The lack of population is indeed a problem that affects the upper, middle and lower classes of Datang, especially the people around Chang'an.

Needless to say, the imperial family and the court itself.

Since the founding of the Tang Dynasty, household has been an important indicator for evaluating officials at the state and county levels.

The state and county classification of Datang also revolves around the indicator of the number of household registrations.

Less than 1,000 households are 3,000 households in the lower and middle counties, and 5,000 households in the upper counties. There are more than 30,000 households in Shangzhou, 20,000 households in Zhongzhou, and 10,000 to 20,000 households in Xiazhou, which is the most real population problem.

Li Yuanxing's new policy, when Wei Zheng had not yet refined it, it can be said that the people in Chang'an who knew about this new policy had exceeded more than seventy percent of Chang'an's population.

From the emperor to the peddler.

Li Er sat at the table in a daze, and Empress Eldest Sun shouted several times, but Li Er didn't come back to his senses. This made the eldest grandson queen anxious, and immediately conspired to recruit the eldest grandson Wuji, Fang Xuanling, Wang Jishan, Cui Junsu, and Wei Zheng and Du Ruhui, who were in the Qin Palace, into the palace.

Du Ruhui originally just came to Chang'an with Li Yuanxing, and had a drink with a few old friends by the way.

For Du Ruhui, this is a day off in itself.

But who would have thought, the empty wine glass was not yet full, and the palace was in a hurry, so he had to enter the palace immediately.

"Holy Lord, His Royal Highness King Qin may have thought simply, without considering the mood of the Holy Lord, but just wanted to increase the population. If there is anything transgressed, please read it to His Royal Highness King Qin for the sake of the Tang Dynasty, and punish him lightly! Wei Zheng looked at Li Er's face and said bad things in his heart. The saint was angry.

Li Er let out a long sigh: "I also want to exempt the people of the Tang Dynasty from grain tax." ”

Ah, it turns out that the problem is in the grain tax.

All the ministers remembered that Li Yuanxing once said that the people of the Tang Dynasty did not have to pay grain tax, and Li Er was tempted at that time.

Li Er's dream is to make Datang no longer have grain taxes in his lifetime.

But now, Li Yuanxing's side can be said to be exempt from grain tax.

"Holy Lord, His Royal Highness King Qin once said that if you want to truly exempt the grain tax, you must ensure two paths. The first is that the commercial tax is sufficient, and the second is that it directly belongs to the national economy. Like what. Yaozhou! Du Ruhui also said a word next to him.

Li Er's eyes narrowed. Yaozhou is returned to Li Yuanxing, how much is Yaozhou worth now?

Thinking of this, Li Er opened his mouth and asked, "If Yaozhou is converted into silver money, how much is this Yaozhou?" ”

This question. Only Cui Junsu, the head of the household department, can answer.

"Holy. It's not easy to calculate. But if you really have to do the math. Yaozhou top ten Luoyang! Last year's Luoyang! Top more than 100 Laizhou, last year's Laizhou! ”

It's a vague concept.

"Tell me, what about Goro's decree to encourage childbirth?" Li Er changed the question.

"Back to the Holy One. It's a good decree. But it is also possible that only the fiefdom of King Qin can be done like this, and in other cases, there is no possibility for any prince of the Tang Dynasty, because they are exempt from grain tax and starve themselves to death in the first place. His Royal Highness King Qin is not afraid, because His Royal Highness King Qin does not need a small amount of money. ”

"You don't need a little money, you need a lot of money?" Li Er asked half-jokingly.

Wei Zheng said: "Yes, the minister has calculated that the silver money that His Highness needs now is about 1.3 billion guan, and if the new palace is built for the saint, and the silver money of the new Chang'an City is also from the Qin Wangfu, then it will be close to 1.4 billion guan." The silver money needed by the palace is a dime a million in the entire silver money needed by His Royal Highness King Qin! ”

It's already a very exaggerated metaphor.

But Wei Zheng said a word, a hundred cows and a dime.

Li Er couldn't even laugh, what did Li Yuanxing do, he needed so much money.

However, Li Er will not ask, and there is no need to ask.

When Li Yuanxing did not officially report to himself, he would never implement it, and he thought it would be a long-term great jihua. Or Li Yuanxing painted a big pie for the courtiers of the Qin Palace.

"I have decided, and Huazhou will be nationalized. Li Yuanxing, King of Qin, was in charge. When Li Er said this, he suddenly had an evil thought in his heart: "Huazhou is a state after all, I have already promised it to the King of Qin, and now it is my gaffe to take it back, so let's pick a few more counties as the fiefdom of the King of Qin." ”

Wang Jishan never opened his mouth since he came in, he chose to wait and see.

At this time, when he heard Li Er say that he would divide a few more counties into fiefs for Li Yuanxing, he turned his head sideways and said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "The eldest grandson is shooting, it is better to pick a few of the poorest, hardest and worst counties." ”

"Why?" The eldest grandson Wuji said in his heart, Wang Jishan, you have no enmity with Li Yuanxing, this will make you whole.

Wang Jishan and Li Yuanxing have no enmity, but he has other thoughts, after listening to the eldest grandson Wuji's question, he said to the eldest grandson Wuji: "His Royal Highness the King of Qin's Yaozhou, he picked Haode in advance. Huazhou is the same, he has made a choice in advance, so will there be a miracle in any state or county? ”

"Wang Shangshu is reasonable!"

"For personal gain, there are many poor places in the whole territory of Datang, and my Wang family also has many side branches that only have one meal a day, and there is no way to eat dry rice every day, if His Royal Highness King Qin can turn a poor county into a rich county, the wisdom must be something we need to learn." Wang Jishan's reason, even in front of Li Yuanxing, can be said directly.

The eldest grandson Wuji also nodded in agreement.

The two spoke, and the rest were silent.

Wang Jishan said: "For the public, let the state officials and counties of the Tang Dynasty learn how to govern a county." ”

"It's better to even give the county orders of these counties to King Qin!" The words of the eldest grandson Wuji are really just a casual joke.

"Dashan, look at how His Royal Highness the King of Qin adjusts these county orders!"

"Good!" Li Er was happy to hear it: "Check, find the hardest and poorest county!" ”

Several ministers were full of excitement, but Wei Zheng had a black face, but he himself had a black face, so he wanted to refute that even Du Ruhui didn't support him, so he had to admit it.

"Holy Lord, Yan County! With a population of only 800 households, it ranks second among the poor counties around Chang'an. The real poor mountains and bad waters. There are few good plots of land, and 800 households guard less than 500 acres of paddy fields, and make a living by hunting. is so poor that he can't even pay the annual salary of the county order. Once you eat meat at home, you don't dare to eat it during the day! ”

When Cui Junsu said this, he laughed.

"Weishenme eats meat and doesn't dare to eat it during the day?" Li Er was very curious.

"Because the county is too poor, a little meat fragrance can attract the people of the county! Naturally, he couldn't eat, but he was already thirty-seven, but he had no money to marry a wife. The minister thought that he was one of the poorest county officials in the entire Tang Dynasty. ”

There is another sentence that Cui Junsu did not say.

Because this county (the county of the later generations) is the county of Jingzhao, it is too close to Chang'an, so close that this county order does not even dare to accept a catty of meat. So he was the poorest county official.

The Ministry of Rites, Shangshu Wang Jishan, said again: "The county is poor. The real reason is that there are nine disasters in ten years, starting from the first year of Wude, and there has been a major drought in eight years. As of this year, it has been six consecutive years of drought. When Wude was in the seventh year. There was no harvest in the county. The population of Yan County has also increased from 1,900 households to less than 800 now! ”

"The two counties of Zhouzhi and Zhongnan are also poor counties. It's just that Wude was assigned to Jizhou in three years. ”

"From today. The two counties return to Jingzhao! Li Er's words are equivalent to assigning the two counties to Li Yuanxing's name: "Add one more, and Lantian County will also belong to him." Prepare the paperwork immediately, and while Gorou is still in Chang'an, let him sign it! ”

The official decree of the Tang Dynasty does not have an emperor's edict at all, but it is very similar to the official documents of later generations. It contains the signatures of each department, the filing of the issuing unit, and who the person who announced the decree and so on. The decree of the single sheet is actually just a handwritten note from the emperor.

How poor Lantian is, poor and pitiful.

If Huxian County is in drought every year, then Lantian is flooded this year and drought next year, which can be said to be a continuous natural disaster.

These two counties are not only natural disasters, because they are all on the side of the Qinling Mountains, and wild beasts and the like are another major harm to the crops. Especially when wild boars enter the fields, it is devastating destruction.

When the holy decree arrived at the Tiance General's Mansion, Li Yuanxing was preparing to return to Qin Wangzhuang.

As soon as he saw the holy decree, Li Yuanxing was stunned.

"Lao Wei, Lao Du, you think Lantian is a poor county. This king heard that the wall of the He clan is Lantian jade, and Lantian is jade, and they are all high-grade jade, are they poor? Li Yuanxing didn't understand a hundred times.

Du Ruhui and Wei Zheng both laughed.

"It's done, anyway, this holy decree is accepted by the king first." There must be a reason for the two of them to laugh. Li Yuanxing first signed the holy decree, and then said: "Accompany this king in the same car and go back to Qinwangzhuang together." ”

"Your Majesty is not going, and there are still many official affairs to be dealt with in the Tiance General's Mansion." Wei Zhengxin said that there was Du Ruhui to explain, and it was no different from himself. Li Yuanxing heard that Wei Zheng was not going, so he approached Wei Zheng and whispered: "This king explained the matter to General Qin Qiong, you have time to talk about it." ”

Wei Zheng nodded and made a head-killing gesture. Li Yuanxing said: "Very good, there must be no mistake in this matter!" ”

On the way back to Qinwangzhuang, Du Ruhui said: "Your Highness, He's wall is from the Green Ridge, the ancient Kunlun Mountain. It is also rumored to be from Chushan. It's called Lantian Jade, but it's not Jingzhao, Lantian County, it's just a coincidence. His Majesty thought that it was more credible to come from Chushan. ”

"Du Gong continues!"

Li Yuanxing asked Du Ruhui to continue to say that Tibet even went to Central Asia, and Chushan is now southeast of Wudang Mountain, in the boundary of Jiangxi. Originally, Li Yuanxing always believed that He's Bi was Lantian jade, which should be from Lantian.

"He's wall is nephrite, and Lantian also has some beautiful stones that look like jade, but it's not jade yet, it's just stone. It's hard rock. ”

"Just a coincidence of names?" Li Yuanxing asked.

"Exactly, He's wall is also known as Lantian jade. There is an ancient jade of the Han Dynasty in the house of his subordinates, and the saint also sent someone to verify it in Lantian, which is just a coincidence in the name. So there is no jade in Lantian, only some strange stones! Du Ruhui said yes, and Li Yuanxing also believed that what Du Ruhui said was not a lie.

(Note: There is a history of jade) (to be continued......)

PS: Dizzy, should be written here.

This part of jade has been recorded according to the Ming "Heavenly Creation". Then the current blue sky jade is stone jade, jadeite. Ancient Lantian jade and modern Lantian jade are not a kind of jade.

After checking a lot of information, I did not find the mining history of the jade mine in Lantian County.

But what is certain is that what was mined in the Qin and Han dynasties was a stone close to jade. and, jade from the Jiangxi generation.