Recreating the prosperous Tang begins with summoning players

Chapter 42 Granting Land and Slaves

Since King Jianning started Dasuo Maangyue, the tyrants in Guazhou had a mentality of eating melons at the beginning. Without the help of Guazhou officials, could these big soldiers measure the land?
But they never expected that there are so many dental soldiers who are good at arithmetic under the command of King Jianning!
These teeth soldiers can accurately calculate the area of ​​the field as long as they do simple calculations on paper.

In addition to their super computing power, the gang of dental soldiers under King Jianning's command are not good at oil and salt.

The patriarch of the Shi family took out hundreds of money and the best silk, and wanted to bribe Zhang Yabing who was investigating the land.

As a result, this Zhang Yabing took the money and silk, turned around and reported the Shi family to the governor's office, and counter-sued the Shi family for bribing officials.

The Shi family spent money, but the patriarch of his own family was arrested by King Jianning and put in prison.

This Zhang Yabing calculated overnight, and found dozens of "family-born children" from the Shi family's mansion who had not registered with the government.

According to the "Laws of the Tang Dynasty", Datang recognized the keeping of slaves, and even stipulated in the law that slaves are commodities subordinate to their masters.

In Guazhou, there is a dental shop specializing in the slave trade. Not only can you buy Han slaves here, but you can even buy Dashi and Tubo slaves.

However, since the reign of Emperor Taizong, Tang Ting has also realized the disadvantages of slavery.

According to the "Tang Laws and Discussions", the taxes that the people of the Tang Dynasty need to bear are mainly the land rent that needs to be paid for land grants, and the taxes that adult males need to bear.

The land granting system of the Tang Dynasty, after a male becomes an adult, he can obtain land granting from the government for farming.

The land in the hands of the dead people will be taken back by the government and awarded to new adult men.

Therefore, in terms of law, the fields planted by the common people belong to the imperial court, and it is only natural that they need to pay land rent to cultivate the land.

In addition to land rent, every adult male also had to undertake the task of corvee service in the court.

According to these corvee tasks, the imperial court can let the people serve corvee with labor services, and some rich households can also be exempted from these corvee by turning over to Ding Yong.

This is the main source of taxation in Datang, Tian Tax and Ding Yong.

In the Tang Dynasty, men had the right to grant land when they reached adulthood, and they also began to undertake the corvee of the court.

Therefore, every adult male is also a qualified soldier of the Tang Dynasty, and soldiers who have made meritorious deeds on the battlefield can be rewarded with Yongyetian from the court.

As the name suggests, Yongyetian is a reward for meritorious persons in addition to granting land. These fields can be passed on to future generations, and they are also known as Shitian in the people's mouth.

You can get Shitian by fighting, so Tang soldiers on the battlefield in the early Tang Dynasty fought bravely, and even if they died in battle, they could get Yongyetian.

Through this combination of farming and warfare, the Tang Dynasty could rise rapidly in the chaotic times of the end of the Sui Dynasty and dominate the world.

However, granting land and Ding Yong are all aimed at the men of the Tang Dynasty, and slaves are not included in this scope.

Slaves cannot obtain land grants, and without rights there are no obligations, so slaves do not need to be handed over to Ding Yong.

If Datang had more slaves, the less Ding Yong could receive, so the government was also limiting the increase in the number of slaves.

For example, in the Guanzhong area of ​​Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court would control the number of slaves and take the annual reduction of slave status as an assessment indicator for local officials.

From the court of Emperor Gaozong to the court of Wu Zhou, when encountering national celebrations and great victories, the court would issue decrees to pardon slaves.

According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, children born to slaves would naturally become slaves. Once a slave raised in a big family gave birth to a child, the child would naturally become the property of the family.

The players also fiercely petitioned King Jianning to abolish slaves, but this is not a problem in Guazhou, and the status of slaves is also stipulated in Tang laws, so Li Yan did not agree with the radical suggestions of the players.

But I didn't expect that Zhang Tong found a loophole in "Tang Law" ingeniously.

According to the requirements of the Tang law, although "family-born children" are also slaves, they need to be registered with the government before they can be traded.

All the offspring of the Shi family were for their own use, and they had no idea of ​​buying or selling them, so none of these dozens of offspring were registered with the Guazhou governor's office.

Zhang Tong caught this loophole. For these unregistered family-born children, Zhang Tong denied their status as slaves, but insisted that Ding Ding was the hidden Dingkou of the Shi family.

Zhang Tong found that the dozens of "family-born children" of the Shi family had not been registered with the government, so Zhang Tong believed that the Shi family was hiding people and evading paying Ding Yong.

This will kill the Shi family. It was found out that the Shi family has hidden the land, and they need to pay decades of land taxes.

Now there are dozens more Ding Yong, although the Shi family has a big business, but they can't make up so much rent.

And the head of the Shi family was taken into prison by King Jianning. The Shi family was leaderless, and it was said that they were going to sell their land to pay taxes.

In the light of the fire, An Changgui's gloomy face was reflected.

Yang Shizhong said anxiously: "Uncle Gui! King Jianning wants to kill the roots of our big family in Guazhou!"

Wu Hao, who was even more anxious, said that the An family and the Yang family were old wealthy families with strict family rules, and all children of the family were registered in the governor's mansion.

But the Wu family is a wealthy family that has only risen in the past few decades, and they were born as warriors, so they are not proficient in Tang law.

Now there are hundreds of people in the Wu family whose children have not been registered with the government. If the Shi family's method is followed, the Wu family will have to pay a large amount of Ding Yong.

This will kill the Wu family. Ding Yong, with hundreds of people, is an astronomical figure. Even the big family that has controlled Guazhou for generations cannot afford such a large tax!
Everyone was discussing, except for the An family and the Yang family, which family didn't hide their property or population?

In addition to the fact that the children of the family were not enslaved, many families also kept private slaves. These were bankrupt local people who had to sell themselves to these big families.

Regarding this kind of behavior of selling one's body into slavery privately, the "Tang Laws and Discussions" also strictly cracked down, but the common people went bankrupt and had nowhere to go, so selling themselves into slavery was also a normal thing, and the local tycoons all operated in this way.

An Changgui said, "I miscalculated. I didn't expect that King Jianning would have so many capable people. They really found out the land in Guazhou."

Yang Shizhong also said with emotion: "Guazhou has been in the Tang Dynasty for a hundred years, and the field books are full of the row of warehouses to the east of the governor's mansion. As the secretary of the household department, I have not sorted out how many fields there are in Guazhou. King Jianning actually used In such a short period of time, so many acres of fields have been checked!"

An Changgui nodded and said: "Yes, this field record is constantly changing. I remember that a hundred years ago, the mountains beside the Shule River were uncultivable rapids, but now they are all fertile land. The fertile land near Dashui Gorge used to be fertile. The fields became wasteland as the Dashui Gorge was cut off. Hundreds of years of development and abandonment, coupled with the continuous granting of land by the imperial court, the field books have long been like a mess. King Jianning was able to peel off the cocoons and completely clear the acres of land. admire!"

Wu Hao said dissatisfiedly: "Uncle Gui! Brother Shi Zhong! Now is not the time to admire, you have to give us an idea for the 42 wealthy families in Guazhou! Are you really going to sell your ancestral property to make up for the rent?"

(End of this chapter)