Jia Xu first expressed support for Liu Bei's idea and proposed that a series of policies that had been used in Liangzhou could be applied to Bingzhou because the situations in Liangzhou and Bingzhou were highly similar.
Liu Bei implemented various welfare policies in Liangzhou and successfully changed Liangzhou, allowing many people who were originally outside the household registration to actively return to the household registration. The situation in Bingzhou was the same.
The life of those people in the mountains may not be much better than before. If the imperial court can implement the policies and benefits, then the possibility of people in the mountains of Bingzhou leaving the mountains and returning to their household registration is very high.
Allocate fields and houses, establish collective farms, exempt taxes for three or five years, provide low-interest or interest-free loans, sell farm tools and livestock at low prices, and provide a certain number of cattle for farming, etc.
The most important thing is that the government's policy of paying oral taxes can also be used.
Jia Xu suggested that they do the same thing as before in Liangzhou, let a group of people live a good life first and prove that their policies are genuine and unadulterated, and then launch a large-scale public opinion offensive against the people in the mountains.
Urging them to leave the mountains and return to official household registration.
Finally, I announced that as long as I settle in Bingzhou, I don't have to pay the oral tax, and I think I can attract more people.
By slowly attracting all the population in the Bingzhou Mountains to Bingzhou, we can completely end the history of rebellion in the Bingzhou Mountains.
Jia Xu experienced the entire process of Liu Bei's reform actions in Liangzhou. He was very supportive of Liu Bei's reform actions and had a thorough understanding of them.
In this regard, the entire think tank does not have much objection.
Bingzhou was almost destroyed, and much of the land was out of the actual control of the imperial court. If Liu Bei wanted to do something in Bingzhou, as long as he could recover it, he would naturally have the final say.
However, it was the oral performance that attracted everyone's attention.
At the beginning of the year, Mao Jie "understood his intentions" and sensed Liu Bei's intentions, so he proposed to Liu Bei at a government meeting within the General's Mansion to formally abolish the extremely immoral tax of oral tax.
Mao Jie believes that this tax is a kind of "extinction tax", which is very immoral. The money obtained is the money of future generations. It is irresponsible to use the money of future generations for today's enjoyment.
So it should be completely abolished.
At that time, Liu Bei asked many people and learned that their attitudes were generally in favor of deposing, but Liu Bei himself did not nod in approval.
"Abolition of this tax can be done at any time as long as I want. The four ministers will not be an obstacle. I also have the confidence to persuade the Empress Dowager, so I don't need to expend much effort on the promulgation of policies at the Luoyang court level.
can be achieved.
But everyone, is the key issue really the promulgation of the policy? No, it is the implementation. We promulgate it, implement it at the local level, and implement it on every ordinary person. This is the complete process of the policy. It’s just that we promulgate it, but there is no local implementation.
If people execute it, it won’t work.
Based on my experience in local governance in Liangzhou, I can confirm that if we announce the abolition of the oral tax here, there will be countless corrupt officials in the local area who will openly continue to collect the oral tax and then take it into their own hands. In the past, they
Some of it still needs to be given to the court, but now, it’s all theirs.”
At that time, Liu Bei's words aroused the indignation of many officials in the general's office, and some officials who had experience in local politics were silent about it.
Because as far as they knew, what Liu Bei said was true. There were many corrupt officials in the world who were bold and corrupt. They took advantage of the sky and the emperor to openly turn the royal taxes into their own property.
This kind of thing would be impossible to avoid unless the imperial court transferred all tax collection power to Luoyang and prevented local officials from intervening.
And once such a situation occurs, how many changes will the Luoyang court make?
The territory of the Han Dynasty was so large that if all matters such as tax collection were handled by the Luoyang court, the court would not have to do anything else throughout the year.
Therefore, when he did not have the confidence to successfully promote this policy, Liu Bei did not let this policy become a joke. Instead, he went step by step and continued to follow the original approach.
In the area, it is no longer accepted.
Just like the situation in Liangzhou, at the beginning of the year, Liu Bei had already used his power to influence the imperial tax department and obtained [preferential policies] for Liangzhou, exempting him from oral tax for three years.
Of course, anyone with a discerning eye knows that this exemption is endless, three years after three years, three years after three years, until this policy is completely completed. This "three years" has no time limit.
The same goes for Bingzhou. In order to promote population growth and restore the imperial rule over Bingzhou, with Liu Bei's efforts, the imperial court had already adopted the policy of exempting Bingzhou from oral tax for five years.
As long as everything is ready, the policy can be announced.
Liu Bei has already got all his cards in his hand and can play them at any time, and always leaves room for leeway. He is both a player and the maker of the rules of the game. He has enough room to play within the current rules of the game.
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He can use his power to formulate various tax reduction and exemption policies and promote them in areas where he has strong control, essentially creating a policy effect of exempting unnecessary taxes.
This is the victory of the general's line,
For Zhang Yan and Yu Fuluo, this choice is not easy at all. The cards in their hands are far less than those in Liu Bei's hands.
The most obvious point is that Liu Bei no longer needs to put his future and destiny on the card table, but just a few years ago, he often took out this key card to play.
But now times have changed, and now it is a situation where other people gamble their lives with Liu Bei and Liu Bei can easily deal with it.
Yu Fuluo and Zhang Yan don't have many cards in their hands. The most valuable thing is their future and destiny. It takes a lot of courage to play hard, but not everyone has this kind of courage, and not everyone has the luck to survive.
What people possess.
Liu Bei also imagined countless times that if parallel universes really existed, then he would most likely die every time he was beaten to a bloody head when he was a teenager.
What will the timeline be like if you die?
In other words, the time when Lu Zhi was rescued, he was hit by three arrows, and he was very likely to die. If he really died, what would happen?
A dead Liu, what would the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty be like without Liu?
no one knows.
But it is a wonderful feeling for a former risk-taker to no longer have to risk his life.
As for Zhang Yan and Yu Fuluo, they have always been fighting for their lives, but they don't know whether they want to play Liu Bei's cards this time.
If you obey the order, you will have to unite your troops to attack. You will face the possibility of weakening your strength and being seriously injured by Liu Bei's secret operations. And if you don't obey the order, it is not certain that the tens of thousands of Han troops will be the first to attack them.
So what to do?
Zhang Yan and Yu Fuluo had established a communication mechanism after the Hedong crisis. If they needed anything, they would help each other. They all understood the meaning of lip service, and this time was no exception.
After the two received the order from the Luoyang court, they communicated with each other immediately to see if the other party had also received the relevant order. After confirming, the two met quickly to discuss the matter.
After discussions and discussions, the two gradually came to an agreement, which was to agree not to give the Luoyang court an opportunity to launch an attack.
The reason is also very clear.
Liu Bei has successfully established a terrifying deterrent to the world. He is too capable of fighting. Being hostile to him is just boring. If you want to live for a few more years, it is best to cooperate with Liu Bei and follow his wishes.
In this way, judging from Liu Bei's character of keeping promises, he will basically not do things that can easily attract criticism, and it is unlikely that he will take this opportunity to initiate any action against them.
However, after the two people reached an agreement through high-level interaction, they still had to further discuss it with the people below.
It’s true that both of them are bosses, but again, the boss is often empty-handed. There are not many people who can really obey the boss’s orders and act. Everyone has their own small influence, and everyone has their own thoughts.
Xiao Jiujiu, don’t think of anyone too innocently.
In addition to the Black Mountain Army directly under him and his trusted subordinates Sun Qing and Wang Dang, Zhang Yan also had various people including Yu Du, Bai Rao, Sui Gu, Li Damu, Lei Gong, etc.
Their tribes range in size from large to small, and their military strength ranges from strong to weak. They respect him as their leader, but they do not completely obey his orders.
In short, Zhang Yan is the leader of the alliance, not the monarch.
The same goes for Yu Fuluo. He himself was a Chanyu who was supported by a group of rebels, and his father was an old Chanyu who was killed by a group of rebels. It is conceivable that he is an old Chanyu among this group of people.
How much prestige and control there is.
So the two of them have reached the highest intention, and they still have to discuss it with the people below. Who will go out, how many people each will send, money and food, etc., all of this must be discussed.
"There is an order from the imperial court. As a general of the rank and file, and all of you as captains, you should serve the imperial court. This time to attack Wuhuan, I have decided to send five thousand troops. I will personally lead them and follow the imperial army to attack Wuhuan in order to achieve great achievements."
Zhang Yan first expressed his attitude. He took the lead in the charge and sent out five thousand troops to follow the imperial army. What he said was high-sounding.
However, there are many people who have doubts about his decision.
For example, Yu Lai and Zhang Yan are not of the same mind.
He didn't think it was right to follow Liu Bei's orders and go out to fight. He didn't trust Liu Bei or the court at all.
"Wars in the imperial court are a matter of the imperial court. We have always listened to orders but not announcements. The Luoyang court should also understand this. Why did it openly give us orders? And we really have to abide by them? General Zhang Zhonglang, what do you think?
Is there any fraud involved?"
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PS: Why don’t you believe that I am going to take the college entrance examination? Obviously I am serious...well, I don’t believe it myself either.
PPS: But I have to say, fortunately I graduated early. Apart from anything else, I have become increasingly unable to understand the essays written in the past few years. Yesterday I wanted to try writing a college entrance examination essay, but as soon as I read the essay title, my head was spinning.
It was just a piece of paste... When I took the college entrance examination, the essay question was about the famous ladder that does not need to be placed horizontally. I was already very confused at the time. I did not expect that in recent years, the essay questions have become more and more abstract.