At the end of April, the weather in the north is getting wetter and warmer, and it is already late spring and early summer.

In the main hall of the Han Palace, Li Po sat in the middle, everyone lined up in two compartments, and twenty or thirty civil and military people gathered together.

This is the first time that Li Po has officially convened everyone to discuss after becoming king, which actually symbolizes the end of the busiest period.

The spring ploughing has come to an end, this year's counties in Jindi have abundant rain, spring ploughing is going very smoothly, but the problem of population shortage is becoming more and more obvious, and the household registration records reported everywhere are shocking.

After nearly ten years of turmoil, the fact that the population of Jindi has decreased sharply is finally clearly presented.

As a series of data came out of the mouth of Su Yan, the head of the household, Li Po's face was expressionless, and his subordinates, who were quite excited, gradually held their breath and became concerned.

Even if everyone is mentally prepared, after hearing these detailed figures, they still can't be indifferent, because the truth will always be more cruel than imagined.

Today, the population of the thirteen counties of Jindi has plummeted by more than half, and more than half of the fields cultivated this year are newly cultivated "wasteland", and it has brought about a very strange phenomenon, the population mobility is very different from usual.

The people of Hedong County, the richest in Jindi, are not a few who move north, and the people of the two states have a tendency to move south, which is instructed by the government and spontaneous by the people.

Due to the shortage of people, the arable land in each county has left a large blank, and most of it is owned by the government, and the only benefit is that the government may have enough land to distribute to the people for a long time in the future.

The sharp decline in population affects not only farming, but also politics, military and economy are within the scope of influence. Labor has actually been abolished for a long time under Li Po's rule.

Even so, if you want to restore the old view, I am afraid it will not be a matter of ten or twenty years.

And in the near future, Li Po will also use troops outside...... I'm afraid the only consolation is that the other princes will only get worse.

Obviously, Yang Guang left a complete mess for everyone, but the people who took over were smashing pots and selling iron to consume the last bit of family money, which is a great similarity to the war in the late Han Dynasty.

As one of the heroes of the late Sui Dynasty, Li Po will not be noble, and under the sharp decline in population, he still has to prepare for the upcoming war, and it is impossible for the soldiers to return to the fields to make up for the lack of manpower.

Su Yan, who roughly set up the household department, almost all the bad news he said.

Except for Shangdang and Changping and Linhe County, which had just experienced a series of wars at the end of last winter, the statistical work of the other counties was done very meticulously, and compared with the actual situation, the error would not be too large.

Concealing the poor and falsely reporting the merits of the invitation are meaningless at this meeting.

After that, Su Yan's topic turned to another important function of the household department, that is, the issue of taxation, and after saying a few words, even Su Yan himself became depressed, and his voice gradually became low and hoarse, if it was just him, it was not impossible to cry a nose.

The ministries are all in place, the worst mess may be a few households, the population has been greatly reduced, the fields are barren, and the taxes have not yet seen a shadow, how heavy do you say the official hat he is wearing now?

That is, Su Yan is still young, and his official qualifications are getting deeper, and his state of mind and city government have matured, otherwise, he can't clean up such a mess.

And now, he was able to withstand the pressure and set up the household department first, which was actually similar to several other people, that is, he pulled some of his subordinates out of the governor's mansion and set up the household department first.

Then he sent a submission, wanting to go to Daizhou in person at the beginning of the summer, not for anything else, just because Daizhou will collect grain tax this year, and the state will join in next year, as long as it is done well, this will make the waist of the household gradually hardened.

Of course, now the household department seems to be climbing the mountain, and everyone is a little miserable under pressure, but to speak, the more war-torn the season, the more important this yamen is, and the hidden head of the six departments will never be the official department, but Su Yan's household department, otherwise, Li Po will not let him speak first.

This is undoubtedly a compliment for Su Yan, but it will not stop him from listing the bad news one by one and showing it clearly in front of everyone.

said a lot, to sum it up in one sentence, Jin Di is tired, and then I have to toss, well, it's better to be careful.

The good news is not nothing, although there is no shadow of taxation, but the warehouses everywhere after the autumn of the year are half full, everyone is not a problem to eat enough, and there is no need to worry about using soldiers again.

In some proud words, Jindi warehousing is now the crown of the world, and no one can compare.

In fact, when the Luoyang warehouse gradually dried up, the warehouse system created by Emperor Wen Yang Jian has tended to end, the Luoyang warehouse with the most grain storage is thinning, the Liyang warehouse is empty, the Yongfeng warehouse has also come to an end, and the Zhuojun granary is almost starving to death mice.

Therefore, it is foreseeable that before the autumn harvest this year, the north will face a large-scale food shortage, Wang Shichong, Dou Jiande, Li Yuan and others are almost inevitable, and they will all pay a considerable price for the previous large-scale war.

Even Wang Shichong caused a famine...... At this time, Li Po actually vaguely felt that the shortcomings of food and population were becoming more and more obvious, and would this further accelerate the process of reunification?

According to the original trajectory, Li Tang was invincible in his expedition to the east and west, and the fundamental reason was that everyone was a little unable to support it, so a large-scale decisive battle broke out one after another?

If that's the case, for Jindi, which has plenty of food, it is necessary to think carefully about the pros and cons.

Without saying a few good words, Su Yan picked up the stick in his hand again.

"Although the grain and grass are quite abundant, most of the counties in Hedong are short of grain, and now it seems that in June and July, the matter of transferring grain from the north to the south is inevitable......

Well, Hedong, as the hinterland of the Jin Dynasty, has to accept the relief of the northern border plug, the new Cen Wenwen, Yang Gongren and others are stunned, and most of the others start from the same generation, and they can't help but have a little resentment against the Hedong people who are waiting to be fed in the south.

Subsequently, Su Jian also said a few words on the matter of silver money, although there is still a certain gap between the grain prices in the north and south of Jindi, but they are gradually stabilizing, and the grain prices in Hedong are a little higher, and they cannot be lowered in a short time, but there is no room for growth.

The grain prices in the two states in the north fell rapidly, the market became calmer, the appearance of prosperity began to appear, and the matter of barter suddenly increased.

The shortage of copper coins was further highlighted, which made Li Po's previous act of issuing silver coins far-sighted, which made Su Yan extremely admired.

The merchants in Jinyang City were the first to benefit, and they couldn't put down the newly issued silver coins, which were light and large-valued, and were naturally prepared for them.

At this time, there was an inextricable relationship between the merchants in Jinyang City and the Jinyang Gate Valve, the merchants liked it, and the people in the Gate Valve quickly accepted it, and then there was the government as a guarantee, and this new currency soon spread to the outside world.

By the time Li Po became king, this silver coin finally had a new name, and was called Han Yin, which was widely used in the two states and was generally used in the cattle and sheep trade.

What makes people laugh and cry is that as time goes by, Su Ji discovers that the most widely used silver coins he makes with his own hands are actually the gradually emerging slave trade.

The slave traders jumped up and down with bright silver coins, bought slaves on a large scale, and sold them to the gate lord family, which made these outlaws smile because of the convenience of trading and the huge profits.

Li Po's successive victories in the war simply gave these guys a boost, making them the most active and daring group of merchants in Jindi.

In fact, by the time Li Po and Li Shimin decided in Pusaka, these businessmen had already become large-scale.

They went back and forth between the gate valve mansions, gradually combined with the people in the gate valves, and gradually explored a relatively stable way to make money.

In order to avoid the suppression of the government, well, maybe I heard that Li Yunnei attached great importance to household registration, and they gradually had their own rules, and all the slaves who started, they would find the official yamen, first give the slaves a household registration, then turn into slaves, and then buy and sell......

I directly got a legal cloak and draped it over my body.

As for the source of slaves, there were too many, Turkic prisoners from the north, outcasts and bandits from the mountains, prisoners of war from the Tang Army sent from the south one after another, and so on.

The smell of collusion between officials and businessmen is very strong, and at the same time, it also reveals the rancid smell of greed among the people in the gate.

But don't say it's Su Yan, it just reached Li Po's ears, and Li Po just turned a blind eye, he is not a moral gentleman.

Li Po thinks that as long as there is a record to be checked, don't make a criminal case, there is no need to care too much.

The wind of slavery in the Great Sui is very strong, it is firmly linked with the gate valve system, this can not be eliminated at all, when Emperor Wen Yang Jian ordered the gate valve to release slaves, so that the population of the world increased greatly, not to mention the hardships during the period, some people in the gate valve used an uprising to answer Yang Jian's edict.

After the uproar, the gate valve is still a slave, but it is only slightly restrained.

It can be seen that the matter of slavery is a very important pillar in the gate valve system, and whoever wants to touch it will be counterattacked, and the big family does need slaves to ensure their quality of life.

In fact, there is no right or wrong in this matter, and like many things in the world, it is just a matter of profit.

Li Po is very open here, in fact, as a person in power, he must also be the beneficiary of slavery, he thinks that as long as you don't forcibly occupy the farmer's land and arrest the farmer to be a slave, this is not a major event that should be paid attention to in the war season.