Three Kingdoms: Stealing the Tiger Talisman and forcing Yuan Shao to become a monk

Chapter 514 The Order of Equal Field!

"To be honest, many brothers under the general's command came out to serve as soldiers because the family could not survive. After all, if there are fewer people in the family, they can save a little more food. Maybe the parents or younger siblings in the family will To be able to live an extra year..."

The three captains never shed a tear even though they were tortured by Liu Ying for nearly two years.

At this moment, when talking about the tragic images of the soldiers in the camp and the people of Ji Town, everyone's eyes were full of tears.

Hearing this, Xu Shu and Deng Ai couldn't help clenching their hands into fists, and they both looked at Yuan Tan, with hope in their eyes, wishing they could wait for Yuan Tan's order now.

Let them copy the homes of the four clans in Ji Town!

Yuan Tan also had an uncontrollable look of anger on his face. He came from later generations, and he knew more about how these ancient wealthy families oppressed the people on paper.

Now that we have really come to this era and seeing the current situation of the people in this era, Yuan Tan can't restrain his anger.

But Yuan Tan knew that some things should not be rushed, as the saying goes, you can't eat hot tofu in a hurry.

If you take too many steps, you will easily be like Wang Mang. The policies seem to be good, but they are all only on paper. Not to mention a few of them are actually implemented, and they all become evil policies that harm the people.

Wang Mang's warning is not far away. Yuan Tan took a deep breath, tried to calm down the anger in his heart, and warned himself again.

As the saying goes, half a step ahead of the times is a genius, and one step ahead will become a madman.

He doesn't want to be a lunatic. It is pure nonsense to engage in large-scale production and land reform in this era when the level of productivity is quite backward.

But... There is a policy that can be used now.

"Pass down the order to gather the Jizhen army!" Yuan Tan said in a deep voice, getting up slowly.

Xu Shu and Deng Ai's eyes lit up, and they both clasped their fists and said, "I obey!"

However, before Xu Shu and Deng Ai walked out of the door, Yuan Tan stopped Xu Shu and said, "Just let Shi Zai do this. Yuan Zhi, you stay here. I want to talk to you about what's next." Let’s take a look at the policy I plan to implement in Ji Town. Is it applicable?”

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"Juntian order?" Xu Shu was taken aback.

Yuan Tan smiled slightly, nodded and said: "The order of land equalization is a new policy I modified from our Xuzhou military system. Ji Town is no better than Xuzhou. There are not many refugees here who can serve as military soldiers, but fortunately there are people here. There are [-] soldiers in the camp of Ji Town, and I plan to make up to [-], and each soldier of Ji Town, according to his or her rank, will be given five to one hundred acres of land to support his family."

Naturally, Yuan Tan would not directly copy the Land Equalization Order of the Tang Dynasty, and that policy would be no problem to implement when the Tang Dynasty was founded.

But now Yuan Tan thinks that his prestige is not as good as that of Emperor Tang, so he can only find another way.

The land equalization order reformed by Yuan Tanmo can be roughly divided into two steps.

The first step is to confiscate the hidden lands from the nobles of Ji Town. After confiscation, these lands belong to the government of Ji Town, but the government does not sell them, nor does it have the right to assign ownership.

Just as a custodian, use the authority of the government to endorse the ownership of these fields.

And these fields will be distributed to the soldiers of Ji Town. It is naturally impossible for the [-] troops to drill the fields every day. Therefore, the millions of acres of fertile land are only used in the name of the soldiers of Ji Town.

The soldiers took [-]% of the income from the autumn harvest every year, the government took [-]% as a tax for custody, and the remaining [-]% was given to the farming tenants.

That is to say, after the four major families were confiscated, the extra hidden households harvested.

In this way, it is tantamount to saying that there are six officials and four people, but two-thirds of the [-]% of the official taxes are not in the hands of the government, so as to prevent the officials from taking advantage of it.

It sounds like this tax is still very harsh, but Yuan Tan knows it.

As long as the Land Equalization Order is implemented, all other exorbitant taxes will be cancelled. With the soldiers of Ji Town sitting here, no official dares to use exorbitant taxes and the like to deceive the people.

After all, the people are hungry, and they can bear it. Only when they are about to starve to death, they will stand up and raise their arms.

But if anyone dared to touch the jobs of the soldiers and was forced to do so, the soldiers would really raise their swords and mutiny.

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Before Yuan Tan dealt with Liu Ying, he opened a warehouse to release grain, and he had already collected the army's morale from the camp of Ji Town, and now he heard the news of the Land Equalization Order.

To put it bluntly, all the officers and men of the Ji Town camp were full of ambition and wanted to do meritorious service for Yuan Tan.

Sharpening the knife and rushing to the noble family, using these words to describe the soldiers of Ji Town at this moment is not at all excessive.

Compared with the excited soldiers of Ji Town, the mood of the four great families these days can almost be described as a roller coaster.

First, when he saw Yuan Tan staying behind closed doors and letting them make noise, he thought Yuan Tan was afraid of him.

As a result, he was suddenly slapped severely by the news from Yecheng.

Immediately after that, the prison where the Patriarchs of the Four Great Families lived was completely disconnected from the family.

Before, the four great families were still able to rely on their previous arrangements in the officialdom of Ji Town, and they were able to keep in touch with the patriarchs in the prison.

It is also because of the remote command of the four patriarchs in the prison that the four powerful families can take such an "active" counterattack against Yuan Tan.

But as the patriarchs lost contact, all the guards in the prison were removed and replaced by soldiers from Ji Town.

The originally stable situation of the four great families suddenly became chaotic.

Some said that they should hurry up and get soft with Yuan Tan now, and some said that they wanted to fight Yuan Tan to the end. Although the four great families have been passed down in Ji Town for decades, if not for a hundred years.

Even when Liu Yu, a real relative of the emperor, was in Jizhen, he didn't touch them.

Now that a yellow-mouthed child like Yuan Tan dares to kill them?
In the midst of such a dispute, soldiers from Jizhen came to the door.

Thus, the debate came to an abrupt end.

The swordsmanship in Ji Town did not last long. After confirming that nothing could be done, the principals of the four great families resolutely gave up their resistance and handed over all the hidden fields and hidden households.

Originally, when Yuan Shao carried out the investigation of hidden fields and hidden households in Hebei, the four great families had already handed over a batch.

Of course, the quantity and quality of that batch cannot be compared with this batch.

This time, the four great families are the bottom-of-the-box family heritage that was taken out with a knife on their necks.

To put it bluntly, after this wave is over, the four great families will completely become history.

Seeing the Jizhen soldiers coming in and out of the family gate, the wealthy and nobles of the past were all on the verge of tears.

I just want to ask the sky why it is so unfair to allow such a domineering warrior to occupy a high position, what a shame!Sven sweeps the floor!
But compared to some small and medium families in Ji Town, the fate of the four big families is already considered good.

Except for a few idiots who were really unwilling to open their eyes and insisted on running into the swords of the soldiers of Ji Town, they were killed to make an example to others.

Most of the rich bloodlines have been preserved.

(End of this chapter)