Liu Bei's first target, because it sounded very abstract, so no one reacted too much.

But for Liu Bei's second goal, because it is very specific, there are more people who react.

However, everyone was mostly silent, ready to listen to Liu Bei's further explanation of the matter.

Because at the moment, Liu Bei is no longer a general, but an emperor who is recognized by the world, and a super powerful emperor with an army of 300,000 and 200,000 county soldiers.

The first thing to consider when working with him is what to do if he flips the table?

Not every emperor has the ability to flip the table.

The last emperor of the Eastern Han Empire who had the ability to lift the table has been dead for almost a hundred years, and for so many years, everyone has been working with the emperor who does not have the ability to lift the table, and has almost no experience in dealing with other kinds of emperors, which is very bad.

A powerful emperor like Liu Bei said that he wanted to engage in land, then first of all, there was a righteous name, if he resisted, no matter what the reason, he would be a thief, and he would definitely participate in the game of elimination of the three clans.

It is okay for such an emperor to use rebellion as a reason to kill opponents, and it is justified, and he does not even need the support of his ministers and the imperial court, and he can do it by giving orders to the army himself.

This is the prerogative of the Emperor of the Table.

And their group of hardcores must be politically consistent with Liu Bei to avoid becoming the first people to be smashed by the table after he lifted the table.

Although this matter will be more or less detrimental to their interests.

For example, the super big landlords Cao and Xiahou.

If it were handled according to the tiered tax system with more land and higher taxes, then large families like the Cao family and the Xiahou family would probably spend a considerable amount of taxes for this.

The amount of land owned by their entire family is at least 3.5 million mu, and the output tax of the land part after 50,000 mu is basically the top level, that is, 40% of 5.

This kind of almost half-open top-level tax, if the Cao family can accept it, then there is a ghost.

However, Liu Bei also has his own logic for this matter.

Being an emperor, he is not for himself, he sacrifices his reputation to be an emperor in a certain sense, leaving himself with an indelible stain, making himself a stained person, no longer the saint who does not break the golden body.

And he did this to make their subordinates feel at ease, so that they could hold power and have status for a long time.

What Liu Bei claims is that I am the emperor, the emperor for everyone, the emperor for the welfare of your subordinates, and the emperor so that you and your families can feel at ease.

This is the spirit of great selflessness, this is the spirit of sacrificing oneself for others, this is the spirit of throwing away one's fame for their sake.

This spirit deserves to be rewarded.

It's a situation for everyone.

So naturally, everyone is for me.

I've given so much for you, aren't you going to give something for me?

Aren't you going to let me get something?

Can I give and you don't give anything?

That's not going to work!

What Liu Bei needs in return is their unconditional support in the matter of Dutian.

They not only need to transfer power on the issue of land and property, but also let the family also support Liu Bei in this matter and ensure that the entire family is clean, so as to cooperate with Liu Bei's policy and start from themselves and set an example.

They have to pay taxes, their families have to pay taxes together, set an example, there must be no moisture!

His entire core ruling group must remain absolutely clean in Operation Dutian, including the family to which they belong individually, and must also be subordinated to the will of the whole in this matter, and cannot be separated.

If you break away, it will be not about politics, and the consequence of not talking about politics is that Liu Bei is very angry, that is, the emperor is very angry.

The emperor is angry, does your family still have a future?

For the sake of the future, think about the 300,000 strong Han army.

Shouldn't you think about what you're going to do?

And people in the core group have their own ideas about this matter.

First of all, there is a group of people led by Jian Yong and Guan Yu who do not own much land and pay special attention to the progress and merits of their personal careers.

They themselves don't have a very big demand for land property, and there are not many family members, they are not obsessed with land property, they don't care much about this matter, and they always think that they must keep up with what Liu Bei wants to do, and they will support what Liu Bei wants to do.

So these people quickly made a decision, they will definitely put this matter in place, never let themselves and their family become Liu Bei's stumbling blocks, how to collect taxes, how to collect taxes, tax matters, they must abide by the laws and regulations of the imperial court, and never evade taxes.

To say that Yuan Cong is Yuan Cong, political consciousness is also quite high.

And it should be said that most of them don't own that much land, not to mention that they don't feel anything about the Dutian incident, at least they don't feel how paying some taxes for that kind of land will affect them.

Then there are people from local small and medium-sized families represented by Han Rong, Zhao Zhao, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, etc.

There are not many members of their family, and the family property is not very large, but according to the land grading tax payment system stipulated by Liu Bei, I am afraid that they will spend more taxes for this.

Some families actually control more than 30,000 mu of land, close to 50,000 mu, and the taxes that need to be paid are quite large.

They may not feel anything, but the clansmen may not be so, and they may be a little sensitive to this matter.

But the good thing about these families is that they are more dependent on a person's official position and power, and they are not the kind of large-scale families, where individuals with high power and prestige can dominate the will of the entire family.

They also tend to support Liu Bei's opinion, and they don't want to be in an opposing situation with Liu Bei on this issue.

Even if you pay more taxes, you won't lose much, and there is nothing to compare with the family's tax spending with the career prospects of important core figures.

They will lose a little, but they won't mind very much, and the attitude of support will prevail over the attitude of opposition, and the overall situation of support will be presented.

The other group is not easy to say.

Their family has a big business, and they were a famous big family before following Liu Bei, three or five generations have developed, the family has blossomed more, focused on development, each branch has its own task, and there is no too core key point to grasp.

Therefore, this kind of family is very difficult to deal with, and it is difficult for them to personally determine the will of the entire family, even if someone is willing to support it, but the opponents within the family will also have relatively large forces, and the core figures cannot be arbitrary.

For example, Cao Cao, such as Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Xuan, and Xun You.

Especially the Cao family, among the three typical families, the Cao Cao family has the largest number of properties, when Liu Bei started his business, it was Cao Cao who gave real estate support at the beginning, or several properties, let Liu Bei choose, it is really entrenched.

Compared with real estate, Cao's most must still be the land.

Cao Cao probably said that the clansmen of their family combined, in Henan, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places, 3.5 million mu of land could not be sustained, on average, the richest clansmen held more than 50,000 mu of land per capita.

This was far beyond Liu Bei's acceptance of the size of the land that a normal family could own, and because of the special circumstances of the Cao family, most of this land was not taxed.

The Xiahou clan is slightly inferior to the Cao clan, but it is not far behind.

The Xun family doesn't particularly care about this, but the more the better, the more the better, not as good as the Cao family, and it's not much better.

All in all, these three families belong to the long-standing problem.

As for the Gai family, the Yan family and other families in Liangzhou, although the scale of the land is not small, it is also a small amount compared to the Cao family, and in Liu Bei's plan to pay land taxes by level, the taxes they need to pay will not reach an unacceptable level.

The situation of the Zhen family is similar to that of the Cao family, and it is also a super powerful person with a large amount of land in Jizhou, and although Zhen Yan has a great reputation in the family, he can't decide anything in the family in one word.

In addition to these core families, there are also some situations about the families to which Liu Bei's former officials of the Great General's Mansion belonged, which are generally these three categories.

If you really want to distinguish between them, there are really a considerable number of people, almost a quarter of their subordinates and their families, because the amount of land is so large, once a full census and taxes are paid, it will be very painful to cut the meat.

It's not a one-time thing, it will continue forever, and for this group of wild people, it is still difficult to get them to pay taxes.

And Liu Bei's real intention is not only to collect these land taxes, but more importantly, to force some families to sell some land.

If you don't want to pay so much land tax, then give up some land, and the court will redeem these lands at a more suitable price, and not let these big families suffer too much loss.

This is all the court can do, but if this happens, there are still people who don't accept it, and they have to go against the court, that is, they are purely looking for death.

Liu Bei is reasonable, but he won't always be reasonable, he is also an emperor in the end.

Thinking about this truth, Cao Cao and the Xiahou brothers were a little melancholy.

Xun You had an expression that had nothing to do with him, saying that he absolutely supported Liu Bei's request, Liu Bei had done a lot for them, and they absolutely couldn't care about Liu Bei's efforts.

Everyone looked at Xun You in surprise, and suddenly remembered that Xun You had a falling out with Xun Shuang back then.

Then they turned their gaze to Xun Yu, who had an embarrassed face.

Well, the grievances and hatreds within the Xun family are also very interesting.

It seems that this Xun You really wants to draw a line with the Xun family.

Will it all be that easy, though?

(End of chapter)