The impact of the slave restriction order on the world at first was not small, but because it was implemented with greater flexibility, it did not cause any resistance throughout the world.
The previous wave of people who were unwilling to accept the slave restriction order set off a wave of resistance. At that time, most people looked on with cold eyes and felt that there was no need to confront the imperial court and lose their lives for some slaves.
As a result, that wave of resistance was eliminated, and what followed was a series of court actions to suppress the joy of the three tribes. More than a million slaves were released, and the rest were basically silenced.
Many people think that after the slave restriction order, Liu Bei's sexy operations will be over, but who would have thought that Liu Bei still had a back-up plan.
Whenever the local forces feel that Liu Bei's operations are close to the bottom line of his character, he can always easily break the bottom line and tell everyone - I can make holes!
Therefore, those who survived and did not resist can now be said to be quite regretful.
At that time, I felt that there were no servants, and they had not touched the bottom line that they could not give in to. Just hire people. It was nothing more than the difference between making more and making less. Anyway, the new emperor had three fires when he took office. Let him burn, burn. If it burns, the fire will be extinguished.
But now this serious tax collection, the more land, the higher the tax level, the higher the tax amount, the highest can be 45%, which is simply cutting off their limbs with an ax and bleeding them, then The blood flowed out like a fountain.
Either pay taxes or sell the land to the government. In their opinion, this is no different from robbery. It just sounds better and makes the court look less like a robber.
Can this be tolerated?
They couldn't stand it anymore.
They had no choice but to resist and let the court know how powerful they were, in exchange for a compromise from the court.
But when they were ready to resist, this group of people found that it was difficult for them to organize enough manpower and material resources.
All because of that damn slave restriction order.
Although the slave restriction order was very flexible in execution, it was very strict for families with no official connections. Therefore, many people at that time secretly criticized the imperial court for bullying and fearing toughness.
As a result, they now realize that the court is not bullying the weak and afraid of the strong, but wants them all, but there is an order of execution.
After the slave restriction order, quite a few small and medium-sized landowning families lost a large number of slaves, so much so that in some places, the number of legal slaves that a large family with thousands of acres of land could actually produce was only fifty or sixty.
This was done only after the whole family, old and young, went into battle together and bound three slaves to one person.
Those with more than a hundred servants in their homes are only a handful of large families with a large number of people. Dozens of families tied together can only make up more than a thousand people, which is not a deterrent at all.
At this moment, those who replaced the slaves were all free laborers who were paid.
After the slave restriction order, the large landowners' demand for farm laborers began to surge. They and their remaining slaves could not afford such large agricultural production needs, so they hired excess labor everywhere to help work in their own fields.
And the only people who can come to help them with work during this period are the individual labor provided by a few owner-peasant families with excess labor at home, and the collective farms as a whole come out to take the work.
The situation of collective farms coming out to solicit work was relatively rare before the Slavery Restriction Order, but it was still relatively common after the Slavery Restriction Order.
Because not every place has many engineering and construction projects that require the efforts of collective farms, and under the coordinated farming model, it is normal for a farm to allocate some of its staff to go out to work and make money.
Originally, this was one of the advantages of the collective farm model to attract people to join.
We all work together to find out, which relieves personal worries about survival issues to a considerable extent.
The big landowners had needs, and there was a labor force in the collective farms, so everyone put it together and found that the internal agricultural affairs did not require so much manpower to be fully dedicated, and some of the manpower could be allocated to earn extra money.
So everyone asked the court representatives to serve as representatives of the farms and negotiate with the big landowners about wages and working hours.
In terms of wages, it is definitely not the turn of the big landowners to pay them arbitrarily. The court representatives will ask the big landowners to sign contracts in their official capacity, clearly stipulating the wage quota, and they will also have to go to the government for notarization and introduce the link of government management.
After that, they have to take care of drinking water and three meals a day. Farm tools and other things are also provided by the big landowners. The managers of the big landlords' houses can't beat or scold the farmhands. If they beat or scold the farmhands, the farmhands can give up their work at any time. If they are beaten, If someone is hurt, the government will hold the landlord accountable and pay compensation.
The big landowners were stunned by these conditions.
When had they ever been so angry?
A bunch of idiots dare to ask me for three meals a day?
They deliberately refused to accept it and wanted to find cheaper and high-quality labor. As a result, the surrounding collective farms were united and communicated with each other. They resolutely opposed the involution behavior of lowering prices and unanimously safeguarded the interests of farmers.
Individual farmers in a few villages cannot provide that much young labor force. Seeing that they have no choice, the big landowners can only bite the bullet and sign contracts with collective farms in exchange for laborers to help farm. Otherwise, they will watch the land lie there. .
Although there are some big landowners who just don’t want to pay and don’t want to be angry with the collective farms, so they just let the land lie there uncultivated. Anyway, there was no land transfer order before. They paid a symbolic tax, and if they don’t cultivate the land, they don’t cultivate it. With this income, they also have strong survival capital.
Better than being ripped off by a collective farm.
But they didn't expect that the land was left uncultivated and the government began to play a double act with the collective farms - the government sent people to inquire and asked them why they didn't start farming.
The big landowners complained that the collective farms were too bad and they couldn't afford the hiring price. They had no choice but to leave the land uncultivated in order not to lose money.
After hearing this, the official came to give some of his own opinions in a friendly manner.
Now the imperial court attaches great importance to agricultural harvests. The government also hopes that all land can be used to grow food. It would be a waste if you don’t plant such fertile land here. The government really can’t just watch these fertile lands turn into wasteland.
In this way, if you are afraid of losing money, might you consider letting the government run it?
If you don't farm, then give you two choices, either sell the land to the government, and the government will purchase it at its discretion, and then arrange for people to farm.
If you don't want to, that's fine. You can rent out the land, contract it with the government, and find people to farm the land. The government will be responsible for all operations. They will give you a small share of the profit, or give you 30%, and it won't be considered a loss to you.
The official's tone was soft, but the meaning behind his words was not soft at all.
If you want to leave such a good land uncultivated, there is no way to do it. If you dare to play tricks, don't blame the government for being rude.
Let me check your past land tax issues and servant issues at home. As long as you find out some problems for me, I will kill you!
Don’t use the county magistrate as an official! There are many ways to get you!
Under the threat of the government, some large landowners who wanted to compete with the collective farms couldn't stand it anymore. Under the strong pressure of the government, they had to compromise.
Because there was no guarantee that there would be any problems if the land was handed over to the government for operation, and the 30% profit was really too little, in the end they had no choice but to accept the offer from the collective farm and hire farmers to farm the land.
As a result, a new model of agricultural production in which farmers were hired as farm laborers to farm the fields became popular.
This model began to appear in Guanzhong after the slave restriction order. In just over a year, it spread all over the country. This new type of production and employment phenomenon appeared everywhere in places that were rectified by the slave restriction order.
And because the collective farms belong to a collective, and there are court representatives representing the official power, they have certain bargaining rights and guarantees against the big landlords and powerful people. Therefore, in this link, the collective farms can often obtain better benefits for individual farmers. conditions of.
Big landowners do not dare to harm people in collective farms, lest they attract official intervention and suffer losses. Therefore, under such circumstances, farmers in collective farms often receive higher wages and benefits than individual farmers.
Comparing the two aspects, more and more individual farmers find themselves at a disadvantage, so they discuss joining collective farms when they return home. Finally, more and more individual farmers choose to join collective farms in order to seek better development.
Therefore, after the slave restriction order was promoted for more than a year, the agricultural collectivization process in many places has made a big leap. More than 80% of local farmers have joined collective farms and have organizations.
Therefore, relatively speaking, the number of individual farmers who work for the big landlords and powerful men is far less than the number of collective farm households.
Therefore, in the current situation, most of the people that the big landowners can have the most direct contact with are farmers within the collective farms, and regardless of their status, they are free citizens and have no personal affiliation with the big landowners. Naturally, there is no need to listen to them and work for them.
To put it bluntly, you can make a lot of money by helping these guys do farm work for a few months, but working hard for this little money?
What a beautiful thought!
And among other things, the collective farms were somewhat semi-official in nature.
Each collective farm is managed by government representatives who assist in the management. Many matters related to the county government are handled by government representatives, so they can easily contact the government, and some information from the government can be transmitted to the collectives relatively smoothly. farm.
Moreover, in the literacy campaign, most farmers have learned a lot of words, learned to read and write, and have become literate or semi-literate players. They are no longer blind and ignorant as before. , and rush with all his might as soon as someone incites him to do so.
Now everyone can basically have a full stomach, and can also understand some government decrees and documents. Any news from the county government will be quickly conveyed to the collective farms to ensure that the information is synchronized, so some big Landowners still think farmers are easy to cheat, but in fact the situation is completely different.
Just like the rebellion in Guanghan County, someone in the family of Xie Chong, the county official who wanted to rebel, discussed it and thought that although there were not many slaves to use, those who helped with the work at home could also be used. There were just too many. Just put in some money and some coaxing, and that's it.
However, Xie Chong worked in the county government and had a good understanding of the working model of the collective farms. He knew that the government would immediately notify the collective farms of a lot of news. There were also official representatives in the collective farms who would spread the news to prevent the farmers from being blocked.
He said that the peasants from these collective farms were "unruly people" who were literate and difficult to deceive. They were accustomed to organizations and had a certain sense of trust in the government, so it was difficult to mobilize them.
The targets of incitement and deception should still be the farmers in the villages. Those are the easy fools. Make up a lie to deceive them, give them some benefits, and keep these guys as cannon fodder.
However, some people in the Xie family still think that Xie Chong is exaggerating. A clay-legged person is a clay-legged person. How can he be so smart?
These people did not believe in evil. When Xie Chong organized people to go to the villages to defraud cannon fodder and work for their lives, they sent people to contact the collective farm farmers working in the fields and preached to them the court's "exorbitant taxes" and said that the court was going to punish them. Cruel.
Fifty acres of land will have to pay a 30% tax, and a hundred acres of land will have to pay a 45% tax. If a family has 200 acres of land, 60% of the harvest will have to be given to the court, which is simply unbearable.
Seeing that the host family can no longer survive, they want to lead everyone to resist the tyranny of the court. I wonder if they are willing to follow the host family to resist the tyranny of the court. If they are willing, they will give money and food. If the resistance is successful in the future, there will be a big bowl of wine. Wouldn't it be nice to eat meat together?
As a result, they spoke passionately here, while the farmers listening to them on the other side looked at each other with cold eyes and strange expressions.
The situation seemed very embarrassing.
As the most important decree of the imperial court, the decree on land transfer was immediately conveyed to Dahan prefectures and counties, and then it was quickly disseminated. In less than a month, it was basically conveyed to all prefectures and counties across the country.
The speed of transmission at the local grassroots level can be fast or slow. It is not too fast here in Guanghan County, but it is not too slow either. When the big landowners know the news, the farmers in the collective farms also know it. They also know that the imperial court is preparing to transfer the land. , and there will be land granting in the future.
The representative from Liangzhou sent by the imperial court explained to everyone that Yizhou was a remote state, and although Guanghan County was not a remote county, it also had preferential land allocations.
Guanghan County has a small population, so a man can get about 150 acres of land, and a woman can get 75 acres of land. Based on family calculations, the more people there are, the more land there is.
Nowadays, those who do not have so much land at home can get land allocation regardless of whether they are in the collective farm establishment. Of course, the premise is that the court succeeds in allocating land, so everyone must support the court. In this case, you can There is more land.
As for taxes, the court representative also said that there are eight different levels, and most people are in the first level. The tax is the lowest, which is less than the previously stipulated amount. It can be regarded as a welfare payment by the court to everyone.
Everyone should be grateful.
Well, this is not a strange thing, it is a serious welfare. It can increase more fields, increase income, and reduce taxes. Who wouldn’t be happy?
When you get tangible benefits in your hands, it’s natural to be grateful.
Because they knew about this, the collective farm was full of joy during this period. Everyone was discussing this matter and looking forward to the success of the imperial court's land transfer, and then providing benefits to everyone.
This kind of good thing may not come around for hundreds of years. Now it's our turn. Isn't it a blessing?
As a result, the wealthy and powerful landlord's family is now calling everyone to rebel?
You also said that for fifty acres of land, you have to pay 30% tax?
Should I believe the imperial edict or should I believe your empty words?
I believe you!
Stinky landlord and old money, very bad!
Someone stood up on the spot, pointed at them, and yelled at them, calling them a liar. They said that the imperial notice had been sent to the farm a long time ago, and the imperial representatives had explained to everyone how to pay taxes. How dare they still lie to people now?
Then the farmers drove them away together.
After driving them away, everyone felt that this group of people had an evil background, encouraged everyone to rebel, lied to others, and talked nonsense about the court's policies. There was obviously something wrong with them, so they returned to the farm after work and told the court representatives the news.
When the court representative heard about this, he frowned and felt something was wrong, so he sent someone to tell the county government the news.
The county magistrate also felt that something was wrong, so he sent someone to pass the news to the county government.
So the Guanghan County Government knew about this special situation.
(End of chapter)
