In fact, from the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty to the return of the Three Kingdoms to the Jin Dynasty, there were always more than 10 million tool people who lived like tools and were not included in the government's tax statistics.

Their production and output belongs to the landlords and powerful officials, and they do not belong to the court or the central government.

Landlords, powerful officials and nobles have productivity and basic population that are not inferior to the central government, and their mobilization power is even better than the collapsed bureaucratic system.

So when Sima Jin moved south, in order to protect himself, the aristocratic families and powerful families merged into one and mastered the powerful separatist forces of pen and gun, and were born.

Under the rule of the Guo and Wei Empire, under the strong attack of Guo Peng, the gentry and the powerful were still two clearly separated and had never merged.

The aristocratic family has not yet been born, and there is still a way to solve it.

However, the powerful manor owners who have gradually grown bigger since the late Hanzhong period still have a big end.

In the area where Mr. Guo had to compromise, they still exist tenaciously, holding millions of nearly ten million people, hidden in their own manors and unknown to the court.

They accumulate food, population, and force. Once someone covets their property, they will instantly pull up a rebellion team to resist the people or other organizations that covet their property with force.

This is probably a self-protection method that was killed in the Western Han Dynasty and had to evolve.

During the period after Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, local tyrants were really cut off like officials slaughtering pigs and sheep, and used them to earn political achievements and raise military expenses for the court to fight back against the Huns. They were in a terrible state.

Perhaps because they have absorbed such experience, they have developed the force needed to protect themselves.

Of course, this is completely inconsistent with the interests of the central government.

Guo Peng worked hard for the population and was crazy to see the explosive population growth. As a result, they controlled one-seventh of the population of the Wei Empire but did not make any contribution.

Not only that, he also wanted to erode the grassroots villages that Guo Peng had finally established and embezzle the population he controlled in the local area.

The rural power is small, and without the support of the government, it will be difficult to fight against such mergers.

If the other party is just an ordinary powerful landlord, the government will of course protect the village, but if the other party has a relationship with the court, the situation may not be certain.

Landlords without any power are difficult to annex the land, and they may even become the targets of the merger and be coveted by the annexers who hold power.

When major annexers like Guo Yang appeared, it was difficult for both rural and landlords and powerful people to resist their power and were merged.

This situation happened again and again. Finally, after the Guoyang incident broke out, Guo Peng, who had freed up his hands and had the energy, took action to deal with it. Qingzhang's team attacked everywhere and tried his best to attack these powerful men with official backgrounds who had annexed land.

Officials in Luoyang were forced to express their feelings to Guo Peng and explain the facts of their family's annexation. Soon, such things will be promoted to local political and military circles.

This is more similar to the internal contradictions of the ruling class, and is a self-revolution of the Guo and Wei regime.

This kind of incident will not cause all-round rebellion and confrontation by the owners of the manors, because the owners of small and medium-sized manors are also victims and are persecuted by large manors like Cao Hong who dare not attack the village but dare to attack the manors.

In addition to the income from Guo Peng's income before he became emperor, Cao Hong's more than 200,000 acres of land was also plundered by Cao Hong's more than 200,000 acres of land in the past few years after he became emperor.

If Guo Peng simply attacked the land annexation, it is estimated that many small and medium-sized manor owners would take the initiative to stand on Guo Peng's side and work together, such as working together to fight against Guo Yang and Cao Hong.

However, while Guo Peng cracked down on mergers, what was more important was to promote tax reform.

In the process of reforming the tax system and promoting integrated tax payment, for small and medium-sized landlords, it is not just a matter of annexation of land, but a matter of survival or failure.

Therefore, whether it is an aggregator or annexed person, as long as it is a manor owner, they will oppose it. Their resistance is in all aspects and represents the entire manor owner class.

But in this case, the owners of the big manors and those who hold power were attacked by Guo Peng through the Guo Yang case.

He scrupulously scrupulously, forcing them to make political statements, take sides, and force them to compromise with their future political future, thus effectively curbing the power of the owners of the big manors, making them afraid to fight, and dare not join forces with the owners of small and medium manors.

Therefore, when small and medium-sized manor owners unite to resist the integrated tax payment policy, they appear to be isolated and helpless.

The upper party did not receive support from the official forces, and the lower party did not receive support from the people. It was another rebellion floating in the air.

The suspended rebellion that was not supported was hit by a unanimous blow to the top and bottom, and their resistance was naturally fruitless.

So in Jizhou, Youzhou, and Qingzhou, these areas that first launched rebellion operations have begun large-scale family destruction under the auspices of the central forces.

It is specifically reflected in the actions of flattening the manor, massacring the owners' families in the name of rebellion, counting their land amounts, hiding the population amounts, etc.

Then, it is necessary to quickly promote reconstruction, send grassroots officials to build rural areas in the manor’s old place, re-establish a new social order, quickly resume production, etc.

Replace the production model of the manor with the production model of the Wei Empire, eradicate the manor class from an economic basis, and restore natural production.

Of course, all the output this time belongs to the court, not to these manor owners.

Jizhou Youzhou and Qingzhou carried out large-scale persecuting the manor owners. Thousands of manor owners were retaliated against by the Wei government, and the family forces were uprooted, bloodbathed, and massacred.

All the main branches were killed, and the side branches were rectified and demoted to cool labor. They were thrown into Hanzhong and Shuzhong to repair the Shu artery and survived.

The rebellion made Guo Peng very angry and also made some local officials extremely angry.

So after quelling the rebellion, let alone the powerful families who participated in the rebellion, even a small number of those who were not involved in the timid and fearful situation were caught and killed.

This large-scale expansion of persecution on the surface did not arouse Guo Peng's disgust. He always supported the idea that the need to be too corrected and turned a blind eye to such behavior.

After this wave of action, some counties in Jizhou, Qingzhou and Youzhou could no longer see the manor tycoons, and all of them were killed.

The militia who lost their family and friends took extinct revenge on the powerful manor under the guidance and condonation of the local county, township and village governments.

In short, the scene is very invisible.

The resentment of being oppressed for a long time finally came out.

Subsequently, the land, population, and wealth controlled by the extinct landlords and powerful people were completely confiscated and counted.

The numbers reported by various states, counties and counties are extremely shocking, shocking the central government for a whole year.

Hidden population, occupied land, and swallowed wealth...

According to preliminary statistics, Mr. Guo realized that he had been worried about the money for building the Grand Canal and the money for building Mozhou, and the national treasury was greatly supplemented.

The cash flow and wealth of powerful landlords in the three states is enough to repair a Grand Canal and build a Mozhou that grazes the special zone.

This is also the economy is cash flow wealth. The conversion price of gold and silver is not considered other real estate.

With population and other production materials, land and houses, all of them are calculated, and the property of their generations is equivalent to the fiscal revenue of the Wei Empire for several years.

These are only three states.
Chapter completed!