Zhang Yue turned the plank to the sides and stayed for a moment so that the Son of Heaven, the crown prince and the eldest grandson, and the courtiers could see the numbers he had listed on the board.

As a civil servant, doing similar forms is Zhang Yue's job.

It's just that nowadays there is no computer, so you need to draw by hand, which is a little troublesome.

After everyone saw it clearly, Zhang Yue continued to speak, and said: "And the number of acres of land reported by each county is as follows......"

A series of numbers came out of his mouth again clearly.

The voices of discussion in the temple gradually grew louder.

Most of the courtiers were northerners.

Even if there are occasional courtiers born in the south, their careers are basically in the north.

So, poverty limits their imagination.

I thought that in many places in Guanzhong, one man and five people ruled one hundred fields, and it was reduced to one man and five people and ruled thirty fields, which was already sensational.

However, the situation in the southeast county really surprised the big guys!

Some people who are good at mathematics even listened to the number of acres reported by Zhang Yue, and then divided it by the number of households.

The whole person is smecta.

There are 220,000 households in Qi County, but the total amount of land is only 300,000 hectares!

It seems to be good.

But......

That's the total arable area!

It is the total cultivated area including mountains and mulberry fields.

And there's a lot of land for other uses!

You must know that there are three types of land in the Han Dynasty: reclaimable, unreindeniable and unreclaimable.

Reclaimable land is cultivated land, non-reclaimable land is reserved land, and group non-reclaimable land is public land.

This is a tradition that has been handed down from the Shang and Zhou dynasties, and even beyond.

It is based on the ancient and simple lesson that there must be room for disasters and other uncontrollable accidents that may occur.

Just like the Book of Shang Jun. Laimin" pointed out in the general: the local hundred miles, the mountains and mausoleums tithe, the Xue Ze tithe, the valley flowing water tithe, the Duyi, the road tithe, the bad field tithe, the good field tithe. With this food as a husband of 50,000, its mountains, Xue Ze, and Gu can be given to its materials; The capital and the road are enough to deal with the people, and the law of the first king to divide the land and the people is also.

In other words, in fact, the 300,000 hectares of land in Qi County are imaginary numbers, which is just nice to say.

In fact, at least 30 percent of the reserved land, at least 50,000 hectares of public land, and more than 100,000 acres of public land must be deducted.

In other words, the 220,000 households in Qi County will only get 100,000 hectares of arable land.

The 220,000 households on paper will divide this million acres of land.

Only one acre per capita!

What's even more terrifying is that Qi County travels small acres, and one acre only takes one hundred and twenty steps!

It is equivalent to saying that millions of people in Qi County have half an acre of land per capita!

For the conservatives in Chang'an and the doctors and officials of the Ram School who claim to be 'masters for the people' and even aspire to 'open peace', this is simply unimaginable and unreasonable!

Everyone was short of breath and their muscles were exposed.

I can't wait to grab the necks of those officials and ask them: What did you eat to grow up?

The officials trembled, and the two thousand stones trembled.

One by one, they can only prostrate and bow again, and they dare not come out of the atmosphere!

But Zhang Yue had no intention of stopping at all.

He continued: "The conscription reported by each county is as follows......

One number at a time, like a talisman.

Hearing this, the courtiers were furious, especially the radicals and idealists of the Ram School, and their eyes were even more angry.

Because, the situation of the burden of conscription in each county is simply blinding everyone's twenty-four krypton gold dog eyes!

Similarly, in Qi County, for example, 220,000 households have conscripted about 50,000 laborers for service in a fiscal statistical year from last autumn and August to this autumn and August.

But at the same time, its income has reached 60,000......

In other words, almost every account has already paid a change.

What's even more terrifying is still to come - in the Qin and Han dynasties, there were two kinds of conscription.

One is called Bang Shu, also known as Nei Shi.

It is a levy levied by the local government for the repair of public facilities and official offices within the jurisdiction and the construction of the city.

The other is called foreign conscription, which is requisitioned by the state for the purpose of some large-scale national defense and public facilities.

The difference between the two is that the internal resignation is unpaid, while the external resignation is paid in some cases.

In addition, according to the regulations of the state, each subject of the first Fu is entitled to one month of unpaid service every year.

More than part of it is 'tasted by Pingjia'.

This means that if the service is overdue, no matter whether it is internal or external, it must be given a wage that is in line with the price and social reality by the 'unauthorized authority' of the locality.

Decades ago, in order to improve the professional level of the grassroots officials of the Han Empire and to improve the mathematical ability of the country's ruling class, Zhang Cang, a generation of famous ministers of Beiping, devoted more than ten years of painstaking efforts, on the basis of the old "Nine Chapters of Arithmetic", according to the actual situation, compiled the first comprehensive mathematical theory book of Zhuxia and the training guide for officials' self-skill cultivation.

This version of the Nine Chapters of Arithmetic eventually passed down to later generations.

There are many topics related to the situation of compensation for forced labor.

Later researchers, after calculating many of these questions related to forced labor, came to an astonishing discovery that the answers to almost all of them ultimately pointed to the fact that an adult man's service compensation was about 7.5 cents a day.

The unearthed various Han Janes, as well as some sporadic records of Han books and historical records, all show that this situation was quite common in the Han Dynasty.

This situation is particularly prominent when the project is a river or water conservancy construction project.

Hanshu. There are two edicts on the construction of the river and approved by the then Son of Heaven himself: Write for six months.

What is the name of June?

The book is registration, which means that the Son of Heaven at that time felt that the work of these people was very meaningful, and he was especially gracious, and ordered the officials to register these people, and all of them were labeled as "June Waifu".

This is really the emperor's grace!

Because, this means that they have received the kindness of the emperor himself, and they have served for six months.

According to the Han law, the annual service period of a subject is one month, and the overdue part is considered to be paid.

In other words, these people can convert the 'June Wai' into cash and collect it at the local government's office.

You can also use these six months to offset the conscription or military service that you may have to serve in the future.

Therefore, the conscription system of the Qin and Han dynasties was complex and systematic.

There are different standards for different situations and different classes.

And Qi County, on this issue, made a fatal mistake: it still requisitioned 50,000 people to engage in all kinds of forced labor, even though it had already collected the people's money.

But they were not compensated for half a five-baht penny!

Considering the reason for Chen Sheng and Wu Guang's uprising - because of the loss of time, the people who were afraid of being condemned rose up in Daze Township.

Eight hundred bamboo poles pierced the rule of the Qin Dynasty.

All the courtiers looked at the Shangji and the two thousand stones in the Qingxuyang area, and their eyes were glowing green.

Die, don't pull us in!

Of course, officials like Zongzheng and Liu Quyu who have been promoted from the local area have all bowed their heads.

They know that similar situations are not only occurring in Qingxuyang, but also in various parts of the north.

It's just that the appearance is not so ugly.

Collect all the people who are almost all in the household, and then requisition those peasants to serve.

This is clearly to force them to bankrupt!

The officials in the north even held their heads high, quite proud.

There is no superiority without contrast.

Compared with their colleagues in the southeast, many people are proud of their integrity and conscience!

What a gentleman I am!

At least take the money to do things, and after the people pay the money, it is easy not to levy them!

At this time, the officials were trembling, and the two thousand stones who entered Beijing were even more panicked, and they couldn't wait to find a rope to hang themselves.

Especially those officials who usually think that they are honest and love the people.

It's really embarrassing and self-ashamed.

My heart was full of guilt.

In fact, it was not until now, after listening to Zhang Yue's introduction and looking at the data and charts marked on the wooden board, that they really knew how far the actual situation under their rule had developed?

I hate myself for being complacent and smug in the past, thinking that I am a contemporary Guan Zhong, who has presided over a lot of justice for the people and done a lot of good things.

And now it seems......

What he did was nothing more than put out the fire with his salary and stop the boiling.

As Han Feizi said: The disease is in the intestines, the soup is within the reach, the disease is in the skin, the needle and stone are within the reach, in the stomach and intestines, the fire is within the reach, and the bone marrow belongs to the life, there is nothing to be done!

And the situation under their rule, although it may not have developed to the bone marrow, at least to the stomach.

But they were ironing with soup, and it was nothing more than a needle and stone therapy.

Hell it if this cures the disease!

But......

The situation is already so serious, all they can do is use decoction therapy, at most stimulation with some needlestones.

Where to find the life-saving Huoqi?

These people all frowned.

The knowledge and methods they have learned and known are only a matter of lightly paying for their lessened gifts and resting with the people.

And the current situation, just by listening to those figures, everyone knows that it is impossible to solve the problem by lightly paying for the meager endowment and resting with the people.

Because, the population base is there.

The scale of the land is also placed there!

Relying on your own ability, it is impossible to save it!

After Zhang Yue finished talking about these three main data, he stretched out his hand, pointed to the patterns drawn on the wooden board, and said: "As Your Majesty and your Ming Gong can see, the minister has made a statistic on the number of households, acres of land and burden of the people in the 22 counties of Qingzhou, Yangzhou and Xuzhou, and used the map as a map to ......show it."

Everyone looked up and looked at the patterns on the boards.

Population, land, taxes, forced labor, and hard expenditures (rations and clothing, sacrificial expenses) are marked in red.

The total income is marked in black.

As a result, in almost every county, the red part of the chart far exceeds the blue part.

For example, in Qi County and Jinan County, the blue part is even less than half of the red part.

What's more, there are also lines in these patterns that indicate which part of the expenditure belongs to.

It's embarrassing.