Super Cultivation System of the Three Kingdoms

Chapter 932: Goryeo's Trouble
In just half a month, the transaction volume of Anhan Trading Company in Luoyang City has been rising steadily, enough to be compared with the total transaction volume of several months in previous years.

On this day, Qian Li's face was full of joy. He didn't care about the palace etiquette and trotted all the way to the study.

"Your Majesty... great joy..."

Liu He heard the voice and looked up at him: "Haha, Daozhun rarely looks like this, what's the happy event that has brought him to this point?"

Qian Li was so excited that he was almost knocked down by the threshold when he entered the room, but he didn't care at all.

"Your Majesty is as good as a god in predicting things. In the past half month, I have ordered people to wait in various business houses and buy all the land for sale. At the same time, I will continue to put the official land and military farms up for sale to lower the market price of land."

"With such a large amount of land for sale, ordinary people simply cannot afford to buy it, and the wealthy and powerful families are afraid that they will not be able to sell it at this time, so they will naturally not buy more. Therefore, those who want to buy land on the market are only some small and medium-sized wealthy families, and the families of some meritorious soldiers rewarded by the court. Faced with such a sell-off, the current price of land is less than 40% of what it was a month ago, and this is just the listing price. It is only because Wang Yun and others are eager to sell, so the actual negotiation can be lowered by a few cents."

"Because of this, I have purchased more than 3 million mu of paddy fields and more than 1.6 million mu of dry land at a price that is 40% to 50% of what it was a month ago. Most of the millions of mu of land that the court put up for sale were not sold, and the only 700,000 to 800,000 mu that were sold were sold at 70% to 80% of the price a month ago. This time, the court gained a net of about 4 million mu of land, and the more than 20 billion yuan that Your Majesty gave me was actually just a fraction of what I spent."

Looking at his extremely happy expression, Liu He couldn't help but laugh.

"Daozhun, this is just the beginning, and you are already so excited. When everything is fully unfolded, won't you faint from excitement?"

Qian Li was stunned: "Why, Your Majesty has another trick?"

Liu He smiled and said, "Of course. I said that after this, the official farmland of the court will at least double, but the court only makes money and does not spend money. I am not joking with you."

Qian Li hurriedly straightened his expression and said, "May I ask your Majesty, what should I do next?"

Liu He said: "It's very simple. After that, you take the initiative to attack."

"Hmm?" Qian Li didn't quite understand for a moment.

"I ordered you to buy the land that was put up for sale before, but that was just a passive wait. I expected that with the current land market, Wang Yun and others would definitely hesitate, so I prepared to try other methods to raise the money needed to buy books."

Liu He's words made Qian Li nod his head frequently: "Your Majesty is right, it will definitely be so. After thinking about it, I think they will step up the sales of books and sell some of their other properties, such as houses, jewelry, jade, antiques, calligraphy and paintings, etc."

"That's it." Liu He said, "Here is a handwritten note. Take it to the company and hand it to the company's general manager Li Ang in person. Instruct him to postpone the sale of paper books, jewelry, gold, silver, jade, calligraphy and paintings that have appeared in the company recently. Those that could have been put up for sale today should be postponed to tomorrow. Those that should have been put up at the Jiazi counter should be moved to the Yi counter. Let him handle it on his own. In short, I only want one result, which is to prevent them from raising money too smoothly. Do you understand?"

Liu He is the big boss behind Anhan Trading Company and the current emperor. From any perspective, Li Ang must do as he is told.

Qian Li's eyes lit up, and he quickly stepped forward to take the order: "I understand, I will do it now."

"Wait, what's the hurry?" Liu He shouted back. "At the same time, you order people to actively publish the news of purchasing land in the business. The price... is above the current market price, ranging from 80% to 90%, and the quantity must be large, ranging from a few thousand to tens of thousands, or even 100,000 acres."

"Ah, I understand. Your Majesty wants to force them to sell their land."

There was a lot of joy in Qian Li's exclamation.

"That's right." Liu He knew very well that the Eastern Han Dynasty was a dynasty in which the imperial power and the aristocratic families shared the world.

The major families dominated the local areas and were like local tyrants. As a result, land annexation became increasingly serious. The people could not afford to pay the many taxes and could only sell their land, work for these big families, or rent land for a living.

Especially by the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, land annexation had intensified social contradictions to a point where they could no longer be eased, leading to the chaos at the end of the Han Dynasty, with uprisings everywhere and the armies of various princes rising up.

Some top families had millions of acres of land, which was not uncommon at all. Ordinary families also had tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of acres. For example, Cai Yong's family, because he was obsessed with learning and calligraphy, did not deliberately expand his family property, so they only had 20,000 acres of land, which was already very small. Even the family of Sikong Cui Lie had more than 200,000 acres of land, not to mention Wang Yun and others?

This is also the reason why as soon as I promulgated the tax reform, those wealthy families could not wait to temporarily sell their land.

Now, in the states and counties that he actually controls, although many families have fled to the cities governed by Cao Cao and other princes since last year, there are still thousands of families, large and small. Most of them have relatives serving as officials in the court, so it is inconvenient for them to leave, and there are many among them who pretend to obey the court's orders but actually disobey them.

Liu He took this opportunity to strike a blow against their arrogance and at the same time took back as much of the huge land in their hands as possible into the court. He then gave it to the people in need for cultivation in the name of official land and military farms, either through long-term lease or retail sales.

In this way, everyone will have their own land to cultivate, society will become more stable, and the court's taxes will also increase. It will be a hundred benefits and no harm to the Han Dynasty.

As Qian Li just walked out, he bumped into Gong Saner, and the memorial in Gong Saner's hand was knocked out.

Xun Yu hurried forward and picked up the memorial, but Gong Saner and Qian Li were so frightened that they knelt down and apologized.

"It's a small matter. You can all go about your own business and don't worry about it." Liu He waved his hand, and the two of them left.

"Where did the report come from?" Liu He asked Xun Yu.

Xun Yu unfolded the memorial, took a look at it, and then frowned slightly: "Your Majesty, Goguryeo General Li Mang led an army of 120,000, and Buyeo General Luo Fujin led an army of 80,000, a total of 200,000 troops, suddenly rushed out from the dense forest in the northeast of Liaodong County five days ago. Generals Zhao Yun and others did not expect the enemy to be so powerful and unprepared, and were captured by the enemy in four cities. Now the two sides are facing each other in Xiangping City, Liaodong County."

"Oh?" Liu He was a little surprised. "I didn't expect that Goguryeo would take action before Cao Cao? Could it be a trick to lure the tiger away from the mountain?"

(End of this chapter)