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Chapter 84: Murdered just after inheriting Yiqing Farm (23)

Thanks to Ding Shui's diligent efforts, the family liquidation activities progressed much faster than planned.

But it's only one year.

Those noble families who had done nothing good to begin with, and those who had been particularly active and involved in a lot of trouble during the purge, were essentially torn apart. Some were exiled, some were imprisoned, and the public's complaints grew louder and louder, with calls for the reinstatement of the death penalty growing louder and louder.

Many noble families finally calmed down completely.

Want to try to negotiate with the imperial government again.

They expressed their willingness to give up some of their interests, as long as they stopped being tortured, because the interrogation with the hypnosis interrogation device was really too thorough, it could dig out all their inside and outside, and could find out any illegal or criminal activities, and even uncovered many scandals within their family, which was really embarrassing.

If the Public Security Bureau didn't want scandals like adultery to overshadow their interest in crime.

I guess some families don’t know how they will die.

They couldn't hold on any longer, they really couldn't hold on any longer. If they hadn't been completely incapable of doing so, and had no one in the military to unite in rebellion, they would have had the urge to rebel.

The imperial government itself had no intention of completely eliminating the aristocratic families. After all, there was no way to completely eliminate the aristocratic families, even if there was a huge war like the collapse of heaven and earth to forcibly massacre some of the aristocratic families.

That is only temporary. In a few decades or hundreds of years, new families will emerge and grow stronger.

Just keep them under control and leave room for advancement.

Just knock it and clean it every once in a while.

It's a complete loss, the net is broken and the loss is too great.

Therefore, the peace talks between the two sides soon began secretly. Of course, here we are talking about the beginning, not the end, let alone that they went quite smoothly.

It's difficult to reach a tacit understanding at the outset of a peace negotiation. After all, if both sides could have agreed to it from the outset, to their mutual satisfaction, there wouldn't be so many conflicts now. Therefore, this peace negotiation was destined to be a confrontation, a contest of competition.

The empire's demand is that all aristocratic families must be completely separated, and their assets must be completely separated. If they are willing to privately admit that they are a family, then there is no problem.

But family assets must be separated.

Identify and attribute to an individual.

The second is to increase taxes, mainly increasing the tax rate for companies with annual revenue exceeding one trillion yuan, up to 80%. At the same time, many problems such as tax evasion, concealing profits and falsifying accounts are pointed out, and all these situations are blocked. The real purpose is not to collect more money. After all, the empire's finances are actually quite healthy.

The real purpose is still the same as the previous appeal.

Hope to split up super-large families and businesses.

In addition, the series of requirements discussed later are actually basically related to this aspect, which is to divide the aristocratic families and minimize the number of super-large enterprises and families.

This is truly crucial, because the aristocratic families' monopoly is truly terrifying. If it weren't for the government's constant control of the vast majority of energy resources and the Wanwu Group's control over food prices, ensuring the basic survival needs of all residents would have been a non-issue. Furthermore, given today's advanced technology and productivity, the aristocratic families combined would have been able to leave the vast majority of people starving.

Many times, there is no shortage of resources at all.

What is lacking is reasonable distribution!
In addition, those big families have always occupied the ecological niche for hundreds or thousands of years without wavering, giving other families or ordinary people no chance to advance, resulting in class solidification, which is also a problem that urgently needs to be changed.

The core reason for this situation is their sheer size. Some small businesses can go bankrupt with even the slightest misstep or even the slightest market turmoil. For example, 90% of the small farms that have gone bankrupt following the launch of the "Everything Manufacturing Machine" are a case in point. Their resilience to risk is low.

But this is good for the country.

There will be a relatively good cycle between the middle class and the working class, with some moving up and others moving down.

But it is different for those large enterprises and super-large family-owned enterprises. They have strong risk resistance. Even if one industry is turbulent, they have other industries to complement it. At most, they will suffer some losses. It is difficult to suffer serious damage unless they encounter a particularly large event.

Even if they make mistakes, they have plenty of time and capital to correct them or make up for them elsewhere.

It is difficult for such an enterprise to go bankrupt completely.

At most, there will be some decline.

If after ten or twenty years, a capable leader is found at the helm, or a good opportunity arises, the company will be able to recover and may even reach a higher level.

If it were a small business, it would have gone bankrupt long ago.

The founder probably jumped off the building and was reincarnated more than ten years ago.

In this case, those companies in high positions will always occupy the ecological niche and no one can replace them, and the same is true for the aristocratic families.

Small families and small wealthy families can fall down at any time.

On average, few can live for more than a hundred years.

In other words, few can thrive for a hundred years.

The big families, especially the top ten, have basically remained standing. Some of them were originally ranked ninth, but now they are ranked seventh or fifth. Among them, the Liu family, which is ranked first, has never dropped from the first place.

This situation is certainly a good thing for the big families, but it is not a good thing for the empire. As the saying goes, "Running water does not stagnate." The imperial government still hopes that those families can do as Monkey King said, that the emperor takes turns, and it will be my turn next year, and I will change him if there is no need.

The pioneering era required the aristocratic families to either work together internally or with each other to concentrate their efforts on accomplishing great things.

Jointly develop newly discovered habitable planets.

But nowadays, it is no longer as difficult as it was in the past. It may sound a bit harsh to say that they want to get rid of the donkey after it has served its purpose, but the aristocratic families that occupy too many ecological niches have indeed caused the development of the entire empire to stagnate. They have gone from being heroes who took the lead in acting as interstellar pioneers to being a cancer that hinders development.

Therefore, it was quite normal for the imperial government to raise these demands during the peace talks. However, the aristocratic families were clearly not going to compromise. After all, the core reason they were able to remain standing was because of their unity.

It lies in being able to concentrate the strength of the entire family.

Why did many families in ancient times give 80 to 90 percent of their assets to the eldest son or heir, while the remaining children could only get a small share, just enough to survive, and those with less financial resources didn't even get anything?

It is because of its large size that it can resist risks.

It is more conducive to family inheritance.

For example, if a family owns 1,000 mu of land and has ten children, the eldest son gets 910 mu, and the remaining nine children each get 10 mu. Even if there's a risk and all the children sell their 10 mu, only nine of them will become hired farmhands. The remaining child will still own 900 mu and be considered a small landowner, but his class status won't change.

If it is divided equally, each person will get 100 acres. Although everyone will be a rich farmer, their ability to resist risks will be reduced.

If you are not able to earn a bigger fortune.

If it is passed down two generations later, by the time of the great-grandchildren, each person will probably only have two or three acres of land. If there is a slight risk, such as bad weather, they will have to sell the land and become hired farmers.

By then, the entire family would essentially become ordinary self-employed farmers or hired farmhands with only a few acres of land. The entire family's social status would decline, and any hope of recovering would be incredibly difficult. They wouldn't even be able to raise the next generation—no, it would be difficult to even support them.

How can one make a comeback and get promoted?
This applies to small landowners with a thousand acres of land, as well as large families with millions of acres and countless assets. Even the largest assets cannot withstand being divided equally from generation to generation. Furthermore, once the assets are divided, it becomes very difficult, if not impossible, for those who received them to unite and mobilize all the assets to accomplish something.

After all, who can be without selfish motives?

In the past, the assets were managed uniformly by the family, and they received dividends and salaries every year. There was nothing they could do about it. But once the ownership of the assets was completely in their hands and in their names.

Who is willing to hand it over again?

The Enfeoffment Order can be said to be timeless.

Of course, the prerequisite for the Enfeoffment Order is that you must first have the ability to suppress it, otherwise there is nothing you can do if others don’t comply.

During the negotiations, Ding Shui and Li Tianya were not idle, still persistently looking for trouble with the aristocratic families and their assets. No matter how cunning the fox was or how they evaded taxes, they could not escape the questioning of the hypnotic interrogator. However, this only put some pressure on the negotiating families.

What really made them compromise completely.

It’s a breakthrough from the Institute of Psychic Power.

The reason why the progress of improving the hypnosis interrogation device at the Institute of Psychic Power was particularly slow was mainly because there were very few people with psychic power, and their psychic power was relatively weak. It was very difficult to activate the hypnosis interrogation device once, and they had to rest for a few days after activation. At the same time, it could not be activated frequently, otherwise it would cause some damage to them.

There is such a lack of experimental data.

Their research progress couldn't be accelerated even if they wanted to.

However, in the past year, the amount of experimental data was so much that they could not handle it all, and the research progress naturally increased rapidly. Until recently, they finally officially developed a new type of hypnosis interrogation device that does not require Ding Shui or other psychics to operate. It can use electromagnetic and other equipment to simulate human mental power to activate and use.

No harm to the human body.

The only drawback is that the power consumption is a bit high, but this is not a problem for the imperial government with sufficient energy. At worst, it can be improved later, and there is no problem at all.

With the official launch of this thing.

The aristocratic families seemed to have hit the last straw that broke the camel's back and had no choice but to start compromising. After all, they could still hope to kill Ding Shui and gain a certain advantage, but now this possibility may also be eliminated.

Soon, the things that had been difficult to discuss were finally settled.

The deal was quickly reached!
The aristocratic families began to divide up their assets, but only those with power and status received the majority of the assets. Those without power, or even a say, were kicked out without receiving a penny, and even lost their dividends and wages. Suddenly, many people began to blame the government.

This was also a deliberate attempt by the noble families to offend the imperial government. After all, the government couldn't yet divide the family, or rather, there was no legal basis for requiring an equal division. Dividing family property wasn't the same as dividing an inheritance, or dividing an inheritance without a will. If it was an inheritance without a will, it might be possible to divide it equally, but when it came to dividing family property, how it was divided internally was difficult for the government to directly intervene.

To put it bluntly, if a father doesn't give his son a penny after he becomes an adult and just kicks him out to fend for himself, is there a problem with that?

No problem at all!

For example, if a father gives the majority of his property to his eldest son and leaves it to his youngest, there's no problem. This is an internal family conflict, and if it doesn't involve the assets of the mother or grandparents, who didn't have a will, then going to court will be useless.

The higher-ups can force them to split up, but they cannot force them to divide the property equally, so many aristocratic families reluctantly allow their direct descendants to keep most of the assets.

As for the result, it is of course the internal relationship.

Therefore, it completely fell apart.

There were even many cases of falling out between the direct line and the less profitable side branches due to unequal distribution of benefits, or dissatisfaction with perceived injustice. Basically, no family could coexist peacefully. There were also many cases of falling out between fathers, sons, and brothers. Faced with the huge distribution of benefits, how many people would care about the dignity of a noble family?

However, the aristocratic families are also aware of this. In their words, things have come to this point, and even if it is divided equally, it will not satisfy everyone, and they will still fall out.

I feel like I’m contributing more.

It should account for more.

So it is better to preserve the interests of the direct lineage. Even if things get uglier in the end, it doesn’t matter.

Among them, the Zhang family suffered the greatest losses.

The Zhang family also had the most equal distribution.

After the head of the Zhang family was arrested, they have not been able to choose a new head of the family. The former fourth branch, which had just become the direct line, has lost its prestige because it has only been in power for a short time and the arrest of the head of the family has caused the other branches to be busy criticizing them.

He even hopes to compete with the direct line.

Because there is no one to take charge of the overall situation, the direct line has neither a new head of the family nor prestige, so in the end, they will have to divide the assets together with all the side branches based on their own abilities.

In this great chaos.

Dingshui has both losses and gains.

The loss, of course, was that she lost her job. The hypnosis interrogation device, which no longer required a psychic, suddenly appeared, and she, who was originally an extremely important core figure, was directly marginalized.

There's no point in staying there any longer.

So Ding Shui wisely resigned.

No one wanted to keep her this time, but thankfully, Li Tianya didn't ask Ding Shui to return the money. They had verbally agreed that Ding Shui would work for him for five years, and then he would pay Ding Shui's legal fees. The lawsuit had been won a year ago, with a total compensation of 48 billion yuan, and the law firm took a cut of 4.8 billion yuan.

Li Tianya helped pay the money.

No contract was signed at that time.

Now Ding Shui has only worked for one year and he no longer needs her. Theoretically, she still has to work for him for four years.

Otherwise, you'll have to refund some money.

However, Li Tianya hadn't come to ask for it, and Ding Shui wasn't willing to give it to her for now, as she truly had no money. Over the past year, Ding Shui had managed to maintain a decent profit by saving on transportation and preservation costs, ultimately earning nearly 30 trillion yuan, but she had already spent all of it, even taking on a 200 trillion yuan loan.

And nearly 300 trillion in interest.

Pay off in 30 years.

After taking out the loan and buying what he wanted, Ding Shui still felt very excited.

I feel like I’m really brave!!!

She spent 230 trillion to buy the ownership of the remaining untransformed areas of the Huaguang Agricultural Planet. That is to say, from now on, the entire Huaguang Agricultural Planet belongs to her. She bought it from the Zhang family.

Didn’t the Zhang family divide up the family property at the same time as they split up the family business?

The ownership of the remaining areas of the Huaguang Agricultural Planet belongs to the family property, but the direct descendants of the Zhang family really do not have the ability to monopolize this asset. It is difficult to divide it, and many branches of the family simply do not want to take over this mess.

No one, including the direct descendants of the Zhang family, wants to take over this mess.

They want cash or other assets of equal value.

In the end, they couldn't reach a conclusion, so they put it up for sale. The price dropped from the original 300 trillion to 230 trillion, and it was bought by Ding Shui.

Before this, to be precise, a year ago, Ding Shui didn't have the courage at all, and didn't even have the idea. It was not until a year later that she discovered that her farm had made a full 30 trillion yuan.

This is how the idea came about and was implemented.

The reason she hadn't dared to do so before was because her great-grandfather had sold many things at a loss, only to make around 30 billion yuan, barely enough to pay the inheritance tax. So even though Ding Shui knew her super farm could save her some storage and transportation costs, she hadn't expected to make much. But the final profit did surprise her.

And after careful calculation.

I don’t think this number is an exaggeration.

Many things on the farm can be grown twice a year, or even four times a year. Very few are grown for only one season, and the same is true for those that are raised on livestock. In addition, there are a total of 30 billion mu of land, with a final profit of 30 trillion yuan, which actually means that her annual income per mu of land is only a mere 1,000 yuan.

Not one season, but two seasons, or even four seasons.

This means that the profit per quarter is only three to five hundred.

This does not include the preservation and transportation costs. If the preservation and transportation costs are added, it is very likely that there will be a loss.

After all, if you want to keep the food fresh perfectly, the transportation costs will be terrifying.

If it is not perfectly preserved, a lot of it will rot.

To be precise, Ding Shui's 30 trillion yuan is actually the cost of preservation and transportation, plus the loss of food.

Otherwise, it would be difficult for her to earn 30 billion a year.

Ding Shui was a bit overwhelmed by the huge profit. She didn't know what to do with it. She wanted to expand the farm, but the other territories on Huaguang Agricultural Planet were not hers at the moment.

Just at this time, she saw that the Zhang family was listing the remaining untransformed land on the Huaguang Agricultural Planet for sale.

And the prices keep falling.

It dropped by 70 trillion in just half a month.

Meanwhile, no one cares.

Everyone is not stupid. They know very well that the most essential part of Huaguang Agricultural Planet is the farm, but the farm is not in the hands of the Zhang family. If they buy back those wastelands, they will have to spend a lot of money to transform them. But what will happen after the transformation?
Since the entire Huaguang Agricultural Planet is not suitable for becoming a habitable planet, it can only be transformed into a farm.

But farm prices are so low these days.

It's all going to be a huge loss.

So it’s normal that no one is interested.

Seeing this, Ding Shui couldn't help but have some thoughts in her mind. After all, if possible, she would certainly feel that it would be safer to take over the entire Huaguang Agricultural Planet. Moreover, once she owned the Huaguang Agricultural Planet, she could even build some weapons and other facilities on the edge of the planet.

Security, privacy, etc.

There will be great enhancements.

However, she did not have enough money and wanted to ask if she could pay in installments over 20 or 30 years. The Zhang family did not agree, so she had to try to take out a loan.

Use her 30 billion acres of farm to get a loan.

Logically, the loan wasn't possible. After all, it would take decades for the farm to officially pass to Ding Shui, allowing her to control it at will. But if someone wanted to exploit a loophole, there was one. Most importantly, the bank was eager to facilitate the deal, so with the help of bank staff, the loan was approved.

In their words, if Ding Shui couldn't pay it back, they would find a way to get the farm under the bank's control.

Of course, in addition to this, what is more important is that they found out that Ding Shui earned more than 30 trillion yuan last year. Although it is difficult to find out the specific source, it at least proves that Ding Shui has the ability to make money. If she had made a loss last year.

The bank would be crazy to lend her money.

So Ding Shui took on a loan of 200 trillion yuan and nearly 300 trillion yuan in interest, and successfully acquired all the property rights of the Huaguang Agricultural Planet, becoming the master of a planet.

(End of this chapter)