"When things have reached this point, we can no longer give up if we want to!" Fatty Liu glanced back and forth at everyone, "You are just willing to risk the inheritance of your ancestors in your hands!"
"I'm not willing to do it anyway!"
"Liu Bei's hostility towards our family is engraved in his bones. Look at his series of actions. First he decentralized power, then he attacked the status of the sons of my family. He deliberately spread books to make us and our scholars equal to traffickers and pawns. Now
, it seems like the population is just migrating, but what is the biggest impact?"
Fatty Liu looked around at everyone and said word by word: "It's land!"
As soon as these words came out, everyone took a deep breath.
"Think about it, without these ordinary people, if we don't want a lot of land under our name to be abandoned, then we can only surrender to Liu Bei and become the laughing stock of the scholars from now on, or we can only move away from our homeland, but no matter what
, I don’t think it’s what you want to see!”
In today's industrial social system, it is illegal to abandon land. What's more, under the agricultural social system in ancient times, if you dare to abandon the land in your name, at least the land will be taken back, and at worst, you will be charged.
In addition, no matter whether you are planting this land or not, you cannot pay a penny less in taxes. If it was fine in the days of the Han Dynasty, the control was not strong, and tax evasion has become a common practice, but now...
Taxes alone can make families like them miserable.
Of course, you can also sell all the land under your name to the government. After all, Liu Bei previously expressed that he wanted to acquire land from them, but doing so is not much different from moving south. In addition, Liu Bei must still return the land now.
I am willing to purchase land!
As long as Wang Xuan is given an excuse to abandon the situation, they won't be able to just flatten and round it out by Wang Xuan.
"Mr. Liu, tell me what to do, we will listen to you!" someone shouted from below.
"Yes, we listen to Mr. Liu!"
Fatty Liu showed a satisfied smile and said loudly: "We are contacting various aristocratic families in Jizhou, Youzhou, Bingzhou and even Nanyang. When the time comes..."
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During this migration, most of them were completed in Jizhou itself, and a small number were settled in Youzhou. Because they were all well-developed areas, they did not cause much damage during the migration process.
As a large number of people poured into the newly established industrial and mining sites, the progress of all projects was greatly accelerated. A steady stream of iron ore and coal were mined, steel was smelted, cement was produced, and by the way,
With Jizhou as the center, various infrastructures began to be laid on a large scale.
The first thing that started was large-scale road paving and the construction of new towns. More than 200,000 people invested in this major project.
On this day, Su Shuang, who was in charge of the Commerce Department under Liu Bei, came to visit.
Speaking of Su Shuang, in fact, Su Shuang is also a descendant of the Su family, but just a collateral branch of the Su family.
Su Shuang was smart and studious since he was a child, but due to his background, he was not provided with the educational resources of the Su family. Not to mention that the Su family paid a price for him to follow the filial piety system and enter the officialdom. After he became an adult, he entered the Su family.
The caravan has an outstanding vision and is well-versed in dealing with people. He gradually became famous among the caravan and climbed up step by step.
During the Yellow Turban Rebellion, Liu Bei was supported by Liu Bei. Although he pretended to imitate Lu Buwei's investment in Qin Shihuang, in fact, he did it casually and did not really think that Liu Bei, who weaved mats and sold shoes, would really be what he is today.
Unexpectedly, his random actions back then would lead to his current status, and he would completely break away from the Su family and become ambitious to establish his own Su family.
"Zi Zhi, the Commerce Department found some bad signs." Sitting next to Wang Xuan, Su Shuang frowned and said, although under Wang Xuan's promotion, everyone realized the huge role of industry and commerce, but really want to say
It is impossible to reverse hundreds of years of inherent knowledge at once, not to mention that this commercial agency is almost original, and everything is still being explored.
"Oh, what's the problem?" Wang Xuan suddenly became interested. If the Commercial Department could feel that there was a problem, then it would definitely be big.
"The price of grain on the market has increased by 40%, and the shipment volume has also dropped a lot. I feel that if this continues, there may be problems."
"The prices of many other items including cattle, sheep, cloth, etc. have increased to varying degrees. At the same time, data reported from various places show that shipments have also decreased to varying degrees. It is expected that although commercial taxes will not rise in a short period of time due to price increases,
There will be some changes, but my subordinates always feel uneasy."
Wang Xuan's eyes flickered a few times, and he probably had a guess in his mind, "What does your Commerce Department think of this issue? Tell us about the results of your discussion."
"Almost everyone believes that it is due to population migration that there are problems with the autumn harvest. Grain production has declined, which has radiated to the market. This has led to an increase in the prices of related products. It is a panic caused by a hard problem. It can be seen from Qingxu and Qingxu.
We can adjust the situation by transporting some grain from the ground." Su Shuang said with a frown.
"Oh, the analysis makes some sense, but I think it is more likely to be a man-made disaster!" Wang Xuan said with a sneer.
"What!?" Su Shuang looked at Wang Xuan in surprise, and thought of something in a flash, "Man-made disaster? Zai Zhi means it was intentionally controlled by aristocratic families from all over the world? Was it caused by deliberately reducing the number of goods on the market?"
"That's what you said!" Wang Xuan curled his lips and continued: "When you took control of the Su family's business, you should have known the power that the Su family could use. This world is said to be composed of scholars, farmers, industry and commerce. In fact, agriculture, industry and commerce are basically controlled by scholars.
, it is simply impossible for a simple businessman to develop and grow, including the Mi family, which is also a local powerhouse."
"So, it is rare for agriculture, industry and commerce to have problems, but if there is any problem as a whole, it must be caused by the aristocratic family." After saying that, Wang Xuan stood up and walked towards the door, "Since they have taken action again, let's
I have to continue.”
Under the auspices of Wang Xuan, the Commerce Department, Agriculture Department, and Taxation Department cooperated with the intelligence department and began to conduct investigations throughout Hebei to find out how much land each family owned, what crops they planted, how much they harvested, how much taxes they should pay, and how much they actually paid.
How much is in stock, where is it in stock, etc.
Half a month later, the price of food has nearly tripled, and the prices of other related commodities have also become extremely outrageous for no reason. Since all factories and mines in various places adopt the "salary" system, without any change in wages, commodity prices
The sharp rise has caused great panic in various places.
And the masterminds behind all this are watching with interest, just waiting for the people's resentment to boil over, that's when they will take action to turn the tide!