Xuande

Chapter 787 Liu Bei is not a devil after all

When Liu Bei said this, Xun You was stunned for a while.

He suddenly remembered that Liu Bei had persuaded him many times before to join the Xun family and take over the power of the Xun family.

He immediately regretted it.

Xun Su is a mediocre person, able to plan but not decisive, while Xun Yu has the characteristics of being soft on the outside and strong on the inside, but he lacks the resolute and decisive means of acting. He knows what to do, but he always lacks in the process of enforcement. Some guts.

Knowing what to do, but not always doing it thoroughly, nonviolent noncooperation seemed to be the only thing he could do.

Neither of these men is the most suitable candidate for the patriarch.

If I let myself do it, even if I don't have Cao Cao's decisiveness, I can at least catch up with Zhen Yan's progress, but unfortunately...

Thinking like this, Xun You suddenly had a bold idea.

While there was still time and hope, he decided to make a request to Liu Bei.

"Your Majesty, I have a request."

"Say."

"If I can persuade some members of the Xun clan to follow His Majesty's order and put His Majesty's request first, can Your Majesty allow these Xun clan members to join me in establishing a separate Xun clan in Yin Yin, Henan?"

After Xun You finished speaking, he looked at Liu Bei nervously. He was very worried that Liu Bei's hatred of the Xun family could no longer be contained, so he decided to kill the Xun family.

But it turns out that his worries are meaningless. Liu Bei obviously cares more about his emotions, and hopes to exchange for his further loyalty.

So Liu Bei laughed.

"I have had such expectations for you a long time ago. I have been waiting for you to speak out, but you have never said it out. I thought that Qi Zhi was not here. Isn't it good now? Willing to cooperate, Stay with you, and I won't keep those who don't want to cooperate, isn't this a good thing to have the best of both worlds?"

Xun You was immediately moved.

"Your Majesty's considerate heart for my ministers, I am deeply grateful!"

"Gongda, you have done so many things for me and relieved me of so many worries. It is only natural for me to do something for you."

Liu Bei held Xun You's hand with a smile and did not let go for a long time.

Xun You couldn't hold back the burst of tears, and wept bitterly in front of Liu Bei.

So the two formally agreed that Xun You would look for collaborators within the Xun family who were willing to participate in the cooperation, while the others would be abandoned by Liu Bei, and Xun You would not care about them.

As for what choice Xun Yu will make, it depends on Xun You.

Liu Bei will completely leave this matter to Xun You. How Xun You treats Xun Yu will determine how Liu Bei treats Xun Yu.

Xun You knows that this is Liu Bei's greatest trust and concession. If he still can't solve this matter, he can resign himself and take the initiative to exile to Liaodong or Lingnan.

So Xun You took action quickly, giving full play to his subjective initiative. While Xun You was still trying to persuade those die-hards, he took the initiative to contact the minority people who he thought were softer and more enlightened.

When meeting people, he cut straight to the point and put the words on the table.

"Your Majesty's attitude is like this, and the attitudes of the major families are also clear. What your Majesty needs is a family that obeys orders, not a family that opposes him everywhere. The Xun family has violated too many taboos. This is the last chance. If you miss it, it’s gone.”

"If the Xun family hadn't supported His Majesty early and helped His Majesty a lot, His Majesty would not have spared the Xun family again and again. Not everyone can have so many opportunities. I hope You can seriously think about the current situation."

"Cao family, Xiahou family, Zhen family, which one of them has more land and property than the Xun family? Didn't they still meet His Majesty's request? They have a long-term vision and don't care about the small profits in front of them, and I, the Xun family in Yingchuan Are you going to lose everything because of small profits?"

"Your Majesty is different from the past emperors of all dynasties. Don't compare the past with the present. What you have to understand is that the past emperor could not command 30 troops, but the current emperor orders 30 troops. Ten thousand armies can destroy all for him."

"The situation has completely changed, the past can no longer be returned, this is the last chance, you must not miss it."

During the three days, Xun You kept Xun Yu secret, and secretly met with clansmen whom he believed to be reliable, and conveyed his wishes to them. Under the pressure of the ultimatum, twelve clansmen chose to "surrender" to Xun You.

They decided to join Xun You's newly formed "Henan Xun Clan" and follow Xun You into the next era, even if they would pay enough taxes for this, it doesn't matter.

As long as you can survive, live well.

But other persuasion had no results, and those branches that Xun You didn't even touch, naturally had no results.

Xun You has no wealth and can't spend much money to make up for everyone's losses. What he needs is a group of rational people who are absolutely easy to talk to.

He didn't even think about what to do with the group of people who were not easy to talk to.

Xun Yu used so many benefits to seduce people who were not moved, and he knew that he had absolutely nothing to do.

Then, as Liu Bei said, give up the plot of helping others and respect the fate of others. Anyway, the Xun family is still there, and there are fewer people, and the remaining people will not lose their surnames because of this.

As long as Xun's blood is passed on, he will be regarded as the right ancestor.

Three days later, Xun You completed his established plan, made a list and handed it to Liu Bei, and reported to Liu Bei. After Liu Bei learned about it, he was very happy with Xun You's performance.

"Gongda, you've done a good job. If you had controlled the Xun Clan earlier, I don't think the Xun Clan would have come to where it is today."

Liu Bei said with emotion: "But it is fortunate that the Xun family can be preserved. The ancestors of the Xun family will definitely feel gratified because of your efforts."

Xun You sighed, not knowing whether to feel lucky or sad.

In the next few days, Xun Yu visited Liu Bei again and told Liu Bei his "achievements", saying that he had persuaded another member of the tribe to cooperate with Liu Bei, and that as long as he had a little more time, he would be able to persuade the entire Xun family.

Liu Bei comforted Xun Yu again and reiterated his opinion, but if Xun Yu wants to continue, then go ahead.

It doesn't matter anymore, the Xun family in Yingchuan is doomed to have no future, the future belongs to the Xun family in Henan,
He didn't say these words, but saying them in front of Xun Yu was a bit hurtful. After all, Liu Bei was not a devil.

Afterwards, Liu Bei no longer cared about this matter, but began to arrange the entire Dutian operation.

In his preparations, Dutian should follow the order of first Jiangbei and then Jiangnan, because his ruling foundation in Jiangbei area is more solid, while his ruling foundation in Jiangnan area is not so stable.

Moreover, there is no military group other than orders in the north, and there is no established armed force that can counter Liu Bei's Dutian order, and individual and scattered resistance has no effect at all.

The south is different. There are a large number of foreigners in the Jiangnan part of Yizhou, the same is true in the south of Jingzhou, and the Yangzhou area is the same. The mountains are rampant, but there are very few good people.

If the Dutian Order is promoted simultaneously in these places, I am afraid that the pressure on Guan Yu and Liu Sheng will be very great, and it is not necessary.

Therefore, following the principle of first going north and then going south, Liu Bei is going to take the lead in launching Dutian in the Jiangbei area.

In terms of specific operating methods, we do not apply one size fits all. In terms of agricultural tax, everyone pays the tax together, but different land quotas will have different levels of taxation.

According to the family as the production unit, if a family only owns less than [-] mu of land, the tax is very low.

From [-] mu to [-] mu is considered a grade, and the tax for this grade is not too high.

[-] to [-] is considered a grade, and the tax for this grade will be raised a little bit.

Three thousand to five thousand is considered a grade.

Five thousand to ten thousand is considered a grade.

For more than [-] mu of land, [-] to [-] is considered a grade, and [-] to [-] is considered a grade. If the harvest of land above [-] mu is harvested, then it will be done according to the top tax. It is not too much to charge you [-]%. .

Leaving aside other aspects of taxation, Liu Bei mainly wants to protect the interests of self-cultivated farmers as much as possible in terms of agricultural tax, which is the basic taxation system of the empire, and reduce their taxes so that they can have savings as much as possible and have the ability to resist various disasters. Ability.

Allocating more taxes to high-income earners, collecting agricultural taxes from them to subsidize national use, and adjusting tax distribution will have an effect of equalizing the rich and the poor in a certain sense.

On the basis of comprehensive land management, formulate new tax laws in accordance with such tax rules, pay a new round of taxes, and reverse the underlying logic of taxation. This is what Liu Bei thinks he can spend decades to complete.

In the next few decades, he will devote part of his energy to this field continuously and for a long time. As long as it can be successfully implemented, he feels that he is very successful as an emperor.

Regardless of whether this policy can be achieved, and how long it can last, as long as it continues to be implemented, it will always have an effect.

Correspondingly, Liu Bei also began to make some requirements on the taxation department of the Ministry of Households, asking them to set up eight different taxation groups for these eight levels of basic agricultural taxation groups, and divide the taxation groups across the country.

These are long-term and continuous tasks. If they are done well, they will be of great use to the country.

Although from the perspective of historical experience, planning is one thing and execution is another, but the presence and absence of these two things is a qualitative difference.

At the national level, the use of the tax system to implement a policy of wealth redistribution and to safeguard the interests of farmers, the real emergence of this policy is a great progress in itself.

Moreover, this tax hierarchy system actually has a certain differentiation effect on the large-scale wealthy families.

The big family is not monolithic, there are poor and rich inside, there are rich and oily, and there are poor and clinking.

Just like Liu Bei's family back then, Liu Bo was very rich and wealthy, while Liu Bei and his family were poor mat weaving vendors, and the two families even had a relatively close relationship.

Different tax levels target different groups of people, and they will also be divided into different groups within a family, making it difficult for them to reach agreement on their mutual interests, resulting in serious conflicts between personal interests and family interests.

This is conducive to the division and disintegration of the rich and powerful families at the economic level.

Some people don't have much land, low taxes, and can even get some benefits from this new policy, so they feel that there is no need to risk their lives for this little tax, and even have some vague expectations for it.

Some people have a lot of land, and the new policy clearly intends to cut their flesh. They want to fight with the imperial court, but they cannot gather everyone's strength to fight against the imperial court.

For officials, because political reasons are involved, thinking is even more complicated, especially for an official who grew up under Liu Bei.

The Cao family, Xiahou family, and Zhen family all made their own choices, and the Xun family was later helped by a rebellious clan to make the choice they should make.

With such successful cases, Liu Bei believes that in the final selection, the resistance he will encounter will not be very strong. Most of them may be local outbreaks of rebellion, while the possibility of general rebellion is not high, and the local garrison is sufficient to deal with it.

After confirming many details of the "Dutian Law", Liu Bei rubbed his eyes and lay down for a while.

He thought that since the sixth year of Zhongping, he has been making preparations for Dutian, using the method of eliminating political opponents, but the essential purpose is to reduce the intensity of all-out confrontation that will be encountered during Dutian.

In the earliest days, the eunuchs, the conservative faction of the modern literature school, the ancient literature school, the old military faction, and the landlords and powerful people from all over the place counted as one of these power groups.

Dutian involves core interests. When Liu Bei's power is unstable, once this interest is touched, and the bureaucrats cannot find a strong enough deterrent and a sufficient substitute, it is conceivable to turn into a full-scale confrontation matter.

In this way, Liu Bei will become an enemy of the bureaucrats all over the world, and the only thing he can rely on is the army in his hands. The probability of his failure will be unimaginably high.

But now it’s different. With the continuous use of political struggles to attack political opponents, he has greatly weakened the strength of the forces that can resist him, and over time, the education system controlled by him has also cultivated people who obey his orders. Rather than a reserve official of a traditional wealthy family.

The resistance forces have nothing to use to control his existence, but he has in turn grasped the life gate of the resistance forces - the power of the world.

Du Tian will surely win, Du Tian will surely win.

Liu Bei already has such and such full grasp.

Therefore, at the farewell banquet after the end of the New Year's Eve, Liu Bei told his cronies and subordinates that Dutian is about to start in full swing, and the Han Dynasty will face a more severe test. They will also face many rebellions, and they need to use resolute military means be dealt with.

"I've never worried that you won't win the battle, and I've never worried that those insects will become a threat to the big man, but this doesn't mean that you can relax completely and ignore everything, it's not like that.

Gentlemen, no matter what kind of enemy we face, we must maintain vigilance. We must know that no matter how weak the enemy is, there is a possibility of a comeback, and no matter how powerful an army is, there is a possibility of defeat. , I don't want you to be a part of the battle case. "

Regarding this point, all the officials and generals in charge of the frontier said that they have understood it, will keep it in mind, and will never slack off. If losses are caused by slack, they are willing to bear it all.

So Liu Bei let them return to their respective jobs with peace of mind, and told them that it would not take long for his decree to be conveyed to them, and then the real test would begin.

In fact, in this matter, although Liu Bei's worries are not wrong, in a sense, Liu Bei did not fully understand the minds of the generals and the officials of the frontier.

To be precise, they were more excited than worried.

(End of this chapter)