Three hundred and eight years later
The end result of this is the killing of some people.
All those involved in the matter were ordered to be executed, and none remained.
The people of Liangzhou under Liu Bei were satisfied with this result, praised Liu Bei's decisiveness, and also asked to pass on the Quartet, so that all the ill-intentioned Xiaoxiao could see clearly the fate of going against Liu Bei.
It seems that the people of Liangzhou are really ruthless in the face of the existence of disobedient Liu Bei.
When this kind of existence appeared, they were very eager to destroy all this existence, trying to prove that the people of Liangzhou would never disobey Liu Bei.
There is no way, they need Liu Bei too much, they can't lose Liu Bei's favor.
Similarly, Liu Bei can't lose the support of the people of Liangzhou for now.
Therefore, Liu Bei appreciates this kind of ruthlessness very much, the more ruthless they are, the more they prove that their foundation in Liangzhou has been solid, which is a good thing.
As for just one Cheng Gongying, and the five unlucky families, no one cares, they die when they die.
After their deaths, all the property of the six families was taken over by the state government, and on the basis of their estates, four new collective farms were planned.
After solving this trivial matter, Liu Bei is going to do something big.
Liu Bei counted the wealth accumulated in the current Liangzhou Prefecture, and felt that it was almost time, so he announced that he intended to promote the fertility encouragement policy in Liangzhou.
Because the population of Liangzhou is too small, it is obviously not conducive to the government's control of Liangzhou's territory and the long-term development of Liangzhou, in order to encourage childbirth, Liu Bei referred to the methods of some countries in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and formulated a lot of strategies to encourage childbirth for Liangzhou.
That is, families who are willing to give birth to children, after giving birth to a child, report to the Liangzhou government, and the government will immediately give money of 1,000 and a sheep, and report to the government after giving birth to two children, and the government will give 3,000 money and three sheep.
For each additional child, there are two thousand dollars and two sheep.
Families with two children are exempt from forced labor for two years from the birth of their second child, and families with three or more children are exempt from forced labor for three years from the birth of their third child.
Families with three children can report to the government, and the government can pay for you to hire a wet nurse to help take care of the family's daily life, and help raise the child until the age of seven.
Each county will establish a nursery hospital for pregnant women, and the state will hire experienced doctors, nurses, etc., and pregnant women can be treated free of charge in this nursery hospital if they have any diseases during pregnancy.
Not only that, pregnant women can also go directly to the nursery hospital to give birth when they give birth, and professionals will help them give birth to increase the survival rate of the baby and the mother.
During pregnancy, women who are unable to help their families increase their income because they have difficulty working will be subsidized by the government, and from the third month of pregnancy until the birth, the government will provide a month's ration to the pregnant woman's family every month to ensure that the pregnant woman does not go hungry.
Finally, in order to completely dispel the people's doubts about childbirth, Liu Bei, in his capacity as a Liangzhou pastor, announced that all the oral taxes that need to be paid by the Liangzhou government during the growth period of the children born to families registered in the household registration records of the Liangzhou government will be paid by the Liangzhou government on behalf of them.
Families with many children do not need to worry about oral gifts.
You just have to have a baby, this money, I Liu someone out.
This policy is also valid for existing households with multiple children, and it will take effect immediately.
Although no one in the government dared to openly oppose the policy that Liu Bei was going to implement, there were actually many people who questioned it at the internal meeting.
The core question is actually the question of Liu Bei's tenure as a pastor of Liangzhou.
Liu Bei can naturally promote this policy when he is there, but how long can he be a pastor in Liangzhou?
The core policy to encourage childbirth is the policy of oral endowment and payment, which is the core of promoting fertility in Liangzhou.
But this policy does not take effect immediately after the child is born, but only after the age of seven, and the imperial court will not levy the oral tax until the child is seven years old, and now give birth to a child, and after seven years, Liu Bei will definitely not be in Liangzhou.
Will the next governor of Liang accept this policy?
Isn't it a person who walks to tea and cool?
At that time, the people of Liangzhou who responded to this policy were dumbfounded, they gave birth to a child, and what about the oral tax that the government promised to pay on their behalf?
They live in poverty, and even if they can afford to eat with three or four children, how can they afford it?
From seven to twenty years old, thirteen years old, how can an ordinary peasant family afford it?
If you can't raise it, you have to throw it away, isn't that a sin?
Gai Xun understands all this, although he does not want to oppose this policy of obvious conscience, but conscience is not used in a place, or the conscience does not last long enough, it is not conscience, and it is going to kill many, many people.
So he made a statement to Liu Bei.
"This policy is now being promoted, and in the short term it will definitely push a group of people who want to get money and sheep and food from the government to have children, and they will definitely have children, and they will not see the hidden dangers in seven years, which is too cruel for them.
Now there are indeed families who need the help of the government to raise children, but there are more families who can afford to raise many children, which is not very meaningful to them, of course, I also hope that the prince can serve in Liangzhou for a long time, but ...... It's impossible. ”
Gai Xun mustered up a lot of courage before he dared to speak to Liu Bei.
After speaking, he took off his official hat and apologized to Liu Bei, saying that he was at the disposal of it.
Liu Bei walked up to him in front of everyone, put the official hat back on for him, and held his hand.
"After seven years, I will definitely no longer be in the post of Liangzhou pastor, and it is not even necessary whether there is an official position of Liangzhou pastor, but I can guarantee that as long as I am alive, after seven years, this policy will still continue in Liangzhou, and in the future, the oral tax, this extremely unreasonable and cruel tax, will disappear forever, and the burden of the government and the people will disappear."
When the officials present heard this, they were all shocked.
Gai Xun also looked at Liu Bei in shock.
They have always thought that Liu Bei is a very conscientious chief, and the appearance of such a chief in this world is even a little unconscionable.
But they didn't expect that Liu Bei's conscience was a little bit bigger than they imagined.
For the high-ranking lords of Luoyang, tax increases are addictive, and tax cuts will produce withdrawal reactions.
This obvious evil government is something that everyone can understand, and it is too inhumane to tax children.
But who is going to eliminate this tax altogether?
The abolition of this tax is equivalent to taking away a small piece of cake from the bureaucracy, although the amount is not large enough to affect the overall situation, and it will not even affect the old men to drink wine and eat meat, but even if there is only one peanut missing, the old man will not be able to bear it.
So if Liu Bei really wants to do this, for the bureaucrats who are counting on this small piece of cake to live a luxurious life, it is no less than killing their parents.
If we want to force this reform and eliminate this tax, we must be prepared to go to war with the Luoyang bureaucracy.
Is Liu Bei planning to go to war with the Luoyang court?
Will he succeed?
The officials of the Liangzhou Prefecture instinctively wanted to be suspicious, but they were partially offset by the absolute authority established by Liu Bei.
They didn't know if what Liu Bei said was true, and they didn't know if what Liu Bei wanted to do would be successful.
No way, Liu Bei's prestige is too high.
Even if he doesn't have more long-term ideas, he just wants to make a wave of political achievements and make Liangzhou more populous, and when he leaves, he doesn't care about anything, and his subordinate officials can't stop Liu Bei.
In the end, this policy was successfully promulgated.
(End of chapter)