As soon as these words came out, not to mention Ju Shou, even Tian Feng's face changed.
Isn't this seeking death?
No wonder the Cai family won't serve Liu Bei anymore. If it were them, they wouldn't serve Liu Bei either.
This is clearly against a powerful family.
Digging out their lifeblood.
Chen Yuan was very calm, but he couldn't help it anymore. I haven't measured the land yet.
If I told you, wouldn't you beat me to death on the spot?
Measuring the land and dividing it into acres is the ultimate trick.
Of course, it is obviously inappropriate to do it now. If these two tricks are done, maybe even the Kuai family, the Ma family, and the Xiang family will stab him in the back.
Have to wait.
This can only be done after the power of powerful families is transferred outside and transferred to business.
It's still a bit far to say this now. The most important thing right now is to convince the two people in front of you.
Chen Yuan looked at Tian Feng and Ju Shou, whose expressions turned ugly, and smiled lightly: "Why, do you think these three strategies are bad?"
In fact, freeing slaves is not new, the emperors of the Han Dynasty have always done this.
Because the practice of slavery in powerful families was too prevalent, a large number of homesteaders were forced to become domestic slaves of powerful landlords. This was an act that weakened the country's strength. As the emperor, he naturally had to stop this behavior.
But having said that, not only powerful landowners kept slaves, but also the emperor and the imperial court had official slaves.
"Book of Han - Records of Emperor Jing" records that during the reign of Emperor Jing of the Han Dynasty, there were 30,000 official slaves raising horses in the northwest.
During Wang Mang's reign, more than 100,000 people who made money privately were demoted as slaves. From this point of view, there were more than 230,000 official slaves recorded during Wang Mang's reign.
According to statistics, during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the slave population accounted for 21% of the country's total population.
This means that one fifth of the population were slaves.
And these people are not included in the population controlled by the imperial court. According to official history books, the population of the country during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty was more than 50 million. In this calculation, including slaves, the number was more than 60 million.
Such a ratio underestimates the number of official slaves and all officials conscientiously abide by the slave restriction order, which shows how common slaves were in Han Dynasty society.
Therefore, in fact, during the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty, the country's population was nearly 70 million, while official statistics were only a little over 50 million, and almost 20 million disappeared out of thin air.
Except for a small number of people who have disappeared into the mountains and forests, most of the 20 million people who have disappeared are among the slaves of powerful landowners.
It's no wonder that some wealthy and powerful businessmen can easily recruit tens of thousands of slaves, or they can directly recruit tens of thousands of troops, which is a lot of slaves.
Therefore, although freeing slaves is not new, it is very difficult to implement. One is that powerful families do not cooperate, and the other is that many slaves have no way of living after being freed and have to be sold into slavery again.
If we really want to implement this policy, one is to force powerful families to cooperate, and the other is to give these freed slaves a clear way of life so that they can support themselves. This is the reason why Chen Yuan started farming.
After all, farming can provide the government with a large amount of food, and can also feed the slaves who were freed from powerful landlords and turn them into self-reliant farmers.
A lot of things can be achieved with one fell swoop.
Of course, Tian Feng and Jushu could not say that it was wrong to free the slaves. It was also the policy of the imperial court to organize households to equalize the people, so there was naturally nothing to refute.
The key is to collect food as one body.
This unified payment of food refers to the unified payment of food by officials and gentry.
At this time, after becoming an official, not only will you not have to pay taxes, but even your relatives will not have to pay taxes.
This is also the reason why one member of the family of powerful local landlords must serve as an official, tax-free.
If no one in the family is an official, he will have to pay a lot of taxes, which the powerful landowners cannot tolerate.
This is also the reason for marriages between powerful landowners. After the marriage, if there is no one in the family who is an official, then the in-laws can be exempted from taxes.
Ju said: "In the early days of Zichu, did Jingzhou get the approval of the imperial court for implementing this policy?"
Chen Yuan disagreed and said: "These three policies have not violated the legal system of the imperial court. Why does the imperial court disagree? What's more, as the governor of a state, Liu Shijun naturally has the right to implement his own governance policies in Jingzhou. What do you think is public or public?"
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These three policies did not violate the court's policies. Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty might be even happier if he got this news.
Because this is giving him money.
To be honest, selling an official position and conferring a title is indeed a bit low-end. It sounds great to say that the officials and gentry all receive the same salary.
This is what the Holy Emperor did to show compassion for the people.
"However, these three strategies may not be tolerated by all the virtuous and noble families, and there may be unforeseen consequences."
Jushou's meaning is very obvious. If you look at it this way, the powerful local families will definitely not do it and will eventually drive Liu Bei away.
If Liu Bei didn't leave, those powerful men might take the risk and send assassins directly to kill Liu Bei.
In this era, Assassin Rangers were still popular, and Liu Bei and Sun Ce were both assassinated by Assassins.
It's just that Liu Bei influenced the assassin, and Sun Ce was killed.
Chen Yuan was full of confidence: "My lord has five first-grade strong men and dozens of second-grade strong men under his command. What can mere assassins do to my lord?"
Chen Yuan is showing off his muscles.
Since it dares to implement such a policy, Jingzhou has such confidence.
There are five first-level powerhouses and a dozen second-level powerhouses, just ask who else is there!
Jushou and Tianfeng couldn't help being shocked when they heard this.
Good guy, I didn't expect Liu Bei to have accumulated such huge strength without saying a word.
With such strength, even the powerful families in Jingzhou could not defeat Liu Bei.
However, Ju Shou and Tian Feng still did not think highly of Liu Bei, because by doing so he was making an enemy of the powerful families in the world, and failure was inevitable.
He who wins the hearts of the people wins the world.
In this era, the people's hearts here are those of powerful families, not ordinary people.
The scale of the Yellow Turban Uprising is huge enough. Without the support of powerful families, it will fail.
Liu Bei is losing people's hearts.
Therefore, Ju Shou and Tian Feng had already decided that they could not go to Jingzhou and Liu Bei could not serve him.
Jushou thought for a while and then said: "Shou does not agree with these three strategies. If Liu Shijun and Zichu are determined to do so, then I will not be able to go to Jingzhou to serve Liu Shijun."
"Yuan Hao, do you still want to go to Jingzhou?"
Tian Feng shook his head: "These three strategies are unpopular. Feng cannot agree with them, so I won't go either."
Well, neither of us are going now.
If it were applied to ordinary people, they would definitely panic.
However, Chen Yuan is not an ordinary person after all, and he was already prepared when he mentioned these three strategies.