The entanglement of high-ranking officials is not because of anything else.

They are also not very concerned about petty profits.

It is really the income brought by the land, which is really not a small profit for them.

Tens of thousands of acres of land are in control at every turn, and everything on tens of thousands of acres of land belongs to them, which is an indispensable part of their income, and every acre of land has to be taxed.

An acre of land is a small amount, but what about multiplying it by 120,000?

It hurts to think about it.

More importantly, they are officials, and their status is different from that of civilians, so why should they pay the same taxes as civilians?

They were supposed to enjoy the taxes with the emperor, so why should they pay the same taxes as the commoners?

The pain and dissatisfaction made them extremely resistant to this kind of policy from the bottom of their hearts.

There is no doubt that this is also human nature, no one wants this behemoth on his head to suddenly take away part of what he deserves from his hands, this feeling of pain is understandable to individuals.

Guo deeply understood their ideas, and then pushed for this policy.

I don't care, I just want you to pay taxes, those who pay taxes are good courtiers, give you promotions, more power, those who don't pay taxes are bad people, get out!

After figuring out this joint, many people understand why Guo Jia and Cao Cao confessed in front of the emperor so quickly, and stepped forward to come out [conquered by you like this].

For them, it was undoubtedly worth exchanging taxes for the emperor's trust and future political benefits.

However, this is not worth it for high-ranking officials, for the vast number of middle- and low-level officials, scholars, and powerful landlords.

This is how the Emperor will feed the Mudlegs with their flesh and blood.

They really couldn't understand why the Emperor took such good care of the mud legs, and even did not hesitate to use their interests to feed the mud legs.

They have been rentiers since ancient times, when have they suffered losses?

Oh, Shang Ying suffered such a loss for a while when he changed the law.

Of course, Shang Ying died in the end.

However, the results of Shang Ying's reform were still retained, and the reform was successful.

The Qin State swept away the stubborn disease of aristocratic politics and greatly damaged the interests of the aristocracy, not only cracking down on the aristocracy, but also cracking down on the private households that evaded taxes, and greatly integrated the grassroots political power.

As a result, the law was changed to revive the half-dead state of Qin, which was rife with tax evasion and evasion, and the Qin government received sufficient tax revenues and was extremely financially abundant, so that it could concentrate on doing great things.

In the end, successive Qin kings made continuous efforts to create a feudal empire that was not involved in aristocratic politics, handed over this feudal empire to the first emperor, defeated the remaining six kingdoms that were still involved in aristocratic politics, and finally unified China.

That's the power of taxes.

The so-called policy has a countermeasure, tax evasion has never been an uncommon thing, the Qin state, the Han country also has it.

In order to crack down on tax evasion, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty will directly punish those who evade taxes and evade taxes to the border for one year-

At that time, there were fierce Huns on the frontier of the Han Empire, and the probability of coming back alive in a year was definitely not very high, so the whole country was terrified, and the Han government's tax revenue had greatly improved.

It was precisely because of the iron-fisted policy of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty that the tide of war against the Xiongnu was reversed.

Taxes also play a significant role in this.

Guo Peng has been very concerned about taxation since the establishment of the separatist regime, and he has also relied on a well-organized grassroots organization and clear taxation to obtain a strong mobilization force.

As a result, in 20 years, all warlord forces were eliminated, the world was leveled, and the Wei Empire was established.

Now, at the point where the Wei Empire needs to transform from a mere war machine to a dual-use machine of war and peace, he needs to make a wave of adjustments to the wartime tax policy.

Reduce the amount of taxes that the peasant households need to pay under the tuntian system, and then transfer this part of the demand to the officials and powerful landlords, forcing them to pay taxes and forcing them to spit out their money to support the state.

When they spit out their benefits, the burden on the bottom Li Shu will naturally be reduced, and the taxes will be reduced, and there will be more disposable income, which will make them have a higher enthusiasm for childbirth.

Wartime is naturally a matter of total oppression and total exploitation.

In times of peace, the targets of oppression needed to change in a wave of money, from officials and powerful landlords, and to limit their exploitation.

Such an approach would naturally be met with visceral resistance.

But is there any power in today's resistance?

The Emperor had already cleaned up the noble class, and in that unprecedented political storm, the Emperor displayed an iron fist that was enough to make anyone's heart tremble and his legs tremble, and there was no way to fight it.

At that time, they could not fight against the emperor when he was not yet fully formed, and now that the emperor is in power, it is even more impossible.

The current emperor is a more authoritarian husband than the first emperor.

It is impossible for anyone to stand up to him.

Be sure to want to do something about it, unless ...... The powerful landlords in those manors really rebelled.

But they always felt that the emperor just couldn't wait for them to raise troops to rebel, so he pressed them step by step, and did not give them any room for negotiation.

At the moment, the ministers could not find any way to confront the emperor, and after Cao Cao and Guo Jia took the lead, the ministers also realized their unique options.

Squatting down with your head in your hands and singing conquest.

The high-ranking officials at the core decision-making level surrendered to Guo Peng, knelt down to express their willingness to accept Guo Peng's request, and they also said that they would relay the news to their families and clansmen, and they would lead by example and take the lead in handing over their land to the court officials.

Guo Peng handed over this matter to Cao Cao to be personally responsible.

Cao Cao has old qualifications, high prestige, and a special identity, which is very suitable for doing this.

Guo Peng asked Cao Cao to select officials in the Manchu Dynasty whose land volume did not exceed 300 mu to be responsible for clearing the land.

First clear the land of the Cao family, the Guo family and the Xiahou family, clean themselves up, and then go to clear the other lands.

You have to be clean first, and then you can ask others to be clean too.

In this kind of thing, Guo does not uphold the usual double-standard attitude.

The land of the whole country must be cleared, and the whole country must select suitable officials to be responsible for clearing the land, and re-measure the amount of arable land in the country according to the unified weights and measures.

When the news broke, officialdom shook.

Many people are actually quite numb to Guo Peng's political methods.

For the emperor's endless methods of tossing officials, they are a little used to it, and they are a little desperate.

They thought about lying flat and letting the emperor toss, and then waiting for him to die, and when he died, he would be safe.

The emperor lived, and they had nothing to do.

The struggle is a struggle, and those who rebel or anything dare not rely on lying down and compromising in exchange for survival, and they can only survive for a long time.

But this time the emperor really wants to attack their life, to attack their own land and the land of their clansmen, to measure the land of the whole country, and then to collect taxes uniformly.

The more land, the more taxes, the more taxes, and the more abundant the treasury, the stronger the emperor's strength, the higher his prestige, the more unshakable, and almost a god.

What a powerful imperial power.

This......

It was to cut the flesh on them with a knife and eat it, and it hurt to the marrow.

Who can bear it?

When the central officials were trembling and at a loss, Cao Cao had already led the 500 carefully selected Li Shu officials to start the operation of clearing the land.

They started with the three lands of the Guo family, the Cao family and the Xiahou family, and first started from themselves, leading by example, showing their support for the emperor's new tax law.