Three Kingdoms

  Chapter 246 Drain from the bottom

  Li Ru's mobility is undoubtedly top-notch. After getting Fei Qian's iron card, he immediately implemented it...

  When the Son of Heaven has been a myth for hundreds of years, the certificate issued in the name of the Son of Han is undoubtedly sacred and has a high degree of credibility.

  Especially on the iron plate, the vividly depicted patterns are even more attractive to those illiterate farmers.

  What are ordinary people pursuing?

  Everything is fully reflected in the pattern on the iron plate.

   This dream thing, which my ancestors have devoted their whole lives to, can't get it. Now I just need to move to Guanzhong, six hundred miles away, and it will become a reality!

  The tax and service system that was distributed to grassroots farmers in the Han Dynasty was actually very terrible. Usually, an ordinary self-cultivator needs to pay money and grain to the Han Dynasty state in three aspects:

One is the tax, which is not too high. In the early Han Dynasty, the tax was set at 15, and after Emperor Jing, it was set to 1 at the 30th. It has been used until now, that is, the land is owned by the state, and the tax must be paid when the land is produced, but The tax is really not high...

  The second is the counting tax. Unlike the light rent tax, the counting tax has been increasing continuously. All people, as long as they are 15 to 56 years old, must pay "burden money", 120 yuan per person is a "calculation", which is used as a fee for the management of the treasury. For example, merchants and slave cards are counted twice; women who are not married at the age of 15-30 are 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, each person is 20 yuan per year...

   The third is corvee service, the most common one is border guard service, that is, there must be three days in a year to go to the border for free.

For the population who themselves live on the edge of the border, this kind of corvee is not a big deal, but just imagine a farmer far away in Jingxiang asking him to bring his own food and weapons, and to pay for his own travel expenses to Bingzhou, or even Youzhou and Liangzhou go to the border for three days and then come back...

  So it is basically unrealistic, so there is a "passing" money for the garrison, 300 cash a year...

   In addition, there are temporary "military transfers", "mouth restraints", etc., so in fact, it is very difficult for the owner-peasants to work **** their own land to obtain a balance of income and expenditure for the entire family.

Chao Cuo's "On Gui Sushu": "...Nowadays, in a family of five farmers, there are no fewer than two people who serve as servants, and those who can cultivate are no more than a hundred acres, and the harvest of a hundred acres is no more than a hundred stones... Spring can't avoid wind and dust, summer can't avoid office In the heat, you can’t avoid the rain in autumn, and you can’t avoid the cold and freezing in winter...Though you work so hard, you are still plagued by floods and droughts...Therefore, there are people who sell their fields and houses, and sell their children and grandchildren to pay off their debts..."

Therefore, in fact, at the end of the Han Dynasty, a large number of lands were annexed. The most fundamental reason was that these self-cultivating farmers living at the bottom, perhaps helpless, or took the initiative to become powerful vassals, resulting in a further reduction in the taxes that could have been collected. Adding taxes has led to the bankruptcy of the remaining farmers, a vicious circle...

  So now, in the Heluo area, there are not many so-called self-cultivated farmers with a family of five who can maintain their own lives. Most of them are vassals in the countryside, under the local gentry, and have become hermits...

  Some have even been working for these rural tyrants and gentry for generations.

  So one can imagine the mixed feelings of restlessness, fear and joy when this impoverished vassal peasant household suddenly had such an opportunity to obtain such attractive wealth in a blink of an eye.

  This kind of emotion is like a spreading plague, and it has infected the surrounding areas of Luoyang in a blink of an eye. The most affected is 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 they are vassals of other gentry tycoons related to the Yang family, so when Li Ru began to promote the iron card of Feiqian At the time of the plan, the entire Yang family seemed to have encountered a major earthquake, and even some old guys who were sitting at home watching the changes in the situation 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 five cauldron cooking!" Yuan Kai also rarely expressed his attitude clearly, perhaps because the Yang family and the Yuan family have the same interests, or because this move hurts too much, "Li Ru, a traitor ! Really hateful!"

Although Feiqian has just been awarded the title of Minister of the Left Office, most people think that this is Dong Zhuo's move to treat Cai Yong preferentially. In addition, Dong Zhuo has also promoted many rural nobles recently, such as Xun Shuang. Yijie Baiding was promoted to Sikong of the third company, so for the time being, he didn't pay much attention to Fei Qian, a small official with a size of four hundred shi.

  Yuan Wei, Yang Biao, and others still think that the introduction of a policy is the work of Li Ru.

Yang Biao also gritted his teeth and said: "This move is to break our foundation! It's a poisonous plan!" This time Yang Biao came to Yuan Kai specifically for the purpose of seeking cooperation with the Yuan family. If the Nongyang family is allowed to develop, even if the Hongnong Yang family can stay in Sili, what's the point without the farmers?

   Is it impossible to let the pampered old man of the Yang family also go to the fields to do farm work? Even if you go to other places to absorb refugees, one is that there is not enough time, and if you can't catch up with the spring plowing, it will be abandoned for at least a year; second, what if these refugees are tempted again? Don't you make wedding dresses for others?

  So Yang wanted 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 it a little. If he had known, he would not have resigned so early. Originally thought that he took the lead to withdraw most of the officials from the Heluo area, which was tantamount to drawing salary from the bottom of the pot for moving the capital, which would inevitably force Dong Zhuo and Li Ru to slow down and struggle, but I didn't expect Li Ru to turn back and use this now. One move, it was like a knife slashing at the vital point of the Yang family, the pain was unbearable.

   Now Yang Biao came to seek help from the Yuan family who was still in the officialdom. In order not to let Dong Zhuo find out, he even went into Yuan's mansion from the side door through Jianqu without hesitation.

Yuan Kai held the iron plate and looked at it. Now the official appearance is no longer the original simple appearance. Not only are there more complicated pattern decorations on the edges, but it is obviously slightly modified and polished after pouring the mold, and it is still in the original blank. The explanatory text and Henan Yin's big seal are engraved on the back, which is tantamount to guaranteeing the iron plate in the name of the official.

   And now the distribution of this iron plate has completely bypassed the low-level officials of Yuan Yang and other factions. All of them were registered and distributed by the military scribes in Xiliang, and they couldn’t find the target if they tried to do something...

  Yuan Wei put the iron plate on the table, raised his palm, and slashed on the words on the iron plate like a knife, saying: "The only solution now is to draw from the bottom of the pot..."

   It rained in the morning, it was as cold as winter, and the sun came out in the afternoon, and it turned into summer in seconds... Some people say that the weather in Chongzuo is like a Vietnamese girl, but I don't know why...

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   PS: I have a lot of debts, let me hurry up these few days, but I really don’t have much time... Come on, come on...

  (end of this chapter)