Regarding the reaction of the King of Goryeo, although Li Xi was curious, he didn't care too much!

It's just a projectile land!

As long as Li Xi wants, he can send Bai Qi at any time to slaughter the Goryeo royal family.

As soon as the royal family was destroyed, Goryeo naturally fell into civil strife.

At that time, if Datang intervenes a little, he will be able to directly control the entire Goryeo Kingdom!

Day 2.

The early dynasty ended.

Hubu Shangshu greeted Li Xi with a bitter face.

"See Your Majesty. Tobe Shangshu sighed.

Li Xi glanced at Hubu Shangshu: "What is Aiqing worried about?"

Hubu Shangshu is one of the few old ministers in the court who is loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

He behaved like this must be because of the state affairs of the Tang Dynasty.

Hubu Shangshu sighed lightly: "Your Majesty, the New Year is approaching, and this year's tax revenue in Datang has been reduced by one percent compared with last year!"

"The old minister is ashamed!"

Hubu Shangshu knelt on his knees, not daring to face Li Xi.

"Lower the tax by 10%?"

Li Ci frowned.

Taxation is the foundation of a country and the basic embodiment of measuring the prosperity of a country.

In layman's terms, a country can only have the confidence to do things if it receives sufficient tax revenue.

"What is the reason?" asked Li Ci.

Hubu Shangshu took out a fold and handed it to Li Ci: "Your Majesty, please take a look!"

Li Ci opened the fold and swept it away, his face becoming more and more ugly.

The Tang Dynasty inherited the land system of the previous dynasty and implemented the equalization system.

What is the Junda system?

It is to divide the land equally among the common people!

Then the people cultivated the land, and the Tang Dynasty collected taxes according to the population!

Taxes are collected for as many people as there are in the family.

It doesn't matter how much food is grown!

This kind of land system, if it does not encounter natural and man-made disasters, greatly promotes the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

The decades of prosperity established before the Tang Dynasty are inseparable from the Juntian system.

However, there is a huge drawback to the Junda system.

That's the privileged class tax exemption!

Some clan landlords, wealthy families, and the children of officials have the right to tax exemption.

In other words, no matter how much land these people owned, they did not have to pay taxes to the imperial court.

This privileged class has existed since ancient times.

Even Li Ci is helpless for the time being!

If that's all there is to it, that's fine.

After all, the privileged are in the minority.

The most in this world are still those ordinary people.

As long as they pay their taxes honestly, they will not be able to shake the country's foundation.

It's just that the Juntian system has been in place for hundreds of years!

In the past hundreds of years, the people who owned the land at the beginning have long since died.

The rest are the descendants of that people.

And these descendants, in these hundreds of years, perhaps for various reasons, could not afford to pay taxes, so they could only sell their land to the family landlords.

When the land is in the hands of the landlords, it becomes their own land, and they do not have to pay taxes to the state.

And so on and again.

The land is still in its original place.

But it became a duty-free zone for the family landlords.

The country's tax revenue is virtually missing.

This goes on for hundreds of years!

The taxes that the imperial court can collect are naturally getting less and less.

The less part all fell into the hands of the landlords of the family.

The more Li Xi looked at it, the more angry he became.

The imperial court gave these wealthy families all kinds of appeasement and subsidies, but how did these wealthy families repay them?

Annexation of the people's land!

Competing with the imperial court for taxes?

That's what those wealthy families do!

Li Xi was furious!

The people of the Tang Dynasty sold their land to wealthy families, and the people themselves had no land, so they could only help plant under the wealthy families.

The people helped to cultivate the land, and the wealthy families gave corresponding rewards, and over time, the people only knew the wealthy families, as for the imperial court...

They don't pay taxes to the imperial court, so what do they care about the imperial court?

Boom!

Li Ci slapped the bill in front of him fiercely, and he was furious!

This is no ordinary land annexation anymore!

This is shaking the country's foundation!

This is shaking the foundation of the Tang Dynasty's rule!

It is precisely because of these wealthy families that the Tang Dynasty has been divided into a country, China!

The local people only know the wealthy family, but they don't know the Tang Emperor!

Li Xi's eyes narrowed slightly.

He absolutely can't allow these wealthy families to continue to act so recklessly!

Otherwise, after a long time, when all the land of the people of Datang is returned to the landlord of the family, will Datang still be Li Xi's?

Just let these landlords set themselves up as kings!

Li Ci's mind was racing, and he kept thinking about countermeasures.

The easiest way to reverse the situation is to take back the land of the world!

Only when all the land in the world is returned to the hands of the state, and the people start to pay taxes to the state again, can the tax problem be completely solved!

Tobe Shangshu was already trembling with fear at this time!

He didn't even dare to speak, for fear of aggravating Li Ci's anger.

Li Ci folded the music and looked at the Hubu Shangshu who was kneeling on the ground: "It's not your fault, get up!"

"Thank you, Your Majesty!" said Tobe Shangshu in a trembling voice.

Li Xi pondered for a moment and said slowly, "I have something for you to do!"

"Your Majesty, please speak!" said Tobe Shangshu, bowing.

Li Xi looked at the household book: "Count all the land that those wealthy landlords swallowed up by the people." ”

"Not only that, but the land of these landlords is also counted by me. ”

"I want to see how much land that doesn't need to pay taxes now occupies my Tang territory!!"

As soon as these words came out!

Tobe Shangshu felt a chill in his heart?

Count the land of the world?

What did the Emperor do this for?

Hubu Shangshu didn't believe that the emperor was just counting land.

It's just that...

Since it's not pure...

What about the place that is not pure?

Tobe Shangshu's heart beat faster.

In the flash of light, a few words suddenly appeared in Tobe Shangshu's mind:

Collect the land of the world!

That's right!

After the statistics, the next step for the emperor is to take back all these lands!

As soon as he thought of this, Tobe Shangshu's face turned pale!

Collect the land of the world?

How is this possible?

Those people probably don't care!

Anyway, the land was not in their hands in the first place.

But what about the wealthy families?

Are they willing to give up the land they have accumulated for generations?

How is this possible?!

Your Majesty is tantamount to being the enemy of the whole world!

Li Xi glanced at the Hubu Shangshu, frowned, and said, "What are you doing in a daze, why don't you hurry up and go down to me to count?"

"Minister..."

"Obey the order!"

Tobe Shangshu's lips moved, and finally did not dissuade the emperor.

It's not that he's afraid.

But the emperor is now, just asking him to count the land.

And didn't show anything else!

In this case, it is naturally difficult to say much about the book of the household.

"That's it!"

"Let's go down!"

Li Ci waved his hand.

Tobe Shangshu left.

Li Ci asked people to recruit Cao Zhengchun again.

"What is the matter with Your Majesty's summoning of ministers?" Cao Zhengchun asked respectfully.

"I asked the household department to count the land in the world, and you let people stare at it, and look at those wealthy families in the middle!"

Li Ci sneered.

The matter of counting the land is related to the self-interests of those landlords, and it will not be too smooth.

Li Ci wants to see who will stop him!