After sending Song Xian away, Chu Nan sat in his seat, thinking about this issue. The current situation was indeed unfavorable to Cao Cao, but it was not to the point of actively seeking peace. At least in Chu Nan's view, Cao Cao should still have something to offer.
The right thing to do is to do it later.
Chu Nan calculated the current strength of both sides. Cao Cao was actually caught off guard by Lu Bu. The soldiers and horses from all directions had no time to call back. Apart from anything else, with Cao Cao's character, he did not believe that Cao Cao would not have arranged troops and horses for defense along the Yellow River.
Yuan Shao went south.
Also Guanzhong, Nanyang.
Compared to Lu Bu, Cao Cao had more enemies to guard against. If Cao Cao wanted to fight Lu Bu, he had to think through all the issues before sending troops, but Lu Bu didn't need to worry about many of these when fighting Cao Cao. Although Xuzhou was flat, except for Cao Cao, the other two
The princes of the family are all blocked by natural barriers, and can be defended with only a small number of troops.
So when Lu Bu suddenly entered Yuzhou, Cao Cao's deployment was disrupted, and he was unable to mobilize all his forces to fight against Lu Bu.
Zhang Xiu of Nanyang has now stationed troops in Luyang in accordance with the original agreement, and even asked Cao Cao to use the rat weapon.
Therefore, Cao Cao is now asking for peace talks, and Chu Nan can also understand that once other forces are mobilized, if Lu Bu cannot be removed quickly, he is likely to face the siege of Zhang Xiu, Yuan Shao and Lu Bu.
I have to lament that in history, it was really not easy for Cao Cao to become the overlord of the north in such an environment.
Time passed bit by bit until the afternoon. After Chu Nan had lunch, people began to hand in papers one after another.
"Lord, please take a look." Zhou Cang handed the files submitted by those people to Chu Nan.
Chu Nan didn't see it, but looked at Zhou Cang: "Are they all here?"
"Yeah." Zhou Cang nodded.
Chu Nan looked at the bamboo slips on the desk, took out the three volumes and read them: "Just follow the contents of these three bamboo slips. Don't worry about the family who wrote these three volumes. Other industries that should be investigated are
Sealed and farmland confiscated."
"Here!" Zhou Cang nodded, turned around and went to make arrangements.
"Lord, don't you take a look at the others?" Pei Yuanshao looked at Chu Nan with some confusion.
"What are you looking at? Is it bad?" Chu Nan closed his eyes: "If you want to see it, go see it yourself."
Pei Yuanshao heard this and looked at Chu Nan. He picked up a bamboo slip with some disbelief. Seeing that Chu Nan ignored him, he opened it and looked at it. It was the head of the Li family who exposed the atrocities of other families. In fact, it cannot be regarded as atrocities. This kind of bamboo slips
Big families still pay attention to dignity when doing things. They generally do not directly bully men and dominate women, and they generally do not do things like robbing people's wealth, but they can make bureaus. There are many of these bureaus. How can ordinary farmers reclaim land?
Taking back the land for himself was an example. What Pei Yuanshao saw made his blood pressure soar:
The laws of the Han Dynasty have always encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, but over the years, the reclaimed wasteland has been limited and has been decreasing year by year. It is not that the people are unwilling or lazy, but that most people have gradually seen the world clearly.
I don't want to work for those wealthy people anymore.
Take the file that Pei Yuanshao saw as an example. There was once a pair of brothers who did not want to remain tenants and wanted to have their own farmland. They chose a wasteland and reported it to the government office to open up wasteland.
Food is needed to open up wasteland. After all, no grain is produced during the process of land reclamation. According to Han law, you can borrow grain from the government office to supplement the consumption during the process of land reclamation. After land reclamation, you only need to pay it back on time. There is no interest on this part.
Just pay it off.
It took the two brothers two years to borrow grain from the government office. It was not easy to open up wasteland. After two years, their bodies were exhausted and they were able to clear out thirty acres of wasteland. They thought they would live a good life in the future, but
Next, the government office came to collect debts, and the two brothers spent two years.
Thirty acres of land had just been opened, and they had not yet had time to grow food. Where would the food come from? In the end, the two brothers kowtowed to each other and finally won the mercy of the county magistrate, who allowed them a year.
Regardless of their exhausted bodies, the two brothers started farming, and finally got a harvest in the second year. Unfortunately, it was a good year, and they harvested nearly 8,000 kilograms of grain from 30 acres of land in the first year.
After paying back the 5,000 jins from the government office, there are still nearly 3,000 jins left. After paying the tax of 1,000 jins, the remaining is less than 2,000 jins. Putting aside the seeds, the two brothers can survive until next year by saving some food.
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As long as the autumn harvest arrives in the second year, even if it is not a good year, they will be able to live a more prosperous life and the hard days will be over.
After a few years of this, they will be able to find women. After they have taken care of themselves and have sons, they will find ways to open up more land. In this way, after a few generations, they will be able to live the life they envy now.
Live a powerful life.
However, just when the two brothers were full of longing for the future, people from the government office came. According to the laws of the Han Dynasty, the tax in the first year after the land was opened was only half percent, but the government office kept it as normal.
For eight thousand catties of grain, three thousand catties of tax will be charged.
The two brothers were angry and wanted to argue, but it was useless. The government office did not recognize this rule. They had no place to sue if they wanted to. But after paying three thousand catties of tax, the remaining five thousand catties of grain were not enough for them to repay.
The government office lent them food.
What's more, the two brothers can't live without eating, right? They also need to save some seeds, right?
The two brothers begged the county magistrate, hoping that the magistrate would leave some for them. By next year, they could pay off all the food they owed, even if they had to pay some interest.
But this time, the county magistrate lost his usual kindness and refused to give in. In the end, because the difference in food was less than 200 kilograms, the two brothers were taken back to the government office. After being severely beaten, they were thrown into jail without mercy.
People care.
A few days later, when the two brothers were in despair, the county magistrate brought a good man, a descendant of a wealthy family in Shangcai. After hearing about the two brothers, he felt pity and was willing to help them.
Help them and provide 10,000 catties of grain to the two brothers, but the condition is that they have thirty acres of land.
Ten thousand catties of grain can not only pay off their debts, but also provide them with a large amount of grain that will last them two years.
But the land they had worked hard to cultivate for two years no longer belonged to them. Their bodies had been exhausted from the two years of cultivation. Now, even if they had tens of thousands of kilograms of grain, they were unable to cultivate another piece of land.
But if they didn't agree, they would probably die in prison. In the end, the two brothers reluctantly chose to compromise.
In fact, no one is stupid. Who would have known that this was the fault of these powerful families and the county magistrate? But so what? They were unable to resist, and in the end they could only take the grain and return to being tenant farmers.
This is not an isolated case, but a method used by all powerful powers to control tenant farmers. The tenant farmers are simply unable to survive independently of the local powerful powers and can only earn wealth by farming for them.
And this example is just the same: how to turn the tenants' children into their labor force, and how to turn the beautiful women among the tenants' children into their playthings?
There is nothing recorded here about bullying men and women. Those who really bully men and women in the local area are not worthy of recognition in the eyes of these big families. Every method used here is to make people fall into the trap without knowing it.
When you go in, ordinary people are unable to resist at all. They can only be squeezed dry by them little by little. In the end, they obediently follow their wishes and live like puppets without seeing tomorrow.
But even these without any bloody content, the sense of oppression brought to Pei Yuanshao was more than ten times stronger than that of bullying men and women. As a mortal, you would not even have the strength to struggle.
Pei Yuanshao also came from a poor background. In the past, he only occasionally complained about his poor background. But after reading this, he realized that behind ordinary people like them, there was an invisible network controlling their lives. In it, even if you
If you want to work hard, it is as difficult as climbing to the sky. In the end, just like the brothers, they spent three years helping others cultivate 30 acres of land, but they worked hard to make wedding dresses for others.
The big net formed by powerful families falls on every ordinary person like a dragnet, making it so oppressive that people can't breathe!
Pei Yuanshao gritted his teeth, silently put down the bamboo slips, and picked up another volume. The content was similar, except that the protagonist had changed.
"My lord... you have known this for a long time?" Pei Yuanshao looked at Chu Nan. He never quite understood why Chu Nan was so ruthless to the big families, killing people all over the family at every turn. Sometimes even people like Pei Yuanshao who had a hatred of the rich would be a little dissatisfied.
Not going down, but now, he understands a little bit.
"Absolutely." Chu Nan nodded calmly. The tricks are just those. Even if you apply these things to modern times, it won't be much different, it's just more obscure. In fact, in this regard, Chu Nan
I am also at a loss. How can we solve problems that cannot be solved in modern times? If we kill all the powerful people now, most powerful families in the future will follow this old path.
However, you can't give up your current efforts just because you can't think of a way in the future, so Chu Nan has never been soft on suppressing the wealthy families.
Tomorrow's matters will be resolved tomorrow.
What he wants is different from others, what he wants is luck, luck that may be able to break the rules of the world.
"My lord, I want to personally kill these dog thieves!" Pei Yuanshao said to Chu Nan.
Chu Nan glanced at him and saw that he looked angry. He nodded and said, "Go ahead. There are monster ants here to protect me. It'll be fine."
"Thank you, Lord!" Pei Yuanshao saluted with clasped fists, and then led his men to kill with Zhou Cang.
"Go and release these people. Except for these three families, everyone else can leave!" Chu Nan stood up and asked people to release the people from those families, except for the three selected families.
A group of powerful family heads who were very dignified not long ago, now they meet Chu Nan, especially after seeing the three family heads who were killed on the spot, they are much more well-behaved and know some manners.
He even began to ask to help Chu Nan fight against thieves, but Chu Nan refused with a smile.
"There is some evidence here. Although the crime may not lead to death, it is hard to escape the crime. In the next few days, we will come to the door one by one. I hope you will cooperate when the time comes!" Chu Nan pointed to the file on the table,
Looking at these family heads who escaped, he said calmly.
"Don't worry, I will definitely cooperate." Several family heads nodded repeatedly, and their attitude this time was much better than before.
"Let's all disperse, I'm exhausted!" Chu Nan waved his hand, signaling for them to retreat.
After this disaster, how could anyone dare to be disrespectful to Chu Nan? Even if Chu Nan closed his eyes, everyone bowed respectfully before leaving.
What happened next was much simpler. Under Chu Nan's instructions, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao first destroyed the three major families, and then started to make trouble for the remaining families one by one.
Because Chu Nan had spoken first, these families were very cooperative at first, but gradually they realized that something was wrong. Chu Nan wanted to punish them to death, but it was already too late. When they violently resisted, what they faced was