Li Shimin's eyes also looked at the book, and the emperor's face was obviously dull, and then he was curious about Li Yun and asked, "What is this?" What's so strange? ”

"Totoshi!"

Li Yun spoke directly, and this time he answered cleanly.

"It turned out to be a household book......

"No wonder he solemnly took out ......"

"If this thing is handed over to Your Majesty, it can really be regarded as a great gift, but after the household book is handed over, is Bohai still a vassal state?"

"Let's watch silently first, don't comment directly, this Bohai lord has always acted strangely, anything he does can't just look at the surface, you need to draw inferences from one another, three times and again, constantly speculate, multi-party associations, even if you are so cautious, you may still fall into the big pit...... Hey, what do you want to do with this colleague, do you have to stand up and admonish you? I advise you to quickly dispel your thoughts, and we will only watch today's events. ”

"Yes, yes, just watch, don't stop it, this colleague hurry back, don't get involved in the affairs of their uncle and nephew, you can't afford to get involved, it's easy to get on yourself."

Taking out a household book directly caused the ministers to whisper, and there is only one reason for this, the household book is too special.

Let's say it's important, but it's not important, this thing is a population register to put it bluntly, and it records the distribution of acres of land among the people, and this thing is not just one book, but has many, many books.

For example, on the Datang side, each county has its own household book, and then the county is summarized according to the territory, and the state government above has a state-level household book, and the state government continues to summarize upwards, and the level is the road-level household book, and the Tang Dynasty is divided into ten provinces during the Zhenguan period, so the entire Central Plains has ten provincial-level household books.

These ten volumes of the Dao-level household book are summarized again, and it has become a reference book for the Tang Dynasty household department to grasp the population changes, because the ancient census is extremely difficult, so the data of the household book is not accurate, sometimes the population recorded in the household book is five million, and the actual population may have become ten million, if the current situation is replaced by the year of turmoil and famine, the number will become a reverse decreasing situation, maybe the population recorded in the household book is five million, and the actual population has been attenuated to two or three million.

Because of this, the household book is not very important, although the successive dynasties compiled this every year, but any dynasty used it as a reference.

The so-called reference is the meaning of reference and consideration, why should it be considered, because this thing is not accurate.

If it's accurate, do you still need to think about it? Policies are formulated directly according to the figures contained in the household register, so why should the household ministers have to argue endlessly every year.

But to say that the household register is not important, in fact, this thing is very important.

This thing is the most important record of the population, belonging to the official census, how big the world is, governing a big country is not cooking a small fresh, the people need acres, the population needs food, if there is a natural disaster or man-made disaster in a certain place, the court needs to use the household book to estimate the number of people affected.

On top of that, it's a thing that controls taxes.

In ancient times, due to the inconvenience of transportation, information transmission was naturally inconvenient, which led to the easy breeding of corruption, and it was easy for local governments to manipulate taxation.

For example, the Tang Dynasty Household Department has a general household book, which records the population of the entire Central Plains, and Zhenguan once counted it once in the sixth year, and the number at that time was 28 million. But in reality, the population of the country must be at least 40 million.

At least 1200 people are not recorded.

Since ancient times, there is a saying that the county order that breaks the family is the tax collector who destroys the door, as long as you, the common people, are alive, some local officials will not care whether you are registered or not, and first send the tax collector to collect the money and grain, and then come back to verify it according to the household book.

This verification is problematic.

The money and food were collected, but there were not so many people in the household register.

What's the matter?

Stuff it into your pocket.

But the Tang Dynasty is not a dry eater, and those who can become the bigwigs of the court are all climbed up at the grassroots level, and the following set of methods of stuffing waist bags are actually played by the bigwigs......

At this time, the importance of the household book is revealed!

The recorded population of the whole country is only 2,400, right?

You're actually taking food from 40 million people, right?

Hmph, I want to stuff it into my waist bag without permission, no!

We will calculate, will be based on the household registration for reference, now is the year of prosperity, no more than when the Tang Dynasty was just established, the population must have increased sharply, in this case, the money and grain in various places will be paid according to the increase or decrease.

What is Supplemental Payment?

To put it bluntly, it is the so-called mathematical coefficient in later generations.

The wisdom of the ancients was actually higher than that of later generations, and although they did not understand modern science, they accumulated countless experiences.

Sometimes experience is more amazing than science.

When the Datang Household Department formulated the increase or decrease of supplementary payment, it played this empirical method......

Some are high, some are low, some are overcharged, and some are cut, which seems to be unreasonable, but the compound reality, the household bosses will not care about your grievances and complaints, and the increase and decrease coefficient formulated by the bosses ensures that you can't stuff your pockets.

Experience this stuff, sometimes it's really scary.

It is rumored that Zhenguan six years of household departments to carry out the national tax escort into the warehouse, granaries around the granary can not even be greedy for a hundred catties of grain, this is how frightening and accurate, it is simply beyond the imagination of later generations, the country's tens of millions of people in the tax, the number gap is only about 100 catties, even if this kind of operation is put in the later generations with countless scientific and technological means, I am afraid that I can only say admiration to the ancient people.

Because, later generations will not be able to do so accurately.

And the reason why Datang can be so accurate is precisely because of the supplement coefficient formulated by the court bosses based on experience.

For example, Hebei Province is relatively poor, although the population of 2 million is recorded in the provincial household book, but in fact, many people may starve to death because of the lack of green and yellow, then the tax must not match the reality, and the money and grain will definitely not be able to collect the tax of 2 million people.

What should I do, the increase and decrease coefficient, the bigwigs of the Tang household department waved their pens and directly gave Hebei Province a reduction of 'two percent and four'.

What does it mean to be two out of four?

Resting in the future is 8.4 fold.

Yes, you read that right, the big guy of the Chaotang household department gave Hebei Province a discount.

It is said that your Hebei Province should hand over 1 million stone of grain to the national treasury, but according to the increase and decrease coefficient, you only need to hand over 840,000 stone to the warehouse......

If you can have more leftovers, that's good, stuff your own pockets.

If there is nothing left, or even a shortfall, it doesn't matter, local officials and tax collectors pay out of their own pockets to fill the gap.

It's so capricious.

It seems unreasonable.

However, this is not the case, and the grain handed over to the court in Hebei Province will definitely be exactly the same as the actual local tax revenue, note that it is the actual local tax, not the inaccurate number recorded in the household book.

According to the accumulation of experience every year, the discounts formulated by the court bigwigs in Hebei Province are guaranteed to be not bad at all.

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For another example, Guannei Road, where Chang'an of the Tang Dynasty is located, the political center of a country, there is a lot of money, a wide range of people, the wealthy families gather together, the slaves and maids are not registered, the population of the household register is 3 million, and the actual number may reach 4 million.

Think beautifully!

Tax increase or decrease coefficient, plus 'three percent and two'.

Understand, Hebei Province paid 8.4% off when paying money and grain, and Guannai Province didn't even think about this kind of discount, not only did you not even think about it, but you also had to pay more......

The court bigwigs don't care about the local officials' complaints, and you have to follow the coefficient of 1.32 when you hand over the money and grain.

Not enough?

It doesn't matter, make up for it out of your own pocket.

Don't want to pay out of your own pocket?

It doesn't matter, go to the wealthy compound to census the population, force them to hand over according to the actual population, and replace your officials' out-of-pocket pockets.

This is the ancient tax system.

It is also the method that Datang has always pursued.

Although the number of household books is inaccurate, the court bigwigs can refer to it according to experience, so for this reason, it is also very important to say that the household book is actually very important......

And now, Li Yun took out the household book of the Bohai Kingdom.

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"Is this the general account book of your Bohai country?"

Li Shimin suddenly spoke leisurely, and the emperor's tone was a little strange for some reason.

However, Li Yun didn't seem to hear anything unusual, but nodded solemnly and said: "Yes, this book is the general account book, although it belongs to the rough grass book, it is indeed the account book of Bohai." ”

Li Shimin smiled and asked lightly: "In other words, this volume is extremely inaccurate?" ”

Li Yun took a light breath, clasped his fists and saluted: "Your Majesty's atonement is really not accurate, the minister's Bohai State is a grass creation, and there is a shortage of officials under his command, although they work hard to census the population, but they are limited to the lack of both manpower and material resources, so they can only make a rough statistics, and reluctantly formulate a Bohai household book." ”

After a slight pause as he spoke, he suddenly raised the book with his hand, Li Shimin's face seemed to be even more strange, and he stretched out his hand to take the book representing the Bohai household registration in his hand.

But the emperor didn't flip through it, but still looked at Li Yun and asked: "Even if it is extremely inaccurate, there is always a number, I will ask you now, how much is the population of Bohai?" How many people are in each city? How many people are in each county? How many men and what percentage are women? In addition, how many Mengtong children are tax-exempt according to the law? ”

When the emperor said this, Li Yun, who asked, was directly stunned.

What is the population of Bohai?

He would definitely be able to answer this question, after all, he only needed to remember a general number.

But......

How many people are in each city?

How many people are in each county?

How to answer this!

Is there a city in Bohai now?

Yes!

It's a pity that there are only two cities, namely Chaoyang City, which is close to the land of Youyan, and Bohai City, where Li Yun's country is located, of which Bohai City is still under construction, strictly speaking, it is not a real city.

There is only one and a half cities in the city, and there must not be one in the county seat, which makes Li Yun unable to answer at all.

But the problem behind the emperor is even more bizarre.

How many men are there?

What does a woman have geometry?

There are also Mengtong who can be reduced by law, how many are there in total......

It's just a nuisance.

Where could Li Yun remember such an exact number.

He really couldn't figure out why Li Shimin was asking these things.

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…… The first chapter is here.,Sister-in-law is working hard today.,I'll upload another chapter later.,I'm going to sort it out.,I'll see you later.。