Wude Hall is the name of the Taiji Palace, it is adjacent to the East Palace, now Li Xin's Prime Minister's Mansion, since Li Xinli Yang Yu ascended the throne and called the emperor, the military affairs have fallen on Li Xin, fortunately, Li Xin is well-informed, and there are many people around him to help, and it is much easier to deal with these political affairs.

"Prime Minister, Jiangnan Urgent News, on April 28, the fourteenth year of the Great Cause, Emperor Yang Guang was killed by Yu Wenhua and killed in the Jiangdu Dalei Palace." Shen Qianqiu and Ji Gang came together, with a nervous look on their faces, and said: "On the 30th of April, Yu Wenhua and Yang Hao, the king of Qin, were established as emperors, and Yu Wenhua immediately led an army of 150,000 Xiaoguo to board a boat and grieve along the canal. ”

"The big time has finally come." After hearing this, Li Xin stood up and slowly walked outside the hall, followed by Hao Ying and the others.

"Prime Minister, do you want to tell the Son of Heaven about this." Hao Ying said in a low voice.

"Naturally, I want to sue him, pass the order, wear filial piety throughout the country, and worship the emperor according to the etiquette of the Son of Heaven." Li Xin thought for a while and said: "Although the first emperor was mean, he crisscrossed the territory, once pacified Nanchen, unified the world, personally conquered Tuguhun, swept the desert, conquered Goguryeo three times, dug the Grand Canal, communicated the north and south, and the merit was in the future, and he could be Emperor Wu." What does Mr. Hao think? ”

"Emperor Wu?" Hao Ming's face changed, the nickname of this Emperor Wu is not ordinarily high, among the families in the world, not only Guanzhong, or Guandong, these families have a bad impression of Yang Guang. Set a "martial" nickname, I am afraid that the world will be shaken.

"Yes, Emperor Wu. Mr. Hao, haven't you noticed that the current Grand Canal can communicate the connection between the north and the south, and the grain from the south can be easily transported to Chang'an? Isn't such a good thing a good thing a moral policy? Li Xin said very calmly: "The name of Emperor Wu is well deserved, although the lonely king is ambitious, but history is history. Not everyone can change the deeds of the emperor. ”

"Prime Minister Shengming." Hao Ying nodded, he naturally knew Li Xin's thoughts, this is not just a nickname, but more importantly, Li Xin's attitude, the former emperor Yang Guang cultivated Li Xin back then, trusted Li Xin, Li Xin now supports Yining Tianzi is Yang Guang's grandson, if Li Xin gives Yang Guang a poor name, although those families will be happy, but people of insight in the world will disdain Li Xin.

"When will Mr. Pei arrive in Chang'an?" Li Xin pointed to the various pieces on the bookcase and said, "This is the time coming. The Lone King didn't know how long it took. "Fortunately, now that paper is prevalent, Li Xin seems to be more relaxed, if it was before, I am afraid it will be more troublesome, Li Xin only then knows why many emperors in history like to neglect their government, so many political affairs, it is really not possible to deal with it alone.

"According to the itinerary, I can go to Chang'an at noon the day after tomorrow." Hao Ying hurriedly said: "The old lady and several princesses will come with you. ”

"Let's go and greet it the day after tomorrow!" Li Xin nodded, turned to Shen Qianqiu and said, "How is the situation in Chaozhong?" Are those guys still honest? ”

"The prime minister is majestic. It is difficult for these people to be honest, but their subordinates have observed that there has been a shortage of herbs in major pharmacies in Chang'an City recently. Shen Qianqiu snickered for a while.

"Then let those who have been captured by us identify the door, and let them hand over all the private soldiers in their homes." Li Xin's face was gloomy. These big families have been around for hundreds of years, and there are many private soldiers in the family, and they are even composed of children. These people usually don't have any problems, but they will definitely give Chang'an City a fatal blow at a critical time, so after the Song Dynasty. It was not allowed to have private soldiers, of course, at that time, even the family was weakened, and it was normal for the family to have no private soldiers.

"What if?" Hao Ying was a little worried.

"Where are Li Jing's soldiers and horses now?" Li Xin thought for a while and asked.

"A large battalion has been established in Lantian and is ready to recruit soldiers and horses." Hao Ying hesitated for a while and said, "It's just that I heard that the progress is not very smooth, and few people come to join the army. ”

"Naturally not, those big families won't be so willing to increase my strength." Li Xin shook his head and said, "However, if you think that this king will bow down to your subordinates, then you will underestimate me Li Xin." Mr. Hao, do you know how many people there are in Chang'an? I think there are at least about 400,000 people, but in terms of household registration, there are only 300,000 people. Hidden by those great families, these people must be found, either to become the people of the court, to pay taxes for the court, or to join the army, to expand the territory of the empire. ”

Hao Ying had long been shocked by Li Xin's words, not only the family clan in Chang'an hid the population, but also in other places, many of the population are black households, they joined the family family, avoiding the taxes of the imperial court, although they suffered from the exploitation of the family family, but they did not need to teach the court to pay high taxes, in general, these black households still took some advantage.

"Prime Minister, this matter is very important, I'm afraid it's not good to do this!" Hao Ying said with some worry, the current Li Xin has not yet gained a firm foothold in Chang'an City, so he will carry out drastic reforms, which will shake the nerves of the family at the beginning, and will give Li Xin a hand in other places. Hao Ying thinks that for the time being, it is better to stabilize the dìng, and wait until he has a firm foothold before he starts.

"We have very little time." Li Xin shook his head and said: "After Pei Shiju and them arrive, you can draw up a law, under the banner of the Great Sui, from now on, no tax will be paid on the basis of capitation, and taxes will be paid on the amount of land, and taxes will be paid on different types of commerce, and the city gate tax will be abolished within the boundaries of the Great Sui." What does the gentleman think? ”

"W-is this going to work?" Hao Ming's face became solemn, you must know that in ancient times, the poll tax was the most important tax, the more people had to pay, the more taxes they paid, and even this kind of tax was not canceled until later generations, the tax of the poll tax accounted for more than one-tenth of the entire tax, Li Xin canceled the poll tax in one sentence, and the tax revenue of the imperial court lost more than half.

"Why not?" Li Xin looked at Hao Ying and said: "The real rich people are those businessmen, those big families, and those ordinary people who really don't have money. Although this money seems to be very small, it is only for those big families, and for ordinary people, it is difficult for a person to earn a penny. The number of people in the family will increase, and the poll tax will be higher and higher, which is absolutely unfair to the common people, and the gap between the rich and the poor will become wider and wider. That's why some people not only send their families into the family, shelter their doors, and reduce this kind of tax, but also hang their fields in other people's names to reduce taxes, so that there are only two kinds of unlucky people, the first is the imperial court, the tax is reduced, and the second is the poor people, and the burden has not changed. ”

"This matter will be handled at the discretion of subordinates and others." Hao Ying still didn't think about the poll tax clearly, after all, the poll tax has existed since the Qin Dynasty, which is also the simplest tax calculation method, which has been cited by the imperial courts of previous dynasties. Although Li Xin made the matter very clear, but wanted to completely abandon the poll tax, Hao Ying decided to wait for everyone to come and then discuss it together.

"Well, the second thing is to change the poll tax to the land tax, you can pay as much tax as you have as much land, and if you have more land, you will pay more, and if you have less land, you will pay less." Li Xin threw a huge bomb again and said: "In this dynasty, whether it is a big family or an ordinary person, it is the same way, even if it is Huangzhuang, no one is allowed to violate it. ”

After hearing this, Hao Ying understood that Li Xin actually did not abandon the part of the benefits of the poll tax, but put this part of the interests on the land tax, and directly put the objects of tax payment on those big families and powerful people in various places, and was ready to drink blood from them.

"Prime Minister, isn't it too dangerous to do this?" Hao Ying said a little nervously.

"If you don't move at this time, you won't have a chance in the future." Li Xin shook his head and said. No one knows better than Li Xin, the impact of the two things of apportioning the land into the mu and the gentry paying grain together, although Li Xin does not like the braid dynasty, but he still admires Yongzheng very much, and the reason why he admires Yongzheng is because of these two policies. If such a policy is placed in the emperors of later generations, it will be full of resistance, but now, Li Xin is destroying the order of the Great Sui Dynasty, anyway, he is going to destroy a qiē, and he simply destroys it with this qiē, maybe it will cause a lot of unnecessary trouble now, and it will make many families hostile to him, but it is better than the trouble of his own children and grandchildren in the future.

"By the way, this king will give you some more useful things after a while, you can gather some big families who support us, local heroes, and give these things to them, since this king has cut off the wealth of their land, give them some better wealth." Li Xin thought about it and said with a smile: "How much money can you make by digging on the ground all day long, only by making money and doing business can you make more money." Look, those people, like Dou Yi, did his money come from the land? Only by doing business can you make money. ”

"Yes, yes." Hao Ying was originally a little worried, but also let go, if there is really such a good thing, those big families and powerful landlords may not agree to Li Xin's land tax. This is a complete solution to the matter.

"Let's go, let's go to meet the Son of Heaven together, Emperor Wu died, if we don't have a voice in Chang'an, I'm afraid the people of the world will also speak." Li Xin looked up at the sky and looked at the north, maybe at this time, after Li Yuan heard the news, he might be the emperor. (To be continued......)