"Back to Your Majesty, the minister just finished sorting out the taxes of various provinces, states and counties in my Tang Dynasty some time ago, but some of the details have not been fully confirmed by the minister, so after today's next court, the minister did not enter the palace to ask His Majesty for details. Therefore, today's colleagues, if you hear the figures, or the distribution of taxes, I hope that for the time being, you will not take all of them seriously, and you need to do another proofreading before they can be used as documents for the first half of this year. Heng Yanfan stood up, took out a document from his sleeve pocket and opened it, and then began to slowly report to the dozen or so people present.

Just like the Ministry of Officials just now, the taxes of the Tang Dynasty are compared one by one with those of the Guozijian, Hongwenguan, and Chongwenguan, compared with the local taxes paid by wealthy dignitaries and courtiers.

Naturally, the government affairs of the household department have always been the heaviest among the six departments, and the money and food are both government affairs that need to be refined, regular, and without the slightest mistake, and it is already laborious enough for Heng Yanfan to be able to take on this big task.

Therefore, when the comparison of household departments is refined down to the taxes at the county and state level headed by the Guozijian and others, especially in those barren areas, it is naturally impossible to compare the amount of taxes paid in wealthy states and counties with strong connections after passing the imperial examination.

In the increase and decrease of tax revenues each year, the state and county taxes held by officials who were born as students of the Guozijian are at least on paper, and there is no comparison with the taxes of the states and counties held by the nobles and wealthy families and the clansmen of the court.

In the state and county taxes paid by officials from the state and county, there are even 30 percent of the taxes that are not increased but decreased, but not only that, but the granary of the household department has also increased its efforts to allocate official grain for it, so that the county can continue to do so, so that the people will not have nothing to eat.

Therefore, there is no way to compare such political achievements in the assessment of the province, state, and supervision of the imperial history, and even if he is not removed from his official position, he is already extraordinarily gracious.

Officials from wealthy families and court clansmen are often among the best in the assessment, often rave reviews, and the people live and work in peace and contentment, and they are also deeply loved by the people and become the local Qingtian lord.

"Is the data so compared credible or not?" Li Hong pressed Shangguan Wan'er's hand that continued to record, patted it lightly and asked.

"Back to Your Majesty, this is the first time that the household department has done such a detailed classification, and the minister has no way to guarantee that there is not the slightest gap in it, but the minister believes that from the perspective of large data, these figures are extremely credible. Moreover, since the minister took charge of the household department, there has not been a major mistake in this regard. Today's figures are absolutely no problem as a reference, and even if the minister carefully verifies them again, I am afraid that there will not be much difference. Heng Yanfan stood and replied to Li Hongdao.

Then he looked at some colleagues who were a little puzzled, and Heng Yanfan explained: "The household department is dealing with overall planning, calculation, and numbers, so when it is recorded in the register, it is often necessary to verify it several times. ”

Li Hong nodded, let go of Shangguan Wan'er's hand, glanced at Li Lingyue, who was still writing hard, and said with a sigh: "In this way, at least one conclusion can be drawn from the numbers, officials with the background of wealthy dignitaries and courtiers and clansmen have just leaned on the big tree to enjoy the shade over the years, after all, those big tax payers, after refinement, are still much higher than those who are officials of the country and the scholars of the poor family." ”

"Nearly forty percent of the taxes paid by the scholars of the poor family and the officials of the country are often halved, or even reduced or reduced in full, does the household department have anything to say? Or is it the Ministry of Industry? But what is there to say? Li Hong let out a sigh of relief, these figures were no different from what he imagined, and they also coincided with the local scenes of barren states and counties presented by the Yushitai.

Of course, the premise is that if the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Households can still give a clear government project of money, grain, commodities, water conservancy renovation, and wasteland reclamation for a while, then it can be accurately judged that the officials represented by the Guozijian and the Hanmen scholars have not neglected their duties, and compared with the wealthy nobles or the courtiers, they are not far from them like the annual assessment of the officials.

As the two Shangshu of the Ministry of Industry and the Ministry of Household spoke out in unison, it was proved that the scholars of the Hanmen and Guozijian did not neglect their duties, but because of the limited conditions, they could not meet the assessment standards of the Ministry of Officials.

Even in the documents issued by the Ministry of Industry, in the construction of water conservancy, roads, and the reclamation of wasteland, those officials from poor families who seemed to be derelict in their duties, or officials of the Guozijian, played an important role in this.

Although the taxes of the imperial court were less, the livelihood of the local people was improved, and even some barren counties that originally needed food rations from the imperial court all year round can now achieve self-sufficiency, provided that the taxes of the imperial court cannot be counted, or the taxes are halved.

And this is also the policy of the imperial court for barren counties, and it does not give the same amount of taxes or pressure as it does to rich counties, so that the county officials of these barren counties often drag themselves back because of various phenomena in the assessment of the officials, but they also let the people get benefits, so as to be grateful to the court.

The Ministry of Rites did not have much say in the meeting hall in the yamen of Jingzhao Mansion this time, so in the whole process, what the Ministry of Officials had to do was to listen and listen, and then listen and listen.

The Shangshu of the Criminal Department also summarized the situation of the displaced people in the provinces, prefectures, and counties in recent years, and even counted how many illegal things happened in the provinces, prefectures, and prefectures every year.

In this statistics, one conclusion is that the illegal behavior of wealthy dignitaries and courtiers is 70% higher than that of the poor scholars and the common people.

Especially in wealthy states and counties, in lawless matters and important cases of human death, you can always see the shadow of wealthy dignitaries or courtiers and clansmen, and most of these cases are caused by entertainment venues such as restaurants and painting boats.

In each prefecture, because of the relationship between the metropolitan protector and the garrison, compared with other states and counties, there will be large-scale crimes in law and order, but these criminal cases are nothing more than disputes over the livelihood of herdsmen fighting for pasture, or the number of cattle and sheep.

Even if there is a conflict because of women, because of the difference in customs and habits, this matter naturally cannot be compared with the Han people, who have always respected etiquette in the Central Plains of China.

Whether it was Su Gui, or his son, or the other three, they were in a cold sweat at this moment, and His Majesty used a set of data that could not lie, and completely explained to them the importance of Guozijian and other institutions to Datang.

Especially on the aspect of the people's livelihood in the world, the officials from the Guozijian and other institutions are completely and sincerely seeking the welfare of the common people in the world, while the officials with the five surnames and seven wangs or the world's famous people are playing with their mouths to discuss the general trend of the world, and use their mouths to criticize the inaction and misguided children of the court, the government, and the Guozijian.

"There is a lot of money in Taiyi City every year that comes and goes unclear, Bai Chun, how do you explain this?" Li Hong glanced at Bai Chun, who was indifferent behind him, and then asked after glancing at Hengyan Fan, the head of the household.

"Your Majesty, there was a drought in many places in my Tang Dynasty last year, and the imperial court opened warehouses to release grain, but in some places, even using hot air balloons to transport grain was useless, so there was the result of King Li Zhe's adventure test again." Hubu Shangshu Hengyan Fan suddenly stood up and said before Bai Chun spoke.

Only this time, the expression on the face of everyone here has become solemn, most people remember last year's events vividly, because the drought not only occurred around Chang'an, but more importantly, the place where the disaster was serious was nearly thousands of miles away from Chang'an, Luoyang and other large granaries.

And the road to these places is as difficult and difficult as the road from Qianguanzhong to Jiannan Road, and the hot air balloon of King Li Zhe with thousands of catties of grain can't even climb the endless mountains, and in the end he can only watch the grain drift away in distress, scattered between the mountains and mountains, and waste in vain.

It is precisely because of this that in several states and counties where the drought is most severe, wealthy dignitaries or wealthy families have begun to engage in the trading of prices from the ground, and the price of a bucket of grain has increased several times within three days, but the market is still bullish.

And it is precisely because of this that Taiyi City and the Royal Bank had to start buying food in person to solve the disaster, and also made many large households earn enough silver taels in nearly three years in less than two months.

"Sitting and talking about it, there are so many famous people in the world who often talk about the well-being of the people in the world and the well-being of the country, but once the time comes when the Tang Dynasty really needs them, and when they need to do something real for the people, they have become lowly businessmen, and they have begun to sit on the ground and exploit the people's hard-earned money. However, fortunately, during the drought last year, at least the fields of every family and every family were finally saved, and there was no chance of being mortgaged to others and annexed by others due to natural and man-made disasters. Li Hong sighed, the drought that occurred last year was the most difficult situation in Datang, which he had never seen in his life.

Even, at that time, above the court, there were already many courtiers who said that they should issue an edict to the world, that is, even the father and the queen mother, the two of them who came all the way from thousands of difficulties and dangers, also recruited themselves to Xingqing Palace from time to time, and vaguely proposed to themselves to give an edict to calm the hearts of the people.