In a flash, August is approaching, and the autumn harvest is imminent.

Naturally, the Changle Palace, where Lu Pheasant is located, is also obviously much busier than before.

Every few moments, officials from the DPRK and China would be summoned to the palace to report to Lu Pheasant on the preparations before the autumn harvest.

Zhangtai Street outside Changle Palace was also slightly crowded by the carriages of hundreds of officials and ministers.

The high-intensity dialogue and thinking for several days also made Lu Pheasant faintly irritable, but he had to cheer up and wait for the next minister's visit.

Sending away the officials sent by the Prime Minister's Mansion, Lu Pheasant let out a long sigh of exhaustion, picked up the tea bowl in his hand and sighed slightly, and finally felt that the soreness in his forehead was relieved.

"Whew~"

After moving his neck slightly, Lu Pheasant sat back in front of the imperial case and picked up a brand new bamboo slip.

"Guanzhong grain price?"

With just a slight glance at the recital outside the bamboo slip, Lu Pheasant's brows furrowed.

After spreading out the bamboo slips and directly at the end of the dialect, after seeing the signature of the performer, the irritability between Lu Pheasant's eyebrows finally turned into a touch of yin visible to the naked eye.

"The music of internal history, there is never a happy event in front of me!"

Without looking at the content of the recital, Lu Pheasant can guess what kind of 'surprise' Wang Ling has sent to himself.

This is also a pain point that the Han family has experienced for a long time.

- Lack of food!

To be precise, today's Han family lacks everything.

Including money and grain wealth, acres of land, to local officials and officials, the army lacks military rations, soldiers, weapons, and even the entire country lacks population!

In the fifth year of Emperor Gao, the court agreed on the proportion of taxes and taxes in the Han family, as well as various conscription obligations: the seventeenth master of the people's men, other households, and starting a family.

That is to say, as long as a civil man reaches the age of seventeen, regardless of whether he marries a wife or has children, he must divide his household and become the head of the household.

After that, it was necessary to begin to fulfill various taxes, taxes, and service obligations for the Han family.

Among them, there is an agricultural tax of one-fifteenth according to the actual harvest of the household's acres of land in the current year;

Each family is 'counted' every year, that is, one hundred and twenty dollars;

not more than once every three years, and not more than forty-five days of hard labor at a time;

In addition, every man in the Han dynasty underwent three consecutive years of winter military training for one month from the age of fourteen, after which he was conscripted by the local government and subjected to two years of military service.

The title system of the Han family also basically inherited the Qin Jue completely, and it was divided into 20 levels.

One is called a public servant, the second is said to be made, the third is said to be a hairpin, the fourth is not changed, and the fifth is a doctor;

Six are official doctors, seven are public doctors, eight are public passengers, nine are five doctors, and ten are left chiefs;

Eleven is said to be the right long, 12 is said to be left, 13 is said to be in the middle, 14 is said to be right, and 15 is less on the top;

Sixteen is said to be made on the throne, seventeen is said to be the head of the car, eighteen is said to be the head of the big house, nineteen is said to be the marquis of the Guannei, and twenty is the marquis of Che.

Among the twenty rank of lords, only the twentieth rank of the Marquis of Che and the nineteenth rank of the Marquis of Kannai can be relieved of part of the above series of obligations.

After the autumn harvest, the 'gongshi' who is in the first-class title must pay agricultural taxes and oral taxes, and the eighteenth-level chief must also pay it.

'Gongshi' has to serve in the conscription and military service, not to mention the eighteenth-level chief, even the nineteenth-level Guannai Marquis and the twentieth-level Chehou must also obey!

It's just that as the undoubted 'aristocratic class' in the Han family title system, the servitude of the Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannai was 'voluntarily replaced' by the slaves in their families.

As for military service, there are not many twists and turns.

-- The hereditary replacements of the Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannei, who rested with the country and the people of the Yiyi; Corresponding to this power, it is necessary to bring their own bow horses, dry rations, and even prepare their own soldiers and horses, and respond to the call of the central government to personally participate in the war!

If the titles of the Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannei are passed to a certain generation, the military exploits of the contemporary Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannei have not reached the 'passing line', Liu Bang's sentence 'makes the Yellow River like a belt, and Mount Tai is strong; The kingdom will last forever, and the descendants will be giving', but it will no longer have an effect.

——The Marquis of Che and the Marquis of Guannei have insufficient military merits, and they will be demoted to titles for generations, or they will be demoted to commoners, and even their families will be ruined!

Relying on such a 'brave fight' aristocratic class, as well as a military and political system in which almost all the people are soldiers, the Han family was able to enjoy the reputation of 'the country is always weak and the Han is strong and dies' in later generations.

But now, the Han family is far from ushering in the highlight moment of 'dying by strength'.

Whether it is the household registration book of the Qin Dynasty that Xiao He desperately preserved, or the court's estimation based on the population of previous years, the population of the Han family today should be between 21 million and 23 million.

However, among the archives that were actually included and registered, the number of 'registered people' in the Han family was only more than half of this estimated number.

As for the reason, it is because in the past few hundred years, for the land of China, it is really not a 'peaceful world'.

First of all, nearly 600 years ago, the princes of Zhou Youwang Fenghuo played with fire, which directly led to the Zhou royal family moving the capital to Luoyi, thus opening the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period that lasted for hundreds of years.

More than 100 years ago, in the middle and late Warring States period, the surviving Qin, Wei, Chu, Han, Yan, Zhao, Qi and other countries were in endless disputes, and the war became increasingly fierce.

Twenty-six years ago, the Great Qin Rui soldiers Linzi Qi, Qi Wang Tian Jian surrendered without a fight, and the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period of 551 years finally came to an end in Qin's unification of the world and the joyful cheers of all the people in the world.

Hundreds of years of strife are over, the world is unified, and the people can always have a peaceful birthday in two days, right?

No!

After the unification of the world, the first emperor Yingzheng in just 11 years, the levy of civil service, the construction of the Great Wall in the north, the construction of Afang, Xianyang, and the Qin Straight Road, which runs through the entire Central Plains, to the high gate in the hinterland of the grassland, and the southwest Yi in the southeast mountains and forests.

Two years before his death, he sent the people of the world to Xianyang to build a great building in ancient times: the Mausoleum of Qin Shi Huang in Lishan.

Even Emperor Liu Bang of the Han Dynasty Taizu Gao's 'unmasking rebellion', in a sense, can be understood as 'being forced to live by the hard labor of Yingzheng'.

From Qin's unification of the world to the death of the First Emperor in the sand dunes, the people of the world have experienced a period that is not too dark, but it is enough to exhaust the people.

Then, it was the second succession and the world was in turmoil......

Later, there were several years of princely disputes, which ended in the next battle; Although the Han Dynasty was able to establish a state, due to the rebellion of the princes with different surnames, it has not been able to build its own capital: Chang'an.

Since the year of the death of the first emperor, the war has never been cut off, making the 'peach blossom spring' in the deep mountains and old forests the best choice for the people to avoid the war.

And now, the world is too peaceful, and it is not so easy to let these people come out of the deep mountains and old forests and obediently become qualified taxpayers.

——In order to tempt the people hiding in the mountains to be included in the household registration as soon as possible, Liu Bang even offered a super high price of '100 acres of land per capita, 5 acres of residential land, and the government borrowed farm tools and grain seeds'!