The Three Kingdoms started from fooling Jia Xu

Chapter 146 The family of fried hair, heartache "Subscription"

A few days later, Xiangyang City.

Outside the general's mansion, Chen Qun came quickly, with a joyful expression on his face, and shouted from a long distance: "My lord, the four families of Li, Chang, Chen, and Cheng have all been exterminated, and the heads of the four families are currently on the way to Xiangyang. It will be here soon."

Inside the mansion, Zhang Xiu put down the Chinese book in his hand, showed a cold smile, waved his hands and said in a deep voice: "Go, tell the matter to the Seven Counties of Jingxiang."

"Let's say that the four families have embezzled taxes, and now they have executed all their families. The heads of the four families will be publicly executed in five days, and they are invited to come and watch."

"In addition, it is reported to various places that this year's winter has come earlier, and because of the rugged roads, I can understand that some taxes and grains will be delayed in arriving in Xiangyang."

"Before winter, I will check for deficiencies and make up for omissions. If those who do not declare in advance, once they are found to be corrupt and tax-corrupt, they will all be executed and severely punished."

"That's good, my lord's move is shocking, but let them obediently make up the tax. I'm afraid the county magistrates in various places are busy."

"At that time, my treasury in Jingzhou will definitely be full of money and food, which can be used to buy war horses, iron armor, water boats, and bows and crossbows."

Chen Qun stroked his goatee and said with a light smile.

"By the way, my lord, this raid confiscated tens of thousands of acres of good land, nearly two hundred thousand dendrobium of rice and millet, and more than a hundred boxes of gold, silver and jade. It's really a huge greed."

Chen Qun said with emotion again, these are the people's fat and people's anointing in a county.

"Tsk tsk, you're quite rich." Zhang Xiu twitched the corners of his mouth. The house raid was quite vigorous, and he couldn't help pinching his chin and said, "Chen Qun, if we don't want to catch some of the aristocratic families, how many more should we copy?"

"My lord must not be like this," Jia Xu said hastily, "These four families committed crimes against the wind, and there is more than one death to spare. If my lord uses this as an excuse to massacre all the families, I am afraid that my lord will follow in Dong Zhuo's footsteps."

"Ahem, I'll just say it casually, Wenhe doesn't need to panic." Zhang Xiu pursed the corners of his lips, and said immediately: "Let's just wait and see how much taxes can be paid back from all parts of Jingzhou."

Kuai's house, in the Houfu.

In the twelfth lunar month of winter, I should have slept wrapped in blankets.

However, a piece of news made the whole Jingzhou not peaceful.

In the main hall, Kuai Liang ranks first.

On one side, his younger brother Kuai Yue stood. As for the hall, they were all well-known powerful families in the city. Although not all of them belonged to the seven clans, the rest of them were also powerful.

The atmosphere in the hall is dignified,

Yang Yu couldn't hold back anymore, he stood up against the desk and said firstly, "Brother Kuai, do you still want to drink tea now? Now Zhang Xiu is riding on our necks to shit and piss."

"If things go on like this, is there still a place for our family in Jingzhou?"

"Brother Kuai, we take you as our leader, but Zhang Xiu has made a lot of progress. Although the Li family and the Chen family are being rehabilitated today, will it be us who will be rehabilitated in the future?" Fu Xun also said angrily.

"Hmph, let's not mention the rectification for the time being, those families are looking for their own death. But after he entered Jingzhou, we all wanted to help each other, but he was good enough to give us some false names and never let us interfere in government affairs."

"Let's not talk about it, but the key point is that he let Shi Tao and others take up important positions, and even Zhuge Liang, who was fishing for fame, was invited into the inner palace to entrust him with important responsibilities."

"He made it clear that he wanted to neglect us and the Jingzhou family. If things go on like this, let alone being a minister of the dragon, I'm afraid that even the land of Jingzhou doesn't have the right to speak for us."

Xi Zhen's face was warm and angry, full of anger.

Kuai Liang glanced up at everyone, then slowly put down the teacup, and said in a deep voice, "Heh, there are countless elite soldiers under Zhang Xiu's command, and even the Cai family's military power has been taken back, so what if you are dissatisfied?"

"Yes, but you can't just watch him bully me a little bit like this?" Yang Xie frowned, very dissatisfied.

"That's right, if you let it go like this, it might as well be the other way around." Xi Zhen also snorted coldly.

You know, there are countless disciples under them, and most of these disciples serve as county-level officials. Relying on taxes every year allows them to live a very nourishing life.

Although Zhang Xiu's move didn't target them, they were the ones who suffered the most. If they didn't resist, their income would be cut by more than half.

"It's the other way around? Just relying on the thousands of dead soldiers in your mansion? Is it true that Zhang Xiu has been fighting for so many years?" Kuai Liang snorted coldly.

"Then what do you say? My Yang family spends a lot of money every year. If Zhang Xiu cuts off the taxes from all over the Yang family, how can my Yang family support so many disciples and dead men?"

Yang Yu looked a little annoyed and said angrily.

"That is, my Xi family in Xiangyang City doesn't have much fertile land, and it all depends on the tribute paid by disciples from all over the world. If Zhang Xiu cuts them down, how about letting me wait?"

Xi Zhen should shout.

"Okay," Kuai Liang waved his hand, and immediately shouted: "Zhang Xiu's move is just to scare chickens and monkeys, and he doesn't dare to offend the entire Jingzhou family."

"When you go back this time, let the localities pay some symbolic taxes, at least don't let Zhang Xiu find an excuse, and let's talk about it after these days."

"As for the rebellion, let's get rid of this idea as soon as possible. Zhang Xiu is not like Liu Biao, so we can easily kill him."

After finishing speaking, Kuai Liang said again: "Let's just leave it like this. Zhang Xiu has been strict with the law recently, and told his clansmen not to cause trouble in the near future, otherwise no one will be able to save them if they are killed."

"Hey!" Everyone shook their sleeves and shouted.

They are not satisfied with the results this time, and it seems that they are going to spit out some meat this year.It was still comfortable when Liu Biao was in power, and he turned a blind eye to taxes.

"Brother Kuai, I'll take my leave first!" Everyone clasped their fists together and paced away.

Kuai Liang clasped his fists, turned his head and said at the same time: "Different degrees, send off all the patriarchs for me."

Kuai Yue nodded and stretched out his hand to signal.

Watching the crowd leave, Kuai Liang's pupils darkened, looking at the starry sky outside the mansion, he thought deeply, what Zhang Xiu did was indeed a little too much.

A few days later, the four beheaded.

And around Jingzhou, they received two letters successively.

One is from Xiangyang, and the other is from the people above them. The content is similar, and the meat should be cut out appropriately, not too much, but not too little.

Regarding this, they all complained bitterly, wishing they could eat Zhang Xiu, he was digging their hearts out.

They did not become officials to help the world and save the people, let alone those salaries. If they counted on that little salary, they would starve to death.

What they are counting on is tax corruption. After investigation, they directly conceal the population, so that a large amount of taxes will be left, and with the addition of acres of land, it is not difficult to earn millions of dollars a year.

Excluding handing in, they can earn millions of dollars and tens of thousands of grains, and they are very happy, but they can't be beautiful when they read the letter, they all grit their teeth.

After taking the account book, we checked the fields, population, and taxes successively.Their ledger is up-to-date, including the population and newly cultivated acres.

In the previous calculations, more than [-]% of the corruption in the real sense is more than [-]%, and it is also about [-]% in ordinary counties.

After thinking for a long time, some of them are going to pay another [-]%, some are not equal to [-]%, and they only keep [-]% to [-]%, which is already quite a lot.

However, after being greedy for a long time, no one feels comfortable being poached.

(End of this chapter)