In the Tang Dynasty, Li Chen had just traveled to the Tang Dynasty and lived in the temple for a while. Pen & Fun & Pavilion www.biquge.info he found that the religious concept of the Tang Dynasty is still changing. There is no such thing as the ten halls of Yama and the eighteenth layer of hell in later generations. Taoism is even simpler, there is no Heavenly Court, Jade Emperor, there is none. Whoever creates the world will have the highest status. There is also the fact that Dongtian has to say.

Li Chen asked Taoism to compile a heavenly court, with the Jade Emperor, some immortals, heavenly soldiers and generals, and so on. Then the Jade Emperor is the emperor of the Tang Dynasty, who is in charge of the world when he is alive, and in charge of the underworld and the heavens when he is dead.

Originally, it was just to strengthen the rule of imperial power, but I didn't expect it to have an unexpected effect. This intimidation, combined with a little trick, made the census much easier. And Buddhism originally didn't have anything to do with Emperor Li Tang, because it competed with Taoism, in order to curry favor with the emperor, they imitated Taoism and made up their system, which also respected the Tang Emperor.

Don't blame him for using this method, after all, in this era of extremely high illiteracy, superstition is still the mainstream. Instead of letting those who don't know what the so-called wheel gong is, what white and black lotus go to fool the people, it is better to let Emperor Li Tang come. At least make the country more stable, at least some people will have a burden when they do evil.

Religion also has a role to play at that time, strengthening people's positive empowerment. When people are doing evil, they think a little more. It's a kind of moral strengthening.

As for the future, if the Tang Dynasty is gone, it is none of his business whether the emperors of the future generations will follow suit and make up some of what their ancestors will do in the underworld. And this superstition will not hinder scientific progress. In fact, in Li Chen's view, once the material life goes up, I am afraid that he will slowly disbelieve in religious beliefs.

In modern society, the higher the income level, the higher the country's income, the less religious beliefs are seen. Like Saudi Arabia, the richest Muslim country, the most enlightened over there, there is still religion, but it is not so strict.

The poorer the country, the more devout it is to those religions. People have a bad life in this life, so they can only ask for the next life. In those countries that are more developed, the concept of religion has become a custom, and they will believe it, but they will not believe it. Li Chen believes that if the hall lives straightforwardly and education goes up, the pursuit of religion will fade.

Moreover, Li Chen also joined the pursuit of heaven and earth in Taoist beliefs, which will not hinder the development of science at all.

In addition to using religion, Li Chen also used some small tricks. Deliberately propagandized that taxes should be raised, that slavery should be restored, and that the people should be prepared in their hearts. Then, he lowered some of the requirements, saying that as long as the Baojia Law and the census can be implemented, there will be no tax increases.

When a very bad news comes, and there is the worst expectation, and the final result is not as good as the original one, you will feel that it is not bad and acceptable. Therefore, Li Chen spread those rumors and let people prepare for the worst first.

But these things are not unfounded. Several governors demanded to raise taxes because of insufficient use, and the head of the household department also helped Li Chen carry the blame, saying that he would raise taxes.

Li Chen really considered it, if he would rather raise taxes than accept forced labor, then add it, everyone will be charged more immunization money, not like now, only merchants and Fengyue places will pay this fee. When the time comes, if you are willing to serve, you can deduct your taxes, just like in the past.

If you don't come, pay your taxes. As for the question of defense, we can only rely on the regular army. These immunization money will be used as a subsidy for Datang's military expenses. Fortunately, it was successfully implemented in the end.

This kind of trick will be used, and it is only because of the need to implement armor protection and the census. He has always admired fairness and integrity, but he has no choice but to use this little conspiracy.

He has always admired conspiracy and disliked it. The difference between the conspiracy and the conspiracy is that the conspiracy is above board, while the conspiracy is invisible. Yang Mou can only be cracked with Yang Mou. Conspiracy is to see the light and die. Lao Mei said that she would beat whoever she wanted, although she still had to find an excuse, but no one could do anything to him.

The bombing of the World Trade Center is a conspiracy. As a result, Lao Ben was happy for a while, but he hid for several years and was caught. And gave Lao Mei an excuse to attack Afghanistan.

It's just that it's not enough to have a conspiracy alone. Sometimes a little conspiracy, or conspiracy, can have a great effect. Like Li Chen today, he is obviously thinking about the future of Datang, but the people don't accept it, forcing him to use this way.

This trick is a little story he saw in modern times, there is a boss who sends the year-end for the New Year, but this year's income is not good, and he can't send so much, and he is worried that the employees will not accept it, so he has to think of a way.

As a result, there are rumors among employees that there are three months left last year to end the year, but this year's performance is not good, and it may not be issued. Employees rushed to ask, and the boss had not confirmed the news, but it spread quickly. At the end of the year, employees had accepted that there was no year-end for this year.

Forced to accept, many people plan to change jobs after the New Year. As a result, the good news came, the boss said that the employee had been suffering for a year, and he had to send a little bit anyway, and the result was that he had to end the year in a month. The employees were very happy, and they all said that the boss was good, and they would not change jobs if they wanted to change jobs, and they all said that they would work harder in the coming year.

The reason for this is that as mentioned earlier, it seems that everyone is more acceptable to expectations. To give another small example, before the crossing, Li Chen liked to eat salty crispy chicken.

It is a Taiwanese snack, where chicken breasts are cut into small pieces and floured and fried, which is very common, and it will be added to the streets and alleys. The salty crispy chicken is fragrant and delicious, although it is high in calories. And near them, there are two on the same street. Li Chen prefers to go to a certain store to buy.

Why? Is that one particularly delicious, or is the price relatively cheap and the portion is more? Neither. The reason why I like that house is very simple, when the boss of that house weighs, he uses an addition scale. It's the same amount, but he's adding it piece by piece. The other is that the number exceeds that of picking it up. gives Li Chen the feeling that there will be more people who use addition.

Heihei, seeing that he smiled, Li Chen remembered this little story, and used some means, which had an effect. In addition to the successful completion of Datang, Li Chen's defense plan was also planned for the first time. For the first time, the census was more detailed, and after a check, I was shocked.

The population of Datang has reached more than 70 million and more than 6.8 million households. More than double what the prime ministers had estimated. When they saw the number, their glasses shattered all over the floor.

No kidding, Wei Cong got reading glasses, because he was startled, and he took them off and wanted to wipe them and see them more clearly, but as soon as he stopped his hand, they were broken. Fortunately, Li Chen had a spare hand, so he asked someone to bring a pair over, Wei Cong took the glasses, and looked at himself in disbelief, and determined that it was 71 million people, 6.8 million households.

In the eleventh year of Dazhong, Datang had 71 million people, which was far more than the 53 million recorded in the 14th year of Tianbao at the peak of Datang.

Prior to this, there were records of only the population calculation under the auspices of Li Deyu five years ago in Huichang and eleven years ago. About 5 million households, 30 million people. As a result, in more than a decade, the number of hukou has increased by nearly two million, while the population has doubled. It's horrible.

With so many people and so many mouths, if you only think of half of them, a lot of problems will happen. For example, if disaster relief, for example, a war rebellion, is treated as half or even less according to the previous statistics, it will be serious.

"How can there be so many people, the magistrate's government is derelict in its duties." , Wei Mo was very angry, this is the dereliction of duty of the local government, if it weren't for the great turmoil and restructuring of the local government, he would have wanted to ask for his life, personally preside over the investigation, and severely punish the derelict officials.

Choi Hyun didn't speak, he knew what the reason was, and he knew that this kind of thing was inevitable. Several other prime ministers also knew the reason in their hearts, and the fastest reaction was Ling Fox, who immediately slapped Li Chen's sycophants.

"Congratulations to the saint, the reign of the Son of Heaven has created another prosperous era for my Tang Dynasty, and now the population of my Tang Dynasty is far better than that of Emperor Xuanzong, this is all the work of the Son of Heaven.

A cadre of courtiers reacted, sang praises one after another, and patted Li Chen's ass, for fear that Li Chen would come again. Moreover, this is also a symbol of the world, the Tang Dynasty has a large population, although there is a hidden situation, but it is not too late to find out.

"Shengshi, during the Tianbao period, the Anshi Rebellion immediately occurred." , Li Chen's compliment, did not make much fun, but poured cold water on them. These people are not what he was born with, what is he happy about.

This situation, in fact, was expected by him. Datang hides the population, and the situation is serious. In fact, during the Tianbao period, the population was estimated to be about 80 million people, and Du You had a general dictionary, which was estimated to be about 14 million households at that time, with a population of between 7,500 and 80 million. Later generations estimated even more, with some estimating 90 million people.

But on the books, Tianbao only had 96 million households and 52.9 million people in the thirteenth year. By the year before Anshi, the population had increased slightly, but the number of households had decreased. It can be seen how serious the hidden population of Datang is, and it was when Datang was based on rent, so much was hidden.

After the implementation of the two tax laws in Datang, the population and the number of households are not to mention more. The local feudal towns are hidden, so that the court can pay less, otherwise where will the local government get the money? After Anshi, the Tang Dynasty was much richer than the imperial court.

The problem can be seen from the fact that the population and the number of households have not increased much. During the four years from Wenzong to five years in Huichang, during the six years, the household registration did not increase but decreased. From nearly 5 million to more than 4.95 million households. And after he ascended the throne, after so many years, there has been no change, so you know how serious this concealment is.

"Now let's talk about what to do, to clear out so many people, so many households." , Li Chen poured cold water on them, calmed them down, and began to discuss what should be done.

"We should intensify the development of the south." , Wei Cong spoke first. It's really surprising that Wei Cong, who didn't care about anything before, only did his own job well, and had always been honest and cowardly.

"There's no urgency, let's count it first, what's that, the unemployment rate." Cui Xuan said, "First count how many people have no land and no jobs, the court pays money, and the local government contributes, and the development of Jiangnan is imperative, but it can't be reached overnight."

There are so many people and so many households, although Li Chen has exempted them from paying taxes this year, and they have not even been fined, it is conceivable that the taxes will explode a lot next year. So much money, according to Li Chen's habits, must be spent, and it is impossible to put it there to make him moldy. So spending money is a problem.

"Let's count how many projects are to be done in the local area." Zheng Lang said, "Let the states and counties make a statistic, how many hydro projects to do, let's get close to it first, and there are railways that can hire more people."

With so many people, if many of them are landless and unemployed, the problem is really serious. First count, and then try to arrange it nearby, and wait for the development of the south to be completed, so that more people can be resettled.

"Actually, it's not as good as it, there hasn't been any mess for so long, and I think they all have jobs. Otherwise, it would have been a mess a long time ago.'" , Ling Fox is still the same or muddy, comforting everyone that things are not so serious, but this time he is right, if so many people are unemployed, the world will be in chaos a long time ago.

"Now I know I'm in a hurry. What did I do earlier.'" , Li Chen snorted coldly, "This time Linghu Shilang is right, if these people were unemployed, Datang would have turned the sky upside down, do a good job of statistics first, and then talk about it."

"Wei Shangshu." , Li Chen turned to Wei Cong, who spoke actively, "The Ministry of Households is now the Department of Household Affairs to unify the increase and decrease of my Datang household registration and farmland decree." "No." "Add a Huzheng Temple to full-time Datang Demographic Survey. This must not happen in the future, and you can't even grasp the population registration, and if such a situation occurs in the future, you have to ask.'"

"No." , Wei Cong wiped his cold sweat, fortunately, the matter passed like this, he was really afraid that Li Chen would be angry about this, and he had to speak actively just now, and now it seems that Li Chen has let him go for the time being.

"Also, the local government must also deal with it together, how the imperial court is rectifying, it is useless for the upper part of the local government to be active, and the matter of demographic statistics, from the imperial court to the lizheng, must be actively handled. The household department came up with a charter.'" "No." , Wei Cong broke out in a cold sweat again, what kind of charter should he come up with, this is a big problem, it turns out that he is waiting for him here.

Fortunately, after the meeting, Li Deyu gave him a trick, asking him to imitate the general supervision system, and the local government will be responsible for the imperial court, and will send out supervisors from time to time in Datang Prefecture and counties in the future to count the household registration, if there is a big discrepancy, it will be severely punished.

Then, we started to discuss how much tax revenue will be next year, and how to spend this money, the railway? Whether it is an irrigation project, these must be discussed in advance.

Until a Hanlin bachelor interrupted the meeting and transferred the Mingzhou emergency report, Li Chen jumped up, making the prime minister look at each other, what happened to him, could it really be that someone reversed.

"The fleet is back, finally back." , Li Chen was excited.