Chapter 386 Liu Bei has many ways to control Yizhou
The powerful Liangzhou clan is weak and has been tamed by Liu Bei. They have become promoters of the community of interests and are no longer a problem.
In Sanfu Land, due to the cooperation of Meng Tuo and Ma Rixi, local obstructive forces have now been tamed and are no longer a problem.
The Land of Three Rivers is not a big problem either.
First of all, the land of Sanhe is equivalent to the capital city of the Eastern Han Dynasty. It is relatively affected by imperial power. The tendency of local independence and separation is relatively weak, and it is more susceptible to the influence of imperial power.
Moreover, Liu Bei's basic team has a considerable number of people from the Land of Three Rivers. Using their connections, the problem of the Land of Three Rivers can be settled more easily.
Therefore, the current process of selling salt in the Three Rivers Land is also going relatively fast. From around February of the fifth year of Zhongping to the present, apart from the impact of the war, the salt selling business in Hedong County has not yet spread. The salt selling business in Hanoi County and Henan Yin has not yet started.
The business has already begun to unfold.
In Liu Bei's view, Yizhou is the same as Hongnong County. It is a hard nut to crack.
Not to mention the Hongnong Army, the behemoth of the Hongnong Yang family lies here, and the interest groups surrounding the Hongnong Yang family control almost every aspect of Hongnong County.
The Hongnong Yang family is definitely not a family of good men and women. Their fortune is mainly due to their achievements in the Han-Qiang war.
The Han-Qiang war lasted for hundreds of years. All strategic materials had to be transported from Luoyang, and they must pass through Hongnong County on the way. No one can tell how much the Yang family did with military materials and how much meat they ate during this process.
clear.
But there is no doubt that the Yang family of Hongnong, Three Generations, Three Generations, started to really develop and grow from that time on. If there is no connection between them, even a fool would not believe it.
Today, it may be an exaggeration to directly say that Hongnong County is the fiefdom of the Yang family, but it is still quite difficult to open a resource gap in Hongnong County without Yang's nod.
As for killing the Yang family for selling salt, this goal is still a bit ambitious, and Liu Hong is not very willing, because the Yang family still has to compete with the ancient literature school.
Therefore, the first phase of the salt sales plan directly avoided Hongnong County.
The situation in Yizhou is actually similar. Moreover, because of the inconvenient transportation, the Luoyang court's dominance over Yizhou was not very strong. Therefore, the powerful families in Yizhou tended to be larger, more powerful, and more influential.
It is larger and has a stronger ability to counter the central government.
In this case, in addition to strengthening transportation and increasing Luoyang's influence on Yizhou, it is only more effective to control key economic resources.
Economic resources did not have much impact on the common people in ancient times, because the key economic resources themselves did not belong to them. They only needed a piece of land and a relatively stable situation to survive.
Only powerful families and bureaucratic forces will be affected by this. Without these local economic resources, the food on their tables will not be so luxurious, and the manpower and material resources they can mobilize will not be so powerful.
Therefore, the competition for economic resources is a blow to powerful forces.
The more control Luoyang has, the less capital Yizhou has to fight against Luoyang, and the less likely it will be.
The most beneficial economic resource in Yizhou is salt. Because of the existence of well salt, Yizhou has very large interests in the salt industry.
What's more interesting is that there are many "fire wells" in Yizhou, which are natural gas wells. Smart people in Yizhou have long started to use natural gas wells to light fires to cook salt. The cost is low and the effect is very good.
There are thousands or tens of thousands of salt wells used to produce salt in Yizhou, and some salt wells in famous salt-producing areas are controlled by local large families, such as the famous Linjiang Gan family.
By controlling the local salt wells, they controlled the production of salt, and controlled thousands or even tens of thousands of salt workers. They had money, people, and so much power that even the government could do nothing to them.
It is of course possible for Liu Hong and Zhang Rang to sell Liangzhou fine salt here. Liangzhou fine salt also has a quality that Yizhou's local salt cannot match, and it can definitely open up the profit gap of Yizhou Salt Industry.
But after adding freight, it’s hard to say whether we can still lower the price by normal means and gain enough revenue to seize market share.
Moreover, the large and small families in Yizhou who control the interests of salt will definitely not just talk about business, there will definitely be various off-board moves to fight against Liangzhou Salt.
There are also many people in Yizhou who rely on boiled salt for food. It is possible that a bad person can be incited to attack in groups. When bloodshed occurs, it will be difficult to quell the situation.
Therefore, it was very difficult for Liu Hong to conquer the world in Yizhou by relying on imported Liangzhou salt. Liu Bei was not very optimistic about Liu Hong's plan.
But it is actually not that difficult to gain control of Yizhou. Each era has its own rules, and each era also has its own game methods. Since you are in the Eastern Han Dynasty, it is better to use some simple and crude methods.
to solve the problem.
For example, power, power brought about by the ideological environment of divine right of kings.
Instead of going all the way to deliver Liangzhou salt to Yizhou through all the hardships, it would be better to seize the salt wells and salt workers in Yizhou itself.
It would be foolish not to use such a legitimate official position as the governor of Yizhou, and not to use so many legitimate positions and powers.
If Liu Bei served as the shepherd of Yizhou, or even as the governor of Yizhou, he would have a good way to deal with the local powerful people in Yizhou.
Although the Eastern Han Dynasty does not have a monopoly on salt and iron, it still has the power to collect taxes and a certain number of government-run salt and iron offices. If there is no place to exert efforts, then it should focus on taxation.
Liu Bei didn't believe that all the Yizhou clans were clean in terms of taxation. As long as they were willing to investigate, they would definitely have a lot of problems, and then force them to pay taxes.
I have to make up for the missing taxes over the years, and also pay fines, and then report to me the scale of the property controlled by the family clearly so that I can check your taxes, as well as how many salt workers, slaves, and other people you have in your family.
You must also explain clearly to me the poll tax.
As long as there is any problem, you can justifiably ask questions.
If you accept your failure, pay taxes and fines, and have a longer-term perspective, then allow them to continue to exist.
For those who do not admit defeat, do not want to pay fines, and do not want to hand over the actual size of their family's property, the path left for them is very narrow, and almost only armed confrontation is left.
That's better, I'm just waiting for you to fight with arms. If you don't fight with arms, I can't deal with you!
Once they enter the stage of armed confrontation, they will get what they want.
Armed confrontation is rebellion, and there is no room for it. Send troops to attack, fight and destroy them. As long as you win, everything belongs to the winner, and there is nothing else to say.
You said I killed someone, and I did, but I didn't violate the rules of the game. The Han Code clearly stated these regulations, and I followed them. What can you do?
Or do you want to play the Spring and Autumn Period drama with me, the inheritor of Zuo's Spring and Autumn Annals?
Are you sure you want to play with me?
I can't kill you!
By adopting such legitimate means, Liu Bei felt that he could get a lot of things smoothly, and the channels he used were all aboveboard and in compliance with laws and regulations.
I paid back taxes for the state, what happened? Am I wrong?
If you don't follow the right path, you will follow the crooked path. This is also a prominent feature of the end of the dynasty. When the top leaders of the dynasty begin to do this, it means that even they begin not to believe in it and are unwilling to abide by the rules.
If the rules no longer exist, then this dynasty is not far from complete destruction.
Thinking about it this way, Liu Bei felt somewhat touched.
Does Liu Hong know this?
Did Liu Hong realize this?
My Majesty...
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