At this time, Cui Tao was giving a lecture in a large tent in Molijun's military camp.
He held a booklet and said on the podium: "What you all have is the Tang Dynasty's field book. This booklet records the owners of all the fields in Guazhou, as well as the field area and location of each household."
"Our task is to use this book to check whether the head of the household on the account book is consistent with the head of the household registered on the book."
Cui Tao continued: "According to the "Tang Law", the Yongye fields and granted fields assigned to each household cannot be bought and sold casually. Only under special circumstances of debt or bankruptcy can the acres of land be sold."
"These are also the focus of our verification. Whether the procedures of those large households purchasing land from ordinary people are legal."
There were close to a hundred players sitting under the stage. They were listening attentively, and some were still taking notes.
Cui Tao took out another Ding book and said: "This thing is called a Ding book. A Ding refers to an adult male over the age of sixteen. According to Tang law, each household pays a head tax according to the number of Dings."
"The appearance and characteristics of the men in each household are recorded in the Ding Book. The so-called Dasuo Maoyu is to check the situation of the men in each household based on the descriptions in the Ding Book."
"When going to war, the dead men need to be written off in time, and the big families will hide their names to avoid the court's rent."
"This is also the focus of our verification. Let me now demonstrate how to audit the accounts."
Li Yan looked at the players who were studying hard with satisfaction. This time, in order to gain a lot of reading, Li Yan also spent a lot of money and gave a large number of contribution points as rewards.
Those old players who took the first test may not look down on this reward, but those players who have just entered the game in the third test have signed up to participate in the big review.
Now Li Yan also understands why it was so difficult for successive dynasties to solve the problem of land annexation in the middle and late stages.
Officials all over Guazhou are in the hands of these wealthy families. If they are asked to count the acres, it is impossible to find out the problem.
Only the founding emperor could have enough manpower loyal to him to count the land and population.
This is why only Emperor Wen of the Sui Dynasty and Emperor Taizong of the Tang Dynasty completed the great Suo Mao Yue in the Sui and Tang dynasties, and none of the subsequent emperors succeeded.
In addition to the problem of manpower, there are intricate local relationships. Even if officials from neighboring states and counties are mobilized to investigate, they will collude with the local powerful and finally clear the land properly, but it will become a vicious method that harms the people.
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This is why it is difficult for reforms in the middle and late dynasties to succeed, and even if they succeed, they only treat the symptoms but not the root cause.
The Two Taxes Law in the mid-Tang Dynasty and the One Whip Law in the mid-to-late Ming Dynasty solved the financial problems of the court. They only increased the court's ability to collect tax revenue, but did not solve the annexation problem.
Therefore, although these reforms can continue the national destiny, they cannot change the declining destiny of the empire.
But Li Yan is different! He has players!
These players can write and calculate, and their professional level is much higher than that of ordinary officials!
As long as they are well trained, it will not be a problem for them at all!
The interests of the players and Li Yan are one and the same. They will never be corrupted by local powerful people. What they pursue are the contribution points awarded by Li Yan!
With these players in hand, why not solve the land problem in Guazhou!
Li Yan is full of confidence. When the training is completed, he can give a "surprise" to the local giants in Guazhou!
"That's it for today's class. Tomorrow is the martial arts competition. We have a day off. We will continue class after the competition!"
Cui Tao looked at the hourglass and said to everyone.
The military camp dispersed in a hurry, and the new players couldn't wait to explore this novel "game world".
After Cui Tao finished teaching the new players, he immediately met Zhou Hao who came in a hurry.
Zhou Hao, like Cui Tao, was the best among the first batch of players.
Through his "solid" legal ability, he quickly became a close confidant around Prefect Zhang Xian.
Now he is the head of the judicial department of the governor's office, responsible for the entire judicial work of Guazhou. He is responsible for interrogating prisoners and drafting judgments, but this task was left to Zhou Hao by Zhang Xian.
Cui Tao's position is the Recorder of the Governor's Office, which is a secretary-type position and can be regarded as the personal minister of the prefect.
Although the recorder is not popular, he can assist the prefect in handling government affairs. A recorder like Cui Tao who is trusted by Zhang Xian has no less authority than the leader of each class.
It's just that Cui Tao and Zhou Hao don't have many interactions. Zhou Hao is keen on trying cases to gain experience, so he simply plays this game as a detective reasoning game, and it can be said that he has a great time playing it.
Cui Tao, on the other hand, mainly advances the plot and is a complete plot party. He hangs around Li Yan and Zhang Xian every day, trying to discover some deeper inside stories of the "game".
Zhou Hao found Cui Tao, pulled him to the corner and said: "Cui Tao, I have a hidden mission here, can you help me with it?"
Upon hearing that it was a hidden mission, Cui Tao immediately became interested. He immediately said: "Quick, quick, share the task with me."
Zhou Hao shook his head and said: "We can't share it, this is an exclusive task."
Cui Tao's eyes lit up when he heard about the exclusive mission. As a mission party, he naturally knew about the exclusive mission.
Currently on the forum, players are also posting their own exclusive tasks.
For example, Cui Ruoyun's previous task of attracting talents was a certain kind of exclusive task.
Zhou Hao can actually receive exclusive tasks. Why can't he trigger exclusive tasks even though he hangs around the Governor's Mansion every day?
Cui Tao quickly asked: "What exactly is the mission?"
Zhou Hao then said: "Yesterday Hucao's squad leader An Changgui came to me and said he wanted to buy me a drink."
Cui Tao's eyes lit up. Among the three major families in Guazhou, the An family was the well-deserved first family.
An Changgui suddenly found Zhou Hao for a drink, there must be something fishy about it.
Zhou Hao continued: "Later I went to the banquet, but I didn't expect that this guy An Changgui wanted to corrupt me! I, Zhou Hao, am loyal to King Jianning, what the hell is An Changgui like him!"
Cui Tao laughed in his heart, it's not that An Changgui couldn't give it to him, for players, money is meaningless in the game, only contribution points are the most useful.
"It turns out that An Changgui wants me to be an undercover agent! To find out what King Jianning is doing!"
Cui Tao nodded, now Guazhou is going to have a large-scale inspection, these wealthy families naturally want to see the movements of King Jianning.
Zhou Hao continued: "After the banquet, I immediately went to find the prince and told An Changgui about wooing me, and then I received this exclusive task."
Cui Tao couldn't help but ask: "What mission?"
"Infernal Affairs! King Jianning asked me to infiltrate An Changgui and the others to find out what's going on with these local wealthy families!"
Cui Tao kept fussing: "Why can't I get such a task?"
Zhou Hao glanced at him and said: "Everyone in Guazhou knows that you are King Jianning's lackey. If An Changgui doesn't open his eyes, he will not win over you."
"Who do you think is a lackey?"
"Don't be ridiculous, help me figure out how to do this task? I'm so worried! I'm a law student, why do I have to do undercover work!"