Liu Bei’s first goal sounded very abstract, so not many people had much reaction.
But for Liu Bei's second goal, because it was very specific, more people responded.
However, everyone was mostly silent, ready to listen to Liu Bei's further explanation on the matter.
Because now, Liu Bei is no longer a general, but a serious emperor recognized by the world. He is also a powerful emperor with 300,000 troops and 200,000 county soldiers.
When working with him, the first thing to consider is what to do if he flips the table?
Not every emperor has the ability to overturn tables.
The last emperor of the Eastern Han Dynasty who had the ability to lift tables has been dead for almost a hundred years. For so many years, everyone has been working with emperors who have no ability to lift tables and have almost no experience in dealing with other types of emperors. This is very bad.
If a powerful emperor like Liu Bei wants to acquire land, he must first have a right to do so. If he resists, no matter what the reason is, he is a rebel, and he will definitely participate in the three-tribe elimination game.
It is okay and justifiable for such an emperor to use rebellion as a reason to kill opponents. He does not even need the support of ministers and the court. He can do it by giving orders to the army.
This is the privilege of the emperor who overturns the table.
And these die-hards must be politically consistent with Liu Bei to avoid becoming the first people to be hit by the table after he flips it over.
Although this matter will more or less harm their interests.
For example, the super landowners Cao and Xiahou.
If it were handled according to a tiered tax system in which the more land, the higher the tax, then big families like the Cao family and the Xiahou family would probably spend a considerable amount of tax on this.
Their entire family's land holdings amounted to less than 3 to 50 million acres, and the income tax from the land after 50,000 acres was basically at the top level, that is, 45%.
It would be a shame if the Cao family could accept this almost 50-50 maximum tax.
But, Liu Bei also has his own logic on this matter.
He did not become the emperor for himself. In a sense, he sacrificed his reputation to become the emperor, leaving an indelible stain on himself and making himself a tainted person. He was no longer the unbreakable gold medalist.
A saint in body.
And he did this so that his subordinates could feel at ease and be able to hold power and status safely for a long time.
What Liu Bei declared is that I am the emperor, I am the emperor for everyone, I am the emperor for the welfare of your subordinates, and I am the emperor so that you and your families can feel at ease.
This is the spirit of selflessness, the spirit of sacrificing oneself for others, and the spirit of abandoning one's own reputation for them.
This spirit should be rewarded.
This is a me-for-everyone situation.
Then naturally, it will be everyone for one.
I have paid so much for you, aren't you going to pay something for me?
Aren't you going to let me get something?
Am I the only one who can give, and you can’t give anything?
That won't work!
The feedback Liu Bei needs is their unconditional support in the matter of conquering Tian.
They not only need to transfer power on the land issue, but also let the family support Liu Bei on this matter and ensure that the entire family is clean, so as to cooperate with Liu Bei's policies, start from themselves, and set an example.
They must pay taxes, and their families must pay taxes together and set an example. There must be no sloppiness!
His entire core ruling group must remain absolutely clean during Operation Dutian, including the families to which they personally belong. They must also obey the overall will on this matter and cannot be separated.
If we disengage, we are not talking about politics. The consequence of not talking about politics is that Liu Bei will be very angry, and the emperor will be very angry.
The emperor is angry. Does your family still have a future?
For the sake of the future, think again about the 300,000 powerful Han troops.
Should you think carefully about how you should do things?
Regarding this matter, people within the core group each have their own ideas.
First of all, there is a group of people headed by Jian Yong and Guan Yu who do not own much land and who focus exclusively on personal career progress and merit.
Their own demand for land is not very big, and there are not many family members. They are not obsessed with land, and they don't care about it. They always believe that they must keep up with what Liu Bei wants to do, and they will do whatever Liu Bei wants to do.
How to support.
So these people made a decision quickly. They will definitely implement this matter and never let themselves and their families become a stumbling block for Liu Bei. They will collect taxes as they should. On tax issues, they must abide by the court regulations.
Never evade taxes.
To say that Yuan Cong is Yuan Cong, his political consciousness is also quite high.
Moreover, most of them don't actually own that much land. Not to mention that they have no feelings about the Tiandu incident. At least they don't think that paying some taxes for such land will affect them.
Then there are people from local small and medium-sized families represented by Han Rong, Qian Zhao, Cheng Yu, Jia Xu, etc.
Their family members are not very many, and their family property is not very large, but according to the graded land tax payment system stipulated by Liu Bei, they may spend a lot of tax on this.
Some families actually control more than 30,000 acres of land, close to 50,000 acres, and the taxes they need to pay are quite a lot.
They may not feel anything personally, but their tribe members may not be so, and may be somewhat sensitive to this matter.
But the good thing about these families is that they rely more on one person's official position and power. They are not very large families. Individuals with high power and prestige can dominate the will of the entire family. When an individual speaks, the family dare not disobey.
They also tended to support Liu Bei's opinions and did not want to be in a confrontational situation with Liu Bei on this issue.
Even if you pay more taxes, you won't lose too much, and when you compare the family's tax expenditures with the career prospects of important core figures, there is actually nothing to compare with.
They will suffer a slight loss, but they won't mind it very much. The supportive attitude will outweigh the oppositional attitude, and the overall situation will be supportive.
It’s hard to say about the other group.
Their family has a great business, and it was a famous big family before following Liu Bei. After three or five generations of development, the family has flourished and focused on development. Each branch has its own tasks, and there is no too central key point to grasp.
Therefore, this kind of family is very difficult to deal with, and it is difficult for them to personally decide the will of the entire family. Even if someone is willing to support it, the opponents within the family will still have relatively large power, and the core characters cannot be arbitrary.
For example, Cao Cao, Xiahou Yuan and Xiahou Dun, and Xun You.
Especially the Cao family. Among these three typical families, the Cao Cao family has the largest number of properties. When Liu Bei started his business, Cao Cao was the first to provide real estate support. There were several properties. Liu Bei could choose from them. It was really powerful.
Compared with real estate, what the Cao family has most is definitely land.
Cao Cao probably said that the members of his family together had more than 3.5 million acres of land in Henan, Yuzhou, Yanzhou and other places. On average, the richest members of the family held more than 50,000 acres of land per capita. land.
This is far beyond Liu Bei's acceptance of the scale of land that a normal family can own, and because of the special circumstances of the Cao family, most of these lands do not pay taxes.
The Xiahou family is slightly inferior to the Cao family, but they are no less generous.
The Xun family doesn't particularly care about this, but obviously the more land the better, and it's not much better than the Cao family.
All in all, these three families have a long-standing problem.
As for the Gai family, Yan family and other families in Liangzhou, although their land size is not small, it is nothing compared to the Cao family. In Liu Bei's plan to pay land tax in different levels, the tax they need to pay is not It will reach an unacceptable point.
The situation of the Zhen family is similar to that of the Cao family. They are also super powerful in Jizhou and own a large amount of land. Moreover, although Zhen Yan has a great reputation in the family, he cannot decide anything about the family with just one word.
In addition to these core families, there are also some situations of the families of Liu Bei's former officials in the General's Palace, which are generally divided into these three categories.
If we really want to distinguish them, there are indeed a considerable number of people, almost a quarter of the subordinates and their families. Because the amount of land is so large, once a comprehensive census and tax payment are required, it will be very painful to cut the flesh.
It's not just a one-time thing, it will continue forever. For this group of people who are used to it, it's still very difficult to get them to pay taxes.
Moreover, Liu Bei's real intention was not only to collect these land taxes, but more importantly, to force some families to sell part of their land.
If you don't want to pay so much land tax, then give up some land, and the court will redeem it at a more appropriate price, so that these big families won't suffer too much.
This is all the court can do, but if there are still people who don't accept it and want to go against the court, then they are simply seeking death.
Liu Bei is reasonable, but he will not always be reasonable. After all, he is also an emperor.
After understanding this truth, brothers Cao Cao and Xiahou felt somewhat melancholy.
Xun You, however, showed 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 could not just ignore Liu Bei's efforts.
Everyone looked at Xun You in surprise, and suddenly remembered the incident when Xun You had a falling out with Xun Shuang.
Then they turned their attention to Xun Yu, who looked embarrassed.
Well, the grievances and resentments within the Xun family are also very interesting.
It seems that Xun You really wants to draw a clear line between himself and the Xun family.