Sensing that what Cao Zhi was hinting at might be true, and that these aristocratic families might be secretly sucking his blood, Cao Cao's expression became worse and worse.
Looking at the respectful officials in front of him, Cao Cao felt like slapping them in the face.
F * ck, on the surface, he's so respectful to me, but in fact, he's sucking so much of my blood!
It wasn't because of anything else, but because Cao Cao knew this move too well!
Didn't he do the same to the Eastern Han?
Back then, the Eastern Han Dynasty was not finished yet, but Cao Cao seized the throne first. From then on, he held the throne and commanded the vassals. He conquered Yuan Shao, Lu Bu, and destroyed Yuan Shu. Step by step, he fought to the present world.
In fact, even though it was said to be the Han Dynasty, it had basically become Cao Cao's territory, and Cao Cao was the largest vassal on this land.
Cao Cao couldn't help but curse in his heart. From the looks of it, wasn't what these aristocratic families were doing the same thing he had done to the Great Han Dynasty? However, his goal had changed a little. These bastards from the wealthy families still sucked his blood.
Cao Zhi looked at Cao Cao's expression and smiled in his heart.
He knew that Cao Cao had understood what he meant and understood the series of problems caused by Cao Cao's imperfect farming system.
In history, Cao Cao's system of opening up wasteland wasn't a big problem. It was a reasonable and perfect system, but it ended in failure. The reason could be attributed to two major problems.
On one hand, it was because Cao Cao's taxes were too high. In fact, Cao Zhi had already mentioned this to Cao Cao when he first proposed to come to Luoyang. Although Cao Cao had initially set the tax to be six for the officials and four for the people, when it was truly implemented, after layers of officials exploited and deducted, in the end, it had already shrunk by more than half in Cao Cao's hands.
Not only that, but Cao Cao also received less, and the 40% of the farmers were also exploited by the various aristocratic families, until they were squeezed to 30% or even 20%.
10% to 20% was not enough for the family to support them. Their livelihood had become a problem, not to mention an even more abundant production.
On the other hand, there had always been the problem of aristocratic families occupying land.
Cao Cao naturally knew the seriousness of this problem because he had done the same thing to the Great Han.
Through deceiving and hiding from his superiors, he used his power to slowly and subtly occupy these lands. From there, he took them for himself and made them his family's fixed assets. Cao Cao was very familiar with this method.
However, he did not expect that when he was using this method to eat the burly man, there was actually someone who was secretly sucking his blood from behind.
If it wasn't for the fact that it wasn't the right time and that Cao Cao was more mature, he would probably be furious right now.
However, even though he had controlled his emotions well, Cao Cao could still feel a burning sensation in his chest. Looking at the group of officials in front of him, he only felt more and more hateful. He wanted nothing more than to push them out and behead them.
Cao Zhi was naturally aware of Cao Cao's current mood. The only person who could compare to Cao Cao's current mood was probably Emperor Xian of the Han Dynasty, who was imprisoned in Xudu.
In fact, Cao Zhi had thought it through before raising this question.
In history, after the farming was done, the remaining farmers were immediately eaten up by the wealthy families like hungry wolves.
During the Three Kingdoms period, the aristocratic families had great power and privileges.
Those who were able to stand out were basically all wealthy families. For example, the Sima family that eventually took over the world was the family of Sima Yi and Sima Hui, the teacher of the Crouching Dragon Phoenix Chick. The Yuan family, who was once insufferably arrogant, nurtured the two greatest dukes in the world, Yuan Shao and Yuan Shu. Although they eventually fell, they were still centipedes that died but did not die. Their aristocratic children were still spread all over the world and occupied a considerable amount of power.
As for the Zhuge Clan, Zhuge Liang, Zhuge Jin, Zhuge Jun, Zhuge Dan, and Zhuge Zhi were countless. This included Zhuge Liang's wife, Huang Yueying, who was also the daughter of the Huang family, a well-known family in Jingzhou.
There were also the remaining ones that were close in front of him, similar to the Yang Family where Yang Xiu was.
Basically, as long as one was an official in the imperial court, or a scholar with little reputation in the world, they were all children of aristocratic families.
This entire world belonged to the aristocratic families!
Even Cao Zhi, who was extremely familiar with the history of the Three Kingdoms, could see that the power of the aristocratic families had reached an unparalleled level.
In the Three Kingdoms, only a few people like Zhang Fei and Guan Yu could be considered to be from the Humble Class.
Even Liu Bei, who did not have a good life in his youth, was a relative of the Han clan. Later on, he became the imperial uncle of the Han Dynasty. Moreover, he only helped his parents knit straw sandals when he was young. In the mouth of his enemies, he became a peasant who weaved mats and sold shoes.
The power of the aristocratic families was simply too great! If he did not suppress this privilege now and guard against it as soon as possible, then one day, he would turn around and eat those in power!
Hearing this, Cao Cao's gaze fell on the protagonist and he couldn't help but ask,"Father, there's still one thing you don't understand."
"Father, please tell me."
Cao Cao nodded and said," How did you manage to find out the harvest data of these fields in such detail? Just by relying on the education of those refugees and your Academy, they could do it?" There were only a few of those scholars, so how could they investigate such a large place like Luoyang so thoroughly? It must be known that with such detailed data, if it was not for the need for a large number of people to investigate, just relying on these scholars, his father would not believe it.”
"Even if they are really as responsible as Yang Xiu, do they still have to make the officials so tired when the reform is expanded in the future? This was probably not a long-term solution.”
When Cao Zhi heard this, he couldn't help but laugh. Actually, after I set up the Great Wei Academy, I recruited many scholars and taught some knowledge to the refugees. Firstly, these scholars were commoners. Secondly, they could teach the refugees how to read and count. It was completely feasible.”
"And after these refugees are literate, they might not be much worse than the wealthy families. Let them count the number of wasteland reclaimed. This was not a problem. If they do well in this matter, I will give them official positions and let them have a path of promotion and a future. Actually, in the end, I learned this from my father. I figured it out through my father's idea of only selecting talents.”
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