I live in the Three Kingdoms, and my backyard leads to the wilderness

For a long time, Liu Yu only thought that the most able to hide the population was the powerful family.

When he was in Union Prefecture, he had dealt with some families in Union Prefecture, and even the families and Haoqiang of Taiyuan County, which were basically swept away by him, and it turned out that the population of the families and Haoqiang in Union Prefecture was as high as hundreds of thousands.

After that, the population of the state increased to more than one million people.

Now, however, Jia Xu told Liu Yu that the population of Hezhou had increased to 3.21 million.

At the end of the Han Dynasty, according to official records, there were only more than seven million people in the entire Jizhou.

"Wen He, why are there so many people?" Liu Yu looked at Jia Xu and asked with a serious face.

"Lord, Xuan also knows that compared to the big families and local tyrants, those small and medium-sized families and merchants are no less than the hidden population." Jia Xu said with some shame.

Before this, he had never considered that the inconspicuous merchants and small and medium-sized families in his eyes could hide such a large population.

In particular, those merchants, for the safety of businessmen, privately formed private guards, basically ninety percent of the population is hidden.

There are also 13 small and medium-sized families, in order to be able to pay less taxes, and the land must also have a human race, naturally, to hide the population.

Therefore, after Jia Xu reformed the prefecture household registration system, all these people were found out and registered.

"It should have been noticed a long time ago." When Liu Yu heard this, he couldn't help but shake his head and said, "It is obviously impossible to have hundreds of thousands of people in such a large state. "

The territory of the prefecture is equivalent to parts of present-day Shanxi, Inner Mongolia, Hebei, and Shaanxi, and it is somewhat unreasonable to think about such a large area, with only a few hundred thousand people.

Even if it is not developed, it is impossible to have only such a small number of people, and it is not yet the period of chaos in the Three Kingdoms, so the most reasonable explanation is that the family clans and others are hiding the population.

The proportion of the hidden population is about 60% of the local family families, and the remaining 40% is divided between small and medium-sized families and merchants.

It can be said that except for the emperor and the most ordinary people, everyone is hiding the population, including those clansmen of the old Liu family.

"According to the Lord's command, all families, families, merchants, and powerful families who are hiding in the population shall confiscate all their property and fields, take them into national ownership, and then divide them equally among the landless people." Jia Xu continued to report.

The land is the state, of course, the meaning of this country can be interpreted as Liu Yu's, and then Liu Yu is divided among the landless poor people below.

The land cannot be bought or sold, and land annexation is fundamentally eliminated, because land does not belong to individuals.

Immediately, Jia Xu reported to Liu Yu that there had been a lot of turmoil in the entire prefecture during the reform period.

There were even man-made rebellions, but they were all quelled by Jia Xu one by one.

......

After understanding the situation, Liu Yu sent someone to call Zhicai, Frustrated, and Zhou Cang over.

"The King"

Several people saluted Liu Yu.

In private, when they are personal, they can call Liu Yu the main father to show closeness.

But on formal occasions, and when there are others, you must be called a king or a great king.

"Just now, Wen He told Gu about the situation of the merger."

Liu Yu said and continued: "In Gu's view, after the chaos, there is a great rule, and the Gu announces, and the state is exempt from tax for three years. "

"Great King Benevolence, ministers and other thousands of people, kowtow to the Great King." Frustrated, he got up a little excitedly.

"Get up."

Liu Yu humbly helped him up and said, "Also, in the future, all poll taxes will be abolished in the isolated territory, and they will never be paid." "

"Great King, this must not be done."

Liu Yu's words fell, and he stood up again in frustration and said eagerly to Liu Yu.

"Why not?"

Liu Yu looked at Frustrated and asked.

"Great King, if there is no poll tax and endowment, how can the current court of 400,000 troops provide for it?" Frustrated, his voice said eagerly.

Although he is depressed and cares for the people, he also has to think about the whole thing.

Even if it is no matter how benevolent it is, it does not add endowments, and the poll tax is abolished, but there is no money for how to raise the army.

Without an army, how can we hold the three states of You, Hebei, and Hebei?

In the end, after the three states were captured, the common people returned to the same old ways, and may even live worse.

"Don't worry, Gu Zheng is about to announce that from now on, all the food and pay of the army will be paid by the Lone Young Mansion." Liu Yu said.

The Shaofu in the Han Dynasty is really a good system.

Separate the money in the palace from the court, so that the emperor himself has a small treasury, so that he can guard against many things.

For example, at the end of the Ming Dynasty, if Chongzhen had a small treasury and money, why did he let wild boar skins occupy this great river.

Moreover, letting the soldiers know that it was the emperor who paid them, not the imperial court, which was conducive to cultivating the soldiers' loyalty to the emperor.

"Dare to ask the king, how much money does the Shaofu have?" Frustrated, he hesitated and asked.

"Great King, the minister should not have overstepped the inquiry, but the imperial court's finances are relatively tight..."

The Great Han has the imperial court of the Great Han, and the Yan State has the Yan State's own small court, and it is normal to say so.

Hearing the frustrated inquiry, everyone couldn't help but prick up their ears.

Everyone knows that the Lord has money, but how much money there is, they don't know.

They didn't even know where the lord's money came from.

Could it be that Zhou Cang is a good businessman who has earned a lot of wealth for the lord? This is a common idea.

It's just that he 370 thinks too much, Zhou Cang is not a good businessman, and he doesn't even understand business.

His only virtue is loyalty.

No matter what Liu Yu ordered Zhou Cang, the latter would not ask more or say one more word.

"Yuanfu, after I go back, I will pay 10,000 gold in the Shaofu and hand it over to the frustrated attendant." Liu Yu did not answer the frustrated question, but turned to look at Zhou Cang and ordered.

Now in Liu Yu's territory, the monetary system has been reformed, and all are settled by gold, silver, and copper coins.

One thousand copper coins is equal to one silver coin, and one hundred silver coins is equal to one gold coin.

A copper coin is equivalent to an expired copper coin, that is, a coin, and a gold coin is 100,000 coins.

10,000 gold coins is 100,000,000 money, that is, a billion money. (Read violent novels, just go to Feilu Fiction Network!) ）

During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the annual tax was about 7-8 billion yuan.

Of course, it was in peacetime, and the taxes that the imperial court can collect now may be the Guanzhong and Western Liang regions.

"Wow"

Zhou Cang nodded in reply.

"Thank you, King."

Frustrated, he hurriedly answered.

"The young mansion will give the imperial court 10,000 gold every year, what does Gonghe think?" Liu Yu looked at the frustration and spoke.

"The king takes this seriously?"

Frustrated, he was overjoyed and asked.

"Of course"

Liu Yu answered in the affirmative, and then said: "However, loneliness is also conditional. "。