"If Your Highness wants to conjure people out of thin air, it is indeed difficult for Qiang Zhuqing......"

After Zhao Si unreasonably believed that the policies proposed by the ministers were too slow to take effect and ignored the objective fact that population growth would take time, Li Si received Zhao Si's gaze and stood up to say a fair word for the ministers.

The Manchu Dynasty, who was embarrassed by Zhao Si, instantly looked at Li Si gratefully, and immediately continued to follow Li Si's words.

Someone's under pressure......

It's just that before the words could be spoken, Li Si came to gasp.

"But ......"

The courtier, who was just about to speak, was about to blurt out the words, and his eyes fell on Li Si.

Li Xiang gasped again when he spoke, right......

Zhao Si's expectation, mixed with encouragement, fell on Li Si.

Li Si skimmed the confused civil and military officials, knowing that he couldn't get around this level after all, so he groaned and continued to speak.

It's all come to this point, what's the point of twisting and twisting?

He has become a betrayer of the old officials in the Guannai, and he has even been forced to be strong......

Now Li Si actually has no way to retreat, if Zhao Si does not support Li Si, Li Si's position as prime minister is no longer stable, and he has lost his basic layer.

As we all know, for Li Si, losing his rights is not much different from death.

So Li Si really doesn't have many options left, and now he can only go to the dark with his eyes closed.

"It's true that you can't give birth to so many people out of thin air for a while and a half, and even if you give birth for a while and a half, it won't be useful, but it doesn't mean that you can't get more people." Li Si said with a smile.

Li Si's voice fell, and the face of the Manchu Dynasty Minister began to become exciting.

Some people were surprised, some people were puzzled, and some people had thoughtful eyes, most of the complicated eyes fell on Li Si, and a small part fell on Zhao Si.

Most of the courtiers wondered if Li Xiang was going to make some big moves.

And a small number of smart people have already guessed that Li Si may have reached an agreement with His Royal Highness the Grand Sun in advance.

However, with the First Emperor Zhuyu in front, this kind of situation is quite adaptable to the Manchu Ministers.

The purpose of holding a court meeting is to inform......

I know everything.

"Li Xiang might as well say it clearly......" Zhao Si didn't know, and sang and played a double reed with Li Si.

"Although people can't be transformed, people can be transformed." Lees smiled.

"Your Highness may not know that there are more than 4 million households at the moment, not that there are only more than 4 million households in my Qin country." Li Si spoke.

"Li Xiang means that there are only these more than 4 million households registered to pay taxes, right?" Zhao Si opened his mouth and said.

In fact, these more than 4 million households do not include subordinate concubines, nor do they include the slaves of wealthy families, not to mention the robbers who do not obey the king, and there are also people in the mountains and wilderness who do not pay taxes." Li Si spoke.

Li Si's voice fell, and the sensitive people had already begun to attack Li Si with their eyes.

They are all thousand-year-old foxes...... Naturally, there is no need to say much about political sensitivity, only a few key words need to be said in this kind of scene, and most people can guess the latter words.

Not to mention...... Zhao Si and the First Emperor are in the same vein, which can be said to be hooked and salty.

People didn't pretend, the front foot disliked the encouragement of fertility too slowly, and wanted to achieve quick results, and the back foot Li Si proposed that there are actually many people in Daqin who are no longer within the scope of Daqin's household registration statistics.

The two of them sang as if they were double reeds, asking and answering.

I don't even bother to do face work......

Sure enough, as expected, Zhao Si raised his head slightly exaggeratedly and spoke: "Is it not the king's land under the whole world, and the shore of the land is not the king's minister, there are still so many people in the world who live on the land of Daqin but are no longer within the statistical scope of household registration?" ”

"It is no longer within the household registration, then correspondingly, Daqin will not be able to launch conscription against them, let alone collect taxes from them, nor can it draw soldiers from them, now is the time for a shortage of people......" Zhao Si frowned.

"But most of them don't have their own land, otherwise why would they become slaves and people?" A courtier interjected, and Li Si glared at the other party.

Oh, it's Coriander Gong, no, why is this thing there?

"Now it's different from the past, now the land of Qin is vast, what is lacking is manpower to reclaim the fields, and the grain output is also abundant, and now the lonely worry is not that there is no land, but that there is no one to plant." Zhao Si smiled and spoke.

With the increase in grain production, Daqin does indeed have the capital of Versailles.

In this era when cultivation technology and cultivation equipment are not very advanced, the utilization rate of land is extremely limited.

Now, however, taxes have been lowered, grain production has increased, and a lot of less fertile land has been reclaimed.

In fact, to put it bluntly, it is the problem of labor payment and unequal returns.

In the past, taxes were high, output requirements were required, and the technical level was not enough, not because the fertile land was planted and the labor burden increased, and the output assessment was also affected, and in the end, what was obtained was not enough for the family.

Therefore, the Hao family has become a common practice, and the homesteaders have not lived very well.

The yeoman farmers during the Qin Dynasty were relatively miserable, with frequent forced labor and high taxes, and it can be said that every yeoman farmer was hovering on the verge of bankruptcy.

But it doesn't matter if they go bankrupt, because the state will take over their property and land and turn them into vassals and concubines......

Before bankruptcy, the state took 50% of the tax, and after bankruptcy, the state took 10%, and it became more and more......

It is not uncommon for yeoman farmers to change from farming to farming, except for rations, all income is the property of the imperial court.

In fact, judging from the short-term economic benefits alone, the evolution of the era of official slaves to the era of yeoman farmers is really not very profitable.

But it is clear that the enthusiasm of yeoman farmers to develop their labor is much stronger than in the era when official and private slaves prevailed.

If it is based on social and economic development, there is no doubt that the overall volume is developing upward.

Secondly, Daqin also needs to get rid of its dependence on the wealthy clans, nobles, and scholars, and there is no doubt that the number of yeoman peasant groups is huge, the demand is not high, and at the same time, it is not impossible to survive and will not rebel......

In terms of stability, it is much stronger than other groups.

A decree to move the king's tomb can make the world chaotic for a year...... What about the homesteaders?

Isn't it a good fortune to move to Xianyang?

is to take millions of people and throw them directly to Lingnan, as long as they can survive, they will complain at most, and they will not make any big trouble.

Although it is very inappropriate to say this, in fact, the people at the bottom are really the group with the least needs and the most obedient, and it is almost the consensus of later dynasties to allocate as many social resources as possible to them.

And history has also proved this, when social resources are more concentrated in the hands of the people at the bottom, the prosperity will come.

But obviously, this world is a worse world, usually most kings are not aware of it, and only think that the money that can be held in their hands is their own, and the weakness of the people at the bottom will be the reason for them to get worse most of the time.

Because they are less likely to make trouble than the wealthy families, it has become common for the people to suffer.

and even the expropriation of the past generations......

The reason why Zhao Si is obsessed with freeing slaves is, to put it bluntly, to make the underlying structure more stable.

Official and private slaves prevailed, and a large number of people depended on the wealthy families for their existence.

The wealthy clan has a large number of means of production and a large number of personal dependents, and the disturbance they will make will be even greater.

As long as the slaves are freed, the personal dependence of the wealthy family is solved, and the yeoman peasant group is further expanded, Zhao Si only needs to ensure that the yeoman peasant group can survive and eat well, then no matter how much Zhao Si makes waves, there will be no big mess.

The real low-level talents are too lazy to pay attention to what policies you implement, as long as it has nothing to do with them, you are just cutting off the heads of the Manchu civil and military forces, which is just a fun time for them.

If you cut down the civil and military forces of the Manchu Dynasty and then give them ten big bucks each, then there is a high probability that they will praise you for your beautiful cut.

Strong stems and weak branches, this was proposed by Zhao Si to the First Emperor a long time ago.

The main purpose is to change the basic plate of Great Qin from the military aristocracy to the yeoman peasant group.

While giving preferential treatment to yeoman peasant groups, the rights of the nobility were further restricted, and the power of the king was further concentrated and the central ruling power was further strengthened.

And now, Zhao Si has really begun to do so.

"Li Xiang, I want to ask you, if you don't calculate it according to your household registration and only estimate the population of Great Qin, how many people should there be in Great Qin today?" Zhao Si asked.

"If you include official and private slaves, mountain savages, and bandits, it is estimated that there are no less than 30 million ministers." Li Si spoke.

During the feudal dynasty, the official household registration was definitely not equivalent to the total population.

Depending on the era, the error between the two can sometimes be double or more.

The situation in Daqin is actually relatively better, because the official slaves are actually registered, but they are counted as property, not people.

"Just say it...... In addition to encouraging childbirth and formulating a single tax, there is also a faster way to pull out these 10 million people, isn't the population of Qin directly more than half? Zhao Si made a wise speech.

Of course, although such words sound stupid, no one dares to openly say that Zhao Si has a problem with his IQ.

Anyone with a discerning eye knows what Zhao Si intends to do, and corresponding problems follow.

"Your Highness, this matter is not so simple...... "Qian Gong bowed forward and frowned.

The ministers were hesitating whether to oppose Zhao Si and Li Si's two-person turn, and when they saw someone speaking, they continued to wait and see.

Qian Gong can still be trusted, after all, before in the court, Qian Gong and Li Si can be said to have broken openly.

"Oh?" Zhao Si's brows moved slightly, revealing a chuckle.

"First of all, there are not these 10 million people in the Qin State, let's say that even if there are 10 million people, slaves account for the majority of these people, including official slaves, and private slaves, take official slaves as an example, most of them are degraded to slaves because of their crimes, if they are released as the head of Qian, how should the previous culpability be calculated? In addition, does His Highness intend to be the case only now, or will it be the case in the future, and if someone sins in the future, how should the crime of being reduced to slavery be counted? In this way, the law had to be changed and revised.

In addition, the counties and counties of the world all have subordinates, which are considered the property of local counties and counties, and in the past, the counties and counties had manpower available, so in many cases there was no need to launch labor, and after the release of this group of official slaves, how should some fortifications in the local counties and counties deal with in the future? There is no manpower available, and in the future the conscription of labor will inevitably be frequent, and I am afraid that the slightest trivial matter will have to be distributed, and in this way, the regulations will have to be drawn up again, and there must be no way to deal with it.

If it's just that, it's simple, no matter how the official slaves are said to be the property of the government, and the draft charter is implemented smoothly, which is nothing more than a little effort.

What about private slaves?

The so-called private slaves are regarded as the private property of each family, and the state cannot make people bankrupt with a decree, so that it will not become a clever robbery? I am afraid that people in the world will inevitably complain.

Take a step back, and say that both the government and private individuals are willing to free slaves.

However, some people have a lot of land, even a dozen tilts, and it is difficult for a family to cultivate it, and if there are no slaves, how can they cultivate the fields? Is it difficult to let the fertile land go barren?

The ministers of the Manchu Dynasty must always have someone to serve, and if there are no slaves, how can these be counted?

In addition to the official and private slaves, it is not a big deal for the people of the mountains and the wilderness to bandits and the like, but to urge the localities to clean them up as soon as possible and register them...... It's a lot simpler. Qian Gong opened his mouth at length, and then looked at Zhao Si, waiting for Zhao Si's answer.

Zhao Si looked at Qian Gong with a strange gaze.

Qian Gong's words sounded like a question and an opposition, but Zhao Si didn't seem to be the case when he listened carefully.

Zhao Si had an intuition, Qian Gong ...... In fact, you support yourself to do this?

Why is that?

Is it because of his initiative to appease the Kannai lawyers?

In fact, Zhao Si didn't have a particularly good impression of Qian Gong, especially after learning that Qian Gong once wrote a blank check to the Mo family and didn't honor it, and later tried to dig a corner of the craftsman.

Not to mention that after Li Si openly rebelled, he also played the role of the first charge.

But......

Zhao Si had a faint feeling in his heart that he might have fallen into a misunderstanding.

However, these ideas still need to be verified.

Zhao Si took a deep look at the case and said in a deep voice: "Hmm...... So...... It's really hard to do. ”

"But hearing Qing's words, Qing also thinks this is a good thing?" Zhao Si asked.

"Naturally, it's a good thing, right now Daqin is the time when there is a shortage of people, but it's just too difficult to do." Coriander bowed down and spoke, a faint smile on her face.

The reason why he opened his mouth to question it was not to contradict Zhao Si.

It is to help Zhao Si characterize this matter and characterize it as a good thing that is very difficult to implement.

As for the hard part?

Just kidding, this is a big court meeting, the civil and military ministers of the Manchu Dynasty are here, if you want His Royal Highness Taisun to do it by himself, it will not go wrong, so what else do you want the Manchu Dynasty ministers to do?

As for why Coriander would do this, it's even simpler.

He is an old official and a legalist.

And people like Xiang Qiangong have a spiritual core.

To strengthen the centralization of the monarchy, they must have raised their hands to support it.

Though...... It was very difficult to popularize Qin law to that group of Qianshou people, most of them were illiterate or even unable to understand ......

But compared to the group of superior people who can understand but don't follow or play the rules game, the ignorant image of this group of Qiantou has instantly become cute.

Politics is never black and white.

He is against Li Si, against the opening of the school, not against Zhao Si, and not against the First Emperor.

(End of chapter)

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