Chapter 227: Household Gathering and People (1)
After Chen Fei and the two Loli visited Baotu Spring, they returned to work. And Chen Fei's next step is to arrange a major event, that is, a major event to weaken the eldest son and second son of the Cui family. Because only by weakening the eldest son and the second son of the Cui family, then Cui Fu can take the position! So Chen Fei thought of a good way, this is still a good way to learn from the ancients, so it is very useful.
"Da Thorn History, my world has just been peaceful, and the household registration has not been able to be counted clearly, so I think that a comprehensive household can be carried out, so that the people of Bozhou can be under Wang Hua, so that I can have enough population for the Tang Dynasty's fiscal and tax military service. What does the history of the thorn think? Chen Fei asked.
The so-called household census is the ancient census, and the people are registered in a centralized manner. Now Datang has just experienced the chaos in the world, so the household registration of all personnel is also very chaotic. Therefore, Chen Fei also proposed to register many people, so as to facilitate the rule of the state. And only if there is enough population to be managed by the government, then the state can get enough tax sources, and it is necessary that people can serve in the military when the war comes. Therefore, it is a very important job to compile households and people, especially after the chaos in the world.
When the world was in turmoil, the people fled the war, so they also left their hometowns one after another and went with the waves everywhere. At this time, the hukou compiled by the former Sui was no longer available, after all, the population had begun to move, and because of the war, there were continuous deaths, which were also an important factor. Therefore, Chen Fei also proposed to organize the households and gather the people, re-census the population under the rule of Bozhou, and let the people pay taxes in a timely manner, and let the people serve in the military when necessary.
"Chen joined the army, we have already carried out a household formation in Bozhou before, do we still want to do it now?" Da Xishu asked.
But Chen Fei said: "Da Thorn History, I can't believe the household registration compiled by those of us before. After all, they all have some ambiguous contacts with the Cui family. So I'm afraid I can't believe it completely. We have to do a special search to make sure that there aren't too many people with bad backgrounds to compile it. ”
Chen Fei's meaning is already very obvious, the goal this time is not the so-called household Qi people, but to be able to get the Cui family to hand over the hidden population. In ancient times, the death of the population due to war was certainly part of the population decline. But there is a more important reason, that is, the family is hiding the population. When these troubled times came, these big families used their own reserves to enrich them, and then continued to absorb the homeless. And these homeless people do not have a hukou, that is, they have become the slaves of those big families. These people who enter the household registration of the big family are all slaves of the big family. Usually, because there is no state-issued hukou, the rights and interests cannot be protected.
And Chen Fei's compilation of the people this time is actually to find out all the people hidden by the Cui family, and then let them be managed by the state again. This is equivalent to cutting the flesh on the Cui family, after all, these people who do not have a hukou, they are all slaves of the Cui family, and they can even be said to be the wealth of the Cui family. If they belong to the state again, then their wealth is lost. When the time comes, they want to re-cultivate the land in their hands, and it will be more expensive.
This era of chaos has just ended. All the people could get the land if they wanted to. And if they have a hukou and their own land, then it is impossible for these families to forcibly keep them. These families can only pay more to recruit homeless people from other places. Or at a greater cost to the people to cultivate the land for them. You must know that the big families are all landlords, and these landlords are parasitic and exploit the peasants by owning the land as a means of production. But it is simply impossible for them to cultivate it themselves. Once the population under his command is small. There are fewer and fewer people who can participate in farming, so how can those big families accept it!
It was not that Datang did not carry out the compilation of households and Qi people before, but before it was all those who had a lot of relationship with the Cui family to participate in the compilation of households and people. Let them go to the Cui family to organize the households, this is not for the accomplices to investigate the mastermind, and what can be found. So if you want to really be able to investigate something, you must kick out those who are related to the Cui family. Only by kicking them out of the way can we really investigate how many people we have under our rule and how many people we can use.
As for further, it can also reduce the power of the Cui family. The reason why those big families can be strong is not because they have the population in their hands, plus they have people in the officialdom, so that they can compete with the imperial court. But now Chen Fei is about to clean up the population, and he has specially cut off one of their arms, which is an important means of population. There is no population in his hands, so how can he continue to argue with the government? Although a big family like the Cui family will not collapse in a short time, it is inevitable that its strength will drop significantly.
And the eldest son and second son of the Cui family have the most land, and once Chen Fei organizes the households, it can be said that their losses are very huge. Chen Fei also wants to hit them financially, create some chaos for this eldest son of Cui and the second son of Cui, so that they cannot fight for power with peace of mind. After all, Chen Fei wants to help Cui Fu, that is, Cui Sangongzi, and now Chen Fei and Cui Fu are people on the same boat. Of course, these should not be taken lightly.
"However, what if the Cui family rebounds at that time?" Da Xishu asked.
Chen Fei looked at Da Xishu's situation, and couldn't help but shake his head a little, this Da Xishu seems to be the older the rivers and lakes, the less courageous he becomes. has been an official for so many years, and he can't move under the pressure of the Cui family, so he has become so forward-looking. In fact, the Cui family is not as terrible as imagined, especially now that the Cui family is deeply trapped in the situation that family members have seized the position of the head of the family, it is even more impossible for the Cui family to use all their strength to retaliate. This is the best time, take advantage of his illness to kill him, so if you don't solve these problems now, then it will be too late when the position of the head of the Cui family is decided.
"You can rest assured that we have the support of the emperor, and there must be no problem." Chen Fei said. (To be continued......)