The entanglements of senior officials are not because of anything else.

They are not very concerned about small profits.

The income brought by the land is really not a small profit for them.

The control of tens of thousands of acres of land is theirs, which is an indispensable part of their income, and each acre of land is taxed.

One acre of land is a small amount, but multiplied by ten thousand or twenty thousand?

It hurts if you think about it.

More importantly, they are officials and have different identities from civilians. Why do they have to pay taxes like civilians?

They should obviously enjoy taxes with the emperor, so why should they pay taxes like civilians?

The 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 the giant on his head to suddenly take away part of what he deserves from his hands. This feeling of pain can be understood by individuals.

Mr. Guo deeply understood their ideas and then promoted the policy.

I don’t care, I just want you to pay taxes. Those who pay taxes will be good ministers. Those who give you promotions will have greater power. Those who don’t pay taxes will be bad people. Get out!

After understanding this joint, many people understand why Guo Jia and Cao Cao had to admit defeat in front of the emperor so quickly and go forward and [just be conquered by you].

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

But for senior officials, this is not worth it for the vast number of middle and low-level officials, scholars, powerful landlords, etc.

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

They really can't understand why the emperor took care of the mud legs so much, and even used their interests to feed the mud legs.

They have been a veterinary class since ancient times, and when have they suffered losses?

Oh, Shang Yang suffered such losses for a while during his reforms.

Of course Shang Yang died in the end.

However, the results of Shang Yang's reforms were still preserved, and the reforms were successful.

The Qin State eliminated the stubborn diseases of aristocratic politics, greatly harmed the interests of the aristocrats, not only attacked the aristocrats, but also attacked the civilian households who evaded taxes, and greatly integrated the grassroots regime.

Therefore, the reforms made the Qin State, which was a half-dead and half-dead, survived. The Qin government received sufficient tax revenue and a huge amount of finance, so it could concentrate its efforts to do major tasks.

In the end, the Qin kings of all dynasties made continuous efforts to build a feudal empire that was not affected by aristocratic politics, handed over this feudal empire to the hands of the First Emperor, defeated the other six countries that were still affected by aristocratic politics, and finally unified China.

This is the power of taxation.

As the saying goes, there are policies from the top and countermeasures from the bottom. Tax evasion has never been a rare thing, including Qin and Han.

In order to crack down on tax evasion, Emperor Wu of Han also punished those who evaded tax directly to the border for one year.

At that time, there were fierce Huns on the frontier of the Han Empire, and the probability of returning alive for a year in guarding the border was definitely not very high. Therefore, the whole country was terrifying, and the tax revenue of the Han government improved greatly.

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

Taxation also plays a major role in it that cannot be ignored.

Since establishing a separatist regime, Guo Peng has been very concerned about taxation, and has also gained strong mobilization power through the strict grassroots organizations and clear taxation.

As a result, in 20 years, all warlord forces were eliminated, the unjust officials in the world were defeated, and the Wei Empire was established.

Nowadays, the Wei Empire needs to transform from a simple war machine to a stall of a peaceful dual-purpose machine, and it needs to make a wave of adjustments to the tax policy during wartime.

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

When they expose their interests, the burden on the lower classes will naturally be reduced. When taxes are reduced, there will be more disposable income, which will give them a higher enthusiasm for fertility.

In wartime, it is naturally full oppression and comprehensive exploitation.

In the era of peace, the object of oppression needs to be changed, collecting money from officials and powerful landlords, and limiting the exploitation of their interests.

Such practices will naturally be subject to their heartfelt resistance.

But is there any power in today's resistance?

The emperor had already cleaned up the gentry class. In that unprecedented political storm, the emperor showed enough iron-fisted methods to make anyone tremble with fear and his legs were trembling, and he could not find a way to confront him.

At that time, they could not fight against the emperor before the emperor was fully intact. Now that the emperor is in power, it is even more impossible.

The current emperor is a more autocratic and self-contained husband than the First Emperor.

No one can fight him.

If you have to do something, unless... the powerful landlords in the manor really rebel.

But they always felt that the emperor could not wait to raise troops to rebel, so he pressed forward step by step without giving them any room for negotiation.

At present, the ministers could not find any way to fight against the emperor. After Cao Cao and Guo Jia took the lead, the ministers also realized their unique options.

Holding your head and squat down and singing conquest.

The 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 said that they would convey the news to their families and tribesmen, and they would set an example and take the lead in handing over the land in the family to the court officials to clear the court.

Guo Peng handed Cao Cao over this matter himself.

Cao Cao has a seniority, high prestige and special status, so he is very suitable for doing this.

Guo Peng asked Cao Cao to select officials with no more than 300 acres of land in his home in the court to be responsible for clearing the land.

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

You have to clean yourself first, and then you can make sure that others are clean as well.

In this kind of thing, Mr. Guo no longer adheres to his usual dual-standard attitude.

The land in the country must be cleared, and the country must select appropriate officials to be responsible for clearing the land. The amount of arable land in the country must be re-measured according to unified measurements. No one can escape from Bingzhou Youzhou in the north to Jingzhou in the south to Yangzhou, Yunzhou, and even Jiaozhou.

The news came out and the officialdom was shocked.

Many people are actually numb to Guo Peng's political methods.

They were a little used to the endless means of trouble for the officials and were a little desperate.

They thought of lying flat and letting the emperor do whatever he wanted, and then waiting for him to die, and when he died, it would be safe.

The emperor was alive, and they had no choice.

Struggle is hard to fight, and you dare not rebel or something. You can only rely on lying down and compromising to exchange for survival, and you will survive.

But this time the emperor really had to attack their lifeblood, to attack their own family and their tribesmen's land, to measure the land across the country, and to collect taxes in a unified manner.

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

What a powerful imperial power.

this……

I just took a knife to cut the flesh on them, and it hurt to the bone marrow.

Who can tolerate it?

When the central officials were trembling and at a loss, Cao Cao had already led the carefully selected 500 civil officials to start the operation of clearing the land.
Chapter completed!