[The problem of population fiction in the Wu and Zhou dynasties is more troublesome to argue, and only a bracket record from 701 is quoted here.

According to the "First Year of Dazu in Xiaogu Township, Dunhuang County, Shazhou", Fu Handuntun died after three years of the Holy Calendar; The man lived a long life, and died after three years of the Holy Calendar; Father, died after the second year of the Holy Calendar; He died after three years of the Holy Calendar.

The content of this account is also very simple, it is about a local man named Fu Handuntun in Dunhuang, whose eldest son, parents, and himself all died shortly after the census.

This record was unearthed from the Mogao Grottoes in Dunhuang, and the Dagu Document No. 2835 unearthed at the same time, titled "Zhou Chang'an escaped from the envoy in March of the third year of the year and Dunhuang County", further reveals the current situation of the household.

The contents of this unearthed document are too long to repeat, and it reflects two problems, the first is that the local officials in Shazhou are unwilling to cooperate with the work of the envoys.

The reason for the non-cooperation is the second point: the household envoy requires that all the fleeing households be repatriated to the place where they were once registered.

In the face of the lack of cooperation from local officials, the envoy attributed the reason to "being lured by the master", and even said that "the people of Gan, Liang, Gua, and Su fled together and knew each other, and falsely claimed that there were seedlings", which made it difficult to implement the work of the household.

In fact, in the environment of feudal society, I also know that since they have all become fugitives, they will definitely not be able to survive in the local area.

Since the evagators who have changed to the new environment can take root, most of them have already married wives and children here and have land and property, and it is obviously unkind to ask the evagators to give up these and return to the place where they have nothing.

On the basis of Awu's unpopularity, in the ninth year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji ordered Yu Wenrong to preside over the work of the household.

Yu Wenrong no longer forcibly repatriated the fugitive households, but ordered the fugitives to naturalize on the spot, not only exempted from land tax for five years, but also naturalized fugitives in five years only need to pay 1,500 yuan of Ding tax every year.

Until the 16th year of Kaiyuan, Li Longji was still issuing an edict: petition to settle the fugitive households in the border areas, "to the other side to resettle in fertile fields, and still give Yongnian Youfu". 】

"This Xuanzong ...... It's really not as good as ......."

Li Shimin shook his head, and at this moment, he deeply understood the sigh of the future generations, but after thinking about it, it was not easy to curse his descendants, so in the end he could only cry and laugh and shake his head, with mixed feelings.

Empress Changsun didn't have so many ideas, but she was more deeply touched by this family, after all, in the troubled times, she had seen many children and daughters traveling thousands of miles, just to find a place to rest in their lives.

Considering that he had worked for several years to reclaim the land and build houses, and when the days finally improved, the officials said that they would check the fugitive households, order you to return to the same place, and pay taxes for a few years at most - it is unacceptable to think about it.

Du Ruhui next to him became interested in Namogao Grottoes again.

At least as far as we can see now, there are documents of the map of the Guiyi Army in the Mogao Grottoes, there are documents from the land of Hexi, and there are manuscripts of Buddhist scriptures, all kinds of things.

"I don't know how this Mogao Grottoes is sealed? It can make paper silk immortal for thousands of years. ”

Fang Xuanling didn't believe this:

"It is not so much that the method of building caves is clever, but that the method of later generations is magical."

He still remembered the mural he saw, and if it wasn't restored by later generations, he would never have dared to admit that it was the same painting.

"If you look back, even if you leave a mottled wall for future generations, it is better than a ruined wall."

Du Ruhui was very optimistic, and planned to find an opportunity to visit the temple master to see if there was such a way to build a cave and survive.

Nodding, Fang Xuanling skipped not talking about it, but synthesized the content of his transcription and said:

"It seems that most of the suspicions of this population are related to this household."

After all, I want to know that the sandbar must be short of population, and it can be said that the escapees are welcome.

If these fictitious people are left, they can be ordered to temporarily replace the land to pay taxes.

It is no wonder that the local officials of Shazhou have such a big opinion on the envoys, after all, the frontier still needs to face the trouble, and the population is a problem.

If you look at it this way, this Yuwenrong's census is still useful for cracking down on Haoqiang.

After pondering for a while, Fang Xuanling became more and more sure of this idea.

If this household census is done well, it will certainly be able to crack down on the powerful and prevent the merger and benefit the people, so as to make the people's livelihood and the country's glory last.

"It may be a policy to benefit the people by making the Ministry of Civil Affairs increase the household census envoys, visit the prefectures and counties every few years, and reform the household registration to check the acres of land?"

During the Wude period, the Emperor Taishang did order to bracket households, but at that time, it was just to order the prefectures and counties to report the household registration, and the central government sorted out and reviewed it, and it was even inferior to the former Sui in terms of strength.

The strength of the household registration of the former Sui was not as good as that of the Wu Zhou period, and during the Kaihuang period, it was only Ren Linghu Xi, Qi Fuhui and others to inspect Hedong, Shandong and other places, which was not as good as this Wu Zhou Xuanzong searched the whole country with household envoys.

After Fang Xuanling's explanation, Du Ruhui also understood, and even became a little excited:

"This envoy is patrolling the world on behalf of the central government to govern the Quartet!"

……

Kong Ming was also sensitively aware of this envoy's statement.

At the same time, a blueprint has been planned in mind.

When the world is established, the governor will be appointed to depose the power of the governor and check the rule of the world; Then he ordered the household envoy to inspect Kyushu and inspect the hidden households.

Why worry about not allowing the people to recuperate?

Pang Tong was alerted to another matter, this junior said that Wu Zhou's Wenzhi, saying that this "Ah Wu" attaches unprecedented importance to literary talent.

But looking at the dilemma of the poet immortal Li Bai, and looking at the ugliness of the villain Song Zhiwen, having literary talent does not mean that there is talent for governance.

When Chang'an tried the imperial examination this year, when he was admonishing the lord, the selection of this imperial examination was not a literati who were proficient in rhetoric, but a talent with the ability to govern.

[In addition, Awu has left quite a lot of ills in politics.

Although the imperial examination system was established, in fact, the main means of raising officials in the entire Wu Zhou period was still the selection, and the imperial examination did not break out in this era with a very dazzling light.

Even because of the congenital disadvantage of women being emperors, Ah Wu directly promoted the bureaucrats loyal to him at any cost to quickly dilute the afterglow of Li Tang in the court, resulting in the direct erosion of the election system.

In addition, the emperor was too crazy in his early years, which led to considerable financial problems in the middle of the Wu Zhou Dynasty, and more than one prime minister mentioned "insufficient national use" in his recital.

Another major reason is also because the Khitan rebellion defeated the Wu Zhou army, and the Turkic Khan took advantage of the chaos to deal a heavy blow to Hebei:

"Zhao, Ding, Heng, Yi and other states have hundreds of millions of children, sheep and horses"

Therefore, there were also a series of actions in the late Wu Zhou period, such as Denglai's placement of pastoral supervisors, Jiangling and city slaves, the addition of customs to tax merchants, Hebei and the city's cattle and sheep, especially the city's malicious low prices, forced buying and selling, and many ministers criticized it for competing with the people for profit, from which it can be seen that Wu Zhou's financial predicament.

Even the Yicang used for disaster relief has unwittingly become an ornament:

"Public and private embarrassment, gradual loan and proscenity. Since the Zhongzong Shenlong, the cost of the world's righteous warehouse has been exhausted."

"Empress Dowager Wu, Xiaohe Dynasty, Princess Taiping, Wu Sansi, rebellious and extravagant...... As a result, the agricultural work was wasted, and the treasury was empty. ”

From this point of view, it is really not easy for Li Longji to wipe the butts of many people.

But to say that Ah Wu is a faint gentleman, it is obviously far behind.

After all, as we said earlier, even Di Renjie took the lead in persuading Awu to shrink strategically and abandon the Western Regions and Liaodong.

In this case, Ah Wu still stalks his neck to stabilize the four towns of Anxi and the right border defense of Hexi Long, which is worthy of recognition.

Wu Zetian's struggle throughout his reign has actually been trapped by the lack of reasonable legal support due to the background of women, although there are many shortcomings in internal affairs, but there is still a set of their own code of conduct, which is far different from the faint monarch.

"Accept the hearts of the people in the world with the position of Lu, but those who are incompetent will be found and deposed, or punished with punishment, and the handle of punishment and reward will be used to control the world, and the government will be out of their own."

In addition, Lao Wu was sixty-seven years old when he ascended the throne, and the mediocrity of the old emperor is an inevitable trend, and in this case, Lao Wu has done relatively well.

After all, we all know that we have read history:

Although there are emperors such as the Qin Emperor and the Han Dynasty and Wu who are fighting for the upper limit, on the whole, it is undeniable that the vast majority of emperors have been showing off the lower limit for thousands of years.

Typical is like Adou, who has already defeated 80 percent of the emperor's quality just by following the step-by-step order. 】

(End of chapter)