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

It's just a small place!

As long as Li Si is willing, he can send Bai Qi to slaughter the Goryeo royal family at any time.

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

By then, if the Tang Dynasty intervenes slightly, it will be able to directly control the entire Goryeo Kingdom!

The second day.

The morning court ends.

The Minister of Revenue paid a visit to Li Si with a bitter face.

"See Your Majesty." The Minister of Revenue sighed.

Li Si looked at the Minister of Revenue and said, "Why are you worried about me?"

The Minister of Revenue was one of the few old ministers in the court who were loyal to the Tang Dynasty.

His performance must be because of the Tang Dynasty's national affairs.

The Minister of Revenue sighed: "Your Majesty, the end of the year is approaching, and the tax revenue of the Tang Dynasty this year has been reduced by 10% compared to last year!"

"The old minister is ashamed!"

The Minister of Revenue knelt on both knees and did not dare to face Li Si.

“Reduce taxes by 10%?”

Li Si frowned.

Taxation is the foundation of a country and is the basic manifestation of measuring whether a country is prosperous.

In layman's terms, a country can only have the confidence to do things if it receives sufficient taxes.

"What's the reason?" Li Si asked.

The Minister of Revenue took out a memorial and handed it to Li Si: "Please read Your Majesty!"

Li Si opened the memorial and glanced at him, his face becoming increasingly ugly.

The Tang Dynasty inherited the land system of the previous dynasty and implemented the equal land system.

What is the equal-field system?

It means to distribute the land equally to the people!

Then the people cultivated the land, and the Tang Dynasty collected taxes based on the population!

The number of people in the family will be taxed as much as you want.

It has nothing to do with how much food is grown!

If this land system does not encounter natural disasters and man-made disasters, it will greatly promote the prosperity of the Tang Dynasty.

The decades of prosperity established before the Tang Dynasty are closely related to the equal-field system.

However, the equal field system has a huge disadvantage.

That is the privileged class tax exemption!

Some clan landlords, wealthy families, and the children of officials have tax exemptions.

In other words, no matter how much land these people have, they do not have to pay taxes to the court.

This privileged class has existed since ancient times.

Even Li Si is helpless for the time being!

If that's all, there's no problem.

After all, the privileged class is the minority after all.

The most common people in this world are still the ordinary people.

As long as they pay taxes honestly, they will not be able to shake the country's foundation.

However, the implementation of the equal-field system has been around for hundreds of years!

In the past few hundred years, the people who owned the land had already died.

The rest are descendants of the people.

And these descendants, perhaps due to various reasons, could not pay taxes and could only sell their land to the landlords of aristocratic families.

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

This goes back and forth.

The land is still in its original place.

But it has become a duty-free area for landlords of aristocratic families.

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

If this continues, hundreds of years will come!

The taxes that the imperial court could collect were naturally less and less.

All the few parts fell into the hands of the landlords of the aristocratic family.

Li Si became more angry the more he looked at him.

The court gave these aristocratic families various comforts and subsidies, but how did these aristocratic families repay them?

Annex the land of the people!

Fighting for taxes with the court?

This is what those wealthy families do!

Li Si was furious!

The people of the Tang Dynasty sold their land to wealthy families. The people themselves lost their land and had to go to the wealthy families to help them.

The people helped cultivate the land, and the wealthy families gave corresponding rewards. Over time, the people only knew the wealthy families, and as for the court

They don’t pay taxes to the court, so what do they care about?

Bang!

Li Si slapped the proposal hard on the front of him, and was furious!

This is no longer annexation of ordinary land!

This is shaking the foundation of the country!

This is shaking the foundation of the Tang Dynasty’s rule!

It is precisely because of these wealthy families that the Tang Dynasty was divided into one country and one China!

The local people only know the wealthy families, but not the Emperor of the Tang Dynasty!

Li Si narrowed his eyes slightly.

He must not allow these wealthy families to continue to do so recklessly!

Otherwise, after a long time, all the lands of the people of the Tang Dynasty will be under the command of the landlords of the aristocratic families. Is the Tang Dynasty still Li Si?

Let these aristocratic landlords become kings!

Li Si's mind was changing rapidly and he kept thinking about countermeasures.

The easiest way to reverse the situation is to take back the land in the world!

Only when the land in the world is returned to the hands of the country and the people start paying taxes to the country again can the tax problem be completely solved!

The Minister of Revenue was already scared and trembling!

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

Li Si closed the memorial and looked at the Minister of Revenue who was kneeling down on the ground: "You are not the fault, get up!"

"Thank you Your Majesty!" said the Minister of Revenue in a trembling voice.

Li Si pondered for a moment and said slowly: "I have something to do!"

"Your Majesty, please tell me!" The Minister of Revenue bowed and said.

Li Si looked at the Minister of Revenue: "The land of those wealthy landlords of aristocratic families and the people will be counted."

"Not only that, the land of these aristocratic landlords has also been counted for me."

"I want to see how much land that does not require taxes now occupies the territory of our Tang Dynasty!!"

As soon as these words come out!

The Minister of Revenue felt cold in his heart?

Statistics of the land in the world?

Why did the emperor do this?
To be continued...