Living Leisurely in Tang Dynasty

Li Yuanying’s preparations went well. Last year, His Majesty Li Er issued an edict to enroll households, ordering the floating and unregistered people in the world to be registered before the end of this year.

Therefore, this year, the number of households has been increased successively. Although not many, it will not be copied year after year as in previous years. Li Yuanying said that Xu Jingzong asked him to conduct a census and wanted to find some examples. The people below took a few copies for him and introduced them to him. He said that there are hands-on practices in the village, and it increases every year according to the situation. Can be reduced.

The so-called hand facts refer to the situation of each household recorded by Lizheng, including name, age, appearance, and so on. Generally speaking, one li is one hundred households, and one township is five li. When you get to the bottom, you only need to find the li and check it by hand.

Li Yuanying nodded, indicating that he understood. Go back and meet Di Renjie and the others. Di Renjie and the others also inquired about a lot of points for attention when conducting a census. The people in Chengyang also got back a hand-painted road map, and they could walk across the road map from country to country.

After the plan was completed, Li Yuanying was a little puzzled: "The county government has recorded such meticulous records, why does the emperor's brother have to order someone to attach a citizenship? Shouldn't they all be recorded?"

Wu Mei said: "This is Phu County, Gyeonggi. Naturally, it should be done more carefully. In the end, it may not be implemented like this. Over time, only the number of households reported in previous years may be copied every year, and it will not be redone every year. Will find out."

Li Yuanying suddenly realized.

This is Ji County around Chang'an, so many eyes are staring, of course you have to do things well. Changing to a place far away from the emperor Tian Gao, the people below do not have this kind of self-consciousness.

Li Yuanying said: "It turns out that it is." He didn't care too much, and asked someone to clean up the next day, and took his friends to the countryside for a census.

The internship was led by Li Yuanying himself, so he was very motivated. When he got there, he didn't look for delicious and fun places, so he asked Lizheng to come over for questioning first. Although there are only one hundred households in one li, Li Yuanying has been investigating for a long time, because he led Di Renjie and the others to check each house. Several people deleted and changed their manuals, and asked about the situation of the field. Li Yuanying still used the same. With the sketching skills he learned, he drew a simple portrait for everyone, and quickly described the actual appearance in a concrete form.

Many people heard that nobles came to conduct a census, and they came out curiously to watch, and when it was their turn, they enthusiastically invited Li Yuanying in. Li Yuanying is not afraid of being watched at all. He likes the fun the most, and greets them happily.

After checking a li, the hands that Li Yuanying and Li Zheng asked for are thicker, and they are all portraits added in. His hands were a little sore, and he was invited by Lizheng to have a potluck at his house. The entourage also spent the money he gave to eat at various homes. The villagers were unwilling to collect the money. Later, I heard Li Yuanying said that disturbing the people would harm him. After being impeached by Yu Shi, all the talents smiled and smiled with the money that Li Yuanying called for someone to squeeze in.

As soon as Li Yuanying left in the afternoon, the crowd did not immediately disperse, instead they gathered around and discussed the little prince. Although Huxian is not as big as Chang'an, it is still at the feet of the emperor. There are not few nobles. The princes and others are fortunate to meet, but they have never seen such an approachable prince like Li Yuanying!

Li Zheng said: "Once you have done it, you will do your work. Can the nobleman be able to talk nonsense?" After dispelling the villagers, Li Zheng looked in the direction where Li Yuanying and his party were leaving, and said, this little prince Seeing a bit naive, I don't know if it will conflict with others if I continue to live so busy.

Li Yuanying didn't have so many thoughts, he felt a little tired after completing a mile survey. Wei Shu and Chengyang learned some sketches from him, and after seeing him drawing for a long time, they suggested that they take turns to draw portraits. This is more efficient and not tiring.

Li Yuanying is not a strong supporter, and when he is tired, he is tired. Wei Shu proposed to rotate and he naturally agreed. He sighed: "It seems that it is not easy to manage a county. The household registration problem alone is very troublesome."

Di Renjie said: "This is relatively easy, but I am afraid it will be more troublesome to change to Taiyuan."

Li Yuanying asked curiously: "What a troublesome method."

Di Renjie told Li Yuanying about the local situation. Just like Wu Mei said, the land equalization system in many counties and townships is not as well implemented as in Ji County. Many people get only 20 or 30 mu of land, which is far lower than the equal land system. The number set at the time of implementation.

According to the law, a male over the age of 18 can get one hectare of land, of which 20 mu is permanent land, which can be left to future generations, and 80 acres are divided fields, which means that there is only farming right but no inheritance right, and people die. It must be returned to the court in the future. The imperial court stipulated that Fenkoutian could not be sold, but no one could stop private trade. Now that it has been implemented for so many years, private land trade has become more and more prosperous, especially around the rich Shuzhou County. Those who are powerful and powerful love it. Hoard land piece by piece.

Some people lost their land, and the court ordered them to serve in military service. If they could not survive, they fled to the powerful and powerful villagers everywhere to become tenants or servants. As long as the local officials turn one eye and close the other when they don’t exist, they can live on!

But this raises another problem. At the end of each year, officials have to take exams, among which population increase or decrease is an important reference indicator. Generally speaking, local officials are reluctant to admit that the population under their hands has decreased, so they close their eyes every year to slightly change the number of households last year, so as not to lower their test scores.

As a result, where there is an escaped household, it is necessary to find a way to avoid the tax money and corvee gap. Gradually, there is a situation of amortization-the taxation and corvee belonging to the escaped household is distributed to the neighbors of relatives and friends who are mutual insurers.

These problems were encountered by Di Renjie when he followed his father at the local level. His father was troubled by this, but he was still young and couldn't think of a good way.

Li Yuanying had heard Xiao Deyan talk about this issue, and when Di Renjie said that Taiyuan was gradually showing signs of this kind, she frowned and said, "Is it this serious?" No matter how Datang looks at it, it is a fairly young dynasty. That's it!

Wu Mei said: "Some people who have not been naturalized should have left their hometowns in the end of the Sui Dynasty. Although both the saint and the Taishang emperor once ordered the world's unregistered people to come and surrender, many people still failed to follow suit."

Wu Mei also analyzed for Li Yuanying that in the early days of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, he was busy fighting various rebels. After his majesty ascended the throne, Li Er repeatedly fought in Turks, Tuyuhun, Gaochang and other places, and was repeatedly harassed by Tubo. The enlistment of various names is very frequent, and it is understandable that there are more people who are unwilling to carry heavy service on their backs.

Li Yuanying thought of Zhang Jianzhi's blessings and fortunes, and said: "So the court can't exhaust it, and the people should trust the court more."

Di Renjie nodded and agreed with Li Yuanying's words.

But it's useless to agree. They don't have real power, and they don't have the slightest right to speak at all. Li Yuanying didn't get discouraged at all, and energetically corrected the hands of a township, and went straight to find a family home for lodging.

Early the next morning, Li Yuanying woke up vigorously, and set off for the next village with his friends.

At this time, Li Yuanying's serious census was also spread radially to various places.

Xu Jingzong in the county town was a little surprised when he heard the news, but thought that he had done accounting only a few years ago, and the problem should not be big, so it made people follow Li Yuanying. This work is really boring, even if Li Yuanying thinks on a whim. Do it seriously, if you insist on it for two or three days, you should feel dull!

Just when Xu Jingzong went back to sleep with his beautiful concubine, the nobles from Beijing went to the countryside to do errands everywhere. That night, the lights were on in a family named Wu, and under the lights was a studded scholar. The scholar was not very young, but he was only seventeen or eighteen years old, but his expression was very depressed, as if there was nothing worthy of his nostalgia in this world.

At this time, his mother pushed in and brought him great news.

It is said that a noble person came to the countryside, and it was the noble person whom Xu county magistrate wanted to please!