"How did you say you have been an official for so many years? Or are you stupid as an official? Who is the one who kneels down in the hall? Why sue the Officer? How did you come up with such stupid words? ”

For Wang Shiyong, Zhao Huan felt a little hated that iron could not become steel: "Those who do not have a Ming household registration are not considered people, and they are not counted as people, and they still ask who is kneeling in the hall?" It's a shame, I don't even have the face to say that you are my courtier! ”

Wang Shiyong replied with some distraction: "Qiguan family, those children ......"

Zhao Huan couldn't help but glared at Wang Shiyong, who answered the question, and said: "Don't worry about those children's affairs for now, and wait for the people from the women's association to come to the door, and then you will send someone to deal with it." Starting tomorrow, the city of Bianjing will begin to strictly inspect beggars and green skins. ”

"Those who have broken hands and feet and can't work are sent to the yamen such as the nursing home to raise, and those who can work but beg are all arrested, and they are all sent to Qin Huiwan together with those green skins on the street."

"The people often say that it is bright in broad daylight, so I will give them a bright and prosperous future, so that the people can live comfortably!"

After thinking about it, Zhao Huan simply asked people to go to the street to buy some wine and food, planning to talk about things while eating-

In addition to the problems that existed in all dynasties and can never be cured, there is also a very serious problem in ancient Chinese history, that is, the problem of human trafficking, or the problem of hidden households caused by human trafficking.

As we all know, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty used troops for many years, and a very important reason why he was criticized for being a poor soldier was that "the household registration was halved".

However, if you think about it with your brain, you will know that halving the hukou and halving the population are two completely incompatible concepts.

Halving the population means that half of the population has actually died, and halving the hukou is actually the same thing as "2 million displaced people in Kanto, and 400,000 unnamed people", which means that many people's household registration has disappeared from the government's household register, thus causing the phenomenon of halving the number of hukou.

This is also the reason why Sima Gang wrote in "Zizhi Tongjian" that "Han Wu has the loss of Qin, and avoids the disaster of Qin"-

If Liu Yebo really fought regardless of his intentions, and as a result, more than half of the people in the country died, it is estimated that there would be no need to wait for Chen Sheng, Wu Guangzhi and others to rebel in Daze Township, just the Huns who were scared by Liu Yebo and fled far away in the Western Regions could laugh three times and then lead their troops back to kill Liu Yeboar.

What is more amazing is that the problem of the number of hukou and even the number of people in the Ding family continues to disappear inexplicably is not only in the Han or Song Dynasty, it is a problem that has been in the family since the beginning of the world, and it was not until President Jiang transferred to Taiwan that it came to an end.

The root of the problem is simple –

The people are divided into three or six or nine, and human trafficking is even a legal business.

According to the "Zhou Rites", there was a legal slave and maid trading market in the pre-Qin period, and the Zhou royal family and the vassal states all set up the position of "hostage", "in charge of the city's goods and bribes, people, cattle and horses, weapons, chariots, and treasures".

The "people" in the "Zhou Li" are not the people of later generations, but refer to slaves and slaves, which are all goods for trade like "cattle and horses, weapons, chariots, and treasures". 89 Books

During the Eastern Jin Dynasty, the imperial court also taxed slaves and maids. "Sui Shu Food and Goods Chronicles" contains, "Jin Zi crossed the river, all goods were sold to slaves, maids, horses, cattle and fields, there were vouchers, the rate of money was 10,000, the loss was estimated to be 400 into the official, the seller was 300, and the buyer was 100. "The tax rate is 4%, of which 3% is borne by the seller and 1% by the buyer.

These people who are allowed to be legally trafficked are slaves, also known as "slaves and maids", these people are legally classified as untouchables, do not have the status of "nationals", but are regarded as the private property of the master's family, and can be bought and sold in the market, such as the "Tang Law" clearly stipulates: "Slaves and maids are cheap, and the law is better than livestock"; "Slaves and maidservants are the same as their wealth, that is, they are disposed of by the Lord."

This means that the slave trade is legal, and it is no different from you leading cattle to the market.

Similarly, the later Ming Dynasty also had this problem, and there was even a "contribution" system created in order to avoid taxes.

These problems have led to a decrease in the number of hukou -

From the common people with household registration to lowly and tenant households, they naturally lost their household registration, and the government naturally stopped counting these people when they counted Dingkou.

For example, in the statistics of December every year in the "Records of Taizong of the Ming Dynasty", in the second year of Yongle, there were 9,685,200 households in the world, and the number of Dingkou was 5,950,470.

In fact, even if you think about it with your ass, you know that this situation is not normal-

It is normal for the population to decline during the chaos of the world, because this kind of thing is not a dinner or embroidery, it is a real death.

But after the peace of the world, the people have no variety shows, no nightclubs, no mobile games and no entertainment projects such as Douyin to pass the time, and making villains is almost the only entertainment project!

More importantly, from the day the world appeared to the end, no expert has ever jumped out to say anything about family planning, let alone "when the country's population growth is insufficient, you can bring in foreign talents, especially Nigel", such bullshit arguments!

So that's very abnormal.

When there are too many Dingkou, the land is overwhelmed, and the productive forces are not developed enough, and the means of production are not enough to feed everyone, it is normal for a war to break out to solve the population pressure, but when the war stops, because of the war, a large number of young and strong people die, and the vacated fields are redistributed to feed the people, and then there is a big explosion of population growth.

However, no matter how much the emperor and the imperial court encourage childbearing, there will be stagnation or even negative population growth, and even some travelers will ignore this problem intentionally or unintentionally, and always look for the root cause of the demise of a dynasty from other aspects.

In reality, however, the problem of hidden households, caused by voluntary or involuntary human trafficking, is also one of the main culprits in the demise of a dynasty.

Naturally, the Great Song Dynasty also had this problem.

Although there is no longer a "slave and maid cheap" in the official sense of the Great Song Dynasty, and the slave and maid are no longer the private property of the master's family but an employment relationship in the economic sense, the law stipulates that the employment of slaves and maids must enter into a contract, indicating the maximum employment period and the number of wages, and the master-servant relationship will be automatically terminated after the expiration, but in fact, there are still a large number of hidden households and human trafficking in the Great Song Dynasty!