At the beginning of October, Li Xin convened the six important ministers and officials of the Metropolitan Procuratorate to discuss major matters. The theme of this meeting is for the sake of the earth.

The so-called soil break was actually carried out many times during the Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties, but the most influential one has not yet appeared.

Roughly speaking, it is a matter of land consolidation and administrative divisions. Through this practice, we can achieve the goal of clarifying the acres of land in the territory, counting the population, and enhancing the national strength.

And the reason why this is happening is also related to the reality of the situation.

For a long time, after the chaos in the world, due to the change of times and the competition between various forces, almost the entire division of the world has become chaotic.

Nothing else, for example, the same place, when occupied by different forces, may be called by different names. In this way, it will lead to the confusion of geographical changes in the territory, so that the imperial court will not be able to truly grasp these places.

Moreover, due to the uncertainty of the title, everyone calls it their own way. Older people call names from the past, while younger people may only remember names from recent years. Coupled with the setting of Qiaozhi counties and so on, it is very chaotic.

As a result, many things are clearly about the same place, but they are not recorded by the same name.

This is one of the reasons why in times of great chaos, the historical texts always become confused about the period. It is because the people who recorded it themselves do not know the real situation in it, so they add a lot of speculation.

For a country that is going to grow stronger, this kind of official unification must be done. First achieve the unity of the government, and then let the people slowly come together. Eventually, the official name will enter all parts of the world and form an official name.

In addition, some regional divisions in the past are not very reasonable. After so many years, due to the war, many originally prosperous states and counties have long since become withered. And there are some places that are not inhabited, but they are just the opposite.

So, change the state and county settings, the merger of the merger, the increase of the increase. It is also a very beneficial thing for the management of the imperial court to make the division of the entire administration reasonable.

Of course, these are secondary things, and the real key thing is to say that it is the mastery of the population.

Since the Han and Wei dynasties, the problem of land annexation has always been very serious. Especially in the Wei and Jin dynasties, because of the implementation of the system of the nine-product zhongzheng system, the family began to become particularly important. Thus, many large landlord estates were born.

For example, the world-famous Wang family, Xie family, Huan family, Yu family and other families are actually one of them. Not only did they occupy a place of ointment, but they also took advantage of their position as officials in the court to reap more benefits for themselves.

And in order to win over these people and let them support themselves more, the court had to give them many privileges. And among them, the shade guest is one of them.

In fact, the so-called shadow guests are not only their children and grandchildren who can directly enter the imperial court system because their relatives and friends are officials. At the same time, it also means that these families can obtain a certain exemption from taxes and miscellaneous labor because of their power.

At this time, in addition to paying taxes, ordinary people also had to obey various levies, the most obvious being military service. But if you have an official in your family, then a certain number of people are allowed under the name of this official who are not required to pay taxes and do not have to serve.

In this way, for ordinary people who live in dire straits, there is a new way out if they want to escape the characteristics of the hair and pay taxes. That is to take refuge in these great families, to dedicate their fields to them, and to put their names in their names.

As a result, those who were supposed to pay taxes and serve in the military were suddenly freed from this obligation to the imperial court.

But that doesn't mean they're free to live their lives.

Because this is equivalent to selling himself to the family, and at the same time that his land and property are returned to the family, his personal freedom is also equivalent to being bound to them. The people no longer have to do their obligations to the court, but they have to do their obligations to these families.

Some of these people became the personal soldiers or servants of the great families, while others became their tenant farmers or servants, working for them. After handing over a large amount of the harvest to these families, the rest is their own.

This is equivalent to a kind of transfer, dispersing the wealth and manpower that originally belonged to the entire country into the hands of these families.

Originally, under normal circumstances, the government of a country collects taxes from the people and levies the people's power to build public works. The government relies on the money collected from the hands of the people, so as to achieve a unified allocation and balance between all parties.

But when these families have inserted a pole in the middle, the people still enjoy the public facilities of the country, but they only serve these families. While the country has spent a lot of manpower and material resources, the profits have gone into the hands of those big families.

However, the government's decree is to give preferential treatment to these families, so not only does it not stop this kind of behavior of competing with the government for the people, but also determines the shadow guest system in the law. In this way, it has become a normal thing for various families to accept and donate to the people.

As more and more people join the family, the amount of taxes and power that the government can collect will inevitably be greatly reduced. In the same country, where consumption is not decreasing, income is greatly reduced, and everyone understands what the consequences will be.

And in order to survive, the imperial court will inevitably exploit the remaining people more severely. In this way, it will fall into a vicious circle, the more people will be levied, and the more people will be levied, and the more people will be levied, the fewer people will be.

The final result was naturally that the people's resentment was boiling, and everyone rose up and overthrew the court.

However, those families who had sucked the blood of both the people and the court in the middle were almost out of the storm in the midst of such a storm.

Because the change of dynasty does not make them do anything, most of the families still enjoy the privileges brought by the new dynasty and continue to do evil in the past.

If they watched the fall of the dynasty on the sidelines, it was only indirect, then some of them took advantage of this privilege to expand their forces. It is really hateful to become more powerful than the imperial court, and in turn to destroy the dynasty in one fell swoop.

Today's Jiangzuo land is basically like this. All the power of the imperial court seems to be in the hands of the Sima clan, but in fact, it is just in the hands of those big families.

Whether it is the Xie family or the Wang family, or the most beautiful Huan family today, which one is not a thousand portals, and the fields and houses are continuous! If these families are willing to give up a little bit of the benefits in their hands, I am afraid that the entire Jiangzuo will be rich.

Since the establishment of Jiangzuo in the Eastern Jin Dynasty, there has been a lot of civil strife, and the root cause is still because of the struggle for power and profit of these families, but the Jiangzuo court cannot prohibit it at all.

The reason for this is because the foundation of the Eastern Jin Dynasty court is these families who support him.

Let the Sima clan do something to these big families, it is undoubtedly a matter of digging their own graves and cutting off their own foundation. Not only the Jiangzuo court, but also the Yan Kingdom.

These forces are not so much a state as a coalition of groups united in the common interests of the great clans.

Is there such a situation in Datang, compared to Yan Jin, it is naturally much better. This is because from the very beginning, the rise of the Huashan Army was from a group of displaced people, and there was no power of any family in it.

Later, although due to the expansion of the territory and the need for talents, some scholars from all over the country were slowly absorbed into the system, but these people did not occupy the mainstream.

Look at the people who really hold power in the Tang Dynasty now, they are basically the old people who followed Li Xin over.

But there is no one in the imperial court, which does not mean that the power of the family is not strong in the Tang Dynasty. Among the counties and counties, there are some local powerful clans, as the saying goes, the head snake of the land.

These people are quite powerful because they have been rooted in the local area for many years. Therefore, at the beginning, for the sake of local stability, Li Xin did not do anything to them.

Therefore, they have lived a life that is no different from before, except that their power and appointment have been weakened to a certain extent. But the privilege of their shadow is still there.

Although because of the new policy implemented by Li Xin, the number of people who devoted themselves to the family decreased a lot. There are still many people who have been attached to these big families and local heroes in the past. And once they have surrendered, it is almost impossible to regain their freedom.

If it weren't for this, it would have been impossible for the Dock Fort Lords like Gao Shikun to still be able to launch a rebellion after Li Xin strictly restricted his private soldiers.

This has led to the fact that to this day, there are still a large number of people and taxes, which are hidden in the names of these families and have not been released.

Now that Datang is in the midst of development and growth, what it needs most is population resources. Simply relying on war to occupy land from outside to gain population, or simply relying on displaced people to join, will not solve the big problem.

Therefore, after the territory was calm, Li Xin's eyes naturally fell on these big families.

Not only the big families, but also many temples and Taoist temples, these places also hide a large number of big mouths, and they are all not taxed or served.

Of course, Li Xin would not let these people dangle under his nose, but he turned a blind eye. It just so happened that recently these big families jumped out of the rebellion themselves, giving him a good excuse.