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Chapter five hundred and sixty seventh chaos

Xu You didn't think there was anything wrong with what he did. In this family-based society, the family should be the mainstay.

Good birds choose trees to roost in. This is an eternal truth.

Besides, Xu You just wanted to seek refuge with Yuan Xi, which didn’t count as a complete betrayal of the Yuan family.

As for the emperor's new policy, Xu You felt a little annoyed, but it was not impossible to talk about it.

If you hand over the privileges of the aristocratic family, it is not impossible to make up for it from other places.

Xu You didn't know that he was still considering how to change his family, but in Jizhou, his Xu family and Shen family, together with more than twenty other aristocratic families, were plotting to resist Liu Xie's new policy.

Jizhou, Shenjia.

Since Shen Pei followed Yuan Shao and retreated to Youzhou, the person in charge of the Shen family in Jizhou now is Shen Pei's clan and territory Shen Xun.

Shen Xun sat in the middle of the main hall and looked at the representatives of various families gathered here.

"Everyone, let me make a long story short. I believe you all understand the purpose of inviting you here."

"I want Liu Xie, the little emperor, to send Yuan Xi to Jizhou to act as the governor of Jizhou and implement the New Deal."

"Where is this New Deal? This is obviously an attempt to cut off the foundation of my family! New Deal? Bullshit New Deal!"

"You want us to hand over our land. There is so much land, which piece of land has not been won by our ancestors with hard work? You all know what kind of land you want to give out, and who you want to give it to!"

"Those mud-legged people, what virtue and ability do they have that they can own land?"

"There are also taxes. I, a big man, have never had a noble family pay taxes. Why does that little emperor want to collect taxes from my noble family?"

Shenxun was now in the main hall, speaking his thoughts loudly.

When other representatives of the aristocratic families heard what the judge said, they immediately agreed.

"That's right. How dare this little emperor collect taxes from my family? Emperor Guangwu once said that he would share the world with the family."

"In this case, the world's aristocratic family is the master of the world. How can any master have to pay taxes?" The representative of the Xu family is Xu Yi, Xu You's son.

"My nephew is right. Our family and the emperor share the world, which is the promise made by Emperor Guangwu. No matter how powerful this little emperor is, can he be as powerful as Emperor Guangwu?"

"Yes, yes, if we don't pay this money, what can the emperor do to us? Can he kill so many of our noble families?"

As the Shen family and the Xu family spoke one after another, other representatives of the aristocratic families began to agree.

"What you all said makes sense, but the little emperor is the emperor after all. Isn't it not good for us to be so obviously opposed to it?" A representative of a small family said with some worry.

"Don't worry, I already have an idea about this matter." Shen Xun glanced at the man and then said slowly.

"May I ask Master Shen if you have any good advice?" Another representative of the aristocratic family asked.

"Don't the little emperor want to implement the New Deal in Jizhou? Do you want taxes, land, and our servants? Then let's give it to him!" Shen Xun said seriously.

"Ah, give it to him? Do we really have to pay tax?" A supermarket representative from the Maison was puzzled.

"Give it to him? If we give it to him, then he must dare to ask for it!"

"Everyone, tell me, if Jizhou, which was originally peaceful, suddenly becomes chaotic because of the New Deal, will the little emperor still be able to sit as peacefully as he is now?"

"We, Jizhou, are one of the largest states in the world, with many aristocratic families and numerous people. If Jizhou is in chaos, then the entire north will be in chaos. And if the north is in chaos, the world will be in chaos!"

【In view of the general environment,

"I don't believe it anymore. When the whole world is in chaos, and both the aristocratic families and the common people are complaining about the emperor, how can the little emperor still hold on to the throne!" Shen Xun looked proud.

"Uncle Shen, what plan do you have, why not tell me and we can implement it together?" Xu Yi asked, looking at Shen Xunxun.

"Nephew Xu Shi, please be patient. My method is very simple and consists of three main steps."

"First, we register those slaves in accordance with the requirements of the imperial court. We can even be more proactive and release all the slaves directly."

"But if we don't give them severance pay and let them go to the court to ask for it, I don't believe the court can have that much money."

"Once they can't send out so much money, how can these people just give up?"

"As for the land, we also give it away, but before giving it, we also differentiate between the land and give away the less fertile land, and keep the fertile land for ourselves."

"And we won't give these lands for free and let those who want land buy them with money."

"We will digest the fertile land internally. After all, the emperor only said that the land should be distributed, but he did not say to whom the land should be distributed."

"We each arrange for our own children to purchase land from other families. If this division continues, even if the court wants to investigate, there will be no way to investigate."

"And when those mud-legged people saw that the land allocated in the new policy of the imperial court was still not allocated to them, they would naturally be suspicious of the new policy of the imperial court."

"Finally, we are managing the various shops and raising the prices of some firewood, rice, oil and salt."

"If any people ask, just say that the imperial court ordered us to do this! After all, we have to pay taxes now."

"The higher price is reasonable, and the higher we sell it, the more taxes we have to pay to the court. We are doing this for the sake of the court." Shen Xun said with a smile.

Everyone opened their eyes wide when they heard what the judge said.

"Master Shen is so tall, let's do it like this!"

For a moment, everyone present felt that the inspection method was superior, and everyone laughed.

Seeing that the matter had been discussed, people from various aristocratic families left one after another and began to go back to prepare.

Two days later, the official families in Jizhou began to take action. They began to release slaves on a large scale as previously agreed.

Or it shouldn't be said to be released, but should be said to be driven away.

After all, the entire Han Dynasty is now fighting wars everywhere. Even if they leave the family, they have nowhere to go.

Moreover, these aristocratic families have never thought about compensation, and they are not even allowed to carry some personal belongings.

These people were driven out and could be said to be penniless and without a place to live. They could only become refugees.

Suddenly, in just three days, at least more than 100,000 people in Jizhou were driven out of their houses by various aristocratic families.

Counties all over the country are crying.

While expelling their slaves, Jizhou's official families also completed the replacement of land. More than one million acres of fertile land were replaced in just a few days.

After doing all this, the aristocratic families are still in the third stage.

All the shops in Jizhou that were owned by the official family began to increase their prices at the same time. The price increased more than ten times in one day. After three or four days, the price that was originally enough to buy one stone of grain could now only buy half a bucket, and it was still
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