No Regrets In Flourishing Tang

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Before Li An came, he felt that Li Shizhi suddenly wanted to see himself, not just for the purpose of reminiscing about the old. There must be some other purpose. At this time, he heard that there were important things, and he quickly asked what was going on.

“Big Lad! Don’t worry, come and warm your body with a cup of hot tea.”

Li Shizhi was not in a hurry to tell what was in her heart, but asked Li An to drink tea and personally served a glass of Li An.

Li An took the tea and wanted to cry. The tea in this era mainly uses tea cake as the main body, adding various ingredients such as salt, sauce, vinegar and even adding fresh milk. , Forming a unique strong flavor, and Li An does not like this heavy taste very much, drinking this thing is more painful than drinking soup.

But this is Li Shizhi’s intention after all. If Li An doesn’t drink it, Li Shizhi will be very unhappy, so Li An still gritted his teeth and drank these soups.

“What’s wrong, Big Lad doesn’t seem to like drinking tea. Is this tea sweetened with fresh milk?”

Li Shizhi reads countless people, how can he not see the reluctance of Li An’s expression, asking in doubt.

Li An would like to say that this tea is more difficult to drink than soup, but in order not to hurt Li Shizhi ’s kindness, he said: “Sixth Grandpa does not know that Grandson does not like to drink too strong tea. In fact, lighter tea It ’s the best drink. “

“Lighter tea? Did Big Lad drink it?”

Li Shizhi asked curiously.

“Sixth Grandpa, this grandson did drink it, but I haven’t encountered this kind of tea for many years. I have the opportunity to make some for Sixth Grandpa in the future.”

The light tea that Li An refers to is the tea leaves of later generations, and it can also be said that it is fried tea, which is much more advanced than the tea cakes of this era, and it is also much tastier. After all, the tea I just drank was simply difficult The salty soup that is pharynx is harder to drink than soup.

“Okay, if given the chance, I must taste the light tea that Big Lad said, haha!”

Li Shizhi has just been promoted to Left Chancellor not too long ago, and is gaining the reuse of Emperor Li Longji. Even, there is a tendency to fight against Li Linfu in court, so the mood is naturally very good.

Li An doesn’t care about the fried tea. He is more concerned about what important things Li Shizhi finds himself, so he asks: “Sixth Grandpa, you just said that there are important things. This tea is also drunk, is it … … “

Li Shizhi nodded: “In fact, it is not a big thing, just take you to see a person, a very important person, and this thing can not be dragged back, otherwise, it is very likely that you will not see.”

“Important person, I won’t see you late, who is this!”

Li An suddenly felt very curious. Looking at Li Shizhi’s tone, the person to be seen seemed to be dying, so who is you?

“Big Lad! The person I want to show you is not an outsider. It is my great Tang clan leader, Prince of Xinan Li Yi, speaking of which is also your Grandpa. If you meet him, call him Eldest Grandpa is just that, he must be very happy. “

When Li Shizhi talked about Li Yi, a respectful expression appeared on his face. Obviously, he admired and respected Li Yi very much and regarded it as his idol.

Li An still knows more about the history of Great Tang. Of course, he knows that this Prince of Xinan Li Yi is the grandson of Taizong ’s 3rd son, Wu Wang Like. This person is quite talented, and he is a member of the Great Tang Middle-Stage. Sect has made great contributions to the Khan Ma. After he died of illness, Tang Profound Sect was sad for a long time.

Li Yi not only has outstanding military merits, but also has excellent character and integrity for officials. When he was a civil servant, he managed the district in an orderly manner, regardless of the officials or the 100 surnames.

Since then, due to his outstanding ability, he has been promoted again and again. In his appointment as the new ambassador, he has repeatedly commanded the Armed Forces to break the Tibet Armed Forces, especially the 1000-mile attack on the Stone Castle City. At a very small cost, he captured this. At a strategic point, Tibet was afraid, asking for reconciliation with his tail.

In the 20 years of Kaiyuan, Li Yi was ordered to conquer Xi and Khitan. When the Tang Army forward defeated, he decisively led the main Armed Forces to launch a counterattack, and achieved the victory of Baobai Mountain, Da Poxi and Khitan. Outrageous rebellion.

Such a great clansman thing of the Great Tang sect is the pride of the Great Tang empire and the pride of the Great Tang Imperial Family. Li An has great respect for Li Yi in the past life. When he comes to the Great Tang, the admiration is not reduced. Li Yi did not come to Great Tang.

“Sixth Grandpa, when are we going to meet Eldest Grandpa.”

Li An without the slightest hesitation agreed.

“It’s not too late for this matter, so tomorrow morning! You come to my mansion first, we will go together.”

Li Shizhi said without hesitation.

“Yes, Sixth Grandpa, then tomorrow morning.”

Seeing Li An is so refreshing, Li Shizhi was very satisfied and laughed, and let Li An eat dim sum. The strong tea is not good. The taste of this dim sum is still very good. It tastes delicious in the mouth.

When Li Shizhi invited Li An, he had already indicated that he wanted to narrate the old. After visiting Li Yi early on the second day, he must of course continue to retain Li An and chat with Li An enthusiastically.

The most talked about is nothing but praise for Li An ’s young and promising, and lamented the deep feelings between him and Li An Grandpa when he was a child, the great sadness about the disappearance of Second Brother, and the excitement of seeing Second Brother.

Li An is also very cooperative. Whenever Li Shizhi talks about Li Jing, Li An always makes a sad expression to show his miss for Grandpa, which makes Li Shizhi very satisfied.

It is important to know that filial piety in ancient times is very important. If a person is not filial, then the whole society is basically unable to gain a foothold, so that many people who are officials do not move because of the death of their parents and Three Year Mourning.

During this period, the Imperial Court gave a lot of salaries, that is, not working for 3 years of salary, nominally Ding You, but actually lazy for 3 years, this can be considered a kind of welfare. !

As the current Left Chancellor, concerned about the Imperial Court major event is his job, after contacting feelings, Li Shizhi was happy to talk about various major events in the Imperial Court.

Because he had just been valued by Emperor, Li Shizhi was very proud and excited when talking about the various political affairs of the Imperial Court, as if the entire Great Tang government was under his control.

And Li An also heard that Li Shizhi was indeed very knowledgeable. The various policies and suggestions put forward are all for the current Korean government. Unfortunately, he does n’t seem to understand Li Longji ’s heart very much, and he does n’t understand how to For better survival in the Imperial Court, only consider the benefits to the Great Tang, not how many people will be offended by this, it is certainly difficult to establish a long-term basis.

Li Shizhi also looked very deeply at some of the crisis in Great Tang, but could not find a solution, which caused him some worries, especially the problem of land mergers, which was very serious.

At the beginning of the founding of the Great Tang, every 100 surname can be divided into enough land. In this way, the old 100 surnames must actively participate in the army in order to maintain their own land. After losing the land, each family of 100 surnames naturally could not support the men in the family to join the army, and then fled, which made the military system of the government unsustainable. The Imperial Court had to spend money to hire the army, increasing the burden of the Imperial Court.

Moreover, Great Tang’s taxation system is based on tenancy modulation. Taxation is calculated on a per-person basis, rather than on the basis of actual land ownership. In this way, people with less land and no land cannot complete the task of tenancy. Therefore, in order to make up for the tax losses, Imperial Court will let the neighbor insurance pay, which will cause more people to flee and further exacerbate the crisis.

In fact, under the condition of the same social productivity, there is so much total wealth in the society, and the total amount will not change much. The result of the merger of land is a kind of wealth transfer, and the wealth owned by the nobility is sharp. With the increase, the old 100 people become poorer and poorer, and the immutability of the tax system has caused a sharp drop in the revenue of the Imperial Court.

In order to make up for the vacancy of fiscal revenue, Imperial Court had to increase taxes, which caused the old 100 people to shoulder more burdens and had to flee. This affected social productivity and caused the total wealth of the entire society to gradually decrease.

In this case, the decline of national power is inevitable, but because of the huge amount and concentration of wealth, people do not feel that’s all.

Take a look at the prosperity of Chang’an City, the rich people spend their money, and feel the national power and material resources of the Great Tang, but no one noticed that in more places, tragedies of selling children and women, and running away from home .

The land merger of Great Tang has continued for hundred years or so years. The average land calculation has been completely destroyed. This is an irreversible fact. The solution to his problem is to reform the tax system and collect taxes according to the amount of land. It is not collected according to the head.

In this way, the more land nobles merge, the more taxes they need to pay, so that there will be no loss of Imperial Court taxes and forced exile of the 100 survivors due to land mergers, and they will become tenants and slaves. .

Li An told Li Shizhi about his tax reform without omission and in detail. After listening to Li Shizhi, he suddenly realized that before, he just repeatedly suggested Emperor to restrain the nobles from merging the land in order to maintain the average land system and let the old 100 surnames All fields are arable, and Li Longji has repeatedly stated that the nobles are prohibited from acquiring land. No one may illegally occupy more than the prescribed land, but the phenomenon of underreporting and concealment is very serious. Many people can only own a few 100 acres of land according to the official position. , Officials actually own more than 10000 acres of land, and the most powerful nobles even own a few 100000 acres of land.

It is possible to let these nobles spit out the swallowed land. This difficulty is possible, and it can be said that it is absolutely impossible. Therefore, although Li Longji has ordered many times, not at all alleviates the trend of the destruction of the average land system, but instead Increasingly fierce.

After all, in ancient times, land was the most important and core resource. People feed on food and have enough land to have enough food, which is why all nobles and officials, as long as they have money, always want 1000 square meters of land acquired.

The world’s thirst for land makes it difficult to stop buying and selling land, even if Emperor personally dictates that it cannot change this trend.

“Big Lad, is this your own idea?”

Li Shizhi looked incredulously towards Li An.

Li An nodded confessed unintentionally. In fact, this was the tax system proposed by a person named Yang Yan during the Great Tang Virtue Sect period. It is very suitable for the current Great Tang, but at this moment Yang Yan is still a teenage child. It is estimated that Li An is still 4 or 5 years younger, of course, there will be no strategy, Li An is a cheap one.

Li Shizhi was full of excitement, said resolutely: “Big Lad! You really wake up the dreamer! I think for many years, I always thought that only controlling the nobles and merging the land is the shortcut to solve this problem, didn’t expect There is a better way, as long as the tax is paid according to the land, the 100 surnames will naturally not run away, and the nobles ’idea of ​​merging the land will also be weakened a lot. It is really a wonderful way!”

While Li Shizhi was delighted, Li An frowned: “Sixth Grandpa Over-praised. Although this method is good, it has harmed the interests of the nobility to a certain extent, especially those sitting on a few hundred thousand acres of land. The nobles of the country will definitely oppose it, so reforming the speaking of which is easy, but it is really not an easy task to do this well. The process may be very tortuous and difficult. “

Li Shizhi nodded agrees: “Big Lad, you are right. Those nobles who annexed 100000 acres of land will indeed oppose tax reform, but this is a policy that benefits the country and the people, especially to enrich the treasury. At least the officials of Your Majesty and Ministry of Revenue will definitely support it, so it is not as difficult as you think. The key is the details of the implementation, which must be considered very clearly. Weak spots must not be left. “

Li An nodded and said: “Sixth Grandpa said that many nobles concealed the land they own. Therefore, to implement tax reform, we must first measure the land of the country and find out how much land each person owns. The land or unrecognized land will be returned to Imperial Court. This is the prerequisite for tax reform. If someone obstructs it, it will immediately seize the crime, and the rest will naturally be guilty. “

In recent years, Li An has gone on an expedition, and has seen too many farmers who have lost their land. Even the servants employed by their own estates are farmers who have lost their land. Therefore, Li An can deeply feel that Great Tang ’s current How untimely the tax policy is and how urgently it needs to be reformed, and this 2 tax law has been brewing in Li An ’s heart for a long time. At this time, by chatting with Li Shizhi, it is just the right time to say this idea. Get support.

“Big Lad! We have to discuss a lot about tax reform, especially the specific details. We must be cautious and careful. Okay, the bean sprouts and rice cabbage are already done. I have good wine here. Let ’s take care of it first. Eat a meal, 10000000 Don’t be polite with your Sixth Grandpa. “

Li Shizhi’s face was full of smile, and his eyes were full of love and appreciation, and Li An was certainly not polite anymore.