Xuande

Chapter 645
He has never forgotten Yizhou, the land of abundance that Liu Bei wanted from the imperial court.

Therefore, when the first month of the third year of Jian'an had just passed, on the first day of February, Liu Bei made a statement to implement the slave restriction order in Liangzhou, Yizhou, Youzhou, and Jizhou.

Yizhou and Jizhou are the main attack areas, and Liangzhou and Youzhou are incidental.

Liangzhou has been under his rule for so many years. To put it bluntly, it has long been his shape. With his order, the slaves in the entire Liangzhou will be liberated and become private households. Anyone who dares to object is seeking death. , purely to find happiness for myself.

Youzhou has just suffered a major disaster, the old forces suffered heavy casualties, and the new forces have not yet taken shape. It is the time when the government is the strongest. The bureaucratic team headed by Xiahou Dun has strong execution capabilities. Liu Bei is not worried that Xiahou Dun will not be able to do this.

It must be said that even Jizhou can make it happen by the way.

Jizhou also had a wave of vested interests being killed, and the army plowed back and forth on the land of Jizhou several times. At this time, it was also a time when the new internal interest chain had not yet fully formed.

Liu Bei's tentacles of power in Jizhou are also quite strong, and the forces of the eunuch group and the ancient literature school are willing to cooperate. If it is to implement the slave restriction order, it will not be more difficult than implementing it in Sili and Bingzhou.

The only one that is more difficult is Yizhou.

But Liu Bei's reasons are also very good.

With the fertile soil of the Land of Abundance, Yizhou's large population and resources, the tax revenue in the sixth year of Zhongping, the first year of Jian'an, and the second year of Jian'an failed to exceed Liangzhou's tax revenue for three consecutive years. It is obviously because there are too many slaves and too many households. So little that the court did not pay enough taxes.

Many large families in Yizhou kept slaves, so that all the land income in Yizhou belonged to the local tyrants, but not to the imperial court. This is simply the absurdity of the world.

Therefore, Liu Bei requested to implement a slave restriction order in Yizhou, liberate a large number of slaves, return them to private households, re-expand the population of government household registration, increase land tax and head tax, and increase the fiscal revenue of the imperial court. good thing.

With previous experience in handling affairs, although he is not used to Liu Bei's strongman style of fighting for his life, there are always people who are willing to support Liu Bei to toss about things that have interests and can be pursued.

Express your support, pay some symbolic price, and then you can get more land, wealth, and even Liu Bei's appreciation for this, and the favor of him who holds power. This is really a good deal.

Of course, people who don't have much idea about official careers may just cooperate with Liu Bei symbolically and release a few slaves, but those who really want to make breakthroughs in official careers in the future are quite concerned about Liu Bei's senses.

Just like the previous officials from the Sili area held the free slave involution competition, this time, officials from the Yizhou and Jizhou competition areas held the slave release involution grand prix. The old subordinates in Liangzhou and Youzhou Not too much.

The Gai family and the Yan family took the lead in the charge, releasing 370 one servants and 630 six servants respectively, without even leaving three slaves per person, sweeping away the family servants and realizing full employment and liberalization manage.

They publicly expressed their support for Liu Bei's slavery restriction order, and stated that they would never use any slaves to promote the development of the family, and would report all the amount of the family's land and property to the government, so that the government could fully understand the status of their family's land and property.

Gai Shi and Yan Shi took the lead, and the others rushed even harder, with the momentum of being at odds with the slaves.

In Liangzhou, there is no pressure on this matter, because there are few slaves in Liangzhou, and the major families were domesticated by Liu Bei. He said what he said. If he said no slaves, then no slaves. There will be no way to live.

It's just that I spent a little more money, and I lost some of the refreshing feeling of showing off my might.

In Youzhou, the situation was a little bit twisted, but the twists and turns were not great.

After the war, the local power in Youzhou has been relatively weak. They were tortured and plundered back and forth by Yuan Shao's army and Xianbei and Wuhuan's armies. They have already suffered serious losses. They have lost a lot of land and real estate. more difficult situation.

So after the war, the surviving local families even took the initiative to throw slaves out.

The war severely damaged production. In order to maintain their luxurious life, they could not afford to support so many slaves. Even if there was no slave restriction order, they themselves wanted to relieve some of the troubles.

So for some families, the slavery restriction order is simply a favor they gave Liu Bei, and there is nothing unacceptable.

However, the impact of Liu Bei's slave restriction order on most people is still too great. Without official status, only three servants can be left behind, which makes a considerable number of Youzhou tycoons reluctant to accept it.

In this case, the Liu family of Zhuo County in Zhuo County and the Lu family of Zhuo County Zhuo County took the lead in making a statement. Both patriarchs expressed their support for the imperial court's slave restriction order, and voluntarily released a large number of slaves of the family and handed them over to the government for unified resettlement. , made an example.

On this basis, another group of families with a more moderate attitude and families whose family property was seriously damaged and needed the help of the government to tide over the crisis also made a compromise, releasing the family servants, and did not oppose the government.

Therefore, the Youzhou area to the west of Liaodong County is generally willing to make compromises. The few who are not willing to compromise are deterred and attacked by Xiahou Dun's dispatch of state and county soldiers and horses. After getting rid of more than ten or twenty families, Youzhou The slavery ban was enforced.

As for Liaodong County, Xuantu County, and Lelang County, Gongsun Du also expressed his support for Liu Bei's slavery restriction order, but Gongsun Du is obviously still playing around, and he regards Liu Bei's slavery restriction order as a means of consolidating his power A shortcut to exclusion.

If you have a good relationship with him, even if the slave restriction order is not enforced, he will report to the other party that the slave restriction order has been enforced.

For those who have a bad relationship with him, even if the slave restriction order is implemented, he will say that the other party has not fully implemented the slave restriction order, so he will convict and destroy the other party's family.

With the promulgation of the slave restriction order, Gongsundu further consolidated his power and status in the three counties of Liaodong, which made his power even greater in the three counties. work.

Even so, Gongsundu implemented the slave restriction order objectively, and reported a large number of slaves to Liu Bei, which can be regarded as completely turning the local big clan into a vassal of the government.

Youzhou's slave restriction order was then implemented, and no accidents happened.

The situation in Jizhou is relatively more complicated, because not only Liu Bei has the final say in Jizhou, but the Hejian Kingdom, Changshan Kingdom, and Zhongshan Kingdom in the northern part of Jizhou are Liu Bei's final decision.

Therefore, the major family forces in these three places, headed by the Zhen family, actively responded to Liu Bei's slave restriction order, and had no intention of opposing Liu Bei.

Although they didn't hand over all the slaves, because they were big slave-holding households, they united and handed over a very beautiful figure to the government. In the eyes of the outside world, it looked like they had strictly enforced the slave restriction order, and there was nothing to criticize.

Secretly, the major families that cooperated with the slavery restriction order and supported the slavery restriction order in public opinion have reached an agreement with Liu Bei relying on the matchmaking of the Zhen family.

The salt sales business in Jizhou area is preparing to expand its scale, and partners will be selected from among them later.

It is indeed beneficial to cooperate with me-at the current stage, Liu Bei needs to let them see this, so that they can really cooperate.

In exchange for political obedience and action in exchange for economic benefits and future political attention, this is not a loss-making business in the eyes of the local wealthy families, even if they lose a small amount for this, it is not unacceptable.

As long as Liu Bei remembers their good, that's fine.

(End of this chapter)