Because the restriction of slaves was the fuse for sending troops to Goguryeo, it is actually not important whether it should be fully implemented immediately. It is okay a few years later. What is important is that the news must be released in time to create an atmosphere.

This aspect is simply Han Yi's unique skills, so Han Yi immediately sent people to promote and create public opinion.

There are two main points: First, Li Zhi's benevolent government, compassionate with the people, and praise the emperor. Second, the rebellion case of the uncle made the emperor feel insecure. Now many ministers have raised many slaves. The emperor is worried that my uncle has rebelled, not to mention you, I have to be careful of you, and you have to understand me.

The former is of course a big publicity, just blowing to death, while the latter is quietly letting go. The court's notice does not say that. This depends on the understanding of the intention. It is equivalent to using both light and dark, both soft and hard.

Li Ji, who has always been accustomed to pretending to be dead, was abnormal this time and fired the first shot for the fuse.

Because this is his dream, he can't wait.

Li Ji asked Li Siwen to take all the slaves of the Li family to the market, go to the Ministry of Revenue to change household registration, return some slaves' freedom, and sign a lifelong contract with a group of loyal slaves. In short, he sets an example.

He was also the representative of the military, and the generals understood the interests behind this, so they followed Li Ji and regained a large number of slaves in their family. However, they only signed a life-long system with a few loyal slaves, and the rest were directly released, because the signing of a life-long system requires money. Although the money is not much, there will be war soon. At that time, there are so many slaves. Why do they have to pay this money and leave a few people to manage the future slaves?

Nowadays, the rise of workshops is lacking in manpower, so these slaves are quickly digested by the market after they are free.

The military first made a statement and was very firm in its attitude, which was the greatest support for Li Zhi.

As the saying goes, the power comes from the gun, and those who win the hearts of the people will win the world. In this matter, the military supports Li Zhi, and the people of course also support Li Zhi. Who wants to be a slave, especially those slaves, they are very grateful to Li Zhi. You are the first emperor to care about us, and they will definitely support Li Zhi more after they are free. Moreover, Han Yi and Li Ji have all cut off their relationship. It is completely Li Zhi's behavior alone, and Li Zhi's reputation is rising.

Who is injured? He is the landlord, the rich businessman, and the minister.

Of course, those civil servants were unwilling to do this. They were powerless. Apart from writing a few words and doing nothing, they could only rely on the system to gain wealth and live a superior life. They originally wanted to resist, hoping that this policy would not be implemented, and many policies were abolished after they were promulgated, because they also knew that doing so would offend the gentry and the powerful, and there would definitely be a big resistance, but they did not expect that it would come so quickly. Moreover, the generals were abnormal this time and were more active than anyone else. They did not know the meaning behind this, which also made it impossible for the ministers to unite.

Even if this was the case in the past, it could still fight, but the problem was that the military generals who had always had an unprecedented unity this time, and the civil officials could not unite. Han Yi, Lu Chengqing, Xu Shishi, Liu Xiangdao, and Wei Siqian all supported this resolution. Xu Jingzong, the leader of the civil officials, was not good enough, so he said something, and was scolded by Li Zhi. As a result, Xu Jingzong also asked someone to return some of the slaves in his family, but he just expressed his meaning.

The civil officials had no choice but to follow them. Their benevolence, righteousness and morality were spoken all day long, but it was really at this critical moment. If they were not as good as those generals who could not read big words, it would be embarrassing.

Regardless of whether they were sincere or not, on the surface, all the civil and military officials of the court supported this resolution, and they were also great landlords, wealthy merchants, and great slave masters. They should have been the main force against this resolution. Of course, many people secretly colluded with the gentry and tried to resist.

Han Yi began to create a second wave of policy propaganda, which was to impose taxes on slaves.

This slave tax is historical because this is the first tax type that includes officials. In the past, officials did not need to pay taxes, but slave tax also included them.

The beauty of this tax is that it is triggering. It does not mean that officials have to pay taxes, but that when the number of slaves exceeds a certain number, the tax will be paid. The court has some regulations on the slaves of officials, but no one has followed them. This time, Han Yi will give a question. How big the official is to be entrusted with so many slaves, it must be based on the system, work needs, and within a reasonable range. There is no need to pay taxes, but if it exceeds it, it must be paid. Who asked you to raise so many slaves? You, a minister, have so many slaves in Chang'an, this is too threatening to the emperor.

But this is just an alarmist statement. There are so many imperial guards in the north and south yamen, so how can they see their little servants!

But Han Yi doesn’t care. You are not enough to be alone, but Changsun Wuji is not a rebellion alone. He is a group of veterans. Look at how many people have been cleaned up, spread all over the country. If all of these people are included, it would be very impressive!

Those officials were speechless, and many even blamed Xu Jingzong for his mistakes. You see, you are not doing this, so why did the emperor provide us with a reason to punish us?

Now in the court, I wish I could have a calculation and start to calculate how many slaves can maximize their benefits. I raise a pig, and I can still sell it. Now if you go to sell slaves, who dares to ask for it? If you sell slaves, you have to pay taxes. If you change your household registration, you have to pay taxes. If you buy one, you have to pay taxes. The cost is really too high. This is not a joke. How can you keep slaves? You are simply worshiping slaves.

As a result, the price of Silla and Kunlun slaves rose steadily that day, and domestic slaves kept falling. Those merchants engaged in domestic slave trading were almost collapsed. I had not sold my goods, but I had to pay taxes. This was so scammed, and I was really eager to get rid of it. Many profiteers saw this business opportunity and bought them all at once, and then signed a life-long system, because the life-long system was much better than the Labor Act.

There is no way for this official to do so. The rebellion case of the uncle is still hanging on his head, and they did it themselves. At most, it can only be said that the emperor was taking advantage of the situation, so they blamed themselves and could not blame others.

But those gentry, landlord, and wealthy businessmen felt very wronged. You officials killed each other, why should we suffer? Who should we provoke whom?

Their class resisted the most.

The businessman went to the Ministry of Revenue to look for Han Yi every day, wanting to ask someone to understand. Although Han Yi did not meet, Zhang Daxiang personally explained to them that Han Yi would not face you because he was just an executor and ordered the emperor, and he could not disobey the imperial edict.

This time, Han Yi refused to take the blame, did not offend anyone, and let the emperor take the lead.

But at this moment, a calculation formula caught everyone's idea.

This calculation formula mainly focuses on how many slaves are retained so that the interests can be maximized. This is equivalent to the knife that cuts between small and medium-sized landlords and large landlords. Because Han Yi also carefully investigated this tax when setting up this tax. When these small and medium-sized landlords went back to calculate the accounts, they suddenly found that they had not lost much, which was completely affordable. Moreover, they were weak and did not dare to challenge the court, so they stopped talking.

The minister did not say anything, and the younger brother did not say anything. What's even more sad is that in the past two years, some high-ranking families had already transformed into investment and business and made a lot of money. This life-long system was much worse than the treatment of the Labor Act. The main rights and interests were to be promoted to be good people and could no longer be beaten and scolded at will. Now they just want to make money. They are not tyrannical, and they are also very open-minded. They quickly signed a life-long system for some strong slaves. The old ones were all good and reduced taxes. In this way, the traditional gentry and high-ranking families were very lonely. No matter how they calculated it, they were all for us.

However, the Yuan family is also one of them, and the Yuan family did not know about it in advance. For Han Yi, although these were all planned, if you ask me to help you prepare food, he must ask for a reward, but Han Yi didn't know when the fight would start. He would not take the initiative to suggest it, so he would not take the blame. Li Zhi and Li Ji asked to send troops, and he just secretly supported him, and he did not discuss it with the Yuan family in advance.

However, Han Yi also arrived at Yuanjiabao at the right time.

"Han Yi, what's going on?"

When Yuan Xi saw Han Yi, she asked anxiously, if she really did this, their Yuan family would be a big tax payer!

Han Yi smiled and said, "Uncle, this matter was planned by my Majesty and His Majesty, but the matter came a little suddenly, and I couldn't tell it in time."

Yuan Xi felt a little relieved when she heard that this was planned by Han Yi, because it was rumored that Han Yi was not involved in the matter, but said very carefully: "Can we tell us about this? If not, then don't say it."

It would be fine if you planned with others, but you planned with the emperor. It can be imagined that this is a secret. The Yuan family is very sensitive to such secrets. If you don’t know, try not to know them, so as not to get involved in unnecessary trouble.

Han Yi nodded and said, "Of course, I can say that if it is not possible, I wouldn't say that, because the Yuan family plays a very important role in this plan, but the Yuan family must keep it confidential and it is impossible to leak the matter, otherwise it may cause great trouble."

After hearing this, Yuan Xi waved his hand and said, "You all go out first, I'll have a private conversation with Han Yi."

"There is no need!" Han Yi was stunned. My wife Mudan was still sitting next to her. Are you not trying to get me into injustice?

Yuan Xi didn't say anything, Yuan Le smiled and said, "It's okay, it's okay. Since this matter is of great importance, it's better that few people know about it."

So he and Yuan He greeted Yuan Zhe and Yuan Mudan left.

After the two of them were left in the meeting hall, Yuan Xi asked very cautiously: "What's going on?"

"Goguryeo!"

Han Yi said: "The court will attack Goguryeo within one year, but this matter will be carried out in secret for the time being."

When Yuan Xi heard this, he thought to himself, and it was true, but fortunately he called them out. He said, "Then what can our Yuan family help?"

Han Yi said: "The main purpose of the court doing this is to make landlords and merchants flock to foreign slaves, so that they can pay for money and grain to share the pressure on the treasury. However, some words cannot be said explicitly by the court. If everyone knows it, the reputation of the court will be damaged. Therefore, this is only the first step. This second step requires the help of the Yuan family.

After this matter cools down, I will incite the people to hate Goguryeo and lay a solid foundation for the imperial court to send troops. What the Yuan family needs is to persuade the rest of the Guanzhong Group to firmly support the imperial court in the name of the Guanzhong Group. This is also reasonable. When Emperor Yang of Sui conquered Goguryeo, 100,000 Guanzhong soldiers were buried in Goguryeo, and the Guanzhong nobles should support it."

Yuan Xi said in surprise: "Is that all?"

Han Yi smiled and said, "Of course not. The Yuan family wanted to shout slogans of revenge on the surface, but secretly wanted to transport the supplies to Shandong with great fanfare."

Secretly, with great fanfare, this is obviously a bad sentence.

But Yuan Xi understands Han Yi's meaning.

He heard Han Yi say again: "Why did the Yuan family transport grain to Shandong? The court is inconvenient to say that this requires some news to let the wealthy businessmen in Chang'an know that the Yuan family was for prisoners, foreign prisoners do not need to be taxed, and domestic wages have been increasing. This is a very cost-effective transaction. If I am not wrong, many wealthy businessmen will follow suit.

But the Yuan family had to take them to Shandong to buy food and create an atmosphere, so that the high-ranking families in Shandong knew that there was huge benefits in it, so that they would not sell food to you, but traded directly with the court. Shandong has been very rich since ancient times, and those big landlords all had a large amount of food and grass. What I expected was that the treasury only needed to allocate less than 30% of the food and grass, and the best was 10% and the rest were obtained from Shandong locally. In that case, it would also reduce a lot of consumption during the transportation process. And it would be able to quickly target Goguryeo, without waiting for the food to be transported before starting the battle."
Chapter completed!