It is worth mentioning that there are actually quite a few officials who think Liu Bei did a great job.
This is mainly due to the impact of the many political purges launched by Liu Bei since the Jian'an Year on the original official class. Because of these successive attacks, many officials with "family origins" were killed and replaced with new ones.
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Apart from anything else, these newcomers have one advantage that is more prominent - their family background is poor and poor. The land and property they and their small families own are generally lower than the dividends that may be brought to them after this land transfer operation.
Amount of fields.
How could they be unhappy about something like this?
To them, this is equivalent to money from the state.
There are not a few such people.
The number of people with a lot of property and dissatisfaction in their families is not small, but most of them are not in important positions. Those who are in important positions have actually been taken care of by Liu Bei.
Including the Lu family and the Ma family.
Lu Zhi himself was supportive of the matter of transferring land. As soon as Liu Bei started the action, Lu Zhi publicly expressed his strong support. And after Liu Bei disclosed the property of the Liu family in Zhuo County and handed over the excess land,
Lu Zhi also did the same thing immediately.
The Lu family also handed over more than 90% of its property.
It is said that there was relatively strong opposition within the Lu family, but Lu Zhi directly issued strategic threats and threatened expulsion from the clan to force the clan members to give in and forcibly confiscate the land.
Anyway, Lu Zhi really didn't hold back Liu Bei this time, or he did something more radical than Liu Bei.
Liu Bei at least provided some material compensation to the tribe and asked the government to purchase the land at the market price. Lu Zhi snatched it away and sold it to the government at half the market price without even letting the tribesmen get enough money. This was quite decisive.
According to Lu Zhi's logic, most of this wealth was obtained by relying on Lu Zhi's reputation and prestige, and some of it was even done by dirty means.
Just because he didn't say it before didn't mean he didn't know, but after the land-saving decree was issued, some elders in the clan accused him of all kinds, saying that he didn't care about the clan. He couldn't help it anymore and decided to take action directly, also for himself.
Correct name.
As the emperor's master, he is absolutely clean and will never embarrass Liu Bei, the emperor.
So many times before, Lu Zhi felt that he had delayed Liu Bei's retreat. This time, he could not delay Liu Bei's retreat no matter what, nor would he allow his people to ruin his years of dreams and Liu Bei's years of hard work.
Otherwise, he feels that he has no shame in continuing to live.
Ma Rixi's side was more entangled. First, they lost the status of the Wenyue family, and then they lost their land. This really had a great impact on the Ma family, a family that loves luxury life.
Many clan members cried, made trouble, and hanged themselves. Ma Rixi himself also cried in front of Liu Bei, looking aggrieved. He cried for a long time without getting up.
He seemed to feel that Liu Bei was bullying him a little too much.
Based on the size of his family's land, how much more tax will he have to pay?
The family's life is already luxurious. Once the taxes are paid, will the family continue to live a luxurious life?
Liu Bei was very dissatisfied with this.
I have given you enough, and your status is high enough. Now everyone follows me and there are no complaints. Even my teacher has no complaints. Why do you have complaints?
Do you expect me to be special to you?
"Doctor Ma, on this matter, everyone in the government must be in step with each other. Now most people are in step with each other. You are the only one crying out loud here. Do you think this is appropriate?"
"Cao family, Zhen family, which one of them has less property than your family? But they have done it, why can't you Ma family do it? Is it because you can't do it or you don't want to do it? You are the imperial censor, you
Do you know what it means to know your place?”
"If you want to save your family, you can submit your resignation. From now on, the Ma family will never be able to serve in the Han Dynasty. If this is the case, I will allow you to leave the field and be your rich man."
Liu Bei waved his hand and wrote a pardon order to Ma Rixi. When Ma Rixi saw it, his heart dropped.
"Your Majesty...this..."
"Support it or not, it's all up to you."
Liu Bei stared at Ma Rixi with cold eyes, and the corners of his mouth were slightly raised: "But after resigning, I don't care whether your Ma family will continue to be rich or have nothing left."
As if falling into an ice cave, Ma Rixi immediately realized something.
While in Yushitai, he has offended too many people. He relies on his official position and Liu Bei's support to protect him. If he loses his official position and Liu Bei's protection...
The Ma family without the family identity as a moat would be doomed.
Step by step, Liu Bei brought Ma under his complete control, and Ma had no choice.
Therefore, Ma Rixi gave in helplessly.
Liu Bei then became happy and personally helped Ma Rixi, comforted him, and then asked him to prepare to choose his clan members to go south to divide their families and enter Yangzhou, Jiaozhou or southern Yizhou, so that they could not only get more land, but also spread their branches.
leaf.
What if these branches flourish in the future?
I can't say for sure.
What else can Ma Rixi do?
Having boarded a pirate ship, and now at the critical moment of sailing, with a storm outside, he still expected to get off the ship in a safe place and leave?
Ma Rixi's mentality is actually the mentality of quite a few relatively wealthy officials, because they don't want to simply pay taxes. In their hearts, they feel that these are their money, and the court is here to steal money.
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They are noble people. Paying taxes is a trivial matter. When did they become involved with paying taxes?
Are they the same as mud-legged people in the eyes of the emperor?
Although strictly speaking they should pay taxes, they have always found ways to make the amount of their property less clear, but now, this method has failed.
What's even more terrible is that the emperor actually took the lead in paying taxes, and so many big bosses also expressed their willingness to pay taxes. Seeing the officials paying taxes has become politically correct. If they don't pay taxes, they are not dignified. Do they have to wait for others?
Someone to help them look decent?
They don't want to experience this kind of thing.
The first phase of the mission, which was carried out on the first day of May in the first year of Zhenguan, had actually become clear by the end of June. Most of the 160,000 or nearly 170,000 officials had accepted it, whether actively or passively, regardless of ability.
Whether there are advantages or disadvantages from it, they all admit it.
A large amount of information flew to Luoyang like snowflakes. The central department of the imperial court was busy every day counting the property and tax payment status of officials at all levels. According to the requirements of the eight grades, they were all classified into the tax department of the Ministry of Household Affairs.
A tax team is responsible for storing data.
It can be said that they have been very busy for a while.
But the real busy time has not yet come.
Of course, there are people who care more about their property and family than their official position and future.
There are more such people in northern Yizhou, northern Jingzhou, central Yuzhou and southern Jizhou.
Officials in these places were unwilling to accept this fact, so they took various measures to avoid danger.
For example, transferring one's own property to relatives and friends, or dividing the family in an emergency, dividing the family property into several parts according to the amount stipulated in the Land Acquisition Law, in order to avoid the tax payment brackets of the Land Acquisition Law.
However, such behavior is not allowed.
Because there are provisions in the Du Tian Decree, after the promulgation of the Du Tian Decree, that is, after the first day of May in the first year of Zhenguan, the evasive operation of family division is not acceptable. Even if you divide the family on April 30, the first year of Zhenguan,
That can count you as lucky, but after the first day of May...
Sorry, no chance.
Therefore, local governments, especially county and county governments, have repeatedly stated that they will not allow family separation after the first day of May. This hit many smart people in the face, making them very uncomfortable and very uncomfortable.
depressed.
So the first act of resistance began.
The first rebellion took place in the eastern part of Guanghan County, Yizhou, and was initiated by a county official and his family.
His family owned a large amount of land in the local area. According to the requirements of the land transfer law, they had to pay a considerable amount of taxes. However, the original number was just a number that was better than nothing. They suddenly felt that they had been robbed by the court.
Strong self-awareness made some people in the family who owned a lot of land unable to accept this fact, so they decided to rebel.
But at this time, the power of Du Tian Ling became apparent.
This family is not a powerful family with common prosperity. Unlike top families like the Cao family and the Zhen family, the poorest ones have more than a thousand acres of land and have no worries about food and clothing. There are also poor people with little land in small families like theirs.
The gap between rich and poor is still quite large.
According to the eight-level tax payment method of the Dutian Order, regardless of the nature of the land, families with less than 3,000 acres of land will actually have to pay less agricultural tax than under the previous rules.
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If it is less than 500 acres, or less than 1,000 acres, you will have to pay a lot less taxes. Compared with before, it is simply a waste of money.
Only when the area exceeds 3,000 acres will you have to pay more than before.
For most land holders in the Han Empire, those who owned more than 3,000 acres were an absolute minority, and those who owned less than 3,000 acres were the absolute majority.
Especially among local small and medium-sized families, there are a large number of wealthy clansmen who hold land, and there are also clansmen who are extremely poor like Liu Bei's family.
Of course, because of the support of the family, poor tribesmen often receive relief and will not starve to death. They can also participate in ethnic studies and learn to read, so they will not become purely illiterate.
Each family has slightly different family welfare content based on the actual situation, but it is still common for wealthy tribesmen to help poor tribesmen and prevent them from starving to death.
However, when it comes to matters of self-interest, it is really unnecessary for the poor tribesmen who have little land and property to empathize with the wealthy tribesmen and join them in resisting the imperial court's land transfer order. Their butts are not that crooked.
This land order clearly shows that it is very advantageous for families with less land. They pay less taxes than before, retain more harvests, and even have the content of dividing the fields later——
If your family is poor and has no land, you may even be allocated land from the court according to the calculations of the court's policies.
If you do nothing, you will get pie in the sky. Such a good thing will not happen once in hundreds of years. If you rebel against the court for a policy that is good for you, isn't there something wrong with your brain?
Therefore, in the internal meeting of the family, although the wealthy tribesmen who had the right to speak and absolute power decided to resist and lead their tribesmen to fight against the court and the Dutian Order, the poor tribesmen were unwilling to participate in it and were unwilling to fight for the interests of the wealthy tribesmen.
Death due to family property.
Although they did receive some favors, this kind of favor would not make them want to die.
As a result, differences arose within the clan.
The poor tribesmen, who accounted for a larger proportion of the ordinary tribesmen, did not want to participate in the military operations against the Dutian Order, and were unwilling to go against the court. The wealthy tribesmen often had louder voices in the family, but they faced the dilemma of being a minority.
They are willing to give money and food in exchange for the help and participation of this tribe, but only a few short-sighted and greedy people are willing to join, and most normal tribesmen are not willing to join this rebellion.
In desperation, they knew that they could not support themselves alone, and that the ordinary people and poor people at home were unreliable, so they had no choice but to recruit local wealthy people to resist.
We are all rich people, and rich people help rich people. With more people, we are more powerful. Maybe we can repeat what happened when Liu Xiu was in the field, and let the court make a series of compromises with the local governments and regain a balance of power.
In Guanghan County, land transfer orders were conveyed from the county government to the county government, and then from the county government to the county.
After the news spread, such things happened in many large and medium-sized families that owned a lot of local land, as well as in some small families. They were the same. The rich tribesmen wanted to resist, but the ordinary tribesmen and poor tribesmen were not willing to get involved.
Go in.
Therefore, those who want to resist have money, strength, and loud voices, but they are small in number. It is really difficult to get the poorer tribesmen to fight for the property of the wealthy tribesmen, and to resist policies that are obviously beneficial to them.
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They finally deceived a group of people by giving them money and food, coaxing and deceiving them, and distorting and smearing the court's policies. However, the number was still quite different from the situation they expected to encourage everyone to rise up.
It seems that the poor people have suddenly become smarter and are no longer easy to fool.
Of course there is a reason for this. The poor people did not become smart all of a sudden. In fact, there is a qualitative difference between the place at this moment and the place Liu Xiu was at that time.
At that time, there was still a training system for county and state soldiers left over from the Western Han Dynasty and a large number of mature county and state soldiers. The local area had a certain ability to resist the central government with armed force, and its combat effectiveness was quite good.
Liu Xiu put down the local rebellion, which was a serious struggle, and the strategic pressure was relatively high. The war lasted for a long time and many people died, so compromise was necessary.
Even more than ten years ago, although there were no county soldiers in the local area, the major local tycoons still had a considerable number of servants who could be used to organize armed groups to fight against the court, and they still had autonomy.
In that state, if Liu Bei wanted to push for the Tiandu Order, it would be a tough battle.
It happened that at this time, after the previous wave of slave restriction orders were issued, all parts of the country experienced a wave of "destruction" by the slave restrictions.
Except for a few high-ranking families, the servants of these local official families and powerful landlord families were strictly restricted.
The number of slaves was strictly limited and released in large numbers. The number of slaves with a total number of between 8 million and 10 million was directly cut in half, less than half. Quite a few local families suffered serious losses.
In other words, the important mobilization power that local forces are most proud of, which can compete with the imperial court, has suffered serious losses.