Xuande

Chapter 796 The Poor Ghosts Suddenly Become Smarter

It is worth mentioning that there are actually quite a few officials who think Liu Bei has done a great job.

This is mainly due to the impact of Liu Bei's successive political purges on the original official class since the Jian'an year. Because of these successive impacts, many officials with "family origin" were killed and replaced with new ones. .

Among other things, these newcomers have one advantage that is quite prominent-the family background is weak and poor, and the land and property owned by them and their small families are generally lower than what may be brought to them after this land conservation operation. Field volume.

How could they be unhappy about such a thing?
For them, this is equivalent to the country sending money.

Such people are not in the minority.

The number of people with a lot of property and dissatisfaction in the family is not small, but most of them are not in important positions, and those in important positions have actually been taken care of by Liu Bei.

Including the Lu family and the Ma family.

On the matter of Dutian, Lu Zhi himself supported it. The first time Liu Bei started the operation, Lu Zhi publicly expressed his strong support. Lu Zhi also did the same thing immediately.

The Lu family also handed over more than 90.00% of their property.

It is said that there are relatively strong objections within the Lu family, but Lu Zhi directly released a strategic deterrent, threatening expulsion from the clan, forcing the clan to confess their counsel and forcibly confiscating the land.

Anyway, Lu Zhi's wave really didn't hold Liu Bei back, or he was more radical than Liu Bei.

At any rate, Liu Bei provided some material compensation to the clansmen, and asked the government to buy the land at the market price, but Lu Zhi directly grabbed it and sold it to the government at half the market price.

According to Lu Zhi's logic, most of this wealth was obtained by the tribe's foxes and prestige, relying on Lu Zhi's reputation and prestige, and some of them were even obtained by dirty means.

He didn't say it before, it doesn't mean he doesn't know, but after the Dutian decree was issued, some old people in the family accused him of various accusations, saying that he didn't care about the family, so he couldn't help it, and decided to tear his face and do it directly, also for himself rectification of name.

As an emperor teacher, he is absolutely clean, and he will never embarrass the emperor Liu Bei.

So many times before, Lu Zhi felt that he was dragging Liu Bei back. This time, he could not delay Liu Bei's retreat no matter what, and he would not allow his clansmen to ruin his years of dreams and Liu Bei's years of hard work.

Otherwise, he felt that he would have no face to continue living.

Ma Rizun was more entangled. First, he lost the status of the Fanyue family, and then lost his land property. This really had a great impact on the Ma family, a family that loves luxury life.

Many clansmen cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves three times in the clan. Ma Rixun himself cried in front of Liu Bei, looking aggrieved, and did not get up after crying for a long time.

He seemed to feel that Liu Bei was bullying him a little too much.

According to the size of his family's land, how much tax should he pay?
The family lives in luxury, once the tax is paid, do you still have to live in the family?

Liu Bei was very dissatisfied with this.

I have given you enough, and your status is high enough. Now everyone follows me, and there is no complaint. Even my teacher has no complaints. Why do you have complaints?

Do you expect me to be special to you?
"Doctor Ma, on this matter, the whole court must keep in step. Now most of the people are in step. You are the only one here crying and shouting. Do you think this is appropriate?"

"Cao family, Zhen family, which one of them has less property than your family? But they have all done it, why can't you Ma family do it? Can't do it, or don't you want to do it? You are Doctor Yushi, you Do you know what your position means?"

"If you want to protect your family business, you can submit your resignation letter. From now on, the Ma family will never be able to serve in the Han Dynasty. If so, I will allow you to leave the Ma family and be your rich man with peace of mind."

Liu Bei flicked his hand and wrote a pardon order to Ma Rixun, and Ma Rixun's heart sank when he saw it.

"Your Majesty...this..."

"Support, or not support, it's all up to you."

Liu Bei stared at Ma Rizun with a cold gaze, and the corners of his mouth slightly curled up: "But after resigning, whether your Ma family will continue to be rich or have nothing left, I don't care."

As if falling into an ice cave, Ma Rixun immediately realized one thing.

In Yushitai, he has already offended too many people, relying on his official position and Liu Bei's support to protect himself, if he loses his official position and Liu Bei's protection...

The Ma family without the status of the Fanyue family as a moat is over.

Step by step, step by step, Liu Bei let Ma Shi fall into his complete control, and Ma Shi had no choice.

Therefore, Ma Rifeng gave in weakly.

Only then did Liu Bei get happy and personally helped Ma Ridun to appease him, and then told him to choose his tribe to go south to separate his family and enter Yangzhou, Jiaozhou or the southern part of Yizhou. leaf.

What if these branches prosper in the future?
Can't tell.

What else can Ma Ribin do?
He boarded the thief ship, and now sailing to a critical moment, the storm outside, he still expects to disembark in a safe place to leave?

The mentality of Ma Rizun is actually the mentality of a considerable number of wealthy officials, because they don't want to simply pay the taxes, they feel in their hearts that these are their money, and the court is here to steal money. .

They are noble people. Paying taxes is a matter of mud legs. When did they have anything to do with paying taxes?

Could it be that in the eyes of the emperor, they are the same as mud legs?

Although strictly speaking they should pay taxes, they always have a way to make the amount of their wealth less clear, but now, this method has failed.

What's more terrible is that the emperor actually took the lead in paying taxes, and so many big bosses also expressed their willingness to pay taxes. Seeing the court officials pay taxes has become politically correct. If they don't pay taxes, they are not decent. Someone to help them look decent?
They don't want to go through this kind of thing.

The first phase of the mission started on the first day of May in the first year of Zhenguan. By the end of June, it was actually clear that most of the 16 to nearly 17 officials recognized it, whether they were active or passive, and no matter whether they could learn from it or not. Whether it is good or bad, they all recognize it.

A large amount of information flew to Luoyang like snowflakes. The central department of the imperial court was busy counting the family property and tax payment of officials at all levels every day. A tax team is dedicated to storing data.

They can be said to have been busy for a while.

But the time to get really busy is yet to come.

Of course, it is not that there are people who care more about their property and family than their official position and future.

There are more such people in northern Yizhou, northern Jingzhou, central Yuzhou and southern Jizhou.

The officials in these places were unwilling to accept this fact, so they took various methods to avoid danger.

For example, transferring one's own property to relatives and friends, or dividing the family in an emergency, and dividing the family property into several parts according to the amount stipulated by the Dutian Law, so as to avoid the taxation level of the Dutian Law.

However, such behavior is not allowed.

Because there are regulations in the Dutian decree, after the promulgation of the Dutian decree, that is, after the first day of May in the first year of Zhenguan, the evasion of family separation is not acceptable. Even if you split the family on April [-]th in the first year of Zhenguan, That can count as your luck, but after the first day of May...

Sorry, no chance.

Therefore, the local governments, especially the county government and the county government, have repeatedly stated on this matter that they will not allow the separation of families after the first day of May. depressed.

Thus began the first act of resistance.

The first rebellion took place in the eastern part of Guanghan County, Yizhou, and was initiated by a small county official and his family.

His family has a lot of land in the local area. According to the requirements of Dutian Law, they need to pay a lot of taxes. The original number is just a number that is better than nothing. They suddenly feel that they have been robbed by the court.

Strong self-awareness made it impossible for the part of the family who owned a lot of land to accept this fact and decided to rebel.

But at this time, the power of Dutian Order was revealed.

This family is not an awesome family with common prosperity, unlike the top families like the Cao family and the Zhen family, the poorest ones have more than a thousand acres of land, and they don’t have to worry about food and clothing. There are also poor people with little land in their small families. The gap between rich and poor is still quite large.

According to the eight-step tax payment method of the Dutian Order, no matter what the nature of the land is, in fact, when the family owns less than [-] mu of land, when paying agricultural taxes, it will pay less than the previous old regulations. .

If it is less than [-] mu, or less than [-] mu, it will pay a lot less tax. Compared with before, it is almost a blood profit.

It is not until the part of more than [-] mu that the payment will be more than before.

For most of the landholders in the Han Empire, those who own more than [-] mu are an absolute minority, and those who own less than [-] mu are an absolute majority.

Especially local small and medium-sized families, there are a large number of wealthy clansmen who own land, and there are also clansmen who were as poor as Liu Bei's family back then.

Of course, because of the support of the family, the impoverished clansmen will often receive relief, they will not starve to death, they can also participate in ethnology, learn to read and write, and will not become purely illiterate.

According to the actual situation of each family, the content of family welfare is slightly different, but it is still common for rich people to help poor people and prevent them from starving to death.

However, when it comes to matters of self-interest, it is really unnecessary to let the poor clansmen with little land and property empathize with those wealthy clansmen, and join them in resisting the imperial court's order to save land. Their buttocks are not so crooked.

This field order shows that it is very advantageous for families with a small amount of land. The tax payment is lower than before, and the harvest is more reserved. There is even a content of dividing the land later——

If the family is poor and has no land, it is even possible to obtain the imperial court's allocation of land according to the imperial court's policy calculation.

If you don't do anything, there will be pie in the sky. Such a good thing will not happen once in hundreds of years. If you rebel against the imperial court for a policy that is good for you, isn't that something wrong with your brain?
Therefore, in the internal meeting of the family, although the wealthy clansmen who have the right to speak and absolute power decided to resist and lead the clansmen to fight against the court and the Dutian Order, the poor clansmen were unwilling to participate in it, and they were not willing to fight for the sake of the wealthy clansmen. Family property and death.

Although they did receive some favors, such favors were not enough to make them think about dying.

Then there were divisions in the clan.

Ordinary and impoverished clansmen, who account for a relatively large number, do not want to participate in military operations against the Dutian Order, and are unwilling to fight against the court. Wealthy clansmen often have a loud voice in the family, but they will face the plight of a minority.

They are willing to give money, food, and money and food in exchange for the help and joining of this group of people, but only a few shallow-sighted and greedy people are willing to join, and most normal people are not willing to join this rebellion.

In desperation, they knew that they couldn't support themselves alone, and the ordinary people and poor ghosts in the family could not be relied on, so they could only choose to woo the wealthy guys in the local area to resist together.

Everyone is rich, and the rich help the rich. If there are many people, there is great power. Maybe it will be possible to repeat what happened when Liu Xiu was in Dutian, and let the court make a series of compromises with the local government to restore the balance of power.

In Guanghan County, the Dutian Order was communicated from the county government to the county government, and then from the county government to the county.

After the news spread, such things happened in many large and medium-sized families that occupy a large amount of land in the local area, as well as some small families. go in.

So those who want to resist are rich, powerful, and loud, but the number is small. It is really difficult to let the poorer tribesmen fight for the property of the rich tribesmen, and to resist the policies that are obviously beneficial to them. .

Giving money and food, coaxing and cheating, all kinds of distortions, distorting and smearing the court's policies, finally deceived a group of people, but the number is still quite different from the situation they expected to raise their arms and shout for everyone to rise up.

It seems that the poor ghosts have suddenly become smarter, and it is not easy to fool around.

Of course there is a reason for this, and the poor ghosts did not suddenly become smart, it is because there is already a qualitative difference between the place at this moment and the place where Liu Xiu was at that time.

At that time, there was still the training system of the county soldiers left over from the Western Han Dynasty and a large number of mature county soldiers. The local area had a certain armed resistance to the central government, and its combat effectiveness was quite good.

Liu Xiu put down the local rebellion because he was exhausted and exhausted, and the strategic pressure was relatively high. He fought for a long time and killed many people. Compromise was also necessary.

Even if it was more than a decade ago, although there were no county soldiers in the local area, the major local tyrants still had a considerable number of servants who could be used to organize armed groups to fight against the imperial court, and they still had autonomy.

In that state, if Liu Bei wants to promote Dutian Ling, it will be a serious and tough battle.

Just at this time, after the previous wave of slavery restrictions was issued, all parts of the country have experienced a wave of "destruction" by slavery restrictions.

Except for a very small number of high-ranking families, the servants of these local official families and powerful landlord families are strictly restricted.

The number of slaves was strictly limited and released in large numbers. The total number of slaves in the range of 800 million to 1000 million was directly cut in half, or more than half. Quite a few local families suffered serious losses.

In other words, the important self-mobilization power that local forces are most proud of and can compete with the imperial court has suffered serious losses.

(End of this chapter)