At the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty

The control over tens of thousands of acres of land is theirs, and everything on the tens of thousands of acres of land is theirs. This is an indispensable part of their income, and every mu of land has to be taxed.

One mu of land is a small amount, but what about multiplying it by 1 or [-]?

It hurts just thinking about it.

More importantly, they are officials, and their status is different from that of civilians. Why should they be allowed to pay taxes like civilians?

They obviously should enjoy taxation with the emperor, so why should they be allowed to pay taxes like ordinary people?

Pain and dissatisfaction made them extremely resistant to this policy from the bottom of their hearts.

There is no doubt that this is also human nature. No one wants this huge monster on his head to suddenly take away part of what he deserves from his hand. This kind of pain in the flesh can be understood by individuals.

Somebody Guo deeply understood their ideas, and then promoted this policy.

I don't care, I just want you to pay taxes. Those who pay taxes are good officials. I will give you promotions and more power. Those who don't pay taxes are bad people. Get out!

After figuring out this joint, many people understood why Guo Jia and Cao Cao had to admit defeat in front of the emperor so quickly, and stepped forward [just like this to be conquered by you].

For them, it is undoubtedly worthwhile to exchange taxes for the emperor's trust and future political interests.

But it is not worth it for senior officials, and for the majority of middle and low-level officials, as well as scholars, powerful landlords and the like.

This is how the emperor wants to use their flesh and blood to feed the mud legs.

They really couldn't understand why the emperor took such good care of the mud legs, and even used their interests to feed the mud legs.

They have been rentiers since ancient times. When did they suffer losses?

Oh, Shang Yang suffered such losses for a while during the political reform.

Of course Shang Yang died in the end.

However, the results of Shang Yang's reform were retained, and the reform was successful.

The state of Qin swept away the stubborn diseases of aristocratic politics, which greatly damaged the interests of the aristocrats. It not only hit the aristocrats, but also hit the private households who evaded taxes and evaded taxes, and greatly integrated the grassroots regime.

As a result, the reform brought back to life the half-dead state of Qin, which was rife with tax evasion and evasion. The government of Qin state received sufficient tax revenue and had a great financial abundance, so it could concentrate its efforts on major tasks.

In the end, successive Qin kings made continuous efforts to create a feudal empire free from aristocratic politics, handed over this feudal empire to the first emperor, defeated the remaining six countries that were still involved in aristocratic politics, and finally unified China.

This is the power of taxes.

The so-called policy at the top and countermeasures at the bottom, tax evasion and tax evasion has never been a rare thing, Qin State has it, and Han State also has it.

In order to crack down on tax evasion, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty would punish tax evaders directly to the border for a year——

At that time, there were fierce Huns on the border of the Han Empire, and the probability of returning alive after a year of guarding the border was definitely not very high, so the whole country was shocked, and the tax revenue of the Han government had greatly improved.

It was precisely because of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty's iron-fisted policy that the battle against the Huns was reversed.

Taxes also played an important role that cannot be ignored.

Since the establishment of the separatist regime, Guo Peng has been very concerned about taxation, and he has obtained a strong mobilization force by relying on a well-organized grassroots organization and clear taxation.

As a result, all warlord forces were wiped out in 20 years, all disobedient officials were wiped out, and the Wei Empire was established.

Now, when the Wei Empire needs to transform from a pure war machine to a war and peace machine, he needs to make a wave of adjustments to the wartime tax policy.

Reduce the amount of tax that farmers need to pay under the farming system, and then transfer this part of the demand to officials and powerful landlords, forcing them to pay taxes and spit out their money to support the country.

When they spit out the benefits, the burden on the lower class will naturally be reduced, and the tax reduction will give them more disposable income, which will make them more enthusiastic about giving birth.

Naturally, wartime is full-scale oppression and full-scale exploitation.

In the peaceful era, the targets of oppression need to make a wave of changes, collect money from officials and powerful landlords, and limit the benefits of exploiting them.

Such an approach will naturally meet their inner resistance.

However, is today's resistance still powerful?

The emperor had already cleaned up the gentry class. During that unprecedented political storm, the iron fist displayed by the emperor was enough to make anyone's heart tremble and their legs tremble, and there was no way to resist.

At that time, when the emperor was not yet fully formed, they were unable to fight against the emperor. Now that the emperor is in power, it is even more impossible.

The current emperor is a more autocratic solitary husband than the first emperor.

It is impossible for anyone to fight against him.

If you must want to do something, unless... the powerful landlords in those manors really rebelled.

But they always felt that the emperor just couldn't wait for them to raise their troops to rebel, so he was so pressing every step of the way, without giving them any room for discussion.

But right now, the officials couldn't find any way to fight against the emperor. After Cao Cao and Guo Jia took the lead, the officials also realized their unique options.

Crouching down with your head in your arms and singing Conquer.

Senior officials at the core decision-making level surrendered to Guo Peng and knelt down to express their willingness to accept Guo Peng's request. They also expressed that they would pass the news on to their families and clansmen, and they would set an example by taking the lead in handing over their land to court officials.

Guo Peng handed over this matter to Cao Cao himself.

Cao Cao has old qualifications, high prestige, and special status, so he is very suitable for this job.

Guo Peng asked Cao Cao to select officials with no more than [-] mu of family land in the Manchu Dynasty to be responsible for clearing the land.

First clear the land of the Cao family, the Guo family, and the Xiahou family, clean up themselves, and then go to clear the other lands.

You have to clean yourself first, and then you can confidently ask others to do the same.

In this kind of matter, Mr. Guo does not uphold the usual double-standard attitude.

The land of the whole country must be cleared, and the whole country must select appropriate officials to be responsible for clearing the land, and re-measure the amount of arable land in the country according to a unified weight and measure, from Bingzhou Youzhou in the north to Jingzhou, Yangzhou, Yunzhou, and even Jiaozhou in the south. Nobody wants to run away.

When the news came out, the officialdom was shaken.

Many people have become numb to Guo Peng's political methods.

They were a little used to the emperor's endless methods of torturing officials, and they were a little desperate.

They thought about lying flat and letting the emperor toss about, and then waiting for him to die, and when he died, they would be safe.

The emperor is alive, there is nothing they can do.

Struggle can't be fought, and you don't dare to rebel or anything, you can only rely on lying down and compromise in exchange for survival, just lingering.

But this time the emperor really wants to attack their lifelines, their own land and the land of their clansmen, measure the land of the whole country, and then collect taxes uniformly.

The more land, the more taxes to pay, the more taxes to pay, and the more abundant the treasury, the stronger the emperor's strength, the higher the prestige, the more unshakable, almost godlike.

What a powerful imperial power.

This……

It is to use a knife to cut and eat their flesh, and the pain reaches the bone marrow.

Who can stand it?

When the central officials were trembling and at a loss, Cao Cao had already led [-] carefully selected Lishu officials to start clearing the land.

They started clearing the land of the Guo family, the Cao family, and the Xiahou family. They first started from themselves and set an example to show their support for the emperor's new tax law.

Chapter 1271 One thousand and one hundred and eighty one is like a miser

The Guo, Cao, and Xiahou clans naturally owned a lot of land.

Mr. Guo’s own Huangzhuang land does not count, because the Huangzhuang land under the management of the inner court itself is taxed.

All the land owned by Guo Peng before and after the founding of the country was handed over to the inner court for management. After paying taxes to the national treasury, the rest would all belong to Mr. Guo's own inner treasury.

On this point, the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty were very clear, and no one could tell if it was wrong.

And they don't even dare to discuss the matter of the emperor paying taxes to the treasury on weekdays, they are selective not to see it.

Among the remaining three ethnic groups, there are not a few who own a lot of land.

There are quite a few members of Guo's own clan, and members of the Cao clan and Xiahou clan also own large tracts of land in their hometown and in the Gyeonggi area of ​​Luoyang.

Some were bought by themselves before Guo Peng became emperor, and some were rewarded to them after Guo Peng became emperor.

Among them, Cao Hong owns the most land.

Cao Hong's land properties spread from Yanzhou, to Yuzhou, to Jizhou, and then to Luoyang, and the major manors spread all over the states. On the surface, they were all owned before the establishment of the Wei Empire.

The total number is no less than 20 mu.

Not only has a large amount of land, but also Cao's caravan, even if the Cao's caravan is controlled by someone like Guo, most of it belongs to someone like Guo, but Cao Hong doesn't need to take responsibility for the country like someone like Guo, and doesn't need to spend money for the country , so Cao Hong's wealth is increasing.

So he achieved his position as the richest man in the Cao family.

With such a large amount of land, if someone Guo tried to clear the land, he would cut off the flesh from Cao Hong.

Even though Cao Hong himself didn't know it, at the moment, Cao Hong was the sacrifice that the three families of Guo, Cao and Xiahou jointly offered for outsiders to see.

Everyone doesn't know exactly how much land Cao Hong owns, but he is really recognized as the richest man, much richer than Cao Cao.

So Cao Cao must be the first to trouble him.

Cao Hong himself didn't expect it, but when Cao Cao brought the order to clear the land and asked him to cooperate with the team, he knew it.

He knew how much land he had and how much tax he would have to pay once the land was taxed. Cao Hong was stunned by this.

"Meng...Meng De, I, I obviously didn't do anything, I honestly led troops to train, why did I... why did I provoke His Majesty?"

Cao Hong thought he had made a mistake, that's why Guo Peng wanted to clear his land, let him pay taxes, and cut his meat to eat.

He thought about it and couldn't figure out what mistake he had made.

He even handed over the control of Cao's caravan, and handed over a huge amount of wealth to Guo Peng for no reason. Now Guo Peng uses Cao's caravan and Mi's caravan to make money all over the world, and he makes money in Guishuang went, and he himself could only get a small part of it.

He admitted it all.

As a result, he still couldn't keep his property.

The amount of his land property is really big. If it is really taxed, it will cost millions of dollars and tens of millions of dollars. This is going to be crazy.

He held Cao Cao's hand, hoping to get Cao Cao's help.

As a result, Cao Cao shook his head and tore off Cao Hong's hand without a trace.

"Zi Lian, this matter is not aimed at you, it is aimed at everyone. His Majesty has decided to abolish the small tax and combine all agricultural taxes and collect them only from the land, so it is natural to clear the land of the whole country. To tell you the truth , my family’s land will also be cleared.”

When Cao Cao said this, Cao Hong was considered stupid.

"Everyone in the country? Officials?"

"Officials aren't human?"

When Cao Cao asked back, Cao Hong had nothing to say.

Later, Cao Hong learned that this was a nationwide land clearing operation in preparation for the next stage of national taxation. All cultivated land in the country must be cleared without any omissions.

Therefore, Cao Hong must not think that there is a loophole to take advantage of, that is a very terrible suicide act.

"To set an example, the lands of the Guo family, the Cao family and the Xiahou family were the first to clear the land. I have notified the whole family. No one should take any chances. Otherwise, once His Majesty gets angry, the consequences will be unimaginable. It is really very dangerous. "

Cao Cao knew about this kind of thing, not to mention Cao Hong, but Cao Hong was the only one who received the special treatment of being beaten up by Guo Peng himself, and his memory is still fresh and he dare not forget it.

"But... this... how could it be like this!!!"

Cao Hong's eyes turned red, he thought for a while and thought there was nothing he could do, but he didn't dare to resist. He was so wronged that he fell down on the ground and cried loudly.

Where is there a trace of a general in his words and deeds?

This guy has really led troops to win battles and conquer cities first?

Even Cao Cao couldn't help being suspicious. He felt that Cao Hong didn't seem like the kind of person who would dare to fight or even conquer the city first.

It can only be said that human nature is complex and changeable, and no one is the same as the outside and the inside.

Cao Cao instructed the officials of his Qingzhang team to obtain the land account books of Cao Hong's family. After checking, Cao Cao was really shocked.

Cao Cao really didn't know that Cao Hong's family actually controlled more than 20 mu of arable land, and there were countless guests and tenants, as many as [-] households.

Guo Peng once turned a blind eye to these things. After winning the battle, he acquired the bulk of the land by himself, and let some heroes who like land and interests obtain the small portion. Basically, everyone has some land before and after the founding of the country.

But no one expected that Cao Hong would quietly accumulate 20 mu of land!

Where did it come from?

Is that too much?

Does he want to establish a state?