Summon the Mythical Emperor of the World

Although Li Si was curious about King Goryeo's reaction, he didn't care too much!

It's just bullet land!

Li Si can send Bai Qi at any time as long as he wants to slaughter the Goryeo royal family.

Once the royal family was destroyed, Goryeo was naturally plunged into civil strife.

At that time, if the Tang Dynasty intervenes a little bit, it will be able to directly control the entire Goryeo Kingdom!

Day two.

Ending early.

The minister of households greeted Li Si with a bitter face.

See Your Majesty. The Minister of the Chamber of Commerce sighed.

Li Si glanced at the Minister of the Ministry of Housing: Why is Aiqing troubled?

The Minister of the Ministry of Housing was one of the few old officials in the court who was loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

He behaved like this, it must be because of the state affairs of the Tang Dynasty.

The Minister of the Household sighed lightly: Your Majesty, the New Year is approaching, this year's taxation of the Tang Dynasty has been reduced by 10% compared to last year!

Ashamed of the old minister!

The minister of households knelt on his knees, not daring to face Li Si.

Reduce taxes by 10%?

Li Si frowned.

Taxation is the foundation of a country, and it is the basic manifestation of measuring the prosperity of a country.

In layman's terms, a country only has the confidence to do things when it receives sufficient taxes.

What's the reason? Li Si asked.

The Minister of the Household took out a memorial and handed it to Li Si: Your Majesty, please read it!

Li Si opened the memorial and glanced at it, his face became more and more ugly.

The Tang Dynasty inherited the land system of the previous dynasties and implemented the land-equalization system.

What is the equalization system?

It is to distribute the land equally to the common people!

Then the people cultivate the land, and Datang collects taxes according to the population!

The number of people in the family is taxed.

It doesn't matter how much food you grow!

This land system, if it does not encounter natural and man-made disasters, has greatly promoted the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

The decades of prosperity established before the Tang Dynasty were inseparable from the land-equalization system.

However, the equalization system has a huge drawback.

That is the tax exemption for the privileged class!

Some clan landlords, wealthy families, and officials' children have the right to tax exemption.

In other words, no matter how much land these people own, they don't have to pay taxes to the imperial court.

This privileged class has existed since ancient times.

Even Li Si is helpless for the time being!

If it's just that, it's fine.

After all, the privileged are the minority.

The most people in this world are ordinary people.

As long as they pay their taxes honestly, they cannot shake the country.

It's just that the land-equalization system has been implemented for hundreds of years!

In the past few hundred years, the people who owned the land at the beginning have long since died.

The rest are descendants of those people.

And these descendants, in these hundreds of years, may not be able to pay the taxes due to various reasons, and can only sell the land to the landlords of the aristocratic families.

When land is in the hands of aristocratic landlords, it becomes their own land without paying taxes to the state.

Again and again.

The land remains where it was.

But it has become a tax-free zone for family landlords.

The country's tax revenue is virtually missing a piece.

In the long run, hundreds of years down!

The tax that the court can collect is naturally less and less.

The small part all fell into the hands of the landlord of the aristocratic family.

The more Li Si looked, the more angry he became.

The court gave these aristocratic families all kinds of comforts and subsidies, but how did these aristocratic families repay?

annex the people's land!

Competing with the court for tax revenue?

This is what those wealthy families do!

Li Si was burning with anger!

The people of Datang sold their land to aristocratic wealthy families, and the people had no land themselves, so they could only help plant the crops under the wealthy families who died.

The common people help to cultivate the land, and the wealthy family pays the corresponding compensation. Over time, the common people only know the wealthy family, and as for the imperial court...

They don't pay taxes to the court, so care what the court does?

Bang!

Li Si slapped the motion in front of him fiercely, and was furious!

This is no ordinary land annexation!

This is shaking the country!

This is shaking the foundation of Datang's rule!

It is precisely because of these wealthy families that the Tang Dynasty has been divided into individual countries, China!

The local people only know aristocratic families and wealthy families, but they don't know the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Si's eyes narrowed slightly.

He absolutely cannot allow these aristocratic families to continue to act so recklessly!

Otherwise, after a long time, when all the lands of the people of the Tang Dynasty are returned to the landlords of the noble family, is the Tang Dynasty still owned by Li Si?

Just let these aristocratic landlords become kings on their own!

Li Si's thoughts turned sharply, and he kept thinking about countermeasures.

If you want to reverse the situation, the easiest way is to take back the land of the world!

Only when all the land in the world is returned to the state, and the people start paying taxes to the state again, can the taxation problem be completely solved!

The Minister of the Ministry of Commerce was already shivering with fright at this time!

He didn't even dare to say a word, for fear of aggravating Li Si's anger.

Li Si closed the memorial and looked at the minister of the household who was kneeling on the ground: It's not your fault, get up!

Thank you, Your Majesty! The Minister of the Ministry said in a trembling voice.

Li Si pondered for a moment, then said slowly, I have something for you to do!

Your Majesty, please speak! The Minister of the Ministry of Housing bowed.

Li Si looked at the minister of households and said, I will count all the land that the rich and powerful landlords have annexed to the common people.

Not only that, but the land of these aristocratic landlords is also counted for me.

I want to see how much land that does not need to be taxed now occupies the territory of my Great Tang!!

As soon as this is said!

The Minister of the Ministry of Commerce felt a chill in his heart?

Count the world's land?

What did the emperor do this for?

The Minister of the Household did not believe that the emperor simply counted the land.

only...

Since it's not simple...

Where is it not simple?

The Minister of the Ministry's heart beat faster.

In the blink of an eye, a few words suddenly appeared in Shangshu's mind:

Take the land of the world!

That's right!

After the statistics are finished, the next step for the emperor is to recover all these lands!

Thinking of this, Shangshu's face paled!

Take over the world's land?

How is this possible?

Those people may not care!

The land is not in their hands anyway.

But what about the aristocratic families?

Are they willing to give up the land they have accumulated over the generations?

how can that be? !

If your Majesty does this, you will be the enemy of the whole world!

Li Si glanced at the Ministry of Accounts and frowned: What are you doing, why don't you go down and give me statistics?

minister...

The minister obeys the order!

The Minister of Hu's lips moved, but in the end he did not dissuade the emperor.

Not that he is afraid.

But the emperor now, just let him count the land.

It didn't show any other meaning!

In this case, the Minister of the Ministry of Household is naturally hard to say.

All right!

Go down!

Li Si waved his hand.

The Minister of Accounts left.

Li Si also invited Cao Zhengchun.

What's the matter with your Majesty's summoned ministers? Cao Zhengchun asked respectfully.

I asked the minister of households to count the land in the world, and you let people stare at them. Look at the middle of the family, there are those rich and powerful families who are in violation of the law!

Li Si sneered.

The matter of land statistics is related to the self-interest of those aristocratic landlords, and it will not be too smooth.

Li Si wanted to see who would stop him!