In fact, since most countries collect heavy taxes, many serfs who rely on powerful people live much better than self-cultivated farmers or small landlords.
The reason is very simple. If you depend on the powerful, someone will pay your taxes to you, and you only need to pay the rent to the master. This burden will be greatly reduced, and since it is not an ordinary person, but a tenant and a serf
, then there is no need to accept the money for corvee service or military service.
The powerful man is not stupid. The reason for this is very simple. The powerful man saved money as an official and most of his or her own land would have to buy land. However, no matter how big your family is, the land you can plant is limited. Many landlords actually have a lot of land.
How could they plant it for ten miles or even hundreds of miles? What's the use of buying land but not producing grain?
So the original owner of the land handed over the ownership of the land to the landlord, and the landlord generously left the management rights to the original owner. As long as the rent is lower than the tax collected by the court, it is higher than the possible losses caused by idle land.
A deal can be completed!
Therefore, the powerful can merge land across prefectures and counties, and they can have tens of thousands of tenants. But in this era, having land is equivalent to having food and grass, and having farmers is equivalent to having an army! This is the powerful canton.
The greatest capital to settle down!
And it's not just that simple. Generally speaking, the land and population in the world are limited, and the powerful take more, so naturally, the imperial court takes less taxes collected by the powerful and the tenants collected more, so it is certain.
This will cause the imperial court to reduce its ability to control local governments. In this way, the light will be the separatist local vassal states, and the heavy will not be lost. The heavy will be like now. The powerful people will retaliate from the local area and directly let their agents control the central government.
, even put the emperor in a weak position, even if an emperor with a wise and powerful force occasionally comes out, such as Emperor Ming of Jin, there is no chance, because if you can't collect taxes, you will have no money, and most farmers become powerful tenants, you can find them.
Without soldiers, the gentry is more of the powerful clan members. Your emperor is just a commander who is a god-given monarch, and what is the power of the king, what is the command of heaven, it is fine to deceive children.
Judging from this, the Cui family in Qinghe is indeed well-known. It is no wonder that they can last for hundreds of years and last forever.
Cui Hao saw Duan Ye pondering and was a little confused. He knew that his lord had always been vigilant about the aristocratic families. In fact, to be honest, anyone who wants to truly hold power will be vigilant about the aristocratic families and not vigilant.
It’s a big deal for these so-called emperors and kings now. There is nothing we can do about it, because everything is controlled by the clans. Most of them are just decorations, but Duan Ye is different. Duan Ye has always been in a side-by-side manner.
Now that he is in Liangzhou, he is taking over the power. He will decide everything. If he is bound by such constraints, it is obviously impossible.
Duan Ye came back to his senses and said, "In this way, I will write a book later. I think you must have a reliable and timely contact channel with your family?"
"Some, then, you must make sure that your patriarch must receive the letter "Xiaoke saves it!" That's good. No matter how troubles are made in Jiangnan, we must at least do it well.
All the preparations are made, and anyone who wants to make trouble will think that we will still focus on me. I don’t believe that they can make a big deal!” Duan Ye said confidently
Speaking of the grass beach, Bald Fat and the group of people were still sighing. Suddenly, they saw a general in front of them, carrying hundreds of remaining soldiers, and rushed over to the side in a hurry.
Tufa Jietan was quite shocked. How could there be defeated soldiers at this time? This doesn’t look like the soldiers of Yifu’s troops at all!
Bald Fa Juyan's eyes were sharp and he could see it at a glance, and said, "Third Brother! That's the elder brother's subordinates, you see, they are holding the Aries flag!" In fact, at this time, Bald Fa's tribe is much more than Zhongyuan.
The most typical place where the army is still very backward is that the source and belongs to the Central Plains dynasty. Either it is a conscript that everyone has to serve in the military, or it is a mercenary specially recruited for a large amount of money, but no matter which one, the army is
, they all belong to the emperor, and the king, even if the royal power falls behind, and the separatist era of the vassal states, it is only the army belongs to all the generals of the vassal states. They only have the power to command the army. Before the war, the generals need to obtain permission from the army owner.
, The certificate is usually a military talisman, an imperial edict, or other token. After the war is over, the army needs to be handed back immediately.
However, the Bald Tribe is different. In fact, there are no professional soldiers here. Everyone is dismounting for the people, raising horses for the army, and bringing food, weapons, and war horses themselves! Of course, if
You are more confident and sure that you won’t die and can still grab things. You can go to war empty-handed, and everyone actually has a belonging. In theory, all the people in the Bad Tribe are all Bad Tribe.
The three brothers of Tufa Wugu need to be distributed to their sons, nephews, brothers, and relatives who are far away. As the eldest sons, of course they are assigned to them.
At most, when war is needed, the Tufa Wugu shouts, and his people will take the guys to the war
Therefore, although they are brothers, their respective flags, clothes, etc. are different
Bald lord frowned, thought for a while, and said, "Lao Wu, this matter is interesting. This man looks like the eldest brother's person, but there is a pass on the side of the eldest brother who is pouting the Yifu tribe. It's said that
Even a bird cannot fly out. The elder brother is very cautious in using troops. How could such a problem occur? ""I don't know" It's better to have bald hair. He is very honest. If he can't figure it out, he will be honest.
Say you don't know, but you never pretend to understand
While talking, the group of people had come over. As soon as the distance was approaching, Bald Leather also saw it. The man had a big beard, burly body, but a little cute, and indeed a little familiar.
At this moment, the bearded man, a beautiful vaulting horse, landed in front of the bald lord, then bowed with his chest and said, "The third prince, the villain is the little plot of the big prince's subordinate! But looking for you
"The so-called sub-guinea pig is actually the captain of the guard. Of course, such a person must be his own confidant to be his elder brother and second brother. He has long led his subordinates from his father, so these positions are
It's already my own decision to use whom I use. This person looks familiar to me. It turns out that he is the eldest brother's person.