Datang first village

Insufficient population is indeed a problem that affects the upper, middle and lower classes of Datang, especially the people around Chang'an.

The royal family, the court itself needless to say.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, households have been an important indicator for evaluating officials at the state and county levels.

Datang's state and county grading is also based on the indicator of the number of household registrations.

Below [-] households, there are [-] households in Xiaxian and Zhongxian counties, and [-] households in Shangxian county.More than [-] households in Shangzhou, [-] households in Zhongzhou, and [-] to [-] households in Xiazhou. This is the most real population problem.

Li Yuanxing's New Deal, when Wei Zheng hadn't detailed it, it can be said that the people in Chang'an who knew about the New Deal already exceeded [-]% of Chang'an's population.

Up to the emperor, down to the trafficker.

Li Er sat at the table in a daze, Empress Changsun called out several times, but Li Er didn't come back to his senses.This made Empress Changsun very anxious, and immediately called Changsun Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wang Jishan, Cui Junsu, Wei Zheng and Du Ruhui who were in the Qin Palace to enter the palace.

Originally, Du Ruhui just came to Chang'an with Li Yuanxing, and had a drink with some old friends.

For Du Ruhui, this itself was a holiday.

But who would have thought that the empty wine glass hadn't been filled yet, and the palace called urgently, so they had to enter the palace immediately.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness King Qin may be thinking too simple. He didn't take His Majesty's feelings into account. He just wanted to increase the population. If there is any overreach, please read it to His Majesty King Qin for the sake of Great Tang, and give him a lighter punishment." !" Wei Zheng looked at Li Er's face, and said something bad in his heart, and the Holy One became angry.

Li Er sighed a long sigh: "I also want to exempt the people of the Tang Dynasty from food tax."

Ah, it turns out that the problem is the food tax.

All the ministers remembered that Li Yuanxing once said that the people of the Tang Dynasty would no longer have to pay grain taxes, and Li Er was tempted at that time.

Li Er's dream is to make Datang no more grain tax in his lifetime.

But now, Li Yuanxing can be said to be exempt from grain tax.

"Your Majesty, His Royal Highness the King of Qin once said that if you want to truly exempt food tax, you must ensure two ways. One is sufficient commercial tax, and the other is to directly belong to the national economy. For example, Yaozhou!" Du Ruhui also said next to him.

Li Er's eyes narrowed, Yaozhou was owned by Li Yuanxing, how much is Yaozhou worth now?

Thinking of this, Li Er asked: "If Yaozhou is converted into silver coins, how much is this Yaozhou?"

Only Cui Junsu, Minister of the Ministry of Household Affairs, can answer this question.

"My lord, it's hard to calculate. But if you really want to do the calculations, Yaozhou is worth ten Luoyang! Last year's Luoyang! Last year's Laizhou is worth more than 100, last year's Laizhou!"

A very vague concept.

"My lords, tell me, what about Wulang's decree to encourage births?" Li Er changed the question.

"Returning to the emperor is a good decree. But it is only possible for the king of Qin to do this. If it is another one, no prince in the Tang Dynasty will have the slightest chance, because they will starve themselves to death first after exempting the food tax. His Royal Highness Qin is not afraid. , because His Royal Highness King Qin does not need small money."

"You don't need small money, so you need big money?" Li Er asked half-jokingly.

Wei Zheng said: "Yes, I have calculated that His Royal Highness now needs about 13 billion guan. If the new palace is built for the Holy Majesty, and the money for the new Chang'an City is also paid for by the Qin Palace, then it will be close to 14 billion guan. .The money needed by the imperial palace is just a fraction of the money His Royal Highness King Qin needs!"

A drop in the bucket is already a very exaggerated metaphor.

But Wei Zheng said, a hundred cows are a drop in the bucket.

Li Er couldn't even laugh, what Li Yuanxing wanted to do needed so much money.

However, Li Er will not ask, and there is no need to ask.

When Li Yuanxing didn't report to him officially, he would never implement it. It must be a great long-term plan.In other words, Li Yuanxing drew a big cake for the courtiers of the Qin Palace.

"I have decided that Huazhou will be nationalized. Li Yuanxing, the King of Qin, will manage it." When Li Er said this, he suddenly had an idea in his heart: "Huazhou is a state after all. I have promised it to the King of Qin, and now I will take it back." It’s just that I made a slip of the tongue, so let’s choose a few more counties as the fiefdoms of King Qin.”

Wang Jishan hadn't spoken since he came in, he chose to watch quietly.

At this time, Li Er said that he would divide several counties into Li Yuanxing's fiefdom, and turned his head to Zhangsun Wuji and said, "Pubshe, the eldest grandson, why don't we choose the poorest, most miserable and worst counties."

"Why?" Changsun Wuji said thoughtfully, Wang Jishan, you and Li Yuanxing have no enmity, right?

Wang Jishan and Li Yuanxing had no enmity, but he had other ideas. After listening to Changsun Wuji's question, he said to Changsun Wuji: "His Royal Highness Qin's Yaozhou was chosen by him in advance. The same is true for Huazhou, he had it in advance. If you choose, will there be a miracle in any state or county?"

"Wang Shangshu's words are justified!"

"For personal reasons, there are many impoverished places in the Tang Dynasty. Even my royal family has many poor people who only have one meal a day, and they can't eat dry rice every day. If His Royal Highness King Qin can turn a poor county into a rich one, among them The brilliance must be something we need to learn." Wang Jishan's reason can be said directly even in front of Li Yuanxing.

Changsun Wuji also nodded in agreement.

The two talked, and the rest fell silent.

Wang Jishan said again: "For the sake of the public, let the state officials and county magistrates of Datang learn how to govern a county."

"Then why don't even the magistrates of these counties be handed over to King Qin!" Changsun Wuji's words were really just a casual joke.

"Dashan, let's see how His Royal Highness Prince Qin trains these county magistrates!"

"Good!" Li Er was happy to hear that: "Check, find the most miserable and poorest counties!"

The faces of several ministers were full of excitement, but Wei Zheng's face was dark, but he himself was dark, so even Du Ruhui didn't support him when he wanted to refute, so he had to admit it.

"Holy Majesty, Yu County! The population is only [-] households, and it is the second poorest county around Chang'an. It is really poor. There is not much good land, and the [-] households guard less than [-] acres of paddy fields and rely on hunting for their livelihood. I am so poor that I can’t even pay the county magistrate’s annual salary, and I dare not eat meat in the daytime once at home!”

When Cui Junsu said this, he laughed.

"Why don't you dare eat meat during the day?" Li Er was very curious.

"Because the county is too poor, a little smell of meat can attract all the people in the county government! Of course he can't eat it. It's a pity that he is already thirty-seven, but he has no money to marry a wife. I think he is the poorest in the whole Tang Dynasty." One of the magistrates."

There was another sentence that Cui Junsu didn't say.

Because this Yu County (later Hu County) is a county under Jingzhao, it is too close to Chang'an, so close that the county magistrate dare not even accept a catty of meat as a gift, so he is the poorest county magistrate.

Wang Jishan, Shangshu of the Ministry of Rites, said: "The real reason for the poverty of Yu County is that there have been nine disasters in ten years. Since the first year of Wude, there have been severe droughts for eight years. This year, it has been six consecutive years of drought. In the seventh year of Wude, the whole county There is no harvest. The population of Yu County has also changed from [-] households to less than [-] households now!"

"Zhouzhi and Zhongnan counties are also poor counties. It was only in the third year of Wude that they were assigned to Jizhou."

"From today onwards, the two counties will belong to Jingzhao!" Li Er's words are equivalent to placing the two counties under Li Yuanxing's name: "Add one more, and Lantian County will also belong to him. Immediately prepare the documents, and while Wulang is still in Chang'an When the time comes, let him sign it!"

There is no such thing as an emperor's edict in the official imperial decree of the Tang Dynasty, but it is very similar to the official documents of later generations.It has the signatures of various departments, the filing status of the unit that issued the document, and who made the declaration, etc.The leaflet imperial decree is actually just a handwritten note from the emperor.

Lantian is so poor, so poor.

If Hu County is drought every year, then Lantian is flooded this year and drought next year. It can be said that there are constant natural disasters.

These two counties are not only natural disasters, because they are both on the edge of the Qinling Mountains, wild animals and the like are another serious hazard to crops.Especially the wild boar entering the field, that is the destruction of the surname.

When the imperial decree arrived at Tiance Admiral's Mansion, Li Yuanxing was about to return to Qinwangzhuang.

Li Yuanxing was stunned when he saw the imperial decree.

"Old Wei, Lao Du, you think Lantian is a poor county. I heard that Heshibi is Lantian jade, and jade from Lantian, and all of them are high-quality jade. Poor?" Li Yuanxing couldn't understand.

Du Ruhui and Wei Zheng both laughed.

"It's done. Anyway, the imperial decree is accepted first." Seeing the two laughing, there must be a reason.Li Yuanxing first signed for the imperial decree, and then said: "Accompany me in the car, and go back to Qinwangzhuang together."

"I won't be leaving. General Tiance's Mansion still has a lot of official business to deal with." Wei Zhengxin said that Du Ruhui was there to explain, and he was no different from himself.When Li Yuanxing heard that Wei Zheng was not going, he approached Wei Zheng and said in a low voice, "This king told General Qin Qiong about it, you can go and have a chat when you have time."

Wei Zheng nodded and made a beheading gesture.Li Yuanxing said: "Very good, there must be no mistakes in this matter!"

On the way back to Qin Wangzhuang, Du Ruhui said: "Your Highness, Heshibi came from Congling, the ancient Kunlun Mountain. There are also rumors that it came from Chu Mountain. It is called Lantian Jade, but it is not Lantian County like Jingzhao. It is just a coincidence. Your servant I thought it would be more credible to come from Chu Mountain."

"Duke continue!"

Li Yuanxing asked Du Ruhui to continue to say that the Tibetan area has even gone to Central Asia, and Chu Mountain is now southeast of Wudang Mountain, in the boundary of Jiangxi.Originally, Li Yuanxing always thought that Heshibi was Lantian jade, so it should come from Lantian.

"Heshibi is nephrite, and Lantian also has some beautiful stones that look like jade, but they are not jade, just stones. They are hard stones."

"It's just a coincidence in the name?" Li Yuanxing asked.

"Exactly, Heshibi is also known as the beautiful jade in Lantian. There is an ancient jade from the Han Dynasty in the house of the minister, and the Holy One also sent someone to check it in Lantian. It is just a coincidence in the name. Therefore, there is no jade in Lantian, only some strange stones. !" Du Ruhui was sure of what he said, and Li Yuanxing also believed that what Du Ruhui said was not a lie.

(Note: There is a history to check this section of jade) (To be continued.)