Emperor of the Tang Dynasty

Shen Bihua snorted coldly, her face full of scheming!

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Outside the Yue Wang Mansion, Li Shimin and the courtiers, who continued to come to the Chu Prince Mansion, also talked about this issue.

"...To sum up, in fact, this method of food stamps still has these hidden dangers."

After listening, Li You touched his chin and thought for a moment.

"If you can know that there is such a problem, why don't you think of ways to improve it after so long?"

Listening to Li You's question, Fang Xuanling shook his head with a wry smile and said, "How can it be so easy? The calculation method of the number of household registrations in the imperial court is based on the reports from the rij to the top, and gradually passes through the county magistrate, the prefect, the governor... ...at last arrives at the court."

"But there is a big problem, because there are too many officials involved, so there are always many officials who secretly collude with landlords, tyrants and wealthy businessmen? A smear, I don’t know if the population is underreported.”

This has been a big problem since the Qin and Han dynasties. These petty greed and petty activities have been repeatedly banned, and almost the vast majority of people have done it, and it is impossible to prevent it.

"Besides that, there are some traditions that can make household registration statistics very confusing." Zhang Liang replied, "For example, when a woman is not married, she is from her father, so it counts as the population of her father's family. If you marry, then you will be from the husband, and it should be counted as the population of the husband's family."

"And after the husband's death, a woman's son is counted as the population of the married son's family. If the wife is divorced, that is, after the man does not want her, generally such a person cannot be registered in the household according to tradition! And because the married girl Even if the water was spilled, she couldn't return to her original household registration, which would eventually lead to a complete mess!"

When talking about this, everyone sighed and sighed.

Even Li Shimin felt a little regretful, wondering if he was too anxious to agree to Li You's policy?But it's not good to take back what was said...

Just when he was worried, Li You suddenly said: "...In the end, it's all because the common people are doing things on their own and are unwilling to report the household registration and pay the poll tax, so let them take the initiative and consciously point it out?"

"What you said is simple, how can you make them take the initiative?" Li Shimin rolled his eyes angrily.

Wei Zheng also laughed and said: "After all, this kind of thing is difficult to verify, so it can't be restrained by law, it's really..."

"Who said it should be bound by law?"

Li You interrupted Wei Zheng's words and said casually: "Add a rule to the food stamps, only those with household registration can receive the food stamps."

"..."

As soon as Li Youcai finished speaking, he found that the dinner table was silent, and everyone looked dumbfounded.

I rely on... It seems that a little change can really solve the problem perfectly? !

At this moment, Wei Zheng, Fang Xuanling, Xiao Yu and the others are all extremely ashamed. Why, as dignified officials of the Tang Dynasty, can't even turn the corner of their thinking?

As His Royal Highness the King of Chu said, as long as this is added to the food stamp policy, everything can be done without bloodshed!

After a long time, everyone who didn't know what to say could only sigh in unison: "--Wonderful!"

Chapter 579 One person can hold more than half of the imperial court! (Second more)

Li You looked at them worriedly, how did he feel that these group of prime ministers and emperors were about to give up thinking now, and leave everything to him to do?

Cheer up!You are all famous ministers and emperors in history!

Now don't act like I've raised a few salted fish, okay?

And even if he was praised, Li You wouldn't be happy. After all, it's really disgusting for a group of big men to say "meow~" together.

However, Li Shimin and the others didn't notice Li You's dislike, and Xiao Yu said excitedly: "It can really have this effect! It can take the opportunity to find out all those black households, and it can also prevent the food prepared by the government from not matching the number of people. It's just killing two birds with one stone!"

There are a large number of black households in many places. They evade the poll tax and are a group of people the court has always wanted to clean up.

This is not just because the imperial court covets those poll taxes, of course it is one of the important factors, but the most important thing is that if the specific population of Datang and the distribution of the number of people in each place are not known, the government departments In terms of harm and no benefit.

If it is impossible to know the distribution and number of the population, then 947 will be a major blow to the overall planning. Just like the food stamp policy this time, if the population cannot be grasped, it will not be promoted at all.

In addition, there are many miscellaneous problems, which have always caused the court a headache, but now it was solved by Li You's understatement!

If there is no household registration, there is no food stamp, so in the environment of the great famine, if you want to get food from the court to survive, you must first go to the local government to apply for household registration!

Then they take the food stamp and the household registration certificate, and then pay for the food after comparing the two, otherwise they will only be hungry!

After all, now that the ban has been issued, the purchase of food is prohibited everywhere. Even if you have a lot of wealth, you can't buy a grain of rice at all.

"The problem of eating in this great famine is not a difficulty that can be overcome by patience! That is to say, this is a trick to force those black households to apply for household registration without bloodshed!"

Fang Xuanling analyzed excitedly, Li You's simple sentence, but he felt that there was infinite meaning in it - either register to become a formal citizen of the Tang Dynasty, or continue to be a black household and starve to death, choose for yourself!

Fang Xuanling believed that anyone with a normal mind would know how to choose.

"Wait a minute, what if they use the opportunity of relying on food stamps to buy food in private with money, and use it to make a fool of themselves?"

Wei Zheng suddenly remembered this incident, and Li You said casually: "It's simple, then the grain shop is not allowed to directly collect money for transactions, but instead the common people go to the government to pay the money with their household registration, and then they can get the same amount of grain. As for the grain shop, of course, it can only accept grain coupons.”

"And after the grain shop has received the food stamps, they can go to the government to exchange money. If they find that they are collecting money instead of only the food stamps, they will still be severely punished! This way, we can completely put an end to private transactions."

This time Wei Zheng was also completely amazed, nodding his head to reflect on Li You's policy.

His Royal Highness the King of Chu is really comprehensive, and by changing the details a little, all the loopholes and all aspects have been taken into account!

Li Shimin listened on the sidelines, and could be considered to have thoroughly seen why Li You had convinced so many ministers during his previous regency and supervision of the country, and even missed the time when Li You was in power.

Just because Li You handles the decision-making, it's really convenient!There is almost no need to spend more time discussing, Li You can handle most of the court by himself, and he has considered everything!

"It seems that I entrusted the entire disaster relief to Yang Jie. It was the most correct decision!"

Li Shimin couldn't help but think to himself, he has only gradually found out that this year's drought and locust plagues are extremely large-scale disasters that have not been seen for many years, but the losses are far less than the major disasters in previous years!

No... It can even be said that the losses of Datang so far are only equal to those of the previous ordinary disasters, which is an incredible feat!