"Ministers, see Your Majesty'......"

Because it was not a formal court meeting, it belonged to the emperor who suddenly summoned the ministers, so the ministers did not bow as much as they did during the court meeting, but only bowed slightly.

"Your Majesty's edicts and ministers are here, but there is something important?" Prime Minister Zhou Yafu looked up and asked, revealing heavy dark circles under his eyes.

Recently, the Prime Minister's Mansion of the Han Family and the Imperial Historian Yamen have been completely busy with dogs.

In August last year, the local government reported the data on the new household registration and land for the previous year, and now it is time to confirm and verify it.

If this matter is not settled, in another three months, it will be time to confirm the report of the household registration and land multiplication.

In the Qin and Han dynasties, the management of household registration and land was extremely strict.

The law divides the people of the world, whether nobles, officials, people, slaves and maids, into five groups: princes, officials, people, cities, and slaves.

Under the snare of the people, few people can escape the jurisdiction of the law.

In that year, during the Qin Dynasty, Qin Shi Huang's confidant, the eunuch Zhao Gao, committed a crime and was still removed from his official status in accordance with the law (Historical Records. Biography of Meng Tianlie).

In the Han Dynasty, the inventory and management of population and land were better than those of the Qin Dynasty.

This is because the Han regime relied more on calculations than the Qin Dynasty.

The emperor of the old Liu family, every three or five days, will announce that 'he will remove the land rent' and 'remove the field half rent'.

The collection of land tax is as little as possible.

As a result, the state finances are heavily dependent on another large tax revenue in addition to the field tax, that is, the so-called oral tax, which is actually the poll tax.

According to the Han law, all people, including princes, kings, and princes, were required to pay a tax of one hundred and twenty yuan per year, twice as much as merchants and slaves, and twice as much as women who were not married at the age of fifteen.

When Liu Che ascended the throne, he announced a poll tax for merchants, and added an article, and the Han slaves and maids were five times as much.

In the entire fifty or sixty years of the Han Dynasty's history, the revenue from this poll tax has exceeded the land tax for most of the time, and even the country's main source of economy.

The emperor of the Han dynasty also took advantage of this policy to complete the foreshadowing of his monarchy above everything.

The reason is simple.

Since the week, taxes have been separated.

Taxes are state expenditures that are used to support officials and to meet ordinary expenses.

The Fu is the people and officials of the world who support the Son of Heaven, build palaces, mausoleums and organize armies for him to resist foreign aggression.

When there was more money in the emperor's small treasury than in the treasury.

Prime ministers and hundreds of officials naturally have to kneel down for the emperor and sing about conquest.

Therefore, the Han family's management of household registration was actually stricter than that of land.

At least the land is allowed to be bought and sold.

However, household registration prohibits arbitrary denaturalization.

According to the provisions of the Han law: all take off the household registration, and the parents are apprentices.

If one of the members of the family escapes, the head of the household register will be punished as a traitor.

During the time of Emperor Taizong, the general of the chariot cavalry, Zhihou Bo Zhao, also wrote to Liu Chang, the king of Huainan Li, saying: The dead princes, the wandering eunuchs, and the people who give up and hide all have laws.

And that's exactly what happened.

In the fourteenth year of Emperor Taizong, Hanoi County sat on the "number of people who knew the dead, and thought it was safe and avoided".

A giant equivalent to ******** was stripped of his black veil hat for trying to hide a naturalist.

But at present, the situation of the Han family is not that there are too many fugitive people, so that the imperial court has to tighten the law and severely crack down on the fugitive people.

At present, the Han state is generally light on the burden.

The emperor was generous and waved his hand, that is, the field tax was thirty taxes and one tax, and the tax would never be increased.

In practice, ordinary yeoman farmers, small landlords, and even tenants do not need to flee and hide.

For, if they fled and hid in the name of the powerful landlords, in reality they would be subjected to even greater exploitation.

Just like the Qilu landlord, the landlord will not stop until the last drop of blood of his slave and maid is squeezed dry.

What's more, the benefits of writing books far outweigh the disadvantages for ordinary people.

First of all, it is to legally protect your personal safety and property safety.

According to the provisions of the Chinese law, the registered land and family houses, as well as personal property, are protected by the state.

Land sales need to be guaranteed by the government and registered.

No one dares to infringe upon and harm their legitimate rights and interests at will.

The various princes who were 'hurting people', 'invading people's fields', 'not paying people's responsibilities', and 'serving to the law' were all thrown to the end in the archives of Shiqu Pavilion were enough to wake up most nobles.

As for the local tyrants, if they dare to run amok at will, then the local county guards must be happy to add a sum of political achievements to themselves.

Of course, this doesn't have to be.

After all, the law is dead, while man is alive.

The landlords and bureaucrats have too many ways to defy the law.

But on the whole, the current world is generally stable, and even if the ordinary people can't survive, there is still a way to go, whether it is to go south to Donghai County to pioneer or to go north to Andong, it is a road.

The government will also organize and arrange food and accommodation on the road!

As for Guanzhong, it's even simpler.

The landlord was a little harsh, and the people went to Shanglin Yuan.

As long as you are diligent and willing to work, you will not starve to death!

Secondly, the title of the Han family can be turned into money, and the emperor's knighthood is actually giving benefits, and the people can sell their titles when their lives are difficult, and the buyers are usually merchants and landlords.

Therefore, the focus of the current household registration work in the world is not to conceal or omit reports and conceal the population.

Because the landlords and the powerful have long been 'adjusted and taught' by the cool officials, no one dares to safely conceal and hide the population without bribing the magistrates.

Moreover, it is not economically cost-effective to conceal and conceal the population.

Therefore, the current household registration problem of the Han family is actually a false report and indiscriminate reporting of the population and land quantity by the local officials.

In order to be promoted, there is nothing that the officials below are, especially the magistrates of the Kanto region, dare not do.

What is it to fabricate the number of household registration and acres?

Those who have a conscience will make a false report, and those who have no conscience will make a false report of three or five percent.

In this way, you will be able to make your political achievements shine.

Anyway, the mountain is high and the emperor is far away, and it is difficult for the imperial court to discover its tricks.

Many bureaucrats have been promoted through this means.

It wasn't until Liu Che ascended the throne and the examination was prevalent that this problem began to surface.

The scholars who went down to the local pavilion in Guanzhong more than once wrote to Liu Che to the Prime Minister's Mansion and the Imperial Historian's Yamen, and even directly to Liu Che, pointing out that they had seen a lot of 'non-existent' hukou and land in the locality.

Obviously, in the file of his official office, there are several families in a certain place, and there is still land, but when I ran over to look, there was nothing, bare, either a mountain forest or a barren slope.

This matter attracted Liu Che's attention.

Although it is reasonable to say, these guys play like this, in the short term, it is a win-win.

They won the political achievements, and Liu Che took the benefits - fabricated land and household registration, they still had to pay taxes and serve, but they did not exist, so they had to let other people who existed to help them pay. And these taxes will eventually be paid into Liu Che's pocket.

However, Liu Che knew that in the long run, something would definitely happen.

So, by virtue of the great victory in the Battle of Mayi.

Liu Che ordered that first of all, a thorough investigation and comprehensive inventory of the household registration and acres of land in Guanzhong should be carried out.

Naturally, it was Prime Minister Zhou Yafu and Imperial Doctor Chao who were in charge of this work.

These days, Zhou Yafu just reads official documents, and he has to read more than 100,000 words every day!

I often work late into the night, even on days off, to deal with official business.

It's a busy dog.

It was not until not long ago that this work was completed, and the household registration and land that had been falsely reported and fabricated and did not exist were initially cleared out.

Before Liu Che's summons this time, Zhou Yafu was a guest at the official residence of the imperial historian, and the two three public officials closed the door and were discussing how to report.

It's really the truth that has been cleared up, and it's shocking.

In the entire Guanzhong, 35 of the 68 counties have false reports and fabricated household registration and land information.

In total, there are more than 3,000 households and more than 100,000 mu of non-existent hukou and land.

This is still Guanzhong!

At the feet of the Son of Heaven!

Out of Hangu Pass and Xiao Pass, God knows, what kind of chaos has become in Kanto and Kanbei!

With the temper of the Son of Heaven, if he knew it, he would definitely be furious again.

But this matter is not so easy to deal with.

Because, it is likely to involve most of the bureaucracy in the whole world, and the slightest carelessness will be a great turmoil.

But no, if you don't report it.

I was worried, but the summons of the Son of Heaven arrived.

At this moment, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo's hearts were panicked.

Because, this thing, although it is not clear when it appeared.

It may be Taizong, or it may be the period of the first emperor.

However, it was poked out during their tenure.

Undoubtedly, both of them are responsible, and neither of them can escape.

Although Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo are not the kind of people who can't take responsibility, or dare not take responsibility.

But in this matter, they are too wronged!

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Liu Che looked at Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo's appearance, and naturally he could make up some questions in his brain.

In fact, Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo's work progress can't be hidden from him.

According to the system, the prime minister and the imperial historian had to report their slips every once in a while.

Through Jian Mu, Liu Che can easily know what these two are doing and what the work is progressing.

What's more, there are embroidered clothes guards as eyes and ears.

This pustule is a bit big.

But the poke is good!

If you don't squeeze out the thick juice, sooner or later there will be a big problem!

Better a finger off than always aching.

If it drags on, twenty or thirty years, I'm afraid this pustule will turn into cancer!

But how to squeeze pus is also a technical job.

Liu Che never thought that he could eat a fat man in one bite.

This matter can only be done slowly, step by step, first Guanzhong, then Sanhe, and finally the world.

It is necessary to unite the majority and crack down on a small measure.

Find ways to turn these bureaucrats into a handful of thieves who are trying to endanger the security of the country's society and the world!

Now, Liu Che is not in a hurry.

"Today, I summoned all the ministers to come because I just received a report from the Governor of Anton......," Liu Che stood up and said.

Zhou Yafu and Chao Cuo suddenly breathed a sigh of relief.

A big rock fell in my heart.

Anton's matter, no matter how big it is, that's it.

At least it cannot threaten the survival of the country and the stability of the world.

"Governor Anton, I have made a great ......discovery in Rao Leshui, hundreds of miles away from Huaihua," Liu Che clapped his hands, and Wang Dao beside him immediately brought out the jade dragon and jade turtle that Bo Shi offered last year: "Zhuqing, please see, this is the jade offered by Governor Anton, all of which are found near Rao Leshui......"

The jade dragon and the jade turtle were held by the eunuchs and put in front of the ministers for them to examine one by one.

"Governor Anton, a few days ago, personally went to Rao Leshui to inspect and found more jade and utensils, all of which were confirmed to be correct, which are the relics of the Fuxi clan, the Youxiong clan and the Youyu clan, and the latest can be traced back to the Guzhu Kingdom in the Spring and Autumn Period...... Liu Che continued.

When the ministers heard this, they were all in a battle.

Fu Xi is recognized as a holy king.

As for the Xiong clan, the Xuanyuan clan is also!

There is Yu's family, Emperor Shun!

These three major clans are the recognized ancestors and sources of the Zhuxia nation.

How could they be outside of Anton?

Countless people have doubts in their hearts.

But I heard Liu Che say: "I already know whose dojo is!" ”

"Fuxi's sister, Nuwa's dojo is also!"

This proclamation, like a thunderbolt, exploded among the ministers.

If others say that, they may think that this person is crazy.

But if it were the emperor, it would be a different story.

Theoretically, the emperor could decide the heavens, the stars, the sun and the moon, and let the rules of physics and chemical reactions do whatever he wanted.

He has the power of the second only god, and can decide the birth and destruction of demons and gods at will.

What's more, Liu Che also proved his destiny.

Like the three kings of antiquity, he has been given the authority to speak to the heavens and interpret and modify the mandate of heaven.

Just like Liu Che, in the Xuanshu Palace, he hung a plaque of 'Poverty in the Four Seas, Tianlu Forever', and no one in the world dared to disagree and oppose the great cause and sacredness of the Son of Heaven.

Liu Che held the sword of the Son of Heaven and continued: "Here, after two thousand years, there should have been a saint coming out, present in the world, survival and death, and continuation of the past!" ”

Two thousand years later, the Hongshan culture was born, rewriting the genealogy of Chinese civilization and showing the context and integration process of the various tributaries of the Zhuxia civilization to future generations.

The discovery of the Nuwa Temple confirms some of the heels of myths and legends.

Now, it's a bit early.

Liu Che was also worried that if he didn't put a sacred cloak on it, it might be destroyed by ignorant descendants.

Therefore, he lifted the sword of the Son of Heaven and said with a straight face: "I know the will of heaven, and this place appeared too early, so it should not be opened!" ”

"However, the ancestral temple, the dojo of the ancestors, the sacredness should not be insulted! Respect the heavens and the ancestors, I also wish for it! ”

"His order: The prime minister asks for a division, with the princes and noble ministers of the clan and the heirs of 2,000 stones, the descendants of meritorious heroes, and meritorious soldiers, and the selection of those who are more than 23 years old, virtuous, and able to serve the temple, as the ancestral tomb guards, and guard the mausoleum for the mausoleum of the first kings of the world, each with one year to three years old......" Liu Che raised the sword of the Son of Heaven and gave an order.

"No!" Zhou Yafu and the ministers had no opinion on this.

Sending the descendants of his own family to guard the tombs of his ancestors and kings is an honor and a responsibility!

Liu Che saw it and nodded.

Guarding the tombs and protecting the tombs and artifacts of the former kings from tomb robbers and bandits is just one of them.

The more important purpose is to cultivate the next generation of these noble heroes and train them to become Zhuxia nationalists.

And instill in them the concept of the state and the nation.

Think about it, once the next generation who can only be qualified to inherit the family business and title after guarding the tomb of the former king appears, they are bound to attach more importance to the concept of the country and the nation than their parents, and know who they are more clearly.

This is important.

In particular, the sub-feudal system will be resurrected in the future.

Without this prerequisite, the princes who were divided into ambushes and were separated would easily be assimilated by the local people.

And with this system, at the very least, even if these people are far from China, they will still remember where they came from. (To be continued.) )