After this wave of public opinion arose, the situation of those small and medium-sized families that did not understand the inside story was quite bad.
Facing the absolute power gap, they wanted to resist, but they thought of Liu Bei's iron-fisted style and the cruel military operations in the Sili and Bingzhou areas.
If they didn't want the same thing to happen to Jeju, they had only one option - they had to give up resistance and hand over their slaves.
Therefore, in Zhongshan Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom and Hejian Kingdom, the slave restriction order was implemented very simply and thoroughly.
Even the palaces of the three kings of Zhongshan, Changshan and Hejian were implemented by Liu Bei. The slave restriction order was implemented. People sent by the local government entered the palace, found all the slaves in the palace, and counted them one by one. In the end, the palace was only allowed to keep two
Hundreds of slaves, the rest were demobilized and registered as civil servants.
It is said that the three sect kings complained about this and were very dissatisfied with Liu Bei's behavior, but in the end they did not say anything and chose to swallow their anger.
Because they also knew that Liu Xu, the former King of Anping, had offended Liu Bei, so after Liu Bei became powerful, they took revenge on him.
Now, Liu Xu and the main lineage of his branch have been deposed as common people, and his family is homeless and impoverished. Liu Xu died of cold and starvation a year ago. Many of his family members died of starvation and illness, and no one dared to help him.
The imperial court also turned a blind eye to this.
The person who inherited the title of King Anping was a distant relative of Liu Xu. They also heard that the prince would prepare a gift for Liu Bei every festive season and his attitude was extremely respectful.
Liu Bei's ferocity, tactics and strong desire for revenge are spread in the clan circles. Everyone knows that the person who calls the shots in Luoyang now is Liu Bei. When he gives an order, he wants to cause trouble for any clan king. The clan king himself cannot resist.
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Therefore, instead of finding excuses for him, it is better to accept his torment honestly and at least keep the throne.
If the Zong Wang is like this, let alone others?
Except for the Three Kingdoms, in the remaining seven counties, the effectiveness of the country's slave restriction order varied.
The county magistrates in these areas are not Liu Bei himself. The eunuch group and the upper echelons of the Ancient Literature School spent more on verbal expenditures than action support on this matter. Most people have their own ideas.
They thought they knew Liu Bei's true intentions, and believed that Liu Bei's promotion of the slave restriction order was to make profits for everyone, to allow the bureaucrats and big landowners to get more benefits, to suppress the bunch of bumpkins at the bottom, and to prevent them from invading the interests of the upper class.
So they were willing to support Liu Bei's slave restriction order.
But in terms of specific methods of doing things, they went all out to attack those wealthy families with no status, and then took their land, property and slaves into their own hands, and then gave a small part to the court to show their support for Liu Bei.
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Objectively speaking, they are indeed attacking the local tycoons and enforcing the slave restriction order, but in terms of results, the local tycoons are gone and they have become richer.
It highlights the principle that when a gentleman falls down, Jiaqing is full.
They took most of the benefits and gave the fraction to Liu Bei. The level of profit sharing was not even 37 points, but 28 points at most.
Eight of them, Liu Bei is the second.
For example, in Wei County, which was led by Chen Qiao, an official of the Ancient Literature School, this was the way things were done when the slave restriction order was implemented. They were even more barbaric and followed the name of the slave restriction order, even if they were willing to accept the requirements of the slave restriction order, they would not let go. Pass.
Some families were well aware of Liu Bei's abilities and did not dare to go against the court. They decided to give in and voluntarily handed over their slaves and kept only three slaves in an attempt to avoid disaster. However, after a period of time, officials came to arrest people. .
The reason was that he had hidden slaves and refused to hand them over.
In the conscience of heaven and earth, they really handed over the slaves, leaving only the number allowed in the slave restriction order, but no matter how they explained, they just couldn't do it, and the government wanted to hold them accountable.
Kill people and behead them, and then take their property as your own, or share the profits with some collaborators. Finally, after the overall statistics, give 10% or at most 20% to the court to handle errands, and the rest , I gave them all in private.
The leading officials, the subordinate officials, official servants, large families who assist in the work, relatives, etc., all count one by one, and everyone shares the benefits together.
This group of people relied on the intimidation of Liu Bei's killings, which made these family forces who did not dare to resist suffer a bloody misfortune. One of the bad guys got the best of the bad guys, and the bad guys will be punished by the bad guys.
Such news was passed to Luoyang through the intelligence agency arranged by Liu Bei in Jizhou. After being summarized to Liu Hui, it was reported to Liu Bei, letting Liu Bei know some of the chaos in Jizhou.
To be honest, before this, Liu Bei did not expect that the slave restriction order could have such side effects, but when such side effects clearly appeared, Liu Bei realized that the creativity of bureaucrats is unlimited and there is no lower limit. .
Or to be more precise, they themselves are the lower limit.
People who have been trained by themselves and have a higher pursuit of official career will pay more attention to the results when executing orders, and their behavior will be slightly better. Therefore, in the Sili area, Bingzhou and Liangzhou, there are also Youdun led by Xiahou Dun. In the state, such situations occur relatively rarely.
But in Jizhou, this situation is more complicated. It occurs in many areas and causes more additional casualties. In essence, the big bully annexes the little bully, and there is nothing special about it.
After Liu Bei learned about it, he was naturally angry, but he was also helpless after being angry.
"It is my personal extravagance to expect all my subordinates to be saints and to carry out my orders to the letter. In fact, it is impossible for them not to make profits for themselves, so I mainly look at the degree and whether it exceeds boundaries.
For one thing, if they take 20% and give me 80%, I will be very happy. If they take 30% and give me 70%, I will be very satisfied. If they take 40% and give me 60%, I can accept it. But if they If you take 50% and want to be 50/50 with me, then I'll be a little unhappy.
Going further, that is a situation that I cannot bear. What's more, I mobilized troops to defeat this situation now. They pretended to be powerful and picked up what was already available. They only gave me 10 to 20 percent and took 80 to 90 percent for themselves.
, this is a bit too disrespectful of me.
The situation I created, the thought I spent on my money, my intrigues to earn some money for the court, and some benefits for the people below me, in the end, it all became their business without capital, and they took much more than me, and then
Give me a little bit to take care of the errands, do you still want me to thank them?"
Liu Bei took a deep breath, shook his head, and whispered: "That's all my money. I spent so much effort to earn this situation. I worked very hard!"
Liu Hui whispered: "But right now, this is the situation. Chongzhi doesn't care who brought this down. As long as they can get benefits, that's enough. The reason why Chongzhi is Chongzhi is nothing more than this, this,
What are you going to do?"
"What should I do? What else can I do?"
Liu Bei sneered and said: "I have to let some people know that it is not easy to get benefits from me. At least, it can't be so blatant. I have to be honest and behave. It's not that I can't accept it.
Share the profits, but they went too far."
"Do I need my subordinates to take action?"
"No need for now. I'll talk to them first and see if there are any results. If there are any results, then it's easy to tell. If there are no results, then don't blame me for trying to get the results myself."
Liu Bei thought for a while and planned to open a gap first with the more greedy eunuch group, who were the most harsh and cruel.
So Liu Bei found Zhang Rang and planned to have a good talk with him.