It is worth mentioning that there are actually quite a lot of officials who think Liu Bei has done a great job.

This is mainly because of the impact on the original official class of the many political purge actions launched by Liu Bei since the beginning of Jian'an, because of these successive impacts, many officials with "family traditions" have been killed and replaced with new ones.

These newcomers have one advantage, among other things, that is more prominent: their families are thin and poor, and the land and property owned by them and their small families are generally lower than the amount of land that may be brought to them after this action.

How could they not be happy about such a thing?

For them, this is equivalent to the state giving money.

There are not a few such people.

And the number of people who have a lot of property at home and are dissatisfied is not small, but most of them are not in important positions, and in important positions, they have actually been handled by Liu Bei.

Including the Lu family and the Ma family.

In the matter of Dutian, Lu Zhi himself was supportive, the first time Liu Bei started the action, Lu Zhi publicly expressed strong support, and after Liu Bei disclosed the Liu clan property in Zhuo County, Zhuo County, and handed over the excess land, Lu Zhi also did the same thing for the first time.

The Lu family also handed over more than 90 percent of the property.

It is said that there was strong opposition within the Lu family, but Lu Zhi directly released a strategic deterrent, using the threat of expulsion as a threat to force the clan to admit and forcibly confiscate the land.

Anyway, Lu Zhi really didn't hold Liu Bei back this wave, or he did it more radically than Liu Bei.

Liu Bei finally provided some material compensation to the clansmen and asked the government to buy the land at the market price, so Lu Zhi directly grabbed it and sold it to the government at half the market price, not even letting the clansmen get enough money, and did it quite decisively.

According to Lu Zhi's logic, most of these riches were obtained by the clansmen's fake tigers, relying on Lu Zhi's reputation and prestige, and some of them were not even clean.

He didn't say it before, it doesn't mean that he doesn't know, but after Dutian's decree was issued, there were old people in the clan who made all kinds of accusations against him, saying that he didn't care about the family, so he couldn't help it, and decided to tear his face and do it directly, which was also to justify his name.

He, the emperor, is absolutely clean and clean, and he will never disgrace Liu Bei, the emperor.

So many times before, Lu Zhi felt that he had dragged Liu Bei back, this time, he couldn't drag Liu Bei's back no matter what, and he didn't allow his people to ruin his dream for many years and Liu Bei's hard work for many years.

Otherwise, he felt that he would have no face to continue living.

Ma Riyan was more entangled, first he lost the status of the Valua family, and then he lost his land, which had a great impact on the Ma family, a family that loves luxury life.

Many clansmen cried, made trouble and hanged themselves in the clan, and Ma Riyan himself cried in front of Liu Bei, looking aggrieved, and didn't get up after crying for a long time.

He seemed to feel that Liu Bei was bullying him a little too much.

According to the size of his family's land, how much more tax does he have to pay?

The family is already living in luxury, and once the taxes are paid, does the family still want to live?

Liu Bei was very dissatisfied with this.

I've given you enough, your status is high enough, and now everyone follows me, and there are no complaints, even my teacher has no complaints, why do you have complaints?

Do you expect me to be special to you?

"Doctor Ma, in this matter, the whole court must keep the same pace, now most people are in the same step, only you are crying here, do you think, is this appropriate?"

"Cao's, Zhen's, which of them has less property than yours? But they've done it too, why can't you do it? Can't do it, or don't you want to do it? You're a Doctor, do you know what your position means? ”

"If you want to protect the family business, you can, hand in your resignation, from now on, the Ma family will never be able to work in Dahan, if so, I will allow you Ma to leave this time and be your rich man with peace of mind."

Liu Bei shook his hand and wrote a pardon order to Ma Riyan, and when Ma Riyan saw it, his heart was cold.

"Your Majesty...... This ......"

"Support, or not, it's all up to you."

Liu Bei looked at Ma Riyan with a cold gaze, and the corners of his mouth were slightly hooked: "But after resigning, I don't care whether your Ma family will continue to be rich or have nothing left." ”

Ma Riyan fell into an ice cave and immediately realized something.

Being in the Yushitai, he has already offended too many people, and he relies on his official position and Liu Bei's support to protect himself, if he loses his official position and Liu Bei's protection......

The Ma family, which does not have the identity of the valve reading family as a moat, is finished.

Step by step, step by step, Liu Bei let Ma fall into his complete control, and Ma had no choice.

So, Ma Riyan gave in weakly.

Only then did Liu Bei get happy and personally helped Ma Riyan up, appeased him, and then asked him to prepare to choose the clansmen to go south and enter Yangzhou, Jiaozhou or southern Yizhou, so that he could not only get more land, but also spread out his branches.

What if these branches flourish in the future?

I can't say for sure.

What else can Ma Riyan do?

got on the thief ship, and now sailed to a critical moment, there was a storm outside, and he still expected to be able to get off the ship and leave in a safe place?

Ma Riyan's mentality is actually the mentality of a considerable number of wealthy officials, because they don't want to pay taxes so simply, they feel in their hearts that these are their money, and the court is here to rob the money.

They are noble people, and paying taxes is a mud leg thing, when will they also have anything to do with paying taxes?

Could it be that in the eyes of the Son of Heaven, they are the same as mud legs?

While it is strictly true that they are taxable, there is always a way for them to be less clear about the amount of their property, but now, this method is no longer valid.

What's even worse is that the emperor actually took the lead in paying taxes, and so many bigwigs also expressed their willingness to pay taxes, seeing that the court officials paying taxes became politically correct, they didn't pay taxes, they were not decent, did they have to wait for others to help them be decent?

They don't want to go through this kind of thing.

By the end of June, the first phase of the task that Zhenguan had begun to carry out at the beginning of May had become clear, and the vast majority of the 160,000 or nearly 170,000 officials had recognized it, whether it was active or passive, whether they could gain benefits or disadvantages from it.

A large amount of information flew to Luoyang like snowflakes, and the central departments of the imperial court were busy counting the family property and tax payment of officials at all levels every day, and all of them were classified into the household taxation department according to the requirements of the eight grades, and the eight tax groups were specially responsible for storing the data.

They can be said to be solid and busy for a while.

But it's not really busy yet.

Of course, there are not people who are more concerned about their wealth and family than their official position and future.

There are more such people in the north of Yizhou, the north of Jingzhou, the central part of Yuzhou and the south of Jizhou.

Unwilling to accept this fact, the officials in these places resorted to various methods to avoid danger.

For example, if you transfer your property to relatives and friends, or if you divide the family in an emergency, you can divide the family property into several parts according to the amount stipulated in the Dutian Ordinance to avoid the tax payment level of the Dutian Ordinance.

However, such behavior is not allowed.

Because there are provisions in the Dutian Decree, after the promulgation of the Dutian Decree, that is, after the first day of the fifth month of the first year of Zhenguan, the circumvention of the family is not accepted, even if you do the separation on April 30 of the first year of Zhenguan, it can be regarded as your luck, but after the first day of the fifth month......

Sorry, no chance.

Therefore, local governments, especially county governments and county governments, have repeatedly stated on this matter that they do not allow family separation after the first day of the fifth lunar month, which is a trick that hits the seven inches of many smart groups, making them very uncomfortable and very depressed.

And so the first rebellion began.

The first rebellion took place in the eastern part of Guanghan County, Yizhou, and was initiated by a county government official and his family.

His family had a large amount of land in the local area, and according to the requirements of the Dutian Decree, they needed to pay a considerable amount of taxes, but this figure was only a figure that was better than nothing, and they suddenly felt that they had been robbed by the imperial court.

A strong sense of self made it impossible for some of the people in the family who owned a lot of land to accept this fact and decided to rebel.

But at this time, the power of the Dutian Order was revealed.

The family is not a common prosperity family, unlike top families such as the Cao family and the Zhen family, the poorest ones also have more than 1,000 acres of land, and they don't have to worry about food and clothing.

According to the eight-step tax payment method of the Dutian Order, no matter what kind of land it is, in fact, families with less than 3,000 mu of land have to pay less than the old rules when paying agricultural taxes.

If it is only less than 500 acres, or less than 1,000 acres, it will pay a lot less taxes, and compared to before, it is simply a blood profit.

It will not be paid until the part above 3,000 mu is more than before.

For most landholders in the Han Empire, the part with more than 3,000 mu was an absolute minority, and the part below 3,000 mu was the absolute majority.

Especially in the local small and medium-sized families, there are a large number of wealthy clansmen who hold land, and there are also poor clansmen like Liu Bei's family back then.

Of course, because of the family's support, the poor clansmen will often be helped, will not starve to death, can also participate in the clan study, learn to read and write, and will not become purely illiterate.

The content of family benefits varies slightly from family to family, but it is still widespread for wealthy people to help poor people and prevent them from starving to death.

However, when it comes to self-interest, it is really a bit unnecessary to let the poor clansmen who have no land and property empathize with those rich clansmen, and rebel against the imperial court's Dutian order with them, and their butts are not so crooked.

This land order clearly shows that it is very advantageous for families who own a small amount of land, paying less taxes than before, retaining more harvests, and even dividing the fields later-

If the family is poor and has no land, it is even possible to obtain the imperial court's land according to the policy calculations of the imperial court.

If you don't do anything, you can fall pie in the sky, such a good thing can't happen once in hundreds of years, and if you rebel against the imperial court for a policy that is good for you, isn't there something wrong with your brain?

Therefore, in the internal meeting of the family, although the wealthy clansmen who had the right to speak and absolute power decided to rebel and lead the clansmen to resist the imperial court and the Dutian Order, the poor clansmen were unwilling to participate in it and were unwilling to die for the rich clansmen's property.

Although they did receive some favors, they did not make them think about dying.

So there was a division among the clans.

The large number of ordinary clansmen and poor clansmen did not want to participate in the military campaign against the Dutian Order, and they were unwilling to oppose the imperial court, and the wealthy clansmen often had a loud voice in the family, but they would face the dilemma of a minority.

They are willing to give money, give food, and exchange money and food for the help and participation of this part of the tribe, but only a few people who are shallow and greedy are willing to join, and most of the normal people are not willing to join this rebellion.

In desperation, they knew that they could not support themselves alone, and the ordinary people and poor ghosts in the family could not be trusted, so they could only choose to enlist those who had extensive wealth in the local area to resist together.

Everyone is rich, rich people help rich people, and there is great strength in numbers, maybe they can repeat the events of Liu Xiudutian's period, so that the imperial court can make a series of compromises to the local government and re-achieve a balance of power.

In Guanghan County, the Dutian Order was transmitted from the county government to the county government, and then from the county government to the county.

After the news spread, this kind of thing happened in many large and medium-sized families that owned a lot of land in the local area, as well as some small families, and they were the same, the rich people wanted to resist, and the ordinary and poor people did not want to get involved.

Therefore, the people who want to rebel have the money and strength, and they have a loud voice, but the number is small, and it is a bit difficult to get the poorer tribesmen to fight for the wealth of the wealthier tribesmen, and to resist the policies that are obviously beneficial to them.

Giving money and food, coaxing and cheating, and all kinds of distortions and distortions to smear the imperial court policies, they finally deceived a group of people, but in terms of quantity, there was still a big difference between the number and the situation they expected to raise their arms and call for everyone to rise up.

It seems that the poor ghosts have suddenly become wiser and less likely to fool around.

Of course, there is a reason for this, and the poor ghosts did not suddenly become smarter, but there was a qualitative difference between the place at this moment and the place at that time Liu Xiu.

At that time, there was still a county soldier training system left over from the Western Han Dynasty and a large number of mature county soldiers, and the local government had a certain ability to resist the central government, and its combat effectiveness was quite good.

Liu Xiu quelled the local rebellion, which was exhausting and strategic, and the strategic pressure was relatively large, the war was fought for a long time, and many people died, so compromise was also necessary.

Even more than ten years ago, although there were no local soldiers, the major local tyrants still had a considerable number of slaves who could be used to organize armed groups against the imperial court, and they still had autonomy.

In that state, if Liu Bei wants to promote the Dutian Order, it will also be a tough battle.

At this time, after the previous wave of slave restriction orders was issued, all parts of the country went through a wave of "destruction" of slave restriction orders.

Except for a very small number of high-ranking families, the slaves of these local official families and powerful landlord families are restrained.

The number of slaves was strictly limited and released in large numbers, and the number of slaves with a total number of 8 million to 10 million slaves was directly cut in half, less than half or more, and quite a number of local families suffered serious losses.

In other words, the local forces were most proud of their own mobilization, which could compete with the imperial court, and suffered serious losses.

(End of chapter)