Looking at the group of insects in front of him who were trembling because their trick was exposed, Guan Jing sneered and waved to see off the guests.
"Now you have to do two things when you go back. First, go back and count the number of slaves in your home. Then follow the court's instructions and go to the county government to register. Each person can keep up to three slaves. The rest will be dismissed and handed over to the government. Any more
No one is allowed to stay, this is what you must do in the near future."
"Second, go back and honestly make statistics on how many acres of land your family owns, the number of remaining farm tools, livestock, etc., report it to the county government, and wait for the county government to arrange for someone to go and verify it. After that, press
To pay taxes on every mu, not even a copper coin should be missing."
"Anyone who lies about the figures or deliberately conceals it will be randomly checked by the court. Once found, I will not come to see you. Have the soldiers outside seen it? They have followed the general on the battlefield and killed hundreds of thousands.
The elite of the Xianbei people will come to you."
After saying that, Guan Jing turned around and left without staying for even a second.
Spending more than a second with these insects would make him feel sick. Their ugly posture made him feel very uncomfortable. He was worried that if he spent more time with them, he would order them all to be captured and killed.
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So in the entire living room, only Lao Du and his group were left with trembling calves and lingering fears.
After leaving the county government, Xiao Du anxiously asked Lao Du many questions, which made Lao Du very upset.
"Don't ask any more questions. There is no point in asking these questions. After you go back, count your family property and tell the county government everything. Don't hide anything. Tell the government the land, houses, and number of slaves."
"ah?"
Xiao Du was shocked: "How could this happen? Then... Then we need to inform the government of all our more than 5,000 acres of land? We reported 500 acres before, how can we tell the government? Tell them, not to mention that there is no
What are the consequences, let’s…”
"Silly boy, the government already knows!"
Lao Du shook his head bitterly and said: "We are probably being targeted. The government knows too many things that we can't hide at all. If we try to deceive, we will be killed, so don't hide anything at all.
Report the truth, don’t hide your servants, land, houses and property.”
Xiao Du was even more shocked.
"How did the government know? Father, in order to do the accounting, we spent a lot of money to bribe people in the government! There should be no problems with those account books! How could this be?"
Lao Du also wants to know this question, but now he is blind to the county government and knows nothing.
The group of local officials who had contact and friendship with him in the past have gone somewhere, and the new ones have no friendship with them. It is said that they are all from Liangzhou, and even people from Yizhou and Sanfu.
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Because time is still short, they don't even have time to interact with these newcomers.
It is true that in the past, people who served as officials could be transferred from outside, but those who served as clerks were basically locals, and some were fellow villagers, so it was very convenient to take care of them.
Even if you don't know each other, you can always find an acquaintance to introduce you and make connections, and then the other party will make a price, give money, and do things for the sake of the acquaintance, and after a while, you will become acquainted.
Once you get to know each other, it will be easier to do things. Through an acquaintance in the government, you can get to know more acquaintances in the government, and then they will get to know each other naturally. In a few months, the interior of the government will be just like their own home, and nothing can happen.
If you know it in advance, you can effectively avoid risks.
But now a group of foreigners have come. Not to mention friendship, even the accents when speaking to each other sound a bit difficult, let alone other aspects.
"Everyone I was familiar with in the past is gone. I don't know where they went. It's probably a disaster. We are blind to the county government now. We don't know anything about it, so we can only admit it.
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Old Du sighed, looking like a hero in his twilight years.
Xiao Du was stunned for a while, then slowly said with a pained face: "If that's the case, we... how much more taxes will we have to pay every year! If all those slaves are let go, how many more people will we hire to do the work?
?How much expenditure is that? If the government comes to extort money every now and then, this property will be gone soon! Father!"
"idiot!"
Old Du was so angry that he slapped Xiao Du on the face: "You are about to die, why are you still thinking about this? Do you know what the county magistrate just said? What are those soldiers here for? We
If we keep hiding anything, it will be these soldiers who come to our house next time!"
Xiao Du was knocked unconscious from the beating, but he still heard clearly what Old Du said.
"Soldiers?"
"The soldiers are coming to kill you with steel swords! Whoever you fight with, don't fight with the soldiers!"
Lao Du said angrily: "Go back and make statistics immediately! Report it as quickly as possible! Otherwise, our whole family will become a ghost under the knife!"
Xiao Du lost all his temper and ran back in a pee, as if there was a ghost chasing him behind him.
Many other large-scale families in Xincheng County also made the same decision as Lao Du.
Naturally, they also knew why the government had so much information but hadn't taken action against them yet.
This is the last chance. If they don't seize this opportunity, the next time they come to their home will not be a slave restriction order, but a house confiscation order. If they cooperate with the slave restriction order this time, there may be a future. If they don't cooperate, there will be no future.
In a few days, the whole family will gather neatly to meet the ancestors.
They had no doubt that the general in Luoyang City who had killed hundreds of thousands of people could not do this.
What happened in Xincheng County is just a small episode in the entire Sili region. The same thing is happening in countless counties.
The county officials used half-truths and half-false words to stupefy the local families. Many families were frightened by this and did not dare to disobey the court's orders.
Naturally, there were some who were timid and others who were stubborn. Relying on the large number of their own slaves, they felt that they were more powerful than others, so the government and the court would never dare to attack them.
Of course, it is indeed because there are too many and they really can't give up. If they really have to give up, in order to maintain the family business, they will need to hire an excess of workers, and the consumption of family expenses will increase countless times, which they cannot accept no matter what.
Therefore, they could only play the role of iron-headed boy and fight against Liu Bei's slave restriction order in order to obtain some changes.
At least, one person cannot only bind three slaves.
However, their struggle is meaningless because they still lack channels to obtain information.
The promulgation of this slave restriction order can even be said in a sense that Liu Bei succeeded in splitting the entire slave-holding group, letting the upper class go, not targeting the upper class, but targeting the lower class of the slave-holding group.
He successfully used the power of the upper-level bureaucracy and large landlords to launch an attack on the small and medium-sized landlords in the Sili area.
The small and medium-sized landowners without political power were simply unable to compete with the strong demands of the Luoyang court, and their military strength could not be compared with the more than 100,000 Central Han troops under Liu Bei.
Anyway, with the promulgation of the slave restriction order, the Luoyang court was well aware of it and had no objections.
The bureaucrats expressed their support symbolically, and then casually dismissed some of the slaves they looked down upon and reported to the government, saying that these were the slaves we dismissed, and now all the slaves in our family were legal slaves.
It's pretty much what it meant, and it's over. The executive department also knows that this time it's not targeting them, so it's all good to you, me, and everyone.
Then Liu Bei also pretended to cooperate with them, and after a symbolic investigation, he announced that the slave restriction operation against these families was over, and what would happen next.
They will even receive Liu Bei's thanks and compensation for their little efforts and cooperation at the political level.
This is the essence of this slave restriction order. If there is no back-up plan, it is just a symbolic self-improvement.
However, because Liu Bei had a backup plan, this was Liu Bei's strategy to divide and attack the entire slave-owning group, weakening the overall strength and causing a large number of lower-class groups to suffer a dimensionality reduction blow.
As for the upper level, it can be considered intact even if it is not damaged.
At this stage, Liu Bei is not ready to attack them, and everyone still needs to be conceited. In a while, when Liu Bei has accumulated enough strength and is ready to turn the table and see the real deal, these guys will be shocked to find out - where are my allies?
Oh, I sold it several years ago...
To be honest, Liu Bei is now looking forward to the day when he can meet them honestly.
However, judging from the current situation, there is still a group of people who are serious about the slave restriction order.