Liu Mu, as the master, sat in the right seat of the head, and the position of the left seat of the head made people push for a while.

In the end, Xiao Yu sat in the first seat of the guest seat as a left servant.

After everyone is seated, a small table is placed in front of each person. Willow high tables and chairs have been popular in Chang'an, and are found in many aristocratic homes, mostly in study and meeting rooms.

As for banquets, the nobles of the Tang Dynasty prefer low couches and low tables, which can be kneeling, cross-legged, or even semi-lying.

The maid began to push the carts, each of the kind with a stove, with one elaborate drawer after another, and to the surprise of the nobles, not everyone placed them on their tables exactly the same.

The maids let the nobles see the food in the cages, which were then chosen by themselves.

There are more than 20 different kinds of food, which is dazzling.

The nobles of the Tang Dynasty did not have the virtue of the disc action of later generations, and if it were not for the limited number of dwarf tables, they would be willing to fill the table.

"When it comes to food, Chang'an depends on the willow horses." A nobleman praised after tasting a shrimp dumpling.

After many people agreed, Yanagi said a few words modestly, and the topic ended there.

After three rounds of drinking, Liu Mu raised his teacup at this time, and the people who were originally chatting also stopped, and it was time to get down to business.

"I have a part in the Westport Shipping Division, and it doesn't matter how much money I invested."

Liu Mu's words are not nonsense, he has absolute self-confidence, these nobles also agree with Liu Mu's words, it doesn't matter how many coins are invested, but how many coins can be created.

"This time, the investment we need is huge, not just the investment of coins."

This translation made the nobles also have a sense of identity, since Liu Mu was able to gather enough funds from the people of Chang'an to meet the needs of the Xigang Shipping Division, then the Donggang was also enough.

"There is also the problem that the sage has ordered the renovation of many canals, irrigation canals, and the reclamation plan of nearly 50,000 hectares in Shannan East Road. As a result, nearly a million monks who are still layman, and some displaced people will be transferred to Shannan Dongdao, and then we will have no labor available. ”

When Liu Mu said this, Zheng Yuanxuan opened his mouth and said: "Liu Gongma, you don't have to go around in circles, and you don't have to be very tactful, I know some things in the court, just say what you want." ”

"People." Yanagi replied with only one word.

"What kind of people?" Zheng Yuanxuan asked on behalf of everyone.

"The Xiao family and the Xie family have gathered 2,000 tenants in charge of mulberry forests, and I want to reach 20,000 households in the next year. The composition of the 20,000 households is as follows. ”

Liu Mu didn't just say it, and ordered someone to send a plan to each of the nobles present.

When everyone had a plan in their hands, Liu Mu said: "The composition of these 20,000 households is like this, and at least 500 households are needed for raw silk processing, 200 households for weaving clothes, 100 households for You Fanglangzhong, 100 households for blacksmiths, and 100 households for carpenters. ”

Why didn't Liu Mu say the number of people, like this, the basic crafts that belong to the identity of tenant farmers are passed down from father to son.

For example, You Fang Langzhong, then the whole family can get started.

It can be understood that a household is the structure of a small hospital, and even nurses and handymen are this family.

"For the rest, there will be 7,000 mulberry farmers. Among these 7,000 mulberry farmers, at least one of each family can draw a ding, and a dozen can be beaten, and finally there is a family in each family, and the family is a tenant Sannong. ”

This number is not much, and it is not much evenly distributed among the families, and each family can draw people.

Moreover, in the recent victory of the Great Expedition, there were nearly 100,000 slaves, and these people could be bought back by each family to supplement the tenants, so that these people could become even more inferior slave laborers.

"This number can be increased by 10%, but each household has to draw a daughter to be married." Someone suggested.

"Don't give it!" Yanagi refused very directly.

Before anyone else could raise the same objection, Yanagi said, "I can give you back thirty thousand young women, but the time limit is half a year. Then there is the next thing that I need your support, which is a matter above the court, and it is not for me to decide as an unofficial person. ”

It's another proposal for each person.

On the cover is written four big characters "Spread Ding into the Mu".

"I've transferred 20,000 households over there, plus some corresponding slave soldiers. Then the total population is at least about 120,000. These people, I hope to give them the identity of at least quasi-civilians, they are the people of the Tang Dynasty. However, the people of the Tang Dynasty are required to have a rent and hire according to the law, but in a land outside the territory, I hope to try a new rule. ”

Yanagi explained.

Many people began to leave their seats, gathering in twos and threes to discuss the new rules of willow wood.

Liu Mu understood that someone had just proposed to each family to draw a young daughter to be married, in fact, to ensure the population. The tenants are not registered, and those who are registered in the Tang Dynasty are required to pay taxes, and the most indispensable of them is Rending.

There are three types of people: taxes, servitude, and taxes.

"Willow, what are the benefits of doing this? I don't see any benefit to us, but in the future this may be a trap for us. Wang Jun, the patriarch of the Taiyuan Wang clan, was stunned to see that this was the biggest trouble for the nobles.

Liu Mu walked up to Wang Junyi: "You always say this, and the juniors also say something ugly, don't you always go against your will?" ”

Hahaha! Wang Jun laughed a few times in amazement.

Yanagi laughed a few times as well.

"You ......" Wang Jun was stunned and was about to refute Liu Mu, Cui Junsu came out to block the two of them: "Elder Wang, you are my grandfather in terms of seniority, and my wife calls you uncle in terms of relatives." But at this time, I want to say a word in favor of the willow horse. ”

"You speak."

"Now that the saint has pressed down the title of the clan, can't you still see that the matter of Yintian is already on the water, and there is only one opportunity to strike at who will be the first."

Cui Junsu's hidden land refers to the fact that some peasant households attached their land to the name of the nobles, and they preferred to turn the commoners into tenant farmers.

This is a legacy left by the former Sui.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the equalization system was formulated, and now there is one more rule than the real history, that is, cultivated land is not allowed to be bought and sold, and the land that is cleared is either official land, or those who have no land can enjoy some tax reduction and exemption policies.

Liu Mu also said at this time: "Elder Wang, how much can all the fields of your family produce in a year?" If you could really rely on these fields to maintain the luxury of the top aristocracy, you wouldn't be sitting here today. ”

"Let the old man think about it." Wang Jun was stunned and didn't say anything more, he needed to think about it.

Datang now has fields that do not pay taxes, and people who do not pay taxes.