Chapter 246: Drawing fire from the bottom of the cauldron
Li Ru's mobility is undoubtedly first-rate. After getting Fei Qian's iron plate, he immediately started to implement it...
At a time when the Emperor of the Han Dynasty has been a myth for hundreds of years, the certificates issued in the name of the Emperor of the Han Dynasty are undoubtedly sacred and have a high degree of credibility.
Especially the vividly carved patterns on the iron plate are even more attractive to those illiterate farmers.
What do ordinary people pursue?
Everything is fully reflected in the pattern on the iron plate.
This dream thing, which our ancestors have spent their entire lives for, has never been able to obtain it. Now we only need to move to Guanzhong, 600 miles away, and it will become a reality!
The tax and labor system imposed on grassroots farmers in the Han Dynasty was actually very terrible. Usually, an ordinary farmer had to pay three aspects of money and grain to the Han Dynasty state:
One is tax, which is not high. In the early Han Dynasty, it was set at fifteen taxes per one. After Emperor Jingdi set it to thirty tax per tax, it is still in use today. That is to say, the land belongs to the state, and taxes must be paid when farming is produced. However,
This tax is indeed not high...
The second is the tax. Different from the light rent tax, the tax has been increasing. All people between the ages of 15 and 56 must pay a "tax". Each person is 120 yuan per "calculus". As a result,
The cost of managing troops, chariots and horses. For example, for merchants, the slave license must be counted twice; for women who are not married between 15 and 30 years old, the fee shall be counted five times.
But don’t think that you don’t have to pay money if you are young. From the age of 7 to 14 years old, each person pays 20 yuan per year...
The third is corvée. The most common one is border guarding, which means you must go to the border to guard the border for free three days a year.
For the people who live on the border, this corvée is nothing, but just imagine a farmer far away in Jingxiang asking him to bring his own food and weapons, and pay for his own travel expenses, to Bingzhou, or even
Go to Youzhou and Liangzhou to guard the border for three days and then come back...
Therefore, it is basically unrealistic, so there is "over-change" money for garrison, 300 Wen a year...
In addition, there are temporary "military transfers", "verbal restraints", etc., so in fact, it is very difficult for homesteaders to achieve a balance in the income and expenditure of the entire family through hard work on their own land.
Chao Cuo's "On Precious Millet": "... Today's farmer's family of five has no less than two servants, the number of people who can cultivate is no more than a hundred acres, and the harvest from a hundred acres cannot be more than a hundred stones... There is no shelter from the wind and dust in spring, and there is no shelter in summer.
To avoid the heat, there is no protection from the rain in autumn, and there is no protection from the cold in winter... If you work hard like this, you will still be hit by floods and droughts... So there are people who sell their fields and houses to pay their debts to their descendants..."
Therefore, in fact, at the end of the Han Dynasty, a large amount of land was annexed. The most fundamental reason is that these peasants living at the bottom may have no choice but to actively become vassals of the powerful, resulting in a further reduction in the taxes that could be collected, and they must again
Increasing taxes will lead to the bankruptcy of the remaining farmers, a vicious cycle...
So nowadays, in the Heluo area, there are only a few so-called homesteaders of a family of five who can maintain their own lives. Most of them are vassals of the powerful powerful people in the countryside, and the local gentry have become hermits...
Some have even been working for these rural magnates and nobles for several generations.
So you can imagine the complex mood of restlessness, fear and joy when this impoverished vassal farmer suddenly had such an opportunity to obtain such attractive wealth in the blink of an eye.
This emotion was like a spreading plague, infecting the areas around Luoyang in an instant. The most affected area was Hongnong County, which is located on the edge of Luoyang.
Nowadays, most of the fertile land in Hongnong County is either under the name of the Hongnong Yang family, or is vassalized in the hands of other powerful noble families related to the Yang family, so when Li Ru began to implement Fei Qian's ironclad
When making the plan, the entire Yang family felt like it had been hit by a major earthquake. Even some old guys who had been sitting at home watching the changes were shaken out...
Yang Biao put an iron plate on the table with a wry smile and gently pushed it in front of Yuan Wei.
"This is a five-cauldron cooking!" Yuan Wei also rarely expressed his attitude clearly, perhaps because the Yang family and the Yuan family have the same interests, or perhaps because this move is too painful, "Li Ru, the traitor
!It’s really abominable!”
Although Fei Qian has just been awarded the title of Minister of Zuo, most people still think that this is Dong Zhuo's preferential treatment to Cai Yong. In addition, Dong Zhuo has also promoted many rural nobles in recent times. For example, Xun Shuang also came from
Yi Jie Baiding was promoted to Sikong of the Third Company, so for the time being he didn't pay much attention to Fei Qian, an official who was only 400 stone taller.
Many people, including Yuan Wei and Yang Biao, still believe that the introduction of a policy was caused by Li Ru.
Yang Biao also gritted his teeth and said: "This move will cut off our foundation! It's a poisonous plan!" This time Yang Biao came to Yuan Wei specifically to seek cooperation with the Yuan family. After all, the one who is most affected now is Hong Kong.
If the Nong Yang family is allowed to develop, even if the Hongnong Yang family can remain in Sili, what's the point of losing the farmers?
Is it possible to let the pampered old man of the Yang family do farm work in the fields? What if we go to other places to absorb the refugees? Firstly, there is not enough time to catch up with the spring plowing, and at least one year will be wasted; secondly, if these refugees are tempted again
What should I do? Isn’t it like making wedding clothes for others again?
So Yang wants to solve this problem once and for all. Now the elders of the Yang family are blocking Yang Biao's door, asking Yang Biao to solve the problem, otherwise...
Yang Biao also regretted a little. If he had known better, he would not have resigned so early. He originally thought that under his leadership, he evacuated most of the officials in the Heluo area, which was tantamount to taking money from the bottom of the kettle for moving the capital, which would inevitably force Dong Zhuo and Li Ru to resign.
He walked slowly and struggled, but he didn't expect Li Ru to use this move with his backhand. It was like a knife cutting into the vital part of the Yang family. The pain was unbearable.
Now Yang Biao came to seek help from the Yuan family who were still in the officialdom. In order to prevent Dong Zhuo from finding out, he even entered the Yuan Mansion from the side door in a light car.
Yuan Wei held the iron sign and looked at it. The appearance of the official launch is no longer the original simple appearance. Not only are there more complex patterns on the edges, they are obviously slightly modified and polished after pouring. The original blank ones are also there.
The back is engraved with explanatory text and the seal of Henan Yin, which is equivalent to guaranteeing this iron plate in the name of the official.
Moreover, the distribution of this iron plate has completely bypassed the grassroots officials of Yuan Yang and other factions. All of them are originally military scribes from Xiliang and then register and distribute them. Even if they try to do something, they can't find the target...
Yuan Wei put the iron plate on the table, raised his palm, and struck the words on the iron plate like a knife, and said: "The only solution now is to draw fuel from the bottom of the cauldron..."
It rains in the morning and is as cold as winter. When the sun comes out in the afternoon, it turns into summer in an instant... Some people say that the weather in Chongzuo is like that of Vietnamese girls. I don't know how to explain...
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ps: I owe a lot of debt, so I’ll be more relaxed these days, but I really don’t have much time... Come on, come on...
