After King Jianning started his expedition, the powerful men in Guazhou had a mentality of trying to get the melons. Without the help of Guazhou officials, could these big-headed soldiers measure the land?
But they never expected that King Jianning would have so many tooth soldiers who were good at arithmetic!
These tooth soldiers can accurately calculate the area of the fields by simply doing calculations on paper.
In addition to their super computing power, the tooth soldiers under King Jianning are incompetent.
The patriarch of the Shi family took out hundreds of coins and fine silk in order to bribe Zhang Yabing who was inspecting the land.
As a result, Zhang Yabing accepted the money and silk, then reported the Shi family to the governor's office, accusing the Shi family of bribing officials.
The Shi family spent money, but their patriarch was arrested by King Jianning and thrown into prison.
Zhang Yabing did the calculations overnight and found dozens of "family-born children" who were not registered with the government from the Shi family's mansion.
According to the "Tang Laws and Regulations", the Tang Dynasty recognized the keeping of slaves, and even stipulated in the law that slaves were commodities subordinate to their masters.
In Guazhou, there is a Yahang that specializes in slave trade. Here you can not only buy Han slaves, but also Dashi and Tubo slaves.
However, starting from the reign of Emperor Taizong, the Tang court also became aware of the disadvantages of the slavery system.
According to the "Tang Laws and Comments", the taxes that the people of the Tang Dynasty had to bear were mainly the land rent that needed to be paid for land granting, and the Ding Yong that adult men had to bear.
Under the land grant system of the Tang Dynasty, men could receive land grants from the government for farming when they reached adulthood.
The fields in the hands of dead people will be taken back by the government and awarded to new adult men.
Therefore, legally speaking, the fields cultivated by the common people belong to the imperial court, and it is only natural that they need to pay land rent for cultivating the fields.
In addition to the land rent, every adult male also had to undertake corvee tasks for the court.
Based on these corvee tasks, the imperial court could ask people to perform corvées with labor services, and some wealthy households could also be exempted from these corvee services by turning them over to Ding Yong.
This is the main source of finance and taxation in the Tang Dynasty, field tax and Ding Yong.
In the Tang Dynasty, men had the right to grant land when they reached adulthood, and they also began to bear the servitude of the court.
Therefore, every adult male is also a qualified soldier of the Tang Dynasty, and soldiers who perform meritorious service on the battlefield can receive the Yongye Field reward from the court.
As the name suggests, Yongye Field is a reward given to meritorious people in addition to land grants. These fields can be passed on to future generations, and they are also what the people call world fields.
You can get Setian by fighting, so the Tang soldiers on the battlefield in the early Tang Dynasty fought bravely, and even if they died in battle, you could get Yongye Tian at home.
Through this combination of farming and war, the Tang Dynasty could rise rapidly and dominate the world in the chaotic times of the late Sui Dynasty.
However, both Granting Land and Ding Yong were targeted at men of the Tang Dynasty, and slaves were not included in this scope.
Slaves cannot be granted land, and without rights there are no obligations, so slaves do not need to be turned over to Ding Yong.
If there were more slaves in the Tang Dynasty, the less Ding Yong could receive, so the government was also limiting the increase in the number of slaves.
For example, in the Guanzhong area of Longxing in the Tang Dynasty, the imperial court would control the number of slaves and regard the annual reduction of slave registration as an assessment indicator for local officials.
Starting from Gaozong's court and continuing to Wuzhou's court, during national celebrations and great victories, the court would also issue decrees pardoning slaves.
According to the laws of the Tang Dynasty, children born to slaves naturally became slaves. Once slaves raised within a large family gave birth to children, the children naturally became the property of the family.
Players also wrote fiercely to request King Jianning to abolish slavery. However, this was not an issue in Guazhou alone, and the status of slaves was also stipulated in Tang law, so Li Yan did not agree with the players' radical suggestions.
But I didn't expect that Zhang Tong found a loophole in the "Tang Code" in an ingenious way.
According to the requirements of Tang law, although "children born in the family" are also slaves, they need to be registered with the government before they can be bought or sold.
The children of the Shi family were all for their own use, and they had no intention of buying or selling them, so these dozens of children were not registered with the Guazhou Governor's Office.
Zhang Tong caught this loophole. For these unregistered children, Zhang Tong denied their status as slaves, but insisted that they be the hidden Dingkou of the Shi family.
Zhang Tong found that the dozens of "family-born children" of the Shi family had not been registered with the government, so Zhang Tong concluded that the Shi family was hiding people and evading Ding Yong's payment.
This could cost the Shi family their lives. It was originally discovered that the Shi family had hidden their land and needed to pay back the land tax for decades.
Now there are dozens more Ding Yong people. Although the Shi family has a great business, it cannot make up for so many rents.
And the head of the Shi family was imprisoned by King Jianning. The Shi family was leaderless, and they heard that they had to sell off their land to pay taxes.
In the firelight, An Changgui's gloomy face was reflected.
Yang Shizhong said anxiously: "Uncle! King Jianning wants to wipe out the roots of our big family in Guazhou!"
Wu Hao was even more anxious. The An family and the Yang family were old wealthy families with strict family rules. All their children were registered in the governor's office.
However, the Wu family is a wealthy family that has only emerged in recent decades. It is also a martial artist and is not proficient in Tang laws.
Nowadays, hundreds of people in the Wu family have children who have not been registered with the government. If the Shi family's method of large-scale inspection is followed, the Wu family will also have to pay a large amount of Ding Yong.
This will cost the life of the Wu family. There are hundreds of people in Ding Yong. This is an astronomical figure. Even the big family that has controlled Guazhou for generations cannot afford such a large tax!
Everyone was talking about it. Apart from the An family and the Yang family, which family didn't hide their land or people?
In addition to having children who were not registered as slaves, many families also kept private slaves. These were local people who were bankrupt and had to sell themselves to these big families.
Regarding this kind of private selling into slavery, "Tang Lv Shu Yi" also strictly cracked down on it, but it was normal for people to sell themselves into slavery when they were bankrupt and desperate. This was what local powerful people did.
An Changgui said: "It was a miscalculation. I didn't expect that there would be so many capable people under King Jianning's command. They really checked out the fields in Guazhou."
Yang Shizhong also said with emotion: "A hundred years after Guazhou returned to the Tang Dynasty, the row of warehouses east of the governor's office was filled with field records. As the director of the household department, I didn't figure out how many fields there were in Guazhou. King Jianning actually used them.
So many acres of land were inspected in such a short period of time!”
An Changgui nodded and said: "Yes, this field list is constantly changing. I remember that a hundred years ago, the mountains beside the Shule River were dangerous shoals that could not be cultivated. Now they are fertile land. In the past, the fertile land near Dashui Gorge was
The fields became wasteland as the Dashui Gorge dried up. After hundreds of years of development and abandonment, coupled with the constant granting of fields by the court, the field registers have long been like a mess. King Jianning was able to peel off the cocoons and completely clear the fields. It is really amazing.
admire!"
Wu Hao said dissatisfied: "Uncle Gui! Brother Shi Zhong! Now is not the time to admire us, you have to give us an idea for the 42 wealthy families in Guazhou! Do you really want to sell your ancestral property to pay for the rent?"