Overlord!

Chapter 78 Who is afraid of power if the strong escape punishment?
There are [-] households in the Marquis of Wucheng. Even if each household pays one piece of cloth and one stone of grain a year, it has been six years since the crusade against Dong Zhuo.

This is the income of close to [-] bolts of cloth and [-] shi of grain!

Not to mention this wealth, it is more than enough to make two sets of brand new military uniforms for each of the tens of thousands of troops under his command!
A mob in tattered clothes can be uniformed overnight, with a clear banner.

Sun Ce raised his eyebrows, looked at Han Yan, and asked, "So you want to give me the rent of the Marquis of Wucheng for the past few years?"

Han Yan shrank, bowed his waist quickly, and said weakly: "So...so wanted to tell the general that this...this rent is gone. The county magistrate reported...the county treasury only has six hundred stones of grain. , more than a hundred pieces of silk."

Sun Ce laughed and asked, "So? What is the purpose of you telling me this? Do you want me to wave my hand and forget the past?"

Cold sweat broke out on Han Yan's forehead, and he stumbled and said: "General... General, the food town is closed and dispersed, and it is difficult to collect rent and tax. It is... really difficult to track down."

Sun Ce glared: "Why is it so difficult to trace! Did the cultivated land disappear out of thin air? Or was it closed and closed? Check it out! I don't believe that [-] families can disappear without a trace. gone!"

Han Yan was so frightened by the violent murderous intent that his body almost lost its temperature: "General, if the investigation continues, a large number of wealthy families will be implicated. If a rebellion is stirred up, blood may flow like a river. Why are thousands of pieces of cloth, Is it worth a few thousand stone grains?"

Sun Ce's attitude was awe-inspiring: "Could it be serious about a mere rent and tax? What I have to take seriously is the illegal annexation by the powerful and the concealment of land registration and household registration! The dignified county marquis's family, the people of the food town, they dare to annex insanely. Then facing the little people, they still have to eat them alive?"

"My wife has a saying, and I think it makes sense. If the weak are not supported, he will be virtuous; if the strong escape punishment, he will be intimidated!"

"Continue to investigate thoroughly! I want to take this opportunity to punish every criminal who steals, annexes land, and conceals taxation!"

Sun Ce's attitude is very clear. Since ancient times, not establishing a land system means not suppressing mergers.

It is true that Sun Ce did not establish a land system, and encouraged the powerful under his rule to reclaim ten times or a hundred times more fertile land, and even supported the free circulation of land to improve the level of agricultural development.

But it does not mean that he turned a blind eye to the interests of small farmers.On the contrary, he also suppressed mergers, severely punished the tyrants for stealing and usurping civilians, and maliciously merged.

Fair trading and strong buying and strong selling are by no means the same concept.

What's worse, they also hide their land and population, and evade taxes!

Sun Ce wants to win the hearts of the people in the northern part of Wu County, so it is not suitable to kill.Wucheng County is the closest to Wu County, so it is the best place to use it as an example to set an example for all the tyrants under the rule.

Let them keep in mind that Sun Ce made three chapters of the law, saying that the Han Dynasty suppressed development, but he did not establish the land system.Rather than the Han Dynasty suppressing mergers, he did not establish a land system!

He wants to instill the concept of prohibiting malicious mergers into the hearts of all tyrants and become the consensus of the world.

Sun Ce is not a rigid industrial party, on the contrary, he very much advocates the method of concept guidance.

You must believe in the fact that human concepts are the easiest to be guided.

The two superpowers with the most superb means in this regard are the Celestial Dynasty and Midi.

I don’t need to mention how Midi made troubles in the world, but Sun Ce admired the way of governing the country of the Celestial Dynasty.

The three most effective means of solving political problems are always institutions, laws, and concept guidance, and the three complement each other.

It must be admitted that the governance level of Zhuxia has been continuously improved over thousands of years.

If Sun Ce wants to copy, it must be the most perfect method summed up by modern society.

He wants to form a consensus under the rule, and annexing civilians is a crime that is as despised as unfilial piety, corruption, cannibalism, and disorder.

To say that one concept can solve all merger problems is just wishful thinking.

But you must know that the law is the bottom line of morality.Morality is a powerful complement to law.

If the concept of prohibiting malicious mergers can be formed, although it cannot completely solve the problem, at least it can make quite a few people restrain themselves spontaneously.

Of course, on the other hand, it also provides the law with the strongest legal rationality.It does not contradict social customs and human justice.

Any tycoon who is found to be maliciously annexing will face criticism from all over the world.Even if he is powerful, he cannot escape his punishment.

Under Sun Ce's resolute attitude, Wucheng County immediately began to use the rent and tax as an opportunity to conduct a thorough investigation of the hidden population and merged land of the powerful.

In fact, as the county magistrate Han Yan said, what is difficult to track down is whether he has the belief to continue the thorough investigation without fear of rebellion.

With this will to do whatever it takes, a qualified official can make the reasons for the old cases logical.

The first thing that cannot be hidden is the fertile land. The fertile land that [-] households depended on for their livelihood before can be said to be tens of thousands of acres of fertile land. Which wealthy families are now encroaching on it?

Secondly, Wu Chenghou's [-] households in Shiyi have now become the hidden guests of which powerful family?

The government only checked for two days, and the tyrants couldn't sit still, and sent people to contact the government one after another.

This situation was even beyond Han Yan's expectations. Sure enough, tens of thousands of elite troops were stationed nearby, and the tyrants were extraordinarily reasonable.

He approached Sun Ce happily and reported: "General, the big families in the county, such as the Miao family, the Jiang family, and the Zheng family, have all expressed their willingness to plan for the people of the Houfu Shiyi, a total of more than [-] households, and a total of more than [-] land registrations have been embezzled. mu."

He was full of joy and thought that he had achieved such a political achievement in only two days, and Sun Lang would be pleased to reward him.

But he never expected that what greeted him was an angry reprimand.

Sun Ce's attitude was harsh: "Do you think that I am competing with them for guests and land in the name of the Marquis Mansion? They are afraid of the prestige of my Marquis Mansion, so they return the land and population they embezzled to the Marquis Mansion! What about the common people? Malicious merger, will they return it so easily?"

Han Yan's eyes widened and his mind went blank. The current situation was completely beyond his imagination.

"General, the tyrants have already returned their confiscated property, so what are you going to do?"

Sun Ce's tone was stern: "I said before that if the weak are not supported, he will be virtuous; if the strong escape punishment, he will be afraid of power! Today, I want to eliminate the authority of the law, not the prestige of the Marquis! What I want is , Magistrate of Wucheng County, make a ruling on this annexation!"

Han Yan collapsed to the ground with a thud, completely dumbfounded, and asked in disbelief: "General, do you want to punish all the powerful?"

Sure enough, if the rumors are to be believed, sows can climb trees!

Who is it that spread the rumor that the general has always been kind to the powerful?
This is clearly a harsh far away from Qin and Han!Press the powerful head to force it to submit.

Han Yan swallowed his saliva: "General, you are strong and fierce, this will...will force them to offend."

"Forcing rebellion?" Sun Ce said firmly and calmly: "How can you underestimate the authority of the government? How many county magistrates and prefects who destroyed families in the Han Dynasty? As long as the laws are fair, how dare the powerful and powerful be negligent?"

If the tyrants would rebel in a storm because of a little loss of interests, then they would not be able to endure the big man for 400 years, let alone disappear in the long river of history later.

Sun Ce still firmly believes that most people are just ordinary people, afraid of the authority of the government.Not to mention facing punishment from the government, even under the wartime management and control mechanism, their family property was expropriated first, and few people would directly jump out to resist.

And Han Yan asked nervously: "But is the general's punishment fair?"

Sun Ce took a step forward with the saber in hand, looked down at Han Yan condescendingly, and said in a stern voice: "Fairness and injustice cannot be judged by powerful people! The long saber in my hand will make everyone accept the reality of the fairness of this law, and let everyone People bow their heads and agree with this decree! What you have to do is to punish them with the fairness of the government and the decree!"

Sun Ce has made it so clear that Han Yan has no room to back down.He returned to the county government tremblingly, tried his best to suppress the uneasiness in his heart, and then issued an official document.

The tyrants and powerful families in the county corrupted and abused the people, intentionally annexed and plundered, so that the people lost their jobs, and the fields hid their identities. The land that was invaded and confiscated was returned to the government.

Jiang's, Zheng's and other clans have been accused of taking stolen goods, and they will be punished with varying degrees of punishment!
That is to say, in addition to exchanging the embezzled land registries to the target, the tyrants have to double the taxes lost in these years. At the same time, they will collect the same amount of land registries from the land under the name of the tyrants and classify them as official land.The government will lease or grant these official lands to the landless people.

As soon as the decree came out, all the tyrants in Wucheng County were indignant, which meant that these tycoons who had annexed not only received nothing, but also doubled their wealth.Just for cloth and silk, these big households have to pay tens of thousands of horses, and the total amount of grain and grass is more than ten thousand stones.

Even the tycoons of Wu County next door had heard about the result of this punishment, and they were all shocked by it!
Tens of thousands of stones of grain and tens of thousands of bolts of silk are really not something that a powerful county can afford.

Because Haoqiang really doesn't have so many means of production in his hands.

Say something that violates the stereotypes of many people.

Many people habitually attribute the feudal dynasty cycle to land annexation.

This does not go into detail whether this is the case.

But for at least two dynasties, the demise was not due to land annexation, but the collapse of political governance.

The first one, without a doubt, is Daming.Daming is too close to later generations, only 400 years in total, less than the length of the Han Dynasty, so all kinds of information can be checked at will, and it is really impossible to slander Daming.According to the records in various Yellow Books and Fish Scale Books, the land annexation situation in Ming Dynasty was not as high as ordinary people's impression. Even from the tenth year of Wanli to the end of the Ming Dynasty, the degree of land annexation became smaller and smaller, and the land distribution tended to be higher. in decentralization.Even Gu Yanwu had to admit that until Chongzhen, the wealthy gentry and rich houses were no more than a few thousand mu at most, and there were no low-priced fields, and no surpluses.

It is also well known why Ming Dynasty perished.The Northwest suffers from drought year after year, and Shaanxi suffers from constant disasters.The southeast cannot collect commercial taxes.It's a breakdown in governance.Later generations imagined how to avoid Shenzhou land sinking in Daming, and they all started from reforming the clan, taxation, etc. Few people would still consider land annexation in Daming.

After all, after the Song Dynasty's non-establishment of land system, "the wealthy households stretched across several roads, and the annual income is one million dendrobium, which has never existed since the opening up."Daming has already deeply understood the benefits of allowing land circulation.That's why when Japanese daimyos had to eat wild vegetables, Daming had realized the freedom of white rice.

The second one is naturally a big man.The reason for the demise of the Han Dynasty is very clear, almost a consensus.It was the heavy taxes at the end of the Han Dynasty, coupled with the chaos of Emperor Ling, all kinds of exorbitant taxes and miscellaneous taxes, which led to starvation everywhere.

As for the theory of the subjugation of the great Han Dynasty, even Zhong Changtong, a great political commentator in the world, no matter how cynical he is, he is only lamenting the extravagance of the rich, such as the rich man's house, hundreds of buildings, anointed fields, thousands of slaves and servants. Thousands of dollars.Fairy boys and beautiful concubines fill their homes; the meat of the three animals is stinky and inedible; the pure wine is too weak to drink.

However, his "Profit and Loss" summed up the gains and losses of the rise and fall of the Han Dynasty, and he only believed that the distribution of wealth was uneven, and he did not suffer from land annexation.On the contrary, he also admitted that today, the land is vast and the people sparse, and the middle land is uncultivated.

The middle field is uncultivated, that is, below the middle field, no one is planting it.

This is actually somewhat similar to the current situation under Sun Ce's rule. Due to insufficient population, both powerful and ordinary people seized fertile land.

One of the important reasons why the tyrants hide their population, recruit guests, and maintain their routines is also to organize production.

But similarly, their production scale is also restricted by the population, and the field size cannot be expanded to thousands of hectares.

This is why several of their families hid more than 800 households and more than 6000 acres of fertile land in Wuchenghou Mansion, leaving nearly half of the population and land registration.

They are also very shrewd, and when merging, they also choose fertile land for merging.

This time, they were punished with tens of thousands of cloth, silk and grain, which can be described as exploitation.

Even for a powerful family, such as Lu Su, it is very impressive to store a few thousand shi of grain.

For a while, several families scraped their warehouses and sold their assets, and borrowed from relatives, friends and old friends to get together the silk and grain needed for confiscation.

The despicable situation, Wuxian, Yangxian and other places are all sympathetic to each other.

For the matter of robbery and looting and malicious mergers, he is even more cautious for a while.

Of course, Han inherits the survivors of the Warring States Period, and there are so many cunning people.Those who merged with it would be Mausoleum Hengbangyi, and those who were strong would be Xiong Zhangluli.

Anyone who dares to annex maliciously is a fierce and strong person.

At the same time as several powerful households pleaded guilty and punished, Han Yan had also found Sun Ce, and reported carefully: "General, the official document has been sent out for several days, but the Miao and Jiang clans have not responded yet, and they have gathered all the guests. , Part [-], silent in the Wubao, maybe..."

Maybe no more!
This reaction obviously did not intend to plead guilty.

Han Dang, the new county magistrate of Wucheng County, has wiped out Zou and Qian's remnants and is about to take office. Standing beside Sun Ce, he voluntarily surrenders: "General, if you are powerful and dare to rebel, you must rely on him. Please be a vanguard and scout out the enemy for the general." False."

Sun Ce snorted softly: "What kind of reliance is it? It's just a trick like collusion. Today, I want to let these young people remember that in the face of absolute military strength, all ghost tricks are nothing but clowns! My dear!" After the superintendent's army suppresses you, you lead your troops to immediately attack the rebellious Wubao, and crush all the rebels into powder!"

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