This was arranged by Dong Zhuo before moving the capital from Luoyang.
It is said that it was arranged by Dong Zhuo, but in fact Dong Zhuo also had discussions with Liu Cheng.
In fact, at the beginning, Dong Zhuo wanted Liu Cheng to lead troops to station in Huayin.
Starting from Huayin, we will defend all the way to the west.
Liu Cheng did not agree with Dong Zhuo's suggestion.
Because Huayin is too far away from the vast area in Luoyang, which is equivalent to completely abandoning the vast area in Luoyang.
If Liu Cheng was just a simple general under Dong Zhuo, he would naturally not say much on this matter.
But Liu Cheng is obviously not.
He has the whole world in mind.
At this time, Dong Zhuo's westward advance is only temporary. Sooner or later, he will come out of Chang'an and send his troops east.
It would not be good to abandon such a vast area like this.
It is not conducive to leaving east when the time comes.
So Liu Chenggong gave Dong Zhuo some suggestions, suggesting that the easternmost defense line should be placed at Mianchi, which is more than 200 miles away from Luoyang.
In this case, the strategic depth can be greatly increased.
When the time comes, whether it is to defend or send troops eastward to flog the world, it will be very beneficial!
When Dong Zhuo first made the plan to move the capital with Li Ru, he considered sending his troops eastward later. When Liu Cheng suggested this, he naturally agreed.
Dong Zhuo was very satisfied with this, and even told Li Ru, who became Liu Cheng's uncle, more than once. From this incident, it can be seen that Kede is sincerely thinking about himself and is really becoming a partner with himself.
A family.
Ren Dongzhuo would never have thought that there was a fundamental difference between what his thick-browed and big-eyed grandson-in-law, whom he liked so much, said about marching eastward, and what he said and understood about marching eastward!
What the two people said seemed to be the same thing, but in fact, they were completely different things.
After the army arrived at Mianchi, Liu Cheng treated an astonishing number of more than 10,000 people along the way!
It can be seen from this that moving the capital this time will cause great harm to the people!
After arriving at Mianchi and arranging the troops and horses, Liu Cheng immediately began to make arrangements for the people who were treated by them.
Liu Cheng is not going to take these people to Chang'an, so he will let them stay here in Mianchi and settle down here.
Of course, it is simply impossible to resettle so many people one by one at once.
Therefore, Liu Chenggong released the farmland based on the actual situation.
More than 10,000 people were divided into eleven villages.
The size of a village is 1,000 people. The number of people in the 11th village is less than 1,000 and has more than 700 people. It is also counted as a village alone.
At this time, with the outbreak of war, there were too many ownerless wastelands. There was no shortage of land, but there was a shortage of people to cultivate the land.
At this time, time was tight, and Liu Cheng had no time to divide these people into households one by one, and then divide the fields one by one.
Such a thing is too troublesome to do, and it is unnecessary at this time.
Liu Cheng directly divided the land one by one.
These are divided according to the topography and rivers here.
Because he owned a lot of unowned land, and he had to give some consideration to it, as productivity increased over time, and as the population increased, the demand for land would also increase. Therefore, when Liu Cheng divided the land,
There are many divisions for these villages.
It is impossible for them to cultivate it at present.
Then, among the eleven civilian villages, the village chiefs and other management personnel were selected and appointed based on their ability, prestige, kindness to Liu Cheng, and degree of obedience.
Liu Cheng accepted his fate personally. Even though he wanted to get things done quickly and go to Chang'an, he still insisted on doing these things himself and did not let others do it for him.
This is a manifestation of his exercise of his rights and an important means to strengthen his control over these villages and exert his influence.
How can the core power be delegated and let others do it for us?
Just dividing the villages is not enough. If you want these people to survive, you also need to provide these people with start-up funds.
The start-up capital here is food!
Whether these people eat their own food or open up wasteland for farming, they all need food for support.
And this group of people is a group of people who are trapped in abject poverty.
You don’t even have your own food rations, let alone growing food!
All these require Liu Cheng and others to find a solution.
For now, what can Liu Cheng think of?
The only option is to draw outwards from the rations of one's own army.
"Uncle Emperor, do you really want to distribute these grains?
This is a huge amount of food, accounting for one-fifth of our current military rations..."
Several generals under Liu Cheng gathered together to discuss matters concerning Mintun.
After calculating the amount of food that will be spent in this way, many people feel distressed.
Li Su, who has always valued money and other things, was the first to speak up and express his distress.
Of course, the reason he gave was not that he was reluctant to give it, but that he was worried that it would affect the combat effectiveness of the army.
He feels that now, the army is the most important, the army is the foundation, and everything must be done first with the army...
After what he said, many people recognized it and worried that something like this would really happen.
Before Liu Cheng could open his mouth to explain, Hua Xiong, who had been silent over there, started laughing.
"You guys! The layout is small!
We do have to worry about this matter, but is the emperor the same person as us?
Don’t forget, the emperor’s uncle is the prime minister’s grandson-in-law!
Not to mention that only one-fifth of the army rations have been taken out now, even if we take out the general rations at once, with the emperor here, can the Prime Minister still watch us starve?!"
When Hua Xiong said this, everyone present laughed suddenly, and everyone said that they were really worried in vain.
I actually forgot about this matter.
"I didn't expect that your Huamanzi would turn your head very quickly this time..."
Li Su, who was very familiar with Hua Xiong, laughed and cursed at Hua Xiong.
Seeing everyone's reaction as they related the matter to his relationship with Dong Zhuo, Liu Cheng also laughed.
After a while, he waved his hands to these people to signal them to be quiet.
Hua Xiong, Li Su, Li Jin and others immediately became quiet.
Liu Chenggong smiled and said: "What Brother Hua said is just one of them. There is another thing that I didn't tell you.
That is to say, we did not take these grains for free. When the time comes, we will make profits from it. We distribute the land to the people, grow grains, and provide rations to the people.
Even if there are not many tools, we still have to find a way.
When there is output in the land, we will increase the output by 30%... This is a long-term solution..."
Of course Liu Cheng is not a philanthropist, he just gives without asking for anything in return. If this continues, he will be deprived of himself sooner or later.
Taking profits from the output of the Mintun is the basis for making things long-term.
It can promote the development of Mintun and Liu Cheng himself.
This is equivalent to collecting taxes.
After Liu Cheng finished saying this, he looked at the generals and smiled without saying a word, waiting for these generals to be happy because of the news he announced.
After waiting for a while, I found that no one said anything.
Not only that, Liu Cheng also found that the way these people looked at him became very strange.
Such a discovery made Liu Cheng confused for a while.
Did you say something wrong?
Why do people look at me so strangely?
"Emperor, uncle emperor, do you really charge, charge 30%?"
After a while of this, someone finally spoke, breaking the somewhat eerie silence.
The person who spoke was Li Su.
It's just that Li Su, who has always been a sharp-tongued person, was unable to speak at this time and was stammering.
After Li Su asked this question, the rest of the people present also turned their gazes over.
Obviously, what Li Su asked was the voice of all of them.
When Liu Cheng saw this movement, he immediately understood that people like Li Su were stunned by the high profits!
It’s right to think about it, after all, this is 30% of the income!
Moreover, as long as you pay for the first year, you don’t have to invest anymore in the future, but you can continue to collect it.
With such huge profits and benefits, it is normal for them to react like this!
"Well, that's 30%!"
Liu Cheng nodded heavily and said with full certainty.
My heart was filled with a deep sense of joy for a while.
However, this feeling of relief did not last long, because Liu Cheng soon knew the truth of the matter!
These guys don't think that the 30% extraction is too high and the benefits are too high, but that it is too low!
Not only Li Su, but also people like Xu Huang, Liao Hua, and Zhao Yun, who have endured hardship and lived a hard life, also feel that the charges are low.
They generally feel that charging half of the income from farming is already kind enough.
Not only will the people not feel angry, they will also be grateful.
As for Li Su, a guy with a dark heart, he even suggested charging 70%!
Such remarks immediately stunned Liu Cheng, feeling that many things in his heart had been subverted.
After some explanations from these guys, Liu Cheng realized that by this time, the taxes and taxes of the Han Dynasty were already in chaos!
The taxes stipulated on the surface are not much, but they cannot withstand all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes with clever names!
Moreover, in addition to various exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, another terrible thing is that the head tax (poll tax) is collected according to the official population of each state!
In the last years, the population loss was serious, many people were annexed by powerful families, and many people went into the mountains to become rogue bandits.
These taxes, as well as other miscellaneous taxes, are collected normally.
Officials who collected taxes naturally did not dare to collect taxes from those powerful people, so they transferred them to the rest of the people.
Originally, these taxes only needed to be paid once a year. However, now, if a place collects taxes seven or eight times a year, this is not an act that requires a thunderbolt from heaven at all, but a kind of behavior.
It is extremely beneficial to the people!
Because the most common situation in the world is that the tax is collected twenty or thirty times a year, or even fifty or sixty times!
If a place cannot collect twenty or thirty times of tax, it would be hard to call it the land of the Han Dynasty!
These exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes have led to many disastrous consequences. One of the direct effects is that a large number of abandoned babies have appeared in various places.
Therefore, abandoned baby means an abandoned baby on the surface.
She paid too much in taxes and had no money left at home. In order to survive and not make the already poor family worse, she had no choice but to reluctantly throw away her newborn child...
After learning about these situations, Liu Cheng couldn't help but feel filled with emotion.
In later generations, he complained more than once that life was too stressful, that it was not easy to live, and that he had all kinds of troubles.
However, compared with the life that ordinary people live now, the life that I complained about in the past is simply like heaven!!
Ordinary people in this era would never dream of white-flour steamed buns, eggs, etc. In their eyes, if they could eat them once or twice a month, they were already very extraordinary things. In later generations, they have become the most common food.
exist.
Some people often think these are not delicious.
There are also many people who, for the sake of their own health and body shape, skip meat and eat vegetables that are low in oil and salt...
Sure enough, happiness comes from comparison.
In the past, in later generations, Liu Cheng felt that his life was mediocre and not as good as many people around him. Now when he compares it with the people at the bottom of this era, it's hard to tell how much higher he is than them!
It has completely become a life that they could not even imagine in their dreams, and they have become what people of this era call 'other people's children'...
After some comparison, Liu Cheng was filled with emotion.
"Forty percent, just forty percent, no more! We always have to give the people a way out, we always have to let them accumulate some wealth in their hands, so that they can have the ability to deal with diseases and disasters..."
Liu Cheng sighed and said with emotion.
Hearing what Liu Cheng said, Zhao Yun and Xu Huang walked out almost at the same time and saluted Liu Cheng extremely respectfully: "The emperor's uncle has such a heart, which is really a blessing to the people. The people will definitely remember the emperor's kindness. No,
I will forget your uncle..."
Seeing this, Hua Xiong, Li Jin, and Liao Hua followed suit.
Seeing this, Li Su felt that the emperor's uncle was too kind and the charge was too low, but he still followed the others and bowed to Liu Cheng without saying anything more on this matter.
This matter is settled.
After Liu Cheng discussed some details with the generals here, he began to announce the matter to the people of the eleven villages...
