Within the Ancient Literature School, let alone others, Lu Zhi absolutely supported Liu Bei on this matter.
He also said that he would take the lead in responding to Liu Bei's call in Youzhou and actively support the promotion of the "Slave Restriction Order", and he also hoped that the ancient literature school would support Liu Bei in this matter.
Of course, there are a large number of people within the Ancient Literature School who are dissatisfied with this, and feel that this harms their interests. One less slave means one more hired worker, and one more hired worker means one more expense. This is a very troublesome matter.
But in terms of overall will, the Ancient Literature School is still willing to cooperate with Liu Bei, because they also know Liu Bei's indispensable importance to the Ancient Literature School.
It's okay to just hand over a group of slaves in a symbolic way and pretend to cooperate and put on a show, as long as you don't really attack them.
As for other power groups, there is only one eunuch group left.
Needless to say, Zhang Rang immediately ordered his subordinates to cooperate with Liu Bei.
Jian Shuo hesitated for a while and said nothing.
Most of the properties of the other ten permanent servants are not in the area where the "Slavery Restriction Order" was promoted, so there is nothing special about it.
The local governors of Sanfu and Sanhe are basically Liu Bei's own people.
Therefore, it is still advantageous to implement the New Deal in places where the preliminary preparations have been made. At least there will not be so many people crying and shouting to oppose it.
The entire ruling class has basically been dealt with by Liu Bei, and those who cannot be dealt with will not openly oppose it. As for the local powerful families who are really targeted - sorry, the Luoyang court does not have a channel for them to speak out.
Officials, scholars, troops, and eunuchs were all taken care of by Liu Bei. The upper echelons of the Han Empire basically knew what they were doing, and knew that Liu Bei was not targeting them this time, so that was pretty much it.
Those local families who were really targeted were one thing in the local area, but in the Luoyang court, no one represented their interests, no one spoke for them, and no one took them seriously.
The families that were really valuable to win over had already been won over, and the remaining group of people were surprised to find that the court, which was good at compromise and negotiation, suddenly changed its direction and became good at fighting and plundering.
This is not a good thing.
Because the Western Han government was so good at fighting and plundering, they suffered very badly when the Han-Hungarian War was going on.
According to the provisions of the "Slavery Restriction Order", people who do not have official positions or military titles can only have a maximum of three slaves, and they need to register with the government, and then receive the official version of the "Deed of Sale". After signing, it is considered official.
The relationship between master and slave is protected by law.
If there is no such set of procedures, then I'm sorry, the relationship between you cannot be defined and is not protected by the law. Instead, it will be targeted by the law. The court has the power to attack you and punish you for your illegal behavior.
This is a huge problem for local wealthy families who have hundreds or thousands of slaves to serve them.
A clan member without official status can only have three slaves. Even if each clan member can have three slaves, they cannot cover so many slaves if they are tied together.
What's even more disgusting is that if a slave commits an offense, the government will hold the master accountable. This means that not every clan member is willing to take the risk to guarantee three slaves.
This means that a considerable number of slaves need to be released and will no longer be the help of the family. The family will no longer have the opportunity to exploit and oppress their labor force, and the family industry and scale will shrink to a certain extent.
If you don't want to shrink, you have to enter the labor market, hire free people as hired workers, pay them, and let them work. You can no longer order slaves to work from morning to night, from birth to death, as you like.
Moreover, after the promulgation of this wave of government decrees, they actually did not receive any compensation, and they lost nothing!
Damn the continuous sitting method is actually used in this place!
These local families went crazy when they received the official announcement. They looked for people everywhere, initiated connections and consulted the government on the inside information, and asked them whether they really wanted to implement it like this. Wouldn't it make them bleed a lot?
Is the Luoyang court out of its mind to do something like this?
These slaves come to my place to work. It is a matter of willing to fight or suffer. I also spent money to buy them, and they were not robbed. It is a serious business, no matter how hard I say it is not allowed, I will not let them do it.
Woolen cloth?
The Du family in Xincheng County, south of Luoyang, is a typical example.
This family only made its fortune in two generations. Because it was close to Luoyang and close to the Yishui River, they gradually made their fortune by doing some transportation business on the water to sell in Luoyang.
Of course, the process of making a fortune involves fighting and annexing each other, which is similar to the way Liu Bei made his fortune back then. Du, who was full of martial virtue, had the last laugh.
It turns out that this family had a good relationship with the three consecutive magistrates of Xincheng County. These magistrates were also happy to be their protective umbrella and protect them from starting small businesses on the water for mutual benefit.
So the Du family developed within 20 to 30 years. With the money they earned, they bought a lot of land and bought a lot of slaves in the year of great disaster. The family gradually grew stronger.
By this time, the Du family was already a large-scale local family with more than 5,000 acres of land and more than 300 slaves.
It's just that the family's development period was still short, and there was no time to spend money or expand relationships, so they ran into the era of Liu Bei, a military strongman.
When the Du family heard the news, they were quite panicked. They quickly sent people to the county government to find the new county magistrate Guan Jing to inquire about the specific situation.
The previous county magistrate was removed from office not long ago for corruption and bribery. Lieutenant Sili personally sent people to arrest him. Later I heard that he had his head chopped off. The Du family was worried about this for a while, but no one came to trouble them.
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Soon after, the new county magistrate took office.
Since taking office, this county magistrate doesn't like to build good relations with local family forces. Instead, he goes to the fields every day, finds some helpless people to ask questions, and then writes and draws non-stop.
The Du family sent people to Luoyang to inquire about the news. The inquiry revealed that Guan Jing was from Liangzhou and was a protégé of General Liu Bei. He had a close relationship with Liu Bei and had a strong backing. He was a tough idea and not a fool to be bullied.
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After learning this, many local families, including the Du family, became more afraid of Guan Jing and did not dare to contact him directly for a while.
Then they heard that Guan Jing promoted a collective farm policy in Xincheng County and called on farmers in the county to join, and then the Luoyang court would provide some preferential conditions.
Anyway, Guan Jing has been doing these things for this period of time. He is very busy and has nothing to do with family forces like them.
Until the end of last year, some people couldn't help but want to take the initiative to deal with Guan Jing. As a result, at that time, Guan Jing went directly to major families related to Yishui transportation, including the Du family, to learn more about Yishui.
Water transport matters.
Because some of the daily necessities in Luoyang City are transferred from Hongnong County to Luoyang through Yishui, which is also an important transportation channel, he, the county magistrate, must intervene.
But this was just a routine matter. He asked some questions, and the major families answered honestly, saying some things they had or didn't have, some transportation costs, etc. This was the old rule before.
However, someone also vaguely mentioned the matter of paying filial piety to the government. Guan Jing gave it a haha and said it in one sentence without discussing the matter in depth. At that time, Lao Du, the leader of the Du family's development and growth, was very worried.