Dragon of the Three Kingdoms

"Thank you my lord!"

Several people quickly thanked them, and secretly breathed a sigh of relief. Li Yi is not what he used to be. No one can negotiate terms with Li Yi anymore, such as Ma Teng, Li Yi turned his face if he was not satisfied.

Li Yi raised his hand to let them stand up, and then said: "We fought Yangzhou, Yuzhou, Yanzhou, Xuzhou, and Qingzhou. You have followed me to these places more or less. After seeing the gunpowder smoke, the people were displaced. It’s even exposing corpses in the wilderness, I’m very sad, those are my fellow’s people, how can we let them do this? It shouldn’t be!”

Li Yi suddenly felt a little wet in his eyes, which made his words pause slightly.

He has never been a person with a hard heart. Although he did it for the people in front of him today, when he thinks of the pictures in his memory, his mood still inevitably fluctuates.

Everyone also noticed Li Yi's abnormal state, but no one made a sound, they just waited quietly for Li Yi's next words.

Taking a few deep breaths, Li Yi continued: "There is also one situation that makes me feel lucky, because the sword has no eyes, and the people are certainly suffering, but the powerful families who control the local land are also not spared, because without these people, no one will be spared." The master's land will be returned to the government, and if there is a master, I can also take an account of it logically and take back all the fields that should not belong to them."

Chapter 750

"Because of this incident, the outside world complained a lot to me, saying that I, Li Yi, are greedy. I have already occupied the entire Central Plains. I can be called a huge rich man just by making paper, but I still want to compete with the people and rob them of their land. It's just insatiable."

"They are very dissatisfied with me, but they don't dare to oppose me openly. On the one hand, it's because I've collected the land from the wrong way. And, most importantly, it's because I have soldiers and horses in my hands. They are afraid that I will kill someone."

"It's a pity, these people are too timid, otherwise hehe."

Li Yi smiled casually, but the people standing in front of him were afraid for a while. They really didn't know that Li Yi had such dangerous thoughts.

"For those people, how many stones can they eat with a thousand hectares of fertile land? Most of them just feed the rats in the barn, or simply use food as bait to control the people with threats and lures, raise hundreds of thousands of young and strong, and run rampant. One side has become a local tycoon, and the actual authority is even above the local government."

What are these people? They are the root of the chaos in the world. Even if their original intention is to find a place of transcendence and comfort, and they have no intention of causing chaos in the world, the world is indeed in chaos because of them. The incident of the yellow scarf is blood proof! "

Many people bowed their heads deeply, even Kuai Yue and Cai Hao were no exception, because they coincided with what Li Yi said. Back then, no one could pull out a few young and strong, and Liu Biao had to look at their colors when doing things. One point, it didn't change until Li Yi came to power.

Li Yi took a deep breath, calmed down a little, and continued: "But, what will happen if these fields are put into the hands of the common people?"

"It doesn't need much. A family only needs three acres of land. Unless there are continuous disasters, a family of three can live well. If the family members are more down-to-earth and work faster, the family will be able to live well. Even if they save some money, even without the help and support from the government, their children will have the opportunity to read and write!"

"I know that there must be some of you who regard the book as a treasure, and would rather take it to the ground than let others take a look at it. Hehe, I don't comment on personal matters. There will be a prosperous age, and the people will not be wise. No matter how rich they are, they are just fat sheep in the eyes of wolves!

"huh, huh"

"Fortunately, although the troubled times are miserable, but as the saying goes, they are destroyed before they can be built again. It is because of the troubled times that they gave me a chance to reshape the order. Now in the Central Plains, those former rich and powerful families are all well-behaved and obedient in front of my soldiers. No one dares to plunder the common people's fields anymore, this made me happy for a while, I thought that as long as I continue to do this, everything will gradually get better, but now I have discovered a new problem."

Li Yi looked at the crowd, panting slightly, and his expression was still calm, but the mood of the crowd gradually became heavy, and in the end it could be described as shock.

At the beginning, they were really moved by Li Yi's love for the people. After all, Li Yi didn't say fake things, but did a lot of things for the people.

As for the aristocratic families who suffered losses in this process, they didn't feel much. Anyway, Li Yi didn't take all their fields in one go, but just took away the part of the other party's plundering. There is nothing wrong with the law. The important thing is that this knife did not fall on them.

Even if there were, they also got a lot of benefits from Li Yi and did not suffer.

But now the problem is serious. Judging from Li Yi's tone, it seems that this time he is planning to attack his own people.

I said Fenghou, Wanhuhou, and thirty Wanhuhou, which sounds very generous, but combined with Li Yi's current words, let alone Wanhuhou, Li Yi doesn't plan to give any at all!

There was silence all around, and even the most flattering people didn't dare to make a fuss about this issue.

Even though many of them are very enlightened and can treat money like dung, it doesn't mean that everyone else is like this. If one is careless, even if Li Yi is protecting him, other people whose interests are damaged will tear him apart. into pieces.

Seeing that most of the people in front of him looked like dead parents, Li Yi felt helpless. He also knew that the impact of this incident must be great, but Li Yi had to do it, because, apart from him, there was no one else. The second person can do it.

After calming down, Li Yi didn't directly poke the explosive barrel, but returned to the previous question and said: "I just said that there are two contradictions, the first one no longer exists, and the second contradiction , is around the field, and this contradiction is even worse than the former!"

Li Yi stretched out his hands and said: "My left hand is you, the powerful and gentry in the world, my right hand is the common people in the world, and the fields are the pastries on the table. Whether it is you or the common people, everyone wants it Want to fight, but there are only so many pastries, yes, conflicts arise, you say, who should I help at this time?"

Someone in the crowd moved, and soon, Wang Lang, who had stayed in Jingzhou to debrief, came out, bowed deeply to Li Yi, and said, "My lord, this subordinate thinks that this matter is easy, as long as there is a balance."

Li Yi smiled, but sneered.

Li Yi could tell that many people were not calm because of what he said before, and Wang Lang was one of them, but Wang Lang didn't dare to speak directly, so he came up with a balance.

"Balance, huh"

Li Yi asked: "After Emperor Gaozu pacified the world, how much of the world's cultivated land was occupied by the common people, and how much by the nobles of the family. Now, or before the Yellow Turban, how much of the land in the world is still in the hands of the common people?"

"This"

Wang Lang opened his mouth to mutter, but couldn't answer.

Li Yi sighed: "It's difficult for anyone to answer this question, but everyone knows that there are not many fields left in the hands of the people, so, hehe, if I were a common people, I would have no land to cultivate and no way to survive. Rebellion, what else can you do?"

"Also, even if the people don't rebel, but the people's fields are gone, where will the imperial court's taxes come from? Most of you are from prominent families, so I won't name names. I just ask you to ask yourself, what is the actual property of each family? For those registered by the government, how much difference there is, how much tax is underpaid every year, have you ever calculated how much money you owe the state treasury!"

Wang Lang was covered in sweat, bowed deeply, and raised his hands high to prevent Li Yi from seeing his face. He already regretted standing up.

The problem Li Yi said not only exists, but is quite serious. It’s just that the world is as black as crows. Everyone is used to it, and no one lifts the cover. It's almost the same, everyone's faces are hot.

"So, human nature is like this, how do you ask me to balance? People like you, who hold power and are naturally strong, can continue to seize land from the people as long as they have the heart, while the people are cowardly and can only endure it until the end. If you can't bear it, you will rise up and poke a hole out of the sky until the Mingjun Shengzhu appears, kill a group of people, bring peace to the world, and at the same time support a group of new dignitaries, and then, the cycle of heaven repeats endlessly."

"In the future, you will be the ministers of the country, and you will be fine with yourself. You know the horrors of troubled times and the hard-won peace, but your descendants, they will not be so much bettered by the world's aristocratic family 30 years ago. Otherwise, tell me, how long can the world be peaceful?"

The crowd was silent.

Li Yi continued to ask: "Which of you can teach me, tell me how to build a real foundation for all eternity, who can, Wang Taishou, you may teach me?"

Wang Lang shook his head again and again, at the same time kept bowing, and retreated directly to the crowd.

Li Yi sighed for a long time, and said: "I know, it is difficult for you to help me with this matter, and even if you have ideas, you dare not speak up, but I am different, I know what to do, and I can do it too arrive!"

"The root of this contradiction is actually the land. The people need the land to ensure their survival, and the aristocratic family needs the land to make them rich and prosperous. The only thing to resolve this contradiction is to make a change and let one of them change from the land. The only ones who can leave the land are the people and the dignitaries.”

"So, the matter of the land has become another question. What should the nobles of the family who have no land do? Those people in the past have no merits for me, Li Yi. I care about their life and death, but everyone is different. I You have made great contributions to today's Chen Jiu. Although I, Li Yi, want to create a foundation for all eternity, I can't let Zhongliang be chilled. Otherwise, you will work hard for me, but in the end you will end up in poverty. What else can I, Li Yi, face? People of the world?"

Hearing this, some people's emotions have almost stabilized, knowing that Li Yi didn't want to turn against them in a flash of enthusiasm, but seemed to reward them in another way. They already had some guesses in their minds.

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However, they were still a little apprehensive. After all, there was no precedent for such a thing. Moreover, for them, the house and land had always been the foundation of continuing the family, and businessmen had always been looked down upon.

Li Yi saw that there were still some people with bitter faces and felt unhappy, so he snorted coldly and said: "I know what some of you are thinking, do you look down on merchants, then when you write on paper, have you thought about what is going on?" Come on, from now on all the booklets will be bound by paper, and then sold by merchants, do you want to buy it or not!"

These words are very merciless, but everyone can't say a word. Now all the contacts in Jingzhou are made of paper, and the bamboo slips are not even read. What's more, the paper is all "purchased". Yes, but can they dislike it because of businessmen?

The answer is obviously no.

"So, business or agriculture is not important, what is important is profit, and this profit must last for a long time. For example, in Jiujiang, if the sales of books in Jiujiang County are managed by a certain company in the future, after picking up books from the self-printing bookstore, they can be sold in the bookstore. Raise the price and sell it within a certain range, tell me, how much his annual income can be, is it less than the profit of a thousand acres of land?"

Immediately, everyone began to think in their minds that although the price of paper outside is inflated now, it will definitely decrease in the future, but even if it is lowered, it will still be a big deal.

Li Yi added: "Don't forget, there is another premise that the land will be handed over to the people. If the people have more land, their annual income will also increase. Correspondingly, the number of people who buy books every year will also increase, and the number of people who sell books will also increase. income will also increase, what does this mean?"

Li Yi doesn't understand economics, but he knows that if the people have money in their hands, the circulation of money and purchases will be the beginning of prosperity.