On the occasion of rebirth Zhou Sui

Chapter 132 Chapter 131
At the beginning of the establishment of the Sui Dynasty, a population search had already been carried out. At that time, Cui Che was still serving as the chief secretary of Yang Guang's Bingzhou Governor's Mansion. This was the first task he and Yang Guang took over. , population, presented a satisfactory answer to Yang Jian.

But the source of the population search this time is the cleverness of some people.

Cheng Ding, a male in the Sui Dynasty, was a taxpayer until the age of 60.

Some cunning people make a fuss about age. Young people say they are younger, and older people call them over 60 years old, so as to avoid taxes and corvee. This phenomenon is especially obvious in the Kanto region.

When Yang Jian learned of this situation, he ordered the local officials of various prefectures and counties to verify the people under their control door by door and person by person.

The so-called "Da Suo" is an inventory of household registration, and the names, dates of birth, appearance and physical characteristics of registered household members are recorded in detail;
The so-called "appearance reading" is to check the appearance of the people and the appearance described in the household registration one by one to verify their authenticity.

If there are people with false household registration, who cheat their elders and claim to be small, the head of the village and the head of the party will be assigned to the frontier.

During the Northern Wei Dynasty, the system of three chiefs was implemented at the grassroots level, that is, party chiefs, village chiefs, and neighbor chiefs.

The Sui Dynasty inherited the three-headed system of the Northern Wei Dynasty, with five families as one neighbor, five neighbors as one mile, and five miles as one party, with 120 and five households in one party.

It is not wrong for these village and party chiefs to be sent to the frontier. They are usually responsible for checking household registration, supervising farming, collecting tax acres, and collecting corvee and military service.

A cunning person really wants to lie about his or her age. In any case, the help of the head of the village and party leaders is indispensable. After all, there are only 25 households in a mile, and only 120 and five households in a party. They are all house-to-house, so how can they not know you? real age.

At the same time, the imperial court issued an edict, ordering officials from all over the country to separate the households of the big families, ordering them to live in separate households, to establish their own households, and to search for hidden people among them.

For these two decrees, Cui Che carried out the truth, especially lying about his age and evading taxes and corvee. Such evil deeds are not tolerated at all.

Cui Che believes that honest people cannot always suffer.

In strict accordance with Yang Jian's instructions, he dispatched cronies everywhere to supervise and investigate, but if any tricks were found, it was not only the village chiefs and party chiefs who were confiscated with assets and distributed to the frontiers.

Those who lied about their age were severely punished. The taxes they owed over the years were easily recovered. Cui Che also discounted the price of those who escaped corvee. In addition, they were fined in varying degrees according to their level of wealth.

If the upper household falsely declares its age, it will be fined ten times the amount, the middle household will be fined five times, and the lower household will be fined three times.

After experiencing this set of combo boxing, no matter whether you are an upper household, a middle household, or a lower household, as long as you lie about your age and evade taxes and corvee, you are basically in a state of ruining your family.

There was a big flood last year. To be honest, even if it is a household, except for the powerful nobles, most of them are not very rich.

If the family property is sold and the fine is still not paid off, it will be negotiated with the local government and repaid in installments according to a certain number of years.

Cui Che, who had always shown his friendly image before, did not show any sympathy in this strike. While respecting and loving him, the people of Qingzhou also recalled Cui Che's bloody methods of massacring officials the year before, adding another layer of awe.

However, ordinary people did not complain about this, but clapped their hands and applauded.

After all, everyone is at the age of tax payment and corvee service. Why can you lie about your age and live comfortably? We have to contribute money and efforts to the country.

As for the second decree, it is to separate households for big families, not allowing them to live together, and forcing them to form separate households.

Cui Che handed over this matter to Fang Yanqian to preside over it.

Fang Yanqian has been the boss of Qi County for more than 20 years, and has a wide network of contacts. With his persuasion, things went smoothly.

In Qingzhou alone, the hidden population of more than 7000 people was searched, and the four prefectures of Qing, Jiao, Guang, and Ju under the jurisdiction of the Qingzhou General Administration Office have registered more than [-] people.

The data was collected in Daxing City one after another. In the second census, more than 160 million people were added to the household registration book.

This time, Kuohu didn't have much water, and the reason was simple. The targets of the inspection this time were basically the local gentry tyrants. How could the local government blow the numbers to the sea.

Immediately afterwards, at the request of Gao Jiong, Yang Jian promulgated laws on the transfer of nationality to all states and counties.

The method of losing nationality is to lose nationality and set a sample. On the fifth day of the first month of each year, the county magistrate is stipulated to conduct investigations, so that the five or three parties of the people will form a group, and the tax payable will be determined according to the classification of wealth and poverty.

In the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang (586), which was the last year of Cui Che's tenure as the governor of Qingzhou, on the eighth day of the first lunar month, the county magistrates successively completed the sample transfer of nationality, sent it to Dongyang City, and handed it over to the governor's office for review.

Cui Che was not in a hurry to use the seal, but sent his personal followers to go to the county to investigate, which really allowed him to find out the tricks inside.

Unexpectedly, so many corrupt officials were killed three years ago, and now another major case has been uncovered.

In order to avoid being designated as registered households, many wealthy families pay high taxes and transfer benefits to county government officials, and they are actually classified as registered households.

Correspondingly, there will be ordinary families who should have settled down, but will be assigned high taxes that are not theirs to bear.

This made Cui Che very angry. He reported the incident to the imperial court. All the officials who committed the crime were taken to Daxing City, and all the officials who accepted bribes were executed. Some of them were promoted by Cui Che from the refugees.

People who were once bullied by treacherous officials are now cast aside.

As for those wealthy families involved in the case, Cui Che did not let them go. In Qingzhou, he personally led the salt soldiers and went door-to-door to confiscate their assets, while the other three states were also handed over to Wei Yi, Pei Xiu, and Huang Baiji.

Don't you want to be a household now? Okay, I'll let you be enough!
These wealthy families, after being confiscated of their assets, finally got their wish and became the real householders, the penniless ones.

Only the land allocated by the government can be cultivated to support the family.

When Yang Jian received Cui Che's report, he was also furious. In addition to severely punishing the bribed officials sent by Cui Che, he ordered the governors of various states to review the matter. Many county magistrates lost their official titles because of this.

Of course Cui Che knew that he would offend some people by revealing this matter, but if he pretended to be deaf and dumb, his conscience would be even more disturbed.

Besides, as the son-in-law of the eldest princess and the favorite minister of the emperor, he is not afraid.

If you stand tall, there will always be people who will be jealous. If you are afraid of this, then you are also afraid. If you are still an official, it is better to go back to Boling and live by guarding the [-] mu of ancestral land.

In February of the sixth year of Emperor Kaihuang (586), Yang Jian ordered that at the end of each year, the governors and senior staff of each state would go to the court in turn to report the achievements of the state officials in that year, and then the imperial court would evaluate and promote them.

Cui Che is also the governor of Qingzhou, so he is naturally among them. By then, it will be the end of his three-year term.

　No more today.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)