This time, Cao Cao not only expressed his willingness to obey, but also completely explained the size of the Cao family's land, its distribution area and the holders, and then explained the interpersonal relationships of the holders' family branches.
Under all circumstances, almost all the requirements of the Dutian Order have been fulfilled internally, and the description of the family situation is so detailed that Liu Bei can understand it at a glance.
He is also willing to accept Dutian officials from the imperial court to go to review.
For Liu Bei, Cao's statement made him very satisfied.
The Cao family is not small. Currently, except for Cao Cao's branch and Cao Ren's branch, no other Cao family members are still holding positions. Moreover, the current person in Cao Cao's branch is not Cao Cao, but Cao Cao, who is still in charge.
My father Cao Song is still alive.
Cao Cao was able to defeat the entire Cao family's opposition in such a short period of time. One can only imagine how determined he was.
Liu Bei called Cao Cao to his study and asked Cao Cao about the inside story. Cao Cao did not hide anything and explained a little about what he had experienced.
Only then did Liu Bei learn that Cao Cao had brought his persistence and compromise spirit to the extreme in order to push his family to carry out Liu Bei's orders.
The so-called persistence means never compromising on pushing Cao to fully follow Liu Bei.
The so-called compromise means that more concessions can be made in economic aspects other than this matter.
He first got through the work of his father, Cao Song, and let Cao Song know that this matter was not easy to handle. He also let him know that the importance of this matter was related to the future of the entire family, so Cao Song had to support him, otherwise he would be the most annoying person.
The proud son will be marginalized.
At that time, Cao Song thought the matter was not that serious.
"You have such a good relationship with me and have been friends for so many years, so you wouldn't treat you and Mr. Cao so badly, right?"
Cao Cao shook his head repeatedly.
"Father, no, but His Majesty will. Are you going to make a huge gamble with the future of the Cao family?"
Cao Song was stunned and remained silent for a while, his expression gradually becoming serious.
Cao Cao took advantage of the situation and pursued him.
"Father, you don't want your son to be suspected by His Majesty, right? You don't want Cao to be suspected by His Majesty, right? The future of the Cao family,"
Cao Cao looked at Cao Song sincerely.
Cao Song thought about it and asked Cao Cao a question.
"My father once served as a lieutenant in the imperial court. Although he has retired and returned to his hometown,... can the imperial court give me more tax exemptions in view of his former official position? There is so much land, and every acre is required.
If you pay taxes, that would be... too much..."
Cao Cao is embarrassed to say that your behavior of using the sword of the previous dynasty to kill the current official is somewhat inappropriate. There is a difference between this retired Taiwei and the serious Taiwei.
He could only say that he tried his best to help Cao Song fight for it, but Cao Song also needed to play some role in the matter of his brothers, such as helping to persuade Cao Cao's brothers who had separated, as well as Cao Song's own brothers and relatives.
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With Cao Song's status within the family, Cao Cao felt that at least it would be easier than running over and giving orders on his own.
This is also true.
Cao Song's appearance was more convincing than Cao Cao's. First of all, Cao Cao's younger brothers couldn't seriously oppose their father on this matter. If you really want to talk about it, their property was passed down from his father.
Those who came down are now singing the opposite tune, which is suspected of being unfilial.
If the remaining younger brothers of Cao Song openly disagreed with Cao Song on this matter, it would seem that they did not take the principle of "elder brother is like father" into consideration.
However, if some branch families really engage in land work according to Liu Bei's requirements, the amount of payment will indeed be very large.
For example, Uncle Cao Cao's family owned more than 50,000 acres of land.
According to Liu Bei's regulations, land exceeding 30,000 acres needs to pay 30% of the annual harvest as tax, and land exceeding 50,000 acres needs to pay 45% of the annual harvest as tax.
This was the kind of situation where his teeth were knocked out and his throat was stuck. Cao Cao's uncle and his family came to Cao Cao and cried loudly, saying that their family could no longer survive and would starve to death.
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They even threatened Cao Cao that if they didn't help them, they would starve to death in front of Cao Cao, making Cao Cao hated by all the people.
Cao Cao was embarrassed to say that everyone in the world was starving to death and he could not starve to death. This was not a good thing to say, and Cao Cao could not say it out loud.
So Cao Cao could only say that when his uncle's family sells their excess land, he will provide some subsidies from it. The government will give one sum of money, and he will give another sum of money in his personal capacity, which is equivalent to letting his uncle's family get two sums of money.
"This is already the most preferential treatment. No one else has it. Uncle, I have done my best, and there is no more."
The uncle and his family calculated it in private and felt that it would not be a big loss. At most, they would not earn as much as before, so they reluctantly accepted it with a curse.
In response to some "crying requests" from other tribesmen, Cao Cao also expressed his willingness to use his own property to provide some financial compensation to families who were willing to obey his orders, and was willing to provide some political help to their descendants.
You are doing this for the overall benefit of the Cao family.
Of course, I am the biggest beneficiary, so I am willing to pay some price in this matter.
As long as you help me, I will not forget the family's help. The family will only be better, not worse.
But if you don't accept the harm to the overall interests of the family, then I'm sorry, I will ask the clan leader to come forward and expel this person from the clan. From now on, this person will have no relationship with my Cao family!
Life and death are determined by fate, wealth and honor are in heaven. You are good to go and don’t give me away!
With a stick in one hand and a carrot in the other, in the end, more and more people accepted Cao Cao's request.
I didn't want to accept it at first, but when I saw that many people had accepted it, I was the only one who didn't accept it. I was afraid that Cao Song and Cao Cao would bear the grudge and become a victim of the family, so I could only grit my teeth and obey the will of the Cao family.
The Cao family then decided to fully comply with the land transfer order and would accept the imperial court's land transfer without any resistance.
Liu Bei was very emotional after hearing this.
"How much did you pay? How much did your father pay?"
Liu Bei walked to Cao Cao with a smile and took Cao Cao's hand.
Cao Cao felt warm in his heart and smiled bitterly.
"A simple calculation shows that most of my net worth is gone, and I will really have to live on my salary in the future. However, everyone knows that the biggest beneficiary of this matter is me, and of course Zixiao and Zihe. They also helped me share some of the burden. We
If we don’t give some compensation, it’s really unjustifiable for all the clan members..."
Liu Bei nodded.
"Where's your father's side?"
"Father doesn't have much opinion, but he still wants to ask the former lieutenant if there is any policy preferential treatment or anything..."
"That's true, not even myself, let alone others?"
Liu Bei smiled and said, "But Cao Shi and I have both sacrificed a lot for the Han Dynasty. Neither I nor the Han Dynasty will forget Cao Shi's sacrifices."
Liu Bei held Cao Cao's hand tightly.
Then he gave Cao Cao some feedback, such as giving Cao Cao some land, gold, silver, etc. in the name of the emperor as a reward.
Furthermore, Liu Bei also revealed a piece of news to Cao Cao that has not yet been made public.
The purpose of the land transfer operation is to rectify taxation and obtain some of the land released by the big landowners. Then, he will use the family as a unit to re-grant land and map and register each agricultural production family unit.
He will re-grant farmland to farmers with little or no land according to certain rules to help them establish themselves in the local area and start a family.
The rules for granting land are also differentiated according to different regions and different population sizes.
In densely populated areas, the allocated land quota after completion of land cultivation will be less than in sparsely populated areas. That is to say, the more core agricultural areas are, the per capita land quota allocated will be smaller than that in undeveloped areas or underdeveloped areas.
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In core agricultural areas, a young man may only be allocated a hundred acres of land, while in wild and undeveloped areas, a young man may even be allocated a thousand acres of land.
At present, the uncivilized areas that he has decided to make great efforts to develop are the areas south of the Yangtze River, the areas south of the Dajiang River, the Jiangnan parts of Yizhou and Jingzhou, and all of Yangzhou and Jiaozhou. Those are the areas that he will make great efforts to develop.
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He would send troops to wipe out the barbarians, and he would also make great efforts to destroy forests and open up wasteland. He would also invest in building infrastructure in these places in exchange for speeding up local development.
Those who join in at this stage and work hard with the imperial court to open up wasteland can not only obtain land that far exceeds the core agricultural area, but also receive many policy supports.
For example, agricultural taxes in core agricultural areas are paid in full, and there will be no exemptions unless there are natural or man-made disasters. However, agricultural taxes in development zones and underdeveloped areas will have varying degrees of exemptions.
Even if the land becomes fertile farmland in the future and a lot of food can be harvested, if the overall development level is not high, the tax rate will still be low.
For the same land and the same harvest, taxes in the core areas of the Central Plains will be higher than in remote areas.
Therefore Liu Bei made suggestions to Cao Cao.
If you think the loss this time is huge, then why not select some of the Cao clan members and arrange them in different outlying states and counties?
Select some tribesmen to separate their families and let them settle in remote states and counties. While enriching the local population, you can indeed obtain a large amount of land.
In the Central Plains, several members of a family may not all be allocated a thousand acres of land. However, in those bordering wild lands, although they are wild, one person can be allocated a thousand acres of land or even more.
Isn’t that thousands of acres of land?
What is lost in the Central Plains can be compensated in the Jiangnan area in a sense. Although there is an initial investment, after development, the tax revenue will be lower than in the core area of the Central Plains.
Therefore, Liu Bei believed that the transfer of land was not a complete plunder, but a large-scale transfer of property. The imperial court would also make efforts to compensate the people who had lost too much in the south of the Yangtze River to a certain extent.
"As your Cao family has a lot of land, I know that the loss will be huge, which also makes me feel bad, but the national policy is the national policy. For the long-term peace of the Han Dynasty, the land conversion and land distribution must be carried out, but I can't just watch the Cao family lose
too much.
So I suggest that you have a good discussion after you go back and separate some tribesmen to go south to settle in the south of the Yangtze River. There is definitely a risk. I won't lie about this. But as long as they can gain a foothold in the local area, it will be easy for one tribe to obtain another 10,000 acres of land.
It's not difficult.
In this way, one Cao family can spread its leaves into multiple Cao families. No matter what happens in the future, even if the Han Dynasty is really destroyed, most of your Cao family's branches will also be destroyed. There will always be a few branches that can continue, right?
Won’t all branches be destroyed?”
Holding Cao Cao's hand, Liu Bei walked with him while pua.
Cao Cao lowered his head and really thought about the meaning of Liu Bei's words seriously.
It seems that Liu Bei also knows that for some families with a lot of wealth, if they only have a few political resources, it may not be so easy to calm down the grievances, and everyone cannot break up with each other. If the grievances are accumulated in their hearts, something will happen sooner or later.
This is also something Cao Cao is worried about.
So in addition to political means, Liu Bei really came up with some ways to compensate.
Substituting Jiangnan for the interests of Jiangbei.
Anyway, the land in Jiangnan will be developed sooner or later, and Jiangnan is sparsely populated and there is too much land available for reclamation. The problem in Jiangnan now is not that there is no land, but that there are no people to open up wasteland.
There are tens of millions of people in the entire Han Dynasty, and most of them are still in the north of the Yangtze River. There are only a few million people in the south of the Yangtze River, and many places have not been developed at all.
It was not even our turn to talk about the issue of land annexation. The development process had not even started. It was really too early to talk about land annexation.
As long as someone is willing to go, develop, and take risks, what's wrong with giving them more land? What's wrong with receiving less agricultural taxes?
Consolidation of farmland in the north of the Yangtze River is imperative and very necessary, while consolidating the land in the south of the Yangtze River is more of a symbolic method. The imperial court even thought that there were too few people in the south of the Yangtze River and could not occupy so much land. How could it do anything to the south of the Yangtze River?
What are you doing to save the land?
So Liu Bei's method is to connect land transfer with immigration and create a new concept, a concept of replacing Jiangbei with Jiangnan. As long as you are willing to go, then I will give you land. How much land you occupy depends on everything.
How many people can you go with?
If you think the taxes in Jiangbei are too high, then sell the land in Jiangbei to the imperial court, and the imperial court will take it all. The lost land should go to Jiangnan. The land in Jiangnan will be given away for free. I don’t want your money, and I’m afraid you won’t go.
As long as enough people go there, enough land can be obtained.
If you don't want to go, then don't blame me for not giving you land. I am willing to give it, but if you don't dare to go, then blame your own inability.
The way of this world is to starve the coward to death and starve the bold to death. Cowards and cowards do not deserve so much land and deserve to starve to death.