Summon the Mythical Emperor of the World

"According to the order..."

The valet eunuch withdrew.

soon.

The minister of household affairs entered the Hall of Longevity.

After the minister of the household came in, he knelt down toward Li Si and said, "I have seen your majesty, long live your majesty, long live long live."

The minister of the household knelt on the ground, not daring to look directly at the emperor, with mixed feelings in his heart.

During the time he left Chang'an, Shilang Tobe kept reflecting.

He was loyal to the Tang Dynasty and was one of the six ministers. However, in the end, he was demoted by the emperor and sent to the border to investigate the land.

why is that?

At first, the minister of household affairs thought that His Majesty felt that he was not loyal enough.

But in the end, Tobu Shilang found out that he was wrong.

It is not that he is not faithful enough, but that he does not understand the Holy Will.

Above the court, the emperor had already made up his mind to take action against the local governors, but he stood up at this time to stop the emperor...

The Minister of the Ministry wanted to understand this, and suddenly broke out in a cold sweat.

For the emperor, not only the loyalty of the subject, but also the subject's ability to understand the emperor's meaning.

Otherwise, if the courtiers can't even understand the emperor's words, how can they carry out the emperor's orders?

What is the use of the emperor to have such a minister?

It's just that when the Minister of the Ministry realizes this, he is no longer in Chang'an...

Li Siduan sat on the throne of the dragon chair and said, "Aiqing has worked hard. During this time, does Aiqing have any grievances?"

As soon as Li Si's words fell, the minister of the household was in a hurry: "Reporting to Your Majesty, everything about Wei Chen was given by the Tang Dynasty. Even if Wei Chen tried his life, he had to complete the order, so why is there any resentment?"

In the heart of the Minister of the Ministry, no matter whether he is a first-rank senior officer or a ninth-rank junior official, as long as he can serve the Tang Dynasty, he does not care about the official position at all.

The only thing that the Minister of the Ministry was worried about was that the emperor was completely disappointed in him, and sent him to retire and return to his hometown...

Li Si looked at the minister of household affairs and nodded slightly.

"Aiqing came to see me, what's the matter?"

Li Si leaned slightly on the throne of the dragon chair and asked casually.

The minister of household affairs immediately said: "Your Majesty, this time Wei Chen entered the palace to ask for an interview to report to His Majesty the situation of the land survey in the world."

"Tell me about it."

"Reporting to Your Majesty, Wei Chen went to the territory of Jiedushi in various places, but these Jiedushi either turned a blind eye to Wei Chen, or were false and condescending, delayed and obstructed in every possible way, and even reported a number to Wei Chen at will..."

When Li Si heard the words, there was no expression on his face.

If these Jiedu Envoys actively cooperated, Li Si would feel strange.

"It's just, for these, Wei Chen has long expected, this time to go to the territory of Jiedu envoys, Wei Chen is divided into two parts."

"On the bright side, there are officials from the Ministry of Households led by Wei Chen."

"In the dark side, there is another group of people."

"The people in the dark side have extremely secret identities. When Wei Chen is entangled with the other party, he quietly checks the amount of land..."

Li Si listened to these words of the Minister of the Ministry of Housing, and felt a little funny in his heart.

I didn't expect this Tobu Shilang to save the country by curve?

The external image of the Minister of the Ministry has always been upright and unpredictable...

This point, those rulers are also very clear.

I'm afraid they didn't expect that the Minister of the Ministry of Finance actually started to be cunning...

Li Si asked, "What is the result of the investigation?"

The minister of the household bowed and said, "Reporting to Your Majesty, compared to the entire land, Wei Chen has only roughly investigated a small part..."

"Just this small part,

It's just astounding..."

Tobu Shilang took out a memorial from his cuff and held it in his hands.

The valet eunuch presented the memorial to the dragon case.

Li Si opened the memorial and frowned.

On the memorial, some land ownership is written.

At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, 60% of the land in the world was in the hands of the common people, and 40% in the hands of aristocratic families.

Family members are exempt from tax.

However, even so, with the taxation of 60% of the land, Datang is also prosperous and prosperous for a while...

However, at this time, in the memorial submitted by the minister of the household, the part that has been explored, it is written that today, less than 20% of the land belongs to the common people.

The remaining 80% of the land fell into the hands of those aristocratic families.

Today, it is relying on these two percent land taxes to maintain all the consumption of Datang...

Li Si's face was extremely gloomy.

He had thought about serious land annexation,

Otherwise, Datang's tax revenue would not have dropped so much.

But Li Si never expected that the situation of land mergers had become so serious? !

"Your Majesty, the area in Longyou was very cooperative during the process of investigating the land..."

The Minister of Tobe hesitated for a while and said truthfully.

"I know."

The Minister of the Household carefully glanced at the emperor, and said tentatively, "Your Majesty, if you want to arrest a group of aristocratic families, the land will be freed up..."

"inappropriate."

Li Si shook his head slightly.

The issue of land annexation does not lie with aristocratic families.

Even if a group of aristocratic families are really captured and the vacated land is distributed to the common people, after a while, a new aristocratic family may be born again.

The problem of land annexation cannot be solved by a certain or some aristocratic family.

In fact, Li Si knew in his heart that this was a difficulty that every feudal dynasty had to face. In the past dynasties, no ruler did not want to solve it, but there was no effective way.

Because this issue involves too high a level.

Even Li Si, who has three gods and demons under his command, is not willing to move easily.

Otherwise, if Li Si goes his own way, the collapse of the entire Tang Dynasty is imminent.

The reason is very simple. In the Tang Empire, the Li family is the largest family.

All the aristocratic families in this world are equivalent to the emperor's subordinates.

The emperor gave them land and wealth, and these great families surrendered to the emperor.

The Li royal family and these aristocratic families together formed the current Tang Empire.

The two share a common destiny and are closely related.

This is also the fundamental reason why the emperor was helpless in the face of land annexation.

Because, if the emperor really wants to solve the land annexation, the first thing to solve is himself...

Therefore, in all dynasties, there have been land mergers, and the more the dynasty is at the end, the more serious the land mergers are, but no emperor wants to completely solve his problems...

People are selfish.

The emperor even more so.

Who would be willing to sacrifice himself?

Li Siduan sat on the throne of the dragon chair, and his mind turned rapidly.

To completely solve the problem of land annexation, the most direct way is to take back the land in the world and state it as a state.

However, it takes time to do this.

Before that, Li Si needed to reform the current land system.

Aristocratic families are born with the right to tax-exemption, and they do not need to pay additional taxes for merging land. If things go on like this, the taxation system of the Tang Dynasty collapses.

It's just that if Li Si abolishes the tax-exempt privilege of aristocratic families and collects taxes by mu, how much land and how much tax he has to pay...

In this way, even if the aristocratic family acquires more land, they cannot evade taxes, and they can only pay taxes honestly and according to the regulations.

In this way, the Datang tax system was maintained. .

Thinking of this, Li Si suddenly stood up!

Land reform, Li Si is imperative!