Abnormal Three Kingdoms

Chapter 266 The Big Net
Cao Cao couldn't stand it anymore?

After sending Song Xian away, Chu Nan sat in his seat, thinking about this issue. The current situation is indeed unfavorable to Cao Cao, but it has not reached the point of asking for peace. At least in Chu Nan's view, Cao Cao should still have It's right to be behind.

Chu Nan calculated the current strength of the two sides. In fact, Cao Cao was caught off guard by Lu Bu, and the troops from all directions were too late to be transferred back. Among other things, with Cao Cao's character, he did not believe that Cao Cao would not have deployed troops to guard against the banks of the Yellow River. Yuan Shao went south.

There are also Guanzhong and Nanyang.

Compared with Lu Bu, Cao Cao had more enemies to guard against. If Cao Cao wanted to fight Lu Bu, he had to think through all the issues before he could send troops. However, Lu Bu didn't have to worry about all this when he fought Cao Cao. The princes of the family are all separated by natural moats, which can be defended with only a small amount of troops.

So when Lu Bu suddenly entered Yuzhou, Cao Cao's deployment was disrupted, and he could not mobilize all his strength to fight against Lu Bu.

Nanyang Zhangxiu has now stationed troops in Luyang according to the original agreement, and Cao Cao is even more cautious.

Therefore, Cao Cao is now asking for peace talks, and Chu Nan can also understand that once other troops are mobilized, if Lu Bu cannot be quickly removed, then he is likely to face the siege of Zhang Xiu, Yuan Shao and Lu Bu.

I have to sigh that it was really not easy for Cao Cao to be able to kill a northern overlord in this environment in history.

Time passed bit by bit until the afternoon, after Chu Nan had lunch, people began to hand in papers one after another.

"My lord, please take a look." Zhou Cang handed over the files handed in by those people to Chu Nan.

Chu Nan didn't see it, but looked at Zhou Cang: "Is it all here?"

"Yeah." Zhou Cang nodded.

Chu Nan looked at the bamboo slips on the table, and took out three volumes to look at: "Just follow the content of these three bamboo slips, don't worry about the family who wrote these three volumes, other industries that need to be investigated Seizure, and confiscation of cultivated land."

"Here!" Zhou Cang nodded, turned around and went to make arrangements.

"My lord, don't you want to take a look at the others?" Pei Yuanshao looked at Chu Nan in confusion.

"What are you looking at? Are you upset?" Chu Nan closed his eyes: "If you want to see it, go and see it yourself."

Hearing this, Pei Yuanshao looked at Chu Nan, picked up a roll of bamboo slips unbelievingly, and saw that Chu Nan didn't care about him, so he unfolded it and read it. It was the head of the Li family who exposed the atrocities committed by other families. Big families still pay attention to decent things when they do things. They generally don't directly bully men and women, and they generally don't do such behaviors as robbing people's wealth, but they will play bureaus. There are many such bureaus. Taking the field back as an example, what Pei Yuanshao saw made his blood pressure soar:
The law of the Han Dynasty has always encouraged the reclamation of wasteland, but over the years, the reclaimed wasteland has been limited and has been decreasing year by year. It is not because the people are unwilling or lazy, but because most people gradually see the world. I don't want to do white labor for those big families anymore.

Take the dossier that Pei Yuanshao saw as an example. There was once a pair of brothers who didn't want to be tenants all the time, but wanted to have their own cultivated land. They chose a wasteland and reported it to the government office to open up wasteland.

Land reclamation needs food. After all, no grain is produced in the process of land reclamation. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, you can borrow grain from the government office to supplement the consumption in the process of reclamation. After reclamation, you only need to pay it back on time. There is no interest on this part Just pay it off.

The two brothers borrowed food from the government office. It took two years to open up wasteland. It was not easy. Next, the government office came to collect debts, and the two brothers spent two years.

Thirty acres of land had just been planted, and there was no time to grow grain. Where did the grain come from? In the end, the two brothers kowtowed to each other, and finally the county magistrate gave them a year of mercy.

Regardless of their exhausted bodies, the two brothers started farming, and finally got a harvest in the second year. God is sorry, this year was a bumper year, and the [-] mu of land harvested nearly [-] catties of grain in the first year.

I paid back the [-] catties from the government office, and there are nearly [-] catties left. After paying a tax of [-] catties, the remaining is less than [-] catties. Putting aside the seeds, the two brothers can save some food, and they can last until next year. .

As long as the next year's autumn harvest comes, even if it is not a good year, they can live a more nourishing life, and the hard days will come to an end.

In this way, after a few more years, they will be able to find a woman, and when they are healthy and have a son in the future, they will find a way to open up more land, and so on, and after a few generations, they will be able to live the life they envy now. Almighty lived.

However, when the two brothers were full of longing for the future, people from the government office came. According to the law of the Han Dynasty, only half of the tax for the first year after land reclamation was collected, but the government office was guarded as usual. Eight thousand catties of grain, three thousand catties of tax.

The two brothers were angry and wanted to argue, but it was useless. The government office refused to recognize this rule, and they had no place to sue if they wanted to, but they paid three thousand catties of tax, and the remaining less than five thousand catties of food was not enough for them to pay back. The government office borrowed their food.

What's more, the two brothers couldn't help but eat, right?There are also some seeds, right?

The two brothers begged the county magistrate hard, wanting the county magistrate to keep some for them, and next year, they can pay off all the grain they owed, even if they pay some interest.

But this time, the county magistrate lost his former benevolence and refused to let him say anything. In the end, the two brothers were escorted back to the government office because the grain difference was less than two hundred catties. People care about it.

A few days later, when the two brothers were in despair, the county magistrate brought a great philanthropist, that is, a certain son of a certain rich family in Shangcai. Help them, donate tens of thousands of catties of grain to the two brothers, but the condition is that they need their [-] mu of land.

Thousands of catties of grain can not only pay off their arrears, but also have a large amount of grain enough for them to eat for two years.

But the land they cultivated after two years of hard work no longer belonged to them. The two years of cultivation had already exhausted their bodies. Even if they had ten thousand catties of grain, they could not afford to cultivate another piece of land.

But if they don't agree, they are likely to die in prison. In the end, the two brothers chose to compromise aggrievedly.

In fact, no one is stupid, how could they not know that this is a game set up by these powerful families and county magistrates?But so what?They were powerless to resist, and in the end they had no choice but to take the grain and return to being tenant farmers.

This is not an isolated case, but a method used by all tyrants to control the tenant farmers. The tenant farmers are simply unable to survive independently of the local tyrants, and can only earn wealth for them.

And such an example is just the same, how to turn the children of the tenants into their labor, how to turn the beautiful women among the children of the tenants into their playthings?

There is nothing recorded here that bullies men and women. Those who really bully men and women in the local area are unworthy in the eyes of these big households. Going in, ordinary people are in it, unable to resist at all, they can only be squeezed dry by them a little bit, and finally obediently follow their wishes, living like puppets without seeing tomorrow.

But these content without any bloody content brought Pei Yuanshao a feeling of depression more than ten times stronger than bullying men and women. You don't even have the strength to struggle among mortals.

Pei Yuanshao also came from a poor background. In the past, he only occasionally complained about his bad background, but after reading these, he realized that behind ordinary people like them, there is an invisible net manipulating their lives. It is as difficult as climbing the sky if you want to work hard. In the end, just like the pair of brothers, it took three years to help others reclaim [-] acres of land, and they worked hard to make wedding dresses for others.

The big net formed by powerful families fell on every ordinary person like a net from heaven and earth, and it was so oppressive that people couldn't breathe!

Pei Yuanshao gritted his teeth, silently put down the bamboo slips, and picked up another scroll. The content was similar, except that the protagonist had changed.

"My lord...knew about this a long time ago?" Pei Yuanshao looked at Chu Nan. He had never understood why Chu Nan was so ruthless to the aristocratic family, killing people all over the house. Can't go down, but now, he understands a little bit.

"Almost." Chu Nan nodded indifferently. The tricks are just like those tricks. Even when you apply these things to modern times, the difference will not be too much, but it is more subtle. In fact, in this respect, Chu Nan I am also at a loss, how to solve problems that cannot be solved in modern times?Kill all the powerful families at present, and most of the powerful families in the future will follow this old path.

But you can't give up your current efforts just because you can't think of a way in the future, so Chu Nan has never been soft when suppressing the wealthy family.

Tomorrow's matter will be resolved tomorrow.

What he wants is different from others, what he wants is luck, maybe luck that can break the rules of this world.

"My lord, the general wants to kill these thieves himself!" Pei Yuanshao said to Chu Nan.

Chu Nan glanced at him, saw that he looked angry, nodded and said, "Go, there are monster ants here to protect me, it's okay."

"Thank you, my lord!" Pei Yuanshao cupped his fists in a salute, and then took people to kill Zhou Cang together.

"Go and release these people, except for these three families, everyone else can go!" Chu Nan got up and asked people to release those families, except for the three selected families.

A group of mighty patriarchs who were very virtuous not long ago, seeing Chu Nan again now, especially after seeing the three patriarchs who were killed on the spot, became much more behaved and learned some manners.

He even started to ask to help Chu Nan in begging for thieves, but Chu Nan refused with a smile.

"There is still some evidence here. Although the crime does not warrant death, the crime cannot be escaped. In the next few days, I will come to the door one by one. I hope you will cooperate with me!" Chu Nan pointed to the file on the table. Looking at these Patriarchs who escaped unharmed, he said indifferently.

"Don't worry, I will definitely cooperate." Several Patriarchs nodded repeatedly, and their attitudes were much better this time than before.

"It's all gone, I'm tired!" Chu Nan waved his hand, signaling them to back down.

After all this calamity, how dare they show any disrespect to Chu Nan?Even though Chu Nan closed his eyes, he left after bowing respectfully one by one.

The next thing was much simpler. Under Chu Nan's instruction, Zhou Cang and Pei Yuanshao wiped out the three major families first, and then began to seek trouble for the remaining families.

Because Chu Nan had spoken first, these families cooperated very well at first, but gradually they realized that something was wrong. Chu Nan wanted to punish them to death, but it was already too late. When they violently resisted, what they were facing was Chu Nan's thunder strikes were finally wiped out...

(End of this chapter)