Lao Du, a person who started from the bottom and worked all the way up, has a very deep understanding of the government and officials.

They are well aware of the unreasonable privileges and mentality of the government and officials, and they know very well that the government is a donkey, and they must follow their wishes and flatter them, otherwise even a small county order can make them bankrupt.

So all along, everyone has relied on mutual benefit and friendship to get along, and this day is quite happy.

As a result, all of a sudden, the new county magistrate doesn't need money.

It's not a good thing for an official to not want money.

If he doesn't want money, he may be at the risk of everyone's life.

However, Guan Jing didn't say anything important at that time, so he asked everyone to keep their duties, do their own things, pay taxes according to the regulations, and nothing else.

But this seemingly normal move made Lao Du, who started from the bottom, vigilant, and during this period of time, Lao Du kept sending people to inquire about the news in Luoyang, wanting to know what happened in Luoyang.

I kept inquiring, and I really heard a lot of things.

For example, the general Liu Bei constantly arranged his protégés and former officials to take up positions in the surrounding areas of Luoyang, and this Guan Jing was one of them.

A large number of Liangzhou people parachuted into the land of Sanfu and Sanhe to take up official positions, including local chiefs, and some official positions below the county level that controlled real power were occupied by these people related to Liu Bei.

Those who are in charge of punishment, taxes, and thieves and public security, these powers, which were originally shared by the major local families, were all occupied by Liu Bei before and after the Luoyang Incident.

Originally, the local families in the Sili area either cooperated with Liu Bei, or were swallowed up by Liu Bei, and they also destroyed more than 100 famous families in the Sili area by purging the first wave of the modern literary school.

Then the interests and power held by these families were swallowed up by Liu Bei, and all kinds of positions were occupied by him, and they held a lot of power.

I don't know where Liu Bei came from so many protégés.

At present, only a small number of positions are still under the control of local families, and the political situation in the entire Sili area is basically dominated by Liu Bei's family, so some local families are talking about it, thinking that this is not a good thing.

The power at the grassroots level is controlled by Liu Bei, so the entire subordinate area will also be controlled by Liu Bei, at that time, Liu Bei who covers the sky with one hand will not do whatever he wants?

But as far as they are concerned, relying on the wealth of the land and some slaves, it is not easy for them to have some influence on the local area, and if they want to influence Luoyang, they will never have the ability.

That is to say, the three religions and nine streams in Luoyang City are all-encompassing, the population is still large, and there are many mouths to eat, which gives them the opportunity to pick up some leftovers for these small local families.

Moreover, at that time, Liu Bei's army was killing all over the world, and what He entered Yuan Kui's henchmen, and what related families of the modern literary school, were exterminated by Liu Bei one after another, and many of the influential local families they were familiar with were exterminated.

They were afraid of being targeted by Liu Bei, for fear of being regarded as He Jin Yuan Kui's henchmen, or related people of the modern literary school, so they didn't dare to speak out at all.

Fortunately, Liu Bei did not take any further action, and after a long time, Lao Du slowly let down his guard, feeling that he should be able to live a stable life in the future.

Two years after Jian'an, I heard that the general Liu Bei was working hard in Bingzhou, Lao Du was even more relieved, and felt that the general was so busy that he shouldn't be able to take care of us small fish and shrimp, right?

didn't think about it, it was less than three months after Lao Du put his mind at ease, and the "Slave Restriction Order" was introduced.

Lao Du got the news for the first time, but he didn't know the specific content, and when he learned the specific content, it was also when the official notice of the Xincheng County Government was sent to him.

Looking at the requirements of these local families in the "Slave Restriction Order", Lao Du's eyes were dark, and he almost didn't stand firm, but fortunately, his son Xiao Du stood beside him and supported him.

"Father, this ...... What is this "Slave Restriction Order" about? We can only keep three slaves? Do you want to give away everything else? ”

Xiao Du's face is very bad, and of course Lao Du's face is even worse.

He carefully studied the "Slave Restriction Order" again, and with a keen sixth sense, he found that this slave restriction order was slightly tolerant of the officials, and very unfriendly to those who did not have official status.

The previous policy was that even if they didn't have an official status, they could have thirty legal slaves, as long as they could afford it and they could hide it, it didn't matter how much you bought or how little you bought, the government turned a blind eye and didn't care at all, and didn't want to care.

There are more homeless and hungry people on the streets, and they can't hold their faces on their faces, and they are happy to have fewer homeless people starving.

But who would have thought that the general in the Luoyang court went crazy and cut nine-tenths of the quota with one sword.

A person who does not have an official status can only have a maximum of three slaves, and he must report to the government, and all the remaining family members cannot be slaves, and they must either be sent away or become hired workers with the status of free people, and they must also be reported, and the government must control their lives......

This......

This is clearly a cruel attack on them!

For these local families, the number of slaves has a lot to do with the momentum of the family.

The larger the number of slaves, the more manpower can be used for family arming, family service, and expanding the family industry, which is very beneficial for the development of the family industry.

Because these people buy them at the lowest price during the famine years, and then squeeze them for the rest of their lives, without any other follow-up expenses, such as illness and the like, the master family will not care at all, and let the slaves fend for themselves.

There are no expenditures, only income, then the more slaves, the richer the master's family becomes.

And once you lose so much free labor, if you want to maintain a family business of this scale, you have to hire someone to do it, and the employer will have to pay for it.

At that time, the expenses will increase, the income will also decrease, and the family industry will inevitably face a huge impact, and some families that are rising will also be interrupted for this reason, and even face the weakening of the family industry.

And there's a huge hidden danger here.

Although it is possible to obtain the same size of manpower in the form of employment, the nature is different.

The slave has the power of life and death, and the master has absolute power over the slave, and the slave does not dare to resist, for fear of showing a little sign of resistance and being discovered by the master, and then killed.

The government doesn't care about the life or death of a slave, so in order to survive, slaves who know this well will have a significant increase in obedience, and they will be beaten and scolded, and they will work hard and complain, which is simply not like a person.

But if you are a person of other nature, how can you be as obedient as a slave and still reassure your master?

And more importantly, slaves don't have to give money, and free people don't give money and throw their faces, if they don't give money, then they really don't do anything, I can't beat you, I can't do a little damage and then be happy?

You let the slave throw his face and do some small damage?

If you don't kill on the spot, it will be regarded as the ancestral tomb is smoking.

No matter which way you look at it, there is a huge gap between buying slaves and hiring freemen, and a mature family at the helm can distinguish between the pros and cons, so more and more families choose to keep slaves.

But with this "slave restriction order", the situation is different.

They instantly lost the qualification to keep a large number of slaves, if the order was strictly followed, the Du family, old and young, counted, there were only eighteen clansmen in total, even if each of the eighteen people was bound to three slaves, only fifty-four slaves could be left.

Compared to the number of more than 300 slaves currently owned by the entire Du family, it is only one-sixth.

You must know that at present, the entire Du clan is not only run by slaves in their daily life, but also by slaves who are transported by boat, slaves who are armed guards, and slaves who cultivate the land in the fields.

In order to cut costs and increase profits, slaves are used by those who can be used, so slaves have infiltrated into all aspects of the daily operation and life of the Du family.

If these four-fifths of the slaves are taken out, the maintenance of the entire industry and daily life of the Du family will have problems, and there will be chaos for a while, and various expenses will also rise sharply, and it is really uncertain whether the current state can be maintained in the end.

So of course, the Du family is a thousand and ten thousand unwilling to respond to this policy.

As a result, including the people of the Du family, several local families who had the same experience began to go to the county government to ask for an explanation.

They thought that if there was no explanation, they wouldn't mind showing their muscles to the Luoyang Imperial Court, don't think that we are afraid of you at the feet of the Son of Heaven!

(End of chapter)