Time flies, and before I realize it has arrived for the fourth year of Shenwu.

During this period, the country was very lively in the Great Zhou Dynasty, and major events followed one by one shocked the audience.

Marquis of Liyang, Hangzhou General Li Zongdao, was rampant in the village and was sentenced to death by Di Renjie in the yamen of Hangzhou!

General Oroqen, Liangzhou, blocked the imperial military reform and incited soldiers to make chaos. He was beheaded in the street by Xie Xuan!

General Anping of Qingzhou openly disobeyed the imperial court's orders and disobeyed Your Majesty. He was killed in the camp by General Li Bao, Longxiang Guard!

For a moment, the world was terrified, and no one dared to blatantly obstruct the imperial court's orders, and the court's military reform was smooth and unblocked! The officials of the Privy Council ran around the military prefectures of the states in the world, cleared their military registrations, and reorganized local wing troops. At the same time, they rotated the generals of the states.

Huang Zhong was appointed as the general of Qingzhou Guard

Niu Xiu was appointed as the general of Liangzhou Guard

Cao Wei was appointed as the general of Hangzhou Guard

Lu Xiang was promoted to Ganzhou Governor's Office Ganzhou Guard Military

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And this year...

A decree from Ma Jin to the world caused a stir, that was, Ma Jin ordered the Ministry of Revenue to build a fish scale treasure book and a yellow tax book!

The yellow book of taxes and service is the national population and household registration book, which contains the names, hometowns, Dingkou, age, land and industry of each household in the country. It is an important basis for the Great Zhou Dynasty to collect labor service and impose taxes. It is also stipulated that the yellow book is in duplicate, one is left in the township and one is paid to the county; the county summarizes the books of each township, and the general book of prefectures and county is also made in duplicate, one is left in the prefectures and county, and the other is paid to the county; the yamen at all levels are as follows, and the county is paid to the prefectures and vassal departments, and the county is finally transferred to the Ministry of Revenue in the court. Because the books submitted by the prefectures and vassal departments must be made of yellow paper as a cover, it is called "yellow book".

The Fish Scale Treasure Book is a national land book. It is painted in the square shapes of the land of each place. It is numbered in a thousand characters, and states the location, four to four areas, and the name of the land owner, and indicates the land terrain and soil grade. It is also stipulated that 10,000 stones of grain are given as a division. All lands in this division are compiled into one volume. Because after opening the book, you can see that the land figures on the book are overlapping and look like fish scales, so it is called the Fish Scale Treasure Book.

The yellow book is mainly household registration, and the fish scale picture album is based on land. The two book confirm each other and complement each other. These two book play a role of one warp and one weft, just like a large net woven into a warp and weft, which encompasses all the population and land of the people.

Although the regulations of this fish scale yellow book are updated every ten years, local officials often copy the population names and real estate in order to save trouble. After ten years, these fish scale yellow book are exactly the same as those recorded decades ago. However, the territory and population of the Great Zhou Dynasty have increased a few times compared to decades ago, which has almost become waste paper, and has no use at all.

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In the Yangxin Palace, Ma Jin knocked on the imperial case and asked, "How is the matter of rebuilding the Fish Scale Yellow Book? I heard that the court is more lively than the market entrance, from the first-rank court officials to the insignificant yamen officials, all jumping up and down. It seems that the matter of rebuilding the Fish Scale Yellow Book has touched the hearts of many people."

Although he had been mentally prepared for a long time, Ma Jin never thought that he would make such a big fuss before he could talk about reform. If Ma Jin talked about reform, he wouldn't know how big the storm would cause.

"The situation is not optimistic when you start to report to Your Majesty."

Changsun Wuji bowed and replied: "In previous years, the local governments used their own affairs to count and report them. This time, His Majesty issued an order to the Censorate and the Inner Guard Office to participate. In this way, no matter whether it is local or the people, they cannot conceal the reports. Those who have suffered losses will naturally be unwilling to give up and will also have a sense of resistance."

"In fact, in the 23 counties of Shuntian Prefecture alone, more than 500,000 hidden Dingkou were found in this month. If the entire 16 prefectures and 219 counties of the Great Zhou Dynasty were screened, I was afraid that there would be more than tens of thousands of places in Dingkou."

Changsun Wuji pursed his dry mouth and said, "But, Shuntian Mansion is under the feet of the emperor. These people dare not make any small moves, but after leaving the God Capital, these people will definitely become unscrupulous, but they are afraid they will do everything they can!"

Ma Jin nodded, wanting to tell Changsun Wuji to be confident and remove the word "just afraid" and they will only become even more crazy.

It’s okay for ordinary people to say, after all, as long as they are not forced to have no way to survive, those ordinary people can’t make any troubles. But it’s hard to say that the aristocratic families that have the right to speak in the local area. After all, those aristocratic families hold the most land and Dingkou.

However, this was useless. Ma Jin did not think it would be useful for them to collude with the government. Ma Jin lined up three groups of people to go to various places. What if the government was bribed? There was also the censor behind him! The government and the censor were settled by them, and there were two groups of people from the Inner Guard Mansion followed him, and Ma Jin's newly established Dongjishi Factory secretly monitored everything.

Not to mention that after several major actions by Ma Jin in open and secretly, the twelve guards of the imperial court and the local state guards were firmly in control. If someone really dared to jump out and cause trouble, Ma Jin would not mind slapping them to death.

After a few years of emperors, Ma Jin had already seen through it. There must be many officials with integrity, but there are countless bastards without integrity. It is better to expect them to be able to do things diligently, it is better to expect the sun to come out from the west.

"I plan to go out for a walk."

Ma Jin kept knocking on the table with his fingers and said, "I have lived in the deep palace for a long time. How can I know the sufferings of the people? If I don't know the sufferings of the people, how can I rule the world?"

Ma Jin really couldn't stay in the imperial city. Although there were so many things inside the imperial city, there were no different life outside the palace? It was colorful? Apart from being majestic and magnificent, Ma Jin really couldn't find any advantages. So he always wanted to find a high-sounding reason to go out and make a wave. Now is an opportunity, so he naturally won't miss it!

"I would like to accompany you." Changsun Wuji stepped out of the list.

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Of course, he cannot set up a ceremonial guard when he goes out in a condom, but he cannot be an ordinary person. That is really hard to move forward. There is no way Ma Jin can only pretend to be someone else. His brother-in-law is about the same age as him. I believe that no one in the world dares to offend the son of the father-in-law today?

Then Changsun Wuji became the housekeeper, Yang Zaixing, Gao Shun became the guard, Xu Jin and Wang Chengen became the close-fitting follower, and a group of people went straight out of the Shendu.

Puyang is a major county in Yuzhou, and it ranks among the top two of the 17 counties in Yuzhou. Puyang County is one of the largest counties in Yuzhou. There are many aristocratic families and wealthy merchants who settled here, and there are many of them that have been passed down for thousands of years and hundreds of years. Ma Jin came here naturally because the aristocratic families and great families here are no worse than those officials and men in the capital of God, and they are more active than those officials.

The emperor wanted to build a large-scale yellow book. The first thing that affected was those hidden households who did not include the yellow book, because these hidden officials were not qualified to allocate land. In order to make a living, they either sold themselves as slaves, became tenants, or went to the city to work. This was the most perfect target of exploitation for their aristocratic families.

Once it is found out, it is the court's business whether these hidden men will pay for taxes. It has nothing to do with them, but where are they looking for such cheap labor? Who will cultivate the large area of ​​farmland at home? Who will do the work in the courtyard of the mansion? Where can I get such beautiful maids to thrust their legs and massage their backs?

Besides, if the emperor wants to build a book, he always has to give land, but where does the land come from? After all, Baima County has only such a large land and only so many fields in total. If the hidden people found out that they have to allocate land, then where does the fields come from? It’s not that they should pay attention.

Thinking further, if the emperor wants to recreate the fish scale yellow book, does he want to attack the field system? If the emperor takes action against the field system, will the tax and tax also need to be changed? Once it is really changed, it is hard to say whether everyone can still have the current nourishing life in the future.

Therefore, these aristocratic families are more active in finding trouble for Ma Jin than the officials in the court. The previous statement that Ma Jin deliberately made people say that he wanted to allocate land to Yinding was infinitely misinterpreted:

"The emperor made a big yellow book to check the hidden households so as to collect your cap tax! What? Allocate land to you? Don't be stupid. Where did the emperor get so much land to you? You're dreaming!"
Chapter completed!