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Chapter 316 "On Hidden Households, Hooligans"

In Qujiangfang where the water and the sky are the same color, Yunchu held a feast.

This is the reward for the people of Qujiangfang after they compete with the sky and win, and it is the best way to improve the self-confidence and pride of Qujiangfang people.

As the chief hero, Abe naturally won the highest reward given by Yunchu - a cow!

Don't look at it as just a cow, but it is the highest reward that the government rewards meritorious people.

Under normal circumstances, a passer-by saves a life and rewards a sheep.

When he met a bandit on the road, he fought hard, killed and captured him to the government, and rewarded him with a milk sheep.

Sudden encounter with two disasters of water and fire, shouting loudly, causing people to flee, and bravely taking the lead in the rescue, those who have made great achievements will be rewarded with a cow!
The principle of rewarding Abe with a cow comes from this.

Abei was very happy, and the people in Qujiangfang were also happy for him. At the banquet, the Japanese was very drunk.

Weeping, singing and dancing, and watching Yunchu sang hopefully: "The capital city of Nara is like cherry blossoms in full bloom. The fragrance is everywhere, and the prosperity is full of eyes." (Original work, Japan, Lao Ono, in 700 AD)

Rewarding Abe with a cow is a matter of business and justified. If Erniu or other Tang people came up with the idea this time, Yunchu would also reward him with a cow. However, there will be subsidies from local sages , As for how much this subsidy is, it depends on Yunchu's mood. In short, these subsidies will definitely make a down-to-earth family become an up-and-coming family in an instant.

Yunchu himself was also trapped in Qujiangfang by the flood, and was trapped for a full seven days. During this time, people from Qujiangfang took bamboo rafts to Chang'an City to report to the Yamen and their families that they were safe.

During these seven days, Yunchu did not stay idle, but began to lay out his own papermaking business.

There are a lot of bamboos on the edge of Chang'an, and these things have become harmful in Jinchangfang, especially in Qujiangfang. If they are not cut down within a year or two, they dare to grow into the farmland.

The biggest reason for choosing Qujiangfang to make paper is that the people here already have the consciousness of working to support their families, and Yunchu hopes to transfer the rent and commission that was previously dependent on the land to these workshops, that is to say, The people of Datang who work in the workshop actually have a certain decision-making power for the workshop.

In other words, they are not only the workers of the workshop, but also have certain ownership rights to the workshop.

This is a huge change, even earth-shaking for farmers, and Yunchu hopes that someone will be brave enough to participate in it.

There is no land in Wannian County that can be allocated to adult men and women, which leads to the fact that the household registration of many people will not appear on the household registration of Wannian County. This means that there are millions of people in Chang'an alone. , the reason why the population of the entire Tang Dynasty is less than 360 million households.

According to the survey of Wannian County officials, at least [-]% of the people in Wannian County alone exist in Chang'an in the form of hidden households, hooligans, and hooligans.

In other words, because the Tang court did not provide the means of production—land—to more than [-]% of the people, so many people did not have to pay rent and mercenary transfers, and were not eligible to participate in the Fubing system.

In the long run, the government system will become larger and larger, but the taxpayer population will not increase, or even decrease, and the income of the government will decrease. At the same time, because there is no money, the protection provided by the government to the people will become less and less.

This is a very bad vicious circle. Therefore, after reaching the peak of feudal society development such as Kaiyuan prosperity early, Datang's national power declined all the way, and finally became the unified dynasty with the worst ending.

As an official, Yunchu is still a competent official. He used to be like this, and he is still like this now. Therefore, Yunchu took advantage of the days when he was trapped in Qujiangfang, and wrote the Wanyan Memorial "Lun Yin". Huliu, gangster".

In this memorandum, Yun Chu explained to the emperor and his ministers the origin, development, and development of hidden households, ruffians, and gangsters, and then continued to develop. The harm to Datang society, and the harm to Datang imperial power.

Finally, he wrote in a threatening tone: "If you don't understand the dangers of hidden households, rogues, and hooligans, there will be more pillars of negative pillars than farmers in Nanmu; more rafters for beams than workers on the plane; , more than the millet in Yuzhi, there must be worries about the overthrow of the world.

In this way, people in the Tang Dynasty had no time to mourn for themselves, and later generations mourned; "

This is the first long memorial in the form of an argument. Yunchu only wrote it, and it took him five days to write it. He hoped to get the power to deal with hidden households and hooligans from the emperor.

Before submitting this memorial, Yunchu showed it to Di Renjie, Wen Rou, and Liu Rengui respectively.

The three applauded in unison, especially Liu Rengui, who was so excited that he couldn't contain his excitement after seeing this memorial. He not only signed and stamped this memorial, but also personally presented the memorial to the court at the beginning of the month. the emperor.

After reading the memorial, Li Zhi remained silent for a long time, even with the giant bear by his side, there was no joy on his face.

So, his dinner was cheaper than the giant bear.

There are hidden households and hooligans in the society of the Tang Dynasty. Li Zhi knows this. He never dreamed that the number of hidden households and hooligans could account for more than [-]% of the registered population of the Tang Dynasty.

Moreover, he also knew that there was a huge group that Yunchu didn't mention in the memorial, and that was—partitions.

If the emperor ignored hermits, hooligans, and hooligans, a large part of these people would become part of the nobles.

At that time, the Great Tang mentioned by Yunchu is in danger of being overthrown, and it will definitely appear.

How could Li Zhi not know what Emperor Gaozu relied on to start his business? The loyalty of Buqu to his master has been well-trained, and it is far from what some rebellious people can match.

Yunchu's memorial cut open a malignant tumor in Datang society with a knife, and displayed it bloody in front of Li Zhi.

Li Zhi read Yunchu's memorandum again and again until late at night. After Wu Mei's arrival, he still sighed in front of the memorandum. He thought of several solutions, but finally gave up one by one because he was too cautious.

After getting Li Zhi's permission, Wu Mei read Yun Chu's playbook, and after reading the playbook, Wu Mei also froze.

At this moment, her interests are the same as Li Zhi's. Li Zhi's losses are also her losses. Li Zhi's interests are being violated by hermits and hooligans. Similarly, her interests are also being damaged. .

After the husband and wife sat silently in the hall for a long time, Wu Mei tried her best to make her voice calm.

"Your Majesty, King Ji sealed ten thousand households."

Li Zhi suddenly raised his head, looked at Wu Mei and said, "Do you think..."

Wu Mei said again: "The king of Han, the king of Zhou, the king of Lu, the king of Shu, the king of Huo, and the king of Jing sealed off ten thousand five households."

Li Zhi gritted his teeth and said, "This is all sealed by Gaozu, Taizong."

Wu Mei said again: "Gaomi, Changguang, Wanchun, Jiujiang, Luling, and many princesses in Wanchun sealed their households for five thousand."

Li Zhi's body trembled, because Wu Mei was only talking about Gaozu's daughters, and Gaozu had nineteen daughters, except Princess Pingyang's fief, which was obtained by fighting to the death, and the rest could be granted [-] households , but because it came from Emperor Gaozu.

This is not counting the 21 daughters of Emperor Taizong.

Wu Mei picked up Yunchu's memorabilia and pointed to a line of numbers on it: "The Dingkou on your Majesty's prefecture and county household registration is only 350.

At the beginning, Emperor Taizong proposed to change the original three levels of county, prefecture, and county into the current two levels of prefecture and county, which made the issuance of government orders much smoother. "

Li Zhi stared at Wu Mei's eyes and said, "You want to..."

Wu Mei nodded and said: "Rewarding money is only a temporary pain, but rewarding land will become a disaster for all ages. In the Tang Dynasty, there should only be a hundred officials in the court, and the more officials in the prefectures and counties are reduced, the more Your Majesty's government orders will be. It is mastery.

The concubine thought that this king or that prince would become an obstacle to hinder His Majesty's decree.

Just like the current flood, it is not because of too much rain, but because of poor dredging of the river channel. If the river channel is dredged effectively, no matter how heavy the rainwater is, it will only be sent to the sea by the river channel, instead of becoming a disaster in this pass. "

Li Zhi grabbed the giant bear's ear and began to knead it. He grabbed it very hard, and the giant bear grunted dissatisfied. Seeing that Li Zhi ignored it, he lowered his head and let Li Zhi knead it. , far worse than the pain of Yunchu's bamboo stick hitting his body.

Li Zhi thought for a long time, while Wu Mei sat on the spot with a smile, neither of the husband and wife spoke, only the lights on the palace lantern danced to convey light.

The water leak of the timekeeping dripped the water drops into the copper bowl below, making a loud noise.

After an unknown amount of time, Li Zhi silently rolled up Yunchu's memorial, sealed it, put it in a brocade box, and handed it to Wu Mei.

"You are rewarded."

After speaking, he got up and left the hall with the sleepy-eyed giant bear. Tonight, Li Zhi felt that he might not be able to sleep.

Wu Mei held the brocade box in both hands, and looked back. Li Zhi, who had already left, looked back at the brocade box and said in a low voice: "Who should we start with first?"

The sun finally jumped out wet from behind the dark clouds. After more than ten days of moist autumn rain, the cold autumn finally came.

The flood that plagued Qujiangfang has fallen for more than a foot, and some farmland has emerged from the water and turned into a quagmire. In the puddles in the middle, there are only some small finger-long fish swimming around. Some big fish seem to know The catastrophe is about to come, and she frantically wagged her tail and left the small pond, preparing to return to the big river, the big river, and the big lake.

It's a pity that there are always urchins who catch fish with bamboo baskets and hold them tightly so that they have nowhere to escape.

These big fish are usually sent to Jinchangfang Canteen or Guangfufang Canteen, and finally become a delicacy praised by people.

Yun Chu, who returned home, had been waiting for an answer to the memorial, but in the end, no matter how long he waited, there was no reward, no reprimand, as if he had never been to that memorial before, the quiet and peaceful hall was eerie.

Of course, it is not without good news that the people of Lantian County finally dredged the river, blasted the barrier lake with gunpowder, and relieved Chang'an from being flooded...

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