However, Gao Yue will obviously have a bigger move in Xingyuan Mansion.

As soon as he triumphed from the southern part of Xichuan, he summoned the county commanders of each prefecture in Fuchu to the Huguo Temple, saying that there was something important to discuss.

The county commanders sat on the seats, eating the rice in the temple, Master Ming Xuan asked the disciples to use a red pottery bowl to fill the japonica rice, the inside was slightly red, with a bright white aroma, followed by the green vegetable sunflower, poured some vinegar, and then mixed with some pickled garlic, cut into fine pieces, spread around the vegetable sunflower, green and white.

Gao Yue picked up a ball of rice with a chopstick, and ate the vegetable sunflower and garlic rice, which was smooth and crispy in his mouth, and the surrounding county officials also shook the chopstick, and the hall was full of crisp chewing sounds.

It wasn't until he scraped the bowl of noodles that there was left to eat, and after clicking on the ground, Gao Yue put the bowl on the food plate, touched his lip slightly with his fingers, and announced his thoughts, "Ben Yin is going to try out the meridian boundary method in Nanzheng and Chenggu counties of Xingyuan Prefecture. ”

As soon as these words came out, several county commanders were a little surprised, but the expressions of Wei Zhiyi, the commander of Nanzheng County, and Li Ji, the commander of Chenggu County, were relatively calm, thinking that Gao Yue had already "blown" the wind on them in advance.

Among them, Wei Zhiyi is about to return to the court as a foreigner because of the most important examination in Xingyuanfu County over the years.

This matter was the last commission he received from Gao Yue when he was appointed as the commander of Nanzheng County in Cichi County.

The competitive Wei Zhiyi certainly won't be anticlimactic.

And Li Wei is Gao Yue's favorite junior brother, he is still a little unable to raise his head because of the escape case caused by Huang Wenyu, this time Chenggu County took the lead in implementing the new law, he is also duty-bound, and he urgently needs to make some political achievements to prove himself.

Then Gao Yue stood up, frowned, and said: "Mencius said, the government of Fu Ren must start from the meridian boundary, the meridian boundary is not right, the well is uneven, and the valley is uneven. Therefore tyrants and corrupt officials will slow down their borders. The meridian boundary is correct, and the field is divided into systems, and it can be determined. Since the implementation of the two-tax law, the principle of taxation is to calculate the capital (capital, houses, fields and other private property) to set taxes, and it is no longer based on people, so I want to practice the 'law of the meridians', to find out the situation that each household actually has land, to pay taxes per mu, and to share the poor labor equally, which is fundamental. It can enable the rich to keep their jobs, and the poor to survive. ”

Xie Shanji, the county commander of Baocheng County, Huang Shun, the county commander of Mian County, and Liu Chuanzong, the new county commander of Jinniu County, all looked at each other.

Gao Yue's move was an amendment to Yang Yan's two tax laws in the past, and it was also to strengthen the national government's control over the situation households that rose in various places after the Anshi Rebellion, and to enrich tax revenue.

The so-called situation households, to put it bluntly, are the "local tyrant layer" in the states and counties, since the Tang Dynasty, the government's control over the person has weakened, and the two tax laws are the product of this compromise after the weakening of power - the summer and autumn taxes, regardless of the indigenous people and customers, must "pay taxes according to the land", so that a group of households that got rich first, such as Huang Wenyu, who was killed by the rod before, relied on the earliest accumulated grain, donated a sum of money to help the army, in exchange for a county party Zuoshi Liuwaiguan, and then up and down, actually controlled the county and township level taxes, errand service, and controlled the yamen, The county orders appointed by the imperial court can't do anything without relying on them, that is, as the saying goes, "a strong dragon is difficult to suppress the head snake", and then this group of people rely on the power of the local government, collude, dance and trade, evade servitude, and pass on taxes, these tricks Gao Yue has been infiltrated in the army for many years, and they are all familiar (similar to the routine of eating empty salaries and hanging false registrations in the army), he knows that the rise of the situation household is the inevitability of the times, but allowing it to grow by itself is extremely harmful to the country - this group of situation households, the industry in their hands is getting bigger and bigger, However, the taxes that the state can collect are getting smaller and smaller, and the gap between the rich and the poor in society will become more and more shocking (the problem of the Song Dynasty is that the official households, or the well-dressed households, represent the central imperial power and the local situation of the households, although this struggle is fierce, but it still ensures that the Southern Song Dynasty has survived for more than a hundred years; In the late Ming Dynasty, the officials and the situation households simply colluded and fused together, and everyone saw the ending), and in the end, once the resources that the country could control were exhausted, there were no more than three endings:

Poor households could not survive, peasant uprisings broke out, and the country perished;

The foreigners took advantage of the decadence and weakness of the country to launch an invasion, and the country perished;

The state simply delegated power to the localities, allowing them to mobilize the "situation households" to defend against foreigners externally and suppress peasant uprisings internally.

In the current Tang Dynasty, Gao Yue knew that it was the last road to take.

So Gao Yue said aloud about the three major harms of the current warp boundary: "Due to the chaos in the history of An, most of the state and county editions died in the war. The cunning households impersonated tenant farming, did not pay rent and taxes, and transferred the land endowment to the wasteland, which caused the country's annual income to be sharply reduced, which was also harmful; The purpose of the state is to abolish the harsh taxes and miscellaneous taxes, hoping that the people will get benefits, but now the counties and townships are controlled by officials and traitors, and they are deceived and deceived from the subordinates, so that the taxes on the land are less, the taxes on the land are more, and the livelihood of the poor households is declining. The credibility of the two taxes is declining day by day, and the most obvious is that there are constant lawsuits between the fields, and if there is no fair arbitration for a long time, then it will no longer be able to be resolved by litigation..... If the poor households cannot survive, they will inevitably take risks, gather into bandits, attack the government, and subvert the country.

Immediately, Gao Yue pointed to Li Jie, who was thoughtful in his seat, "Wei Chang, you said that if a county reaches the point of the third evil, as a county commander, what can you do, and what strength can you rely on to solve the catastrophe caused by this long-standing accumulation of shortcomings?" ”

As soon as these words came out, not only Li Jie, but also other county orders were all shocked and sweating.

Li Jian said at this time: "Emperor Taizong once said that water can carry a boat and also capsize a boat. ”

Everyone present was nodding.

"It's easy for a county to spread to a state, and then there's a whole country, and eventually the whole country is in trouble, and it's going to be in turmoil. When the time comes, the world will be turned upside down, who cares if your hand is the hand holding the jade wat or not, and who cares if your lips are the lips of the ointment? It's all the end of the jade burning, this country will either revive or perish, but it's not the people of Li Yuan who are filling the gullies bitterly? Now this meridian method is the best medicine to bring the world back to life, and there is nothing else! We should shoulder the rise and fall of this world. ”

Then, Judge Wei Ping spread the draft of the meridian law on the floor of the temple.

Nanzheng County Ling Wei Zhiyi stepped forward, took the lead in lifting the pen, and signed a painting on it, saying, "Although I am not from Taofen Shed, I admire Da Yin Gaoyi, and I am willing to shoulder the rise and fall of this world with Da Yin." ”

The others, except for Wei Ping, who is Wei Gao's brother, the other Liu Demur, Li Wei, Huang Shun, and Xie Shanji are all shed friends, and at this time they also took up the pen and drew a charge on the draft, and finally Liu Chuanzong also drew a charge.

"This draft may stir up a lot of turmoil, but Ben Yin is going to be submitted to Daming Palace." After Gao Yue Zhengse finished speaking, he finally put a pen on it and drew a rhyme.