Today's Datang is more of a male farmer and a female weaver.

And a female weaver illustrates a problem, that is, many ordinary women in Datang do what they do on weekdays, is weaving.

This kind of thing that occupies more time in women's daily life, if it can improve efficiency, then I don't know how much higher it will be to improve the living standards of the entire Datang people.

After Gao Shilian finished saying this, he raised his head slightly and glanced at Li Shimin, and saw that Li Shimin was a little moved, so he continued: "Shengshang, because of these looms, the cloth of Qin Houye's family is very cheap, but the cloth woven by ordinary people can't be cheap, if they are cheap, they won't make money, so, Qin Hou Ye is doing this, isn't he forcing these people to go to a dead end, so the best way is to popularize the loom invented by Qin Hou Ye, so that there are more fabrics, we can export to other places, these people, It can also increase some income. ”

Gao Shilian praised and depreciated, which made Li Shimin feel that no matter from which point of view, the popularization of this loom is a very meaningful thing.

Li Shimin glanced at Gao Shilian, of course, he also knew Gao Shilian's intentions, Qin Tian's cloth was cheap, and Gao Shilian's business might be difficult, right?

In fact, from the very beginning of the Tang Dynasty, there were regulations that officials were not allowed to do business, because officials doing business would easily lead to corruption, but this kind of thing has been repeatedly prohibited, as long as there is no big problem, the court will turn a blind eye.

But this does not mean that the imperial court knows nothing.

Li Shimin knew what Gao Shilian meant, but there is no doubt that what he said was very reasonable.

After thinking about it, Li Shimin said: "I already know, okay, you go back, I will talk to Qin Tian about this." ”

Li Shimin did not respond immediately, Gao Shilian was somewhat disappointed, but he still retreated.

The rain is still pouring and not abating.

Here in Shangshu Province, Tang Jian, the head of the household department, gave Qin Tian the list of taxes for the first half of the first year of Zhenguan.

These lists, which include many of them, include local food taxes and commercial taxes.

After Qin Tian saw it, his brows condensed slightly.

Because Li Shimin had just ascended the throne, taxes in some places were exempted or exempted, so there could not be too much food, but the income of the household department in this regard was too small, and the little made him a little doubtful that Li Shimin had exempted all the people's taxes.

According to his understanding of the fertile land of the Tang Dynasty and the law of tax reduction and exemption, this year's grain income will be at least twice as much as that listed by Tang Jian.

The commercial tax is also a bit small, although this commercial tax is not easy to control and control, and because of the war, many places may have been affected, but it is impossible to be so little.

After seeing it like this, Qin Tian raised his head and said, "Lord Tang, is there something wrong with these taxes?" ”

Tang Jian was stunned for a moment, shook his head and said, "No, everything is collected according to the regulations, there is no problem." ”

"Then why are there so few grain and commercial taxes?"

"This ...... Master Hou, that's all. ”

Tang Jian really didn't know what to say, this was similar to usual, the situation was similar to that of previous years, he thought that Qin Tian was paying attention to this for the first time, so he didn't know.

Qin Tian shook his head and said, "Show me the situation of land expropriation." ”

Tang Jian pursed his lips, feeling that Qin Tian was really looking for something, could there be anything wrong with what he was responsible for?

However, he still brought it to Qin Tian, it was a book, which said that the land in that place was exempt from taxes, and the land in that place could not be exempted from taxes.

Qin Tian took it over and took a closer look, and after reading it, Qin Tian frowned, because the land that was exempt from taxes was inevitably too much.

These are completely contrary to some edicts issued by the imperial court.

He found out the land that was exempt from taxation again, and after reading it like this, he pointed to these lands and said, "Lord Tang, if Benhou is not mistaken, these lands are not exempted from taxes this year, what is going on?" ”

Tang Jian glanced at the places where Qin Tian pointed and said, "These are the land of the temple, and the temple does not collect taxes. ”

There has always been only a monk who asks for money from others, and no one has ever asked a monk for money, and the court is no exception, so the property of the temple is not taxed by the court.

Qin Tian frowned slightly, he knew a little bit about this situation, but he didn't expect that there would be so much land in the temple.

"Lord Tang, these temples are quite generous, there is so much land."

The land of the temple is a few thousand acres, and the most is tens of thousands of acres, and most of them are still fertile land, and the annual income is not low.

Tang Jian saw that Qin Tian had something to say, and he also began to pay attention to it, and said: "Hou Ye didn't know, the chaos at the end of the Sui Dynasty, the world was strife, and many people had a hard time, so they all hid in the monastery and became monks. ”

Speaking of this, Tang Jian smiled bitterly: "Although the state religion of our Tang Dynasty is Taoism, the development of Buddhism is not weak, and there are more folk believers, so now there are many huge temples in the entire Tang Dynasty, and they naturally have a lot of land." ”

In troubled times, people often want to avoid disasters, so there are many Buddhas in troubled times, because this gives their souls a place to live, which can make them forget the pain of the world for a while.

It is not difficult to find that for thousands of years in China, as long as there are troubled times, the development of Buddhism will be very fast, and the development is very huge, but once the society is stable, those rulers will destroy Buddhism.

There is no way, their existence has affected the status of the feudal rulers and some economic development, and the country cannot be strong without destroying them.

If everyone is away from the world, how will this Datang develop?

Now, ten years after the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has also encountered such a problem, of course, this kind of problem is not very obvious now, and it has not yet aroused Li Shimin's idea.

However, this year's reduction in household taxes is already a clue.

Qin Tian's eyebrows condensed slightly, but he didn't say anything about this issue, destroying the Buddha has never been an easy thing, let alone just talking about it, you must be cautious.

"Lord Tang, why aren't these business taxes a lot?"

"Master Hou, this is the same as usual, there is nothing missing, this is true, not false at all." Speaking of this, Tang Jian smiled bitterly: "But Lord Hou should also know that tax evasion and tax evasion are repeatedly prohibited, and our imperial court wants to absolutely prohibit it, but it can't do it, otherwise, these incomes will definitely increase a lot." ”

(End of chapter)