Chen Mu left Luoyang. At that time, he disliked the horse's slow running, so he carried the horse and ran back to Jizhou overnight.
When Liu Bei returned from the locust plague, he looked confused.
Why did my fourth brother suddenly disappear?
Fortunately, a guard stayed and gave an explanation, and Chen Mu also left a letter, urging Liu Bei to abandon his official position and go home, so that he could make plans in advance.
Regarding his fourth brother's words, Liu Bei hesitated for more than ten days before submitting a letter of resignation and preparing to return to Youzhou.
After all, he is no longer an official in Jinan, so his family members have now returned to Youzhou.
The reason why he hesitated for so long before resigning was not because he cherished this official position, but because now he was truly passionate and full of the desire to serve the country. He wanted to serve the country and dedicate himself to the country.
Moreover, Chen Mu did not state the reason in the letter, but simply told him that Luoyang would soon become a place of right and wrong and asked him not to stay.
If it weren't for his trust in his fourth brother, Liu Bei would have burned this letter as a hoax to deceive the public.
So after hesitating for more than ten days, he submitted a letter to resign.
As a result, Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty was furious and refused to resign, insisting that he continue to be the Yin of Henan.
Perhaps in the eyes of Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty, as long as Liu Bei was kept, Chen Mu would have to come back sooner or later in the future.
Although Liu Bei was confused and didn't understand what happened in the middle, he had no choice but to continue to stay in Sili and serve as the Yin of Henan.
I just followed Chen Mu's advice in the letter. If I can't resign, I should go to other places more often and don't stay in Luoyang.
And at this time, with more than a month of fermentation, some small-scale turmoil appeared in the Han Dynasty, as Chen Mu expected.
The first thing to happen was Youzhou.
Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty thought that as long as the oral calculation and taxation in the world were cancelled, and only land taxes were collected, it would be a blessing to the people, and there would be no turmoil among the people.
But he ignored one problem.
That is to say, canceling oral calculations and tax calculations will indeed reduce the burden on the people. The prerequisite is that the people have to rest and recuperate and cannot continue to collect taxes continuously.
Why did Chen Mu divide the eleven states of the Han Dynasty into three sections to collect taxes, and collect taxes only once every three years?
It is because there is no need to pay taxes at all during the two years. In these two years, people can accumulate a certain amount of wealth. In the third year, even if they have to pay heavy taxes, they can still survive on the savings of the first two years.
But now?
You only collected taxes from Youzhou once last year, and you want to do it again this year. The powerful family has a great business, and it may be able to sustain it for a while. What will the farmers do?
For a time, many homesteaders without savings went bankrupt and returned to the situation before the Yellow Turban Rebellion.
The Youzhou Yellow Turbans were not completely wiped out, but after Zhang Jiao failed, they ran back to the countryside of Youzhou and continued to be farmers.
For example, during Zhang Chun's rebellion, he had thought about these Youzhou Yellow Turbans, but only a few applied for them.
But now, as Cheng Zhiyuan and Deng Mao raised their arms, more than 100,000 Youzhou Yellow Turbans instantly rose up and attacked the city. Soon the Youbei Army and Yuyang County fell, and the Youzhou Yellow Turbans began to invade Zhuo County.
Next came Liangzhou. Han Sui went into hiding after his last defeat. Now he saw riots in various places in Liangzhou because of tax collection, and they immediately rekindled and started a turmoil.
You know, during the Han Dynasty, not only ordinary people had to pay taxes, but even the ethnic minorities who sheltered the Han court also had to pay taxes.
For example, the Qiang Rebellion in Longyou, the Wuhuan Rebellion in Liaodong, and the Yi Rebellion in Jiaozhou were all related to the excessive expropriation by local governors.
For example, the Qiang Rebellion first started during the period of Emperor Han'an of the Han Dynasty. At that time, the Han people discriminated against the Qiang people very seriously. They not only bullied and oppressed them in every possible way, but also forced them to pay heavy taxes, perform corvee labor, and perform military service.
All these things were tolerated, but when the then Cavalry Commander Wang Hong went to the Western Regions, he forced the local Qiang soldiers to follow him, without providing them with weapons and equipment, without paying them wages, and also asked them to bring their own horses and weapons, making them work in vain.
They simply don’t treat the Qiang people as human beings.
This resulted in the first large-scale Qiang rebellion in the history of the Eastern Han Dynasty. At the same time, this Qiang rebellion was also an epic war that lasted for 11 years and cost a total of 24 billion military expenditures.
Then came the opportunity of the governors of Bingzhou and Youzhou during the period of Emperor Shun of the Han Dynasty. Liu Bing and Liu Bing were cruel officials. They imposed excessive taxes and continued to exploit the Qiang people unscrupulously. It is said that if the Qiang people at that time were not satisfied with the two, they would immediately destroy their families and exterminate them.
, the entire clan will be slaughtered.
Under such ferocity and violence, the Qiang people resisted again, causing the second large-scale Qiang rebellion.
This Qiang rebellion lasted until the period of Emperor Huan of the Han Dynasty. It was not until Sanming in Liangzhou that the rebellion was suppressed one after another, and finally ended. The military expenditure was 4.4 billion.
In addition to the Qiang Rebellion, which had the greatest impact on the Han Dynasty, the same was also true for the Jiaozhou Barbarian Rebellion.
Zhu Fu, the former governor of Jiaozhou, violently conquered the barbarians, causing the local mountain people in Jiaozhou to resist and killed him.
Chen Mu also handled this matter before, persuading Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty not to send troops to Jiaozhou and to let the new governor of Jiaozhou focus on appeasing him.
Including the Wuhuan rebellion, it was also because the Han Dynasty always made them work for nothing, defaulted on their wages, and also imposed taxes on them.
These incidents are all written in the history books. The world has only seen how miserable the Han people were when the Five Husbands invaded China. But they have not seen that before the Five Husbands destroyed China, the ethnic minorities around the Han Dynasty were also oppressed by the Han Dynasty.
How pitiful it must be.
As the saying goes, you can learn from those who have gone before and learn from those behind you.
Over the years, when Liu Yu was in power, Youzhou focused on appeasement, and the situation was much better. The situation in Liangzhou has been more than ten times better than before since Han Sui's defeat two years ago and when Gai Xun took office.
But now Emperor Ling of the Han Dynasty has given an order to force the governors and governors of various places to collect taxes. Even if the current governor of Liangzhou Gai Xun has the power to reach heaven, there is nothing he can do because the emperor has sent eunuchs and Xiyuan soldiers to supervise. Anyone who does not obey the order will be punished.
The arrest was immediately dismissed and he was imprisoned.
Gai Xun had no choice, so what else could the prefects in Liangzhou do? Of course, they forced the people to pay. Not only the Han people in Liangzhou, but also the already poor Qiang people had to pay.
As a result, the Han Sui Kingdom and other interested people took advantage of their prestige among the Qiang people to immediately raise a banner of rebellion against the imperial court, and soon swept Liangzhou.
The same is true for Jiaozhou. Although Zhang Jin, the newly appointed governor of Jiaozhou, focuses on appeasing him, there is nothing he can do about it because of the king's orders.
So the barbarians in Jiaozhou soon rebelled again. Zhang Jin could not resist, so he had to flee back to Luoyang in embarrassment.
Qingzhou and Bingzhou have not had any trouble yet.
It's not that these two states are not rebellious, but the Qingzhou Yellow Turbans who were originally supposed to be rebellious in Qingzhou were wiped out by Chen Mu and Liu Bei, so it is the local tyrants in Qingzhou who are going to cause trouble.
But the Qingzhou tycoon was afraid of being killed by Chen Mu. He was hesitant between paying the money obediently and resisting. He wanted to take action but dared not take action.
As for Bingzhou, only Shangdang, Taiyuan and Yanmen are currently in the hands of the imperial court.
The armies of Huangfu Song and Ding Yuan are still there in these three places.
Even if the powerful officials from the three counties wanted to take action, they still had to consider whether they were Huangfu Song Dingyuan's opponents.
Therefore, Bingzhou's tycoons could only grit their teeth and endure it, taking no action for the time being.
The last month of the fifth year of Zhongping came to an end amid all the hustle and bustle.
However, it seems that the border disputes that have subsided for a year or two are resurrecting, and the situation of the Yellow Turban Rebellion is about to reappear.
The smart people in the world can already vaguely sense that a great chaos may be coming.