Chapter 2 Section 153 Liu Bei's Ambition (Explosion 5)
After the law was strictly punished, the public security in Xichuan really improved greatly! But as he cut off nearly a thousand brains, many wealthy businessmen and squires in Yizhou chose to move! That's right, it's moving, they would rather stay away from their homeland than be beheaded by a confused raider!
Not only those rich people are like this, but even the people at the bottom have the idea of leaving their hometowns! In their opinion, after this Liu Bei came, some places were not as good as the previous Liu Zhang! In the past, although poor, taxes were high! But people can at least let you owe, people don't die, and debts can be paid off slowly! But now I'm still poor, and the taxes are still high, so why don't I owe taxes! If the government is slightly unsatisfactory, the government will go to the yoke to take people, can this life go on?
Taxes aside, in the past, when Liu Zhang was there, everyone could be invited to eat flowers and wine together in groups of three or five, and have fun together! Now if you dare to go to the street with more than three people, hum, there will be an official messenger coming to you for trouble! If you are light, you will be scolded and fined some silver! The most important thing is that the crime of entanglement of friends and parties will be deducted on your head, so that you can't eat and walk around!
With the departure of the rich squires in the territory one after another, a large number of tenants who originally relied on them for their livelihood also followed! Only then did Liu Bei realize that he couldn't let Fa Zheng go on like this anymore! If it continues like this, it won't be long before the entire Xichuan is empty, not to mention ten rooms and nine emptiness, at least thirty percent of the population will run away! And with the loss of wealth from those wealthy businessmen who moved out of Yizhou, it will be countless!
"Kong Ming! Now that the minds of Xichuan people have changed, what are your plans? "Liu Bei has been a little angry recently, just because the "Shu Branch" formulated by Fazheng forced so many people away at once! But in advance, he made Fa Zheng bolder and faster! Now that there is such a moth, it is not easy for him to reprimand Fa Zheng! Only came to ask Zhuge Liang, who had a calm temperament, about his plan!
"If the lord wants to save people's hearts, the best way is to reduce taxes and encourage production! And, cancel some of the ridiculous codes! For example, if there are more than three people traveling together, it will be regarded as a group of friends and something like that! Then everyone is appeased by those wealthy families! At present, the lord has just occupied Xichuan, and his foothold is not stable, so it is really not suitable for the implementation of strict punishment and strict laws! ”
Zhuge Liang had actually thought of a countermeasure a long time ago, but he made a bad move! I don't bother to question or interfere with any decision of the Fa-rectification, I just want to see how he messed things up! Now, Liu Bei has personally come to the door to seek advice, which shows that the situation in Xichuan is really not optimistic!
"Wouldn't that wipe out all the credit of filial piety?" Liu Bei still has some thoughts about taking care of Fazheng! You can't carry the black pot on his back, you take the benefits! Now turn your head and put a stick on someone's head!
"Does the lord want the loyalty of Fa Xiaozhi alone, or the loyalty of millions of people in Xichuan?" Zhuge Liang took the tea from Qianji's hand and presented it to Liu Bei!
"But! I'm afraid that this will chill the heart of filial piety! Liu Bei held the teacup, and he was a little undecided!
When Zhuge Liang heard this, he smiled slightly, but lowered his head and drank tea without saying a word! He believes that in the face of great right and wrong! This lord of his will definitely sacrifice the small self and fulfill the big self!
Sure enough, after drinking a cup of tea, Liu Bei saw that Zhuge Liang was silent, and said ruthlessly: "Hey! It's just that this time, I have wronged my filial piety! For the sake of the Han Dynasty, for Your Majesty! Let me Liu Bei be a villain who goes back on his word! ”
The next day, Liu Bei issued an edict and posted it everywhere in Yizhou! To the effect that he Liu Bei initially settled in Yizhou and decided to appease the people for today's son! It was decided to reduce the taxes of the counties of Xichuan for one year, and all previous tax arrears will be invalidated! Then he also encouraged everyone to cultivate more land and plant, and for every ten acres of wasteland reclaimed, they could go to the yamen to receive a certain amount of money! Then, after the wasteland has a harvest, you can start paying taxes and enjoy a certain amount of tax relief!
This method is similar to the encouragement of farmers to raise pigs in later generations, and later generations will breed more for farmers, when you breed a certain number of pigs! For each additional pig, you can go to the local government to receive a certain amount of subsidies! Unexpectedly, Liu Bei also thought of this method to improve the enthusiasm of the people!
At the end of the announcement, for those rich businessmen and squires! Liu Bei is also extremely appeased! In short, all the blame is put on the head of Fa Zheng, and the compensation method for those rich merchants and squires is that all the children of the family will be promoted to become officials on a priority basis in the next few years!
This condition is very tempting, official! As long as you step into the yamen for half a step, you will no longer call yourself a grass person or a villain, but you can call yourself an official in a grand manner! This is undoubtedly a great opportunity for the squires and wealthy businessmen to turn from civilian to official!
So as soon as this notice was posted, first of all, it won the support of those people, and secondly, the hearts of those wealthy families were also stabilized! Now they are not thinking about where to run in their hearts, but they are beginning to calculate how to let their children enter the sight of this lord of Xichuan!
As for those who were cut off their brains before, hehe, it wasn't their brains cut off anyway! As the saying goes, a gun shoots a bird in the head, who let them be so stupid to provoke a dignified state pastor? In these years, can a person who can be a state pastor be a soft-hearted person? This is the common idea of the people of Xichuan and the local heroes!
After a period of rectification, Xichuan gradually returned to its former comfort and prosperity! And Liu Bei ordered Prime Minister Zhuge Liang to do internal affairs, and on the other hand, he instructed Zhao Yun and Huang Zhong to step up military training! He wants to take Hanzhong, the barrier to attack the Central Plains, in one go! He even began to think about whether he should cry when he saw the emperor or hug and laugh with the emperor after defeating Xuchang in the future!?
Before using troops in Hanzhong, Liu Bei also did one thing! That is to send the blood edict brought to him by the emperor to Xiaohuangmen Xiao Anzi, and give it to Ma Teng, who is entrenched in Xiliang! If he can win Ma Teng to stand on his side, then Cao Cao will definitely be defeated under the two-way attack! As long as Chang'an is breached, the entire hinterland of the Central Plains will be exposed to his Liu Bei's troops!
Liu Bei thinks so and does so! Of course, he wouldn't let his cronies take the risk! So this "beauty difference" of sending the letter naturally fell on Xiao Anzi, who had only enjoyed a few days of happiness!
Xiao Anzi, who was entrusted by Liu Bei, wants to cry without tears at this moment! Previously, he had traveled thousands of miles to Jingzhou, and then trekked all the way to Xichuan to find Liu Bei! I thought that my errand was over, and I could enjoy it in this beautiful Xichuan! Unexpectedly, this unfortunate errand befell me again!
"It's all fate!" Xiao Anzi shook his head and sighed while packing up!