Ni Heng's lobbying had already completed the counties and counties in Jizhou in mid-June, but Ni Heng was not very satisfied with the effect of this journey. Therefore, after a hurry to meet Chen Mo, he embarked on a journey again.

Looking at Ni Heng's back, Chen Mo opened his mouth and finally smiled helplessly. It is rare that Ni Heng wants to do it, so let him do it.

In fact, the autumn harvest is approaching, and Chen Mo has been allocating and organizing the administration of officials for more than half a year. At least this year, the administration of officials in Jizhou must be clear and clear so that the people can feel the real benefits. By then, Chen Mo's roots in Jizhou will be established.

Moreover, the colleges of various counties have been completed, and some famous teachers have been transferred from Guanzhong, Heluo and Bingzhou one after another. Although there are not too many, there is no problem in establishing the framework of the three studies.

At the same time, Chen Mo also set up the General of the Dianyuan in Jizhou, and was a General of the General of the Craftsmanship, who was responsible for sorting out the Jizhou waterways and building water conservancy, especially along the Yellow River. There are floods there every few years. This water has to be brought in and turns the bad water into water that nourishes the earth.

In July, localities began to collect grain taxes.

Shen Pei was right. The tax law of three taxes and one was indeed much higher than when the Han Dynasty was not in war. When Emperor Ling was in power, Chen Mo remembered that the grain tax was five taxes and one tax, which was considered heavy taxes at the beginning, but as long as it was not a tenant farmer of a noble family, there was still hope for life.

However, the tax laws at that time did not apply to the present. After all, before the Taiping Cult was launched, the entire Han army could not fight against 100,000 people. Now, under Chen Mo's command, the Western Regions Protectorate, which was stationed in the Western Regions, the regular army of the central government, the Bingzhou defended against the Hu people, the troops at various checkpoints in Heluo, and the troops guarding Cao Cao, alone, there were already 150,000 people. Not to mention the troops ready to fight at any time, after capturing Jizhou, Chen Mo's command, and the troops ready to fight at any time, had a total of 200,000 people.

If taxes were collected from the taxes at that time, half of Chen Mo's soldiers and horses would starve to death.

In fact, it is not just Chen Mo. In those days, Yuan Shao, Cao Cao, Lu Bu, Liu Zhang in Shu, Liu Biao in Jingzhou, and Sun Ce in Jiangdong, the taxes were not lower than those in Chen Mo. There were even two taxes and one. Shen Pei's accusations were simply a joke. It was just because it was seen that under Chen Mo's new tax law, the most harm was the gentry family with a large amount of land. Shen Pei couldn't sit still and came out to ask Chen Mo for an explanation.

Taxation has not changed much for ordinary people, but before Jizhou and Chen Mo entered Jizhou, the power of scholars had almost spread throughout Jizhou. There were no ordinary people, almost all tenants from aristocratic families.

Chen Mo took advantage of the massacre of Jizhou to stabilize the massacre, causing a large amount of land to fall into Chen Mo's hands. The tenant farmers who originally belonged to these families became tenant farmers in the government, and they also had no land of their own, but they could leave more than 60% of the food they planted. It would be good to be a tenant farmers in the aristocratic families and wealthy families to survive.

No one is a fool. The difference between the new policy and the old law is clear at a glance. In addition, Chen Mo has been doing public opinion over the past six months, this will stand by then.

In fact, there is no need to wait for the autumn harvest. The new tax law has now been issued to the countryside. This is Chen Mo's rule. Although most people don't believe it, they are somewhat expectant. After the final result comes out, that is, when Chen Mo completely gains a foothold in Jizhou.

Therefore, Chen Mo has been staying in Jizhou and not returning to Luoyang. As long as he has been through this year, he will be much easier next year. At that time, he will follow the trend to promote the three schools in Jizhou, and then spread from Jizhou to places where the foundation has been laid in Guanzhong and other places. This will be the hearts of the people and the morale of the army.

The grain tax is being collected, and the gap between them has become the hottest topic of public discussion with Chen Mo's encouragement.

The new policy was criticized at the beginning of the year. No matter what your family is, the benefits in your hands are far more touching than the benevolence and morality that are full of words.

In this way, the aristocratic family wants to pay taxes to the court. In order to calm the dissatisfaction of the tenant farmers in their families, they have to give more, and give more than 30% of the court. The remaining 60% cannot be given to the tenant farmers, but at least half of the points will be scored, otherwise the gap will be too big.

Even so, Chen Mo won the hearts of the people in Jizhou for a time, and songs were spread among the people to praise Chen Mo. Many tenant farmers even came to the government office to sue officials, exposing some of their employers' past evil deeds, hoping that the court could take back the land.

Of course, this is an exception. Except for those who are really angry and resentful, most of them have not been accepted.

Just as Chen Mo and Zhao Yun said, the world cannot be without people, but in order to make the country stable, there must be enough scholars to govern it.

Yecheng, General's Mansion, Shen Pei is here again.

But compared to the last time, this time, Shen Pei is not as righteous as last time.

"It seems that I'm right." Chen Mo looked at Shen Pei and smiled.

Shen Pei was silent. He actually didn't want to come, but the Shen family was also a prominent family in Jizhou. Even if he didn't want to, his relatives and friends came to ask for it. What can he do? It is impossible for a person to live in this world. The last time he came was for the scholars in Jizhou. This time he came for himself, but Chen Mo asked this question, which made Shen Pei not know how to answer.

Is the new policy good?

It is good to the people, but it hurts the foundation of the scholars in Jizhou. It can be foreseeable that under this system, the ceiling of the aristocratic family under Chen Mo was suppressed by Chen Mo's hand.

In these years, financial resources are a very important part of the family’s heritage. Without this, it is difficult to hold the court. More importantly, Chen Mo’s new policy is more than this.

Shen Pei sighed and said, "The general is also a descendant of a famous family. Why do you make such a difficult task for scholars now?"

Before Chen Mo became famous, he was actually removed from the direct line and belonged to the common people. However, as Chen Mo gradually became prominent, the Chen family brought Chen Mo back to the direct line again. In this way, Chen Mo was indeed a scholar.

"Zhengnan is also a well-educated person. Don't you think this world is like a patient?" Chen Mo looked at Shen Pei without refuting. He did spend a lot of effort on his background and becoming a scholar was something Chen Mo longed for back then.

"That is why the knowledgeable people need to correct the situation. Although the general's practice can make the people rich for a while, it will also offend the knowledgeable people in the world. In the future..." Shen Pei shook his head and said, "We need to know that the people are so ignorant, and it is just a matter of education for those with knowledge. Although the general uses this partial method to gain the hearts of the people in a short period of time, it is just a temptation to tempt it. The people are mostly ignorant. Over time, they will only become accustomed to it and become more presumptuous. This is not the right way."

"But if the crux of the matter is what Zhengnan said to be a person with knowledge?" Chen Mo looked at Shen Pei and asked with a smile: "Under the old law, I have not seen the simple people as simple as the people, but hungry people will rebel. Mr. Zhengnan came from a famous family and probably never experienced the taste of hunger?"

"What does the general mean?" Shen Pei's heart sank and looked at Chen Mo and said.

"The world does need to be governed by scholars, but not every scholar is a sage." Chen Mo knocked on the table and looked at Shen Pei and said, "Human nature is selfish, otherwise, if Mr. Zhengnan is a human being, he would probably not stand here today."

Shen Pei wanted to refute it, but he couldn't. He came today because his family and relatives and friends were damaged. Otherwise, the talks had collapsed last time, and with his personality, he would never have come.

"I do not deny the importance of scholars, but if the power of scholars is not restricted, it will be like this before and continue to expand. In the end, all the fields will be returned to scholars, and the people have nowhere to farm, and it is difficult for the court to issue government orders. Then the world will be in chaos. Mr. Zhengnan see if this is the case since Emperor Ling?" Chen Mo asked with a smile.

The great man has today, and there are many reasons. Many nodes go astray, which leads the great man who was originally saved to the current situation of the splitting of the princes. Emperor Ling died too early, and He Jin failed to seize the opportunity to stabilize the court. Dong Zhuo, Wang Yun, the great man actually had a chance, but unfortunately, he was lost by one reason or another.

But it is undeniable that the expansion of the power of the scholars to the point where the court can no longer fully control it is the foundation of all this. Without this general environment, the world would not be in chaos.

It is undeniable that Chen Mo's rise is also related to this, but it is precisely because of this that Chen Mo kept restricting the power of scholars from the beginning.

Shen Pei sighed. Chen Mo was right. In fact, compared with ordinary people, those gentry with a large amount of land could live without worries even by renting a rent.

But human nature is greedy, and it is easy to go from frugality to extravagance, but it is difficult to go from extravagance to frugality. At least most people are used to making money every day, but now it becomes three, five or even ten days to make money. How many people can accept it?

But as Chen Mo said, the expansion of the power of scholars without restrictions has become the crux of the crux. If you cannot bear to cut your flesh, even if the world is unified, it will only fall into the cycle of reincarnation of one great man after another.

But Shen Pei is a scholar. Chen Mo is standing on the hegemony and the perspective of the whole world. However, Shen Pei is standing on the position of the scholar class to look at things. What the two see and consider are naturally different.

Even if he knew it was poison, Shen Pei believed that there was a better way, such as requiring the gentry to give enough food to tenants to live, such as restraining morality rather than using law to cut it out completely, which would inevitably be very painful.

Seeing Shen Pei's appearance, Chen Mo knew that he could not convince him, even if the other party knew that he was unreasonable, not all the noble families were Zhao Yun, and even if his interests were damaged, he was willing to stand on the side of justice.

Zhao Yun is just a powerful man. Compared with a big family like Shen Pei, the Zhao family's family background is not even worthy of carrying shoes, so it can naturally make Zhao Yun free and easy, but Shen Pei cannot. Chen Mo cuts their flesh and is good to the world, but it is achieved by sacrificing them, so he naturally doesn't want to.

"That's it. Mr. Zhengnan figured it out and came to see me." Chen Mo stood up to see the guests. Since both sides insisted, it would be a disagreement if they continued. It would be better to save some effort.
Chapter completed!