will not forget the family's help, the family will only be better, not worse.

But if you don't accept harming the overall interests of the family, then I'm sorry, I will ask the patriarch to come forward and expel this person from his clan. From now on, this person has nothing to do with my Cao family!
Life and death are fate, wealth and honor are in the sky, you always go well, don't give it away!
With a big stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, more and more people finally accepted Cao Cao's request.

I didn't want to accept it, but I saw that many people accepted it, and I was the only one who didn't accept it. I was afraid that I would be hated by Cao Song and Cao Cao and his son, and thus become a victim of the family, so I could only grit my teeth and obey the will of the Cao family.

The Cao family then decided to fully abide by the Dutian Order, willing to accept the imperial court's Dutian, and never resisted.

After hearing this, Liu Bei was very moved.

"How much did you pay? How much did your father pay?"

Liu Bei smiled and walked to Cao Cao's side, and took Cao Cao's hand.

Cao Cao only felt warm in his heart and smiled wryly.

"Simple calculation, most of my wealth is gone, and I will really have to live on my salary in the future, but everyone knows that the biggest beneficiary of this matter is me. Of course, there are also Zixiao and Zihe. They also helped me share some. We If you don't give some compensation, it's really unreasonable to be a clansman..."

Liu Bei nodded.

"Where is your father?"

"Father doesn't have too many opinions, I still want to ask the former Taiwei if there is any preferential treatment in the policy..."

"That's true, not even myself, let alone others?"

Liu Bei laughed and said, "However, Cao Shi, like me, has paid a lot for the big man. Neither I nor the big man will forget Cao's dedication."

Liu Bei held Cao Cao's hand tightly.

Then he gave Cao Cao some feedback, such as rewarding Cao Cao with some land, gold, silver, etc. in the name of the emperor, as a compliment.

Furthermore, Liu Bei also revealed to Cao Cao a news that has not been made public yet.

The purpose of the land saving operation is to rectify taxation and acquire some of the land released by the big landlords and big local tyrants. Then, he will use the family as a unit to re-grant land and draw books for each agricultural production family unit.

He will re-grant land to farmers with little or no land according to certain rules to help them establish a foothold in the local area and start a family.

In terms of the rules for granting land, there are also differences according to different regions and different populations.

In a densely populated area, the allocation quota after the completion of the field will be less than that in a sparsely populated area, that is to say, the more the core agricultural area is, the less land quota per capita can be allocated than in an undeveloped area or an underdeveloped area .

In the core agricultural area, a young man may only be allocated one hundred acres of land, while in those undeveloped areas, a young man may even be allocated one thousand acres of land.

At present, the uncivilized areas that he has decided to make great efforts to develop are Jiangnan, the area south of Dajiang, the Jiangnan part of Yizhou and Jingzhou, and all of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. Those are the areas that he will make great efforts to develop. .

He will send troops to wipe out the barbarians, and he will also make great efforts to deforestation and open up wasteland. He will even invest in the construction of infrastructure in these places in exchange for the rapid development of the local area.

And those who join in at this stage and work hard with the court to open up wasteland can not only get land far beyond the core agricultural area, but also get a lot of policy support.

For example, the agricultural tax in the core agricultural area is paid in full, and there will be no exemption unless there are natural disasters and man-made disasters, but the agricultural tax in the developed area and the underdeveloped area will be exempted to varying degrees.

Even if the land becomes rich and fertile in the future, a lot of food can be harvested, but if the overall development level is not high, the tax amount will still be kept low.

For the same land and the same harvest, the tax in the core area of ​​the Central Plains will be higher than that in the outlying areas.

So Liu Bei made a suggestion to Cao Cao.

If you feel that the loss this time is very big, why not choose some Cao clan members and arrange them in different remote states and counties?
Select a part of the tribe to separate and let them settle in those remote states and counties. While enriching the local population, it is indeed possible to obtain a large amount of land.

In the Central Plains, a few members of a family may not be able to share a thousand acres of land, but in those marginal wild lands, although wild, one person can be allocated a thousand acres of land or even more. Isn't it thousands of acres of land?

Losses in the Central Plains can be compensated in a certain sense in the Jiangnan area. Although there is an initial investment, after it develops later, the tax revenue will be lower than that of the Central Plains core area.

Therefore, Liu Bei believes that Dutian is not a complete robbery, but a large-scale property transfer, and the imperial court will also do its best to compensate the people who lost too much in the south of the Yangtze River in a certain sense.

"Like your Cao family has a lot of land, I know it must be a huge loss, which makes me feel bad, but a national policy is a national policy. For the long-term stability of the Han Dynasty, land conservation and land distribution must be carried out, but I can't just watch Cao's loss. too much.

So I suggest you have a good discussion after you go back and separate some tribesmen to settle down in the south of the Yangtze River. There must be dangers. It's not difficult.

In this way, one Cao family can branch out into multiple Cao families. In the future, no matter the ups and downs, even if the big man really falls, most of your Cao family’s branches will also be destroyed. There will always be a few branches that can continue?It won't be possible for all branches to be completely destroyed, right? "

Holding Cao Cao's hand, Liu Bei walked with him while pua.

Cao Cao lowered his head, and really thought about the meaning of Liu Bei's words seriously.

It seems that Liu Bei also knows that for some families with a lot of property, with only a little political resources, I am afraid that it is really impossible to calm down the grievances so simply, and everyone can't tear their faces.

This is also something that Cao Cao is very worried about.

So in addition to political means, Liu Bei really came up with some compensation methods.

Use Jiangnan to replace Jiangbei's interests.

Anyway, the land in the south of the Yangtze River will be developed sooner or later, and the south of the Yangtze River is sparsely populated, so there is too much land available for reclamation. The problem of the current Jiangnan is not that there is no land, but that there is no one to open up wasteland.

There are tens of millions of people in the whole Han Dynasty, most of them are still in Jiangbei, and there are only a few million people in Jiangnan, and many places are not developed at all.

It's not even the turn to talk about the issue of land annexation, and the development process hasn't even started, so it's a bit too early to talk about land annexation.

As long as someone is willing to go, develop, and take risks, why not give more land?What's wrong with paying less agricultural tax?
Land saving in Jiangbei is imperative and very necessary, while land saving in Jiangnan is more of a symbolic means. The court even thinks that there are too few people in Jiangnan to occupy so much land. What is Zhenger Bajing doing to save the field?

Therefore, Liu Bei’s method is to connect Dutian and immigration to the real border, and come up with a new concept, a concept of replacing Jiangbei with Jiangnan. As long as you are willing to go, then I will give you land. How much land you occupy depends on it. How many people can you go.

You think the tax is too high in Jiangbei, so sell the land in Jiangbei to the imperial court, and the imperial court will take it all. The lost land, go to Jiangnan, the land in Jiangnan is free, you don’t want money, I’m afraid you won’t go.

As long as enough people go there, enough land can be obtained.

If you don't want to go, then don't blame me for not giving the land, I am willing to give it, but if you dare not go, then blame your own incompetence.

This world is to starve to death the timid and support the bold, cowards and cowards don't deserve so much land, they deserve to starve to death.

Liu Bei spread his hands and said so.

And Cao Cao also understood Liu Bei's meaning.

He wants it all.

(End of this chapter)