"Alas~"

"Miscalculated······"

After the court discussion ended, the Gonghou Baiguan walked on the palace road that withdrew from Changle Palace, and his eyes involuntarily locked on Prime Minister Xiao He.

In the end, a few people still had the courage to step forward, keep up with Xiao He's footsteps, and ask Xiao He softly.

"Xiao Xiang thinks that the family intends to be 'loyal and thin', but His Majesty knows how many private slaves there are in our family, is it an occasional thing, or is it deliberately done by the family?"

asked with a weak heart, and everyone waited anxiously for Xiao He's answer.

Hearing this, Xiao He also quietly recalled the scene that happened in the Changxin Hall half an hour ago.

Liu Bang, the son of heaven, did not pierce the window paper that the meritorious marquis and hundreds of officials have been 'evading taxes' for many years, but threw this problem to the crown prince Liu Ying.

Even now, recalling Liu Bang's original words and Liu Ying's reply, Xiao He's heart palpitated, and he couldn't help but look forward to Liu Ying's performance······

"Not a few years old, the prince, you are already quite Your Majesty's posture······"

Secretly let out a sigh, Xiao He finally came back from his thoughts, and when he looked at his colleagues at the side, there was a faint gloom in his eyes.

"All the ministers and ministers of Cao, all the pillars of the society, all have the grace of His Majesty's knowledge, so as to support the two thousand stone ranks and thousands of food estates."

"However, in the past few years, all the princes have been stingy with tens of thousands of dollars in slave counting, which has made the entry of the Shaofu more and more stretched······"

As he spoke, Xiao He shook his head slightly, and a little shame quietly welled up on his face.

"The old man thinks that this is not what a minister should do."

"Even if the old man has not been dissuaded from the princes because of this, the old man has the trust of His Majesty."

"The old man wants to go to Shaofu in person tomorrow to pay the unpaid slaves."

Saying this in a low tone, Xiao He frowned lightly and looked at the juice Fang Hou Yongya who opened his mouth to ask.

"And the family proposed "Loyalty, Kindness, and Bo", the original intention was to ask for credit to Your Majesty in person; The juice Fang Hou did not have this because of this, and was suspicious of the gift of the family. ”

"—Even if this matter is indeed deliberately done by the family, we, as ministers, should also accept it respectfully."

Hearing that Xiao He gave such an answer, the courtiers and officials who gathered around finally quietly retreated.

Instead, there is a visible weakness of the heart, and a little looming unwillingness.

Yongya put on a painful look without any scruples, but he still stepped forward without giving up and gave up his hand to Xiao He.

"What Xiao Xiang said is indeed reasonable."

"But even so, shouldn't Xiao go to Shaofu on a blind date and make up for the place where the slaves are paid?"

As he spoke, Yongya even licked his lips greedily, and said, "Fang Cai, Your Majesty doesn't say anything: this matter is handled by the crown prince of the prison country, and Your Majesty doesn't ask?" ”

Another family said: In the past few years, the war in the Kanto region was endless, and the courtiers and the princes were all insufficient; Slave counting, can you leave it alone? ”

Listening to Yongya's words with a winged face, the eyes of the people gathered around Xiao He's side couldn't help but show some expectations.

Slave counting, that is, 'slave tax', sounds like a lot, five per person, that is, six hundred yuan.

But if you think about it carefully, this is a rather large expense for courtiers and meritorious princes who have dozens of private slaves in their families.

- Slave counting, but it does not mean that each slave only needs to be called 600 yuan for a lifetime, but 600 yuan per person per year!

Take the court now, the family background is the most solid Xiao He distance: Xiao He's family, there are nearly 200 male slaves and female concubines, and the annual slave is nearly 120,000 yuan!

You must know that nowadays, even ordinary people and peasant families, the oral calculation that needs to be paid per year is only one calculation per household, that is, one hundred and twenty yuan.

In other words, according to the slave calculation stipulated in the Han Law, the tax that each slave needs to pay is equal to the oral calculation that the five peasant households need to pay.

And Xiao He needs to pay 120,000 yuan per year for slaves, which has exceeded the court's judgment standard for a 'middle-class family': more than 100,000 yuan······

Of course, even if the assets of a middle-class family have to be handed over to the Shaofu every year, there is no pressure on Xiao He, who eats ten thousand stones and eats ten thousand households.

But for other people, especially those courtiers who have only one or two thousand marquis food, or even those who do not have the title of Marquis Che directly, and only have two thousand stone tariffs, this slave calculation is so high that it is staggering!

Let's take the only Jiuqing who has no marquis in the middle of the court: Shaofu Yangchengyan as an example:

——As the Jiuqing of the current dynasty, he is also a high-ranking official in the middle of the two thousand stones, and in Yangchengyan's family, there must be three or two doormen, four or five housekeepers, old mothers, one or two coachmen, and a trustworthy old man, right?

Not to mention the extension of Yangcheng, now in Chang'an, all the courtiers who can reach a thousand stones in rank and are qualified to participate in the court are basically in this configuration at home.

This is already the simplest 'ultra-low configuration'.

But even if it is ultra-low, just these dozen or twenty people, the slave calculation that needs to be paid every year is tens of thousands of dollars!

Some people may say: 2,000 stone in the middle of the year, 2,160 stone of rice every year, as a price of millions of dollars, can not even afford the slave calculation of more than 10,000 yuan?

This is the crux of the matter.

- Slave, in addition to paying slave counts, he also has to eat food······

In addition to food, you also have to change into new clothes during the New Year's holidays, or when there are distinguished guests at home, so as to dress up the door.

In this way, the 'maintenance cost' required by twenty slaves per year is nearly six hundred stone of grain.

Slaves are so expensive, and the wives and wives in the family are small, so naturally there is no reason to save money - three or five wives and concubines, seven or eight children, and five hundred stone of grain are used up for eating and drinking Lazar a year, which is not a problem at all.

It's so simple to calculate, Yangcheng Yan has more than 2,000 stones, and most of it is used by the slaves and wives in the family.

The remaining half is not without nowhere to go.

- Anyway, it's a courtier, Yang Chengyan always has to entertain, right?

- There is a red and white matter between colleagues in the DPRK and China, Yang Chengyan must prepare a gift, right?

Coupled with the exchange of gifts and favors on weekdays, Yangcheng Yan's annual income of 2,160 stones, it is great to be able to use it!

In this case, with an extra amount of tens of thousands of dollars a year, what should Yangcheng Yanneng do?

If you are kind, then you will naturally save money and take out this slave calculation from your daily use; If it is not kind, then in addition to corruption, there is only corruption.

Thinking of this, everyone's faces also quietly swelled with a little resentment.

"Forced by slaves, don't you want to make us reluctant to take bribes?"

Thinking like this, everyone looked at Xiao He again, and the emptiness on their faces was also slightly dispersed.

But seeing that Xiao He heard what Yongya said, he only turned his head away with a gloomy face, and put his hands behind his back.

"If the juice Fanghou is confident, why should he ask the old man?"

Throwing down a sentence lukewarmly, he saw Xiao He let out a low muffled snort, and walked in the direction of the palace gate.

But as soon as he took two steps out, Xiao He finally stopped with a grim face and turned around slightly.

"Slave calculation is the system expressly ordered by the "Han Law".

"Now Your Majesty doesn't ask, and the family doesn't levy it, but the princes have fled a lot in the past, and Your Majesty and the family don't want to force the princes to be in a hurry."

"However, if the princes still don't care, just when the prince is young and easy to deceive, in the future, the official resume will be 'evasive slave counting the year', and then want to repent, I am afraid it will be too late!"

After saying a word coldly, Xiao He stared at everyone meaningfully and deeply, and then walked towards the palace gate with a resolute face.

Behind Xiao He, only the courtiers and princes who looked at each other were left, looking at Xiao He's departing back with hesitation, and couldn't help but shake their heads again and again.

"Alas······"

"In the future, I'm afraid it will be a little shorter than the use of home······"

"When I returned home, I should talk to my wife about it; In the future, you can never be extravagant again, and you will lose money······"

·

"Tell me."

"Why not rush to collect the calculations?"

Changle Palace, the apse of Changxin Palace.

Asking softly, Liu Bang looked at Liu Ying's gaze, and became more and more gentle.

Hearing that his father asked this question, Liu Ying also pressed his chest slightly, and after a moment of words, he bowed his hand a little seriously.

"Father."

"As the saying goes: freezing three feet, not a day's cold; Dripping water through stones is not a day's work. ”

"The Han family intends to use 'slave counting' to suppress the wind of slavery, which is a law that has been implemented since the fifth year of the Han Dynasty."

"However, since the system of 'slave calculation' has been issued, all those who are more than six years old, regardless of the court's meritorious marquis, hundreds of officials, or people's wealthy businessmen and giants, are not interested in the system of slave calculation."

Speaking of this, Liu Ying's expression on her face couldn't help but become more and more serious.

"A few days ago, when I learned that there were hundreds of officials and marquis in the court, there were no less than tens of thousands of private slaves in the family, so I suspected: 10,000 slaves, and the slaves should be paid 6 million yuan at the age; However, in the past few years, the slavery of the young house is not more than a million. ”

"Er used this puzzle to solve Xiao Xiang, and he knew: Today, all the private slaves of meritorious marquis, officials, and wealthy businessmen are afraid that there will be more than 100,000, and the slaves will be counted as nearly 10,000 yuan!"

"However, this slave is tens of thousands of dollars, and so far, he has never received the money of the Shaofu ······"

Hearing Liu Ying's words, Liu Bang couldn't help patting his thigh lightly and sighing leisurely.

"Alas~"

"This matter, as the prince said, is three feet of ice, not a day's cold······"

As he spoke, Liu Bang slowly got up from the soft couch and paced two steps with his hands in his hands.

"Hidden Household."

I saw Liu Bang quietly turn around, stretched out a finger to Liu Ying, and said a word that Liu Ying was extremely unfamiliar.

"Since the time of Ji Zhou, the matter of hidden households has become a common practice in Kanto; By the end of the week, the more Xiong Chu plundered and suppressed the farmers in Qianshou, and the matter of hidden households became more and more common in Chu. ”

"After the first emperor swept away Liuhe, the world was one, Lai Qin's strict laws, cool officials, and the matter of hidden households was temporarily suspended."

"However, Qin won the whole household of the people of the world, and did not want to rest with the people, but took advantage of this to repeatedly increase taxes and taxes, and because of the great construction of construction in Qinzhong, he was widely recruited to serve in the Kanto."

"Because the household is not hidden, the people have no way to avoid it, or they are tired of dying on the Great Wall and Afang, or they flee to Lingnan and Damu."

Speaking of this, Liu Bang laughed at himself again.

"It was when I first fell into the grass, and when I was sent into the customs, a few people from the township party were afraid of death and left, and I had to release the rest and flee into the mountains······"

With a little self-deprecation, Liu Bang once again brought the topic back on track.

"After that, Qin Guo died because of the people's grievances, and he became the king of the world."

"However, the people of the world have suffered from Qin's exhaustion of households, and have repeatedly increased taxes and forced labor; At the beginning of the Han Dynasty, half of the people in the world were hidden in the mountains, and they did not want to be recorded in the register. ”

"Therefore, I discussed with the Marquis of Yu, and planned to give the people the generous gift of Tianjue, induce the people to register, and never hide in the Han family······"

Listening to Liu Bang's inexplicable tone of voice, he explained the background of the release of the "Decree on the Granting of the Lords of the People's Fields", Liu Ying nodded in agreement, and couldn't help but sit up straighter.

saw Liu Bang shaking his head and sighing a little helplessly, and sat back next to Liu Ying, patting his thigh with helplessness.

"Hi~"

"I have been given fields and knights, and the people have no reason to hide in the mountains and forests; So far, among the heads of farmers, there are few hidden households. ”

"Later, he made the "Han Law" and forbade the people to run with the "Jinguan Order", so that the hidden households were completely excluded from the world."

"The hidden nature of the people is extinct because I awarded the people the Lord of the Fields and issued the "Jinguan Order"; However, the slave is hidden, but the case has not been solved so far······"

With a sigh on his face, Liu Bang finally turned his head sideways again, and when he looked at Liu Ying, there was a rare appearance of recognition.

"Prince ······"

subconsciously blurted out the two words, and Liu Bang's face suddenly stiffened a little.

Only a moment later, I finally saw Liu Bang gritting his teeth lightly and patting the back of Liu Ying's hand with a smile.

"Ying'er is only half a year old when she is imprisoned, so she investigated this big drawback, and I am really relieved."

"However, if you want to levy slaves, you must first unravel the hidden slaves before you can make the trip."

"Since the Spring and Autumn Period, the wind of slavery has become more and more prosperous in the world; Therefore, everything involving the government of slavery should not be too violent, and when it comes to soft speech, slowly ······ the "

Hearing Liu Bang's words, Liu Ying nodded thoughtfully.

After Liu Bang chuckled and lowered his head, Liu Ying told his plan in front of his father Liu Bang.

"The teachings of the father and the emperor are remembered by the son."

"And this time, the son asked for merit on behalf of the courtiers, and the number of private slaves of the meritorious marquis was only a little bit of a curb, a little temptation."

"Even if you can't make the matter of the merit escape from slaves a little bit because of this, you can also restrain it a little."

"What's more, the children are still young, if you want to use it in the court, you can only hold the constraints of the meritorious marquis and hundreds of officials, and your heart will be a little calm······"

Listening to Liu Ying's worried words, Liu Bang's smile only worsened.

"Hmmm······"

"It is so."

"In the future, when you are old and strong, you should hold the weapon of life and death in your subordinates."

"—not for life and death; It is because the ministers are afraid of life and death, and they are cautious about the king. ”

As he spoke, Liu Bang got up with a smile and nodded to Liu Ying again.

"If you say that, I won't have much to worry about."

"If there is nothing to do, the prince will go to Changle and tell the queen about it."

Hearing this, Liu Ying also took a deep breath, and immediately bowed to Liu Bang with a respectful face.

"Erchen, retire ······"