Time flies, and before I know it, time has reached the fourth year of Shenwu.

During this time, the Great Zhou country was very lively, and the major events one after another shocked the attention of the officials.

Li Zongdao, the Marquis of Liyang and the general of Hangzhou, ran rampant in the countryside and the common people. was sentenced to death by Di Renjie in the Hangzhou Mansion!

The Liangzhou general Oroqen obstructed the military reform of the imperial court and incited the soldiers to make a chaotic place. was killed by Xie Xuan on the street!

Qingzhou General Anping openly disobeyed the imperial court orders and disobeyed His Majesty. Killed in the camp by Li Bao, the general of Long Xiangwei!

For a time, the world was terrified, and no one dared to blatantly obstruct the imperial decrees, and the imperial court military reform was unblocked! The officials of the Privy Council rushed non-stop to the military offices of all states in the world, cleaned up the military registration, and reorganized the local army. At the same time, the generals of the state guards were rotated.

With Huang Zhong as the general of Qingzhou Wei

Lu Xiang was promoted to the Ganzhou Governor's Office and the Ganzhou Guard

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And this year......

Ma Jin issued a holy decree to the world, which caused an uproar, that is, Ma Jin ordered the household department to make a large number of fish scale treasure books and enslavement yellow books!

The Yellow Book of Enslavement is a general register of the national population, which contains the name, place of origin, Dingkou, age, land industry, etc. of each household in the country, which is an important basis for the Great Zhou Dynasty court to levy and transfer conscription and apportionment of taxes. It is also stipulated that the yellow book shall be in duplicate, one shall be kept in the township and one shall be handed over to the county; The county summarizes the books of each township, and the general register of the counties of the state is also in duplicate, one is kept in the county of the state, and the other is handed over to the county; The yamen at all levels were concocted in the same way, and the county was handed over to the state domain, and the state domain was finally remitted to the household department in the imperial court, because the book submitted by the state domain to the household department must be covered with yellow paper, so it was called the "yellow book".

The Fish Scale Treasure Book is a general land register of the whole country, in which the shape of the land in various places is drawn, and numbered in 1,000-character characters, indicating the location, four solstice, area and the name of the landlord, and indicating the topography and soil quality grade of the land. And stipulate that the grain is divided into 10,000 stones, and all the land in this division is compiled into a book, because when you open the book, you can see that the land graphics on the book are overlapped, like fish scales, so it is called the fish scale treasure book

The Yellow Book is based on household registration, and the Fish Scale Atlas is based on land, and the two volumes corroborate and complement each other. These two volumes play the role of one warp and one weft, like a large net woven by warp and weft, covering all the population and land of the common people.

Although this yellow book of fish scales is updated every ten years, in order to save trouble, local officials often copy the names of the population and real estate on the old books, and ten years after ten years, these yellow books of fish scales are exactly the same as those recorded decades ago. However, the territory and population of the Great Zhou Dynasty have increased by a few times compared with decades ago, so that this fish scale yellow book related to the fortunes of the society and the country has almost been reduced to waste paper, and it is useless at all.

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In the Heart Cultivation Palace, Ma Jin knocked on the imperial case and asked, "How is the matter of recreating the Yellow Book of Fish Scales?" I heard that this court is now more lively than the bazaar, from the court officials of the Zhengyipin to the small officials of the yamen who are not in the stream, they are jumping up and down, it seems that this rebuilding of the fish scale treasure book has touched the hearts of many people. ”

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Ma Jin never thought that just recreating a fish scale yellow book, and not talking about the idea of reform would make such a fuss, if Ma Jin said that reform would not know how big a storm would be.

"Your Majesty, the situation is not optimistic."

The eldest grandson Wuji bowed down and replied: "In previous years, the recreation of the Yellow Book of Fish Scales was reported by the local government after its own statistics, and this time His Majesty ordered the Metropolitan Procuratorate and the Internal Security Office to also participate in it, so that neither the local government nor the people can hide it, and those whose interests are damaged will naturally be unwilling, and they will have the heart to resist." ”

"In fact, only the twenty-three counties of Shuntianfu have found more than 500,000 hidden Dingkou in this month's time, and if we wait for the entire 16 prefectures and 219 counties to be screened, I am afraid that Dingkou will be more than 10 million places."

The eldest grandson Wuji pursed his mouth that was a little dry, and said, "It's just that Shuntianfu is at the feet of the Son of Heaven, and these people don't dare to make any small moves, but out of the gods, these people will definitely be unscrupulous, I'm afraid that they will do everything!" ”

Ma Jin nodded, and wanted to tell the eldest grandson Wuji to be confident, and remove the word "only afraid", they would only be more crazy.

Ordinary people can say it, after all, as long as they are not forced to have no way to live, those little people will not be able to make any waves at all. But those families who have the right to speak locally are not easy to say. After all, those big families hold the most land and Dingkou in their hands.

However, this is useless, Ma Jin doesn't think it will be useful for them to collude with the government, Ma Jin has lined up three people to go to various places, even if he buys off the government? There's a history of the Emperor in the back! It is that the government and the imperial history have been leveled by them, and there are also light and dark people from the Internal Guard Mansion on the side, and Ma Jin's newly established East Investigation Factory is secretly monitoring everything.

Not to mention that after Ma Jinming's several big moves in secret, the twelve guards of the imperial court and the local state guards were firmly in his hands. If someone really dares to jump out and do something, Ma Jin doesn't mind slapping them to death.

After a few years of emperors, Ma Jin has already seen through it, there are definitely not a few officials who have discipline, but there are countless bastards who have no discipline, and it is more reliable to expect them to be conscientious and conscientious, than to expect the sun to come out of the west.

"I'm going to go out for a walk."

Ma Jin kept knocking his fingers on the table and said, "I have lived in the deep palace for a long time, how do I know about the people's suffering?" I don't know the suffering of the people, how can I rule the world? ”

Ma Jin really can't stay in the imperial city, although the imperial city is big and unknown, but how can there be a variety of life outside the palace? Diversity? In addition to the majestic and solemn majesty of this imperial city, Ma Jin really can't find any advantages. So I've been looking for a high-sounding reason to go out and make waves, and now is an opportunity, so I won't miss it!

"I am willing to accompany you." The eldest grandson Wuji came out of the ranks.

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Naturally, you can't show off the emperor's honor guard when you go out on patrol, but you can't be an ordinary person, so it's really difficult to move an inch. There is no way for Ma Jin to pretend to be someone else, it just so happens that his brother-in-law is about the same age as him, presumably no one in the world dares to offend the son of the current national abbot, right?

Then the eldest grandson Wuji became the housekeeper, Yang Zaixing and Gao Shun became the nurses, and Xu Jin and Wang Chengen became the personal followers, and a group of people went straight to the outside of the gods.

PY is a large county in Yuzhou, which can be ranked in the top two among the 17 counties in Yuzhou, and Baima County, which is governed by PY County, is a large county in Yuzhou. There are not a few wealthy families and wealthy businessmen who have settled here, and there are many who have been inherited for thousands or hundreds of years. And Ma Jin is naturally here because the ability of the big families here to make trouble for Ma Jin is no worse than those officials and masters in the Divine Capital, and they are more active than those officials and masters.

The emperor wanted to make a big Yellow Book of Fish Scales, and the first thing he affected was those who were not on the Yellow Book, because these hermits were not qualified to distribute land, and in order to make a living, they either sold themselves into slavery, or became tenants, or went to the city to work, which was the most perfect exploitation object for these families.

Once it is found out, whether these hidden people make up taxes or not is a matter for the imperial court, and it has nothing to do with them, but where are they looking for such cheap labor? Who will cultivate the large tracts of arable land at home? Who will do the work in the courtyard of the house? When the time comes, where will they get those beautiful maids to give them a leg and a back?

Besides, if the emperor wants to make a book, he must always give the land, but where does the land come from? After all, there is only so much land in Baima County, and there are so many fields in total, if the hidden dings who have been found out are going to allocate the fields, then where will the fields come from? It's not about hitting their attention yet.

Thinking about it further, if the emperor wants to recreate the Yellow Book of Fish Scales, does he want to attack the field system? If the emperor attacks the land system, will the taxes and taxes also have to be changed? Once it is really changed, it is difficult to say whether everyone will be able to have the current moisturizing days in the future.

Therefore, these big families are more active in finding trouble for Ma Jin than those big people in the court, and the words that Ma Jin deliberately let people say that they want to allocate land to Yin Ding have been infinitely misinterpreted:

"The emperor made a big yellow book just to check the hidden households, so that he could collect your poll tax! What? Allocated land to you? Don't be stupid, where did the emperor get so much land to give to you? Dream it! ”

"Why is there a poll tax? That's because the emperor's treasury and the imperial treasury are empty, and I heard that they can run rats. You say you can do something now, and it doesn't cost you money there? What Qiu Ba's salary, the official's silver, and the clan's noble Lu silver don't need money? If the emperor wants to pay taxes, where do you let the emperor get it? ”