Chapter 225: The Fundamental Contradiction of the Land
Is the land stated? That's right, under the whole world, it is not the king's land. But who is actually in the hands of the land? Naturally, it is in the hands of those local families! This group of people, in layman's terms, is the landlord. Otherwise, how can you not worry about livelihood and study in peace? So in this era, reading or something is usually read by the rich, saying that Guo Jia himself is obviously a member of the landlord class, although the family is in the middle, but he has never faced the problem of not having enough to eat. Even the so-called Han Shi of Xi Zhicai is actually a small landlord.
During this time, Guo Jia took advantage of his position to study the tax issues in the world today. Farmers farming is not called tax, because they are working for the big families, and the local government axe is to collect taxes from these big families.
Generally speaking, in the end, it will be divided into two or four percent, with farmers who farm only taking 20 percent, and families and local politicians each taking 40 percent. However, because of the perennial war, some places will take a little more. Since the local political axe is the grain extracted from the hands of the big families, some unscrupulous big families will transfer this part to the lower peasants. As a result, some peasants can only get 10%, and under normal circumstances, they are hungry and full, and if they encounter any droughts, floods, and locust plagues, it will definitely be the people's livelihood! It's not bad to be forced into the Yellow Turban Army, it's better than Yi Zi's cannibalism.
Of course, there are some relatively exceptions. Like Jingzhou, which is under the jurisdiction of Liu Biao, the tax is slightly gentler. In addition, there is Tao Qian's Xuzhou, because of the wealth, even if the proportion of taxes is a little smaller, the overall grain received is much more than other places. Naturally, Yizhou, the country of abundance, is not like the Central Plains, where there are almost no wars. In addition, these current princes will not hand over their money to the imperial court, so these places, whether up or down, are relatively comfortable.
On the other hand, Chang'an, where Emperor Xian is located, was not a place to produce grain, and now there is no supply in various places, which makes people's lives bleak, and even the emperor can't eat any good things.
So now the problem should be obvious, Cao Yingtuntian's so-called four or six points are simply to exclude the family from the outside! From the perspective of the general world today, Cao Ying united with the peasants to rob the Shi clan of their jobs, and divided the forty percent of the income that should have belonged to the Shi clan into two, and each took two percent and divided it equally!
The peasants at the bottom happily got forty percent, and they no longer had to worry about their livelihood and were not afraid of starving to death; Cao Ying also happily took sixty percent, which can be said to be more than any other prince, and he no longer worries about raising an army. As a result, it hurt those scholars, and Cao Ying actually didn't leave them in one percent.
Probably Cao Ying also knows very well that if you leave one or two percent for the scholars, they will also be full of complaints, and in fact, it is not easy to do anything, can you guarantee that these scholars will not rob the peasants of their food? Therefore, Cao Ying might as well simply take the land directly, so that it can be justified!
Of course, Cao Ying can't do things perfectly, he just compiles the "owner" vacant land into the "ownerless" vacant land. The land that is still being cultivated is still what it should be. It seems that Cao Ying did not affect the income of the scholars, because he was only resettled and used by outsiders.
But in reality? Those lands are obviously the fixed assets of these families, but they haven't been rented out for the time being, and you Cao Ying actually confiscated it like this?! And not only these scholars who were directly affected, but also those who had no land confiscated by Cao Ying, and the peasants under their original command could also be tempted to go to Cao Ying's side to help Cao Ying farm the land.
Cao Ying's immoral "evil surname competition" will definitely affect the entire Yanzhou and even the nearby families! To put it simply, Cao Ying, an outsider, instantly became the largest landlord in Yanzhou, not only did he grab the land from others, but he also didn't have to pay taxes!
Thinking of this, Guo Jia finally understood a little, why in history, as soon as Chen Gong defected, almost all of the entire Yanzhou except for Cao Ying's descendants turned against Cao Ying. Is Cao Ying's control not enough, and he was secretly ** by Chen Gong? Or did Cao Ying govern badly and lost the hearts of the people, causing everyone to oppose him?
Apparently neither! If Cao Ying didn't have that control, if he didn't have that governance ability, would he be able to achieve hegemony?! Cao Ying directly affected the interests of these families, which made "everyone rebel and leave".
I don't know why, just after sorting out the clues, Guo Jia's pale smiling face actually appeared in his mind. That guy, I guess I'm going to be excited this time! I just don't know if Xi Zhi will have that kind of jumping surname thinking, and be able to think in detail about the possibility of recruiting the Qingzhou Yellow Turban Army, which is considered impossible by the world.
But even if Xi Zhicai didn't think of that aspect, Guo Jia would have taken the initiative to bring it up. So, that smiling face lingers!
This is Cao Zhi's full moon wine, although Cao Zhi is not there, but the time will not change because of this. It's a full moon, that's a full moon, and Cao Fu still has to invite guests to drink.
Of course, in Guo Jia's eyes, to put it bluntly, it is a pain in idleness. Think about modern times, there are not only Eastern traditional festivals, but also many Western festivals, isn't it just to find a reason for everyone to have fun and get together! It's as if for those young men and women, every festival is Valentine's Day.
Some relatives and friends on both sides of Cao Ying and Mrs. Bian, as well as some left-behind ministers such as Guo Jia, were naturally invited. The person in charge is Cao Ang, the eldest son of Cao Ying.
However, although he was invited, after all, Cao Ying was not there this time, so Cao Zhi's full moon wine was completely the Cao family's internal banquet. Therefore, people like Chen Gong and others used their busy political affairs as an excuse and sent someone to send a gift to congratulate. Only Guo Jia came without any scruples. It's not that he is used to eating with his surname, but Guo Jia is really idle, of course, the more important thing is probably that he is full of gossip.
This is the full moon wine of Cao Zhi, who is only eight buckets tall! On this occasion, is Guo Jia likely to be absent? And there are Cao Pi, Cao Ang and others in this! Besides, Guo Jia is not exactly an outsider, how can he be half of the Cao family now, his fiancée is here, it is reasonable to participate in the internal banquet of the Cao family!
"Ah, isn't this Lord Guo?! How did you come in person...... Ahem, Lord Guo is here~~" The doorman of Caofu obviously didn't expect Guo Jia to be so thick-skinned and really came here. I almost said that I slipped my mouth and said, 'Isn't it just a gift, why bother you to run it yourself'.
Guo Jia nodded with a serious face and asked, "Chen Gong and Xi Zhicai have they arrived?" ”
"Well, that Lord Guo, you go and sit down for a while, I think the other adults should be there soon." The doorman said with a tangled face, he couldn't directly face Guo Jia and say that no one else would come, wouldn't that be a loss of face for Guo Jia!
(To be continued)