Xuande

Chapter 635 Luoyang court's brain is broken?
Inside the ancient literature school, other people don't talk about it, but only Lu Zhi, who absolutely supports Liu Bei on this matter.

He also said that he would take the lead in responding to Liu Bei's call in Youzhou and actively support the promotion of the "Slave Restriction Order", and he also hoped that the ancient literature school would support Liu Bei in this matter.

Although there are a large number of people in the ancient literature school who are dissatisfied with this, they feel that this harms their interests. One less slave means one more hired worker, and one more hired worker means more expenditure. This is a very troublesome thing.

But in terms of overall will, the ancient literature school is still willing to cooperate with Liu Bei, because they also know Liu Bei's indispensable importance to the ancient literature school.

It's just a symbolic surrender of a group of slaves to pretend to cooperate and act, that's still okay, as long as you don't really attack them.

As for other power groups, there is only one eunuch group left.

Needless to say, Zhang Rang immediately ordered his subordinates to cooperate with Liu Bei.

Jian Shuo hesitated for a while, but said nothing.

Most of the properties of the other ten permanent servants are not in the area where the "Slavery Restriction Order" is being promoted, so there is nothing special about it.

And the local governors in the land of Sanfu Sanhe are basically Liu Bei's own people.

Therefore, there are still advantages to implementing the New Deal where the groundwork has been completed in the early stage. At least there will not be so many people crying and shouting to oppose it.

The entire ruling class was basically handled by Liu Bei, and if he couldn't handle it, he would not blatantly oppose it. As for the local powerful families who were really targeted-sorry, the Luoyang court did not have a channel for them to speak out.

Officials, scholars, the army, and eunuchs were all taken care of by Liu Bei. The upper echelons of the Han Empire basically knew it in their hearts, knowing that Liu Bei's wave was not aimed at them, and that was about the same.

And those local families that were really targeted were one thing locally, but in the Luoyang court, no one represented their interests, no one spoke for them, and no one took them seriously.

The families that were really worth wooing had already been wooed, and the remaining group of people were surprised to find that the court, which was good at compromise and negotiation, suddenly changed its direction and became good at fighting and plundering.

This is not a good thing.

Because the Western Han government was so good at fighting and plundering back then, when the Han-Hungarian War was going on, they were very miserable.

According to the provisions of the "Slave Restriction Order", people who do not have official positions or military titles can only have a maximum of three slaves, and they need to register with the government, and then receive the official version of the "Contract of Selling One's Body". After signing, it is considered official. The determination of the relationship between master and slave is protected by the law.

If you don't have this set of procedures, then I'm sorry, the relationship between you cannot be defined, not protected by the law, but will be targeted by the law, the imperial court has the power to attack you and punish your illegal behavior.

This is a big problem for those local wealthy families who have hundreds or thousands of servants serving them.

A tribe without an official status can only have three servants. Even if each tribe can have three servants, they cannot cover so many servants if they are tied together.

And what's even worse is that if a slave commits a crime, the government will hold the master accountable, which means that not every clansman is willing to take the risk to guarantee three slaves.

This means that a considerable number of slaves need to be released and no longer be the help of the family. The family will no longer have the opportunity to exploit and oppress their labor force, and the family business and scale will shrink to a certain extent.

If you don't want to shrink, you have to enter the labor market and hire free people as hired workers, pay them, and let them work. You can no longer order slaves to work from morning to night, from birth to death as you like.

And after this wave of decrees were promulgated, they didn't get any compensation, and they didn't make any money!
The damn sitting method was actually used in this place!

When these local families got the official announcement, they went crazy, looking for people everywhere, mobilizing connections to consult the government for inside information, and asking them if they really wanted to implement this way, and wouldn't it make them bleed?
The Luoyang court's mind is broken, so they want to do something like this?
These slaves come to work here with Lao Tzu is also a matter of willing to fight and suffer. Lao Tzu also spent money to buy them, and it is not robbed. It is a serious business. Woolen cloth?

The Du family in Xincheng County, south of Luoyang, is a typical example.

This family made a fortune in only two generations. Because it is close to Luoyang and relies on Yishui, it gradually made a fortune by doing some transportation business on the water to sell in Luoyang.

Of course, scrambling and fighting and mutual annexation are indispensable in the process of making a fortune, which is similar to Liu Bei's way of making a fortune back then. Du Shi, who is full of martial arts, has the last laugh.

It turned out that this family had a good relationship with the three consecutive Xincheng county magistrates, and these county magistrates were happy to be their umbrella, protecting them from doing small businesses on the water for mutual benefit.

So the Du family developed within 30 to [-] years, bought a lot of land with the money they earned, and bought many servants in the year of the catastrophe, and the family gradually grew.

At this moment, the Du family is already a local and large-scale family with more than 300 mu of land and more than [-] servants.

It's just that the family's development time is still short, there is no time to spend money, and there is no time to expand the relationship upwards, so it bumps head-on into the era of Liu Bei, a military strongman.

When the Du family heard the news, they were quite flustered. They quickly sent people to the county government to find the new county magistrate, Guan Jing, to inquire about the specific situation.

The previous county magistrate was dismissed not long ago on charges of corruption and bribery. Lieutenant Sili personally sent someone to arrest him. Later, he heard that his head had been beheaded. The Du family was worried about this for a while, but no one came to trouble them. .

Soon after, the new county magistrate came to take office.

Since he took office, the county magistrate doesn't like to build a good relationship with the local family forces. Instead, he runs to the fields every day, finds some muddy legs to ask questions, and then keeps writing and drawing.

The Du family sent people to Luoyang to inquire about the news, and when they got back, it showed that Guan Jing was from Liangzhou, a disciple of General Liu Bei, and had a close relationship with Liu Bei, and his background was very strong. green.

After knowing this, many local families, including the Du family, became a little more afraid of this Guan Jing, and did not dare to contact him directly for a while.

Then they heard that Guan Jing promoted a policy called collective farms in Xincheng County, calling on farmers in the county to join in, and then the Luoyang court would give some preferential conditions and the like.

Anyway, this Guan Jing has been doing these things since this period of time, busy with other things, and has no relationship with their family forces.

Until the end of last year, some people couldn't help but want to take the initiative to deal with Guan Jing. It turned out that at that time, Guan Jing came directly to the major families related to Yishui Transportation, including the Du family, to learn about Yishui. The water transport thing.

Because some living materials in Luoyang City were transported from Hongnong County to Luoyang through Yishui, which is also an important transportation channel, he, the county magistrate, must intervene.

But this is just routine. He asked some questions, and the major families answered honestly, saying that there are some things that are not there, some transportation costs and so on, these are the old rules before.

On the contrary, someone also vaguely mentioned the matter of giving filial piety to the government. Guan Jing laughed and said nothing, but did not discuss this matter in depth. At that time, Lao Du, who was at the helm of the Du family's development and growth, was very worried.

for free?
This is not a good thing.

(End of this chapter)