The revival of Shu Han

Chapter 172
In April of AD 264, the heads of Xiahou's family in Luoyang once again blocked Luoshui.In the Funan River on the Chengdu side, there were more than a dozen more heads.

Yes, only a dozen or so, to be exact, eleven.

Among the [-] dignitaries inspected by Guan Yi, seven of them had purely economic problems.The other eleven have political problems such as collaborating with the enemy and treason.Guan Yi arrested and killed all the heads of the eleven families.None of the rest were killed.

This is not without controversy.

Guan Yi's relatives, brothers, and friends all demanded that the eleven families be exterminated—to prevent future troubles forever!But Guan Yi was unmoved, and only killed eleven people.

"Husband, if you do this, where do you want to put the concubine, the son, and the child who is about to be born in the concubine's womb?"

"Why do you say that, ma'am?"

"These people are collaborating with the enemy and betraying the country, of course they should be killed. And according to the law of the Han Dynasty or the Shuke, no one can say anything wrong if they exterminate their three clans. But you didn't do that! The remnants of the Liu family and the Fei family would not think that It is kindness. When their children grow up, they will all regard assassinating you as the only goal in life to avenge their father. If you are gone, my Guan family will definitely decline again! At that time, the concubine and the children..."

"That's right, my husband. My sister is right. Those who achieve great things don't care about small things, and my husband must not be lenient. Besides, collaborating with the enemy, treason and destroying the three clans is not wrong anywhere..."

Guan Yi clasped his left and right hands, and gently hugged the two women in his arms: "Guan Yi is so lucky to have two wives who treat him sincerely... But once the matter of exterminating the three tribes has started, it is really difficult to stop. How could I create such an ethos within the big man for my own selfishness... If the children of the Liu family, the Fei family and other families want to kill me in the future, then let them come. There are many things to do as a husband, and you must protect me. There are also a lot of things. They won't be killed easily."

"Husband, you are really stupid. You think about the country and the future all day long. You don't think about yourself, think about the present? Think about our family?"

"Being a husband is not stupid, but obsessive. Ever since the ideal of revitalizing the Han Dynasty was set on the bank of the Wujiang River, the husband has never cared about himself... Hey, what is the hatred of these orphans and possible assassinations in the future? Internal The twists and turns, the powerful external enemies... Since my husband became the chief Sima, he has never had a good night's sleep. Hey, I really don't know what happened to the prime minister, Jiang Da Sima, and General Fei I carried it over. However, I have done it for this sake, no matter how hard it is, I will go on."

Compared with resolutely killing only the parties involved and never annihilating the three ethnic groups, Guan Yi's relatives and friends objected, while others were still in favor.Guan Yi's treatment of economic criminals caused even more controversy—his plan was almost collectively opposed by the whole country.

When big beetles like Huang Hao and Liu Qian's family properties were liquidated.All the senior officials in the Shu Han were shocked.Not to mention the hot-tempered prince Liu Chen, even Liu Chan, who is no longer doing anything, scolded his mother severely for several days in the palace.

Then, everyone agreed: these giants should also be killed.Even if the three clans are not exterminated, all the parties involved will be beheaded, and then all their families will be sold into slavery!
Guan Yi once again said no to this mainstream opinion.

As a time traveler, as a time traveler whose mentality was relatively mature before time travel, Guan Yi clearly knew that the attitude of later generations of China towards corrupt criminals has gone through three stages of sublimation.

The first stage, kill kill kill.

In the second stage, heavy sentences and occasional killings.

In the third stage, the sentence is generally not too long, and basically no one is killed.But it is necessary to add a certain amount of fines while completely recovering the stolen money.

This is a manifestation of social progress.

If we focus on killing general economic crimes, it may be able to deter some people from being greedy.But it won't deter everyone.Moreover, those who dare to go greedy under such high pressure are extremely stubborn and destructive.To be greedy is to be insane.

The second stage is actually just a transition to the third stage.This approach is actually the least desirable.Before Guan Yi was reincarnated, he had already met several corrupt officials: After serving more than ten years in prison in a "strong" way, he came out to become a rich man—this is simply encouraging everyone to be greedy and greedy—the incident happened It doesn't matter, the money is still there.After more than ten years of prison life, the rest of my life will be rich and prosperous.

The third stage is the most meaningful.

What do corrupt criminals fear most?Instead of going to jail, all the proceeds of corruption have been confiscated!At that time, the job was gone, the social status was gone, and the money was gone.In just a few years of imprisonment, it is easy to survive.But what about after coming out?

This is the best punishment for corruption.Only in this way can the rich and powerful who are about to embezzle feel pressure and shock!

Therefore, Guan Yi’s punishment for simple economic criminals such as Liu Gan was: Confiscate all family properties, and the whole family was exiled to Hanjia County, Wenshan County and other places where the Shu Han ethnic minorities live-reuse waste and increase the proportion of the local Han population.

As for Huang Hao, ahem, Jiu Qiansui's death from thirst was purely an accident—mainly because he had been stationed in Luocheng for a long time, and after returning to Chengdu, Jiu Qiansui's family became a gangster.Otherwise, he was planning to exile Huang Hao's family: people's ability to adapt is the strongest.These big greedy people, when they lost all their wealth, went to lonely places.With their ingenuity (idiots generally can't be corrupt criminals, at least not for too long), they can also contribute to the social and economic development of the backward areas of the Land of Exile.

In any case, Guan Yi was full during this raid, no, it should be said that he was full.

Working capital and a large amount of real estate, almost got 70 billion.Add more than 600 million shi of grain, and more than 5 people out of thin air...

What concept is this?
In the first year of Emperor Zhi of the Eastern Han Dynasty (146), the land tax collected by the Han Empire (Fifteen Tax One) was 460 shi in total.Calculated tax and oral tax, that is, head tax, add up to 73 billion yuan.And how many people did the Han imperial government control at that time?Fifty-six million!

The current population of the Shu Han government is barely 100 million.And Guan Yi only copied thirteen companies, and got so many things... No wonder everyone said that corrupt officials should be killed!
However, compared to the upcoming reforms, this amount of money is not enough!

Moreover, since Guan Da Sima started the house raid mode as soon as he took office, it has already aroused the collective vigilance of the Shu Han elite: What are you doing?Do you really want to betray your origin and become a public servant of the people?Let me tell you, enough is enough!Or else a national rebellion awaits you!
So, after killing people and copying houses, I have to give these guys a candy to appease them.

On the fifth day of April in the second year of Yanxing, the Da Sima Mansion issued a new order: Improve the Salt Government Order!

Guan Yi mainly talked about such a thing in this order.

This official feels that there are big problems in the country's current salt policy.For example, the production efficiency is low, the corruption problem is serious, and the people have difficulty in eating salt, which leads to low physical fitness and so on.You look at that fellow Liu Gan, who has only been a captain of Siyan for five years, and he is greedy for this.Therefore, the salt policy must be changed!
What kind of amendment?Change the state-owned salt farms to private ones, and the private ones are responsible for production, transportation and sales.The state only sends personnel to count the shipments in the salt field, and then collect taxes on the spot.The tax rate is relatively heavy, 20.00%!
At present, there are more than 40 salt farms in Dahan, and each salt farm has dozens to hundreds of salt wells.The Da Sima Mansion has also re-stated the amount of salt produced.Now, it is scheduled to begin on May 40, and the auction of these more than [-] salt farms will be held in Da Sima Mansion in Chengdu (attachment: Zigong Salt Farm will not participate in this auction, it is already the private property of Fuxing Society).Friends who are interested can buy it individually or in a group... and, after all, we are big men.In name, it is the most orthodox country on the land of China.Therefore, our salt farm auction is not only aimed at people from Yizhou, but also all people from the entire thirteen prefectures of Han Dynasty!
This is since Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty implemented a national salt monopoly in order to collect more money to support the fight against the Huns.Nearly 400 years later, the first regime made it clear that it was willing to leave the saltworks in private hands.When the news came out, the dignitaries of the Wei, Shu and Wu Kingdoms were collectively shocked!In addition, the noble families of the Shu Han family who had just expressed their dissatisfaction with Guan Yi once again expressed their great appreciation for the Da Sima Mansion.

(End of this chapter)