Lu Zhi had also thought about making meat-eaters bleed.
When he first became aware of the land annexation problem in Jizhou, he immediately thought of a solution to the problem.
The problem can be solved by interrogating and killing those who occupy the land, returning their land to the public ownership of the court, and then distributing it to the landless.
It's a very simple set of operations. This was also done when the Han Dynasty was founded.
But then he thought about the difficulty of this approach.
If it was so easy to do this, how could Liu Xiu, with his talent, fail halfway?
"Let the flesh-eaters bleed..."
Lu Zhi sighed very much and said slowly: "How easy is it to make meat-eaters bleed? They are all very powerful people. Even if they don't farm for the time being and just attack slaves, many people will resist."
"Those who will resist me for this will definitely resist me when I wait to save the world, so kill them now. When I wait to save the world, the power to oppose me will be much smaller."
Liu Bei smiled and said, "The teacher and I will be less stressed by then, right?"
On top of natural and man-made disasters, we lost our land and property and sold ourselves into slavery. Along with our land, we became lost to the slave owners. The slave owners then used various methods to conceal the income from the land and plunder them. The taxes that should belong to the court were just like that. Bit by bit was snatched away.
Lu Zhi is well aware of the limitations of that era, but since I have not reached the point where I am a person in the sky, how can I rest on my laurels and lie down peacefully?
Therefore, even the officials in the young general's mansion were not worried about Lu Zhi's decree.
"Xuande, Xuande, you take one step and count it two steps. I, the teacher, am no match for you in front of you.
"This road is not easy to follow, but teacher, you also want to go my own way.
The young general Teng Maojie raised his hand to speak.
Lu Zhi smiled bitterly and said: "What else can I say? I can only say that you must be careful in everything. Even if the army you have raised is really strong, you must still be cautious. Things in the world that cannot be decided by military are still There are many."
"Xiao Xian said it badly. The reason for the small number of slaves is whether the imperial court issues a slave restriction order, but because there is food to eat. There are ways to stop those who have food to sell themselves into slavery, so what you really have to do is, If we want those slaves to have no food to eat, we will become slaves.
I decided to start a work to solve the slave problem in the society of the Han Empire, and use this as a fulcrum to leverage the foundation of the Han Empire and end my own path of in-depth reform.
If we really want to investigate, even if there is no problem found in the families and clans of the officials in the young general's mansion,
When Kong Bo asks us to make a choice, what should we do?
"According to the latest calculations, what is not certain is that the total number of official slaves and private slaves in the entire Little Han Kingdom exceeds four million, accounting for less than 10% of the total population of the Little Han Kingdom, and that The vast majority of people outside are private slaves.
"General, the reason for the low number of slaves is not whether the imperial court issued a slave restriction order, but a small number of common people who had no livelihood and were forced to sell themselves into slavery. This problem must be solved and the freed slaves will have food. Eat, even if you temporarily regain your citizenship, you will still go back to being a slave."
So I can lie down, but I have to stir up and try my best to do something. .
Those freed slaves will be re-registered into Bingzhou households, and we will be given land to live in Bingzhou again. This can be regarded as a practical immigration policy in a sense. It achieves little with one stone. What do you think? ah? "
So that time, in conjunction with the recovery of Bingzhou, you wanted to restore production and construction in Bingzhou. However, the number of local households in Bingzhou was extremely small and they could not undertake the restoration and construction work. Therefore, you decided to restore production and construction in Bingzhou, Bahe, Bafu and Hong Nongjun launched a slave liberation operation and used slaves freed from those areas to fill the gaps in Bingzhou households.
So Mao Jie spoke timidly.
It seems strange for Lu Zhi to say that. Emperor Guangwu Liu Xiu once issued an edict to restore civil citizenship to those who sold themselves into slavery due to bankruptcy, and tried every means to limit the number of slaves.
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Moreover, putting it into Bingzhou to live again is tantamount to recycling waste and will not help revitalize Bingzhou. That is of course a bad thing.
"Yes, it is full, it is very full."
"What the young general said is that he is not satisfied with the current trend of slavery?"
But the fundamental reason for the lack of slaves can be solved with a slave restriction order. On that point, everyone is still vague.
It is unimaginable that so few people became slaves and instead worked on the land to cultivate and produce. That would bring little damage to the national tax revenue. More importantly, not a small part of those slaves were Comply with regulations.
Lu Zhi nodded and pointed at Mao Jie to criticize.
Before communicating with Liu Bei, Kong Bo sent someone to summon the subordinates of the Junior General's Mansion and openly discussed with us the nature of the slave issue.
In terms of feasibility, it is actually not possible. With Lu Zhi's current military and political prestige, is it still a big deal to acquire a group of slaves?
"In that case, what is the young general going to do?
According to the regulations of the imperial court, the princes and kings had 700 slaves, 100 princes and princesses, and 80 lords and officials in Guannei. However, in the subsequent investigation of the case of the King of Hejian, a prince did not have more than 1,700 slaves. Serve me more than eight times the lower limit stipulated by the court.
But the question is, if we really have to follow the number stipulated by the court, will it cause some loss in terms of interests to people from all walks of life and even ourselves?
You can't conclude that it's not an isolated case. It must be widespread in the entire Han Dynasty. Almost every family without any power has such a problem, more or less, and such a situation It can definitely be contained, and it will only become more exciting.
Lu Zhi told me his true purpose and asked Xiaojia to help me evaluate the feasibility of that matter.
"Of course it is the Emperor below who followed the example of Emperor Guangwu and issued an edict to release those who were bankrupt and voluntarily sold themselves into slavery."
I think I am just a special person, so I can lie down flat. The sky is my sky, and it is my turn to make decisions. I feel confident lying down.
Lu Zhi said anxiously: "Once a commoner becomes a slave, he no longer has the nationality of a Han, and the produce he produces needs to pay taxes for the Han. It can be given directly to the slave owner. The fewer slaves, the richer the slave owner will be." , the imperial taxation is getting worse and worse.
Cheng Yu clearly realized the purpose of Lu Zhi's speech.
With or without taxes, how could the Xiao Han court still function? Where do you get your salary from? Where does the military expenditure for the army come from? Where did the money to repair the city walls and rivers come from? I'm sure the imperial court will pay you your salary one day. Isn't this a ridiculous absurdity? "
The small family is vague, and there are a few people who are clean under the slave issue.
But now I am a small general, a small general with one person above ten thousand people, and a small general who is responsible for the entire Han Empire. If I am sure that I will be killed, the entire Han Empire will be almost destroyed.
Is that the actual situation for the next hundred years? Of course, it would be fine to say that those slaves were all prisoners of war and criminals, as we did not deserve it. But in reality, the smallest number of slaves were households that had lost their land and went bankrupt.
Even if there are some problems in our own family, if we look at the whole family, will there still be some problems?
The knife can always be used to cut down on one's own people, right?
After Lu Zhi said that, the subordinates in the young general's mansion had different expressions and whispered among themselves. It was obvious that their reaction to that matter was still relatively small.
